Mmn, Rooster Teeth is a web-animation company that's popular, and are behind RWBY, Red vs Blue, and some other stuff. Word is that behind the scenes, they're not nearly as cool to work with, and they really do piss off fans who can see past their bullshit even when the camera is rolling. They give empty lip service to women, POCs, and queer people even as two of their talents talk about playing "Connect the Hots" (a game where they drive around until they find a hot girl, follow her until they find a new one, and then follow that one) and Gavin freely uses "fag" with the defense that it's a British word for cigarettes and Barb says she misses when she could call her friends fags because "it was a good word". And that's without the recent discoveries.
See, RWBY was a Monty Oum original, Monty Oum being this amazingly talented dude with a big heart who wanted to create a serious work with its own universe. Monty, though, died in 2015 shortly before Volume 3 due to a bad allergic reaction. Volume 3 went on, but in May after it finished, an ex-employee that had been quietly fired, Shane Newville, released "An Open Letter to All Who Treasured Monty Oum". It was 36 pages of clean, professionally-written dirt that detailed how Rooster Teeth had been steadily wresting control of RWBY for the worse from Monty while he was alive, and had shamelessly ignored the notes and designs for the show he left behind after death--while to their fans, they swore absolute loyalty to the plan he left--and had been really mistreating employees, him included as well as Sheena Duquette, Monty's late wife. It was bad. Its contents were confirmed not only by Sheena, but by Kathleen Zeulch, another ex-employee as well as one of the company's founders.
It was bad, but it eventually blew over. Rooster Teeth gained its first real chunk of fans that hated them, but the RWBY fandom and the RT fandom as a whole survived it. People blew off Shane as a bitter ex-employee who was being unprofessional in the extreme (even though he no longer had ties to the people he was outing and had made sure not to mention names and overall been very professional). It seemed like it would sink them, but it didn't.
Nowadays, Rooster Teeth (at least the RWBY section of the team) are such blatant liars that it's painful. By Volume 5, Miles Luna (co-head writer, but apparently the one doing most of it over Kerry's head) could no longer ignore the well-earned hatedom his character Jaune had garnered, and prompted some pity-me confession in a Reddit thread about how he'd been shying away from writing in Jaune due to worrying he would be making him a self-insert (a common accusation), and pushed responsibility for inserting all the Jaune scenes on Kerry and the late Monty...even though Kerry's own character has virtually disappeared and if anything, we've seen proof that Miles has written Jaune in and removed other characters for his benefit, at least one instance available on DVD commentary. It's an in-joke among the hatedom or "rwde" that they deflect their bad writing onto a dead man twice their worth by saying it was his plan, a la:
"Man I sure do love how ya'll keep injuring and fridging female characters to develop male ones." "It's what Monty would've wanted."
Re: Welp.
See, RWBY was a Monty Oum original, Monty Oum being this amazingly talented dude with a big heart who wanted to create a serious work with its own universe. Monty, though, died in 2015 shortly before Volume 3 due to a bad allergic reaction. Volume 3 went on, but in May after it finished, an ex-employee that had been quietly fired, Shane Newville, released "An Open Letter to All Who Treasured Monty Oum". It was 36 pages of clean, professionally-written dirt that detailed how Rooster Teeth had been steadily wresting control of RWBY for the worse from Monty while he was alive, and had shamelessly ignored the notes and designs for the show he left behind after death--while to their fans, they swore absolute loyalty to the plan he left--and had been really mistreating employees, him included as well as Sheena Duquette, Monty's late wife. It was bad. Its contents were confirmed not only by Sheena, but by Kathleen Zeulch, another ex-employee as well as one of the company's founders.
It was bad, but it eventually blew over. Rooster Teeth gained its first real chunk of fans that hated them, but the RWBY fandom and the RT fandom as a whole survived it. People blew off Shane as a bitter ex-employee who was being unprofessional in the extreme (even though he no longer had ties to the people he was outing and had made sure not to mention names and overall been very professional). It seemed like it would sink them, but it didn't.
Nowadays, Rooster Teeth (at least the RWBY section of the team) are such blatant liars that it's painful. By Volume 5, Miles Luna (co-head writer, but apparently the one doing most of it over Kerry's head) could no longer ignore the well-earned hatedom his character Jaune had garnered, and prompted some pity-me confession in a Reddit thread about how he'd been shying away from writing in Jaune due to worrying he would be making him a self-insert (a common accusation), and pushed responsibility for inserting all the Jaune scenes on Kerry and the late Monty...even though Kerry's own character has virtually disappeared and if anything, we've seen proof that Miles has written Jaune in and removed other characters for his benefit, at least one instance available on DVD commentary. It's an in-joke among the hatedom or "rwde" that they deflect their bad writing onto a dead man twice their worth by saying it was his plan, a la:
"Man I sure do love how ya'll keep injuring and fridging female characters to develop male ones."
"It's what Monty would've wanted."
Woops, sorry for all that splurge.