User blog comment:Jkphantom9/Shane Newville: "An Open Letter to All Who Treasured Monty Oum"/@comment-172.56.39.152-20160513100207

Fuck. Just what the actual goddamn fuck happened? I honestly thought I became desensitized to shit like this. To think I was actually suspicious of this new thing called "R-W-B-Y" when the 1st Volume was still being released. My thoughts at the time were "What the hell's this new anime shit? As long as it leaves my Red vs. Blue alone, I'll be fine with it." Seriously, I had stuck with RT since the Reds 'n' Blues were stuck in Blood Gulch, so I felt like I was part of some Old-Vanguard-type-shit. But nah, I was, and still am, just some crotchety old ignorant bastard swinging around a sword that's actually a cane. And yeah, I was put off because of the visual style resembling anime. (God, I'm old.)

Skip forward however-many-months later, and I decide "Fuck it. I have nothin' else to do." So I watch RWBY. And then I watch it again. And any other day I have two free hours, I watch it again and absorb the fights and songs throughout (those two things fuckin' enthralled me). I then tell my best friend about it and we both become SUPER FUCKING HYPE FOR VOLUME 2! ('Cuz we're nerds, get me?)

So some time after Volume 2 finished, I decide to look up Monty Oum. I didn't know who the fuck he was, but if he was the Head Honcho of RWBY, then I needed to learn as much as I could about such a badass...

Turns out, when I did decide to search his stuff on YouTube, I was instead greeted by HUNDREDS of tribute videos to The Man Himself. After sifting through a whole shitload of these videos, I found a single Vlog. The kid who posted that video laid it on straight, Monty was dead. Death is natural. The RWBY/RT community would just have to mourn his passing together and move on together, so that RWBY, especially Monty's baby, RWBY, could continue. He had died two days prior to my search, I found out. I felt so... weird. When I told my best friend about this, he just went silent for about half an hour. I think he realized the same thing I realized, RWBY would be different without Monty. Even if we barely knew who he was.

As it seems, RWBY, at the very least working on it, would be very different for Shane. If even half o' the shit he put into this open letter (and I "believe" all of it) is true, then holy shit was Rooster Teeth able to surprise me. And it's not what they did to Shane (that's just business) or even Sheena (that's still fucked), it's the fact that Rooster Teeth pulled this shit. Like, the guys who started out with head-bobbing Spartans who constantly talked shit to each other, Rooster Teeth, had actually expanded and grown large enough to have somethin' as evil as the events and decisions described in this letter actually exist within their ranks.

Fuck. Even after all that, I still have to say I'm actually surprised. Guess we just have to wait 'n' see for what comes next, now.