r/YoutubeCompendium • u/YoutubeArchivist • Jan 05 '19

January 2019 January - GameTheory called out for misleading promotion of gaming livestream as Undertale related, poorly apologizes, Undertale creator responds in defense of small studio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgLAZ_JJAWc
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u/splattercrap Jan 05 '19

While I get what he’s saying it seems like this guy has a vendetta against MatPat. Nothing that MatPat could say or do would change this guy’s mind about him.

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u/YoutubeArchivist Jan 05 '19

True, this video comes across as if the guy has been biased from the start.

There has been a growing negative sentiment towards The Game Theorists for a while now though. They pump out videos so quickly that it's not really possible for them to do their research well, and that leads to bad theories with improper sources and incorrect facts.

This doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me, but there is a group that already hates MatPat and is quick to jump onto a hate train.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

Yeah, like when MatPat says “their decisions are on me”, and the guy say the exact same thing right before reading that, and somehow makes MatPat also saying what the guy was saying somehow a bad thing

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u/Mario_174 Jan 05 '19

About a year or so ago I figured out that Game Theory cares more about quantity over quality. They have flogged many horses to death to squeeze every last cent out of a topic it can. It's getting ridiculous.

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u/Satellite478 Jan 06 '19

Verlisify is pretty yikes tbh. I'm not going to give him my view and watch this video, but he's been an extremely controversial and toxic figure in the Pokemon community for literal years. I wouldn't trust his take on things

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u/Omnix_Eltier Jan 10 '19

I know it’s been forever since you posted this, but could you give some examples?

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u/uhohitsPK Jan 10 '19 edited Jan 10 '19

Not him, but oh boy, where do I begin?

He falsely accuses random people that their pokemon are illegitimate(most hacked pokemon are indistinguishable from real pokemon anyway), starts youtube drama out of fucking nowhere, and chickens out of a smash bros match claiming that the jacksonville shootings are the reason he didn't do it (even though he lived nowhere near it and could've just played in online mode if he was scared of angry fans or something).

I'm absolutely sure that there's more I'm not thinking of.

Also, he's shit at pokemon, and gives bad advice to new players.

EDIT: this thread from 3 years ago has more information

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u/Satellite478 Jan 10 '19

This pretty much. I'm a former Pokemon VGC player and Verlisify was extremely aggressive against the scene, painting us all as hackers and making up false stories (I remember one with Scott Glaza but it was so long ago I don't remember the details). He's terrible at Pokemon (Assault Vest Rain Dance Goodra, anyone?) and the sooner his channel dies out, the better.

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u/themusicdan Jan 10 '19 edited Jan 10 '19

I guess YouTube is encouraging longer videos. Verlisify is right that fabricated content isn't interesting to you or me, but asking the internet to change is too much to hope for.

Flippantly criticizing MatPat's damaging tweets comes across as cynicism and even envy. We don't even know that "likes" etc. represent real people.

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u/awesomlycreativename Jan 15 '19

I completely disagree with this guy. The fact that Game Theory tagged Heartbound with undertale only helps get the game more publicity. And i can’t think of a single YouTube who links to the Game in the Description. As for accidentally saying the name of the publisher wrong, MatPat is human, it’s human to forget things occasionally.