Rooster Teeth / Achievement Hunter / Let's Play / Funhaus / Inside Gaming - The company was resurrected.

[Dumpster dived waifu]

It's a shame that they weren't shitcanned earlier so others who actually did their jobs could hang onto them.

Wonder how much the company would be worth if someone offered to buy it off WB? I couldn't see it being that much, though obviously more than an honest man could afford.

I'd give them 1000$ and they can keep all animation IP. With just a bit of firing and telling on screen personalities to shut the fuck up about certain topics, it could be turned around.

 

[LurkingLunk]

With the sort of gambit they pulled by trying to push their audience to their site it almost feels like they were destined to fail eventually, even without telling their audience to fuck off. They managed to get the immediate pay in subscribers, but it came at the price of relevance and growth within the almighty algorithm of youtube. Over time I'm sure it's slowed down recommendations for all of their channels as they almost certainly looked dead, and overall it made their subscribers into a finite resource. Without views you're not going to be gaining a new audience faster than your old one ages out and loses interest. The website they drive you towards is a closed off ecosystem, and without a driver like youtube recommendations it's bound to not be sustainable.

They burnt bright, allowing them to buy many Funko Pops for Jack, but nevertheless began a vicious cycle that set them up for eventual failure. You can almost wonder if they'd find growth again if they axed their site in favor of youtube memberships, at least as a booster shot before the new audiences realize they're not funny.

 

[Whaler]

With the sort of gambit they pulled by trying to push their audience to their site it almost feels like they were destined to fail eventually, even without telling their audience to fuck off. They managed to get the immediate pay in subscribers, but it came at the price of relevance and growth within the almighty algorithm of youtube. Over time I'm sure it's slowed down recommendations for all of their channels as they almost certainly looked dead, and overall it made their subscribers into a finite resource. Without views you're not going to be gaining a new audience faster than your old one ages out and loses interest. The website they drive you towards is a closed off ecosystem, and without a driver like youtube recommendations it's bound to not be sustainable.

They burnt bright, allowing them to buy many Funko Pops for Jack, but nevertheless began a vicious cycle that set them up for eventual failure. You can almost wonder if they'd find growth again if they axed their site in favor of youtube memberships, at least as a booster shot before the new audiences realize they're not funny.

They saw the success College Humor had and tried to copy it, not realizing that CH basically kept creating the same content as they always have and didn't consistently tell their audience to fuck off every other video. Though, I think RTs ability to grow is dead now. Even if they went back to Youtube 100%, the algorithm has basically destroyed the channel and not staying steady with uploads means that their stuff is less likely to be recommended unless you're already subscribed. Very few new people are going to find them unless they're already looking for them, and with a bunch of the content being locked behind paywalls, shitty website design, and a even shittier video player just means new people aren't going to try to jump through hoops to watch content when other channels handle it better.

 

[Mac Monster]

Very few new people are going to find them unless they're already looking for them, and with a bunch of the content being locked behind paywalls, shitty website design, and a even shittier video player just means new people aren't going to try to jump through hoops to watch content when other channels handle it better.

It's incredible that their website is still a pile of shit more than a decade after its inception. Even Doug Walker, as incompetent as he is, managed to make a more functional website.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

It's incredible that their website is still a pile of shit more than a decade after its inception. Even Doug Walker, as incompetent as he is, managed to make a more functional website.

Thats really easy to do when you don't feature bloat your website. Keep it simple, flourish if it's possible and adds to functionality.

 

[Your NSA Handler]

It's incredible that their website is still a pile of shit more than a decade after its inception. Even Doug Walker, as incompetent as he is, managed to make a more functional website.

No one can stand up against the midwit Doug Walker and his okay work ethic.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

It's incredible that their website is still a pile of shit more than a decade after its inception. Even Doug Walker, as incompetent as he is, managed to make a more functional website.

That's what happens when you hire people for their skin tone or sexuality instead of their abilities, and then fire the qualified white dudes to make room for your diversity quotas.

I wonder what would happen if you hired those people for a new company. A new Let's Play branch where you steal Michael, make him the lead, and bring on Gavin, Geoff, Panton, Matt and Jeremy, with occasional guest spots by Ray. Make a new sitcom starring Joel and let him be his wacky self. Would people come because it's the old crew, or has everyone given up by this point?

 

[BONECRUSHER]

That's what happens when you hire people for their skin tone or sexuality instead of their abilities, and then fire the qualified white dudes to make room for your diversity quotas.

I wonder what would happen if you hired those people for a new company. A new Let's Play branch where you steal Michael, make him the lead, and bring on Gavin, Geoff, Panton, Matt and Jeremy, with occasional guest spots by Ray. Make a new sitcom starring Joel and let him be his wacky self. Would people come because it's the old crew, or has everyone given up by this point?

Most of them are clowns at this point that have imploded their lives or about to implode their lives, unfortunately. Ray is the only one I can think of who isn't a tard, but i haven't kept up with him.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I wonder what would happen if you hired those people for a new company. A new Let's Play branch where you steal Michael, make him the lead, and bring on Gavin, Geoff, Panton, Matt and Jeremy, with occasional guest spots by Ray. Make a new sitcom starring Joel and let him be his wacky self. Would people come because it's the old crew, or has everyone given up by this point?

Two things:
1. Has Michael ever led anything before? What kind of leader is he?
2. Is there any room for LPs these days? Unless you're already established like Game Grumps I just don't know if an LP channel can survive on YT in the current year.

 

[literalwho?]

Two things:
1. Has Michael ever led anything before? What kind of leader is he?
2. Is there any room for LPs these days? Unless you're already established like Game Grumps I just don't know if an LP channel can survive on YT in the current year.

1. Face Jam, but it's heavily carried by Eric, who is the producer, of that and F**kface.
2. Don't think so, unless they do specials like Survive Block Island, but that requires planning and work.

 

[batigol]

Two things:
1. Has Michael ever led anything before? What kind of leader is he?
2. Is there any room for LPs these days? Unless you're already established like Game Grumps I just don't know if an LP channel can survive on YT in the current year.

The LP niche has, I think, largely migrated to Twitch or YouTube streaming now with edited (or unedited) VODs.

RTs other problem was splitting their gaming audience across multiple channels, not keeping up with how YT recommendations work and that when YT removed the "subscriber snowball effect" from front page recommendations shitting out low effort LP #1074 like a content farm wasn't going to cut it anymore.

 

[AuxPersonality]

I always felt some of the best let plays are when the crew are enjoying what they are doing. They want to play X game and wanted to be there.

Maybe some one to help focus that energy and some editors. I am doubtful if we cherry picked people that we could put it back together. I think they have too much bad history with each other that they would be able to recover from it.

There is a lot of unseen and unknown about the relationships between them all for them to work with each other again. Ryan could never return.

 

[Wingnut]

I always felt some of the best let plays are when the crew are enjoying what they are doing. They want to play X game and wanted to be there.

The Let's Plays they obviously wanted to do like Worms or GTA IV were great, but the mini-game videos like VS and GO! were always my favorites. Being given a simple objective or two with no specific game in mind to race to complete or challenging the other person to some random ghetto fishing game to try to beat them in VS made for their very best content.

 

[literalwho?]

Geoff said during the latest Warzone video that he has rediscovered his passion for gaming and looks forward to more videos. Good for him.

 

[batigol]

I wonder if that correlates to now playing games with the people he *wants* to play games with rather than *has* to play games with, like the personality vacuums & sad sacks he nominally was responsible for hiring.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

I was scrolling the YouTube home page and slid across a thumbnail with Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon series and realized that he sort of looks like current day Gavin. I don't know if this was ever a joke or running bit before.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

No videos have been posted on the Rooster Teeth YouTube channel during the past three weeks. There hadn't been any good content in a long time, and the view counts reflected that. The fact that a channel with nine million subscribers can't make money just says it all.

I blundered across a channel of a guy making videos of 'the monster under my bed' (a set of funny gloves), himself, and random-ass weird shit happening in his house...

And it's literally funnier than rooster teeth.

One guy with airsoft guns and a pair of gloves for a 2nd character, making videos IN HIS BEDROOM (and I think doubling as his 'grandpa' with a wig and sunglasses)...

And I've laughed harder in one day than RT has made me in years. How the mighty have fallen.

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

Ryan could never return.

He just has to tell Gavin he'll let him watch while he fucks Meg, and he'll be back.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

He just has to tell Gavin he'll let him watch while he fucks Meg, and he'll be back.

If he wants to restart his streaming career, all he needs to do is imply he did and then ignore the subject so people speculate as to whether or not it really happened, getting him more word of mouth. Which at this point, I think we can assume it did happen. Either he's really good about following the "Don't shit where you eat" and that's why Meg never told everyone he tried to fuck her, or they did fuck and she was into it.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

"Don't shit where you eat"

Except he would fuck the shit out of fans AT the conventions AH dragged him to. He had absolutely no qualms there. He fucked her, my mind cannot be changed.