“matpat gave the pope undertale” sounds way different than “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community and it’s customary to give the pope a gift that’s reflective of the culture your represent and he chose undertale, a game about choices, consequences and reflect and peace/love”
He met one of the most important guys on earth and gave him a digital code of a game that he can’t even play due to him not having a computer, let alone actually having the time to do so, stop defending him. He’s gone off the fucking deep end
He was chosen to represent YouTube gaming culture at an event in which it’s customary to give the pope a gift which reflects the culture you represent.
since when does youtube gaming need representation.
Since more and more people are looking at it as entertainment. Because that’s what it is. Entertainment. Saying why does YouTube gaming need representation is like saying why do movies need representation
Anonymous asked: Literally everything Tumblr is saying about this incident with the Pope is stupid as shit and just makes for a good reminder that Contemptible Unpopular Nerds remain Contemptible, Unpopular, and Nerds. Their criticism of the act ignores that the act was done knowingly for symbolic reasons, as is traditional. The criticism of the message is classic "ew, Contemptible Unpopular Nerds trying to get us to stop feeling Contempt for their Unpopularity".
I think what Matpat did was a bit dumb but everyone is grotesquely overexaggerating how dumb it was in order to sneer at people who have feelings about unpopular things
That’s not why he gave the code for it, though, he gave the code for it due to (what appears to me to be) his inability to seriously ask himself if anyone has ever had the thoughts or emotions he’s having, and thus concluding everything he thinks and experiences is incredibly new and important and has to be shared. This video game says we should be nice to each other, this is new, the Pope needs to know about this!
There are video games that would be good ideas to give to the Pope as a symbolic gesture (like giving Obama the Witcher 2 made perfect sense, as it was part of a bundle of Polish cultural works that the nation of Poland was proud of). Undertale was not one of those games. Matpat’s reasoning for thinking it was was cringey and idiotic. But people shitting on him because he had any emotions about a video game, or dared to bring up a video game to an important person, or thought there was such a thing as symbolic importance that a video game might fit into, those people are just piling on to express contempt for an unpopular person.
His reason behind it was Because it’s a game that promotes peaceful alternatives, breakaways from stereotypes and acceptance. All of which pope Francis has been fighting (figuratively) for. That’s what the symbolism behind it is. The reason he even chose a game is because he was chosen to represent YouTube gaming at the event and the gift had to be reflective of the culture being represented.
“matpat gave the pope undertale” sounds way different than “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community and it’s customary to give the pope a gift that’s reflective of the culture your represent and he chose undertale, a game about choices, consequences and reflect and peace/love”
Yeah, “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community” is actually even more ridiculous so I’m not sure context makes this one better
except the latter is not matpat’s fault and does not reflect poorly on matpat the way people act as though it does
Matpat was chosen because he has a large following. Same reason celeberties are chosen for whatever events they attend. Because mat pat is a celebrity. YouTube is no different than tv or movies.
“matpat gave the pope undertale” sounds way different than “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community and it’s customary to give the pope a gift that’s reflective of the culture your represent and he chose undertale, a game about choices, consequences and reflect and peace/love”
Yeah, “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community” is actually even more ridiculous so I’m not sure context makes this one better
the pope cant even play it. i dont even think he knows what a video game is
Mat pat acknowledged that and pointed out it’s more symbolic. Pope Francis mad eit clear he doesn’t need fancy shit and is all for symbolism when he swapped out the golden throne with a regular chair everyone else has to use.
“matpat gave the pope undertale” sounds way different than “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community and it’s customary to give the pope a gift that’s reflective of the culture your represent and he chose undertale, a game about choices, consequences and reflect and peace/love”
He met one of the most important guys on earth and gave him a digital code of a game that he can’t even play due to him not having a computer, let alone actually having the time to do so, stop defending him. He’s gone off the fucking deep end
He was chosen to represent YouTube gaming culture at an event in which it’s customary to give the pope a gift which reflects the culture you represent.
“matpat gave the pope undertale” sounds way different than “matpat met the pope while representing the YouTube gaming community and it’s customary to give the pope a gift that’s reflective of the culture your represent and he chose undertale, a game about choices, consequences and reflect and peace/love”
May I ask why a Let’s Play guy met the Pope? Why this MatPat person specifically? You seem like someone who’s going to answer my questions without swearing.
He was chosen to represent YouTube and YouTube gaming at an event. During the event its customary to bring the pope a gift reflecting the culture you represent
