Matt Jarbo

MundaneMatt’s subscriber count is declining, but it’s not all bad

MundaneMatt’s subscriber count has declined steadily since word got out he was using YouTube’s flagging system to get revenge towards other YouTube creators. These creators dared to criticized his channel’s content.

To do something like that is a serious thing to YouTubers. It’s called false flagging. If you false flag a channel and its read by the wrong person at YouTube, it can result in the flagged channel getting removed from the platform.

It’s true that he’s been hemorrhaging subscribers, but there’s more to it than that. A lot more. The following is from Social Blade, a popular social media analytics site.

Is MundaneMatt’s channel dying?

The red numbers show how many people are subscribing/unsubscribing to his channel. The number has been in the negative since people found out about Matt’s fondness for false flagging other YouTubers. The subscriber count is actually meaningless. YouTubers don’t get paid by how many subscribers they have. They get paid for the views they get. In the case of MundaneMatt, his view count has gone up each and every day since this false flagging controversy reared its ugly head.

MundaneMatt is losing subscribers, but not subscribers who watch his content. People subscribe to channels all the time and never watch them. Also, he may be losing more subscribers than people even think, but this number is offset by the number of new subscribers he’s adding, subscribers who watch his videos. For all anyone knows, his viewers may not care he false-flagged other channels on YouTube. This seems to be a much more egregious crime to YouTubers than it is to normal folk. Plus, maybe his viewers don’t like any of the channels he false-flagged. Who knows?

Subscribers who watch your videos are the type of subscribers any YouTubers should want. These are the type of subscribers YouTubers should want.

There’s also another scenario that could cause MundaneMatt’s viewership to increase

There’s also another reason MundaneMatt’s view count is going up. By default, when you go to a video’s page to leave a comment, the video automatically begins to play. A lot of people have gone to each video he makes and leaving snarky, negative comments. How many of his views are coming from this? Looking at his public analytics, it’s impossible to say. I don’t think that would cause such a huge increase in his view count. Then again, if these same people are returning to his comment section, causing the videos to replay, it could add up to something quite substantive.

Leave MundaneMatt alone (Update)

(Note: make sure to read the update located at the end of this post.)

YouTube personality MundaneMatt (government name Matt Jarbo) is in hot water with other YouTube personalities for committing one of the greatest crimes a YouTube personality can commit: flagging videos critical of him as falsely containing inappropriate content.

Personally, I don’t see how this is a big deal. Not really. I assumed most if not all YouTube content creators did this. Where MundaneMatt screwed up is appearing on TheRalphRetort’s #Killstream YouTube channel and then showing a screenshot of his YouTube flagging history. That, and flagging other YouTubers with his main YouTube account. I assume when other YouTubers do this, they either have a friend do it, or they use one of their alt accounts.

Is flagging other YouTube creators a dirty thing to do?

If this seems like a scumball thing to do, remember, he did this to other YouTube creators. Most of them refuse to show their face and insist on using a fake name when making content. At least MundaneMatt shows his face and doesn’t shield his real name as though it’s the equivalent to the nuclear launch codes.

Showing his face is actually a detriment for Matt. He has a face more suited for an old-school audio-only podcast. As far as voices go, he has one of the best on YouTube. The problem is, he looks like a pretentious Kevin Smith without the hockey jersey and trenchcoat.

When I go to YouTube and do a search for MundaneMatt, I find a multitude of videos created within the last 48 hours by all sorts of anonymous edgelords condemning him for flagging other YouTubers and then lying about it. These people need to slow their roll. People who lie about their identity should not be lecturing anyone else about lying.

These people all have garbage people for an audience. If you don’t believe me, go to their comment sections and get a good whiff of the scum populating it.

You should never take advice from anonymous edgelords

Most of these fake people are jumping up and down demanding MundaneMatt address this matter on his channel. For his sake and for the sake of his audience, I hope he doesn’t do that. Much like going on TheRalphRetort’s #Killstream, nothing good can come out of it. MundaneMatt has a responsibility to his audience, not TheRalphRetort, Keemstar, Declan Black, or any of the other cringy edgelords demanding blood and other various bodily fluids.

I’ve criticized Matt in the past. I refuse to criticize him for this non-crime.

Update

Mister Metokur posted his video on MundaneMatt. After watching it, I now legally, morally, and spiritually rescind everything I posted above. I learned Matt’s channel became popular way back when after Zoë Quinn abused the flagging system on YouTube and flagged one of his videos for copyright infringement. He made a video about that and after five years of YouTube obscurity, became an overnight sensation.

I didn’t know this history.

I have such a low opinion of professional YouTube content creators. I automatically believe most of them engage in sketchy behavior and when caught, lie about it. See Boogie2988. See Jeremy Hambly.

I realize now what MundaneMatt did goes well beyond the normal YouTube creator unethical sketchiness. He went so far past the line of normal professional YouTube creator behavior, he can’t even see Boogie2988 or Jeremy Hambly with a high-powered telescope.

I think MundaneMatt is done being a professional YouTuber. He needs to look into truck driver school. You’ve got to admit he looks like someone hauling cheaply made Chinese goods from one location to another. He looks the type of would enjoy peeing in an empy Gatorade bottle.

MundaneMatt apologizes to ‘Star Wars’ fans

MundaneMatt (government name Matt Jarbo) published a video in which he apologized for criticizing fans of Star Wars. If memory serves, he called out fans who’ve been critical of the Disney Star Wars movies even after the cast for Episode IV was released. If his reasoning doesn’t make sense, join the club. He’s removed the video from YouTube, so I can’t rewatch it. Not that I normally rewatch MundaneMatt videos. I subscribe to his channel, but I rarely watch his videos, let alone rewatch them.

Here’s the apology:

I guess it’s just a coincidence the apology video is over ten minutes long, 10:01 to be exact. YouTubers make more money from advertising on videos that are at least ten minutes in length.

From We The Unicorns:

What The Heck Is This 10 Minute Trick Then?

The system is pretty simple: if your video is over ten minutes long – even by one second – or are exactly ten minutes long, you will make more money from the ads on your videos than you would if the video was shorter.

I’m very skeptical of a ten-minute apology

Even if YouTube didn’t pay its content creators more money for videos longer than ten minutes, I’d be skeptical of Jarbo’s “apology.” It should not take a normal human ten minutes to apologize. If Jarbo was sincere, a 30-second video could have more than done the trick. Every second past the 30-second mark, an apology, any apology, seems less and less sincere.

MundaneMatt apologizes to 'Star Wars' fans - Bent Corner — MundaneMatt/Matt Jarbo

It could be argued that Matt Jarbo simply doesn’t human very well. I would agree, but the whole thing seems like a work. He first makes a video that infuriates Star Wars fans. He then pulls the video and apologizes for the original video. His apology video then comes in one second past the ten-minute mark.

I’m not buying any of it.