Rooster Teeth Under Fire For Crunch Practices

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

www.popdust.com/rooster-teeth-crunch-2638895587.html

As someone who loves (loved?) watching a lot of the Let's Play Minecraft material along with a lot of the other Achievement Hunter stuff, this is more than a little disappointing. The article does focus on the animation part of RT but I wonder if AH is affected by this as well.

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

This....yeah, this doesn't entirely surprise me, and I'm a fan of the company. A company like this, that is built a LOT on "hiring from the fanbase", on top of just explosive growth over the past few years, and...yeah, I can see issues like this cropping up in a big bad way. I hope Matt is sincere in what he says, but the fact that it's even come to this is a pretty bad indicator.

[Deleted]

Just based on how much content they manage to pump out compared to what they started at this really doesn't at all shock me, and I haven't ever even actually watched anything of theirs.

[Johnny B. Decent]

Unfortunate, but not surprising at all.

[Mozenrath]

I hope they get their shit together, but yeah, not a shock, unfortunately. There's so much pressure to put out content and not get lost.

[Deleted]

When you're going from Halo mods to CGI anime with that amount of output, something has to give.

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Not at all shocking, sadly.

Between just RWBY and Gen:Lock, not to mention the regular clip they release Death Battles at(with many of the fights either being choreographed CGI or sprite battles that more times than not nowadays also feature them including their own 2D animation drawn just for that particular battle(for example, nearly everything Ben 10 did in the Ben 10 vs Green Lantern fight animation was original 2D animation they did)) I can see how this can lead to crunch.

[Non Banjoble Tokens]

I have no idea what any of these words mean.

[Mozenrath]

Jun 19, 2019 2:36:02 GMT -5 Non Banjoble Tokens said:

I have no idea what any of these words mean.

Company that makes cartoons to put on youtube, at least one of their divisions does, anyway, doesn't treat their animators very well and overworks them for shitty pay, is the gist of it.

[Long A, Short A]

I'm not shocked either. Two of the RWBY tubers I mess with have commented on it. Thankfully, no one is safe from catching hell for crunch. I really wish boycotts worked and hurt the right people.

[CMPunkyBrewster]

For someone who knows nothing about any of these people or companies or whatever...this headline sounds like insane gibberish.