'>>4154297
Fucked up the previous thread link.
My bad.

Old thread: >>3994117';

'>>4154297
Have some Milk and Cereal.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/3921520';

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'Is there a need to make a new thread when the show is dead and the fan content has slowed down to a crawl?
I think it's time to let it go and just post in the Western thread every now and then.';

'>>4154317
Not really no. Traffic pretty much stopped after volume 6 and even while airing it'd barely get a few posts a week and then go back to being empty. At this point it should really just be folded into the western general.';

'>>4154317
Actually they just announced that in March when volume 9 comes to the RT site they’ll be releasing an anthology style series telling what happened on remnant between volumes 8 and 9.

It’s not much but it is something and proves this shit isn’t completely dead yet.

https://twitter.com/OfficialRWBY/status/1757087879321231835

But tell you what. If there’s no volume 10 announcement before this thread hits page 10 I’m fine merging into the western thread going forward.';

'>>4154311
Holy shit, Monochrome in this day and age? I guess miracles do happen!';

'>>4159018
Pabustenyuku draws it now and then. Between how rarely it gets drawn, and how often the drawings are like low-mid deviantart level, and the really badly drawn raceswaps, decent new Mono is a hard thing to find.';

'>>4159095
Dash also draws it once in a blue moon, when she isn't chugging down the Eimiko juice.';

'>>4154330
>during volume 9 and even beyond!
Sounds like they're packing it in.';

'>>4160840
To me it sounds like they know volume 10 will be the last one so they’re adapting any ideas that won’t fit in the volume to other formats.';

'>>4160950
PENNY COME BACK AND EAT RUBY OUT SHE NEEDS IT';

'>>4160950
>>4161310
In a better timeline we would've has canon RubyXPenny where they travel the world together post-story and Penny keeps the same body she always had while Ruby grows into an adult and has to deal with strange looks over her clingy little girl wife.';

'>>4161310
>>4161371
True true.';

'I will take nothing short of the perfection that is whiterose. Also if anyone's curious, fanfiction.net looks like it's purging a ton of shit now. Half of the rwby fics are gone.';

'>>4161640
Any big ones that got purged?';

'>>4161640
Why tho? Is it at least the weird fetish checklist ones at least?';

'>>4162243
I think it's about all the noblemeta fics getting privated or something. Not necessarily getting purged or anything. Besides, fanfiction has barely had any new good RWBY yuri in recent years. I just stick to AO3.';

'https://deadline.com/2024/03/rooster-teeth-shut-down-warner-bros-discovery-roost-podcast-continue-1235847264/

RT is dead, long live RWBY';

'>>4164152
Hopefully they license or sell the IP to someone competent and they reboot the show';

'RWBY can make a comeback with proper management behind it and the IP holder actually taking advantage of the merch opportunities the series has that RT didn't';

'>>4164152
RIP RWBY. Well, at least rosegarden never got to become canon.';

'>>4164167
If it stays with a Western company, who would actually be likely to buy the IP? Kinda curious, I personally don't know much about Western animation studios.

I'd very much like the torch to be picked up by someone though so that the story gets completed.

Also, considering how much Japan loves RWBY, I wonder if any studios over there would be interested.';

'>>4164226
So...Shaft?';

'>>4164235
I mean, sure Shaft would be cool if Shaft were what they were 10+ years ago, but look at how they fumbled IQ. Besides they're busy as hell with Madoka 4 and the new season of Monogatari';

'>>4164152
>couldn't get a s2 of the anime version so now it's going to be remembered by is the dykehater ruby meme';

'>>4164226
I could see Kadokawa or Shueisha grabbing it depending on the asking price. Don't the figures typically do well as well? That might encourage Kadokawa since they've been branching out. I've been out of the fandom for years at this point so I don't know.';

'>>4164226
You're overstating how much japan ever loved RWBY. Even ten years ago it wasn't much of a following. It's nonexistent nowadays.
Asides from that, i don't think a single IP under RT gets bought. RvB is wrapping up anyways and nobody cares about the rest of the shit they have. Crunchyroll tried by paying for a season in exchange for exclusive streaming rights. WBD tried with those justice league tie ins that nobody asked for. RT themselves tried with failed kickstarters and onlyfans lewds. I'm surprised that it took zaslav years to axe RT considering his reputation and the fact that RT has been a zombie corp for years now. RWBY will live on in fanfics and porn, the only thing it was ever good for.
I mean for crying out loud, the only thing they've done for the past five plus years that had any sort of buzz, pun intended (making BB canon), was instantly overshadowed by >>4164241';

'I still remember when the White trailer came out and White Rose was instantly born. And I believe the first real thread we had here on /u/ was after the Yellow trailer if I remember correctly, maybe?

Where did all the times go';

'>>4164226
Doesn't need to be sold. Warner presumably retains the rights to the show which means that their subsidiaries (DC, WB Animation, HBO (max)) would be able to casually license and make use of the IP at Warner's discretion. This is how RT was able to swing the DC universe/RWBY crossover stuff to begin with, they're already both owned by the same company.

I would guess that, unless someone approaches Warner and offers a significant sum (unlikely) they'll just hold onto the IP until one of those subsidiaries or someone with decent pull in the company decides they want to make something with it.

Sort of the best possible outcome imho. RWBY is sort of a mess but there's some really interesting world-building and character elements and I think it could do very well slipped into the general DC universe. Bring Salem's power level slightly down and you already have a really solid roster of heroes/friends and rogues for a by the numbers superhero series, which is sort of what RWBY has always been.';

'>>4164303
I remember that (believable) rumor that, granblue fantasy versus happened because RT/WB got cold feet about Arcsys making a RWBY fighting game because they were afraid of the characters being sexualied or something, in any case they had some sort of falling out after crosstag battle. That would have really helped Rwby stay in the zeitgeist a bit during the long in between season breaks since granblue versus proves theres a market for anime street fighter 2 gameplay';

'I guess it's up to a brave nee-san to give it a conclusion preferably one where Salem is defeated with a RWBY team foursome';

'>>4164308
>RT/WB got cold feet about Arcsys making a RWBY fighting game because they were afraid of the characters being sexualied or something

>really pulling a disney moment kek

A rwby stand alone fighting game would be bad ass.';

'>>4164308
>RT/WB got cold feet about Arcsys making a RWBY fighting game because they were afraid of the characters being sexualied or something
Phew could you imagine, sexualizing the RWBY girls? They really dodged a bullet there
Who knows what could've heppened if they let that happened';

'Guess this means no more QT fics.';

'>>4154297
RWBYsisters.. its over';

'>>4164399
It was over years ago. WR was sadly never happening.';

'>>4164406
it's in the hands of the fans to make their own (edgy) rwby series now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o1KBDxkn-U';

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'>>4164317
Only ending I'll ever accept is one where all of Team RWBY impregnates each other (in this sequence: Weiss->Ruby->Yang->Blake->Weiss).';

'>>4164538
Return to your own board.';

'>>4164541
The irony';

'>>4164152
Shouldn't have lasted this long in the first place.';

'>>4164254
this was also the very first bit of yuri fan art, after the White trailer dropped.';

'>>4164538
Yang must follow in her father's footsteps and be the impregnator and not the impregnated';

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'>>4164823
Fuck off with your AI shit.';

'>>4164824
>Yuri is now not yuri if its AI generated';

'>>4164895
I want to see good art made by talented artists who draw out of love, not slop generated by some program that some arrogant twat used to pretend they have skill.';

'>>4164898
Where in that post did they arrogantly claim they had skill?';

'>>4164901
Whoever generated that image even generated a shitty signature in the upper left.
People who post this shit are the worst, knock it off or stay in a single AI thread.';

'>>4164895
There's a containment thread for a reason.';

'RWBY remake, but now your favorite rarepairs are now canon. For me personally it's Monochrome, Elderburn and Pyrruby.';

'>>4164406
>WR was sadly never happening
Yeah there was signs that Weiss was going to end up with fucking Jaune of all people so I'm fucking glad RWBY's never getting finished. Hopefully the sadness of the series going under leads to more fanfiction/fanart before people completely bury their interest in it.';

'>>4164979
I will gladly take it.';

'>>4164979
I dunno if you can really call Mono a rarepair. It's just not major.';

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'>>4164152
>>4164167
Finally Arc System Works can buy the license and save the series';

'>>4165732
By making an overrated fighting game about it?';

'>>4165736
Yes, the characterisation on those is infinitely better than on the show.';

'Rooster Teeth is shutting down after 21 years.
https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1765422582323367991?t=KHVyz4QjPNicXG1Sd9ZS2g&s=19';

'>>4164656
I remember that

But I think this one is even older and accompanied a White Rose fanfic that was written before we knew anything about the characters.';

'>>4165840
Wow, thanks for the news that we've already been talking about for days.';

'>>4165732
Don't really care who buys it, as long as we go back to the era where every female character was hyper-shippable with each other.';

'>>4166758
if we're going by this then I'd absolutely love if sunrise could take a crack at this.';

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'>>4169549
Not familiar with their work, what's their repertoire?';

'>>4170580
Love Live and Gundam';

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'If RWBY really is dead this is canonically how Summer spent her last days.';

'>>4175598';

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'>>4176359
It was necessary to protect White Rose from Jaune.';

'>>4176359
It was more like
>queerbait a ship for years
>company is dangerously close to folding
>make the ship canon as a last ditch attempt at saving the company
>fail spectacularly';

'>>4175940
Monochrome honestly writes itself. Were the writers stupid (rhetorical question)? You can get your heavy-hitter lesbos with tons of in-universe weight and not having to destroy Yang's personality to do it.';

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'>>4170580
The iconic ones like shiznat and the angels from horizon.';

'I liked bumblebee...';

'>>4177474
Aren't you special.';

'>>4177474
How brave, how bold!';

'>>4177554
>How brave, how bold!
Ty will my medal be in the mail?';

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'>>4165150
why do people like em tho? not that I like Yang and Blake any better, but there's a lesser dynamic between Weiss and Blake?';

'>>4178569
I think people liked the idea of a girl who grew up being told that faunus were bad, falling in love with one herself.
Plus black and white make cute pairings';

'>>4178569
Forbidden love, two houses alike in dignity and all that. It's a different vibe to Blake and Yang, who's relationship doesn't represent one of the major conflicts within rwby. I think a lot of people jumped in after Mono's arc in volume 1 and early shipping days were really carried by the fan content coming out. Mono had Dash on art and some other well known fic writers, so even if the show wasn't giving them much after v1 people could still dig into AUs and such.';

'>>4178575
>>4178590
Explains a lot. I dig that sort of forbidden love too but the mono arc fell flat with its bad pacing and didn't leave any lasting impact that it never crossed my mind that people would actually ship those two.';

'>>4179000
>that image
They did say rwby threads on /u/ were just /co/lonies but holy shit this is just sad.';

'Apparently volume 9 just released with extended content.
Any idea if there's more yuri stuff in it?';

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'>>4179939
>>4179940
You can delete your mistakes but you can never escape them.';

'>>4179942';

'The vol 9 animatic epilogue has been posted on RT's site';

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'>>4180188
How bad is it';

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'>>4179942
yes can if we reboot and well... who is going to RWBY now that RT shit the bed?';

'>>4186129';

'>>4164308
why do people pull shit like this out of there ass like its true they made body pillows of 2 of the characters';

'>>4176389
how was 2 characters getting together going to save something are you retarded?';

'>>4187564
Anon, they used the kiss to push bumblebee merch and to try to adertise the show to get more people interested in it. No one really cared
If bumblebee had kissed in volume 6 or 7 it would've been a big deal, but by the time it happened there were many more, and much btter written, yuri couples in media. These days, no one has to engage with garbage like rwby if they want a yuri fix, they can just watch something actually good
In the end, all their efforts were overshadowed by the homophobic ruby meme';

'>>4187896
>No one really cared
then why did i see a lot of ports about it and how much people liked it and every reaction video people loved it what are you going off of some idiots on /co/ crying there eyes out blake didn't get with adam or sun and how did the homophobic ruby meme overshadow it when that episode came out weeks later and it was only a thing for like what a few days on twitter and /co/ and yang and blake have continued to be talked about get out of the small bubble you are in dumbass';

'>>4187896
Honestly given how spread thin the relationship was, I think it would've had to be volume 4 or 5 to actually have an impact.';

'The kiss happened because the people inside knew the show was dead and just wanted to have that on screen before it was over at least I believe that theory.';

'>>4188087
so volume 4 where they are not around each other at all and volume 5 when they have not seen each other for over a year then meet again after a big fight and all that happens thank god you people don't make this show this sounds fucking stupid

>>4188097
the posts you people have been making here are the most retarded i have ever seen';

'>>4188118
So do you just come here to call every post retarded?';

'>>4188158
they are thats why its some of the most brain dead shit i have seen all day';

'>>4188118
>so volume 4 where...
I'm not speaking narratively, retard. I'm saying that in order for the kiss to have any real impact in the wider cultural space, given how little there was to their relationship in the show, it would have had to happen in volume 4 or 5, when RWBY and RWBY shipping were at their height.';

'>>4188161
get some help dumbass you are broken';

'>>4188164
>muh buzzword
Ironic.
>where it counts, the fandom
The fandom had been almost completely gone for years, that's the whole fucking point, champ. That the kiss would have actually been useful in generating popularity for the show if they hadn't waited until there was no fandom. It didn't have a positive impact where it counted, because barely anyone was watching by volume 9, so it was a last hurrah during a season where they failed to get enough viewership to continue making the show, rather than a moment that generated interest in the show and the continued development of the relationship in question.

This thread was once one of the busiest generals on the board. The day of the kiss we got <80 posts, non-hyperbolically half of which were WRfriends complaining about WR not happening and the Weiss and Jaune garbage they threw in. It missed its "where it counts" by half a decade.';

'>>4188214
>The fandom had been almost completely gone for years
where are you getting this dumb shit from when volume 9 came out everybody in the fanbase was talking about it everything you have posted so far sounds dumb as fuck and every episode was trending on twitter and crunchyroll said it was one of the top viewed and was getting good reviews every post you have made here so far makes you sound retarded

and dumbass RT didn't go away because nobody watched rwby and nobody liked it it gone because WB wants more tax cut bullshit the shit they have been doing for the past 2 years use your mind the next time you post you brainless dog';

'>>4188480
>where are you getting this dumb shit from
Observation and basic math. As already explained to you, these threads used to be massive, and by volume 9 were struggling to get any posts at all, even DURING the show airing. After the end of Volume 3, we had threads in the 700-1000+ replies range. The thread where the BB kiss happened in volume 9 was up for a month and got 436 posts before it dropped off the catalog.

The RWBY subreddit was getting ~500 concurrent users in 2018-2020 during off hours. It's currently at <100. Posting dropped from about a hundred a day to the 20s and teens when volume 9 started airing.

Calling RWBY "one of the top viewed on CR" is a fucking joke that only works in the sense that there's only ever a handful of shows in a season and RWBY had off-season timing. The average V9 episode got about 17,000 rating votes. Dr. Stone the next season was sitting at 90K+ an episode. The retarded Smartphone isekai show was getting 40K+. Ranking of Kings and Magus' Bride were in the 40-50k range. There's a lot of weight in that "one of the", and in case you haven't noticed, the viewership was so poor that Rooster Teeth didn't give them the go ahead to start volume 10.

There is a reason why the show was not given another season, even before RT was shut down. It's viewership left. WB tax cuts is not the reason that the cast and crew spent 4 years begging people to tweet their support. The WB shutting down RT thing blindsided most of the employees. Why do you think death battle and funhaus were caught in the middle of making things while CRWBY had been running twitter campaigns and "looking for partners" for a year to save the show? RT execs themselves did not see financial viability in RWBY continuing, it was not WB looking for tax dollars. It was put on Crunchyroll in hopes that more people would watch it, because it was struggling to get FIRST subscribers. The fics and fanart had slowed to a crawl. The fandom has been dying for half a decade.';

'why do people talk about this going on about this show like they have insider information like do they see some random on twitter say things and just go whit it like saying the fanbase is dying and the show didnt do well because other shows where also doing well';

'>>4188159
>>4188181
>>4188480
>>4188862
>>4188871
Please use proper punctuation and capitalisation. It makes posts look prettier.';

'>>4188884
no';

'>>4188848
Honestly hard to believe RWBY was so popular back in the day looking at it now.';

'>>4188923
Early on it hit a sweet spot of interesting potential but minimal detail or development that fandom culture feeds off of.';

'>>4189117
what kind of brain broken shit is this?';

'>>4188923
It was a very different time back then. Zoomers were only just then getting into anime (see how Attack on Titan blew up in popularity around the same time) so a faux-anime show was perfect for their tastes. There was a lot of good faith because of the trailers and also because of the attached names of Monty ("this is gonna be so cool like Dead Fantasy") and Rooster Teeth ("this is gonna be funny and clever like Red and Blue").
The imperfections of the show added a sort of charm, but as the seasons went on, those never went away and ended up becoming genuine flaws that lowered its quality.
Something like RWBY could never get off the ground nowadays because there's so much stuff in both anime and western shows that fill its niche.';

'>>4189223
>because there's so much stuff in both anime and western shows that fill its niche.
Is there though?
The only piece of media I’ve consumed lately that filled the void RWBY left behind ironically wasn’t a show at all but playing Honkai Star Rail.
>Mecha-shift weapons
>The overall tone and aesthetics
>The butt rock ost vocal tracks.';

'>>4192439
Sure, there's nothing that is the exact combination of elements rwby had. But there are better action shows for action fans, there are better fantasy shows for fantasy fans, better adventure shows for adventure fans, and better yuri shows for yuri fans';

'what the hell happened here?';

'>>4192445
this retarded entire argument breaks down when you realize and going of this logic i can watch 1 show for action then ignore every other one because i got my action fix again you are retarded stop posting';

'>>4192475
Some weirdo shitposting.';

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'so i guess rwby is getting transferred to someone else. and crwby will follow. i don't know know how to feel about that.';

'>>4195832
Nothing confirmed yet, it seems. Only a confirmation that the same staff will continue making the show IF it gets picked up.';

'>>4196044
>the same staff will continue making the show
Recipe for failure.';

'>>4196044
Then I guess it's never getting picked up...';

'>>4196044
who would realistically pick up the show though? sure a western studio would work but let's be honest, I don't think there's been any hype surrounding one for a long time. ideally we'd be looking at a japanese studio but who though?';

'>>4196127
Yeah, CRWBY needs to thrown out on the street if the show is to be truly reborn.';

'>>4196044
>>4196463
Technically all they said was that hypothetically the "creative team" would "still be in the mix". Which could really mean anything. That MK get to offer some consultation, that they still do some of the overarching plot writing, that the main VAs continue their roles, etc. I really can't imagine any production company would buy the brand from Warner AND also hire on an entire staff to make the show, especially when that staff is lousy with nepo hires, shows some real ineptitude in places, and struggles with functional production pipelining.';

'>>4196451
There's also the matter of what exactly are they gonna make, because a single season to wrap everything up doesn't sound like a good enough reason to buy the rights.';

'>>4196479
I can only see RWBY being reboot if it's ever picked up again.';

'>>4196521
Yeah, seriously. RUBY'S narrative I fundamentally broken on basically every single level
The only way to finish it well is to start from scratch';

'>>4196556
>>4196521
They really could have just soft rebooted if they had left the ending of 9 off. Had 10 start with RWBY coming back through the portal and the war is already lost. Salem got the sword, destroyed the lamp so that the gods can't be brought back and retired to her spooky land to build ever more complicated grimm in an attempt to play god by making something better than humanity.

Then the series could just restructure around the core identity of the show, with RWBY traveling through a grimm overrun world helping villages and cities with their small scale problems; dealing with bandits and warlords, escorting refugees to safe havens, hunting particularly dangerous grimm or dense populations near human settlements, and so on, rather than dealing with god-level power scaling and united world army nonsense.

I don't know what the fuck they were thinking having the cast go from novices in school that sometimes struggle against lone basic grimm to spearheading all of humanity's war against the immortal god-witch queen of grimm from a forgotten ancient age wielding a staff that can do anything all in the span of like two years in universe.';

'>>4196581
Monty was never really a script writer. Some people blame miles and kerry for the way the series ended up but they talked about how Monty had story boards and storylines planned out for multiple seasons before his death.
Every single series he worked on was the equivalent of mashing dolls and action figures together and making pew pew noises.
It looked good and was fun to watch but if you're ever asking yourself what he was thinking, the answer is
>This would look cool
90% of the time';

'You never heard it from me. Hoyoverse/Mihoyo bought RWBY and it will be announced soon';

'>>4197715
Get a feeling so complicated.';

'>>4197715
100% bs, but I'd be hella up for it! They can't do worse than RT at a least.';

'>>4197892
I kind of want it to be true because it seems like a good fit';

'>>4197892
>They can't do worse than RT at a least.
Clearly you don't know about Honkai Impact.';

'>>4197892
>>4197894
Does feel very suited to the style, and their animation team is certainly much better. Honestly I think RWBY would do better as a game than a series. It's a shame GE was so half-assed.';

'>>4197715
So RWBY is going to be a videogame franchise now? Honestly I can see that working. Maybe with like a tie-in anime if they go with a reboot.';

'>>4197715
huh';

'>>4197715
That's bullshit, but I believe it.';

'>>4197894
I dunno Hoyo are hard /u/fags which is a plus but they have also submitted hard to the Chinese government and have been afraid to show a kiss since before genshin impact released';

'>>4197909
>>4197922
In that case, I'd love to play as Winter with the added bonus of getting an actually well-written and compeling Cinder.';

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'>>4197715
Ah yes, the tried and tested soon(tm).';

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'>>4164254
they threw bubblebee at us to to keep us from wanting White Rose,';