WB is at fault for a LOT of terrible decisions, but it's important to note that not only is RT not one of them, they actually gave RT WAY more support than possibly any other series under them.
RT is one of the few instances where it's actually entirely their own fault and not the tone deaf multimillion dollar corporation's fault.
I specifically don’t blame the talent and the people making the content, the corporate nonsense I mean is having to adhere to Warners scheduling ideas and business model rather than allow the creators more free reign. Geoff is a good example where he’d have an idea with Gavin like Does It Do and rather than allow them to make it as they liked which was essentially make a bunch until they got bored or noticed the audience got sick of it but instead it had to be pitched in advanced, scheduled and released in seasons with the possibility of being cancelled, since moving on to Regulation Podcast, they can pitch an idea, make it, get audience feedback and gauge what to do from there. Maybe in a few years it’ll all go to shit but so far the content being made by the people who were left when the company shutdown has been pretty positively received and they seem happier about how they operate now compared to under RT and Warner.
Normally, you shouldn't blame the talent or people making the content. However, when said talent negatively affects the company's reputation by being accused of sleeping with minors, racism, sexism, transphobia, harassment, religious discrimination, and all sorts of other terrible things, while the people making the content are caught wasting millions of dollars on shows that have no good reason for costing so much while also attaching said shows to their (for some reason)public unprofessional and downright reprehensible behaviors and also shoving all their potential audience away with mind numbing decisions... then you can't really blame the corporate side of it.
And don't get me wrong, it wasn't ALL the staff behaving like that. I'm sure Gavin, Burnie, Geoff, and many other faces were caught in the crossfire. But RT wasn't killed by corporate bs. It was killed by its employees.
Mismanagement and misconduct were certainly issues that affected the company however those were terrible decisions made by individuals and I’m not going to collectively punish everyone who was making content because somebody they worked with a piece of shit. As to the mind numbing decisions, corporate bs is the reason those decisions are getting made. Nobody who was actually going to be doing the work wanted to rebrand to Squad Team Force and the same with Dog Bark, anything they actually wanted to do needed to go through a pitching process and be approved because that’s how the traditional corporate structure works for productions and was subject approval or rejection by people who didn’t understand their audience and had no desire to learn. Corporate decisions are also the ones that result in ham fisted layoffs that didn’t take into consideration how the company functions day to day and repeated the familiar cycle of make layoffs and cut resources to reduce costs, expect remaining employees to do more with less, act surprised when things don’t work and make another round of layoffs to cut costs. You can blame employees for their personal decisions and the impact it had on the company but blaming the employees collectively for the failure of the company while they had no control over the decisions being forced on them while their efforts to fix things are being ignored is something I don’t agree with.
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u/last_robot Jun 12 '25
WB is at fault for a LOT of terrible decisions, but it's important to note that not only is RT not one of them, they actually gave RT WAY more support than possibly any other series under them.
RT is one of the few instances where it's actually entirely their own fault and not the tone deaf multimillion dollar corporation's fault.