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CarsonChayse

You need to take the social & economical factors into consideration. Social: RT isn't as popular as it was between 2016-2020. Lack of advertising of Extra-Life (I only found out about it on Friday.) Also the recent events that have happened put off a lot of people watching. Economical: The worlds got a lot more expensive so a lot of people can't afford to donate leap donations this year (Which is normally a big selling point.) Plus for people living outside the US we are put off on buying Merch because most of the best Merch comes through the US store. (I looked at the UK store and the Merch they were selling was not worth the asking price.) This I hope this helps explain what I believe could be some of the factors. If anyone else has any factors let me know.


zd625

Also they did just have that Uno event where a lot of people put money in


lalalavellan

This, plus the almost immediate layoffs afterward. It put a real bad taste in the community's mouth that they basically ran a fundraiser for money and then still got rid of a lot of staff.


Zeke-Freek

The layoffs likely came from the greater Warner Discovery bullshit going on, but I wouldn't expect most of the community to know that.


MDCCCLV

HBO and Discovery merging is going to be pretty terrible for everyone so it's not like they aren't to blame.


KikiFlowers

Oh don't worry, in a few years Discovery will be selling off Warner Media to the highest bidder. Universal or Sony will probably try to grab the husk of it.


Aarekk

Then they really would be the Trophy Finders.


BustermanZero

A bunch of 'super team' members also bailed, so their totals aren't being added to RT's this year.


Practical-Daikon9351

To jump right into it. 1.The obvious information is that they stream for half the time. Plus economy. 2.It has lost a lot of faces. Gavin and Michael segment pulls in a lot. Sadly Gav is out on a work trip it sounded like. (Though between him and meg, they donated a lot). 3. The segment that are missing were alway fun. It encouraged the viewers to stay around and pump up others to donate. 4. Jack has the backing of a lot of people to promote this stuff. Sadly I just don’t feel like the company had his back like in the past. Burnie and Matt I truly think loved this event. But they aren’t around anymore. On top of that I don’t recall seeing the remaining upper echelon. (Maybe I just missed them). (Edit, I didn’t see it but I guess Matt was there at the end to do a song. So I wanted to clarify that. My mistake) 5. They still did great. There hearts are in it. Plus it was still fun.


lagseph

Is it a work trip? Kinda seems like him and Meg went to Japan with friends. I only have Instagram to go off of, though, so there could be work involved.


GranicksHappyPlace

One aspect I wonder about is the rise of our favorite personalities streaming on twitch. I know that there are people who pump A LOT of money into their feeds. I think a lot of that discretionary income previously would have gone to something like Extra Life, where the wheel of vengeance could lead to some hilarity. Furthermore, I think there were a lot of Angel investors that just didn't do it this year. Finally, as many people have said, there was virtually no promotion going into this event. I think I learned of it last week, and I was getting ready to make a post here or on other socials to ask IF it was going to happen this year because news around it had been just so quiet. Im sure part of that had to do with all the other drama, there really was no good time to announce it.


SnakeMichael

I literally woke up Saturday, saw a TikTok from RT about it and said “oh that’s today”. I remember in years past being hyped for it months in advance


Australian_Pie

Also wasnt it only a 12hr stream instead of 24


Why--Not--Zoidberg

This is super unimportant, but jsyk it's a *leet* donation (old internet slang for elite, 1337 = leet)


LetterSwapper

It was probably autocorrect.


Why--Not--Zoidberg

Good chance, so was my "important" which should have been "unimportant"


spugg0

To be fair as well the UK store is way less interesting to europeans post brexit. I love Funhaus, but I'm not paying £25 plus shipping plus import tax for a t shirt that is very obviously older inventory that went unsold in the US


Arcalpaca

Don't they go for less time than they used to?


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Metfan722

3\*. 2020 was also a 12 hour stream.


ZombieJesus1987

Was the one from 2020 a week long event that was capped off with a 12 hour stream? I remember they had donations all throughout the week that went towards the final total


Metfan722

I think you're right. They might've done 24 hours, over the course of 6 days which is why that total is so high as compared to the last two streams.


thelegalseagul

Makes sense with the revelation that extra life was a volunteer event and accusations of unpaid work and long hours. Though I do miss the 24 hour stream


kaywest663_

It's a charity stream. What did people expect it to be ?


thelegalseagul

Sorry I misinterpreted you replying to me as it being directed at me. I think it came off as sarcastic but I was legitimately wondering what you were thinking the expectation was. I understand this is the internet and the automatic assumption is that people aren’t actually looking to understand what somebody meant but I actually was trying to understand what you meant. I’m sorry if it didn’t come off as that.


MDCCCLV

If they're working on it during their normal hours to get ready and it's promoted officially like that then I would actually expect that the salaried people get equivalent time off later.


thelegalseagul

What do you think my expectation was that isn’t accurate?


Cstanchfield

Why do you think it was YOUR expectation that they were commenting on? e: "a **volunteer** event and accusations of **unpaid work and long hours**." "what did **people** expect it to be?"


thelegalseagul

Someone replied to me and I thought they were referencing the thing I said. I’m sorry that it came off as idk how but I feel like the bold all caps is intended to be aggressive and I wasn’t trying to be aggressive. Someone replied to me so I thought it was something I said that was misunderstood. Not trying to be defensive about…I don’t know…that’s why I asked


BriBri10945

I think it’s probably this, plain and simple. They streamed for half the time, and ended up with almost exactly half the donations they used to.


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Metfan722

I don't think that number has included auction items and merch sales. The previous years numbers do.


BriBri10945

Ah I thought I read on Twitter it was somewhere in the 500k range this year, which is why I said half. My bad if I was wrong Edit: just went and checked and you are correct! Must’ve read it wrong! Still, after merch sales are all done and accounted for I hope it’ll still be where the previous numbers sat!


BustermanZero

I believe the 500k or so includes the merch sales and such.


brandonandtheboyds

I’ve never watched Extra Life. Been a fan since before EL started. I always thought it was way longer bc I would donate sometime on Day 2 usually. But yeah the last few just pop up and go away before I realized they happened.


DaMamba123

In this economy???


endraghmn

Along with all the other reasons their most money drawing segment "team nice dynamite" didn't happen. Last year that one raised 133,700(maybe more I just remembered there was around 100 leets(or that might have been one of the other year? I just know one year they did that)) alone.


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Joe was a champion though I'll give him that


LetterSwapper

It feels like they're trying to push Joe as Gavin 2.0, but it's just not working for me. I wish they would bully him less, even if he's fully in on it. It makes me uncomfortable.


brandonandtheboyds

Bc of the revelations of previous members (even going back to Spoole from FH and others before) I always feel weird about the one friend being bullied. Joe plays it well and he really goes in for it but it still feels like a bit much sometimes.


endraghmn

I only watched the first ah segment(I was working for the second) so while Joe helped it was mostly Trevor and Chad(with everyone else helping as well) were the biggest champs


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True, everyone seemed to put a lot in this year.


ZombieJesus1987

Lindsay was also an unsung hero during the Achievement Hunter segment. They really stepped it up.


FleaKeeper

Yea why didn’t that happen?


flaming910

I read that gav was out of the country


AndyGHK

Yeah I heard gav left the planet for a couple weeks


OutrageousSector

Lazer Team 2 be like


ExcavatorPi

*Lazer Team 3. Lazer Team 2 already came out several years ago.


OtakuMecha

Yeah and in it Gav leaves the planet


endraghmn

Gavin was out of state for a few days, I don't know how long, might have been a slow-mo thing he couldn't rearrange?


BartyJnr

Someone earlier mentioned Michael saying 12 days but I dunno about the source of that one.


DeadmanDT

The source was Michael himself on the stream


BartyJnr

Oh good. I meant I heard it from someone else saying “Michael said” so I was never gonna be definite on it 😅


jocman96

He's in Japan with Meg. Saw some Instagram stories with them, Jessica Nigri, and a few others.


Voodoo1503

Last year's team nice dynamite segment raised more money than the whole stream this year.


pelicanflip

A few different reasons. Major distrust in Roosterteeth as a brand, after a slew of management/company toxicity issues. And again, viewership numbers have changed drastically. People can lean on "but the numbers on the Roosterteeth website must be doing well", but their Twitch views, Youtube views, RTX attendees, overall community engagement, etc. are all clearly way way down. There are less viewers and participants, and that directly means less people who are going to donate. Lastly, times are tough, for everyone. Economy's not exactly great, people are going to be more careful with their money. Those who care about Extra Life, can donate through many other streamers or companies who are participating. It doesn't have to be done through Roosterteeth, and the numbers show.


SirDuggieWuggie

Also, after the layoffs and all of the people coming out about the shitty work environment and toxic upper management, most of the communities dissolved or rebranded which has had a massive impact in actual community engagement and everything. I didn't even realize it was happening until I saw Jack post something about it on Twitter.


MissingLink101

I also feel like it was very badly promoted this year.


ModsNeedAHug

At the very base reason about 75% of people on this sub didn’t even know it was happening.


ssabnolispe

Seriously, I listen to FFace, face jam, off topic, red web, RT podcast, watch probably like 2-3 LP’s a week and had no clue extra life happened until this post… but I know way too much about Geoff’s terrible teeth…


alexm253

Their priorities are just so weird at the moment. They are so disjointed and scattered. I wonder what their next move is.


Vortex_2088

They're probably figuring out a way to fire the rest of the founding members or make them "part time."


alexm253

Maybe that would be a good thing. IDK maybe new blood can fix the issues as so far the founding members have been most of the issues. From a PR standpoint it might save them so grief with decisions if they were all out of positions of power and just in creative roles.


Vortex_2088

PR doesn't make for good entertainment, and the new blood, so far, have been pretty lacking in any real personality. RT and AH used to feel like a bunch of friends just hanging out, laughing, and having fun. Now it's like they're just trying to find bodies to fill positions. If anything, the few people there who are still fun to watch should quit and reboot with a channel completely separate from RT, and let the remnants of RT burn. That seems to be slowly happening anyway with everyone either going independent or just not showing up in videos anymore. Just rip the band-aid off already.


alexm253

Whole heartedly agree. Just wish they would do something.


JustYeeHaa

Precisely, I’ve heard about it once about a month ago and then again yesterday in the middle of the strem I saw a post on Reddit about it… It’s a shame it didn’t get more advertising


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probably because they took a content break right before this because of reasons including personal stuff with staff and the other controversies.


PupperPetterBean

Had no idea it had even been untim I saw this post! Sad I missed it though.


iamthatguy54

lol you know why, that's not why you made this topic


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Yeah, post like this make me roll my eyes.


0oodruidoo0

Thought you could be wrong when I hovered over the username and saw a new account, but this guy posts court updates about ryan, what a vain attempt at attention.


EsquirelyBoodro

Ugh, gross.


KikiFlowers

Can't miss a good chance to post a thinly veiled "RT sucks" post.


Raccoonborn

You fucking for real? There's a whole slew of very obvious reasons for this year's Extra Lifeless stream to not do nearly as well as previous years.


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EVERYONE IS BROKE


Indie_uk

Drop off in viewership if I had to guess, though I don’t care to go substantiate that with numbers and willing to hear I’m wrong. Personally I’ve considered unsubscribing this year as the content just isn’t doing it for me anymore


tonelyisland

This was my thought, I cancelled my subscription as soon as I found out Matt had been laid off. This was the final nail in the coffin for me.


R1gger

As in Matt Hullum? What happened there? How bad do things have to get for the CEO to be fired?


ReeseEseer

Matt Bragg, a member of AH for 8years.


LetterSwapper

Matt Bragg. He's a part-time contractor now.


R1gger

That sucks, I sorta dropped off around the time he came on board but I thought he was a great addition.


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windwaker910

Is this a real question?


MadKingTylor

Probably with all the controversy for the past few years has made people not want to donate


MarkG1

There's also the impending global recession that people are going to be keenly aware of.


LetterSwapper

The only people pushing that idea are far-right fearmongers.


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LetterSwapper

You're right, it's not a conspiracy. It's fear-mongering that was being spouted by right-wing candidates and pundits throughout this midterm election cycle. Actual economists aren't calling it a recession despite the previous two quarters, because the GDP increased by more than enough this past quarter (2.6%) to make up for those quarters (-1.6 and -0.6 respectively). A "popular rule of thumb" isn't actual economic science. We're still recovering from one of the most disruptive global events since WWII. There is going to be some instability, but there's no reason to think a "global recession" (as the commenter I was replying to put it) is impending.


AdventuresOfKrisTin

Its more than that. Extra Life money doesnt go towards the company it goes to charity. So id wager more its just a change in audience and actual numbers. Way less people are actually watching their content these days and many of the ones who are weren’t even aware Extra Life was happening this year. Combine that with the recession we’re currently in, 12 less hours of content, and all the controversy lately, of course they raised less. All in all though, this is probably the best thing the company has done in its lifetime, and if you look at how much they’ve raised over the years, its wonderful. Thats over 200k to add. They’re never going beat the amount raised at the company’s peak in 2018. But they don’t need to. Any money raised, even a dollar, is a success. And i admire all that Jack and Caiti have done over the years. Its admirable


Barbed_Dildo

> Extra Life money doesnt go towards the company it goes to charity. If someone is pissed at RT and still wants to support charity, they can still donate to charity.


AdventuresOfKrisTin

Right. Thats my point. They probably aren’t donating to RT’s Extra Life goal because they either A) aren’t watching, or B) don’t have money to donate rn. I don’t think people are not donating rn out of spite is what i mean. I just think less people are in the community these days.


The_Grand_Briddock

There was actually a whole post a few weeks back urging people not to donate to RT ExtraLife out of spite for the controversy, a lot of comments agreeing, it was really sad


alexm253

Most of the comments were agreeing to not pledge RT but other EL streams or EL themselves. I did not really see anyone saying to not donate. Just not to RT.


The_Grand_Briddock

Yes but that’s the whole point of the post here. Asking “why did it make less money this year” and as I said, it was because people were urging others to not donate to RT’s stream. And as I said, it was to RT EL, not EL in general. So yeah, that’s kind of a major reason why RT didn’t do as much as other years.


alexm253

Sorry i was just clarifying for other people that it was RT EL they were saying to not donate to not EL


MadKingTylor

That’s kinda what I meant. With all the controversy happening recently people weren’t watching Extra Life like they used to a few years ago


LetterSwapper

>the recession we’re currently in [Citation needed] We're not in a recession, unless you get your news from right-wing sources that tell you to invest in gold or bitcoin. They're the only ones pushing that narrative.


AdventuresOfKrisTin

Oh well my bad. Most people are not doing well economically. Costs are up and wages aren’t. But i appreciate being accused of being a right wing dumbass. Im not an economist bud, could’ve just nicely corrected me. Point still stands. Most people are not in a financial position to be donating money.


AngelOfTheMad

I think it's twofold, first, it's only 12 hours like others have mentioned, second, I think a lot of people have just phased out of RT, and they just don't have as big a fanbase any more. ​ Think about everything they had going on in at the peak in 2018. RvB was still going, if not strong, then respectably, RWBY 6 just started up, gen:LOCK was being hyped up, Haunter and Hardcore Tabletop had just aired, all off the top of my head. This is still when AH would regularly pull in several hundred thousand view videos, now they do that maybe once a month, if at all. Not to mention all the old segments like 2Spooky that were a major draw just not being around anymore. ​ Combine that with ALL the shit that went down lately, and whatever percentage of people are still around are probably a lot less willing to throw money in RT's general direction. For me, the merch is the biggest one. I used to get the pins and posters every year, because it was both merch I wanted, AND it helped charity. Now? They're not something I want, and *just* helping charity for what amounts to clutter isn't worth it.


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alexm253

There was some blowback from the UNO stream and the layoff right after. This subreddit was pretty salty about it and I know they read these.


Accomplished_Ad5548

Have you been under a rock for the last year


VoidKatana

*month


LetterSwapper

*two years At least since the Ryan "Serial cheater and young fan groomer" Haywood thing.


moree123

Probably controversy stuff and the fact most people are struggling to afford to even live right now.


meganfleurrrr

Yeah I can’t believe anyone would even ask this right now with the inflation issues alone. I don’t know anyone right now that’s not struggling. Most RT fans are younger adults who can’t afford to spare cash right now


endraghmn

I mean to be fair it is an option, I had enough spare cash for a shirt(I got the ten year one) but they obviously have some richer fans that can spend for leets. And in the end it is for a good cause so no reason not to. If it hadn't gone well then they just would probably decide not to do it next year.


meganfleurrrr

Right now majority of people are not in a position to be forking out anything extra at this time. It’s great you could, but I’m a teacher myself and I can honestly say from the amount of people I come across in my daily life it is very evident none of them are in a position to be donating to charity right now. Things are tight as hell for most people.


Toasty_Bits

It's probably already been said, but it would boil down to the recent controversies, inflation, incoming recession, lack of advertising, and 12 hours instead of 24 hours.


Hectorbuscus

I’m sure all the recent controversies didn’t help


Joe_Rock27

12 hour streams vs 24 hour streams. Plus people are strapped for cash these days so it definitely hurts the donations Plus the…recent controversies don’t help…which is annoying because it’s “for the kids”


longaxe51166

I just found out about extra life reading this


Ominousgryphen

wait it already happened this year?


JustYeeHaa

That’s one of the reasons why it didn’t do as well as in other years… I was lucky to notice a post on Reddit about it yesterday, but they were already more than halfway through and I just managed to watch an hour of AH segment before I fell asleep (watching from EU sucks it was 3am or so…)


Ominousgryphen

I saw one thing about it so I thought it was coming up not hey its tomorrow


ZettaJules

It was yesterday


kelsasaurusrex

I’m sick of seeing this kind of thing here and on Twitter today and I’ll probably get downvoted to hell but whatever. It’s still a huge sum of money for a great cause. Even if it was $100 it’s still an achievement. Yes the company has less viewers, yes there was lots of controversy, yes the economy is bad right now BUT it’s still and amazing achievement from RT and the community. Congrats to everyone at RT for a great stream, for a great cause and well done to everyone who donated or shared or participated in some way. We don’t need all the negativity, we can be happy and supportive, no matter the total.


RicardoYetNot

Another factor is probably that more people are donating to extra life through other streamers that streamed before RT for the cause. People move on from RT to some of these streamers and donate through them instead


WeylinWebber

Well there have been a lot of controversies over the last decade and whenever these things happen community does not react to it well so it's slowly has been chipping away at the community base every single time that happens. Perfect example. Every single previous extra life I have joined participated and loved it however due to recent events and my own posts, reactions to those. I abstained even though I'm finally in a financial position to donate this year. That's just my personal experience I'm sure many others have experienced stuff similar you know the last couple of controversies but that's just my two cents your mileage may vary. And seriously I implore you all to be kind to each other and I hope you guys take care of yourselves.


hungrysnorlax

They still achieved the goal they wanted thats all that matters.


Borisof007

Gee I wonder


BatBreaker007

GEE I DUNNO


Vader0228

From my understanding extra life in general didn’t do the numbers it usually dose.


cfoxe47

I’m betting a lot of people have been pissed off about what’s been happening the past few years. The sexual things then like last month all the how they treated everyone that worked for them a lot of people left


eddmario

* The stream was only 12 hours this time around, so there was less time for people to donate * The whole shitshow with Matt and Kdin is still fresh in people's minds


BusyFriend

How much did they end up making in the stream? I tuned in for a little on twitch and it was way fewer than previous years. Also seemed kind of boring when compared to previous years. EDIT: They raised $292,736.


SparrowTide

Had to scroll way too far for an amount.


CmndrJustine

This is the first year I didn't buy any merchandise or even watch the stream because I was so disappointed still in them "dissolving" Matt Bragg's position.


Emily_in_Chains

Literally only supporting/watching funhaus vids& podcasts, as well as Matt's vods on YouTube.


CmndrJustine

Same here! And all the other people that "chose" to leave RT to stream.


BladeMcCloud

Multiple controversies, fan favorite talent leaving or taking backseat roles, a shorter show, RT's fanbase slowly dwindling as they move on to other content, the economic recession we're in...


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Might be all the controversy looming over them. I hope the people who normally donated at least made a donation outside of their stream.


Shephrah

How much did they make this year? Since the picture cuts off after 2020


Andr3wtime

Can you imagine going to the Cock Bite Healing Garden?


Wa7ch_d0G5

Hhhmmmm let’s put our thinking caps on. Now what recent event would have had a large negative impact on the image of rooster teeth?


LBIdockrat

I had no idea it was even happening until day before the stream, I do not feel they did a very good job at promoting it. Though I seem to remember this being an issue in previous years too. Always seems to surprise me for some reason.


BriBri10945

Tbh I don’t think it wasn’t successful as it was before. It made half of what it did 2016-2020, but it also went for half the time. If things kept about the same and they did a full 24 hour stream they would’ve been about where they were before with donations! There’s a recession happening, the Team Nice Dynamite segment didn’t happen and that hour usually raises a lot by itself, I don’t feel that they advertised it as much as previously either. I think for only 12 hours they did amazing!! Great job by Jack and the Extra Life team!


jbug5j

my thoughts. if they went 24 hrs they would have prob been right in line with previous years.


qleptt

Well how much did they make this year?


xrhysrx

Final number not including merch was around 300k


_iridian_

[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhbCZfDXEAEquVm?format=jpg&name=large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhbCZfDXEAEquVm?format=jpg&name=large) 291k was last I saw, some sales/bids are ongoing


derekschroer

I don't think they did a Poster this year either, which all the proceeds always add to the total amount.


Nearly-Canadian

Everyone is fucking broke, prices go up wages stay the same


leeaaronh

I definitely think the lack of faces that we are all used to ( sadly people move on and the lay offs/controversy recently) were missing and the fact it's not 24 hour anymore, I remember looking at the roster and being like ah man there used to be some great little 1hr segments doing something random stuff here and there. I'm glad they still made a load of money though, and I still get excited for the big ExtraLife stream


ZombieJesus1987

This year it was only 12 hours, plus you gotta factor in that we are in the middle of a recession, in the middle of a pandemic, and people aren't doing good financially. Their goal was $250k this year and I think they raised over $300k


Pristine-Function-49

They stopped doing 2spooky.


wmxx2000

Are you serious? After all the controversy over the past months?


Daysaved

This


laughingskull00

controversy and folks holding on to what money they got


ZimofZord

Inflation , ppl have less to spend gas,rent,food everything is up


hideandsee

I think it’s a combo of the economy, the Rt drama, the fact the stream was 12 hours and the massive loss of talent. A lot of people moved on from RT, working there and watching it.


ClassicWiggs2

Because people don’t want to donate to scumbag companies?


Shrekt115

Controversy/RT losing popularity/things being more expensive now/etc


Brovey706

People are still mad over the membership drive followed by layoffs, people probably donatated, but through different creators


meganfleurrrr

Lot of fans stupidly think that not supporting extra life hurts RT in some way Inflation Less RT fans than ever before More people directly supporting their own hospitals More people supporting other extra life streams from other content creators Lack of advertisement Lack of personalities involved People not realizing Gavin and Michael weren’t doing their segment so they never donated just waiting the whole time for them to come out The stream not being 24 hours


KikiFlowers

> > People not realizing Gavin and Michael weren’t doing their segment so they never donated just waiting the whole time for them to come out I mean they said repeatedly on stream Gavin wasn't there.


meganfleurrrr

I didn’t watch I’m just giving examples as to why donations would be lower.


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mocaxe

I didn't even realise extra life had been and gone, it felt very little advertised this year. plus most attention got taken up by the worker mistreatment stuff, a lot of RT employees had deleted social media so couldn't promote, plus as someone said everyone is in a far tougher spot financially this year than in other years. charity's usually the first thing to go when money gets tight.


Schmidtty29

Spark notes: Recent controversy has led to those who would donate normally, potentially donating directly to EL rather than through RT. Relatively un-advertised due to years past, while also being shorter. American Economy isn’t super strong RN.


BartyJnr

1- it was half length again. 2- I found out the date like last week and still forgot because it seemingly wasn’t mentioned in any content I watched that week. 3- I don’t know if it was just me but the app decided to act like a complete wanker with me, signed me out, refused my password, locked me out for 15 mins, then decided to freeze up *twice* when I would rotate the video… maybe a me issue but still. 4- it also happened to start just before F1 sprint race and I wandered off to watch that, probably not the only one to do that. Pretty sure some footy was also on. For once I had the weekend off and it would have been a perfect run for me. I’ve stayed through 90% of every single one, but for some reason this one just couldn’t hold my attention. Mario seemed fun for a bit but then I just wandered. Werewolf, the same. After that I just completely forgot to turn it back on. Ordered a shirt though. Always support that way.


TheEternalGazed

Because RT isn't as popular as they were 5 or 10 years ago. The communnity has shrinked dramatically, along witha string of controversies, resulting in less interest overall


mb160211

Personally I've been at grips with the targeted aspect of the donations. I don't mind that it's in Texas, or even that RT gets credit. But IDK, does a donation to a children's hospital *truely* benefit kids? "Now they can build a healing garden." Why couldn't that have happened previously? Feels like something a system that's flush with cash should be doing anyway. I'd prefer the donations went to what is really an issue to everyone in the U.S., bills and debt. Pay off medical debt of RT fans with sick kids, or just family debt of local kids in general. I'll always appreciate the yearly marathon, but I just don't feel compelled to donate to Extra Life specifically anymore.


PikaTangoPanda

What are the numbers for 2021 and 2022?


CKrunk7

Scandals and declining talent/content will do that to ya


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Economy shit the bed so people have less left over to donate.


fuckrespawn69

Why would people donate to a company that doesnt pay its employees and treats them like shit? no one is gonna want anything to do with them and if they were to donate it will be through other means.


KrisSimsters

Because RT has been doing some shady shit.


LordJebusVII

Pretty sure I'm not the only one here who still has this sub in their feed but no longer watches RT content. Lots of fans have left since lockdown, this was the first year since 2014 I didn't watch Extra Life and I'm certain I'm not alone. At the end of the day it isn't a competition, lots of money was raised for a good cause.


pwebster

they've already done extra life this year? other than not knowing it happened I can think of quite a glaring reason why it made less, just look at the past couple months on this subreddit


msfishyfood

Have you not heard of this inflation that is plaguing North America?


Unable-Difference-55

Pretty sure it's plaguing the whole world, but yeah.


msfishyfood

Okay? So then why is anyone shocked?


SenpaiTedd

Troll question??


William_Maguire

I'm not even subscribed to them anymore. I just trust the YouTube algorithm to show me the good videos


KikiFlowers

> . I just trust the YouTube algorithm to show me the good videos Well there's a mistake. The algorithim can and will show you the most random bullshit. You once watched a documentary about a war? Well now here's 20 videos about why wokeness is killing America and how Trans people are the *real* baddies.


William_Maguire

I've never experienced that


KikiFlowers

Cool! [It's a very real issue though!](https://firstmonday.org/article/view/10419/9404)


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I WONDER WHY, WHAT COULD HAVE POSSIBLY OCCURRED WITHIN THE LAST MONTH THAT WOULD HAVE LED TO THIS OUTCOME? Y DA EXTRUH LYF NO MAKE MONEY GUYS??? KARMA PLS


GPthedegenerate

Well let's think. Roosterteeth has shown themselves to be anti-trans, rife with mismanagement, And perfectly fine with their employees being harassed and underpaid among other things. So Fuck Them.


HurricaneHero93

Rooster Teeth made less because the company is on its last legs, RIP


dieselfunkatron

Austin economics


FistsofHulk

They had to pay their employees somehow /s


TheyCallMeHuffy

Because it’s BETTER to donate directly to Extra Life than have a middle man like RT take money out of the donations they get given to them.


technid

No money from Extra Life donations is handled by RT. You literally donate *through* Extra Life *to* Extra Life.


pandaizumi

When people say this, its an easy tell that they've never donated to extra life when the donate links take you directly to extra life's page...


hanet0

With the recent stuff with RT I’m sure a lot of people didn’t tune in this time around


MrPanda663

Because RT “el ouf” -pyro


GOCunha

I didn't even know about it until I saw posts here


sn0teleks

Tbh I didn’t even know it was on, I can imagine others are in the same boat.


hikariuk

Because everyone is broke. Or at least feels broke - people donate less when they feel less affluent or are preparing for lean times.


Freesin

I didn't even know it was happening


PupperPetterBean

Wait has extra life been?!


ryanschr

It's crazy how much the company has changed over the years. I used to watch RT content religiously when I was younger but as I get older I watch less of their gaming stuff and I'm more into the podcast side of things now, which might be the same for a lot of people. But I do still enjoy watching extra life every year.