Rooster Teeth is shutting down
Rooster Teeth is shutting down
Dear Rooster Teeth Community, Over the years at Rooster Teeth, we aim to be direct in sharing news as it happens. It is with an extremely heavy heart that this morning during our company All Hands meeting, a very important announcement was made. We are grateful for our audience, our fans, and our c...
After 21 years Rooster Teeth is being shut down by Warner Bros. Discovery, it's parent company. I wasn't too into their work except for Red vs. Blue in my college days but its a shame.
Sad but not unexpected. Rooster Teeth hasn’t been Rooster Teeth in a long time.
When do you think they stopped being Rooster Teeth?
I know there's a ton of Youtube essays on it but I'm more interested in hearing people's personal thoughts.
For me, probably somewhere between the second lazer team movie and gen:lock as that's when they truly stopped being creative "new media" studio and tried to just become another tradionally media studio, except they didn't have the budget or the talent to really do so. And gen lock was really the final nail in the coffin as for one, it was truly just dogshit and 2 they focused so hard on any star power they could get and forced all their talent to shill for it and you could always tell how soulless and corporate it was at that point.
Holy shit that is a pattern if I’ve ever seen one
Way before any of those Bernie had his "I understand where racists are coming" from rant on the podcast.
But I guess you can't expect much from a company founded by gamers.
And every time their response was either "fuck you, we did nothing wrong" or "we are very sorry that offended you".
Edit: Also that's not even a quater of their controversies.
Like you have the controversy with monies spouse Sheena, the drama with Shane.
The "connect the hots" controversy.
Double gold lootbox
Fucking everything to do with Joel.
Etc.
I prefer the Blizzard apology: “We’re sorry you were offended.”
I really hope someone is archiving their good old stuff, because it won't take long for discovery to delete everything to save a few bucks.
Bye Felicia
They burnt the candle at both ends for everyone in their employ. The consequences of their actions
I heard someone on a podcast (not RT related) the other day say that it seems a lot of companies in the gaming and games media industries are in the "find out" phase after years of "fucking around". That really resonates with what we are seeing here, imo.
Wait… Rooster Teeth became a “company” company, with all hands meetings, and a minimalist corporate logo?
Death by 1,000 corporate memos.
It's been that way for at least 18 of their 21 years history. They were a company for longer than they were a few dudes in a garage doing machinima.
Did you guys read all the fucking corpo speak in that message? Christ.
Yea, it's just the natural ebb and flow of consumers and changing monetization options... Totes natural business flow. Not, you know, the constant shit storm of poorly treated employees going public about the company's horrible practices leading to fewer and fewer people willing to financially support the company.
Another casualty of the Warner/Discovery clusterfire it seems.
Not that Rooster Teeth were bastions of well-run businesses but still. If you have a favorite Warner or Discovery movie or show better get the DVD before its too late.
Or just sail the high seas, matey. It will all be there in perpetuity.
They lived long enough to become the villain.
I will always remember old Rooster Teeth with fondness.
I've been downloading my favorite AH videos all day in case WB decides to pull content, with their history you never know. I was looking into setting up a local NAS last weekend, and all these videos might be my push, I think I'm up to 250 GB downloaded (shoutout to youtube-dl) with the long 1080p60 files, hopefully I can cut that down with some HandBrake trickery.
The writing was on the walls for a while, Achievement Hunter breaking up was a huge red flag, but definitely not the first sign. I have only really consumed their podcasts for the last few years, and it sounds like The Roost will continue for now while WB looks for a buyer, but I think we have to wait for their stream tomorrow to find out what that means in terms of what productions if any are going to continue.
x265 HEVC is a wonderful thing.
Damn really been enjoying FH recently, hopefully they continue in some form after this.
They survived Machinima, they may survive this