#ah michael jones

[their-grace]

My friend @pandalhznl made this amazing Michael Ken edit and now its his pfp on Twitter and we are SCREAMING

[oddluver]

MAVIN IS STILL ALIVE 😭

[ghoulbats]

i watch michael’s streams for the gameplay

[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

[abbeysquidd]

It's the end of an era, folks.

Achievement Hunter has been a huge part of my life since I was 15. I am going to continue to be sad over AH coming to an end, but also looking forward to the rebrand with Dogbark.

It's been such a fun ride with AH, they have helped me through so many hard times in my life and I'm so lucky to have gotten to be a part of this amazing community.

This is the end of an era, but the beginning of a whole new one. I'm excited to see what Michael, Trevor, Alfredo, and Joe will do on the new channel.

Love you, Achievement Hunter. Thanks for some pretty badass times💚🖤💚🖤

[ahnocontext]

chaos

[ncutii-gatwa]

im not okay 😭

[heisttheblackflag]

the core members of AH have the potential to do something very funny now that the Joneses are blond: I think Trevor, Alfredo, and Joe should all go back to being blond as well so we have a diverse cast of. a bunch of blondes

[againwiththeturtles]

In movie Howl's Moving Castle, Markl seems to be Howl's assistant, or his student/ward, and Michael in the book is mostly Howl's advisee, and unfortunate secretary. He gets to use Howl's magic/science equipment, and he gets room and board, and in exchange, he has to be the first person all those angry aunts see after Howl breaks their nieces' heart

[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

[scarlettheknight]

I've been really liking @ursifors outlaw au

[ndn-craft]

you think you could draw some achievement hunter characters? (I have never watched achievement hunters)

I absolutely could

The duality of my designs

[ghoulbats]

on the ground weeping

[goeffgeoff]

[roosterbirds]

Hey Joe, did you think we were joking on Off Topic?