Good riddance. Rooster Teeth has turned into a cancer on the internet content industry. Endless tales of abuse, crunch culture, nepotism, and more. 90% of their most entertaining talent has left...
Good riddance. Rooster Teeth has turned into a cancer on the internet content industry. Endless tales of abuse, crunch culture, nepotism, and more. 90% of their most entertaining talent has left or stopped appearing in videos. They never should have left the 3rd office, not every internet video company needs 100+ employees and 15 channels
It's been 20 years, it would be insane for them to do the exact same thing forever. I think there are a ton of amazing personalities across all of RT, and I think the new direction they're headed...
It's been 20 years, it would be insane for them to do the exact same thing forever. I think there are a ton of amazing personalities across all of RT, and I think the new direction they're headed has a lot of potential.
What frustrates me is the flip-flopping on FIRST. This announcement talked about a "renewed focus on FIRST content", but I've seen and heard this several times before. The fact that they're back to promoting FIRST makes me hopeful that they'll follow up, but there are some issues with this.
Namely, if they're trying to funnel more people to RT directly, I'd like to see some better investment in the website and the apps specifically. The Xbox app doesn't recognize that you've watched the video, so if you go back to a video you've watched before, it picks up at the last 5 seconds and you have to scramble to try to restart it before it skips to the next one. Sometimes, you just can't do it fast enough, so you have to load the site, find the video, start it at the beginning, pause it, then go back to that video in the app so you can watch.
The android app isn't much better. If you watch a video in a previous season/year, when you close the video or go back, it reverts you back to the most recent season/year. So, if you watch to catch up on a series, you have to spend a lot of time scrolling.
The worst part is, you can't report these issues because the reporting functionality is broken as well.
I still watch the content daily, I like what they're doing, but I'm not sure if I truly buy this reinvestment in FIRST. Hopefully they can show it.
They have the same problem a lot of companies do. They try to build their tech in house. They're not a tech focused company, so it takes the back seat. Their profits come from providing...
They have the same problem a lot of companies do. They try to build their tech in house. They're not a tech focused company, so it takes the back seat. Their profits come from providing entertainment. I think they have like one person for each mobile app. What team they do have is focused on the website I believe.
As for First memberships, I've seen it go through most of the changes in the last ~17 years. I got it to watch RvB season 6 an hour early. So I don't really have complaints on that end. But I think mocking the patreon model is a step in the right direction. By that I mean how modern creators use patreon with their audience. The whole point is to bring in new audiences and those audiences are used to how today's content creators use patreon.
You're right. My comment sort of spiraled into a complaint-fest, so I apologize, but hopefully they start addressing the tech as the gateway to the content; especially with FIRST seeming like the...
You're right. My comment sort of spiraled into a complaint-fest, so I apologize, but hopefully they start addressing the tech as the gateway to the content; especially with FIRST seeming like the priority model, because it pushes people from YouTube to their site.
I agree that the comparison to Patreon is beneficial, and even the straight-up honesty that watching an ad on the site is 10X as profitable for them than YouTube. I'm optimistic, so we'll see where it goes.
I get where you're coming from. It can be frustrating watch them and see some problems never really be fixed. Realistically, I'm not expecting much on the tech side. But content wise, I think...
I get where you're coming from. It can be frustrating watch them and see some problems never really be fixed.
Realistically, I'm not expecting much on the tech side. But content wise, I think they're moving in the right direction. I'm optimistic on the front, even if I don't enjoy all the content they put out
Good riddance. Rooster Teeth has turned into a cancer on the internet content industry. Endless tales of abuse, crunch culture, nepotism, and more. 90% of their most entertaining talent has left or stopped appearing in videos. They never should have left the 3rd office, not every internet video company needs 100+ employees and 15 channels
Noise: growth for growth's sake.
Hell, almost no one is left from the original era of either property.
It's been 20 years, it would be insane for them to do the exact same thing forever. I think there are a ton of amazing personalities across all of RT, and I think the new direction they're headed has a lot of potential.
What frustrates me is the flip-flopping on FIRST. This announcement talked about a "renewed focus on FIRST content", but I've seen and heard this several times before. The fact that they're back to promoting FIRST makes me hopeful that they'll follow up, but there are some issues with this.
Namely, if they're trying to funnel more people to RT directly, I'd like to see some better investment in the website and the apps specifically. The Xbox app doesn't recognize that you've watched the video, so if you go back to a video you've watched before, it picks up at the last 5 seconds and you have to scramble to try to restart it before it skips to the next one. Sometimes, you just can't do it fast enough, so you have to load the site, find the video, start it at the beginning, pause it, then go back to that video in the app so you can watch.
The android app isn't much better. If you watch a video in a previous season/year, when you close the video or go back, it reverts you back to the most recent season/year. So, if you watch to catch up on a series, you have to spend a lot of time scrolling.
The worst part is, you can't report these issues because the reporting functionality is broken as well.
I still watch the content daily, I like what they're doing, but I'm not sure if I truly buy this reinvestment in FIRST. Hopefully they can show it.
They have the same problem a lot of companies do. They try to build their tech in house. They're not a tech focused company, so it takes the back seat. Their profits come from providing entertainment. I think they have like one person for each mobile app. What team they do have is focused on the website I believe.
As for First memberships, I've seen it go through most of the changes in the last ~17 years. I got it to watch RvB season 6 an hour early. So I don't really have complaints on that end. But I think mocking the patreon model is a step in the right direction. By that I mean how modern creators use patreon with their audience. The whole point is to bring in new audiences and those audiences are used to how today's content creators use patreon.
You're right. My comment sort of spiraled into a complaint-fest, so I apologize, but hopefully they start addressing the tech as the gateway to the content; especially with FIRST seeming like the priority model, because it pushes people from YouTube to their site.
I agree that the comparison to Patreon is beneficial, and even the straight-up honesty that watching an ad on the site is 10X as profitable for them than YouTube. I'm optimistic, so we'll see where it goes.
I get where you're coming from. It can be frustrating watch them and see some problems never really be fixed.
Realistically, I'm not expecting much on the tech side. But content wise, I think they're moving in the right direction. I'm optimistic on the front, even if I don't enjoy all the content they put out