1y ago

Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything

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I'm to young for the first one but too old for the second one. I'm also used to society ignoring my generation so that's fine.
- As a non American millennial I have no fucking clue what the second one is.
  
  Blues Clues
  
  We had El Chavo del 8 growing up.
- In a younger millennial and was still too old for the second one…
  
  So...what, when Toonami ended for the first time?
  
  This. Our generation grew up on Reading Rainbow and the tail end of Mr. Rogers, not Blue's Clues. Blue's Clues is Gen Z fodder.
  
  Yeah I'm like older gen z and was huge into blues clues. Tons of people my age hate being identified with gen z tho because we grew up with DS lites not iPads lol.
- Same
- It was stupid to use a kids show as an example. That episode aired in 2002. Only a small slice of people born 1980 to 2000 would care.
  The other examples had an audience with a much wider age range.

What? Weren't older millenials in their 20's when Blue's Clue's ended?
- I’m a millennial but too old to have ever watched Blue’s Clues, so I couldn’t give two shits when Steve left.
  Also, it’s hilarious that this meme completely ignores Gen X.
  
  I'm an older millenial that identifies closer to Gen X. I think mine would be ... Will Smith crying to Uncle Phil about his dad on Fresh Prince? That was pretty iconic. Wasn't a good bye or finale one though.
  Seinfeld finale was kinda bleh. I skipped Roseanne, Friends and Frazier's finales to be honest and the fact no one references them never made me catch up. The Simpsons seemingly won't die. I'd say Futurama but like, it keeps coming back with declining quality. I guess I can't choose?
  What would yours be?
  
  Oh well, whatever, nevermind.
  
  I was well into middle school when blues clues came out and graduated highschool when it ended.
  
  Gen what? Don't invoke the wrath.
  
  How do you know that his name is Steve if you never watched it?

I don’t know what the fuck any of this is. What does that make me?
- Not from USA. Well the last one I guess you could know as is from YouTube, that said I didn't know who the guy was or is either.
  Honestly I haven't seen any of that I know the rest because of reddit mentioning them in another moments. Again not from the US.
  
  I'm a millennial from the US and I've never seen even an episode of Blue's Clues.
- Gen X?
  
  Gen x got MASH reruns and internalised the theme song "suicide is painless"
  
  We stopped crying. Except at funerals and over properly cooked steak.
- Japanese?
  
  わかりました、賢い人

And as usual Xers forgotten
- Caise we never cry we're in a state of constant disappointing.
  
  I disagree. Transformers:The Movie
- Gen X was too busy not giving a fuck to cry about anything.
  
  Yeah, I used to wash MASH with my parents because one house TV's and primetime. It was ok. I watched the finale, It was ok.
  I was a hell of a lot sadder when the dropped Hogans Heroes from syndication.
- Older millennials too, I don’t give a shit about Blue’s Clues. Then again, I’m dead inside, just like an older millennial

Yeah, it's off. M.A.S.H. would be Gen X. Old Yeller got both Boomers and Gen X; I'm not sure which TV show would have gotten only Boomers.
- The yearling and dumbo fucked me up as a kid, but im a millennial
  
  Ferngully

*American
Still watched and liked MASH in my country in 90s as a kid (although not my choice) enough to introduce my wife to it a year ago and she enjoyed it too, having never heard of it. No clue what the other 2 things even are.
- Defo American. I don't know any of them (Brit).
  
  MASH was the most popular sitcom of the 1970s in North America. Surgeons at an Army hospital in the Korean War in the 50s running schemes and banging nurses to distract themselves from the horror of war.

Is everyone on Lemmy gen Z at this point? Who in the actual fuck is this dude?
- I think that's Tom Zendaya from Skibidi Drip Rizz.

https://youtu.be/lrZyMptC2eQ?si=-ZVTvnZwqLh_pDuT
https://youtu.be/kFVPkn37iFM?si=qYd5i8EESzY46FiV
You're missing a generation, here's a couple clips you can do a screenshot for the next time this meme gets posted.
- Absolutely on point.
- OMG how could you do this to me.
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://piped.video/lrZyMptC2eQ?si=-ZVTvnZwqLh_pDuT
  https://piped.video/kFVPkn37iFM?si=qYd5i8EESzY46FiV
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

I‘m a millennial but too… old? Annoyed by it? to have watched blues clues other than by accident while playing Gameboy. According to Google it aired from 1996 to 2006 here, which means that I was ages 2 to 12. It was just too dumb for me. Matt Patt on the other hand, I watched it grow since its start in the golden era of YouTube, the. I stopped when the dark ages started at around 2017-ish. Now I‘m sad that I didn’t do anything good in my life until May of last year.
- Millennial is such a huge range anyway. In 1996 I was 12. There was no way I would have been watching Blue's Clues.
  
  Same, I was 15. Maybe it should be Atreyu crying out for Artax for Gen Xers and Xennials
- You're on the tail end of Millennial, and it definitely sounds like you were the target age for Blues Clues. I'm right in the middle of the Millennial years and I was 9 when that show came out, so I only know it as that thing my friend's little brother watched. I have more feelings about MatPat leaving, even if I stopped watching years ago. Point is, I don't think this meme is very accurate.

GEN-X THINKS YOU'RE ALL CRYBABIES
Wow, apparently I was right. Can't even take a joke 😂
- Come on, Artax!
  
  WHY DID YOU REMIND ME 😢
- Kurt Cobain knew how to quit his job like a real man

Who?
- He is a youtuber. He investigates and explains different topics, reviews games and trending social media.
  https://youtu.be/80CyuNEVgrw?si=CjarPZinc8Qm20DD
  https://youtu.be/KTKNl08hwUY?si=jo-ZEGCnKbM8vtvt
  
  That’s just a theory. /s
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://piped.video/80CyuNEVgrw?si=CjarPZinc8Qm20DD
  https://piped.video/KTKNl08hwUY?si=jo-ZEGCnKbM8vtvt
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

In 2002 I was a 15 year old millennial... I wasn't watching Blue's Clues
- why not?
  
  They were masturbating.
- I had the same exact thought, but I suppose a lot of people born after 1990 would have witnessed it or the rerun and maybe felt something, but otherwise it was completely obscure. TBH I don't really recall any of the shows from my childhood ending with a goodbye, I wasn't all that fortunate to be worrying about those things.

Was matpat big with zoomers? I thought he was more a millennial audience 🤔
- Nah his biggest audience was FNAF kids.
  
  Sounds about right.
  I believe FNAF getting mega-popular was the precise moment when the scales tipped for me and I officially became old. I looked at it, and I decided that it's just dumb and I can't comprehend why the kids these days are so into it. I mean, I know the real draw is watching streamers or whoever freak out at all the jump scares and act ridiculous. But that's a pastime that doesn't appeal to me in any form whatsoever. Just, get that kind of thing off my lawn.
  I did watch a ton of Game Theories videos, though.
  
  I never played FNAF, but those were the only Game Theorist videos I really liked.
  
  Huh, I thought FNAF was all younger millennials

GenX, forgotten again
- I was going to say I don’t really recognize any of them, although they’re vaguely familiar …. yes, forgotten again
  
  The only reason I knew it was M.A.S.H. was the font/color.
  In this case, I don't feel too bad being missed. Keep your head down and stay out of the news :)
  That said, I watched Theorists with my tween. Kinda sad seeing MP go, but not as sad as MP was.
  I expect the channels will go tits up without his personality. The new hosts are pleasant but honestly unremarkable. The show was far less about the content and more of his performance. If you thought the idea was crap, you subliminally blamed it on him. There are plenty of other personalities out there doing what they're doing and almost all of them go on unknown because they don't have screen chemistry.
- gen x is overlooked way too often, a ton of millennial media were made by gen x
- Ummm... Et phone home?

Only knew Film Theorists but didn't really like them… but I'm sorry for everyone who misses them, I can imagine that it's painful when someone you like stops producing such content.

Millennial MASH fan here: it's a gut punch of a series finale. Amazing show.
- As a Gen Z, agreed.
  I've seen just about every episode because of my dad who loves it and the series finale is absolutely amazing.

cries to self in genX
- We just said "whatever" instead of crying.
  
  i can agree on 'the meh generation'
  
  As if

To think this is how I found out about MatPat
- I found out yesterday from this post.
- That's kind of amazing considering his channel has been going on for like 13 years
  
  I don't know if I came across as saying that this is how I discovered MatPat, but that is not the case. I meant that this post is how I found out about his stepping away (kinda) from the Theorist channels. I've known him for almost the full 13 years that he's been making videos, though I've kinda fallen out of love with his channel since FNAF.
  
  Is it only the game channel that closed, or all the theory channels?
  I don't understand why I'm asking tho, I really don't give a shit. Some of the Film Theory's were good for a lazy sunday background noise.

I must be an immortal because I cried for all 3.
- Can you help fill me in on what those 3 are? And the person below wondered if gen x ever will be remembered, maybe you can throw in an extra for them?
  At first I thought the lettering in the first one was from All In the Family, but that can't be right.
  
  Mash, Blue's Clues and MatPat.
  For GenX: Mr. Rogers, maybe? Or, I dunno... Max Headroom? 🤷🏻‍♂️
  
  1st: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Farewell_and_Amen
  2nd: https://people.com/health/blues-clues-host-steve-burns-says-he-left-nickelodeon-show-due-to-clinical-depression/#:~:text=Steve%20Burns%20is%20opening%20up,of%20his%20severe%20clinical%20depression.
  
  The first one looks like M.A.S.H. to me

How fitting that he would steal his final act from another person

Omg I'm a boomer. Who are these people?
- The first one is MASH
  
  I know! Thats the only one I know and I'm barely 40 years old.

The 4077th salutes you MatPat
🫡

Where everyone cried

X-Gen: cries because no one remembers them.

Wait why is he stopping making YouTube videos? I didn't know he was leaving lol. The other 2 were sad but I wasn't super into blues clues. I was like a year or two too old for it once it was really popular. Seeing him come back recently was nice. My dad was super into mash though.

Me who's seen one MatPat video ever:

Ok this popped up in my yt feed and I judged it as too clickbaity to watch, but now I have to!

I basically predicted that 2 weeks before it happened.

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