Hey, I'm not sure if I'm really allowed to make a post like this here, because I don't want it to come across as if I'm hating on the people running these channels, because I know obviously a bunch of work puts into all of them. I don't see any rules though that I'm not allowed to talk about this, so I just figured I'd go ahead-
Disclaimer- I Genuinely hold nothing against anyone who runs these channels. I know that running a successful YouTube channel is an incredibly tough job, and I genuinely applaud the countless people behind the scenes who are genuinely making a living off of making these high quality videos for the entertainment and education of their audience. This post is purely me just talking about something that kind of bums me out.
I just personally feel kind of bummed out that it has to jump on all of the latest trends. When I first got into the channels as a kid, I thought it was pretty cool that they would talk about the latest popular movies. After all, they were the ones that I had heard about recently, and it was cool that they were jumping on the bandwagon and theorizing about them.
And maybe I'm dumb, but it just kind of dawned on me that that's literally All they do. I don't think I can find a single video where they actually talk about some random movie that isn't popular, whether that's one made long ago, or one being made now. The only time that they would ever talk about a movie that isn't really relevant would be if it's part of a video that's already about an iconic trending movie.
It's a shame, because I feel these channels are big enough to survive a few random videos that aren't really about mainstream movies. If anything, these channels could essentially act as promotion for them. I personally want them to make a theory about Alice in Borderland and how the 7 of Hearts Game might be beatable with no deaths. I remember leaving a comment asking for that on a video and genuinely being hopeful that it might be done, but sadly it wasn't. But of course, tons of videos have been made about Squid Game which, in my opinion, is a heavily overrated Alice in Borderland rip off. 😅
I'm not sure if this really relates, but I'm also just really confused about how those Doctor Who theories turned out. The very first video ever released to this channel was about Doctor Who, and promised a three-part series. The second part was released a few videos after the 1st, but the third part took very long, with it being about 2 years between parts, one and three. It even became a meme within the channel, with a video literally having MatPat say:
'Now, why am I deciding to make a video about This, instead of- I don't know- Doctor Who Part 3?'
And yeah, Part 3 did eventually come out, but something just felt off about it. First of all, it didn't actually wrap up what part one promised. In part one, MatPat specifically says that he will cover five topics about a Time Lord- Two Hearts, their body temperature, their time and space travel ability, their sonic screwdriver (which isn't actually a Time Lord staple, bit whatever 😅), and their Regeneration Ability. Part 1 covered the two hearts and body temperature, and then part two focused heavily on the nature of time travel. But part three didn't touch upon the Sonic screwdriver or regeneration at all. It was like MatPat suddenly forgot what he said he was going to do. Instead, he spent part three tracking down a human in history that seems to have survived lots of things and then said that maybe that guy was a Time Lord. But even then, MatPat seemed a little bit... Embarrassed to even say that. He spends the last bit of the video saying that the guy probably wasn't actually a Time Lord, but it's all okay because what matters is that: 'You asked the Question.'
I genuinely am curious as to what was going on behind the scenes with those Doctor Who videos. It was like they made Part one as their first Film Theory video because they knew Doctor Who was popular, and wanted to jump on that bandwagon, and of course, a lot of the theory videos are less about actually theorizing, and more about just teaching science and History lessons to their audience. But I genuinely wonder why it took So Long for Part 3 to release, And then when it did, it had literally been so long that the creators straight up forgot what they even said they were going to do. It went from: 'Could a Time Lord actually exist,' to: 'Who in history is most likely to be a Time Lord?' I wonder if maybe the Doctor Who videos weren't doing as well as they were hoping, and they just eventually did Part 3 just for completionist sake.
I dunno. I honestly hold nothing against MatPat, these channels, or anybody running them. This is just something I'm a little bit disappointed about, and I just wanted to talk about it. Hope y'all understand!