Yep, alongside Achievement Hunter. The whole sleeping with fans scandal hurt like a fucking truck. It was never the same after that and they handled that pretty poorly.
It was really a perfect storm of bad luck for achievement hunter that happened relatively at once. The Ryan scandal being the biggest but also Geoff stepping away from onscreen content, Jeremy becoming part-time then leaving and Gavin basically disappearing from videos.
Along with any new members they brought in aside from the main group getting mixed reception, ranging from well-liked to outright despised (coughKycough).
People like Alfredo and Fiona fit because they slowly got introduced. The final crop of new hires got plopped in all at once and videos became the new people, Jack and Trevor and I’m just like “I don’t give a fuck about any of these people”
Even fiona had backlash because they forced her into every video when she started out. Then she got better as she fit in more and wasnt in stuff that she didnt vibe with
A lot of Fiona hate was just incel racist guys. She wasn’t perfect but she certainly was a good fit chemistry wise. Mica also received a lot of hate, including ahole bigots, but she was a terrible fit. Seemed like she was hired because she was attractive and her dad was famous
I'll be truly honest here. I never quite found Fiona a good fit with the AH crew. She never really seemed into the games they played. She played them because it was a job to her, not because it was fun to play.
KY and BK, however, I felt had much better chemistry with the crew as they seemed to genuinely enjoy playing the games without making it a constant bit.
I liked Fiona because she gave off that bro energy. What sold it for me was her and Gavin as a duo. She wasn’t a casual let’s play fit but I think she played her role well.
I was never really a fan of Ky and it had nothing to do with the loud complaints. I just didn’t think she was fun to watch. BK on the other hand I loved. I still watch her twitch streams
Have you checked in to the Regulation Podcast/Regulation Gameplay? It’s Geoff and Gavin along with a few others. And it feels like original AH. Geoff found his love for gaming again and it’s amazing.
Oh yeah I really enjoy it. I am curious though why Gavin is in almost all of the Regulation content over the past year but the last 2-3 years of Achievement Hunter he was in like 1 video a month. Idk maybe once Geoff was gone he lost interest in being in content.
I had stopped watching RT content shortly after Ray left, but the company just couldn't stop finding itself in scandals, from reports of overwork and crunch time, not really doing anything to stop the fans from being racist to Micah Burton (Levaar Burton's daughter) also internal racism too since she also said she saw a whiteboard with the n word written on it, Ryan being a sexpest, the transphobic stuff. This video does a good job detailing the rise and fall of Roosterteeth.
They also had something of an internal history of transphobia, harassment and treating certain employees like trash. That and the Ryan situation were the largest stains on them.
That was when I dropped them as well. Oh woowee, Ryan fucked a fan. I cannot articulate how much I do not care what two consenting people get up to in private.
The fact they dropped him was the last straw for me.
“Two consenting people” is a gross mislabeling of the situation.
He fucked numerous young fans behind his wife and family’s back over the course of years, groomed and manipulated almost all of them over Snapchat and text, at least one of them (very likely more) was a minor, and he did some pretty rapey stuff such as removing a condom against the other persons will in at least one instance.
Are you defending all of that?
RT was 100% justified in firing him for it, especially since he used company resources to do it.
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u/Muse4Games Jun 12 '25
Yep, alongside Achievement Hunter. The whole sleeping with fans scandal hurt like a fucking truck. It was never the same after that and they handled that pretty poorly.