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This one is interesting. I wasn't expecting him to ever address the effect of theory youtubers astroturfing shitty indie games and filling their fanbases with underage zoomers.
Like a lot of things related to Indies, it started as an interesting innovation and became a soulless checkmark in the list of standard game features. If Devs stoop to the point of having a feature solely for YouTubers then the game sucks anyways, and that Neighbor game proved that having "deep lore" won't make your game an economic success.
 
No, MatPat. You can't save Netflix's declining numbers.
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-Nor can your child fanbase.
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Matpat's channels are a big operation he must have a few employees at the very least (with a legal/flag person). His ego wouldnt be found of the deep fake voice. You think he files a strike on that (dont mean DMCA necessarily)?
 
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Matpat's channels are a big operation he must have a few employees at the very least (with a legal/flag person). His ego wouldnt be found of the deep fake voice. You think he files a strike on that (dont mean DMCA necessarily)?
You can only push copystrikes so far, especially when neither you nor the small parody videos are making money on the actual videos. He also doesn't have the influence or goodwill to pull something like this in comparison to companies like Nintendo or Paramount, and Matt's desire to protect his Patreon trough far outweighs a desire to smash a guy parodying him.
 
This one is interesting. I wasn't expecting him to ever address the effect of theory youtubers astroturfing shitty indie games and filling their fanbases with underage zoomers.
I'm looking back at this video, and I'm thinking that Matt may have a point. There is a distinctive problem in recent years where writers will throw out scripts if speculators figure out the twist before release, which is one of the biggest reasons for the "subverting expectations" craze that ruined media. Obviously he's giving himself too much credit on the downfall of certain games, but the central point is correct: writers became too willing to ruin their stories just to one-up theorists, and he is at least partially responsible for that dynamic if Hello Neighbor is anything to go by.
 
Why is there always a "they were secretly dead" theory to almost all kids shows? Lighten the fuck up and stop being so goddamn morbid.
Blame the creepypasta forums for that one, it's the classic cartoon theory to assert that everyone is dead or the entire show is somebody's dying dream because of the "Ash's Coma" theory. Lost's ending suggesting that everyone died in the crash that started the show helped nothing, and all of this likely comes back to St Elsewhere having the entire show seemingly be the imagination of some kid with a snowglobe.
 
Blame the creepypasta forums for that one, it's the classic cartoon theory to assert that everyone is dead or the entire show is somebody's dying dream because of the "Ash's Coma" theory. Lost's ending suggesting that everyone died in the crash that started the show helped nothing, and all of this likely comes back to St Elsewhere having the entire show seemingly be the imagination of some kid with a snowglobe.
But that's not creepy, it's lazy. Fuckers should snort a line of cocaine and come up with something crazier and more importantly, original
 
But that's not creepy, it's lazy. Fuckers should snort a line of cocaine and come up with something crazier and more importantly, original
Never said it was particularly creepy or creative, but the trend is there, and Matt is especially bad about it after that Majora's Mask video (nevermind that the Hero's Shade blew the entire theory out of the water from the start).
 
But that's not creepy, it's lazy. Fuckers should snort a line of cocaine and come up with something crazier and more importantly, original
I, for one, welcome a version of the 'Ash's Coma' theory where Misty comes across Ash's dead body and tries to drag it across the region so that nobody assumes it's a dead body. I call it the Weekend at Ash's ""Theory"".
 
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