He really wasn’t
I found him super annoying and cringy. Whenever someone wanted me to watch one of his videos I would go through this whole mental episode in the span of a second or two before trying to excuse myself from that.
He was a decent youtuber, but I was always irked by his propagation of the “That’s just a theory” phrase. I get that it was just a tagline, but it still inadvertently promotes the downplay of the scientific process.
It was just a line…
A Taaag Line!
Sorry couldn’t help myself
The word “theory” has definitions outside of the context of the scientific process, and it’s pretty obvious that MatPat was not doing anything scientific in his videos. I don’t understand the concern here
The word “theory,” when used in a scientific context, indicates a well-established idea supported by an immense amount of peer reviewed data. While I understand that many people use the word “theory” to mean “random unsupported thought,” the use of the word in that context is just as egregious as the use of the word “literally” to mean “figuratively.”
And while you’re right that MatPat’s videos were anything but scientific, you’re wrong that it was obvious; I’ve heard plenty of people recommend his videos to me, describing his channel as “taking a scientific approach to video games,” which is another way in which his videos downplayed the stringent work that the scientific process requires to be accurate and valid.
We live in a time where, in spite of abundant access to information, an alarming amount of people legitimately believe that climate change doesn’t exist, that vaccines cause autism, and that the world is flat. We can’t afford to be even tangentially undermining the authority of the scientific process.
Game Theory is a hard mathematics concept and not an applied scientific theory, so you’re in the ballpark but slightly adjacent. The fact that so many people can graduate high school without the basic understanding of the scientific method and the differences between a hypothesis, a theory, and a scientific law is concerning, I grant you that, but the number of graduates who can’t read proficiently is even more concerning.
MatPat may not have been a Mr Wizard, Beakman, or Bill Nye, but he was not the worst Pop-science entertainment platform out there. Just like comic books didn’t corrupt the youth and kill reading for the generations since the Golden Age, I doubt the Game Theorists did much harm to the public’s knowledge of science. It is not the job of YouTube entertainers or ticktockers to teach science, and if a few people become interested in science because of channels or programs like these and go on to learn more or focus in STEM in school, then I think that’s probably a net positive.
Doesn’t he continue hosting GTlive?
I have cried for Matt Pat four times this week. I feel like I’m losing a friend and it hurts. I know I’m not but it still hurts.
Hug 🫂💜
What happened now?
He’s done making videos and handing the channel off to some other people. Never watched his stuff just what Google says.
Oh that happened months ago. I thought something else happened. Thanks.
He announced it months ago, he just released his last video yesterday
I was so sad when he announced his departure, I just turned 20 and with Tom Scott leaving too it feels like my childhood is complete.
Now Markiplier better not quit! 😡
So he finally got what’s coming to him. That’s what happens when you expose so many conspiracies. RIP
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