MatPat

Matthew Robert Patrick (born November 15, 1986), better known as MatPat, is an American YouTuber and internet personality.

He is the creator and former host 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 eight billion total views across all five of his channels.

On January 9, 2024, Patrick announced that he would depart from hosting the channels.

On March 9, his final Theory video was posted, although he intends to make appearances on the channel until mid 2024.

A website, Where’s Matpat, was launched in order to update fans on Patrick’s projects.

Matthew Robert Patrick was born on November 15, 1986, in Medina, Ohio.

He has Polish, Czech and Slovak ancestry.

He was nicknamed "MatPat" by his friends in sixth grade.

An only child, Patrick was interested in video games, theater and school early on.

It discussed the quantum mechanics in the 1995 video game Chrono Trigger.

The channel slowly gained subscribers and his videos were posted on the front pages of sites such as ScrewAttack and GameTrailers.

He was the valedictorian of his high school and received an academic scholarship to Duke University, graduating in 2009 with a double major in theater and psychology with a concentration in neuroscience.

To fulfill his dream of becoming an actor, Patrick moved to New York after graduating and performed in theater productions to little success, spending two years unemployed.

His first YouTube videos were auditions for stage plays.

In 2011, he decided to revamp his channel as a "portfolio" which could demonstrate to potential employers his ability to write, research, and edit videos online.

Inspired by an Extra Credits episode on tangential learning, Patrick uploaded the first episode of "Game Theory" on April 18, 2011.

In 2012, Patrick introduced two new segments hosted by fellow YouTubers Gaijin Goombah and Ronnie Edwards, and Austin Hourigan's "The SCIENCE!".

In 2014, Patrick launched the spin-off channel "Film Theory", which covers movies and television.

This channel reached over one million subscribers in a month.

He occasionally uploaded videos commenting on the gaming market and gamers, as well as on other matters that he deemed noteworthy.

Patrick started a Let's Play series called GTLive on August 26, 2015, where he posts gameplay and video reactions with his wife Stephanie.

Patrick asked the Pope to encourage others to "fight for what's right" and gifted him a copy of Undertale (2015), saying that its recurrent theme of mercy fits the Pope's proclamation that 2016 would be the "year of mercy for the Catholic church".

Starting on October 3, 2016, the Monday streams became part of YouTube Gaming Primetime, and were therefore scheduled for 3 pm to 5 pm PST.

It also included a voting mechanism, which can be used by Patrick to conduct quick polls.

As of March 2022, GTLive had 2.94 million subscribers and over 649 million views.

As of 2022, the GTLive channel continues to upload mostly unedited, pre-recorded content.

On June 8, 2016, Patrick posted via his YouTube channel a new show, MatPat's Game Lab, on Google's paid subscription service, YouTube Premium.

The show mainly focused on placing video game players in real life scenarios mimicking scenarios that occur in video games, such as bomb defusing, parkour, survival and military training.

Despite MatPat's interest in developing a second season, YouTube did not announce any further development into the project.

He was also a part of the YouTube Premium series Scare PewDiePie (2016), created by PewDiePie, and the third season of Escape the Night (2018), created by Joey Graceffa, in addition to cameo appearances in Markiplier's YouTube Original films A Heist with Markiplier (2019) and In Space with Markiplier (2022).

On May 29, 2016, Patrick and eleven other YouTubers met with Pope Francis for an hour.

In 2019, The Game Theorists held a 9-hour charity livestream that generated $1.3 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

The stream included guests Markiplier, TheOdd1sOut, Rosanna Pansino, Scott Cawthon, and others.

Two other charity streams were held for St. Jude in 2020 and 2021, respectively.

The third Theory channel, and fourth overall; The Food Theorists, began releasing videos in July 2020.

The Food Theorists, using the same style as its predecessors, blends food science with psychology, physiology, and conspiracy.