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Roosterteeth / Achievement Hunter / Let's Play /  RWBY / Gen:Lock / Funhaus / Death Battle / Inside Gaming / The Know / Always Open

Machinima/"Comedy" channel now on a permanently sinking ship, plugging their holes with podcasts, a fuck ton of booze, crappy animated shows, and colored monkeys. Is now a corperate shell of it's former self.


If you are familiar with the old Youtube days, you likely remember Red Vs Blue, a show created by RoosterTeeth, that was founded by Bernie Burns, Matt Hollum, Geoff Ramsey, Gus Sorola, and Joel Haymen. The company found great success in their machinima series, that they went from working in Bernie's spare bedroom, to a full pledged studio and office. Today however, Bernie has left to newer pastures, Joel was fired for being WOKE, and a majority of their projects are tanking. Their flagship series RvB, while still in the works, is left in the dust for other, less profitable ventures as the company is slowly on a death spiral while they attempt to find other shows to replace former ones, if not outright copy current shows.

RWBY, Gen:LOCK, and other animated misadventures.

RWBY, next to RvB serves as one of the companies few successful ventures, if not, their magnum opus, despite it's glaring mediocrity in how poorly the show is written out. Lore about the series is dubiously canon, and the show is outright barred from criticism due to Monty Oum, the series creator, dying as a result of trying to please his waifu by building a tolerance towards cat dandruff. for further info on it, a separate thread can be found here. a thread regarding Monty's "widow", Nicole, can be found here.

Gen:LOCK, while less recognized is an even bigger lolcow with how it was developed. So much funding was put into Gen:LOCK, that the director and then head of RT's Animation department, Gray Haddock, stole funds from another series in development (Nomad of Nowhere, which was a far more entertaining series then Gen:LOCK). In the process of trying to bring his show to life, he brought in dozens of unpaid interns on contract to animate the show, with the interns leaving negative glassdoor reviews that shows how Gray lied to them, saying that they'd become full pledged employees.  to this day those glassdoor reviews still scar RT's animation department.

While Gray's connections to Warner alloted a slot for the show to be broadcasted on TV, the series tanked in predicted expecations. Despite Gen:LOCK's failure however, the series was picked up by HBO for their streaming service, and a second season is supposedly in development. However, in an effort to stop Gray from repeating what happened with season one, someone from the Animation department directly went to the then CEO Matt Hollum, who was livid with what he found out, leading to Gray being unceremoniously given the boot, and two head of animations were crowned as to prevent another scenario like Gen:LOCK. for a more detailed read over it, feel free to read an archived reddit post here. Amusingly, despite Gray being summery fired, he was contracted to do voice work for a series Rooster Teeth's animation department worked on for netflex: Transformers: The war for Cybertron. It was also met with middling reviews.

While this went on, other, smaller series were developed, such as Camp Camp, and X-ray and Gav (which was killed off after Ray left Achievement hunter, but Ray remained on good terms and made an occasional appearance on their podcast, Off-Topic).

Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures

An animated series started by Jordan Cwierz to highlight interesting moments from their many many podcasts, most of which tend to be ether moments of autism, or drunken autism. It now serves as one of the few bits of content that manage to get over 100k views on their main channel. Interesting moments include:

Bernie having gotten so drunk at an East Coast Penny Arcade eXpo (PAX) he called himself CatBug at a dinner, and threw people out of a party with bags of popcorn.

Matt Hollum, the CEO of the company, drunk, buying dinners for people at a Dave and Busters that nearly resulted in him missing a mortgage payment, and being taken by Geoff and Gus to meetings while intoxicated.

Mica Burton mentioning a time when her dad (LeVar Burton) stuck a phone in the microwave in an attempt to dry it.

Miles Luna, one of the producters for RWBY, and his many drunken antics.

Jon Reisinger's (Host of On the Spot) divorce being marred with issues over his ex wife thinking he was in a gay romance with another worker at Rooster Teeth. It was eventually cleared up.

Blaine, digging for videos to post for RT Life, found one of other employees using adult diapers and attempting to soil them.

Bernie, for the sake of KAWNTENT, brought up how he had a fan trying to take a selfie with him, only to leave when said fan's mother would not stop calling him.

Oh and that time he spanked his salami and then forgot to DFE his history, leading to an awkward moment in a car ride with his wife.

Gavin Free, the office retard (who also runs a channel documenting what things look in stupidly slow videos), drunkenly flirting with the Late Monty Oum.


And also making stupid bets.

Joel Heymen, in an effort to one up celebs while he was an extra for Ally McBeal, ate a bowl of bac-o-bits and has the shits as a badge of honor.

Out of all the stories on RTAA, the only eregious one (in my opinion) would be the story of Matt going to meetings drunk. In any other company, he'd be given the boot out the door, but because Rooster Teeth is known for drunken antics, most, if not all stories are met by fans with hahaha, these fucktards love to drink and do stupid shit.

RT Life
a short forum video series that depicts dumb antics at the office of Rooster Teeth, some highlights include:

That time Monty had a dead bird on his car for a week. (original video had someone mentioning it, along with a "tombstone" that said "Dead bird 2013-2013")

Gavin and Jack playing tennis, where the loser has to lick Gus' shingle leg. (Spoilers: Gavin lost because of course he would)

A small saga in which Gus tries to brew beer, but fails.

Monty and Kerry  drunkenly bumbling about a hotel

Joe the Cat, drinking gin out of a glass.

A literal waste of time (and talent) as Miles and Aaron tape Blaine into a chair for shits and giggles.

Gus, Bernie, Brandon, and Barbara drag someone along to jump a random redditor's truck. It goes about as awkwardly as you think.


Achievement Hunter, and the poor attempt at diversity.

Achievement Hunter, a branch of Rooster Teeth solely dedicated towards their Let's Play series, hasn't been without it's controversies. Mainly, that of Mica Burton, child of LeVar Burton (who played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: TNG), who, upon the surface, is Rooster Teeth's attempt at trying to diversify their cast, when in reality, she was simply a black monkey for Rooster Teeth to parade when called out for failing to diversify, while also trying to suck her dad's BBC in hopes of gaining clout. She left in 2018, citing she wanted to go back to Los Angeles to "pursue her acting and modeling careers".

In 2020, during the peak of the BLM movement, Mica would call her former employers out over twitter, claiming they were more concerned over her Father not liking Rooster Teeth (hard to imagine why), over her being constantly harassed online, which was sparked by Burnie asking her about what experiences she had dealing with racism. The harassment became so severe, she comptemplated suicide, and left shortly after, only to be blacklisted by the company despite Barbara, Geoff, and Jeremy supporting her statement regarding the company's priorities. She was then replaced with Fiona Nova, who, like her predecesing black monkey, has also spoken out regarding her mistreatment. One might wonder, why has Fiona stuck around when Mica saw the truth and left? It's because Fiona is simply a parrot who now has a woke company backing her.

Other shitty ventures into other industries.

RWBY and Gen:LOCK however are not their only attempt at striking out in other forms of media. RWBY: Grimm Eclipse was published to steam, to... niche positive reviews, leading them to make more RWBY games, mainly for PC and Android. Their latest venture into the gaming industry, Vicious Circle, was even more poorly received, as the game was essentially Evolve, but 10x shittier. So bad, the game went FtP and still could not bring an audience, the game died before it was even published. Between the failure of Vicious Circle and Gen:LOCK, this led Rooster Teeth to lay off %10 of their staff, leading to intense backlash from 1st members (sponsors who pay for their live content and content exclusively posted to their site).
Along with dabbing into game development, Rooster Teeth attempted to sponsor smaller creative channels. Affectionately dubbed the "Let's Play Family", the results are the following:

Funhaus: still active, but has had major departures of several original cast members. Known for their Demo Disc series (As well as looking up furry porn while they do so), viewership remains mostly stagnant. They also slowed down their excessive drinking when playing games, despite it being their highest viewed content. Rooster Teeth colabs with Funhaus frequently, and hosts their merch.

The Creatures: "Joined" the Let's Play family MCN in 2016, but died within a year after a major split off of most of the cast that became Cow Chop. Only appeared at RTX once, and that was for Jordan, the founder, to tell Matt that they plan on killing off their channel.

Cow Chop: Their joining in 2017 was marred with misunderstanding towards how much they would make from having people join in on RoosterTeeth's 1st program as a means of crowd funding their move to Los Angeles. Misunderstandings aside, the channel would last up until 2020, with the Co-host of the channel, UberHaxorNova (Aka James) leaving not only the channel, but California, in 2019, after an injury to their arm and ankle from a skateboarding accident. With their contracts set to expire in 2020, a skeleton crew of their co-host Aleks, channel manager Brett, and interns would help finish off the channel. Rooster Teeth mostly helped by setting up colabs with SP7 and Funhaus, guest appearences (when initally they were in Colorado) as well as being their merch store host and letting them host panels at RTX.

Sugar Pine 7: Purchased for 5 BTC on 11 January 2018 ($57,728.65 at the time). Won the 2018 Streamy awards, and at its peak easily made a million views on several videos. The channel then killed off their flagship series a year later, parted ways with Rooster Teeth, and have been posting podcasts ever since. Like Cow Chop, Rooster Teeth mainly supported the channel by being a merch store host and hosting one panel as well as colabs between Cow Chop and guest appearences.

Screw Attack (Now Death Battle): founded in 2006, hosted the iconic James Rolfe's Angry Video Game Nerd show and rivaled with TGWTG. Bought out by Rooster Teeth in 2015 and was reworked  into Death Battle in 2019, doing shitty mash ups of iconic video game or anime characters. it is a shell of it's former self with most of the former members having ditched Rooster Teeth to found Game Attack.

Criken: Unsure if partnered with Rooster Teeth, but was brought on to their gaming news show The Know (Now rebranded to Inside Gaming, which was formally ran by what is now the Funhaus crew) to discuss his lawsuit with a game he was developing called I.C.U, which was settled out of court and remains in Development Hell to this day. Rooster Teeth hosts merch for Criken as well.

The Vic Mignogna accusations
Around 2018, Vic was #Metoo'd as a part of a smear campaign led by a whale named Monica Rial and Soy boi domestic abuser Ron Toye. RoosterTeeth, instead of responding with a lolwhatever, shat themselves. Along side Funamation, they gave Vic the boot from voice acting in their shows. Vic has since filed suit against Funamation in an attempt to clear his name. For more info on the lawsuit, see this thread here. For more info on Monica and Ron, view their thread here. To remind Ron he's a disgusting fucktard, feel free to leave him a shout here.

What if... we put a bunch of monkeys in a room with type writers?

Essentially, RoosterTeeth's philsophy is to try "unique", or "eccentric" show ideas, that on paper, sound good, or is good. A positive example of that would be Master and Apprentice, in which Adam Ellis, learns from a top notch prop maker how to make props. Sadly, despite the show being well put together, it only lasted two seasons before Adam, likely aware of the writing on the wall, also jumped ship as of January 2020.

An example of an autistically eccentric show, would be a show called Gorq's quest, in which a robot designed intentionally to be autistic, asks autistic quesitons. It lasted four episodes before the plug was pulled. There was also a podcast, in which RT discusses how it runs as a business. It lasted two episodes.
There was also Day 5, in which the show's concept essentially boiled down to "what if Nightmare on Elm Street was a pandemic?", that lasted 14 episodes spanning two seasons, yet despite being out of production for four years, it is noted to be in development. John Flannagan, the main inspiration for the show, has left the company in December 2019, and securely stated that Rooster Teeth will likely never develop the show further, putting season 3 into a sort of limbo that most RWBY detractors can only hope happens to the show in an alternative universe.