#rt/10

[untouchvbles]

Dodge Viper (VX) at Waukesha Cars & Coffee (2023) - Meet 2 in Waukesha, WI.  

#stance #stanced #dodge #viper #r/t #r/t-10 #srt #acr #gts #gts-r #rt/10 #challenger #charger #dart #gt #srt-8 #srt-10 #hellcat #hellcat redeye #t/a #srt hellcat #srt hellcat redeye #srt hellcat widebody #hellcat widebody #srt demon #demon #srt 392 #392 #srt 392 scat pack #392 scat pack

[sexdrugsnracknpinion]

#Dodge #Viper #RT10 #RT/10 #cars

[monarchisms]

[x]

#made this as a meme because no one else did afaik #now to tag some stuff that was mentioned here #achievement hunter #rooster teeth #roosterteeth #camp camp #red vs blue #rvb #rwby #rwby wasn't mentioned in the email #but this still feels relevant to those who want to hear Literally Anything about volume 10 #or the future of the show in general #anyways. to my fellow former rt girlies (gender neutral) #how are we feeling.......................... #rtx 2024

[birder-of-remnant]

Staying Warm

The events of this day have been a shock for everyone but I urge everyone to not give up yet!

This art was commissioned for everyone who has worked to make RWBY an inclusive and supportive community (especially for @citadelofmythoughts), even when it has not been easy. The news from earlier this day has me shaken. I cannot even begin to imagine how everyone with CRWBY is feeling. And everyone else at RT who has poured their hearts into creating this community, even when the upper management has been so poor. RWBY has changed my life and I am so grateful for this show, for CRWBY, and for everyone in this community who have embraced what RWBY quintessentially represents. I hope that RWBY and its team find a new home soon! Regardless of what happens, in the end, I will be standing here. I have no plans on leaving this fandom now.

But I have rambled enough. Today has been a chilling day, but we have people to support us. I wanted this piece to be about support, and I am so happy with how it turned out! I thank @ahn1zos for their incredible work putting this together!

Commission created by @ahn1zos

#rwby #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #bumbleby #may marigold #rt #greenlight rwby volume 10 #art commisions

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Dodge Viper RT/10 Concept, 1990. This was the second Viper prototype and the first to be powered by a V10 engine, though it had a cast-iron block. It was a huge hit at the Chicago Auto Show and went into production for the 1992 model year

#Dodge #Dodge Viper #Dodge Viper RT/10 Concept #Concept #prototype #V10 #1990 #Chicago Auto Show #1990s #first generation

[coolthingsguyslike]

#Dodge #Viper #RT-10 #red

[raepritewrites]

Y'all remember those memes from when Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity came out, wondering how much sh*t is buried under Hyrule?

TOTK really said

#botw #totk thoughts #hyrule warriors #breath of the wild #tears of the kingdom #age of calamity #spoilers? #idk if it counts #ive only played a little #but ive been watching some gp #rt game #gab smolders #pointcrow #but especially #rtgames first 10 hours #that man is insane #i love him

[currantlee]

A few comments on a recent post about RWBY I made got me thinking about something. Basically, I think that Rooster Teeth – and possibly by extension its parent companies – have artificially inflated RWBY as a media project and franchise rather than letting it grow organically. Therefore, it became a bubble that was bound to burst at some point. RWBY might never have been a profitable IP, which might be very relevant for its future.

This is not a problem that arose after Monty Oum‘s passing, I feel like this was already coming before that. Shane Newville‘s open letter (which absolutely comes from an emotional, mentally unwell state of mind, but has had many of its contents confirmed over the years, even beyond being one of the first descriptions of the toxic work environment at Rooster Teeth) makes a few points that support this impression. Whether you agree with the letter or not, you cannot deny that the first two volumes of RWBY, while they also had merch accompanying them and stuff, were not produced following industry standards – starting with the 3D software used, Poser Pro (Monty Oum‘s preferred tool for animation). This led to some really creative animation work that, while not always high-quality by industry-standards, was certainly pushing boundaries. It was creative and it worked for what RWBY was: a passion project created by someone who saw animation as his strongest suit – as his preferred medium to tell a story. I‘ve seen a lot of people claim that Monty Oum wasn‘t a writer, and while that‘s true, I feel like the implication of that statement is always that he couldn‘t tell stories on his own. I don‘t think that‘s true. I think Monty Oum was a great storyteller when it came to expressing certain things through animated action scenes. It‘s just that he wanted to tell a story that included more than just that and a few lines of dialogue – which is where Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross come in, two at the time very inexperienced writers (who possibly had a fallout with Monty Oum over creative differences later), as well as some talented folks – people like Shane Newville. They were chosen to work on this because Monty Oum acknowledged their potential and liked to work with them, and I feel like that created an environment where they were really allowed to flourish. Volumes 1 and 2 are certainly not flawless, but I feel like I can tell the people making it had fun.

To Rooster Teeth however? I think RWBY (and by extension, Monty Oum as a creator) might have been little more than assets to them. RWBY was first created around a time when RT first tried to be more like, well, an actual company. At least from 2014 onward, but possibly even earlier than that, this included an effort to conform to industry standards more, mostly in order to be able to hire more people – very visibly so in RWBY in the form of the switch to Maya (my opinion about that is, the way they did it didn’t do RWBY any favors at all). I think they saw RWBY and Monty Oum as an opportunity to appear… More important, bigger, than they ever really were.

So what did they do? Again, I kind of have the feeling that they “upscaled” RWBY to a size where it appears like this big thing, but it became far too much to handle. Essentially, they created a mock giant, or a metaphorical quasi-star: something that can appear big from afar, but is actually very small / unstable (and if we go with the quasi-star metaphor, disturbs all of its surroundings). This is what I mean when I say that RWBY was a bubble bound to burst, because no star lives forever – and quasi-stars can only exist under very specific, very unstable conditions (I linked a Kurzgesagt-video in case you’re interested what exactly a quasi-star / black hole star is / was, cosmology is so fascinating IMO). Once these conditions exist no longer, they both fall apart and collapse into the black hole that is their core at the same time.

My main argument for this is that RWBY was essentially a huge money sink for RT (Source: Barbara Dunkelman’s unprofessionalism). They pumped so much money into this… Perhaps even more than they ever made from it. While this isn’t 100% confirmed, it is very much possible (and IMO not exactly unlikely) that RWBY was never profitable — which it might have been if RT hadn’t been so hellbent on creating the illusion of a multi-million-dollar franchise.

This is purely speculative, but this might also be why Volume 10 was never greenlit. We know that Volume 9 was to a significant part funded by Crunchyroll and in fact would not have been possible without them (probably because RT was already out of money at this point). They might have bought into this mock giant, then realized they had pretty much been scammed once Volume 9 aired. This might have led to Crunchyroll’s unwillingness to fund another season for something they knew now was effectively a money sink. Since RT at this point lacked the funds to produce Volume 10 alone and therefore was dependent on investors like Crunchyroll and Warner Brothers… Volume 10 was never greenlit, no matter how hard they attempted to get their fans’ hopes up and start a hashtag campaign on social media (as far as I remember, that was started by Rooster Teeth, not the fans. I don’t have my Twitter account anymore though, so I can’t check). Again though, this is speculation.

The worst part? This refusal of RT to just… Downscale RWBY again, this determination that it had to be this huge franchise… Was all put on the backs of the creatives working on it. We know at this point, from multiple sources, that RWBY and other RT productions have had an incredible amount of crunchtime, working overtime, employee abuse, … going on behind the scenes, which seems to only have gotten worse after Monty Oum’s passing. At the end of the day, all RT does and has ever done is blame others for their incompetence. Like, no shit, I’ve seen fans claim that it’s the FNDM’s job to “keep the show alive” (particularly in the light of #GreenlightVolume10), which… No, that’s not the fans’ job. It’s the job of the company who has been entrusted with this beloved IP, and said company has proven to be utterly incompetent on multiple occasions, which is unfortunate, but a sad reality for all those who love RWBY. And while Rooster Teeth has never directly said such a thing, they have certainly implied it and taken advantage of the existing sentiment within their fanbase, as well as their parasocial relationship with it (again, see #GreenlightVolume10 for reference).

To clarify, I’m not saying none of this would have happened if RT didn’t insist on making RWBY this big franchise (and biting off far more than they could chew in the process) – again, RT was far too notoriously incompetent at everything a company should manage – but I do think it might have played a role. It also isn’t an excuse for all the employee abuse. Again, what they should have done is downsizing the project, not inflating it further and further.

If I’m not somehow completely in the wrong (because IMO this just makes way too much sense to not be at least partially true – but let’s face it, a lot of this is just me connecting dots, and there is always a chance I’m connecting them wrong, even though I don‘t think so), then it kinda blows my mind that there are still people who believe in this scam. Though I will say, emotional attachment can do that to anyone. If anything, I’m honestly sorry that those folks lose something that means so much to them, and that false promises were made to them.

At the end of the day, the story of RWBY (the “franchise”) is twofold. It’s a story about an incredibly talented creator who passed away far too early, who was given the incredible opportunity to make his dream come true. It’s a story of people he trusted taking up his torch, and maybe getting lost in the dark along the way. It’s an inspiring story regardless, and I hope to see it continued at a downsized scale so it can grow organically, preferably in the hands of an indie animation studio like Dillon Goo (🤞)

But it is also a cautionary tale to both creatives and companies who employ them, a tale about false promises, abuse of both employees and fans, as well as how to not run a project. Don’t blow your thing out of proportion too early, don’t create a mock giant / metaphorical quasi-star. Let your ideas and projects grow and flourish organically and sincerely.

#RWBY #Rooster Teeth #RT Shutdown #Rooster Teeth Shutdown #Corporate Meddling #Theorizing #Speculation #Behind the Scenes #Rooster Teeth‘s corporate incompetence #Rooster Teeth toxicity #Monty Oum #Shane Newville #Shane‘s Letter #Open Letter to All who Treasured Monty Oum #RWBY Volume 10 #RWBY Volume 9 #RWBY V9 #RWBY V10 #Greenlight Volume 10 Meta #RWBY Discourse #RT Discourse #RT Critical #Does this count as RWDE? #Anyway #RWDE #Currantlee here

[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

#rwby #rt #rooster teeth #greenlight volume 10

[pinkprettycure]

"getting attention for original art on tumblr is hard no one cares about original art"

thats how it is literally everywhere. Original art is always hard to get attention for idk why ppl think its a uniquely tumblr issue when its the same on literally every platform.

Idk how to tell yall that yall gotta actually be posting your ocs to get attention. u cant just post one picture and then throw ur hands up and get mad that nobody cares about them

Like i built my audience off ocs HERE. on tumblr. the "fandom website". this isnt an overnight thing I didn't just post val one day and pop off like this years of me being annoying as fuck idk how else ppl think original art is supposed to get attention

#Are you telling me Char broiled this burger? #i didnt think anyone would bother rbing this but in the first screenshot the twitter comic has 6 rts and 18 likes #and the tumblr post is 10 rbs and 41 likes #thats for far far less popular ocs like this a comic about of the my characters DAD

[da-bombishere]

I doodled my top 5 beloveds 💖

(Aka my top 5 favorite brawlers)

In order it’s Darryl, Otis, R-T, Cordelius, and Ash :]

#brawl stars #brawl stars darryl #brawl stars otis #brawl stars r-t #brawl stars rt #brawl stars cordelius #brawl stars ash #I love them all sm 💖 #my lil goobers #fun fact #Tick used to be my favorite brawler :0 #he’s not anymore but he’s still in my top 10 💖

[untouchvbles]

Dodge Viper ACR (ZB II) at Waukesha Cars & Coffee (2023) - Meet 4 in Waukesha, WI.  

#stance #stanced #dodge #viper #r/t #r/t-10 #srt #acr #gts #gts-r #rt/10 #challenger #charger #dart #gt #srt-8 #srt-10 #hellcat #hellcat redeye #t/a #srt hellcat #srt hellcat redeye #srt hellcat widebody #hellcat widebody #srt demon #demon #srt 392 #392 #392 scat pack #srt 392 scat pack

[sexdrugsnracknpinion]

#Dodge #Viper #RT10 #RT/10 #cars

[monarchisms]

so, with rt having their anniversary on april 1st, they decided this year to celebrate for 20 whole weeks for their 20th anniversary. with one episode a week on fridays starting in march and ending in july, they've released one-off mystery episodes of their shows and products that have been cancelled, put on hiatus, or otherwise ended naturally. the exceptions are on the spot and camp camp, the former of which is coming back later this year, and the latter having a new season premiere later next year in 2024, both having been confirmed at rtx 2023.

it makes sense for rt to build up such a major milestone by teasing what they're doing to celebrate, but i think the way they've done it is...

not great.

that's why i'm just gonna put what each mystery video is, with links to youtube because the rt site fucking sucks for convenience!

week 1 (march 17th) | ahwu week 2 (march 24th) | rage quit week 3 (march 31st) | million dollars, but... week 4 (april 7th) | achievement h.o.r.s.e week 5 (april 14th) | on the spot (was originally streamed live)* week 6 (april 21st) | master & apprentice week 7 (april 28th) | rt docs (at least, a ~15 minute parody of one from funhaus) week 8 (may 5th) | AH gta iv: cops and crooks week 9 (may 12th) | AH: theater mode (the youtube version got cut down from around 1 hour 40 minutes to close to 30 minutes, which is cringe) week 10 (may 19th) | rt recap week 11 (may 26th) | rt shorts week 12 (june 2nd) | music video: dusk boys: u.f.whoa week 13 (june 9th) | chump (was originally streamed live)* week 14 (june 16th) | immersion week 15 (june 23rd) | p.a.n.i.c.s week 16 (june 30th) | hard mode: uncomfortable guess who?* week 17 (july 7th) | lazer team: boot group (animated video) week 18 (july 14th) | [trailer] a simple walk into mordor: part 2 week 19 (july 21st) | camp camp week 20 (july 28th) | [prologue] red vs blue: restoration (series finale)

an asterisk (*) means there's bonus content for the labeled video that's unfortunately exclusive to the rt site, with hard mode's bonus video being behind a paywall, for some reason

note: the rvb restoration prologue came out on youtube on july 8th, but i chose to keep the date as the 28th because that's when it was supposed to come out. i didn't know it was released earlier on purpose until i was lucky enough to see an explanation from an rt employee on reddit, of all places:

#rt and failing to communicate news on more than one website. name a more iconic duo #achievement hunter #rooster teeth #roosterteeth #funhaus #camp camp #red vs blue #rvb #okay that's enough tags #dates are based on when each respective video came out for everyone #since first members got the videos a week earlier #i would've been tempted to just. upload the bonus content under a cut in this post #excluding the first-exclusive one #but alas... the videos are over the maximum of 10 minutes 😔

[mikeywayarchive]

10/2/22 // Maddie Stellingwerf

#mikey way #fi #gw #rt #whole gang #mcr #live #return #2022 #oct 2022 #10/2/22 #2022 na tour #portland #moda center #photo #originals

[rtgame-fun-facts]

RTGame Fun Fact #10

RT is secretly named John

#10 #rtgame #rtgamecrowd #rtgame daniel #rt game #rtgame crowd #rtumblr #rtgame fun facts #unreality #cw unreality #tw unreality #just in case