I don't know how many people would argue that RWBY was ever good, but more that the entire appeal was Monty's combat choreo. I personally thing the concept is interesting and the setting had something going that might have been interesting, or developed in a different way if Monty didn't die, because once it pivoted from flashy weeb fightan magic cartoon to stupid gay teen drama wank with one fight scene a season they were trying to leverage an entire premise that was made for ANIME FIGHT SCENES to be a medium for HOMOSEXUAL CHILDREN ANGST.
Time to start Chocolate Box Tuber agency, featuring exclusively brown vtuber women of varying flavours. I can't wait to see people talking about how excited they are for CBT and which CBT is their favourite.
When monty was there it was 2/5 story 3.5/5 action. The action was amazing for it's time but anime developed far past it as a whole imo (wouldnt be surprised if some of them animators are people impacted by him). The huge unique thing was the transforming weapon, sniper-scythe, S(ickle)MGs and Shotgauntlet was what attracted people to RWBY. Something even anime can prob never replicate due to how complex it is and how much works needed to spend for a few seconds of screen time.
I actually think the homosexual was fine, even a positive for them because they cucked 99% of the fanbase, there was only 1 confirmed lesbian couple (and they were fucking boys before the show started) and there was 0 gay, the problem was just simply shit story writing.
One criticism I'll never get about RWBY's change after Monty's death, is the ludicrous notion that "Monty would never have let bumblebee happen!" This is the guy that made Haloid where a female Spartan ends up sensually feeling up Samus. You can bet your ass Bumblebee was planned regardless if the execution was good.
He even actually hinted so in this interview from a V2 premiere after show.
Pretty irrelevant criticism, never heard of it. It wasn't just this one crumb, the entire RT crew were very not subtly hinting about it. Including the VAs reading a say gex fanfic of them on stream. Anyone having this criticism probs never engaged with the community once back then.
The common criticism on Monty was that he was going to push story development in way faster, sacrificing story cohesion to justify his fight scenes, but anyway the new story ended up making 0 sense either, so.....
As for my tweet, I interpreted (possibly incorrectly) the previous tweet from them as saying that they had addressed striking Kuri's video in a Twitter space that they had done, but it wasn't mentioned at all in the Space replay recording (what is the audio equivalent of a VOD? An AOD?) I definitely intend on bringing up the video strikes in my interview on Thursday if Kirsche doesn't beat me to it on Tuesday. My interview at this point is going to have to be somewhat in reaction to hers so I expect to be rewriting a lot of the questions I've been prepping in the days in between.
I honestly think you shouldn lay off on the hard-hitting questions, since she will just dodge all of them like her other interviews anyway and it will sour her off on the later half of the interview, having one or two is fine, making your entire thing being it isn't. I'd much prefer finding out more info on the corpo or the CEO as a human and what's going through her/their brain.
But i'm not this place's legendary reporter but you are, so take this with a grain of salt.