Have you watched their stuff? Rooster Teeth is literally in the business of cracking stupid jokes. I wouldn’t place a machinima hack in the same industry as game design and production.
But regarding Peter, being soft is not his best play. It was the “this conversation doesn’t have enough ME in it” attitude that started his problems. My advice were I addressing him would be: it’s a shame you had a setback – but stop feeling sorry for yourself as soon as you possibly can, and take your career seriously by learning from this shitshow, at the very least by learning that social media drama is not a positive for you, and that these platforms have ended a lot more jobs than they have created.