Overview: RoosterTeeth is a video production company based in Austin, Texas. They got their start making machinima videos for the Halo franchise, and now they have a variety of syndicated content that they produce full-time. One of RoosterTeeth's most popular branches is known as Achievement Hunter - comprised of 6 guys who record content such as achievement guides and videos of them playing games together (dubbed "Let's Plays"). These videos are posted to their site and their two Youtube channels, which combined have over 8 million subscribers.

One of Achievement Hunter's 'shows' is called Let's Build, in which two people, Geoff and Gavin, record themselves building things in Minecraft that they usually play with later. Since it tends to be slightly boring and tedious, Geoff and Gavin pass the time by talking about random things to entertain the audience. They usually release one Let's Build every week, where they make different things.

Drama: About 4 months back, Achievement Hunter released a Let's Build where they made a structure in Minecraft called "Portal House". The conversation eventually led them to talking about the past, and a game they used to play together in their free time while driving somewhere. The game, which they called "Connect the Hots", was played as such:

1. Drive until someone in the car sees an attractive person walking down the street.

2. Follow that person in the car at a slow pace.

3. Keep following until another attractive person is spotted.

4. Follow the new person at a slow place.

5. Repeat until bored

When the video was released, the internet went wild, saying that the game was "creepy" and that they were essentially "stalking people" (both of which are pretty undeniably true). The backlash spanned from Youtube to the RoosterTeeth forums - and even Tumblr had something to say about it. The backlash eventually grew to be so intense that RoosterTeeth deleted the video from its Youtube playlist. A few days later, Geoff (the cofounder of RoosterTeeth Productions and one of the parties involved in the video) released a formal apology on RoosterTeeth.com. Comments on the post were generally split between support and outright hate for what had happened. /r/RoosterTeeth eventually picked it up and a post went up about the apology and the incident in general. Things settled down a few days later, but the damage was done.

Links:

• The video (mirrored)

• A transcript of the conversation

• Geoff's apology

• The /r/roosterteeth post