Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3391158-20180914214635/@comment-4010415-20180915142453

Sonic2479 wrote: Thumbs down for their website alright! Volume 6 and other future RWBY incomes should be clearly the rights of YouTube. Um, NO. I wouldn't go that far.

First of all, Rooster Teeth are the ones making RWBY, so the income from it should definitely remain their right. They're the ones putting one or more months of time and effort into making a single episode. They're the one with the teams of concept artists, animators, voice actors, etc putting their skills to work for this. They're the ones paying for the electricity that powers the computers they use to animate the show, as well as the render farm that's responsible for making the episodes actually watchable. Rooster Teeth puts in the work and deserves the income.

Second of all, Youtube fucks over their users. All they do is provide a website for people to upload to, and that's not deserving of having the rights to the income that RWBY generates, especially when, like I said, Youtube fucks over its users, which is exactly why Rooster Teeth has stopped putting RWBY on there.

Even without the whole "fucking everyone over" thing, Youtube hasn't been a good website for animated videos for years. The amount of money that people typically make on a Youtube video is pathetic compared to the amount of time and effort that goes into making a fully-animated video of decent length. Like I said before, RT spends one or more months working on a single episode of RWBY through the pipeline (from concept to storyboard to setup to animation + voice acting to music + sound effects to bug checks to rendering, and I may even be forgetting some things).

By comparison, most other videos on Youtube do not take an entire month or more to make. For example, a let's player will spend hours playing a video game, hours editing, and hours rendering, and typically, those multiple hours they spent playing the game will actually net them multiple videos.

Rooster Teeth got away with putting RWBY on Youtube because they're an already-established business that already had a huge fanbase before RWBY started. They were already big enough to have their own convention. They have their own website that nets them a lot of money, they have their own online store that nets them a lot of money, and I've heard they even make money off their convention.

But since Youtube has started being even more of an ass than it used to, it is no longer a wise choice to have RWBY on Youtube. As much as this decision sucks, it's a smart one.

Also, I have a question... What about Crunchyroll? I know Crunchyroll is also a shitty platform, but it's shitty for its viewers, and I haven't really heard anything about it being bad to the people who submit videos to it.