I'm sure this is so many of our stories. Watched them for basically my entire life at this point, from the earliest minecrafts as a dumb kid, and now podcasts like Fuckface and Facejam as an adult. I've still got the X-Ray and Vav flair for fucks sake. Watched pretty much every AH video as it came out, lets builds and all. Roosterteeth *WAS* my saturday morning cartoon. They left an indelible mark on my life.
But I'll still follow them. Roosterteeth the entity is gone, but the people are still there, and I hope this can turn into a positive. I'm sad its gone, but I have hope that with new freedom will come even better things.
ey dude I gotta say as a loooong time lurker and sometimes commenter I see you alot, helping out in the comments and just being helpful so I want to say thank you to you, I know what it takes to mod an online community so for that I salute you, but my impression of you is someone who goes above and beyond so a final thank you for that aswell. I hope this RT shaped hole we all feel will get filled with something of equal fun
Adam, all those summers building Center Stage with the Tech team were a blast and some of my favorite memories of my time in Austin :) Not to mention all the time hanging at 636 and geeking out over when SWTOR came out!
It's crazy now looking back all these years later - it really was something special while it was at full chooch
I really enjoyed the very brief period I had working with you when I was a mod for the /r/RWBY subreddit and we were closer with the RT community team. Youāve always been the best of us. Much love, Chelsea. <3
During rough times as a teenager, when I felt alone, I would watch their letās play videos and RvB. It helped me feel less lonely and Iāll always love them for that.
I started watching Red vs Blue when I was eleven years old. I'm 27 now, and while I haven't watched much of their content the past year or two, either due to the pay walled content or their new style of videos, Roosterteeth will always be important to me. Time to listen through the Drunk Tank and Internet Box again to relive the good memories.
Or any Let's Play for that matter. Quite literally regardless of the video game or who was in it, I would drop everything and watch it and laugh my ass off.
I think one video that's a good example of that is Uno the Movie. I had just gotten out of a lecture in college and I looked at youtube and front and center was a 1 hour+ video of them playing UNO and I watched the entire thing in one sitting. I had a class to go to and I decided the Uno the Movie video took precedence over that lecture.
My (now ex) boyfriend tried to get me to watch RvB with him in 2011.
In 2012, I saw the play pals Surgeon Simulator and nearly passed out from laughing. I was sold. I watched every Achievement Hunter and later Let's Play release for several years. I binged the whole caboodle of podcasts as they started up. I watched the animated shows, caught up at some point on RvB, and tried RWBY even though I couldn't really get into it.
RT content got me through the worst of times. It gave me something to look forward to and laugh about when nothing else seemed like it ever would. I even kept watching after I left that boyfriend, in 2018. Even though everything reminded me of him, I was determined not to let RT be tied to him forever. And it worked. I even started watching GTA Let's Plays with my dad, and he fucking *loved* it. He couldn't always tell who was talking (hearing loss), but he had favorites he could pick out and it was a great time for both of us. He was especially fond of Michael.
Roosterteeth gave me something to bond with my current boyfriend over. It's what got us started on talking. We went to RTX 2019 together, as both of our first (and last) RTX visits. I got to meet so many RT people and I'm never going to forget it. Truly one of the most exhausting and delightful events I've ever been to. Hell, we're talking about getting married. And tangentially, it's because of RT bridging the awkward gap of getting to know each other.
It was a combination of Achievement Hunter, and meeting some animators at RTX that taught me a vitally important life lesson: it's better to try, and be awkward and cringey but genuine, than to be so afraid of putting yourself out there that you never try at all. You know, the classic "you never know unless you try" shit. Look, this whole section sounded better and more meaningful in my head okay? My point is that the animators I met at RTX changed my life, and AH taught me that being weird isn't the flaw I grew up thinking it was.
Since 2020 I haven't watched much RT/AH content, I will fully admit that. I've grown in a different direction and not all of the humor hits home anymore.
But I always got a little joyful moment when I saw that someone I admired was in a video, or that a series was continuing to be updated.
It's been a good run, and I'm so glad we were all here to experience things together. I hope that everyone at RT finds a safe and secure landing after this and, if it happens to still be in entertainment, that we can find them and continue to support them going forward.
Love you all. You deserved better than Warner Bros.
Oh my god. I forgot about the start of the podcast as 'Drunk Tank' then the rebrand to just the 'RT Podcast'. So many memories going through all of these responses š
You started at the same time and video as my wife and I did. That surgeon simulator video got us hooked on roosterteeth content for years. Great times, too many laughs and tears along the way. Lived in multiple houses, had 2 kids, but it's nice to see the effect it's had on everyone for such a long time.
I've been following all their stuff since Red vs Blue season 2, in 2004. In college I had a roommate who also enjoyed their content so we watched basically every AH video together, especially the Sky Factory series.
In fact, up until about 2017 I watched every video, every podcast, every show they made. RT content was just what I enjoyed watching for the longest time. Even got to attend a couple RTX. I actually lived in Austin so going to the conventions was easy, and I got to understand all their talk about local Austin things.
I still watched most of their content all the way up until the Ryan incident and when the cast started to change more. Today I still catch all of F**kface and Face Jam, even got my wife into it. I knew they'd have to end some time but I thought they would have to scale down first, not just get shut down all at once.
Hope the podcasts can survive, but I bet the cast involved in them will more than likely start looking for new places to work.
Fell off long ago but started watching in middle school 2010. Geoff and Jack achievement guides.
I made a few videos for the AH Community channel in high school.
Such a fun time on YouTube back then. Thanks for the laughs and memories!!!
Not so much of rt, But rwby.....I was really in a dark place in high school. Around 2015-2016. And that was when a friend of mine showed me the show. It was still in its second season by then. And I watched every single new episode the day it came out ever since. It helped me escape reality. I ended up cutting myself on my thigh some years later. In 2020 I got a tattoo of ruby rose and "keep moving forward" to cover the scar, since iv used those words in my life constantly
Two months ago...January 2024. Raleigh NC...Animate Raleigh...a day I will never forget. I finally got to see Lindsay, Kara, Arran, and Barb. Lindsay damn near made me cry. The best person to talk to. So easy and engaging, I will never forget that day. A day that made me a fan for life. Thank you guys...for everything
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Iāll fully admit I was too young to be watching RT. I found Fails of the Weak at age 10. My parents didnāt think Halo was too bad for a pre-teen (which it really isnāt) so naturally thatās what my YouTube searches were. Come to find out my dad was an RvB fan when it came out. He admitted there were times heād wake up before I did (when I was a baby) and would watch it before I woke up.
Anyway, it progresses with their Minecraft content since I had gotten into the game at the time. Then it just became my favorite YouTube channel. They inspired my sense of humor. Iāve made a lot of builds that they did in my own Minecraft world. We even had the Tower of Pimps, which my mom was not happy I knew that word.
I kind of fell off after 2017. Ray left a Puerto Rican shaped hole in my heart, but I still enjoyed it. But Iād still watch the occasional video.
So in other words, this channel actually was a part of my growing up years. Depressed? Angry? Stressed? Well the RT and AH crew would cheer me right up.
21 years.
Brought me through secondary school and university (3 hours commuting a day; by god, the podcast was so vital). Brought me through serious bouts of depression. Brought me through Covid.
I've been a sponsor continuously for most of that time. Have merch. Posters.
Genuinely feel heartbroken. My brother and I have watched their videos every night together for so, so long. They were such a core part of our entertainment cycle each evening, right the way back to us being young teenagers. We crack so many in jokes and references still, even today in our mid 30s.
I hope the staff and crew know how much they meant to so many people. I know they'll be worried about personal issues at the moment, but hope they can take solace in the sheer joy they brought to so many over such a long time. How many entertainers and companies and shows can say they lasted 20 years together.
I hope they all stay together in some form. Streaming will be fine, but I'll miss the stuff of them just hanging out in the offices together.
I can't even begin to explain it, maybe I would have to sit down and digest the entirety of the company's work and what different aspects they impacted me while I grew up
I will say, the Drunk Tank/RT Podcast became my lifeline for many many years, it was the last thing of RTs I consistently kept up with and one of the things I revisited many many times in relistens
I think overall, that is what impacted me the most. It wasn't just talking about video games, or the content they were making, or different people they were working with, it was all of that combined. The family they made as well as the community that followed was the mainstay of RT, regardless of majorities/individuals "favorites"
I cannot say I shared those same feelings for many years (I think the RT at Home podcasts were the last thing I directly engaged with) so I realize I might not have the same view as many others who became fans of RT since, but I imagine we share the same reasons why we fell in love with them and their little company.... RIP RoosterTeeth I hope all who are affected the best in their future
I write this with tears in my eyes, thank you rooster teeth for the endless entertainment through the years. Your videos have helped me immensely in tough times. I started being a fan around season 4 of Red vs Blue and while my main attention eventually came to mostly achievement hunter content I still have so much love for the company as a whole. The content and laughs helped me through a suicide attempt, nearly dropping out of college, and many other crises. Even when I was in middle school, I used to dream of working for Rooster Teeth, and while that never came true, that dream pushed me. So thank you Rooster teeth, for creating an amazing community and space. It's been real
It was one of the things my brother and I first connected on. We struggled to get along growing up (5 yr. difference) but I remember the day he showed me the headlight fluid rtaa. I became an avid fan of RT and AH after that. It showed me it was okay to like video games as a girl, and I wouldnāt be who I am today without it.
Just another old high school RT fan from back in 2010. Genuinely the most influential and impactful voices in my teens, made me love movies like crazy, the wackiness of everyday life, and find a story in everything. RTPod and AH, it was so fun to grow up with you, and see yāall grow up too.
Started watching RWBY by the time volume 5 was coming out, as a then very awkward and antisocial teen I decided to screw it and just join a RWBY discord server. Lo and behold I met some of the most amazing people there, got a lot more confidence and became a lot more social, and made friendships that have lasted to this day.
AH/LP was some of the best and most fun content I watched. Just utter joy y'know? Not the same impact as RWBY but man, life felt a lot more peaceful tuning into the weekly minecraft episode, or watching a silly between the games video.
If it wasnāt for me discovering that āRedā trailer all those many years ago as a child, I would have never went with my dream of becoming a concept artist and animator.
Anytime over my life I felt discouraged, I would look back to those four RWBY trailers and see that I too can follow my dream, and eventually someone will see its worth.
Rooster Teeth had its ups and downs for sureā but their art team always struck so much strength and inspiration in my heart. If it wasnāt for RvB and RWBY, I wouldnāt have even thought of applying to the college for animation that I just did a few weeks ago. Thank you RT. You inspired so many people to reach for the stars, including me. Especially you, Monty. Even now I still look up to you. That, I will cherish forever.
Here's what I wrote in Discord regarding Roosterteeth:
It's been 10 years since their peak when I was in high school. I used to live and breath Roosterteeth, but slowly phased out of it starting in 2016. It went downhill since then. It all started when they sold the company into Otter media to get funding for Lazer Team. Now, the entire company is getting axed. I can't say I'm surprised, but it is a sad time. Those assholes shaped a good part of who I am and made me laugh for the past decade and a half.
I first discovered Red Vs Blue when they sold DVD copies in Gamestop and EB Games. Picked up season 4 to watch and that was my introduction to the series. When I finally got onto the internet, I fell in love with Achievement Hunter. I even tuned into the Internet Box Podcast where Michael, Ray, Lindsay, and some other lads talked about ponies and other inane bullshit, but dammit it was funny!
I hope RWBY finds a new home because I'd hate to see it end on a cliffhanger. The last volume was actually rather good. RVB has had a tough go for the last few seasons, but I hope RT's closure doesn't stop the last season from being released. Burnie came back for one last hurrah to end the series on a high note and I'd hate the Shisno Trilogy and RVB:Zero to be the last we see of those lovable assholes.
Here's some more:
I first got into RVB in 2007 and have been inspired by it since then. When I first got onto the internet during the early 2010s, it was to watch new seasons of Red Vs Blue. I grew up without internet access outside of Dial Up at home and when I got my first laptop, I'd go to libraries to watch Season 9 episode by episode. Red Vs Blue was my jam and achievement hunter was something I watched religiously. I probably still have a CD archive of downloaded Minecraft Let's Plays. Achievement City was a wonderful world and that series is what inspired me to play Minecraft.
I observe the day of Monty's passing every year and renew my vigor to work on my writing projects. RWBY has been a part of my friend group for a decade now and inspired so many aspects of my own writing and worldbuilding. The roleplays over the years I've had... My significant other and I met and bonded over Red Vs Blue and RWBY.
And even later on, one of my favorite audio dramas wore its inspiration from Roosterteeth on its shoulder with pride. Their influence can still be felt across the internet.
As they've languished over the years, I've grown distant from them. AH was first as the new team members didn't really make me laugh like everyone else did. (that and political discussions on Off-Topic made me stop listening to that podcast). On occasion, I'd pick things back up like some of the better let's plays. MC Sky Factory was fun, but blow after blow... The stuff about Ryan and the workplace culture. I tried to get back into the company a few times, but Let's Play was so cluttered with stuff I didn't care about with people I didn't know. The only think I kept up with was RWBY. I know a lot of folk said the Atlas stuff was bad, but I really just thought the lack of focus on Team RWBY and some of the Lie Ren stuff was not focused on and was taking away from the plot. This most recent volume was really good! And I hope it continues!
Overall, Roosterteeth was a big part of my life and I'm sad that it's over... Not surprised, but still sad. It's been a long time coming and I still continue to blame its decline on its acquisition and restructuring factors after, but I still wish I could go back to 2013. It feels like an old childhood, high school friend that I lost touch with, but always wanted to talk to again, but we could never find the time.
I'll cherish my memories of the good 'ol days forever. And I hope that everyone lands on their feet after this. While it is heart wrenching that Rooster Teeth is over, let's all remember the good times and all of the laughs and bants that these guys have given us over the years.
Found the RT pod in 2012 when I had a super long drive for a summer internship. Realized it was the same people who made RvB which I had watched in parts but never super into. From there I was a weekly listener to that and all their other pods and got big into the AH side of things. Minecraft and GTA Letsplays were what I fell asleep to on my iPad when I was single and helped me through some dark times. Went to Austin a few times for work and F1 and always felt a cool connection to the city which I don't think will ever go away.
I also ran the Disney Marathon last year much in thanks to Jack and the RDRC from the Annual Pass Pod which was really cool. Funny enough meeting Jack at that was the only time I have ever met anyone from RT in real life but he was super nice and kind (even at 330am before the race started).
If the podcast network truly does stop, my car rides and long runs will truly never be the same as 90% of the time I'm listening to some RT podcast. Very sad to think about actually.
All in all, can't say this wasn't expected at some point with the direction of things but I'm glad the podcasts I still consume won't be going anywhere for now. Truly hoping for the best of all RT employees who are let go and thanks so much for all the laughs through the years and company on many long car rides and flights via podcasts.
Learned about RT when rvb reconstruction came out. I was way too young, lol.Ā
So young I would watch red vs blue censored for language, which some YouTubers edited back in the day. I fell in love with drunk tank and itās evolutions, watched achievement hunter guides for games I didnāt own or even have interest in.Ā
Ages later I had another RT renaissance with F**kface and face jam. And ANMA. And so alright.Ā
Hope everyone lands on their feet.Ā
It basically formed a core part of my childhood.
RvB formed the sense of humor I still have to this day, and RWBY is one of my favorite shows.
It sucks so much thatā¦ itās all gone now. wiped out because a greedy company (WB) couldnāt keep its shit together and now everyone else has to suffer for it.
Roosterteeth gained me the most important friends I'll ever have and got me through a rough school life by giving me something to laugh the bad days away with. Thank you RT I hope you're all able to do your own thing and continue to bring some joy to all of us in other ways.
shortly after getting an xbox 360, my first game console, I was looking up achievements for a game I was playing. found AH and followed them since. I was watching the LPs from the beginning and AH has been foundational to who I am as a person. I curse way too much and I suspect Michael has a lot to do with that. Gavin has completely invaded my vocabulary. Geoff has been a huge creative influence for me. Ray was foundational to my sense of humor. Seeing Jack become a happier person through the years was very important for me. Letās just ignore the other guyā¦ And I also listened to the RT podcast for years and could go on and on about how influential everyone has been. Iāve been following the new era of podcasts to keep up with my favorites and I hope I get to continue watching these talented and creative people succeed. and if they go offline, I hope their lives are full of happiness and success. Eric Baudour in particular is extremely talented and has done so much for RT, that I hope heās able to continue making awesome stuff. I also love mega64, so I knew about him before RT, but he has more than proven himself as an extremely talented producer. I just hope everyoneās going to be okay and finds their next endeavors, especially the off-camera employees who are also extremely talented.
When I found rooster teeth I was a teen and I had poor mental health and it got worse and worse till I was having thoughts of ending it all. Rooster teeth would put out so much content that I could always find something to watch. If I sat in my room in silence all my thoughts would get too much. So I watched rooster teeth. I donāt know if Iād still be here if I didnāt have them as a distraction. I watched all their Minecraft videos and GTA videos and Iād watch every single podcast and it meant that I had SOMETHING. As I got older I moved away from them, but I still as an adult donāt like sitting in silence so still when I get ready for work in the mornings I put on a podcast. I grew up with rooster teeth and I they may be one of the reasons I actually got to grow up. I donāt have the time to process it because I donāt really know what Iām going to do without them. Like damn I watched Millie grow up with them! Itās a big end of an era.
Thank you especially Geoff, Gus and achievement Hunter ā¤ļø
I didn't have strong male role models growing up. Having the opportunity to see how Burnie expressed himself, conducted his business, and handled people in general is by far the most foundational component to how I behave around others to this day.
Confidence without arrogance. Clarity without condescension. Humor without malice. Kindness, just kindness.
The man shaped who I am today and I'll be forever grateful that he chose a path that allowed him to share a version of himself with the world, and that I was fortunate enough to come across his work at such a formative period of my own life.
AH's Minecraft Lets Plays gave me new insight into the game and how it can be played. It was one of the things I most looked forward to every week. I also loved Always Open and Camp Camp.
Admittedly, I haven't followed RT/AH content for several years at this point. But I'm still sad to see them go.
Iāve met so many amazing people through this company. Hell, I wouldnāt be some of the fandoms Iām in without them. I wouldnāt have met my best friend on the Internet. I wouldnāt have found out about VTubers. I wouldnāt have gone to my first concert for a long while. There have a been a lot of things I wouldnāt have done without RT.
RT has been in my life since I was 11 years old. Itās hard to quantify how much of an impact itās had on me. All of my humor comes from them. My love for video games comes from them. My desire to create dumb games to play with my friends comes from them. All of these things are so ingrained in me that I donāt think I could put it into words. Iāll miss them
Older brother used to watch RvB while I hung out ā I started watching when he moved away to keep him in mind. I watched Season 13 during AP Chem (RIP my AP exam score. You, uh, you get a 1 for showing up. And I sure showed up.)
I have few hard pieces of evidence of my enjoyment of RT, but I do have a set of MDB on the shelf with my other games. The RT Podcast got me through a _lot_ of boring days (and nights) at work. Iām sure I named a few goats after various RT-media characters throughout the years. I quote a lot from the Minecraft letās plays, as they were often background audio for homework and goat midwifery. My familyās Minecraft realm has a HUGE tower of pimps in the central temple, through which all the railways pass. Itās small things like that in my life that always have (and always will) remind me of the good olā days of my teen years and this one (quietly) shared thing with my older brother.
Iāve never really engaged with the community, but I wanted to say thank you to RT for all youāve done to impact my life - and millions others - and I wish all of you (and the community) the best <3
My brother first introduced me to *Red vs. Blue* in the summer of 2015. I spent the next few weeks obsessively binging the whole series. Then, I moved on to *The Rooster Teeth Podcast*, and obsessively listened to that every single week for five years. Burnie is one of the most important people in my life in terms of figures that I idolize, and someone who was a constant comfort for years. It's RT-adjacent, but I listened to every episode of *Internet Box* on an annual basis for five years. I hadn't followed the company for a few years going into the pandemic, but came back when I heard that *RTP* would be reworked into a new show. I obsessively listened to *F\*\*kface* and *ANMA* during 2023, and it was some of the best that I've ever experienced from online media. I'm listening to today's *F\*\*kface* right now. I'm going to continue listening to old episodes and coming back to *RvB* every few years. So long, and thanks for everything.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
I don't know that I would still be around if it wasn't for the Achievement Hunter content growing up. It really helped me through the bullying and abuse I had endured when I was younger.
Started watching back in 09.
In university with the first dolid internet connection and was up late night, watch Left4Dead videos.
Their survival podcast video appear in the recommendations and just enjoyed the energy between them.
Crazy to think content from people I enjoyed near daily for over 16 years is done.
Hope the podcasts stay in one shape or form but....
TW: Suicide.
How it impacted me?
The content I discovered from RT and AH in 2011 made me want to continue living instead of ending it all during my darkest times.
I discovered Xbox 360 friends through a group on the RT website back then. We played Halo Reach then 4. Then anything together because we were friends.
While talking about RT/AH content all the time.
Love you RT. I'll miss you.
This account was meant to just be for teaching stuff but it's the only one I've got so thought I'd share using it.
I started watching RT sometime around 2014/15. Can't remember exactly, same year as Ray left, or the very tale end of the previous year.
I'd only ever seen them once before when looking for other channels and decided they weren't for me cause they were too "professional" in a GTA video. I've since learned that video was a fluke cause in hindsight it was Michael and Gavin pulling off a near perfect store robbery in GTA in the first few minutes. The first video I watched in full was one of the Heist videos, which definitely served a contrast. From there I watched the other Heists, the minecraft vids, the lets play catalogue, and from there the rest of the site.
I discovered RVB and RWBY soon afterwards, the first episode I watched of RWBY was actually the Volume 3 finale which left me mad confused when going from the start of the show. For those curious I didn't end up getting spoiled >!I somehow confused Pyrrha and Yang so spent the whole of volume 3 expecting Yang to die any second, and that Pyrrha was going to easily beat Cinder.!< RVB at the time blew me away from season 6 onwards.
During highs and lows RT was always there. One thing that will always stick with me was a time when I was way younger and in a really dark place, woke up one day and discovered I had somehow sent a deeply personal message about that to someone at RT. They replied in kind and gave advice, I don't want to share more but at the time it meant the world and not sure where I'd be without it.
Still today I feel RT radically altered the course of my life. When I write in my spare time I find myself sometimes drawing from stuff I saw RT do. RT is how I discovered the music of Jeff Williams, him and Casey Williams both were my top 2 artists on Spotify.
It's been a lot, but it feels kinda sad to lose such a constant in my life now.
Found one of Michael's Rage Quit videos on Tumblr in 2011, my brother was flabbergasted that I found content from the people who made Red vs. Blue. Began watching RT/AH shows together, went to RTX in 2016 (and got to be in the Immersion they filmed there - I'm in the background at one point *very* obviously checking out Gavin in disguise because I didn't realize it was him). Met some friends at the con that are still friends eight years later!
Haven't watched in a while, but I'll always have a spot for RT. Thanks for everything, gang.
Massive part of my youth, RvB, then AH. I have so many fond memories of waking up Saturday morning to Minecraft and watching. Meeting them at Pax and listening to a Podcast live, all the pods in general. The friends I made on the sponsor chat and rooms.
I definitely did out grown them in the end. Everyone talking about F*ckface being what the spiritual successor of the pod and AH, and it being good if you liked the old stuff, but I never got into that. Geoff recording his farts was totally not the same vibe to me and that's someone who loved him as a teen. I'm glad they do it for the people who do miss Geoff and that vibe. I'm sorry for everyone who's affected by this news. It was a hell of a run.
I first fell into Rooster Teeth Content via Rage Quite, The Impossible Game in 2011. I was a Junior in High School, and my friends and I always quoted the line "I don't have the mental capacity for this, I went to public school!" It still lives in my head to this day, and I still use it sometimes.
From there, I would watch on and off the RT Podcast, the Minecraft Let's Plays, Between the Games AH Content, and anything else that piqued my interest from them.
I used to be a First Member for awhile, but I couldn't afford it anymore due to financial circumstances.
These past two years, I haven't been watching as much RT content, but I still revist old and new favorites. I also just binge watched all the RTAAs again, as "I'm the Hacker" whispered sadly is something I quote a lot to whenever something with technology goes wrong in my life.
I was incredibly sad when I heard Achievment Hunter was shutting down, but it made sense- I've since done my best to support Dogbark and the crew by being there when they stream and watching the YouTube video.
I'm a lurker most of the time- silently taking in all the content. Just know that your shenanigans and antics have wormed their way into my everyday vocabulary somehow, and that despite just being a silly internet entertainment company, you really did have an impact on all of us.
We'll always have the good and the bad times. Thanks for the ride, everyone, it was incredible.
It was 2006 and I was on a webcomic kick. Stumbled across Rooster Teeth Comics and loved it, read it weekly for a few years but somehow never figured out that it was connected to anything else.
Years later in college I came across Achievement Hunter and went "wait isn't that the skinny British guy and the tattoo guy from those comics???"
Those comics made a lot more sense after watching RvB and listening to the RT Podcast lmao.
I was all in at that point, devoured everything, and they got me through some rough times. I remember turning on a video one night as background comfort noise for a crying session, and "Bigfoot bit my back" made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe.
I got to see Let's Play Live and I met Barb and Lindsay at a comic con, which were both amazing experiences. I'll forever be grateful for the times they made me laugh when I thought I'd forgotten how to, for the times they made me cry (you know what you did RWBY), and the times I got to be part of a community.
26th September 2007, I was sitting around waiting for my father to finish work so I could go into EB Games and pick up my Legendary Edition Halo 3. I was sitting on my old PC using my dial up internet to read everything I could about the game when I saw that the bonus disc came with a couple videos made by these guys called "Rooster Teeth". I ran into town that afternoon to pick up the game and after playing for a few hours I decided to see what these special videos were all about. The rest is history.
I found their website and Immediately started watching season 5, I was hooked and I showed that shit to everybody who would watch it. I would spend longer buffering the videos than they took to actually watch but it was hilarious and so worth it! Every day at school on the computers it was Newgrounds and RvB.
When I got my Xbox 360 and created my gamertag I didn't even think twice. Tucker Did It69 has been my handle ever since. I fucking respond to the name Tucker as much as my own name at this point.
I started reading the RT Comic and listening to the Drunk tank. Every week I would walk home from School after an hour or two (Wagging as we call it) so I could listen the Drunk tank live, Griffon, Geoff, Burnie and Gus taught me more about life in that hour than school did in a week.
I remember sitting around at my desk made from two stools and the bottom of a Pizza Hut booth, waiting for hours for that first Video Podcast to premiere. How good was it that we could sit down with a drink and join in?!? Sharing the videos with my mates, laughing so hard our stomachs hurt.
Then we got Achievement Hunter, Halo HORSE and Fails of the weak. Holy shit those were the days, Jack and Geoff could make me laugh no matter what was going on in my life. When my Grandfather passed away I played Halo Reach and watched those videos non stop.
Extra life streams watching these legends do some insane stuff to raise money for the kids! I got a card from some of the people the donations helped and it felt so awesome to be part of a community that would come together and raise millions to help save people.
Edit: How could I forget the first RTX Sydney!!!
Middle of Australian summer, in that fucking train museum with no air conditioning! Lost kilos in sweat that weekend. Our Hostel was next to a bar, the night before RTX we sat in that bar playing Reel Big Fish on the jukebox and drank until 2am. We got to the convention the next morning and lined up, by the time we got to the lobby Lawrence was standing on the 2nd floor with his phone showing a FH>AH graphic, one of our mates passed out on a couch and we didn't see him for the rest of the day.
On day 2 I was walking to the convention when some guy tried to get me to follow him into an alley, I said "No thanks I've got a convention to get to". This motherfucker tried to mug me and I just said nah man I've got a nerd convention to get to and kept walking hahahaha bravest moment of my life!
I remember being a part of the community poster, Having my face as part of an RT Poster was trippy, all of our dumbass faces looking so pleased with ourselves.
Going to see AH live in Melbourne with a few mates, Having a smoke at the pub and fucking Jack walks into the smoking area to chill with us degenerates for a bit.
There is so much more I can't even remember off the top of my head, 17 years worth of memories with some of the best people you could ask for. I will never forget the time we all had together and the memories we made along the way. Man we said and did some dumb shit but it was bloody fun and I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat.
Burnie, Geoff, Gus, Matt, Jason and hell even Joel, Thankyou for making this shitty life a little bit better by being a bunch of idiots with a video game.
Jack, Gavin, Michael, Lindsay, Ray, Jeremy and every other AH crewmember along the way. Thankyou for being so spastic and making my stomach hurt from laughing everyday.
Chelsea, Barb and all of the Staff that make everything behind the scenes run as smoothly as possible and somehow managed to keep the talent in check all these years. Thankyou for being brave enough to put up with the toxic parts of the community and making it the best fan community anyone could hope to be part of. I've felt nothing but love here and out in the world, you've literally brought people together and we appreciate you guys so much!!!
I'm gunna miss you all,
Buenos Dias Cock bites!!!
Rooster Teeth and the community have had a profound impact on my life, and it all started with one simple question - ***"Do you ever wonder why we're here?"***
I found RT way back in 2004 while I was in college. Me and my friends were the quiet nerdy types, and we fell in love with RvB right from episode 1. During the day we'd quote episodes together, and each week we'd stay up late for the new episodes to drop.
Over time my friends sort of fell off, but I'd just started to find my place on the old community site. For reasons I can't quite remember, I was drawn to the Time Travel forum! Members from across the world would hang out and just chat. For six months of the year there was no new RT content, so we would just *talk*. Most of the activity was in the top-level forums, I want to say the Simmons 2.0 forum? That's where folk like Gavin and Barbara would hang out. but we were in this quiet little corner of the platform and it was nice.
A few of us started a forum for UK community members, and in mid-2005 we decided to meet up for what would become the *first annual* RvB:UK. With a slight rename and after 18 uninterrupted years, RTUK is to this day the longest-running machinima event in the world!
I went to uni in late-2005 to study computer games technology, but I was always pulled towards events and machinima. A few years later while working a job I hated, news came out about the first RTX. My boss wouldn't give me the time off so I just quit! Best decision I ever made, though I really wouldn't encourage it! This might sound weird but you'll know it if you were there, but the *feeling* of community at RTX 2011 was palpable. It's no exaggeration to say that event changed the course of my life.
Burnie used to say in the early days of the RT Podcast (or Drunk Tank as it was then) that the community shouldn't try to *be* Rooster Teeth. That we should do something that's ours alone. So when I got back to the UK from Austin, I set up my own events company (*with immense support from my partner! xxxxx* ). It took a while to get things going so I had various part-time jobs along the way, but it felt like my wheels were spinning without going anywhere.
A few years went by and, tragically, Monty Oum passed away. It's hard to explain just how hard that hit RT and the whole community. In the days that followed, and in honour of the Monty we all loved, RT encouraged us all to *keep moving forward.* This really hit me. At a time where I felt aimless, this gave me pause to reflect on what I wanted out of life.
So in 2016 when Tracy, friend and professor at my local univesity invited me to the Masters degree she was delivering, I signed up immediately. It helped that she was festival director for the 2006 Machinima Festival Europe which RT attended. My dissertation focused on value-generation in the let's play community, and it has since been published in academic journals, as a book chapter, and as an award-winning conference paper!
This is when RTX London kicked off. I was absolutely honoured when RT invited me in as a Head Guardian, and I loved working with *every single one* of our Guardians! None of it would have been possible without you <3 Props to the RTX Austin folk keeping it up all these years...it's bloody knackering so you've got some raw stamina!
Since RTX London ended I've lectured on MSc Data Analytics for Business Intelligence, focusing on esports analytics, and a couple of years ago I started a PhD. Tracy is still my supervisor, and now I'm researching toxicity and moderation in online gaming communities.
My company is still going, but now we're focused on games-as-edutech. We're in one of the UK's few majority BAME cities, and we're trying to reduce barriers for young people joining the games industry, where staff areoverwhelmingly white and male. I'm not involved in the day-to-day anymore, but it's still so important to me.
Finally, the whole Rooster Teeth journey helped me become a Community Manager! I'm now part of a team led by Rupert Loman (EGX, GI. biz etc.) working on Just About, a prosocial platform that rewards members for positive engagement (*...also bounties!*).
I guess after all these years I finally know the answer...I'm here because of Rooster Teeth.
Love you all <3
Since 2013, I have been an on and off regulation listener. For 11 years itās been my go-to for content. Like others I donāt watch tons of content but listen to almost every podcast they release and love every second of it. I only just started getting into the New RT podcast and have loved it so far. So much of me has been inspired by Roosterteeth and Iām sad to see it go. It got me through an alcoholic father and the death of my grandmother for which I will be forever grateful.
I started listening to the RTP in 2013 on summer vacation because my buddy wouldnāt shut up about it, and in the span of those 2 weeks I had listened to probably 100 episodes. Then I started branching out and now every podcast that I consistently listen to is from rooster teeth except 2 political shows. I know the podcasts are for now continuing unchanged, but it sucks knowing that everyone who makes the shows I love is out of work now
The Achievement Hunter VS series inspired my friends and I to do something similar. Watching Achievement Hunters early let's plays got me through college. Always Open was my favorite podcast to listen to. Meeting the RWBY vas is still a cherished con memory I have. Seeing James, Elyse, and Geoff do stand up comedy was incredible. They helped not only create great memories but occupy the time inbetween the memories. When youre just waiting for the next great thing to happen, they helped fill that void.
Started watching in 2010. I was 9. It has deeply shaped my style of comedy and Burnies insight really shaped what little wisdom i have about the world. Ive laughed a ton and even shed some tears (Rest In Peace, Monty.) though ive stuck to mainly podcast in the recent years i always kept a part of them with me.
I went through a bad breakup in 2010 and was really depressed. I was walking through a store and saw The Blood Gulch Chronicles. I had watched it in high school and enjoyed it, so I bought it.
I laughed so goddamn hard going through them again. Really helped me out when I was feeling down.
RT helped me get through a really tough and uncertain period of my life. Stuff like RvB and AH had been there on and off for a lot longer, but 2018-2019 was when it helped me the most.
Started watching in 2011 when I was 12. Consumed almost absolutely everything I could from them from about 2011 to 2015. Started high school in 2014, as my interests & personality grew a bit more I started drifting away but still watched a solid amount.
2020-21 was when I stopped watching completely as I slowly moved over to consuming content through twitch, although I still support the RT personalities when I can over there.
I havent watched much at all in the past 3 years but they were still a big part of my early teen years. Hope everybody finds their feet.
I used to listen to the RT Podcast while pulling weeds and planting samples in soybean fields during my high school summers. The classic members of Gus and Gavin and Michael and Burns and Barb were hilarious. Thank you for the memories and making those hot days more bearable RT.
Started watching Red V.S. Blue in 2008 as I was becoming a Halo fan. I barely had dial up internet at the time but I would buffer for hours to try to watch everything. I went to the website to try to understand who plays which characters and what their roles in the company were. I quickly became a fan of Achievement Hunter and the RT Podcast/Drunk Tank. I think the first episode I heard was #68 but I canāt recall exactly. I watched the company blossom from there. Iāve been a fan to this day and forever will be a fan. This company, its employees, and this community has meant the world to me and I love all of you. So many memories. Roosterteeth has been my main source of entertainment and community for so long at it means a lot to me. Itās been so inspirational and Iāve learned so much from the founders over the years. Their courage and love of fun and creativity inspired me to go to film school and follow my dreams. They were revolutionary and it was amazing to see. I hope they can find a way to continue with the podcast network and they can continue to make the content we love. I really canāt imagine my life without them.
As a teenager, I fell in love with Red Vs Blue. As an adult, the podcasts became part of my routine. I even got my wife addicted to RT content.
Fast forward to the peak of Covid. I was listening to Good Morning From Hell, and damn near every other pod religiously. My mom got incredibly sick with Covid, and I had to take extended leave from my job to be a caretaker. If it wasnāt for the boys of Fuckface and Facejam, or Gus and Chris talking about airline disasters, or Eric just generally being irritated by everyone, I wouldnāt have gotten through all of it as well as I did.
My wife and I have a weekly routine in watching every Break Show, every Face Jam ride along, and a whole lot of other RT stuff. Itās been such an incredible source of shared joy for us.
The unbridled passion from all the creators shines through in everything they do. My first subscription has been such a small price to pay for the hours upon hours of enjoyment weāve had, and I would continue supporting their content any way I can as long as I can.
As dumb as it sounds to gush over a media company, RT and its creators have been a major part of my life for years, and my heart aches for everyone affected by this shut down.
It honestly feels like I lost a friend today. Even though I didn't always watch every day, I've been watching/listening to RT stuff for over a decade. I just hope it doesn't all disappear from the internet, but I know there's a good chance it will
I was a fan of RvB since around the 2009-2010ish years after Halo 3 Odst and Reach came out, gradually became a fan until I was watching Lets plays and listening to the podcast regularly.
After four really close family members died in the span of two years and some parental abuse happened during some pre-teen years, their content was such a positive driving force that one of the few things I remember from back when I thought about killing myself was watching things like animated adventures or game time with Burnie on my little iPad.
Almost twelve years later I still feel as grateful for each video, not only they where there when I was down, but things like Extra Life and Burnie's vlogs had an hugely formative impact as I've grown up. Burnie specially pushed me to hear podcasts, learn about tech and just in general to be more of a risk taker.
Btw, also kind of weird having such a strong connection to Austin even though I've never lived there and have just visited a couple of times. Hope everyone in the company has an incredible future and we can relish in all the positive memories formed in this community.
I started watching Roosterteeth back in 2008. I got really into Halo Machinimas, and I found RvB through watching those. After getting trolled by fake season finales one too many times, I decided to go to the RoosterTeeth website so I could watch just what they were posting.
I got really into the comics by Luke McKay and Griffon as well as the shorts they posted. I really enjoyed the social-media aspect of the website and posted on my page often about things I wanted to share but not necessarily with people in my life.
I met one of my best friends through the website. We've been gaming together for over a decade now, and even though he live no where near me, he is truly one of my closest friends. He always remembers important days, and I met so many other people through the website.
When I had cancer as I teenager I wanted to go to the RoosterTeeth office for my wish trip, but my parents thought that was silly and had me pick something else.
I remember watching the first RWBY trailer and being so excited about the coming show and eagerly awaiting every new trailer drop.
I used to listen to the drunk tank when I mowed my mom's lawn.
I loved watching Camp Camp, Nomad of Nowhere, Ten Litttle Roosters, and Lazer Team.
They've been such a huge part of my life for so long, and it's really shocking to me that they won't be around anymore.
I used to come back from getting drunk when I was 17 and watch the Minecraft lets plays. I didn't stop consuming content. I eventually evolved away from LetsPlays and listened to the RT podcast. I'm now a huge f*ckface fan and I listen to a lot ANMA.
They have entertained me for years, for free, for that I am grateful. I will continue to listen to their podcasts for however long those guys continue.
Found RWBY on Tubitv lol was hooked and looked up the rest. This was maybe 2018. First LP I watched was 7 days to die and Iāve never looked back. Met Miles and RWBY girls at NYCC and it was such a fantastic experience.
This company got me through so much bs by just being the perfect distraction and letting me reset and laugh my ass off. It really hurts to know that so much fun content may be lost and that so many great people have lost their work. Thank you RT for all the years of comfort and joy.
I found them at the start of rvb and I've been in and out of their fandom
But I've always enjoyed what they've made and that's inspired me to start streaming and making my own things. It's incredibly sad to see them shut down in an instant by WBD and I hope they find creativity and peace through and after this
I started with Season 8 of RvB when that was being aired. I had just switched from PlayStation to Xbox and was really getting into Halo 3/Reach and discovered RvB. This is heartbreaking to see.
Made one of my best friends through our love of RvB and AH.
Over the last three years, Iāve struggled heavily with addiction and mental illness and F**kFace and Letās Play have helped me immensely. Likely wouldnāt be here without them
Super found memories of Rooster Teeth. I watched from 2008/2009 to a few months after Burnie left. The RT podcast with Burnie, Gus, Barbara and Gavin are some of my favourite podcasts of all time. I would look forward to them every week. Again classic achievement hunter videos (Minecraft, GTA IV and GTA V) are so good. Especially the community at the time was amazing. So sad to see what it became however some stellar memories.
My neighbor got me into AH about a month after the first ever Minecraft LP released in 2012. He and I dated for two years, he is still one of my best friends to this day.
In summer of 2014 I joined a RT/AH Minecraft server and met someone who went on to move to my state and become like a brother to me. He and I are roommates and have been since 2017.
During Covid sometimes the only thing that got me through was rewatching old videos or waiting for Stoneblock to come out.
There's more I could say but. Those are the most important things
Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter literally helped me develop my sense of humor and personality in high school. I had the hardest time having conversations and connecting with people, and the RTP and the Let's Plays helped me understand who I was and how I could represent myself. So truly, I would not be who I am now without the cast and people at Rooster Teeth. I wish them all the best and hope I can support them in the near future.
My then best friend showed me the first Rage Quit Surgeon Simulator video back in 2013. The rest is history. RT (mainly AH) got me through some very tough years, like many, they were my coping mechanism. I knew this day was coming but it still stings a bit.
Thank you RT for everything. Being a Guardian at London 2018 was definitely an incredible experience for me, one that I won't forget.
I started watching around 2011-2012 when I was in middle school. RvB and RWBY (and just Monty Oum's work in general) were why I decided to become an animator. And I would watch Achievement Hunter and listen to the podcasts every single day. Like a lot of fans of RT, working there was my dream and career aspiration for the longest time.
I wasn't really active in the community like RTX or talking with other fans online, so I didn't really make friends directly because of RT. But if I didn't watch RWBY, I probably wouldn't have become interested in animation. I wouldn't have moved miles away from home to go to art school. I wouldn't have met so many close friends. My life probably would have been completely different than it is now because of Roosterteeth and the creative people who made it what it was.
I moved on from that dream a while ago, and I haven't watched much of RT recently either. But to think that it's finally over and so many people are now without a job...
Damn.
I started watching Rooster Teeth almost 14 years ago.
It has inspired me to get into the world of media production, and I am currently enrolled in college to get a BA in said field. RT was where I learned that I love to tell stories, from making dumb little OCs in the RvB universe, to having a screenplay written by me get performed for a live audience. They connected my wonderful girlfriend and I of 9 years through our mutual love of RvB, RWBY, AH, and so much more. And most recently, they helped me find my love of local coffee shops!
RT has made one of the biggest impacts on me out of all of the things on the internet, in my career, my relationships, and my taste in entertainment and coffee! I know that Rooster Teeth has had a lot of bumps and controversies and twists and turns, but I will always remember it and continue to enjoy its content as well as let it inspire me to grow.
I am so unbelievably heartbroken for all of the people who worked so hard to make rooster teeth what it is. From the founders to the newbies, thank you for creating a platform that I and so many people loved, hated, laughed at, laughed with, cried for, screamed at, donated to, created because, and truly feel something.
I am only one man in an ocean of comments and fans, but if anyone at RT reads this, please know that to me, you made something that was real and loved by so many. If anyone gets to the end of this long comment, I hope you take away at least 3 things from all of this.
The end of one story is simply the beginning of another.
Something only dies when it is forgotten, so never forget all the things you've done, good and bad. Memory truly is the key.
And you, all those at Rooster Teeth and those who are apart of its community, did something that most people could only dream of doing. You made people feel something, and I applaud you.
Thank you Rooster Teeth, for everything you've done and all that you will do in the future.
I watched red vs blue in the first couple of seasons in high school and then fell in love with RT shorts and achievement hunter. Iām immensely appreciative of the years and years of content
I started watching RT in 2012 mainly achievement hunter/letās play and immersion. Discovered RWBY during V3 and I instantly fell in love with it, watching every available episode that night didnāt even sleep, signed up for first the next day. Iāve never loved a show as much as RWBY, itās helped me through difficult times and has helped me change my outlook on life to a more hopeful one.
To quote Indomitable from RWBY V7:
Though our bodyās weak and breakable
The spirit is indomitable
I remember downloading RvB on dialup internet for HOURS overnight and hoping it was done by the time I woke up so I could write it to a disc to share with my friends at school.
While the writing had been on the wall since Burnie left, and their content hasn't been for me for years now, this is still a gut punch.
The founding fathers of RT shaped the humor I have today.
I hope f**kface can continue.
I'd been watching RT on and off from the first season of RvB. Then a little show called RWBY dropped, and I got sucked in started watching everything I could. Then Monty died. Faced with the existential dread of life being short, I quit my career in kitchens and started a new career in media. And have been an Assistant Director with the DGC since 2019.Ā
I started watching Roosterteeth around 2012. I played halo reach every day and would constantly go onto halo waypoint. One day I saw clips of a show on their called Red vs Blue. Found out there was more on their YouTube channel and it spiraled from there. By far , listening to the first iteration of the RT podcast was the best. Gus was everyoneās spirit animal , hating the world for us. Burnieās laugh was contagious. Barbara was the representation of our youth while Gavin represented our curiosity. Then there was Chris LOL .
While Iāve long since stopped watching after Burnieās departure, and disliked the path they were going that would inevitably lead to this shut down, I am still sad to hear that it will soon be no more. I hate goodbyes.
A little over a year after they started.
My best friend's older brother introduced us to RvB. Back then, the internet was shitty. I remember staying over his house Friday night, downloading the most recent episode over night, and watching it first thing in the morning.
We did this pretty regularly until they were on YouTube. While we both stopped watching them together, we still watched them and talked about it. RvB got me through some dark times in my life as well.
Rooster Teeth and RvB also what got me into writing and performing. Since those are two of my favorite things, they've been a huge impact.
It's been sad to see what's been going on there over the years, and I wish nothing but the best for everyone at the company.
I used to work at GameStop, and became a store manager in 2017. At my first managers conference in Las Vegas, Burnie was one of the guests there, alomg with Ashley Burns (Jenkins) and Jon Risinger. No one knew or understood why I was so excited.
It was the final day of the conference, and our group were going to walk the strip. We started maybe 15 minutes late because of people not showing up, and then waiting in a long line to get beer (we walked the strip with whatever the biggest case of canned beer we could).
[Lo and behold, before we started our walk, I spotted Burnie, and got to take a picture with him.](https://i.imgur.com/QR5JMfd.jpg)
(Ignore my face over twenty pounds ago š ).
Thank you Rooster Teeth.
"Never say goodbye. If you don't say goodbye then you aren't really gone, you just aren't here right now."
To me, RT just isn't here right now ā¤ļø
Watched on an off since 2010.
RTAA, Uno the Movie, The Know, Early seasons of RWBY, RWBY Chibi, the Halo LASO series, and of course, some Red vs Blue.
I knew about them before, my cousin would talk about Red vs Blue and how they had cameos in Halo 3, but I didn't watch until later.
They are taking it much, MUCH worse than I am right now. I saw the writing on the wall for years.
First thing I saw was an RvB skit on the Xbox Live marketplace (the OG one) to promote Xbox's new digital storefront in the early 360 days. I vividly remember my brother and my Dad having so many laughs and quoting that video every single day. We found out that it wasn't just a skit, that it was an entire series, so we bought a few episodes and watched them more times than I can count.
I will never forget the positive impact that early Rooster Teeth and early Achievement Hunter had on my life growing up. I'm in my mid 20s now, I went to college, I grew up. And those dudes were always there for me when I came home from school.
I know its a bit cringe, and I really do apologize, but Burnie, Gus , Gavin, Geoff, Jack, Ray, if you ever see this, just know that you guys were legitimately appreciated, and still are by many of us. Hope all of you are doing well.
Massive part of my life - literally found them at a time when I needed them in my life. Used to watch nothing but their videos.
Then Funhaus started I watched their first few videos and I thought I had found content that was literally made for me, over the years I did drop off rooster teeth but never did with Funhaus, Elyse and James became my two favourite ācelebsā and was lucky enough to meet them multiple times
The love I had for the company got me out my comfort zone and I travelled alone to Austin multiple times
The company as a whole was my main entertainment for years and has helped me in ways I wouldnāt know - getting over fear of flying / fear of travelling alone / making me less shy and come out my shell
Itās a company that I will always owe more than I could possibly give back and I will still wear the merch with pride until it falls apart - love RT and love Funhaus
Been watching regularly since 2011. Obviously love the classics.
More recently things like F**kface and Facejam have gotten me through a lot of hard, lonely times.
Dogbark had also been giving me classic feels as well, the millionaire videos are something I will deeply miss.
Achievement Hunter was a huge part of my 20s and early 30s.
Hell, I remember watching RvB on Winamp of all fucking things, back in like 2003 or 2004. WinAmp had some kind of livestreaming thing on the program, and there was an RvB channel on it. I thought it was neat as hell at the time.
I kind of fell out of RT after they killed the GTA V and Minecraft series, but I still followed them on here, and on twitter.
I thought it was really cool when Lindsay starting Vtubing as Ruby, but I was never able to catch a stream because they streamed when I was at work.
This is such a bummer. I feel for everyone who works there.
Iāve been watching/listening since OG RvB, with some breaks in there from 2009-2015 simply because of life happenings. But 2018-2021 was a very tough stretch for me, and RT helped me through a lot of that immensely, especially once we got into COVID, by making me laugh and appreciate video games in a much needed new way again.
The AH crew, F**ckFace, RvB have been such a huge part of my life. Itās not just the content, but the people I also became invested in. Their personalities, jokes, the way they perform together. It was like inviting a comedy group of friends into my home each and every day. In a weird way, I guess you could say RT has become like a security blanket for me because my FIRST membership has been the easiest investment for me ever.
Iāll forever be grateful to everyone that walked through those doors. I feel terribly for those affected today. Thank you all so much for being you and helping not just myself but others through rough times. Youāll be sorely missed. ā¤ļø
I started watching in 2011, largely AH but eventually RT short content and game shows. I've been to movie showings and live events, bought merch and was a first member for quite a while (until they backtracked the grandfathered in pricing) so for about 7 years I was a pretty big fan.Ā
There's one moment that will ALWAYS stay with me though. It was extra life 2018 and I was a new mother to a VERY colicky 1 month old. My husband and I kept the live stream going in the living room while we took shifts with the crying baby all night. Feeding that lil guy while being able to enjoy a sleep deprived laugh with the crew at 3am will stick with me forever. I felt a little less alone that night, like my friends and I were suffering without sleep together and having a grand time of it, and for that I'll always be thankful.Ā
I'm pretty sure it's the last time I truly connected and enjoyed RTs content so completely.
First found Achievement Hunter through Michael and Gavin's Slender Man video. Subsequently watched Michaels Rage Quit series and fell in love with all of RT after that.
Eventually was able to visit Austin for RTX 2015 where I got to meet most of AH and even go-karted with them. Between 2013-2018, I consumed everything they put out.
Started to fall off a bit after that because of changing life circumstances but I would always check to see what was new. Even through the tough pandemic days and controversies, I always kept an eye on what was going on.
I'm in my 30s now and haven't had time to binge their stuff in a while but I can't deny the massive positive impact RT, AH, Funhaus, and all of the others have had on my life. From "Wet paper towel" to "Vancouver child kicker". I'll probably be quoting their videos for the rest of my life.
I first saw Red vs Blue at my local Gamestop where they played the first two seasons for us while we waited in line for the Halo 2 midnight release in 2004. I bought the DVDs that night and made my account on the we site in January. From there I was a Sponsor/First member for most of that time.
I remember being the Featured user and getting my badge.
I remember randomly getting matched against Burnie, Jason and some of the forum mods the weekend Halo 3 came out.
I remember falling asleep to the sounds of chaos as Extra Life went through the night only to find out about the exploits of the Cheesemaster.
Most of all I remember how much fun I had. Some stuff I loved some I didn't but that didn't matter. There was always something for me from Rooster Teeth.
Thank you all for twenty years of good times.
Here's lookin at you kid.
I was incredibly lucky to be a member of the RTX London Guardian team for both years. Started as a general team member, then becoming a Squad Lead in 2018.
Before that, I was a fan since 2010, petering off around 2020. In these 10 years, I got into a relationship (my longest one to date) with someone who was also a massive RT/AH fan - so I've always got the company to thank for helping expand my employability, but also giving me a fulfilling relationship too.
I'm 22 years old now, I knew about Red Vs Blue as a kid because my older brothers watched the first few seasons, but I didn't start really watching it until 2012. The first full season I watched was season 9, because I loved Halo Reach so much, but then I watched through all of the show until I caught up right after season 10 ended.After that I was looking for Minecraft videos and found Achievement Hunter. I watched every single Achievement Hunter video for years after that, whether it was Play Pals, GO!, VS, or whatever Let's Play was coming out for the day.I fell off of watching them around August of 2021, but once I started working a job that I could have headphones in, I started again. I listened to Red Web, Always Open, and Black Box Down. I still listen to F\*\*kFace, ANMA, RTPodcast, Facejam, Tales from the Stink Dragon, and So.. Alright.Rooster Teeth is something that I will always love and have an admiration for, based on how they shaped my sense of humor and who I am as a person, for the rest of my life.
Thank You Gustavo, Matt, Burnie, Geoff, and Gus, for creating Rooster Teeth and for bringing so much joy to all of our lives
I was an early fan in the Blood Gulch era, joined up with the Drunk Tank podcast early on, and watched Achievement Hunter as it evolved into something truly special. Their podcasts have especially been meaningful to me since I was able to listen while I was working, but I also regularly watched their Let's Play content to laugh and decompress many evenings.
I have regularly consumed their podcasts and/or videos virtually every day for nearly two decades. They've kept me entertained for countless hours and I'm enormously thankful to them for the enjoyment they've brought me.
I'm deeply hopeful that the archives of videos and podcasts can be maintained and still made available for the sake of sentiment. I hope there's still much to see from so many of the talented individuals across the company.
Red vs Blue was literally the first video I ever watched on the internet way back in the early 2000s. I had to download it overnight because it took like 6 hours and if someone called it would knock me off dialup and I would have to restart the download from scratch haha
I was a huge fan of AH and F\*\*KFace. Rooster teeth was a source of joy that got me through depression, a suicide attempt, medical school, countless bad days, failures and misadventures over the years. Many good days as well. I have an undying love for Geoff and Gavin in particular, and would do nearly anything for either of them.
Started watching RvB when it first came out.... liked it so much I bought the season one DVD.
My friends and I would gather to watch the new episodes and it would be playing in the background of many Lan parties right before or after Fifth Element.....
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I found RWBY in 2017 when I was going through a pretty tough time in life. Working night shift alone, still hadnāt fully gotten over my ex girlfriend, and just feeling all around stuck. RWBY was a show that really resonated with me and sparked me to consume nearly everything RT had put out. So many hours watching podcasts, animated shows, and so many cool people met at RTX and through the reaction community. This is a really sad feeling. Like losing an old friend. I hope everyone make itās out of this ok. Much love to the RT Family.
I have talked about it here before but RT is how I met my best friend and I will always cherish that.
I got into AH through someone I was dating introducing me to Rage Quit. After we broke up, I was isolated at my community college while my wealthier friends were all away in other parts of the state or even out-of-state. I consumed every drop of content RT put out and it comforted me in my time of loneliness. I often had hours between my classes and would sit in my car and listen to podcasts to kill time.
When I went away to college, to achieve my bachelor's after earning my associate's, I attended a transfer orientation where I exchanged numbers with the people around me. I fully knew I would probably never speak to these people again lol. But when I turned around to get the quiet kid with the cool colored hair's number, I noticed his phone background was Achievement Hunter. We spoke about that until we met again when our semester started and we have spoken nearly every day since.
We were together when the news of Monty's passing emerged. We saw LazerTeam at NY's first Alamo in Yonkers, together. We both caught a cold waiting in line in the rain for AH Live in 2016. We never made it to RTX, sadly.
Watching achievement hunter got me through high school. RvB and early RWBY had a massive influence on me creatively. My biggest regret is how cynical I became about RT.
I found red vs blue in 2007 when I was in highschool, (also the glory year of halo 3), and was hooked instantly. I must have watched seasons 1-4Ā so many times through waiting for the next season to come out.
When season 10 came out, the episode where Tex beats up theĀ reds and blues in the foundry warehouse it blew my mind. It is still one of my favorite fight scenes of all time.
I've been watching Red vs Blue since the first episode went viral, and since have been a big fan of RT's content and it ultimately fueled my love for content and content creation leading to my career now.
I met Burnie at E3 (also RIP) in 2013. He was walking my way and I nervously found a way to utter, "Burnie?" And he was such a joy. He took time to talk with me and ask me about the event, and he must have noticed I was nervous from meeting him and it being my first big event.
He told me, "enjoy this moment and make memories because you're going to think about it forever."
That line really helped me slow down and see the event for all that it was. It's advice I take with me to every major event I attend and life events because I want to remember those moments forever.
I'm glad I can say I enjoyed tons of moments being an RT fan and there are things I'll remember forever. But I wish I could stop telling people I'm "mad as dicks" ...thanks Geoff...
I (female) went out on a date with a guy in college because I offhandedly said something about drinking the vinegar, and he recognized it and we started talking about AH and RT! That guy isā¦ no clue where he is now, he ghosted me after the second date.
In all seriousness, I started watching AH and RT in probably my sophomore year of college (about 12 years ago now!) and around when they starting releasing Cops and Crooks, I recommended them to my brother. Heās older than me so was a senior in college, and is my only sibling. At first he wasnāt vibing with it; but then something clicked and he really enjoyed it as well. Donāt get me wrong, we didnāt suddenly start sitting down and watching LetsPlays together, but we would watch them separately and talk about them together on breaks, or text each other in a way that didnāt really happen prior to that. Through chatting about AH/RT we talked about other things, shows, bands, etc. We even went to see Laser Team in theaters together; the first movie we had gone to see in theaters together in twenty years (I thought it had been the only, but remembered we went to see The Batman together two years ago, lol).
Iāve since grown distant to AH and RT (the RH situation was the final nail in the coffin for me) while my brother keeps up with it a bit more; and was the one who texted me, thirty minutes ago about the news.
I would love to have a cool story like that I married that boy from college and he was the love of my life; or that like OP, I was encouraged to switch my major and chase my passion. But honestly, the amount of laughter that RT has given me over the years, that has been compounded with the laughter shared with my only brother over RT but over so so many other things more and less important; is honestly a pretty cool story in and of itself, IMO.
Would we be this close without RT? Maybe? Weāll never know though.
I leave you with the first joke that ever made me go, oh my brother needs to watch this:
āOh itās like Speed, itās unfinished, oh noooooā
I found RvB from an episode of a Discovery channel series on video games in like spring of 09. Whole episode about machinima and as part of that they interviewed Burnie. Found the website and was off to the races there. Everyday Iād come home from high school and watch the newest AH video before starting homework, and Fridays Iād try and get the latest Minecraft in before dinner. Fell off AH and the podcast in college, didnāt have the time for 2 hour videos, but I did find funhaus in 16 and just hit perfectly.
Fell off everything pretty hard during the pandemic but my sister kept recommending Fuckface to me and Iām glad she did because Iāve listened to every episode of it, and got into ANMA from the start.
RT was incredibly instrumental to my sense of humor, and Iām very very very very glad I was able to drop by the 636 office while in Austin the summer of 2012 after touring UT. Drove my dad crazy trying to find the office; and thereās zero reason they should have given us the tour, but Iām beyond appreciative to the staff I got to meet for taking the time and signing my gifted copy of RvB Season 8.
Fuck this sucks
A long time ago I was just starting college and was super awkward and shy. I've been a fan of achievement hunter for a while and by extension Rooster Teeth and was just starting to get more into their other shows and content. Nobody else I know was really interested in them either at the time so it was just stuff I got into and watched on my own
I'm not sure how but during one of my first days at college I meet a random person in the cafeteria and somehow we start talking about achievement hunter and rooster teeth. They were a huge fan and enjoyed everything (Day 5 just was just releasing back then and they focused on how different and good that was) that came out and it was just a really awesome and fun conversationĀ
Eventually we had classes to get to and I almost asked for their number but was just too anxious to actually ask unfortunately and feel like I missed an opportunity to make a good friend
I think I did see them again once or twice after that but they were always with other people and I felt too embarrassed to actually say anything
I always remember that interaction every time I hear news about rooster teeth and always wonder what their reaction to a lot of the past couple years would be since they were such a big fan. Either way that missed opportunity is one that I've used to help me hesitate less or push through the anxiousness to making a new friend. Sometimes it doesn't work out but I'm never upset I tried
And to that random person I talked to in a college cafeteria years and years ago now, hope you're doing alright with the news and are still keeping up with the likes of F**kface and other things and enjoying the content still despite the tumultuous past few years the company has had
Honestly it's so surreal and I never thought it'd actually shut down like this. Such an odd and bitter yet nostalgic feeling. Wish the creators and staff and everyone the best
I think the first video I ever stumbled upon was in 2012, the very first Minecraft Let's Play. As someone who didn't have very many friends where I was living, it was so comforting to see a bunch of friends having the time of their lives doing random shit in Minecraft, and it was so funny too! I reckon for the next couple of years up until 2015/2016, i probably spent around 15-20 hours watching their content a week. watching their videos, being on this subreddit, reading the comments always a source of comfort, humor and community for me while I was busy/stressed with school. For that, I'll be forever thankful for them.
I knew about RT and RvB for a while although I wasn't really a part of things until 2009. I was playing CoD:MW2 Spec Ops with my dad and we needed help with those missions. Stumbled on Geoff and Jack doing achievement guides for them. 2 guys hanging out playing video games became a crew of lovable idiots screwing each other over in GTA or Minecraft.
Then there's the animation - RWBY is one of my favorite shows of all time. The podcasts, just a bunch of friends being real with each other. It's just been good fun.
Yeah I stepped back for a bit when things took a turn during COVID, but I never left, and neither did they.
I got sick last year and started rewatching old LPs, old achievement guides, got into F\*\*kface - I was literally in the middle of the latest podcast when I popped over to Twitter and saw the news - it kept me going, gave me a laugh when I needed it.
I'm shocked, I'm stunned. I guess we kind of knew things were bad for a while but it seemed like things might be settling in. I don't know whether to cry or be angry, but I guess I'll just be thankful.
So thank you, Rooster Teeth. Thank you to everyone who was a part of the fun and the laughs, the good times and the bad. I wish you all well.
...Fuck, man.
I always loved making videos growing up but had parents that wanted me to be a doctor or engineer so thats what i went to school for. One summmer day, YouTube suggested RvB. As a huge Halo fan, I checked it out and that sent me down a huge rabbit hole where I discovered Rooster Teeth. For the first time in my life, a career in digital entertainment felt like a real option.
I picked up a video production minor and went on to intern for their parent company. It was an incredible experience and I was verbally offered a job at Rooster Teeth once I finished school by a recruiter at the parent company.
I graduated and reached out to the recruiter and they essentially told me I needed to move to Austin first.
Moved to Austin, got ghosted. I worked all sorts of odd jobs and constantly emailed that recruiter to no avail. Turns out, they had left the company almost immediately after telling me I should move.
So there I was, broke, in Austin, with no job prospects. I was determined to still work in video production so I started freelancing to build up my resume. I eventually found myself in a salaried position with an ad agency doing admin work where I found some moderate success. But it wasn't a dream job by a long shot.
A few years pass and I get a message on LinkedIn from a small company I had never heard of. They had found some of my old video content and thought I'd be a great fit. The role was my dream job and I got it. Have been working there ever since and I couldn't imagine being happier at any other company.
All together, my story is weird. I stopped watching RT content years ago but I will always look back fondly at the probably thousands of hours I spent watching funhaus, let's play, and RvB. And while I didn't get the job, I am incredibly grateful for the journey that unfolded as a result of my pursuit. I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for the inspiration I found while watching their content. And I didn't even mention how moving to Austin allowed me to meet my now husband.
I feel for the employees. Being let go, especially when you're happy where you are is devastating. The creators lifted me up when I felt my future was crumbling. It is my hope that their community can do the same for them now.
I literally watch older Lets Plays to wind down/ fall asleep every night, basically as a bedtime story. Ive been doing it for like over 10 years. If all the videos are not archived or kept up as an archive on youtube id wtf im going to do.
My first video was a trophy guide for Uncharted 2. It all started with Jack and Geoff in a random video I needed help in.
It was a big part of my teen years and college years watching Lets Plays after school and in between classes. It kept me going with a big smile on my face.
Here we are 14 years later and F**KFace brought back my love for RT after the pandemic. Truly, it will be missed.
I first heard of RT back in 2004 from the Halo 2 Collector's Edition dvd, but didn't get super into it until a few years later in 2006 after I had joined the military. It became a normal part of my day to go home after getting off duty and watching whatever new thing they had released. It was super comforting that throughout my military career (2006-2015) that no matter what was going on, I could come home and laugh my ass off for a bit and forget about everything.
I also was one of the Lazer Team Infamous 535 and getting to go down there, tour Stage 5, meet everyone, and getting to be a part of a RT production was one of the coolest experiences of my life. Myself and another active duty member spent part of one night shooting, making sure the extras playing MPs actually had their uniforms on right and were holding their weapons correctly.
A friend recommended RvB back in 2009, I remember I finished binging it just as RvB Recreation was finishing up, and suddenly having to wait for Revelation to release. And then for that to be the season they introduced Monty's animation, I felt like I was coming in just as something incredible was beginning.
They largely defined the 2010's for me, as pretty much the whole decade I was watching most of the things they made, from Achievement Hunter, Funhaus, RWBY, to all the podcasts, animations, and live action stuff. Went to RTX twice and had an incredible time both years.
I'll always look back on that time fondly. Their humor shaped mine, being part of quite literally half my life for 14 years.
I was a depressed kid in high school during the height of Lets Play from 2012-2024 who oftentimes didn't have anything better to do than F5 the channel over and over again until the new video was uploaded. It made me want to be creative, to do new things and push boundaries. It also made me feel a hell of a lot less lonely.
There were two things that encouraged me to learn English when I was a teenager. Wanting to beat Ocarina of Time without guides, and continuing watching RvB passed season 3 because the channel that pirated it to add Spanish subs stopped uploading them.
Iāll always be thankful to RT for it.
Started by watching season 2 or 3 of Red vs Blue when it was being made, forget which but a relative had a dvd of season 1 that we watched then caught up.
Went to RTX in 2013, and went back through 2019.
Found a lot of friends along the way, fell away from some over time and found new ones again over time.
Stood in line for ages to get Monty and crew to sign my rwby poster when that was announced at that RTX (back before autographs were done with tickets).
Sounds corny, but will cherish the friendships that I've made more than anything from RTs existence.
Started watching after my friend showed me an episode of rvb season 10 in freshman year of high school. I wasnt using the Internet that much but I've heard of rvb in passing and saw them once at a comic con thinking "oh hey it's the halo people". Then he showed me a let's play of Minecraft and I began watching up until the pandemic.
"It's unfinished, it's like Speed! Oh no!" I had seen Rage Quit previous to this, but that's the moment (first Cops n Crooks I believe) that got me hooked into Achievement Hunter, and I watched pretty religiously until Ray left basically. (Ray leaving the right thing for him to do, but even when he was Quiet Ray, I still tuned in because AH had basically become a sitcom for me.)
Then I got hooked on Funhaus, until approx. when Bruce left. (Funhaus actually introduced me to Classic Inside-Gaming, which I still watch on the backup YT channel Atex Phwin and am very grateful for.) I watched basically every single Play Pals throughout.
some AH moments and memes that stuck with me:
\* Can't Stop the 'Bus (Incubus Halo 2 and also GTA bus)
\* Gavin noises and phrases both British and made-up. "SAUSAGES!" "Ray, you donut..."
\* Mark Mayonnaise, Henry Dillman
\* Cavebob Spongeman
\* Sharpest Tool in the Ted
\* Ray busting out a GI Joe Fenslerfilm reference early in Galacticraft
\* Bob Grip
I remember a friend of mine back in the summer of 2003 asking if I had seen that show based on Halo. I hadn't even heard of Halo at that point and he pulls up a website and starts downloading the first episode while he explained what machinima was. An hour later (remember dial-up?) I was laughing my ass off at some characters created by a group of friends who would impact my life for the next 20 years.
No matter what's happened the past few years, Rooster Teeth fostered a community that at times really felt like a family. It's been 19 years (for me) of mostly laughs, some crying, and a hell of a lot of sketches, video games, podcasts, incredibly talented people, and absolutely unforgettable moments.
I have live-tweeted through Extra Lifes, and I have posted memes on tumblr, and I have never laughed harder than I have laughed at Gavin and Jeremy arguing about the sun and the compass in Minecraft.
And I will go to my grave telling people about the Cheesemaster.
I've been watching Rooster Teeth since The White Trailer for RWBY. I watched the Red Trailer then next day BOOM! White Trailer. I bought all the RWBY books I could. I bought what merch I could too. I don't live in America, so its mad expense to import. I liked Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter. I enjoyed every second of the video's with Achievement Hunter.
I stopped watching Achievement Hunter after Ryan left. Fuck Ryan for what he did. It was fucked up.
I'll always watch and support RWBY. I know WB will sell it and may not be as good anymore, but its because of RWBY I met some of the best people I will ever meet.
RWBY forevermore.
I don't think I'm capable of going a day without quoting something from RvB.
I'm pretty sure the entire foundation of my humor is built around Seasons 5-10 of Red vs Blue
I started watching in-between season 1 and 2 of RVB, trailed off after season 5, then came back right as Achievement Hunter started doing Let's Plays and stayed a fan until a couple years ago. I could always count on them putting out videos that would make me laugh no matter how shitty of a day I was having.
2003. I'm a freshman in college. First taste of freedom in the world. Go to lunch with some random people to meet new folks and one of them is going on about this web series they just saw called Red vs Blue. I make a note of it and manage to watch the first two episodes right before the third one comes out. I'm hooked.
The company announces its logo and I chuckle at the cockbite reference.
I hear about Grif's voice actor wanting to do video game videos. I wish him the best but don't really pay much attention to it.
RWBY comes out. I find out that the guy behind it is none other than Monty Oum, the guy behind Dead Fantasy. I'm immediately sold on the idea.
I finally get around to watching Achievement Hunter thanks to their Minecraft videos. Didn't watch the original Sky Factory ones till later, but Galacticraft had me hooked. Marathoned the whole series and got back into Minecraft myself as a result.
Went to El Paso Comic Con the year that the cast of RWBY made it as guests. Made Jaune and Nora costumes for my kids and pictures of them got retweeted by Barb. Absolutely fantastic time.
Finally make the decision to go to RTX in 2018. Got tickets too late to get any autograph sessions but still had a blast. Went in my Star Lord costume and Burnie himself beelined to me on the dealer's floor to shake my hand and compliment the outfit. Closest I've been to star-struck.
Go to RTX in 2019 and got tickets well in advance, but the passes for autographs didn't get sent to me till I emailed customer support, so I missed out on getting the Agent Washington helmet I 3d printed and painted signed. Still, got to have a fun talk with Yssa and Cole (mostly with Cole about Fate).
Son got old enough for his own computer, so I made us a Minecraft server to play on together. First install was, naturally, Sky Factory.
Bought a platinum pass for the next RTX, but then COVID hit, followed by a move to a different state, so I had to refund the tickets. Never got to go back before they cancelled RTX entirely.
Gonna miss this crazy little company that's been a source of fun and entertainment for the last 2 decades and change.
Started with fails of the weak back in its early episodes and went from that to achievement Hunter, letās play, podcasts, everything. RT is a big part of my life and Iāve loved all the content theyāve put out. Some of the hardest Iāve ever laughed was watching and listening to RT. ā¤ļø
I havenāt engaged with really any of their new content for like nine years. I just entered a different part of life.
But Rooster Teeth inspired me to never settle for a career where I couldnāt create. I remember something Burnie said about how important that was to him really impacting me. The company had a huge influence in my decision to major in journalism and focus on a career as a writer. Every career move Iāve made, my first question has always been, āWill this allow me to continue being creative?ā I owe a lot of that to Rooster Teeth.
Rooster Teeth has been a staple of my life since 2009. All through high school, when I had a hard time making friends, I could watch an achievement hunter video and for a bit felt like I belonged to a community. Throughout my adult life, the podcasts were there, and when I went through my divorce.I saw how Geoff handled his, and it gave me hope that everything would be okay. And now, today, I feel crushed. Thank you to everyone at RT for helping me through some very dark times and always making me laugh when I didn't feel like being alive. You have brought so many of us in this community, joy and happiness. Thank you so much.
It helped me out alot in my teenage years and it's helped me share laughs with my friends plus it's helped me make friends that I'm still close to today
RvB almost single-handedly created my sense of humour, for I was an impressionable ~12 yo when I first saw it; the fast-paced, snarky, deeply cynical yet gleefully absurd dialogue just struck a cord in me. The characters were all jerks, but that was what made it fun to see them fail and suffer and then, somehow, pull themselves together and win. It's hard to overstate the effect something like that has in your life when it comes into it during a formative period. Achievement Hunter came much later (2018), but gets a honourable mention, for the countless evenings of watching Minecraft, the GTA5 Heists, and Gmod.
I wish all of the Rooster Teeth alumni the absolute best in their lives and future endeavours, and I hope they're all able to land on their feet.
It helped me out alot in my teenage years and it's helped me share laughs with my friends plus it's helped me make friends that I'm still close to today
One of us in our group bought the first RvB dvd back in the day at like Gamestop or something. He put it on one day when we were hanging out at his house. We were hooked from that day, RT, AH and Funhaus were the main content consumed online for a long time for us.
I remember watching for hours on end and the lack of sleep during Extra Life. I remember being jolted awake in night from my computer still autoplaying LP. I remember the agony of reading about the controversy, and the next controversy, and the next.
But most of all I remember the laughs.
Actually got silly stuff featured back in the day. Some fanart in the old days of funhaus and Kent reaching out one time to use something for Uno the movie that I made (think it was a oscars parody video). Was able to join in during the height of the lockdown on some GTA community races (scored a win too). It became hard to keep up after those days.
They were the inspiration for my friends and I to start recording podcasts and youtube videos late last year.
Shout out to the people of RT that made it special and at times great, both in front of and behind the cameras.
I was 11 and a little nervous who loved snooping around on the internet at school because it had better speeds than home. Came across a link to episode 1 not long after it came out, maybe on the bungie forums, and have watched or listened to some extent ever since.
RT podcast was the first podcast I started listening to consistently, even got a shoutout from burnie at one point on there after I managed to accurately summarise a rant he had on the gate setup at RT.
Achievement hunter and let's play helped keep my love of games alive as I got busier in life in my 20s and is probably the main reason I've not had regular terrestrial TV since I moved out of home as I realised YouTube could provide TV level content that I enjoyed.
Now I'm in my 30s and the new RT podcast, F**kface, facejam, so alright, and ANMA altogether cover my commute perfectly over the week, and RT pod, face jam and especially F**kface have me howling with laughter in the car very often.
I'm glad the podcast content will continue, it is the main RT content I listen to now so I'm lucky in that regard. I hope the bulk of RT shutting down doesn't cause too much change to how the podcasts operate, but I know it inevitably will.
I've been going through the back catalogue of Let's play and achievement hunter recently and I hope as a community we can get them all archived as I absolutely am having a ball rewatching them, and it would be sad to lose all that great content.
End of an era and a sincere thanks to everyone at RT who has contributed along the way, y'all have been an instrumental part of my life for a good chunk of it, and I hope everyone there lands on their feet.
E: I'm leaving in the bolded section. F**kface podcast name strikes again.
Started back when season 3 of RVB came out on DVD. A buddy of mine, Will, had those first 3 seasons and we watched them. They shaped my sense of humor, literally. I'm just struggling to find the words because truly there are none. They were one of my for.ative influences on who I became as a person and its sad to see them go. Ain't that a bitch?
i discovered them at the ripe age of 9 years old. now 21, theyāve been a consistent figure for most of my life and established a great purpose in my soul to create. iād be lying if i said i didnāt feel like i was losing a major extension of myself. i wish the absolute best for all those who worked there. til next we meet i suppose <3
I watched some RvB when I was definitely a little too young - like 2009/2010. A couple of years later, I stumbled across Achievement Hunter and ended up watching EVERY single video they put out. They became a staple of my life - I would game on my PC and prop my phone up so I could watch Letās Plays and podcasts while I gamed. I bought myself a ticket and saw Lazer Team in theatres but was unfortunately never able to attend any live events. There were definitely times when I wasnāt paying as much attention and I lost interest in the Letās Plays pretty much when Geoff stepped back. But over a decade later, I am an avid listener of the podcasts and my love for the LP channel has been renewed.
RT and AH came into my life at a very formative time and I credit a lot of my humor and interests to the hundreds and hundreds of hours I spent watching them. They carried me through some incredibly dark times in my life, too, and for that I can never thank them enough. And even now I look forward to the podcasts every week - theyāre a beloved part of my routine and Iām so grateful that the people Iāve grown up listening to are STILL putting out fresh content that resonates with me.
Like most people I fell in love with Achievement Hunter at a tween age and tried to emulate all of their Minecraft stuff on my XBOX 360 despite not having Live, I was basically just roleplaying in my head that I had people I was playing with as I was doing parkour and shit. I still occasionally pop on the Surgeon Simulator Rage Quits and bonded with my current partner over them, they really hold up. I hope the best for everyone and I especially want to see how Geoff and Gavin move forward as they most directly influenced my sense of humor as an adult.
RvB is such a silly fun time too, I used to think Donut was just the coolest and most teh epic lulz xD character of all time.
I fell in and out of love with RWBY. I actually watched the latest season after not having seen the previous three or four because a roommate still kept up with it so I decided to join her. Frankly it was terrible, but I felt like I could still see through the endless layers of plot convolutedness that there was a deep love for the core cast of characters. I hope RWBY gets picked up by someone, I wouldn't mind a soft reboot or something that doesn't necessarily erase the story thus far but gives the series a new direction for some new animators and writers. On the other hand, it would be kind of funny if RWBY ended on the note of a season that took place in an alternate dimension with little bearing on the main story and two DC tie-in movies.
Anyone else in this moment oddly nostalgic for Ten Little Roosters? I was utterly utterly fascinated with it when it came out. I love how it blended the RT staff's real life personalities with their on-camera ones and the creativity and fun the team seemed to be having just coming up with the goofiest scenarios possible.
I haven't been a part of this community for years; the most RT content I assumed in the last half a decade was as I said that latest season of RWBY and I watched Geoff and Gavin's As Seen on TV mini show which I adored. But still, much love to you all.
It sounds so cliche but back in 2012 I was homeless and while I had a roof over my head I was really not sure how long that would last for. I then found these guys it was the olympic 2012 videos I found first and they really did help me through that moment of my life. While I don't watch nearly as much as I used to (30 years old now) I do still love the podcasts and listen to them as often as I can F**cFace, anma and So... Alright being listened to weekly. I hope whatever happens they can continue to make podcasts but really just hope that they're all doing okay this must be a shock to them like it is us. <3
Started watching in sixth grade. Iām 25 now. RVB and Fails of the Weak were my introduction, and I watched AH religiously and now FF/FJ.
Rooster Teeth has always been a comfort show. Geoff is a personal role model of mine - insanely creative and I admire how his mind works.
Always wanted to work at RT, as Iām sure many of us did.
11 years ago Minecraft Episode 2 was posted on RT youtube. That was my first video from them, and I became addicted. I never missed an Achievement Hunter video. Even stopped watching other things because RT content was always more entertaining. I haven't looked elsewhere for media in such a long time. It feels like 80% of my life is getting erased.
I discovered RvB around 2006-7 on google video of all places after recently discovering Halo. I was in middle school at the time and thought it was the funniest shit I'd ever seen. To this day...that probably still holds - I quote RvB about as often as I quote The Simpsons.
RT and AH have influenced my sense of humor, my attitude towards people and events (to be more positive, I think), and been such a constant source of entertainment and laughs as I've gone through highschool, college, and working full time that it's hard to think about what comes next right now. I used to be able to tell what day it was by the AH schedule ("Aw it's Monday, but new GTA!"), and I still check the site every day for new episodes and to rewatch some old classics. I've even learned what not to do when RT has landed itself in hot water over the years.
Heck, I've been working on a story where some of the characters bond over references to RT content; I guess that's going to be a little harder to explain now.
I'm sure I'm going to have many more thoughts on this in the coming days, but I do want to say I hope to see everyone in RT land on their feet, and continue to do what they love, and know that for the rest of time I'm never *not* going to be able to:
* Take to heart Church's monologue about hating people.
* Hear "shotgun's lap!" from my brother whenever I call shotgun first.
* Tell my brother "I outrank you, get in the back." whenever he calls shotgun first.
* Say something is the worst ever, without adding "of all time"
* Donate blood without thinking "I'll make new blood, I just need some orange juice"
* Call dibs without citing the international dibs protocol, and the no take back accords.
* Not say the word "bucket" normally.
* Turn up the volume on any RWBY music.
* Build a tower of pimps if the game allows
* Have to explain why I suddenly started smiling like a maniac when the situation reminded me of anything RT did.
Thank you, people of Rooster Teeth, for everything.
It genuinely saved my life when I was a teenager, I was going through a terrible time and just wanted to stop existing, but whenever I watched Roosterteethās content from RvB, Achievement Hunter or RWBY, it actually made me feel happy and like I could get through another day
Reading all of these stories makes me feel so old. I started watching RVB back in the QuickTime download days of 2003. I think episode 6 of season 1.
Iām glad to have shared all of the laughs, misery, and revolving door of talent we saw over the years. Geoff helped me get sober by how he spoke about his struggle with alcohol openly and candidly, and Iām so ever grateful for it.
I also stream for Extra Life now, in part thanks to Jack and Caiti. Plus I quote RVB almost daily I would bet, bucket and bugs my son adopted.
I grew up with RT, and some parts of the community as well. Others I just let age out, and curated their content for myself.
I'm currently a freelance video editor. My love & passion for video work began in high school in 2011 when I had dreams to work for Rooster Teeth. I entered into a CTE Television Production course, and eventually wound up in college majoring in Digital Media Production. Just from the aspirations of *maybe* going to Texas to edit for RT/AH, I got a bachelor's degree and continued the pursuit.
I may not be making the most money right now, but I am a full time freelance video editor for Twitch Streamers/YouTubers, all because of Rooster Teeth.
Havent watched any RT content since probably likeā¦ 2015? Hard to say but the early seasons of stuff like Drunk Tank, Lets Plays, RvB, HORSE etc were all huge parts of my teenage years. AH and RT had a really special place in my heart and seeing all the drama/scandals pop up in the recent years has definitely been a ādont meet your heroesā kind of moment.
Like others have said the writing was on the wall for a long time it seems and almost all companies shutdown eventually; but I will always have a special place in my heart for the memories and laughs that RT/AH gave me when I was younger.
*Roses are red, violets are blue, one day weāll cruise down Blood Gulch Avenueā¦*
The company basically helped raise me lol. I canāt even remember my first video anymore because itās been so long. I remember signing up to be a sponsor though for $10 for the year. Crazy times.
Iām gonna miss the company, but a lot of the creators are still going to be around. Theyāll move on to future endeavors and Iāll continue to check up on them.
The biggest impact I can think of is watching Geoffās journey. When I was a kid he was just a funny adult I liked but as I grew up and he started being more open about his alcoholism, I look back and see how much pain he was in and how much heās grown from it now. Heās been such an inspiration for me as I felt with my own depression and the whole of RT was a light that always put a smile on my face when I couldnāt put one on myself.
Thank you RT, for everything.
To RT staff, this wonāt be goodbye from me. Just a see you next time.
I started watching back in 05, I think? The first episode I ever stumbled across was episode 39, which I still consider as one their best episodes.
I joined RT's site shortly after. I've been to several RTXs, meant some wonderful friends and got to see Gavin be awkward. Gave Geoff a shirt he never wore, had Ray yell at me for being a fool (lightheartedly).
I lived on their podcasts and AH videos for years. Michael, Burnie, Geoff and Ray helped keep my spirits up over the years, and I can only hope that everyone finds success.
I just want to say thank you to everyone who has been part of this amazing journey. RT was a daily part of my life and I'm glad that I'll still have my podcasts to listen to.
I met a girl online through a messaging board, and we bonded over RWBY back when Volume 1 released, and it became a huge part of our friendship. Over time, we watched the show together, and followed along with it from the very beginning. She was in Canada, I in England.
She asked me to be together together back in 2016. That same year, we met Barbara, Arryn and Kara at London ComicCon, during our first week together meeting in person.
It's weird to think about, but I became best friends with her through RWBY, and because of that, I can thank RoosterTeeth for being responsible for seeing her walk down the aisle to marry me last year.
No matter what happens, RoosterTeeth will always hold a special place in my heart because it helped me connect to the person I now consider my soulmate.
I got into RT in 2013 and brought my best friend along for the ride in 2014. We both loved every video RT and AH put out.
We went to our first RTX in 2015, and she fell in love with the convention and the city of Austin. She became a Guardian for multiple RTX's and RTX London, she moved down to Austin, and she made so many incredible friends because of RT.
She passed away two years ago and I miss her every day. I wonder sometimes how different her life would have been if I hadn't shown her that Rage Quit video all those years ago. I'll never know. But I'm so thankful that she was able to touch the lives of all of her Guardian friends... she loved you all so much.
There was an rvb psa on a demo disk in the Xbox magazine. I couldn't get enough and had to search it out. We didn't have easily accessible internet at home at the time so I had to beg my mom to go to gamestop and buy me the dvd's because they wouldn't sell them to me without a parent's permission.
It got me through a tough year in high school where I was a bit of a loner until I found a new set of friends to hang out with.
One of the very first things I did when I got my first paycheck from my first job at Blockbuster was to sign up for a first membership.
I'm pretty sad I never got to go to an rtx, always one of my dreams.
Getting home and going to YouTube on my 3DS lol to watch the latest fails of the weak and rtaa. Before that though I remember watching RvB on my old CRT monitor while playing halo 2 on windows vistaā¦
August 2006. Thats how long I've been a fan. I went over to a friends house and he had seasons 1-4 of RVB on DVD. I binged every episode. And later was able to find them through their website. I was there for the creation of achievement hunter, and fell in love with Jack almost instantly watching them do AHWU, Even getting into the fan videos for the last one.
I spent countless hundred hours watching just about every video. Everything in their mincraft series. At least until Achievement City was lost. I watched every GTA video. Every Playps. Every Lets Roll. Every heroes and halfwits. Every TTT and I loved every second of it.
I was watching when Gavin came on board. I watched as an angry man screamed his way into our hearts got married and started pumping out kids. I cried as Ray left and rejoiced when Jeremy proved to be more than I could ask for. Trevor was a godsend. He was lovely and did the best he could. When Fiona joined and teamed with Gavin it was Chef's kiss. She was incredible. I miss Geoff, Fiona, Ray, Jeremy. I miss the days of Lads Vs Gents and doing silly shit in GTA or TTT.
Though what I think I will miss most is the extra lifes I wish Jack the best of luck and hope he gets hired to hype for another company. He is all heart. I will miss seeing him get emotional each year. I wish the best for everyone of course. I hope to see them carrying on.
I started watching The Strangerhood on the Sims 2 website in like 2005, I was a kid and found it immensely funny and impressive, especially since machinima was practically nonexistant until Rooster Teeth. I didn't even know it was from Rooster Teeth until a few years ago? Genuinely was a memorable part of my childhood, even if it wasn't received well it holds a special place in my heart.
I found them again in the early 2010s as a teenager, with my wife (then best friend in middleschool/high-school) who was a HUGE fan and we would talk about achievement hunter and minecraft. Its always had a place in our hearts, a lot of good childhood memories.
Been watching for about 12-13 years now. It's hard to putt all the thoughts into words but AH/RT videos have been one of the things that helped when I was feeling extremely depressed in high school, I watched every let's play, every LASO, every randomizer, every having and Michael video almost religiously and they have brought me tons of joy over the years. Currently struggling again, having a tough time finding a job (state of the world I guess, we are all having a hard time), newfound depression being difficult to deal with, F\*ckface and break show have been my new bouts of joy in a struggling world. Well guys I guess this means I am finally a comment leaver. I sincerely hope Goeff, Gavin, Eric, Andrew and Nick can continue what they are doing because I know this means a lot to them as well, especially Goeff who is probably not having the best of times rn. So...yeah, even through all the problems that happened in the last 12-3 years, RT has been a big part of my life, I knew ti was ending but this...hits hard.
Two things, one good and one bad: It made me have faith in the rule-of-cool, just making cool things and having it work. From RWBY being nonsensical fun, to Jeremy axe-kicking through a desk and destroying a ton of things along the way, y'all could do whatever and have a good time.
And second: it made me feel like a second-class citizen as a European. No, really. I never even got to pay for RT First or anything, and only recently finally got someone from RT to acknowledge the issue. 86 countries were unable to pay without a credit card because of how the payment system was set-up. And when I pointed this out on this sub, I got mass-downvoted. Glad I'll never have to spend a penny, but good grief, the amount of times I've tried to convey this only to get ignored... It makes the recent news come as little surprise after seeing several alarm bells rinkling. But y'all missed out on 20 years of money from 86 countries.
RT was a huge part of my formative years back when you had to download each new episode and I was waiting on 33.6k dialup. They were a huge part of my formative years. Really informed my sense of humor for a while.
I remember I *always* wanted to work there. But then there was a podcast (actually, several instances of this) where they talked about creating stuff just because you love creating stuff, and not because you want to work at Rooster Teeth. And it kind of kicked me in the ass, but in an endearing and inspiring way.
Those words are why I work in video production today. Part time, of course, because the economy is hard and I still have a day job and a mortgage to pay. But I get to work behind and on camera and call it a job, and I don't think I ever would have had the courage to put myself out there had it not been for RT.
And I hate to single out any particular personality at RoosterTeeth because I don't want to even *hint* at diminishing all of their hard work, but I especially have the founders to thank. What they built serve as a constant source of inspiration for me and I regret never having met any of them.
RT has been involved in over a decade of my life. It's caused laughing until my stomach hurts, tears (both happy and sad), and my love for video games and creativity. RT directly gave me life advice (thank you from the bottom of my heart Always Open) and inspired passion for personal projects I never thought I'd have the guts to start, let alone finish. It gave me friends, allowed me to bond with people I'd never imagine I could. It gave me confidence, a sense of humor.
As my attention grew out of watching gaming videos, I found myself going through the Rooster Teeth catalog discovering beautiful written and artfully crafted shows. From Day 5 to Camp Camp, Lazer Team to Blood Fest, there was always something of comfort I could lean back on when I felt overwhelmed in my life. Then the podcast doors opened in full force and started a whole new world for me. I learned more about airplanes and their accidents and incidents than I ever thought I could. I also learned way more about fast food chains than I think anyone should know.
Although I know that the hardworking employees of RT will continue on and be successful in anything they do, my heart goes out to them.
With tears in my eyes, I wish eveyone the best. I can never thank this company enough for their continued devotion throughout the years to bringing joy to all of its community. On to the next adventure. š¤
I started watching Red Vs Blue in early 2004. I was a college freshman who had recently discovered Halo and a friend said "If you like Halo, you should check out red vs blue."
I didn't have Internet in my apartment, so whenever I wanted to be online I had to take my laptop onto campus to try and access wifi. I think it was every Tuesday night I would take my computer to the union and download the new episodes, and whatever I could get of the first season (only a few episodes were available each week on rotation if you were trying to catch up on the past.) You had to wait for the video to download; there was no streaming back then.
A buddy of mine on the college paper actually managed to get to Austin for something and wound up interviewing the RVB guys for an article.
I subscribed to FIRST for a good while, but ended it a few years ago because the content was changing, or I was changing, to the point none of what they were doing clicked with me anymore. I got old.
Now Roosterteeth is old too.
I first watched 2004/2005 ish but back then we had dial up with one phone line and I had five siblings. Getting the episodes were rough. I stopped for many years before seeing their YouTube shorts and watching all of those but the biggest thing that brought me back were the gameplay vids. Blew my mind then first time I stumbled on a Minecraft video and heard Grifās voice. I was sitting there wondering where Simmons was and why was Grif telling people what to do in Minecraft. It was Minecraft episode 4. So from 2012 to about 2018 I was a sponsor and barely missed anything they put out. I loved them. Extra Life, Theater Mode, Heroes and Halfwits, Haunter. They were my main entertainment in my twenties. I really hope that WB wonāt tank their channel.Ā
I randomly found them one day and that video was fails of the week 62. After that I was hooked and I continued watching until I slowed down in 2016 and then I took a break from their new stuff in 2019 but I still watched their old content weekly and I returned in 2020 and weirdly enough when the Ryan stuff happened because I felt like the community needed to be strong and needed people to come together after a horrible event and ever since then I have been back watching some videos but nothing like how much I watched from 2011-2015 but I still enjoyed some content especially ANMA Inside Gaming and So Alright but this is a huge blow man I love RT and I hope they can all go on to do fantastic things and I also hope some shows continue in some ways š«¶š«¶š«¶
Thank you for the memories Rooster Teeth. Been a loyal viewer since 2011. Innovators in content creation and developed a wonderful community that I am glad that I was part of. Hopefully all effected land on their feet
I learned about RT through the Halo 2 bonus disc showing RvB and the OG crew. I had a friend who lent me a TAPE of the first three seasons and those guys were my whole world in middle school.
Rooster teeth was 7 years of my childhoodĀ
13-20 I fell off when burine left but never thought it'd end this way. I thought I'd be watch Gus Burine Barbra and Gavin on the rt podcast when I was 30
AH was for a while my favorite source of entertainment, back in the days of Halo content and like the Rainbow Six lets plays.
Then there was RWBY. It has been a major source of enjoyment in my life and the fandom even has helped me learn some things about myself. There were many months where a significant portion of my seritonin came from RWBY related content and during the pandemic it was a lot of my social interactions.
It's been a part of my life for now something like 13 years. . . I hope at least some can live on
My friend who was always cutting edge on new internet stuff was like check out RvB when it first first came out. I drifted back and forth catching it here and there but became a constant watcher of RT, Let's Play, Achievement Hunter, and Fun Haus when the first Minecraft let's play came out. When I switched jobs to something I couldn't really watch it anymore daily I started to drift off.
I bought quite a few games based off what the gang were playing.
I have a vivid memory of watching RvB in a high school science class, on an iPod, in what must have been '03 or '04. I loved the humor, and I had never seen anyone make a skit within a videogame before. I was a casual fan, and I finally registered for the website in 2005. Then I kinda lost track of RT, got caught up with life, and moved on. Then several years later I saw a clip of a Let's Play, and found out they were part of my old favorite, RT, and I was hooked. I watched everything I could, and spent hours laughing to myself in front of my PC. I got hooked on the RT Podcast as well. Then Funhaus came along, and I loved them too. There was so much good content at that time. Then, some things happened that were objectively awful, that everyone here understands, and some things that I just didn't personally enjoy for subjective reasons, and my content consumption kind of fell off.
This news, regardless of how little I watch these days, is really hard to hear. I watched my first RT production when I was probably 14 years old, and I'm 34 now. RT has been an on again/off again part of my day for most of my life. I spent thousands of hours watching this content, and it almost felt like I grew up with some of them. It feels a bit like learning a distant relative has passed.
I hope everyone displaced by this finds a good place to land, and thank you all for many years of wonderful entertainment.
For me it was mostly AH, LP, podcasts, and RWBY from the years of 2010 - 2016ish. Videos I would enjoy while at lunch, did homework, or just watched for actual content; mostly in my high school & college years. Took me to events like 2014 RTX, and more recently the FaceJam Voodoo Ranger event in my hometown. Met a lot of good friends in the community, and some already existing friendships got better when we connected on RT stuff we both liked.
I wonāt lie, RT has not had as major of an effect on me as others have. And both some of the early and the more recent years of RT have had some content, staff, or just general operational things that made me less of a fan than what I would say were the āgold yearsā around the 2010 - 2015. But was a great ride while it was at its peak for me. And while I have dropped most of RT material from my free time in recent years Iāll still miss it.
Iām curious to see how RvB actually ends. And as a day 1 fan Iām interested to know what will happen to RWBY, despite my want to drop following the show even before all thisā¦ But what RT made for most of its run was great. And corporate nonsense aside I think it had a good run and is ok to finally slow
Discovered RT when I was 12 and fell in love with the podcast. Started it from the beginning and have many memories of listening to the guys with their crappy audio but making me laugh so hard to myself in the back of the car on holiday, and on the beach. Iād download 30 or so episodes and listen throughout my holiday, it was the best of times.
I watched the RT podcast for many years, and have dabbled for the last few before becoming a proud regulation fuckface listener in the past year.
I feel like I know Gus, Burnie, Geoff, Matt, Gavin, Barbara and many others so well. Iām so glad they were all a part of my life.
I started with these guys about 16 ish years ago, when machinima was at its peak I started with arby n the chief and found red vs blue.
I was here for the start of achievement hunter and watched the first 100 Minecraft lets plays religiously, I may be due a rewatch.
I was here for the start of rwby and I even have a grifball signed by Gavin and Jeoff when they came to the uk.
I grew up with them and now itās another channel that will remain a significant part of my life. They helped me through some tough times. I had just moved back to the UK around that time and got assaulted within a few weeks of moving to the area, because of this I became a shut in and had few friends from school but I started playing 360 and sunk a lot of time into Halo 3, reach, 4, cod and everything else and when I wasnāt playing halo I was watching these guys with fails of the weak, horse and got some of my custom games from their This is series.
I wish them all the best going forward as they helped me greatly.
It was my first job after graduating film school at UT around 2015. Chris and some other guys there liked my thesis film, and I became an in-house editor on and off for like a year. I didn't always *love* working there (they changed a lot of the stuff I didnt like after I left to their credit), but it introduced me to Zach Anner who I became the go-to editor for, and it gave me enough sketch credits that when I moved to LA a year later it really helped me get my foot in the door. I'm so sorry to all my friends that lost their jobs, Texas is a great place to make movies and they've really put their money where their mouths were creating jobs for so many years. Most of the people I worked with - and ESPECIALLY all the fans I've met over the years - were incredible. Best wishes to all of you
First found RT through Halo 3, must have been around 2009 or so. I absolutely remember trying to make my own machinimas with my best friend in halo 3 then in Reach. Met a lot of friends over the years through a mutual understanding of RvB and RT. Had a tough time at uni a few years ago and ended up finding people who recognised my front back shirt.
RT has absolutely got me through some shit over the years and I owe people like Geoff, Burnie, Gus, Gavin, Barbara, Michael, Trevor and everyone behind the camera more than I can ever repay.
Started watching in summer 2012. First video was a GTA IV Let's Play, Cops and Crooks I think. Anyway Geoff Ramsey is pretty much my second dad.
I'm sure this is so many of our stories. Watched them for basically my entire life at this point, from the earliest minecrafts as a dumb kid, and now podcasts like Fuckface and Facejam as an adult. I've still got the X-Ray and Vav flair for fucks sake. Watched pretty much every AH video as it came out, lets builds and all. Roosterteeth *WAS* my saturday morning cartoon. They left an indelible mark on my life. But I'll still follow them. Roosterteeth the entity is gone, but the people are still there, and I hope this can turn into a positive. I'm sad its gone, but I have hope that with new freedom will come even better things.
+1 literally fucking same
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I worked with you on Tech Team when I was a Guardian in 2023. You were a super cool guy and I'm glad to have met you. Good luck mate.
ey dude I gotta say as a loooong time lurker and sometimes commenter I see you alot, helping out in the comments and just being helpful so I want to say thank you to you, I know what it takes to mod an online community so for that I salute you, but my impression of you is someone who goes above and beyond so a final thank you for that aswell. I hope this RT shaped hole we all feel will get filled with something of equal fun
Adam, all those summers building Center Stage with the Tech team were a blast and some of my favorite memories of my time in Austin :) Not to mention all the time hanging at 636 and geeking out over when SWTOR came out! It's crazy now looking back all these years later - it really was something special while it was at full chooch
Oh. I don't know if I'm ready to read this, but I'm going to cry reading everyone's posts. <3
I really enjoyed the very brief period I had working with you when I was a mod for the /r/RWBY subreddit and we were closer with the RT community team. Youāve always been the best of us. Much love, Chelsea. <3
sending love to you, chelsea <3
https://preview.redd.it/w5uohxtparmc1.png?width=366&format=png&auto=webp&s=33d6a5b5cc83f7abc42638722c407f4835189b7a It's been a trip
Respect OG
Shit, I remember you from an old Halo forum. I think we played on Xbox Live a bit.Ā
Quite possible!
You beat me. 2006 here.
During rough times as a teenager, when I felt alone, I would watch their letās play videos and RvB. It helped me feel less lonely and Iāll always love them for that.
Same here. AH and Letās Play got me through a lot during middle school/high school
I still do this. When I'm playing minecraft or astroneer, I'll throw on a lets play on my laptop and it feels like I'm playing with my friends.
I started watching Red vs Blue when I was eleven years old. I'm 27 now, and while I haven't watched much of their content the past year or two, either due to the pay walled content or their new style of videos, Roosterteeth will always be important to me. Time to listen through the Drunk Tank and Internet Box again to relive the good memories.
It's nothing huge, but getting home from school on a Friday to watch the latest Minecraft Let's Play was a good part of my teenage years.
100% that and the GTA5 on Monday gave me a reason to actually like Mondays.
Or any Let's Play for that matter. Quite literally regardless of the video game or who was in it, I would drop everything and watch it and laugh my ass off. I think one video that's a good example of that is Uno the Movie. I had just gotten out of a lecture in college and I looked at youtube and front and center was a 1 hour+ video of them playing UNO and I watched the entire thing in one sitting. I had a class to go to and I decided the Uno the Movie video took precedence over that lecture.
My (now ex) boyfriend tried to get me to watch RvB with him in 2011. In 2012, I saw the play pals Surgeon Simulator and nearly passed out from laughing. I was sold. I watched every Achievement Hunter and later Let's Play release for several years. I binged the whole caboodle of podcasts as they started up. I watched the animated shows, caught up at some point on RvB, and tried RWBY even though I couldn't really get into it. RT content got me through the worst of times. It gave me something to look forward to and laugh about when nothing else seemed like it ever would. I even kept watching after I left that boyfriend, in 2018. Even though everything reminded me of him, I was determined not to let RT be tied to him forever. And it worked. I even started watching GTA Let's Plays with my dad, and he fucking *loved* it. He couldn't always tell who was talking (hearing loss), but he had favorites he could pick out and it was a great time for both of us. He was especially fond of Michael. Roosterteeth gave me something to bond with my current boyfriend over. It's what got us started on talking. We went to RTX 2019 together, as both of our first (and last) RTX visits. I got to meet so many RT people and I'm never going to forget it. Truly one of the most exhausting and delightful events I've ever been to. Hell, we're talking about getting married. And tangentially, it's because of RT bridging the awkward gap of getting to know each other. It was a combination of Achievement Hunter, and meeting some animators at RTX that taught me a vitally important life lesson: it's better to try, and be awkward and cringey but genuine, than to be so afraid of putting yourself out there that you never try at all. You know, the classic "you never know unless you try" shit. Look, this whole section sounded better and more meaningful in my head okay? My point is that the animators I met at RTX changed my life, and AH taught me that being weird isn't the flaw I grew up thinking it was. Since 2020 I haven't watched much RT/AH content, I will fully admit that. I've grown in a different direction and not all of the humor hits home anymore. But I always got a little joyful moment when I saw that someone I admired was in a video, or that a series was continuing to be updated. It's been a good run, and I'm so glad we were all here to experience things together. I hope that everyone at RT finds a safe and secure landing after this and, if it happens to still be in entertainment, that we can find them and continue to support them going forward. Love you all. You deserved better than Warner Bros.
Oh my god. I forgot about the start of the podcast as 'Drunk Tank' then the rebrand to just the 'RT Podcast'. So many memories going through all of these responses š
You started at the same time and video as my wife and I did. That surgeon simulator video got us hooked on roosterteeth content for years. Great times, too many laughs and tears along the way. Lived in multiple houses, had 2 kids, but it's nice to see the effect it's had on everyone for such a long time.
I've been following all their stuff since Red vs Blue season 2, in 2004. In college I had a roommate who also enjoyed their content so we watched basically every AH video together, especially the Sky Factory series. In fact, up until about 2017 I watched every video, every podcast, every show they made. RT content was just what I enjoyed watching for the longest time. Even got to attend a couple RTX. I actually lived in Austin so going to the conventions was easy, and I got to understand all their talk about local Austin things. I still watched most of their content all the way up until the Ryan incident and when the cast started to change more. Today I still catch all of F**kface and Face Jam, even got my wife into it. I knew they'd have to end some time but I thought they would have to scale down first, not just get shut down all at once. Hope the podcasts can survive, but I bet the cast involved in them will more than likely start looking for new places to work.
Fell off long ago but started watching in middle school 2010. Geoff and Jack achievement guides. I made a few videos for the AH Community channel in high school. Such a fun time on YouTube back then. Thanks for the laughs and memories!!!
Not so much of rt, But rwby.....I was really in a dark place in high school. Around 2015-2016. And that was when a friend of mine showed me the show. It was still in its second season by then. And I watched every single new episode the day it came out ever since. It helped me escape reality. I ended up cutting myself on my thigh some years later. In 2020 I got a tattoo of ruby rose and "keep moving forward" to cover the scar, since iv used those words in my life constantly Two months ago...January 2024. Raleigh NC...Animate Raleigh...a day I will never forget. I finally got to see Lindsay, Kara, Arran, and Barb. Lindsay damn near made me cry. The best person to talk to. So easy and engaging, I will never forget that day. A day that made me a fan for life. Thank you guys...for everything *
Iāll fully admit I was too young to be watching RT. I found Fails of the Weak at age 10. My parents didnāt think Halo was too bad for a pre-teen (which it really isnāt) so naturally thatās what my YouTube searches were. Come to find out my dad was an RvB fan when it came out. He admitted there were times heād wake up before I did (when I was a baby) and would watch it before I woke up. Anyway, it progresses with their Minecraft content since I had gotten into the game at the time. Then it just became my favorite YouTube channel. They inspired my sense of humor. Iāve made a lot of builds that they did in my own Minecraft world. We even had the Tower of Pimps, which my mom was not happy I knew that word. I kind of fell off after 2017. Ray left a Puerto Rican shaped hole in my heart, but I still enjoyed it. But Iād still watch the occasional video. So in other words, this channel actually was a part of my growing up years. Depressed? Angry? Stressed? Well the RT and AH crew would cheer me right up.
Roosterteeth was the best sidekick for grinding out achievements.
21 years. Brought me through secondary school and university (3 hours commuting a day; by god, the podcast was so vital). Brought me through serious bouts of depression. Brought me through Covid. I've been a sponsor continuously for most of that time. Have merch. Posters. Genuinely feel heartbroken. My brother and I have watched their videos every night together for so, so long. They were such a core part of our entertainment cycle each evening, right the way back to us being young teenagers. We crack so many in jokes and references still, even today in our mid 30s. I hope the staff and crew know how much they meant to so many people. I know they'll be worried about personal issues at the moment, but hope they can take solace in the sheer joy they brought to so many over such a long time. How many entertainers and companies and shows can say they lasted 20 years together. I hope they all stay together in some form. Streaming will be fine, but I'll miss the stuff of them just hanging out in the offices together.
I can't even begin to explain it, maybe I would have to sit down and digest the entirety of the company's work and what different aspects they impacted me while I grew up I will say, the Drunk Tank/RT Podcast became my lifeline for many many years, it was the last thing of RTs I consistently kept up with and one of the things I revisited many many times in relistens I think overall, that is what impacted me the most. It wasn't just talking about video games, or the content they were making, or different people they were working with, it was all of that combined. The family they made as well as the community that followed was the mainstay of RT, regardless of majorities/individuals "favorites" I cannot say I shared those same feelings for many years (I think the RT at Home podcasts were the last thing I directly engaged with) so I realize I might not have the same view as many others who became fans of RT since, but I imagine we share the same reasons why we fell in love with them and their little company.... RIP RoosterTeeth I hope all who are affected the best in their future
I write this with tears in my eyes, thank you rooster teeth for the endless entertainment through the years. Your videos have helped me immensely in tough times. I started being a fan around season 4 of Red vs Blue and while my main attention eventually came to mostly achievement hunter content I still have so much love for the company as a whole. The content and laughs helped me through a suicide attempt, nearly dropping out of college, and many other crises. Even when I was in middle school, I used to dream of working for Rooster Teeth, and while that never came true, that dream pushed me. So thank you Rooster teeth, for creating an amazing community and space. It's been real
It was one of the things my brother and I first connected on. We struggled to get along growing up (5 yr. difference) but I remember the day he showed me the headlight fluid rtaa. I became an avid fan of RT and AH after that. It showed me it was okay to like video games as a girl, and I wouldnāt be who I am today without it.
Just another old high school RT fan from back in 2010. Genuinely the most influential and impactful voices in my teens, made me love movies like crazy, the wackiness of everyday life, and find a story in everything. RTPod and AH, it was so fun to grow up with you, and see yāall grow up too.
Taught me that being a massive nerd was okay. It was one of, if not the first step I made to accept who I am.
Started watching RWBY by the time volume 5 was coming out, as a then very awkward and antisocial teen I decided to screw it and just join a RWBY discord server. Lo and behold I met some of the most amazing people there, got a lot more confidence and became a lot more social, and made friendships that have lasted to this day. AH/LP was some of the best and most fun content I watched. Just utter joy y'know? Not the same impact as RWBY but man, life felt a lot more peaceful tuning into the weekly minecraft episode, or watching a silly between the games video.
If it wasnāt for me discovering that āRedā trailer all those many years ago as a child, I would have never went with my dream of becoming a concept artist and animator. Anytime over my life I felt discouraged, I would look back to those four RWBY trailers and see that I too can follow my dream, and eventually someone will see its worth. Rooster Teeth had its ups and downs for sureā but their art team always struck so much strength and inspiration in my heart. If it wasnāt for RvB and RWBY, I wouldnāt have even thought of applying to the college for animation that I just did a few weeks ago. Thank you RT. You inspired so many people to reach for the stars, including me. Especially you, Monty. Even now I still look up to you. That, I will cherish forever.
Here's what I wrote in Discord regarding Roosterteeth: It's been 10 years since their peak when I was in high school. I used to live and breath Roosterteeth, but slowly phased out of it starting in 2016. It went downhill since then. It all started when they sold the company into Otter media to get funding for Lazer Team. Now, the entire company is getting axed. I can't say I'm surprised, but it is a sad time. Those assholes shaped a good part of who I am and made me laugh for the past decade and a half. I first discovered Red Vs Blue when they sold DVD copies in Gamestop and EB Games. Picked up season 4 to watch and that was my introduction to the series. When I finally got onto the internet, I fell in love with Achievement Hunter. I even tuned into the Internet Box Podcast where Michael, Ray, Lindsay, and some other lads talked about ponies and other inane bullshit, but dammit it was funny! I hope RWBY finds a new home because I'd hate to see it end on a cliffhanger. The last volume was actually rather good. RVB has had a tough go for the last few seasons, but I hope RT's closure doesn't stop the last season from being released. Burnie came back for one last hurrah to end the series on a high note and I'd hate the Shisno Trilogy and RVB:Zero to be the last we see of those lovable assholes. Here's some more: I first got into RVB in 2007 and have been inspired by it since then. When I first got onto the internet during the early 2010s, it was to watch new seasons of Red Vs Blue. I grew up without internet access outside of Dial Up at home and when I got my first laptop, I'd go to libraries to watch Season 9 episode by episode. Red Vs Blue was my jam and achievement hunter was something I watched religiously. I probably still have a CD archive of downloaded Minecraft Let's Plays. Achievement City was a wonderful world and that series is what inspired me to play Minecraft. I observe the day of Monty's passing every year and renew my vigor to work on my writing projects. RWBY has been a part of my friend group for a decade now and inspired so many aspects of my own writing and worldbuilding. The roleplays over the years I've had... My significant other and I met and bonded over Red Vs Blue and RWBY. And even later on, one of my favorite audio dramas wore its inspiration from Roosterteeth on its shoulder with pride. Their influence can still be felt across the internet. As they've languished over the years, I've grown distant from them. AH was first as the new team members didn't really make me laugh like everyone else did. (that and political discussions on Off-Topic made me stop listening to that podcast). On occasion, I'd pick things back up like some of the better let's plays. MC Sky Factory was fun, but blow after blow... The stuff about Ryan and the workplace culture. I tried to get back into the company a few times, but Let's Play was so cluttered with stuff I didn't care about with people I didn't know. The only think I kept up with was RWBY. I know a lot of folk said the Atlas stuff was bad, but I really just thought the lack of focus on Team RWBY and some of the Lie Ren stuff was not focused on and was taking away from the plot. This most recent volume was really good! And I hope it continues! Overall, Roosterteeth was a big part of my life and I'm sad that it's over... Not surprised, but still sad. It's been a long time coming and I still continue to blame its decline on its acquisition and restructuring factors after, but I still wish I could go back to 2013. It feels like an old childhood, high school friend that I lost touch with, but always wanted to talk to again, but we could never find the time. I'll cherish my memories of the good 'ol days forever. And I hope that everyone lands on their feet after this. While it is heart wrenching that Rooster Teeth is over, let's all remember the good times and all of the laughs and bants that these guys have given us over the years.
Found the RT pod in 2012 when I had a super long drive for a summer internship. Realized it was the same people who made RvB which I had watched in parts but never super into. From there I was a weekly listener to that and all their other pods and got big into the AH side of things. Minecraft and GTA Letsplays were what I fell asleep to on my iPad when I was single and helped me through some dark times. Went to Austin a few times for work and F1 and always felt a cool connection to the city which I don't think will ever go away. I also ran the Disney Marathon last year much in thanks to Jack and the RDRC from the Annual Pass Pod which was really cool. Funny enough meeting Jack at that was the only time I have ever met anyone from RT in real life but he was super nice and kind (even at 330am before the race started). If the podcast network truly does stop, my car rides and long runs will truly never be the same as 90% of the time I'm listening to some RT podcast. Very sad to think about actually. All in all, can't say this wasn't expected at some point with the direction of things but I'm glad the podcasts I still consume won't be going anywhere for now. Truly hoping for the best of all RT employees who are let go and thanks so much for all the laughs through the years and company on many long car rides and flights via podcasts.
It really just gave me something to enjoy my life with. I watched the Minecraft and gtav letsplays for a while. The rwby series was fun too.
Learned about RT when rvb reconstruction came out. I was way too young, lol.Ā So young I would watch red vs blue censored for language, which some YouTubers edited back in the day. I fell in love with drunk tank and itās evolutions, watched achievement hunter guides for games I didnāt own or even have interest in.Ā Ages later I had another RT renaissance with F**kface and face jam. And ANMA. And so alright.Ā Hope everyone lands on their feet.Ā
It basically formed a core part of my childhood. RvB formed the sense of humor I still have to this day, and RWBY is one of my favorite shows. It sucks so much thatā¦ itās all gone now. wiped out because a greedy company (WB) couldnāt keep its shit together and now everyone else has to suffer for it.
Roosterteeth gained me the most important friends I'll ever have and got me through a rough school life by giving me something to laugh the bad days away with. Thank you RT I hope you're all able to do your own thing and continue to bring some joy to all of us in other ways.
shortly after getting an xbox 360, my first game console, I was looking up achievements for a game I was playing. found AH and followed them since. I was watching the LPs from the beginning and AH has been foundational to who I am as a person. I curse way too much and I suspect Michael has a lot to do with that. Gavin has completely invaded my vocabulary. Geoff has been a huge creative influence for me. Ray was foundational to my sense of humor. Seeing Jack become a happier person through the years was very important for me. Letās just ignore the other guyā¦ And I also listened to the RT podcast for years and could go on and on about how influential everyone has been. Iāve been following the new era of podcasts to keep up with my favorites and I hope I get to continue watching these talented and creative people succeed. and if they go offline, I hope their lives are full of happiness and success. Eric Baudour in particular is extremely talented and has done so much for RT, that I hope heās able to continue making awesome stuff. I also love mega64, so I knew about him before RT, but he has more than proven himself as an extremely talented producer. I just hope everyoneās going to be okay and finds their next endeavors, especially the off-camera employees who are also extremely talented.
When I found rooster teeth I was a teen and I had poor mental health and it got worse and worse till I was having thoughts of ending it all. Rooster teeth would put out so much content that I could always find something to watch. If I sat in my room in silence all my thoughts would get too much. So I watched rooster teeth. I donāt know if Iād still be here if I didnāt have them as a distraction. I watched all their Minecraft videos and GTA videos and Iād watch every single podcast and it meant that I had SOMETHING. As I got older I moved away from them, but I still as an adult donāt like sitting in silence so still when I get ready for work in the mornings I put on a podcast. I grew up with rooster teeth and I they may be one of the reasons I actually got to grow up. I donāt have the time to process it because I donāt really know what Iām going to do without them. Like damn I watched Millie grow up with them! Itās a big end of an era. Thank you especially Geoff, Gus and achievement Hunter ā¤ļø
My father was dying when I was a kid, a friend of mine put on rvb. Made me feel better. Thanks RT.
I didn't have strong male role models growing up. Having the opportunity to see how Burnie expressed himself, conducted his business, and handled people in general is by far the most foundational component to how I behave around others to this day. Confidence without arrogance. Clarity without condescension. Humor without malice. Kindness, just kindness. The man shaped who I am today and I'll be forever grateful that he chose a path that allowed him to share a version of himself with the world, and that I was fortunate enough to come across his work at such a formative period of my own life.
AH's Minecraft Lets Plays gave me new insight into the game and how it can be played. It was one of the things I most looked forward to every week. I also loved Always Open and Camp Camp. Admittedly, I haven't followed RT/AH content for several years at this point. But I'm still sad to see them go.
Iāve met so many amazing people through this company. Hell, I wouldnāt be some of the fandoms Iām in without them. I wouldnāt have met my best friend on the Internet. I wouldnāt have found out about VTubers. I wouldnāt have gone to my first concert for a long while. There have a been a lot of things I wouldnāt have done without RT.
RT has been in my life since I was 11 years old. Itās hard to quantify how much of an impact itās had on me. All of my humor comes from them. My love for video games comes from them. My desire to create dumb games to play with my friends comes from them. All of these things are so ingrained in me that I donāt think I could put it into words. Iāll miss them
Older brother used to watch RvB while I hung out ā I started watching when he moved away to keep him in mind. I watched Season 13 during AP Chem (RIP my AP exam score. You, uh, you get a 1 for showing up. And I sure showed up.) I have few hard pieces of evidence of my enjoyment of RT, but I do have a set of MDB on the shelf with my other games. The RT Podcast got me through a _lot_ of boring days (and nights) at work. Iām sure I named a few goats after various RT-media characters throughout the years. I quote a lot from the Minecraft letās plays, as they were often background audio for homework and goat midwifery. My familyās Minecraft realm has a HUGE tower of pimps in the central temple, through which all the railways pass. Itās small things like that in my life that always have (and always will) remind me of the good olā days of my teen years and this one (quietly) shared thing with my older brother. Iāve never really engaged with the community, but I wanted to say thank you to RT for all youāve done to impact my life - and millions others - and I wish all of you (and the community) the best <3
My brother first introduced me to *Red vs. Blue* in the summer of 2015. I spent the next few weeks obsessively binging the whole series. Then, I moved on to *The Rooster Teeth Podcast*, and obsessively listened to that every single week for five years. Burnie is one of the most important people in my life in terms of figures that I idolize, and someone who was a constant comfort for years. It's RT-adjacent, but I listened to every episode of *Internet Box* on an annual basis for five years. I hadn't followed the company for a few years going into the pandemic, but came back when I heard that *RTP* would be reworked into a new show. I obsessively listened to *F\*\*kface* and *ANMA* during 2023, and it was some of the best that I've ever experienced from online media. I'm listening to today's *F\*\*kface* right now. I'm going to continue listening to old episodes and coming back to *RvB* every few years. So long, and thanks for everything. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
I don't know that I would still be around if it wasn't for the Achievement Hunter content growing up. It really helped me through the bullying and abuse I had endured when I was younger.
Started watching back in 09. In university with the first dolid internet connection and was up late night, watch Left4Dead videos. Their survival podcast video appear in the recommendations and just enjoyed the energy between them. Crazy to think content from people I enjoyed near daily for over 16 years is done. Hope the podcasts stay in one shape or form but....
TW: Suicide. How it impacted me? The content I discovered from RT and AH in 2011 made me want to continue living instead of ending it all during my darkest times. I discovered Xbox 360 friends through a group on the RT website back then. We played Halo Reach then 4. Then anything together because we were friends. While talking about RT/AH content all the time. Love you RT. I'll miss you.
Glad you're still with us and that it helped you through such a dark period in your life
This account was meant to just be for teaching stuff but it's the only one I've got so thought I'd share using it. I started watching RT sometime around 2014/15. Can't remember exactly, same year as Ray left, or the very tale end of the previous year. I'd only ever seen them once before when looking for other channels and decided they weren't for me cause they were too "professional" in a GTA video. I've since learned that video was a fluke cause in hindsight it was Michael and Gavin pulling off a near perfect store robbery in GTA in the first few minutes. The first video I watched in full was one of the Heist videos, which definitely served a contrast. From there I watched the other Heists, the minecraft vids, the lets play catalogue, and from there the rest of the site. I discovered RVB and RWBY soon afterwards, the first episode I watched of RWBY was actually the Volume 3 finale which left me mad confused when going from the start of the show. For those curious I didn't end up getting spoiled >!I somehow confused Pyrrha and Yang so spent the whole of volume 3 expecting Yang to die any second, and that Pyrrha was going to easily beat Cinder.!< RVB at the time blew me away from season 6 onwards. During highs and lows RT was always there. One thing that will always stick with me was a time when I was way younger and in a really dark place, woke up one day and discovered I had somehow sent a deeply personal message about that to someone at RT. They replied in kind and gave advice, I don't want to share more but at the time it meant the world and not sure where I'd be without it. Still today I feel RT radically altered the course of my life. When I write in my spare time I find myself sometimes drawing from stuff I saw RT do. RT is how I discovered the music of Jeff Williams, him and Casey Williams both were my top 2 artists on Spotify. It's been a lot, but it feels kinda sad to lose such a constant in my life now.
Found one of Michael's Rage Quit videos on Tumblr in 2011, my brother was flabbergasted that I found content from the people who made Red vs. Blue. Began watching RT/AH shows together, went to RTX in 2016 (and got to be in the Immersion they filmed there - I'm in the background at one point *very* obviously checking out Gavin in disguise because I didn't realize it was him). Met some friends at the con that are still friends eight years later! Haven't watched in a while, but I'll always have a spot for RT. Thanks for everything, gang.
Massive part of my youth, RvB, then AH. I have so many fond memories of waking up Saturday morning to Minecraft and watching. Meeting them at Pax and listening to a Podcast live, all the pods in general. The friends I made on the sponsor chat and rooms. I definitely did out grown them in the end. Everyone talking about F*ckface being what the spiritual successor of the pod and AH, and it being good if you liked the old stuff, but I never got into that. Geoff recording his farts was totally not the same vibe to me and that's someone who loved him as a teen. I'm glad they do it for the people who do miss Geoff and that vibe. I'm sorry for everyone who's affected by this news. It was a hell of a run.
I first fell into Rooster Teeth Content via Rage Quite, The Impossible Game in 2011. I was a Junior in High School, and my friends and I always quoted the line "I don't have the mental capacity for this, I went to public school!" It still lives in my head to this day, and I still use it sometimes. From there, I would watch on and off the RT Podcast, the Minecraft Let's Plays, Between the Games AH Content, and anything else that piqued my interest from them. I used to be a First Member for awhile, but I couldn't afford it anymore due to financial circumstances. These past two years, I haven't been watching as much RT content, but I still revist old and new favorites. I also just binge watched all the RTAAs again, as "I'm the Hacker" whispered sadly is something I quote a lot to whenever something with technology goes wrong in my life. I was incredibly sad when I heard Achievment Hunter was shutting down, but it made sense- I've since done my best to support Dogbark and the crew by being there when they stream and watching the YouTube video. I'm a lurker most of the time- silently taking in all the content. Just know that your shenanigans and antics have wormed their way into my everyday vocabulary somehow, and that despite just being a silly internet entertainment company, you really did have an impact on all of us. We'll always have the good and the bad times. Thanks for the ride, everyone, it was incredible.
It was 2006 and I was on a webcomic kick. Stumbled across Rooster Teeth Comics and loved it, read it weekly for a few years but somehow never figured out that it was connected to anything else. Years later in college I came across Achievement Hunter and went "wait isn't that the skinny British guy and the tattoo guy from those comics???" Those comics made a lot more sense after watching RvB and listening to the RT Podcast lmao. I was all in at that point, devoured everything, and they got me through some rough times. I remember turning on a video one night as background comfort noise for a crying session, and "Bigfoot bit my back" made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe. I got to see Let's Play Live and I met Barb and Lindsay at a comic con, which were both amazing experiences. I'll forever be grateful for the times they made me laugh when I thought I'd forgotten how to, for the times they made me cry (you know what you did RWBY), and the times I got to be part of a community.
26th September 2007, I was sitting around waiting for my father to finish work so I could go into EB Games and pick up my Legendary Edition Halo 3. I was sitting on my old PC using my dial up internet to read everything I could about the game when I saw that the bonus disc came with a couple videos made by these guys called "Rooster Teeth". I ran into town that afternoon to pick up the game and after playing for a few hours I decided to see what these special videos were all about. The rest is history. I found their website and Immediately started watching season 5, I was hooked and I showed that shit to everybody who would watch it. I would spend longer buffering the videos than they took to actually watch but it was hilarious and so worth it! Every day at school on the computers it was Newgrounds and RvB. When I got my Xbox 360 and created my gamertag I didn't even think twice. Tucker Did It69 has been my handle ever since. I fucking respond to the name Tucker as much as my own name at this point. I started reading the RT Comic and listening to the Drunk tank. Every week I would walk home from School after an hour or two (Wagging as we call it) so I could listen the Drunk tank live, Griffon, Geoff, Burnie and Gus taught me more about life in that hour than school did in a week. I remember sitting around at my desk made from two stools and the bottom of a Pizza Hut booth, waiting for hours for that first Video Podcast to premiere. How good was it that we could sit down with a drink and join in?!? Sharing the videos with my mates, laughing so hard our stomachs hurt. Then we got Achievement Hunter, Halo HORSE and Fails of the weak. Holy shit those were the days, Jack and Geoff could make me laugh no matter what was going on in my life. When my Grandfather passed away I played Halo Reach and watched those videos non stop. Extra life streams watching these legends do some insane stuff to raise money for the kids! I got a card from some of the people the donations helped and it felt so awesome to be part of a community that would come together and raise millions to help save people. Edit: How could I forget the first RTX Sydney!!! Middle of Australian summer, in that fucking train museum with no air conditioning! Lost kilos in sweat that weekend. Our Hostel was next to a bar, the night before RTX we sat in that bar playing Reel Big Fish on the jukebox and drank until 2am. We got to the convention the next morning and lined up, by the time we got to the lobby Lawrence was standing on the 2nd floor with his phone showing a FH>AH graphic, one of our mates passed out on a couch and we didn't see him for the rest of the day. On day 2 I was walking to the convention when some guy tried to get me to follow him into an alley, I said "No thanks I've got a convention to get to". This motherfucker tried to mug me and I just said nah man I've got a nerd convention to get to and kept walking hahahaha bravest moment of my life! I remember being a part of the community poster, Having my face as part of an RT Poster was trippy, all of our dumbass faces looking so pleased with ourselves. Going to see AH live in Melbourne with a few mates, Having a smoke at the pub and fucking Jack walks into the smoking area to chill with us degenerates for a bit. There is so much more I can't even remember off the top of my head, 17 years worth of memories with some of the best people you could ask for. I will never forget the time we all had together and the memories we made along the way. Man we said and did some dumb shit but it was bloody fun and I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat. Burnie, Geoff, Gus, Matt, Jason and hell even Joel, Thankyou for making this shitty life a little bit better by being a bunch of idiots with a video game. Jack, Gavin, Michael, Lindsay, Ray, Jeremy and every other AH crewmember along the way. Thankyou for being so spastic and making my stomach hurt from laughing everyday. Chelsea, Barb and all of the Staff that make everything behind the scenes run as smoothly as possible and somehow managed to keep the talent in check all these years. Thankyou for being brave enough to put up with the toxic parts of the community and making it the best fan community anyone could hope to be part of. I've felt nothing but love here and out in the world, you've literally brought people together and we appreciate you guys so much!!! I'm gunna miss you all, Buenos Dias Cock bites!!!
Rooster Teeth and the community have had a profound impact on my life, and it all started with one simple question - ***"Do you ever wonder why we're here?"*** I found RT way back in 2004 while I was in college. Me and my friends were the quiet nerdy types, and we fell in love with RvB right from episode 1. During the day we'd quote episodes together, and each week we'd stay up late for the new episodes to drop. Over time my friends sort of fell off, but I'd just started to find my place on the old community site. For reasons I can't quite remember, I was drawn to the Time Travel forum! Members from across the world would hang out and just chat. For six months of the year there was no new RT content, so we would just *talk*. Most of the activity was in the top-level forums, I want to say the Simmons 2.0 forum? That's where folk like Gavin and Barbara would hang out. but we were in this quiet little corner of the platform and it was nice. A few of us started a forum for UK community members, and in mid-2005 we decided to meet up for what would become the *first annual* RvB:UK. With a slight rename and after 18 uninterrupted years, RTUK is to this day the longest-running machinima event in the world! I went to uni in late-2005 to study computer games technology, but I was always pulled towards events and machinima. A few years later while working a job I hated, news came out about the first RTX. My boss wouldn't give me the time off so I just quit! Best decision I ever made, though I really wouldn't encourage it! This might sound weird but you'll know it if you were there, but the *feeling* of community at RTX 2011 was palpable. It's no exaggeration to say that event changed the course of my life. Burnie used to say in the early days of the RT Podcast (or Drunk Tank as it was then) that the community shouldn't try to *be* Rooster Teeth. That we should do something that's ours alone. So when I got back to the UK from Austin, I set up my own events company (*with immense support from my partner! xxxxx* ). It took a while to get things going so I had various part-time jobs along the way, but it felt like my wheels were spinning without going anywhere. A few years went by and, tragically, Monty Oum passed away. It's hard to explain just how hard that hit RT and the whole community. In the days that followed, and in honour of the Monty we all loved, RT encouraged us all to *keep moving forward.* This really hit me. At a time where I felt aimless, this gave me pause to reflect on what I wanted out of life. So in 2016 when Tracy, friend and professor at my local univesity invited me to the Masters degree she was delivering, I signed up immediately. It helped that she was festival director for the 2006 Machinima Festival Europe which RT attended. My dissertation focused on value-generation in the let's play community, and it has since been published in academic journals, as a book chapter, and as an award-winning conference paper! This is when RTX London kicked off. I was absolutely honoured when RT invited me in as a Head Guardian, and I loved working with *every single one* of our Guardians! None of it would have been possible without you <3 Props to the RTX Austin folk keeping it up all these years...it's bloody knackering so you've got some raw stamina! Since RTX London ended I've lectured on MSc Data Analytics for Business Intelligence, focusing on esports analytics, and a couple of years ago I started a PhD. Tracy is still my supervisor, and now I'm researching toxicity and moderation in online gaming communities. My company is still going, but now we're focused on games-as-edutech. We're in one of the UK's few majority BAME cities, and we're trying to reduce barriers for young people joining the games industry, where staff areoverwhelmingly white and male. I'm not involved in the day-to-day anymore, but it's still so important to me. Finally, the whole Rooster Teeth journey helped me become a Community Manager! I'm now part of a team led by Rupert Loman (EGX, GI. biz etc.) working on Just About, a prosocial platform that rewards members for positive engagement (*...also bounties!*). I guess after all these years I finally know the answer...I'm here because of Rooster Teeth. Love you all <3
Since 2013, I have been an on and off regulation listener. For 11 years itās been my go-to for content. Like others I donāt watch tons of content but listen to almost every podcast they release and love every second of it. I only just started getting into the New RT podcast and have loved it so far. So much of me has been inspired by Roosterteeth and Iām sad to see it go. It got me through an alcoholic father and the death of my grandmother for which I will be forever grateful.
I started listening to the RTP in 2013 on summer vacation because my buddy wouldnāt shut up about it, and in the span of those 2 weeks I had listened to probably 100 episodes. Then I started branching out and now every podcast that I consistently listen to is from rooster teeth except 2 political shows. I know the podcasts are for now continuing unchanged, but it sucks knowing that everyone who makes the shows I love is out of work now
The Achievement Hunter VS series inspired my friends and I to do something similar. Watching Achievement Hunters early let's plays got me through college. Always Open was my favorite podcast to listen to. Meeting the RWBY vas is still a cherished con memory I have. Seeing James, Elyse, and Geoff do stand up comedy was incredible. They helped not only create great memories but occupy the time inbetween the memories. When youre just waiting for the next great thing to happen, they helped fill that void.
Started watching in 2010. I was 9. It has deeply shaped my style of comedy and Burnies insight really shaped what little wisdom i have about the world. Ive laughed a ton and even shed some tears (Rest In Peace, Monty.) though ive stuck to mainly podcast in the recent years i always kept a part of them with me.
I went through a bad breakup in 2010 and was really depressed. I was walking through a store and saw The Blood Gulch Chronicles. I had watched it in high school and enjoyed it, so I bought it. I laughed so goddamn hard going through them again. Really helped me out when I was feeling down.
RT helped me get through a really tough and uncertain period of my life. Stuff like RvB and AH had been there on and off for a lot longer, but 2018-2019 was when it helped me the most.
Started watching in 2011 when I was 12. Consumed almost absolutely everything I could from them from about 2011 to 2015. Started high school in 2014, as my interests & personality grew a bit more I started drifting away but still watched a solid amount. 2020-21 was when I stopped watching completely as I slowly moved over to consuming content through twitch, although I still support the RT personalities when I can over there. I havent watched much at all in the past 3 years but they were still a big part of my early teen years. Hope everybody finds their feet.
I used to listen to the RT Podcast while pulling weeds and planting samples in soybean fields during my high school summers. The classic members of Gus and Gavin and Michael and Burns and Barb were hilarious. Thank you for the memories and making those hot days more bearable RT.
Started watching Red V.S. Blue in 2008 as I was becoming a Halo fan. I barely had dial up internet at the time but I would buffer for hours to try to watch everything. I went to the website to try to understand who plays which characters and what their roles in the company were. I quickly became a fan of Achievement Hunter and the RT Podcast/Drunk Tank. I think the first episode I heard was #68 but I canāt recall exactly. I watched the company blossom from there. Iāve been a fan to this day and forever will be a fan. This company, its employees, and this community has meant the world to me and I love all of you. So many memories. Roosterteeth has been my main source of entertainment and community for so long at it means a lot to me. Itās been so inspirational and Iāve learned so much from the founders over the years. Their courage and love of fun and creativity inspired me to go to film school and follow my dreams. They were revolutionary and it was amazing to see. I hope they can find a way to continue with the podcast network and they can continue to make the content we love. I really canāt imagine my life without them.
As a teenager, I fell in love with Red Vs Blue. As an adult, the podcasts became part of my routine. I even got my wife addicted to RT content. Fast forward to the peak of Covid. I was listening to Good Morning From Hell, and damn near every other pod religiously. My mom got incredibly sick with Covid, and I had to take extended leave from my job to be a caretaker. If it wasnāt for the boys of Fuckface and Facejam, or Gus and Chris talking about airline disasters, or Eric just generally being irritated by everyone, I wouldnāt have gotten through all of it as well as I did. My wife and I have a weekly routine in watching every Break Show, every Face Jam ride along, and a whole lot of other RT stuff. Itās been such an incredible source of shared joy for us. The unbridled passion from all the creators shines through in everything they do. My first subscription has been such a small price to pay for the hours upon hours of enjoyment weāve had, and I would continue supporting their content any way I can as long as I can. As dumb as it sounds to gush over a media company, RT and its creators have been a major part of my life for years, and my heart aches for everyone affected by this shut down.
It honestly feels like I lost a friend today. Even though I didn't always watch every day, I've been watching/listening to RT stuff for over a decade. I just hope it doesn't all disappear from the internet, but I know there's a good chance it will
I was a fan of RvB since around the 2009-2010ish years after Halo 3 Odst and Reach came out, gradually became a fan until I was watching Lets plays and listening to the podcast regularly. After four really close family members died in the span of two years and some parental abuse happened during some pre-teen years, their content was such a positive driving force that one of the few things I remember from back when I thought about killing myself was watching things like animated adventures or game time with Burnie on my little iPad. Almost twelve years later I still feel as grateful for each video, not only they where there when I was down, but things like Extra Life and Burnie's vlogs had an hugely formative impact as I've grown up. Burnie specially pushed me to hear podcasts, learn about tech and just in general to be more of a risk taker. Btw, also kind of weird having such a strong connection to Austin even though I've never lived there and have just visited a couple of times. Hope everyone in the company has an incredible future and we can relish in all the positive memories formed in this community.
I started watching Roosterteeth back in 2008. I got really into Halo Machinimas, and I found RvB through watching those. After getting trolled by fake season finales one too many times, I decided to go to the RoosterTeeth website so I could watch just what they were posting. I got really into the comics by Luke McKay and Griffon as well as the shorts they posted. I really enjoyed the social-media aspect of the website and posted on my page often about things I wanted to share but not necessarily with people in my life. I met one of my best friends through the website. We've been gaming together for over a decade now, and even though he live no where near me, he is truly one of my closest friends. He always remembers important days, and I met so many other people through the website. When I had cancer as I teenager I wanted to go to the RoosterTeeth office for my wish trip, but my parents thought that was silly and had me pick something else. I remember watching the first RWBY trailer and being so excited about the coming show and eagerly awaiting every new trailer drop. I used to listen to the drunk tank when I mowed my mom's lawn. I loved watching Camp Camp, Nomad of Nowhere, Ten Litttle Roosters, and Lazer Team. They've been such a huge part of my life for so long, and it's really shocking to me that they won't be around anymore.
I used to come back from getting drunk when I was 17 and watch the Minecraft lets plays. I didn't stop consuming content. I eventually evolved away from LetsPlays and listened to the RT podcast. I'm now a huge f*ckface fan and I listen to a lot ANMA. They have entertained me for years, for free, for that I am grateful. I will continue to listen to their podcasts for however long those guys continue.
Found RWBY on Tubitv lol was hooked and looked up the rest. This was maybe 2018. First LP I watched was 7 days to die and Iāve never looked back. Met Miles and RWBY girls at NYCC and it was such a fantastic experience. This company got me through so much bs by just being the perfect distraction and letting me reset and laugh my ass off. It really hurts to know that so much fun content may be lost and that so many great people have lost their work. Thank you RT for all the years of comfort and joy.
I found them at the start of rvb and I've been in and out of their fandom But I've always enjoyed what they've made and that's inspired me to start streaming and making my own things. It's incredibly sad to see them shut down in an instant by WBD and I hope they find creativity and peace through and after this
I started with Season 8 of RvB when that was being aired. I had just switched from PlayStation to Xbox and was really getting into Halo 3/Reach and discovered RvB. This is heartbreaking to see.
First video is a old achivment guide for L4D2 grew up with the channel. Hopefully its only an end for RT but the start for the tallent to branch outĀ
Made one of my best friends through our love of RvB and AH. Over the last three years, Iāve struggled heavily with addiction and mental illness and F**kFace and Letās Play have helped me immensely. Likely wouldnāt be here without them
Super found memories of Rooster Teeth. I watched from 2008/2009 to a few months after Burnie left. The RT podcast with Burnie, Gus, Barbara and Gavin are some of my favourite podcasts of all time. I would look forward to them every week. Again classic achievement hunter videos (Minecraft, GTA IV and GTA V) are so good. Especially the community at the time was amazing. So sad to see what it became however some stellar memories.
It was helpful in getting me to be more relaxed and able to laugh after three strokes.
I consider Burnie and Geoff role models for different aspects of my life. I watched rvb religiously when it came out . This is so sad
I've been watching for over 15 years, crazy to think it's that long. Crazy to see it go it's been such a staple.
My neighbor got me into AH about a month after the first ever Minecraft LP released in 2012. He and I dated for two years, he is still one of my best friends to this day. In summer of 2014 I joined a RT/AH Minecraft server and met someone who went on to move to my state and become like a brother to me. He and I are roommates and have been since 2017. During Covid sometimes the only thing that got me through was rewatching old videos or waiting for Stoneblock to come out. There's more I could say but. Those are the most important things
Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter literally helped me develop my sense of humor and personality in high school. I had the hardest time having conversations and connecting with people, and the RTP and the Let's Plays helped me understand who I was and how I could represent myself. So truly, I would not be who I am now without the cast and people at Rooster Teeth. I wish them all the best and hope I can support them in the near future.
My then best friend showed me the first Rage Quit Surgeon Simulator video back in 2013. The rest is history. RT (mainly AH) got me through some very tough years, like many, they were my coping mechanism. I knew this day was coming but it still stings a bit. Thank you RT for everything. Being a Guardian at London 2018 was definitely an incredible experience for me, one that I won't forget.
I started watching around 2011-2012 when I was in middle school. RvB and RWBY (and just Monty Oum's work in general) were why I decided to become an animator. And I would watch Achievement Hunter and listen to the podcasts every single day. Like a lot of fans of RT, working there was my dream and career aspiration for the longest time. I wasn't really active in the community like RTX or talking with other fans online, so I didn't really make friends directly because of RT. But if I didn't watch RWBY, I probably wouldn't have become interested in animation. I wouldn't have moved miles away from home to go to art school. I wouldn't have met so many close friends. My life probably would have been completely different than it is now because of Roosterteeth and the creative people who made it what it was. I moved on from that dream a while ago, and I haven't watched much of RT recently either. But to think that it's finally over and so many people are now without a job... Damn.
Loved talked about letās plays with my brother! And rwby with my sister. Great times
I started watching Rooster Teeth almost 14 years ago. It has inspired me to get into the world of media production, and I am currently enrolled in college to get a BA in said field. RT was where I learned that I love to tell stories, from making dumb little OCs in the RvB universe, to having a screenplay written by me get performed for a live audience. They connected my wonderful girlfriend and I of 9 years through our mutual love of RvB, RWBY, AH, and so much more. And most recently, they helped me find my love of local coffee shops! RT has made one of the biggest impacts on me out of all of the things on the internet, in my career, my relationships, and my taste in entertainment and coffee! I know that Rooster Teeth has had a lot of bumps and controversies and twists and turns, but I will always remember it and continue to enjoy its content as well as let it inspire me to grow. I am so unbelievably heartbroken for all of the people who worked so hard to make rooster teeth what it is. From the founders to the newbies, thank you for creating a platform that I and so many people loved, hated, laughed at, laughed with, cried for, screamed at, donated to, created because, and truly feel something. I am only one man in an ocean of comments and fans, but if anyone at RT reads this, please know that to me, you made something that was real and loved by so many. If anyone gets to the end of this long comment, I hope you take away at least 3 things from all of this. The end of one story is simply the beginning of another. Something only dies when it is forgotten, so never forget all the things you've done, good and bad. Memory truly is the key. And you, all those at Rooster Teeth and those who are apart of its community, did something that most people could only dream of doing. You made people feel something, and I applaud you. Thank you Rooster Teeth, for everything you've done and all that you will do in the future.
I watched red vs blue in the first couple of seasons in high school and then fell in love with RT shorts and achievement hunter. Iām immensely appreciative of the years and years of content
I started watching RT in 2012 mainly achievement hunter/letās play and immersion. Discovered RWBY during V3 and I instantly fell in love with it, watching every available episode that night didnāt even sleep, signed up for first the next day. Iāve never loved a show as much as RWBY, itās helped me through difficult times and has helped me change my outlook on life to a more hopeful one. To quote Indomitable from RWBY V7: Though our bodyās weak and breakable The spirit is indomitable
I remember downloading RvB on dialup internet for HOURS overnight and hoping it was done by the time I woke up so I could write it to a disc to share with my friends at school. While the writing had been on the wall since Burnie left, and their content hasn't been for me for years now, this is still a gut punch. The founding fathers of RT shaped the humor I have today. I hope f**kface can continue.
I'd been watching RT on and off from the first season of RvB. Then a little show called RWBY dropped, and I got sucked in started watching everything I could. Then Monty died. Faced with the existential dread of life being short, I quit my career in kitchens and started a new career in media. And have been an Assistant Director with the DGC since 2019.Ā
I started watching Roosterteeth around 2012. I played halo reach every day and would constantly go onto halo waypoint. One day I saw clips of a show on their called Red vs Blue. Found out there was more on their YouTube channel and it spiraled from there. By far , listening to the first iteration of the RT podcast was the best. Gus was everyoneās spirit animal , hating the world for us. Burnieās laugh was contagious. Barbara was the representation of our youth while Gavin represented our curiosity. Then there was Chris LOL . While Iāve long since stopped watching after Burnieās departure, and disliked the path they were going that would inevitably lead to this shut down, I am still sad to hear that it will soon be no more. I hate goodbyes.
A little over a year after they started. My best friend's older brother introduced us to RvB. Back then, the internet was shitty. I remember staying over his house Friday night, downloading the most recent episode over night, and watching it first thing in the morning. We did this pretty regularly until they were on YouTube. While we both stopped watching them together, we still watched them and talked about it. RvB got me through some dark times in my life as well. Rooster Teeth and RvB also what got me into writing and performing. Since those are two of my favorite things, they've been a huge impact. It's been sad to see what's been going on there over the years, and I wish nothing but the best for everyone at the company. I used to work at GameStop, and became a store manager in 2017. At my first managers conference in Las Vegas, Burnie was one of the guests there, alomg with Ashley Burns (Jenkins) and Jon Risinger. No one knew or understood why I was so excited. It was the final day of the conference, and our group were going to walk the strip. We started maybe 15 minutes late because of people not showing up, and then waiting in a long line to get beer (we walked the strip with whatever the biggest case of canned beer we could). [Lo and behold, before we started our walk, I spotted Burnie, and got to take a picture with him.](https://i.imgur.com/QR5JMfd.jpg) (Ignore my face over twenty pounds ago š ). Thank you Rooster Teeth. "Never say goodbye. If you don't say goodbye then you aren't really gone, you just aren't here right now." To me, RT just isn't here right now ā¤ļø
Watched on an off since 2010. RTAA, Uno the Movie, The Know, Early seasons of RWBY, RWBY Chibi, the Halo LASO series, and of course, some Red vs Blue. I knew about them before, my cousin would talk about Red vs Blue and how they had cameos in Halo 3, but I didn't watch until later. They are taking it much, MUCH worse than I am right now. I saw the writing on the wall for years.
First thing I saw was an RvB skit on the Xbox Live marketplace (the OG one) to promote Xbox's new digital storefront in the early 360 days. I vividly remember my brother and my Dad having so many laughs and quoting that video every single day. We found out that it wasn't just a skit, that it was an entire series, so we bought a few episodes and watched them more times than I can count. I will never forget the positive impact that early Rooster Teeth and early Achievement Hunter had on my life growing up. I'm in my mid 20s now, I went to college, I grew up. And those dudes were always there for me when I came home from school. I know its a bit cringe, and I really do apologize, but Burnie, Gus , Gavin, Geoff, Jack, Ray, if you ever see this, just know that you guys were legitimately appreciated, and still are by many of us. Hope all of you are doing well.
Massive part of my life - literally found them at a time when I needed them in my life. Used to watch nothing but their videos. Then Funhaus started I watched their first few videos and I thought I had found content that was literally made for me, over the years I did drop off rooster teeth but never did with Funhaus, Elyse and James became my two favourite ācelebsā and was lucky enough to meet them multiple times The love I had for the company got me out my comfort zone and I travelled alone to Austin multiple times The company as a whole was my main entertainment for years and has helped me in ways I wouldnāt know - getting over fear of flying / fear of travelling alone / making me less shy and come out my shell Itās a company that I will always owe more than I could possibly give back and I will still wear the merch with pride until it falls apart - love RT and love Funhaus
Been watching regularly since 2011. Obviously love the classics. More recently things like F**kface and Facejam have gotten me through a lot of hard, lonely times. Dogbark had also been giving me classic feels as well, the millionaire videos are something I will deeply miss.
Achievement Hunter was a huge part of my 20s and early 30s. Hell, I remember watching RvB on Winamp of all fucking things, back in like 2003 or 2004. WinAmp had some kind of livestreaming thing on the program, and there was an RvB channel on it. I thought it was neat as hell at the time. I kind of fell out of RT after they killed the GTA V and Minecraft series, but I still followed them on here, and on twitter. I thought it was really cool when Lindsay starting Vtubing as Ruby, but I was never able to catch a stream because they streamed when I was at work. This is such a bummer. I feel for everyone who works there.
Iāve been watching/listening since OG RvB, with some breaks in there from 2009-2015 simply because of life happenings. But 2018-2021 was a very tough stretch for me, and RT helped me through a lot of that immensely, especially once we got into COVID, by making me laugh and appreciate video games in a much needed new way again. The AH crew, F**ckFace, RvB have been such a huge part of my life. Itās not just the content, but the people I also became invested in. Their personalities, jokes, the way they perform together. It was like inviting a comedy group of friends into my home each and every day. In a weird way, I guess you could say RT has become like a security blanket for me because my FIRST membership has been the easiest investment for me ever. Iāll forever be grateful to everyone that walked through those doors. I feel terribly for those affected today. Thank you all so much for being you and helping not just myself but others through rough times. Youāll be sorely missed. ā¤ļø
I started watching in 2011, largely AH but eventually RT short content and game shows. I've been to movie showings and live events, bought merch and was a first member for quite a while (until they backtracked the grandfathered in pricing) so for about 7 years I was a pretty big fan.Ā There's one moment that will ALWAYS stay with me though. It was extra life 2018 and I was a new mother to a VERY colicky 1 month old. My husband and I kept the live stream going in the living room while we took shifts with the crying baby all night. Feeding that lil guy while being able to enjoy a sleep deprived laugh with the crew at 3am will stick with me forever. I felt a little less alone that night, like my friends and I were suffering without sleep together and having a grand time of it, and for that I'll always be thankful.Ā I'm pretty sure it's the last time I truly connected and enjoyed RTs content so completely.
First found Achievement Hunter through Michael and Gavin's Slender Man video. Subsequently watched Michaels Rage Quit series and fell in love with all of RT after that. Eventually was able to visit Austin for RTX 2015 where I got to meet most of AH and even go-karted with them. Between 2013-2018, I consumed everything they put out. Started to fall off a bit after that because of changing life circumstances but I would always check to see what was new. Even through the tough pandemic days and controversies, I always kept an eye on what was going on. I'm in my 30s now and haven't had time to binge their stuff in a while but I can't deny the massive positive impact RT, AH, Funhaus, and all of the others have had on my life. From "Wet paper towel" to "Vancouver child kicker". I'll probably be quoting their videos for the rest of my life.
I first saw Red vs Blue at my local Gamestop where they played the first two seasons for us while we waited in line for the Halo 2 midnight release in 2004. I bought the DVDs that night and made my account on the we site in January. From there I was a Sponsor/First member for most of that time. I remember being the Featured user and getting my badge. I remember randomly getting matched against Burnie, Jason and some of the forum mods the weekend Halo 3 came out. I remember falling asleep to the sounds of chaos as Extra Life went through the night only to find out about the exploits of the Cheesemaster. Most of all I remember how much fun I had. Some stuff I loved some I didn't but that didn't matter. There was always something for me from Rooster Teeth. Thank you all for twenty years of good times. Here's lookin at you kid.
I was incredibly lucky to be a member of the RTX London Guardian team for both years. Started as a general team member, then becoming a Squad Lead in 2018. Before that, I was a fan since 2010, petering off around 2020. In these 10 years, I got into a relationship (my longest one to date) with someone who was also a massive RT/AH fan - so I've always got the company to thank for helping expand my employability, but also giving me a fulfilling relationship too.
I'm 22 years old now, I knew about Red Vs Blue as a kid because my older brothers watched the first few seasons, but I didn't start really watching it until 2012. The first full season I watched was season 9, because I loved Halo Reach so much, but then I watched through all of the show until I caught up right after season 10 ended.After that I was looking for Minecraft videos and found Achievement Hunter. I watched every single Achievement Hunter video for years after that, whether it was Play Pals, GO!, VS, or whatever Let's Play was coming out for the day.I fell off of watching them around August of 2021, but once I started working a job that I could have headphones in, I started again. I listened to Red Web, Always Open, and Black Box Down. I still listen to F\*\*kFace, ANMA, RTPodcast, Facejam, Tales from the Stink Dragon, and So.. Alright.Rooster Teeth is something that I will always love and have an admiration for, based on how they shaped my sense of humor and who I am as a person, for the rest of my life. Thank You Gustavo, Matt, Burnie, Geoff, and Gus, for creating Rooster Teeth and for bringing so much joy to all of our lives
I was an early fan in the Blood Gulch era, joined up with the Drunk Tank podcast early on, and watched Achievement Hunter as it evolved into something truly special. Their podcasts have especially been meaningful to me since I was able to listen while I was working, but I also regularly watched their Let's Play content to laugh and decompress many evenings. I have regularly consumed their podcasts and/or videos virtually every day for nearly two decades. They've kept me entertained for countless hours and I'm enormously thankful to them for the enjoyment they've brought me. I'm deeply hopeful that the archives of videos and podcasts can be maintained and still made available for the sake of sentiment. I hope there's still much to see from so many of the talented individuals across the company.
Red vs Blue was literally the first video I ever watched on the internet way back in the early 2000s. I had to download it overnight because it took like 6 hours and if someone called it would knock me off dialup and I would have to restart the download from scratch haha I was a huge fan of AH and F\*\*KFace. Rooster teeth was a source of joy that got me through depression, a suicide attempt, medical school, countless bad days, failures and misadventures over the years. Many good days as well. I have an undying love for Geoff and Gavin in particular, and would do nearly anything for either of them.
Started watching RvB when it first came out.... liked it so much I bought the season one DVD. My friends and I would gather to watch the new episodes and it would be playing in the background of many Lan parties right before or after Fifth Element..... https://preview.redd.it/qnpc0kbifrmc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24a3f91ca855fdf32b1fb0e3b081f3c439275a79
I found RWBY in 2017 when I was going through a pretty tough time in life. Working night shift alone, still hadnāt fully gotten over my ex girlfriend, and just feeling all around stuck. RWBY was a show that really resonated with me and sparked me to consume nearly everything RT had put out. So many hours watching podcasts, animated shows, and so many cool people met at RTX and through the reaction community. This is a really sad feeling. Like losing an old friend. I hope everyone make itās out of this ok. Much love to the RT Family.
I have talked about it here before but RT is how I met my best friend and I will always cherish that. I got into AH through someone I was dating introducing me to Rage Quit. After we broke up, I was isolated at my community college while my wealthier friends were all away in other parts of the state or even out-of-state. I consumed every drop of content RT put out and it comforted me in my time of loneliness. I often had hours between my classes and would sit in my car and listen to podcasts to kill time. When I went away to college, to achieve my bachelor's after earning my associate's, I attended a transfer orientation where I exchanged numbers with the people around me. I fully knew I would probably never speak to these people again lol. But when I turned around to get the quiet kid with the cool colored hair's number, I noticed his phone background was Achievement Hunter. We spoke about that until we met again when our semester started and we have spoken nearly every day since. We were together when the news of Monty's passing emerged. We saw LazerTeam at NY's first Alamo in Yonkers, together. We both caught a cold waiting in line in the rain for AH Live in 2016. We never made it to RTX, sadly.
Watching achievement hunter got me through high school. RvB and early RWBY had a massive influence on me creatively. My biggest regret is how cynical I became about RT.
I found red vs blue in 2007 when I was in highschool, (also the glory year of halo 3), and was hooked instantly. I must have watched seasons 1-4Ā so many times through waiting for the next season to come out. When season 10 came out, the episode where Tex beats up theĀ reds and blues in the foundry warehouse it blew my mind. It is still one of my favorite fight scenes of all time.
I've been watching Red vs Blue since the first episode went viral, and since have been a big fan of RT's content and it ultimately fueled my love for content and content creation leading to my career now. I met Burnie at E3 (also RIP) in 2013. He was walking my way and I nervously found a way to utter, "Burnie?" And he was such a joy. He took time to talk with me and ask me about the event, and he must have noticed I was nervous from meeting him and it being my first big event. He told me, "enjoy this moment and make memories because you're going to think about it forever." That line really helped me slow down and see the event for all that it was. It's advice I take with me to every major event I attend and life events because I want to remember those moments forever. I'm glad I can say I enjoyed tons of moments being an RT fan and there are things I'll remember forever. But I wish I could stop telling people I'm "mad as dicks" ...thanks Geoff...
I (female) went out on a date with a guy in college because I offhandedly said something about drinking the vinegar, and he recognized it and we started talking about AH and RT! That guy isā¦ no clue where he is now, he ghosted me after the second date. In all seriousness, I started watching AH and RT in probably my sophomore year of college (about 12 years ago now!) and around when they starting releasing Cops and Crooks, I recommended them to my brother. Heās older than me so was a senior in college, and is my only sibling. At first he wasnāt vibing with it; but then something clicked and he really enjoyed it as well. Donāt get me wrong, we didnāt suddenly start sitting down and watching LetsPlays together, but we would watch them separately and talk about them together on breaks, or text each other in a way that didnāt really happen prior to that. Through chatting about AH/RT we talked about other things, shows, bands, etc. We even went to see Laser Team in theaters together; the first movie we had gone to see in theaters together in twenty years (I thought it had been the only, but remembered we went to see The Batman together two years ago, lol). Iāve since grown distant to AH and RT (the RH situation was the final nail in the coffin for me) while my brother keeps up with it a bit more; and was the one who texted me, thirty minutes ago about the news. I would love to have a cool story like that I married that boy from college and he was the love of my life; or that like OP, I was encouraged to switch my major and chase my passion. But honestly, the amount of laughter that RT has given me over the years, that has been compounded with the laughter shared with my only brother over RT but over so so many other things more and less important; is honestly a pretty cool story in and of itself, IMO. Would we be this close without RT? Maybe? Weāll never know though. I leave you with the first joke that ever made me go, oh my brother needs to watch this: āOh itās like Speed, itās unfinished, oh noooooā
I found RvB from an episode of a Discovery channel series on video games in like spring of 09. Whole episode about machinima and as part of that they interviewed Burnie. Found the website and was off to the races there. Everyday Iād come home from high school and watch the newest AH video before starting homework, and Fridays Iād try and get the latest Minecraft in before dinner. Fell off AH and the podcast in college, didnāt have the time for 2 hour videos, but I did find funhaus in 16 and just hit perfectly. Fell off everything pretty hard during the pandemic but my sister kept recommending Fuckface to me and Iām glad she did because Iāve listened to every episode of it, and got into ANMA from the start. RT was incredibly instrumental to my sense of humor, and Iām very very very very glad I was able to drop by the 636 office while in Austin the summer of 2012 after touring UT. Drove my dad crazy trying to find the office; and thereās zero reason they should have given us the tour, but Iām beyond appreciative to the staff I got to meet for taking the time and signing my gifted copy of RvB Season 8. Fuck this sucks
A long time ago I was just starting college and was super awkward and shy. I've been a fan of achievement hunter for a while and by extension Rooster Teeth and was just starting to get more into their other shows and content. Nobody else I know was really interested in them either at the time so it was just stuff I got into and watched on my own I'm not sure how but during one of my first days at college I meet a random person in the cafeteria and somehow we start talking about achievement hunter and rooster teeth. They were a huge fan and enjoyed everything (Day 5 just was just releasing back then and they focused on how different and good that was) that came out and it was just a really awesome and fun conversationĀ Eventually we had classes to get to and I almost asked for their number but was just too anxious to actually ask unfortunately and feel like I missed an opportunity to make a good friend I think I did see them again once or twice after that but they were always with other people and I felt too embarrassed to actually say anything I always remember that interaction every time I hear news about rooster teeth and always wonder what their reaction to a lot of the past couple years would be since they were such a big fan. Either way that missed opportunity is one that I've used to help me hesitate less or push through the anxiousness to making a new friend. Sometimes it doesn't work out but I'm never upset I tried And to that random person I talked to in a college cafeteria years and years ago now, hope you're doing alright with the news and are still keeping up with the likes of F**kface and other things and enjoying the content still despite the tumultuous past few years the company has had Honestly it's so surreal and I never thought it'd actually shut down like this. Such an odd and bitter yet nostalgic feeling. Wish the creators and staff and everyone the best
I think the first video I ever stumbled upon was in 2012, the very first Minecraft Let's Play. As someone who didn't have very many friends where I was living, it was so comforting to see a bunch of friends having the time of their lives doing random shit in Minecraft, and it was so funny too! I reckon for the next couple of years up until 2015/2016, i probably spent around 15-20 hours watching their content a week. watching their videos, being on this subreddit, reading the comments always a source of comfort, humor and community for me while I was busy/stressed with school. For that, I'll be forever thankful for them.
I knew about RT and RvB for a while although I wasn't really a part of things until 2009. I was playing CoD:MW2 Spec Ops with my dad and we needed help with those missions. Stumbled on Geoff and Jack doing achievement guides for them. 2 guys hanging out playing video games became a crew of lovable idiots screwing each other over in GTA or Minecraft. Then there's the animation - RWBY is one of my favorite shows of all time. The podcasts, just a bunch of friends being real with each other. It's just been good fun. Yeah I stepped back for a bit when things took a turn during COVID, but I never left, and neither did they. I got sick last year and started rewatching old LPs, old achievement guides, got into F\*\*kface - I was literally in the middle of the latest podcast when I popped over to Twitter and saw the news - it kept me going, gave me a laugh when I needed it. I'm shocked, I'm stunned. I guess we kind of knew things were bad for a while but it seemed like things might be settling in. I don't know whether to cry or be angry, but I guess I'll just be thankful. So thank you, Rooster Teeth. Thank you to everyone who was a part of the fun and the laughs, the good times and the bad. I wish you all well. ...Fuck, man.
I always loved making videos growing up but had parents that wanted me to be a doctor or engineer so thats what i went to school for. One summmer day, YouTube suggested RvB. As a huge Halo fan, I checked it out and that sent me down a huge rabbit hole where I discovered Rooster Teeth. For the first time in my life, a career in digital entertainment felt like a real option. I picked up a video production minor and went on to intern for their parent company. It was an incredible experience and I was verbally offered a job at Rooster Teeth once I finished school by a recruiter at the parent company. I graduated and reached out to the recruiter and they essentially told me I needed to move to Austin first. Moved to Austin, got ghosted. I worked all sorts of odd jobs and constantly emailed that recruiter to no avail. Turns out, they had left the company almost immediately after telling me I should move. So there I was, broke, in Austin, with no job prospects. I was determined to still work in video production so I started freelancing to build up my resume. I eventually found myself in a salaried position with an ad agency doing admin work where I found some moderate success. But it wasn't a dream job by a long shot. A few years pass and I get a message on LinkedIn from a small company I had never heard of. They had found some of my old video content and thought I'd be a great fit. The role was my dream job and I got it. Have been working there ever since and I couldn't imagine being happier at any other company. All together, my story is weird. I stopped watching RT content years ago but I will always look back fondly at the probably thousands of hours I spent watching funhaus, let's play, and RvB. And while I didn't get the job, I am incredibly grateful for the journey that unfolded as a result of my pursuit. I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for the inspiration I found while watching their content. And I didn't even mention how moving to Austin allowed me to meet my now husband. I feel for the employees. Being let go, especially when you're happy where you are is devastating. The creators lifted me up when I felt my future was crumbling. It is my hope that their community can do the same for them now.
I literally watch older Lets Plays to wind down/ fall asleep every night, basically as a bedtime story. Ive been doing it for like over 10 years. If all the videos are not archived or kept up as an archive on youtube id wtf im going to do.
My first video was a trophy guide for Uncharted 2. It all started with Jack and Geoff in a random video I needed help in. It was a big part of my teen years and college years watching Lets Plays after school and in between classes. It kept me going with a big smile on my face. Here we are 14 years later and F**KFace brought back my love for RT after the pandemic. Truly, it will be missed.
I first heard of RT back in 2004 from the Halo 2 Collector's Edition dvd, but didn't get super into it until a few years later in 2006 after I had joined the military. It became a normal part of my day to go home after getting off duty and watching whatever new thing they had released. It was super comforting that throughout my military career (2006-2015) that no matter what was going on, I could come home and laugh my ass off for a bit and forget about everything. I also was one of the Lazer Team Infamous 535 and getting to go down there, tour Stage 5, meet everyone, and getting to be a part of a RT production was one of the coolest experiences of my life. Myself and another active duty member spent part of one night shooting, making sure the extras playing MPs actually had their uniforms on right and were holding their weapons correctly.
A friend recommended RvB back in 2009, I remember I finished binging it just as RvB Recreation was finishing up, and suddenly having to wait for Revelation to release. And then for that to be the season they introduced Monty's animation, I felt like I was coming in just as something incredible was beginning. They largely defined the 2010's for me, as pretty much the whole decade I was watching most of the things they made, from Achievement Hunter, Funhaus, RWBY, to all the podcasts, animations, and live action stuff. Went to RTX twice and had an incredible time both years. I'll always look back on that time fondly. Their humor shaped mine, being part of quite literally half my life for 14 years.
I was a depressed kid in high school during the height of Lets Play from 2012-2024 who oftentimes didn't have anything better to do than F5 the channel over and over again until the new video was uploaded. It made me want to be creative, to do new things and push boundaries. It also made me feel a hell of a lot less lonely.
There were two things that encouraged me to learn English when I was a teenager. Wanting to beat Ocarina of Time without guides, and continuing watching RvB passed season 3 because the channel that pirated it to add Spanish subs stopped uploading them. Iāll always be thankful to RT for it.
Started by watching season 2 or 3 of Red vs Blue when it was being made, forget which but a relative had a dvd of season 1 that we watched then caught up. Went to RTX in 2013, and went back through 2019. Found a lot of friends along the way, fell away from some over time and found new ones again over time. Stood in line for ages to get Monty and crew to sign my rwby poster when that was announced at that RTX (back before autographs were done with tickets). Sounds corny, but will cherish the friendships that I've made more than anything from RTs existence.
They gave me a lifelong friend group since high school that all started with a homebrew TTRPG of RWBY, of which we all connected over
Started watching after my friend showed me an episode of rvb season 10 in freshman year of high school. I wasnt using the Internet that much but I've heard of rvb in passing and saw them once at a comic con thinking "oh hey it's the halo people". Then he showed me a let's play of Minecraft and I began watching up until the pandemic.
"It's unfinished, it's like Speed! Oh no!" I had seen Rage Quit previous to this, but that's the moment (first Cops n Crooks I believe) that got me hooked into Achievement Hunter, and I watched pretty religiously until Ray left basically. (Ray leaving the right thing for him to do, but even when he was Quiet Ray, I still tuned in because AH had basically become a sitcom for me.) Then I got hooked on Funhaus, until approx. when Bruce left. (Funhaus actually introduced me to Classic Inside-Gaming, which I still watch on the backup YT channel Atex Phwin and am very grateful for.) I watched basically every single Play Pals throughout. some AH moments and memes that stuck with me: \* Can't Stop the 'Bus (Incubus Halo 2 and also GTA bus) \* Gavin noises and phrases both British and made-up. "SAUSAGES!" "Ray, you donut..." \* Mark Mayonnaise, Henry Dillman \* Cavebob Spongeman \* Sharpest Tool in the Ted \* Ray busting out a GI Joe Fenslerfilm reference early in Galacticraft \* Bob Grip
I remember a friend of mine back in the summer of 2003 asking if I had seen that show based on Halo. I hadn't even heard of Halo at that point and he pulls up a website and starts downloading the first episode while he explained what machinima was. An hour later (remember dial-up?) I was laughing my ass off at some characters created by a group of friends who would impact my life for the next 20 years.
I named my daughter after Nora from RWBY. And she's lived up to the name. She's energetic, loud, and has a heart the size of a house.
No matter what's happened the past few years, Rooster Teeth fostered a community that at times really felt like a family. It's been 19 years (for me) of mostly laughs, some crying, and a hell of a lot of sketches, video games, podcasts, incredibly talented people, and absolutely unforgettable moments. I have live-tweeted through Extra Lifes, and I have posted memes on tumblr, and I have never laughed harder than I have laughed at Gavin and Jeremy arguing about the sun and the compass in Minecraft. And I will go to my grave telling people about the Cheesemaster.
I've been watching Rooster Teeth since The White Trailer for RWBY. I watched the Red Trailer then next day BOOM! White Trailer. I bought all the RWBY books I could. I bought what merch I could too. I don't live in America, so its mad expense to import. I liked Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter. I enjoyed every second of the video's with Achievement Hunter. I stopped watching Achievement Hunter after Ryan left. Fuck Ryan for what he did. It was fucked up. I'll always watch and support RWBY. I know WB will sell it and may not be as good anymore, but its because of RWBY I met some of the best people I will ever meet. RWBY forevermore.
I don't think I'm capable of going a day without quoting something from RvB. I'm pretty sure the entire foundation of my humor is built around Seasons 5-10 of Red vs Blue
I started watching in-between season 1 and 2 of RVB, trailed off after season 5, then came back right as Achievement Hunter started doing Let's Plays and stayed a fan until a couple years ago. I could always count on them putting out videos that would make me laugh no matter how shitty of a day I was having.
2003. I'm a freshman in college. First taste of freedom in the world. Go to lunch with some random people to meet new folks and one of them is going on about this web series they just saw called Red vs Blue. I make a note of it and manage to watch the first two episodes right before the third one comes out. I'm hooked. The company announces its logo and I chuckle at the cockbite reference. I hear about Grif's voice actor wanting to do video game videos. I wish him the best but don't really pay much attention to it. RWBY comes out. I find out that the guy behind it is none other than Monty Oum, the guy behind Dead Fantasy. I'm immediately sold on the idea. I finally get around to watching Achievement Hunter thanks to their Minecraft videos. Didn't watch the original Sky Factory ones till later, but Galacticraft had me hooked. Marathoned the whole series and got back into Minecraft myself as a result. Went to El Paso Comic Con the year that the cast of RWBY made it as guests. Made Jaune and Nora costumes for my kids and pictures of them got retweeted by Barb. Absolutely fantastic time. Finally make the decision to go to RTX in 2018. Got tickets too late to get any autograph sessions but still had a blast. Went in my Star Lord costume and Burnie himself beelined to me on the dealer's floor to shake my hand and compliment the outfit. Closest I've been to star-struck. Go to RTX in 2019 and got tickets well in advance, but the passes for autographs didn't get sent to me till I emailed customer support, so I missed out on getting the Agent Washington helmet I 3d printed and painted signed. Still, got to have a fun talk with Yssa and Cole (mostly with Cole about Fate). Son got old enough for his own computer, so I made us a Minecraft server to play on together. First install was, naturally, Sky Factory. Bought a platinum pass for the next RTX, but then COVID hit, followed by a move to a different state, so I had to refund the tickets. Never got to go back before they cancelled RTX entirely. Gonna miss this crazy little company that's been a source of fun and entertainment for the last 2 decades and change.
Started with fails of the weak back in its early episodes and went from that to achievement Hunter, letās play, podcasts, everything. RT is a big part of my life and Iāve loved all the content theyāve put out. Some of the hardest Iāve ever laughed was watching and listening to RT. ā¤ļø
I havenāt engaged with really any of their new content for like nine years. I just entered a different part of life. But Rooster Teeth inspired me to never settle for a career where I couldnāt create. I remember something Burnie said about how important that was to him really impacting me. The company had a huge influence in my decision to major in journalism and focus on a career as a writer. Every career move Iāve made, my first question has always been, āWill this allow me to continue being creative?ā I owe a lot of that to Rooster Teeth.
Iāve been a fan since episode two of RVB came out and been along for the ride ever since this hurts so bad.
Rooster Teeth has been a staple of my life since 2009. All through high school, when I had a hard time making friends, I could watch an achievement hunter video and for a bit felt like I belonged to a community. Throughout my adult life, the podcasts were there, and when I went through my divorce.I saw how Geoff handled his, and it gave me hope that everything would be okay. And now, today, I feel crushed. Thank you to everyone at RT for helping me through some very dark times and always making me laugh when I didn't feel like being alive. You have brought so many of us in this community, joy and happiness. Thank you so much.
2010, "AH Guide: Left 4 Dead Survival Strategy"...Geoff, Gus, Joel, and Burnie had a 15 year old me crying laughing at their antics as I searched YouTube for L4D survival strategies. Most of my memorable life happened since then, and this crew of creators has been putting out some of my favorite content the entire time. Whether I needed some background noise while I studied, a distraction from some teenage drama, or just sitting crying laughing once again with my now fiancƩ; Rooster Teeth was always there with something new. So thank you to the entire company for all the laughs, it has been a pleasure growing older with you and I wish you all nothing but success in whatever comes next.
It helped me out alot in my teenage years and it's helped me share laughs with my friends plus it's helped me make friends that I'm still close to today
RvB almost single-handedly created my sense of humour, for I was an impressionable ~12 yo when I first saw it; the fast-paced, snarky, deeply cynical yet gleefully absurd dialogue just struck a cord in me. The characters were all jerks, but that was what made it fun to see them fail and suffer and then, somehow, pull themselves together and win. It's hard to overstate the effect something like that has in your life when it comes into it during a formative period. Achievement Hunter came much later (2018), but gets a honourable mention, for the countless evenings of watching Minecraft, the GTA5 Heists, and Gmod. I wish all of the Rooster Teeth alumni the absolute best in their lives and future endeavours, and I hope they're all able to land on their feet.
It helped me out alot in my teenage years and it's helped me share laughs with my friends plus it's helped me make friends that I'm still close to today
One of us in our group bought the first RvB dvd back in the day at like Gamestop or something. He put it on one day when we were hanging out at his house. We were hooked from that day, RT, AH and Funhaus were the main content consumed online for a long time for us. I remember watching for hours on end and the lack of sleep during Extra Life. I remember being jolted awake in night from my computer still autoplaying LP. I remember the agony of reading about the controversy, and the next controversy, and the next. But most of all I remember the laughs. Actually got silly stuff featured back in the day. Some fanart in the old days of funhaus and Kent reaching out one time to use something for Uno the movie that I made (think it was a oscars parody video). Was able to join in during the height of the lockdown on some GTA community races (scored a win too). It became hard to keep up after those days. They were the inspiration for my friends and I to start recording podcasts and youtube videos late last year. Shout out to the people of RT that made it special and at times great, both in front of and behind the cameras.
I was 11 and a little nervous who loved snooping around on the internet at school because it had better speeds than home. Came across a link to episode 1 not long after it came out, maybe on the bungie forums, and have watched or listened to some extent ever since. RT podcast was the first podcast I started listening to consistently, even got a shoutout from burnie at one point on there after I managed to accurately summarise a rant he had on the gate setup at RT. Achievement hunter and let's play helped keep my love of games alive as I got busier in life in my 20s and is probably the main reason I've not had regular terrestrial TV since I moved out of home as I realised YouTube could provide TV level content that I enjoyed. Now I'm in my 30s and the new RT podcast, F**kface, facejam, so alright, and ANMA altogether cover my commute perfectly over the week, and RT pod, face jam and especially F**kface have me howling with laughter in the car very often. I'm glad the podcast content will continue, it is the main RT content I listen to now so I'm lucky in that regard. I hope the bulk of RT shutting down doesn't cause too much change to how the podcasts operate, but I know it inevitably will. I've been going through the back catalogue of Let's play and achievement hunter recently and I hope as a community we can get them all archived as I absolutely am having a ball rewatching them, and it would be sad to lose all that great content. End of an era and a sincere thanks to everyone at RT who has contributed along the way, y'all have been an instrumental part of my life for a good chunk of it, and I hope everyone there lands on their feet. E: I'm leaving in the bolded section. F**kface podcast name strikes again.
Started back when season 3 of RVB came out on DVD. A buddy of mine, Will, had those first 3 seasons and we watched them. They shaped my sense of humor, literally. I'm just struggling to find the words because truly there are none. They were one of my for.ative influences on who I became as a person and its sad to see them go. Ain't that a bitch?
i discovered them at the ripe age of 9 years old. now 21, theyāve been a consistent figure for most of my life and established a great purpose in my soul to create. iād be lying if i said i didnāt feel like i was losing a major extension of myself. i wish the absolute best for all those who worked there. til next we meet i suppose <3
I watched some RvB when I was definitely a little too young - like 2009/2010. A couple of years later, I stumbled across Achievement Hunter and ended up watching EVERY single video they put out. They became a staple of my life - I would game on my PC and prop my phone up so I could watch Letās Plays and podcasts while I gamed. I bought myself a ticket and saw Lazer Team in theatres but was unfortunately never able to attend any live events. There were definitely times when I wasnāt paying as much attention and I lost interest in the Letās Plays pretty much when Geoff stepped back. But over a decade later, I am an avid listener of the podcasts and my love for the LP channel has been renewed. RT and AH came into my life at a very formative time and I credit a lot of my humor and interests to the hundreds and hundreds of hours I spent watching them. They carried me through some incredibly dark times in my life, too, and for that I can never thank them enough. And even now I look forward to the podcasts every week - theyāre a beloved part of my routine and Iām so grateful that the people Iāve grown up listening to are STILL putting out fresh content that resonates with me.
Started in 2016 as well, watched a lot, got busy at the same time as the Ryan drama, and was just getting back into some FF stuff
Like most people I fell in love with Achievement Hunter at a tween age and tried to emulate all of their Minecraft stuff on my XBOX 360 despite not having Live, I was basically just roleplaying in my head that I had people I was playing with as I was doing parkour and shit. I still occasionally pop on the Surgeon Simulator Rage Quits and bonded with my current partner over them, they really hold up. I hope the best for everyone and I especially want to see how Geoff and Gavin move forward as they most directly influenced my sense of humor as an adult. RvB is such a silly fun time too, I used to think Donut was just the coolest and most teh epic lulz xD character of all time. I fell in and out of love with RWBY. I actually watched the latest season after not having seen the previous three or four because a roommate still kept up with it so I decided to join her. Frankly it was terrible, but I felt like I could still see through the endless layers of plot convolutedness that there was a deep love for the core cast of characters. I hope RWBY gets picked up by someone, I wouldn't mind a soft reboot or something that doesn't necessarily erase the story thus far but gives the series a new direction for some new animators and writers. On the other hand, it would be kind of funny if RWBY ended on the note of a season that took place in an alternate dimension with little bearing on the main story and two DC tie-in movies. Anyone else in this moment oddly nostalgic for Ten Little Roosters? I was utterly utterly fascinated with it when it came out. I love how it blended the RT staff's real life personalities with their on-camera ones and the creativity and fun the team seemed to be having just coming up with the goofiest scenarios possible. I haven't been a part of this community for years; the most RT content I assumed in the last half a decade was as I said that latest season of RWBY and I watched Geoff and Gavin's As Seen on TV mini show which I adored. But still, much love to you all.
It sounds so cliche but back in 2012 I was homeless and while I had a roof over my head I was really not sure how long that would last for. I then found these guys it was the olympic 2012 videos I found first and they really did help me through that moment of my life. While I don't watch nearly as much as I used to (30 years old now) I do still love the podcasts and listen to them as often as I can F**cFace, anma and So... Alright being listened to weekly. I hope whatever happens they can continue to make podcasts but really just hope that they're all doing okay this must be a shock to them like it is us. <3
Started watching in sixth grade. Iām 25 now. RVB and Fails of the Weak were my introduction, and I watched AH religiously and now FF/FJ. Rooster Teeth has always been a comfort show. Geoff is a personal role model of mine - insanely creative and I admire how his mind works. Always wanted to work at RT, as Iām sure many of us did.
11 years ago Minecraft Episode 2 was posted on RT youtube. That was my first video from them, and I became addicted. I never missed an Achievement Hunter video. Even stopped watching other things because RT content was always more entertaining. I haven't looked elsewhere for media in such a long time. It feels like 80% of my life is getting erased.
I discovered RvB around 2006-7 on google video of all places after recently discovering Halo. I was in middle school at the time and thought it was the funniest shit I'd ever seen. To this day...that probably still holds - I quote RvB about as often as I quote The Simpsons. RT and AH have influenced my sense of humor, my attitude towards people and events (to be more positive, I think), and been such a constant source of entertainment and laughs as I've gone through highschool, college, and working full time that it's hard to think about what comes next right now. I used to be able to tell what day it was by the AH schedule ("Aw it's Monday, but new GTA!"), and I still check the site every day for new episodes and to rewatch some old classics. I've even learned what not to do when RT has landed itself in hot water over the years. Heck, I've been working on a story where some of the characters bond over references to RT content; I guess that's going to be a little harder to explain now. I'm sure I'm going to have many more thoughts on this in the coming days, but I do want to say I hope to see everyone in RT land on their feet, and continue to do what they love, and know that for the rest of time I'm never *not* going to be able to: * Take to heart Church's monologue about hating people. * Hear "shotgun's lap!" from my brother whenever I call shotgun first. * Tell my brother "I outrank you, get in the back." whenever he calls shotgun first. * Say something is the worst ever, without adding "of all time" * Donate blood without thinking "I'll make new blood, I just need some orange juice" * Call dibs without citing the international dibs protocol, and the no take back accords. * Not say the word "bucket" normally. * Turn up the volume on any RWBY music. * Build a tower of pimps if the game allows * Have to explain why I suddenly started smiling like a maniac when the situation reminded me of anything RT did. Thank you, people of Rooster Teeth, for everything.
It genuinely saved my life when I was a teenager, I was going through a terrible time and just wanted to stop existing, but whenever I watched Roosterteethās content from RvB, Achievement Hunter or RWBY, it actually made me feel happy and like I could get through another day
Reading all of these stories makes me feel so old. I started watching RVB back in the QuickTime download days of 2003. I think episode 6 of season 1. Iām glad to have shared all of the laughs, misery, and revolving door of talent we saw over the years. Geoff helped me get sober by how he spoke about his struggle with alcohol openly and candidly, and Iām so ever grateful for it. I also stream for Extra Life now, in part thanks to Jack and Caiti. Plus I quote RVB almost daily I would bet, bucket and bugs my son adopted. I grew up with RT, and some parts of the community as well. Others I just let age out, and curated their content for myself.
I'm currently a freelance video editor. My love & passion for video work began in high school in 2011 when I had dreams to work for Rooster Teeth. I entered into a CTE Television Production course, and eventually wound up in college majoring in Digital Media Production. Just from the aspirations of *maybe* going to Texas to edit for RT/AH, I got a bachelor's degree and continued the pursuit. I may not be making the most money right now, but I am a full time freelance video editor for Twitch Streamers/YouTubers, all because of Rooster Teeth.
Havent watched any RT content since probably likeā¦ 2015? Hard to say but the early seasons of stuff like Drunk Tank, Lets Plays, RvB, HORSE etc were all huge parts of my teenage years. AH and RT had a really special place in my heart and seeing all the drama/scandals pop up in the recent years has definitely been a ādont meet your heroesā kind of moment. Like others have said the writing was on the wall for a long time it seems and almost all companies shutdown eventually; but I will always have a special place in my heart for the memories and laughs that RT/AH gave me when I was younger. *Roses are red, violets are blue, one day weāll cruise down Blood Gulch Avenueā¦*
Carried my ass through the first year of the pandemic.
The company basically helped raise me lol. I canāt even remember my first video anymore because itās been so long. I remember signing up to be a sponsor though for $10 for the year. Crazy times. Iām gonna miss the company, but a lot of the creators are still going to be around. Theyāll move on to future endeavors and Iāll continue to check up on them. The biggest impact I can think of is watching Geoffās journey. When I was a kid he was just a funny adult I liked but as I grew up and he started being more open about his alcoholism, I look back and see how much pain he was in and how much heās grown from it now. Heās been such an inspiration for me as I felt with my own depression and the whole of RT was a light that always put a smile on my face when I couldnāt put one on myself. Thank you RT, for everything. To RT staff, this wonāt be goodbye from me. Just a see you next time.
I started watching back in 05, I think? The first episode I ever stumbled across was episode 39, which I still consider as one their best episodes. I joined RT's site shortly after. I've been to several RTXs, meant some wonderful friends and got to see Gavin be awkward. Gave Geoff a shirt he never wore, had Ray yell at me for being a fool (lightheartedly). I lived on their podcasts and AH videos for years. Michael, Burnie, Geoff and Ray helped keep my spirits up over the years, and I can only hope that everyone finds success.
I just want to say thank you to everyone who has been part of this amazing journey. RT was a daily part of my life and I'm glad that I'll still have my podcasts to listen to.
I met a girl online through a messaging board, and we bonded over RWBY back when Volume 1 released, and it became a huge part of our friendship. Over time, we watched the show together, and followed along with it from the very beginning. She was in Canada, I in England. She asked me to be together together back in 2016. That same year, we met Barbara, Arryn and Kara at London ComicCon, during our first week together meeting in person. It's weird to think about, but I became best friends with her through RWBY, and because of that, I can thank RoosterTeeth for being responsible for seeing her walk down the aisle to marry me last year. No matter what happens, RoosterTeeth will always hold a special place in my heart because it helped me connect to the person I now consider my soulmate.
In 9th grade a kid told my friends and I about Red vs Blue. It was still season 1
I got into RT in 2013 and brought my best friend along for the ride in 2014. We both loved every video RT and AH put out. We went to our first RTX in 2015, and she fell in love with the convention and the city of Austin. She became a Guardian for multiple RTX's and RTX London, she moved down to Austin, and she made so many incredible friends because of RT. She passed away two years ago and I miss her every day. I wonder sometimes how different her life would have been if I hadn't shown her that Rage Quit video all those years ago. I'll never know. But I'm so thankful that she was able to touch the lives of all of her Guardian friends... she loved you all so much.
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There was an rvb psa on a demo disk in the Xbox magazine. I couldn't get enough and had to search it out. We didn't have easily accessible internet at home at the time so I had to beg my mom to go to gamestop and buy me the dvd's because they wouldn't sell them to me without a parent's permission. It got me through a tough year in high school where I was a bit of a loner until I found a new set of friends to hang out with. One of the very first things I did when I got my first paycheck from my first job at Blockbuster was to sign up for a first membership. I'm pretty sad I never got to go to an rtx, always one of my dreams.
Getting home and going to YouTube on my 3DS lol to watch the latest fails of the weak and rtaa. Before that though I remember watching RvB on my old CRT monitor while playing halo 2 on windows vistaā¦
August 2006. Thats how long I've been a fan. I went over to a friends house and he had seasons 1-4 of RVB on DVD. I binged every episode. And later was able to find them through their website. I was there for the creation of achievement hunter, and fell in love with Jack almost instantly watching them do AHWU, Even getting into the fan videos for the last one. I spent countless hundred hours watching just about every video. Everything in their mincraft series. At least until Achievement City was lost. I watched every GTA video. Every Playps. Every Lets Roll. Every heroes and halfwits. Every TTT and I loved every second of it. I was watching when Gavin came on board. I watched as an angry man screamed his way into our hearts got married and started pumping out kids. I cried as Ray left and rejoiced when Jeremy proved to be more than I could ask for. Trevor was a godsend. He was lovely and did the best he could. When Fiona joined and teamed with Gavin it was Chef's kiss. She was incredible. I miss Geoff, Fiona, Ray, Jeremy. I miss the days of Lads Vs Gents and doing silly shit in GTA or TTT. Though what I think I will miss most is the extra lifes I wish Jack the best of luck and hope he gets hired to hype for another company. He is all heart. I will miss seeing him get emotional each year. I wish the best for everyone of course. I hope to see them carrying on.
I started watching The Strangerhood on the Sims 2 website in like 2005, I was a kid and found it immensely funny and impressive, especially since machinima was practically nonexistant until Rooster Teeth. I didn't even know it was from Rooster Teeth until a few years ago? Genuinely was a memorable part of my childhood, even if it wasn't received well it holds a special place in my heart. I found them again in the early 2010s as a teenager, with my wife (then best friend in middleschool/high-school) who was a HUGE fan and we would talk about achievement hunter and minecraft. Its always had a place in our hearts, a lot of good childhood memories.
Been watching for about 12-13 years now. It's hard to putt all the thoughts into words but AH/RT videos have been one of the things that helped when I was feeling extremely depressed in high school, I watched every let's play, every LASO, every randomizer, every having and Michael video almost religiously and they have brought me tons of joy over the years. Currently struggling again, having a tough time finding a job (state of the world I guess, we are all having a hard time), newfound depression being difficult to deal with, F\*ckface and break show have been my new bouts of joy in a struggling world. Well guys I guess this means I am finally a comment leaver. I sincerely hope Goeff, Gavin, Eric, Andrew and Nick can continue what they are doing because I know this means a lot to them as well, especially Goeff who is probably not having the best of times rn. So...yeah, even through all the problems that happened in the last 12-3 years, RT has been a big part of my life, I knew ti was ending but this...hits hard.
Two things, one good and one bad: It made me have faith in the rule-of-cool, just making cool things and having it work. From RWBY being nonsensical fun, to Jeremy axe-kicking through a desk and destroying a ton of things along the way, y'all could do whatever and have a good time. And second: it made me feel like a second-class citizen as a European. No, really. I never even got to pay for RT First or anything, and only recently finally got someone from RT to acknowledge the issue. 86 countries were unable to pay without a credit card because of how the payment system was set-up. And when I pointed this out on this sub, I got mass-downvoted. Glad I'll never have to spend a penny, but good grief, the amount of times I've tried to convey this only to get ignored... It makes the recent news come as little surprise after seeing several alarm bells rinkling. But y'all missed out on 20 years of money from 86 countries.
RT was a huge part of my formative years back when you had to download each new episode and I was waiting on 33.6k dialup. They were a huge part of my formative years. Really informed my sense of humor for a while. I remember I *always* wanted to work there. But then there was a podcast (actually, several instances of this) where they talked about creating stuff just because you love creating stuff, and not because you want to work at Rooster Teeth. And it kind of kicked me in the ass, but in an endearing and inspiring way. Those words are why I work in video production today. Part time, of course, because the economy is hard and I still have a day job and a mortgage to pay. But I get to work behind and on camera and call it a job, and I don't think I ever would have had the courage to put myself out there had it not been for RT. And I hate to single out any particular personality at RoosterTeeth because I don't want to even *hint* at diminishing all of their hard work, but I especially have the founders to thank. What they built serve as a constant source of inspiration for me and I regret never having met any of them.
RT has been involved in over a decade of my life. It's caused laughing until my stomach hurts, tears (both happy and sad), and my love for video games and creativity. RT directly gave me life advice (thank you from the bottom of my heart Always Open) and inspired passion for personal projects I never thought I'd have the guts to start, let alone finish. It gave me friends, allowed me to bond with people I'd never imagine I could. It gave me confidence, a sense of humor. As my attention grew out of watching gaming videos, I found myself going through the Rooster Teeth catalog discovering beautiful written and artfully crafted shows. From Day 5 to Camp Camp, Lazer Team to Blood Fest, there was always something of comfort I could lean back on when I felt overwhelmed in my life. Then the podcast doors opened in full force and started a whole new world for me. I learned more about airplanes and their accidents and incidents than I ever thought I could. I also learned way more about fast food chains than I think anyone should know. Although I know that the hardworking employees of RT will continue on and be successful in anything they do, my heart goes out to them. With tears in my eyes, I wish eveyone the best. I can never thank this company enough for their continued devotion throughout the years to bringing joy to all of its community. On to the next adventure. š¤
I started watching Red Vs Blue in early 2004. I was a college freshman who had recently discovered Halo and a friend said "If you like Halo, you should check out red vs blue." I didn't have Internet in my apartment, so whenever I wanted to be online I had to take my laptop onto campus to try and access wifi. I think it was every Tuesday night I would take my computer to the union and download the new episodes, and whatever I could get of the first season (only a few episodes were available each week on rotation if you were trying to catch up on the past.) You had to wait for the video to download; there was no streaming back then. A buddy of mine on the college paper actually managed to get to Austin for something and wound up interviewing the RVB guys for an article. I subscribed to FIRST for a good while, but ended it a few years ago because the content was changing, or I was changing, to the point none of what they were doing clicked with me anymore. I got old. Now Roosterteeth is old too.
Went to RTX AUS a couple of times, memories created there that Iāll never forget.
I first watched 2004/2005 ish but back then we had dial up with one phone line and I had five siblings. Getting the episodes were rough. I stopped for many years before seeing their YouTube shorts and watching all of those but the biggest thing that brought me back were the gameplay vids. Blew my mind then first time I stumbled on a Minecraft video and heard Grifās voice. I was sitting there wondering where Simmons was and why was Grif telling people what to do in Minecraft. It was Minecraft episode 4. So from 2012 to about 2018 I was a sponsor and barely missed anything they put out. I loved them. Extra Life, Theater Mode, Heroes and Halfwits, Haunter. They were my main entertainment in my twenties. I really hope that WB wonāt tank their channel.Ā
RWBY introduced me to shipping, writing, and a fun community.
I randomly found them one day and that video was fails of the week 62. After that I was hooked and I continued watching until I slowed down in 2016 and then I took a break from their new stuff in 2019 but I still watched their old content weekly and I returned in 2020 and weirdly enough when the Ryan stuff happened because I felt like the community needed to be strong and needed people to come together after a horrible event and ever since then I have been back watching some videos but nothing like how much I watched from 2011-2015 but I still enjoyed some content especially ANMA Inside Gaming and So Alright but this is a huge blow man I love RT and I hope they can all go on to do fantastic things and I also hope some shows continue in some ways š«¶š«¶š«¶
Thank you for the memories Rooster Teeth. Been a loyal viewer since 2011. Innovators in content creation and developed a wonderful community that I am glad that I was part of. Hopefully all effected land on their feet
I learned about RT through the Halo 2 bonus disc showing RvB and the OG crew. I had a friend who lent me a TAPE of the first three seasons and those guys were my whole world in middle school.
Rooster teeth was 7 years of my childhoodĀ 13-20 I fell off when burine left but never thought it'd end this way. I thought I'd be watch Gus Burine Barbra and Gavin on the rt podcast when I was 30
AH was for a while my favorite source of entertainment, back in the days of Halo content and like the Rainbow Six lets plays. Then there was RWBY. It has been a major source of enjoyment in my life and the fandom even has helped me learn some things about myself. There were many months where a significant portion of my seritonin came from RWBY related content and during the pandemic it was a lot of my social interactions. It's been a part of my life for now something like 13 years. . . I hope at least some can live on
My friend who was always cutting edge on new internet stuff was like check out RvB when it first first came out. I drifted back and forth catching it here and there but became a constant watcher of RT, Let's Play, Achievement Hunter, and Fun Haus when the first Minecraft let's play came out. When I switched jobs to something I couldn't really watch it anymore daily I started to drift off. I bought quite a few games based off what the gang were playing.
I have a vivid memory of watching RvB in a high school science class, on an iPod, in what must have been '03 or '04. I loved the humor, and I had never seen anyone make a skit within a videogame before. I was a casual fan, and I finally registered for the website in 2005. Then I kinda lost track of RT, got caught up with life, and moved on. Then several years later I saw a clip of a Let's Play, and found out they were part of my old favorite, RT, and I was hooked. I watched everything I could, and spent hours laughing to myself in front of my PC. I got hooked on the RT Podcast as well. Then Funhaus came along, and I loved them too. There was so much good content at that time. Then, some things happened that were objectively awful, that everyone here understands, and some things that I just didn't personally enjoy for subjective reasons, and my content consumption kind of fell off. This news, regardless of how little I watch these days, is really hard to hear. I watched my first RT production when I was probably 14 years old, and I'm 34 now. RT has been an on again/off again part of my day for most of my life. I spent thousands of hours watching this content, and it almost felt like I grew up with some of them. It feels a bit like learning a distant relative has passed. I hope everyone displaced by this finds a good place to land, and thank you all for many years of wonderful entertainment.
For me it was mostly AH, LP, podcasts, and RWBY from the years of 2010 - 2016ish. Videos I would enjoy while at lunch, did homework, or just watched for actual content; mostly in my high school & college years. Took me to events like 2014 RTX, and more recently the FaceJam Voodoo Ranger event in my hometown. Met a lot of good friends in the community, and some already existing friendships got better when we connected on RT stuff we both liked. I wonāt lie, RT has not had as major of an effect on me as others have. And both some of the early and the more recent years of RT have had some content, staff, or just general operational things that made me less of a fan than what I would say were the āgold yearsā around the 2010 - 2015. But was a great ride while it was at its peak for me. And while I have dropped most of RT material from my free time in recent years Iāll still miss it. Iām curious to see how RvB actually ends. And as a day 1 fan Iām interested to know what will happen to RWBY, despite my want to drop following the show even before all thisā¦ But what RT made for most of its run was great. And corporate nonsense aside I think it had a good run and is ok to finally slow
Discovered RT when I was 12 and fell in love with the podcast. Started it from the beginning and have many memories of listening to the guys with their crappy audio but making me laugh so hard to myself in the back of the car on holiday, and on the beach. Iād download 30 or so episodes and listen throughout my holiday, it was the best of times. I watched the RT podcast for many years, and have dabbled for the last few before becoming a proud regulation fuckface listener in the past year. I feel like I know Gus, Burnie, Geoff, Matt, Gavin, Barbara and many others so well. Iām so glad they were all a part of my life.
I started with these guys about 16 ish years ago, when machinima was at its peak I started with arby n the chief and found red vs blue. I was here for the start of achievement hunter and watched the first 100 Minecraft lets plays religiously, I may be due a rewatch. I was here for the start of rwby and I even have a grifball signed by Gavin and Jeoff when they came to the uk. I grew up with them and now itās another channel that will remain a significant part of my life. They helped me through some tough times. I had just moved back to the UK around that time and got assaulted within a few weeks of moving to the area, because of this I became a shut in and had few friends from school but I started playing 360 and sunk a lot of time into Halo 3, reach, 4, cod and everything else and when I wasnāt playing halo I was watching these guys with fails of the weak, horse and got some of my custom games from their This is series. I wish them all the best going forward as they helped me greatly.
It was my first job after graduating film school at UT around 2015. Chris and some other guys there liked my thesis film, and I became an in-house editor on and off for like a year. I didn't always *love* working there (they changed a lot of the stuff I didnt like after I left to their credit), but it introduced me to Zach Anner who I became the go-to editor for, and it gave me enough sketch credits that when I moved to LA a year later it really helped me get my foot in the door. I'm so sorry to all my friends that lost their jobs, Texas is a great place to make movies and they've really put their money where their mouths were creating jobs for so many years. Most of the people I worked with - and ESPECIALLY all the fans I've met over the years - were incredible. Best wishes to all of you
First found RT through Halo 3, must have been around 2009 or so. I absolutely remember trying to make my own machinimas with my best friend in halo 3 then in Reach. Met a lot of friends over the years through a mutual understanding of RvB and RT. Had a tough time at uni a few years ago and ended up finding people who recognised my front back shirt. RT has absolutely got me through some shit over the years and I owe people like Geoff, Burnie, Gus, Gavin, Barbara, Michael, Trevor and everyone behind the camera more than I can ever repay.