Game Theory: Are You a Kid or Squid? - Splatoon SOLVED!

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    Are you a Kid or are you a Squid? The question has plagued the gaming community since... well okay not that long ago, but it was SPLATOON’s main marketing slogan! And in truth, Inklings are fascinating: bipedal childlike creatures one moment, blooper-like ink swimming cephalopods the next. But is it possible to ever truly know if Inklings are more Squid-like or more Kid-like? YES. Yes it is. And today I will prove to you that Inklings are ABSOLUTELY more one than the other!
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  • @abalyes
    @abalyes 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7870

    "Sorry for the tentacle difficulties."
    You've got to be squidding me.

    • @onyxxartist
      @onyxxartist 7 ปีที่แล้ว +300

      Thomas Jackson I SEA what you did there.

    • @abalyes
      @abalyes 7 ปีที่แล้ว +218

      anime art Booth WATER great pun you just made.

    • @joshnegs
      @joshnegs 7 ปีที่แล้ว +238

      I'm not SHORE about that pun

    • @abalyes
      @abalyes 7 ปีที่แล้ว +183

      Galactic Pancake THE ALMIGHTY PANCAKE at least I'm having a WHALE of a time

    • @pog5761
      @pog5761 7 ปีที่แล้ว +161

      I'd make a fish pun, but i need more time to MULLET over.

  • @marp_625
    @marp_625 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1217

    Fun Fact: Some octopus have been able to successfully escape from aquariums on multiple occasions. They are very incredible In stealth as Mat says.

    • @ashbowden3231
      @ashbowden3231 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      tell me more

    • @trabubble871
      @trabubble871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Finding Dory: *Heavy Breathing Intensifies*

    • @jocelynhealy6998
      @jocelynhealy6998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Funner fact: we have yet to create a containment that an octopus couldn’t get out of should they desire.

    • @Quakza
      @Quakza 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Isn’t it octopi?

    • @Quakza
      @Quakza 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Octopodes. My bad

  • @boogtoons4630
    @boogtoons4630 2 ปีที่แล้ว +356

    Man, the fact that this is MatPat's only Splatoon theory feels like a bit of a cop-out. The lore in this series is WILD.

    • @EchannelYT
      @EchannelYT ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes

    • @iAmMadeOfSoup
      @iAmMadeOfSoup ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lmao I just started splatoon and I didn’t it had any lore. It seems like such a simple game

    • @miles820
      @miles820 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@iAmMadeOfSoupgood luck there’s a lot of lore I have been looking for the lore for awhile and I still don’t know a lot

    • @veepocolypse
      @veepocolypse 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      this series has too much good lore

    • @CapybaraGaming2023
      @CapybaraGaming2023 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah the story modes are just jam packed with lore
      Hope Tom makes one

  • @researcherchameleon4602
    @researcherchameleon4602 4 ปีที่แล้ว +768

    That... and in the in game “sunken scrolls” explicitly says that the inklings evolved from modern day squids after humans went extinct from rising sea levels

    • @lavinissensonthecommenter4197
      @lavinissensonthecommenter4197 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I know

    • @elscruffo2264
      @elscruffo2264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      but thats not as fun

    • @captainwhitepikmin6564
      @captainwhitepikmin6564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I don't care if it's not fun the game always said it

    • @elscruffo2264
      @elscruffo2264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@captainwhitepikmin6564 well people don't really watch game theory for real answers, they watch them for entertainment and to learn some cool science

    • @toast_2375
      @toast_2375 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@elscruffo2264 In my opinion, the canon lore is way more fun and easy to understand!
      Sunken scrolls state inklings have a full skeletal structure made of flexible cartilage and very good adapted eye sight after hundreds (because of RNA) of years of evolution.
      Octolings are the same, but reproductive systems are different, where as inkings have sexual intercourse, while octolings cut of tentacles from their head and grow it.
      The reason they evolved into bipeds that can switch between forms was because a nuclear bomb was launched at a base in Antarctic during WWV (World War 5), melting all of the ice there, causing tsunamis and flooding. The acidity of sea water was now that of tomato juice, so cephalopods decided to NOT die and evolved to live on land, giving them a natural weakness to water.

  • @dumpdump1321
    @dumpdump1321 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3144

    Fun fact, Matpat said "Kid" 20 times and said "Squid" 26 times during this video

    • @4473021
      @4473021 7 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      DUMP DUMP More squid than kid. Matpat squid confirmed.

    • @J-Coops_
      @J-Coops_ 7 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      You know you have no life when you replay the video to make sure this is true.

    • @bito2041
      @bito2041 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      That's a neat fact, (but how is it fun?)

    • @autis4724
      @autis4724 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      And who da fak counted?

    • @FeatheredThreat
      @FeatheredThreat 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      DUMP DUMP obviously

  • @gabrielcresporabell3720
    @gabrielcresporabell3720 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1002

    "Are you a kid or a squid?"
    Me: *The inklings need to be 14 to be in full control of their abilities so they're technically teenagers.*

    • @bunnyben87
      @bunnyben87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      thats from a coloring book.

    • @ottoneuman2590
      @ottoneuman2590 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      They are younger than I know that because it is in one of the sunken scrolls in splatoon 2

    • @lionturbulence
      @lionturbulence 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@ottoneuman2590 You talking about Pearl? She's 21 so she could've just been much shorter when she was younger.

    • @triptaylor855
      @triptaylor855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ottoneuman2590 it appeared around that age in splatoon 1 in story mode's sunken scrolls. I completed almost all the game, so I know. I haven't played splatoon 2 because I don't have a switch yet, though.

    • @I_Stole_Your_Toast
      @I_Stole_Your_Toast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@triptaylor855 oof

  • @ZeRandomizor
    @ZeRandomizor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +363

    Squids: *start taking over civilization*
    humans: *kill a bunch of squids*
    the kraken that's been hiding at the bottom of the ocean: its showtime

    • @Wah260
      @Wah260 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Help help help help

    • @nekoneko_pan
      @nekoneko_pan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But why do they die in water?

    • @firespiritcookie9617
      @firespiritcookie9617 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@nekoneko_pan I’m not sure, I honestly think that Inklings began shifting to swimming in there ink much more then swimming in the see since salmonoid attack, to the point where they shrivel and die in the water before salmonoids can get to them because how sensitive they grew. Or the water in turf wars and salmon run are more harsh then waters like New Albacore and Mahi Mahi Resort. ((That was all head canons lol))

    • @TheStarGardens
      @TheStarGardens 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *Oh welp*

    • @inky_mesa
      @inky_mesa 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well actualy humans are allredy eradicated becous of ww5 and global warming in splatoon

  • @GallyGears
    @GallyGears 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3368

    Came here for a harmless theory
    Instead got confirmation that squids will one day rule the world and enslave all mankind
    Well alrighty then

    • @SegaMaster172
      @SegaMaster172 7 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      Um, in Splatoon's lore, humans went extinct long before Inklings even laid a tentacle onto land due to raising sea levels.

    • @matthewwalker3131
      @matthewwalker3131 7 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      SegaMaster172 it's much more likely that a human fucked a fish at one point

    • @gbdornls
      @gbdornls 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      SegaMaster172 he is talking about the real world dummy

    • @earthwarren6143
      @earthwarren6143 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      What did tentacle porn not give you clues to our future?

    • @robertomullerr5965
      @robertomullerr5965 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dander ito I

  • @edog9404
    @edog9404 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2080

    Here's a challenge Matpat, can you explain the paranormal activities that happen in the mushroom kingdom (aka: boos and ghosts). What dies to become boos? Why does Mario always enter every mansion he runs into? And most importantly, where do these mansions come from?

  • @LeiaGlacia
    @LeiaGlacia 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5225

    Are you a squid or a kid?
    "No, you're adopted"

    • @ryanluther5785
      @ryanluther5785 7 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-

    • @hwelse
      @hwelse 7 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I actually chuckled at this. Good one, fam.

    • @igaveuponthischannel1058
      @igaveuponthischannel1058 7 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      TheMasterGlaceon nice one you earned my like

    • @marblebin9040
      @marblebin9040 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      TheMasterGlaceon
      Is it ironic that I actually am? :P

    • @SadCreeperGamer
      @SadCreeperGamer 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      TheMasterGlaceon XD

  • @analeal9693
    @analeal9693 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    PLEASE do more splatoon theories the game has so much lore to be uncovered

  • @synthesize1986
    @synthesize1986 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2288

    “Are you a squid or a kid?”
    Me: *SQKID*

    • @deeshiel292
      @deeshiel292 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Good one

    • @CYB3Redux
      @CYB3Redux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      me im a AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    • @CYB3Redux
      @CYB3Redux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      uhfhfufuufhe he hcudhdhgr

    • @broadcastingroom786
      @broadcastingroom786 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Don't avoid my kid and squid form

    • @bruhhelp7396
      @bruhhelp7396 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@CYB3Redux r/iamveryrandom

  • @eris_078
    @eris_078 4 ปีที่แล้ว +386

    I know this is an old video, but it is actually explained in the game that the society the the inklings live in, is after all humans had been wiped out. That automatically makes it so they are more squid than kid. Just proving your theory correct.

    • @teoborges3949
      @teoborges3949 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      but there's one thing, *PRIMATES!*
      Primates have a relative high inteligence, and the squids to turn into humans would like *NEED BILLIONS OF YEARS* and to humans die soo easy like that doens't make sense, is more likely the coastal country's & islands would be wiped out but the Humans would still relatively still alive.

    • @nichsulol4844
      @nichsulol4844 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ablities sucking tons of sun fuel

    • @Elmopayingforhissins
      @Elmopayingforhissins 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah and it sound like he believes in evolution at this point ( like in this video) and later it sounds like he gave up on that theory

    • @XAEzl
      @XAEzl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well they evolved like humans

    • @teoborges3949
      @teoborges3949 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oyoo3323 yeah, but why the squids would evolve into humans if they are already confortable on the water?

  • @yoshiplays14
    @yoshiplays14 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2073

    Well if squids ever take over mankind, let’s just blame Nintendo.

    • @redmations20
      @redmations20 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      No they are warning us

    • @Daeneiracorn
      @Daeneiracorn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@redmations20 they gave them the ideaaaaaaaa its nintedo's fault

    • @redmations20
      @redmations20 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@Daeneiracorn no cause they are waring us that this is gonna happen

    • @black97_0
      @black97_0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Yes, and if teleportation ever gets invented, and we see giant bread monsters, we can blame Valve XD

    • @alyssandrarosina2022
      @alyssandrarosina2022 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      *_I’M SUING_*

  • @oomnimercy
    @oomnimercy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    "Hello, internet, welcome to Gay..."
    MatPat, 2017

  • @benzofir
    @benzofir 5 ปีที่แล้ว +808

    Better question:
    Why arent their shirts ever painted

    • @youtubechicken120
      @youtubechicken120 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Magic movie/game liquid is magic

    • @bruhmoment6625
      @bruhmoment6625 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      W A X

    • @peachtea7269
      @peachtea7269 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Oh crap now I'm questioning that

    • @LanieMae
      @LanieMae 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Well in splatoon the ink disappears when microbes eat it so the microbes might be attracted to cotton and if it’s got ink on it they will eat it fast

    • @russianbee4973
      @russianbee4973 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@LanieMae but what about other materials

  • @DillyzThe1
    @DillyzThe1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +845

    Internet: So, are you a squid or a kid?
    Me: *Yes*

    • @blankstablookghost9455
      @blankstablookghost9455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Now I see why this is a meme

    • @tacotheotaku7074
      @tacotheotaku7074 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m both. Because I have 3 hearts. * well because people say I’m nice and I feel heart pain in 3 places unless that’s how it works..... I’m a idiot... * And because I’m a kid :/ also my elemental is water and I pertend I!m water queen because I bored. And like I said... I’ma kid :3

    • @iamthemeguyhere
      @iamthemeguyhere 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Some people: *BOTH*

    • @tacotheotaku7074
      @tacotheotaku7074 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Confusion BOMB Studios lol me

    • @iamthemeguyhere
      @iamthemeguyhere 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      *I HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS*

  • @datguy4208
    @datguy4208 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1379

    Mat you could've solved this by looking at one scroll which shows the evolution of the squid into a squid kid.

    • @gregoryliew161
      @gregoryliew161 7 ปีที่แล้ว +155

      Pupitect But where's the fun in that

    • @zephyrorsomethinh1528
      @zephyrorsomethinh1528 7 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Gregory Liew its called reason and fact

    • @zoemilian4954
      @zoemilian4954 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yeah and your born as a squid

    • @skyman2716
      @skyman2716 7 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      This just meant that he confirms the origins of the inkling but in a much more detailed manner

    • @datguy4208
      @datguy4208 7 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      I know he wanted to prove it with science but the thing is he didn't even mention the scroll making it look like 1. Nobody else has found it and 2. Like he figured out all these hidden Easter eggs even though there's a scroll.

  • @sirbromine4516
    @sirbromine4516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    after the announcement of splatoon 3, there have been many map changes, one of the ones I found was on the map with the ship, it says:
    "see you in splatlands, 2022"
    you can find this on one of the many flags on the ship.
    maybe we can figure out the story behind why the world is so scorched and broken in the trailer before the game is released.

    • @quep1
      @quep1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lore-wise, it has been explained. Humans nuke antarctic or south pole, they melt, multiple tsunamis occur, and humans die

  • @notpearl3590
    @notpearl3590 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1425

    You will always be a squid...
    Unless you beat the Octo expansion.

    • @maxbrooks8438
      @maxbrooks8438 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I certainly have

    • @iamRageTheWolf
      @iamRageTheWolf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      veemo

    • @CyanAmity
      @CyanAmity 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Holoskian r/woooosh

    • @CyanAmity
      @CyanAmity 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Holoskian if I’m a degenerate, then you are “he who must not be named.” I’m making a joke incase you SOMEHOW weren’t aware. r/woooosh

    • @strawberrydog3270
      @strawberrydog3270 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      99 likes, do I like?

  • @mysticmaniac1663
    @mysticmaniac1663 5 ปีที่แล้ว +962

    Fans: are the inklings squids, or kids?!
    Nintendo: yes.

  • @angelestyler60
    @angelestyler60 6 ปีที่แล้ว +350

    Matpat: Tentical Difficulties
    Me: Im losing brain cells

    • @kstormgeistgem461
      @kstormgeistgem461 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      hey be thankful... there are too many other franshises he Could have covered that hopefully won't be like Dracula & pop out of their graves to get us.

    • @fassiely
      @fassiely 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      kstormgeistgem He’s joking

    • @gwizmane9572
      @gwizmane9572 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Truw

    • @lucabalsa5368
      @lucabalsa5368 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hey ocean fact! Coral dies if it’s stressed. Why would it be stressed you ask?
      *CURRENT* EVENTS

    • @ravioliravioli118
      @ravioliravioli118 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lucabalsa5368 OH MY GOD YES.

  • @evs06
    @evs06 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    When I clicked o this video, I was not expecting to hear about how squids are going to take over the world...

  • @Nighto
    @Nighto 5 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    This came on while I was in the shower and you have no idea how terrifying it was for me to hear "WELCOME TO GAY-" Then a few random noises.

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      n o u

    • @Nighto
      @Nighto 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      come on we gotta get this to 69 likes

    • @CYB3Redux
      @CYB3Redux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      oh no

    • @so3269
      @so3269 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      NRG Night-o you have 123 likes so ima pass on liking the comment

    • @CrimsonKaia
      @CrimsonKaia 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am very sorry for you, my friend...

  • @alanvance2147
    @alanvance2147 4 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    side note: Inklings actually can't live in water, they just flail a bit and melt

    • @trycalculatingthis6526
      @trycalculatingthis6526 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wait what?

    • @katsushi2329
      @katsushi2329 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@trycalculatingthis6526 Yeah if you jump in the water they flat out die. So they obviously had to genetically modify themselves to live on land. The ink is probably what keeps them together and the water breaks them apart

    • @arafe.1012
      @arafe.1012 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lets just edit some rna, yep they're taking us all slaves

    • @e_kedi
      @e_kedi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i think they just drown

    • @themacaroniartist
      @themacaroniartist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Inklings can survive in water, it just has to be really cold or they will explode

  • @Sillelilguy
    @Sillelilguy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1395

    0:00 Welcome to gay!
    TH-cam: OBSERVE

  • @Shiba129
    @Shiba129 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    5:01 For those of you who care, Octo expansion came out a year after this video.

  • @dinoxman8584
    @dinoxman8584 5 ปีที่แล้ว +875

    Squids: Evolved
    Humans: Extinct
    Hotel: Trivago

    • @CYB3Redux
      @CYB3Redux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      w-wa ok

    • @bruhmoment6625
      @bruhmoment6625 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No.

    • @kesselsauer4441
      @kesselsauer4441 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Squids: Evolved
      Humans: Extinct
      Octo Expansion: Beaten

    • @bruhmoment6625
      @bruhmoment6625 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stop. That meme should’ve died in 2017

    • @-henwen-180
      @-henwen-180 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i felt that

  • @blazingfire7517
    @blazingfire7517 7 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    MatPat:"all these games dealing with apocalyptic societies"
    Me:"according to that one sunken scroll, Splatoon is apocalyptic. I know you are aware of that information, I'm just waiting for your scripted reaction once you mention it. Do not disappoint me!"

    • @blazingfire7517
      @blazingfire7517 7 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      your scripted reaction was satisfactory 👍

    • @cullenlatham2366
      @cullenlatham2366 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      MatPat: "let's get away from post-apociliptic, dark games---"
      Me: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You know better right? (breaks the idea of "unscripted" if that is what you were going for)"

  • @rhjubarb
    @rhjubarb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    Is this a Squid or a Kid?
    "No, this is *Patrick* "

    • @georgepownceby9053
      @georgepownceby9053 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Frick i was just about to comment this

    • @buggs8111
      @buggs8111 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Comment of the year

    • @ermmie
      @ermmie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You literally made me crack up!! (>0

  • @toby.theram2496
    @toby.theram2496 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I’m praying and begging that MatPat makes another Splatoon 3 theory now that we’ve got two new games and a story mode that practically tells us the answer to this video

  • @Dat-Doomba
    @Dat-Doomba 4 ปีที่แล้ว +443

    Me: Watching a vid about games
    My mom listening: Hmm, he is watching science vids.

    • @christyclark6129
      @christyclark6129 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      *This is science*

    • @jakobyarns4369
      @jakobyarns4369 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      VIDEO GAME SCIENCE

    • @AinsleySunny
      @AinsleySunny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      teachnically , you do

    • @EyeWasBored
      @EyeWasBored 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      this is a science channel

    • @harshidvengatesan3417
      @harshidvengatesan3417 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      when your mom doesn't get that it is a science video and blames you for wasting time watching game videos

  • @alinosalan8728
    @alinosalan8728 6 ปีที่แล้ว +295

    -Are you a kid or a squid?
    -I'm an Octopus

  • @raphy3002
    @raphy3002 5 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    Nintendo: *releases zany, new character*
    Nintendo: it’s a weird character, let’s leave it at that
    Game theory: I don’t think I will

  • @TheAnalyst869
    @TheAnalyst869 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “Popping out of primordial Ooze”
    … So… Who’s going to tell him about ROTM…

  • @thegreatautismo224
    @thegreatautismo224 7 ปีที่แล้ว +181

    I mean, it literally says it in the game that they evolved from squids, but some extra scientific evidence is nice.

    • @Jensaw101
      @Jensaw101 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The only problem is that if you look into any of his sources (even the octopodes video), they all claim things in contrast to his arguments.
      For example, the paper he shows on screen claims that these RNA editing structures may make evolution take longer.
      www.merriam-webster.com/video/octopus
      www.quora.com/Since-eyes-evolved-to-see-underwater-they-are-not-ideally-adapted-to-see-in-air-What-would-our-eyesight-be-like-if-it-had-evolved-in-air
      www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30344-6

    • @lordmew5
      @lordmew5 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jensaw101 well the English thing is that it SHOULD br octopodes however people just pick and choose when they want to follow the rules we have been using or not

    • @Jensaw101
      @Jensaw101 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      +lordmew5 That may be the case -- if we want to decide that rules arbitrarily chosen by the Greeks are better than rules arbitrarily chosen by the English -- but it doesn't change the fact that he edited that clip in a manipulative way to change what the expert was saying.

    • @lordmew5
      @lordmew5 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jensaw101 i am not saying the greek version is in anyway better but it didn't maje any sense to take a wordans not take its plural form with it

    • @Jensaw101
      @Jensaw101 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fair enough. Although that people needed to actively seek out the correct conjugation after the fact (at least, as claimed by the editor in the video he linked), leads me to question if using an English conjugation wouldn't have been sufficient.

  • @guardianofpotatos4730
    @guardianofpotatos4730 7 ปีที่แล้ว +751

    So, basically, if life was a game, squids would be hackers.

    • @joshlopez8270
      @joshlopez8270 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Lijthesurvivor pretty much

    • @omarocampo3373
      @omarocampo3373 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lijthesurvivor Humans would be the hackers

    • @speedylion482
      @speedylion482 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      No, I'd consider humans to be the hackers because of genetic engineering.

    • @mr.amazio1023
      @mr.amazio1023 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup. I wonder if they're using PK Hex or something...

    • @donflamingo8375
      @donflamingo8375 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Speedylion and we could do this to it'd just take a little while.

  • @lemonythinkersbxhsjjcjd1561
    @lemonythinkersbxhsjjcjd1561 6 ปีที่แล้ว +330

    Matpat: hello internet welcome to ga-
    Me: HELLO INTERNET WELCOME TO GAY!

    • @crystqqlline4475
      @crystqqlline4475 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      huhehuhE XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

    • @MC-ns8gb
      @MC-ns8gb 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NotSoHappi found the gay

    • @Bimgamer2
      @Bimgamer2 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      SAmE

    • @openup.5975
      @openup.5975 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am happy

    • @apagorilla3160
      @apagorilla3160 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is it something wrong to be gay?

  • @bystandrr
    @bystandrr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Matpat : Economic crash and apocolypse that cause humanity to collapse!
    2020 : write that down *WRITE THAT DOWN*

  • @noemilara4073
    @noemilara4073 5 ปีที่แล้ว +286

    It literally says in the sunken scrolls ingame that they are squids who evolved to live on land and adopted freshness

    • @boopergoober
      @boopergoober 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Noemi Lara Yeah... but that would make for a boring theory, so, SCIENCE!!!

    • @imtooclueless7202
      @imtooclueless7202 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This vid is now useless

    • @tylerourada9719
      @tylerourada9719 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      and the Wiki.

    • @kayleedraws948
      @kayleedraws948 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      EXACLY !!!! Thank god that im not the only one to notice that

    • @kyraking2073
      @kyraking2073 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well class, if you open your textbooks to page 1, you'll see the entirety of human evolution. Have a nice day!

  • @CrimsonGrowlithe
    @CrimsonGrowlithe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +209

    The actual lore is explained in the "The Art of Splatoon: The book with splattitude" shows that on page 313 it says the world ended due to somebody launching a nuclear missile at the South Pole, as seen here "During the last war, someone from somewhere launched a nuclear warhead into the South Pole." The reasoning behind that is because there were 3 more world wars and on the fifth one is when humanity went extinct as shown earlier on the same page. Quote "Mankind's violent nature resulted in many civil wars and five great world wars."
    You're welcome MatPat.

    • @Tavdogg11
      @Tavdogg11 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      TheMarkipShow Also its proven in game that squids had evolved into inklings

    • @lemonkerr3698
      @lemonkerr3698 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      lore can change between games as an accident/mistake or to keep us wondering. maybe everything from the first and second game that we know is a lie?

    • @tortillachip497
      @tortillachip497 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      TheMarkipShow give me a link to it

    • @jaylynnstrong620
      @jaylynnstrong620 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fresh_Knight couldn't splatoon be just a fantasy world?

    • @nunoosorio3832
      @nunoosorio3832 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      TriOfDerp ‘ Really?!

  • @lightswitchy
    @lightswitchy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +450

    "Hello internet, welcome to gay-"
    *Tentacles appear.*
    I think we all know where that's going...

    • @costlyhornet9994
      @costlyhornet9994 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nice

    • @vbgvbg1133
      @vbgvbg1133 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      A Lightswitch DEAR GOD... TENTACLE HENTAI...

    • @john.2339
      @john.2339 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A Lightswitch FOREHEAD.

    • @lightswitchy
      @lightswitchy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      NO. STOP. NOW.

    • @costlyhornet9994
      @costlyhornet9994 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was saying it's a nice joke... Not that i like that type of staff ( not meant to be offensive )

  • @_lux__
    @_lux__ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This video is the whole reason that got me into genetic engineering and genes. Thank you so very much Game Theory for unlocking the entire factor of genes to me.

  • @dinadina2000
    @dinadina2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +906

    "Welcome to gay"
    "I'm sorry we are are experiencing tentacle difficulties"
    Why am I thinking of a gametheory gay hentai now?

    • @MarioFlynnCr33
      @MarioFlynnCr33 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      I wasnt the only one yay

    • @marshuno7530
      @marshuno7530 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I thought the same thing too lmao 😂

    • @CYB3Redux
      @CYB3Redux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      wtf is wrong with you 3

    • @jupitersgodzilla7114
      @jupitersgodzilla7114 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      +TheMemeDoge21 Gay people: hey it’s fine, we like hentai too... don’t ask!

    • @CYB3Redux
      @CYB3Redux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jupitersgodzilla7114 no it just y

  • @aguyonyoutube4sure
    @aguyonyoutube4sure 5 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    “Sorry for the tentacle difficulty’s”
    I sea what you did there

    • @CYB3Redux
      @CYB3Redux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      42069

    • @winterblox1
      @winterblox1 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      TheMemeDoge21 are you referencing a metal gear solid meme by chance?

    • @CYB3Redux
      @CYB3Redux 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@winterblox1 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @joycevillareal-nodado590
      @joycevillareal-nodado590 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sign

    • @thegamespider2762
      @thegamespider2762 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *sigh* what am i doing with my life?

  • @briar1408
    @briar1408 5 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    But what about Octolings?
    YOURE AN OCTOPUS YOURE A KID YOURE AN OCTOPUS YOURE A KID YOURE AN OCTOPU- I’ll stop

    • @nati1765
      @nati1765 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      you're a veemo you're a kid

    • @dataexpunged3914
      @dataexpunged3914 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yay, octopodes for the win

    • @CYB3Redux
      @CYB3Redux 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      yYYYYYYYYTTUY UT T HI FUIR YT?F79T9TUURURHFUYDYRUYDYRUDU YERY6FUFU RY FU FUUFFUUEHRUGJFUU EH RHUCHH BERB HE UCUEHUFUU EHHD HDGDG U SHBDEHUWUSIFOOFUEGDUFI

    • @itsmelauren3273
      @itsmelauren3273 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your a VEEMO your a WEIRDO

    • @princessncn4674
      @princessncn4674 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      part of the squid famliy so the thorey works for them to just octos have 8 hand like things insted of 6 hand like things

  • @seapop311
    @seapop311 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “When splatoon 2 comes out in a couple of months”
    Us now, with splatoon 3 coming out in one week

  • @softsylvie5770
    @softsylvie5770 5 ปีที่แล้ว +501

    The_Internet: Are you a Kid or a Squid?
    Me: I'm Sophia.

  • @Iplasterer
    @Iplasterer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    This is probably really late but in Stage 14 of the single-player campaign in Splatoon 2 Marie says to Agent 4: “Surprised you haven’t broken any bones! Well squids don’t have bones so...”

    • @bracketspacebracket
      @bracketspacebracket 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      GalaxyTear Obviously Marie has education. Callie puts on shades she knows will hypnotize her. #MarieBestGirl

  • @grantcantgame
    @grantcantgame 4 ปีที่แล้ว +336

    (anyone gonna tell him that they are already confirmed in game to be squids fully)

    • @11regretful31
      @11regretful31 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      By him

    • @alternissima
      @alternissima 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      the vid was uploaded 3 years ago tho

    • @squibbymun4463
      @squibbymun4463 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@alternissima And this is five months old but imam reply anyways.
      See literally anyone who has seen literally anything in the lore knows that they are just... evolved squids. It aint even in Splatoon 2 it's in Splatoon 1

    • @Oddle_
      @Oddle_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, I did

    • @flamexp9867
      @flamexp9867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I guess he just proved how they are squids then.

  • @daninja4357
    @daninja4357 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    After beating Splatoon 3, which is YEARS later than this video was posted, MatPat is correct, squids evolved into squid kids from human desire and genetic experiments

  • @villainapologist7858
    @villainapologist7858 7 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    "the squid is undercooked, its a kid now."

  • @cristallinecircus1566
    @cristallinecircus1566 7 ปีที่แล้ว +183

    Whenever I watch game Theory I always end up saying "and cut" at the end mistaking I'm not watching Film Theory

    • @IAN_GRAY
      @IAN_GRAY 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      it's Wednesday my dudes

    • @felicejohnson9158
      @felicejohnson9158 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Need more views y ne cell games pls

    • @jjw_1808
      @jjw_1808 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Whenever i watch film theory i always say Thanks for Watching.

    • @jeffmcjeff4897
      @jeffmcjeff4897 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      cristalline circus T.T. - Too True

    • @Extraterrestrial1
      @Extraterrestrial1 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      honestly cristalline circus, I do that too sometimes OwO

  • @temmie0betterthan124
    @temmie0betterthan124 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Matpat: "reference to FNAF"
    Me: More FNAF coming within the next 2 years so good luck Mat pat

  • @quackadoodles9249
    @quackadoodles9249 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This theory also makes sense as kids would have no reason to become like squids, which aren’t as good as kids, but squids would need to become like people in order to really survive, and therefore makes this theory even more realistic

  • @andrewg5188
    @andrewg5188 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Matpat: "Do you even dictionary, bro?"
    Me: Actually, "octopodes" is not technically an official English word. It originated from people who thought the word was Greek derived, and no one uses it anymore. The official word to describe the plural of octopus is just "octopuses". Also, "octopi" is basically the same thing as "octopodes"; it's not technically correct.

  • @sylvia7961
    @sylvia7961 5 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    i love how you completely mixed up squids and octopuses throughout the episode.
    p.s. I used octopuses because while the greek plural IS octopodes, the english one is octopuses

    • @aprilhatcher
      @aprilhatcher 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I always hear the plural term for octopus is octopie and I live in the USA

    • @uxieorsomething
      @uxieorsomething 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      octopi

    • @erikasanchez2448
      @erikasanchez2448 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol did u Google it to

    • @whyyouhere4039
      @whyyouhere4039 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jactertieme its actole αχταποδια in greek(i know that you cant tipe in greece/greek and i sey that cuz well idk) but you ar right actole

  • @TastyPieyay
    @TastyPieyay 7 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    As a biochemist when Mat Pat said 'when our DNA gets copied there is a lot of junk in it' I shed a single tear. My man has no respect for intron functionality and the benefits of having more regulation by alternative splicing :(

    • @The_Remage
      @The_Remage 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Finally someone who understands this aswell!

    • @rachelholden792
      @rachelholden792 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      MLG Jesus wait introns are actually used for something?

    • @drakey2000
      @drakey2000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      MLG Jesus we arnt all biochemist my friends. He kept it simple to thr core

    • @kidz9499
      @kidz9499 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      As an American highschool student I can very firmly state that I can't conceive a single reason he'd mention all that. Sorry bro.

    • @averagejoessb3110
      @averagejoessb3110 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Cynist yeah exactly he basically uses science for dummies

  • @Spiral_Squid
    @Spiral_Squid ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Splatoon 3 confirmed that the inklings and octolings had rapidly accelerated human-themed evolution because of crystals, (look up the alterna logs for elaboration). Inkling is a species of squid that can transform into a humanoid squid. They moved on to land after all of the humans died in a flood caused by themselves.

  • @clevername6872
    @clevername6872 6 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    I know this is before Splatoon 2 but in the single player campaign if you listen to Marie in the car wash level she is quoted saying “Well, we don’t have any bones,” YOUR WELCOME FOR ACTUALLY LISTENING TO MARIE

    • @downandforget5228
      @downandforget5228 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sky The Dragon In Splatoon 2, she say "don't break any bones...oh wait we don't have them" in one of the missions.

    • @StarStreamVee
      @StarStreamVee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      TinyCelebiGamer LVL 14 Of Beakers Depot of Splatoon 2 in the sniper lvl going up that parking lot, about to get to the very top Marie says "Surprised you haven't broken any bones! Well, we don't have any bones so forget it"

    • @aureliesaulnier3766
      @aureliesaulnier3766 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sky The Dragon Umm, I saw it too and MatPat also found other evidence that they have no bones so could you shut the hell up?? You are REALLY annoying. Plus, who doesn't listen to Marie? She has a lot to say, dammit.

    • @StuffAboutSandwiches
      @StuffAboutSandwiches 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The first game literally says that the Inklings don't have bones. Sunken Scroll #5.
      It also says that Inklings evolved from Squids that adapted to living on land. Sunken Scroll #10.
      Wait... what was the point of this video again?

    • @StarStreamVee
      @StarStreamVee 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      StuffAboutSandwiches to see if inklings are kid or squids

  • @isaacmorris5459
    @isaacmorris5459 7 ปีที่แล้ว +248

    When I die, I'm going to have my splatoon teammates lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time.

    • @kennyssj4
      @kennyssj4 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      SUPER spooks haha I've heard this joke before but nice one lmao

    • @edd0therebelgaming856
      @edd0therebelgaming856 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      SUPER spooks thats so true

    • @user-ck4fz1mw3z
      @user-ck4fz1mw3z 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      SUPER spooks YAY,another noob blaming their team on a shooter game.

    • @CDCobermai
      @CDCobermai 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      MLG Frisk AYY LMAO

    • @joandreintong5255
      @joandreintong5255 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      One last time! SUPER spooks is going hooome!

  • @jennyzhao9271
    @jennyzhao9271 6 ปีที่แล้ว +512

    *IMPORTANT UPDATE*
    *PALUTENA'S GUIDENCE FOR THE INKLING CONFIRMS THIS THEORY IN SMASH ULTIMATE GOOD JOB MATPAT YOU DID IT*

    • @kavneetgill8789
      @kavneetgill8789 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Chadley Burns In Super Smash Bros Ultimate theirs and Easter egg called “Palutena’s Guidance” where pit gets help from Palutena in the fight, if you fight an inkling, it confirms it’s a squid.

    • @marchaasa.k.a.tyrannexthed2425
      @marchaasa.k.a.tyrannexthed2425 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@kavneetgill8789 Except it's from Hal Laboratory. The same people who created Kirby. Plus Smash is not considered a canon game in any timeline, except Kirby's.

    • @Monika-lu8lv
      @Monika-lu8lv 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@marchaasa.k.a.tyrannexthed2425 and yet it is still MASSIVE points to the theroy only here to put this comment up but hey

    • @marchaasa.k.a.tyrannexthed2425
      @marchaasa.k.a.tyrannexthed2425 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Monika-lu8lv I get what you're saying.

    • @Monika-lu8lv
      @Monika-lu8lv 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@marchaasa.k.a.tyrannexthed2425 that was.... fast

  • @pigzzz6229
    @pigzzz6229 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    MatPat: *Doing Awesome Puns*
    Me: *Finding out where else he could put more*

  • @SheneaCupin
    @SheneaCupin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    I’m your genetics part
    Didn’t the sunken scrolls already said that the squids evolved,

    • @zuzukram
      @zuzukram 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      oh shiz thats true

    • @bucket-toleraters27
      @bucket-toleraters27 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      OMG YES IT DID LE GASP
      So we already knew this before he made this but his videos are funny UwU

    • @carlosjovel85
      @carlosjovel85 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Can't tell if the comment above me is ironic or not but it actually gives me suicidal thoughts.

    • @ReiAnikaAyanami
      @ReiAnikaAyanami 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@carlosjovel85 considering their name, i believe it isn't ironic :^(

  • @joe-xw6yv
    @joe-xw6yv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    are you a squid or a kid?
    Me an intellectual:a ditto

    • @CYB3Redux
      @CYB3Redux 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      :3

    • @broadcastingroom786
      @broadcastingroom786 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't use my meme

    • @winterblox1
      @winterblox1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That would actually make sense, cuz ditto’s can transform into anything, so inklings are kind of like a ditto but its a squid
      (I like making things more logical than they need to be)

  • @notwh9497
    @notwh9497 7 ปีที่แล้ว +342

    First twenty seconds: some tentacledifficulties....
    Me:Of course

    • @backgroundnoise1229
      @backgroundnoise1229 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      CaptianCupcakez. Can you use space?

    • @notwh9497
      @notwh9497 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Too lazy

    • @closetgaming6659
      @closetgaming6659 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      woomy 2474 no, we can't use space, as it's largely an absence of matter. We can only occupy it. Kappa

    • @Bxngle
      @Bxngle 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      wait does that mean it was a hentai joke or is that me?

    • @No-ri4zi
      @No-ri4zi 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      ClosetGaming That is completely true. Fin

  • @Aostrele
    @Aostrele 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You don’t even need science to solve this. The Splatoon lore states that humans went extinct before squids existed. You stated that they were gone in the intro, so it’s quite obvious. But hey, at least you have actual science supporting this.

  • @callumblack1
    @callumblack1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    Well now I'm gonna be cautious about kids who act weird.

    • @jacobo7496
      @jacobo7496 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      IM MR MEASICS LOOK AT ME!!!

    • @stained-glass-idols
      @stained-glass-idols 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      GTX 1080 We're waiting. Always.

    • @rowanw8435
      @rowanw8435 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      GTX 1080 then you have to be cautious of me.

    • @someedgyperson2008
      @someedgyperson2008 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      GTX 1080 how do i kill myself Mr.Meeseeks???

    • @jollyrancher1978
      @jollyrancher1978 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mr Meseeks

  • @GameTheory
    @GameTheory  7 ปีที่แล้ว +2872

    Where my NOTIFICATION SQUIDS at?

  • @lucmorris9183
    @lucmorris9183 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1822

    "Welcome to gay"
    Me: well of course Mat Pat when is it going down

    • @watermelonwatermelon7159
      @watermelonwatermelon7159 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Rocky Turtle Gay mean happy :3

    • @CallMeVidd
      @CallMeVidd 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The cosmic comic turtle my exact thoyght

    • @felicejohnson9158
      @felicejohnson9158 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Need views yne cell plse

    • @ethanthong7733
      @ethanthong7733 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      The cosmic comic turtle 🐢

    • @itsoreo7985
      @itsoreo7985 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The cosmic comic turtle on he's darw my life his classmate said he is
      GAY

  • @zekkomite
    @zekkomite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Evolution: Takes 200 million years
    Inklings & Octolings: Best i can do is 10,000

  • @akeliorgp7833
    @akeliorgp7833 6 ปีที่แล้ว +578

    Squid and kid its a play on words
    Squ (from squid)
    id (from kid)
    Squid :O
    K (from kid)
    id (from squid)
    No need for that 14 minute video its a 1 minute ;D

  • @zazakogamer9685
    @zazakogamer9685 7 ปีที่แล้ว +265

    "We seem to be having some tentacle difficulties".
    Splatoon Theory -Mathew Patrick
    ~ELECTED PUN OF THE YEAR~

    • @branflakes8439
      @branflakes8439 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That pun is too cheesy... At least I feel GRATE when I say my puns.

    • @medmightdie6545
      @medmightdie6545 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Those are kind of punny... I never Cod tell good jokes so...

    • @wolfyakuza
      @wolfyakuza 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ZaZako Gamer man I love cheese, cheese is so GRATE

    • @Leroyaber
      @Leroyaber 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What a sucker!

    • @refraggedbean
      @refraggedbean 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ZaZako Gamer PUN OF THE YEAR AWARDS

  • @yourfuturefrickenannoyance6057
    @yourfuturefrickenannoyance6057 7 ปีที่แล้ว +795

    *Game Theory Are you a kid or a squid? -Splatoon SOLVED*
    *Clicks on video*
    Mat pat: Both.
    *Video ends*
    Me: that is the best theory I've ever heard
    I'm not even kidding I though that's what the video was gonna be XD

    • @tarikmark2326
      @tarikmark2326 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Princessa1256 Gaming yup

    • @Lima_Beans
      @Lima_Beans 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Princessa1256 Gaming lol

    • @starshadow4802
      @starshadow4802 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Princessa1256 Gaming when I watch it he didn't say they are both

    • @dayc0re_violet
      @dayc0re_violet 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Princessa1256 Gaming same at some point XD

    • @lorascott6413
      @lorascott6413 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Johnny Townsend you are right

  • @TheDemonOfSemen
    @TheDemonOfSemen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Of course you're a squid, what else would you be? An Octoling? Yeah right

  • @jooder
    @jooder 7 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    It makes me feel better that squids saw our bodies and were like "Oh ya, we want their superior gun handling hands"

    • @briansouthparkstudio1357
      @briansouthparkstudio1357 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      we fell to the reapers and then the squids did the opposite of the reapers taking on human body shapes instead of our destroyers xD

    • @rose_z9241
      @rose_z9241 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I feel honored ;)
      Was that too creepy..?

  • @melaniebisnath717
    @melaniebisnath717 5 ปีที่แล้ว +663

    “Hello internet welcome to ga-“
    Me- gay?
    LGBT community: *enters comments*

    • @hutao9373
      @hutao9373 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      *comes out of nowhere* I WAS SUMMONED?!?

    • @FUTUREST4RTER
      @FUTUREST4RTER 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      WHO SUMMONED ME

    • @hutao9373
      @hutao9373 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@FUTUREST4RTER idk but chill

    • @AcidArrestB
      @AcidArrestB 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      LGBT community when summoned: aw crap, here we go again

    • @jabatatherich
      @jabatatherich 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      i was just about to type gay theories

  • @Rosem_Blossom
    @Rosem_Blossom 6 ปีที่แล้ว +890

    *TENTACLE* DIFFICULTIES!
    I AM DYING.

  • @woomy_jpeg
    @woomy_jpeg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We need more splatoon theories!!! There is so much lore and unanswered questions!!!!! *sad veemo noises*

  • @19sanso
    @19sanso 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1826

    Can everyone forget the theory for now? Let's take a minute's silence for the editing in ALL of MatPat's videos.

    • @luxs3329
      @luxs3329 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sanso Definitely

    • @moocow3592
      @moocow3592 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sanso What I was thinking

    • @tagpplgames1191
      @tagpplgames1191 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      YASSS

    • @NyanMango
      @NyanMango 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Sanso Not to mention all the research he does. This guy is fantastic.

    • @yaboii7903
      @yaboii7903 7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      MatPat, in my opinion, is the world's best TH-camr.

  • @rekelleyca
    @rekelleyca 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    He could have skipped all of this because in one of the sunken scrolls in the first game, the scroll show that squids had evolve into Inklings.

    • @achoch
      @achoch 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Content

  • @essorath5870
    @essorath5870 7 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    An easy and simple way to figure this out is one sunken scroll has an evolution chart of the inklings. They may have turned to human lookalikes but they are still squid

    • @cyberquacks74
      @cyberquacks74 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Snapshot 2015 Yep, it specifically says: Bones: None! And high pressure, high capacity ink sacs.

    • @trime_6615
      @trime_6615 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Snapshot 2015 all of his work GONE

    • @essorath5870
      @essorath5870 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      😎

    • @etho8735
      @etho8735 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good point Snapshot 2015

    • @jonahhammel8997
      @jonahhammel8997 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Snapshot 2015 that's just a chart of them growing up from birth to age 14

  • @ToadPower147
    @ToadPower147 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    DO MORE SPLATOON THEORYS THERES SO MUCH LORE

  • @eliben4066
    @eliben4066 7 ปีที่แล้ว +312

    When we play splatoon, we roll kids into their own pile of blood and squid flesh

    • @hud5307
      @hud5307 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Smith Peter But it is also rolling kids into puddles of ammunition

    • @WonkyDrive1
      @WonkyDrive1 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I come from the land of the future with Splatoon 2 having been released for the Nintendo switch with a wuote from marina, “this really gets my ink pumping.”

  • @robintiwari7279
    @robintiwari7279 6 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    Mattpatt:Are you a squid or a kid
    Me:quid

  • @cerealocelot8278
    @cerealocelot8278 6 ปีที่แล้ว +393

    HELLO, WELCOME TO GAY
    G = Please
    A = Get on
    Y = The Tower
    Edit: This isn’t actually my meme, it was a meme I found in Inkopolis Square while playing splatoon 2. It read,
    “Yes, I am gay.
    G = Please
    A = Get on
    Y = The tower”
    Just wanted to make that clear.

    • @TrafficPartyHatTest
      @TrafficPartyHatTest 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      *GET ON THE TOWWWWWEER*

    • @jaceyypoohh
      @jaceyypoohh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lmao i saw that two did we play together??

    • @DustToDust24
      @DustToDust24 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      too*

    • @imgay463
      @imgay463 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Cerealocelot 945 I’m gay

    • @regurgam8518
      @regurgam8518 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I saw the same post XD get on the toweeeerrrrr

  • @autumnhays4534
    @autumnhays4534 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Matpat You should totally do a splatoon 1 and 2 lore video like Mr. Grizz, Octo Expantion, stuff like that.

  • @ryanwilliams76
    @ryanwilliams76 7 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    Honestly I thought he was gonna touch on the fact that Splatoon takes place in an alternate reality of Super Mario Sunshine where Mario fails in his quest and dies.

    • @deffdefying4803
      @deffdefying4803 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Ryan Williams
      Wait what is that true

    • @seacliff217
      @seacliff217 7 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      No, it's not. Some of the developers for Splatoon claimed they even forgot about Mario Sunshine.

    • @WednesdayMan
      @WednesdayMan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      nope splatoon is not related to mario sunshine.
      speaking of mario and splatoon. where's Mario in splatoon!? come on let us have a mario inkling.

    • @meowrio_5969
      @meowrio_5969 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      HeT

    • @joseph2177
      @joseph2177 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      TheKHfan358over3d sadly i tried to use the 8bit mario amibo, no such luck

  • @ryans9647
    @ryans9647 7 ปีที่แล้ว +765

    "Hello internet, welcome to gay-"
    - Mathew Patrick, 2017

    • @beelzedae2015
      @beelzedae2015 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yep, I've been looking for one of these comments XDDD

    • @funnysillyclown
      @funnysillyclown 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I wasn't the only one-

    • @ACretens
      @ACretens 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I was gonna comment this XD

    • @DARKSIDER-uq4mt
      @DARKSIDER-uq4mt 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      daaaaaaamn dat dirty mind though

    • @emeraldtv6959
      @emeraldtv6959 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ryan Playz Gamez me

  • @FloranteSantos1
    @FloranteSantos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Guys in one of the sunken scrolls It shows the squids evolving to inklings so you are 100% squid

    • @STARSINTHEWlND
      @STARSINTHEWlND 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Shush let me want to be reincarnated as a squid

    • @mariamurry9154
      @mariamurry9154 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      No your ink I have proof on my text in the chat look for it and you'll see the proof

    • @cyan4603
      @cyan4603 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      No I’m not a squid I’m a octoling boy that’s not evil

  • @GothTheSadisticMasochist
    @GothTheSadisticMasochist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When he explained squids literally changing their genes, it makes me question why humanity even tries to make life easier anymore...

  • @idafitri1457
    @idafitri1457 7 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    Matpat: We are having tentacle difficulties
    Me: Oh no, HENTAI

  • @lawless_aether
    @lawless_aether 6 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Or, if you want simple proof that they are squids who turn into kids: The manga says that they are squids who turn into kids.

    • @eiramkathy
      @eiramkathy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dun. That solves that......

    • @dapperpotatoes8473
      @dapperpotatoes8473 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      -Etherious Oblivion- in the mission notes it even says humans died off and squids evolved into inklings

    • @ashebahines5348
      @ashebahines5348 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      -Etherious Oblivion- so what hes saying,if inject squid ink in me,i cqn become an inlking?

    • @19bottlesofdishsoap92
      @19bottlesofdishsoap92 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow just wow

  • @ses5736
    @ses5736 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    "Hello internet welcome to Gay!"
    *Curb your enthusiasm theme plays*

  • @riu8504
    @riu8504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    MatPat is the type of person who sees a slogan for a game and ask "Is anyone gonna make a theory about that?" and not wait for an answer.

  • @coffinworm
    @coffinworm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    i'd LOVE to see more splatoon theories from you, matpat! especially since theres new lore :O

  • @peskygull9279
    @peskygull9279 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    “To Kid, Or to Squid,”
    “That is the question”
    MatPat 2017

  • @connoranderson5091
    @connoranderson5091 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    2020: Alright so it's the 3rd month what disaster are we going to throw at them now? Any ideas?
    *watches this video*
    I think i've got one!

    • @ashdewaine696
      @ashdewaine696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sadly squids have not taken over the world. Yet. -2021

    • @connoranderson5091
      @connoranderson5091 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ashdewaine696 2022: Yea... about that.....

    • @Door3234
      @Door3234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@connoranderson5091 nice

  • @SplatMack
    @SplatMack ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hearing him say "Ink War" just made me so mad

    • @XOXO_4N1M4T10N
      @XOXO_4N1M4T10N ปีที่แล้ว

      Same.. It's *TURF* WAR! *TURF!*

  • @daninja4357
    @daninja4357 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1019

    After beating Splatoon 3, which is YEARS later than this video was posted, MatPat is correct, squids evolved into squid kids from human desire and genetic experiments

    • @sashaprovince3836
      @sashaprovince3836 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      legit when I first read that bit of lore my first thought was “matpat was right!”

    • @squiffurthewolf6276
      @squiffurthewolf6276 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Not for exactly the right reason tho, its not their rng editing or whatever that allowed them to evolve quickly, its the weird human mind reading crystals in the water, well, and maybe a little bit of the rna thing

    • @Shimofae
      @Shimofae 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      big nuke went boom, fishies are now not fishies

    • @jameswilliams2075
      @jameswilliams2075 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@squiffurthewolf6276 it is possible the crystals manipulated the squid rna to make them more human

    • @OrbiterVR
      @OrbiterVR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I thought there was no end and you just shoot others