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[Random Internet Person]

We've past the 100 page mark and this thread isn't even a year old. My God, RT. What are you doing?

Yeah, I'm sure the endless shirts referencing a random video no one has watched are going to be remembered for generations to come. Come back when people are sending in their detention slips for wearing "cockbite" shirts to class (wish I still had the image RT posted on their site back in 2006, it was fucking hilarious).

Weird thing is, every time I go to the RT store, the main things I've seen is some personality doing a line, or RWBY shirts or some RWBY related material.

 

[Insalubrious]

Never watched/listened to Off Topic, but judging by the notes, sounds like it’s shit.

Off Topic used to be enjoyable early on when it was mostly the original AH crew (sans Ray of course) and it was one of the last RT shows that I would watch/listen to regularly. But at some point the newer hires started to become more regular cast members it turned to mostly boring shit so I dropped it.

Trevor is a fucking idiot asshole and I hated him from the moment he showed up in their videos. I think his first appearance was back when they were still playing The Ship, and he struck me as someone who tries really hard to be whacky-funny but is just obnoxious. AH definitely would fuck around but he didn't even try to play the game. One person (Lindsay) doing that was enough. I thought maybe he just left a bad first impression, but I quickly learned he really did make every video worse. I think I've found him funny twice ever, and I used to watch a lot of AH content.

lol calm down bro
In all seriousness though that is pretty much the way I feel about Trevor too. I had mostly forgotten about the 'whacky-funny' shit he does since even when I watched AH/RT content I would avoid videos that he was a part of, but now that you mention it AT LEAST half of the 'jokes' he made on the latest podcast involved him putting on a 'funny' voice and waving his arms around. It's almost as if he's some sort of alien that watched a bunch of random funny youtube clips and is trying his best to imitate human humor.

 

[Your NSA Handler]

Off Topic used to be enjoyable early on when it was mostly the original AH crew (sans Ray of course) and it was one of the last RT shows that I would watch/listen to regularly. But at some point the newer hires started to become more regular cast members it turned to mostly boring shit so I dropped it.

It felt like a natural development from the let's plays they'd do where they'd just shoot the shit. It was really interesting in that regard. As soon as it got more structured and lost that vibe, I shut it off.

lol calm down bro
In all seriousness though that is pretty much the way I feel about Trevor too. I had mostly forgotten about the 'whacky-funny' shit he does since even when I watched AH/RT content I would avoid videos that he was a part of, but now that you mention it AT LEAST half of the 'jokes' he made on the latest podcast involved him putting on a 'funny' voice and waving his arms around. It's almost as if he's some sort of alien that watched a bunch of random funny youtube clips and is trying his best to imitate human humor.

I might have been wearing my MATI hat while writing that, but fuck me, I felt like I was taking crazy pills for years. There were sizable backlashes for all the other new personalities (Matt, Lindsay, Jeremy, Fiona, etc.) but Trevor didn't seem to get nearly as much. It really is like you say, where he just does "humor for fellow humans" that doesn't land at all.

 

[Druveer]

Easy to see why. Has anyone ever actually watched Gen Lock?

RWBY and RVB are the only animated series from RT I ever bothered with. Camp Camp is probably their most "successful" show outside of those two, and I couldn't sit through more than a few minutes of it. That's why I fully agree that RWBY was an extremely lucky fluke, and one they're not likely to replicate again. (Then again, I guess you could say that for most of their more recent successes.)

I watched like two and a half episodes or so of gen lock, when they started talking about pronouns, eyes rolled hard and I went to watch something else. Not on the RT site or affiliated with them cuz fuck that noise.

 

[BowsersRectum]

I live in a deep blue state that had some of the strictest lockdowns in the country yet I have gone to my barber once a month since last July. Men that have grown mullets, ponytails, or just let their hair grow long and unkempt including Michael have no excuse. If he didn't want to go to a barber because of safety reasons Michael could have just bought a pair of clippers and had Lindsay buzz his hair every once in a while. His look clearly shows he gave up and just doesn't care anymore.

I’m gonna project what I ended up doing during quarantine onto Michael and say he’s just trying to figure out what his hair looks like long, but it doesn’t look very healthy or well kept and neither does he. Out of the four on set quarantine hit him the hardest it seems.

The problem with the comparison videos posted before is that the lighting is completely different now. I’m pretty sure Trevor and Alfredo look the exact same as before quarantine. Seeing as they are NPCs, this doesn’t surprise me.

 

[Pig Boss]

Off Topic used to be enjoyable early on when it was mostly the original AH crew (sans Ray of course) and it was one of the last RT shows that I would watch/listen to regularly. But at some point the newer hires started to become more regular cast members it turned to mostly boring shit so I dropped it.


lol calm down bro
In all seriousness though that is pretty much the way I feel about Trevor too. I had mostly forgotten about the 'whacky-funny' shit he does since even when I watched AH/RT content I would avoid videos that he was a part of, but now that you mention it AT LEAST half of the 'jokes' he made on the latest podcast involved him putting on a 'funny' voice and waving his arms around. It's almost as if he's some sort of alien that watched a bunch of random funny youtube clips and is trying his best to imitate human humor.

I think the main reason a lot of people are turned off by Trevor is that his humour is more suited for younger people. that's why he was in charge of GameKids, and now RTs audience is the same age as the people GameKids was aimed at. Honestly, I think the people that really like him are probably under 25.

 

[Most Dumbest Bitch]

I think the main reason a lot of people are turned off by Trevor is that his humour is more suited for younger people. that's why he was in charge of GameKids, and now RTs audience is the same age as the people GameKids was aimed at. Honestly, I think the people that really like him are probably under 25.

I fully agree with this, and I remember that being one of the major reasons why I found Trevor kind of creepy. He's not that much younger than the original "young" RT members - almost all of them were born in the years between 1985 and 1990, Trevor was '90 - but his sense of humor and personality just seemed so strangely juvenile by comparison, and given the company we're talking about, that's saying a lot. It's made even stranger still by the abuse accusations proffered by his ex that haven't been cleared up after several YEARS; the fact that he brought it up out of the clear blue sky in the middle of the RH saga still boggles my mind to this day. (Incidentally, what exactly is the story there? I keep trying to find out and getting half-answers.)

Side note, I found out while checking the wiki that Jeremy was born in fucking 1991. I was no longer watching RT by the time he was hired, so I'm assuming this is common knowledge for everyone else, but that was a genuine surprise to me. I thought he was much older based on looks, and the picture the wiki provides really doesn't help, either:

Even when he had hair, he looked quite old, so this is truly surprising.

 

[Your NSA Handler]

It's made even stranger still by the abuse accusations proffered by his ex that haven't been cleared up after several YEARS; the fact that he brought it up out of the clear blue sky in the middle of the RH saga still boggles my mind to this day. (Incidentally, what exactly is the story there? I keep trying to find out and getting half-answers.)

I retract my bet on Andy Blanchard being the next outed abuser and change to Trevor Collins.

Side note, I found out while checking the wiki that Jeremy was born in fucking 1991. I was no longer watching RT by the time he was hired, so I'm assuming this is common knowledge for everyone else, but that was a genuine surprise to me. I thought he was much older based on looks, and the picture the wiki provides really doesn't help, either:

lol I can't help but like Jeremy. He's like the opposite of Trevor, where he just seems like a good guy even when he's being annoying.

 

[thomas_dp]

I retract my bet on Andy Blanchard being the next outed abuser and change to Trevor Collins.

He's already been outed by his ex, Emily, several times on a small scale.
And after the Ryan and Adam stuff went down, people were picking that up again, with him soon releasing a bunch of proof and statements on twitter before it got too out of hand.
He immediately got the full support of the RT fandom and his colleagues by being the first one to make an official public move, so she'd be fucked no matter what she'd counterattack with.
And he ofc had Barbara backing him up completely, with anecdotes about how Trevor is such a wonderful human being. When you're faced with so many people coming down on you, no wonder that she deleted her twitter quickly.
Dunno how much of her words were true and how much of it was fake (we'll never know now), but she definitely handled the whole thing the absolute wrong way.

 

[AuxPersonality]

I want to talk about AH and I feel like I have no one to do so with. The discord has such intense censorship and reddit is moderated too hard so I'm coming here to raise some thoughts I want to chat about.

I'm interested in the way they produce their videos now. Why its changed I don't know, I'm sure the pandemic is part of it but I think the transition happened well into the middle of the pandemic.

What I'm talking about is in their office they used to record at computers, audio, face camera and game video where all separate recordings (for each person in the video) and dumped into network storage where an editor would turn it into a video to be posted. All the fat and pointless parts of the recording where removed, audio balancing could be done, camera cuts, jokes posted into the video by the editor to bring additional comedy. Pretty normal stuff for online content for lets play videos.

Now they stream into Rooster Teeth network 24/7, they have a schedule of games they adhere to and different people are booked in at different times. All posted videos are just the streams re-posted.

In many videos and pod casts the staff and crew have often talked about the technical difficulties of setting videos, GTA Online is being weird and it takes 30 minutes to get every one into the same game. Somes computer has a mic problem and needs fix. A capture device fails and needs rebooting. There is a lot of prep work that used to get caught into recordings and mostly removed or condensed into a funny gag at some point in the video.

With their online stream its all raw and it seems like every video they do is 15-20 minutes of problems and setting things up. Every things coming down the pipe live so the audio is being captured over discord (I think?) and its taken a long time for each individual to get their "streaming" setup to the point where the audio is not trash.

But we also get what I'd call unprofessional behind the curtain banter of technical difficulties where Jack and Alfredo argue about what time this stream is ment to start and who is ment to be there, because like all company's they have internal communication issues. I don't really care to know, but thanks to the long intos and multiple times did you know they have a Calendar that dictates when and where people should be? Well turns out the Calendar is a lie and there's a sheet with the real information on it. But that does not stop many video starting with them all fighting each other about which scheduling method is the correct one.

Ok I've gone on a bit too much about the details but my point being they are raw and live 24/7 now and I think it their videos suffer from it. Their content has gone from being produced (some one reviews footage, edits it, adds to it, puts some extra touches to it, cleans the audio) to just raw.... just raw.

It also seems to be taking a toll on some of the cast members, they've gone from able to take brakes during recordings for say food and toilet to being on all the time with no brakes.

Despite being a pandemic I don't see why they needed to shift from produced videos to streaming 24/7.

I have many other thoughts and things I'd like to raise but I'll put this one out first to see how it goes over.

 

[Insalubrious]

I think the main reason a lot of people are turned off by Trevor is that his humour is more suited for younger people. that's why he was in charge of GameKids, and now RTs audience is the same age as the people GameKids was aimed at. Honestly, I think the people that really like him are probably under 25.

I was not aware that he was in charge of Game Kids. That would explain his humor for sure. Also he probably thinks he is really funny because he is currently the AH boss so everyone in the office probably feels obligated to laugh his jokes

Side note, I found out while checking the wiki that Jeremy was born in fucking 1991. I was no longer watching RT by the time he was hired, so I'm assuming this is common knowledge for everyone else, but that was a genuine surprise to me. I thought he was much older based on looks, and the picture the wiki provides really doesn't help, either:

Even when he had hair, he looked quite old, so this is truly surprising.

It's funny to me that a bald alcoholic manlet rapper from Boston that wears wifebeaters, gold chains and sunglasses indoors is still more likeable than most current RT personalities

I retract my bet on Andy Blanchard being the next outed abuser and change to Trevor Collins.

Andy did have anger management issues in the past, he even used to see a professional about it. I'm not saying it's a certainty by any means but it almost feels like a matter of time before someone accuses him of drunkenly raping them at a convention or something

 

[Its not me I swear]

I want to talk about AH and I feel like I have no one to do so with. The discord has such intense censorship and reddit is moderated too hard so I'm coming here to raise some thoughts I want to chat about.

I'm interested in the way they produce their videos now. Why its changed I don't know, I'm sure the pandemic is part of it but I think the transition happened well into the middle of the pandemic.

What I'm talking about is in their office they used to record at computers, audio, face camera and game video where all separate recordings (for each person in the video) and dumped into network storage where an editor would turn it into a video to be posted. All the fat and pointless parts of the recording where removed, audio balancing could be done, camera cuts, jokes posted into the video by the editor to bring additional comedy. Pretty normal stuff for online content for lets play videos.

Now they stream into Rooster Teeth network 24/7, they have a schedule of games they adhere to and different people are booked in at different times. All posted videos are just the streams re-posted.

In many videos and pod casts the staff and crew have often talked about the technical difficulties of setting videos, GTA Online is being weird and it takes 30 minutes to get every one into the same game. Somes computer has a mic problem and needs fix. A capture device fails and needs rebooting. There is a lot of prep work that used to get caught into recordings and mostly removed or condensed into a funny gag at some point in the video.

With their online stream its all raw and it seems like every video they do is 15-20 minutes of problems and setting things up. Every things coming down the pipe live so the audio is being captured over discord (I think?) and its taken a long time for each individual to get their "streaming" setup to the point where the audio is not trash.

But we also get what I'd call unprofessional behind the curtain banter of technical difficulties where Jack and Alfredo argue about what time this stream is ment to start and who is ment to be there, because like all company's they have internal communication issues. I don't really care to know, but thanks to the long intos and multiple times did you know they have a Calendar that dictates when and where people should be? Well turns out the Calendar is a lie and there's a sheet with the real information on it. But that does not stop many video starting with them all fighting each other about which scheduling method is the correct one.

Ok I've gone on a bit too much about the details but my point being they are raw and live 24/7 now and I think it their videos suffer from it. Their content has gone from being produced (some one reviews footage, edits it, adds to it, puts some extra touches to it, cleans the audio) to just raw.... just raw.

It also seems to be taking a toll on some of the cast members, they've gone from able to take brakes during recordings for say food and toilet to being on all the time with no brakes.

Despite being a pandemic I don't see why they needed to shift from produced videos to streaming 24/7.

I have many other thoughts and things I'd like to raise but I'll put this one out first to see how it goes over.

I think it's mostly because streaming his getting more and more traction in general and it could potentially pay more with donations.

 

[Insalubrious]

I have many other thoughts and things I'd like to raise

Please do, I am interested. Maybe do a quick proofread before posting next time though

 

[AuxPersonality]

Please do, I am interested. Maybe do a quick proofread before posting next time though

Well a new one I've just had after watching AHWU #568 (just posted) where they show off their new covid office they are building. I reconize the building, its the office space built with temp buildings where some of the RT on screen staff have (had?) individual offices. Like Blane and Barbara and Chris, these offices have been in plenty of live action content before so its easy to pick up. But from a recording audio and video stand point, its the worst building for this. I know they where just filming say on an iphone and the construction isn't done but you can hear every step because the floor is just MDF sitting ontop of bricks (its like a site shed on a construction site).

They had offices in the massive warehouses used for filming.... film and other stage productions, like off topic. This seems like a huge down grade which makes me think bad things are going on behind the camera.

 

[Trianon]

I don't watch any livestreams, but I have noticed how many audio/video issues they have now. Someone animates the little talking heads for when their cams stopped working. But the audio was especially bad in the Sims video that Lindsay and Fiona did. It was like they were talking through an old phone.

The Among Us videos would be perfect for creative editing opportunities, but I don't love the way they record those in silence or with muted mics. Hard to find a good middle ground that keeps it interesting to watch without giving things away to the players.

 

[BowsersRectum]

I don't watch any livestreams, but I have noticed how many audio/video issues they have now. Someone animates the little talking heads for when their cams stopped working. But the audio was especially bad in the Sims video that Lindsay and Fiona did. It was like they were talking through an old phone.

The Among Us videos would be perfect for creative editing opportunities, but I don't love the way they record those in silence or with muted mics. Hard to find a good middle ground that keeps it interesting to watch without giving things away to the players.

It astonishes me how many audio/video issues they have. How? It honestly turns me off from watching their videos. It’s not even funny anymore because it’s EVERY VIDEO.

 

[Vaping Autist]

Does anyone happen to know why Ellie left Roosterteeth? I thought she wasn't all too bad, though could still be cringey as fuck when with the other "Core" cast, but I generally thought she was all around likeable.

After Bernie left there wasn't hardly anything mentioning her departure aside from her Twitter post.

 

[batigol]

IIRC n one of the rounds of layoffs they had people were being offered, what sounded like, generous packages to go away. She was one of the people who took them up on the offer.

 

[BowsersRectum]

Does anyone happen to know why Ellie left Roosterteeth? I thought she wasn't all too bad, though could still be cringey as fuck when with the other "Core" cast, but I generally thought she was all around likeable.

After Bernie left there wasn't hardly anything mentioning her departure aside from her Twitter post

Miles Luna scooped her up.

I found Ellie to be likeable as well, but she had to compete with so many people that were incredibly unlikeable that it didn’t really matter. I never watched her videos with Burnie.

Upon looking at her Instagram, I learned she’s in a country-rock band. From looking through videos quickly her voice sounds nice, and they seem to be doing pretty well.

she also has a podcast with someone who is apparently affiliated with Rooster Teeth, but I haven’t seen them on camera before. I wonder if the podcast is any good. Judging by the posts, I’m not sure it’s my thing anyway.

She seems smarter than her peers at Rooster Teeth. It seems like she left to do what she wanted creatively, regardless of whether she “gets big” or not. A quick look at her Twitter seems to indicate to me she’s not fucking nuts either.

 

[Zync]

Does anyone happen to know why Ellie left Roosterteeth?

Well, she lost her mind as evidenced by her dating Miles. That dude is fucking annoying, I don't know how anyone could stand him in that capacity.