Rooster Teeth Shut Down By Warner Bros. Discovery, The Roost Podcast Network To Continue (deadline.com)
from alyaza@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org on 06 Mar 2024 18:45
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GammaGames@beehaw.org on 06 Mar 2024 18:46 next collapse

This sucks.

The podcasts were the main thing I interacted with nowadays so I’m glad those are sticking around, but I grew up with the company and it’s sad to see it go. I hope the roost can continue but I don’t see how this doesn’t hurt the remaining talent.

wesker@lemmy.sdf.org on 06 Mar 2024 18:56 next collapse

What does this mean for other channels, like Funhaus?

dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Mar 2024 19:09 collapse

They’ll have to keep making the same juvenile milquetoast commentary and regurgitated gaming news on a different youtube channel. Half of their traffic can be attributed to Alanah and her drama that has nothing to do with their content.

TacticsConsort@yiffit.net on 06 Mar 2024 19:08 next collapse

Aw, RIP. Guess time comes for us all in the end, and I hadn’t been watching for nearly a decade. Congratulations for lasting as long as you did.

Yarra@aussie.zone on 06 Mar 2024 19:17 next collapse

“Xbox 360… How did I miss versions 2 to 359” Or something like that, probably been 15 years, good times

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Mar 2024 19:44 next collapse

What about RWBY?

Lumilias@pawb.social on 06 Mar 2024 22:19 collapse

From the article:

WBD also will be exploring options for Rooster Teeth’s catalog content and IP such as Red vs Blue, RWBY and Gen:LOCK.

Looks like they’ll either retain or sell the IP.

HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 07 Mar 2024 02:48 collapse

Of all people I kinda hope RWBY goes to CrunchyRoll, it’s the only place that would keep things cannon. God knows WB would fuck it up by themselves.

Lumilias@pawb.social on 07 Mar 2024 03:09 next collapse

My faith in CR original content is not high since all of their WEBTOON adaptations bombed. Solo Leveling is the only one to not be awful.

hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org on 07 Mar 2024 18:04 collapse

RWBY’s a big enough IP that a bunch of companies will likely be interested. I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney, Paramount, Netflix, Amazon, and Sony (Crunchyroll) all made bids of some kind for it.

JaymesRS@literature.cafe on 06 Mar 2024 19:47 next collapse

“Never say goodbye. If you don’t say goodbye you aren’t really gone. You just aren’t here right now.”

CapitanStrider@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Mar 2024 20:23 next collapse

Damn talk about the end of an era. That’s pretty sad.

NoOnesLazyInLazyTown@beehaw.org on 06 Mar 2024 22:52 next collapse

Damn. Now Death Battle is gonna disappear forever.

averyminya@beehaw.org on 06 Mar 2024 23:34 next collapse

They should have made more reality shows to appeal to Zaslav.

/s of course. Another creative team shut down after being bought out. At this rate Killed by Google will need a side project for Zaslav.

DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca on 07 Mar 2024 00:26 next collapse

Does this mean F*ck Face too? Those guys only just started making some amazing content on the old Let’s Play channel.

GammaGames@beehaw.org on 07 Mar 2024 05:18 collapse

The podcast network is still going, they shared a post on their YouTube. Unsure on the status of officially licensed Ratyboy shirt

DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca on 07 Mar 2024 09:21 collapse

Yeah, I’ve been able to find a post on Twitter as their current situation which isn’t much, unfortunately. I know it’s really shitty to make this about me or even other fans in a similar situation but as someone who stopped watching RT something like 5 years ago when all of the big changes started happening and multiple new hosts I didn’t like, came back when F*ckface took over the Let’s Play channel and started making more of the type of content I used to love so much only for them to get shutdown (and not even know it was coming) sucks so freaking much. Hell, they’ve only just posted the first video of a month’s worth of content. It’s shit like this that makes me absolutely loathe the corpo scum.

Link for the post

Or embedded image for those who don’t want to give Twitter the traffic:

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/16d90a79-ee84-484b-ac7e-03bc7a7f1ef8.jpeg">

rwhitisissle@beehaw.org on 07 Mar 2024 14:21 collapse

I remember watching Red vs. Blue back before it was even on Youtube. Fuck I’m old. That was the era of the internet that, for me, was at its best. Before everything became a collection of solidified super services and people made shows by just moving a character model in Halo around. As others have said, the true end of an era. Also RIP to Monty Oum. Man was an auteur. Horny weirdo, too, but also an auteur.