Thankyou to everyone at RoosterTeeth!

The first time I started watching Rooster Teeth was back in the Red vs Blue days when the first season's episodes was just starting. I put on the episode that has "You shot Church you team killing ftard" at school before class started and made my friends laugh.

I may not have been as lonely as you during these times but at home I was dealing with physically and emotionally abusive parents who I suspect actually was just ventilating the stress from their financial woes and exhausting schedule on my brother and I. Coming home to an empty apartment room as a 12 year old (since I was 8) where I would eat dinner from the personal pizza box I got from school for writing a book report was one of the sadder parts of my life. I was a social and outgoing kid. To go out where I lived would mean cops would harass us because a lot of illegal immigrants lived in the same apartment. Also because they had nothing else to do.

At home I couldn't even touch the computer because my older brother who was also physically and emotionally abusive to a point that was worse than my parents beating us (using fire, knives, weapons to threaten me). I had no shelter, no quarter wherever I went. But I would always look forward to the early mornings; the 45 minutes before school started where we could use the computer.

I'd always download and play RvB on QuickTime with all my friends huddling around me laughing. I loved the cast and everything about it. It made me forget about all the troubles at home. It made me laugh, as the only thing that you could hear in my home was screaming and yelling. As the years passed by, I witnessed Rooster Teeth become spectacularly popular. I thought it was well-deserving. These guys not only got me through a rough patch in my life but were hilarious.

I watched a lot of their other works including the FEAR promo shorts, the RT shorts, etc. RT is exactly what I wanted to watch, exactly what I was interested in. I may not have tuned in for the podcasts and such but I was completely entranced by most of their work and humor. Now, I don't face the same type of problems I had. I have a much better relationship that doesn't depend on abuse or dysfunctional interactions with my parents and brothers. Luckily I have not really developed any serious depression or anxiety disorders. I may be a bit socially awkward and shake my leg/arm a lot due to PTSD of being beaten up when I was younger but overall I am glad how I turned out. Could have been much worse and I credit much of how I retained my sanity thanks to laughter which was also credited to Rooster Teeth and Dave Chappelle, the top two sources for my laughter.

Thank you RT for helping me overcome tough times in my life by providing a little bit of comedy. Science has proclaimed laughter and smiling improves health of the heart. You have physically made me more vibrant and livelier. Most people probably won't read this but if you have, RT, you guys are a godsend.

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