Let's check in on Roosterteeth

Roosterteeth is having a great day. It started with beloved neckbeard Matt Bragg announcing that he had been told that his role was "dissolved", followed quickly by producer Marcus LaPorte also being canned. The entire events team has been fired too which is quite big news as RT centres itself around its annual convention RTX.

Layoffs shouldn't be surprising - RT fired 50 people in 2019 and view counts have only continued to tank since then. It seems almost inevitable that their new owner Warner Bros. Discovery will get round to looking at RT's financials sometime and dissolve the entire company. They have only gained YouTube subscribers in one of the last 22 months.

These firings (especially Matt's) caused a lot of unhappiness in the community; lots of people on the subreddit are saying that they're done watching RT content.

But here's for the real drama: for some reason these firings caused former RT employees to start tweeting about their bad experiences at the company, namely Kdin Jenzen who makes an incredible accusation:

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.

and another serious accusation for a company seen as being the textbook definition of woke:

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.

They also complained that they were constantly working crunch hours and were only getting paid $40k after 7 years.

Mica Burton (aka the least-liked RT employee in the history of the company) didn't waste this opportunity to post her own tweet making vague claims about racism, including once seeing the n-word written on a whiteboard.

The entire subreddit is melting down. Beloved current cast members have had tweets and videos dug up in which they called Kdin "Fugz". Until Kdin's tweet today then no one outside of the company knew what this nickname meant. People are finally using Michael Jones' old "N_ggerclaus" video against him (fans previously ignored it because they liked him and "people change", while cancelling other people for far milder slurs).

This is all beautiful to me - Roosterteeth's transition to be as woke as possible meant that it ditched its older, mature fans and replaced them with braindead zoomers who are now in turn cancelling it for not being woke enough. The circle of life. I suspect that we haven't come close to hearing the end of this.

UPDATE: the word Mica saw on the whiteboard was actually "naggers", according to another former employee who remembers writing it to explain a South Park scene to someone else. You can't make this shit up.