"Woke" Franchises

[Jormungandr]

Eh, I don't think they were talented enough to fix it.

The reality was that RT existed at a very particular time period where indie animation wasn't as rare and was much less competitive. RWBY made sense as a free series made on a tight budget by very talented people. Pretty much the same with Red vs Blue.

But trying to turn Rooster Teeth into a streaming service, making higher budget shows, etc. was always a dumb idea that wasn't going to work.

I remember the hype for Volume 4, and IIRC it was why I first subbed to Rooster Teeth. I also remember the divisive opinions on it after it had finished airing, and the subsequent, increasing rabidization of the fanbase (especially shippers with the Rainbow Tumour shit).

Then the studio went full on Leftist, pro-Tumour, and it all crumbled; then they sold out.

The writing was pretty much on the wall then.

 

[DarthOne]

I remember the hype for Volume 4, and IIRC it was why I first subbed to Rooster Teeth. I also remember the divisive opinions on it after it had finished airing, and the subsequent, increasing rabidization of the fanbase (especially shippers with the Rainbow Tumour shit).

Then the studio went full on Leftist, pro-Tumour, and it all crumbled; then they sold out.

The writing was pretty much on the wall then.

I got into the fandom somewhere around early season 3. So yeah, it was around season 4 that the shipping quickly went from 'cute, occasionally weird but ultimately mostly harmless' to 'tumblr rainbow mafia shit'.

 

[Jormungandr]

I got into the fandom somewhere around early season 3. So yeah, it was around season 4 that the shipping quickly went from 'cute, occasionally weird but ultimately mostly harmless' to 'tumblr rainbow mafia shit'.

A case-study about the mental stability of the shippers degrading over the period of just a few years would be fascinating, and it'd be a warning not to let Rainbow Tumour shit infiltrate things.

It always ends badly.

 

[SoliFortissimi]

As always, the progressive messaging was a ploy to paper over the increasingly bad writing.

That's what it always is. It's pandering to the loudest, craziest voices in the fandom. Young adults who base their entire personality on their hobbies, like the western version of Otakus..

You know how western fans keep complaining about how anime keeps adding sexual fanservice to keep pandering to Otakus that spend the most on merchandise because their entire life revolves around fiction? I wonder how many realize the parallels.

 

[Jormungandr]

As always, the progressive messaging was a ploy to paper over the increasingly bad writing.

That's what it always is. It's pandering to the loudest, craziest voices in the fandom. Young adults who base their entire personality on their hobbies, like the western version of Otakus..

You know how western fans keep complaining about how anime keeps adding sexual fanservice to keep pandering to Otakus that spend the most on merchandise because their entire life revolves around fiction? I wonder how many realize the parallels.

It's kinda funny: While they did basically ruin the Gods' backstories with the last volume (originating them from a fucking pseudo Alice in Wonderland clone), the concept of the volume itself (and Ruby's character development) was actually quite good and fit with the "fable" theme the series had going on, and it actually was better than the prior volumes' storylines. It still just... didn't fit RWBY somehow, though (again except for Ruby growing as a character).

But the bad writing, pandering to Rainbow Tumour shit, and overall quality? Yeah, RWBY had been in decline for years. smh

At least Chibi was fucking hilarious, but that's because it stuck to a pre-Volume 4 setting and went crazy with the cheese.

 

[LordDemiurge]

? Yeah, RWBY had been in decline for years. smh

I would argue that RWBY was half baked from the start. From the beginning the writers made everything up as they went along.

 

[Jormungandr]

I would argue that RWBY was half baked from the start. From the beginning the writers made everything up as they went along.

Oh, no doubt about that (Monty didn't even come up with the Maiden thing until like volume 2?), and he was basically writing it as it went on in development.

Thing is, it was so early and the setting so basic (highschool for superheroes, basically) that it didn't matter at that stage. After he passed and the studio had to actually world-build and create more expansive, cohesive storylines than what was in volumes 1--3, that's when it all fell apart.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

You know, given his role in buggering up media across the board, I felt this twitter post might be of some interest to you all.

Apparently, things got a bit hot under the collar for Mr Larry Fink the other day...

 

[Jormungandr]

Ironically, if Blackrock goes batshit on ESG because it's losing them money, it may filter down into the rest of the business world and, by extension, society at large.

May being the keyword: It could be a "one rule for thee, one rule for me" thing instead, where they still want the rest of the world to go ESG but not them.

 

[Typhonis]

Investors do not like loosing money.

 

[DarthOne]

You know, given his role in buggering up media across the board, I felt this twitter post might be of some interest to you all.

Apparently, things got a bit hot under the collar for Mr Larry Fink the other day...

‘lies and misinformation’? Yeah, and I am the King of the United States of America.

 

[Poe]

Ironically, if Blackrock goes batshit on ESG because it's losing them money, it may filter down into the rest of the business world and, by extension, society at large.

May being the keyword: It could be a "one rule for thee, one rule for me" thing instead, where they still want the rest of the world to go ESG but not them.

That blackrock and vanguard used passive investing as a way to build up power and then push these idiotic policies on companies they otherwise would have no say in should be extremely criminal. They are passive investment funds and no one signed up for their money to be used as leverage for this.

 

[Shadow]

I dont know much about blackrock

But I'm not shocked the company taht pushes this shit has black in the name

Jesus we really do live in clown world

 

[Lord Sovereign]

The thing that tickles me pink is that Blackrock has enormous sums of money at its disposal. Not quite the trillions some think, but a great deal of cash anyway. For investors to be complaining about the costs of the ESG initiatives already, Fink must have been burning through their money at an industrial rate.

 

[Culsu]

I think this harkens back to the days of low-yield loans and central bank money, ie. right up until CoVID19. Blackrock was spending easy cash by the bucket, binding the investments to the demands for DEI implementation. That was easy back then. But by now, many of those recipients of that easy money turn out to have burnt through it with barely (if any) profit to show for it -- and often at least as an indirect result of those DEI demands. And the people who have given Blackrock and Vanguard their money to begin with are getting rightfully pissed.

 

[SoliFortissimi]

Why do corporations keep spending their hard earned money for people who hate them and want them dead?

 

[gral]

Why do corporations keep spending their hard earned money for people who hate them and want them dead?

Because they think they can handle them if it comes to that.

 

[SoliFortissimi]

Because they think they can handle them if it comes to that.

But why do it in the first place?

 

[AnimalNoodles]

Why do corporations keep spending their hard earned money for people who hate them and want them dead?

because they hate you more

 

[Lord Sovereign]

But why do it in the first place?

They think they are reaching the mythical “wider audience.” They are also Boomer Dinosaurs who do not have a fucking clue as to who they are dealing with.