Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4444715-20200120203611/@comment-4010415-20200120220921

Judging by the leaks about the overworked animators situation, the "slave driving" was all Gray Haddock, not Rooster Teeth itself. Gray was the head of the animation department. Allegedly, no one outside the animation department had any idea that Gray was slave driving the animators, and the animators were too afraid of him to tell HR about it. According to one of the employees who leaked this info, one of the animators finally got fed up, went to Matt Hullum (Rooster Teeth's CEO), and told him directly, and Matt was furious about the way the animation department was being treated. He allegedly walked into the animation department, rounded everyone up, and asked them about what was going on. The leaked source said they feel that was where the decision to fire Gray was made.

We were only told that Gray Haddock left, but this leaker claims he was actually fired for slave driving the animators, as well as embezzling funds from Nomad of Nowhere to put into gen:LOCK, which had gone over-budget.

As for the layoffs, the orders to do layoffs may be coming from Rooster Teeth's new parent company or may have circumstances behind them that we don't know about.