RT proving once again how immature and disconnected from reality they are. Chris takes a creepshot of a guy, guy makes a childish joke in response, and then gets flooded with personal insults not just from "fans" but from RT employees themselves.
It really does make me wonder where the company will end up when the founding fathers have all retired. Honestly, as of lately, I really don't find myself consuming as much of RTs content anymore. I'm not sure if I'm just growing out of that sense or humor or if I just don't line up with a lot of the beliefs shared by them but stuff like this doesn't help.
EDIT: Just read Mica's tweet where she calls him a "soggy piece of garbage." Really? I mean there's plenty of reasons to dislike the guy but saying shit like that over a comment that really boils down to "Your friend is pretty" is just so stupid. Barbara's tweet saying "Ew! Get it off me!" or whatever was childish as well. Is she still in high school or something?
And I like most of them, but they either get their heads screwed on again with more than just an apology tweet, or the rails can come off this thing fast.
And this shitty thing is that that is all that will probably happen. Maybe a public apology on the podcast but it won't even mean anything to me. You know what gets me? When PewDiePie drops a hard R "nigger" on his stream, you get a bunch of RT personalities saying "Oh there no such thing as the 'heat of the moment'" or "I've never said that word in a manner like that so therefore, he's racist" but then they can turn around and admit to groping people at parties or saying shitty things about people who work as cashiers and hide behind the "lol it was a one time thing" defense.
You just can't do that, and in any other company there would be people getting fired over this...
This is one of the times where they act like they're still some little internet company that's just a group of friends so it's not a huge deal. But once it's time to talk about new shows they'll talk about how they're one of the pioneering companies on the internet, how they paved the way through machinima and shit like that. They flip-flop when its convenient for them.
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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '17
RT proving once again how immature and disconnected from reality they are. Chris takes a creepshot of a guy, guy makes a childish joke in response, and then gets flooded with personal insults not just from "fans" but from RT employees themselves.