Well, you'd think that after seeing hundreds of examples before them of both what to do and what
not to do, the idiots in charge at Rooster Teeth would at least make some sort of attempt to fortify their standing and prepare for the long term viability of the business. But no, like so many others before them, they kept living the fantasy, thinking that the DEI gibs, cheap money, and easy rewards for little work was going to go on forever. But now that the purse strings have been tightened, Daddy Warner is stepping in to cut out the unnecessary expenses, and the chickens are coming home to roost (pun intended?). Even for all the endless pronouncements, browbeating and self ass-patting that these corporations do about the poor nig-nogs, faggots, and troons, when it boils down to it, these are the first things that go when money gets tight and your business is on the line. Sure it costs them little if nothing to blast their corporate diarrhea for every token holiday, but I'm sure that I'm not the only one who noticed a sharp drop in "Black History Month" grandstanding compared to years past. It'll be interesting to see what happens during the annual
AIDS Marathon Pride month this year, both due to corporate financial cutbacks, and public fatigue. Will they continue to go all-in on it, profits and public perception be damned, or will they reveal the truth, that they're only virtue-signaling for profit?
Also, the downfall of Rooster Teeth, like others, just shows that they never really learned how to properly run a business despite some of them being there from the beginning, or very close to it. Granted, it was just a group of young guys hanging out doing stupid and funny shit, and they probably never imagined that it would get as big as it was at one time, but it still seems surprising that nobody stepped up and said "Hey guys, we probably should get someone who knows what they're doing to step in and help with things?" Maybe Joel tried to, but it seems they ran him off due to personal conflicts. It's one thing to get multiple rounds of VC financing or go through a couple of owners before you find your footing as a sustainable venture, Amazon was notably unprofitable for years and now look at them. But if your company valuation and lifeline solely subsists on corporate welfare, VC financing, DEI handouts, etc, and you can't actually produce anything of substance, even after years, sometimes decades of "work"? Then maybe it's just not destined to be a viable business venture. (pReddit comes to mind here).
And while I'm sperging on the topic. I know that Facebook, sorry, "META"
, had an IPO and is, on paper at least, a profitable company, but aside from actual tech giants with infrastructure like Google, and legacy giants like Apple, Microsoft, etc, I'm still not convinced that the whole "dot com/tech bubble" isn't going to burst (again) and the whole damn thing will come crashing down like a house of cards. Everybody depends on everybody else for money, and it all boils down to
AD REVENUE. META, and all other social media companies, scrapes your info and sells it to 3rd parties so they can advertise to you, while they themselves advertise to you. On-line only e-zines are filled with ads, or paywalled, and
still filled with ads, while placing cookies in your browser cache that they use to track you to sell to 3rd parties. Games that you pay for now require an online connection, many of them also require subscriptions, and have in-game ads, and they sell your information as well. Even your goddamn vehicle is tracking you and selling your information to 3rd parties for advertising purposes now. Without the basic ad revenue stream the entire thing collapses, because these companies have no actual sustainable business plan.
Of course not. They'll be the vigilant watchers over a community of literally zero participants.
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pReddit in a nutshell. Tranny-jannies on a power trip when their "job" literally has no functional use anymore. It would be like a lone fiscal manager in some dusty office somewhere who's entire career has been based on managing the day-to-day fluctuations of the Deutschemark, and since the adoption of the Euro, you're left flittering around with no purpose, but you refuse to give up or retire. Because your whole identity and sense of self-worth is wrapped up in that One Thing
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I can't quite put my finger on why, but I kinda want to kick the chair out from beneath the individual who typed this paragraph. its like when a cat gets the urge to swat at the face of a person. it doesn't know why, it just knows that it senses a presence of weakness and must Strike towards it. Maybe it's the endemic insincerity that radiates from this predictable and heartless farewell clearly written by the absolute grayest of NPCs, maybe it's just seeing the word "Vtubers" being used without contempt.
I think I have it figured out. All of these grandiose pronouncements and lamentations over a shuttering business that in the grand scheme of things, amounted to fuck-all in the real world. It's a literally-who whining about a literally-who company. You see it with all of these "farewell" announcements from the usual suspects every time one of these places fail, and they're
all equally predictable and they
all use the same type of bland, bordering-on-newspeak type of of language. For fucks sake, the one "official" release actually said "y'all" un-ironically TWICE in the opening goddamn paragraph! These people have an overinflated sense of self-importance and what their standing is in the grand scheme of things. They act as if
Vice Jezebel Buzzfeed Gawker The Messenger Rooster Teeth shutting down is on the same level as if something like GE or Amazon were to shut its doors.
Burn in Hell, RT. I don't know if it's been posted yet, but as of now Warner Bros. Discovery has a $44.5 billion dollar debt that only went down because of Zaslav (the recent DC movies didn't make shit). This makes me wonder if AEW, DC Comics, NRS, and WB Games are next (I hope all of them get chopped because fuck Tony Khan and Ed Boon). AEW isn't going to get a good deal from Zaslav, and he sure as fuck isn't going to throw more money at Ed Boon and NRS (It just had a "big tournament" in Brazil...that only had 69 people enter for 10k. Nobody wants to play Woke Kombat). Suicide Squad has to be hurting WBD because of the refunds, and Multiversus was a flop. Is Max even doing well?
The DC movies are shit, for sure, but theres still value in the IP, if they can get rid of the Current Year
bullshit. Hell, Batman and Superman revenue alone could probably sustain the whole DC endeavor as long as they quit shoveling money into a fire with the capeshit movies and dont alienate everyone with their agenda-driven wokescold comics.
AEW will be fine, as long as Tony Khan still has his daddys checkbook to play with. Seriously, that family is worth north of $20 billion, they own multiple professional sports teams, as well as other media ventures. They could buy and build their own media network if they wanted.
This is what happens when you let women work in your busbusiness
Women, or "women"?
