History YMMV / AchievementHunter

** Some viewers got really pissy at Ray's bored and deadpan takes starting around 2014, thinking that if he's tired of playing ''Minecraft'' and ''GTA IV''/''V'' he should take a break or be let go. Others think he should stop complaining because he's getting paid to play video games for a living.[[note]]This may be because of what he calls the "Twitch Debacle" which happened recently. Ray used to stream on Website/{{Twitch}} on his own channel, and was recently forced by somebody in charge of Rooster Teeth to convert it into a general use Rooster Teeth channel and give up control of it. This was around the time he started acting more deadpan and snarky, and according to him almost made him decide to leave Rooster Teeth.[[/note]]

** [gavin screaming] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Gavin Free's bird-like shrieks are themselves already memetic within the AH fandom. Outside of said fandom, however, it is memetic for an entirely different reason; in [[https://i.imgur.com/e1NgSIT.png this particular]] Website/{{Tumblr}} thread, one fan though it would be funny to randomly post "[gavin screaming]" during a moment of playful faux-panic, to which another user replied "[[FanMyopia who the fuck is Gavin]]". From this point on, "Gavin screaming" became just as famous for the confusion it elicits from people unfamiliar with Gavin and Achievement Hunter in general, particularly within the Tumblr community, to the point that you'll find many quoting the thread in question in response to any reference to Gavin.[[/labelnote]]

** Some viewers got really pissy at Ray's bored and deadpan takes starting around 2014, thinking that if he's tired of playing ''Minecraft'' and ''GTA IV''/''V'' and he should take a break or be let go. Others think he should stop complaining because he's getting paid to play video games for a living.[[note]]This may be because of what he calls the "Twitch Debacle" which happened recently. Ray used to stream on Website/{{Twitch}} on his own channel, and was recently forced by somebody in charge of Rooster Teeth to convert it into a general use Rooster Teeth channel and give up control of it. This was around the time he started acting more deadpan and snarky, and according to him almost made him decide to leave Rooster Teeth.[[/note]]

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** In terms of guest contributes, Geoff and Griffon's friend Max became this almost immediately after he first did a guest spot. Largely a result of his many stories, skill at telling them, and just generally being a funny dude. Max would go on to actually work at Rooster Teeth proper as a set dresser and art director, and regularly showed up in ''RT Life'', ''On The Spot'', and other RT videos.

* GrowingTheBeard: Most agree that the division didn't really take off until they focused on their Let's Plays, rather than their achievement guides. It might even be said that their Let's Plays are the reason they are the SpotlightStealingSquad of Rooster Teeth. Even for Let's Plays themselves, early on things were much more task-oriented and low key compared to later ones. At times the main source of entertainment in videos came from Gavin sabotaging the game for everyone else; now the comedy of Let's Plays is driven by force of personality of all members.

** At the end of their ''Videogame/{{Deceit}}'' video guest-starring [[WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay Pat and Woolie]], Michael jokes that he hopes they leave worse friends than when they arrived. Shortly after, the Super Best Friends announced that they were going solo.

** Certain competitive games where one of the group is considerably better than the others, [[CurbStompBattle due to the predictable nature of how things will turn out]]. Averted somewhat with FPS games, since Ray and Alfredo both ended up often being the ButtMonkey where they were often forced to play with a handicap [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments only to still win in the end]]. Played Straight though with ''VideoGame/UltimateChickenHorse'' and ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' for Michael, ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' for Matt, and ''VideoGame/{{Towerfall}}'' for Gavin; ''Chicken Horse'' especially tends to grate fans both because of how long the Let's Plays tend to last[[note]]which usually just means Michael is having difficulty with the map that developed, not because the others are giving him a challenge; it's typically common for Michael to end up being the only one to score points on particularly difficult ones, while the others can't even finish[[/note]], the fact Michael will shut down anything that gives others advantages (such as coins, jetpacks, and teleporters) [[{{Hypocrite}} only to happily use them himself, and is typically the most vocal complainer about the other games' skewered win/loss ratio]]. [[JerkAss This is all part of Michael's "character"]], though, so it's more an [[BaseBreakingCharacter issue about viewer reaction to him]].

** "I'm gonna build a house," Jack's earlier CatchPhrase for when he gave up on the current Let's Play goal. Usually in Minecraft.

* SeasonalRot: General consensus is that Achievement Hunter had been on the decline beginning from around [[TheNewTens the late 2010s]], with [[https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/letsplay Social Blade]] showing proof of declining video viewership and subscribers on the [=LetsPlay=] channel. During their final years in [[TheNewTwenties the 2020s]], their videos rarely got at least 100,000 views, with most of such videos being their ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' videos (particularly ''VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown''), despite ''Gmod'' not having been one of their regular games in the past like with ''Minecraft'' and ''GTA''. Even then, it still could've taken a while for their videos to reach those numbers, with only a few rare exceptions such as ''LetsPlay/UnoInfinite'' (and that one is more due to the whole "[[DancingBear playing a simple card game for over a day]]" thing). Factors that are arguably responsible for this have included their content getting more stale as online videos have evolved, several older cast members moving on to different projects, newer cast members were brough in to fill the void but were unable to connect as well with longtime viewers while failing to attract new viewers, and [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor the scandals]] involving Ryan Haywood's sexual misconduct allegations and later on the revelation of Rooster Teeth's toxic workplace environment making [[HarsherInHindsight much of their older content a lot more uncomfortable to watch]].[[note]]In fact, Social Blade shows that Ryan's scandal had the biggest negative effect on the group overall, showing that weekly viewership and subscriber counts began to go downward beginning in October 2020, the month that the scandal blew up.[[/note]] According to [[https://www.distractify.com/p/why-did-achievement-hunter-disband this article]] on ''Distractify'', the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic seemed to have been the final nail in the coffin, as it forced everyone to be separated and away from the AH office for a long time with a temporary switch to streaming, which did not appeal to those who preferred the curated and edited Let's Play videos, and the comradery found in their older videos was lost when they did return to the edited Let's Play sessions remotely, since they couldn't do stuff together in the same room. By the time they finally returned to the office, so much had changed that they never recovered, and the announcement of the division's dissolution came as no surprise to fans past and present.

* SeasonalRot: General consensus is that Achievement Hunter had been on the decline beginning from around [[TheNewTens the late 2010s]], with [[https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/letsplay Social Blade]] showing proof of declining video viewership and subscribers on the [=LetsPlay=] channel. During their final years in [[TheNewTwenties the 2020s]], their videos rarely got at least 100,000 views, with most of such videos being their ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' videos (particularly ''VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown''), despite ''Gmod'' not having been one of their regular games in the past like with ''Minecraft'' and ''GTA''), and even then, it still could've taken a while for their videos to reach those numbers, with only a few rare exceptions such as ''LetsPlay/UnoInfinite'' (and that one is more due to the whole "[[DancingBear playing a simple card game for over a day]]" thing). Factors that are arguably responsible for this have included their content getting more stale as online videos have evolved, several older cast members moving on to different projects, newer cast members were brough in to fill the void but were unable to connect as well with longtime viewers while failing to attract new viewers, and [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor the scandals]] involving Ryan Haywood's sexual misconduct allegations and later on the revelation of Rooster Teeth's toxic workplace environment making [[HarsherInHindsight much of their older content a lot more uncomfortable to watch]].[[note]]In fact, Social Blade shows that Ryan's scandal had the biggest negative effect on the group overall, showing that weekly viewership and subscriber counts began to go downward beginning in October 2020, the month that the scandal blew up.[[/note]] According to [[https://www.distractify.com/p/why-did-achievement-hunter-disband this article]] on ''Distractify'', the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic seemed to have been the final nail in the coffin, as it forced everyone to be separated and away from the AH office for a long time with a temporary switch to streaming, which did not appeal to those who preferred the curated and edited Let's Play videos, and the comradery found in their older videos was lost when they did return to the edited Let's Play sessions remotely, since they couldn't do stuff together in the same room. By the time they finally returned to the office, so much had changed that they never recovered, and the announcement of the division's dissolution came as no surprise to fans past and present.

** This trope is part of why the entire division lost relevancy during its final years, as web video content had evolved over the years while AH's content grew stale. While other factors did them in, AH's heyday had lost since past by the time of the division's dissolution in 2023.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: The initial feeling about ''VS'' seeing as three episodes went by with Ray wiping the floor with everyone because [[TooDumbToLive they don't choose games that they can play]], leading to Ray beating them with ease.[[note]]Jack had no idea how to play Ray's chosen game, ''VideoGame/CartoonNetworkPunchTimeExplosion'', Gavin chose ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' without realizing Ray prestiged it ''six times'', and Ryan hadn't touched ''VideoGame/FusionFrenzy'' in ten years.[[/note]] It died down afterwards. [[spoiler:Oddly though, he has since won ''GO!'' for each of its first three "seasons", so there's that.]]

* SeasonalRot: General consensus is that Achievement Hunter had been on the decline beginning from around [[TheNewTens the late 2010s]], with [[https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/letsplay Social Blade]] showing proof of declining video viewership and subscribers on the [=LetsPlay=] channel. During their final years in [[TheNewTwenties the 2020s]], their videos rarely got at least 100,000 views, with most of such videos being their ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' videos (particularly ''VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown''), despite ''Gmod'' not having been one of their regular games in the past like with ''Minecraft'' and ''GTA''), and even then, it still could've taken a while for their videos to reach those numbers, with only a few rare exceptions such as ''LetsPlay/UnoInfinite'' (and that one is more due to the whole "[[DancingBear playing a simple card game for over a day]]" thing). Factors that are arguably responsible for this have included their content getting more stale as online videos have evolved, several older cast members moving on to different projects, newer cast members were brough in to fill the void but were unable to connect as well with longtime viewers while failing to attract new viewers and [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor the scandals]] involving Ryan Haywood's sexual misconduct allegations and later on the revelation of Rooster Teeth's toxic workplace environment making [[HarsherInHindsight much of their older content a lot more uncomfortable to watch]],[[note]]In fact, Social Blade shows that Ryan's scandal had the biggest negative effect on the group overall, showing that weekly viewership and subscriber counts began to go downward beginning in October 2020, the month that the scandal blew up.[[/note]] According to [[https://www.distractify.com/p/why-did-achievement-hunter-disband this article]] on ''Distractify'', the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic seemed to have been the final nail in the coffin, as it forced everyone to be separated and away from the AH office for a long time with a temporary switch to streaming, which did not appeal to those who preferred the curated and edited Let's Play videos, and the comradery found in their older videos was lost when they did return to the edited Let's Play sessions remotely, since they couldn't do stuff together in the same room. By the time they finally returned to the office, so much had changed that they never recovered, and the announcement of the division's dissolution came as no surprise to fans past and present.

* SeasonalRot: General consensus is that Achievement Hunter had been on the decline beginning from around [[TheNewTens the late 2010s]], with [[https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/letsplay Social Blade]] showing proof of declining video viewership and subscribers on the [=LetsPlay=] channel. During their final years in [[TheNewTwenties the 2020s]], their videos rarely got at least 100,000 views, with most of such videos being their ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' videos (particularly ''VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown''), despite ''Gmod'' not having been one of their regular games in the past like with ''Minecraft'' and ''GTA''), and even then, it still could've taken a while for their videos to reach those numbers, with only a few rare exceptions such as ''LetsPlay/UnoInfinite'' (and that one is more due to the whole "[[DancingBear playing a simple card game for over a day]]" thing). Factors that are arguably responsible for this have included their content getting more stale as online videos have evolved, several older cast members moving on to different projects, newer cast members were brough in to fill the void but were unable to connect as well with longtime viewers while failing to attract new viewers and [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor the scandals]] involving Ryan Haywood's sexual misconduct allegations and later on the revelation of Rooster Teeth's toxic workplace environment making [[HarsherInHindsight much of their older content a lot more uncomfortable to watch]],[[note]]In fact, Social Blade shows that Ryan's scandal had the biggest negative effect on the group overall, showing that weekly viewership and subscriber counts began to go downward beginning in October 2020, the month that the scandal blew up.[[/note]] According to [[https://www.distractify.com/p/why-did-achievement-hunter-disband this article]] on ''Distractify'', the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic seemed to have been the final nail in the coffin, as it forced everyone to be separated and away from the AH office for a long time with a temporary switch to streaming, which did not appeal to those who preferred the curated and edited Let's Play videos, and the comradery found in their older videos was lost when they did return to the edited Let's Play sessions remotely, since they couldn't do stuff together in the same room. By the time they finally returned to the office, so much had changed that they never recovered, and announcement of the division's dissolution came as no surprise to fans past and present.

* SeasonalRot: While there are disagreements over how this trope happened, the general consensus is that Achievement Hunter has been on the decline beginning from around [[TheNewTens the late 2010s]], with [[https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/letsplay Social Blade]] showing proof of declining video viewership and subscribers on the [=LetsPlay=] channel. Nowadays, their videos rarely get at least 100,000 views, with most of such videos being their ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' videos (particularly ''VideoGame/TroubleInTerroristTown''), despite ''Gmod'' not having been one of their regular games in the past like with ''Minecraft'' and ''GTA''), and even then it can still take a while for their videos to reach those numbers, with only a few rare exceptions such as ''LetsPlay/UnoInfinite'' (and that one is more due to the whole "[[DancingBear playing a simple card game for over a day]]" thing). Factors that are arguably responsible for this have included their content getting less creative and innovative and more stagnant, their newer, younger castmates who viewers mostly believe don't have many distinctive traits compared to the older cast beyond being more excitable, and [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor the whole Ryan Haywood scandal]] making [[HarsherInHindsight much of their older content a lot more uncomfortable to watch]].[[note]]In fact, Social Blade shows that Ryan's scandal had the biggest negative effect on the group overall, showing that weekly viewership and subscriber counts began to go downward beginning in October 2020, the month that the scandal blew up.[[/note]]

%%In "Let's Play ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' Part 1", Ray thought that Pandas [[WhatAnIdiot ate eucalyptus leaves instead of bamboo.]] Compare that to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJlPpFR56Mc#t=6m24s this scene]][[note]]6:24[[/note]] from ''Anime/KujibikiUnbalance''.

** They did it again with their third ''Madden'' video concerning the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos. What makes this even more hilarious is the fact that, while their game wasn't as bad as the near-CurbStompBattle that the actual game was, one has to wonder if Jack's GeneralFailure actions jinxed them. (To put that game into perspective, the gents team (As the Broncos) threw ''eleven'' interceptions in that game. That is more than Peyton Manning himself threw in the ''entire 2013 season.'')

*** [[PortmanteauCoupleName Mavin]] is regularly lampshaded by Lindsay who admits that it's her favorite ship.

** "I'm gonna build a house," Jack's earlier CatchPhrase for when he gave up on the current Let's Play goal.

** Geoff is an in-universe example with his "maniacal Wii-U tablet laugh".

** After Caleb's derailing of the game played in ''Let's Play Minecraft'' Episode 28 and a brief incident where he looked at the other guys' screens in Episode 29, he has been constantly ridiculed by them during their ''Let's Play Minecraft'' episodes. Screenlooking is now referred to as [[PersonAsVerb Calebing]]. [[https://twitter.com/calebdenecour/status/454325244522536960/photo/1 He still can't live it down now.]] Mind you that, at the time that photo was uploaded, it had been '''over two years''' since both those incidents happened. He eventually left the company altogether to focus on his Ultimate Frisbee career, but still remains on good terms with everyone.

** Any of Ryan's quotes that get made into a shirt, particularly 'I'm still in the air', which automatically gets him a ribbing from the other guys whenever he accidentally says it in videos. 'Give Me Your Milk', anyone?
** Geoff's bashing of Gavin halfway through the ''Quiplash'' video is frequently criticized by fans. Considering that jokes made at Gavin's expense have been done many times before, the comments in that video suggest fans are either [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks tired of them]] or [[ViewersAreGoldfish simply forgot about them]]. Michael and the rest of AH also seemed [[CreatorBacklash less than amused]], though their [[TakeThatAudience hilarious reactions]] may have inadvertently encouraged [[{{Troll}} the audience]] to vote for Geoff's answers.