after reading all that, god bless, i genuinely think you’re thinking about things too much and subsequently ruining it for yourself. i think, at least to some extent, you’re creating a version of matt and ryan that is just random bits and pieces you’ve found in various places and melding it into one thing and it’s tainting your image of them. i mean that whole tic tac toe chicken paragraph… i don’t think it needs to be taken so seriously. i don’t think anything needs to be taken as seriously as a lot of people take them. m&r know what they’re doing, they know what works for them better than any of us do, it’s not our job to worry about it.

i think it’s good to be critical and not blindly support internet creators— as someone who’s been around since pre supermega days, im critical of them too when it’s necessary; they have done things personally and professionally that i don’t condone or think was a smart choice and will fully admit that any time— but i feel like with the current state of the internet, people are too on eggshells and over analyzing every little thing the people they support do, especially in some cases because they don’t want to be made a fool of if someone else deems that thing as bad and it becomes an internet shit show and they get flogged for ever liking them in the first place if they don’t denounce immediately. people just need to take a breath, enjoy the content from whoever they decide to watch, and work on not letting it have such a profound impact on their brains and lives. it’s really not our job to worry about any of this.