The Fall of Rooster Teeth

If you’re anything like me you’re two things one raised by the internet and two subscribe to mogulmail on YouTube thank you so much for doing that right now wow amazing yeah I didn’t grow up without a dad for most of my childhood so a lot of the people that I would

Watch growing up were kind of father figures in a way and occasionally I like to indulge and go down memory lane take a Nostalgia blast trip through the creators that really raised me including Mr phantasmo just to listen to the noises they made maybe 15 of you people actually know who this is

What’s up my nuggets but if you did that’s a whole Nostalgia blast that you just went through and for a lot of you guys that might be Rooster Teeth all right Rooster Teeth has been around for well over a decade almost two decades if not over that and they’ve created a

Bunch of Ip that you might know Achievement Hunter fun house slow-mo guys death battle they were an absolute Mainstay in the gaming space but it hurts even harder when you look back and you see that the people that you were raised by or grew up with are

Up to no good which is what came out over the past couple weeks with Rooster Teeth now this is a bit of an old story but I haven’t seen many people talk about it so I thought I’d put it on all your Radars Rooster Teeth outside of all

The original Ip Ruby whatever it is the content they’ve created they’ve also created a terrible workplace culture and this all came out through a twit logger from one of their former employees who goes by the name Caden now Caden sent this whole twit longer and she goes over

Extensively all the things that were bad but the tldr is gross enough all right when you’re looking at the when you look at the tldr and that alone makes you Gas makes a jaw drop you know they’re up to no good uh you can read through a few of

The lines here but it includes uh such things as calling her thugs because it was a nickname for the effler uh things like overworking underpaying General terrible HR uh and and a whole cohort of worse things now before I move on I do have to mention

This because this is going to be a lot of the counterpoints that will be made is that Kaden uh was not herself the greatest victim as many victims are uh and said some slurs uh of her own specifically uh said the n-word uh and a clip came out of that uh and although

That is not a good thing and that’s not something I support at all it doesn’t uh um it doesn’t cancel out uh the the terrible workplace uh that that she was at uh and if you don’t believe me well then look at all the people who backed

Her up all right I am about to show you about 20 different employees at Rooster Teeth who all dropped to twit longer this is this is crazy the amount of people who came out the woodwork uh and the first one starts with Mika who said

That um she didn’t name drop it back in 2020 saw the n-word written on a whiteboard crazy here’s a twit longer from Autumn who said that the HR swept a lot of the stuff under the rug uh here’s a twit longer from Aaron uh which goes into it a little bit more

We got something from uh Andy saying you owe me so much money uh Chad says I’m still employed but I’m on Kate inside because you know I gotta pay the bills out of the day which I respect uh Gabriel uh the list goes on and on and I think Alana Pierce

Who worked at Rooster Teeth for a bit said it best so I’ll let her say her words and I don’t feel like I’ve ever been shy about this I’ve said so like multiple times repeatedly maybe just like I’ve never publicly Associated the two but it’s a very easy to do

I think I repeatedly said that 2018 was the worst year of my life so bad and it was because of working conditions at Rooster Teeth I fell apart um it was terrible I’ve spoken about this publicly I made a video on this channel about it about how I literally developed eczema a

Skin condition that I now deal with all the time because I was so stressed out and frazzled and um just like overwhelmed and like in a terrible place if the workplace conditions are so bad that your employee develops eczema from stress verified by a doctor that that’s

A major problem now I’m not the greatest boss in the world I’m not going to pretend I am I have like over a dozen employees and I will remind slime every day that I see him in that we are both alive that he is bald which you know

Maybe HR needs to worry about that but but this is just a whole new level and for it to have been swept under under the rug for that long with with 419 employees went away from greatness crazy that’s crazy till 2022 that we’re all finding out

About this now maybe it was known from you know people behind the scenes but but at least this is when I found out about it Rooster Teeth of course because of all the backlash released a statement about a week ago now uh almost 10 days

Ago that says as an almost 20 year old company that started in the early stages of online videos and grew with internet culture we made mistakes all right they were around before uh you know a PC culture before Society uh decided hey you know we won’t say slurs unless we’re

In a league chat that’s okay not really addressing a lot of the things and so a lot of people weren’t super happy with that all right does it doesn’t address the issues that were brought up and you can’t opine on how much internal work you’ve done when it’s still an issue

So this is never a good look but they had to drop a second apology and this one I think a little more sincere talks about the changes very concrete changes they’re going to make so it doesn’t happen in the future uh and they go through this thread they say they took

The upper management uh and and are basically making a bunch of changes over the past uh a week uh and presumably through our uh out the rest of the year to make sure that they have a better workplace uh for anyone who works there uh and then there is also some apologies

From the creators who are involved in in the bullying of Caden uh or the bad workplace overall and people that you probably know people like Gavin Free Michael Jones and and Jeff who uh went private so I can’t really show it but there was an apology uh that you guys

Can all take a look at I think the biggest takeaway that I have for you is one this always backs up my point to root for the worker never the workplace especially when the workplace gets so big even here at Mogul moves all right if you ever see a tweet from Aiden

Saying hey Moga moves working me to the Bone take aid inside not my side even if you like me a lot and then of course it’s never bad to repeat this sentiment the people that you watch online that even if they raised you even if you grew

Up on them even if they were a father figure to you are not people that you actually know you only know them through the lens that they are available to be seen in like me through these Mogul males you have such great takes how are they so balanced in but yet observant of

Both sides to which I would reply on the goat but the reality is I only give you the takes that I think are good and I only upload the ones that I think were the most eloquent there are a bunch of drafts that are either misspoken or

Maybe just bad takes all together that I’ve just never uploaded and you’ll never see and maybe we had a conversation there’d be more of a back and forth and you’d see a lot of the flaws that I have but why would I try to express those flaws to a million people

When I myself am not confident on them right I’m only going to upload things that I’m actually confident on when I talk about uh and that I that I feel like I have a level had a take on uh so so anyway just a fresh reminder that the

People that you watch online aren’t people that you super know uh and that they they can disappoint you like anyone else in your life like even your family can uh but glad Rooster Teeth is making changes hopefully they’re very serious about it uh and to all the people who

Work their Rooster Teeth and had a [ __ ] time I I am sorry for that uh anyway that’s all for mogulmail thought I’d give you a little update hopefully I didn’t shatter your childhood dreams and see you later goodbye have a good rest of your day see you later goodbye

Goodbye now I’m leaving goodbye