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a moment of silence for RT!
🕑 Added 2024-03-06 17:32:46 +0000 UTCA lot of the reason you guys have found me and liked me and followed me over the years has been because of my obsession with rwby.
https://deadline.com/2024/03/rooster-teeth-shut-down-warner-bros-discovery-roost-podcast-continue-1235847264/
today is a weird day for me. I saw it coming awhile ago, with RT making a lot of bad decisions (I'm looking at you vicious circle! for those out of the loop, it was a game RT developed and launched around 2019 and at it's peak only had 329 players on steam.)) I think that the pandemic hit them hard and shifted a lot of the content creators to solo stream or stream together and it made people realize they didn't have to suffer through watching Michael if you only want Jeremy, or Jeremy if you only want Fredo. (I like them all in small doses and Fredo's girlfriend Jackie is hilarious and so stress inducing at the same time!)
RT has suffered PR nightmares and I think the accumulation of everything has just been too much for them to survive. typically, a streamer/youtuber/content creator has a limited time for growth and engagement with their audience. Microkitty reached her peak in 2019 for example and i've been trending downwards revenue wise ever since.
Youtubers are LUCKY to get 5 years of being popular, of course there are outliers, but media conglomerates and "content houses" have been a thing of the past for awhile. RT struggled to keep up with the times and kept making bad decisions (in my opinion)
I hope crunchy roll picks up rwby, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't see the worth in it at this stage.
I will shit talk RT as a company, but please keep the comments friendly in regards to individual creators if you do want to post something, unless they cheated on their wife or are a pedo, feel free to shit talk R.H. and A.K.
Comments
Liam
Like you said not totally surprising with how they were trending, but I feel awful for everyone now looking for a job all of a sudden. Just hope the good people there can land on their feet okay.
LlamaMaster
Well... that fuckin' sucks :(
