>>148966418It feels like they were obsessed with having this image of "We're a small yet ambitious homegrown grassroots company who are just LIKE YOU, supported BY YOU! None of those boring fuddy duddy suits guys are in here!"
And what they forgot is those boring suits exist for a fucking reason. They went to college where they learned important skills like marketing, risk analysis, and how to manage a fucking budget.
I've always seen locking RWBY to RT First even after the WB buyout as the biggest example. That is their biggest franchise that still had profit margins in the red partially because it was hard to monetize on YT outside of merchandising.
That's where the boring suit guys come in. They would have just looked at it and said
>Move it to MAX where it can strike a balance of reaching a wider audience while having a more stable revenue stream. If RT First needs your flagship franchise to carry it on its back at the cost of less viewership and revenue, then you need to reevaluate whether or not your subscription service is a worthwhile investment when you already have access to a much larger one.We typically hate the suit guys because we associate them with studio interference and making the artist play it safe, but they are a fucking necessary part of the system.
They're the ones who know how to not just advertise but market the product, their "boring workplace" culture is in place because it prevents the kind of stupid drama that plagued the company, and as it turns out, they're the ones who keep the creative higher ups from acting like fucking gambling addicts with the budget.
Basically, when they stick to the business side of things, they know how to do their fucking job.
60% of what went wrong with Rooster Teeth would have been avoided if they had just hired a team of "suits" and actually listened to them around. I'd say around the time of RWBY s3 when they started trying to really expand