u/Donut_Nebula

Seriously though, the last few videos have felt so low effort. The ARG ones are just reading off the steps to solve everything, the show recap episodes feel like they're just reading the plot synopsis from the Wikipedia page, and the compilation videos are getting ridiculous. It feels weird to claim to be in a new age of Theory and then reupload all old episodes with Mat Pat in it. I'd rather see higher quality videos posted once or twice a month than the weekly slop they've been producing.

I feel like every time someone posts a criticism of the newest videos, the comments get flooded with people trying to defend the hosts like it's their fault, even though the criticism are more geared to the quality of the videos. A lot of us really like the new hosts and know it's not their fault the new videos aren't that good. I really doubt it was Lee's idea to post 2 Backrooms compilations in the span of a month or Tom's idea to keep posting Lore explanation videos on the same couple of games. Could we please stop undermining real criticisms of the videos by making it sound like we just secretly hate the hosts and want Matt back?

I feel like most of the episodes we've gotten, especially on Film Theory, are just them telling us what happens in each of the videos with little to no actual theory crafting. Most of the time they're just describing beat for beat what happens in a game or video and the theory is just a vague prediction of what will happen next. I'd rather just go watch the series than have someone explain what happens it.