#gametheorists

[aspvera]

MatPat is leaving GameTheorists channel :c

I dont know what to say... 😖 I cried during that video ngl... We all love and appreciate MatPat so much, and its just so SO sad to see him leave! 😭😭 I wouldnt say he was my childhood (too late for that) but he is a big part of the fnaf community, I have watched all of his fnaf theories, and he was just always with us...its as if Freddy left the franchise.. And its honestly devastating too see a hole ripped from my heart in a shape of game theorists logo 🏆😭

I wanted to draw this piece since I watched Mat's playthrough... This is the photo he made with FazzCam with his idol MUUUUUUSIC MAAAAN. And he could make that photo because....😰 becasue Fazzcam is for nerds!! 😭 AND IM ALSO TAKING MY FAZZCAM with the NERD BADGE VERY PROUDLY !! 😭😭 EXCUSE ME ! *goes cries in a corner*

MatPat takes photo with MusicMan: https://youtu.be/haDoVTn2wvM?si=YPUMqqBE1U1t6xPp&t=2522

[triphimi]

HOW ARE THERE STILL SO MANY PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT THE BALL PIT MAKES OSWALD ACTUALLY TIME TRAVEL???

IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE ITP BOOK WAS RELEASED AND EVEN FF HAD FINISHED I THOUGHT IT WAS CLEAR HOW THAT WORKS ALREADY

[beyblaiddyd]

I do think comparing my signalis post to the "charlie brown has cancer and is dying" genre of gametheorists type posts is funny both 1) because i already self-referentially made the comparison and am impervious but 2) the literal actual plot of signalis is literally that ariane has cancer and is dying and that her pain is echoing out and influencing everything

[micer2012]

a reflection on MatPat's plagiarism

Hello, my name is Della, or micer2012, and 2 years ago Game Theory plagiarized three Tumblr posts of mine, making a video that now holds almost 6 million views.

My posts explaining his plagiarism made their rounds on Reddit, Tumblr and Twitter, but despite the Hermits and Pooka commenting on it (generally in support of me or saying they don’t know enough details about the situation to say either way), MatPat and his team have never owned up to anything, and no mention of my name is present on the video. The one Reddit post they made denying it (which was made before my detailed takedown, which they have never responded to (though the mods on the r/GameTheorists Reddit were kind and made sure it stayed up)) didn’t even mention me by name, just referring to me as “a tumblr user”. (Though one of the screenshotted comments in the body of the post does say my name)

This experience was baffling, but it’s overall had a positive impact on my life. r/Hermitcraft gave me a Golden Apple Award (post of the year, 2021). My inbox was filled with excited fans, wanting to ask me questions or pose their own theories, far more than the hate I got. (Though the hate I got from Game Theory fans was VERY funny. I wondered why none of them gave me shit about saying “MatPat misgendered Evil Xisuma” before realizing none of them read that far into the post.)

And getting on a more personal, and much more important note, I met most of my current online friends through this, including my partner. It helped me grow closer with my irl friends as well and gave me an entertaining story that I tell whenever I have the chance. It was one of the first things in my life that really made me feel like my talents, my autistic hyperfocusing and analyzing of things I love, could be valuable. Useful. Exploitable. It blew my mind that MatPat thought an autistic kid’s ramblings about a Minecraft Youtube joke character were good enough to steal. To put an audible sponsorship on. To get 6 million views off of.

And that’s why I’m writing this post, this update years later. As you might’ve been able to guess, Hbomberguy’s Youtube video on plagiarism reopened this wound. It was really hard for me to sit through, it took days of pausing and taking breaks, because I had experienced everything he was talking about firsthand. 

In my 10 page long takedown post, I wrote about how his rewording of my sentences made him say things that were incorrect, just like Filip did. The content farm production style that made big companies like Cinemassacre take one creator (AVGN/MatPat) and turn him and his content into a brand, a voice that reads out scripts by other people with other opinions/theories, is a history shared with Game Theory. What really hit me was Harris talking about how big creators only do this to people they think they can get away with doing it to. How they view their victims as lesser, as not deserving of their words, repackaging them as their own to give to an audience that can gain from hearing them, but deserves better than to have to listen to the original victim.

That’s the thing, I 100% think a video version of my theory to expose to a bigger community than “Evil Xisuma Fans on Tumblr” is a great idea!! Near the end of the video Harris talks about how video adaptations of things could be a great market, even an accessibility tool, and I completely feel that about my posts. I wrote them quickly assuming the reader was someone well versed on Evil Xisuma lore, after not even watching most of the CarnEvil series, and the diagrams I made to explain them are even less comprehensible. Harris makes a joke that I completely agree with, 

“I’m sure some of my videos would do very well if someone translated them into English.”

I don’t think I would’ve ever made my posts if I didn’t have autism, and a special fixation on Evil Xisuma and Hermitcraft. I made them because I felt the character was being done an injustice, and because I wanted to share with other superfans this theory that might explain it away. I do think that MatPat plagiarizing me was ableist. I used to wonder a lot if this would’ve happened if my posts were articulated better, if they had been peer reviewed, if the posts themselves had been spread to a wider audience before MatPat made his video. At one point when the discourse was fresh (before I had the time to write out my 10 page rebuttal), a bigger YouTuber (100k subs at the time) messaged me and started talking on Discord, interested in possibly making a video on the discourse, but I think my style of typing and general enthusiasm drove him away. You can tell by a single look at my blog (or my original 3 posts!) that I don’t usually type like this. This post you’re reading now has been peer reviewed and edited, and took me hours to format correctly. That video could’ve been huge, the entire outcome of this MatPat situation would probably be much different.

I also used to stress a lot about “being the one who ruined Evil Xisuma’s story”. If you didn’t know, to me S8 Evil Xisuma’s story got wrapped up pretty quickly and unsatisfying (in my personal autistic opinion). (though this might’ve been due to s8 being experimental and ending early with moon big) There was no real culmination of the plot points and arcs going on, and I don’t want to blame myself, but when Xisuma said on stream (when the MatPat thing was first going on) that he didn’t want to focus on the discourse or draw more attention to it, it makes a lot of sense to me that he just wanted to wrap it all up as quickly as possible. For a while I beat myself up about it, of ruining the story of this character I love, but it’s not my fault. If anyone’s, it’s MatPats, but I don’t think it’s useful to just blame someone else. That’s how the story ended up going, and that’s fine. This is Evil Xisuma we’re talking about, their inconsistent lore is what made them such an interesting character. And notably, Pooka made an animation with an awesome culmination of Jeff, the Dreamer, Evil Xisuma, and his own sona’s story, and it makes me so happy to watch. Whatever Pooka does is of course his own choice, but I’m glad he got to give this personal story his own ending (if it is an ending, and not just the start of a new chapter!). 

Typing this all out and getting it off my chest has made me feel a lot better. For a while I wanted to make my OWN video essay about Evil Xisuma’s lore and CarnEvil’s lore, actually going episode by episode to explain it instead of just assuming you knew as much about Evil Xisuma as I did. That idea is still not off the table, but MCYT isn’t something I’m that into right now. Maybe if something else comes out about Evil Xisuma I’ll get back on it, but for now I’m fine with letting that go. But I want to make other videos, share other theories and analysis… if I have the freetime I’d love to make YouTube videos, and if I don’t have the time I’ll continue posting to my tumblr and infodumping to my friends. Apparently my infodumping is valuable enough “content” to steal! Writing this out has made me feel a lot better though, I’m really glad I got it out.

If anyone ever wants to talk to me about the things I’m obsessed with, or reach out to me as a source in a bigger discussion about Game Theory or other channels, my inbox is more than welcome :] Thank you for reading! 

Sincerely, a tumblr user.

[fnaflover2024]

I miss you,my man...

Who remembers Matty Fazbear

[luchicm04]

Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 - All the evidence for Ollie being [...]

Original theory by r/GameTheorists in Reddit

What do you think? Who is Ollie really? An orphan? An unknown experiment? Or the evil mastermind itself?

[idsfantasy]

I made a theory post about it on Reddit a while ago on Cassie being Cassie Fitzgerald, and while that theory is talked about, there is one point I wanted to share with you and is that UCN seems to be a parallel to Jeremy and Mike in fnaf 2. Fritz is the name of the Foxy kid (Mike wears a Foxy mask and uses that name in fnaf 2) and Jeremy of the Bonnie kid, and Bonnie and Foxy swap around. I cannot directly link through asks but I can do this r/GameTheorists/s/eUFHCh0PW9

Interesting idea. I think Jeremy Fitzgerald being involved is a possibility

[wildpeachfarm]

Regarding film theory on the book of bill, seems like they've addressed some concerns on reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/GameTheorists/s/cbq7xer8iz

Yes thankfully I did see this earlier! Glad to see some swift apologies :)

[kafkaisnotdead]

Very good video about majority of claims against MatPat. I really like it, and I saw a lot of misinformation about him on this site, so it's a good video to check. Here's the link to original:

[lotusjaune]

After seeing the fantastic charadesigns of Art u/RavenMDR on GTLive. I decided to ask her if I could do some fanart of his characters. The characters represent the youtube channels of matpat and the gang.

If you want more info on these characters and the universe they live in, I recommend you check out the work of u/RavenMRD . Here is the link : https://www.reddit.com/r/GameTheorists/comments/1358h0m/theory_sisters_lore_dump_feel_free_to_leave/

[cenobittten]

My reaction to the GGY FNAF leaks

So um. My brain has decided that it is FNAF time all the time rn apparently. Idk why but there is something about the delicious clusterfuck that is Security Breach that is endlessly intriguing to me. Do I think it's 'good' in an objective sense overall? Nope. Do I somehow love it anyway? Yes. I have a weakness for indecipherable lore and SB delivers that in spades.

Ever since its release, I've been theorising. Lurking on various FNAF theorists threads and videos, building my own theories. Like, fully blown theories. However, until now I have been really bad at a) talking to anyone about them and b) writing them down. (Partly because I don't feel well enough to do much most of the time)

However, based on the Tales from the Pizzaplex leaks, I'm thinking I might need to change that.

I heard about the GGY story and the Patient 46 confirmation, my jaw dropped open.

In the single theory I did manage to type up on the Game Theory subreddit, it seems I was on the right path from the beginning. I almost couldn't believe my eyes when I realised.

I might have figured out a key mystery of Security Breach a whole year ago.

I'd seen so many other convincing theories that I was really beginning to doubt my own deductions.

No one really spotted/responded to my initial post. I've not really been in the FNAF community at all previously. I had intended to keep developing/post more elsewhere but the base theory was so controversial at the time I chickened out lmao. But now, I'd love to share how I reached my conclusions and really start to crack open Security Breach with all this new intel.

... which probably means I need to read the books now, whelp.

(Also, if you want to know what the hell I am talking about, google 'GGY FNAF' and it'll pop up.)

[hermithomebase]

You know the funniest part of the dogpiling on Matpat is, there was a hidden image in the episode (there was pieces of text scattered in the background of the first 45 seconds that lead to an imgur post). Some people in the GT subreddit found it and brightened it up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GameTheorists/comments/15dy5wd/guys_i_edited_the_imgur_image_more/

I don't go here, i'm just a dirty causal who saw the Genloss vid and was super interested in the hidden message. So I went to Twitter/Reddit to see if anyone had commented on it and instead found nothing but hate (and found you, hi). I will never participate in the fandom and I just hope that Matpat was in on it with Ranboo the whole time and that this blows up in everyone's faces someday. GJ everyone.

IMCRYINGGG dude this is awesome Thank You for bringing this to my attention. i love you. this is so fucking fantastic for me

[icekingofhope]

so I found this theory of the player https://www.reddit.com/r/GameTheorists/comments/1aoyd3y/identity_of_the_player_in_poppy_playtime_the/

and decided to make a oc of them

meet Castiel bouras (yes I named him after one of the angels due to dog day calling the player angel bite me-)

it maybe silly but I thought it would be fun I hope you like it

[fandomsoda]

JUST READ SOMEWHERE THAT MATPAT DONATED 1,000 DOLLARS TO AUTISM SPEAKS CAN SOMEONE PLEASE VERIFY WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS TRUE BECAUSE IF IT IS WHAT THE FUCK /neg

I don’t wanna immediately believe potential misinformation but if this is true I gotta know-

Edit: ok so it’s apparently hard to explain and kinda complicated,,, I was supplied with this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/GameTheorists/comments/qeuvwz/an_open_letter_to_matt_from_an_exfan/

[sakuraswordly]

[tricobicoart]

tf2 mae also started off as a crossover where she got kidnapped/captured near the base by the mercs so here's some text & text exchanges abt it

ath: mae gets dropped into a universe & interrogated by likeable & eccentric people but who are Not her boyfriend & boyfriend's boyfriend: I will betray all of you when the opportunity arises.

THEY GIVE HER TRUTH SERUM AND SHE JUST STARTS VENTING ABT MUNDANE SHIT, OR SINING THE PRAISES OF DAN & APOLLO & ATLAS & AMBROSE BC THEY;RE SO COOL & SHE LOVES THEM SO MUCH, YOU GUYS

atlas: OH MY GOD???? I LOVE THAT ZHE GETS INJECTED AND JUST MAE JUST RAMBLING ABOUT ALL THE WAY SHE LOVES HER PARTNERS "YOU WANT THE TRUTH?? OKAY FINE MY BOYFRIEND AND MY BOYFRIENDS BOYFRIEND ARE BOTH COOL AS SHIT, ALSO I SECRETLY LOVE (insert random guilty pleasure here) HAHA"

ath: JG;LKSFJGKH LMAOOO YEAH SHE JUST SINGS LIKE. AN ENTIRE ALBUM'S WORTH OF WILL WOOD SONGS

atlas: YESSSSS "my boyfriend said my eyes are WEEZER BLUE!!! He also said I might have autism??"/ref

ath: KLFJDSJGHKLSJFH YEAH!!!

atlas: SHE JUST PURPOSEFULLY IS EXTRA OBNOXIOUS TO GET ON THEIR NERVES 😭

ath: JG;LSCHG LMAOOO YEA MAKES STUPID ASS MEME REFERENCES *one of soldier's raccoons bites her* WAS THAT THE BITE OF 87!?!? KEKEKEKEKEKEK

ath: if mae ever gets captured by the tf2 mercs again or the elites she just starts explaining fnaf lore to them & it feels like this, despite her being the one restrained in a chair lol https://www.reddit.com/r/GameTheorists/comments/gvptak/when_you_try_to_explain_the_fnaf_lore_but_it/

atlas: LMAO "please, for the love of God, I do not know what the bite of 87 is!!!" - soldier "Sounds like someone is uncultured." -mae

ath: FLDHGJKDF LMAOOOO sniper: *bites a dude* mae: WAS THAT THE BITE OF 87!? entire tf2 team: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UUUUPP

atlas: LMAOOO Apollo, appearing next to zer: I'm sorry, do you wanna repeat that? Did you just tell zer to shut up??? Mercs: HAHA NOOO OF COURSE NOT * TOTALLY NOT ALL SCARED OF APOLLO*

ath: JFSLK;SGH;LDFJ LMAOOO AND THEY JUST LET THE TWO WALK OUT SAFELY mae, talking to apollo on the way out: anyways, that's why i think michael is the older brother. because it's funny. apollo: of course, honey

atlas: AGKHSHLKDFJKDDGJJFF every time Apollo reminds them all that he exists, they start internally shitting themselves

ath: HAJSJGSJS YEAH The only one the least scared of him is sniper, & that's bc the dude knows not to fuck w ppl more powerful than him Once Apollo meets him while he's in the middle of nowhere being high & they become like. Friendly acquaintances

atlas: Do you think they'd have to play rock paper scissors on who has to face him/LH YEAH ACJK THEY JUST RUN INTO EACH OTHER WHILE THEY'RE BOTH SMOKING AND APOLLO SILENTLY OFFERS HIM A JOINT

ath: JAHDGDJ ABSOLUTELY THEY DO. THEY GET IN FIGHTS OVER IT JAJDGDJJD AND HE VEEERRY CAUTIOUSLY TAKES IT BC IF HE SPYCHECKS THE MAN HE MIGHT KILL OR MAIM HIM

atlas: "I had to take him out last time!!! He blew up my head!!" "Well, don't look at ME!!! He broke my bones last time!!!!" Heavy finally offers to do it 😭

ADJKHDFJJFD AND APOLLO JUST LIGHTS A JOINT OF HIS OWN AND THEY KINDA JUST STAND THERE SMOKING IN SILENCE

ath: FJDSLKJGHSLFGJ LMAOOOO JUST "You make baby men very nervous. Can you leave? They're annoying."

SPY CATCHES A GLIMPSE OF THEM SMOKING & TELLS EVERYONE BUT THEY SAY HE MUST HAVE BEEN MISTAKEN BC SNIPER DOES HIS BEST TO AVOID HIM

atlas: "Do I make you nervous?" "….No." "Liar." AND HE JUST SHOWS UP WHERE THE MERCS WERE ARGUING AND THEY ALL SCATTER

YESSSSSSSSSS AND IT JUST BECOMES A THING THAT THEY DO

ath: FKSHDGLJFH LIEK CATS CONFRONTED WITH A CAT MASK and bc apollo is gone heavy can show relief that they've left him jhdksg

YESSS AND THEY START AHVING CASUAL CONVERSATIONS ABT WEED STRAINS & EDIBLES & THEN WHATEVER KILLS THEY GOT OR DIDN'T GET THAT DAY

atlas: THATS SO CURSED I LOVE THAT "WAIT, WAIT WAIT WAIT, I WANNA STRIKE A DEAL WITH YOU IDIOTS." and Medic perks up "Stop kidnapping my partner and I'll help you in fights or something."

HEHEHEHE YESSSS AND APOLLO BRINGS HIM SHIT HES NEVER TRIED BEFORE

ath: FH;SDFHJD MEDIC, THE DEAL-MAKING EXPERT after hammering out like a dozen details medic agrees pffffft what if mae accidentally made friends with pyro while captured & zhe just like. tries to sneak out one night to "accidentally" get kidnapped & see 'em bc she misses 'em

BROOOO "THIS EDIBLE AIN'T SHI--" BUT WITH SNIPER KDHFKJL apollo just "oh yea i forgot humans have different weed tolerances. uh. whoops"

atlas: AFKKDDHKJS SCOUT IS IN THE BG THE ENTIRE TIME SAYING HOW BAD OF AN IDEA THIS IS BUT ITS TOO LATE ZHKVDGMK MAE NO!!! Apollo and Mae just running into each other sneaking out "Where are you going…?" "Out. Where are YOU going?" "….Same here." "Cool, cool." And Apollo just slowlyyyyy walks off while staring at Mae

AGKKDFKJD LITERALLY!!!!! Apollo has to carry Sniper back to the base 😭

ath: SLKG;J;DLJFGHLKDJ LMAOOOO AND THEY BOTH GLANCE AT EACH OTHER BY THE BASE LIKE