The FULL Rooster Teeth DOWNFALL TIMELINE - All Scandals that happened from 2014 - 2024

What happened to Rooster Teeth? Why are Rooster Teeth shutting down? This is a full timeline of all incidents that contributed to the Downfall and current failure of Rooster Teeth. Covering all incidents, from Ray Narvaez departing to Achievement Hunter shutting down in 2023. Meanwhile Dogbark and the Stinky Dragon Podcast just deactivated their Twitter channels. What's behind this decision? Is this a bad omen that the downfall of Rooster Teeth has begun? It’s been years since I listened to Burnie Burns, Gavin Free, Barbara Dunkelman and Gus Sorola on the RT Podcast. A lot has happened since then. But it seems like the downfall of Rooster Teeth continues. The Ryan Haywood Drama from Achievement Hunter and Adam Kovic from Funhaus had their scandal, which was followed by layoffs and brutally bad reviews written by previous employees on Glassdoor. Another ex Achievement Hunter employee and voice actress of RWBY comes forward with hard hitting accusations against the company. Kdin Jenzen, who worked with Rooster Teeth for almost 10 years and who primarily appeared on Achievement Hunter but was also known for voicing May Marigold in RWBY amongst other credits, left the company in June 2022. And just a few months ago she shared a detailed piece about some of her experiences within the company, including some shocking details of what’s allegedly really going on behind the scenes at RT. Geoff Ramsey, Gus Sorola, Michael Jones and Rooster Teeth responded with official statements at the time. Let's discuss! I hope you enjoy.

Thanks to Nick & Moesie for helping to do research for this video!

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Chapters:

0:00 Intro
1:10 Disclaimer
2:00 2014 RT was acquired by Warner Discovery
3:17 April 2015 - Ray Narvaez, Jr leaves
4:08 February 2015 - Monty Oum passed away
5:25 April 2018 - Mica Burton leaves RT
7:29 Fiona Nova
8:00 February 2019 - Vic Mignogna allegations
10:33 June 2019 - Gray Haddock steps down
12:26 September 2019 - Bruce Greene and Lawrence Sonntag leave Funhaus
14:05 June 2020 - Joel Hayman was fired
15:39 Jun 2020 - Burnie Burns leaves Rooster Teeth
16:55 September 2020 - Miles Luna leaves RT
17:30 October 2020 - Adam Kovic & Ryan Haywood incident
22:25 May 2021 - Jeremy Dooley leaves achievement hunter
23:18 October 2022 - Kdin Jenzen incident
25:52 October 2022 - Matt Bragg was laid off
26:21 October 2022 - Alanah Pearce leaves
26:45 October 2022 - New allegations against Adam Kovic
28:33 October 2023 - Achievement Hinter shuts down
29:31 RtX 2024 cancelled
30:32 Outro & conclusion

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[keelysmash]

I saw a comment on another video saying that the loss of Rooster Teeth is "Like losing a loved one to dementia, its certainly sad but it was inevitable and they werent themselves by the end so you feel like you lost them a long time ago"

[DeadManProp]

If you are ever feeling useless, remember that Rooster Teeth has an HR department.

[AmiasCoa]

I don't remember exactly why, but I do remember thinking back then that, when Burnie Burns left Rooster Teeth, it felt less like a fond farewell and more like he was getting outta dodge...

[GookSquadGaming]

When a company goes from friends goofing around and making cool stuff to corporate greed and pushing out stuff you’re not passionate about you’re going to lose your fans

[WildcatAirsofter]

With Jeremy, I remember a few more details that contributed:

He grew up in Massachusetts, so he and his wife left their entire families behind to move to Texas and work at AH. During Covid when they all went remote, they went back to MA and realized how much they missed it. Jeremy said he wasn't willing to go back in person full time, so pursuing twitch streaming made more sense to stay near their parents and families

[Excarituds]

The reason i watched rooster teeth was because it was just a couple of friends playing scuffed video games together and doing creative challenges. Not only that, they were actually doing achievement videos. It all went downhill with Ray leaving and turning it into a corporation. After a while, Ray confirmed he was tired of doing Minecraft videos after the 50th episode. I think that was the start. All they cared about was numbers.

[synchro-dentally]

HR in the US only exists to protect the company not the employees. What's interesting is that they don't even do that task very well.

[eriklotshaw]

Rey is basically a passenger who got off the Titanic in Ireland.

[harrydrakee]

As more of a prominent Inside Gaming and Funhous fan, losing Bruce and Adam was the final nail in the coffin for me

[maddeninggamer]

Just going to give an honorable mention for 3 more big things that happened
1. Gray Haddock embezzled money from the company to support his own creative project while others were left trying to figure out what happened until after he left

2. Rooster Tooth losing its credibility as an employer in hiring sites like glassdoor. To quote/paraphrase one of the actual HR people an ex-employee reported "we're rooster teeth, people would pay **us** money to work here." followed by people getting laid off, fired, or quitting in large numbers on account of how the company and people in it worked.

3. Them losing their Studio office and moving into their new area, the basement level of an office building, which is simultaneously a huge downsize compared to before and has almost all of its employees next to each other and the set/animation capture room sharing the same space

[corvuscabal]

And now we reach today. Where Rooster Teeth was officially shut down by Warner Bros.

[iheartninja]

Alanah specifically stated that she was leaving Funhaus/RT because she was offered the position at Sony Santa Monica. Her life goal was always to become a video game writer.

[chrisfatta]

This video is about to do numbers given today's news...

[OneOnOne]

3:51 - Honestly though for me, as someone who was a HUGE Rooster Teeth and Achievement Hunter fan at the time, Ray leaving is a very important point. I feel like this was also around the time the quantity of their content kept increasing but the quality of their content kept decreasing.

[RunsWithKniefs]

I tuned out of RT when they kept talking down to the audience with a very "WE are THE nerd opinion! WE speak for YOU! If you dont like it YOU are WRONG!"
Not everyone on the team had that air, but it was thick whenever they gloated about the company.

[tglake]

It doesn't shock me to learn AH has been shut down. As a long-time fan, I went back after the Ryan situation to support AH after drifting away. The content was unrecognizable, though. It was Michael and Jack surrounded by a cast of milquetoast strangers still playing GTA V. It didn't even feel like they cursed as much. I remembered quickly why I left.

[AlienBmxican]

I remeber og roosterteeth where geoff would bragg about pulling his pants down and showing his junk to gavin at random times during work and other such antics. Stuff like that doesnt survive roosterteeth becoming corporatized but also explains the atmosphere that caused all the drama later on when people dont adapt to it.

[SOH]

Rooster teeth firing Joel for opinions on Twitter was wild, they should have brought him back for the last season of RVB.

[rhls]

HR had the biggest role in RT self destructing

[pizza_yumyum]

I watched Funhaus at its peaktime ten years ago. „Demodisk“ was the best, especially the chemistry of James Willems, Bruce Greene and Adam Kovic was top notch humour. Sad that it didn’t last.