>[I]t’s with a heavy heart I announce that Rooster Teeth is shutting down due to challenges facing digital media resulting from fundamental shifts in consumer behavior and monetization across platforms, advertising, and patronage,
That’s a great word salad that boils down to “Nobody wants to watch our shit anymore”.
It’s a tough field, and honestly 21 years is a hell of a run. I think I still have my Red vs. Blue Season 1 DVDs somewhere.
It’s been a sad decline. I was a kid when the first RvB was all over the playground. The community used to seem so large and yet still close. Now r/Roosterteeth can’t even manage 1000 upvotes on this massive news.
20 years is still an impressive go at it. A lot of my childhood YT channels are dead or dying. Though I wonder if it could go the route of college humour/dropout
The Barenaked Ladies show featuring Red vs Blue interstitials is a core memory from high school for me. (Also The Trailer Park Boys opened)
I like to think the owners got into the office and asked each other “do you ever wonder why we are here?”
Everything dies in the end.
Loved the first 3 seasons of RWBY then it seemed to me it started to go downhill.
Fallout money finally ran out?
Having watched rooster teeth when I was younger, they just lost their spark. It felt less like friends doing some goofy shit and just coworkers being forced to act a certain way or they’d get in trouble. Videos just stopped hitting the same. All their shows were either forced into their fucking garbage website or just became so boring and shitty (rwby and rvb)
Then Ryan and kovic got outed for disgusting behaviour
Then the company got outed for protecting kovic and shitty behaviours
It’s been falling further and further since burnie left and well now we’re here. It sucks but they just couldn’t keep the magic alive after being bought out.
Also side note fuck the rooster teeth website. That’s probably a major reason they died so hard. They were so hyper focused on forcing you to buy a membership to watch all their stuff without ads, on their website that barely fucking worked properly. Hell they eventually stopped even posting shows to YouTube and strictly posted on their website.
RT was at its best when it was just some people having fun. They tried to turn it in to more and it was always doomed to fail
One hell of a run
You ever wonder why we’re here?
This rings a bell but what were the way known for again?
not surprised. as someone who used to fuck with rooster teeth heavy idk what happened but the fall off they’ve had has been crazy.
My kid will be sad to hear that. 😔
They could have done great things with Helldivers…
It was mostly dead to me when Burnie left.
Man, RIP Funhaus.
Sad to see, but not surprising. They started as a bunch of friends just wanting to have fun, and that’s what drew people to them. You could feel the joy and fun they were having, and it was infectious. Now it’s almost all formulaic stuff to appease the algorithms. Jeff himself has said RT feels like a shadow of what it started out as.
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Omg really? Where will Caboose live?
I’m surprised it lasted this long.
>[I]t’s with a heavy heart I announce that Rooster Teeth is shutting down due to challenges facing digital media resulting from fundamental shifts in consumer behavior and monetization across platforms, advertising, and patronage,
That’s a great word salad that boils down to “Nobody wants to watch our shit anymore”.
It’s a tough field, and honestly 21 years is a hell of a run. I think I still have my Red vs. Blue Season 1 DVDs somewhere.
It’s been a sad decline. I was a kid when the first RvB was all over the playground. The community used to seem so large and yet still close. Now r/Roosterteeth can’t even manage 1000 upvotes on this massive news.
20 years is still an impressive go at it. A lot of my childhood YT channels are dead or dying. Though I wonder if it could go the route of college humour/dropout
The Barenaked Ladies show featuring Red vs Blue interstitials is a core memory from high school for me. (Also The Trailer Park Boys opened)
I like to think the owners got into the office and asked each other “do you ever wonder why we are here?”
Everything dies in the end.
Loved the first 3 seasons of RWBY then it seemed to me it started to go downhill.
Fallout money finally ran out?
Having watched rooster teeth when I was younger, they just lost their spark. It felt less like friends doing some goofy shit and just coworkers being forced to act a certain way or they’d get in trouble. Videos just stopped hitting the same. All their shows were either forced into their fucking garbage website or just became so boring and shitty (rwby and rvb)
Then Ryan and kovic got outed for disgusting behaviour
Then the company got outed for protecting kovic and shitty behaviours
It’s been falling further and further since burnie left and well now we’re here. It sucks but they just couldn’t keep the magic alive after being bought out.
Also side note fuck the rooster teeth website. That’s probably a major reason they died so hard. They were so hyper focused on forcing you to buy a membership to watch all their stuff without ads, on their website that barely fucking worked properly. Hell they eventually stopped even posting shows to YouTube and strictly posted on their website.
RT was at its best when it was just some people having fun. They tried to turn it in to more and it was always doomed to fail
One hell of a run
You ever wonder why we’re here?
This rings a bell but what were the way known for again?
not surprised. as someone who used to fuck with rooster teeth heavy idk what happened but the fall off they’ve had has been crazy.
My kid will be sad to hear that. 😔
They could have done great things with Helldivers…
It was mostly dead to me when Burnie left.
Man, RIP Funhaus.
Sad to see, but not surprising. They started as a bunch of friends just wanting to have fun, and that’s what drew people to them. You could feel the joy and fun they were having, and it was infectious. Now it’s almost all formulaic stuff to appease the algorithms. Jeff himself has said RT feels like a shadow of what it started out as.