#daniel gruchy

[crispofftheblock]

I got a pretty sick new tattoo. It's paint on a speaker cone filmed at 12,500 frames per second

[roosterbirds]

[slowmoguvs]

gav: *bonk*

[frankydink1992]

My thoughts on Rooster Teeth

Rooster Teeth managed to last over twenty-one years, first beginning on 1st April 2003. Established by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Gus Sorola and Joel Heyman.Red Vs. Blue: A series based on the video game, Halo, was their first major series. Very funny and very quotable. Their team of personalities at Achievement Hunter created series such as Let’s Play and AHWU (Achievement Hunter Weekly Update). Achievement Hunter is how I consumed most of their material.

I first accidentally discovered them by seeing Fails of The Weak on YouTube: Back then I didn’t know which company was behind it. It was only a few years later when I realised who made those videos! Then I recognised Ray’s and Jack’s voices everywhere. I then immediately became an Achievement Hunter fan, watching shows like Rage Quit, Let’s Plays and GO. I absolutely fell in love with Geoff and then later, Ryan. Although, I have a soft spot for everybody. I eventually watched some Fun Haus and Cowchop content too as well as The Slow Mo guys, featuring Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy. Later down the line I began to watch the RT Podcast, but the AH podcast took the top spot for me. I watched Rooster Teeth content for what must have been around fifteen years in total until I started to drift away from them. This ultimately came to an end after the Ryan incident. He was my top favourite Achievement Hunter,so it was a huge blow to find out what he was really like. 

Achievement Hunter ultimately helped shape my sense of humour and I regularly quote videos I’ve seen (which nobody else around me understands). Although I’d drifted away from watching their content, I’m still sad to have seen the decline and the secession of the company: We all wish experiences like that could last forever, don’t we? It was very sad to see Rooster Teeth decline so quickly after being acquired by Warner Bros, but we all have the good memories to look back on. In the beginning, I only really liked Gavin (because he’s English) and Geoff, but eventually I began to love everybody for their own reasons. Jack, because he always has some kind of quick witted retort. Ryan, because he was a bit of a weirdo (which used to be a good thing), and Lyndsay, because you can tell she takes no shit. It would be fun, some day, to look back on my favourite videos. I just don’t think I’m ready yet. Writing about it all is difficult enough. 

I can’t leave here without voicing my thoughts on Ryan and Adam (FunHaus). Ryan Heywood was my top favourite Achievement Hunter: Nerdy, good looking, funny, lovely. All-round good guy. And he has a wife and kids! I resonated with his gaming style and personality so much, which makes his off work behaviour all the more upsetting. A nude of his was leaked and it came out that he’d been using his status as YouTube star to groom young women into sleeping with him. Truly shocking from a man who conveyed the complete opposite in content. I remember being so surprised and upset when he announced he was leaving, and then discovering why. I never had any personal conversations with him or anything, but I somehow still feel hurt by him. I can only imagine how his friends and family feel about it all. I do hope he’s doing better these days, But he can never come back. He’s free to try, but that would go down like a lead balloon. I miss his voice and his humour (and his face, of course), but I can’t help but think of him as a bit of a creep now, which is very sad.

Rooster Teeth and its productions will always have a place in my heart and I don’t think it can ever be replaced. Although, the folks from the company occasionally do their own stuff and collaborate with each other. That’s really lovely to see.

[thestarmaker]

Technology has made politics SO weird. Not necessarily in a bad way. AOC is playing Among Us. Dr. Fauci is on the Slow-Mo Guys. High-stakes debates can happen over zoom. Participants can just (in theory) be muted. I'm trying to think of other things but honestly the Dr. Fauci one gave me so much whiplash I'm blanking. I love it.

[and-no-thats-not-hyperbole]

Dan: All you do is press a button on the camera!

Gavin, having to adjust the camera settings, fix the lighting, shoot the footage, download it, edit it, occasionally add in sound effects, and probably do much more:

[olazgorzowa]

[lettheparamorebegin]

[pasparal]

The Slow Mo Guys: Daniel Gruchy inside a water balloon Source: YouTube

[the-sunny-bunny-bois]

The quality of these shots in the video is insane

[fang-emblem]

There he is! The elephants foot himself .... Dan

[crispofftheblock]

I don't know why I drew this, and I'm also not sorry.

[roosterbirds]

[angrydimples-blog]

this is the single dumbest thing i have ever spent time on

[acheemient]

Gavin: Don't worry, Tony-award-winning star James Corden! We won't hit you too hard.

Dan: *beans Tony-award-winning star James Corden in the face as hard as he can*

Gavin: Goddamit Dan....