RWBY - The Hindenburg on which Rooster Teeth rests its hopes, dreams and future

Random Internet Person said:
We start with a retelling of the first half of RWBY volume 1 up to the point where Weiss gets angey Ruby is made team leader instead of her, then we go into Weiss' mind where we get a lot of stuff where she's a tyrannical queen and RWBY and JNPR are in winter clothes, and we end on the food fight at the start of volume 2. Riveting stuff, I know.
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Watching paint dry is peak cinema compared to that. My god... :stress:
 
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Random Internet Person said:
We start with a retelling of the first half of RWBY volume 1
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Correction: We start with a retelling of the first half of RWBY volume 1 without any of the jokes, gags, or humor. Literally, they removed them. All of them. Even the one with the milk and cookies. They set the gag up, but didn't include the punchline.
 
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TheAmbiguousLurker said:
That sill befuddles me, the writing was on the wall before volume 9 entered production, they had to know that there was a good chance that, at best, they get a tenth season, and they still decided to make volume 9 a filler season that advances nothing and doesn't even set up a conclusion for the story.
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It's just the RoosterTeeth hubris.

They (for their entire existence) just had an attitude of "it'll work itself out" because for them - it almost always did. The studio closure was probably a real and genuine surprise for them because they never connected the dots between "making a product" and "having the product generate revenue". The company exists from doing Red vs Blue, a shockingly brazen "we are using halo assets" machinma video series only for Microsoft to see it and go "actually go ahead and use our IP" instead of suing them into the core of the earth.
 
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Tanner Glass said:
They (for their entire existence) just had an attitude of "it'll work itself out" because for them - it almost always did. The studio closure was probably a real and genuine surprise for them because they never connected the dots between "making a product" and "having the product generate revenue".
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What I find endlessly funny is that even the bigger haters of RT/RWBY never could even imagine how bad the behind-the-scenes stuff was. If I'd say they were bleeding money, ACLU would sue me for offending bleeding victims who may yet be able to survive.
 
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The company exists from doing Red vs Blue, a shockingly brazen "we are using halo assets" machinma video series only for Microsoft to see it and go "actually go ahead and use our IP" instead of suing them into the core of the earth.
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That was more of a grandfathered deal with old Bungie back when it wasn't a souless husk. Microsoft itself likely didn't care or know that much about RvB since it was so small, inconsequential and very much over the hill in terms of popularity when Microsoft acquired Bungie.

If there was big money to be made, then you would be god damn sure Microsoft would have set their lawyers upon them post haste.
 
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I honestly have no idea what Burnie gets out of this. Unless he has about a million bot accounts framing how RT is back baby, then it's gonna be even more of a shitshow just getting the brand off the ground. Again.
 
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Gorillion others said:
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Gorillion others said:
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Did I miss it or did he not cover RWBY? Like, did Warner Brother just sell a license to VizPop (and therefore the RT that Burnie bought back, now holds that contract that WB made to VizPop), or did he buy what was left of RT (did VizPop buy all the rights/IP/trademark entirely separating it from RT?) I can't imagine it being the latter, but if so, he doesn't get RWBY and only gets RvB, CampCamp and .. shitty podcasts no one listened to?
 
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Did I miss it or did he not cover RWBY? Like, did Warner Brother just sell a license to VizPop (and therefore the RT that Burnie bought back, now holds that contract that WB made to VizPop), or did he buy what was left of RT (did VizPop buy all the rights/IP/trademark entirely separating it from RT?) I can't imagine it being the latter, but if so, he doesn't get RWBY and only gets RvB, CampCamp and .. shitty podcasts no one listened to?
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See, that's the fun part of ripping a company apart to sell piece meal, it all gets spread out and even if you buy back parts of it, you aren't going to get all of it.
 
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HootersMcBoobies said:
Did I miss it or did he not cover RWBY? Like, did Warner Brother just sell a license to VizPop (and therefore the RT that Burnie bought back, now holds that contract that WB made to VizPop), or did he buy what was left of RT (did VizPop buy all the rights/IP/trademark entirely separating it from RT?) I can't imagine it being the latter, but if so, he doesn't get RWBY and only gets RvB, CampCamp and .. shitty podcasts no one listened to?
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He did not get RWBY, it was already sold.

It's unclear what he did get, but podcasts generate a huge amount of revenue for little/no effort so that's probably the target.

Ironically this sort of thing has happened before - with College Humor/Dropout going bust and one of the execs buying it for cheap and turning it around. So it isn't impossible.
 
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My best guess is that Viz will give the series a final season or a movie to wrap things up, and then reboot it. Or perhaps a soft reboot with a time skip and/or a new cast. I know some RT fanboys want them to be like WB was in the past (maintaining the status quo of just blindly signing checks). But that will only kill the franchise again.

This is the best-case scenario for RT fans because it's the only way they'll get any form of closure. The old staff had no ending in sight and was obviously planning to keep stalling and dragging things out forever to keep cashing checks for low effort "work" Even at its best, RWBY wasn't compelling enough to hold people's attention for that long. We won't get an ending unless they are forced to make one.

I'm personally in the camp that prefers a complete reboot of RWBY with competent writers and a 2D anime style. But I doubt we'll be that lucky.
 
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Tanner Glass said:
He did not get RWBY, it was already sold.

It's unclear what he did get, but podcasts generate a huge amount of revenue for little/no effort so that's probably the target.

Ironically this sort of thing has happened before - with College Humor/Dropout going bust and one of the execs buying it for cheap and turning it around. So it isn't impossible.
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I was just about to bring up that remarkable situation. I fucking hate everyone involved in College Humor/Dropout (because they are typical degenerate far left cali douchebags) and yet they make some fucking great content. I genuinely have no idea how they made such a turnaround and if Burnie could somehow do the same, then all the more to him.

I just don't see the on screen talent for a revived RT to get it done like Dropout did. They at least had most of the former cast on board and no IP's to worry about to do the revival. Everyone who made RT what it was is either doing their own thing or a broken shadow of their former selves, and quite a few of their IP's are spread out to other entities far less willing to hand them over just as they acquired them.
 
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I was just about to bring up that remarkable situation. I fucking hate everyone involved in College Humor/Dropout (because they are typical degenerate far left cali douchebags) and yet they make some fucking great content. I genuinely have no idea how they made such a turnaround and if Burnie could somehow do the same, then all the more to him.
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IIRC - Sam Reich (the son of Robert Reich) was a high level executive of the subsidiary company at the time and was wealthy from his family but also made his own bank. He saw that no on made any offers on CollegeHumor during the fire sale and literally pitched it as "If you're going to throw it in the garbage, I'll take it". He tried to get investors in a smaller scale (I think 6 people stayed behind) CollegeHumor and decided to just bankroll it himself when it didn't take.

I agree with you on the content - while politically they are vile, Dropout 100% pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and are insanely successful now as a result.

Bernie is in a similar situation (most likely) - but the fact that RoosterTeeth was performing so badly for so long means it was probably being shopped around for a few years before just being shut down. Shutting down is a massive loss because it means the parent company couldn't find a buyer for it. Bernie probably has some cash on hand but can't imagine they wanted all that much for the RoosterTeeth brand with so many years gone by.
 
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