Matthew Patrick

MatPat
Matthew Patrick (2020)
YouTube channel ( gaming , edutainment )
language	English
founding	The Game Theorists: over 12,000,000 The Film Theorists: over 7,000,000 GTLive: over 2,000,000
channels	The Game Theorists The Film Theorists GTLive
Subscribers	The Game Theorists: over 12,000,000 The Film Theorists: over 8,000,000 GTLive: over 2,000,000
Calls	The Game Theorists: over 2,280,000,000 The Film Theorists: over 1,330,000,000 GTLive: over 380,000,000
Videos	The Game Theorists: over 480 The Film Theorists: over 230 GTLive: over 710
network	Longhaul Management Studio 71
(updated March 2020)

Matthew Robert "MatPat" Patrick (born November 15, 1986 in Medina , Ohio , USA ) is an American web video producer and consultant. It is mainly for the series Game Theory known he since 2011 on the YouTube channel The Game Theorists published. In this series he analyzes video games and uses them to explain various scientific topics. In 2015 he founded another channel called The Film Theorists on which he does the same with films and series. He also owns a live stream channel called GTLive on which he plays video games and interacts with his fans. He operates all three channels together with his wife, Stephanie Patrick.

Patrick also created a series called MatPat's Game Lab on YouTube Red in 2017. In addition to his own projects, he and his wife run the company Theorist Inc., which advises and shows companies and people in dealing with the Internet in general and YouTube in particular how to start successful YouTube channels.

Life

Matthew Patrick is the only child of Robert and Linda Patrick. The family has Polish and Czechoslovak roots. Patrick grew up in Medina and went to Medina High School there. He graduated summa cum laude in psychology and theater from Duke University in December 2009 and then moved to New York City to look for work as an actor. He also applied as a director, television producer and programmer without ever being able to get a long-term position before he created Game Theory .

Patrick married Stephanie Claire Patrick (* 1986 in North Carolina , USA, née Cordato) on May 19, 2012 , whom he met during his time at Duke University. From this marriage he has a son who was born in 2018.

Patrick has been a member of the Universal Life Church since October 2016 . He did this in order to be able to trust one of his employees . He is fluent in French and has a basic knowledge of Arabic . Patrick has been a member of the Phi Beta Kappa student association since he was at Duke University .

Career

YouTube

On August 23, 2009, Patrick opened the YouTube channel MatthewPatrick19 and used it in his early years to publish videos of his theater performances. The channel was later renamed The Game Theorists .

Matthew Patrick with his wife on MTV (2018)

On April 14, 2011, Patrick uploaded a trailer for a series called Game Theory . The first episode of Game Theory , which was about time travel in the game Chrono Trigger , was released on April 18, 2011. He was inspired by the Extra Credits web series , especially the episode about tangential learning . Many more episodes were published below that examined video games from both a scientific and a plot point of view. Meta-analyzes of the video game market and the YouTube platform are also part of Game Theory . The series soon became very popular and was also featured on ScrewAttack! and GameTrailers widespread.

In June 2011, Patrick was interviewed by Ronnie Oni Edwards, the operator of the podcast Random Internet Encounters , who shortly thereafter accepted an offer to work as editor for Game Theory, making him the channel's first paid employee, previously only by Patrick and his wife was operated. After the 22nd episode of Game Theory , Patrick decided not to publish the series outside of YouTube.

In 2012 Patrick started diversifying the content of his channel by starting two new series. The first was the Game Exchange presented by Michael "GaijinGoomba" Sundland , which dealt with cultural content in video games and the second was Digressing & Sidequesting by Ronnie Edwards, who analyzed the design of video games . Both series previously existed on Edwards and Sundland's personal channels and continued to run there in parallel. Game Exchange was replaced in 2014 by the much shorter Culture Shock , which was also produced by Sundland. Culture Shock itself ended without replacement in October 2017. Digressing & Sidequesting was discontinued after Edwards' death in July 2018, but had not received a new video since October 2016.

With the new series, the channel got a huge surge in popularity, which resulted in it rising from 100,000 subscribers in March 2013 to 500,000 subscribers in September 2013 and reaching 1,000,000 subscribers in December of the same year. This year some of the most important videos in the channel have been produced, including a theory that the protagonist of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask was the whole story about dead and the game's transition through the five stages of the Kubler-Ross model representing that was presented together with PeanutButterGamer .

At the end of December 2013, two more partners, Drake “TrailerDrake” McWhorter and Kenny “DBZKenny” Landefeld were added to the canal. They produced the series Crossover , which looked for connections between different video game worlds. Crossover was discontinued in late 2014 for reasons unknown. Shortly before that, McWhorter started another series called Smash History , in which he explained the movesets of characters from the Super Smash Bros. fighting game series . Smash History ran until July 2016.

On October 24, 2014, Patrick uploaded an episode of Game Theory to Five Nights at Freddy’s , an indie survival horror game that was very popular on YouTube at the time. The video became the most watched on the channel shortly after it was released and subsequently made Matthew Patrick an important part of the Five Nights at Freddy's community. He also made videos about all other parts of the series, all of which were received both positively and negatively in the community.

In February 2015 Ryder "Footofaferret" Burgin, who also worked as an editor for Game Theory , became another partner of The Game Theorists . Burgin had already had the video series A Brief History since 2013 , in which he gives an overview of the history of people and things in a few minutes on his personal channel. In The Game Theorists he uploaded the series on video game series from then on all the episodes. In September 2017, Burgin announced that he was leaving The Game Theorists with immediate effect and only producing A Brief History on his own channel.

Game Theory's continued popularity led Patrick to try more new projects. Therefore, two new series started in 2015, which, unlike any previous one, were based on live action and were much more elaborately produced than other videos on the channel. The first of these was Deadlock on February 17, 2015. In this series, Patrick debates a controversial topic from the world of video games with a guest each episode, with the question always left to the audience at the end of the episode. Over time, Deadlock led to a host of controversial, high-click episodes and attracted several well-known guests as guests, including Jirard Khalil from The Completionist YouTube channel and Reggie Fils-Aimé , President of Nintendo of America . The second new series was Reality Check , a show in which Patrick tried out situations and actions from video games, such as the barrel roll from Star Fox in reality. Only two episodes of Reality Check were produced, with MatPat's GameLab being the successor.

Also in 2015, Matthew Patrick debuted the series Film Theory on the new channel The Film Theorists, after fans of Game Theory had long asked for a similar series of videos about films. The channel was launched on May 12, 2014, but the first video about the Chosen One in the Harry Potter films didn't come out until June 2015. The Film Theorists was a hugely successful channel, reaching 1,000,000 subscribers less than a month after the first episode of Film Theory was released. In addition to Film Theory, various series were also released on this channel, but all of them were discontinued at some point, including Did You Know Movies, a film-oriented version of Did You Know Gaming , in which Trivia was presented about various films, frame by frame, which Analyzes technical details in films and Film Legends, in which individual films are examined in order to find the best film ever.

On August 26, 2015, the same day that YouTube Gaming debuted, Patrick started streaming on The Game Theorists , calling the livestreams GTLive . In these streams, in which Patrick and his wife usually appear together, video games and other games are played, responded to videos or interacted with fans. Other channel staff, such as Jason Parker, Chris Widin, Dan Lerner, Meredith Levine, and Amy Roberts, also make frequent appearances on the live streams, which quickly developed a variety of inside jokes and customs. To archive the live streams, the GTLive channel was opened in September 2015 . In October 2015, the Monday livestreams became part of YouTube Gaming Primetime. Since October 2018 the streams have been on the GTLive channel and no longer on The Game Theorist s. GTLive is one of the largest livestream series on YouTube.

In December 2015, The Game Theorists debuted another new series of retrospectives on video game series called Break Down , presented by Forrest "Furst" Lee. Break Down was discontinued in October 2017 .

The game Undertale led to two of the most controversial episodes of Game Theory in 2016 . In the first theory about the game, published on February 9, 2016, Patrick proposed a theory that the Undertale character Sans was actually Ness from the game Earthbound. This has been dismissed as ridiculous by many, with the factual base on theory being criticized as extremely thin and the presentation criticized as manipulative. A second video about Undertale, dated July 5, 2016, was a lengthy explanation of why Patrick had given Pope Francis a code for Undertale when he was invited to the Vatican at a YouTube event . This action was criticized as pointless and wasteful of the meeting, with Patrick defending himself by saying that the gift was symbolic and that many issues had been discussed with the Pope.

Patrick announced a YouTube sponsored series called MatPat's GameLab in May 2016 that was produced exclusively for YouTube Red . The concept of the series was very similar to that of Reality Check , in the various episodes situations from video games were implemented in reality. GameLab got a season of nine episodes released in June and July 2016 and became one of the most successful and highly rated series on YouTube Red.

Another new series called The SCIENCE began in December 2016 ! (Eng. The SCIENCE) on The Game Theorists , which is presented by Austin Hourigan and examines events and concepts from video games for their scientific possibility. The series was taken over by the ShoddyCast channel.

The Game Theorists channel reached 10,000,000 subscribers in May 2018. On July 25, 2018, Patrick explained in a video that was often described as emotional that Ronnie Edwards, the longtime editor of Game Theory, had died by suicide . Patrick described him as one of the channel's most important contributors.

Others

In August 2011, a few months after Game Theory was first published, Patrick started a position as a freelance production assistant at g ‐ NET, where he worked on marketing campaigns for large video games, among other things. In January 2012 he switched to Reviewtopia.net, an internet forum where he was employed as a consultant for digital strategy.

Between June 2012 and July 2013, Patrick worked at Big Frame, where he helped, among other things, to increase the visibility of their videos and where he analyzed the YouTube algorithm in detail. After that he was employed as YouTube channel manager at Break Media for a few months and then head of content strategy at the multi-channel network Defy Media .

In August 2014 Patrick founded the company Theorist Inc. together with his wife, through which he has been advising other companies and people about the functioning of the Internet and, above all, YouTube. These services were used by Lego , Condé Nast , Electronic Arts and Viacom , among others .

After Defy Media disbanded in November 2018, Patrick took part in a campaign that sharply criticized the functioning and working practices of the company and of multi-channel networks in general. Patrick accused Defy Media of running a Ponzi scheme by exploiting its market position to defraud the YouTubers it was partnered with to cheat large sums of money. Patrick called on Defy Media's liquidation administrator , Ally Financial , to ensure that YouTubers got back the $ 1.7 million that Defy Media had embezzled. Ally dismissed the demands, saying that it would lose money itself.

social commitment

In November 2018, Matthew Patrick raised over $ 190,000 in donations for the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation on a live benefit stream.

In December 2019, Matthew Patrick ran another nine-hour benefit livestream on his channel The Game Theorists in cooperation with a variety of other channels including Markiplier , TheOdd1sOut , TheCompletionist , Rosanna Pansino and NateWantsToBattle to raise funds for St. Jude's Children's Hospital. A new game from the Five Nights at Freddy's series , Freddy in Space 2 , was presented on the stream , which Scott Cawthon had programmed especially for the occasion. A total of over 1.3 million US dollars was collected.

Patrick is a partner in the Make-A-Wish Foundation .

Filmography

actor

• 2016: The Runner , as moderator
• 2016: MatPat's GameLab , as yourself
• 2017: Transformers: Titans Return , as Computron
• 2018: Transformers: Power of the Primes , as Swoop
• 2018–2019: Escape The Night , as The Detective

producer

• 2016: MatPat's GameLab (2 episodes)

Awards

• 2013 YouTube Creator Award : Silver Play Button, for The Game Theorists
• 2013 YouTube Creator Award: Golden Play Button, for The Game Theorists
• 2015 YouTube Creator Award: Silver Play Button, for The Film Theorists
• 2015 YouTube Creator Award: Golden Play Button, for The Film Theorists
• 2015 YouTube Creator Award: Silver Play Button, for GTLive
• 2016 YouTube Streamy Award in the Gaming category for The Game Theorists
• 2016 YouTube Streamy Award in the Virtual Reality and 360 ° category for MatPat's GameLab
• 2017 YouTube Creator Award: Golden Play Button, for GTLive
• 2017 YouTube Streamy Award in the Editing category for The Game Theorists
• 2018 YouTube Creator Award: Diamond Play Button, for The Game Theorists
• 2019 YouTube Streamy Award in the Gaming category, for The Game Theorists

Web links

Commons : MatPat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Patrick's company website

Individual evidence

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