Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161119192054/@comment-4010415-20170324182649

KNN005 wrote:

I dont care, to be honest. I just dont like when homages get so out of hand that what you get famous for is adding to someone elses idea. Imagine if you wrote a story and no one liked it. Buy a fan wrote a fanfic of it and it gets a movie. I would hate that. Everyone should do they own stuff. It didn't even start out as an homage...

If I recall, the guys who started Red vs Blue (and, by extension, Rooster Teeth itself) had actually been trying to do original stuff, it didn't go well, and at one point, they got bored and made the first few episodes of Red vs Blue purely for the FUN OF IT. They didn't originally intend for Red vs Blue to be anything but just some funny videos on the internet, but suddenly, those videos got a lot of attention with people asking for more. So, they went with it, and next thing they knew, they had enough of a fanbase to actually sell DVDs of the first season. This was an absolutely fucking incredible accomplishment in the days before YouTube existed. They had to build their own website for hosting these videos and draw in attention through their own work and the quality of their content.

It really is not an exaggeration to say that Red vs Blue was a pretty big piece of the foundation that Rooster Teeth was built upon. Without it, we may not have gotten Rooster Teeth and, by extension, RWBY. At least they actually went and got Bungie's permission to make money off Red vs Blue. Bungie could've very well told them no and then that would've been that, no money earned from their silly internet videos.