aaaahhhhhh, what a gem!
i remember his video getting recommended to me right about when it came out; i watched a lot of similar commentary content at the time, but his video rubbed me the wrong way. the overall attitude towards corporate culture, as well as the methods he chose for promoting his agenda seemed kinda weird even back then. never got another video of his recommended ever again. it is, of course, suspicious, but i’ve never imagined this wOrMhOlE to be this deep..
it makes a little bit more sense now, thanks
can’t wait to read all the conspiracy theories in the comments


The veered into some pretty shitty conspiracy theorizing in the last quarter


My theory is the whole thing was to get free Reddit premium


Wow, I never knew this guy was a Chapotard lol


19:10, Mister L'amour (Mister Sandman) by Adalbert Lutter Et Son Orchestre 1957.


regarding the last theory: would it really be far fetched to think of this as youtube's version of social media "bots" (like fake accounts with enough background to confuse for a real person).  Here in Mexico it is known as a very successful strategy to the point where we know they swarm all platforms as important events unfold related to government.  The main difference between other platforms and this one is that the algorithm would not help the swarm of bots do their noise as everywhere else.


i straight up did not pay attention to the part of the video when justice was playing in the background.


Downward spiral? More like downward wormhole


Hey look, YouTube Geographic isn't dead! Always a good day when Emp uploads!


and their answer? youtube kids and coppa

absolutely useless to solve the problem


Plot twist it wasn't a wormhole, but a downward spiral


worst part is that he uses express vpn instead of nord vpn


40:00 IS THA MUSIC FROM MY ALL TIME FAVORITE HORROR MOVIE SINISTER!!  I LOVE THIS


My man Emplemon out here with the true journalistic pieces instead of all the rushed bs there is out there these days.  Rep +


That shockwave thing...<br>Was it the video or my Birthday

That shockwave thing...
Was it the video or my Birthday


take a shot a shot every time he says disgusted in his video


EmpLemon is the ONE YouTuber whom I hurriedly watch whenever I get a notification for a new upload. Keep up the good work, Emp.


37:18 playing jpeg over this lmfao such  a perfect


33:40 Garry Glitter playing in the background, nice touch.


Yeah I think "Line Goes Up" used a similar reddit solicitation strategy


Youtube does make a lot of money. This one kind of made out youtube isn't financially viable. It is haha.


I actually thought this from the start, I made a post on Reddit and got down voted instantly lol

You can tell who and who doesn’t have Reddit downloaded if they have a capital r or not

Sometimes you're right and no one will listen - that isn't an experience exclusive to reddit

@PON PON PATA PON reddit is a massive website with many communities sk it really depends. But yea, a lot of people there are quite smoothbrained and are more than happy to shut down oposition with downvotes.

Reddit's downvoting system is inherently flawed because it hides posts with unpopular opinions. While it can hide things like spam (rarely), or hide obvious stupidity (like blatant racism), more often than not all it does is shut down actual honest conversation.

Don't use Reddit, kids.

@Mr. Clean cartoon network forums are far superior tbh

@Freidheim of Krolastern That's just people, not even anything related to social media.

"why dont you think of the children?!!?"


You really like the Alabama Song eh? Keep up the good content 😊


Well what do you know this rings some truth now 3:57


Don't get me STARTED on wasp removal videos


Why was Matt looking at videos of children in the first place?


i have to ask... whats with his eyes? is it post editing or is he on something?


Only watching this so i can watch the other one


Matt: "Nobody on YouTube is doing anything about pedos, you all only care about money!"<br>AnxietyWar: "Am I a joke to you?"

Matt: "Nobody on YouTube is doing anything about pedos, you all only care about money!"
AnxietyWar: "Am I a joke to you?"


@Please enter a name that comment aged like milk

@Kwaite Funi Yeah it makes the situation worse, he is a groomer, and a furry.

@Please enter a name oh, I wasn't aware of the furry part. but yeah.

I was looking for a comment calling out the furry groomer pyro


incase you dont know, "cp" means cheesy pizza, nothing special, but it does taste really good.


What the fuck I just got a ad that was from the official Rick astley YouTube channel and it was never gonna give you up the full song! WHAT THE FUCK!


17:27 @le roi des rats a l'époque youtube avais déjà régis a cet vidéo ^^

@EmpLemon YouTube did react to the video but later on Le roi de srats figure out that the problem not only is on youtube but on every social network all of this just to find out that its impossible to stop 12 years old kid neivly posting Gym exercise video and then this video to be shared by some weird network of guy posting comment like "continue to upload please you look pretty"


This guy is the reason people can't have nice things due to "Think Off Duh Chillins!!!" mentality that leads to unnecessary Scorched Earth Policies.


He sounds like a YouTube-equivalent McCarthy


Should prolly be rabbit holes and not wormholes


maybe one of his videos became part of that wormhole.


This video hits different after Pyrocynical-allegetions


The virgin wormhole vs The chad downward spiral


his old videos seem to be parody oriented, maybe his original video was a parody that went too far?

Could you imagine doing that, like, I've took lies too far but never lies that affected that many people


Is it bad that I had never heard about this until now?

But I bet you see the effects it on YouTube somehow. Like disabled comments sections on clips from kids' content. At least now you know why we're here.

It's even worse if you never connect that to Keemstar v. H3H3


I wonder how much money he made by doing this. "I don't know how to turn off monetization", riiiiiight. This could be your actual explaination right there, it was essentially a heist. Get in, whip up a frenzy to get the views, cash in, disappear into the darkness with the ad money you made. This one seems to fit pretty much everything and has no need for an elaborate conspiracy.

@Captain Weekend Well, hope your future internet interactions go better. Going over how this went down could show you some things which could help with that, but I empathise with you being in no mood for advice from me so hey, have a good night yourself, and good luck in the future.

@Abdul Masaiev Okay dude, good for you, I'm sorry you took this all so personally, have a good night.

@Captain Weekend I'm just going to say I'm very amused that you actually went ahead and did continue to ramble your nonsense into the void. Hope you realize that nobody will ever read it other than you. I certainly have no plans to.

@Abdul Masaiev You're completely missing the point because you've already come to your conclusion before even proposing your hypothesis, unlike the others you're building the evidence around your conclusion, rather than looking at the evidence before drawing a conclusion. You can say that he maybe wouldn't care about channel growth to justify your hypothesis, but to say it doesn't factor in at all is basically you saying that your hypothesis is correct, which then ceases to be a hypothesis at all and is you just saying something is true despite lacking the evidence to prove it. Sure, for the sake of your hypothesis we can assume that he was looking to get out, but that doesn't suddenly make any argument against it suddenly invalid. You have no way of proving it was his intent to pull a youtube hiest, that's the point you miss completely. Honestly you're just resorting to ad hominem to ad hominem, which makes it pretty rich when it's basically what you're accusing me of doing. Your hypothesis is bad, and throwing a tantrum when someone points out a flaw in your argument makes you look incredibly juvenile. Maybe grow up a bit and learn how to have a conversation like an adult, you can disagree with someone without getting personal, after all, part of the reason for proposing a hypothesis in the first place is to find the flaws, not plug your ears whenever someone disagrees with you, but I think it's safe to say from your response that you don't understand the basics of hegelian dialectics.

@Captain Weekend It's true I discount that. I do so deliberately, and I already said why. Repeatedly. The scenario has him being done with youtube, and so pulling a heist as he goes out. Why would that scenario possibly care re: "but what about his channel grooooooowth"? There never was going to be any since in it he was already planning to get out, for whatever reason. So funny thing, that's half of your big rambly reply completely missing this most basic point. Missing the point is pretty much your primary theme, really, since it continues to go on and on, with a small side order of general wrongness. Not one (not a single one) thing you said is in any way on the mark, nor do you even show any signs of understanding what it is you're even trying to argue against (or even any willingness to obtain that undertanding so you could maybe actually argue against it)... nor any signs that this fact bothers you or slows you down in any way.

I've been on this internet merry-go-round before, I know exactly how it goes, and I know what outcomes come from what choices here. I pick "I'm out". Feel free to keep talking and maybe tossing some more insulting insinuations my way though, if you find rambling into the ether in that manner fun or therapeutic.

@Abdul Masaiev The thing is you have no evidence he even made a considerable amount off of the ad revenue, let alone the idea that this could even work as a heist. We don't know how early ad rates were effected, so we can't prove it one way or the other. Also the reason him knowing how to manipulate audiences is NOT a point in support of you is because you discount the fact that he'd have more to gain from using it as a way to grow his channel rather than for a big controversy which only gives him a limited amount of time to make money before he is forced to cash out. You would accept that if you actually cared about being objective rather than trying to win an argument. Your hypothesis is practically baseless and is only supported by the idea that he may have been lying about not knowing how to turn off monetization. The other hypotheticals have far more going for them in that they actually present evidence, such as his reddit posts, and draw conclusions from that rather than making a single massive leap of logic. It's like saying "a wizard did it" is the best explanation for everything because it doesn't require you to think about anything. The only reason your hypothesis isn't a "grand conspiracy" like the others is because you're making an assumption off of a single statement and then ignoring any possible flaws, unlike the other hypotheticals that accept there are still parts that may not add up completely.

Yes, lets make money on youtube by working everyone into a frenzy and contacting advertisers, thereby hurting ad rates for everyone, including yourself, flawless! I'm not saying he didn't want to profit off of what he was doing, but the idea of making some quick cash whilst at the same time hurting monetization doesn't really make much sense. It's like emp says, if he knew how to manipulate reddit to get views, then why not do it for his own content? It's not a flawless argument since the motive doesn't really make sense considering what his interest was in. If he wanted to whip up a controversy for a quick profit, then why do it in a way that harms your method of getting money from doing it?

@tph_dragon Yeah, no problem. Though full disclosure, I'm not somebody who personally has any videos with ads, this is just some of the random knowledge I picked up around the place, in bits and pieces (and there were a lot of them floating around when everyone was in meltdown about the adpocalypse, you could get some serious peeks behind the curtain). If you find out this is actually all horribly, horribly wrong, do let me know, but the official youtube tutorial page for turning off ads for a video seems to confirm this.

@Abdul Masaiev oh damn. I didn't know it was that easy. I just always assumed that turning it on and off were different and that you didn't have to turn it on to be monetized. Thanks for clearing that up then.

@tph_dragon Essentially what you do is first you need to qualify for being able to run ads. Once you do though you can turn them on in the video settings (the usual autodemonetising caveats apply, being a whole other topic). Turning them off is a matter of going to that exact same place where you turned them on and again clicking the exact same toggle you clicked before. Maybe it used to be different some years ago, I don't know, but I doubt the difference was such that you could turn them on and then be completely at a loss as to how to turn them off. My guess is that even if you had to go to a different place to find the toggle, it was still the one toggle either way.

@Abdul Masaiev is that how it works? I genuinely have no idea how monetization works from a creators perspective. That's why I thought his argument seemed legit.

@tph_dragon I mean, yeah. Setting up the monetization is the hard part, so "I don't know how to turn it off" is some weak shit when you first need to make the effort (and have the know-how) to turn it on in the first place.

Abdul Masaiev setting up a live stream and making a video ain’t hard cause it’s more widespread than setting up monetization on your channel. I can start a live stream from my PlayStation or my iPad, doesn’t mean I know how to monetize those.

Except for his reactions. I think maybe it was a heist of sorts and he wanted to sink youtubers at the same time. Then corporations took it over in the news-space to make a tidy buck.


Allegedly...Someone in his life caught him with questionable material and he said he was just researching the evil and then he went on a warpath when it turned out to be lucrative for his channel.


Matt Watson from the epic comedy duo called SuperMega?


ow the swirl thing hurts my eyes because its framerate is choppy and also it's kinda bright :(


It's not called a "Wormhole" it's called a "Rabbit hole"

@Spongiroth EnaPants - EnaTenkiyoGaming Potężny as fuck man

@Lizard with internet i apprciate the clarification but i didnt say it was inescapeable, as i wasnt implying blackhole. im sure theres some metaphor you could apply blackholes to! <3

@siren typer Actually, the correct word would be black hole, if it’s inescapable.

Rabbit holes imply lots of things to find (hudden chambers more videos) wormhole implys bringing you straight to a thing (like watching one meme video and suddenly youre being reccomneded a ton of memes) <br>Wormhole is the right word for the red head to use

Rabbit holes imply lots of things to find (hudden chambers more videos) wormhole implys bringing you straight to a thing (like watching one meme video and suddenly youre being reccomneded a ton of memes)
Wormhole is the right word for the red head to use

"Nah mate,  Will Smith bought the copyright so now its the Will Hole!"

Failsafe Ziprar <i>my old youtube comments suck</i> It’s called a DOWNWARD SPIRAL

Failsafe Ziprar _my old youtube comments suck_ It’s called a DOWNWARD SPIRAL


Nestle caring about endangering children : ^ )


'youtube is horrible and i don't want anything to do with it'

proceeds to upload to youtube

'youtube is horrible and i don't want anything to do with it'

*proceeds to upload to youtube*


I remember this happening actually it was crazy as fuck. A bunch of YouTubers were being affected by this and it ended in COPPA being forced to take action. Twas a crazy time for YouTube.

Same. Everyone was losing their shit at Adpocalypse 2


Y does Matt's voice make me think of DSP..


Where can I find that "K-pop is evil" clip? I can't find it on YT

I’m pretty sure that was the “GINGERS HAVE SOULS!” Kid, try looking on his channel.


how the fuck have i never seen that kpop clip before, gonna need to throw that one in the archive


11:16 that's a STAR_ thumbnail. "TF2: What game is this?" Classic


emplemon is the type of youtuber that you need to drop everything once he drops a new video


We should have boycot like this over usefull stuff like dislikes vanishing, not over how “algoritm works”


5:58 I wish I didn’t pause to read. My god I feel dirty.


well shit can’t use the Pyro example any more


This is why you should never give Reddit power


In this dark time of misinformation and paranoia, what we need is a hero, a white knight in the dark... We need... YouTube poop.

YouTube Poop: Where there's smoke, they pinch back.

Because YouTube is, where the poop is...


Anyone know where the Sam Hyde shirt cartoon kid Emp uses at 6:00 comes from?

its from a meme comparing cumtown, opie and anthony, and million dollar extreme fans


Always question the motives of people and movements who say they want to protect children.


This clip tho 30:26 xD
can someone pls tell me what its from?


Aha, a LeRoiDesRats reference in an EmpLemon vid ! sick


Matt’s What It Is? More like Matt What Is It


Cabot, Arkansas is such a beautiful place.


Hand him over to 4chan... They'll find him by 4 o'clock tonight.

No meme fuel + 4chan's being kinda dormant lately...

Plus youtube's normie central to their eyes so this doesn't affect them directly lol

@mak0321 i think they meant reddit angers them

It is I, dr oofers coming back to...I don’t know...come back to say that I’m still looking at this thread?
Basically I’m kind of the one who ended up steering this thread into what it is....or at least played a factor in it’s direction.
Either way, you can take it as an apology, or take it as a feeling of accomplishment.

JakeSpacePirate E You mean reddit is younger.<br>Also, 4chan is typically better than reddit, just saying.

JakeSpacePirate E You mean reddit is younger.
Also, 4chan is typically better than reddit, just saying.

@JakeSpacePirate E  you probably mean older right? 2003 comes before 2005...

@NullJaegar isn't the word "soy" censored on certain boards?

4chan good reddit bad, 4chan epic haxer personal army.

this comments thread in a nutshell.

@SUCCI BOI they helped find its location, yes.

@Daniel Ferreira didn't 4chan bomb an isis training facility?

@Mmyr8ad O. Well, yeah now that I know that 4chan is younger I know believe that it is better. Makes sense.

@cat reddit was founded on 2005 while 4chan was founded on 2003. The former is definitely younger than the latter.

@sergeantgamerful did you read the comment? He said that the other is worse depending on how you look at it. I personally think reddit is worse but both are still have an awful and good side depending on where you are. 4 chan is definitely a more fun place with basically no rules while reddit can be good for some in depth conversations if you look in the right place. Again, i don't like reddit, but it'd be foolish and radical to say everything there is abominable

@JakeSpacePirate E 4chan is reddit's edgy little brother <br>so yes

@JakeSpacePirate E 4chan is reddit's edgy little brother
so yes

Go to tumblr, at least its ironically funny there

@JakeSpacePirate E Lmaooooooo brooooooooo are you seriously implying the soviet union is any better??? Holy shiiiit they were both awful. The analogy isnt even that good as you cant really equate both sites to these two countries. Reddit is bad because discussion isnt allowed. 4chan is honestly better off since at the very least people can speak freely but they can also be hella criticized, bullied, etc but thats just like real life where you can say anything but suffer the social consequences.

Eric Moses guessing by the email he read from YouTube his first name is jayme . So half way there

@TunedSquid Remember when 4chan doxxed a 16-year old because they found her annoying? Yeah, no, stop acting like 4chan is this perfect bastion of free speech. It can be a downright Nazi Hell-pit if you are in the wrong place, but not all the site is like that. The comparisons between 4chan and Reddit is very similar to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, they are both awful, but you will see the other side as worse, it depends which side of the coin you are on.

4chan couldn't find anything on the guy. I remember some threads trying but nothing ultimately came of it. 4chan isn't one unified force guys, and we can't always achieve the impossible with our autism. Most of the threads are just porn and made up stories now anyway.

@JakeSpacePirate E better than reddit, place is a trash echo chamber safe space. Atleast in 4 chan I wont be castrated and banned from a sub for having a different opinion or for criticism.

@JakeSpacePirate E reddit once attempted to pull a 4chan and investigate the Boston Marathon bombing to try and find who was behind it. They ended up coming across a middle Eastern man who they harassed until he took his own life. Turns out he was innocent and completely unrelated. 4chan isn't that sloppy, when they do something stupid they know their limits

@NullJaegar Yep 4chan is SO much better...nope, couldn't keep a straight face.

4chan does this all the time, i assume. The ones that are meme-worthy become popular outside of it, but most of is just kept to themselves.

@Umi ZoomR he is most likely referencing the whole Shia Lebeouf He Will Not Devide Us thing. 4chan kept fucking with him and found out where he had his flags planted, and whatnot. It's so hilariously interesting. Id recommend watching internet historians video on it if you have the time.

@JakeSpacePirate E Reddit and 4chan are two sides of the same coin. But at least on 4chan the site won't actively censor you for challenging people or shadow ban you for saying "soy"

@Dr. Oofers "4chan is only motivated by memes or things that collectively anger them."<br>So basically Reddit?

@Dr. Oofers "4chan is only motivated by memes or things that collectively anger them."
So basically Reddit?

4chan is only motivated by memes or things that collectively anger them. In short, unless this dude was hitting people with bike locks, I think 4chan had little reason to care.


Wow Its not about the kids its all about the money in the end


Virgin Wormhole vs <br>Chad Downward Spiral


37:42 Guest speaker talking about radicalization via the alt right pipeline
The music:💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃

37:42 Guest speaker *talking about radicalization via the alt right pipeline*
The music:💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃


If anything youtube leans way more left you cant even show a gun


34:30 hmmm a Gary glitter song. Just google what he did. I don’t think alot of people know about his past.


Im a fan of the JPEGMAFIA music in the background at 37 minutes ;)


Anyone else here Edge's "You think you know me" at 37:15?


not going to lie i thought that in the thumbnail Matt was vladimir lenin or was that just me?


Wow. This so weird. Who the hell is this guy? Even Reddit and 4chan can't find him.


Did you add more content to this video/ re upload this? The Bernie meme seems new. Yet, dated and old?


He’s just as mysterious as the guy without a moustache.


Goddamn that bluepill theory and the industry plant theory nearly blew me away with the amount of big brain it would be if true


Hmm, where have i seen that down the spiral graghic before?


This is like the youtube version of KONY 2012


Youtube anime opening #something: Matt Arc


"only detected by the most savvy users on the site" over footage of Keemstar


Nice Rabbit Hole reference. Love you as usual, Emp.

Absolute highest quality post.


Can someone please tell me the song at 35:48? Emplemon plz I’ve been looking for that song forever


Here I thought this would be about Red Herring from Pup Named Scooby Doo


What the hell song is playing during the Keeps ad? I can't fucking figure it out.


every time emp uploads its like a little holiday for me


9:25
And now H3 is predatory content lol


31:34 lol what exactly is that man doing


and tiktok is dangerous in more than 1 way


The true investigative journalism over YouTube that we all deserve.


idk they patrol donut operator pretty hard


happy someone used peggy for music in a vid


Dude just why is it a werid Matt to ruin the name Matt for every other Matt


Matt Watson? THE Matt Watson??? From  Super Mega!?


Against right wing
wants help from big companies

WHAT THE FUCK


Did you nick down the rabbit hole's intro or did you get permsion/ is a parody


You don’t really hear about this much anymore which is interesting because of the massive effect it had on YouTube. Emp Lemon really chooses good topics to make videos on.


Zap he was jealous of those who succeeded where he could not. Lol humans are pathetic.


What's the song two minutes in? Can't find it in the music list


23:31 "I don't like Fox News"

damn, that was subtle

@Cryrosphere The only time I ever watch them is for Tucker Carlson.

@Jolongh Thong Certainly adds to either/both of those. If you have a message you genuinely care about, you don't care how it gets to as many people as possible, you just care that it does. Never was about the supposed message, his reactions are quite telling.

Ernesto Acosta any mainstream network is unreliable

Cryrosphere it is the network that some schools and teachers regard as unreliable as Wikipedia

@Jolongh Thong i have a liberal dad, and to him, fox news is achilles heel of the right, despite the fact that no legitimate non-neocon right winger actually watches fox news as a main source of info. I think the same applies to watson, just a hunch

Could maybe add to the “left wing” activist or corporate puppet idea. Although I don’t think anyone likes fox so idk


49:57, what's this song? It sounds so familiar

@bob jones Ah, thanks. Usually I scan the description for specific song listings and I totally glazed over that

It's an instrumental of "Want you gone" from the Portal 2 soundtrack<br>Emp puts the names of every song he uses in a pastebin link in the descriptions of his videos if you're ever wondering in the future

It's an instrumental of "Want you gone" from the Portal 2 soundtrack
Emp puts the names of every song he uses in a pastebin link in the descriptions of his videos if you're ever wondering in the future


one thing he was right about: there is a wormhole.
the way modern youtube AI is structured, once you pick up on a trend of videos, it'll never let you out.
case in point, this very video.... I was watching an opinion video on TF2, and I got recommended this one, because of the fact that it features a short clip from the game.... YES, JUST BECAUSE OF THAT! As you can see, this has nothing to do with TF2 in terms of content.
and on top of that, the first video in my recommended feed, as I watch this video, is a video mentioning Leafy, a known TF2 youtuber, .... because of the fact that Leafy VOICES this very video.
so, you see how I can end up in a loop, watching either Leafy's videos, or TF2 videos in general, or opinion videos in general, or just videos published by EmpLemon, depending on which alternative I click on.
an AI doesn't know who's watching, or who's commenting, or whose device is being used.... only what information that person feeds said AI, through clicks, on potential recommendations presented to them, out of the quintigajillion videos that exist out there, based on the very feeding of information that person provides that AI.
that's called feedback.
I mean, literal feedback: feeding the result back into the system.
THAT is the loop.

one thing he was right about: there is a wormhole.
the way modern youtube AI is structured, once you pick up on a trend of videos, it'll never let you out.
case in point, this very video.... I was watching an opinion video on TF2, and I got recommended this one, because of the fact that it features a short clip from the game.... YES, JUST BECAUSE OF THAT! As you can see, this has nothing to do with TF2 in terms of content.
and on top of that, the first video in my recommended feed, as I watch this video, is a video mentioning Leafy, a known TF2 youtuber, .... because of the fact that Leafy VOICES this very video.
so, you see how I can end up in a loop, watching either Leafy's videos, or TF2 videos in general, or _opinion_ videos in general, or just videos published by EmpLemon, depending on which alternative I click on.
an AI doesn't know who's watching, or who's commenting, or whose device is being used.... only what information that person feeds said AI, through clicks, on _potential_ recommendations presented to them, out of the quintigajillion videos that exist out there, based on the very feeding of information that person provides that AI.
that's called feedback.
I mean, _literal_ feedback: feeding the result back into the system.
THAT is the loop.


You work on the frontlines of the YouTube battlefield. Respect.


37:13 I don't necessarily agree with the idea that YouTube's algorithm unintentionally radicalizes people.  On top of that, YouTube actually tends to suppress right-wing content and independent journalists more often than big mainstream news outlets (with the exception of Fox News, the only real big conservative outlet in mainstream media). Regardless of whether you agree with content from channels like Prager (which I personally tend to be either or on depending on the video, the whole of their content isn't THAT egregious even if there are some pretty big stinkers), censorship isn't the answer. Constructive criticism, thorough video analysis and spreading awareness is.

can't have a healthy conversation or argument with your opponent when you've already shut down your opponent.

Confirmation Bias is a more realistic cause of radicalization, not algorithmic shit. You really want to keep people from becoming radicalized? Tell them to go do some hard research on a topic and to pay attention to the arguments of people they both agree and disagree with. If they won't do it themselves or don't have the time, have them find reporters/journalists who will do it for them. Tim Pool is an excellent example of an honest and transparent journalist on this site: he's passionate about what he covers, he's pretty transparent about his own biases, and he tries to report in a pretty nonpartisan fashion, which is how a journalist should always report the news. It shouldn't be the job of the media to tell people what to think, its the job of the reader/viewer to come to their own conclusions based on all the evidence from every side of the discussion.

Conversely, people who are aware of their own political biases are going to be more conscious when they listen to others and will often try to look at many different points of views and discern the pros and cons of those peoples' views (along with their underlying motives) based on their own life experiences, their own research and through critical thinking. Like, i consider myself a classical liberal (so moderate-right in today's American climate) and I'm a pretty big advocate of objectivity in discourse and tend to go against post-modernistic ideals with the exception of media like visual art & music. To me (and i'm sure to many others), post-modernism and subjectivity doesn't have a place in critiquing the quality of a piece of literature, a film, or a game (outside of shit like symbolism and intentional moments where the viewer is meant to infer or read between the lines), nor does it have a place within political discussions. Despite my own personal experiences, ideology and biases, I tend to watch both moderate, farther right and farther left content now and again. It gives me food for thought and combing that sort of information with my own past experiences, beliefs, research, and personal agenda helps further my understanding of who i am, what i stand for/against, and why.

After all, the main purpose for learning about dissenting views is to strengthen your own. And hey, if you find out that there is a legitimate flaw with your world view, then that's also a good thing.

So at the end of the day, there's nothing really wrong with the way YouTube feeds people content as long as the viewers themselves are conscious of their own beliefs and biases. I can't make people do their own research, they have to do it themselves. Add lack of research on top of Marxist shit like Critical Theory, and that's how you get these NPC Puritans and SJWs. Its no different than bible thumpers and skinheads.

Its also worth noting that a lot of liberal influencers, reporters and pundints have a skewed perception of what "far right people" are, given how much farther left the party has become. And as a result, viewers and/or readers of these content creators are being fed a lot of their biases as perceived facts, which is why a lot of liberals have this misconpection that Trump supporters are all violent, evil people and shit like that. In about the span of 10-15 years, the Democratic Party has went from a rather reformist platform to a progressivist (and now revolutionary) one, which is why a lot of more moderate, reformist democrats in America have jumped ship to the Republican Party.

(This isnt to discredit any accurate information they do produce btw, but their bias and ulterior motives are incredibly clear.)

Democratic reporters also have a habit of recirculating and sharing their stories and articles among themselves, which has resulted in a sort of circle jerk phenomena within American Journalism. Youtube journalist Tim Pool tends to reiterate that a lot since he used to work for VICE.


13:00 when i wake up , continue at this point


I get the feeling this guy doth protest too much, yknow what I mean?


So, what was it like? To suddenly see a YouTuber you knew, who had stopped uploading, and then create such a controversy last year?


Oooh so that's why their's Youtube Kids and No comment sections hmmm... Neat


He got me intrigued in the first minutes of his video, and I was starting to agree about the wormhole of the algorithm, but when he was talking too much about brands I was like "Hold up bud this is no a brand thing this is an algorithm shit hold your horses"


The number one most annoying thing is how he misuses his fucKING MICROPHONE YOU DON'T SPEAK INTO THE TOP PLEASE ITS A BLUE YETI IT COULD SOUND SO GOOD PLEASSEEE


i have no idea who you are or what this video is about but i like the TF2 music


Honestly, I'm going with the disgruntled failed YouTuber theory. He gives off that condescending attitude that would suggest he's doing this for revenge because nobody gave enough of a shit about his lousy videos.


Yo I use Reddit bully me

No, I don't give a schnap about participating in these shenanigans, not all users of all websites are the same and not all members of any community are the same either.

 Anyway uh I just chill there but bully me anyway ig


Local redditor trolls youtube awesome style


For me its sad because in the summer of 2017, I first stumbled upon his Nofap blogs. He was this 28 y/o dude who was behind in a lot of areas, so you kinda rooted for him to improve. I also watched Matt D'avella at the time (I think thats how I found Mattswhatitis in the first place), and I used to compare them, in terms of genre, content and style.

I never would have imagined that a year and a half later, he would have made such a mess. Its impressive in its own right, pulling off this massive troll. But dang. I sort of liked the guy. Sad.

It's sad, you wish for YouTubers to be good but you can't control everyone.


Honestly.  Only YouTubers care if they make money off YouTube.  Why on Earth would I care?

Do you want to watch your favourite youtubers? Because if you do, they need to make money I order to continue making videos.


Prob a combination of the 3 theories given


Here's that live stream he showed. Dude wildin https://youtu.be/rQQLLAQrbpg


I remember when I was a kid watching the first ever primitive 3D modeling/animation cartoons teaching us computer terms like glitch. Weird, guess natural selection with the 80/20 rule applies to boomers as well. But of course that wakes me up to the sad reality of the competitive landscape for myself now. Can never win mate.

Edit: I only say that to the overwhelming amount of comments of older folks calling these changes "glitches".

Robz Shishigami - Just wanted video games.


Pretty cheeky closing the vid with Alabama Song lol


Matt Watson?? From SuperMega? Ryan and Matt? From SUPERMEGA?


Show me on the Matt doll where the wormhole hurt you?


Anybody know daddyOfive or somethin like that? That dad that abuses his children on this site? Thank fuck he got banned.


this dude is blaiming youtube becouse him got himself on the wormhole


whats the song at 49:56 its sounds familar


@Spinner132 yeyeyeye, sorry for taking 3 months to reply I had notifications off.

comradecommissar1945 been there once, my eyes still hurt.

Tony_ δυτικός αμυντικός

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ZRDR_DelRio degeneracy can wear masks my lad

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4chan is level 9000 autists who occasionaly will produce something amazing, and reddit is "to be fair you need to have a very high IQ" fedora tipping guys hunting for karma, I have been on both.

@JakeSpacePirate E I mean, you still gotta admit some of the stuff they dod was pretty damn hilarious, like how they fucked with Shia LaBeouf.

@H;C basically reddit just tries to go immediately for the big blow while 4chan actually plans out what they'll do and probably does a better job of it?

@NorthernPuffer Yeah I can't believe at the numbers of people with delusions of grandur for 4chan, it's insane.

@Jupiter While you might have the occasional nutjob on 4chan do something stupid that gets in the news I feel like Reddit's probably the most dangerous site just because of how large it is and how easy it seems for almost the entire site to just basically converge into one massive gestalt entity that proceeds to entirely ruin something, be it memes, people, or entire sites like Youtube in this video.

@KFC Jesus_ZRDR_DelRio The best description I've heard so far. Well done.

I think Reddit's just fine. There are some good communities there.

@Nuckley i don't know how to explain it but i can't help browse and spam update hoping for a good thread and not the constant shit. i also just like the conversations sometimes, you gotta be there to understand i guess.

@ImmaLittlePip an analogy I came up with is that Reddit is a rocket launcher while 4chan is a sniper rifle.

@Jupiter
Reddit is basically that Rick and morty copy pasta personified
4chan are shikumaru from Naruto
Smart but too lazy and bored to do anything worthwhile with their lives

@OPERATION DOOMSDAY You might not be smart, but you're aware. And far more honest then the Mandela effect would usually dictate. Thank you for your humility.

Not every time. Sometimes it's 4chan. Occasionally it's even tumblr...or at least, it used to be before the site uh, destroyed itself that one time.

@KFC Jesus_ZRDR_DelRio nobody on /b/ is smart, saying this as someone stuck on /b/

@KFC Jesus_ZRDR_DelRio t. never actually been to 4chan

Jupiter Fox! They tend to overlap these days so it’s hard to say


Hey i have ran into a glitch in the algorithm by watching a video and i got recommended peppa pig despite me never watching it


The thumbnail looks like the virtual boy.


He did an update on the controversy a few weeks after this video was published...
"This is a long post, after a year or so, I’ve thought a lot about what happened with my video and some of criticism levied against me. I think wanting to talk about and eradicate that whole wormhole was a good thing, but my strategy of going to advertisers was probably not. Given that it did fuck over a lot of innocent content creators in the process, it was a stupid thing to do. When those people pointed that out to me, I apathetically told them to “go get a job, go apply at Uber / KFC,” and I have to apologize for that. I was selfish because it wasn’t going to affect me monetarily, so I didn’t care that it would affect them monetarily. I accused them of being selfish when in fact I was the one being selfish, and I should’ve listened to them. I’m sorry.

I would have done things differently had I of known that video would go viral, but hindsight is 20/20. When I made that video, I thought it would tops get ~800 views. I had a 15,000 sub channel that was mostly abandoned, I hadn’t posted videos for months and now I was posting something that had nothing to do with anything I’d posted before. When people pointed out that I seemed disingenuous in my video, that I was acting, in a way I was. I felt I had to amplify my anger to convey the feeling I had when I initially discovered how deep that rabbit hole went. I was mad, make no mistake, but I thought in order to get people to watch a boring 15 minute video I needed to convey something that compelled them to stay. I thought if I was lucky I’d get a 10%  response on my CTA (call to action), meaning if I told people to go to advertisers, around 80 or so people would. In my mind, those 80 people hitting up Grammerly, GNC, GMC, McDonalds, could probably be enough to get those companies to notice and quietly go to Youtube behind the scenes and get them to do something. That’s how I visualized it playing out in my mind.

It didn’t go that way though, the video went viral, and when I saw that people seemed to feel the same way I did, I got super excited and did follow-up streams to keep the momentum going.

It was in those streams that it became apparent that I hadn’t really thought about what it was I wanted to do or exactly why the strategy I chose was right. A lot of You tubers pointed this out, and as hard as it is to admit, they are right. In particular TheRightOpinion did a good video: What Did Matt Watson Really Tell Us? The Truth Behind The Rabbit Hole | TRO and the guy makes good points.

I was angry, I wanted YouTube to have to admit they fucked up, and I wanted it now. Being hotheaded and impatient are two big issues that I need to work on. I should’ve sat on the information I had and taken some time to think about how to get the situation handled as reasonably as possible.

I feel particularly terrible for channels like Special Books by Special Kids, who had their comments completely disabled in the aftermath of the incident. To them: I’m sorry that my hotheaded-ness affected you so personally, I did what I thought was the right thing, but I didn’t think about how it would affect people like you in the process.

As it all unfolded, I ended up talking to people who helped me clarify what it was I wanted to do, which was to give people a close up view of what goes down on the internet, and to keep their kids off of it. One of the guys in the advertising industry I ended up speaking to told me it’s called ‘media literacy’. Families need to understand the dangers of letting their kids have accounts and post things online, because they can end up being abused. If the kids weren’t online in the first place, this shit wouldn’t be happening.

I do have to say, I think Youtube’s action was pretty impressive, they disabled comments on all those videos, preventing peds from trading contact info and posting links. They also messed with the recommendation sidebar on flagged vids so that whole wormhole got busted up in a pretty good way.

Now, on the rag drama channels and their accusations:

I used to make half-assed comedy sketches where I made fun of various manosphere ideologies like MGTOW, Pickup, and Incel. And if you don’t know what those things are, good.

One clip that got a lot of attention was me driving past a girl walking down the street and asking “Do you want to be in an adult video?”

It’s from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8oP3... @ 2:13

People took this clip and claimed I was a hypocrite because said girl looks young and here I was spearheading a campaign against child abuse on YouTube.

At the end of day, and this is what many critics pointed out to me, doing run-and-gun prank-esque videos bothering people on the street is an asshole thing to do. And it’s an asshole thing to do because I was harassing people, and when you look at some of the reactions I got, especially in that particular clip, these people are uncomfortable, scared, annoyed etc… At the very least, I should have asked for their permission to use that footage online, and I didn’t. I can guarantee you 90% of them would have said no, and because where I live I don’t HAVE TO ask, I just didn’t care. At the end of the day there is a difference between what you HAVE to do and what you SHOULD do, and I should’ve done the right thing. If could reach out to the people I featured in my videos, I would. I’m sorry for harassing you. If someone did that to me, if two idiots were walking down the street doing some shit and filming my reaction to it, I would tell them to fuck off.

I’d delete those videos if I could but I need to keep them online as receipts because of the slander.

So, with that clip in question, it was a stupid thing to film, because I don’t know who that girl was. I mean, neither does anyone online, but all I can do is take responsibility for my part. That’s it, I should be smarter, learn my lesson, and pay the price for it.

And by pay the price I mean watching the narrative go from “Yo, that guy has a clip of him asking some girl who in our eyes is a kid “Do you want to be in an adult video?”” to “Yo, this guy was driving around town molesting kids in his car.” https://pasteboard.co/J4DDWNF.png

Between that and these channels omitting the fact the clips they were taking were from a comedy channel, it sucks. That is the internet though, I pissed a lot of people off and that kind of shit happens.

That’s it. I could have made a video to cover this, but I don’t make videos anymore. Take care."

What a lot of bs. He's just doing damage control so people forget about him ASAP

Could you post a link to that statement? <br>I want to see him say it for myself.

Could you post a link to that statement?
I want to see him say it for myself.


1st time I've heard of this. I guess it's coz I have a life beyond my phone and computer.


Probably not the first to say this but I thought I was watching a gamer from Mars video


Reddit hates instagram and tiktok, but mainly for memey reasons.


Now every family guy video and king of the hill video is for kids.

@Paleolithic312 didn't say it was, just youtube seems to thing that all koth videos are for kids and turns off comments.


The blue leopard fittingly change because glove findingsinitially pat near a amusing ramie. heartbreaking, spotless panther


3:23 Indeed, Matt is only a factor, the main reason his plan worked like it did was because of the paranoia already present in our age of Discord.


Was this piece of sh..<br>Who started the COPPA thing??? >;O

Was this piece of sh..
Who started the COPPA thing??? >;O


What the hell is the point of YouTube Kids?


Fun thing now is, there is literal porn advertisements now


You know, I thought predators were the worst of it. But yeah, Matt seems worse. I don’t know why attempting to destroy a company which seems to benefit him more than solving the problem is just... I don’t know


something something who has the most to hide speaks the loudest something something


I bet Matt's currently supporting himself by working as an uber driver these days


i wonderd how do you make a bomb 20 minets leter i leard how mortars worked and then showed ather things that go boom but after i presed the home bouton it all goude back to normal mostly memes


Me expects another poop/shitpost channel gets decent video and decent channel surprised pikachu face

if this is decent to you I need to now what masterpieces you´re watching lol


With all these TF2 references, I'm still waiting for my Never Ever on TF2

@hmmmstve the baffled Yeah I had the exact same kind of experience with Jerma. Found him way after his TF2 days, and was just confused by all the random "drama" between the two. It's a topic I don't think I've ever seen a video on, and it's something only veterans of Jerma even know about, so it'd be neat to see a video by Emp on it.

Munat I’m hoping to see that. I recently got into Jerma and watched a lot of his newer videos. Soon I realized he had a huge thing with tf2 some years ago, and it makes me sad that I missed out on all of that. A never ever would be great to learn more about Jermas influence on tf2

@V3rb I really want to see that. A lot of history there

~~(i think he's making a never ever on jerma and star_)~~


probably not the first to say this and this is painfully late but....

DOWNWARD SPIRAL VS WORMHOLE

probably not the first to say this and this is painfully late but....

*DOWNWARD SPIRAL VS WORMHOLE*


Man looks like a less attractive less charismatic Abraham from the walking dead


wasnt this the guy whos GF caught him watching CP? Not sure, but he kinda looks like him


Oh man, the Soldier clip right at the start hit me in the heart a little bit. And then the rest of the video just fed the sadness and frustration.<br>The content is quality, but the content of the content makes me discontent.

Oh man, the Soldier clip right at the start hit me in the heart a little bit. And then the rest of the video just fed the sadness and frustration.
The content is quality, but the content of the content makes me discontent.


Wow at one of your supporter's names! WTF


Takes one to hunt one ey pyro AH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


Bruh, he just stole his name from SuperMega


We've reached the decay of human society, past the point or no return. Consume, manipulate, obey, etc etc. Great video Emp. I almost feel sorry for YouTube. ALMOST.

Lol says the guy that probably hates communists.


2:35 "Femdom HYPNO"

Yep, definitely a redditor


This guy shitting on Uber. Lol I make bank doing that shit


That’s why videos that have the kid thing can’t be commented on


Oh show me
The way
To the next
Whisky bar


Blessed with an hour of quarantine content. Thanks Emp


matt watson looks like a deepfake all the timw


Whos here on a conspiracy theory wormhole


Anyone else here strange days form The Doors in the backround?


NOTE: Kik isn't defunct. It was gonna be and some other company bought it and slapped ads in it.

@TheJediSonic i literally am in one witchcraft/wiccan group which is safe for work thankfully

TheJediSonic Aaaah yes and no. There’s groups that are very strict about their policy of keeping everything SFW, and then the other half of the spectrum that’s to say the least illegal and disgusting

Question, is Kik used for anything besides sexting?


why is he saying COPPA like "Cope-uh" like what


new update, just say him in a commerical with mr t


I really wish these allegations was put on tik tok instead of YouTube


Finally something to watch in quarantine, thanks emp :)


37:00 i was tripping when i heard peggy bruh


I knew it! The Joker movie was based on the journey of Matt Watson!


I think I know what Matt's plan was: to summon COPPA's wrath


That's why pornhub is the safest place on the net. No predetors there.


35:45 is that mfing SUMMER NIGHTS by ESPIRIT?


When you combine <i>Cuties</i> with wormhole theory

When you combine _Cuties_ with wormhole theory


49:07
I think they chose Matt because he wasn't getting what he wanted. Growth on YouTube. He was getting mad at the website, the people and the popular YouTubers. Matt wanted to watch the site burn.


I'm so happy. EmpLemon uploaded. Everything is good again


Another amazing video! I love how passionate you are and how immaculate the research and execution is on every single one of your videos. My only complaint is that this one contained less shitposting than usual. Keep up the good work!


Like always your videos are amazing. great research, theses's, and editing. They always make me feel more intrigued at the end and satisfied at the same time. Bravo. Also maybe edit out some of your patreons names like at 54:56 where one of the names in slightly questionable


As someone who has always been fascinated by the business of youtube this video clears up many wonders i’ve had being a “viewer” during the adpocalypses and how I can better manage my content and image. 10/10 report


I commend Keeps for allowing such an amazing advertisement for their product.


Between this and the H3H3 takedown video from JustOrdinaryGamers, I have less faith in the public and myself to appraise the situation and evaluate the legitimacy behind every "informative" and "insightful" video. It is foolish to believe anything you come across without first going through the evidence yourself.


it's funny how one man was able to convince random strangers through a poor argument to cause this much chaos


He's just an irrational person that got lucky and bailed when he couldn't keep up the lie that he started

I kinda figured he was a nutjob when I saw he was a frequent visitor of r/ChapoTrapHouse.


I love your use of the punch scene from Spongebob in the beginning representing the red harring event, and cleaning up afterwards.


I am not defending Matt but his point that some of the child exploitation channels only cared about money was spot on.<br>Some of those channels did not seem to care about the audience they were attracting and seem to be in on the wormhole.

I am not defending Matt but his point that some of the child exploitation channels only cared about money was spot on.
Some of those channels did not seem to care about the audience they were attracting and seem to be in on the wormhole.


"I want nothing to do with this platform". He says on the platform.

"I used the platform to destroy the platform"


Honestly to me its apparent that atleast in a more abstract sense Google (and Youtube) are not actually in any sort of competition with any other companies of this scale. I wouldn't be surprised if Google itself wanted this, for whatever reason.


Worst part is, he wasn’t even the first one to talk about it. Other youtubers already had (I think pyro iirc). He just took information on an issue that was already known, and used it as an excuse to bootlick corporations.


For the News Media part, it is relevant to assume they already side with Matt. YouTube being the TV cable killer it is, the media would take every chance to get their ads back


Real Question: Judging by his old videos, was he looking for these videos, and then made the video for attention? Conspiracy Time


one thing that people seemed to miss at the time is that hurting pedos is not worth destroying the livelyhood of our favourite creators. the pedos were pretty low impact, and didnt practically do anything outside of consuming inocous content but in a manner we didnt like. this seems like the definition of the nose to spite the face


“How does this exist?”

I agree, whose idea was it to put an Analog option on the Mac’s digital clock?


Who would have guessed over 4000 hours of content a day some slips through


I'm excited to watch this because I was straight up not paying any attention when this shit was actually happening


The use of The Doors music is A1 👌🏻👌🏻<br>Probably my favorite part of the video.

The use of The Doors music is A1 👌🏻👌🏻
Probably my favorite part of the video.


I remember when I first came across the video and I knew immediate it smelled of fear mongering when I saw the word "facilitating".


Why would those huge ads companies plan this for 2 years with a secret agent if they could just push the video of the next unstable person posting its crazy theory about YouTube? Which is you @EmpLemon I figured you out. You're the Knight that painted his donkey in white and managed to get millions of views. Very well thought I respect that.


40:00 minutes in, and that song comes on. What a fantastic soundtrack to a pretty great (comparitive to the rest of its industry) horror movie.

Check out the rest of boards of canada's music, very cool stuff


it must be fucking exhausting working as a decision maker at YouTube.


I loved the Pink Floyd artwork included, spot on.


A lot of these theories are a huge stretch. I think he wanted to hurt content creators, and I doubt he would want to specifically hurt right-wing creators given that at this point breadtube was beginning to become popular, so I don't think that he thought he was some proletariat hero. Not caring about things like child labor is also a lot more popular among people that lean right, so if he was particularly left wing I think he would have pointed out the irony. He discovered something on Youtube, decided he wanted to do the thing Pyrocynical did but way out of proportion out of some sense of spite, and did just that. If he was a plant, why would they pick someone with such a... Weird history? They could easily find someone who has a more normal old Youtube channel. Also I haven't seen those old videos, so I can't get a good sense of where he actually leaned politically at the point of the adpocalypse.


You be doing some noice quality story telling buddy.


27:54 I can also give a testimony about Matt's No Fap channel. His channel was the first I had seen talking about NoFap and it's how I even discovered that movement was a thing in the first place. He posted video's daily talking about his experience. He also understood that deciding to quit jerking off isn't really going to create some girlfriend for you after a year of abstaining from sexual pleasure, so he made made video's where he started socializing. He would do challenge video's like asking for a high five from 5 different girls as a way to get a positive social interaction. I think I remember that he didn't create those challenges himself, but he instead got them from somewhere else, from someone else. It was another forum, or self-help guru that came up with those ideas and Matt was following them and documenting his experiences.

That's about all I remember, I only watched a couple videos of him. Going through my browser history I've found out that it's almost 3 years ago I came across his channel.


This is just a paranoid conspiracy. I really doubt this would even be possible, even if the incentive is there


Yo EmpLemon. You should seriously consider making a video on this whole "Cool video. Want to be friends?" debacle that has recently ensued.


I believe I heard that this guy was a part of the mainstream media which would make perfect sense considering YouTube is more interested in mainstream media now.


H3H3, Keemstar and Pokemaine: *Starts weaponizing sponsor dropping*

Matt Watson: *Puppet looking away meme*

H3H3, Keemstar and Pokemaine: **Starts weaponizing sponsor dropping**

Matt Watson: **Puppet looking away meme**


I'm just here at the beginning of the new wave of Matt-influenced exploits. Say what you will about H3, all I can say is...it was good while it lasted


This is what happens when you go after sponsors.


Nah, screw those conspiracy theories.  Matt is an insecure and not very intelligent man who quit YouTube the first time around because he cannot deal with criticism, then somehow stumbled on some kids doing gymnastics tutorials, was disgusted, and decided to make a video about it.  A combination of prior experience, the bit of influence he still had from his last attempt, and luck caused it to blow up on Reddit, then he decided to go after advertisers because he does think that's what hurts.  He got angry at other YouTubers when they told him to knock it off because he feels like it's a righteous crusade.  Companies tried to get some good publicity by pulling ads.  YouTube's response was lackluster, because they're terrible at communication, which is why Matt wasn't excited about it.  After some backlash, Matt quit, just like the first time around.  No conspiracy.  The world generally isn't smart nor organized enough for conspiracies.  Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity (Hanlon's razor).


A bit of autistic detective work on my end leads me to this conclusion:
Seems to me that Matt is actually a puppet for the elites. His entire purpose was just another wave of Youtube trying to screw over all content creators. In short he was an experiment designed to continue the Sanitization of the platform. Think about his videos that Mock pickup channels and MRAs. His content goes out of it's way to showcase the scum of youtube.

My suggestion is that originally he was supposed to play the part of a Youtube Villain and was setting up as one, HOWEVER his videos didn't take, So we can assume his account was repurposed.
1: Create a controversy with an insane understanding of how to manipulate video algorithms (this tells me he had a media person working with him). It's easier to generate controversy than it is to generate an authentic following and then be a fall guy
2: Become a fall guy in his own campaign. This would explain the account that quietly mirrored his videos.
3: Cover his tracks by claiming to hate social media.

This way the people in charge of him, his bossess would be able to continue a push for sanitization on YT by making the stupid and gullible massess of Plebbit create a mob.

Youtube has demonstrated that it will bluntly denounce and stonewall its own creators if they dont coincide with its agenda.
Cowering their tracks in such a manner is uncharacteristic of them.
I suspect he was an agent of a youtube competitor.


All i gotta say is man that justice, great sneak! Dont wanna say too much you know what it is!


Unsubscribed for over a year.<br>Still finding your videos, still lovin' it!!!!!!111one

Unsubscribed for over a year.
Still finding your videos, still lovin' it!!!!!!111one


So what im getting from this is that youtube now has its very own tin-foil-hatted conspiracy theorists


Hey everyone, look who's back: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/g4nlcz/last_year_i_made_a_video_exposing_the/

And he says it totally wasn't because of this video. Oh it totally was because of this video.


This isn't a criticism of EmpLemon specifically, but why is that a good portion of what a lot of YouTubers do is criticize other YouTubers?


god this was long.... but totally worth it!


Feels weird hearing a Garbordors track in a EmpLemon vid but it was an unexpected but nice surprise.


I would pay top dollar for a "Down the Spiral" T-Shirt.


This dude is just a master troll and some of us are STILL biting the B8

oh hey another guy also who's to say there is not overlap if i could get paid to troll it would be quite tempting


5:04 "Wasp removal videos"
Damn, so they captivated you too, huh?


The Gary glitter soundtrack is so fitting I love it.


Corporations after watching the video: wow that’s a great idea! Why didn’t I think of that?


This guy has real Nerd City vibes

Put this up before he mentioned them. 🤷🏻♂


He harassed us with going into our facebooks and attempting to threaten us until we leave. The end.


Ok how did I never hear of this contreversary last year, AND somehow miss this video until you refrenced it in your most recent one?


yo but what if he was just doing it for the heck of it, to fuck with people:
-he has had past experiences with making satirical content, and if the guy he pinned was being genuine, his content seemed almost convincing. similarly, for youtubers to consider his previous content notable, they would either be looking to dethrone him, or be fooled themselves
-his actions would make somewhat more sense if he was just doing this (which would have to be mostly spontaneously), explaining why he left abruptly, and empathized the efforts of corporations without noting their flaws
this of course has some flaws:
-he seems to be genuine about wanting to remove ad revenue
-i have no idea how this would amuse anyone
-there seems to be little reason to go to this length for a joke of this scale and magnitude


EmpLemon I totally agree that this dude is a person who shouldn’t never be trusted. Tbh I have took some sociology and I will say that what Matt Watson is a person who wants attention (plus he’s a egomaniac so yeah he deserve to take some happy pills) plus he wants to create a clique and tbh his clique was a terrible example of how arrogant people are. Plus he thinks YouTube deserves that they lose money (which I will say that shows that he is an 8 year old person mentally, and he is an hypocrite saying that youtubers are greedy no he’s greedy) ROAST (Drop Mic)


NEVER trust people who:
A) Use children to bolster their argument.
B) Talk about they just want to "Raise awareness."
C) Resort the insults the minute their method/perspective/solution is criticized.


Matt made a post on reddit reflecting on what he should've done differently.


Share this video whith whomever you can friends and maybe we can better educate people.


Gotta appreciate that portal 2 closing song

R.I.P cave Johnson


"Keep" A man needs hair to be a man?

Dwayne walks into the room

"Keep" A man needs hair to be a man?

*Dwayne walks into the room*


Maybe he was a disgruntled creator who was approached by and recruited by a corporation?


Fun fact kik is still up as it was purchased by a new company and is used to spread CP by people sharing Wikr links.


great video, got my sub and hit the bell


I hope YouTube burns to the ground someday lmao. It turned into something disgusting. You gotta dig deep to find good content now. It's kind of a chore now tbh


How can they possibly have a "pedophile" category that they specifically coded to serve child videos to that category and not know how to stop itself from being used like that?
If a man sets up a shotgun to go off after a 1 minute timer then stands in front of it specifically to get shot, why is it the shotgun manufacturers fault? Its his fault for creating/coding the situation.

When a coder at youtube literally sits down and types "If pedophile Then suggest children" you cannot say its good-actors at fault. If uploading videos as a young child is against the rules then why are videos not automatically taken down instead of suggested to weirdos?

By definition of sending creepy children videos to pedos, youtube specifically has a group of videos it knows are creepy children videos and a group of people it knows are pedophiles, banning videos with "cp" in the title was a publicity stunt for advertisers and we all know it.
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Conspiracy time. Youtube puts ads on videos with children knowing that pedos watch those videos. They don't do anything about the situation and pretend to do something about it any time and article gets written.

AI generated categories that are only understood by the AI

the algorithm cant tell what the content is but it can find patterns in it and recommend similar videos because of similar patterns


He had to hide his identity anytime he wasn’t streaming.


I feel like the matt person has a plan that is something more sinister


I've never seen before a face so punchable like Matt's...

Mundane Matt (huh, other Matt) comes in a close second place.


That local news tidbit around 48 minutes is totally false and conspiratorial, yes there are larger corporate owners and yes they exert influence in sharing specific stories and providing copy for national segments, but all local reporting is not coordinated by some mastermind trying to control public opinion. Local journalists work hard to find, pitch and present stories free of any bias but there own that they may or may not filter out.


This feels like a birthday gift for me, because it was posted on my birthday :-)


26:22
This is just for me, I don’t want to lose my place


I miss kryp krushers. Dude would just smoke blunts in his whip. Best channel ever


Theory: Matt got really upset because his 11 yr old girlfriend broke up with him to make softcore child pron on YouTube


Fools, Matt's intentions are far beyond your understanding, there is no one Matt, instead one of many fighting soldiers in the ongoing centricide. Cower moderates.


Matt Jarbo (Mundane Matt), Matt Watson, my douche ex-roommate Matt who skipped out on rent, my alcoholic cousin Matt?<br>What is it with Matts? Are Matts the Karens of men?

Matt Jarbo (Mundane Matt), Matt Watson, my douche ex-roommate Matt who skipped out on rent, my alcoholic cousin Matt?
What is it with Matts? Are Matts the Karens of men?

And this is why people should be named the more superior (and humble and handsome) version "Mat"


He probably shorted some Google stocks and cooked up this so he could make some money of googles falling stick prices.


Can’t tell if that red beach is an eva reference or not


Okay I have a theory that involves both the leftist conspiracy and industry plant theories. First some important political context. Full disclosure, I am a leftist. Specifically far left, far libertarian, I’m tucked in the bottom corner of the political compass. I’m familiar with leftist discourse and what specifically defines the different ideologies and where they lie in terms of left/right and libertarian/authoritarian. Matt, to me, seems like a liberal, which is around the center of the compass. Liberals, unlike all other leftist theories, believe capitalism is good and that any problems within it are ultimately not structural can be fixed with gradual reform. I believe 100% he orchestrated this whole thing as a dig against reactionaries and right wing content. The capitalistic rhetoric of “hurting their wallets,” and disregard for class struggle plays into it. He believes, naively, that hurting their financial income through ad boycotts will be the best way to moderate the spread of their ideas. I also think he knew about corporate upfront a happening in May, with decisions being decided toward the end of February, and specifically timed the video in hopes of it having a longer lasting impact rather than a quick rebound. Of course, like liberals do, they miss the broader picture. YouTube has too much influence for brands to NOT advertise on, people generally stop caring about boycotts quickly, and reactionaries will always find a way to spread their ideologies as long as capitalism is in place, so if he really wanted to stop the spread of hate, he’d take class struggle into account. But liberals can’t do that, because class struggle and a fondness for capitalism don’t mesh well.


The main reason I don't believe him is because he uses Mac, no human would ever use a Mac.


Is it just me or is the song @1:40 not listed in the Pastebin-Link?


37:41 Justice - let there be light

You're kinda epic bro 😳😳😳


Matt Watson's gain is waaaaaaay too high


YouTube, no shortage of strange events here.


Even the way he talks does not seem genuine. He always sounds sarcastic when talking about removing ads and protecting kids.


He appears to be based in canada by the videos he took but who knows


Dude he played 1539 N. Calvert in this vid. Emplemon is sick confirmed


The algorithm works as intended. But it is fundamentally flawed. Content that encourages pedophiles to share links, post timestamps, etc. shouldn't be tolerated or recommended by the algorithm. I am aware that this isn't its purpose, but it definitely should be. YouTube is not /b/. Content on YouTube is highly censored and "toned down". It should have an algorithm that is able to detect content that doesn't belong on the site (I don't think child porn belongs anywhere at all but you can't force websites that are already illegal to adopt such an algorithm, it wouldn't make any sense for the people who run the site (peodphiles)).


"youtube might not even be PROFITABLE" 10 minutes later "refunds aren't a steep price to pay when you make $15 billion a year" wtf.


Yo if u go on his community posts he just made a follow up on the situation 3 days ago


Did anyone else notice Rock and Roll pt. 2 playing in the background?  Now that's an Easter Egg.


I'm surprised 4Chan hasn't found out verything about this guy....Talk about an enigma!


Ho can someone be the Chris Hansen of Youtube when Hansen himself is already on youtube?


Very clear most comments didnt make it the end cus no one talking about the theory at 45:00


I like that the intro references Down The Rabbit Hole


Guy talks about predatory stuff<br>Me just watching star wars memes

Guy talks about predatory stuff
Me just watching star wars memes


Yep, and the split second ginger boy threatened to contact sponsers all the big YouTubers came in to stop him. Money money money. Who cares about pedo videos, right?


He posted a response on his community page


so this is the guy that redid the adpocalypse


Matt is back boiiiiiii<br>Check his channel community tab

Matt is back boiiiiiii
Check his channel community tab


really? matt added youtubers talking about demonetization at the end because he was talking about how the exploitative videos are monetized. he was pointing out that youtubers are demonetized for the stupidest, smallest shit but for whatever reason these channels are allowed to make money. he literally SAID IT IN THE VIDEO. i mean, come on. that's such a shitty twist of the narrative. you know what he showed right before the demonetization clips? clips of the exploitative channels BEING MONETIZED.


dude decided to burn down the whole ship with everyone on board to kil the rats in the basement


i smell the influence of the merchants guild


Hey! This is the same intro as “Down the Rabbit Hole!”


Yes, attack the sponsers and tank 'innocent' creators at the same time. Sounds good to me, this platform needs to die.


Matt posted about 3 days ago to his community tab.


Those dog whistles tho. World Peace, brothers.


Never got the whole YouTube kids controversy because how is airing ads on YouTube kids bad but airing ads on Nick Jr. is perfectly fine

The main thing is that a good ad in this day and age needs to be targeted to work, which means it can only work if it is displayed to someone who is a potential client. COPPA stipulates that no website should seek to collect data from children, and youtube needed to collect data to show those targeted ads.

Adorable Cockroach I still find it strange

Nick jr has control of what ads play.  From what I understand YouTube ads are much more random.


Matt was a nofapper, I first saw him from a glink video.


Did I just heard Boards of Canada - Gyroscope at 40:00?

Yo Emp, do you watch AwfulFawful for some reason?


Ironic choosing a Gary Glitter track for the background for this video.


How come I am only hearing about this right now?


@emplemon check this video out, looks like its right up your alley


Conflicting information at 25:34 and 12:52


How the hecc you make ads entertaining as the rest of the video when I double-tap my way through everybody else’s but not yours


dude its weird but EmpLemon sounds like Funke


*_Down the Rabbit Hole? More like down the fish hole_*


Won't you show me the way to the next whiskey bar?


This guy's behavior is so similar to ninja


Damn this feels like ancient YouTube history and it was only like 2 years ago


Huh at around 29:00 it’s sounds like EmpLemon uses the same music that Nexpo, a fellow youtuber, uses


"Muh' monetization!"
How about "Muh' job!"
Sounds like a lot more weight when put that way eh mister Watson?

This man did the equivalent of “learn to code”

‘Muh’ source of income and way of supporting myself

Any chance for a Geist review??? Some version of Dolphin works with it no prob.

Ask any worker if he shall give charities to children (Anytime he earns money), if he says 'Sorry but I can't' then call him a selfish greedy sociopath.

Frames go away. You're supposed to be a mythical fairy I never see.


>News outlet
>Buzzfeed

Why do you keep contradicting yourself


"Indiscriminate: At random or without careful judgement"
"Algorithm: Carefully weighs up the data and view trends of billions of videos to provide uses with recommendations"
In other words, the opposite of indiscriminate

Without careful judgement on the side of morality.


The internet is so fragile.
The internet is so volatile.
The digital world is an enigma.

this comment doesnt even make sense tho??????????????

The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma


37:03 YOOOO I SEE YOU 😈😈😈 DAMN PEGGY. Man I love JPEGMAFIA


21:00
first off redditors actually do hate tiktok with a passion, and tiktok is owned by china, so outrage is discouraged


for your next or one of your future youtube geography videos you should cover 2016/2017 youtube drama (keemstar, commentary channels, the first adpocolypse, diss tracks, rants/exposed videos, etc etc). that period in yt history is hella interesting.


Good video but why are the Simpsons Red?


If he was an agent that'd be so, so smart. Also kind of dystopian.


British people are always saying Americans are bizarrely obsessive about Child exploitation. By the end of this video I am pro Child exploitation.


"Salty"

Except people get salty when something dumb happens and they get overly angry at it, not when something that seriously impacts their lifestyle happens. That type of non-salty anger is usually justified.

"Salty" just means "angry" now, despite the original intentions of what it was supposed to mean, and I don't think that we can change it back.


It’s clear he’s just a progressive liberal; not a leftist. <br>It was maybe luck that companies could capitalize on this last minute. Maybe only communicating slightly afterwards. But his mission is clear; propping up capital conglomerates. Again, very liberal, but not leftist.

It’s clear he’s just a progressive liberal; not a leftist.
It was maybe luck that companies could capitalize on this last minute. Maybe only communicating slightly afterwards. But his mission is clear; propping up capital conglomerates. Again, very liberal, but not leftist.

@Louis XIV (aka 1685Violin) <br>Didn't he team up with C*inton after he lost? He was a sellout. After he loses, he will backstab his supporters and won't give refunds. I still wanted him to win! Better than Senile Uncle Biden, he be sniffin' little girls hairs and scamming his supporters.

@Louis XIV (aka 1685Violin)
Didn't he team up with C*inton after he lost? He was a sellout. After he loses, he will backstab his supporters and won't give refunds. I still wanted him to win! Better than Senile Uncle Biden, he be sniffin' little girls hairs and scamming his supporters.

@Nick Name Sanders being against war and for universal healthcare is counteracted with his support for open borders, amnesty for *llgal immigrants (which both hurt the working and middle class) and anti 2nd Amendment, like the other Democrats. He is a Bourgeois hack, has become like the other progressives, and is still partisan for the corporations. Keep in mind that he used to be against open borders.

@Abandoned channel No, Bernie Sanders supporters aren't all "progressive liberals," they're a coalition of literally anyone that is not a neoliberal conservative. Most of his base just agrees on very important issues, like healthcare and wars. This is beyond partisanship, mind you.

Arkana By progressive liberals you mean Bernie right

Progressive liberals are leftist. Even progressive conservatives are leftists. Leftist is not a term of endearment.

Most “leftists” on reddit are liberals anyway

Gatokal yeah there’s a massive difference between “liberals” and actual leftists. Liberals tend to be the reactionary, “reddit do your thing” type, whereas most real leftists don’t do that and care more about class consciousness and stuff like that.


Matt Watson from funny internet men “Supermega”?


I’m barely even past 10 minutes into the video, and Matt’s plan already seems completely destructive. It’s basically the equivalent of ridding a Wasp’s Nest with napalm bombs and destroyed the entire house in the process; completely needless destruction for something that could’ve easily been resolved with proper logic and patience.


"unless Matt Watson had a different motive in mind"

Or was very stupid
I'll still finish the video but incompetence is pretty likely lol

Then why did he purposefully lie about not knowing the site and its creators when he was making not too bad content for years? He literally sits there acting like some angry tech-incompetent boomer who just discovered what "all this Youtube fuzz is about" when hes been more succesfull than 90% of all people attempting to get big on this site.

But how could he have hidden his traces that well, then??? If he was stupid enough to do this by mistake, something just doesn't add up

Incompetence can't explain his stubbornness in wanting to drive the advertisers away from the platform, especially after many other youtubers talked to him and explained it to him over and over. There simply HAD to be some malice mixed in there.

Somniad I try to assume incompetence before malice as well.


TL:DW version

Matt's sad and angry because he couldn't get that youtube money

But he could've easily gotten the YouTube money using the tactics he used to get #YouTubeWakeUp to blow up, or at least he could've used the popularity of the campaign to his advantage. Him being a corporate shill doesn't put into account all of his past internet history. I personally think him giving up on YouTube, and trying to stop YouTube to get rid of the alt-right pipeline makes more sense, because the only inconsistencies that seem to be in that theory is the fact he knew he would screw over a ton of leftist channels too, but keep in mind that screwing over alt-right channels wasn't the goal. The goal was getting rid of the YouTube algorithm that he believed was radicalizing people.

AbsurdDive or that he's likely some tool companies used to manipulate youtube


24:30 - What's that music from? Is that...Smash Bros?....can't quite put my finger on it......


There will never ever be a site like YTMND ever again, please emp do this site justice

@hijacked you could just google it, but its called your the man now dog and it was a haven for memes


This man made people think we were peaceful protesting and then went into the nuclear option, and when people asked him about their jobs he just showed them uber.


Me too. His past as a YTP maker honestly benefits his editing, helps make it feel lively.


I pretty much missed everything mentioned in this video. I've been using adblock plugins since 2008, didn't know ads went down in early 2019.


this video literally turned into illuminatii


I still remember that moment. <br>YouTube was spiraling out of control and everybody was either hella scared or insanely pissed.

I still remember that moment.
YouTube was spiraling out of control and everybody was either hella scared or insanely pissed.


It’s official that the “2016” is the mark of good thing. And it could only get worse.

April 26th 2020.

@caxolog! I think he was trying to say that things have only gotten worse since 2016? And that everything from that year and the years before it are good? I'm just as confused as you are.


Not related to the topic but nice use of the smash ost


Well Emp, you convinced me to watch an hour long documentary again.


Emp Lemon: Youtube Geographic would be a perfect series to do an episode centering around the first well known Youtube commenter known as PressFartToContinue.

@Dr. Oofers All good mate. I never actually met him, we just talked through comments and played some Garry's Mod a few times. And this was before Steam implemented voice chat lol. I dont consider myself lucky in the regard that I interacted with him, but I do consider myself lucky that I remember him. Only OGs remember

Guy Noir Sorry, I didn’t know whether it was a joke or not. Also, nice to know you met PFTC, you must’ve been lucky.

Dr. Oofers I'm not trying to be funny at all. Back when I was a wee lad, I actually chatted with PFTC quite often when he was floating around the comments. Then all of the drama happened and he vanished. While i don't condone his actions, he was the comment section God during YouTube's golden age. A true enigma.

second this, theres very very interesting backstory and drama around them

Guy Noir Is...is this joke,
Where is funny?
I can’t find funny...


I was sucked into this YouTube drama that I almost forgot about the corona virus


5:05 “wasp removal” Lol we’ve all been there at least once


8:39 one of the comments in the live chat says "if you are a youtuber who relies soley on ad revenue for income, you deserve to be broke"

Bruh


Good to finally see another episode of Youtube Geographic.


If this was an industrial plant, I highly doubt that they would resort to Reddit of all places to get the ball rolling. I just think that he got very very lucky and rolled double sixes, and it blew up on reddit, and pretty much everywhere. There are too many numbers for it to be artificial.

to be fair, it might only need a bit of artificial attention at the beginning, before redditors take over organically.<br>plus, news articles fuel upvotes, way more than upvotes encourage articles. the most dubious part about "industry plant" is his history

to be fair, it might only need a bit of artificial attention at the beginning, before redditors take over organically.
plus, news articles fuel upvotes, way more than upvotes encourage articles. the most dubious part about "industry plant" is his history


Those Doors MIDIs are making me sing and get distracted lmao

@bruh It kind of fits in thematically: "Show me the way to the next little girl! Oh dont ask why..."

Whisky bar song go brrrrrr brrr brrr brrrr

@Sphere space Wish he'd take sugar plum fairy out. That song irks the hell out of me and makes the video unlistenable.

Sonny Wilson I know right? I’m glad someone else noticed.


Every time Emp lemon let’s loose one of these hotties, I drop everything and get to a quiet place to listen.


10 seconds in and I love this video because of that Down the Rabbit Hole parody. Given the nature of the topic, "Down the Wormhole" would also be a good alternate title.

@Ivan I know, that's exactly why I loved the first 10 seconds. Fredrik Knudsen's videos are awesome. Edited the OP in any case.

It's a spin on Frederik Knudsen's "Down the rabbithole" series. I would thoroughly recommend watching a few episodes


I just wanna know why I can’t organize playlists alphabetically, or search videos in a playlist, or see what people I’m subscribed to are liking and commenting on

Or custom sort other people's playlists, or copy playlists off of others' channels, or sort by date uploaded

@bruh investigator to search videos in a channel, open the channel's page, then look for the magnifying glass icon after "about" in the "home, videos, playlists..." bar.

@JayBe yeah wait ur right I have a 1200 ish video playlist and I think shuffle doesn't show older things

ahmost 22 Do you have a playlist with over 100 videos? What I’ve found is that in these large playlists, when I shuffle it never gives me videos beyond 100. If I start from 101 and click shuffle then it only gives me videos 101-200. I guess it’s not important in the grand scheme of things but it’s annoyed me for years. Are you saying you don’t experience this in such playlists?

ahmost 22 or shuffle in my music playlist and hear anything beyond the first hundred songs. It worked and then they updated playlists three years ago! >:(

@bruh investigator u can search for only channels

You <b>can</b> search videos in a playlist by simply using ctrl+F - but yeah, that could be a helpful built-in YouTube feature, because using the browser's search option requires scrolling down and loading the whole playlist first

You *can* search videos in a playlist by simply using ctrl+F - but yeah, that could be a helpful built-in YouTube feature, because using the browser's search option requires scrolling down and loading the whole playlist first

or search for videos in a channel or filter the search bar to find only channels

Well like Emp said, their poor leadership leads to missing features and such.


Summer nights and Daydream? Do you listen to George Clanton!?


@Daniel Baran I've been rewatching all of the old ones

OHMYDOG I’ve waited about a year for a YouTube Geographic.


Wasted the opportunity to put “Red Hair-ing” in the title.

Circunflexo true. If anything, the title not being that worked out for the best, as I was able to get 300 likes for stating the obvious.


I can’t seem to figure out what song is at 1:50. It’s not Miami or Dust Devil D Code, so idk if it’s not on the list or just misplaced.


Why don't you read his most recent reddit post and make an update?


I remember I used to be a mod on Matt's channel when this whole thing started, the same day he talked to Keemstar. After a couple days, I realised what was really going on with him and just bailed on the whole situation. <br>Lowkey trying to see if you can see any of my comments in this video lol. I was under a different name though

I remember I used to be a mod on Matt's channel when this whole thing started, the same day he talked to Keemstar. After a couple days, I realised what was really going on with him and just bailed on the whole situation.
Lowkey trying to see if you can see any of my comments in this video lol. I was under a different name though

I was at 28:10 under the name "Paul Olsen." I was one of his original subs from before he uploaded the video.

Killing Me Will Not Bring Back Your Apples


The theory I have heard and that I personally believe. Is that Matt was politically motivated and mad that YouTube was facilitating the “alt right pipeline”  Honestly his whole child predator rabbit hole sounded alot like the idea of the alt right pipeline. It had alot of the same logical flaws to.


Typical mac user though really. Uninformed. :)


Well Emp, I gotta say it once again, this is some incredibly high quality content and I'm stunned once again. Well freakin' done mate.


Insightful and well documented video. Great content man, cheers.


Another great masterpiece emp, I love your content man. Keep it up


I'd love to see a Youtube Geographic about how Flash animations of the early 2000's influenced Youtube culture today. Like how everyone from Zero Punctuation to AlternateHistoryHub and countless others are all animating with the same style that started with Madness Combat (memba?).


Another great video, once again, so well crafted. The jokeresk part was great. Also I would always trust Dr. Spiral.


Love the picture of google's stock, it was already pretty high for its average so Matt caused a noticeable dip as people sold.... and then bought in again the next day when it was lower, and it continued to rise.


When I need to stop hair loss I’m def going with Keeps.


i am not going to remember nor care about the whole rigmarole you were talking about, but those spicy investigative techniques are what I watch your videos for.


Welcome to 2020, where the only real journalism goes relatively silent, on small YouTube channels, on underrated channels with only half a million subscribers.

Gosh I wanted to write an article about this but I know there's now way I can't top this video now I've finished it, you've earned a sub.


Future never Ever segment ideas:

>Never Ever be another tragedy like Picher, Oklahoma
>Never ever be another Superhero like Spiderman
>Never Ever another Youtuber like AVGN

Future never Ever segment ideas:

*>Never Ever be another tragedy like Picher, Oklahoma*
*>Never ever be another Superhero like Spiderman*
*>Never Ever another Youtuber like AVGN*

@Person 1 Superman would probably be ideal, he is like, THE superhero.

@Captain Weekend Not a bad idea actually

I wouldn't really define AVGN as a "youtuber" as he comes from a time where that term didn't even exist, plus he got his start and still mainly used his site cinemassacre for most of his career, only really using youtube to host his videos. I'd say "reviewer" fits him better since that's really the term he helped come to define.

Never Ever: Michael Jackson<br>Never Ever: Heath Ledger

Never Ever: Michael Jackson
Never Ever: Heath Ledger

Never ever be another superhero like superman

Picher, Oklahoma is not that out of the ordinary. Plenty of other small American towns have been destroyed as an unintended consequence of human activities (e.g. Centralia, Pennsylvania and Times Beach, Missouri).


Someone actually recently exposed something like this that's actually happening on youtube and reported it to the FBI.


I also really like using insults like weirdo and saying things like "but maybe this means"
Y'know leading, and attacking the arguer not the argument. Very solid debate tactics.
I like your videos bb, just doing some friendly criticism :3


This man makes a blue yeti sound like a 1997 headset mic.


Maybe the fact that he had a catalogue of videos prior to the controversy made him a better hire?


youtube really wanted me to watch this video. Suggested for weeks so I could watch a man get angry that someone doesn't like youtubers, punctuated midway through with an awful skit


Not a chance he was an industry plant, but he was used by the industry at a fortuitous time, this explains why previous videos outlining these problems never hit the mainstream. Why would advertisers bite that hand that feeds, until that is the hand pulls back. We all have issues with youtube, as you've shown with all the commentary channels exposing youtube in the past, Matt obviously was very involved in watching youtube ideological content and would want to expose it as well. I see him as someone with good intentions and a bone to pick, who got caught up in his 15 minutes of fame when the news agencies saw him as a ripe opportunity. It's funny, it looks like a real world Phantom Thieves situation where the group was surprised by how popular they had gotten with their good intentions, meanwhile it was their own enemy pushing their analytics for an ulterior motive. Matt simply wasn't that bright, and took it out on youtube while advertisers were a bigger issue, who used him for profit, and he just ate out of their hand because when ads pulled out by his command, he got more popular, and he liked the spotlight that he could never before attain on youtube. Of course he disappeared when everyone turned on him, again... kinda like the Phantom Thieves but with less conviction or questioning of his own morals.


another beautifully crafted video, lemon


He probably works for an ad company. His knowledge aa described in the video reminds of MatPat.

The "disgruntled failed youtuber" makes very little sense once you put all this evidence together and think on it. I see a lot of people going with this theory because it's the "simplistic" when it's the opposite considering everything he DID do.

Ask yourself: Who affects YouTube the most? Who has started all the Adpocalypses?

Spoiler: not a random, small youtuber. It's always been the MSM and those they associate with.

Perhaps he wanted to use this as a further attempt to make it big, but then why disappear? Why RE-appear on Reddit posts that tended to deal with YouTube and advertisements? Why such lackluster leftism that suggests he didn't really care but more like he was playing the part? How convenient he knew the perfect time to start this. (How would one know what time to post? Are all these subreddit mods day birds?) How convenient the mods never took his post down despite clear evidence of rule breaking.

Reddit is leftism hive mind. Unlike companies and the big boys of the MSM (not the journalists) who fake it to fit in... Him being a plant makes the most sense. Everything worked out too well. He reminds me of that gaywonk dude from Vox (Carlos Maza?). Someone who wanted the cake and ice cream but couldn't handled dealing with those who didn't believe him once his 5 mins was done. He no longer had to play along for his money so he ended it. I have no doubt whoever hired him shuffled him around so no one would see his face for a long time.

The best way I could think to find him would be to hack into his Reddit account and gain his IP attached to his account. Then trace it to wherever it goes.

He probably works for an ad company. His knowledge aa described in the video reminds of MatPat.

The "disgruntled failed youtuber" makes very little sense once you put all this evidence together and _think_ on it. I see a lot of people going with this theory because it's the "simplistic" when it's the opposite considering everything he DID do.

Ask yourself: _Who_ affects YouTube the most? _Who_ has started all the Adpocalypses?

Spoiler: not a random, small youtuber. It's always been the MSM and those they associate with.

Perhaps he wanted to use this as a further attempt to make it big, but then why disappear? Why RE-appear on Reddit posts that tended to deal with YouTube and advertisements? Why such lackluster leftism that suggests he didn't really care but more like he was playing the part? How convenient he knew the perfect time to start this. (How would one know what time to post? Are all these subreddit mods day birds?) How convenient the mods never took his post down despite clear evidence of rule breaking.

Reddit is leftism hive mind. Unlike companies and the big boys of the MSM (not the journalists) who fake it to fit in... Him being a plant makes the most sense. Everything worked out _too_ well. He reminds me of that gaywonk dude from Vox (Carlos Maza?). Someone who wanted the cake and ice cream but couldn't handled dealing with those who didn't believe him once his 5 mins was done. He no longer had to play along for his money so he ended it. I have no doubt whoever hired him shuffled him around so no one would see his face for a long time.

The best way I could think to find him would be to hack into his Reddit account and gain his IP attached to his account. Then trace it to wherever it goes.


I love you so much Emp. I popped off when I heard the esprit songs in the background, my man knows his George Clanton and the fine ass vapor wave. Great upload as always.