Do people really read this stuff and believe it?

https://www.tumblr.com/iamafanofcartoons/723048871369031680/how-come-rooster-teeths-other-shows-do-not-get-as if you see a guy like ^ this ^ in your fanbase, you should shut them down for being a liar and spreading disinformation. I don’t think it’s worth entertaining what’s being said here. Block, ignore, and move on.

Canonseeker never fails to show how utterly divorced from reality he is.

Reminder, by the way, that he stalked two women and freely admitted to it by using alt accounts to stalk their online profiles when he would be blocked on main, and anyone still platforming him who knows that is a scumbag.

It's so weird seeing conversations about rwby basically going like

Like.....

It reminds me of the time that I said Yang and Blake were queercoded before they got confirmed in V9 and people got angry at me for it because "Just because they haven't kissed anyone of the same sex, verbally acknowledged their feelings or attraction to anyone of the same sex, have never gone on a date with anyone of the same sex, or are written to discuss being queer in any way doesn't mean they're queer coded, because we're meant to pick up on them being queer in their energy and how they talk to and look at each other without it being said out and out." It's like, do people just not bother to understand base concepts?

When rwde posters say things like "Ciel was wasted potential" it feels very weird to have people be like "Ciel was just a bit part in V3 who didn't get any real focus and never went anywhere." Because that's what we're complaining about. When rwde posters are like "hate canon Adam because he's a two dimensional badly written for and voice acted character who was never given much depth and then got written to be nothing but an abusive incel hate sink with whatever meager personality and nuance he had had in volume 3 left behind to make him a paper-thin nothing character just used to (badly) prop up the bees, but he could've been different and better," it feels very weird to have people be like "Um, Adam wasn't written to have a lot of depth and nuance and meaning, he's just some two dimensional jealous abusive ex who only matters to prop up the bees, he isn't better." That's what we're complaining about. When rwde posters say "the Curious Cat could've actually been a better character if he was a more nuanced morally gray character instead of just being a one-season villain," it doesn't even make sense for people to be like "why are you saying the Curious Cat could've been something more than a villain? THEY'RE JUST A VILLAIN!"

Wasted potential means that they could've been something better, but they aren't. When people complain that there's wasted potential in RWBY, we mean that there's things the writers could've done that we would've found better and/or more interesting. We don't need to be told that the writers didn't make them better or more interesting, we - we know that already.

Another thing I feel like is a common response to complaints about wasted potential that I really dislike and don't understand is when people respond to complaints about wasted potential by being like "I don't care about and/or dislike that character and therefore I don't think you're right that they could've been different or better." There are characters that I feel like don't need to have bigger roles in RWBY - like Sage and Scarlet, or Ooblek who I think served his purpose well and doesn't need more - but even people I absolutely hate like Junior and Cardin I think could've mattered to more characters or to the show's narrative more with absolutely no redemption required. Like, Cardin is wasted potential because he could've been used by the show as an example of a terrible person who shouldn't be a badge carrying law enforcement officer and who the girls could get expelled - instead of Cardin just mattering as Jaune's bully (a badly done arc anyway,) and only for like three episodes or so in season one. If I say I think there's some wasted potential with his character, I don't want to hear "He was only Jaune's bully for like episodes and never mattered again" because I know that, and I don't want to hear "But Cardin's a bad person" because yeah he is I know and I hate him, but that doesn't mean there isn't wasted potential for his role and his character.

It's just weird.

I still have no idea how a lot of Those Annoying Fans decided to make "Wasted potential" dirty words, especially around Adam.

(I mean we all know why really, it was used to bury the criticisms of the White Fang plotline post-Volume 6 and how Adam's character writing post-Volume 3 took a shotgun to the plotline and made it grossely offensive, so it was easier to blanket-smother all criticisms of Adam and pretend people were only salty about losing a sword-boy).

Like, I'm sorry your media literacy skills are so chronically under-developed that you fail to see how a character can be more than what the writer puts into them consciously, and how they can be expanded on to become a better character. Sorry you have to argue against characters being developed and expanded on to cover for your mediocre story, and sorry your fanbase is so consistency insecure that they tried to make the words "wasted potential" an insult.

Maybe if a lot of people are saying the same thing- in this case, that Adam/Ciel/The Cat are all wasted potential due to being under-explored by the writers who are content to coast on mediocrity and never delve deeper into their cast, they might have a point? Nah, probably easier to just find ways to indirectly insult them when you're not just... directly insulting them.

The irony is that in a few years, after RWBY dies, the lingering thing about the show is gonna be probably that characters like Adam were under-used and wasted by the story. You're gonna see Tweets on occasion that go viral with a few thousand likes talking about how hard Adam's writing tanked, and the narrative will end on that conclusively, Adam was wasted potential. You can insert anyone you want into that last name, I'm just using Adam because he fits the bill.

(This post goes out to that one incel who hung around some RWBY forums I frequented between Volumes 5 and 7, who said people deserved to be harassed for saying Adam's writing sucked, only to get banned a year later for constantly importing drama about the Hbomberguy video. The site had a rule against off-site drama and they were so dogshit at arguing why the video was bad that they had to copy-paste other people's opinions. Last I heard they tried to make it on Youtube only to make dogshit videos no one watches, and now are just a Lilith Fairen orbiter who still spams forums with Tumblr posts in lieu of having a real personality).

I’m just I’m so tired. Arryn keep your hands off of James you clearly do not understand his character nor do you give a shit about ptsd or mental illness’s. He’s never had any fascist tendencies much less starting from a volume he wasn’t even in. He doesn’t shut down criticism of him, the man that was arrested at the beginning of volume 7 was arrested for throwing a brick at a military ship and he was released the same night.

Fans should be concerned about CRWBY’s fundamental lack of understanding of these characters but instead they’re eating this shit up.

I wish Arryn Troche a sincere "Enjoy never working for any animation company again because you've proven you're a liability on social media that's incapable of realizing when you need to stop talking."

Stuff like this is why companies do background checks and social media references, it lets them thin out people who will be unsuitable hires or- if you work in a job that has things like NDAs- who can be trusted to not run their mouth and act in a professional manner when interacting with your consumers. This is a grade-A example alongside Troche's other Twitter moments as to why you never hire fans, especially in a front-facing capacity.

The Ring: If I had a quarter for every time a hobbit picked me up, I’d have two quarters.  The Ring: Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Of all the bearers of Sauron’s ring, 4 of them were hobbits.

I was wrong. It’s 5. Not 4

The lineage of ring bearers is as follows.

I love how Deagol counts as a ring bearer even though he had it in his possession for all of like five seconds

He held it for the rest of of his life!

[Image description: Tweet by @banalplay saying “but something happened then that the ring did not intend. it was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a hobbit, the same fuckin thing that just had it for like 500 years.” End Image Description.] Link to original here. Otherwise reblogging for the final rb there, which made me cackle.

From the ring’s perspective:

1. Home, the finger of my creator and other self.

2. Well, I don’t like it but I can work with this. Cause some trouble, get some revenge, find my way home, this is fine.

3. What the fuck is you?

4. Right personality, wrong species, I don’t know what you are but I hate you and I don’t know why you’re so resistant to my powers.

5. NO NO NO there are goblins everywhere how did I find another one of THESE horrible things. This one’s even more resistant than the last one and also disgustingly nice. I suffer.

6. Listen, I’ll cooperate, just get me the fuck out of this hellhole full of small cheerful people my power doesn’t work on properly. No, not like that. I hate you. Please stop. 

7. FUCK

8. (Frodo again) I still hate you with every molecule of my mortal form but at least you’re not number seven. Think I’m starting to get through finally. 

9. (Smeagol again) YES it’s you I actually missed you now get me back to the Master and NO FUCK NO I HATE YOOOOUUUUU…. *fzt* 

you CHAIN The One Ring?! you chain it like the prisoner?! oh! OH! trauma! deep psychological trauma for hobbits for One Thousand Years!

Fun Fact: The CRWBY and Rooster Teeth’s management? Not one and the same.

In fact, think about RWBY’s staff members and actors who were replaced.

Glynda, Oobleck and Port’s VAs were booted for behaving badly.

Gray G. Haddock was the impetus behind Volume 5′s resources going to Gen:Lock so he didn’t last long.

If it’s their association with Rooster Teeth that’s an issue, well, that’s on you but hardly the J.K. Rowling situation some of y’all seem to make it out to be.

Are Owl House or Amphibia fans meant to drop their faves because of their association with Disney?

I see many still loving Spiderverse despite how Across had its animators crunched due to Lord and Miller’s major mismanagement. Few vocal calls to drop it if any.

So… why RWBY? And why are so called “critics” still around if the studio management taints the show by association?

Imagine being so wrong just in the title.

That's Jesse Grelle, the former voice actress for Tyrian, who publically quit working for Rooster Teeth last out of disgust at how they treat their LGBT/POC staff, saying something you should probably read. Rooster Teeth and CRWBY are the same fucking thing. CRWBY is an inventional made so imbeciles who fall for parasocial relationships defend the company.

Love that you still can't resist trying to dehumanize critics BTW because you're a child and you're still sore that your temper tantrum/emotional breakdown a few weeks ago led to nothing except you running away when confronted with that you defend and follow a bigot. You have to throw the quotes around it.

I can't even say I'm shocked that you're just outright engaging in abuse apologism to defend RT. It's what you and your anti-rwde ilk do all the time when you're not burying your heads in the sand over another Glassdoor review exposing Rooster Teeth's systemic nepotism, abuse and mistreatment of anyone within a square mile of their office.

My scavenge for screenshots that I might use in an upcoming video essay led me to Lilith Fairen’s blog where, lo and behold, she apparently saw this post of mine and decided she had to talk about it

That’s an interesting way to say “the blog has me blocked, so I can’t reblog the OG post.” Fairen, you know what a block means, right? It means I don’t consent to you being on my damn blog. So either you don’t understand what boundaries are or you think it’s okay to ignore them so long as it’s the right kind of person you’re invading. Neither of which reflect well on you

Fairen is never beating the allegations that she's the person who sends the anon hate messages to RWDE blogs when stuff like this shows she already stalks criticism blogs that have her blocked.

Remember when KKKob did that and everyone gave him shit for it because it's cringe to try and "debate" a post that you can't even interact with due to being blocked?

(can't wait for another round of Fairen's orbiters seeing stuff like this and pretending to care and condemn her for all of five seconds before deciding that they're OK with hard proof of Fairen ban evading/stalking people and continue to platform her)

This is why art is important, in case you were wondering.

I've had this for a bit, I found this glassdoor a day after it was posted and wanted to wait to see if it would be taken down (it has not as of this writing). Most of this stuff is basically public knowledge at this point, the transition of full time to contract for animation, RT trying to get their workers to work during the Texas freeze, there being a "club" when it comes to specific employees, etc. The one thing that makes this one stand out to me is the explicit mention of Monty.

And absolutely no-one was shocked. The contract switchover is especially ghoulish, though. They laid off everyone in a way that meant they dodged having to pay severance fees, and had an internal team who basically existed to launch smear campaigns on anyone who openly called them out (sure makes the vendetta certain anti-rwde people have about Shane Newville come off as a bit more financially motivated, doesn't it?).

The bit about using Monty as a shield is interesting confirmation, albeit kinda expected. I remember when V9 was first airing and they rolled out that "Monty planned the Ever After!" as a pre-emptive excuse to defend that the season was a barely-hidden filler plot. Feels like in general they rolled him out extensively, especially to shame any animators protesting their treatment. It's darkly funny how often RWBY stans pretend that all critics do is invoke Monty's name to put down the newer seasons, when RT were themselves invoking his name as a shield.

Corporate scumbags. I hope none of those nepo baby prep kids get work again after RT implodes.

RT is CRWBY and CRWBY is RT

For a long time now, especially right now i see a lot of people say things like “Roosterteeth is not the same as CRWBY!” “CRWBY is innocent of the things that Roosterteeth is doing!”. Of course this is mostly in response to RT being caught up in yet another scandal of abuse or some other sort of fucky wucky. The most recent one being queerbaiting with BB over… Completely unrelated content. Something that most critics could have told you like 3-4 years ago, but the FNDM is only now catching on.

The other times people try to pretend that the problems of RWBY are because “CRWBY has limited resources” and they pretend that RT is some sort of evil overlord hanging over CRWBY and not giving them time/resources to make RWBY.

So, i took some time to go over a few names of people who produce this show for the sole reason of proving a simple TRUTH. That there is almost NO difference between CRWBY and RT. They are the SAME company with the SAME people.

(Directors)

Kerry Shawcross - Director of RWBY from V3 - Core member of RT

Gray Haddock - Co-Director of RWBY V3-5 - Head of Animation at RT

Miles Luna - Writer, Assistant director V3-5 - Head writer of Animation 2015-2018, core member of RT

Connor Pickens - Co-Director V6-7 - Lead Editor of RT

(Producers)

Matt Hullum - Executive Producer of RWBY - Chief content officer and co-founder of RT (CEO - 2012-2019) - His wife is a VO in the show for Raven Branwen.

Koen Wooten - producer / supervising producer 2015-2019 - Supervising producer of RT animation division

Joe Clary - Lead producer of RWBY 2017-2020 - Producer at RT

Nick Todd - Animation associate producer of RWBY 2019-2023 - Pre-production/outsourcing producer at RT

(Voice Actors)

Jack Pattillo - Co-Founder of Achievement Hunter - VA for Junior

Michael Jones - Core member of AH - VA for Sun Wukong

Lindsay Jones - Core editor of AH - VA for Ruby Rose

Barbara Dunkelman - Creative director of RT - VA for Yang Xiao Long

Burnie Burns - Co-founder of RT - CEO - CCO - VA for Taiyang Xiao Long

They Knew

Many of the highest ranking members of RT were involved in the production of RWBY. Heads of animation, Co-founders, Head Writers. People who were the leads of entire DEPARTMENTS of RT creation.

These people KNEW about EVERYTHING that happened at RT. RT is not some foreign entity from CRWBY. CRWBY is RT. RT is CRWBY.

The only parts of CRWBY that are not related to RT management are ANIMATORS and other such workers. And guess what, most of them are now FIRED.

Workers not getting paid, frat boy culture, bigoted culture, overwork etc. Were the fault of the SAME RT members that are a part of CRWBY.

And absolutely NOONE can even try to imply that the reason RWBY had problems because of “higher ups at RT” when those same Higher ups of RT worked on RWBY DIRECTLY. Including the CEO of the company and Co-Founders.

Also, as a note, Blizz fanboys tried to pull the same shit when Blizzard abuses came to light. “Its not the department that i like! My WoW team was innocent! My Overwatch team was innocent”. Fucking bullshit, all of it.

Keep in mind that CRWBY is so closely tied to RT that the explicit reason for using animators and other staff members as the voice cast was so they could get out of paying them normal acting wages. Like five different people have openly confirmed that RT's usage of staff was to have them do it as part of their normal job and not have to pay VO wages.

They are functionally the same.

It's funny how a lot of the rabid defence for RWBY that involves putting down anime and Japanese media in general has that exact same vibe of xenophobia that the gaming community was discussing earlier this year, when Final Fantasy 16's producer noted that he felt the term "JRPG" was derogatory. Especially when people looked at how the Western press like G4TV and Kotaku routinely talked down to Japanese developers and games.

Like, "Oh those pesky Japanese love to sexualise women. Anyway here's a photo of Miles Luna calling a woman a prostitute based off how she dressed. And one of him posing with a body-pillow of a 16 year old girl. And here's a clip of him sexualising his girlfriend by having his guy friends oogle her while she was blackout drunk and kissing another woman."

Ok fuck it I will say it

When I was active on rwbytwt I saw that some rwby fans were disappointed at Kdin for retweeting a very anti-bumbleby/anti-rt tweet implying bumbleby is queerbait. And the fans were saying something along the lines of "I know Kdin was traumatized by RT, BUT-".

Just thought that was... Interesting 🙂

Thought this deserved to be shown outside of the tags:

Oh, sod off with that hollow support for RT animators...

You never cared about Kdin when she was harassed.

Practically enabled a lot of animators getting crap for being associated with RWBY.

Barely spoke against the Twitter user who berated them for not working through the Texan Blizzard.

And now you show support?

This is just another bullet in your crudely fashioned “Anti-RWBY” gun.

I see you.

very cute. anyways when you’re done interacting with known racist lilithfairen, let us know!

Having bad Madoka takes doesn’t make you racist.

yeah but using racial slurs sure does! next!

Any hard and fast evidence? And I do mean “hard” as in she drops legitimate slurs in actual text posts directly connected to her. I’ve seen this hearsay before. Never liked the tune.

just an fyi but putting a slur in quotation marks doesn’t suddenly make it not a slur nor does it make it acceptable for everyone to say.

Yeah, pretty problematic though her heart seems to be in the right place in how she was pointing to another work for using coding behind that connotation.

Basically, it’s not as black and white as y’all seem to make it out to be. Hell, what about what she accuses FRWBY of? Or is it okay because a certain word simply wasn’t used, just the attitudes behind it?

except the “coding” wasn’t there because she saw a bandana + a long skirt & thought that it meant they were romani, even when i as a mixed roma person told her that she was completely out of pocket & out of line. i don’t care how much her heart is “in the right place” when she should never use that slur & that she would then laugh at & berate those trying to educate her musty gadje ass.

i don’t even like the au but there’s nothing to the branwen tribe in fixing rwby that even hints at them being romani coded, with the people behind it being very explicit that the tribe are based off ainu folk.

she’s also dismissed the antisemitism from the creatives of rwby both in the show & in their other ip camp camp as a goy, speaking over two jewish people. sometimes ya’ll just need to learn to stay in your place & mind your business when it comes to racism that doesn’t affect you, all to protect some broke, busted looking white men.

also “never cared about kdin when she was getting harassed”, by the dudebro audience rooster teeth is built on? or by rwby fans when she finally came out about the abuse she suffered in rooster teeth & explicitly said that crwby were involved also: which led to another queer va to leave also.

or the animators crunched to hell by the crew, including during that freeze which kerry would then lie about, & then tossed to the curb. kim newman has spinal damage from mocapping rwby & was denied any workers compensation for her broken body. other animators have said that working for rooster teeth / crwby gave them ptsd. animators have called out crew members like barbara & arryn by name before being forced to delete tweets by rabid fans.

ya’ll don’t care about the animators or the people crwby abused, you couldn’t even hold off on buying the ugly ass bees merch & tried & failed to get #greenlightvol10 trending. fuck outta here with this faux concern lmao.

oop, there it is!

Very telling how Matt has lots of time to send concern-troll bait messages in RWDE and will pop up to regurgitate the biased and inaccurate summaries of FRWBY that he's heard so he can keep slamming it, but conveniently clams up when people actually bring up proof and receipts of Lilith Fairen being a bigot, because there is no defending that that doesn't make Matt come off as a bigot. Really shows how artificial and performative his outrage is; he can't even pretend that he's not biased and has no problems with Fairen's bigotry becuase, let's all be frank, Matt has already dehumanized all of the RWDE posters so he can dismiss them out of hand when they don't conform to his stereotypes of a RWDE poster. I suppose when you live a lie like pretending you care about Rooster Teeth's worker abuses, it's easier to just pretend everyone else is lying. He doesn't care. He's just looking for a rise.

Where are these RWBY fanatics who “can’t take criticism?”

Well?

Genuine question, what exactly are you trying to accomplish here?

Evidently the anonymous harassment campaigns have stopped working so now, while Matt dodges having to confront Lilith Fairen's history of bigotry and burying his head in the sand over the fandom's long history of harassing critics (which he now has to do while avoiding looking into a mirror because he is a RWBY fanatic who can't take criticism), he's now trying to bore the tag into a fucking coma with a lot of concern trolling.

Oh, sod off with that hollow support for RT animators...

You never cared about Kdin when she was harassed.

Practically enabled a lot of animators getting crap for being associated with RWBY.

Barely spoke against the Twitter user who berated them for not working through the Texan Blizzard.

And now you show support?

This is just another bullet in your crudely fashioned “Anti-RWBY” gun.

I see you.

very cute. anyways when you’re done interacting with known racist lilithfairen, let us know!

Having bad Madoka takes doesn’t make you racist.

yeah but using racial slurs sure does! next!

Any hard and fast evidence? And I do mean “hard” as in she drops legitimate slurs in actual text posts directly connected to her. I’ve seen this hearsay before. Never liked the tune.

just an fyi but putting a slur in quotation marks doesn’t suddenly make it not a slur nor does it make it acceptable for everyone to say.

Yeah, pretty problematic though her heart seems to be in the right place in how she was pointing to another work for using coding behind that connotation.

Basically, it’s not as black and white as y’all seem to make it out to be. Hell, what about what she accuses FRWBY of? Or is it okay because a certain word simply wasn’t used, just the attitudes behind it?

her heart was in the right place?? she never apologized (but she deleted the offending post which means she knew she fucked up).

also frwby’s branwen tribe was based on the ainu (japanese) not the roma. her stereotyping roma abd then using slurs and pretending she’s somehow not racist is hilarious.

and you’re even funnier for defending her. hope this helps!

I wonder if Lilith's heart was "in the right place" when she talked over a Woman Of Color last week and accused them of being a sexist Adam stan, because the OP had talked about how Adam's writing and the fandom's demonization of him made them uncomfortable.

I wonder if it was in the right place when she called a non-binary AFAB person "A cishet man too cowardly to crossdress."

I wonder if it was in the right place when she was running a harassment blog for two years, and for the decade plus that she has spent harassing and bullying fans of Madoka Magica.

It's amazing how Fairen has so many orbiters that, when confronted with her openly being a bigot who just pretends to be progressive so she can bully minorities, have no recourse other than to admit "Yeah that's kinda bigoted BUT WHATABOUTISM OVER THIS FANFICTION WE SEND DEATH THREATS OVER." I'd call it cultlike but they're too childish to be anymore more than a middle school clique.

No one cares about the silly rwby rewrite fanfic, we care about the racist troll who you're enabling by platforming her. I kinda care more about that over some cringe fanfiction.

But sure Matt, keep telling us that bigotry isn't black and white while you whine about a criticism tag reminding people that Rooster Teeth are horrible people. That's definitely a cause worth fighting for.

Anybody wanna tell me what the point of the Critical Tags is?

The way you guys go on, wouldn’t you prefer a whole other show that might actually Water your crops?

You just seem so… exhausted and exhausting all in one.

the tag exists because the rwby fndm couldn't handle even the most milquetoast of criticism in the main tag & harrassed people / sent them death threats.

as for why we post about the show: because we either were fans who enjoyed the show & have been less & less content with the way it's going / the bigotry in the show & the bigotry from those behind it, or because we want to show others these issues too & how they could be improved / used in the show to better placement.

"exhausted & exhausting all in one", yeah. looking at racism / sexism / antisemitism & everything else in media can be exhausting at times but this doesn't come from a blase hatred. a lot of us liked the show, we still like things about it but it's also not our only interest & it's silly to act that way.

either way, so long as the show continues to go on & is monetized by fans unwilling to actually criticize the bigoted company behind it, people will continue to criticize. you might as well as why does it rain or take your own advice & ignore the tag / go do something else that "waters your crops." 🤷‍♀️

Kind of adding onto this as well.

Also the fact that some of us here are goddamn tired of Rooster Teeth and their disgusting monetization, abuse of their animators, and just expose the LGBT+ community for money. To very honest here... this has been a massive staple so much so that RT was exposed for it so many times. but fans will not look past the window like it does not exist.

It is also true that we still like things about the show either the naming conventions or the inspirations behind the characters from either history, mythology, or fairytales.

And well dragynkeep said it much better than anyone else. with her last statements so I'm just going to say this that sums up my feelings about RWBY:

RWBY is the punching bag of the anime community because Rabid Fans just wanna say RWBY is better than [Anime Name]

RWDE was made out of a gesture of goodwill to allow the main tag to not have criticism in it and to allow people to have a tag to post criticism in/find like-minded people. Nowadays it's just used by children who can't take criticism as a way to organize their hunting parties and have an excuse to harass anyone out of line. Even OP is doing it with dismissing the tag as being "exhausting." RWDE and its community has become subject to mass dehumanization tactics so that the anti-criticism crowd can sleep soundly at night while being pro-harassment of minorities. Not to mention getting angrier at critics for calling out the bigoted elements in RWBY and Rooster Teeth, than they ever get at RWBY and Rooster Teeth itself for containining said bigoted elements. RWDE has also basically been the only tag/community to consistently care about the worker abuse inflicted on the people who make RWBY while its executives and directors live cushy lives and don't give an iota of care for the crunch and abuse inflicted on them outside of the rare occasion it makes a headline. I saw a post lately trying to claim that RWDE didn't actually care beyond using it as a way to "attack Rooster Teeth," but it came from an apologist for RT's abuses so it's safe to say they're just projecting. tldr- it exists because RWBY's fandom fostered a culture that necessitated a tag. If you don't like it, block it and touch grass.

There's no point to this post except I've been reading the "You can't put Yang in yellow because she has blonde hair + RWBY uses other warm tones it would be an indistinguishable mess" discourse and I've also started Demon Slayer soooo

Yeah. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The "You can't just put Yang in yellow" argument always just strikes me as the fanbase coming up with excuses to cover for that RT Animation's design team don't care to put in the effort to make yellow-centric outfits work for Yang. Which, as has been shown throughout the RWDE tag over the past week, is total hogwash. Plenty of great re-designs have been created that show you can make Yang work with yellow as a more predominant colour in her design.

Yes, it would take more work, but it's at least better than putting Yang in a goddamn potato sack and calling it a design for the next three years. You're putting that thing on merch for Christ's sake.

its so fucked up that according to rens uprgraded semblance all the poc ace ops only feel one emotion each in the current moment but winter "the real true maiden that's definitely a grooming victim of a poc man but also a girlboss ignore the racism her entire bloodline is soaked in" schnee gets to feel multiple

like. its literally racist rhetoric to imply people of color feel less than white people. like thats not even a stretc thats LITERALLY just racist. and it wouldnt have been hard to have the ace ops to feel at least two emotions so its more obvious that winter is 'conflicted' (or have her aura/petals/whatever to be actively changing colors instead of implying that she just ""feels more"" than the people of color around her)

It's things like this that remind me why Volume 8 deserves infinitely more scorn than it gets.