Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27524978-20160210030742/@comment-26242189-20160418125303

MangaKamen wrote: Hello fellow fans of undertale and those who are discussing of Mat-Pat's video, even to this very day!

I want to clear up a few things about this whole situation, as I also have managed to do an entire video response to this whole 'Sans is Ness' thing a while back. But I want to clear up a few things just to clarify some points:

1) Mat-pat isn't just one person working on Game Theory, despite the claims of his fans, he does have a team to help him with 'research' and 'editing', I'm not too sure on how much each member does, nor do I know the exact number of members on the GT team (if someone does please let me know), but one look at the Youtube Academy video that features Mat-Pat will tell you that its not a one man operation, at least, not any more. That means its not just Mat-Pat himself who's doing the theories and throwing them up on YT, there's an editor, there's a script writer and so much more.

2) I will gladly admit that I do not care for Mat-Pat's videos, both on Game or Film theory channels (Hell, his Zootopia one was full of holes, mis-representations, and ignoring outright facts of the movie), however, I do not hate the guy. I have a respect for him being able to amass such a large audience. Be it as it may however, no matter how many followers you have, no matter how much money you make, or how charismatic a person is, if there's BS, people are allowed to call you out on it. Its the nature of the internet to do so, I fully expect there to be people to call me out on any BS I may spout, and I welcome it to improve my content for the future.

3) I've seen on this little dicussion the argument of Mat-Pat's fans taking his word as law, while I will admit that there are fans of his who do fall into this stereo-type, I know that it isn't all of them. The audience of Game Theory, and to a lesser extent Film Theory, is varied demographics. However, my umbrage with both channels is the spread of misinformation, be it serious topics such as government conspiracies or silly topics as if Mario is Mental, mis-information on the internet is a thing that clutters the internet and makes it worse, and Mat-Pat capitalizes on it every time he uploads another video.

4) I personally enjoyed Mat-Pat's videos when they involved actual science, you know like with the G-Force with Starfox and such. When he gets to more of the... out there theories is when his act falls apart.

5) When Mat-Pat says stuff like sources and such, he never provides them, even in the description of his video. A key example would be the Government Document in the Zootopia video, which oddly enough, is an illegal document that wasn't endorsed by the government but by corrupted members of both the military.

6) Cherry picking. Yes, Mat-pat does this a lot, hell, one of the best examples was his crossover with Peanut Butter Gamer on the 'Is Link Dead' video, where Hyrule historia has evidence that proves both of them dead wrong. ... I didn't mean for the pun, sorry!

7) With all that said, 'It's just a theory" is a bit of a redundant thing to say with these videoes. Because there's also the tag-line: Smartest show in gaming. I'm sorry, but when I hear smartest show in gaming, I expect not only intelligent discussion, but I also expect an honest discussion. Which Mat-Pat and his crew have done multiple times to go against with their cherry picking, their deletion of comments (And I've seen quite a few people complain about this), and overall the wastes of time (Seriously, as of late, Mat-Pat's vids have been putting a few clips of cute animals in it just to pad out the run time). That isn't to say that you can't be entertaining, and its a completely subjective topic, but at the same time you shouldn't be wasting your audience's time.

8) I have actually a few videos debunking Mat-pat's claims, about four of them. While they're not the best around in terms of quality, I can provide links if anyone's interested. feel free to thumbs down them if you'd like, but all I ask is that you give them a chance and at least listen to the full arguments before you make a judgement call. I do make a few jabs here and there for the sake of a joke, but its all in half-way decent taste. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN2oxnBHw48qJf9bkDq3I5HICRyW_zxdp

And with that, I bid you all adieu. *Claps* I couldn't have said it better myself! Good job!