#AH RT

[breathing-in-waves]

More pictures from Meg and Gavin's wedding ❤️

[monarchisms]

[youngbunny]

As someone who grew up on Rooster Teeth, who consumed so much of their content during my formative years, today's news hits a little harder. I'm so upset for the people who lost their jobs and livelihoods due to this huge downsizing on WB part (not to mention the fact most of them found out through a twitter post!) - it pains me to hear that some of their projects will never get a real conclusion or that the hard work they have been putting in for years might be forgotten.

I'm holding out hope that there will be some sort of archival process or maybe the RT website will remain live so that people can watch what is there (maybe no longer behind a paywall?).

That being said, RT was never a perfect company and to pretend that it was is doing a disservice to everyone who has been hurt by the decisions of their coworkers, the treatment of BIPOC by the audience, and toxic work environment that surrounded their productions. We should not use this time to discredit those experiences, but remain aware that these situations can coexist simultaneously.

For the cast/crew/production teams that have led these projects, I am hopeful that this will not be the last time we see them apart of content. I know most people are concerned about the state of RWBY, RVB, Gen: Lock, etc, and I do think these IP's will be picked up. If we're lucky, they will be along with the teams responsible for them in the first place. But I urge you to not use this time to talk about these shows, but instead send some comfort to those who are now out of a job.

[greededling]

every girl is legally allowed one (1) rooster teeth production that they will cherish for the rest of their days

[lubluues]

in an alternate universe chat found it first

[atthebell]

idk if anyone's aware of this, but the original snail assassin meme was a joke from the rooster teeth podcast that gavin free made almost exactly ten years ago, and know your meme actually did a video with him about it a couple years back talking about where it came from and how popular it had gotten outside the rt community, particularly on tiktok. super interesting to see it made real in wild life, i always think it's so interesting to see old rt stuff come up outside of that context :O also it's just fun to actually know the origin of a big internet meme, i think i watched that podcast episode live so it feels really wild that it's fully been a decade since then

[achieveandhunt]

lotsa things to say but i don’t have all the words

what i will say is that the number one reason i’m sad is because this really feels like the final nail in the coffin for the RT community as we know it. throughout all the controversies and bullshit the community has dwindled a lot, and now that the company is gone and all the employees and shows have been left to fend for themselves, it really feels like it’s over

thank you to everyone who made anything for RT content over the years. the art, the edits, the fics, all of it. whether you got five notes or ten thousand, your creations mattered and were the backbone of this community. thank you to everyone who supported RT cast/crew in their endeavors outside of their work, for participating in twitch streams or side projects. thank you for speaking up when the company was in the wrong. thank you for all the years that you made me feel like i fit in here with all of you.

keep making your art and being kind and loving what you love.

i’ll see y’all around.

[hyacinths-bridgerton]

@pscentral event 19: music

RHAENICENT + SPEAK NOW

[midlyfeloser]

You gooootta drop the naruto classpect + land list, I am enthralled

lol.. okay, so, I went to check my note, and it turns out I misremembered, bc it looks like i only ever classpected them, and never finished coming up with their lands! unfortunately. but here's what I've got anyway:

I have, however, come up with classpects AND Lands for a few other series, such as Soul Eater, Steven Universe, Achievement Hunter, and a book series I read on a mutual's recommendation, called the Raven Cycle! I'll post those below the cut too, just for funsies, in case anyone cares to check em out.

Soul Eater

Steven Universe

Achievement Hunter

The Raven Cycle

[haze-cat-man]

My former Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter girlies help!

Im on a desperate search for what I'm starting to fear is lost media. In the heyday of the AH/RT fandom, there was an artist on SoundCloud who made Achievement Hunter and Red Vs Blue fan music. Not the remixes, actually sung music with original lyrics. Mostly extremely earnest indie ballads, usually backed by an acoustic guitar.

I originally found them around 2012/13, though I think the oldest of the music had been posted before that. The last time I saw any of their stuff was around 2016. At some point between then and now, they must have deleted their account or at least the fan music. I can't remember the original username, but at some point around 2015 they changed it to HiShi or something similar.

The Achevment Hunter based songs I can remember were at least two about Mavin (yes the ship), and one about Ray that was for the king AU. The RVB ones were a cover of Your best friend, an angsty one about Church that I think was a ship song, and one about Felix that was a very different style from the rest. I believe there was also a RWBY one but I don’t remember it well.

If anyone has any memory of this please tell me, I've been looking for it for years and at this point I’d just take proof it existed.



[clearlyaginger]

So long, rt

[breathing-in-waves]

Gavin, Barbara, and Burnie at Meg and Gavin's wedding ❤️

[monarchisms]

so this is the unintentional part two of that summary post i made with geoff talking about the end of achievement hunter. for this post, i'm going to try my best to sum up what michael, trevor, and joe (but not alfredo because he was sick at the time 😔) have said about what will happen in the future on the penultimate episode of off topic, #403. there won't be a transcript this time as i am busy with schoolwork and stuff, so i'll try to make this summary as filled with as much accurate information as i can to make up for it :)

so basically,

trevor starts off by saying they'll be doing the last of various series to wrap everything up. he also notes that some of these finales will be "more nostalgic"

one of the series finales that's up right now is vs episode #150: joe vs BK. the game they played is cooking mama!

after the series finale of off topic (#404 lol), the final AH video ever will be a let's play in the remastered version of burnout paradise, and the cast will consist of geoff, jack, trevor, and michael. this is a callback to the first ever AH video they did back in 2008, and it's already been filmed! trevor says it was more emotional then he thought it would be :')

michael explains that the video will essentially be a ~70-minute podcast. in it, they'll talk more about the end of achievement hunter, where the cast members have went/what they've all moved on to, and new projects that they'll working on. he also says that he thinks that people will call this video "cathartic" while comparing the vibe to their old gta v series, sunday driving

not as important, but michael said that he was mindlessly driving and turning in burnout paradise in the same way that he'd run and jump in minecraft because he "fucking hated" playing minecraft lmfao

as said before, they decided to close AH and start something new with dogbark instead of continuing like they used to. michael acknowledges that in the last few years, most of the crew had already left rt in some way or moved on to other stuff within the company, leaving just michael, trevor, alfredo, and joe as the most consistent on-screen talent by the end. *bonus bit that wasn't mentioned until later, but alongside these 4, jarren from the post team will be their channel manager for dogbark :)

as this group makes videos for dogbark, michael says that their stuff will be both "tonally different" and "very fluid" as they're still figuring it out as they go, noting that they were balancing it and AH/let's play content at the same time

michael also talks about how he's been doing what he's wanted to do at AH for a long time, but there were some things he still couldn't do within the constraints the AH crew had put on themselves

while there will be some gameplay stuff on the dogbark channel, as mentioned in this episode and the channel trailer, they will primarily focus on live action content. trevor makes a point by saying that the style/theme in the trailer will "not be pervasive throughout the entire brand", and michael adds on to that by saying the trailer "is at 100, but every video won't be at 100"

michael and trevor make a point by saying that there will be more variety, as in "a dozen little formats", not necessarily like the shows/series they made at AH, with joe saying that they're not trying to "tie themselves down" to strict uploads and such, like they were when they were previously fitting into a mold at AH

trevor says that he has seen achievement hunter, and rooster teeth as a whole, having a unique challenge ahead of them. he refers to making content that appeals to an audience who had been following them since the early days while trying to also find new faces, both out there in the audience and internally at the company, in order for AH to stay around

he also points out how difficult it is to do that with a long-standing brand that has had different eras of content, since there would be an audience with differing expectations for them. with that, it became hard for the AH crew to balance said expectations with the authenticity they tried to show in the content they created. the crew has changed as people alongside their audience, and the stress that came with it was challenging

michael stresses that the group not only chose to make a new channel completely, they also had to fight for it for a while, and wanted to slow down on AH content before properly closing/archiving the channel to create dogbark. beyond the struggles of creating something new from scratch, they now have the challenge of preparing the audience for the jump from AH to dogbark while thinking about all the pros and cons before going forward

this week (the week of september 18th) and next week (the week of september 25th) are the last weeks of new AH content. after that, there will be a 1 or 2-day break before dogbark properly starts making new content on october 2nd. trevor feels like people will get a better idea of what dogbark is after a month or two of them uploading content

finally (subject to change, of course), they want to aim for full uploads every monday and friday, with patreon-like exclusive videos with rt first every wednesday and saturday. one of the confirmed things to expect is a first-exclusive podcast. the first week dogbark officially starts, all that content will be public as a sample of what to expect, and every week after that will follow that schedule

[ananinidraws]

He's been pixel-art'ed

[certified-msher]

Jordan Levin on RT's closure

[evisceratedarchangel]

Is anybody else losing their shit over this?

Also someone on Twitter pointed out there are 8 beds but only 6 achievement hunters named.

I also noticed the green house and another spare house on the wide shot, we have two mystery guests returning and I can't wait to see who it is.

Michael was posting some cryptic stuff recently about wanting to know if people missed watching him play games, and Alfredo commented on it.

I hope this might be something they might do every so often, have a server only they can get into where they sometimes meet up in some combination and play games.

Maybe not weekly Minecraft like we had but it would be nice to have them sometimes