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

[RJ MacReady]

So essentially they're hiring on a TV guy to tardwrangle their screen talent and shill sponsored content. Sounds hopeless.

Note that he used to work for Defy Media, another digital media company which declined and imploded a few years back.

 

[I am slow sometiems]

Been a while since we've seen a sad cat tweet from Jeremy. Guess he's accepted the fact it's probably dead

 

[thomas_dp]

Barb was just interviewed by Zac Monson (No idea who he is) and he asked her what she actually does as a creative director. "Like, what is your actual job?"

Her answer:
"That's a good question. It changes all the time. Ultimately, I've been involved with RoosterTeeth pretty much since the beginning of RoosterTeeth. I joined the website, started watching 2004 and they started the company 2003. So, I've been there nearly since the beginning. So, I've been someone who's known the community, I've known the content, I know the humour and things that the audience likes to see, from the company.

And so, my role as Creative Director is essentially say like: "Okay, this idea or this concept, I think they're gonna love or they're going to hate." And to essentially like approve or not approve certain ideas, to come up with creative concepts, how to adapt to certain situations like quarantine and what to do there. Essentially it's just a very fancy decision-maker.

There's also a fuzzy line too between that and supervising producer. I also attend every single meeting and talk to other leaders of the company and figure out what's going on, big picture-wise. A lot of administrative stuff as well, it's not just creative.

We have content groups: Funhaus, Achievement Hunter and now Squad Team Force, which is the new brand name that we have, which is supposed to be just super tongue-in-cheek, kinda like Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Really over the top, cheeky thing. We just started that group and I'm the creative director of that one."

And here I thought that she was creative director of almost the whole company. Greatly overestimated her workload in that case.

Oh and the reasoning for not bringing back Always Open? She's taken on a lot more work and responsibility recently and Mariel changed departments and is now working at Sales, so she doesn't know if they'll be able to combine it all. Nevermind that by leaving out all the sexual topics and fun stuff in the later episodes (the stuff that made that show successful in the first place) meant that it turned into just another random boring podcast and that that's mostly the reason why its views deteriorated. That and having to do it through webcam ofc.

 

[Pizdec]

Oh and the reasoning for not bringing back Always Open? She's taken on a lot more work and responsibility recently and Mariel changed departments and is now working at Sales, so she doesn't know if they'll be able to combine it all. Nevermind that by leaving out all the sexual topics and fun stuff in the later episodes (the stuff that made that show successful in the first place) meant that it turned into just another random boring podcast and that that's mostly the reason why its views deteriorated. That and having to do it through webcam ofc.

Wait they made the podcast less sexual? Wasn't that the fucking point of the podcast, to talk sex and other weird shit, or did FuckFace take the wind out of it so Barb lost interest? Also why does Barb need Mariel? There's plenty of other girls and guys who could cohost the show with her.

 

[thomas_dp]

Wait they made the podcast less sexual? Wasn't that the fucking point of the podcast, to talk sex and other weird shit, or did FuckFace take the wind out of it so Barb lost interest? Also why does Barb need Mariel? There's plenty of other girls and guys who could cohost the show with her.

That was definitely what I thought when I saw some of the later episodes. Like the episode with Meg was tame as fuck. Like damn, if you have a model guest that does OF or Patreon, make a big part of the episode about that. Much better than the random boring topics we got instead. And true, Jessica for example would be a good host to do it with.

It was probably too much effort for her to keep doing it, especially now that she had what she had been wanting for years: a secure high position in the company and a massive dedicated fanbase. No more need to act like the playful, exciting naughty poster-girl.

 

[Pizdec]

It was probably too much effort for her to keep doing it, especially now that she had what she had been wanting for years: a secure high position in the company and a massive dedicated fanbase. No more need to act like the playful, exciting naughty poster-girl.

Geoff is in a higher spot then her, yet both of them still bother to show up for the main podcast, and Geoff still found time to do FuckFace.

 

[thomas_dp]

Geoff is in a higher spot then her, yet both of them still bother to show up for the main podcast, and Geoff still found time to do FuckFace.

Seems like Geoff's sabbatical has done wonders for his motivation then :p. Plus the dude needs as much distraction as he can get, after being put through so much depressing shit the past couple years. I dunno, I just feel like things have been mellowing out more than usual, with a lot less effort going into things as well. AHWU's ending, they don't bother to restart Always Open, barely any new life action skits and they're going full out in making audio podcasts.

 

[Din Djarin]

A bit late, but seeing AHWU ends does make the former fan in me sad, but the glory days have long been over.

 

[Filthy Greenskin]

"So, I've been someone who's known the community, I've known the content, I know the humour and things that the audience likes to see, from the company."

Google, show me the Roosterteeth socialblade profile.

 

[Flip: Draw 2]

Get a load of this guy. https://www.tubefilter.com/2021/05/10/rooster-teeth-jejuan-guillory-head-of-casting-talent-strategy/

“Jejuan at the helm of our casting and talent strategy will bring diverse new voices to our community that reflects gaming culture as it continues to boom.”
Just what Roosterteeth needed. More unfunny people in an over-saturated market.

 

[Druveer]

Get a load of this guy. https://www.tubefilter.com/2021/05/10/rooster-teeth-jejuan-guillory-head-of-casting-talent-strategy/

Rooster Teeth’s top talent include Barbara Dunkelman, Gavin Free, Alfredo Diaz, and more.

Imagine how demoralizing it must be to work somewhere where Barbara Dunkelman is considered top talent.

 

[Juan's Sombrero]

“Jejuan at the helm of our casting and talent strategy will bring diverse new voices to our community that reflects gaming culture as it continues to boom.”
Just what Roosterteeth needed. More unfunny people in an over-saturated market.

When are they going to get that they're becoming less relevant by the day?

 

[Tom Honks]

When are they going to get that they're becoming less relevant by the day?

They’ll get it when it finally slaps them in the face

 

[Physics Ninja]

And so, my role as Creative Director is essentially say like: "Okay, this idea or this concept, I think they're gonna love or they're going to hate." And to essentially like approve or not approve certain ideas

Barbara as the arbiter of new content and litmus test for the communities approval pretty much answers the question of why Roosterteeth failed

 

[Random Internet Person]

When are they going to get that they're becoming less relevant by the day?

When RWBY becomes a thing of the past.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Imagine how demoralizing it must be to work somewhere where Barbara Dunkelman is considered top talent.

You saw that list, and the standout wasn't Alfredo?

 

[thomas_dp]

When RWBY becomes a thing of the past.

RWBY got brought up plenty in her recent interview, by the way. She talked about how she got to voice Yang (Monty just asked her if she wanted to voice a badass goldilocks character), that it's mostly just her normal voice (she tried a higher voice at the audition, but they told her to try it in her normal voice instead) and that voice acting isn't necessarily putting on a voice or doing a voice, it's just acting...with your voice.

She also talks about how RWBY blew up internationally and I know that the show's quite popular, but to hear her say that it's "a worldwide phenomenon, that none of us could have predicted"? Kinda overdoing it a little, no? :p

Definitely just seems like she got extremely lucky with landing the Yang role, which is also something she admitted in that interview actually.

 

[Druveer]

You saw that list, and the standout wasn't Alfredo?

Good point.

 

[Random Internet Person]

It’s coming back. https://mobile.twitter.com/RoosterTeeth/status/1392670575139696642?s=20

https://archive.ph/ZUsOI

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

It’s coming back. https://mobile.twitter.com/RoosterTeeth/status/1392670575139696642?s=20

https://archive.ph/ZUsOI

Guess HBO bucks paid to have more frames per second. Congrats on reaching an industry standard.