#rt community

UPDATE: FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Rooster Teeth (the brand) has been (re)acquired by none other than Burnie Burns himself, click here to visit the RT site and listen to Burnie & Ashley Burns's podcast for all the details available at this time

I just wanted to shout out all of the people over at Archive of Pimps who've worked so hard on archiving 21 years of content across the RT site and YouTube channels. With the Rooster Teeth site shutting down in just about a week (on May 15, 2024), and the future of the YT channels unknown, this was a massive undertaking to quickly preserve a metric fuckton of content before it could be lost forever. So much media has been lost because of bad storage practices, lack of foresight, and (most critically) corporate greed, so I seriously applaud those folks for working so diligently to get this done.

The Rooster Teeth archive can be found here

You can read MrSheen's full reddit post about the archive here

I just. I dunno. I guess I just wanted to talk about it with someone who GETS it, even if it was just a quick "Hi, do you FEEL that? Yeah, me, too."

Friend, I am right there with you.

Rooster Teeth/ Achievement Hunter was such a gigantic part of my life and their videos/podcasts/ect were an emotional support crutch that got me thru some really rough times. It’s like an ache and I don’t care how parasocial it makes me sound. I miss them all very much and I miss the community as well. I’ve made the joke that my blog and rt tattoo outlived the company and while that could be considered a big yikes, I also have never once been able to let go of something I’ve loved so honestly that just makes sense for me lmao

I wish it didn’t all end like a slow death and I wish there wasn’t all the controversies and bad feelings the last few years but the parts that were good were fucking good and they were so ahead of the curve with the internet and gaming culture and building a community and comedy and dang it, it all shouldn’t get erased due to a handful of toxic people. What they accomplished was important - just look to all the people Ray streams with now that grew up on rtah content

Ray’s streaming content is so good, and he’s been a part of a lot of great collaborations with other streamers, especially the stuff with Chibi, Nagzz, and Matt Bragg.

The two (so far, fingers crossed we get another something sometime) streams that Ray did with a bunch of AH folks in REPO was stellar and absolutely worth a watch if you haven’t.

I’ve also gotten a lot of rtah nostalgia while watching some Dropout TV shows. I got to see some of them live last week in Indy and it reminded me of going to both Let’s Play Live Chicago and RTX 2015.

Viva La Rooster Teeth

Viva La Achievement Hunter

Mitchell!

I made Mitchell for @keeningthoughts 's art challenge for RTX, but tbh I just wanted to create. If you don't recognize our little celebrity, this is the wyvern grimm from volume 3 of RWBY. This lad:

Thought about making a full body dragon. Then I thought better of it. The jaw on mine is at a sharper angle bc I didn't make a new form for this project - I just used one I'd already had lying around. Oddly enough, the form would have gone on to make an Achievement Hunter dragon lol. I also need to attach it to the plaque, but I don't have the stuff rn and I'm impatient and wanna post this now. So, anywho, here's my contribution. I had fun. Now I will share it for attention 😂😂

Oh! And one more thing... the eyes? They glow in the dark.

Rad.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jHZizfG-X25gdJxOXK0FVpyVwqmRkUX8imhOSoOiIKQ/edit?usp=sharing

I have started this public google doc so we can start sharing our favourite feel good Lets Plays which just happen to NOT feature a certain individual.

Please share and add to this, lets get a good list together!

Home is where people love you, don’t forget that - Burnie Burns

Thank you Burnie for 17 years of content, community, and so much more. You’ve made such an enormous impact on my life and countless of fans all over the world. Good luck out there Boss, but never forget you’ll always have a home in RT <3