MatPat tearfully announces YouTube retirement and fans are shocked YouTube: The Game TheoristsMatPat has tearfully announced that he will retire from his YouTube channels, including Game Theory, in March 2024, leaving fans shocked. MatPat has been making content on YouTube for over thirteen years, famously uploading his first-ever Game Theory episode back in April 2011. Since then, it\u2019s been off to the races for the YouTuber, who has launched a bevy of other channels like The Film Theorists, The Food Theorists, and even The Style Theorists over the past decade or so. Casual viewers might know MatPat best from his viral Game Theory episodes discussing the miles-deep lore of the Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s franchise (an accomplishment that even saw him snag a cameo role in the movie last year). But now, his YouTube empire is coming to an end. Thirteen years and 18 million subscribers later, MatPat has announced that he is officially stepping down from his career as a YouTuber and handing the reins off to \u201csomeone else.\u201d MatPat retires from Game Theory YouTube channel after 13 years MatPat revealed this news in a January 9 YouTube video, where he tearfully explained his reasons for leaving his career path behind. \u201cWe knew that honestly, we didn\u2019t want to do this forever,\u201d he claimed. \u201cAs much as I love you and I love overthinking things, and I love theorizing, I don\u2019t love late nights. I don\u2019t love that Steph and I have been work first for over a decade.\u201d Ultimately, MatPat feels that he\u2019s missed out on time with his family due to his grueling work schedule on YouTube, saying that his life has \u201cchanged\u201d in major ways over the last ten years. Over the next ten weeks, the Theory channels will host nine more theories before uploading a final video that the YouTuber called \u2018MatPat\u2019s Final Theory.\u2019 He also revealed that the Theory channels will be passed on to key members of the team in his absence \u2014 but he will remain with the project in creative and directorial roles. That\u2019s not all; he also claimed he\u2019s starting a \u201clo-fi mystery series\u201d called \u2018Lore-Fi,\u2019 which he\u2019s excited to show off in the future. While it seems that MatPat isn\u2019t completely stepping back from The Game Theorists or any of his other channels, he will no longer be the face of the company, marking a massive shift that\u2019s leaving fans both somber and excited for the future of the brand. Creators react to MatPat\u2019s YouTube retirement A slew of other YouTubers and streamers have given their well-wishes to MatPat following his emotional announcement, with the likes of Quackity, TommyInnit, CouRage, and more expressing both their sadness and happiness over the fate of the channel and MatPat\u2019s upcoming endeavors after March 9. \u201cMuch love MatPat,\u201d wrote TommyInnit. \u201cYou are an absolute f*cking king.\u201d \u201cWhat an incredible journey,\u201d CouRage tweeted. \u201cThank you for so many awesome memories. I hope to have the courage one day to take the same leap you are. Congratulations and I know your best times are still ahead. Go enjoy all the family time you can!\u201d Just watched your video. What an incredible journey. Thank you for so many awesome memories. I hope to have the courage one day to take the same leap you are. Congratulations and I know your best times are still ahead. Go enjoy all the family time you can!! \u2014 Jack \u201cCouRage\u201d Dunlop (@CouRageJD) January 9, 2024 \u201cPlease delete the video and say it was a joke, please please please please,\u201d Quackity said. Please delete the video and say it was a joke please please please please \u2014 Quackity (@Quackity) January 9, 2024 MatPat is just the latest massive YouTuber to step away from the limelight, following in the footsteps of Tom Scott, who recently retired from weekly uploads after keeping a consistent schedule for ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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