And this isn’t even the dumbest thing James has done. The whole reason they moved to California with haste was due to them setting off FIREWORKS IN THE HOUSE.
Gavin vs these guys shows the difference between someone who's just pretending to be retarded and actually stupid people.
Cow Chop was the one channel who was so weird to me that it was still part of RT but at the same time had a Patreon and were just dudes fucking around, swimming in gallons of lube in a house in Colorado and then moving to Los Angeles.
A video from the good times, not the faggot times.
I largely agree with this, but compared to your example I'd say a lot of people, maybe even everyone, would slip morally in some way or other given the chance, even if they hadn't grown up doing anything bad before. Call it projection but I can believe it could happen to anyone. The question is just how far you go (or maybe, how perverse your inner desires are). You saw it in Hollywood with all the #MeToo stuff. Some people, like Louis C.K., would just politely ask to masturbate in a corner. Others would leverage your whole career on whether or not you would submit to them (Weinstein).
I tend to think this actually has a lot more to do with who pursues fame and fortune, what means they are willing to use, and how effective those means are in a given era. You can see the qualities of wealthy/famous people shift massively over the generations and I think there is a reason for that.
I don't know that I believe it really over the eras, because there were plenty of slimeballs then (slimy fucks can still make quality content!). I will also point out Ryan had no intent or realistic hope to be famous. He was an IT guy brought on as a 6th at AH and just stuck there.
It wasn't because of the fireworks. They talked about it in a later video and it was actually because of the military grade stink bomb liquid.
God I remember Cow chop bitching about the "snitch" who called their landlord and showed them all the stupid shit they were doing in that house.
This is the average North American young adult behaviour to me.
If they wanted to do stupid shit to a house they definitely had the money to buy a fairly large house in the country rather than rent one in a densely populated area.
What was the reason behind the Creatures shutting down?
So, funny enough I actually really, really liked Cow Chop, cause it was just a bunch of dudes fucking around, which is what made OG RoosterTeeth good! I am a weirdo, in that I liked the CCTV podcast at first! And then everything went fucking downhill once they settled into Los Angeles.
Jordan trying to pivot the whole thing to be ad-friendly/kid-friendly, vs running a patreon (I don't remember if they ever started one), and James taking effectively half of what made The Creatures funny with him to form Cow Chop. They tried to salvage things by downsizing to some random fucking crackhouse in the ghetto and when Jordan realized it wasn't going to work, compounded by the second ad-pocolypse, he just threw in the towel without telling Kootz, who had to be told via Twitch donos that Jordan is running final sales on merch.
The real interesting part is going to be WB's liquidation sale. A few diehards are coping that an indie team could buy RWBY and get the b& back together to continue it due to the current team being interested in doing so. The question is, will some other big corpo snatch it up for a price that can't be outbid via crowdfunding in a reasonable span of time?
Look, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. If WB sells the IP off, it'll be to fucking Disney, and even then I'm not sold on the idea that Disney will look at the viewer count and agree to pay.
Man, I bought a bunch of shit back when Monty died & they announced they had sold out to Fullscreen, because I knew that that place would never be the same & the merch would start to suck. And you know what? I was right. I took a look at the store after reading through the news that they were closing last Wednesday, & there was not one piece of merch I would ever buy in that whole store. Not even for a dollar.
Get a real job?
