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I should update that thing. MatPat did. What started as Matthew Patrick making a resume and trying to get into theater turned into a five channel empire, a bunch of merchandise, a side gig helping other YouTubers reach his level of success or close to it, and entertaining thousands of people around the world using science, history, looooooooooooooooore, and other random trivia to prove theories both interesting and questionable. I’m not even sure the theory itself was always the goal so much as teaching people about other topics and just having some fun.

Well, MatPat is gone…from the theorists. I think he might still be doing GT Live for awhile, but the four channels he created will now have new hosts, previous writers and contributors to the Theorist Network and their specific shows who have gotten practice in cameos and YouTube Shorts. Now they’re in charge, but how well do they compare to MatPat or do they do a good enough job on their own that I might keep watching. That’s OUR theory for today.

All week the four channels–Game Theory, Film Theory, Food Theory, and Style Theory have dropped their first full episodes with the new host, so we’re going to watch them and see how they did. Two of these shows I’ll probably give a better chance than others as far as what I’ll be watching based solely on my interests, but like I keep saying, I don’t have to enjoy something to recognize it as a quality work. Those are the two things I’ll be looking at: are they worthy successors, and will I continue watching? A couple of shows are topics I only watched first out of curiosity and then because of MatPat, but that doesn’t mean I’ll stop watching with the new crew. It also doesn’t mean I’ll keep watching or that said decision reflects on the show more than what I’m into and my still large YouTube backlog. So let’s get started.

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