An American actor, voice actor, on-camera host/on-screen talent and content creator for shows and podcasts, video game writer, Twitch streamer, and YouTube personality, James Ryan Haywood (born December 6, 1980) hails from Columbus, Georgia. As a co-anchor, gaming journalist, and on-camera co-host of Rooster Teeth’s Achievement Hunter and Rooster Teeth’s entertainment news division The Know, he was well-known in the gaming community for his contributions.
On October 6, 2020, Ryan published a now-deleted tweet announcing his departure from Rooster Teeth. According to Rooster Teeth, he had violated the company’s Code of Conduct, as was stated in the statement. Numerous charges and discoveries about the manipulation of multiple female fans by Ryan prompted his resignation from the show.
Haywood previously hosted Rooster Teeth’s gaming podcast Glitch Please, served as a secondary recurrent host of the official Achievement Hunter podcast, Off Topic, and occasionally appeared as a special guest on the RT Podcast and the Always Open podcasts.
[1] As well as live-action roles, he has voiced characters in a number of Rooster Teeth projects. Early in the fall of 2011, he was working on Red vs. Blue Season 10 as a machinima animator at the Rooster Teeth Animation department.
On June 14, 2011, Geoff posted a Craigslist ad looking for a part-time manager, overseer, and editor for the Game Fails Channel on YouTube, and Ryan was hired as a contract host and behind-the-scenes tech/PC crew, since he lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, which is about three hours away from Rooster Teeth’s 636 headquarters. Following his move to Austin, Texas, in late August 2011, Ryan was employed by Rooster Teeth as an animator, editor, and technical director for Season 10 of Red vs. Blue, where he would work on the show’s animation, editing, and technical directing until the end of the year.
Ryan Haywood’s biography
Full Sail University alumnus Ryan graduated with a degree in computer animation. For six years, he studied computer engineering, computer science, broadcasting, and theatre at Georgia Southern University.
Despite having a successful professional career, everything changed when claims from his past came to light. His life story shows how he went from being a weed to a king and back again.
Early Life and Career:
Ryan spent most of his childhood in and around Columbus, Georgia. His parents referred to him as Ryan rather than James, and it became a permanent part of his identity.
At the time of his high school years in Georgia, Ryan worked as a professional male model for a magazine named “Twist,” according to his statements made in Let’s Play – 7 Days to Die, Part 3. After $200,000 had been raised, these images were made public during the Extra Life stream. These photographs were disclosed after $200,000 was donated to him in an Extra Life stream. With the magazine, Ryan also appeared in an Italian runway show dressed as a mushroom-stomping, mushroom-stomping gnome. After school, Ryan worked as a pool cleaner in the summers of his teenage years.
For six years, Ryan attended Georgia Southern University, where he studied computer engineering, computer science, broadcast and theater, among other subjects. While in England, he also took classes.
How old is Ryan Haywood?
David Edwards and Debbie Hoover gave birth to Haywood on December 6, 1980, in Columbus, Georgia, USA. He is of Caucasian ancestry and American nationality. He will be 41 years old in December 2021. Tanya and Ryan Edwards are Tanya’s two brothers and sisters. He was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia, where he lived with his parents and siblings.
Haywood studied computer animation at Full Sail University and graduated with honors. He attended Georgia Southern University for six years, where he studied computer engineering, computer science, broadcasting, and theatre.
Career
When Ryan was still in high school, he had already begun his profession. In Georgia, he worked as a male model and was featured in the magazine Twist. After raising $200,000 through the Extra Life stream, images of him were made public.
With Twist magazine, Haywood also appeared in an Italian runway show, where he was decked out in what appeared to be a mushroom-like elf outfit. In addition, Ryan worked as a pool janitor at the same time.
Rooster Teeth: 2011-2020
A job opening at Rooster Teeth was advertised on Craigslist in March 2011 after Ryan had moved to Corpus Christi, Texas. Geoff made Ryan drive up to Austin many times after he applied to make sure he was serious. At the beginning of June 2011, he was hired by Geoff and Jack as a part-time employee to handle the newly-created (now defunct) Game Fails YouTube channel, which he managed remotely from Corpus Christi, Texas, because he was also a behind-the-scenes tech/PC guy. It wasn’t until early September 2011 that Rooster Teeth ultimately recruited Ryan as an animator, editor, and technical director for Season 10, which was in the middle of production at the time of his arrival in Austin. His full-time position at Rooster Teeth saw him working on the long-running online series Red vs. Blue as an animator. Red vs. Blue, despite its military science fiction setting, was low on combat, focusing instead on humor and storytelling. His involvement in the series led to more elaborately choreographed battle scenes and new animation techniques that mirrored fan-submitted material. The trend continued through the show’s 10th season, which aired in the fall of 2012.
New York City’s Rooster Teeth posted a YouTube video of Ryan’s first for Achievement Hunter on June 10, 2011, titled “A Video Game Tour of New York City.” “The Witcher 2: Librarian Achievement Guide,” which was released to YouTube by Rooster Teeth on June 16, 2011, was the first video in which he appeared. Besides the “Skyrim: Kill the Meme” guide, he also posted a non-speaking role in December 2011 in the description of the guide. [2]
On March 26, 2012, Geoff, Jack, Michael, and Gavin (who were already full-time employees of AH at the time) made their first foray into playing PC games in “Let’s Play – Mari0 – With Geoff, Gavin, Michael, and Ryan.” On Red vs. Blue Season 10, Ryan was still working as an animator when he participated in the YouTube video “Dear YouTube” in May 2012, which was released in the summer of 2012. Burnie Burns, CEO of Rooster Teeth, promised Haywood that if he could finish the season 10 of Red vs. Blue on time, he could do whatever else he wanted to.
When Season 10 of Red vs. Blue wrapped up in the fall of 2012/early 2013, Ryan made the switch from working in the RT Animation department to focusing more on Achievement Hunter. The third primary host of Achievement Hunter, Geoff Ramsey, Jack Pattillo, Gavin Free, Michael Jones, Lindsay Jones, and Ray Narvaez, Jr. was promoted to full-time host in late Autumn 2012/early 2013.
Accomplishment Hunter isn’t the only thing that has brought him to the big screen. He has also appeared in Rooster Teeth Shorts, Immersion, The Gauntlet and many other live action productions. As an added bonus, Ryan does voice work for a number of Rooster Teeth-produced animated series. Aside from RWBY’s Soldier #1, he also voiced Marlowe’s Lieutenant John Elizabeth Andersmith in season 12 and 13 of RvB, as well as Professor Peter Port in RWBY. As a voice actor, he has also portrayed Marlowe in Season 14’s Grey vs. Gray, Diesel in the RTX@Home version of Viper, Jethro in Nomad of Nowhere, and The Mad King in X-Ray and Vav, among other roles. In the season 2 finale of Camp Camp, Ryan provided the voice of Agent Millers. He was also a frequent guest on the gaming podcasts The Patch and “Glitch Please,” which was a relaunch of the original. He began streaming on Twitch as SortaMaliciousGaming while still employed at AH/RT on April 30, 2016.
Departure from Rooster Teeth
On October 6, 2020, Ryan resigned from Rooster Teeth as a result of many allegations of sexual assault and grooming. [3] [4] According to Rooster Teeth, he and Adam Kovic from Funhaus were the two employees who violated the company’s Code of Conduct on October 7th. [5]
A number of Achievement Hunter and Rooster Teeth employees have stated their disgust at Haywood’s behavior and their willingness to completely distance themselves from Rooster Teeth content and the community in the future. Red vs. Blue: Zero’s release date was delayed from October 19 to allow for a complete re-recording of Haywood’s dialogue in the series, which was announced shortly after the Code of Conduct declaration. Rooster Teeth’s co-hosts Michael Jones and Jack Pattillo announced live on stream that the company would “wipe the slate clean.” They acknowledged that it would be impossible to remove every trace of Ryan from the past eight years, but they promised to edit and/or delete the video content library as necessary. He tried to return to Twitch in early 2021 but was banned from the service.