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

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Roosterteeth up until like 2013 or so Rest in Peace.

Roosterteeth after that Rest in Piss.

The move to the Stage 5 location signaled the end times. After that they became a podcast company rather than trying to make short videos and merch.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

The move to the Stage 5 location signaled the end times. After that they became a podcast company rather than trying to make short videos and merch.

I don't even know which office that was, I liked them in that shitty tiny green office and then after Ray left and they moved into the warehouse there was a noticeable drop in their quality.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

I don't even know which office that was, I liked them in that shitty tiny green office and then after Ray left and they moved into the warehouse there was a noticeable drop in their quality.

Stage 5 was the warehouse/ sound stage. You can gauge the quality of their company by what office they were in. The Downtown Austin is the 1st proper office they had, the one that had Achievement Hunter was the 2nd, then the Soundstage, and then they rented an office for a while after layoffs.

 

[Whaler]

From memory human vacuum Barbara was out for a meal with some people from RT and Piers Morgan was at a nearby table minding his own business. They kept giving him the side-eye and he eventually noticed and tweeted something innocuous like "If people want to say hello to me, they should just come over and do so", then Barbara made a tweet in response accusing him of perving over her and his response was basically what the fuck?

It was even dumber than that if I recall correctly. One of them was whining about Piers Morgan being at the same restaurant as them and posted a picture of him with Barbara making a weird face. Piers saw it and mistook her for a fan (they literally tagged him in the tweet, just to make it clear) and said it was fine if she came over to say hello. That's when they accused him of being a creep. Andy for some reason jumped in with some random cringe and it basically fell apart from there. I'm pretty sure the RT subreddit was actually defending Piers in this situation because he had no idea who they were, and somebody took a picture of their friend with him in the background intentionally and tagged him in it.

EDIT: Because I wanted this to be as factual as I could, here's better context. It's a lot worse than I remembered specifically because Barb and Lindsay had complained about their fans doing this a week or two prior and Andys cringe was him tweeting "your worst nightmare."

 

[Ghostse]

Man, I remember watching this back in the day, not even knowing who Monty was, and thinking it was the coolest shit ever. Watching it again, for the first time in probably at least a decade, I couldn't even make it past the halfway mark because my own cringing was causing me physical pain.
I guess it's a reminder of the kind of content these guys were making, and for whom. Begs the question of whether people are actually nostalgic for what was being made those years ago, or if what they actually miss is simply being the target audience for it.

You're also forgetting things don't exist in a vacuum.
When Haloid was released, Marvel's Cape Shit hadn't taken over cinema yet. Vidya/CG has also advanced well beyond
It was not only technically impressive, it was like nothing outside of the most ADD battle anime. It rips off the most innovative framing and speed tricks. But now, its old hat. Everything it does has been done better.

You can see this at amusement parks- the rides that in the 70s, 80s and even 90s were absolutely terrifying hitting speeds and G forces never before achieved are now... pretty lame, because a 150ft 70 degree 60MPH first hill is nothing compared to the 350ft 85 degree monster that now overshadows it.
But that doesn't change that for the first decade of its existance people were literally shitting themselves on that first hill.

tl;dr:
When I'm nostalgic for the days of telling nigger jokes in mixed company, I'm not just nostalgic for shitting on blacks. I'm wistful for a cultural environment where people would often respond in kind and didn't get butthurt over every perceived slight, even if the slight isn't against them directly.

 

[hahalolz]

Fucking finally it's dead. RT of now is such a disgrace to the times before selling out to Fullscreen. The days leading up to Ray's departure where such fond memories of mine and after that they were dying until 2016 when they became such faggots over Trump winning the election and none of them would stop stfu'ing about it is when they died for me. Post-mortem and the bastardized zombification of RT with "diversity" and shit became fucking annoying with niggers like Mica and Fiona and increasingly getting worse with no-name losers. RIP good old RT of 2003-2014 and I hope the faggotry RT of now will forever die in obscurity.

 

[Chilson]

When they had Etika (God bless) and Shofu guest star in an Smash Bros. episode, that was cool. Those two were gamers, and majorly affiliated in the irl scene regarding that game. At least, they fucking played video games.

The top comment said it all: "She just wasn't funny." Where the hell did all these nigresses come from? Mica came from nepotism. I recall her dad being referenced at multiple points. Fiona got in from riding Etika hard (even after his death), but still, yeesh... But Ky? Peak decline.

They had Mica 1 AKA Mica, who left because she was an uppity nigger who thought she could do better. And honestly, if we didn't know that all she has done since leaving was ride her fathers coattails, she wasn't wrong at the time.

Then Mica 2 AKA Fiona came in and she was just blatant bait to get Etika while appeasing their white guilt after Mica 1 left. Then they were just stuck with an even more annoying street ape who left to "pursue her own career", which was from my recollection is the sum total of one garbage ass short film she made off pathetic AH fan donations (most of which was likely her just donating her own money to generate hype that never really materialized) to Kickstarter or one of its copies.

Then Mica 3 AKA Ky was just a blatant replacement for Mica 2. She somehow was worse than the nigger parrot that was Mica 2 and that is honestly kind of impressive in a fucked up way.

 

[Snom Clubber]

You're also forgetting things don't exist in a vacuum.
When Haloid was released, Marvel's Cape Shit hadn't taken over cinema yet. Vidya/CG has also advanced well beyond
It was not only technically impressive, it was like nothing outside of the most ADD battle anime. It rips off the most innovative framing and speed tricks. But now, its old hat. Everything it does has been done better.

You can see this at amusement parks- the rides that in the 70s, 80s and even 90s were absolutely terrifying hitting speeds and G forces never before achieved are now... pretty lame, because a 150ft 70 degree 60MPH first hill is nothing compared to the 350ft 85 degree monster that now overshadows it.
But that doesn't change that for the first decade of its existance people were literally shitting themselves on that first hill.

tl;dr:
When I'm nostalgic for the days of telling nigger jokes in mixed company, I'm not just nostalgic for shitting on blacks. I'm wistful for a cultural environment where people would often respond in kind and didn't get butthurt over every perceived slight, even if the slight isn't against them directly.

With respect, I did not forget the context. It simply didn't factor into me cringing over the video. Yes at the time, it was technically impressive for someone without studio funds and resources. I certainly won't debate that. But that doesn't change the fact that it's an extremely derivative hypebeast spectacle piece, and you'd rightfully look funny at anyone over the drinking age still into that kind of thing with no sense of self-awareness. And that's exactly how I appreciated it when I was probably in high school watching it.

For the record, I'm not a proponent of post-ironic "culture", because I think people freely exploring their (healthy) interests without criticism is something society should strive for, but that doesn't mean that some things shouldn't only to appeal to the youth. You look at someone who is viscerally into anime/video game/comic crossovers in their 30's, for the spectacle alone, and tell me there isn't some arrested development going on - at best.

 

[CptnSnshn]

but still, yeesh... But Ky? Peak decline.

Ky got in cuz Fiona saw her on twitch and managed to convince Trevor to hire her.

 

[Burt Ryan]

I think YouTube's algorithm is trying to tell me something.

 

[ThisHill2DieOn]

I sincerely hope KindaFunny is next to burn down.

TBF, that wouldn't have been unique to Rooster Teeth. Pretty much the entire entertainment industry lost their fucking minds over Donald Trump and the people that voted for him.

Trump is like a Lovecraftian eldritch god, instilling an all-consuming madness upon unfortified psyches. They either go insane with hatred for him or they go insane with fanatical devotion. It's quite fascinating.

There's another piece of childhood gone

“This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach me about loving and caring for another living breathing creature of God. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die." - Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

 

[geckogoy]

a smaller team that actually knows what the fuck they’re doing could bring the costs way the fuck down

I am unsure why you would bring this up whilst discussing rooster teeth

 

[Negev]

I think the biggest problem with Roosterteeth was they tried to keep a “We aren’t corporate” mentality as they kept growing from a 7 person team to a 30-60 person company to a 200+ person company with different divisions.

They had blatant favoritism with fan hires prior to being acquired with the Barbara and Kathleen drama (creepy as fuck considering Burnie freaking out over her in the podcast shit or the Last of Us video). Some of these hires did fit it, but a lot of them were like mashing a square peg into a round titanium hole. If I remember the Glass door reviews talked about this a lot. It wasn’t even on-screen talent, anyone who the Founders, the Podcast, or Achievement Hunter liked got better treatment.
They tried to do the were all friends shit as they grew and that doesn’t work. I’ve worked at small businesses like that, it’s the most hostile environment ever if you get on one persons shit list and RoosterTeeth was keep Austin Weird Liberals.

A small business can get away with a lot of horseshit, but I think the fact that they no longer had to think about getting revenue because DEI loans, Covid bucks, and worrying more about valuation killed them. The move to the giant warehouse was basically what I would call the start of their decline.

I remember reading a lot of the reviews on Glassdoor and it really made the awful voice acting and animation make sense, they had people with no experience animating controlling the animation department and a bunch of no talent retards doing voice acting for all the main characters meanwhile they hired actual voice actors for side characters. Friends and wives of friends were running shit that needed people with actual experience, then to make it worse they got a bunch of diversity hires. I can only imagine how much fun it must have been to work there and deal with nigger diversity hires and screeching retards who think they know better.

 

[Smithfield Ham]

This probably means the end of Camp Camp, since a lot of that show's identity was tied up in the general culture of Rooster Teeth. The 'race-concious' recasts left a bad taste in my mouth. The new guy playing Max did a good job, as obscene as it was to replace Michael fucking Jones to make his VA match a characteristic that was never central to the character. The new voices of Nerris and Gwen were terrible, and it's no wonder they put Gwen on a bus and probably gave Nerris less lines to compensate. They were probably compensating until they could find better VAs, or just wanted to do damage control for what they had.

The season finale they did was perfectly fine, and felt like a pretty satisfying conclusion to the show in general. I haven't really watched any of the newer season. The finality of the last season finale made me feel like we really didn't need more. 5 or 6 six seasons is more than double what most shows get now.

We might see more, but IDK. We're definitely going to see more RWBY, since WB has enough faith in that to make a fucking Justice League crossover movie, of all things. I gotta imagine the Machinima will go... somewhere. The other stuff could go either way.

 

[Rabbi Palpenstein]

I don't even know which office that was, I liked them in that shitty tiny green office and then after Ray left and they moved into the warehouse there was a noticeable drop in their quality.

I will always miss that tiny green office, so small they couldn't fit a desk for Ryan in there so they had him on the couch. The time Ray dropkicked Barbara, the time Ryan stuck a rotor under Gavin's monitor and wired it to go off every minute, the time Geoff was on the phone and Gavin was trying to throw water on him
I choose to remember RT as they used to be, not the soulless, corporate, nigger loving corpse they became

 

[3MW0J8]

All the talk about RT ending and Geoff crying on camera again makes me think of the Let's Play Network, when his issues started. AH and the LetsPlay channel had gotten big by 2015, and Geoff decided to expand, bringing six other groups into the Let's Play fold at the same time. It was a huge undertaking and quickly proved to be a huge failure, as most of those groups killed themselves off after joining RT. This caused Geoff to drink more than ever, and so his work problems bled into his personal life. His marriage started to crumble, and I would guess that he had a nervous breakdown. From 2016 to 2019, Geoff stopped running AH, took a sabbatical, got divorced, got sober, and latched onto wife number three. That's fine on the surface, but really, he hasn't been the same since his second marriage ended. And he turns into a blubbering mess whenever RT has problems, which is often.

As a side note, I always thought the Let's Play Network was a terrible idea. I was a fan of AH at the time, as they hadn't started hiring niggers yet. I never got into the other groups, though, and most AH fans didn't. Whenever they made a video with AH and another group, there was no chemistry at all, and it was just bad.

 

[Chilson]

As a side note, I always thought the Let's Play Network was a terrible idea. I was a fan of AH at the time, as they hadn't started hiring niggers yet. I never got into the other groups, though, and most AH fans didn't. Whenever they made a video with AH and another group, there was no chemistry at all, and it was just bad.

It really wasn't that terrible of an idea. AH issue was simply getting out to their locations to do collabs and build a rapport, which was something they probably should have considered first and foremost when picking up these groups. While RT, who handled the management side of things, was entirely negligent and, based on all the "this is our final podcast" testimonies of the many failed Lets play network groups, were very difficult to even get in contact with reliably.

The only group that could survive was Funhaus because they all came from Machinima and could effectively manage themselves. Every other group was more or less left to rot with no real management experience or understanding of the duties that needed to be done to stay afloat independent of RT. Not to mention the huge missed opportunity with the absolute fucked handling of Sideshow, which could have brought in Tomatogaming, Criken and Bedbanannas (and likely more content creators given they have huge network of close content creator friends and contacts) if RT had bothered to check if the name had been trademarked before telling them it wasn't when it was.

I can see why Geoff was really torn apart by this, because he is self aware enough to at least subconsciously recognize that the company he founded and poured a decade of blood sweat and tears into destroyed what could have been his crowning achievement through not even putting a basic modicum of effort into managing his baby. Not to mention all the content creator groups that were destroyed and "friends" he made in said groups now no longer wanting to be associated with him.

Dude is still a cucked bitch who absolutely deserves to be shit on for bending over backwards for every ungrateful no talent nigger to fuck him and the company he founded in the ass.

 

[George Lucas]

I hope WB reboots RWBY for the salt.

 

[Physics Ninja]

Some more tweets and what not

"I really want to finish what we started with Monty 10 years ago"
How long are these vultures going to feast on his corpse, you think they'd let it rest after 10 years.

 

[Pizdec]

Ky got in cuz Fiona saw her on twitch and managed to convince Trevor to hire her.

Hence why I state that Trevor is one of the reasons RT is dead, and the reason Achievement Hunter died. It was more important to achieve DEI goals that are not enforced, in Texas of all places, then have genuinely good talent on set to build chemistry for videos.