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Okay So I saw matpats final theory and-

The fact that went BACK to John Von Neumann (the inventor of game theories)

The RONNIE SHOUTOUT (rip ron you'll never be forgotten)

The #BlameJason

AND THE END OF IT-

SOME FANS SAYING "THAT'S JUST A THEORY" and then THE NEW HOSTS SAYING THEIR SPECIFIC CHANNELS' THEORY

WHERESMATPATS. COM JUST BEING SCOTTGAMES.COM AND HIM ADMITTING IT

AND AT THE END HE 𝗚𝗢𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗧𝗧𝗦 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗘?!?

𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝟭/𝟲?!!??

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦?!?

This has been the WILDEST RIDE holy shiet

GUYS

GUYS IT'S HERE

Matpat's 𝘍𝘐𝘕𝘈𝘓 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘖𝘙𝘠

Let's hope I can get through this without crying

GUYS

GUYS

𝙂𝙐𝙔𝙎 😭

The whiplash I JUST GOT-

And the moments when he was tearing up. I FEELT SO SAD.

BRO WHEN THOSE LAST 9 THEORIES COME OUT I'LL BE THE FIRST WATCHING THEM BRO I 𝘾𝘼𝙉'𝙏.

GUYS

GUYS

𝙂𝙐𝙔𝙎 😭

The whiplash I JUST GOT-

And the moments when he was tearing up. I FEELT SO SAD.

BRO WHEN THOSE LAST 9 THEORIES COME OUT I'LL BE THE FIRST WATCHING THEM BRO I 𝘾𝘼𝙉'𝙏.

i had a dream that there was a 5th theory channel called the snack theorists

also there was a network of ripoff channels where their primary branding was a popsicle for some reason?

the channels were like “game popsicle” “style popsicle” “snack popsicle”

what am i supposed to do with this

So is it just me or does Dick Grayson in Titans look like Mat Pat from TheGameTheorists

Thank you Matpat for inspiring all of us.

Your League will never be forgotten.

thanks, Matt

matpat means.... a lot to me, to say the least. I was raised in a single parent household and l haven't really considered myself to have a dad for a long time. while yes, I do technically have a dad, that's only really in the context of genetics. and my daddy issues but that's not important.

what is important is that matpat was my father, in a way. he was dubbed the title of "internet dad" long after he had already been one to me. he's part of the reason that I am the person I am today.

this piece exists because of matpat, for many reasons.

one, because I sobbed watching "goodbye internet" and want to do something special for his retirement.

two, because fnaf is the entire reason that I create what I do today, and that is partially heavily credited to matpat for overanalyzing a game about murderous animatronics in a pizzeria that I was obsessed with the moment I found out about it. 7 year old me was hooked, man.

and then I think through that, I found even more creators, which led to even more hyperfixating on weird nerdy shit, which led to me making more and more art.

and now, here I am. I'll be 17 years old in April. I graduate high school in one year.

I'm growing up.

not that I haven't been for my whole life because, well, that's how that works.

but I am nearing the true "end" of my childhood.

this year is fnaf's ten year anniversary.

this year marks a decade with game theory.

this year marks the beginning of the end.

I look back on my childhood. I went back to make one quick edit of my incredibly old Instagram account that I had way before I should've even had it.

I look back on the friends I had. I look back on all of the early-mid 2010s shit I posted and I smile. because it's cringe. it's cringe as hell and it's beautiful because of that.

and the nonsense theories are beautiful, and every single theory is beautiful because it exists. because it stems from the need to learn and think and have fun.

because that's what theorizing is about, in the end.

having fun.

matpat means a lot to me.

matpat is the reason that I am the person typing out this post. matpat is the reason that I am the person who spent 6 hours and 45 minutes drawing a piece featuring undertale and fnaf characters in it.

matpat inspires me to exist. and create. and think and learn and seek and everything.

yes, it's a bit parasocial. but it's hard for it to not be considering that I've spent more than half of my life growing alongside this man, seeing him grow in real time in tandem with myself.

I'm growing up.

but I still feel like a kid.

that's good and bad.

the bad is the part of my childhood that I didn't get to have because of my puberty hitting early. it's the fact that some of me is still a 12/13 year old in 2020. it's how the internet affected my growth.

the good is the part of me that still gets unreasonably excited when one of my interests gets brought up "in the wild." it's the fact that I love stuffed animals. it's how the internet affected my growth.

I look back on myself as a kid and, yes, I do indeed get embarrassed or genuinely cringe at how I was in some aspects. but I smile.

because it's me.

despite everything, it's still me.

despite everything, I'm still me, and matpat is still matpat, and despite every single thing that we've all gone through,

we're still us.

I remember one year, I bought myself the theorist varsity jacket with some Christmas money or something.

my best friend has the theorist backpack, I'm pretty sure.

hell, matpat's probably one of the reasons that they are my best friend.

two absolute geeks of GT kids, bonding over the nerdy stuff they liked, probably talking about theories. I don't remember super well, that was elementary school, man.

but isn't that incredible?

the fact that I'm still friends with someone I met in the first grade because of nerdy people like matpat.

I am forever grateful that I found the game theorists and became part of that group. so much of who I am is because I am a theorist. because I found one guy on the internet making overanalytical videos about games.

matpat means a lot to me. and if in case he somehow reads this whole weird ramble prose post open letter thingy, then I hope it means something to him.

but, hey, that's just a theory.

thanks for everything, Matt. <3