Matthew Robert Patrick (born November 15, 1986), known online as MatPat, is an American YouTuber and Internet personality. He is the creator of the YouTube series Game Theory, and its spin-off series Film Theory, Food Theory, and Style Theory, each analyzing various video games, films alongside TV series and web series, food, and fashion respectively. Each of the different series are posted on individual channels, each named after the respective series. In addition to the creation of his channels, Patrick narrates the majority of the videos that are presented on his channels. Patrick has also created the gaming channel GTLive and hosted the YouTube Premium series MatPat's Game Lab and the 2023 Streamy Awards. As of September 2023, Patrick has amassed over 40 million subscribers, as well as over 8 billion total views across all five of his channels. On January 9, 2024, Patrick announced his retirement from hosting the channels on March 9th, 2024 but will still make appearances on GTLive until the end of summer. For Me, he was my childhood, so to see him leaving broke my heart
But WHO will host the other shows? Lee Collins, who’s been with Theorist for 10 years as a video editor and creative director, will take over Film Theory Amy Roberts, who’s been with Theorist for six years as a channel manager, brand manager, and creative director, will host Style Theory Santiago Massa, who was formerly with Mythical and has been the creative director at Food Theory since 2023, will now host Theorist’s culinary adventures And last but not least, Tom Robinson, who’d worked with Disney and Fox before cold-emailing Theorist in 2020 asking for a job as a writer, will host Game Theory
