The chat acting like Ryan wasn't most people's favourite in the group by around 2020. He was better at games than most of them, his mad king persona was funny, and his personality was just spiky enough to make great content with the rest of the gang. It was completely out of left field when all the information came out, he was a classic wife guy after all. Just because we have hindsight now don't pretend as if we were always suspect of him
Ryan was for sure the top 2 or 3 of AH members back in the day. He was always entertaining. I get why people don't like him now, but he was deservedly popular in AH's golden era.
@jamesdulak3108 I was devastated when the news broke, I was still watching AH religiously on the RT app as a First member. Ryan was getting really popular with fans, I remember fan highlight videos of just him and then it all came crashing down. I haven't watched AH since. Though I listen to Michael's podcast
EDIT: I confused Ryan with Joel. However, I stand by in my general disagreement, because I can't have been the only one who found Ryan.... uninteresting. I only watched the podcast at that point.
As someone who watched a ton of RoosterTeeth and Achievement Hunter in my late teens and early 20s, it really sucks to see how it all ended. Despite everything that happened and came out, I still look back on it positively but it serves as a good reminder that you are never fully aware of everything that's happening behind the scenes with some of your favourite content creators.
I think COVID was the final death knell. At least on the Achievement Hunter side, their move to being fully remote (100% understandable btw) removed a lot of the charm. It went from feeling like a group of friends to feeling like coworkers talking together (which they are) I watched them for the VAST majority of my childhood and still look back on it fondly, it just sucks how everything slowly started to fade away
Some extra notes: the original group (Geoff, Gus, Burnie etc) didn't meet in college, but working at a call center for a tech company. Gus and Geoff started drunk gamers and asked Burnie for help to run the website for them, and became friends. Gavin started the slo-mo guys UA-cam channel in order to get a visa so he could work at Roosterteeth. Ray didn't leave just because he wanted to focus on streaming, but also because of Rooster teeth trying to claim his account as theirs due to some contractual bullshit or whatever, burn out from playing the same games all the time (Minecraft and gtaV weekly), and a horrible commute (also part of the cause of burnout) after switching offices. He would show up an hour before everyone so his partner could drop him off before she went off to work, and get picked up an hour after everyone else left.
@@ZombHarris it's such a minor detail that is pretty easy to glaze over unless you religiously listened to their podcasts or what not. Yes they did mention it a lot in their videos and podcasts but they also got most of the other details of their history correct, which is awesome. I just wanted to clarify some of the details that may have been misremembered or passed over.
@@ZombHarris yeyeyeye same, it's how I maintained this useless knowledge lmfao, was my obsession from 2008 to 2016 and back into it again with the regulation podcast
There was a comment from chat that claimed Monty Oum died from overwork, that is false he died from a allergic reaction was to the hospital but didn't make it. Rip Monty Oum
it truly was a loss for the online animation community. i was a fan and friend of monty’s long before RT back with Haloid and what not. Monty was a truly good human that loved sharing everything he knew with the community even sharing me some of his software after a back and forth discussing his techniques and the limitations for the software at the time
@@Pheatanyeah that's absolutely conspiracy bullshit from that chatter, definitely them trying to reverse engineer a story from current events and opinions, anyone who was there at the time knew it was an allergic reaction in the hospital
@@S.logyn31we don't know. As far as I can tell from research it was never specified. Could've been a medication, could've been latex, all it says is that it was during a "simple medical procedure".
Gavin, Geoff, and Eric host a podcast together, as well as Michael from AH, Jordan Cwierz (RT Animated adventure creator, and Eric being in another podcast. Fuckface (later called Regulation Podcast) is Geoff’s and Michael’s is Facejam (later called 100% Eat)
And Jeremy, Matt, and Ray have become part of Chilled's circle of friends, as well as diving into VTubers. Fredo and Trevor still do RedWeb. And Matt and Fredo do their own LP channel now.
Way too short! Definitely needs a part 2 or talk more in depth on some things Personally something I would love to hear more of would be Ray, You mentioned Gavin and his slow mo guys channel and how well thats doing, it would have been cool to mention how after Ray left everything in his and his wife's life just got better and better, its a really happy story, and seeing where he is now collabing a bunch with vtubers and playing games with a bunch of people, he really gets to show off how funny he is to more people its awesome! Ray been my number 1 from Achievement hunter and I gotta let everyone know how cool he is!
Bit of a bummer that achievement hunter really didn’t get that much of a deep dive compared to other parts of the Let’s Play family, given that AH was arguably the biggest of them all.
I think they should one. It had an amazing rise as it was shown, but just on their own had a lot of troubles that could be looked up on; I mostly think about Mica Burton who was one of the first to speak about the workplace environment as well as the fandom, who wasn't great either and were racist and misogynistic against her. After Ryan, many things changed but it was too late for AH.
@@mattymerr701 Yeah icl there's a lot of wrong or missing info, it's kind of a shame. I was really looking forward to this vid, and I get there's only so much time but I feel like it could've been done better
I know the point of these videos isn't to be a full on documentary or anything, but there are some really glaring mistakes here and there... Eg gen:Lock having two seasons not one, it's literally on the wiki page (This is not to discredit the video massively, it's still a good overview, just a shame about the errors here and there)
A few things were wrong or missed, but overall, a very well-done recap. RIP Rooster Teeth, had some awful scandals and incidents, but they were my childhood/teen years, and I will always miss them
Man, I was in the weeds for this one. I used to go to their convention RTX every year with my friends. At one point I would’ve considered being an RT fan a big part of my personality. On the bright side, I highly recommend watching/listening to 100% Eat and Regulation Podcast for fun things some ex-RT folks are doing
Let's be real Regulation Podcast is the core of what Roosterteeth used to be. Just friends fucking around with each other, having fun, and making dumb content.
@@Thecolebert I was a big RT and AH fan for a very long time, and I've tried watching Reg Pod but honestly, some of their content is just bad. I know they used to have the whole in-joke of not caring, but it really does feel like they're doing it for themselves and don't care about the product, which is fine, but like it's just bad
A couple of missed, overlooked, or misunderstood facts, but a really good dive! Achievement Hunter was such a cornerstone of my childhood and shaped my humor, personality, and attitude when it comes to committing to your vision (even if they are flawed visions). Geoff has spent a lot of time online discussing how he is ashamed of the person he was during the early days, and especially recovering from alcoholism during that sabbatical that was mentioned. I have such mixed feelings about the legacy of the company, but it will always be something that was special.
@thecbastion ah my bad I meant the movie series and with how good the slow mo was in those films I thought it spoke for itself, didn't know their was a tv series I'll have to check it out
I always held out hope that he’d one day come back and finish Dead Fantasy I believe it was called. The Dead Or Alive and Kingdom Hearts/Final Fantasy videos he made. I learned of him in the early days long before RWBY. RIP Monty o7
Funfact: seananers would do tours because they did some kind of competition. And apparently, no one really entered the competition. But he did start because of rosterteeth.
I heard about the "beating a guy to death with his own skull" joke at school in 2007, which prompted me to look up Red vs. Blue. A video they had made for the Halo 3 beta was amongst the first I ever watched on UA-cam. I was a big fan of RvB, their podcast (Drunk Tank) and the comedy shorts they made throughout around 2009-2013 or so. They hired way too many guys and lost their identity. When I started listening to their podcast, Jack Pattillo had just been hired. Those early employees: Gavin, Jack, Barbara, Monty were introduced one at a time with months in between. It was fun to become acquainted with a new personality and see how they would play off your existing favourites. As time went on, the hiring, got faster and faster, to where I'd click on a Rooster Teeth show and just see a bunch of strangers on my screen. To me, it was the move to the huge office. Rooster Teeth Productions Production Studio was the good era. After that, it was a different thing to what I became a fan of in 2007.
3:20 it's so wide because they were doing in game and had to cut out the HUD to make it cinematic, that's also why there's an aiming reticle in the middle of the shot.
I'm so glad we finally got the RT/AH Deep Dive, I don't know if there is many other youtube channels that had so much impact on me as a teenager, It sucks that there was so much insane shit behind the scenes and it all fell apart, but I am glad I got to be around for the golden era, it was something special
If you love that golden era give "regulation gameplay" a go with Geoff, Gavin, Andrew Nick and Eric. Having the most fun I've had with that kind of content in many years.
You’re not talking about the RT podcast, you’re talking about The Roost which was a separate branch of RT working with all of their own podcasts as well as many others selling ads. It is one of the still profitable assets which was not shut down at the closing (although I’m not sure if WB is still the owner or if they sold it).
Just as a correction, The yogscast was never acquired by rooster teeth, they were both under the same banner of Maker Studios for a while, but yogscast left in 2016 and have been doing their own thing since. You should really get someone to do a dive on them as well :) Very nice group (with some exceptions, as always) who've raised millions (if not tens of millions) for charity at this point.
@@bamblo4273 They very briefly partnered with them, after all the ryan/adam and other allegations started coming out they very quickly ended that, as far as i recall. And the partnership was basically RT just hosting yogs' videos on their site. They didn't do much collaborating other than a few TTT episodes and such, did they?
@@E2O10 I did some digging and they were listed as a partner until August 2023 (that's my bad, didn't look into it enough in my initial comment) and from there, they has some of their content on the roosterteeth site under "friends of rt". This information came from a reddit post on the roosterteeth subreddit with a comment from a staff member of roosterteeth. As for collaborations you are correct, I didn't mean to imply they were working closely with roosterteeth, but more that they were under their umbrella for a while even after the controversies.
@@bamblo4273 ah. 2023. Didnt think it lasted that long. Wasnt checking in on the roosterteeth side since all the bs happened so wasnt sure about the timing of it all. Thanks for the clarification! :)
Achievement Hunter and Rooster Teeth inspired me to become a video editor. I'm still working on finding a career in that field but I'm making my own videos in the mean time. All thanks to them.
I know it's still pretty fresh but doing a post rooster teeth dive has gotta happen. A of the original guys are still at it now just independent again.
My only experience of Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter was the early Minecraft lets plays, and the iconic Gavin and Michael playing horror games. I will NEVER forget them playing Slenderman, where Gavin was in control of the mouse to change direction and Michael was using the keyboard to control the actual movement. Gavin freaked the fuck out and disconnected the keyboard when he jumped, and Michael was screaming at him so loud. Their argument over “torch” vs “flashlight” led to Gavin flashing the light, much to Michael’s annoyance, and said *”NOW* it’s a flashlight, hey-oooo!” In their Minecraft playthrough, Gavin annoyed Michael so bad, Michael got up and literally tackled Gavin and you could hear him punching Gavin, and a faint “My-cool, no! Please, My-cool!!!” 🤣 That and the iconic “tower of pimps” war (just a stack of 4 gold blocks) God that was so fucking long ago… 2012 I think? I had just entered high school. Damn. Peak content 😎👌🏻
This video is kind of strange. Like, the person recounting all this is getting the broad strokes right, but missing some fairly obvious stuff that I think is a key contributer to the downfall of the company. It also just makes it hard to want to watch the video. The Let's Play channel started months after they started doing Let's Plays. The very earliest Let's Plays started on Rooster Teeth. In fact, the Minecraft let's plays only started because of Rage Quit, the series created for Michael Jones specifically, also hosted on the main Rooster Teeth channel. Why is this important? Because they never focused on UA-cam enough. Rooster Teeth is a huge channel that slowly died because it was a mess and they never had a clear vision for it. And this started to impact the Let's Play channel. Because the Let's Play Family was originally supposed to be hosted on the Let's Play UA-cam channel, and the fans hated this. The videos got tons of down votes. Eventually they only hosted the Achievement Hunter videos there, but then Achievement Hunter spun off another UA-cam channel for the live action stuff, and there's a lot of other stuff that is a bit too much to get into right now, but the big problem is how disjointed it all felt. UA-cam was an after thought for Rooster Teeth. The Rooster Teeth website was their focus. Specifically the sponsors who originally paid to fund the company's output. But here's what I think killed Rooster Teeth. That eventually became "First". This is important because it took away the idea that you were paying to support the content you liked. Now, you're paying for a streaming service. And here's the problem. UA-cam and Twitch were the places people watched content. And Patreon was where people paid to support creators. Reddit and Twitter and eventually Discord were where you went to engage with communities. But Rooster Teeth never evolved. They doubled down on pushing their website and spending literally millions on "premium" content that most of the time failed to garner attention. Ray had a Twitch stream that was eventually aqquired by Rooster Teeth before he later quit, but Roooster Teeth never streamed to Twitch. And never really did so for UA-cam. Instead it was always on the site. By the time Fullscreen bought them, the company was already bleeding money. They desperately needed someone to focus on sustainable growth and focused output, but instead you had a company founded by incredibly creative and forward thinking people that never evolved and tried to grow into a mini Netflix. The people in this video seem nice, and they seem interesting, but it's a pretty boring video. If you never followed Rooster Teeth it's fine but as someone who did, this comes accross as someone who read a few articles for an afternoon and wrote up a script in a week. When even obvious stuff is wrong, I just don't care. It's sloppy at best and soulless at worst.
So like, it's sad that RT is gone. But the reality is that it needed to go to better serve the people that were creating the content people loved. Just about every show that was going at the end *is still going* just with a potentially different name, and the creators are receiving more money. There is no larger conglomerate taking a cut, there is no failing podcast to prop up, there is no need to put money away for another part of the budget. Video games are still being played, apple scrumping is still going strong, and podcasts are still all over the place.
I don't think the podcast was failing until the main cast left, which was fairly late all things considered. They used to get pretty good ads and view numbers. The bigger issue was the AH downfall just before Covid and the impact of covid on a struggling company
@ I think they replaced the people on the pod because they needed their core creators elsewhere. Podcasts don’t pull in enough money to fund an entire entertainment company
I went to PAX south in High School!!!! I knew I had seen the guys there but I was with my grandpa and too afraid to go up to them! These people were literally my main source of entertainment and gave me some of the most laughs I have ever had. As a teen I dreamed of being these people. Now I’m 27 and I got to see it crumble and it’s so sad but I am so happy to have the memories. I legit almost cried watching this video. Thank you for being one of the creators in this part of my life now Stanz.
Oh man. This will hit deep for me. I'm in my mid twenties, grew up watching AH, Let's Play, Fun Haus more than I watched Rooster Teeth. Which I did watch and listen to a lot of. I've gone to RTX twice, and even have some photos with them, and conversations with them. Man, what a pity has unfolded for them.
I used to be a huge fan of RoosterTeeth/AH. I'm turning 20 soon, which means I was watching these videos before I really should've been. I watched every Minecraft Let's Play episode. I watched their GTA series, and even used advice they talked about to get Criminal Mastermind. And I watched all of the videos where they'd just be messing around in the office. When I was younger I dreamt about working with AH one day. Sitting down and playing GTA with Gavin, Ryan, and Jack. And now it sucks knowing that dream will never happen. In my mind, the real downfall was when Ryan and Adam were exposed to be horrible people. They were such big personalities on their respective channels, that when the news broke it shocked everyone. It hurt so much hearing what Ryan had done, because he was always my favorite member. I'd look forward to every video he was in. After the news broke it became hard to watch some of my favorite videos, because he was in most of them. After a while it became hard to watch the channels all together. If there's anything to take away from all of the drama with RoosterTeeth, it's that the person on camera is usually putting on a character. When that camera is off they live a whole different life.
There was basically a 4 year period where I watched nothing but RT/AH stuff to the point where I learned video editing and programming to try and get a job there after I finished college. Still watch a few of the streamers that used to work there and I'm glad that a lot of the front facing folks seem to be doing mostly well.
Matt and Joel didn't work at the call centre. Geoff and Gus worked together under Burnie. Matt was Burnie's college roommate who worked in the movie industry and met Joel who was working as an actor in Hollywood at the time.
during the pandemic so much of roosterteeth, or at least the part i still pay attention, pivoted to podcasts, which compared to all other productions, must be the cheapest way to produce content. with that pivot to podcasts it felt like roosterteeth had stopped the bleeding. so i was really surprised when it shutdown. The sliver lining is that many of those podcasts were allowed to go independent and keep their backlog of content
If it wasn’t for RT and the convention they held in London, I probably wouldn’t be here today. I happened to meet a group of 6 people (I went by myself, after my marriage fella apart) and we became really good friends, so much so one of them was my best person when I got married this year. Thank you RT/Funhaus for the memories and friends we made along the way
As someone who grew up with RvB and it being as old as it is, it's kind of crazy to see Stanz having to be educated on the lore, considering it was also popular in his time.
hey to the person who made the script and did the research: 1. I only watched the opening minute because that's what I had time for. 2. the opening statement about how much info you have on the opening, Geoff and Gus had a podcast that's still up called "ANMA" where they specifically reminisce on the early years they knew each other in Austin, pre rooster teeth even. really interesting.
I'm a latino and when I was 10 I learned English literally thru bootleg gta San Andreas copies and filthy frank (the whole dank meme area of the internet honestly), I was brain rotten and horribly so, but in my late teens I discovered rooster teeth, after their golden era but just before all the trash was lit on fire for everyone to see and they did change me, made me sillier, goofy even, made me love bits and shenanigans but also as they were mostly old men, made me embrace myself, I could be cringe, I could make mistakes, and still be a cool fucking guy after everything, which was something old me needed.
Respectfully, the very first thing said in the video is incorrect. They weren't a group of college students. Burnie and Matt knew eachother from college. However, Burnie mett Gustavo and Geoff at a tech support company where all three worked.
I remember starting RT content around the time of Halo Reach, and being hooked. They were one of my early fandoms, especially when not long after RWBY first got announced and reaaally sparked a ton of creativity in me. By no means was it a perfect place, but damn did they touch a lot of lives. Especially those charities, they did Extra Life yearly and were able to raise multi-million dollars for children’s hospitals and that will always be beautiful
I watched a lot of RT starting in 2013 and while some of the time frame is wrong, like the Ryan Haywood and Adam Kovic thing happened in October 2020, it was a pretty good overview. I think Michael Jones had one of the most interesting takes right after it was announced that they would be shutting down in that at least this time it was everyone all at once not just slowly having to lay people off. I do think that people should give some of the projects that have started after the shut down a try because they are still some of the funniest people out there!
Watching the history of events unfold and then seeing the goodbye video really hit me again. I'll still go watch through old MineCraft lets plays and attending RTX with some online friends is one of my greatest memories. It was such a good time, but it's so sad how it ended.
also rip camp camp, my favorite rooster teeth show of all time. my little sister and i have watched that show together since she was 10 and she's graduating high school now :')
The way in which achievement hunter made me. I used to watch their “murder” game plays while getting ready for school. I watched the uno movie, the play pals, off topic, alllll of it. Was heartbroken to see what was going on behind the scenes. Michael and Gavin will always hold a place in my heart.
One of the fascinating things about achievement hunter/lets play is that a lot of their former members went on to have success outside of roosterteeth. Ray narvaez jr, jeremy dooley, and matt bragg all became successful twitch streamers that stream to thousands of viewers daily. Gavin free worked on slow mo guys and various movie productions while with rooster teeth and since moving on has made a podcast with geoff ramsey that has a dedicated fanbase. Most other former members are still on the interent in some way whether it be podcasts or other forms with various levels of success. To me it shows that achivement hunter specifically had the potetnial to be even more successful but failed due to meddling and mismanagement. They had a dedicated fanbase that failed to grow when their content got more and more expensive to make. A common thing that was prevalent throughout rooster teeths history
Slow Mo Guys wasn't just a thing Gavin was doing randomly on the side, he started doing it because if it got successful enough he could use it as a reference in his visa application, which he wanted in order to move to the USA to work for Rooster Teeth, which was his dream, since he was a fan of theirs from the start, when he was very young. Truly a crazy story.
As I recall, Achievement Hunter's let's play-style content was initially on the Achievement Hunter channel, but they moved to posting to the Let's Play channel as they were posting so much of both content that was and wasn't let's plays, with the two not necessarily having the same audience, that it made more sense to split them. Them being able to get that username was because years prior, when let's plays as a genre were just starting, Geoff saw that no one had taken it yet and swooped it up.
It's really sad how things ended I have whole childhood memories attached to them without having to watch them. My introduction to Red vs. Blue was they actually had CDs of the early seasons of RVB they'd sell in places like gamestop and my mom got it thinking since it was my favorite game series I'd enjoy it. Then when she heard me watching it she immediately cut me off of watching it for the language. Eventually I snuck and grabbed it and watched it on my own time but that was the last time I ever saw the case or the cd for it. They probably threw it away not wanting me to get my hands on it again but since that time I've obviously caught up on the series and man what a crazy ride it was with these guys. Was watching them before my double digits and that's crazy to me.
I wish this video was in like 2 or three parts. There was SO MUCH that was skipped and left out because of it only being an hour. They got the "Tower of Pimps" into actual Minecraft. More of an exploration of RWBY. The situation with Jack getting robbed at the very start. Not even a mention of how Meg Turney was on both SourceFed to RoosterTeeth. Also mentioning that the same group that Warner bought out the owners of SourceFed AND RoosterTeeth, shutting both of them down eventually. Looking at that timeline a little closer too. There wasn't a mention of how Gavin moved to America and lived with Geoff for a while, Geoff becoming Sober, Burnie leaving, Micah exposing what had been going on etc etc. Still, was nice to see it all
The term "Lets Play" comes from Slowbeef and the duo called Retsupurae (see : darkseid 2 lets play / bill clinton years videos). - I hope Screwattack gets a deep dive at some point . The community of screwattack was its biggest strength , but the creators were awesome too ! Still remember the old screwattack chatroom and blogpost area where people let their creativity run wild and it was encouraged too ! PS. IIRC the original platform for machinima and rooster teeth videos was newgrounds ? I am not 100% certain
I think they had some vids on newgrounds, but they mostly posted on gametrailers and their own website. GT used to be THE place for gaming videos in general.
WITH AN AXE KICK! I still love the part where Matt just sees this happen and looks at gavin and goes "YOU DIDNT CATCH IT!"(in regards to gavin's monitor)
I watched all of this, kind of shaped me as a human. On the spot is hilarious, I haven’t rewatched in part because I don’t want to ruin the magic of what I remember it being, like I have with some other RT/AH content. Some holds up pretty well though
The original group met at a company, not college. And i think she was getting mixed up with Drunk Gamers and Drunk Tank. Drunk Gamers was their video game review website, and Drunk Tank was the name of their podcast during RT
This should have been a two parter or just simply longer, so many shows and moments should have been there, I know this isn't supposed to be a recap, but as a huge fan of early roster teeth, achievement Hunter and letsplay content.. I just miss it I guess 😢 Could have easily broken it into different parts just with the core and uprising of their main content and what launched it
8tharch again? My dad just recovered from last time. On a side note, AMAZING DIVE! I grew up on Red Vs. Blue, Achievement hunter, and RWBY and never knew half of this stuff
they did not meet in college. They met in a call-center working together Jeff Bernie and Gus have talked hundreds of times about it even the animated adventures mention it to. How does this person keep thinking they met and started rt in college
41:42 small correction, gen:LOCK had two seasons. Season 1 was _fine,_ not great, not awful (better than a lot of skeptics thought it would be but not as good as you'd hope given the voice talent). Season 2 was released with HBO Max and that one _really_ flopped hard, the story was all over the place, characters didn't make sense, etc. Season 2 was also released in 2021 so it was made during the pandemic so suffered a lot for that too.
@stanz Griffball was invented by Nokyard! But coined by Geoffs character Griff. Nokyard helped with alot of their early content creation and recording, he was big in the speed running community
6:40 so to their credit, they literally were decades agead of something. They never envisioned themselves as a competitor to youtube, they always viewed it as another way to host their content but basically since at least 2007-2008 they have been advising people to use youtube, but also have their own space they owned because you never know what could happen or what UA-cam might do
Roosterteeth and Achievement Hunter exist, retroactively to me, as a cautionary tale about self-awareness in the company mindset. Because, like it was stated, Roosterteeth became this big company while still working with a "small business" mindset. Similarly with the environment. When Roosterteeth started I would argue the temperament used then carried over to now when it NEEDED to change. Geoff has gone on recorded stating how he regretted who he was in the past and it paints an idea of a company who, if changes had been caught and made earlier, MAYBE...just MAYBE would still be around and thriving today, but couldn't make the changes fast enough. Whether because of the timeframe of the scandals themselves or because of how fast and how quickly Roosterteeth expanded or some other reasons.
Lets plays had been a thing for ages before RT created the LetsPlay channel. They were pretty late to the trend, it was dying off, Geoff Ramsey just had the forethought to create the channel early and hold onto it
Its important to answer the "what was this uploaded to" question: Their own website. Youd just download the videos sometimes, or via torrents as compilation folders, and their own web player. I think, technically, the player was a quicktime plugin.
I probably watched them from 2011 to 2019. All through middle and high school every day. I stopped watching achievement hunter a few months before the Ryan stuff came out. It was a shock and they were never the same after.
Commenting before starting the video, but this is the very first Divemas where I actually know and was a fan of the subject! God, I miss old RT and AH....... I'm not one of the losers that hates Matt, Jeremy, Fiona, and Alfredo though, the "new" guys were hilarious (new at the time, don't come for me)
This is really making me wanna go back and binge old AH, but I haven't watched anything with Ryan in it since the allegations dropped idk how it'll feel............
They were like 75% of my personality for my teenage years. Through RT/AH being a shared interest, I met all the great friends I have today, including my partner of 8 years. They raised me. It's hard to see it end on such a sour note.
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The chat acting like Ryan wasn't most people's favourite in the group by around 2020. He was better at games than most of them, his mad king persona was funny, and his personality was just spiky enough to make great content with the rest of the gang. It was completely out of left field when all the information came out, he was a classic wife guy after all. Just because we have hindsight now don't pretend as if we were always suspect of him
Ryan was for sure the top 2 or 3 of AH members back in the day. He was always entertaining. I get why people don't like him now, but he was deservedly popular in AH's golden era.
@jamesdulak3108 I was devastated when the news broke, I was still watching AH religiously on the RT app as a First member. Ryan was getting really popular with fans, I remember fan highlight videos of just him and then it all came crashing down. I haven't watched AH since. Though I listen to Michael's podcast
EDIT: I confused Ryan with Joel. However, I stand by in my general disagreement, because I can't have been the only one who found Ryan.... uninteresting. I only watched the podcast at that point.
@@cachemanAre you thinking of Joel? I don’t really remember Ryan saying much with that slant to it but maybe I’m misremembering
@@corymitts6246 Yeah Sorry, I'm definitely confusing the two. I'm editing my post.
As someone who watched a ton of RoosterTeeth and Achievement Hunter in my late teens and early 20s, it really sucks to see how it all ended. Despite everything that happened and came out, I still look back on it positively but it serves as a good reminder that you are never fully aware of everything that's happening behind the scenes with some of your favourite content creators.
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I think COVID was the final death knell. At least on the Achievement Hunter side, their move to being fully remote (100% understandable btw) removed a lot of the charm. It went from feeling like a group of friends to feeling like coworkers talking together (which they are)
I watched them for the VAST majority of my childhood and still look back on it fondly, it just sucks how everything slowly started to fade away
Geoff and Gavin now have Regulation Podcast/Gaming
Check out 100% eat and regulation pod. They’re killing it rn ❤
Some extra notes: the original group (Geoff, Gus, Burnie etc) didn't meet in college, but working at a call center for a tech company. Gus and Geoff started drunk gamers and asked Burnie for help to run the website for them, and became friends.
Gavin started the slo-mo guys UA-cam channel in order to get a visa so he could work at Roosterteeth.
Ray didn't leave just because he wanted to focus on streaming, but also because of Rooster teeth trying to claim his account as theirs due to some contractual bullshit or whatever, burn out from playing the same games all the time (Minecraft and gtaV weekly), and a horrible commute (also part of the cause of burnout) after switching offices. He would show up an hour before everyone so his partner could drop him off before she went off to work, and get picked up an hour after everyone else left.
was gonna comment the Gavin part. Needs more visibility for Stanz to see.
yeah right off rip the origin was wrong kinda crazy lol
@@ZombHarris it's such a minor detail that is pretty easy to glaze over unless you religiously listened to their podcasts or what not. Yes they did mention it a lot in their videos and podcasts but they also got most of the other details of their history correct, which is awesome. I just wanted to clarify some of the details that may have been misremembered or passed over.
@@bamblo4273 yup yup yup not a huge deal i'm just autistic (literally actually diagnosed no ableism jokes here in stanz chat)
@@ZombHarris yeyeyeye same, it's how I maintained this useless knowledge lmfao, was my obsession from 2008 to 2016 and back into it again with the regulation podcast
There was a comment from chat that claimed Monty Oum died from overwork, that is false he died from a allergic reaction was to the hospital but didn't make it.
Rip Monty Oum
yeah the hospital was unaware of his latex allergy
it truly was a loss for the online animation community. i was a fan and friend of monty’s long before RT back with Haloid and what not. Monty was a truly good human that loved sharing everything he knew with the community even sharing me some of his software after a back and forth discussing his techniques and the limitations for the software at the time
@mcattackle was it not an allergic reaction to an injection?
@@Pheatanyeah that's absolutely conspiracy bullshit from that chatter, definitely them trying to reverse engineer a story from current events and opinions, anyone who was there at the time knew it was an allergic reaction in the hospital
@@S.logyn31we don't know. As far as I can tell from research it was never specified. Could've been a medication, could've been latex, all it says is that it was during a "simple medical procedure".
Gavin and Ray are thriving in their post-rt days. Love those 2.
Gavin, Geoff, and Eric host a podcast together, as well as Michael from AH, Jordan Cwierz (RT Animated adventure creator, and Eric being in another podcast. Fuckface (later called Regulation Podcast) is Geoff’s and Michael’s is Facejam (later called 100% Eat)
And Jeremy, Matt, and Ray have become part of Chilled's circle of friends, as well as diving into VTubers. Fredo and Trevor still do RedWeb. And Matt and Fredo do their own LP channel now.
The recent Geoff special on Morning Somewhere was heartbreaking, hearing them talk about waiting for the downfall
8 months of anxiety waiting for any call to be THE call
HOLY SHIT. I thought Burnie just disappeared from the internet after stepping down. I had no idea this existed, thanks.
For some reason that, “you ever wonder why we’re here?” Never fails to make me smile. Thanks RT.
Way too short! Definitely needs a part 2 or talk more in depth on some things
Personally something I would love to hear more of would be Ray, You mentioned Gavin and his slow mo guys channel and how well thats doing, it would have been cool to mention how after Ray left everything in his and his wife's life just got better and better, its a really happy story, and seeing where he is now collabing a bunch with vtubers and playing games with a bunch of people, he really gets to show off how funny he is to more people its awesome!
Ray been my number 1 from Achievement hunter and I gotta let everyone know how cool he is!
Bit of a bummer that achievement hunter really didn’t get that much of a deep dive compared to other parts of the Let’s Play family, given that AH was arguably the biggest of them all.
Agreed. I wish they got their own deep dive like funhaus
I think they should one. It had an amazing rise as it was shown, but just on their own had a lot of troubles that could be looked up on; I mostly think about Mica Burton who was one of the first to speak about the workplace environment as well as the fandom, who wasn't great either and were racist and misogynistic against her.
After Ryan, many things changed but it was too late for AH.
They all weren't college friends. They met at a tech comm company that Burnie was a manager for.
Yeah, they have told that story many, many times. Dunno how it was missed
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@@mattymerr701 Yeah icl there's a lot of wrong or missing info, it's kind of a shame. I was really looking forward to this vid, and I get there's only so much time but I feel like it could've been done better
I know the point of these videos isn't to be a full on documentary or anything, but there are some really glaring mistakes here and there...
Eg gen:Lock having two seasons not one, it's literally on the wiki page
(This is not to discredit the video massively, it's still a good overview, just a shame about the errors here and there)
The Yogscast partnered with RT but was not aquired by them. That is a lie
Yogs is a seperate entity now iirc
@@Smoneey Always has been.
@@Smoneeythe collabed but were never not their own entity
A few things were wrong or missed, but overall, a very well-done recap. RIP Rooster Teeth, had some awful scandals and incidents, but they were my childhood/teen years, and I will always miss them
Man, I was in the weeds for this one. I used to go to their convention RTX every year with my friends. At one point I would’ve considered being an RT fan a big part of my personality. On the bright side, I highly recommend watching/listening to 100% Eat and Regulation Podcast for fun things some ex-RT folks are doing
Let's be real Regulation Podcast is the core of what Roosterteeth used to be. Just friends fucking around with each other, having fun, and making dumb content.
@ Truth. That’s why it’s so good.
@@Thecolebert I was a big RT and AH fan for a very long time, and I've tried watching Reg Pod but honestly, some of their content is just bad. I know they used to have the whole in-joke of not caring, but it really does feel like they're doing it for themselves and don't care about the product, which is fine, but like it's just bad
A couple of missed, overlooked, or misunderstood facts, but a really good dive! Achievement Hunter was such a cornerstone of my childhood and shaped my humor, personality, and attitude when it comes to committing to your vision (even if they are flawed visions). Geoff has spent a lot of time online discussing how he is ashamed of the person he was during the early days, and especially recovering from alcoholism during that sabbatical that was mentioned. I have such mixed feelings about the legacy of the company, but it will always be something that was special.
"You don't need to google this -- welp okay you've already -- you don't need to go to image - oh okay."
I'm dead
Fun fact Gavin did the slow mo in the Sherlock Holmes series
He did slow mo for the second Sherlock Holmes movie, not the show
@thecbastion ah my bad I meant the movie series and with how good the slow mo was in those films I thought it spoke for itself, didn't know their was a tv series I'll have to check it out
Gavin also worked on the slow mo shot in the opening of underworld rise of the lycans
29:26 seeing the love for Monty in the chat warms my heart. My hero indeed.
I always held out hope that he’d one day come back and finish Dead Fantasy I believe it was called. The Dead Or Alive and Kingdom Hearts/Final Fantasy videos he made. I learned of him in the early days long before RWBY.
RIP Monty o7
Fun fact: one of the early tours they did was a prize in a competition and the kid that won is now Lazarbeam
It’s crazy that Lazarbeam was an RT fan, a madden youtuber, and then suddenly the biggest UA-camr from Australia after Fortnite’s explosion
Funfact: seananers would do tours because they did some kind of competition. And apparently, no one really entered the competition. But he did start because of rosterteeth.
I love when stanz stares at me with his cold dead eyes
holy crap it's hannah
Holy shit, is that three-time Golden Gnome winner Hanannie?
Yo what's up Hanannie
Fun fact: Gavin Frees first job was being a cameraman for F1 when he was a teen
Holy shit already got a job as big as that as a teen?
I heard about the "beating a guy to death with his own skull" joke at school in 2007, which prompted me to look up Red vs. Blue. A video they had made for the Halo 3 beta was amongst the first I ever watched on UA-cam. I was a big fan of RvB, their podcast (Drunk Tank) and the comedy shorts they made throughout around 2009-2013 or so.
They hired way too many guys and lost their identity. When I started listening to their podcast, Jack Pattillo had just been hired. Those early employees: Gavin, Jack, Barbara, Monty were introduced one at a time with months in between. It was fun to become acquainted with a new personality and see how they would play off your existing favourites. As time went on, the hiring, got faster and faster, to where I'd click on a Rooster Teeth show and just see a bunch of strangers on my screen.
To me, it was the move to the huge office. Rooster Teeth Productions Production Studio was the good era. After that, it was a different thing to what I became a fan of in 2007.
THIS DOESNT SEEM PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE
3:20 it's so wide because they were doing in game and had to cut out the HUD to make it cinematic, that's also why there's an aiming reticle in the middle of the shot.
I'm so glad we finally got the RT/AH Deep Dive, I don't know if there is many other youtube channels that had so much impact on me as a teenager, It sucks that there was so much insane shit behind the scenes and it all fell apart, but I am glad I got to be around for the golden era, it was something special
I've probably watched the entire Uno Movie at least 5 times lmao
If you love that golden era give "regulation gameplay" a go with Geoff, Gavin, Andrew Nick and Eric. Having the most fun I've had with that kind of content in many years.
@@tommangan7I still have a bat knob from the first launch during prime Fuckface days
canths sounds different
Sounds less dense
Is the dense thing a joke or is canths actually gone
@@JuanOnJuannjust gone of the dense end
Caanths is awesome. I love his accent. Makes my take everything more seriously lol
not mentioning the rt podcast is a little weird since i think they now do ads for podcasts like the yard.
You’re not talking about the RT podcast, you’re talking about The Roost which was a separate branch of RT working with all of their own podcasts as well as many others selling ads. It is one of the still profitable assets which was not shut down at the closing (although I’m not sure if WB is still the owner or if they sold it).
Just as a correction, The yogscast was never acquired by rooster teeth, they were both under the same banner of Maker Studios for a while, but yogscast left in 2016 and have been doing their own thing since.
You should really get someone to do a dive on them as well :) Very nice group (with some exceptions, as always) who've raised millions (if not tens of millions) for charity at this point.
Not acquired persay, but they were partnered with Roosterteeth since 2020 and got support from the roost network.
@@bamblo4273 They very briefly partnered with them, after all the ryan/adam and other allegations started coming out they very quickly ended that, as far as i recall. And the partnership was basically RT just hosting yogs' videos on their site. They didn't do much collaborating other than a few TTT episodes and such, did they?
@@E2O10 I did some digging and they were listed as a partner until August 2023 (that's my bad, didn't look into it enough in my initial comment) and from there, they has some of their content on the roosterteeth site under "friends of rt". This information came from a reddit post on the roosterteeth subreddit with a comment from a staff member of roosterteeth. As for collaborations you are correct, I didn't mean to imply they were working closely with roosterteeth, but more that they were under their umbrella for a while even after the controversies.
@@bamblo4273 ah. 2023. Didnt think it lasted that long. Wasnt checking in on the roosterteeth side since all the bs happened so wasnt sure about the timing of it all. Thanks for the clarification! :)
@@E2O10 of course! Tbh I did think they were partnered with em so thank you as well for clarifying that for me too!
Achievement Hunter and Rooster Teeth inspired me to become a video editor. I'm still working on finding a career in that field but I'm making my own videos in the mean time. All thanks to them.
I'm literally in the middle of binging old let's play compilations and I see this notification. Goated
I know it's still pretty fresh but doing a post rooster teeth dive has gotta happen. A of the original guys are still at it now just independent again.
How is this one shorter then 3 one hour nothing burgers on one dude lol.
My only experience of Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter was the early Minecraft lets plays, and the iconic Gavin and Michael playing horror games.
I will NEVER forget them playing Slenderman, where Gavin was in control of the mouse to change direction and Michael was using the keyboard to control the actual movement. Gavin freaked the fuck out and disconnected the keyboard when he jumped, and Michael was screaming at him so loud. Their argument over “torch” vs “flashlight” led to Gavin flashing the light, much to Michael’s annoyance, and said *”NOW* it’s a flashlight, hey-oooo!”
In their Minecraft playthrough, Gavin annoyed Michael so bad, Michael got up and literally tackled Gavin and you could hear him punching Gavin, and a faint “My-cool, no! Please, My-cool!!!” 🤣
That and the iconic “tower of pimps” war (just a stack of 4 gold blocks)
God that was so fucking long ago… 2012 I think? I had just entered high school. Damn.
Peak content 😎👌🏻
This video is kind of strange. Like, the person recounting all this is getting the broad strokes right, but missing some fairly obvious stuff that I think is a key contributer to the downfall of the company. It also just makes it hard to want to watch the video.
The Let's Play channel started months after they started doing Let's Plays. The very earliest Let's Plays started on Rooster Teeth. In fact, the Minecraft let's plays only started because of Rage Quit, the series created for Michael Jones specifically, also hosted on the main Rooster Teeth channel.
Why is this important? Because they never focused on UA-cam enough. Rooster Teeth is a huge channel that slowly died because it was a mess and they never had a clear vision for it. And this started to impact the Let's Play channel. Because the Let's Play Family was originally supposed to be hosted on the Let's Play UA-cam channel, and the fans hated this. The videos got tons of down votes. Eventually they only hosted the Achievement Hunter videos there, but then Achievement Hunter spun off another UA-cam channel for the live action stuff, and there's a lot of other stuff that is a bit too much to get into right now, but the big problem is how disjointed it all felt.
UA-cam was an after thought for Rooster Teeth. The Rooster Teeth website was their focus. Specifically the sponsors who originally paid to fund the company's output. But here's what I think killed Rooster Teeth. That eventually became "First". This is important because it took away the idea that you were paying to support the content you liked. Now, you're paying for a streaming service. And here's the problem. UA-cam and Twitch were the places people watched content. And Patreon was where people paid to support creators. Reddit and Twitter and eventually Discord were where you went to engage with communities. But Rooster Teeth never evolved. They doubled down on pushing their website and spending literally millions on "premium" content that most of the time failed to garner attention.
Ray had a Twitch stream that was eventually aqquired by Rooster Teeth before he later quit, but Roooster Teeth never streamed to Twitch. And never really did so for UA-cam. Instead it was always on the site. By the time Fullscreen bought them, the company was already bleeding money. They desperately needed someone to focus on sustainable growth and focused output, but instead you had a company founded by incredibly creative and forward thinking people that never evolved and tried to grow into a mini Netflix.
The people in this video seem nice, and they seem interesting, but it's a pretty boring video. If you never followed Rooster Teeth it's fine but as someone who did, this comes accross as someone who read a few articles for an afternoon and wrote up a script in a week. When even obvious stuff is wrong, I just don't care. It's sloppy at best and soulless at worst.
So like, it's sad that RT is gone. But the reality is that it needed to go to better serve the people that were creating the content people loved. Just about every show that was going at the end *is still going* just with a potentially different name, and the creators are receiving more money. There is no larger conglomerate taking a cut, there is no failing podcast to prop up, there is no need to put money away for another part of the budget. Video games are still being played, apple scrumping is still going strong, and podcasts are still all over the place.
Honestly "regulation gameplay" now is the best gaming content they have put out since probably pre 2019.
I don't think the podcast was failing until the main cast left, which was fairly late all things considered. They used to get pretty good ads and view numbers. The bigger issue was the AH downfall just before Covid and the impact of covid on a struggling company
@ I think they replaced the people on the pod because they needed their core creators elsewhere. Podcasts don’t pull in enough money to fund an entire entertainment company
I went to PAX south in High School!!!! I knew I had seen the guys there but I was with my grandpa and too afraid to go up to them! These people were literally my main source of entertainment and gave me some of the most laughs I have ever had. As a teen I dreamed of being these people. Now I’m 27 and I got to see it crumble and it’s so sad but I am so happy to have the memories. I legit almost cried watching this video. Thank you for being one of the creators in this part of my life now Stanz.
14:14 the term lets play came from the lets play forums on Something Awful, way before rooster teeth
back when it was mostly screenshot LPs and the "lets play curse" that would almost always claim someone's hard drive/computer entirely...
Oh man. This will hit deep for me. I'm in my mid twenties, grew up watching AH, Let's Play, Fun Haus more than I watched Rooster Teeth. Which I did watch and listen to a lot of. I've gone to RTX twice, and even have some photos with them, and conversations with them.
Man, what a pity has unfolded for them.
I used to be a huge fan of RoosterTeeth/AH. I'm turning 20 soon, which means I was watching these videos before I really should've been. I watched every Minecraft Let's Play episode. I watched their GTA series, and even used advice they talked about to get Criminal Mastermind. And I watched all of the videos where they'd just be messing around in the office. When I was younger I dreamt about working with AH one day. Sitting down and playing GTA with Gavin, Ryan, and Jack. And now it sucks knowing that dream will never happen.
In my mind, the real downfall was when Ryan and Adam were exposed to be horrible people. They were such big personalities on their respective channels, that when the news broke it shocked everyone. It hurt so much hearing what Ryan had done, because he was always my favorite member. I'd look forward to every video he was in. After the news broke it became hard to watch some of my favorite videos, because he was in most of them. After a while it became hard to watch the channels all together.
If there's anything to take away from all of the drama with RoosterTeeth, it's that the person on camera is usually putting on a character. When that camera is off they live a whole different life.
There was basically a 4 year period where I watched nothing but RT/AH stuff to the point where I learned video editing and programming to try and get a job there after I finished college. Still watch a few of the streamers that used to work there and I'm glad that a lot of the front facing folks seem to be doing mostly well.
They all worked for burnie at a call center not college friends.
Matt and Joel didn't work at the call centre. Geoff and Gus worked together under Burnie. Matt was Burnie's college roommate who worked in the movie industry and met Joel who was working as an actor in Hollywood at the time.
during the pandemic so much of roosterteeth, or at least the part i still pay attention, pivoted to podcasts, which compared to all other productions, must be the cheapest way to produce content. with that pivot to podcasts it felt like roosterteeth had stopped the bleeding. so i was really surprised when it shutdown. The sliver lining is that many of those podcasts were allowed to go independent and keep their backlog of content
I feel like rooster teeth and AH should have been different deep dives,so much was missing from this one...
If it wasn’t for RT and the convention they held in London, I probably wouldn’t be here today.
I happened to meet a group of 6 people (I went by myself, after my marriage fella apart) and we became really good friends, so much so one of them was my best person when I got married this year.
Thank you RT/Funhaus for the memories and friends we made along the way
wow what an amazing video. Stanz really is working with the right people here. PEANITS
As someone who grew up with RvB and it being as old as it is, it's kind of crazy to see Stanz having to be educated on the lore, considering it was also popular in his time.
hey to the person who made the script and did the research:
1. I only watched the opening minute because that's what I had time for.
2. the opening statement about how much info you have on the opening, Geoff and Gus had a podcast that's still up called "ANMA" where they specifically reminisce on the early years they knew each other in Austin, pre rooster teeth even. really interesting.
bro spent more time writing this than watching the video
@ finished the video not the most accurate dive factually but it got the vibe right
I feel like Rooster teeth’s history is too expansive for a 1 parter. Still great video tho!
I'm a latino and when I was 10 I learned English literally thru bootleg gta San Andreas copies and filthy frank (the whole dank meme area of the internet honestly), I was brain rotten and horribly so, but in my late teens I discovered rooster teeth, after their golden era but just before all the trash was lit on fire for everyone to see and they did change me, made me sillier, goofy even, made me love bits and shenanigans but also as they were mostly old men, made me embrace myself, I could be cringe, I could make mistakes, and still be a cool fucking guy after everything, which was something old me needed.
The golden era of RT was unmatched I can't lie
Respectfully, the very first thing said in the video is incorrect. They weren't a group of college students.
Burnie and Matt knew eachother from college. However, Burnie mett Gustavo and Geoff at a tech support company where all three worked.
I remember starting RT content around the time of Halo Reach, and being hooked. They were one of my early fandoms, especially when not long after RWBY first got announced and reaaally sparked a ton of creativity in me. By no means was it a perfect place, but damn did they touch a lot of lives. Especially those charities, they did Extra Life yearly and were able to raise multi-million dollars for children’s hospitals and that will always be beautiful
Damn it, I am genuinely tearing up at the end here. Loved these guys.
super well done recap. teared up again watching that final Thank You vid
Stanz being so unaware of RT is incredible
I watched a lot of RT starting in 2013 and while some of the time frame is wrong, like the Ryan Haywood and Adam Kovic thing happened in October 2020, it was a pretty good overview. I think Michael Jones had one of the most interesting takes right after it was announced that they would be shutting down in that at least this time it was everyone all at once not just slowly having to lay people off. I do think that people should give some of the projects that have started after the shut down a try because they are still some of the funniest people out there!
8tharch seems a bit great. The more this dive comes out the more I realized Stans is working with the right person to make these...
YOOOOO lets go I've been waiting for this one!
man this one brought me back so much, I remember being like 12 and watching all these after school
Watching the history of events unfold and then seeing the goodbye video really hit me again. I'll still go watch through old MineCraft lets plays and attending RTX with some online friends is one of my greatest memories. It was such a good time, but it's so sad how it ended.
i've watched different rooster teeth on & off for ages but i don't know too much about them, really excited for this :)
also rip camp camp, my favorite rooster teeth show of all time. my little sister and i have watched that show together since she was 10 and she's graduating high school now :')
The way in which achievement hunter made me. I used to watch their “murder” game plays while getting ready for school. I watched the uno movie, the play pals, off topic, alllll of it. Was heartbroken to see what was going on behind the scenes. Michael and Gavin will always hold a place in my heart.
Team Red Bull? I didn't know Stanz was chil like that.
One of the fascinating things about achievement hunter/lets play is that a lot of their former members went on to have success outside of roosterteeth. Ray narvaez jr, jeremy dooley, and matt bragg all became successful twitch streamers that stream to thousands of viewers daily. Gavin free worked on slow mo guys and various movie productions while with rooster teeth and since moving on has made a podcast with geoff ramsey that has a dedicated fanbase. Most other former members are still on the interent in some way whether it be podcasts or other forms with various levels of success.
To me it shows that achivement hunter specifically had the potetnial to be even more successful but failed due to meddling and mismanagement.
They had a dedicated fanbase that failed to grow when their content got more and more expensive to make. A common thing that was prevalent throughout rooster teeths history
Slow Mo Guys wasn't just a thing Gavin was doing randomly on the side, he started doing it because if it got successful enough he could use it as a reference in his visa application, which he wanted in order to move to the USA to work for Rooster Teeth, which was his dream, since he was a fan of theirs from the start, when he was very young. Truly a crazy story.
As I recall, Achievement Hunter's let's play-style content was initially on the Achievement Hunter channel, but they moved to posting to the Let's Play channel as they were posting so much of both content that was and wasn't let's plays, with the two not necessarily having the same audience, that it made more sense to split them. Them being able to get that username was because years prior, when let's plays as a genre were just starting, Geoff saw that no one had taken it yet and swooped it up.
It's really sad how things ended I have whole childhood memories attached to them without having to watch them. My introduction to Red vs. Blue was they actually had CDs of the early seasons of RVB they'd sell in places like gamestop and my mom got it thinking since it was my favorite game series I'd enjoy it. Then when she heard me watching it she immediately cut me off of watching it for the language. Eventually I snuck and grabbed it and watched it on my own time but that was the last time I ever saw the case or the cd for it. They probably threw it away not wanting me to get my hands on it again but since that time I've obviously caught up on the series and man what a crazy ride it was with these guys. Was watching them before my double digits and that's crazy to me.
I wish this video was in like 2 or three parts. There was SO MUCH that was skipped and left out because of it only being an hour. They got the "Tower of Pimps" into actual Minecraft. More of an exploration of RWBY. The situation with Jack getting robbed at the very start. Not even a mention of how Meg Turney was on both SourceFed to RoosterTeeth. Also mentioning that the same group that Warner bought out the owners of SourceFed AND RoosterTeeth, shutting both of them down eventually. Looking at that timeline a little closer too. There wasn't a mention of how Gavin moved to America and lived with Geoff for a while, Geoff becoming Sober, Burnie leaving, Micah exposing what had been going on etc etc.
Still, was nice to see it all
Uno the movie was not "early" Letsplay stuff. That was like 2016
Yeah it was November of 2016 lol. It was when trump got elected. Jack kept talking about it
The term "Lets Play" comes from Slowbeef and the duo called Retsupurae (see : darkseid 2 lets play / bill clinton years videos). - I hope Screwattack gets a deep dive at some point . The community of screwattack was its biggest strength , but the creators were awesome too ! Still remember the old screwattack chatroom and blogpost area where people let their creativity run wild and it was encouraged too ! PS. IIRC the original platform for machinima and rooster teeth videos was newgrounds ? I am not 100% certain
I think they had some vids on newgrounds, but they mostly posted on gametrailers and their own website. GT used to be THE place for gaming videos in general.
cant believe they mentioned desk desctruction and didnt show the video of jeremy splitting gavins desk in half lmao
WITH AN AXE KICK!
I still love the part where Matt just sees this happen and looks at gavin and goes "YOU DIDNT CATCH IT!"(in regards to gavin's monitor)
I watched all of this, kind of shaped me as a human. On the spot is hilarious, I haven’t rewatched in part because I don’t want to ruin the magic of what I remember it being, like I have with some other RT/AH content. Some holds up pretty well though
They didn’t evolve with the times and Monty Oum died…. That’s about it.
The original group met at a company, not college. And i think she was getting mixed up with Drunk Gamers and Drunk Tank. Drunk Gamers was their video game review website, and Drunk Tank was the name of their podcast during RT
The wild thing about Lazer Team is that it released in theatres WORLD WIDE. I saw it in a theatre in New Zealand!
This should have been a two parter or just simply longer, so many shows and moments should have been there, I know this isn't supposed to be a recap, but as a huge fan of early roster teeth, achievement Hunter and letsplay content.. I just miss it I guess 😢 Could have easily broken it into different parts just with the core and uprising of their main content and what launched it
Yeah, for a deep dive it's very shallow
8tharch again? My dad just recovered from last time. On a side note, AMAZING DIVE! I grew up on Red Vs. Blue, Achievement hunter, and RWBY and never knew half of this stuff
they did not meet in college. They met in a call-center working together Jeff Bernie and Gus have talked hundreds of times about it even the animated adventures mention it to. How does this person keep thinking they met and started rt in college
41:42 small correction, gen:LOCK had two seasons. Season 1 was _fine,_ not great, not awful (better than a lot of skeptics thought it would be but not as good as you'd hope given the voice talent). Season 2 was released with HBO Max and that one _really_ flopped hard, the story was all over the place, characters didn't make sense, etc. Season 2 was also released in 2021 so it was made during the pandemic so suffered a lot for that too.
@stanz Griffball was invented by Nokyard! But coined by Geoffs character Griff.
Nokyard helped with alot of their early content creation and recording, he was big in the speed running community
She also said Halo stole it without credit lmao. RT and Bungie had a very close relationship
6:40 so to their credit, they literally were decades agead of something.
They never envisioned themselves as a competitor to youtube, they always viewed it as another way to host their content but basically since at least 2007-2008 they have been advising people to use youtube, but also have their own space they owned because you never know what could happen or what UA-cam might do
Roosterteeth and Achievement Hunter exist, retroactively to me, as a cautionary tale about self-awareness in the company mindset. Because, like it was stated, Roosterteeth became this big company while still working with a "small business" mindset. Similarly with the environment. When Roosterteeth started I would argue the temperament used then carried over to now when it NEEDED to change. Geoff has gone on recorded stating how he regretted who he was in the past and it paints an idea of a company who, if changes had been caught and made earlier, MAYBE...just MAYBE would still be around and thriving today, but couldn't make the changes fast enough. Whether because of the timeframe of the scandals themselves or because of how fast and how quickly Roosterteeth expanded or some other reasons.
This is certainly a deep dive I feel could do
Lets plays had been a thing for ages before RT created the LetsPlay channel.
They were pretty late to the trend, it was dying off, Geoff Ramsey just had the forethought to create the channel early and hold onto it
Let’s gooooo!!! This is what I’ve been waiting for!!
Grifball is literally named AFTER Geoff's character from RvB
Its important to answer the "what was this uploaded to" question:
Their own website. Youd just download the videos sometimes, or via torrents as compilation folders, and their own web player. I think, technically, the player was a quicktime plugin.
red vs blue even got on netflix dude it was hilariouus
Man I grew up on achievement hunter. It's so tough because I feel like so many of the channels I watched growing up are tainted now
The downfall of Achievement Hunter makes me appreciate what we have now and not take it for granted
RoosterTeeth is the reason I survived my early 20s.
Made me feel normal in a world full of stiffs.
The comment about why under age people are abused is really good, sheds light on the issue
It’s funny that slow mo guys started to get a work visa so Gavin could work at rooster teeth but became bigger and lasted longer
I probably watched them from 2011 to 2019. All through middle and high school every day. I stopped watching achievement hunter a few months before the Ryan stuff came out. It was a shock and they were never the same after.
As a huge rooster teeth and achievement hunter fan this is so wild to watch now. I was watching their weekly uploads till the day they shut down.
Holy yikes, Weller was an absolute gem so can't wait for whatever the hell happens here
Stanz been making so much content for us
Commenting before starting the video, but this is the very first Divemas where I actually know and was a fan of the subject! God, I miss old RT and AH....... I'm not one of the losers that hates Matt, Jeremy, Fiona, and Alfredo though, the "new" guys were hilarious (new at the time, don't come for me)
Geoff and Gavin, with 3 other great guys, are still making videos on the Regulation Gameplay channel. Great stuff.
i could not wait for stanz to make this video while ik it would break my heart at the same time
This is really making me wanna go back and binge old AH, but I haven't watched anything with Ryan in it since the allegations dropped idk how it'll feel............
They were like 75% of my personality for my teenage years. Through RT/AH being a shared interest, I met all the great friends I have today, including my partner of 8 years. They raised me. It's hard to see it end on such a sour note.