#so you couldn't see the top surgery scars on RT

[20genderchild]

I just don't want to waste time now that you're here.

[dwarf-vader-of-middle-earth]

According to the article, their primary reason for shutting down is because, in a paraphrased way, they aren't seen as consumer friendly to mass media producers. And that's just bullshit imo.

Growing up myself, I remember discovering Rooster Teeth on YouTube, early on in the 2000s. I'd watch their animated adventures, and the ones I remember most were of a guy freaking out that he finally got to experience an earthquake, and the team being chased down by a guy with a knife at some sports field. The videos were full of uncensored swears, and a ton of vulgar language in general. My parents hated that I watched stuff like that, but it made me laugh like mad and gave me my childhood.

Years later, as an adult, I watched a few episodes of Camp Camp, and it was basically the same hilariously vulgar bullshit RT always made, only with high quality animation this time. I laughed all over again and fell in love once more.

I remember when YouTube, and the general internet, was an unregulated hellground for stuff like this. You had creepypastas, SpongeBob spoofs that mocked politics, and every single video ever basically, unless it was the Gummy Bear song or a Fred video, had swearing and vulgar language in it.

Nowadays, every platform seemingly uses a soulless filtering system that's automated, and detects what is typed, spoken, etc. and it bans users for words as simple as "smack", "blood", "link", and so on. I myself have been banned for saying those in harmless contexts (smack a rock with a stick, talking about scars, and sharing a link to a recipe). My friends have gotten banned for posting videos where our old high school marching band played popular songs, and the filtered system detected the melodies and banned them for posting such content.

I tried to post on Instagram a few months back, and needless to say I haven't touched it since because of this. I was posting a photo of myself with my completely several years healed top surgery scar showing, and the system tagged it as gore, and banned me. When I came back, someone had hacked my account and followed a ton of literal porn bots. So porn is allowed, but a shirtless pic of myself with a scar isn't??!!

Today, jobs do background checks searching for your social media and try to find what you post, then scrutinize employees for posting things. They'll fire you for posting pics of yourself at a party because you were drinking a single wine glass in the pic, and alcohol consumption is a bad look for the company. They'll fire you if you post something about your volunteer project because you're supposed to be representing the company at all times and not another organization you partake in.

Basically, social media and the general internet, are stalked so heavily by monitors (both automated and human), and what once was a place for harmless fun has now become a desolate boring hellscape of cleansed and filtered pay to view bullshit. If you're not completely following a service's guidelines beyond what is expected, and if you don't remain a virtual puritan in literally every way, you're banned from basically every service out there online.

And I'm not saying that children should be allowed to see extreme gore and crap like that. But when you're me, and your high school years were spent with half the time dedicated to teachers attempting to get approval during class time to show us a harmless educational video or a student's presentation but couldn't because literally only individual URLs could be approved by staffing through multiple internet blockers and proxy servers since the school didn't want kids playing on Miniclip, Poptropica, and watching YouTube, you know the internet has become far too overregulated and is absolutely bullshit nowadays.

And for one of the staples of internet self made popularity as Rooster Teeth, to be shut down because all big corporations are conforming to this cleansed and puritan filtering, and RT does not adhere to that, I say fuck big corporations and streaming services. Fuck babying the internet. These kids are going to grow up and walk into society hearing a single swear, and freak out running away because they think that word is absolutely forbidden in all contexts and places. Now, it's completely natural to be shocked hearing swears as a kid and even a teen, especially depending on what environment you grew up in, but I'd say it isn't normal whatsoever to grow into an adult who still feels that way, and then tells other grown adults they can't swear just because they the listener are uncomfortable with it. Learning that swears aren't forbidden is like a turning point for teens, and it's insane that society is trying to push even grown adults who can manage themselves, into puritan culture, just to cater to the sake of children who may possibly come across such content by accident.

well….it finally happened