After extensive research on many different blog writers, I figured that my favorite Blog Writer/ Youtuber was Matthew Patrick, aka MattPat. Upon my research, I found that he also owns many YouTube channels that I grew up watching, stemming from “The Game Theorist” to “The Film Theorists. If I were to tell you which channel I watched the most, It was probably his “The Film Theorist” channel as I found so much enjoyment in his analytical and comical remarks when scouring through a film that I may have recently watched. Watching videos on that channel gave the feeling that they were extensions of the movies themselves or hidden secrets that the normal viewer would miss. One thing unique about Mat Pat is that when he proposes a theory, he does not leave any loose ends as he comes with countless strong supporting evidence to prove his case further. When watching his videos, I am often in awe, and typically I cannot argue with how sensible his supporting evidence is. The primary thing that drew my younger self and many others to Matt Pat’s multitude of YouTube channels is that he holds the viewer’s attention with his comedic delivery within his writing. This style also gives off the impression that the writer is telling the audience an exciting story. In his videos, he also explains every nuance in his writing, which helps any viewer grasp the main idea of his writing even better. For example, in one of Matt Pat’s videos, he goes out to prove his theory that Ellie from “The Last of Us Two” was not immune to the fungal infection that plagued the game’s characters. In this video, we come across a recording that contained a large amount of medical jargon that the average reader/ viewer would not understand on the fly. One of his biggest strengths is that he puts such complicated information into simplified terms for the audience to easily understand, even if they have never played or heard of the topic at hand. I have a link at the bottom of my post to show how he explains nuanced information to his viewers. However, I will also provide a quote from this video to give you an idea of how he levels everything when things get complicated. “Aah, yes, some high-quality medical gobbledygook my friends very insightful, very intriguing. I’m sure that if you’re like 99.9% of the gaming population without an advanced medical degree, you heard the word “titers”, giggled that it looked liked titters, then looked for the skip conversation button to get on with the zombie killing. Turns out so there is a lot of information hidden inside that little paragraph enough to tell us that Ellie isn’t having a normal reaction to the fungal infection and also that something’s not right about the way the science is being scienced. Let’s break down what this audio log is actually telling us.”. Following this quote, he begins his analytical breakdown of what was said in the voice recording in the game, which is a supporting factor to his theory that Ellie is not immune to the infection. Given all of these strengths Matt Pat has under his belt, it is a formula that seems to work as he has a large following on multiple Youtube channels and Blogs. For the blogs I am going to write this semester, I aim to emulate this type of style to gravitate the audience towards my writing and sustain interest from start to finish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOtXhr0EoTU&t=218s

(Timestamp 3:35 to 7:28) (Trust me this video will not spoil the main plot of LOU2)