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[Sharyn]

All in all, Ray was just a variety gamer that didn't fit into the AH grind. He thrived on the original AH format of playing random bullshit week to week, but he's outright said he got to the point where he didn't enjoy spending multiple hours a week playing/prepping Minecraft and GTA which is still a big chunk of AH's content. He doesn't drink alcohol which was a massive part of RT culture while he was there, so even if he got invited out it really isn't that fun to be the only sober person amongst a bunch of alcoholics.

He carved out his niche on Twitch and is doing really well. If he's open to collabs again I'd love to see him guest with any member of AH. Ray went on Off-Topic and has even played Minecraft and GTA, I think those wounds are healed. Most of all, I'd love to hear him on the F**kface podcast with a sober Geoff and Andrew Panton.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

All in all, Ray was just a variety gamer that didn't fit into the AH grind. He thrived on the original AH format of playing random bullshit week to week, but he's outright said he got to the point where he didn't enjoy spending multiple hours a week playing/prepping Minecraft and GTA which is still a big chunk of AH's content. He doesn't drink alcohol which was a massive part of RT culture while he was there, so even if he got invited out it really isn't that fun to be the only sober person amongst a bunch of alcoholics.

He carved out his niche on Twitch and is doing really well. If he's open to collabs again I'd love to see him guest with any member of AH. Ray went on Off-Topic and has even played Minecraft and GTA, I think those wounds are healed. Most of all, I'd love to hear him on the F**kface podcast with a sober Geoff and Andrew Panton.

Personally I'd prefer if ray avoided that disgusting cesspool that is current RT, nobody deserves being dragged down by them.

 

[Random Internet Person]

All in all, Ray was just a variety gamer that didn't fit into the AH grind. He thrived on the original AH format of playing random bullshit week to week, but he's outright said he got to the point where he didn't enjoy spending multiple hours a week playing/prepping Minecraft and GTA which is still a big chunk of AH's content. He doesn't drink alcohol which was a massive part of RT culture while he was there, so even if he got invited out it really isn't that fun to be the only sober person amongst a bunch of alcoholics.

He carved out his niche on Twitch and is doing really well. If he's open to collabs again I'd love to see him guest with any member of AH. Ray went on Off-Topic and has even played Minecraft and GTA, I think those wounds are healed. Most of all, I'd love to hear him on the F**kface podcast with a sober Geoff and Andrew Panton.

Personally I'd prefer if ray avoided that disgusting cesspool that is current RT, nobody deserves being dragged down by them.

You got some real points. RT has basically gone all in on RWBY at this point, and how the AH crew has managed to stay on GTA and Minecraft when we've seen the release of two generations of consoles and other things that could easily be driven into the ground like Among Us is beyond me.

 

[ChevroletBlackboard]

Between Ray leaving and Monty dying, 2015 seems to be RT's mortal wound. Now it's a horse with a limp dragging and holding onto life through sheer willpower.

I feel like 2019 was a larger scale wound personally, as that was the year where they couldn't get a break. The Mignonga firing saw a large chunk of their fanbase call them sellouts (not trying to start that whole can of worms up again but it is worth noting), the First price went up, they shuttered the Australian store, the production leaks, Genlock flopping and then the layoffs made it a miserable year for them.

 

[Random Internet Person]

I feel like 2019 was a larger scale wound personally, as that was the year where they couldn't get a break. The Mignonga firing saw a large chunk of their fanbase call them sellouts (not trying to start that whole can of worms up again but it is worth noting), the First price went up, they shuttered the Australian store, the production leaks, Genlock flopping and then the layoffs made it a miserable year for them.

You could say that, but you could also say that 2019 was pouring a lot of gasoline on a dumpster fire. If anything 2019 just compounded on the downward spiral that started in 2015 (Monty dying, the Knuckles Dawson revelations, going corporate, RvB starting to go to shit as the disputed “last good season” had well passed, going all in on RWBY as it went into a sharp decline, and AH losing its charm as they stayed with the same two games as many consoles, games, trends, and streamers on other platforms passed them by).

 

[You're an idiot]

He hasn't even talked to any AH member since leaving years ago.

Whilst the rest of your comment is fine speculation, this one is patently untrue. He even came back for an off topic podcast about a year and a half ago. I think the only individual he might have actually had any personal issue with was Gavin, and that's only because Ray seemed to have a problem with him just flaunting his wealth. Jeremy acts the same way as Ray in that regard which I found humorous. Regardless, Ray never seemed to actively dislike Geoff, Ryan, or Michael at the end, so I'd say you might be reading too much into it. IIRC even when Ray and Michael were better friends up north, they only hung out outside of the IB podcast twice according to Michael. I wouldn't attribute his vitriol for the corporate fucking that he endured to be indicative of his feelings toward the people he worked with.

 

[pephickshigh]

If he's open to collabs again I'd love to see him guest with any member of AH. Ray went on Off-Topic and has even played Minecraft and GTA, I think those wounds are healed. Most of all, I'd love to hear him on the F**kface podcast with a sober Geoff and Andrew Panton.

I don't watch Ray's streams so does he still have a sense of humor? If he does, my fear would be him telling a funny joke or making a humorous line and Jack or Michael feeling the need to pretend to be offended by it to either score virtue signaling points with the current RT fans or protect themselves from those fans turning on them and fascistly cancelling them because words.

 

[ToddleDoddle]

I don't watch Ray's streams so does he still have a sense of humor? If he does, my fear would be him telling a funny joke or making a humorous line and Jack or Michael feeling the need to pretend to be offended by it to either score virtue signaling points with the current RT fans or protect themselves from those fans turning on them and fascistly cancelling them because words.

I haven't really watched him since he initially left but he leaned hard into memes on his stream. When he was with AH he'd frequently reference current memes ironically just to annoy the other guys but on his own on his stream all the memeing pretty much became unironic.

 

[Most Dumbest Bitch]

I honestly have no idea why Geoff watched that shit happen and didn't pull Gavin aside and tell him to knock it the fuck off. I mean (ok I do get why Geoff didn't do that he's a moron) even with friends if you are pissing someone off on purpose and doing it repeatedly you can't be that surprised when eventually they say, "fuck you" and go do something else.

It's because that was Gavin's schtick. Annoying? Yes, very much so. Attention grabbing? ABSOLUTELY. Fans love that shit. So he kept doing it until it stopped being profitable.

I don't know if Ray comes from a working class family but I remember when they were always bragging about money, how they love to waste a ton of cash on random shit (like Ray having a cheap old phone and Gavin saying that he doesn't care if the screen of his latest iPhone breaks because he can buy a new phone the next day) he would say nothing while looking a bit shocked. These people became successful and their personality changed radically. Now they all act like rich kids from Instagram and social media slacktivists, the worst of both worlds.

If memory serves, he does indeed come from a working class family (his dad was a bartender, and Ray worked at the same bar as a busboy which suggests that the family needed more income). Not to fall into the obvious "Latino work ethic" joke, but Ray clearly had a much different mentality toward their "fame" than the other guys did - he was very fiscally aware in the sense that he wasn't just dropping oodles of cash on random shit because he felt like it, and he rarely (if ever) missed work, so he was probably able to save up quite a bit. Hell, he was even living in that same apartment he'd first gotten when he moved to Texas until 2015, and that's assuming he isn't still living there now (though I think he and Tina did end up moving).

In fact, I guarantee that's why Ray was even able to go full on Heath Ledger's Joker in the months leading up to his quitting - he had likely saved so much money that he had a huge cushion to land on, so he knew he'd be safe whether he quit RT at his leisure or whether they fired him the next day. Couple that with the knowledge that he had a super high jumping off point in terms of gathering fans for his Twitch streams, and I think it's easy to see why he took it slow with spending money and was biding his time instead.

Gavin, by contrast, is not just a rich kid, but a Rich Kid™. His parents are well-off, he's worked on many major films/TV shows, and he has a very unique skill set that not many other people have, making him a very competitive hire and a fairly well-known name behind the scenes. He has near-complete financial security - if he loses his job at RT or quits, he can just go back to doing Slo-Mo Guys full-time or even being completely behind the camera again, and if he somehow couldn't work in THAT field anymore, he has more than enough saved up to keep him afloat for a long while. (Assuming he has been saving money and isn't a COMPLETE moron, of course.)

I can't speak too much on the other guys, since I don't recall Jack or Ryan talking about finances much, but I'm fairly certain Michael was also working class or middle class, and I get the impression that he's also a bit more down-to-earth with money so that adds up to me.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

In fact, I guarantee that's why Ray was even able to go full on Heath Ledger's Joker in the months leading up to his quitting - he had likely saved so much money that he had a huge cushion to land on, so he knew he'd be safe whether he quit RT at his leisure or whether they fired him the next day. Couple that with the knowledge that he had a super high jumping off point in terms of gathering fans for his Twitch streams, and I think it's easy to see why he took it slow with spending money and was biding his time instead.

I can't remember when Ray said it, but he did mention that he was worried he'd wake up one day and his streaming career would be over either because his audience just vanished or the platform vanished, so he invested his money into real estate to rent, just as a fallback.

 

[Druveer]

You got some real points. RT has basically gone all in on RWBY at this point, and how the AH crew has managed to stay on GTA and Minecraft when we've seen the release of two generations of consoles and other things that could easily be driven into the ground like Among Us is beyond me.

It's always funny to me how slow AH is to jump onto the flavor of the month game, like the first time they played Among Us it had already been the hot thing for a month or so and not only that they did it wrong where everybody was talking while playing. They are all young and constantly online but they act like a bunch of boomers when it comes to the internet gaming culture, which given their jobs you'd think they'd be keyed right into that shit.

 

[Chilson]

It's always funny to me how slow AH is to jump onto the flavor of the month game, like the first time they played Among Us it had already been the hot thing for a month or so and not only that they did it wrong where everybody was talking while playing. They are all young and constantly online but they act like a bunch of boomers when it comes to the internet gaming culture, which given their jobs you'd think they'd be keyed right into that shit.

They are console gamers, kind of explains why they are so far behind.

 

[Random Internet Person]

They are console gamers, kind of explains why they are so far behind.

Glory to PC Master Race?

It's always funny to me how slow AH is to jump onto the flavor of the month game, like the first time they played Among Us it had already been the hot thing for a month or so and not only that they did it wrong where everybody was talking while playing. They are all young and constantly online but they act like a bunch of boomers when it comes to the internet gaming culture, which given their jobs you'd think they'd be keyed right into that shit.

Isn’t the “proper way” to play Among Us just to isolate everyone and then in the meetings you just go nuts in accusing people? All you probably need is the code to have a local multiplayer lobby and a dedicated voice chat? I mean, the meetings themselves could be milked for a while.

 

[pephickshigh]

It's because that was Gavin's schtick. Annoying? Yes, very much so. Attention grabbing? ABSOLUTELY. Fans love that shit. So he kept doing it until it stopped being profitable.



If memory serves, he does indeed come from a working class family (his dad was a bartender, and Ray worked at the same bar as a busboy which suggests that the family needed more income). Not to fall into the obvious "Latino work ethic" joke, but Ray clearly had a much different mentality toward their "fame" than the other guys did - he was very fiscally aware in the sense that he wasn't just dropping oodles of cash on random shit because he felt like it, and he rarely (if ever) missed work, so he was probably able to save up quite a bit. Hell, he was even living in that same apartment he'd first gotten when he moved to Texas until 2015, and that's assuming he isn't still living there now (though I think he and Tina did end up moving).

In fact, I guarantee that's why Ray was even able to go full on Heath Ledger's Joker in the months leading up to his quitting - he had likely saved so much money that he had a huge cushion to land on, so he knew he'd be safe whether he quit RT at his leisure or whether they fired him the next day. Couple that with the knowledge that he had a super high jumping off point in terms of gathering fans for his Twitch streams, and I think it's easy to see why he took it slow with spending money and was biding his time instead.

Gavin, by contrast, is not just a rich kid, but a Rich Kid™. His parents are well-off, he's worked on many major films/TV shows, and he has a very unique skill set that not many other people have, making him a very competitive hire and a fairly well-known name behind the scenes. He has near-complete financial security - if he loses his job at RT or quits, he can just go back to doing Slo-Mo Guys full-time or even being completely behind the camera again, and if he somehow couldn't work in THAT field anymore, he has more than enough saved up to keep him afloat for a long while. (Assuming he has been saving money and isn't a COMPLETE moron, of course.)

I can't speak too much on the other guys, since I don't recall Jack or Ryan talking about finances much, but I'm fairly certain Michael was also working class or middle class, and I get the impression that he's also a bit more down-to-earth with money so that adds up to me.

I wonder what the logistics of working for AH was. How much did they each make a year and did RT offer benefits like health insurance?

 

[Druveer]

Glory to PC Master Race?

Isn’t the “proper way” to play Among Us just to isolate everyone and then in the meetings you just go nuts in accusing people? All you probably need is the code to have a local multiplayer lobby and a dedicated voice chat? I mean, the meetings themselves could be milked for a while.

Yep. They were all on discord and after the meetings weren't muting themselves and were calling out who they thought was the imposter then following that person around as a group which made them doing their role impossible. Then in true AH fashion after being called out for not being able to get something as simple as... mute yourself during rounds... right they got butthurt on social media and whined.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Yep. They were all on discord and after the meetings weren't muting themselves and were calling out who they thought was the imposter then following that person around as a group which made them doing their role impossible. Then in true AH fashion after being called out for not being able to get something as simple as... mute yourself during rounds... right they got butthurt on social media and whined.

Sounds on brand

 

[yasscat]

but I'm fairly certain Michael was also working class or middle class,

Michael was an electrician/plumber before joining AH.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Yep. They were all on discord and after the meetings weren't muting themselves and were calling out who they thought was the imposter then following that person around as a group which made them doing their role impossible. Then in true AH fashion after being called out for not being able to get something as simple as... mute yourself during rounds... right they got butthurt on social media and whined.

Among Us has to probably be one of the EASIEST things you could do in terms of making content and driving a fad into the ground or riding it after its expiration date (even if it's just having the players be different characters and using your killer impressions)....and they fuck it up.

Seriously, you could do a special episode where you get RWBY VAs to play and they use their RWBY character voices in the meetings, or you could some serious drama shit or have people come into the studio and play with the AH crew and you can hype it up as a special guests and you can interview them during rounds between meetings and you have a fountain of potential of videos to make you could do it reguarly enough to have it join the likes of Minecraft and GTAV and or even replace those things to give the impression you're "hip" and "with it" and "current

 

[Miller]

It's always funny to me how slow AH is to jump onto the flavor of the month game, like the first time they played Among Us it had already been the hot thing for a month or so and not only that they did it wrong where everybody was talking while playing. They are all young and constantly online but they act like a bunch of boomers when it comes to the internet gaming culture, which given their jobs you'd think they'd be keyed right into that shit.

It's like when livestreaming became a thing (a bit after Ray left AH), they were all passive-agressive towards Ray and the whole Twitch streaming thing, then a month later they started to stream on Youtube like if they just came up with the idea.

 

[ToddleDoddle]

Who all from AH stream on their own now? I know Ryan did (lmao). I think Jeremy did or does?