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Game Theory

Why YouTube Feels Boring

Game Theory

The Game Theorists

Games, Leisure

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Join Game Theory Host MatPat as he talks through the current meta of YouTube and why it all seems so boring now.


*Credits:* Writers: Matthew Patrick, Stephanie Patrick, and Tom Robinson Editors: Dan "Cybert" Seibert, JayskiBean, Pedro Freitas, Dom Sealion, Lace, and Shannon (Bomb0i) Sound Designer: Tyler Mascola



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0:00.0

Oh, I've done it. I've created the ultimate online video. I watched every YouTube video,

0:06.3

but because I thought that Mr Beast would do that very thing, I decided to do him one better.

0:10.4

I watched every YouTube video and counted every pixel on every frame of every video.

0:16.0

And guess what? I still thought that Jimmy might do that, so I decided to do him one better.

0:20.0

I did it all in 24 hours and I'll give away a hundred thousand dollars to every

0:24.9

viewer of that video. I've done it I've done it it's it's unbreakable it's

0:30.3

unbeatable no one can ever outdo me.

0:32.8

I've outbeasted the beast. Oh, oh, oh, oh, you're Hello internet.

0:55.0

Welcome to Game Theory, the superlative channel for overthinking all your favorite things on the internet.

1:02.0

Today on Mat Pat talks about topics I'm thinking about instead of a game theory,

1:06.0

we're going to be talking about phases.

1:07.7

We all go through phases, right?

1:09.0

We wear different stuff, we watch different things, and on YouTube we make different content.

1:13.4

For the last three years, YouTube has been going through what I'm calling the era of

1:17.2

excess.

1:18.2

And I probably don't have to explain to you exactly what I mean by that.

1:21.3

You pretty much know it when you see it. the title has the word every in it every time I tried every food from every state I tried every impossible sport

1:30.0

mythical has a format called we tried every where they try every flavor of a thing.

1:34.6

The Try Guys have Keith eats the menu, where he tries every item on a restaurant menu.

1:39.1

Errak tries every drive-thru. Eddie Burback goes to every Margaritaville. Matthew Beam goes to every Disneyland where Alferrad rides every ride.

1:47.0

Drew Binsky visited all 197 countries, while Mark Aplier just tries every flavor of Taki.

1:52.0

I mean, he actually just licked every flavor of Taki. just where I'm going with this. It's every trend that you see everywhere on the platform.

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