


As revealed in an episode of Backwardz Compatible, Miles Luna actually stepped down as head writer for the animation department - a position he'd held since RWBY and Red vs. It wasn't just lower-rung employees who got mistreated.To put it mildly, this has put considerable strain on the relationship Rooster Teeth have with their community. The accusations that Rooster Teeth have been mistreating their animators by withholding overtime pay for ridiculous working hours, mismanaging their projects, leading to mental/physical health issues and "effectively 1/3 of gen:LOCK and RWBY being made for free".Their divorce a few years later makes it even sadder in hindsight. Geoff absolutely loves his wife, and her being away on wood-carving business for a long time is incredibly tough on him. Sad Separated-From-His-Wife Geoff is seriously one of the hardest things to watch.Jack mentioned as well how horrible he felt when Jeremy told him to stop but he already had his hand off the trigger.From Gavin's footage, he can be heard grunting out "stop" just before the charge runs out. He talks about it very humorously, but the panic was genuine. (Which is by design.) Jeremy began to yell for Jack to stop, being caught up in panic, and on the podcast Michael said that he thought something had broken in the tazer and he was going to die. In a podcast episode after the Extra Life event, Michael talked about his tazing and brought up how the second charge lasted a lot longer than the first.This was not helped by the stream crashing due to the high amount of traffic leading many to assume the worst had happened. Even though they had several medics onsite to make sure Michael wasn't seriously hurt, actually seeing Michael get tazed (twice!) was harrowing, and the amount of pain he was clearly in made the whole thing hard to watch. However, while preparing for it to actually happen, everyone on the stream became noticeably anxious and worried, and several viewers began asking that they not do it out of fear for Michael's safety. When it was first brought up, everyone on the stream and everyone watching were excited about the idea, and were actively attempting to make it happen.In the 2015 Extra Life livestream, Michael getting tazed:.It took him 18 minutes to cry like a baby." A wonderful example of Manly Tears if there ever was one. The tagline essentially says it all: "It took 18 years for Geoff to see Titanic. It caused a huge degree of Mood Whiplash, admittedly not for long. They don't dwell on it for long, but at one point in podcast 238 they talk about a nearby incident where a crazy guy ran over his mother after she was being put in an ambulance.

It later came to light that Knuckles was ejected from AH due to behavioral indiscretions with fans, but it doesn't diminish the loss of life of someone who still had much potential to make ammends and find his feet again.Unfortunately, his body was found a month later. The heartbroken responses of the Internet truly put this square in this trope. One of the old and notable members of the AH community, David "Knuckles Dawson" Dreger, went missing after leaving his phone and wallet at home and deleting all his accounts.His voice is noticeably shaking throughout the entire bit. On Podcast 218, Burnie talked at the end about Graham, a friend of the company, who unbeknownst to him passed away of cancer in 2011.
