Overcoming Flanderization: The Story of Donut

[@claytonrios1]

Goodbye Rooster Teeth. Gone but not forgotten...

[@Seb_No.13]

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[@m.x.s.k.e.d]

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[@deanchua8556]

Wise words from a wise person 😢

[@lordgeneralmilitantdeezy7550]

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[@ABrick-hf3qt]

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[@TTastic-pb5nt]

People don't realize sometimes how awesome of a color pink can be.

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

Nah, pink sucks, lightish red is quite cool though.

[@TTastic-pb5nt]

​@QuantemDeconstructor I think both are cool. Plus, pink is just red with a lighter tone.

[@danielsalazar9261]

Alot of fictional characters power are pink and its pretty dope (Byakuya Kuchiki from bleach)

[@TKWNNGGT]

*NUH-UH*

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

There's a reason why I use pink sleeves for my various TCG decks.

[@solidskullz5736]

Rooster teeth may be gone, but they left one hell of a legacy. This video for example

[@poky4669]

Every April Fool's it's the same: I get pleasantly surprised seeing your RvB video, watch it and enjoy thoroughly, am disappointed about needing to wait a whole year for the next one, then forget I'm waiting just in time for another genuinely great character analysis the next April.

[@mercury2157]

It's not so much April Fool's as it is Rooster Teeth's anniversary

[@poky4669]

@@mercury2157 April 1st and April Fools are the same thing

[@mercury2157]

​@poky4669 I mean these videos aren't uploaded as an April Fool's gag. They're uploaded in tandem with RvB's parent company anniversary

[@poky4669]

@@mercury2157 That feels pedantic and presumptuous when I never said that these videos were uploaded as April Fool's jokes? I only said that every April Fool's Day I'm pleasantly surprised to see a new RvB video by Meti. Obviously this video isn't a joke to me.

[@LegendStormcrow]

Donut and Caboose were both random profile names you could have in CE, and they likely ran the same algorithm to choose names as the XBox name presets. 3 layers. In fact it's likely why Donut's personality became Donut

[@nerdcorner2680]

Growing up watching RvB I always really missed Donut when he wasn’t in the show, and it took me awhile to realize why. His endless positivity really balances the show well. Whenever early seasons had some plot heavy sections, they never felt hopeless or like the show was turning serious because Donut was there. Perfect example is S7 with Donut and the Meta vs the A plot. And makes sense why killing Donut was the trigger for the show to get really serious. The other characters have a lot of nihilistic humor which makes the serious plotlines feel more serious than they should

[@bensherinian3599]

Childhood favorite moment: Doughnut thinking Simmons died and screamed “we could of talked about our hopes and dreams!!!”.

[@sanantexas2477]

YEARLY RVB METI VIDEO

[@mberka12]

I like this yearly April Fools' Day Tradition

[@isthisajojoreference]

I love your April Fools videos so much because they’re actually still good content

[@mercury2157]

They're not April Fool's videos though. Rooster Teeth's anniversary is on April 1st.

[@isthisajojoreference]

@@mercury2157 I think that’s why Meti chooses to do RvB videos but if it wasn’t they’d still be making quality content on April Fools

[@username.mp4387]

Dude this is the best yearly tradition ever

[@Comkill117]

Hats off to the lightish red hero.

[@justapun8115]

Donut’s character progression is genuinely one of the best I’ve seen.

[@bloodboundalpha1303]

Mr. Lightish-Red

[@justinn8541akaDrPokemon]

Ah yes, a video on Ace, Rengoku, Kakyoin, and Abbacchio.

[@lazer_31]

Fun fact, the reason why Donut didn't make an appearance in Restoration was because Burnie liked the arc Donut went through in S16-17, and didn't want to touch that because he thought it was perfect.

[@0inarrow735]

This video right here helps explain so well why I'll be really said if seasons 15-17 are deemed to not actually have happened (I haven't seen seasons 18-19). They absolutely had their flaws, but sometimes I think it's better to accept a piece of media for what it did right and wrong and work with it, then to deem it non cannon and start over. Those seasons giving time to flesh out the joke characters like Doc, Donut, Sister and Caboose is my favorite aspect of those seasons.

[@HamazuraGOD]

You haven't seen 19 because it's not out yet, but the trailer for it seems to imply that 15-18 were just simulations that Epsilon conducted, and thus never happened. I'll be so upset. I love 15-17.

[@0inarrow735]

@@HamazuraGOD You're right, I meant zero and family shatters.

[@pamelabenson6212]

He finally did a video about red team

[@xsoultillerx]

joey's connection to red eyes is more of a call back to the season 0 movie about the card being the embodiment of potential which was kinda his thing back in duelist kingdom while at the same time gives him an ace/signature/boss monster like yugi & kaiba have since they didn't wanna use flame swordsman. also it adds to the parallel of joey & kaiba.

[@maxiargos1971]

still weird seeing this, since even if Rooster Teeth is no more they are doing one last season to end it.

[@madDesparada]

Love the marathon reference, man I miss durandal so much

[@davi0121]

What I get from the opening is that Meti needs to create his own Machinima series.

[@arawen8792]

Would love to see a video on Grif's journey and growth throughout the series, the last 3 were great

[@PattPlays]

when you fall for a april fools non-video then close it, scroll down, and see GOLD 🎉🎉🎉

[@170skeith]

I love that you are committed to the red vs blue every April fools day please do Caboose or Sarge next year

[@mercury2157]

I think Grif is next. Besides Tucker, Grif is the sim trooper that went through the most radical and significant changes throughout the series, with and without the Restoration retcon.

[@hrteater]

you should definitely make a video on carolina, there are no videos giving a deep dive of another very complex character

[@UpNextDonum]

Binged all of these and ahhhh!!! They’re so good!

[@FreelancerMarcy]

Meti I love your RvB videos. I do hope that you'll make them more than just April Fools RvB is my favorite piece of media ever. It's taught me so much and has been there for me at my lowest point. I'm so hyped for Restoration.

[@tadeuszekpl]

Yesss Best character video

[@Sun-gundam]

My my how the time flies has it really been 13 years since rvb

[@erotictoaster69]

Hoping for another one of these RvB videos soon! Love your analysis for these such unique characters!

[@agentwashington9911]

Please keep doing these, ive been on a rvb nostalgia kick

[@pan1c974]

Best gift of the year tbh

[@ZedKingsley]

LETS GOOO! ANOTHER RVB VIDEO!

[@PeiceofNick]

I know this is an April Fools thing but I would uniornicly love to see you do more vids covering the cast of RvB in the future, mabye even the cast of RWBY as well.

[@IntroMind]

Never realized how much I relate to Donut. Love your RvB videos 👍🏾

[@Nameless-ln5mr]

See you next April Fools Day, when Meti covers his 4th favorite character in RVB!

[@milk-dq7fu]

Meti youre the goat this is insane

[@PennFaulkner]

And the tradition continues!

[@wilhelmscream3813]

I look forward to you doing more videos on these characters!

[@Prancksterr]

Literally the only upload i look forward to on 4/1

[@BLACKGUY444]

This is one of your best videos on your channel

[@theta8529]

I say this Genuinly, PLEASE Make this not just an April Fools thing. I wanna See More RVB Stuff From you!

[@mercury2157]

It's not for April Fool's. It's the founding date of Rooster Teeth.

[@joshuafolino3023]

Goodbye Rooster Teeth, Don’t say goodbye. I hate goodbye

[@kase1898]

I think you win the internet for the intro😂❤

[@chillokay5189]

Great video! Seeing Sarge get his own video would be nice.

[@werr3222werrr]

I am so glad you kept this going Season 20 is going to break me

[@ArcTrooper269]

Red Vs Blue's season 15-18 should be a Topic of study on how to NOT WRITE A STORYwith pre-existing Lore & Characters

[@mercury2157]

Some of the characters did get some really good development though, mainly Donut, Carolina, and Grif. Carolina in particular had the most organic change from season 13 to 17, and it's clear that Sharkface had an impact on the way she thinks about war when you examine her mentality in 15 and 17.

[@shanecorcoran2542]

this video is literally a great example of why 15-17 are misunderstood I don't know what you mean with this

[@reminiscentiaoff4669]

Thinking about it now, I find it kind of nice that Epsilon would lean an entire simulation towards showing Donut he is more than he thought he was. As long as everyone Remembers what happened in the simulations that could be interesting in its own right.

[@tayronesousadascostas9421]

Please Meti, can you do a " the beauty of mario zucchero " ?, I think it was the only character in part 5 that you didn't make a video about, I love this style of video.

[@crunchypudding.9221]

I love RvB so much, I love MNBG. I'm excited for roosterteeths last rvb season. I'll definitely love this video. Double O Donut!

[@GoldLight73]

I honestly kind of fell off of the series after the Chorus Saga, but it’s nice to know that the later RvB series still had some redeeming qualities.

[@wavewingman5993]

It's alright that you got this video out before Restoration, seeing as Donut wasn't even in it.

[@thatguyinaldi9056]

Why must you only do these once a year ;-; they’re so good!

[@the_king_of_kings_3413]

Please do one of these for Doc and Omali!!!!

[@CharzaKitsune]

> Durandal *NICE*

[@lostgem8225]

whats durandal a reference to? (im guessing mister hamhampangpang but i feel like theres another reference there)

[@helixenterprises9013]

​@@lostgem8225 Marathon, a game series made by Bungie before Halo.

[@takenname8053]

Looks like I got to beige watch all of Red vs Blue again, to understand this video...

[@jojonono2679]

Great video

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

Damn. Guess I gotta wait another year for Carolina

[@VooshSpokesman]

Love from a Gazpacho1 and Vaush fan!

[@eggnogmeowmeow-t4d]

dude when i first watched red vs blue i kinda accidentally predicted the shisno paradox when i texted my friends "is donut jesus?" because he wouldn't die

[@cat_the_e]

very epic video 👍 Now we need Philip from Ruina, the next joke- (why does everyone hate him doe ):)

[@elijahbowers1]

Contact is such a banger.

[@tapdancinggiraffe9047]

DONUT VIDEO YES!!! 🩷🩷🍩🩷🩷

[@CaptainFearghal]

Y'know, if your still doing RVB for next April Fools, i'd actually like to see an analysis on Delta, granted there are other characters sure, but he's my fav

[@therealbingobango]

Season 19 i think is becoming a movie

[@tadeuszekpl]

17:44 why does miles actually sound like donut

[@edisonkelly2729]

Can you do more kamen rider characters.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

He's right about Red-Eyes though, it really doesn't fit Joey's deck at all.

[@tadeuszekpl]

22:54 dr.grey

[@theamazingmeh1759]

Unfortunate Donut wasn't in the last season, at all.

[@herohunter64]

A perfect April Fools video

[@epicepicenter715]

We get here multiple holes that you like filled in by a whole bunch of guys

[@miketrujillo3677]

You consume the same media as me and it hurts

[@AlexDickson-qr9nx]

Do you really think red eyes is not Joey's ace monster

[@Nyghtking]

So are those little red vs blue based skits at the beginning going to just be a thing from now on when you make videos on the series?

[@thefunnychiptuneman]

i want a rwby video now just to see what meti can say about it

[@StimmBehr]

Donut

[@DTinkerer]

Commenting for the algorithm

[@alexanderbrooks2320]

Can you do Leos from delicious in dungeon next

[@Kooma4Yew1600]

.....is it sad that I didn't take the date into context😂

[@mfrebel7831]

Red Eyes is my favorite card 💪🏽😎

[@2cool-he6ih]

Where’s the Church video dude?

[@shork3168]

Seeing that we got another RvB for April Fools and going “YEEEES- wait, NOOOO” after realizing that this is probably gonna have the Shisno Paradox play a major role

[@alexsonicelcaballeromegave4524]

What do you think about Red vs Blue season 19?

[@DaniG._.German]

13:28 heh

[@Dadan-dan]

Franklin Delano Donut, or as spanish speaker will hear it, Franklin Oftheanus Donut 😅

[@joshuafolino3023]

Also can you do video about Nier series

[@CrystalOatz]

library of ruina mentioned?

[@CrystalOatz]

oh yea. you made the Kromer video

[@mr.notentirelyuseless7314]

Plz do katakuri from one piece. Love ure vids dude

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Happy April fools 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@VICTORZITOSS]

Yeaaaah Let's get this video to a lot of views in the first hour so that it gets love from youtube Algorithm bless this video which i liked even before watching it because it's that good Seriously, sometimes i end up pissed off because i can't like it again after watching it, fix that youtube Lots of words lots of engagement, yadda yadda

[@Frankie-kn3vg]

Good April fools video, but maybe for your next character analysis vid could you do Higurama from jjk? I think that would be an awesome video with your voice and style

[@agsdragon5475]

Can you do rwby and blazblue

[@robertaslanian2564]

Caboose character development video please!🙏

[@niecysanders4872]

It's not pink it's lightish red

[@tomo8940]

This wasn't an April Fool's joke?

[@benb5308]

Behold: the only person who enjoyed season 16 and 17

[@shanecorcoran2542]

season 17 is genuinely really good

[@freakyskull516]

calling the AI durandal...

[@stwbmc98]

As of now, we have no indication that either Dan Godwin or Donut are returning for Restoration. Which is a little sad. But, the teaser implied that the events of Shisno were something the characters experienced even if it wasn’t “real” so I’m hoping they just agreed that Donut ended on a high note and wanted to leave him there.

[@wavewingman5993]

It's alright that you got this video out before Restoration, seeing as Donut wasn't even in it.