IT'S FRICKING OVER: ROOSTER TEETH IS SHUTTING DOWN AFTER 21 YEARS
https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/1b852vt/rooster_teeth_is_shutting_down_after_21_years/?sort=controversial
!anime !oldstrags !kino @A PLS PING THIS SHIT IS FRICKING INTERNET HISTORY IN THE MAKING
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https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2024-03-06/rooster-teeth-shutting-down/
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It's a shock that they kept limping along for such an extended period of time
They also announced like a month ago they were finally going to put Red vs Blue out of its misery too lmao
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Red vs Blue should have died with grace in 2010.
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It never should have stopped being a shitty machinima about r-slurred soldiers. Once they started adding all the animations and turned it into an action series it got boring. I blame Monty Oum.
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literally the second i saw the cgi animation i was out. it made the humor suck too, they added a bunch of shitty slapstick. OH WOW TEX KICKED THE GUYS IN THE TESTICLES
frick off with that shit, the fun of the show was watching the soldier man bob his head while calling the pink guy an r-slur
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GRIF YOU FRICKING CUTE TWINK
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i knew it but i just wanted to look less like a loser for remembering it exactly
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I just remember Church and Caboose.
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Uh actually the pink one was Donut. Grif is the yellow one dumbass.
don't worry he's not any better than you. Smh
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buddy im about to be the sheila to your church
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Funny enough that cat sniffer is the onlg rrason they limped along for so kong after the second wind RWBY gave them
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Oh is that who they are
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From a video game perspective, they never innovated after ~2014. They owned the LetsPlay channel name and decided to more or less abandon it!
RvB has been shit for a long time, at least since the Halo 3 days.
Can't speak for RWBY but apparently it started sucking right after Monty died.
Constantly screwing over their Youtube audience (how they were getting a new audience) and fricking up their website (for the paypigs).
The company has been constantly accused of nepotism, at least as far back as Kathleen Zuelch accusing Barb of being promoted due to being the office fricktoy in 2013. Probably earlier
The company angered Team DEI with how they handled Micah, then constantly tried to appease Team DEI (poorly!) at the expense of everything else.
Yeah, their death was at minimum 8 years too late.
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Nah it was always hot garbage, BUT it WAS a hit. With slightly better management and writers they could have probably scored some Netflix deals or whatever.
Japs in particular fricking LOVED it to the point it got added to a crossover tag fighting game and it's own (actual) anime.
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Now I'm wondering if WB will do something with it.
!anime I think RWBY could still chug on but it would require a reboot. Maybe they could give it to the Nips and have proper 2D animation. Maybe it could have a Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood type take two with condensed storytelling and the crap fluff from earlier edited out. And maybe we can finally get that fighting game I've always wanted.
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being burger anime is at the core of its identity, give it to the nips and it will get drowned out by the noise
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It has a decent Nip following.
Plus they could just animate it properly but still release it primarily in America with the voice actors back and whatnot.
It's kinda sad because with the way WB is now I doubt they'll do anything with it, but this franchise did hit it big once and it could live on if it had a decent enough reboot.
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i hope they make that fighting game so you can beat
@Soren in my stead
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A RWBY fighting game would be kino though.
If AI gets good enough to make solo produced indie games viable I might just try churning one out. Blazblue Crosstag already proved the setting's viability for a 2D sprite based game.
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im getting whiplash from talking to you in 2 different chains
imma just do Ruby porn
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It was in doctor sleep of all things
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COMPLETELY rework the story and keep the grimdark premise. Demonic creatures attracted to human misery have nearly made Humanity extinct, what few remnants cling to life in isolated sanctums where child soldiers are forced to literally put their souls on the line to buy another day of survival. Add something of the human remnants knowing that misery attracts Grimm and yet still be dystopian societies for le social commentary and drama.
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RWBY's setting is way more interesting than the writers knew what to do with
I'm a sucker for fantasy zombies
and I've seen fan art where the Grimm are much cooler than they could ever be in 3D web animation. I think the RWBY backstory even had a War that was fought over an attempt by one faction to ban all artistic creativity and individual freedoms because they thought a perfectly ordered society would be immune to Grimm. It's interesting that there's actually a logical in universe reason why autocracy might take hold.
RWBY did a good thing in destroying the high school and forcing the girls to go get jobs
Problem is the plot meandered for so long. Stuff as significant as the Atlas whatnot should have happened earlier. If it was paced properly I think it could be interesting that Team RWBY might gradually age into adults post Beacon destruction and along the way they'd get involved in the politics of the setting. I think James Ironwood and Adam Taurus for example could have been great secondary villains it's just that the writers bit off more than they could chew and didn't characterize them very well.
With the plot as it is now I'm not sure how team RWBY was ever going to defeat Salem and Cinder
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Taurus is a highly charismatic demagogue who's a slave to his emotions. So enthralled with his hatred and self-righteousness his actions are more monstrous than the demonic Grimm.
That's just me sperging rn
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Sperg away. It's what Monty would have wanted.
How do you think Season 10+ was supposed to go? The writers have said Season 10 was rearing to go so it's already written, but I wonder what would have happened past that.
They gave team RWBY too many L's. It still feels like Cinder and Salem would just kick the shit out of them after all these years.
Also I really liked the Rusted Knight idea from Volume 9. What if Jaune was actually a badass now since he technically has decades of experience? Or what if Salem found out about the time travel fruit he found and used it to try and change her past?
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Jaune shouldn't have done any time travel bs. His sword is a family ancestral blade that's been passed down for supposedly generations. I would have made it that the Crocea Mors has absorbed some essence of past generations of Arcs since strengthening weapons in RWBY is essentially forcing your SOUL into them. Having generations of warriors pour their soul into a weapon would surely do SOMETHING to it, something downright magical.
For Salem I would have just copies the Tiamat myth from Enuma Elish. She's a primordial entity of creation gone made when her own creation (((Ozma))) scorns her love and births monsters. Ruby gets WOKE and scatter her body to never again threaten them.
In the EnΓ»ma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation, Tiamat bears the first generation of deities; her husband, Abzu, correctly assuming that they are planning to kill him and usurp his throne, later makes war upon them and is killed. Enraged, she also wars upon her husband's murderers, bringing forth multitudes of monsters as offspring. She is then slain by Enki's son, the storm-god Marduk, but not before she brings forth the monsters of the Mesopotamian pantheon, including the first dragons, whose bodies she fills with "poison instead of blood". Marduk then integrates elements of her body into the heavens and the earth.
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That was a mistake. You're about to find out the hard way why.
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I think the only way they could make RWBY good again is if they resurrected Monty.
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No dude, RWBY was good. I don't mean the story but the choreography. Monty Oum has a style and creativity that they were never able to replicate.
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I can't say if that was true as I never watched it, but darn did rwby have the worst art imaginable
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IDK what you mean about art, if you mean low poly-count or whatever just remember that its like 10 years old.
The choreography was everything with Monty, watch the trailers all of them are hype AF and I don't even think they're his best work. Then compare what they did after Monty died. A massive downgrade.
Extra: here's Monty Oum drawing a crowd at the arcade so you know he had mad style
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RWBY existed as a vehicle for Monty to do cool dynamic fights. The plot was always hot garbage, but after he died there was nobody who could choreograph the fights either so they tried to lean on the plot to carry it more.
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I forgot they recently stopped using Twitter anymore, I guess that was a woke thing but idk.
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I feel like i saw one of the early RvB episodes multiple times, but mostly as an example of what machinima was. I don't know why i remember seeing it like 6 times
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RWBY went from sucking in a soulful way to sucking in a soulless way
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WTF red vs blue was still going??
I watched that back in high schoolβ¦
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I remember when they introduced 16:9 and your video couldn't exceed 10 minutes
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I haven't watched it in like 17 years. How the frick?
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Ratyboy is the official Let's Play mascot as RoosterTeeth acquires media and merch rights only less than 15 minutes before they shut down
https://old.reddit.com/r/roosterteeth/comments/1b84iwy/ratyboy_is_the_official_lets_play_mascot_as_rt/?sort=controversial
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This is because Let's Play is now run by the F**kface podcast, and the podcasts aren't being cancelled.
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The "this isn't an airport, no need to announce your departure" tweet https://twitter.com/RoosterTeeth/status/1296937625467662336 and then Loud is What We Do nonsense drove me away. https://rdrama.net/post/36466/loud-is-what-we-do-the
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I never got why people seemed to like that RWBY thing, it looked like shit so I never watched any of it
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!anime
@MatsurisAhoge 
@KoreanStragKing 
@CrackerStraggot please rate and critique my hot take:
As someone who never cared about RWBY other than its
2D fanart, I think that the reason for their success was simply because they hit the jackpot by being released in the right place on the right time in the fateful year of 2013, as 2013 was when:
1. Weebshit culture was starting to get fully mainstream, it was no longer a thing that only 4chan neckbeards, neurodivergent school rejects, or Latinx folx were into
2. Anime memes were leaking onto the normie internet, as overall corporate "meme/geek culture" was also starting to get mainstream on social media
3. The Legend of Korra cute twinkry was fricking everywhere, and League of Legends was also another anime-esque medium that was reaching an enormous popularity among normie Westoids in that same year
4. Once-niche anime and hentai artists who were at first secluded to obscure DeviantArt and NewGrounds circles were also starting to receive mainstream attention on Twitter, Tumblr, and other social media sites that became massive in the early 2010s
RWBY had a weeb artstyle with a Western-centric writing and story structure, which was attractive and easily-digestible to the "hey, have you heard of these things called animΓ©?, its Japanese cartoons with big eyes like Dragon Ball! LOL!
" audience, plus it was a strictly online series released for free on YouTube, which contributed to its popularity, regardless of its quality being good or not, I think that its artstyle attracted normies to click on the videos, like how gen alpha children are attracted to Elsagate clickbait shit.
I doubt that RWBY would have gotten any popularity if it was released on TV, or if it was released in 2017 instead.
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The best part is that a japanese studio picked up RWBY and animated it, making some of the animation look fricking amazing. It still couldnt fix the dogshit script though. I only saw the animated version and even then it was awful.
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Exactly, weebshitters who dislike RWBY say the exact same thing - its character designs and 2D fanart look great, it is just its bizarre 3D animation quality and creepy MikuMikuDance-like models that ruin the appeal, I do not mean this from a "3D bad 2D good
" perspective, I mean that the RWBY animation quality is legit dogshit, it looks like CGI from 1995, if you are going to make a 3D anime, then make it look good, do not make it look like a fricking VeggieTales episode from 1993.
If they had enough money, they should have just ditched the 3D and made the series into 2D, sure, I am not asking for professional Japanese anime-studio quality shit, even if it was still animated on Flash and had dubious Western fanart quality, it would have translated the artstyle much better. !anime
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monty oum was always a hack and his wife murdering him with cat fur was a mercy killing
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!ranchers is it true that Monty's "wife" was only his girlfriend, and she literally married him a few days before he died while he was in his deathbed, in order for her to take away his money/estate?, I recall that their "marriage" was private and was not made public at any point while Monty was alive, then she said that she had married him only weeks/months after he had already died, almost like a posthumous marriage a-la Mormonism, this is some truly vile !foidmoment shit, and a serious warning to all ricecels who wish to get a mayo waifu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_marriage
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wut? he died from an allergic reaction
during surgery 
how would 
she know he was gonna 
die
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This is why I am asking because I am really out of the loop on RT autism, from what I remember, he was already in a pretty fragile health, and the surgery was the final thing that killed him.
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He was suffering an allergic reaction to her cat, and went in for a medical procedure (allergy test) and from that suffered a cat-astrophic reaction that killed him.
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He was allergic to penicillin iirc but no one knew, they found
out while doing surgery 
and he 
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Because the only reason he did was because he was constantly getting allergen shots because of the cat that the r-slur rescued and Monty was incredibly allergic too.
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That's how I remember it
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Let's be honest the veggie tales animation is doing what it needs to, making it better than rwby
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The 3d fights were actually the better part of RWBY, even if they were jank (all indie 3d animation was jank back then so everyone just accepted it). The story and talking bits were absolutely horrible. Monty Oum should have just kept making almost story-less fight animations like Dead Fantasy.
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I'm pretty sure that's how the first two seasons were made. Monty Oum would make a bunch of fight scenes and the writers would attempt to write a plot and dialogue to stitch them together.
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It wasnt fanart tho, it was official.
The 3D isnt helping, but the story isnt good at all. Its really complete dogshit by every measure. 2Ds saving grace was design and animation, but that cant carry a shit story.
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I know that, I was talking about a hypothetical Amerimutt-made 2D RWBY series.
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I find shitty 3D animation oddly charming.
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The thing is, VeggieTales is from 1993, so inferior CGI is to be expected, RWBY is from fricking 2013, a 20 year difference, and yet VeggieTales has better CGI in some aspects.
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veggie tales was cutting edge
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!christians did any of you fellas watch VeggieTales in Sunday School back in the day?
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My parents were both Sunday school teachers so I'd see Veggietales more at home.
tangent on tv watching at home:
We had this weird thing called tv guardian that was hilarious because it would take any offensive word and replace it with something generally inoffensive.
From what I remember, it had some really amusing filters.
s*x = hugs
frick = wow
balls = tail
blowjob = kiss
strag = gay
May Marsey Ta'aevann rectify our affairs. Marseummarhamna bil Bussy 'azeem.
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Forced???? We loved that shit (watched at catholic school during religion period as a treat)
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Veggie tales holds up
Follower of Christ
Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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Yes. I still got them on vhs but need to get a vcr
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not really, I just thought the tomato boi and cucumber man were funny
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The whole point of the series was the 3d fights though?
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Japanese studios are notorious for cheap animation though lol, most anime isn't even made in Japan.
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Asian studio. You know what i mean.
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No... a lot of it is made in europe.
Asian studios are seriously the biggest cheapskates.
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How is league supposed to be anime inspired? Other than girls with big tits, but thats just vidia b4 danger hairs took over
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Its official artwork absolutely evokes some weird orientalist style that looks like anime but at the same time doesn't, almost like a hapacel blending of east and west, the game has a shitload of anime references, and IIRC, the majority of its playerbase has always been in China and South Korea, and furthermore, like 90% of all of its existing fanart is weebshit, period, so whenever normies search for League-related stuff and art online, they will be inundated with weebshit.
Additionally, in the late 2010s, Korea and China started to get very involved into the webtoon/manhwa/gacha stuff (I also blame the popularity of K-Pop and China trying to become Superpower 2020), and so as a result, anime and manga is slowly being amalgamated into a single East Asian blob, instead of just being something uniquely Japanese, manga and anime database sites also slowly started to accept Chinese and Korean titles to be added to them, when previously they were strictly allowing things made in Japan only, international co-production anime that was only partially animated in Japan, or an anime had Japanese directors and animators, but was not produced in the country of Japan itself were also prohibited from being shown on the databases.
For example: If no one told you beforehand, you probably would not even believe that games like Genshin Impact and Nikke are not Japanese!, there is constant sperging on 4chan boards like /v/ and /a/ about how the Goox and Chinx will save anime and weeb games (
), because modern Japanese media just wants to make more Western-inspired and "woke" shit to appeal to the Westoid market, while the Goox and Chinx are keeping the hentai waifu tradition alive or something lol. !gacha !anime
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The Goox will save anime simply because the Gookz are the biggest anti-feminists on the planet and will sperg and financially ruin feminists for the tiniest slight.
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As far as I can tell Jappas (in particular Capcom) have read this as making their men look like ultra ripped gigachads while either covering the heck up out of their women and making them look uncanncy valley or making shit like Lady Dimitrisu
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Genuinely the fall of the Roman Empire for manga lovers. Within the span of like a year, every single manga site became and still is inundated with absolute dog shit Korean "I Became a Dark Fantasy Villain The Reborn Young Lord Is an Assassin" manhwa isekai trash.
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The original trailers were also pretty fun. They alone generated a lot of the hype.
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I've literally never seen anything that looks and sounds worse than Rwby. Absolutely incomprehensible to me that it has an audience
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!anime ever heard of this abomination?
https://myanimelist.net/anime/38853/Ex-Arm
And to think that this disgusting abomination is actually a Crunchyroll original, like that Star Guardian Spice Steven Universe ripoff straight from 2013 Tumblr
Real Berserk 2016 vibes here, but the difference is that Ex-Arm is not a 30-year-old famous and beloved franchise that has countless content to compensate the shittiness of its 2016 schizopost
I sorta feel bad for the creator of Ex-Arm, I heard that the manga is pretty good, but the only "anime" (
) adaptation of your work turns out to be a shitshow of utterly shameful and crappy 3D animation that looks like it was made by an r-slured 12-year-old on Microsoft 3D Movie Maker back in 2006, and the only mentions of the story that you created will be on the "top worst anime of all time" lists, I really hope this nibba can redeem himself in his brutal manga artist career!
This 20-second-clip is filled with more passion and effort than the entire Ex-Arm abomination is:
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It was memed hard and shat on pretty aggressively when it was airing.
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Yep, manga was basically a mid GITS but the Anime was PEAK Kusokino.
Also give Jerma an anime
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Not an animestrag so I'm just going by the GIF/YT videos but my instant reaction was that it looks like mid-late 2000's point and click adventures. Handdrawn backgrounds with obviously out of place 3D characters that weren't animated that well, like this one
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It was fricking absolutely the fricking worst thing I've ever watched lol anybody who liked that shit should kill themselves
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Proto-Coomers and Proto-Weebs who didn't know how to watch Anime in 2013
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Nibba we !coomers have existed since OVER 9000 BCE!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain_Sakhri_figurine !historychads
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Am I being fricked with? It looks like nothing.
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Also fun fact to both !christians and !historychads, this sculpture was discovered in the Ain Sakhri caves, a cave complex located close a modern-day town in Israel/Palestine known as....
Bethlehem.
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!classics
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Most people don't consider the product of some proto-cavemen banging together a bunch of rocks to be classic art.
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I don't get it either, I had two girls in undergrad try to get me into it. The plot was weird and it was filmed at like 10 fps
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It introduced weeb shit to an entirely new audience.
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