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MatPat announces retirement from Game Theory and YouTube
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
RagnarokIV
Member
Dr_Ifto
Member
I second this, never heard of him.
midnightAI
Member
My kids love watching the guys videos, he will be missed by them
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
No wonder I have idea who this is.
saintjules
Member
midnightAI
Member
For those saying 'who'. This guy has over 18 million subscribers on his game theories channel, this video alone has over 9 million views in under 24 hours. So you may not know who he is but a shit ton of people do.
Wildebeest
Member
I believe this guy was briefly relevant 10+ years ago for getting ahead of the trend of saying things that are blatantly wrong-headed to drive up engagement with people are annoyed and want to correct him.
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
I'm happy for a shit ton of people, but I'll add my voice to the chorus here: have NEVER heard of this dude or the channels he's involved with. Not even memey or giving the dude a hard time, I just legit have never seen any of his content pop up in recommended or related.
Holammer
Member
I don't hate him, but I reckon he had a bad influence on how developers produce "lore" for games. Not by his fault, but having your game featured on an episode of Game Theory was an amazing meal ticket. So every two-bit dev started to bury the games in mystery boxes, be it codes and symbolism, in one particularly embarrassing moment the devs behind Hello Neighbour desperately tried to catch his attention on Twitter.
FNAF owes much of its viral success to the positive attention Game Theory brought it.
FNAF owes much of its viral success to the positive attention Game Theory brought it.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
I keep seeing people crying about this and I have no idea of the context.
Thanks. Someone posted videos. The first had boogie, the guy who pretends to be angry, some girl and Geoff.
I knew almost everyone else but not him. Not being sarcastic when I say sorry for those folks that miss him and thanks for letting me know he’s beloved. I personally just didn’t have him even in my vague sphere of a gaming person.
(Back to lamenting the loss of Giant Bomb and screw attack handsom Tom in the format I enjoyed them.)
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
THIS!
STARSBarry
Gold Member
Have people literally never heard anyone say
"But that's just a theory... A GAME THEORY" in a bitchy whiney voice randomly online?
This is the guy... right here who did that.
"But that's just a theory... A GAME THEORY" in a bitchy whiney voice randomly online?
This is the guy... right here who did that.
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kurisu_1974
is on perm warning for being a low level troll
Weird how so many super famous YouTubers exists in these pocket universes that never collide with my experience.
Topher
Gold Member
I was just thinking
Ass of Can Whooping
getting banned yesterday was more relevant to me than this youtube guy no longer being a youtube guy.
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Seeing something you built up, having a noticeable effect on gaming discourse among the young, working with people you inspired at a young age, and then realizing you have to say goodbye to it as you are so drained and tired from the content chase that you can’t do it anymore if you want to live a happy life with a family.
wvnative
Member
One of the early guys I used to love watching. He'd do stuff like "Would spoiler have actually died at the end of disc 1?" Or "would you actually survive jumping off a building into a hay-bell?"
They were entertaining and educational with bits of humor sprinkled in. But then he got big, and started doing bullshit like fnaf and minecraft and all sortsa shit like that. got tired and quit watching.
Then I really got mad over a KH video he did. Granted KH is crazy and I imagine not easy to research if you've not played it. But for someone who is clearly dedicated to getting research right, and being informative and is clearly smart, he got some really obvious stuff wrong. I don't think he purposefully half assed it but I saw it as a result of becoming too big, being pressured to talk about what is popular, and having to rush videos.
I jumped off. I think he is a good guy though.
They were entertaining and educational with bits of humor sprinkled in. But then he got big, and started doing bullshit like fnaf and minecraft and all sortsa shit like that. got tired and quit watching.
Then I really got mad over a KH video he did. Granted KH is crazy and I imagine not easy to research if you've not played it. But for someone who is clearly dedicated to getting research right, and being informative and is clearly smart, he got some really obvious stuff wrong. I don't think he purposefully half assed it but I saw it as a result of becoming too big, being pressured to talk about what is popular, and having to rush videos.
I jumped off. I think he is a good guy though.
saintjules
Member
Yea I'd be emotional too after all that work.
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
I was just thinking
"Reduced to temp because you were obviously drunk," is my new favorite staff communication.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Same. If I don't know the name, I usually recognize the face. Not so this time.
chromatic9
Member
Not heard or seen of him either until this thread.
I guess some minecraft roblox player or someone that skews into that age group of fans, no idea, it's worlds within worlds on youtube and beyond.
That's a hefty amount of views so good luck to him, sounds like he had a very good run and knows it's time.
I guess some minecraft roblox player or someone that skews into that age group of fans, no idea, it's worlds within worlds on youtube and beyond.
That's a hefty amount of views so good luck to him, sounds like he had a very good run and knows it's time.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
What a privilege to be able to retire so young. I'll be working till I'm dead.
Woopah
Member
That's the line that immediately played in my head when I read the title.
March Climber
Member
I think it depends on this forum’s collective age and when they were watching youtube. Isn’t MatPat/Game Theory, post-AVGN, post-GameTrailers, and post-old G4?
It’s weird because he exists in this bubble of time where newer youtube watchers don’t really know him that well either since people moved on to streamers, reactors, thinkpiece vids, etc.
nial
Gold Member
It's weird seeing all these 'who?' posts, I remember reading a 2019 thread about MatPat and everyone perfectly knew him.
He probably just waited until Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 was out, then he went to solve it, and finally leave his channel.
He will probably come back whenever the new comes out, lol.
He probably just waited until Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 was out, then he went to solve it, and finally leave his channel.
He will probably come back whenever the new comes out, lol.
It's also the other way around, FNAF's continued success is what helped The Game Theory to stay relevant for many years to come. It also helped that Scott Cawthon was very friendly with him in the game series' prime times.
hemo memo
Gold Member
Yeah I used to watch his videos, they were great. I don’t know why I stopped honestly but most likely Youtube algorithm stopped putting his videos to me. Anyways, I know why he gets emotional but for people like him, what are you going to do to keep bringing money? Investments? I mean content creator on your CV is not glamorous as what they might think and soon you’ll be irrelevant and people will forget who you are.
He already has over 100 million dollars, he doesn't need to do a single thing for the rest of his life lol
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
+1 to “who is this”
Mid 30’s, Been gaming my whole life and watch YouTube nearly every day.
Icymanipulator
Member
I used to watch him back in the day. Hope all the best to him.
sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
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Dwight Schrute
Member
I’ll never understand full grown adults filming themselves crying
TransTrender
Gold Member
Legit haven't watched any of his content in the last 8 years so I'm legitimately surprised he didn't go full trans.
sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
Meicyn
Gold Member
Keep telling yourself that as you shake the canola oil off those fries.
sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
Funny, but no
Meicyn
Gold Member
I admire that resilience.