Rooster Tooth has moved a few of its fashionable content material, together with most Crimson vs. Blue seasons, off the YouTube platform fully and onto its personal web site. Rooster Tooth senior author and showrunner for RWBY Kerry Shawcross posted a video on Thursday saying the change, explaining that “YouTube income is simply not slicing it for us proper now.”
Shawcross mentioned Rooster Tooth additionally moved Camp Camp to the location, the place episodes will proceed to be ad-supported and free to look at. He added Rooster Tooth will get “roughly 5 – 10 instances extra worth” from adverts it runs by itself web site, including that “animation’s onerous and it’s costly.”
He didn’t say particularly what was moved or when, however a number of threads on Reddit from the second half of September say that a lot of the Crimson vs. Blue collection appeared to have disappeared from YouTube.
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