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bro i don’t know what the fuck is wrong with me but as a kid i was obsessed with watching “sims 2 anorexia story” “sims 2 bullying story” “sims 3 orphan story” 😭
I guess it's just a safe way for kids to think about and explore negative stuff. And the fact that the characters are just pixels is one more step removed from you so it doesn't get too real.
This series was literally why my parents wouldn’t let me get the sims. I was 12 and wanted the sims 2, but it was rated teens and when they looked at RUclips videos to see the content they found this and a few other creator-made videos with the characters talking in English about “inappropriate” things. I remember my mom showing me part of a video where the voiceover was someone calling another sim a bitch, and my mom said THIS is what you want to play?! I said that was just a video someone made but my boomer parents couldn’t understand the difference between the legit game and fan content. So I wasn’t allowed to play sims until years after sims 3 came out, when I think I was 16? It’s honestly frustrating
@@alphaomega9024 a balance is good. My parents were so strict as a kid I was only allowed to watch animal planet, the history channel, and PBS and was only able to play games on educational websites. I hold grief for not having much of what felt like a childhood, and lacking nostalgia or fun experiences like that. Holding out on your kids does damage just as much as letting them be exposed to harmful content etc and vise versa. Too many parents don’t seem to handle it right
@@caoimhedoesstuff9293 omg yes everything was always “too violent”! Couldn’t watch a bunch of kids movies/shows for being “violent” but watching a lion kill and eat a zebra was encouraged because it was “natural”
Plumbella henny, is this one of your first sponsored videos I am seeing???? This must be a massive step for you! I remember you saying a few years ago that you were to anxious to take sponsorships- look at you now!! Good job! Xx
As a person who was an edgy teenage fan of rooster teeth over a decade ago now seeing the stranger hood in the year of our lord 2023 was like a jumpscare
oh dude same i thought camp camp was funny bc the bright colorful characters but i shouldve known shit was off when they legit made adolf hitler into one of the camp kids as an ART KID. i thought at the time "oh they dont care abt social norms! funny!" but now im pretty ashamed of that phase lol. i think kids during that time needed characters to emotionally attach to, and the 'funny' bits with Max having been neglected by his parents really hit deep for a lot of us, even if it was played as a joke most of the time
"Problematic TV show" and Rooster Teeth, is there a more iconic duo? Edit: as someone who watched Achievement Hunter at the time, it's really hard to overstate how common a nickname Fugz was for Kdin. It was absolutely *sickening* when this all came out and I realised it was just to hide a slur.
@@davidsparks6617 "Kdin Jensen, a former Rooster Teeth employee who primarily appeared on Achievement Hunter but was also known for voicing May Marigold in RWBY, has accused the company of not paying her for work on several occasions, having a crunch culture, and letting her be nicknamed after a slur, among other things." In case you thought this was purely about pearl clutching. There were other people who came out about Rooster Teeth too, and IIRC a big issue was that "edgy humor" was so rampant that employees who had issues with it felt there was no point in saying anything, despite how uncomfortable it made them. Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter are not some small little team of friends, they're a fucking company with employees and they're legally required to run their company in accordance with certain laws surrounding things like harassment and employee wages.
I was a rooster teeth fan for YEARS (up until a little before the Fugz situation but that made me keep even further away from me) and it's just interesting to see someone talk about it that I would have never expected
The name Dutchmiller sounds like one of those names from that one Japanese football game where they just made up a bunch of names for America’s team which weren’t even remotely real names.
Apparently, Strangerhood Season 2 was a kickstarter goal that the team didn't expect to meet, and when it did happen, they just wanted to get it over with, which is why it came out the way it did.
I never thought I'd see the day Plumbella would talk about Rooster Teeth lol! I haven't been a fan in quite a few years, which really helped me feel less heartbroken when the Ryan/Adam stuff came out and then all the stuff from last year too.
Ryan was my favorite AH member. It crushed me when it came out and I had to step away from AH. I came back after awhile and it was fun but without Matt and Jeremy and everyone else who left...it's just a different vibe and not one I can get into. I just watch the old members play Among Us with ChilledChaos' crew lol.
I turned 30 today and this is such a throwback to being like 12-13. After watching Strangerhood as a kid I made a few Sims 2 machinima myself. It used to be easier to make sims do certain faces and animations with cheats like that cardboard box! I liked the show even though it honestly didn’t make much sense.
I think that was part of the point. There were overly dramatic shows at the time that despite having starting in reality would go off the rails into absurdity that were hard to follow. A lot of it had to do with the fact this was the peak of cable TV/satelite TV, so there were hundreds of channels competiting for viewers. Kind of like how streaming services are now.
I remember watching this when I was way too young to be watching it and being obsessed. I bet if I rewatched it now I would question younger me's sanity.
I watched Stangerhood with my best friend when the show aired in 2004. We were in middle school at the time and thought the show was comedy GOLD lmao. We both loved Wade and quoted him constantly. Only watched the first season though and have no intention of completing the series.
Rooster Teeth started off with making a Halo machinima called Red vs Blue, which honestly turned into a pretty interesting show that developed quite the narrative, but it was also pretty problematic to the point where they have apparently gone back and censored the earliest seasons on the internet. I say "on the internet" because Red vs Blue also sold DVDs, so the original uncensored release with all of the offensive jokes and scenes is still floating around out there. As far as the Kdin situation is concerned, it really says something that members of Achievement Hunter apologized to her privately and she rejected the apologies from most of them. One of the apologies she accepted was from Michael Jones, which I honestly find good to hear and it gives me hope at least for him, considering Michael's spouse, Lindsay, came out as nonbinary some time back. I think a lot of Rooster Teeth got stuck in the past, to be honest. In a much more serious episode of Achievement Hunter's Off Topic podcast, Geoff Ramsey talked about his realization that the company was stuck in an archaic mindset of early 2000s internet culture and how trying to ignore offensive and abusive language does not work.
I never watched strangerhood because on other rooster teeth shows and podcasts they would talk shit on it. So I figured if even they thought it was bad, it had to be really bad
Having a character named Tovar is kind of hilarious because there's a Mysims robot character named Tobor and it sounds similar in Plumbella's accent...he deserved better
Back in the 2000s I remember being like, younger than 10, and finding the 1st season of this series and I was in love with it. It was the introduction to machinimas for me.
You know what Im glad we made some progress since these days and this is now widely regarded as problematic. Or something. I never watched this so I dont have nostalgia to it, but I remember red vs blue. I am not surprised that a 2000s company focussed on tailoring to teenage gamers turned out to be so problematic 😅
As soon as Jessie showed more of the images of the show, I was brought back to my college years and remember watching this on RUclips (it was hidden way back in my memory). This was the same time I was playing The Sims 2, so I guess I felt connected in a way. It fit with the time of when it was made, but did not age well!
ahh, i remember having a hugeeeeee crush in wade, he was the adorable himbo before being a himbo was a thing. i also remember having a thing for shaggy, i may have a problem
I watched season one back in the day, but the only thing I remembered was the gnomes messing with griggs. I had no clue it was by an actual production company -- I just assumed it was made by a couple of people in their basement or something
I was so sure I'd never seen or heard of this and then as Jess kept showing images from it my brain just...started remembering. Watching this. THIS IS HORRIFYING.
When you said web series, I realised why strangerhood sounded familiar - I think I watched this at the time. I don't remember much but my brain seems to have a positive impression of it. It was Sims which I loved, and I remember thinking it was pretty funny? That bit about the gnome and Griggs definitely is familiar. This was the early days of the Internet, I only got Internet (good old dial up) in 1996ish so this really is old. OK, now I feel ancient.
I remember the fever dream that was Season 1 of this and finding it fairly funny back then- but I was also a very dumb pre-teen that laughed at just about anything 😒 Some of it does still make me chuckle though- Wade freaking out about not having marshmallows when the kitchen lights on fire still made me crack a smile xD
I watched this on my mum's computer. It felt like the episodes were much longer back then (probably because of the shocking internet speed). I think the strangerhood was very much part of that "random" era of comedy, where nothing made a lot of sense. I liked it when it came out because it wasn't really like anything that was on tv, but you're right that it hasn't aged well.
I love Plumbella shes so honest and down to Earth and shes one of my favourite sims youtubers for that. Her and steph still tell the honest truth in reviews even if it is sponsored and they are actually funny and i can binge watch them for BLOODY HIURS ON ENDDD
I never really watched it so I started watching the 1st season and it was genuinely hilarious, especially the moment the real Sam said "you son of a bitch", not even censored or anything, in a web series advertised on the sims 2 website back in the day
God, I remember this show from when I was a teenager. It was one of the first web series I ever watched, and between this and _Red vs. Blue,_ it made Rooster Teeth a giant of geek culture at the exact moment when geek culture was really taking off.
thank you for your service o7 I enjoyed watching this through you, especially bc that means I will not have to watch the whole thing myself. what a ride
omg i was OBSESSED with machinimas as a kid and i had no idea there was a word for them until now...i think i just didn't read titles as a kid just head empty clicked
they made like a machinimated survivor clone that took place entirely in minecraft that got super hyped up but then i never heard it discussed again. could be an interesting review
I found the Strangerhood to be hilarious. The references are dated but anyone alive in the 2000s will find them funny. Dutchmiller's quote of "There no 'I' in team but there is a 'me' if you re-arrange the letters" has stuck in my mind for almost two decades. Also the concept of Hollywood running out of ideas is becoming worryingly close to reality. Also no mention of Strangerhood Studios? It was a short spin off where the characters attempted to make a movie. They're slightly different from their main series counterparts and its just a total mess of a show.
I was unfortunately completely obsessed with the Strangerhood as a kid to the point of memorizing lines and quoting it constantly... including the entire Simon Cowell parody spiel 💀Seeing it from this lense has been rough😅
As soon as you mentioned rooster teeth’s scandals I had a mad giggle because stuff like that has been going on for YEARS and then there’s the side channel Achievement Hunter that has its own issues. Would be a full series if you wanted to go down the rabbit hole and do random tea videos lol
I remember loving the original Strangerhood back in the day. I got excited for the new one but also forgot it came out and haven't watched it as far as I remember.
I liked the first few seasons of Red vs Blue back in the day (although I doubt they hold up now), so I was genuinely so hyped when they announced this series 😬 It wasn't just that I was a much bigger fan of The Sims than Halo, but also because I was excited about the possibilities The Sims would open up for the team in terms of the visual storytelling. Like, Halo is not a game made to tell stories, so RvB can be kinda boring to look at. I felt like the wild animations of TS2 would pair perfectly with their narrative style, plus they could obviously add in whatever custom stuff they wanted too. To their credit, the show did end up being visually pretty fun. It just didn't outweigh how much I hated the writing on almost every level. It's not much of a parody if the point you're making with your stereotypes isn't any deeper than "these are good, actually" 🙄 My sense of humour has definitely improved since then, so imagine how bad a show has to be to come across as tired and ignorant to a 19-year-old in 2004! The terrible pacing made it feel like a show that didn't know where it was going or how to have much fun along the way, so I couldn't get through the season and definitely had no idea there was a second. Incredible timing on this video btw - my brother and I were just talking the other day about what a swing and a miss this show was, and I was almost tempted to have another crack at it myself. Thank you for diving on that grenade for me, ahaha 💀
OMG, I remember watching it when I was a kid, but I didn't understand what they were saying, because I didn't understand English! Nicki with skeleton body is imprinted in my brain, I thought it was a fever dream
Ooooh I remember watching this back in the day. I started watching it and then got tired of waiting for it to reveal more clues to the mystery and moved on. I had mentioned to my niece a few weeks ago about some online series made with The Sims 2, but I definitely didn’t remember it’s name nor did I realize they made more using The Sims 4. Thanks for covering this and sitting through it all to bring some closure to the story. I honestly just assumed back then that it was yet another badly written thing with a mystery element presented that wasn’t ever going to be full explored and resolved so I stopped watching it because I was soooooo over things like that by the time I discovered it. Glad to know they did eventually resolve it. Maybe I should have been more patient. I didn’t realize it was supposed to be funny. I don’t remember laughing and thinking it was funny when I watched it, but that’s not really saying much. There’s plenty of things from that time period that my friends found funny that I didn’t think were so it’s possible they would have found it funny if they watched it. Great video recap!!!
Yeah, I remember enjoying one of their things but burned out on it after the only person working on it sadly passed away. Honestly, at this point, I'm not surprised they're not a great company given how they handled and continue to handle these issues. Honestly, I've only watched drama type videos on them for a long time.
I watched it and remember loving it, though I haven't revisited. I remember thinking it was very weird, but being curious about the "mystery" and binging it through the night. When it came out, my friends were all into RvB and I was obsessed with the Sims, so they showed it to me. Dunno much about Rooster Teeth, but RWBY was a pretty amazing show for a while (stopped watching it a few seasons in as it seemed to be steadily losing all hope and I didn't need those vibes...but it was good and the animation got better every season). It's wild seeing people who weren't *in it* talking about it without the perspective of nostalgia. (In a good way!)
afaik sims heavily promoted the strangerhood back in the day, and i think rooster teeth actually made one of the teasers or trailers for an (at the time) upcoming sims game
This sounds like it was written like Naked Came The Stranger. Each episode written by a different author who has only been given the most basic information about the previous one
Dr. Chalmers... hmm... 🎵 Skinner with his crazy explanations Superintendent's gonna need his medications When he hears Skinner's lame exaggerations There'll be trouble in town tonight 🎵 SEEEEEYMOOOUUUR!
Never did I think that Plumbella would be talking about the dodgy shitty studio that made RWBY, because they made a show about the Sims. That was not on my Bingo card, I must say.
I lived in a rural area with dial-up until I was in college in 2013. So I was rarely able to actually get on the internet so I never had access to machinemas or knew what they were until recently. This is bananas to me😂
I used to be a huge fan of Roosterteeth That got ruined when one of my favorites turned out to be a predator. The whole company is just stuck in the early 2000s and needs to go away.
Honestly down with Rooster Teeth, I have firsthand experience with the kind of guys that were being influenced by their “comedy” and I’ll just say I’d rather jump in a hole than speak to those guys again 😅
okokok, as much as Strangerhood is... the strangerhood, we got an amazing soudtrack by the Uggos. Literally nothing but bangers on that CD. I am a proud owner of both
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good lord, is this really back from the ashes?
I clicked the link it said app not found?
@@acwritings7837 same here
I Download the game and doesn't give me the rewards... I try the link several times and still nothing... I am doing something wrong?
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love how plumbella put more work into this video than the writers put into the entire plot of strangerhood
They had a plot? And I have and love the Strangerhood.
Don’t insult rooster teeth like this lmao
@ Kelsey people can say whatever they want abt employee-overworking transphobes yea
@@bees7914 exactly
@@bees7914 That’s a recent issue. This series came out almost 20 years ago.
bro i don’t know what the fuck is wrong with me but as a kid i was obsessed with watching “sims 2 anorexia story” “sims 2 bullying story” “sims 3 orphan story” 😭
Same 😮 I always watched the depressing sims movies. I don't even know why 🤣
I guess it's just a safe way for kids to think about and explore negative stuff. And the fact that the characters are just pixels is one more step removed from you so it doesn't get too real.
I was obsessed with all the teen pregnancy onces!
It was always the emo, evanescence break up movies for me
@@tatubby4513 lmaooo same here
This series was literally why my parents wouldn’t let me get the sims. I was 12 and wanted the sims 2, but it was rated teens and when they looked at RUclips videos to see the content they found this and a few other creator-made videos with the characters talking in English about “inappropriate” things. I remember my mom showing me part of a video where the voiceover was someone calling another sim a bitch, and my mom said THIS is what you want to play?! I said that was just a video someone made but my boomer parents couldn’t understand the difference between the legit game and fan content. So I wasn’t allowed to play sims until years after sims 3 came out, when I think I was 16? It’s honestly frustrating
omg no i feel bad for 12 year old you, got to love boomers internet adventures.
God, sometimes I appreciate and loath that my parents let me consume whatever content I wanted.
Books, games, shows, and movies etc
@@alphaomega9024 a balance is good. My parents were so strict as a kid I was only allowed to watch animal planet, the history channel, and PBS and was only able to play games on educational websites. I hold grief for not having much of what felt like a childhood, and lacking nostalgia or fun experiences like that. Holding out on your kids does damage just as much as letting them be exposed to harmful content etc and vise versa. Too many parents don’t seem to handle it right
@@xErinxx my parents were the same. I still resent my dad for not letting me play Pokémon because it was ‘too violent’
@@caoimhedoesstuff9293 omg yes everything was always “too violent”!
Couldn’t watch a bunch of kids movies/shows for being “violent” but watching a lion kill and eat a zebra was encouraged because it was “natural”
Plumbella henny, is this one of your first sponsored videos I am seeing????
This must be a massive step for you! I remember you saying a few years ago that you were to anxious to take sponsorships- look at you now!!
Good job! Xx
"MAY I SUGGEST JUST HIRING WOMEN WRITERS" Plumbella!!!!! I am crying 😂 this was brilliant, the timing and delivery chef's kiss
Considering these guys also wrote RWBY, I agree xD
Best joke ever! And so casually dropped! 😂😂
As a person who was an edgy teenage fan of rooster teeth over a decade ago now seeing the stranger hood in the year of our lord 2023 was like a jumpscare
Same! I remember I watched this when it first came out but remembered nothing about the plot. That and Red vs Blue back in the day
NO FOR REAL
oh dude same i thought camp camp was funny bc the bright colorful characters but i shouldve known shit was off when they legit made adolf hitler into one of the camp kids as an ART KID. i thought at the time "oh they dont care abt social norms! funny!" but now im pretty ashamed of that phase lol. i think kids during that time needed characters to emotionally attach to, and the 'funny' bits with Max having been neglected by his parents really hit deep for a lot of us, even if it was played as a joke most of the time
@@alimicaI watched camp camp... But... I didn't even realize that about the art kid...
"Problematic TV show" and Rooster Teeth, is there a more iconic duo?
Edit: as someone who watched Achievement Hunter at the time, it's really hard to overstate how common a nickname Fugz was for Kdin. It was absolutely *sickening* when this all came out and I realised it was just to hide a slur.
Turns out they were all grossly using slurs, Kdin included. Ugh.
It's a company based on a bunch of people gaming and goofing off. Color me not caring.
@@davidsparks6617 ????
@@davidsparks6617
"Kdin Jensen, a former Rooster Teeth employee who primarily appeared on Achievement Hunter but was also known for voicing May Marigold in RWBY, has accused the company of not paying her for work on several occasions, having a crunch culture, and letting her be nicknamed after a slur, among other things."
In case you thought this was purely about pearl clutching. There were other people who came out about Rooster Teeth too, and IIRC a big issue was that "edgy humor" was so rampant that employees who had issues with it felt there was no point in saying anything, despite how uncomfortable it made them. Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter are not some small little team of friends, they're a fucking company with employees and they're legally required to run their company in accordance with certain laws surrounding things like harassment and employee wages.
@@U2notyoutoo pretty much. You know the environment you're getting into. If ya got thin skin probably not the best place to work
fr put your whole plumbussy into this one
one of my best friends worked for rooster teeth and even moved from Australia to Texas to work for them. He was so burned out when he came back :(
I was a rooster teeth fan for YEARS (up until a little before the Fugz situation but that made me keep even further away from me) and it's just interesting to see someone talk about it that I would have never expected
The name Dutchmiller sounds like one of those names from that one Japanese football game where they just made up a bunch of names for America’s team which weren’t even remotely real names.
Mike Truck was my favourite name.
Apparently, Strangerhood Season 2 was a kickstarter goal that the team didn't expect to meet, and when it did happen, they just wanted to get it over with, which is why it came out the way it did.
I ALWAYS used Wade's hairstyle on my ''hot'' sims when I was younger lol.
Me too, before I found out about CC lol
I was wondering why this sounded familiar and then I heard it: Rooster Teeth and it all clicked
same 💀
I never thought I'd see the day Plumbella would talk about Rooster Teeth lol! I haven't been a fan in quite a few years, which really helped me feel less heartbroken when the Ryan/Adam stuff came out and then all the stuff from last year too.
ryan was the only person i took a picture with and it absolute devastated me when that came to light.
Let me guess, SA? I have no idea
@@kstar1489
Ryan Haywood was sexting fans. Some of them were minors. Adam, I have no idea.
Ryan was my favorite AH member. It crushed me when it came out and I had to step away from AH. I came back after awhile and it was fun but without Matt and Jeremy and everyone else who left...it's just a different vibe and not one I can get into. I just watch the old members play Among Us with ChilledChaos' crew lol.
These terrible tv shows inspire me to create, because if they can publish absolute garbage then maybe I can do the same
In the wise words of Kennie JD, if garbage like this can get made write that screenplay, babe.
a long plumbella video!! i could literally listen to you talk about sims history for hours
the “I’m a Snape anti now” 😂 it’s what he deserves
I gave a little cheer as well 😄
Why tho
I'm out of the loop, why does plumbella not like snape now?
@@Jellybean1049 plumbella’s read all the young dudes/marauders fanfics! I just assume that has something to due with it.
@@moonlightalyssaor it could be because of JK and how she is a biggot
I turned 30 today and this is such a throwback to being like 12-13. After watching Strangerhood as a kid I made a few Sims 2 machinima myself. It used to be easier to make sims do certain faces and animations with cheats like that cardboard box! I liked the show even though it honestly didn’t make much sense.
I think that was part of the point. There were overly dramatic shows at the time that despite having starting in reality would go off the rails into absurdity that were hard to follow. A lot of it had to do with the fact this was the peak of cable TV/satelite TV, so there were hundreds of channels competiting for viewers. Kind of like how streaming services are now.
Happy birthday!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I remember watching this when I was way too young to be watching it and being obsessed. I bet if I rewatched it now I would question younger me's sanity.
God I feel old when adult RUclipsrs haven’t even heard of rooster teeth
I watched Stangerhood with my best friend when the show aired in 2004. We were in middle school at the time and thought the show was comedy GOLD lmao. We both loved Wade and quoted him constantly. Only watched the first season though and have no intention of completing the series.
They only made like 4 more episodes, and was after 10 years.
Rooster Teeth started off with making a Halo machinima called Red vs Blue, which honestly turned into a pretty interesting show that developed quite the narrative, but it was also pretty problematic to the point where they have apparently gone back and censored the earliest seasons on the internet. I say "on the internet" because Red vs Blue also sold DVDs, so the original uncensored release with all of the offensive jokes and scenes is still floating around out there.
As far as the Kdin situation is concerned, it really says something that members of Achievement Hunter apologized to her privately and she rejected the apologies from most of them. One of the apologies she accepted was from Michael Jones, which I honestly find good to hear and it gives me hope at least for him, considering Michael's spouse, Lindsay, came out as nonbinary some time back.
I think a lot of Rooster Teeth got stuck in the past, to be honest. In a much more serious episode of Achievement Hunter's Off Topic podcast, Geoff Ramsey talked about his realization that the company was stuck in an archaic mindset of early 2000s internet culture and how trying to ignore offensive and abusive language does not work.
Michael definitely struck me as a pretty cool dude so im happy he’s cool with NB people
Love how you have evolved from PowerPoints to Canva
I never watched strangerhood because on other rooster teeth shows and podcasts they would talk shit on it. So I figured if even they thought it was bad, it had to be really bad
I used to be big into Rooster Teeth as a kid and remember Strangerhood sucking compared to Red VS Blue and RWBY lol
Omg I remember loving RWBY and Red vs Blue 🥲
i mean if we're comparing it to rwby it must really REALLY suck.....
I remember seeing Red vs Blue but never saw RWBY, heard mix things some say its good others say it bad
@@luisf2793 I really liked RWBY
@@ohgodohnothebees RWBY had... potential. And then wasted potential because of the incredibly bad writing
Having a character named Tovar is kind of hilarious because there's a Mysims robot character named Tobor and it sounds similar in Plumbella's accent...he deserved better
Back in the 2000s I remember being like, younger than 10, and finding the 1st season of this series and I was in love with it. It was the introduction to machinimas for me.
i genuinely never get happier by a youtuber uploading than plumbella
This reminded me that I used to be terrified of the gnomes in the Sims 2 😂
That is one thing the Stranger Hood accurately captures about the Sims experience
You know what Im glad we made some progress since these days and this is now widely regarded as problematic. Or something.
I never watched this so I dont have nostalgia to it, but I remember red vs blue. I am not surprised that a 2000s company focussed on tailoring to teenage gamers turned out to be so problematic 😅
🙄
As soon as Jessie showed more of the images of the show, I was brought back to my college years and remember watching this on RUclips (it was hidden way back in my memory). This was the same time I was playing The Sims 2, so I guess I felt connected in a way. It fit with the time of when it was made, but did not age well!
To be fair, not a lot of 2000s things did
Just a product of its time, like a time capsule almost
I used to love RoosterTeeth and Achievement Hunter but I slowly fizzled out from them thankfully before all of these issues came to light.
ahh, i remember having a hugeeeeee crush in wade, he was the adorable himbo before being a himbo was a thing. i also remember having a thing for shaggy, i may have a problem
17:17 yelp of “Jesus!” having double meaning as both an exclamation of surprise and address of the fallen Jesus 😭
I watched season one back in the day, but the only thing I remembered was the gnomes messing with griggs. I had no clue it was by an actual production company -- I just assumed it was made by a couple of people in their basement or something
At the time rooster teeth was more like a couple guys in a basement than an actual production company- so you weren’t wrong really
I was so sure I'd never seen or heard of this and then
as Jess kept showing images from it my brain just...started remembering. Watching this. THIS IS HORRIFYING.
Man I remember being hyperfixated on this show when I was 10 I had the entire thing memorised and made fanart
When you said web series, I realised why strangerhood sounded familiar - I think I watched this at the time. I don't remember much but my brain seems to have a positive impression of it. It was Sims which I loved, and I remember thinking it was pretty funny? That bit about the gnome and Griggs definitely is familiar. This was the early days of the Internet, I only got Internet (good old dial up) in 1996ish so this really is old. OK, now I feel ancient.
The fact that season 2 was a crowd funded goal and it sucked more is too accurate, unfortunately
Omg my Endocrinologist is called Dr Chalmers and looks exactly like that!!!
I remember the fever dream that was Season 1 of this and finding it fairly funny back then- but I was also a very dumb pre-teen that laughed at just about anything 😒
Some of it does still make me chuckle though- Wade freaking out about not having marshmallows when the kitchen lights on fire still made me crack a smile xD
I watched this on my mum's computer. It felt like the episodes were much longer back then (probably because of the shocking internet speed). I think the strangerhood was very much part of that "random" era of comedy, where nothing made a lot of sense. I liked it when it came out because it wasn't really like anything that was on tv, but you're right that it hasn't aged well.
I love Plumbella shes so honest and down to Earth and shes one of my favourite sims youtubers for that. Her and steph still tell the honest truth in reviews even if it is sponsored and they are actually funny and i can binge watch them for BLOODY HIURS ON ENDDD
Jesus Christ, Plumbella, you just unlocked one of my memories. I remember watching The Strangerhood now; I thought it was a fever dream at first
Please do a video about running with scissors in Sims 2 ✂️ I'll literally watch anything about sims 2
The sims 2 machinima QUEEN was Jaydee her Helena AMV had a chokehold on me
I never really watched it so I started watching the 1st season and it was genuinely hilarious, especially the moment the real Sam said "you son of a bitch", not even censored or anything, in a web series advertised on the sims 2 website back in the day
God, I remember this show from when I was a teenager. It was one of the first web series I ever watched, and between this and _Red vs. Blue,_ it made Rooster Teeth a giant of geek culture at the exact moment when geek culture was really taking off.
Damn, this was like a precursor to Total Drama Island. There's definitely a pretty good reason why RvB was the popular series and this wasn't, lmao
Every time I hear about Rooster Teeth is like the company entity equivalent of reliving an embarassing memory that at the time you were proud of.
thank you for your service o7 I enjoyed watching this through you, especially bc that means I will not have to watch the whole thing myself. what a ride
I was like... Its NOT possible that Plumbella is NOT playing ttrpg
omg i was OBSESSED with machinimas as a kid and i had no idea there was a word for them until now...i think i just didn't read titles as a kid just head empty clicked
i watched the avril lavigne sk8r girl sims music video so many times oh my god the chokehold it had on 9 y/o me....
they made like a machinimated survivor clone that took place entirely in minecraft that got super hyped up but then i never heard it discussed again. could be an interesting review
survivor block island i think?
I found the Strangerhood to be hilarious. The references are dated but anyone alive in the 2000s will find them funny. Dutchmiller's quote of "There no 'I' in team but there is a 'me' if you re-arrange the letters" has stuck in my mind for almost two decades. Also the concept of Hollywood running out of ideas is becoming worryingly close to reality.
Also no mention of Strangerhood Studios? It was a short spin off where the characters attempted to make a movie. They're slightly different from their main series counterparts and its just a total mess of a show.
Happy to see the sponsorship, get that bread Plumbella! ☺
I was unfortunately completely obsessed with the Strangerhood as a kid to the point of memorizing lines and quoting it constantly... including the entire Simon Cowell parody spiel 💀Seeing it from this lense has been rough😅
As soon as you mentioned rooster teeth’s scandals I had a mad giggle because stuff like that has been going on for YEARS and then there’s the side channel Achievement Hunter that has its own issues. Would be a full series if you wanted to go down the rabbit hole and do random tea videos lol
I didn’t know they made Red Vs Blue until this year, I used to watch it on Netflix years ago 😅
I remember loving the original Strangerhood back in the day. I got excited for the new one but also forgot it came out and haven't watched it as far as I remember.
This was widely entertaining. It gave me riverdale vibes aka a complete roller coaster of a show
I liked the first few seasons of Red vs Blue back in the day (although I doubt they hold up now), so I was genuinely so hyped when they announced this series 😬
It wasn't just that I was a much bigger fan of The Sims than Halo, but also because I was excited about the possibilities The Sims would open up for the team in terms of the visual storytelling. Like, Halo is not a game made to tell stories, so RvB can be kinda boring to look at. I felt like the wild animations of TS2 would pair perfectly with their narrative style, plus they could obviously add in whatever custom stuff they wanted too.
To their credit, the show did end up being visually pretty fun. It just didn't outweigh how much I hated the writing on almost every level. It's not much of a parody if the point you're making with your stereotypes isn't any deeper than "these are good, actually" 🙄 My sense of humour has definitely improved since then, so imagine how bad a show has to be to come across as tired and ignorant to a 19-year-old in 2004! The terrible pacing made it feel like a show that didn't know where it was going or how to have much fun along the way, so I couldn't get through the season and definitely had no idea there was a second.
Incredible timing on this video btw - my brother and I were just talking the other day about what a swing and a miss this show was, and I was almost tempted to have another crack at it myself. Thank you for diving on that grenade for me, ahaha 💀
OMG, I remember watching it when I was a kid, but I didn't understand what they were saying, because I didn't understand English! Nicki with skeleton body is imprinted in my brain, I thought it was a fever dream
This unlocked a deep down memory, I used to watch this when I was an actual kid. Can't imagine I would enjoy it now lol
My brain struggled so hard to comprehend that the title that is this video could exist
That Strangerhood theme jingle unlocked memories that I did not know I had.
Ooooh I remember watching this back in the day. I started watching it and then got tired of waiting for it to reveal more clues to the mystery and moved on. I had mentioned to my niece a few weeks ago about some online series made with The Sims 2, but I definitely didn’t remember it’s name nor did I realize they made more using The Sims 4. Thanks for covering this and sitting through it all to bring some closure to the story. I honestly just assumed back then that it was yet another badly written thing with a mystery element presented that wasn’t ever going to be full explored and resolved so I stopped watching it because I was soooooo over things like that by the time I discovered it. Glad to know they did eventually resolve it. Maybe I should have been more patient. I didn’t realize it was supposed to be funny. I don’t remember laughing and thinking it was funny when I watched it, but that’s not really saying much. There’s plenty of things from that time period that my friends found funny that I didn’t think were so it’s possible they would have found it funny if they watched it.
Great video recap!!!
I love that your outro music is back !! That IS the plumbella hymn 😌
I remember watching this and a bunch of other Sims "shows" as a kid lol it was my introduction videos online
Shoutout to those who used to watch Katzombie’s pleasant view high, wish I could find my old 2007 online friends
same!! I loved that soap opera as a kid
And now roosterteeth is dead. What an era.
I didn't even know this existed. Good job hen, you really put a lot of effort into this "history of". Thank you for the in-depth presentation.
Yeah, I remember enjoying one of their things but burned out on it after the only person working on it sadly passed away. Honestly, at this point, I'm not surprised they're not a great company given how they handled and continue to handle these issues. Honestly, I've only watched drama type videos on them for a long time.
I watched it and remember loving it, though I haven't revisited. I remember thinking it was very weird, but being curious about the "mystery" and binging it through the night. When it came out, my friends were all into RvB and I was obsessed with the Sims, so they showed it to me. Dunno much about Rooster Teeth, but RWBY was a pretty amazing show for a while (stopped watching it a few seasons in as it seemed to be steadily losing all hope and I didn't need those vibes...but it was good and the animation got better every season). It's wild seeing people who weren't *in it* talking about it without the perspective of nostalgia. (In a good way!)
the fact this is the same company that made the critically acclaimed web series RWBY
IT HAPPENED JESUS FLEW OFF THE CRUCIFIX
afaik sims heavily promoted the strangerhood back in the day, and i think rooster teeth actually made one of the teasers or trailers for an (at the time) upcoming sims game
This sounds like it was written like Naked Came The Stranger. Each episode written by a different author who has only been given the most basic information about the previous one
i don't know how i never heard of this, i was a big fan of camp camp and rooster teeth in general during 2017/2018. this is interesting!!!
Dr. Chalmers... hmm...
🎵 Skinner with his crazy explanations
Superintendent's gonna need his medications
When he hears Skinner's lame exaggerations
There'll be trouble in town tonight 🎵
SEEEEEYMOOOUUUR!
Roosterteeth didn’t not want to make a strangerhood 2 but Ray made so many jokes over the years that they just did it for him as a joke and put him in
I remember watching this at the ripe old age of SIX
Omg, I completely forgot about this..! I remember watching this when I was like 14/15... This aged badly, wow... O__o
Never did I think that Plumbella would be talking about the dodgy shitty studio that made RWBY, because they made a show about the Sims. That was not on my Bingo card, I must say.
The Strangerhood has been on DVD for a very, very long time. :)
I absolutely watched this multiple times on the sims 2 website. I could not tell you what it was about but I was about it
The old outro music is back!!! I’ve missed it so much!
i remember rooster teeth for making tutorials for xbox achivements,they got me through a lot of achievemnts of mafia 2
I lived in a rural area with dial-up until I was in college in 2013. So I was rarely able to actually get on the internet so I never had access to machinemas or knew what they were until recently. This is bananas to me😂
I used to be a huge fan of Roosterteeth
That got ruined when one of my favorites turned out to be a predator. The whole company is just stuck in the early 2000s and needs to go away.
Honestly down with Rooster Teeth, I have firsthand experience with the kind of guys that were being influenced by their “comedy” and I’ll just say I’d rather jump in a hole than speak to those guys again 😅
I am gutted, I loved RWBY and didn't know rooster teeth was so bad
why do I remember all of this information, but I don't remember actually watching it lol
okokok, as much as Strangerhood is... the strangerhood, we got an amazing soudtrack by the Uggos. Literally nothing but bangers on that CD. I am a proud owner of both
11:30 those feet graphic haunt me since i watched this video
oh god don't make me re-enter my dragon city era (affectionate)
Red Vs Blue first episode - Why are we in this valley?
Strangerhood first episode - Why are we in this neighborhood?
Back when I was dating my first boyfriend, I told him I loved The Sims, and he showed me this. Its uh...certainly something 👁👄👁