Ok, so I know almost nobody's gonna see this post but I needed to get my thoughts out about MatPat stepping down.
I've had a feeling that something was up for a while. Like Mat pointed out in the video, the new channel leads have been showing up in videos more & more often. I thought he might hand Style & Food Theory over, possibly Film too. The changes have been too blatant for it not to be on purpose. It felt like a passing of the torch.
But I never expected him to step back from all of them.
Except...
That's not entirely true either.
I don't know what it was- how he's joked about being Old Man YouTube™ recently, how he'd occasionally mention the extra stuff he wanted to do, or how quickly Ollie was growing up. Or maybe it was how he acted in certain moments of GTLive or his sit-down videos. But I just...
I think I knew it was coming.
Truthfully... I think I've known for a while.
Mat is such a forward thinker, always diving into the next new thing, always moving up and on. Always innovating and creating and pushing progress forward.
I've always known he wouldn't be able to do Game Theory forever.
And I've always known that Mat is the type of person to end it on his own terms, on a high note. To build a legacy he could look back at and be proud of. To pass it on instead of ending it, to give the channels and community the best possible chance to live on without him.
I've known this day was coming.
I might have even known it was coming soon.
That doesn't mean I was ready.
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No the Kadri's goodbye post has wounded me deeply
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Requiem for a Gentle Giant
She had to escape to her dreams
To feel anything but fear
Her Gentle Giant protected her
From the demons she had to hear
The demons did the cruelest thing
They possibly ever could
They took away her Gentle Giant
As she always feared they would
She can no longer escape
To those sweet dreams
Of the man she believed
She would one day find
She now fears she will never find that man
So sweet, so gentle, so kind
Her life has been given back to her
She is armed to fight at last
She is no longer plagued by guilt
For how poorly she coped in the past
The black hole where her heart used to be
Has been filled with brave new hope
Her little buoy of optimism
Has turned into a boat
There is only one hole left
Inside her fragile heart
Shaped like her Gentle Giant
Who the demons tore apart
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Coby's not getting an extension
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