Let’s talk about the Creatures.
I honestly feel sorry for them. I mean, they’ve really been through some shit. But everything that happens to them is blown greatly out of proportion by this fandom. Or at least the part of the fandom that is always so quick to voice their negative opinions.
I’m in no way saying you have to like everything they do/say. I’m not saying you have to approve of everything and pretend like nothing is ever wrong. But the majority of posts I’m seeing today, and even since the Creatures joined with Rooster Teeth are not only negative, but excessively hateful toward the Creatures.
I started watching the Creatures way back in the day, even before the first Creature house. If it weren’t for them, I probably wouldn’t have gotten into Rooster Teeth, at least not for a few years. The Creatures have always had big dreams, and I’ve always heard that they wanted to turn into a business. A business similar to Rooster Teeth. No, not copying Rooster Teeth’s productions, shut the fuck up. But they’ve always looked up to Rooster Teeth in the business aspect because obviously RT is very good at business. They’re an internet company that started before the internet was even a huge thing, and they’re still thriving today.
Now, of course, there are people that will say that the Creatures getting more “business-like” will ruin what they used to be. But honestly, they don’t want to be what they used to be. They obviously still want to entertain people and make people laugh, but they no longer want to be this exclusive Creature club. It’s never worked out great for when someone leaves. With a more business-like model, that person would either quit or get fired. And sure, fans would still have questions and all that, but it would be much easier to explain than when one of the “exclusive Creatures” leaves. Now they say everyone that works with them is considered a Creature, even the interns, and personally I think that’s a good decision. It doesn’t make any of the main/original Creatures any less of a Creature. It just establishes that they aren’t a little club anymore, they’re a growing business.
As for them joining Rooster Teeth, I couldn’t be happier about it. I know I’m biased because I love Rooster Teeth and I just feel like my families are joining lol. But there are so many people saying “RIP Creatures,” “Sell outs,” etc. Okay first of all, shut tf up please. Now listen. Rooster Teeth will in no way assume control over the Creature’s content. I’ve been here long before Funhaus existed and I got to watch the whole process. I’ve heard multiple times by multiple people that Rooster Teeth does not control the content of it’s partner channels. Rooster Teeth honestly does not have the fucking time. Have you seen the amount of content they produce?
So the Creatures still have full control over their content. Joining with Rooster Teeth will only give them opportunities to create more content, maybe even some content you haven’t seen before. “But waahh, I hate change and I just pooped my diaper!” THIS DOES NOT MEAN ALL OF THEIR CONTENT IS CHANGING. PLEASE USE YOUR BRAIN.
Now, after all that, I am not saying they’re perfect. I’m just saying that they don’t make decisions by playing freaking eeny meeny miny moe. They put a lot of thought into everything and yes, they still make mistakes. Jordan said today in his reddit post that they don’t always handle things perfectly, but they’re learning. That’s the fucking important part.
I don’t care if you unsubscribe from the Creatures. I’m just saying that if you do, I hope it’s not actually because of them joining with Rooster Teeth or the video Dex made. Just a few weeks ago, most of the posts I saw about Dex were just about how “he’s a horrible person.” And now people are taking his personal experience as a reason to completely shit on the Creatures. And he even ended his video on a positive note saying they’re still friends and all that, he just didn’t like working for them.
Jordan addressed this and admitted that they could’ve handled the whole situation better and he took the brunt of the blame. But people are still so pissed. People are even accusing Jordan of lying because he said he was sure they’d still remain friends with Dex. People are saying the Creatures completely cease communication with someone as soon as they leave the group. Now let me make two points here. First, you are not any of them, so you do not know who they do and do not talk to. People don’t just communicates by publicly-visible tweets. People have these things called phone numbers. And second, have you ever had a friend that you were really close to, but you eventually moved away from each other? More often than not, you slowly but surely talk less and less until you really don’t know each other that well. It happens all the time. People grow apart and distance makes relationships hard to maintain. This does not mean the Creatures hate any of their former members, they just don’t have a fucking list of “ex-Creatures” that they have to maintain and stay in contact with just to please the fans. That’s ridiculous.
I’m sorry this is so long, but I’m just so tired of this immature ass, jumping-to-conclusion ass, over-dramatic ass fandom. So many of their “fans” have forgotten that they are human.fucking.beings. Goodnight.
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