Rooster Teeth Shut Down By Warner Bros. Discovery, The Roost Podcast Network To Continue
Rooster Teeth Shut Down By Warner Bros. Discovery, The Roost Podcast Network To Continue
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That network was dead in 2017 when they sold to Warner. You could tell the shift in posting/ content as soon as the big wigs took over. Such a shame. Rooster teeth circa 2012-2016 was probably peak “hosted gaming” comedy content. Now it’s all sponsored, censored garbage.
Man, it feels like it’s been forever since I actually enjoyed anything from RT. It still feels a little surprising that it’s just being completely canned, but maybe I shouldn’t be too shocked.
Oh, it’s been a long time coming. They had some pretty terrible controversies (including workplace racism and transphobia, as well as ~~two~~ one alledged pedo and another guy with a long, documented history of sexual harassment that HR did nothing about), and the only thing they were still making that had people invested was RWBY. And well… They sold out their remaining fanbase by making the newest season a Crunchyroll exclusive. They lost their spark quite some time ago.
Well, shit.
Well that’s unfortunate news. What does that mean for channels like Funhaus? I hope they can branch off on their own.
Wasn’t rooster teeth the guys who made RedVSBlue?
It’s been a long time since I watched anything under the RT brand. Fortunately several of the old AH crowd have flourishing Twitch steams and game together on occasion.
This is quite a shock to someone like me, who was on the redvsblue community site in the ancient times known as 2005, lol.
But then again, I’ve watched little of what they’ve actually done in the last few years. The pandemic all but killed the podcast for me (I can’t stand watching people video chat), Burnie left and took a whole lot of energy with him, by the time the podcast was back to being in person they lost half the people that I actually enjoyed watching on it, etc.
I know it was already dead but this still makes me sad. I still regularly quote Red vs Blue.
Anyone know where one can save red vs blue for posterity?
Warner Brothers Discovery is trying really hard to become the shittiest media company in existence…
Ever since the merger they’ve been screwing up decisions with DC properties, HBO, various streaming license deals, and WB’s video game division.
It feels like everything they do lately is either screwing over the fans or screwing over themselves.
Sad, but it’s been the writing on the wall for a long time. Bad investments, head in the sand leadership and letting poor workplace environments drive away new creatives who could have reignited the studio.
Then you have the issue of the original core audience aging out of prime viewing habits and there was always this waiting around the corner.
They were owned by Warner bros?
No wonder all those scandals happened
I haven’t watched any RT content since Ashley left, haven’t listened to any of their podcasts since Bernie left. Kinda funny seems to be the only arm of the company that still has any modicum of relevance, wonder if they go indie following this news. On another note I wonder if stuff like RWBY gets sold or canned, haven’t watched it in ages but I always got the impression it was popular enough to justify its continued existence.
Given what it’s current state was, nothing of value was lost. It was a question of when not if.
Even though they went downhill, this is definitely the end of an Era.
Hey. You ever wonder why we’re here?
I would highly suggest that if you’re a mega fan of RT who has stuff they would like to re-watch I would get to archiving. Warner Bros doesn’t have a good track record with stuff like this.
I can’t believe Ray personally did this to RT. /s
RIP funhaus. Been my favourite channel for a while now.
Does that mean Death Battle is over?
Crazy to trace back how much I watched them. From Achievement Hunter, to the RT pod, to Funhaus. Feel horrible for the likes of James & Elise who are still there but they’re talented enough to land on their feet. The news stories the last while taint the memory I have of the company but can still easily think of trips, flights, walks, sleeps where I had their funny stuff on.
Warner Bros. Was the key.
That unlocked their death.
Talk about buying a successful company and running into the ground with corporate bullshit and no understanding of your audience.
I hope this frees up the creators to spawn something new.
I stopped watching most of their content 2 or 3 years ago now. The soul has been gone for a while, you could tell they were just making videos to make videos instead of having fun. Didn’t care for the “new” cast whatsoever
I still enjoy going back and watching their older videos though
There was a time around 2015-2016 when RT seemed unstoppable. They were a force of nature and were building a spiderweb of creative channels. It felt like every week a new great gaming channel would join or be revived with them and start crossing over into one another’s content.
But in the end the years drag on, and Nero always gets his time to fiddle.
Shit, I’ll have to download all of RvB now in case it disappears
Their DnD podcast (Tales from the Stinky Dragon) is fantastic, hopefully it isn’t affected.
Is the lets play channel still up 🤔
I guess we know now why RTX was cancelled.
I’m sorry that a lot of people are about to lose their jobs. I haven’t watched any RT content after the whole Ryan Haywood thing. But I liked the energy of their stuff when it was Geoff, Jack, Gavin, Jeremy and Michael. Still, a company can only weather so many storms.
Did some Warner Bros corpo shut them down for not being a live service?
Ruby Rose got a Vtuber Channel and Avatar not so long ago, i wonder what will happen with that
Honestly Rooster Teeth has been dead for a long time now.
I was in high school when Xbox came out. I loved watching RedvsBlue. My friends would quote it all the time. That’s unfortunate. Although, they’ve been dead for years since being bought.
All these years later I still have no idea what Rooster Teeth actually is. Is it a YT channel? A website? A podcast? All the above?
Honestly, just to be expected. A lot of people said the decline was when they were acquired, or when Monty died as major parts.
Things really started downhill way back when Burnie introduced an old friend and gave him a higher up position. Matt started the push for more monetization back then, and things just got greedy then on.
Best of luck to those who have to find new work.
Damn. I was a huge Achievement Hunter fan for years and they ended recently. A lot of people point to Ray leaving to when AH’s quality started to decline, but RT getting bought was really the problem. Rooster Teeth getting shut down is somehow predictable but still sad though. I hope everyone somehow is able to land on their feet because a lot of talented people still worked there.
Well I hope Funhaus will be able to go independent then I guess.
Machinima shutdown sad peepo noises. 🙁