Years active 2009–present Nationality American | Pseudonym MatPat Height 1.8 m | |
Subscribers 7.8 million (The Game Theorists)4.1 million (The Film Theorists)1.0 million (GTLive) Total views 1.03 billion (The Game Theorists)335.16 million (The Film Theorists)99.67 million (GTLive). Associated acts .ScrewAttackDid You Know Gaming? Spouse Stephanie Cordato (m. 2012) Similar Profiles | ||
Matpat on launching film theorists
Matthew Robert Patrick, more commonly known by screen name MatPat, is an American actor, writer, and internet personality. He is best known as the creator and narrator of the YouTube webseries Game Theory, where he comments on things such as the logic, scientific accuracy, and lore of various video games and the gaming industry. He is also known for creating the spinoff Film Theory, centering around cinema and internet filmography instead of gaming, his gaming channel GTLive, and the YouTube Red series MatPat's Game Lab. As of January 2017, Patrick has amassed over 14 million subscribers and over one billion views total across his three channels.
Contents
- Matpat on launching film theorists
- Early life
- The Game Theorists
- The Film Theorists
- MatPats Game Lab
- GTLive
- Theorist Media
- Collaborations
- Personal life
- References
Between July 1, 2016 and July 31, 2016, he starred in the game show The Runner. The show was produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and was available on Go90.
Early life
Matthew Patrick was born on November 15, 1986 in Medina County, Ohio. Growing up, Patrick was very involved in the arts, especially musical theatre. He valued education and spent most of his school career studying or taking classes. His enthusiasm led him to skip his lunch periods to take classes and to spend his summer vacations taking courses at college campuses. He eventually became the valedictorian of his graduating class, and earned a perfect score on his SAT. His strong academic record earned him acceptance into the prestigious Duke University.
Immediately after graduating from Duke University with a double major in neuroscience and theater, Patrick moved to New York City in order to pursue an acting career, which he eventually quit because he couldn't make a lot of money. After two years of mostly unemployment, he uploaded the promotional trailer for Game Theory, and four days later, he uploaded the first episode, explaining the scientific accuracy of the time travel of the SNES game Chrono Trigger.
He currently resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife Stephanie.
The Game Theorists
Patrick first created a YouTube account under the name "MatthewPatrick13" in 2009. He uploaded numerous videos of his performances and auditions for musical theatre, including one where he sang "It Takes Two" from the musical Hairspray. The first video he put a lot of time to edit was a video he used to propose to his then girlfriend Stephanie.
On April 18, 2011, he uploaded the first episode of his new show, Game Theory, where he discusses the relationship between reality and gaming in terms of science, math and culture. Inspired by the YouTube series Extra Credits episode Tangential Learning (March 23, 2011) he created Game Theory with the goal of creating "gaming's tangential learning experience" to show his abilities to companies that might watch his channel. He frequently uploads episodes covering Nintendo characters, as well as popular games such as Minecraft, Five Nights at Freddy's, Call of Duty and Pokémon, as well as numerous other games. He occasionally uploads videos commenting on the gaming market, as well as on other matters that he deems noteworthy. He gained subscribers and his videos were being posted on the front pages of sites such as ScrewAttack and GameTrailers. Game Theory has become known for Patrick's educational, consistent and in-depth approach to game analysis.
During the course of its life, The Game Theorists has hosted numerous spin-offs and separate shows. Some of the shows are only partly on The Game Theorists and consist of more episodes on the creators' channels.
The Game Theorists reached one million subscribers on December 17, 2013.
On October 1, 2013, a re-mastered version of the first episode of the Newgrounds show TOME: Terrain of Magical Expertise by Chris Niosi (Kirbopher) was uploaded to the channel to generate more attention for the series and give it more exposure. On October 31, 2013, the second episode featuring JonTron was uploaded. According to Niosi, the episodes were uploaded to the channel and he was given a cut of the revenue each month because he wasn't able to earn money from Google AdSense on his YouTube channel. Within two months, the show was pulled from the channel and the episodes were removed. Niosi stated that the reason behind this was because it didn't perform as well as projected within the first two episodes.
The Film Theorists
On May 12, 2014, Patrick created a second channel called The Film Theorists where he debuted his second show, Film Theory. The first episode was uploaded on June 2, 2015, focusing on the science of the TV series Doctor Who. Film Theory follows the same formula as Game Theory, but in relation to films and series as well as the film industry instead of gaming. Within a month following the first episode, The Film Theorists reached one million subscribers.
Like The Game Theorists, The Film Theorists is a host of spin-off shows.
Film Theory has covered episodes on franchises like Star Wars, Marvel Studios, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, and even the 2016 United States presidential election.
MatPat's Game Lab
On June 8, 2016, Patrick posted via his YouTube channel his new show, MatPat's Game Lab, on Google's new paid subscription service, YouTube Red. The show mainly focuses on placing video Patrick players in real life scenarios mimicking scenarios that occur in video games, such as bomb defusing, parkour, and military training.
GTLive
Patrick started a Let's Play series called GTLive on August 26, 2015 where he streams mostly gameplay with his wife Stephanie and then uploads it to the GTLive archive channel he created on September 14, 2015. Streams are usually conducted at 4 pm PST. Also appearing on the streams regularly are Jason, the producer of GTLive, the co-producer Chris, who became part of the stream after standing in for Jason during his wedding, their cat Skip, also called “CatPat,” and Peepachu, a cushion in the form of a yellow bunny Peep. Repeated themes of this livestream include the Mario Maker Wednesday (abbr. “MMW”) and the Scary Games Friday (abbr. “TGISGF” for “Thank Goodness It's Scary Games Friday”). A common feature is the 'clap-and-a-half' which Patrick reclaimed from his seventh grade Social Studies teacher.
Starting on October 3, 2016, the Monday streams became part of YouTube Gaming Primetime and are therefore scheduled for 3 pm to 5 pm PST. It also includes a voting mechanism, which can be used by Patrick to conduct quick polls.
As of 2016, GTLive streams five days per week on average, garnering roughly 20,000 to 30,000 viewers for each stream.
Theorist Media
Patrick is the Founder and President of Theorist Media, a digital media production and consulting company. He co-owns Theorist Media with his spouse, Stephanie.
Collaborations
Patrick has collaborated with numerous channels, featuring them as guests on his own shows, or being featured himself. He has done numerous voice-over work for video game-based blog Did You Know Gaming?, covering episodes on Portal, Super Mario, and Five Nights at Freddy's. He often shouts out the Wisecrack channel at the end of videos of Film Theory. He also has collaborated with Petcentric in the Pet-U-Cation videos.
Patrick has also worked with plenty of clients, including Samsung, Warner Bros., Ubisoft, Defy Media, and YouTube.
Numerous internet personalities have done voice-over work for Patrick's numerous shows, such as Austin Hargrave (PeanutButterGamer) and Jonathan Jafari, as well as Arin Hanson (Egoraptor) and Dan Avidan (Ninja Sex Party) of the web series Game Grumps.
Personal life
Patrick is married to Stephanie Cordato, who he met while at Duke University. The two became close after creating a Legend of Zelda parody called The Epic of Stew. The couple married on May 19, 2012 in North Carolina. They have a cat named Skip (aka CatPat) that occasionally makes an appearance on the live streams.