I'm Leaving YouTube

[Music] so i haven't exactly been in many videos in the past six months and a lot of you have been asking why i was thinking about where to begin this video and one thing came up and it was thank you i have spent the last five years of my life sharing my stories with my friends to you watching five years of adventures and emotional moments and breakdowns and triumphs and so many times throughout this process i've thought to myself i thought to myself how in the world did i get so so lucky well it was gonna be a lot harder than i thought when i was a kid in college when i was 19 i read a book it was richard branson's autobiography and richard branson lived this incredible life when he was in his teens and his 20s and his 30s and even now and his motto was always that he had to have fun and i remember reading that book and just thinking to myself my 20s are about to start and i want to have the most fun ever and i want to take the most risks possible and around that time i started to write my goals and my dreams my dreams of starting a successful business or getting to travel to places like australia or japan my dream of hopefully inspiring people and impacting the world in some way and somehow it aligned and because of me pursuing my dreams i met three other guys pursuing theirs and i even got to have my brother join us and now i look around me and i i'm surrounded by my best friends by my family i've done things than i could have ever imagined i've crossed off so many of my dreams that i had written down 10 years ago there's so much to be thankful for but about two years ago i started to get this gnawing feeling that maybe there was something else maybe there was more that i wanted to do in a different area and at first i ignored it i didn't want to hear it life was amazing i was with my best friends we were doing all these incredible things the channel was growing so fast and i was having so much fun but that voice just was relentless when i would lay a bed at night when i would wake up in the morning when i'd be working here it just kept coming back and the voice was just saying there's something else and for a while i didn't understand what that voice was because i was trying to suppress it but then about a year ago i started to actually listen to that voice and try to understand what it was trying to tell me and what it was telling me was that maybe my time on camera was coming to an end now when you're the face of a channel and you're living the dream quote unquote it feels extraordinarily selfish to say hey uh you know what i'm done i don't want to do this anymore and soon enough i brought this up to amar and to t boogie and it turned into long conversations of whether me leaving would be the end of yes theory or what we would do next or what it would look like but what's amazing this part where i'm gonna cry again what's amazing about yes theory and what we've built together is support there was nothing but love and support [Music] and i knew how difficult it was for them but they encouraged me to really consider this as a possibility and all credits to the guys while all this was happening they were continuing to film and put together content and go on these adventures and trust me when all this stuff is happening behind the scenes that's a really hard thing to do so i'm so so proud of them but eventually i got to this place where i started to feel more and more comfortable with the idea that i could step away i saw that our videos were just as good without me that you guys loved them just as much and that gave me a lot of peace in coming to this decision but the beautiful thing is i'm not actually stepping away from yes theory i'm just stepping into different part of yes theory and for me that part is writing and investing in business behind the scenes two things that i absolutely love and the writing is where i'm going to be focusing 80 of my time on the newsletter which i write two of every single month which you can find the link in the bio but also our first ever book which is going to be released at the end of this year and i've already started to work on it i've spent the last few months starting to work on it and it's actually pretty good i've showed it to a few people and their reactions were really really promising and really positive this book that i want to write is for this 19 year old version of me who read richard branson's autobiography it's the book that i wish i'd read when i was 19. and for all of those of you watching i genuinely believe it'll be this superpower that you get to read and carry around everywhere and i genuinely believe it could change your life but more on that later the other side is the business and the investing side i've spent a lot of my time in the last few years investing in different startups and even yes theory as an investor for example in liquid iv and now as we continue to grow part of my role is going to be trying to figure out what we can build as tools for you to do what we've been able to do over the last five years from a travel website slash company to a festival to an app to all these things that we've been talking about forever but never had the time to actually pursue because i was busy hosting and the guys were busy hosting and now with me stepping away from hosting we're building a team to execute on these ideas which is so freaking exciting because it means that you are one gonna get a book and two you're gonna get tools that can help you live a more fulfilling and adventurous life so it's good news and that's the thing that i've realized is that change is scary and you have no idea what it'll look like but ultimately if you're listening to what that voice is telling you that change is probably a good thing i don't want to make like a long rambling piece i want it to be inspiring i want to be exciting about what's to come for yes theory because the reality is thomas and amar and my brother and the guys are so zoned in on continuing to make content on this channel in fact this is the first episode of an amazing season and there are several more seasons to come this year and i go back to what i started with in the beginning thank you i am 28 years old now and i already feel like i've lived a full life and frankly that's a lot to do with you by supporting us by buying from seek discomfort by constantly encouraging us you literally helped our dreams come true and you've made a very fulfilled man so i am so so grateful for you for this community and i'll still be here just in a different form and i think that's the beautiful thing about yes theory it started as videos but now it's expanding into more and i'm really excited for us to explore those different mediums i might come back for a quick hello once in a while on camera but now there are other dreams to pursue it's going to be uncomfortable but if i've learned anything from my time with my best friends it's that that is the number one objective discomfort [Music] math yo what does that mean right now it's certainly it's pretty emotional and as i told you this morning i'm just i'm so happy to see writing and i'm so proud of you for making the step for yourself and for all of us for yesterday i have faith then the adventure will manifest in a different form it's not necessarily like the one that i i know or the one that i've just gotten used to thank you for being the best older brother i could have asked for and i just want this to be a mark for this new chapter and to mark that i just uh wanted to get you a gift it's in the basement so i thought it was in there it's like the whole image of the whole time he's that you're focused on what i'm saying he's just like oh what's up whoa oh my god hello this is a reconditioned typewriter from the 60s it's it was made in eastern europe no western western germany yeah this is like this is not a toy here that's so you know yeah it's like a piano almost like it hits wow that's so crazy you have to whack it hard it's like driving stick yeah you're gonna use you're gonna work wow oh my god you're gonna have to learn how to get that balance dude wherever i travel i'll just write you guys letters the image of matt just walking through his friends day seven in the amazon and so if i want to bring it back here go on this like this motion yeah make that hard do it for me there you go not that hard okay yeah you want to go strong boys i hear you taking a year off to write a book yeah you know that's the goal that's cool so this actually makes me feel like it's my profession now yeah i mean i want to like learn to perfection yeah you read the masterful books and you use the masterful tools to one day maybe become a master i think that was a haiku thanks baby we just gifted uh matt a typewriter look at this we talked about it yesterday dude unreal isn't that awesome oh well that's i don't even you don't tell me that for now this is how you get the three of us that's cute this is like probably the only thing i actually care about taking with me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] shadows in the sky [Music] footsteps in the night [Music] behind me [Music] targets in their sight running out of light to save me dripping from my eyes see in red tonight as i wait to say my last [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Yes Theory

Views: 3,402,523

Rating: 4.9232678 out of 5

Keywords: yestheory, seek discomfort, yes theory strangers, yes theory travel, yes theory subscribers, getting out of your comfort zone

Id: TRjISzJPsuk

Length: 13min 0sec (780 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 25 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/diego_02]

Well this hit me :(

I miss pre covid yes theory... The lockdown killed so many of their original ideas :(

[u/notrealtea]

Its not going to be the same without him

[u/Bobdolebusinesses2]

Sad video but happy for him and the book project.

Does anyone know the song at the end of the YeaTheory+ tribute?

“Home home home”

[u/TrailerTrash4]

Seems like he was dealing with a lot of off-the-camera shit in his personal life, happy for him and I know he is gonna continue to make a big impact on the world going forward.

[u/yelkhashab]

Ive seen a few threads recently that complain about their upload schedule and I’ve never understood it. You can’t act entitled to frequent uploads when you don’t pay for content. The people running the channel are humans just like you and me and you never know what’s going on behind the scene.

On a lighter note, I’m excited to see what the future hold for YesTheory and I hope Matt checks in every now and again. Best of luck to Matt in all his future endeavors!

[u/sjcpilot]

Damn that sucks

[u/vanturisti]

my post yesterday was a day to early... daym now I understand

[u/213_]

Damn man