I will not be going back into the closet to being an RT fan, sorry. I was only ever really into AH and tbh I don't even watch my favs stream.
And anyway, I thought we were playing with ydyd rules?
seen from United States

seen from United Kingdom
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Chile
seen from Georgia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye

seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from China

seen from Malaysia

seen from Germany
seen from China

seen from Malaysia
seen from Netherlands
seen from China

seen from Türkiye
seen from Australia
seen from China
I will not be going back into the closet to being an RT fan, sorry. I was only ever really into AH and tbh I don't even watch my favs stream.
And anyway, I thought we were playing with ydyd rules?
Gonna be real with y'all, I think it's a dumb move to put the DB podcast behind a paywall. Like podcasts are usually excellent ways to introduce people to the creators and their vibes, and now you've taken that away for a channel that just started. Also, what if there's important news tucked away in this FIRST only podcast?? Ain't nobody gonna know until like a month later when they announce it on Twitter. Unless someone with a FIRST membership shares it with the world. It's justttt fucking messy man 😮💨
RTX never made any money is really surprising to me.
i mean we don't know what goes on backend wise for rt, and i'm sure it is a lot of fucking money to host a huge convention that grows every year, but also it is a little surprising that they apparently didn't make that back with ticket and merch sales as well as like, extra stuff for pictures ect that i assume they do.
idk, i never went to rtx and the rtx at home i just got a jeremy fancall and the gta thing they did that year.
but personally i think rt has been losing money for quite some time, they have been desperately making changes to try and hold onto it or begging for money via first memberships ect. it sucks for the people who work there, but i'm not really surprised by any of it.
i guess with even more horrendous shit from rt/ah coming to light with no signs of stopping, especially with this insightful thread from caleb, it just clicked to me how deep the whole "friendly ribbing and bullying" shit on camera was with the company, AH in particular, and how at its worst, it was just regular bullying with us as a general audience not knowing any better.
i've really only ever said in the past that the "bullying" AH did to matt made me mildly uncomfortable because i think he's a cool dude, and him getting dunked on could get old and sad if done excessively, and that's something i still believe. however, that turned out to not even the worst of it, upon some reflection i did over this weekend.
i learned of the existence of rt, and eventually became a big fan of AH, sometime in early 2014, so i must have been 13 years old at the time. yikes, i know lol. this was back when ray and kerry and caleb and such were in the gameplay videos more often at the time. i, the impressionable fucker i was, and lowkey still am, latched onto the... jokes? callbacks? bits??? whatever the hell they're called of caleb being the cheating screen-looker who is absolutely obsessed with frisbees and shit. i repeated back what i heard the guys said like a parrot to myself because they found it fun to do, so i eventually did, as well.
i find the jokes pretty funny on their own back then and now, but what i never acknowledged back then was how constant that all was, to a concerning degree, even to the point where caleb was getting harassed and was sent death threats from other "fans". fucking mind-boggling! i never went that far because i wasn't that fucking stupid, but i currently feel a bit of shame, for lack of a better word, because of how much that hurt someone i liked watching on screen.
it's the same deal with gavin. bird noises. british humor. jokes about his way of explaining smart ideas poorly. all of that. dude was constantly egged on for years. it's calmed down since then, but that, and the physical stuff (one i remember semi-clearly was geoff pushing gav in i think a minecraft let's play to prevent him from winning some competition in the game) was insane, looking back on it. but since i was just a kid, i just laughed along.
#stopthebullying, #startthebullying, the brazing of newer hires like joe, god knows how much “friendly” ribbing towards kerry and jack. god, i’m not a fan of watching much older rt/ah videos because i’m guaranteed to hear a slur of two, but the comments from other fans who have been here longer than me about how jack got shit on in early AH stuff and the rt podcast/drunk tank episodes he appeared in can be its own separate fucking post, the poor guy.
i don’t know how to end this post, really. most of it was written at 4 am, and it shows. my brain has been a mess this past weekend, and so has rt since its inception. bye.
In light of, well, EVERYTHING that happened and was revealed yesterday, I have done what I thought I would never do. I cancelled my First Subscription. My heart goes out to Kdin, Mica, Matt, and every other single person who has been hurt by this company, who claims to have bettered itself but in reality is just as bad, if not worse than before because now they claim to be inclusive.
I'm not a huge fan of streaming, and I am going to miss Achievement Hunter content, as honestly the only reason I was a first member was to support AH, but I just can't let my money go to such an awful company any longer.
imagine having one of the most iconic machinimas ever that, arguably, defined the genre as a whole and announcing the final season after 20 years and the trailer for it gets less than 350k views in a month because also, oh yeah, your company is racist as fuck and has harbored multiple sex pests
If I had a nickel for every time a southern white guy with a college degree in something unsuited to his field became a (semi???) famous youtuber where a big part of his persona was being “the Wife Guy” and “the Dad Guy”, only for it all to crash and burn in late September early October as images are leaked lf said white guy cheating on his wife, and getting him fired…
I’d have two Nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s fucking exhausting that it’s happened twice.
(I saw the iykyk tag. And I know.)
LMAOOO
heads up.
gonna gripe about ryan haywood for a moment