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queeniecamps · 2 years

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Wait why don’t we want season 5 anymore what happened or am i missing a joke

to put it VERY short; (here's a link to Kdin's statement which is a great starter, there's a TL;DR in the end)

it turns out a LOT of people in rooster teeth (including the founding members) were being homophobic and transphobic towards Kdin Jenzen, calling her a f*gg*t and coming up with a nickname for ther that allowed them to call her that on camera and such (with people such as MICHEAL JONES (VOICE OF MAX CAMP CAMP) HIMSELF coming up with it (although micheal has apologized privately years ago and apparently was forgiven)

On top of this, RT wasn't paying people for a lot of work, and they were also threatening to replace voice actors (such as Blake Belladonna's VA and Samantha Ireland, the voice of all of the flower scouts)

As well as the fact that apparently, Jordan Cweriz (CO-CREATOR OF CAMP CAMP) was threatening Geordan Whitman (art director and animator for camp camp, as well as Preston Goodplay's original voice actor) with a lot of different things, forcing him to make so many changes to his series, Nomad of Nowhere and basically ruined his own show and it's vision, as well as literally REPLACING his voice for Preston. For years we were lead to believe Geordan left because preston was hard to voice and also creative differences, but it's a LOT worse :( (apparently, Miles Luna (Co-Creator of Camp Camp / voice of David) was one of the few people who actually supported Geordan and his work, and (miles) had left RT on his own a while ago, so I thiiiink he's in the clear, but don't quote me on that

With that and their history of racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other bullshit, I expect RT to shut down by next summer. They are SCREWED and people have had enough of their BS

You can find SO MUCH MORE info on this on twitter, everyday employees (ex employees, animators, voice actors, etc) are coming out with their own statements, some RT ppl are coming out with apologies (like Michael's public apology, Gavin Free's apology, Geoff Ramsey's apology, etc)

This shit is crazy, and I'm so done with RT and their bullshit

I will say, I do still love camp camp, but it's definitely a "separate the art from the company" situation, and I hope Miles boots Jordan off the team and either locks that shit up in a vault away from RT or even sells it to a better company or even reboots it.

I'll still be making content for camp camp, working on my OCs n such the best I can, but my desire for Rooster Teeth to make a new season has died.

I hope that Kdin is doing okay and finds some better work, if RT is smart they'll hopefully pay her back the money she's owed and also give her credit for the work she did

#also; the mods of the RT subreddit have booted all the RT members from the modteam which i think is HILARIOUS #queenie talks #rooster teeth

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yangfanbb · 2 years

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From twitter.com/KdinJenzen

Fucking disgusting Rooster Teeth absolutely pathetic now I do hope your fucking company does collapse 🖕

Kdin Jenzen · @KdinJenzen

15th Oct 2022 from TwitLonger

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 “F*gg*t” - 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.

#kdin jenzen #rooster teeth #fuck rooster teeth

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gvinfrees · 2 years

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What to say. I made a post two days ago about going on a hiatus and maybe coming back when things “calmed down”. To be clear that was before Kdin bravely posted her account of the trauma she endured at RT.

It’s clear to me now that things won’t calm down this time, nor should they.

This blog is eight years old. And theres a lot of good memories here for me. AH/RT really was the main reason I survived middle and high school. Every day I came home and through the loneliness I felt I could turn on the new video for the day and knew I had something I could enjoy.

Thus this blog was born where I had other people who I knew felt the same way and where I could channel these feelings. It was an escape and I can’t not be grateful. How it got over 4000 followers through that, who knows. But every time someone followed it made me happy because it was another person who loved the same people/content I did.

But finally, I am done. And it is so hard. This is the most dramatic thing I have ever written but cutting off rt/ah is almost like cutting off a limb for me. And believe me I wish I was joking. But that is how vital their existence has been for me the last ten years.

As embarrassing as it is, the ryan situation still stings almost two years later, and i know this is going to hurt even worse.

But there is no excuse for the treatment of not just Kdin but so many people who have come forward. All of those people who put so much work into the content we all enjoyed, and that the company enjoyed making money off of. Those people who showed up during the earliest hours of Extra Life that we would sometimes see for the first time, still smiling though they were getting treated like trash behind the scenes and we didn’t even know.

It all feels fake and plastic now. I always looked up to “the founding fathers” for what they managed to create. But now I know so much of it was a farce.

I want to believe the AH members at whole have grown up and have changed for the better. But one thing I have learned the last few years is we will never know who these people are behind closed doors. And even then, no matter who they are today, Kdin and probably others have to deal with the trauma they imparted on them forever. And that is something that just can’t be undone.

This blog will stay up but I won’t be rebranding it or anything. All it has ever been is this. This username. This content. So I am just going to let it be.

All good things come to and end, I just wish this one was as good as I thought it was.

#Achievement Hunter #Rooster Teeth

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solardragun · 2 years

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*love* how the convo is now becoming "well actually kdin was as bad as the rest of them and some of the people who still work under the company known for punishing anyone who speaks out are saying it's totally better now so it's all good actually!"

istg people will ignore anything as long as they can keep feeling cozy their parasocial relationship w/a corporation

y’know i had a feeling something like this would happen, where things would come out to make her look bad, if not worse, but at the end of the day, rt is still a predatory and abusive company.

kdin’s done and said some horrific things, and that very much does warrant the criticism it deserves, but, her treatment in the company still also deserves attention. both these issues can co-exist (not mad at you btw <3 this is a general statement).

but regardless, that’s what the fandom isn’t getting. they aren’t understanding that both these problems should be addressed. rt’s treatment towards her and everyone else they’ve kicked down shouldn’t be ignored and swept away just because something came out about one of the people calling them out. because whether or not she said and did the things she did, rt is still going to be mistreating their workers.

#anonymous #asks.#aphs.#rwde #rooster teeth

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yangxiaolongprotectionsquad · 2 years

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RT’s official response to the many grievances of both former and present employees:

My thoughts under the cut (hopefully tumblr doesn’t fuck this up)

I’ve never really been a huge fan of RT outside of RWBY and a few other shows, so I can’t say I’m devastated or anything like that. However, it is incredibly disheartening to learn just how much shit everyone who works there has dealt with. Tbh, since its roots are in gamer culture, I expected it to be bad, but not THIS bad.

It’s fucking Texas, I expected there was discrimination, just not to this extent. Like, my expectations were low but holy fuck. The constant harassment of any minority within the company is disgusting. And please don’t take my words out of context—it’s one thing to be treated like shit but make a decent wage, but to also be severely underpaid or NOT EVEN PAID AT ALL??? Jesus Christ.

They weaselled their way out of EVERYTHING. And they continue to do so in their pathetic response, which is just 8 paragraphs of shirking any and all accountability. It doesn’t address SHIT. it’s a half-assed plea to keep giving them money. Between RT and WB just being complete fucking disgraces it’s exhausting and my heart goes out to anyone whose been mistreated by them.

The only silver lining I can possibly think of is that CRWBY (to my knowledge) is just as fed up/sick of RT’s refusal to treat workers with dignity. I know Michael and Gavin have both privately and publicly reached out to Kdin and have apologized for past dumbfuckery, and Kdin is an angel that deserves way better.

The company has a handful of genuinely honest, kind, and good individuals that seem to have their hands tied. But it still fucking blows because how the hell do I support CRWBY without RT? I’ve had this blog since 2016 and yeah I’ve been going through some burnout shit for a few years but I still and likely always will love RWBY.

I guess with no volume 9 yet we can try and put our heads together to figure that out. I don’t see a solution but goddamnit if there is one let me know. This was largely incoherent I’m sure, but I just wanted to say SOMETHING. Rant over.

#roosterteeth #rt #rwby #crwby #twitter #kdin jenzen #achievement hunter #rwby9 #discourse #please do note that every single issue pointed out is 100% true #there’s 100s if not 1000s of ppl who can and will back it up #animation #support kdin on twitch if you want

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rosen-und-mondlicht · 2 months

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I love that whenever roosterteeth is trending on Tumblr, it's not a good thing.

Sayonara, you were my high school love and I let you into my wallet for 10 years but it's time for you to finally be laid to pieces.

I had achievement hunter (until the issue with Ray caused him to leave) then tentative returned for Kdin, Matt, Jeremy, Mica, iffy, Alfredo, and Trevor.

I'd drop achievement hunter when it was revealed that Ryan Haywood was grooming and soliciting minor female fans while under the guise of "wife/family guy." Roosterteeth did it's bare minimum to the community by legally pursuing after Ryan but there was no transparency in regards to that.

Mica left for "unknown" reasons before the Ryan Haywood scandal but then years later explained why she left. the company was only using her to be in contact with her father and white dudes making rt not a safe work environment, not so much from racist fans, but racism was so prevalent in the company including her direct boss, one of the founders of the goddamned company! surprise, surprise!

to which Geoff would go on camera and cry about it on the ah podcast and offer empty apologies and blubber about bullying from the fans side in his own experience and not talk deep into the company culture and management which is what Mica pointed out exclusively!

& then Kdin transitioned and revealed that Geoff and others in achievement hunter were horrible pieces of shit before her transition and even after her transition and how the company exploited her work and used her in pride promos but did not pay her for her inclusion for those "inclusivity" promos. All things that may not have resolved to this day.

I'm saddened to hear that good people who are under this company may have just learned that they're going to be out of a job but honestly fuck Rooster Teeth and ESPECIALLY FUCK WARNER BROTHERS.

Then there was Rwby and its scandals, from the beginning, after Monty tragically passed away and his IP was taken without any regard to his widow, who also knew his IP and how he wanted it to play out.

how the animators were in constant crunch to make the volumes, year after year. how piss poor management was in the animation department when it was under Gray's supervision, putting RWBY in first when they had other animations that were performing well but sidelined them because profits and he was also one of the writers for RWBY.

How he and the other male writers of RWBY played coy with the girls in the show and queer baited for years to keep interest but not confirm anything for whatever reaks

#rooster teeth wank #rooster teeth #honestly good riddance #it was going down hill for a while and im tired of thie company and its failures

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aester · 2 years

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A look at RT from a fellow digital media employee

Oof, so RT scandal am I right?

I haven't been in the fandom since ~2018 but following all of this (and specifically the alleged workplace conditions) I thought I'd throw in my two cents as someone who grew up idolizing the company, has chosen to go into digital media because of them and now works in the industry (thankfully not for them).

This will be a long boi (organized into a tumblr-friendly numbered list) based on what I know of the industry in the US, both my own experiences(all thoughts and opinions are my own) & what I've seen of my peers' experiences.

This is also useful info for those interested in pursuing a career in studio-based anim, vfx & game design fields.

To throw in my own cred, I was a member of the RT (and specifically AH & AH art) community from about 2014 to 2018, Monty's work inspired me to pursue my own interests in digital media in a professional sense. I went to uni with my dream internship/job being RT (thankfully that didn't come true). Since then I've graduated and got a job within the industry. So, thanks to having a pretty nice sample of recent grads joining the industry as well as doing my own research on wages and positions before graduation in prep I wanted to take a look at some of the claims and numbers I've been seeing mentioned in this whole mess.

None of this is in defense of RT or in contempt of the ex-employees. RT is a company. People deserve other people's support against a corporation.

Starting with the most quantifiable thing: ✨wages✨. Digital media encompasses a variety of fields - animation, gamedev, vfx, ux etc. & salaries will vary based on both the location and the field that the job is in. From what I've seen among my peers, the avg pay for an entry-level position is about 50-60k for non-LA Bay area jobs(for those add ~ extra 10k from the cost of living). This is not counting additional pay such as overtime, relocation, severance(although I don't know a single person in the field with this condition), or bonuses. Adjusting to what I know of Texas industry salaries, I'd put a good starting industry salary for Austin at 40-50k a year (~20-~25 an hour). Motion Graphics and editing usually pay a bit less than 3D anim positions so the pay could be 5-10k lower than that, which would fucking suck when it comes to cost of living but still doesn't reach the 20k mentioned by Kdin.(20-40k for an LA-based position is just disturbing). Remember that digital media is considered a specialized occupation and generally requires a bachelor's degree (doesn't mean you HAVE to have one) to enter a field so that should be reflected in the salary.

Now onto the most unfortunate part of the industry: overtime (OT) is an industry standard. Everyone joining the industry knows that going in (at least coming out of college). The difference here is that companies should be open about the expected OT/month. My employer for example (all thoughts and opinions are still my own btw) was very clear on how much OT I'd have per month before signing a contract and I am compensated for it. Usually, those who don't get OT comped get higher starting pay. VFX (especially compositing dept) has infamously horrible conditions with insane levels of un-comped OT, crunch, low job security, burnout, and low wages but that at least is an open secret.

Crunch is not just overtime, crunch is sustained OT that exceeds usual expectations. It is more prevalent in studios that have to answer to a client & haven't heard that much about crunch from anim houses now that I think about it? if someone has more experience with serialized anim prod & conditions i'd love to hear from a more reliable source.

To address people's concerns about why certain people(current employees) don't speak up I've seen people bring up NDAs.A Non Disclosure Agreement covers sensitive & internal data (both company secrets and personal identifiable info). An NDA break can be litigated so it's obvious employees don't want to break it. That wouldn't be what is stopping people rn, commenting on this situation would probably fall under some sort of employment guideline. Digital media companies often have extensive guidelines as to what an employee can and cannot say about the company, things that happen in the company, the employees of the company, and other things like this. Now, a breach of guidelines wouldn't be a legal issue, it would just be breaking the contract and be grounds to either have some sort of action against the employee or termination of the contract. It's understandable why folks don't want to lose their jobs for speaking up but the "trouble" they'd get in wouldn't be as big as THE COURT.

I saw someone (don't remember who because of how much info has been coming out) mention offhand RT promising assistance with a work visa & not delivering on the promise & I wanted to quickly bring that up because of my own experiences with this. What they're talking about here is an H-1B lottery application(yes in order to get a work visa in the US you need to win a lottery). This is a process in which the employer(!) petitions the gov't for a non-immigrant work visa for a prospective (or current because these fuckers expire & you have to do the whole lottery all over) employee. There is a lot of documentation, applications, and fees involved, which is why few companies undertake trying to hire international employees. Those who do are at the scale where they have their own immigration attorneys and the H-1B application process is outsourced to a separate law firm. Financially I don't know enough int'l employees to give a blanket statement, but for me, the H-1B application cost was covered by the company and was written into the contract. The records for what companies entered the H-1B lottery are available online & I think like 3 years ago I remember seeing RT having 2-3 applications total?

Union efforts. I don't have a single acquaintance who works under a union in the industry because no one is unionized. I'm not saying RT shouldn't unionize, but their issues seem so far beyond what I've seen at any other company that it's not even comparable to some digital media startups I've seen.

Lastly, I wanted to bring up something extremely subjective when it comes to the field. Any sort of decision of staying or leaving a production company relies on the people you work with, the creative fulfillment, and the stability of your position. Unfortunately, the industry is full of short-term gig positions & project-based contractors. The projects you work on won't be yours, the length of you having a stable income is always up in the air, while the industry is mostly located in the most expensive cities in the country. It's a tough one.

So tldr; the overall digital media field is not peachy with its work conditions but holly fuck what the fuck RT.

And remember kids:

If a potential employer promises something, make sure it's stated in your contract~ otherwise, the promise carries no weight.

Always negotiate the terms of employment! You might not get a higher starting salary but you might get a bonus or some other benefit!

If you want to earn a lot of money in digital media become a tech artist or a rigger.

#rooster teeth #rt #achievement hunter #ah #dear lord i haven't used these tags for so long #rly brings me back to an oof simpler time #don't idolize companies kids it never ends well #digital media career tips i guess

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kitkatopinions · 2 years

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Hey guys, while we’re all wanting answers and we’re all rightfully upset about this, let’s remember where our focus should be and not be demanding answers of literally any random RT member even the ones we don’t like. Let’s be focusing our attention on upper management and dropped names and the founders and be trying to keep in mind that some people have been cleared by the most affected parties such as Kdin Jenzen (who forgave Michael Jones and who I believe has made it clear that they’d work with Kerry, Kiersi, and Eddy again,) and Mica Burton (who has forgiven Jeremy Dooley and who has said ‘I love you’ to Eddy.)

I’m not saying anyone has to be alright with any of RT’s staff, but let’s remember that there are several ‘good eggs’ and people who are coming forward and people who want to come forward but feel like they can’t or are being prevented from doing so and people who genuinely seemed to have a fine time and think the company was changing. Ditch the parasocial relationships that says that your favorites can’t possibly be bad and that there can’t possibly be overlap between Rooster Teeth management and the projects you like, absolutely be wary of everyone and willing to recognize that *character you like* and *person who voices them* are not the same. But be careful. Don’t let your anger make you lash out at the wrong people.

If we give Rooster Teeth and upper management any chance to play the victim, it’s very possible that the narrative will get spun from “Rooster Teeth revealed to be a vile and mismanaged bad business” and turn into “rabid fans turn on innocent people.” There’s very little even a voice actor or animator that’s a horrible person can do about the bad business practices at RT, tweets demanding an explanation won’t actually achieve much there . RT upper management, the founders, and dropped names are the people responsible and they’re the ones who should be held accountable.

#rwby #rooster teeth #anti rooster teeth

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kdinjenzen · 1 year

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Kdin would you be interested in playing Pokemon Infinite Fusion on stream? I recommend randomizing pokemon spawns and enabling fused wild pokemon so you can get a wild experience like I'm having! Also say hello to my starter pokemon Weepinchi (and a sketch done by my friend Robin)

I ... love this... so much.

Yes. Yes 100 times yes.

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anothergayrobot · 1 year

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this is more of a vent than anything so i’m putting under a read more. fair warning if anyone decides to read, it’s kinda long (and a bit rwde)

It's very frustrating, as someone who's been obsessed with RWBY since they were 12, to make the concious choice not to support the show and be told in response that they're a bad person. Cause i loved RWBY, and even though it was very very flawed i put my faith and money in the crew and company behind it to make it something good. I have almost every rwby-related book/manga (pr sure theres only two i dont have) and had at least 10 RT-related articles of clothing over the years. Pretty much my entire family knows about it cause of me and my parents were shocked when they saw me watching a video critical of it, cause it was the thing i'd been obsessed with for years.

And now here i am, someone who's supported RT for probably a decade. I'd seen all the bullshit they did and put my faith in them to do better time and time again. At this point i can't comfortably do that anymore. I can't trust them with my time and money to treat the people working there well. How much of that money they're making off of my viewtime is actually going to the workers that need it vs the shitty higher ups who only want to make the most profit with the least losses? (Lets be honest, considering all the animators were either under contracts that've ended or fired, probably none.)

But despite this i still want to watch RWBY. There'd been themes that were annoying, and uncomfortable, and outright disgusting but i saw good in the show and saw the creators acknowledging their wrongdoings and put my faith in them that they'd learn. And then Vol 8 came out, i fucking hated it, not only did it have more disgusting themes but ones that hurt me personally, and EVEN THEN I DECIDED TO CONTINUE WATCHING THE SHOW. Because i thought even if the writers are shitty, bigoted people who don't want to do their proper research or take criticism or maybe they just don't care as long as they're making money- at least i can still support the smaller workers on the crew. Like i said, i've been in love with the characters and world since i was 12, it's not something that's going to go away that easily. And then Kdin and all the workers came out about how shitty and bigoted RT was and that was it.

So with all this, not only is it extremely frustrating to see people who are willing to overlook or maybe they've justified supporting RT so they feel comfortable watching RWBY, but to hear that i'm a bad person for choosing to stop supporting a company after a decade of being burnt by it?? It's not like i said "fuck every individual person who chooses to work there, they're awful people who deserve to be abused." (trust me, i understand how capitalism works and hate it just as much as the next guy) And then i remember the post *someone* made about how choosing to not support RWBY means i'm actively being bigoted AGAINST MY OWN INTERESTS, because i guess all companies are now entitled to my time and money based on how progressive they PRESENT themselves. Despite the fact that i want to watch RWBY, i want to see how it ends, and i've been supporting it for so long regardless of how it's fucked up that now everytime i go to the manga section in fucking barnes and noble i instinctively go to the R section to see if there's been a new vol of the manga released, i'm a bigot. And it would be SO FUCKING EASY to just not give a shit. i already have access to a paid crunchyroll account so it would be so fucking easy to do so. But i can't. And honestly- if you actually think that i or anyone else is a bigot for not supporting some dumb fucking cartoon made by a garbage company? Fuck. You.

#this is kinda out of nowhere but someone i follow on twit keeps posting about how ppl should support rwby legally so #and i dont mean to hate on them specifically #i dont necessarily think everyone who chooses to support rwby is bigoted #all i want is for them to understand that theyre likely giving more to the shitty part than the people they want to support #vent #anyways fuck rt #anti rooster teeth #rwde?#anti rwby?#maybe? idk just in case

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crimsonxe · 2 years

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I gotta say there’s just something about Yang’s “Let’s see, who looks bored and alone” then locking onto Blake that really hits the feels. Mostly cause of knowing how much that word fits Blake in v1 and even a bit into v2 till Burning the Candle. Obviously in context it meant “not in the middle of a convo with others on the ship”, but doesn’t change the narrative coincidence lining up to hit the feels xD Another bit is Blake’s expression when seeing Yang hugging Ruby; Blake showing her future sister-in-law by enjoying the antics of her soulmate and her little sister xD

Also I really do love the re-structuring that IQ did with the meetings on the airship going to Beacon, instead of the whole locker room and “sleepover room”. Not to mention once again Arryn’s new version of v1 Blake’s voice is just -chef’s kiss-

Love this context to Ghira’s version of the WF and why it shifted towards Sienna, that the turning point was “exploiting the powerless” but up till that point diplomacy was being attempted. It wasn’t some hollow weak-willed attempt, while faunus suffered mercilessly in the background.

A much more nuanced/better take, cause evil does exist in Adam Taurus; but not all faunus are like him. Even those in his faction aren’t like him per se.

Also love the chattering people in the background when Weiss brings up Pyrrha’s name, which foreshadows v2 and her being put on a pedestal of isolation due to fame.

This Arkos bit is just adorable and also reminds me about missing them >.>

Can add this to the ever growing list of Blake calling out “Yang”

So good to hear Jen back as Pyrrha as well as Glynda’s new VA continuing and Kdin as Shion (and the UST between Shion and Oz is legit xD)

#rwby #rwby ice queendom #rwby spoilers #rwby ice queendom spoilers #dub

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sssn-neptune-vasilias · 2 years

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Hey, you don't need to reply to this, but I just wanted to see how you were doing, given the recent news.

Long post I guess because I started typing and couldn't shut the fuck up I guess.

TL;DR Honestly, I'm sad, and I'm tired, and I'm frustrated.

I've been a fan of RoosterTeeth since my friend Mark put me on to RvB in like... 2005? I've been a fan of AH since Michael's Impossible Game RageQuit in... 2011??? RT First was the first subscription service I've ever paid for- before my PS+, before fucking anything- the second I got my credit card in 2013. I've been a RWBY fan from when the Red Trailer first aired at the end of RvB season 10 in 2012. I've been a RT/AH fan for most of my fucking life

I've referred to Kdin as "fugz" because I just thought that was her screenname at the time. Finding out what that name meant to her at the time genuinely makes me want to vomit.

I'm still processing. Shit is still coming out. The fan is still being assaulted, let alone hit.

I remember getting into RT almost two decades ago because they were just a small indie company making silly videogame videos and they genuinely felt like a family. And I know that's fucking silly to think but I was in middle school and impressionable and that was genuinely the image that they put to the public, so why wouldn't I want to believe it? I remember watching RT expand and grow and the RvB crew get even bigger and not just being voices making Halo characters move anymore but faces playing games together. I remember Gavin, Michael and Ray get involved. I donated for LazerTeam. I've watched hundreds of streams. I've watched probably thousands of hours of RT/AH content in my life.

I thought the stuff Micah spoke about would be the worsts things got, but now we're getting everything Kdin's talking about and it's so fucking upsetting and disheartening. And I'm glad she still thinks the CRWBY are good people but like... at this point does it even matter?

I've known RT/AH have been circling the drain for a while now. It's been really fucking obvious to me at least, and I'm p sure I've made a bunch of comments about it over the years. Everything I love about RT has been in a downward spiral. Michael hasn't done RageQuit in years. Gavin and Michael don't do PlayPals anymore. RvB had two abysmal seasons back to back, gen:LOCK season 2 was such an obvious attempt to put a bad taste in everyone's mouth so we'd stop talking about the show so they could cancel it without anyone missing it. RWBY shot the goodwill it'd gathered for having a solid 2 seasons in 6 and 7 (after having an absolutely garbage seasons 4 and 5) in the back of the head with Penny and Ironwood's entire characterization. I'm not at all excited about this stupid JL/RWBY crossover, and I don't think it's gonna make enough money or new RWBY fans to even break even, let alone make much of a profit. WB just dissolved fucking Cartoon Network Studios there's no fucking shot RT survive this.

As far as RWBY goes... I don't know. And at this point, I'm finding it hard to care. RWBY's been one of my favorite shows for a really long time but I kinda just wanna tear away from it so I don't have to deal with the pain of it eventually getting cancelled. I think over 90% of my current friend groups I've made because of RT/AH content. Some of my best and oldest friends I've met because or RWBY or RvB or what have you. I'm glad after all this time I finally got to go to an RTX and meet my friends and cosplay and enjoy myself. But right now... kinda wishing I wasn't an RT fan. Kinda wanting to cancel my First subscription. Kinda wanting to just be done with RWBY and everything else.

Idk, maybe I'll rebrand as a BNHA blog I guess

#The D

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