here you go matt!

Chilled: Oh, I’m not defeaned!

Ray: What the fuck?!

Today's REPO stream was hilarious...Ray and Matt mentioned they needed to put Chibi on a child leash😭

The art is HEAVILY inspired by the art from Jakeneutron's song "Why Must We Do"

UnethicalPanda on YT made/is making an edited version of the AH REPO Lobby with all the perspectives. It's so good

UnethicalPanda on YT made/is making an edited version of the AH REPO Lobby with all the perspectives. It's so good

The voting ends soon, so remember to vote for your favourite pairings!

Kara Corvus x ZeRoyalViking VS AxialMatt x Jeremy (DooleyNoted)

APlatypuss x TayderTot VS ChilledChaos x Jeremy (DooleyNoted)

ChilledChaos x Larry Fishburger VS Courtilly x Emerome

AstarriApple x ChilledChaos x Larry Fishburger VS Greg (MG4R) x KYRSp33dy

Emerome x PastaroniRavioli VS OzzaWorld x ZeRoyalViking

APlatypuss x Jeremy (DooleyNoted) VS Greg (MG4R) x ZeRoyalViking

AstarriApple x Larry Fishburger VS ChilledChaos x ZeRoyalViking

ChilledChaos x Courtilly VS ChilledChaos x Larry Fishburger x ZeRoyalViking

Kara Corvus x TayderTot VS SlackATK x KYRSp33dy

KYRSp33dy x Larry Fishburger x SideArms4Reason VS Skadj x ZeRoyalViking

APlatypuss x Ray (Ray Narvaez Jr) VS ElainaExe x TayderTot

KYRSp33dy x SideArms4Reason VS Larry Fishburger x ZeRoyalViking

AxialMatt x Tom Fawkes VS OzzaWorld x Skadj

APlatypuss x ChilledChaos VS CheesyBlueNips x Skadj

ImpulseSV x ZeRoyalViking VS Jeremy (DooleyNoted) x Tom Fawkes

ChilledChaos x KYRSp33dy VS Kruzadar x TayderTot

Why?

“It’s because we could […] If we don’t do it who will?” Throughout the episode, Burnie also mentioned: not wanting RT to become lost media; wanting to create opportunities for himself/past employees of the company; wanting to work with old properties again; being able to collaborate with new talent; and the Rooster Teeth brand being good marketing. “One of the main motivators for this was preserving the media, and I’m happy to say, it is preserved.”

Also spoken about over multiple questions, Burnie says that Warner Brothers might have been planning to sell off the whole company, including employees etc., and he did not want (/couldn’t afford) to buy it then. It was only after the shutdown, after it became clear the WB was selling off individual shows, that Burnie started trying to buy things. I mention this specifically because I’ve seen a lot of people talk as if the company itself is coming back; it is not. What Burnie owns right now is the brand and IP rights to a lot of the properties. The actual “company” of Rooster Teeth is actually Burnie’s production company “Box Canyon Productions” and right now only has two employees.

What properties does Rooster Teeth still own?

“It’s a very, very long list.” Burnie says they have the rights over 50 shows, some specifically named ones being The RT Podcast, Red vs Blue, and The Know. Most of the shows that were hosted on the Rooster Teeth YouTube channel were a part of the acquisition. Nothing from Achievement Hunter, Funhaus, or RWBY are owned by RT anymore. Heavy emphasis was put on AH no longer being under RT’s brand anymore.

Are the scope of these new projects going to be more in line with smaller content like the RT Shorts, or is the hope to try and focus on larger productions like Day 5, The Schedule, or Lazer Team?

“The sweet spot for scale is going all the way back to the early episodes of Red vs Blue.” The focus is going to be on “compelling writing and great characters,” and making projects with smaller productions. Throughout the episode they reiterated that their main focus is going to be on individual projects and shows.

Does this mean there are hopes of getting a complete boxset of RvB?

“I also would love a complete boxset of Red vs Blue.” Burnie says he wants to do this, but doing physical media in 2025 is complicated and a financial risk, so they’re going to have to figure out how it would be done. He mentions possibly doing a preorder for it.

What happens if this just fails again?

“It’s not bulletproof, but I don’t know what it would take for us to have to shutter this thing at this point.” Burnie says that they’re already profitable, that they maintain themselves, and that unless they do something that would put them in tremendous amounts of debt, as long as YouTube still remains a platform that lets them host videos, he’s not worried about the company shutting down.

Could this lead to some of the old RT merch being available again?

“Yeah, it would have to be within the brands we’re talking about.” They talk about there being a lot of old merch, so figuring out how to provide the specific pieces that people want will be a challenge. Burnie how his personal philosophies on making merchandise in a way that does not produce “junk” may also make selling merch more difficult. Ashley says it is going to be a “slow start.”

More questions were answered and things discussed on the episode but this is what I found to be important to share here.

- they (being him and ashley) just have the rights to rooster teeth itself, not any other productions under rooster teeth (i.e. achievement hunter, funhaus, etc)

- he’s hoping to have a full slate by summer (mentions may specifically)

- does not want anyone to bug old rooster teeth employees as many of them have new “entrepreneurial” ventures (in quotes bc that’s his words not mine)

- is doing an AMA on patreon that will be released to the public on Morning Somewhere next Monday

- his son taught him the term enshittification and he and ashley want to “de-shittify” their corner of the internet