In First Retirement Interview, MatPat Reflects on 13 Years of YouTube, One Last Game Theory and the ‘Dawn of a New Era’
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https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/matpat-youtube-retirement-game-theory-1235941100/
It's been good Matthew. Thanks for making.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgxPlUgIqSA
March 9 has finally come as MatPat says his final good-bye with his appearance on his final theory video.
With the recent announcement by MatPat from Game Theory saying they're leaving YouTube, there are certain folks out there who think their jokes are pretty funny when its not funny when someone says they're leaving the platform and retiring to pursue something else and those people being like "No, plz don't do this!" or "Please no! Don't quit!" or whatever along those lines. This is a very toxic mindset to have or even joke about in jest when someone thinks they've been doing something for too long and want to move on to something else. Not allowing someone to quit when they're ready to quit doing something is harmful mindset to have and putting pressure on that person to not quit despite giving all they have to offer and why they're choosing to quit or take a long break. People are allowed to quit and move on to new things and shouldn't be held hostage to the platform.
Some people aren't just meant to do something forever, and this got me thinking about that channel Markiplier and Ethan did called Unus Annus where the channel was a huge social experiment where the channel only exists/ed for 1 year before it was deleted. And that's kind of what this situation is now with YouTuber's leaving. It's the "Nothing lasts forever" Once it's done, it's done forever and can't be done again. It's come to a point where nobody's ever really given it thought, or thought it would be impossible to ever happen, the ones you grew up and loved watching to suddenly leave the platform to go do something else. But this in itself is a problem specifically on YouTube, because of how everything is automated these days with AI algorithms trying to ensure there's new content pumped out daily, it's created massive burnouts for many YouTubers because it expects you to work like a machine putting something new out daily, and doesn't take into consideration the time and effort it takes to create something, edit it and post it online.
Tom... You are going to do a great job Okay?
I'm quite surprised to see almost nobody on the Fediverse talking about Matthew Patrick commonly known as MatPat on leaving YouTube, and no longer doing anything on the 5 Theorist channels that he created, he said in his video that he only has 9 more Theorist Videos across each channel as well as a few things on the GT Live channel and after March he's no longer hosting them and letting folks you already know to pretty much run the show across all 5 channels.
MatPat is leaving Game Theorists (and the rest of Theorists channels) by the end of March.
End of an era 😔
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1_TqU68yo
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The standard account of the Cold War's "Long Peace" is that the #GameTheorists who invented #MutuallyAssuredDestruction set up a game where "the only way to win was not to play" (to quote the Matthew Broderick documentary *War Games*). The interdependency strategy of the post-Cold War, neoliberal, "flat" world was built on the same fundamentals: make war more costly than peace, victory worse than the status quo, and war would be over - if we wanted it.
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