• KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Can’t think of anyone i dropped for a specific reason since Roosterteeth/Ryan Heywood. I never really dropped AvE even with his dumb conservative shit because he was always a moron and was up front about it. I guess i will not though because I didnt know he want as cookoo as full magat, but i can see how he’d turn that way.

    Idk I saw roosterteeth going toxic for a while and got much more sparing with my subscriptions back then. I’ll always shout out Ray Narvaez Jr. And his lovely wife Tina for being some of the best on YouTube for a long time now. Honorary mention to Matt, Chibi, and Nagzz to round out the pissboy crew.

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      3 days ago

      Can’t think of anyone i dropped for a specific reason since Roosterteeth/Ryan Heywood.

      Honestly Roosterteeth was vile long before the Ryan incident. They had a serious, vile problem with racism behind the scenes (and if you listen to earlier content and hear about how they talk about gavin and how hes a different person on camera and how he was a piece of shit, and if he was like he was off camera they’d have to censor everything makes me seriously believe he was a big part of the racism), and I wager the racism problem never went away… there was just effort put in to hiding it and not rubbing the black members faces in it, like they did with Mica and her just walking into the office one day to find the N word sprawled in massive letters across a whiteboard.

      Roosterteeth in general also had a major problem with exploiting fans for free labor. Which got even worse during their attempt to be an animation studio and basically expecting low/unpaid fans to sleep under their desks and work 18 hours a day in perpetual never ending crunch.

      Honestly I think they were all pieces of shit, some worse, some less, but all pieces of shit… Except Ray. Ray seemed like the only actually decent person there… Which is probably why he was the first one to GTFO

      and I believe, to this day, that all the Achievement Hunter crew knew what Ryan was doing, because they loooooved to make comments and jokes about what Ryan was doing staying behind a day or two after everyone headed home from a location shoot. . . jokes and comments that disappeared from videos suspiciously quickly when the shit with ryan came out… as if they had time stamps for them and could quickly cut them when the time came.

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        3 days ago

        There are some genuinely decent people that worked in that office imo. Its such a challenging thing to try to separate out. Matt bragg, Jeremy Dooley, and Barbara Dunkelman are all good eggs. And without the rest of the bastards at RT I wouldn’t have found them.