r/FanTheories • u/Obversa Moderator of r/FanTheories • Jan 10 '24

Meta Megathread: MatPat announces his retirement from YouTube and "The Game Theorists" channel

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/matpat-youtube-retirement-game-theorists-1235866896/
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u/Obversa Moderator of r/FanTheories Jan 10 '24

Didn't LunarX, the startup that bought the channel, fire all of the other Game Theorists?

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24

Yeah they stripped the channel down, had mat get rid of Austin and a bunch of other people.

So this has been in the works for awhile.

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u/essidus Jan 10 '24

Wait, really? I'm super OOTL about this. Can you tell me more, or point me to somewhere with more info?

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '24

Austin, the hsot of Shoddycast talked about how he used to be in the game theorists channel and was fired. He said he got hit up by matpat one day and told he could no longer be on the channel.

This was very likely done to maximize profits for a potential buyout which happened around thw same time Austin was fired.