>>4188480>where are you getting this dumb shit fromObservation 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.
