There have been several "download everything you can because it's so getting deleted" posts wrt to RT being shut down next month so I would like to draw your attention to the Archive of Pimps. People have been working very hard to archive the entire Rooster Teeth catalogue (including First content) and while most of it has been backed up the to Internet Archive they could use help with organizing it. Instead of a bunch of people individually downloading different videos sporadically to their own machines, check to see if the videos you want are already on the archive and you can download them from there and if you might like to help organize.
posting this once more.
START. ARCHIVING. ROOSTER TEETH.
I'm sure things like rwby have already been extensively archived, but now that we know for sure the sites going down may 15th, a lot of shows and podcasts are going to be unavailable. Start archiving, download everything you possibly can, we don't know when or where this content will be available again.
Watching the final stream and I wanted to write out a personal thanks to EVERYONE at Rooster Teeth as i sit here in tears, gently clutching my RvB book and Sarge minifig, because without RT I'm not sure how I'd of turned out...
I first found out about Rooster Teeth when I stumbled upon Red vs Blue s9's trailer in 2014. I sat down one day and binged all the content in its entirety and was instantly hooked. Life was hard, four years previous I'd lost my mum to cancer, I struggled even then with it and I'd been on a mental decline since, I was barely happy, didn't leave my house, and life was full of therapy and meds. But Red vs Blue made me laugh, and through it I discovered Achievement Hunter, the RT Podcast, RWBY, and I'm sure a bunch of stuff I haven't watched in a long time. Rooster Teeth helped me find happiness in a time I was struggling and helped me onto the path to getting better.
Since then I've gotten better, and discovered much about myself. And this (in the least corporate way) family of people have impacted me so much, I took a character's name as one of my own (Dexter), I still have merch in my room and I continue to put on the Podcasts or Let's Plays while I draw. Hearing the news of Rooster Teeth shutting down hit like a gut punch,I knew they were going to crumple soon, but being taken out by Warner Bros feels like a kick in the teeth. RvB Restoration's on the horizon and final live stream was today and my tears are bittersweet sadness. It was a bucket list item to go to RTX one day, and while that won't happen seeing all the stories of other peoples trips makes me so incredibly happy. EVERYONE at this company helped myself and so many other people's lives.
Thank you Rooster Teeth, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for every memory and every laugh. I would say goodbye, but I won't, because as long as I don't... you just aren't here right now. ❤️💙
for the red web fans- a six-minute update was uploaded, detailing the future of the podcast in light of rooster teeth shutting down. here's a quick summary of it:
rt is winding down in these next 2 months. red web is under rt, so red web is directly affected by the shutdown
as said by trevor, they're still working on it. they're unsure what will happen, but they're currently looking to see if they can continue the show, either still under the name "red web", or at minimum continuing the show "in some form"
trevor notes that he and the crew believe it was "the honor of a lifetime" to work on red web, and appreciates all the support. he also notes that he's incredibly grateful for the opportunities the show has given everyone that's worked on it. they can't respond to every comment or dm they've gotten, especially in the last few days since the announcement, but they see them nonetheless
the podcast as is will go on through mid- to late april as they consider what comes next for the podcast
all 5 of the book club episodes have already been finished. they will be coming out every friday through the end of march (the 29th). no new episodes after that will be recorded
the crew is still planning a big video finale, "something big and exciting". could serve as the end of a chapter to red web, or as a way to say goodbye. not a lot of details on that, however, because everything isn't set in stone, and trevor doesn't want to promise something that might not exist
he explains that months of content were planned out before the shutdown announcement, so they'll try to at least "cherry-pick some of their favorite topics that they had in the immediate runway" in order to go through some topics that trevor considers "very fun"
trevor also teases that the last episode is "oddly poetic" and encourages people to share their thoughts and theories, as always
trevor then shares everyone's personal instagram handles, just in case they can't access red web's official social media accounts:
- jillian: _jillen
- christian: xchinyoung
- alfredo: alfredoplays
- trevor: _trevorc