“I want this to just be a simple little reaction” *Hour and a half response to a 20 minute video*

I think the fnaf community is at a point where we are sick of no confirmation anywhere really. I think Scott should give us a clearer outline of where to look.

We can all agree that patient 46 is patient 46.

It’s kinda sad that a lot of Mat’s discussion in the second half is gonna be largely ignored due to him spending way too much time on Gregbot in the first half

The thing about robot people in FNAF is that they are basically human. From a functional standpoint, they are nearly indistinguishable from a mind controlled person, which we actually know exists in game. Until they show you the Endo or demonstrate super strength, you can't be sure. I have so many MORE questions if Gregory IS a robot, than if he's a human. Like who built him? Why would Henry or his equivalent be sending messages or rebuilding the crying child, Afton's son, and not his own child? If Freddie knows he's a robot, why does he take him to the human first aid, instead of parts and service? Based on the posters found in ruin, who reported Gregory missing if he's just a robot without a family? Why does Cassie also see static when she dies in game? Is she also a robot, if so who built her? I could go on...

The virgin S vs. the chad N. Jokes on you critics!

If you have something to say, it shouldn't matter how much you have to pause the video, that is what i am here to hear, it doesn't matter how much time passes

In regards to the ice cream in ruin It was change to a pink ice cream considering they would be no reason to change it if this was supposed to be something important this could be Scott trying to put us on the right path

For the foxy bro bit I think he meant the survival log book to “solve” it because of how he thought that Mike = CC at the time

something random i just noticed about the Gregbot theory Gregory isnt british, or at the very least doesnt have a british accent

Upon voting in his polls where he asked what other theorists we watch, there was unfortunately no Sire Squawks up there either. (Though I mentioned you in 'others'.)

Been into fnaf since basically day 1. And i can tell you without a doubt the biggest fucking problem with the theorizing side of the fanbase, its how unclear the story is even with all the things weve gotten. Its getting to be obnoxious at this point because of the constant bickering over theories. Ffs, scott needs to just release a timeline up until fnaf UCN. If theorizing is REALLY wanted that bad then alright sure, but im fairly certain were at a new arc of the story now and we still have a lot of unanswered questions dispite the fact its been what almost 10 years since the game released. Its ridiculous man

Im commenting again haha, I’m glad you talk about Scott’s definition of canon. I feel like his definition of canon is “does it mean something” ie everything Scott(or whoever) writes means something. Not in a literal or plot way but atleast in a thematic way. I just think Scott is saying that as an author all his work means something, just as every story ever means something. He jsut means “none of my work is useless nonsense”. I think this because it feels like a reasonable way for an author or creator to feel about their work, I can see how “this isn’t canon” could make and author feel like their work is dismissed. Plus like way less people would buy fnaf books if they said they were definitely not canon, the possibility of anything being canon is what makes the franchise money so Scott has an incentive to call everything canon

Just an FYI: the Myers-Briggs personality test is outdated and unreliable. Mostly it's based off non-empirical observations of Carl Jung and was not created by a psychologist.

I really don't like how this has brought out seemingly two faction, the "MatPat is an angel an has done nothing wrong and how dare you "jump down his throat" at every chance" and the "MatPat is literally the devil and he's a horrible egotistical person". And it sucks because this reaction is good and both brings up the good parts of this video while explaining which parts maybe missed the mark. Bring back nuance guys

When talking about the books, he didnt only mean the original three, he also meant the fazbear frights

This fandom does take things too far quite alot, as fandoms do, but theres is this thing, especially as it seems in recent game theories, where mat will latch on to the smallest detail or speculation and that will become the whole theory and be stretched so far and continue throughout new information coming up, and into later videos, as said; or its even contradicted by "evidence" not long after. Ms. Afton ceo for example, this character that we've had no info about whatsoever, is suddenly supposed to be the big bad because of the staffbot table, and then is contradicted a few sentences later with it being implied that she self unalived/the age problem/the myriad of other holes. Or gregbot because, yeah, the filter thats not just with vanny, or the stickynote room HAS to be gregbot because reasons. Or this light is green so has to be Elisabeth or charlie, ignoring glitchtrap or every other thing thats green.

I definitely think your one of the best theorists because your theories are very probable and most likely the correct answer and you back it up with good amounts of evidence such as your theory on Puppetstuffed. I personally think you deserve more recongition in the FNAF theorist community 👏 keep up the good work 👍

One of my biggest problems with the whole Gregbot theory which I don’t really see that many people talk about is that Gregory and the CC actually nothing alike. If Gregory was supposed to be a robot replica of the CC then why does he act so differently from him? With Charlie in the books she was 3 when she was murdered so obviously you’re not gonna know what kind of personality she was gonna have when she got older because again she was 3 when she died. But the CC was like 8 or 9 maybe even 10 when he died, and Gregory looks like he’s 10, so if Afton, Vanny, Mimic or whoever built Gregory as a replica of the CC, why program him to act nothing like him?

Then the squeal “The weirdest William Arc” is also a highlight

My main problem with current MatPat theories is that he keeps using his own theories as basis without giving it a second thought. And he’s been doing it for so long too, feels like he never steps back and reevaluates.

It appears the sound is back, so we can finalky enjoy another great Squawks video!

ah yes Giraffe Town, the second game in the fnaf timeline and Kerbal Space Program is the last one in the timeline.

4/9 of the evidence has nothing to do with gregbot being true and is evidence for Gregory being a narrative stand in for crying child. 1/9 is possible, but could also be a game mechanic(Vanny static). 2/9 are showing it is possible for robot children (Books and robot head). 1/9 can be interrupt many different ways. (Gregory looks different) 1/9 the theorist community didn't solve and steelwool had to give the cypher for that basically described the game.(Wall code) That is my take on things, I don't like gregbot because the evidence is weak and puts more questions on the table than it would solve. Hell, I throw out evidence that could either be another game mechanic or evidence for gregbot, that being when you hop into Freddy you get to see through his eyes. Though I agree that people take theories too seriously and there is no need to attack people over them. All in all a good rant.

I am tempted to say Crying Child's illustration with brown eyes might've been based after Gregory's model, seeing as it also uses the knee bandage. Also interesting how color has varied: Elizabeth - redhead (comic goes more blonde than strawberry) with green eyes, The SL Custom Night sprite we call Michael is brunette with blue eyes (to 4's has black hair), and Crying Child has been just brunette. Eyes debated between green or blue (the blue-eyed SL head considered with green one towards Elizabeth and closed eyes to their mother. Also, it said Burntrap and Blob weren't canon names, but this boy is named 'The Crying Child'...

MatPat voice: Some people can interpret the things they read, and some people are stupid, I guess, I don't know. I'm very intelligent.

For your point on the mimic losing shapeshifting abilities + where the springlocked original remains went: We know the mimic can replace parts, it does so between the Scooper Ending and the Elevator Ending paths, so thats just what happened here. New limbs because the old ones were too broken, possibly from the suit it was springlocked by. Removing the parts that were part of its whole shapeshifting thing was part of that process, so it lost that ability.

That whole "Gregbot defense/General theory defense" portion really drags down what is otherwise really a great criticism of the FNAF community's cherry-picking and general toxicity. I wish Mat gave a test screening of this to his Patreon supporters or something so that they could tell him to cut out that entire part.

At this point steel wool or Scott need to come out and say gregbot isn’t true 😂

I think matpat does know you exist, the problem is youre not always the most family friendly fnaf channel lol, matpat tries to be extremely family friendly

So what you’re saying is that the Mimic is Liquid Snake, and at some point in the games we’ll have to throw down with him on a Faz-mech?

I really do wish he'd have skipped the beginning part about Gregbot because the second half was actually a really good argument. As much as I love Matpat, I feel like he makes two big mistakes when it comes to Fnaf theories (or at least this is my interpretation). The first is the use of hyperbole or very certain language when talking about things that are not certain. You pointed out the Henry built the Mimic thing and that's a good example. He clearly knows Edwin built the Mimic in the books and I don't think he intentionally meant to mislead there, but this was a topic he covered in a previous video so in his mind, it's easier to just cut to the chase assuming the audience understands his parallel interpretation already, or otherwise knows enough to know he's making that jump. And the problem is a lot of people just don't. One I've really been annoyed with for awhile is "Scott doesn't do coincidences!" Yes, he does. He's just a dude. I don't know if Matpat even believes this specifically either, but it's a fun bit of hyperbole for him to say "there are LESS coincidences in Fnaf than your typical franchise." But then I'll see people parrot this line of his and it's very frustrating. The other problem is just his biases to past theories. Gregbot is a good example. Charlie is green is another. The initial theory is, sure, not necessarily the strongest in every case but I can see where he's coming from at least. But then he'll often treat those theories as core assumptions to build future theories off from even if evidence has come out in the meantime that heavily contradict them. I honestly think a lot of this might be "he's too busy" thing - he doesn't have the time to hyper focus on the franchise like the typical Fnaf theorist because he runs so many other projects (on top of also being a dad). I think he tends to miss things because of that unfortunately. You can see it with him bringing up the same Gregbot evidence even though some of those things aren't very strong anymore or at all. (also I agree with you on the Roxy's eyes thing, that one ALWAYS bothered me for the exact same reason and I wish he'd just drop it) But the second half was definitely really good. I wish he wouldn't have done the first half because I'm afraid people are going to use that to dismiss what he says in the second half :( Hopefully that isn't the case. Because it has become extremely frustrating lately. Side note - I took his Myers Brigs survey and was sad you weren't listed on it. I at least made sure to shout you out in my response as a Fnaf theorist I often watch :D It probably won't even be noticed but hey, worth mentioning anyways (honestly I'm a little surprised he did miss you with some of the others he had on there like Notrealname, ImpulseEvan, O-Zone, etc who I've never really seen him talk about either).

Thank you for this. I was annoyed by the first half of his video, but all the comments on the video where 100% positive so i fealt alone in my annoyance. So yeah thank you for being critical of that video.

Is no one gonna talk about how discriminatory the whole S vs N thing is? Because I'm new but I don't want to be known as someone who uses their brain less.

it really seems like the video is like, a good point to make muddied by bad examples like he has some points with the gregbot rant that people will often simplify and reduce theories into absurdity to dismiss them, or that people will ignore details or interpretations aslong as they dont support their argument, but the gregbot example just wasnt a good example to display it and he spent too much time trying to add additional details to gregbot when it wasnt about gregbot to begin with same with later on when he says there are differences between the books and the games, but then he mostly lists things that have explicit explanations of why they are different

Matpats vid was one of those things where a lot of what he said bugged me but i couldn't really put it into words, you know the franchise so well you were able to explain things perfect so thanks! :D

What if the whole point of Gregory seeming like Crying Child is just to hint that the Crying Child / Bite Victim's name was Gregory Afton? Maybe all the hints in SB are not to tell us that he's literally connected, but just that they share the same name and if we were wondering what the Bite Victim's name is, then here it is? To me "Mike and Greg" seems like a reasonable pair of names for a pair of brothers. It would make sense to me, given that Scott is an American, that he'd give his British Villain's children names that have a formal long-form and an informal/casual nickname. Growing up with a Norwegian Grandfather, Americans were always trying to shorten his name and he culturally couldn't get the temptation to do so. In the survival log book and other places, we see evidence that Michael Afton likes to put his name down as Mike. Elizabeth is another name that can be shorten, too.

I am now looking at the desktop and just realized the organization for FNaF games is in a timeline sense

I will say 17 minutes in when you said that the books didn't help him predict Michael is foxy bro I think you got confused which is admittedly his fault because he was talking about the novels at first but I think he was trying to say the logbook helped him with that one

"im trying to say this in a way without calling you a dumb bitch" Im rolling 😂

I feel like you can make an easy joke that robot kids been a thing since FNaF 2 with BB but eh

I think on the Foxy bro one,he's saying that the books (Fazbear Frights 4 step closer) helped him solve Mikebro,cause other wise,that wouldn't make much sense Also,refresh my memory,didn't the twisted ones book help us solve that the underground facility is in the Afton household or am I mistaken?

My main complaint of this video is just wether intentionally or not matpat and the crew did not take into consideration that for about six and a half minuites that they're sounding an awful lot like a hypocrite on the closed minded argument, mainly from the GreG bOt iS RigHT, its just prooving a lot of reasons why the community at large hate these theories. Because theres a complete lack of devil's advocate or different perspectives on theories it just leads to many getting overly frustrated with the odd ways that the team takes the story, like the "two options" approach, thats my main issue with mat and im sure im not alone

BTW MatPat knows about NoName NotAtAll since it was in the questionaire about your favorite theorist

Just wanna say I really appreciate you trying to be more polite in recent months. Your content is much better for it.

As the leader of the community the second half of the video was really good, but it should've been the video. I think with his position in the community he does get the bulk of the dumb insults drawn to him, and it heavily drowns out the good constructive criticism because seeing the dumb comments makes it very discouraging to go looking especially after over a decade, and it's easier to laugh things off using the memes as a representation of consensus to tackle. It's frustrating but it's what larger creators face. On the bright side being a smaller creator also means you get a higher proportion of good faith comments to engage with! Hope you get acknowledged one day! Your most recent video on Cassidy was fabulous, hope it does well enough to boost you up more.

I love how you call him the Greg bot guy and then he spends a third of the video defending Greg bot.

My favorite evidence is a cover of a book.

Also I know this is not the biggest point of the video, but the Myers Brigg test has been largely discredited so making a big point of personality types is a lil weird IMO

Just wanna say that, as a psychology student, the Myers-Briggs personality test is basically worthless. It means nothing. It has about as much validity as "which cheese are you" Buzzfeed quizzes. This is mainly due to how subjective the categories are and how it is structured. However, since it is used in schools and is very popular, it has been treated like a serious resource that can tell you how someone things and feels. This applies to most "personality quizzes", they are all garbage. This also means that the whole section about it is basically padding.

Youd think a guy like matt would have thicker skin at this point.

17:39 While you're basically dividing the books by Era, Mat is using ALL the books from past to present I think. Shows the difference between you two I think. Mat uses all to create his theories, while you divide them by dates.

Just starting to watch this, haven’t even watched the original video on GT, so figured it’ll be a good watch along lol, however going into this video with the 4 mins I’ve watched already and basing it off the title, some of my biggest problems with a lot of FNAF theories, MatPat’s in particular, are the bait titles, “I SOLVED FNAF” etc etc, it genuinely makes my eyes roll as it’s claimed every video now, and, as it was said here, the misinformation and lack of research at times - you mentioned the misinformation, but there’s also the lack of basic research, the biggest one that comes to mind was his claim that golden Freddy wasn’t real, as there was no proof of Fredbear’s existence post FNAF 4 or something? When if he looked at the SL safe room, there was an obvious counter to that through the Fredbear plush. But hey, let’s see the rest of the video before I write even more lmao.

As an S I feel discriminated in the fnaf fan base. All jokes aside great video as always

About the AR Monty plush being hard to look at it's actually the first AR object you can collect. Hence why it's the only one Cassie claims "is hard to look at".

matthew patthew is self-conscious and he is MAD

wanna hear something funny? the brazil ending got rid of the freddy ice cream while keeping vanessa's mint. they showed they could keep it the same, but they didn't. the brazil ending clearly takes from princess quest as there is no other ending where vanessa would be with gregory, so it's an intentional change. his chart has less evidence going for it.

I think criticism is fair on both sides while I do believe the video he put out seems to deflect a little more than he should I don’t think he’s necessarily talking about constructive criticisms. He seems to really just have a problem with the people who are completely negative about the theories that people are putting out which is understandable. This entire situation seems to be getting blown out of proportion, these are, at the bottom line theories about a fake universe that is about haunted robots. A lot of people are taking these too seriously at this point in my opinion.

it feels like hes treating others theories like hes trying to finish the counterpoint paragraph of a middleschool arguementative essay, using the weakest points to try and disprove that whole side.

i like matpat even though his theories do overlook a LOT of things especially lately, but he also spent WAY too much time talking about the myers’s-briggs test which is super funny cause it’s like well known to be relatively unscientific even though it’s fun to see loosely to see what you MIGHT partially be. thought i’d point that out.

Gregbot part is hypocritical he is complaining about people boiling down what he says when he is doing the same thing he is boiling down all arguments against Gregbot as just Cherry picked comments or pretending like it doesn’t exist

i really watched 1 hour and 39 minutes for a regular bye, but ig it's good to go back to the basics every once in a while, wouldn't want to forget where we came from after all jokes aside, it was nice to just listen to you talking for 15 minutes or so at the end there

Fuhnaff flipping out on you about that video will not never not be funny to me.😂😂😂😂

I agree so much that as an audience running with one thing is so incredibly frustrating. Like I like fuhnaff but I’m just sick of theories that build upon one another like at this point I don’t remember any of the evidence or the actual baby mimic theories. And matpats “the story is trying to tell us about ai and the main theme is always ai” is also so frustrating as soemthing constantly repeated (especially when like you I prefer to focus on characters and themes than plot because analysing fnaf like a proper piece of media and not a puzzle is more fun) And like despite the shear amount of theories rye puts out at least they talk about everything and anything whilst still being somewhat consistent in their underlying beliefs about things

What if the frights books are in universe books? Whatever happened to the company that owned Fazbear Fright in FNaF 3? What if it is someone on the inside influencing the stories that go out in order to give the general public an idea of the truth. That would explain why stories like Man in Room 1280, Step Closer, and Going Home have such strong parallels/accurate information without being directly canon. I’m sure something contradicts this, just a thought I had.

I really can’t stand how smug he is, it’s unwatchable. I think the reason a lot of criticism gets thrown at MatPat is because of his attitude about his theories. Where you’ll say “I don’t know if this theory is true but I’m putting it out there for people to chew on,” he says shit like “I have SOLVED Ruin and you guys aren’t gonna like the answer!” Or how RyeToast will go into a theory literally saying he doesn’t believe it while MatPat defends incorrect theories for MONTHS afterward. I do genuinely think Scott got ideas, or at least some sense of what the FNAF community liked to see, from MatPat. MatPat has been the FNAF gospel for most of the series’ lifespan, he’s coping so hard with the fact that he isn’t essentially the head writer anymore.

24:50 Mats pointing that meme out specifically because that's the Gateway to dissenting opinions, first make fun of Matpat and his theories, then challenge his theories. It's part and dare I say the face of the hate against matpat like sans is ness.

yeah a lot of theorist seem to have like some sorta anchor in theories. now I gotta Phone a Friend to figure out what i am usually Focused on. May edit this comment after finishing the video. Edit 1: yeah, predicting Charlie possessing the puppet had zero clues to it as we never see Charlie in the books (i got all the books in one go and forgot what silver eyes books were released at the time.) do anything resembling Give Gifts Give Life. let alone Puppet not existing in silver eyes and the save "Save him" in Take Cake To the Children minigame. no way would Charlie fit given the Criteria's given. (unless her android Body counts as a Puppet for the Agony controlling her?) Edit 2: yeah the first part of that wall code seemed way to oddly specific, still don't know what to make of it myself and its infuriating, Who in the fnaf Universe has that Kind of foresight and why write it in a language that practically does nothing to prevent the Mimic from reading it .

Sire Squawks, you're great, next time you make a react video like this can you put matpat's volume up? Or your volume down? I have to keep changing the volume on my end every 30 seconds.

Yay another sqawks rant.

I part of the problem here is that so many theories aren't theories. They're hypotheticals. MatPat presents them as if they're true, and a huge parts of his viewers assume the same. I think there would be a lot less backlash if people presented their ideas with "what if?"

He is saying Phone Guy is Purple Guy because “he’s the only one who knows how springlocks suits and safe rooms work”, I would know because I decided to do what I suggested on your server and it was torture

I mentioned you in the list of FNAF KZfaqrs I watch for the Matpat interview thing so maybe one day he will take notice. Keep up the good work.

Honestly I watch quite a few FNAF theorists so I take everything with a grain of salt mats recent theories haven't bothered me because they are.just his interpretation. Sure I'd love to get some other ideas on how things could work but game theory isn't just a fnaf channel and despite it.being one of their most popular things they cant just do FNAF stuff so they say where they stand and I'm okay with that I just watch others for further context and new opinions. Also Matt's theories tend to point out interesting things that make me want to look further into them. So yeah I don't think Matt is wrong to be a little spicy here until everything lines up somehow all any FNAF theorists can do is present different theories and sometimes those theories are crazy as heck

I think your contributions to the FNAF theory field would be vast, I do always find it a shame when you aren’t included in the discussions the team has, but no use fretting on it right? I always enjoy coming back to hear your corner of the room anyway, as far as I’m concerned, when I think of Rye or ID, I think of you too 💪

I like how on your desktop all fnaf games placed in timeline order thats just really cute

I like MatPat. He's very smart, he shows it off a lot more on GTLive and when he has live talks and things like that. He legit does remember A LOT out of the top of his head, he makes pertinent connections, his takes aren't the worst, and honestly he has had great theories on things. I also know that even though he probably makes enough to chill out, he runs a lot of his company even after selling it, has 5 successful channels and still is a husband and a father. He is overworked to the bone and it might either take a tool on his ability to double check things or write episodes on his own on the way he wants to. I have nothing but respect for him because he absolutely is a role model at the very least on work ethics. ... I don't like most of this video of his though. It's kinda late, kinda weak, and kinda deflective. Like, it's not a defense or a debunk, it is a deflection. It's a video about showing someone stepped on his toes and it hurt, and this video is the closest he'll come from swearing instead of telling you why you should take care about where you step or why it was a bad thing that you hurt him; even though this was shot, edited and probably scripted, most of it is as much of a ramble as he will do without doing it live. It's a lot of "well if you're doing it, I can do it too so leave me alone" and it rubs me off the wrong way. When you were talking about "style" of different theorist channels, what I see is mainly 2 things. First is a sunken cost falacy. As in "I've put so much energy into this that I have to keep doing it until it gives me the return I want out of it". Mat does it with Gregbot in specific, but he also does with a couple more abstract things like cyclical return of characters metaphorically or not. John does it a lot with Baby. Notrealname does it a lot with her dislike of where they took Baby, so on and so forth. The second one is a falacy on built repertoire, or something akin to a domino effect. If you are convinced that step 1 is up instead of down, it ultimately derails your conclusion into something that might be very wrong or mildly close to right but not quite, and you'd never be the wiser because it was such a basic thing that you did so long ago. Because FNAF is WAAAAAAY too long of a mistery, most people will have fallen into either trap or both at some point. There's either some minor things you've gotten wrong but now you're so far along your "assumption building" that you're not going to change it, or so much of your headcanons depends on one of your hot takes that you're not going to chance it willingly because you want it to pay off. While I think the second half of the video is an interesting insight on how people's brains can work, at the same time it is also a deflection of "oh, I can't be wrong, you just don't agree with me because you can't agree with me" I think Matpat is coming down with some burnout which is fine and valid, it's ok and it happens to everyone. I also think he has some burnout of this franchise, which he hasn't left alone since it debuted while most people either are just arriving or don't make a livelyhood out of it. There's no easy solution that doesn't increase his work load or focus on this franchise and I don't think anyone wants either. What I will say, is that his GTLives (all jokes about video lenght aside) where he analyses the things ID's and John had to theorise are some of the best content he has on FNAF exactly because he is very good at being analytical, about theory crafting and being perceptive. He could legit sit back and be a scrutinezer of other people's content, but even that is a double edged sword because he's a much larger channel and most people would see that as "punching down" if it was some actual form of content if he explored it. I think my conclusion is that people need to take themselves and theories less seriously and that Mat needs a break from analog horror and spooky games.

Glamrock Freddy seems more orange but the I agree with your take on the icicle pop

This GT video is basically, SEE, SEE I'm not wrong, I'm smart !!!!🤓

haven’t watched your reaction but this video really annoyed me. a lot of this just felt like mat pat saying “you just don’t get it bro, my evidence is actually really good, you just don’t have the right personality type (???)” instead of addressing any actual criticisms

as a big fan of the books, ive found that matpat has a history of misrepresenting them, so it's incredibly frustrating for him to make a video ignoring people's legitimate criticisms. he has a huge audience, and a lot of people don't read the books, so he should be more careful with what he says (also i love how with gregbot he always brings up the static vision but ignores the starry vision when moon comes out, which to me implies that its just an aesthetic feature and not theory foddet)

6:20 I think this might be in part because his theories are written, edited and released as a series and you have to wait until the next batch so to speak for any of those concerns to be addressed.

I saw that Uno installed Squawks, when are you going to do an Uno Let's Play with fans, Squawks? 😈

You know it's gonna be one of those Matpat videos when he "addresses" critcism.

i can hear it

“Maybe it’s one I’m not the theorists so idk how it works” sounds like it

I think the stuff about matpat showing the evidence for gregbot wasn’t to shove it down your throat or anything I think he was just explaining even more absurd and decisive theories are made with evidence just like others it’s just the interpretation that might be different and that shouldn’t be treated with such hostility as they often are these days

Rye toast makes up names and stuff for stuff on the spot, like naming the crying child and calling him that name in videos where it was not declared that the name is for the crying child, this is a bad practice and quite a few of his theories cover it, as far as mat pats S type thinking goes, I am intuitive, thanks matpat for making me need to clarify that now

Mentioned your name in the survey Game Theory did, so hey, maybe they'll learn who you are eventually! 😂 I think Matt's video would be stronger if he left out a lot of the sections about his own theories. It messes with the pacing, as you say, and it's going to distract from the broader point he was making because replies will focus on trying to debunk GregBot or whatever instead of the rest of the video.

i want a video analysizing the data

I wish Matpat really did cut out the Gregbot section the video would've been amazing otherwise

You described some of my problems very well, but to add onto that, I think his Mario is Evil example is a microcosm of everything I think goes wrong He explains that Mario is Evil is "of course wrong, but if you take the little bits and connect them, you get Mario is Evil". He is literally describing cherrypicking to get a conclusion and goes on with the video as if that wasn't wrong at all and that bothers me so much

Second half of Mat's video here really coulda been in it's own whole discussion, and probably shoulda been, from the gregbot atuff entirely.

The reason why The label of set in World of the news games still stands is because somebody emailed scholastic and they confirmed that label still stands

Yeah I've found I much prefer creators like you who focus on a particular thing and provide explanation and new ideas. I don't mind Game Theory, it's entertaining enough, but I generally find that the less you know about the topic being covered the more you will enjoy their videos. So unfortunately as someone who has consumed far too much fnaf and has a psychology degree, this latest GT video is not it for me.

Matpat honestly sounds like he's throwing anything at the wall in this video which leads to everything being a mess.

Matpat is being pretty hyperbolic, as you said he's using the meme argument as the actual argument as opposed to actual evidence, like his whole rant can be debunked with thematic and game design for the gregbot section, you can say he's not LITERALLY the crying child, but thematically the two are connected, they look similar for a reason, whether it be Mimic/Burntrap/Glitchtrap wanting a kid who looked like Afton's kid or just cause it parallels the crying child, so many of Mat's theories take things too literally, and instead of addressing that he dumbs down the argument to a single image. Like, I feel like if he just talked about how toxic many fans are being (they are, people act like he killed their family for making a bad fnaf theory), and how you SHOULD respond to a theory instead of coping about people memeing about his theories, this video would be a lot better.

8:49 matpat missing out

The thesis of mats video should have been don’t send theorists hate if you don’t like their theories not “don’t send me hate because all of my theories are actually right” which is what it comes off as. Like I think matt is trying to do a good thing for everyone but he really has not gone about it in a way that is at all helpful

I completely agree with you throughout this whole video. Its so frustrating trying to figure out often on mats videos