Well, it had been over 120 days since the internet was graced with the bad-kind of awe-inspiring presence of the Red Ape Family, but like the saying goes all good things must come to an end.
And bad things will always come around again.
Red Ape Family 2nd Episode
While the second episode of The Red Ape Family (TRAF) does have better animation, it’s better in comparison to the first episode. All in all, it’s a middle effort that does enough to not get laughed off the internet. It still isn’t winning any awards.
It should also be noted, they managed to pull off a “whole” episode this time, and that’s likely due to the Hollywood talent they’ve recruited for this rug pull advertisement.
That’s right, TRAF pulled out the big guns and hired writers with credentials from projects like Point Blank (the 2019 one) and Man Down (the Shia LeBeouf one). The move seems to ensured 18 minutes of animation gets created rather than 6, but are the 18 minutes any better?
It does a good job of separating itself entirely from the first six minute episode. And then delivering, an additional eighteen minutes of something?
Most of it plays like desperate call-outs to bigger names and audiences in the NFT space in the hope for more views. Here’s the short list of every large platform or influencer shoutout within run time: Jake Paul, Elon Musk (in baby form), Bitcoin, Donald Trump, Gary Vee.
They also have a “partnership” with Diesel Denim.
Diesel, y’know those jeans that were popular from 2010-2015? The same Diesel USA that filed for bankruptcy in 2019? Yeah the apes wear non-descript “diesel” jackets for thirty seconds, huge partnership.
Sure to influence consumer spending.
So between all those different incessant call-outs what’s left is the word “fuckers”, “motherfuckers”, “holy shit balls” and some mild inexplicable gunplay.
A reflection of the newly action movie weighted writers room.
Saberspark and TRAF Dispute
Likely the last thing the episode will be noted for is taking a shot at youtuber Saberspark by calling him saberfart. Not only that, the show also depicted the youtuber as a NERD, and said that all of their critics were basement virgins.
It’s a bold choice to make a fart joke out of someone’s name when the acronym for your own show (which you brand heavily) is FART spelled backwards.
Wild levels of unforced error on that one.
As of this writing, Saber Fart’s response video, where he comes off looking more mature than the entire TRAF executive production team has 1 million views within 3 days.
For contrast, the second episode of FART has 40k views in its first 5 days, 72k views two weeks after release. The first episode from November of 2021? 977k views. One Saberspark response video has more views than the entirety of the FART show on Youtube.
There’s other writing on the wall as well.
They’ve pulled their “Season 1 Midseason Roadmap” from their website. Purely speculation, but I imagine that someone let them know that investors could use failing to adhere to that roadmap against them if it ever came to it.
Now it’s listed as “acheived”.
Executive team, if you’re reading this, because let’s be honest the show doesn’t get much of any press, the Wayback Machine is a thing.
For the time being, they’ll throw more good money after bad, but the prediction holds. I don’t think they’ll make it past three episodes.
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