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[justkarama]

I've seen cartoon characters based off of chickens and this isn't it Viv is lying through her teeth

Case #108 of Viv having to explain the inspirations behind a character design on social media when there are hardly any indication of those features in said design.

A chicken…..really?? Look me in my face and tell me that ANY part of her design reminds you of a chicken.

At this point, either Viv is making shit up or she’s that terrible at designing humanoid characters with animal-like features.

If people can’t figure out the inspirations for your character designs without you having to tell them, you have a problem!

#vivziepop critical #helluva boss critical #helluva boss criticism

[justkarama]

My final words on Rooster Teeth & just SOME of my experiences there.

I’ve been waiting to say anything directly for a long time on this subject in hopes that something - anything - would change and get better, but it’s obvious that this is just “how it is there.”

So it’s time for me to finally say something about Rooster Teeth.

I joined the company, officially, as a contracted content creator and editor in February 2013. I worked to create a monthly video game news/release series. I produced episodes every month until I was officially hired as a full time content creator/editor in November of 2013.

From February 2013 until November 2013, I went entirely unpaid for all of my contract work. I was never given the payment promised for anything I did. When I was hired full time and I brought that up, I was told that “it’s been so long already, it’s not really a big deal is it?” And then the subject was never brought up again.

Within a few weeks of working at Rooster Teeth I was given a nickname, that nickname was a slur. Every day I came into work I was called “Fggt” - but they could not use that name in content so when anyone was recording I was called “Fugz” instead. For any fans who used that nickname for me for years, that’s what you were calling me. I couldn’t say anything about it, I had reported the use of that nickname for years to HR, and nothing was ever done about it and the videos that use that nickname for me are still up.

When Christmas rolled around my first year, 2013, I was given a “bonus” of about $100. Any money I had at the time was extremely helpful as I had nearly nothing to my name, so I was grateful for it. But a long time member of the company looked at me as I was handed my small bonus and scoffed “Why do YOU get a bonus? You’ve only been here for five minutes.”

In my first years there I would arrive at work around 7am (two hours before everyone else) to begin editing videos and would often have to stay until 9pm to get as much work done as possible. This was actively encouraged so we could have a backlog of content, but I was always given “rush orders” to edit more important videos to go out either the same day or next day. That’s when the crunch began for me and it did not end.

From that point on harassment started, and not just toward me. Any time I brought up mistreatment or that “making fun of people in content only encourages the community to hate us” - I was waved away saying “IT’S JUST A JOKE! Ignore the comments!”

This “ignore the comments” mantra was a way to excuse their own behavior. Anyone who was not “important” was constantly made fun of with no way to defend themselves or be part of the content in a way to defend themself even jokingly so. We were silenced at every turn.

Jeremy, Matt, and I tried to make content together as often as we could in those earlier days. And we rarely got the chance to do so. I remember being yelled at for making the Zelda video with Matt after it had already gone up because it was a “waste of time”.

During that time I was put into a position where I ignored my own physical health to focus more on work, which eventually caused me to come down with pneumonia. I spent several days in the hospital with a fever over 112F. When I was released I was back to work only a few days later and with the same work schedule.

Eventually I had enough from the department I was working for at the time and moved departments in hope that I would be better treated elsewhere in the company. I still loved the work I did, I loved some of the people at the company, and I believed that if I put my effort into it I could make things better for everyone.

The department I transferred to promised me a producer job and show running their new podcast while also being tasked to edit videos and sometimes write stories for news channel. I was never given the producer position in that department, I was never allowed even near the podcast unless they were “desperate for a last minute person”, I went entirely uncredited for anything I wrote for them, and I was pushed to edit 3 videos from start to finish every day with little to no turn around time so they could be posted immediately.

My hours in that department were 7am until 11pm.

I was crunching harder than before.

I wasn’t allowed to be in anything.

I had my name removed from everything I worked on.

I was put in an office where I was forgotten about and swept under the rug, people even IN the company forgot I worked there with how sectioned off and pushed aside I was.

In 2016 I came out as trans and many people at the company publicly voiced their support on social media.

Inside the company however, things got worse.

People had no idea how to deal with a trans woman, so I was interacted with even less and only trotted out every so often to show off “We Hire LGBTQIA+ People!”

It was only at this point where the nickname “Fugz” finally stopped being used all the time. Three years of content with that name being used toward me and all that content is still up.

During that time my acting manager began to harass me and lie to the community any time I was “planned to be on camera and couldn’t show up” - many times it was said to the audience watching that I “had already gone home” when I was in the other room crunching to finish my job and the work of my manager.

The harassment continued and I began to spiral into a deep depression, wondering what I could do, I eventually reported it to HR and the “solution” was that they brought in my manager who was harassing me into a Two-On-One meeting where the manager said “oh I’m sorry” and that was it. The way I was treated did not change at all and actively became worse.

I then went to one of the founding fathers of the company to express my concerns, and was told that I was “too nice to work at Rooster Teeth” and that I should “just quit and find somewhere else to work” - I was horrified.

At the moment I couldn’t do anything but feel horrified and powerless. I was an out trans woman in Texas in 2018 and was told “just quit and find work elsewhere in Texas” a state that actively finds ways to keep our rights from us.

Throughout my employment I also struggled to get the company insurance to cover my transition despite Rooster Teeth telling me that “Oh it’s all good” - because of their inaction and lack of help in this matter I amassed horrible amounts of medical debt despite being “completely covered” by them.

I still am recovering from this debt now as Rooster Teeth has been underpaying me for years, my raises were frozen by my manager at the time, and because of that I never received a proper raise even up until I quit earlier this year.

Until the end of 2020 I was paid around $40k per year as a Producer/Director. Far below the industry standard. If not for the help of one person fighting for me to be paid properly, I wouldn’t have gotten bumped up to the pay of the lowest paid person next to me. Which was nearly $70k. I was shocked that I was being underpaid by nearly $30k.

During the 2019 layoffs, I was actually one of the people affected. I was very nearly laid off as well, but was told to either move to LA and work there (at the $40k per year rate which is UNLIVABLE in LA) or be laid off immediately.

I agreed to move to LA, Rooster Teeth said they would be giving me $5k moving costs to pick up my life and move to LA by March of 2020. The money never was given to me and then COVID forced the company into moving to remote, meaning my job was actually saved by COVID happening.

Crunch during the height of COVID was monstrous. Every department was forced to push out more and more content and do more and more work to make up for “losses” - many of us were working 7 days a week and extremely long hours.

I helped run the 2021 Anniversary Stream Event, but in the middle of production I had to undergo life saving surgery and was told I needed AT LEAST two weeks rest before going back to work. The person I was working with to schedule that event took credit for all the work I did up to that point and then BLAMED ME for anything that went wrong with it because “I wasn’t doing my job” while I was recovering for major surgery and was on mandated medical leave.

BRGs (Business Resource Groups) were created at this time to help with representation issues inside the company. I did everything I could to help the other BRGs as well as the Queer BRG I helped lead. By mid 2021 I was told “we’ve done enough for the queer community” - which hurt to hear as I felt like we had barely accomplished anything and were still struggling to have accurate representation on screen as most of our PRIDE stream events featured mostly Cis/Het talent still.

During this time there was a lot of outspokenness for the mistreatment of minority groups inside of Rooster Teeth from former employees, lots of fans asked “Why didn’t you all do anything about it?”, to which I say actual ground level employees did everything they could. But we could only do so much.

At that moment I asked for transparency for how others, not just one or two employees, were treated in the company - myself included - and was essentially told that “the company is going through a lot right now just leave it alone”. How I was being treated and how others were being treated was once again swept under the rug.

I left Rooster Teeth because, despite thinking I could make positive change in the company, they proved that I couldn’t every step of the way. From 2013 until 2022, I did what I could to help my fellow employees, make positive change, and help the industry.

It’s also worth mentioning that for every bit of VO I did before I left Rooster Teeth, I wasn’t actually paid for any of it under the idea that “I was an employee, so I don’t need to be paid for VO.” In that case and the way it was viewed, I was paid less than $30 per hour for each of my VO sessions. Which is well below any industry standard.

But I was ultimately silenced and pushed aside.

This is all really just the surface level, there’s so much more I want to say but honestly it’s all so exhausting at this point and I’ve done everything I can.

I still struggle regularly with the emotional, mental, physical, and financial damage that was done to me over those years.

There are good people still working there, I’m friends with them, and I wish them the best.

TL;DR

Feb 2013 - Nov 2013. Unpaid Contract Work

Fugz = Fggt, reported to HR nothing was done

2013 Christmas "Bonus" $100. Long time members disapproved of said bonus

14hr work days, rush orders for same or next day videos

"Any time I brought up mistreatment or that “making fun of people in content only encourages the community to hate us” - I was waved away saying “IT’S JUST A JOKE! Ignore the comments!”" RT crunch caused pneumonia, no recovery period on return

Crunched harder, physically isolated "people even IN the company forgot I worked"

RT never fulfilled their deals promotion deals

15 hr work days

2016 came out as Trans, Transphobia harassment started

Acting Manager lied to the community and harassed me, HR did nothing and enabled harassment

Founding Fathers knew and did nothing. Said “too nice to work at Rooster Teeth” and "just quit and find somewhere else to work"

RT did not properly support medical insurance coverage

End 2020 Position Producer/Director, paid $40k. Next lowest paid person was $70k.

2019, forced to move to LA or get laid off. RT never paid moving costs. COVID forced remote jobs thus SAVING my job

RT INCREASES crunch during COVID

2021 Anniversary Stream Event. Had LIFE SAVING surgery, majority work stolen by coworker and blamed production failures on me during MEDICAL LEAVE.

BRG created to help with representation issues, mid 2021 RT said "we've done enough for the queer community" PRIDE stream events still mostly Cis/Het talents

Mistreatment of minorities in RT ignored "“the company is going through a lot right now just leave it alone"

Unpaid for VO work during tenure at RT, May Marigold and RWBY Fairy Tales included.

Handful of good people. Bad Company.

[justkarama]

Now that I think about it they hated Shane simply because he told the truth about RT he saw the warning signs and tried to warn everyone but was labeled a mad man by the standom.

The fandoms unfathomable arrogance in demanding how RWBY should be revived

As some of you might know Dillon Goo has expressed interest in acquiring and working on reviving RWBY from its current state. He is a very talented animator who has worked with Shane Neville for quite some time now and released animations that were even shared on our subreddit. Even GLITCH animation studio has expressed a passing interest in Dillon Goo talking about RWBY.

Regardless, this has of course received a positive reception for the most part, but it did not take long for detractors to come out of the woodwork and take issue with possible involvement of Shane, and saying things like "If CRWBY isnt a part of this, im not interested" "If CRWBY isnt in this, Montys vision is ruined.

This is a rant against those people, warning, high amounts of sodium ahead

I have seen many people say that if anyone ever aquires the RWBY IP, that CRWBY should then HAVE to be hired or these people will NEVER support the projects in question. They say that its because people like Miles and Kerry know "Montys Vision", that they know what he wanted and thus without them, RWBY would not longer be RWBY.

Let us be very clear here you entitled shits. You dont have much of a choice. RWBY is dead, its laying down on the fucking medical table, its heart is no longer beating. Its clinically a corpse. Who the fuck do you think you are to make demands of any kind of revival the show can get? You are not in a position to choose or demand anything, you either accept any kind of revival of RWBY, even if its not perfect in your eyes (Welcome to the shoes of the critics) or you quit and let RWBY die.

But let us fucking remember that many people in the fandom were gleefuly saying that they will support RT and RWBY when it was revealed how mismanaged RT was and how they abused their workers. I saw multiple people go and say "Yeah, this sucks, but i will still support RT because i want RWBY to continue". We had multiple threads in r/RWBY saying to support RT so that RWBY would continue and even moralizing that people who engage in piracy are just selfish people.

You were willing to kneel before an abusive corporation and open your wallets to it without fucking question to keep RWBY going. But now when there is a possibility that RWBY might continue on and just MIGHT possibly do so without CRWBY (Which is not even a guarantee). You throw in the fucking towel? THIS was your fucking red line? CRWBY not working on the show?

At that point, just be honest and say what you really believe.

You are fucking DICKSUCKING Miles and Kerry as if they were the ONLY ones working on the show alongside Monty and know his "vision". Well, let me ask you then why in the fuck do you put so much effort in shitting on Shane huh!?

Its always "Oh, we need the people who worked with Monty" but EVERY SINGLE FUCKING time i go on twitter right now i see someone whining or being worried about "Well, but what about Shane".

Shane worked with Monty from the very fucking start! When he was eventually booted out of the company and made his open letter, most of the things in that letter were then confirmed MORE AND MORE with each passing year! He cared about Montys vision so much he was willing to call out RT before ANYONE ELSE! And we know for a FACT that MK did not follow the "vision" because the things that Monty and Shane worked on for Volume 3 were not used in Volume 3 and were then reused in later volumes.

I repeat, NONE of you shits cared about Montys "vision" nor do you genuinely care about it now. What you care about is CRWBY. What you care about is the parasocial relationship between you and creators of a show you like when it panders to you.

Because Shane was there from the very fucking start. And now hes the fandoms fucking Satan who the fandom tried so fucking hard to demonize over the years. Didnt care about Montys vision then did you!?

Oh and by the way, didnt we hear for YEARS now that there is a RWBY bible? That everything in RWBY is planned? That we had an outline for like 11-13 seasons!? Well if there exists such a bible, who gives a shit if CRWBY is involved in any kind of Volume continuation. If the bible exists anyone with skill and interest can read it and create what is meant to be created!

Of course unless the bible has always been a crock of shit fed to the fandom to try and pretend that the show wasnt writen by the fucking seat of its pants. (Which it WAS!)

So let me end with this.

Miles and Kerry are not gods. They are not angels. They are not perfect beings and bearers of the "Word of Monty" they are WRITERS! And just like with ANY part of CRWBY, the companies that might want to remake RWBY or write Volume 10 can choose to NOT take them onboard.

And that is FINE!

I do not mind if people wish or prefer that CRWBY were involved with any kind of RWBY continuation. What i fucking hate is this hypocritical DEMAND to keep CRWBY on board or otherwise "Its not real RWBY". Because i will repeat for the third fucking time.

The Fandom seems to not give even a single solitary fuck about RWBY, they seem to only care about CRWBY.

#rwde #rwby #roosterteeth #rwby fandom

[justkarama]

And that somehow excuses RT for being a shitty company that abused its workers despite the fact that it put itself on this pedestal of moral superiority. Because that's pretty much what you're saying.

Mixed feelings about the Rooster Teeth News. On one hand, they were a huge part of my mid 2010’s life.

On the other hand they were a rotten company with horrid working conditions.

[justkarama]

A personal attack on Fang's character doesn't disprove the original point RT shot itself in the foot on multiple occasions this is a company who was extremely bigoted and even the higher ups who worked in crwby were not exempt from this or we forgetting miles a white man said the n word and was comfortable enough to say it online.

Blaming everything on WB and on a white guy. Can only go so far before RT has to actually take accountability what about all the people RT screwed over and abused or we just ignoring that just to blame everything on a white guy.

Most of what's happening to RT is their own doing. RWBY was bleeding them dry and it wasn't making a profit. Barb admitted they weren't making as much money as they did in 2011.

It's RT's fault for pouring money into projects that didn't make much of a profit, its RT's fault for mismanaging money, its RT's fault for treating their staff like shit. Them making Bumbleby canon, was literally a last-ditch effort for them to get profit (merch as well) and it backfired on them. And this is coming from someone who ships bumbleby.

As much flak I give WBD, this is the only time where their not at fault. RT played the game of fuck around and find out.

#rwde #rwby #rwby critical

[justkarama]

Shane was also Monty's friend as well or are we ignoring that this tweet doesn't invalidate anything really

I wanted to make this its own post and add some stuff.

Miles and Kerry are the reason Rwby went to shit and Rwby stans refuse to acknowledge it because they see these two white men as their gods. They even go out of their way to downplay Monty's part in his own creation by reducing him as "the animator who does cool fights," while giving majority of the credit to these two wackadoos.

They don't want to admit they prefer Miles and Kerry's version of rwby, because they also have to admit it's no longer Monty's work post vol 3 and on top of that, Miles and Kerry's version of "Rwby" sucks ass. Thats why they're hellbent on the "Monty planned everything since the beginning and Miles and Kerry totally knows his vision" while at the same minimize Monty as the creator in the same breath.

This is also why they are terrified of Dillion buying the rights to rwby when they found out Shane works with him and is close friends with him. They spent years slandering Shane as nothing more than a "bitter and disgruntled ex employee" when he released his letter because they don't want to believe their "besties," their "fam," they're "little meow meows" in crwby could possibly be terrible people. I mean, why would anyone ever lie about themselves on the internet guys??? /S

They purposefully "forgot" about the abuse scandals that were exposed once again just two years ago and are thanking Rooster Teeth for the fond memories. They're thanking the people they saw on that live stream because thats all who they care about. The animator who had to endure crunch time with little to no pay, who found out through twitter they no longer have an job? Who cares about them? They're a nobody. Miles and Kerry are not nobodies, they're celebrities on Youtube and in RT. That's who the rwby stans truly care about.

[justkarama]

By definition a white savior is a character coming in to save non white characters Adam in universe would never be considered white due to the fact that white is a part of the social construct that is race which stems from human racism. Adam is a racial minority how exactly is he a white savior when he isn't white and also faces the very same racism that his people face.

I've seen the "100 reasons to watch rvvby" list and im baffled. What did I just read.

I'm actually angry because there are some entries on this list that are straight up wrong and fucking ignorant. The list is not just stupid, but it also is straight up wrong about the POC and queer representation of rvvby in many ways. It's kinda vile how ignorant it is in a way...

I am actually angry. I can't even laugh at this shit. Whoever wrote this can fuck off.

[justkarama]

RWBY Stans: Adam is just a White Man, Blake is a POC!!!

Me as a POC:

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[justkarama]

Because summer was never a planned character she existed because Jeff gave Monty the idea of naming the grave that Ruby visits in the red trailer and making it her mother's grave. Summer was never planned from the beginning she was never supposed to have any story significance.

It's why the summer mystery was never properly fleshed out or properly built up the writers don't really know what to do with her.

RT died and they still never revealed what actually happened to Summer. After almost 10 volumes.

Lol. Lmao.

[justkarama]

What Lilith fails to realize is that two things can be true at once WB can be at fault but so is RT they've literally shot themselves in the foot multiple times with poor business skills.

There's only so much blame that can be placed on WB before it circles back to RT.

Most of what's happening to RT is their own doing. RWBY was bleeding them dry and it wasn't making a profit. Barb admitted they weren't making as much money as they did in 2011.

It's RT's fault for pouring money into projects that didn't make much of a profit, its RT's fault for mismanaging money, its RT's fault for treating their staff like shit. Them making Bumbleby canon, was literally a last-ditch effort for them to get profit (merch as well) and it backfired on them. And this is coming from someone who ships bumbleby.

As much flak I give WBD, this is the only time where their not at fault. RT played the game of fuck around and find out.

#rwby #rwde #rooster teeth

[justkarama]

RT finally ended after 21 years. Rest in piss but

I just wanna say two things. One I hope the non problematic employees find new and better employment they deserve both for their talent and hardwork . And for dealing with the cesspool that is RT for 21 years.

Two for all the rwby Stan's who Dick Ride RT ( looking at you seeker) RT only has itself to blame they've repeatedly shot themselves in the foot with poor business skills and just over all being incompetent.

#rwde

[justkarama]

It's ironic RWBY Stan's who Dick Ride RT never thought that maybe RT was just a shitty toxic company. But nope it's RWBY haters fault

brace yourselves

Angry, butthurt RWBY fans are coming and they're gonna blame us somehow.

#rwde #rwby

[justkarama]

Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

[justkarama]

Gotta "love" how the one crowd that wants to fluff up rewriters (specifically certain ones, not in general) try to talk about "plot holes", when in reality its shit that isn't actually holes. Instead just them not happy cause its not catering to them and/or their bigotry.

BB happening over BS and LGBT+ existing in the story isn't a plot hole.

Adam not being handed any kind of redemption isn't a plot hole.

Adam being a psychopathic piece of shit terrorist that co-opts the faunus cause isn't a plot hole.

Ironwood gradually over 8 volumes falling into military authoritarianism isn't a plot hole.

Male characters not getting the spotlight in a series that not only was always built on the core of femme centered core, but is also special for exactly that in a media landscape filled with male-centered shit.

Roman dying in an ironic manner after finishing out any amount of relevance to the story he had isn't a plot hole.

The femme MC's not being run over with fanservice bullshit isn't a plot hole.

The femme MC's not following bullshit sexist tropes, including not being sidelined isn't a plot hole.

Cinder returning each time and being a foil against Ruby isn't a plot hole.

None of these are plot holes, just disgusting incel biased bullshit. I've yet to see something with a "Rewrite" in its title that actually ever improved a damn thing outside of bias, bigotry, and sexism.

[justkarama]

It makes no sense nearly everyone has hated Disney hell the people who first worked in Disney when it was first created hated it too. So using it to try and defend crwby is a strange hill to die on

The Disney whataboutism defense of RT is so funny cause like...bitch of course we hate Disney tf???

#rwde #rwby critical #rwby criticism

[justkarama]

Fill my glass, let's drink a toast This is our birthday, so why are we weeping?

A Maximoff Twins Tribute by Nevsclowntown

Happy 60th Anniversary to The Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver

[justkarama]

A better question is how are semblances hereditary if a semblance is a reflection of ones soul how exactly do genetics play a part because it has to .

How the hell does Weiss's summoning work?

Can she only summon Grimm? The Arma Gigas is just a Geist Grimm that was possessing a suit of armor, so why can Weiss summon the armor and not just the Geist that was possessing it? If a Geist possessed a Paladin, would she be able to summon the whole mech?

Can she summon more than one copy of the same creature? Winter seemed to be able to, or where those all different individual Grimm of the same type? What is the limit to the number of summons they can have active at once? Is there any reason why Weiss doesn't just flood the battlefield with all of her summons in every fight?

How come Weiss can summon the Nevermore from the entrance exam when Ruby was the one who killed it? Does that mean that she only has to contribute to the battle? If that's the case, why doesn't she team up with a bunch of hunters to go kill the most dangerous Grimm she can find and then summon it?

Speaking of, is there a limit to what kind of Grimm she can summon? If Weiss used Ozpin's nuke cane to kill Monstro or was piloting the mech that killed the Leviathan, would she be able to summon those?