Film Theory: How YouTube BROKE Your Brain!

This might be the darkest theory MatPat has done and I’m digging it.

This is by far the number one thing I notice when I hang out with friends or family in the generation right under me (I'm 33) The sense of community is definitely less, and what brings people together sometimes seems MUCH more negative. Appreciate the breakdown.

Just when I was sure I understood my own dissonance and sadness. You have absolutely no idea how viscerally I felt this message. Thank you for this matpat. I need to reconnect with my family.

matpat sitting in a room full of google executives and bringing up skibidi toilet is such a matpat thing to do

This is SUCH an important topic for a video. I've personally been a victim of this problem and the loneliness and stress that comes with it and one of the worst things is how little people seem to know about it. It gives me so much relief to finally see someone with a bigger platform acknowledge and spread awareness of this problem.

I think that's also why reaction content has been so popular lately. People want to to see others experience the things they themselves love, because they can't find that easily in-person.

This is probably one of the most important videos ever made by Matpat! I'll definitely be sharing this with people!

As a Senior in high school who suffers from depression, I always found that watching these kinds of videos really help me and allows to to know that it's just not me. Hope MatPat makes more videos like this.

PLEASE, make an channel that focus on youtube theory, i would LOVE THAT

I’ve been thinking about this a ton recently! It used to be so much easier to get conversations going when everybody watched the same shows. (And the shows used to be better quality too!) Now conversations normally end in an awkward recommendations for something neither party probably cares about at all. It’s crazy thinking about how often I still habitually try to make references to things I assume everybody would know about and have them fall completely flat and how isolating that always feels.

This is why I absolutely loved squid games! I loved how everyone was collectively watching and conversing about the same show. We don’t have that anymore

I think it really explains a lot. As a teacher, it hurts me to see my students getting more isolated the older they get and there seems nothing I can do to help. This video gives me some ideas to let them try to talk their stories out. Let the connection begin

I had a huge smile on my face at the end, Matpat and the team really went all out with this one, and the script didn't feel "filtered" For the past few months I've been thinking about this exact "why everyone feels divided and lonely" and I think this video gives genuine reason and really great advice on how to stop this. We as humans are social creatures we NEED each other.

I take pride in my job as a hairdresser. I feel that getting your hair cut nowadays is one of the things that help lonely people feel normal. That small amount of interaction outside of work and family is what makes a lot of my clients excited to see me.

To be honest, I never thought I’d actually see this kind of theory done by y’all honestly. good on you guys, this needs to be brought more to the surface.

Man, this is the kind of content I love from you guys. It's weird. I came for the media theories, but stayed for the social commentary and calls to action.

I continue to believe that this is why reaction channels are both so popular and ultimately a good. You are, in a sense, sharing an experience. It’s one-way and outside of time, but you are seeing other people enjoy a thing you also enjoy. Extra points for if that person is very different from you. It’s like an empathy brain hack.

Ever since 2015 or so It felt like the years weren't passing anymore. The world suddenly became boring. 2020 and the covid pandemic only made that worse. It definitely feels good to see videos like this. I absolutely hate how much TikTok and YouTube and others have ruined my attention span and have made my need to socialize disappear. I'm only 15 but I notice this loneliness everywhere. No one talks to each other anymore. I really hope this loneliness pandemic goes away soon.

You know its getting real when FilmTheory becomes LifeTheory.

I've always enjoyed these "meta" theories on the Theorist channels since you started making them, since they always give an interesting perspective on online culture and the effects of the social media we use. I enjoyed this one a lot, I'd love to see more of these. In a nice twist, the message of this video gives me a feeling of unity already, with all the people who struggle with the consequences of living in the current era