Growing up, Patrick took an interest in fine arts, especially musical theatre. Matthew Robert Patrick was born on November 15, 1986, in Medina County, Ohio.
He also works with the musical web series Random Encounters and helps with special voice acting roles in songs. Between July 1, 2016, and July 31, 2016, he starred in the game show The Runner. As of February 2021, he has amassed over 28 million subscribers and over 5 billion views total across his four channels. He made an appearance on Season 4, first for the opening of Episode 1 and then as an assistant in Episode 6. In 2018, MatPat joined Joey Graceffa along with other YouTuber guests on the third season of Graceffa's YouTube Premium series Escape the Night. In 2015, Patrick created one of YouTube's first live gaming channels, GTLive, and in 2016, he created the YouTube Premium series MatPat's Game Lab. Film Theory and Food Theory focuses on cinema/internet filmography and food franchises respectively.
Game Theory centers on topics such as the logic, scientific accuracy, and lore of various video games and the gaming industry. MatPat also created and narrates the spinoffs of Game Theory which is called The Film Theorists (also known as Film Theory) and The Food Theorists (also known as Food Theory) respectively. Matthew Robert Patrick (born November 15, 1986), better known by his screen name MatPat, is an American Internet personality and the creator and narrator of the YouTube webseries The Game Theorists (better known as Game Theory).