YouTuber MatPat has announced that he would be leaving his popular YouTube channel and he would be handing it over to other members of his team.
One of the reasons why he would be retiring is to spend more time with his son.
MatPat, whose real name is Matthew Patrick, announced in a video titled “Goodbye Internet.”
“It’s not clickbait,” Patrick said. “On March 9th, I’ll be hosting my last theory episode, at which point I’ll be handing off the channels to someone else.”
The Game Theorists launched in 2011 with Patrick and his wife Stephanie Patrick
The channel currently has more than 18.5 million subscribers and led to the launch of other popular channels including The Film Theorists, which has 12 million subscribers, The Food Theorists with 5 million, The Style Theorists with 2.3 million, and GTLive with 3.4 million.
Over the past decade, The Game Theorists have become particularly synonymous with theories behind the tangled, perplexing storyline of “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” which launched in 2014.
Patrick remained the main host of videos on all five channels over the years while Stephanie appeared less frequently in front of the camera in her role as COO.
In the video, which currently stands at 8.6 million views, Patrick said leaving the channel was “a big deal” because it was his and Stephanie’s “first child.”
“This was our baby,” he said. “This channel has been going for 13 years.”
“I think I’m the only 37-year-old out there who has an un-ironic appreciation of Skibidi Toilet,” he said. “Then again, maybe that’s the problem.”
“I’m going to miss you,” he said. “I’m going to miss this. I value what we have here. I value this conversation, this openness, this relationship that we share.”
He said this was why Theory Media had been hiring more staff and why they had partnered with a larger company.
“We knew that we couldn’t do this forever,” he said. “We knew that, honestly, we didn’t want to do this forever.”
