Film Theory: Decoding History's DARKEST Mystery! (The Lost Symbol)
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The secret at the center of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is a captivating look into the mysteries of history. The Lost Symbol is a race against time to put together the clues and potentially save the lives of many. Today, I'm going to take that as a challenge. I think I've figured out what exactly is going on and, Theorists, nothing is as it seems!
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Plot twist: MatPat is secretly in the Illuminati and this video is what he wants us to think
Probably lol
hi shorthax how are you
Ya
wow
this guy is travelling on the edges of reality
Matpat: Brings up the Leviathan Cross
Me who just finished Castlevania: I see.
I was just about to type this. Thank you for gettin there first!!!
Harvest and redemption, but also the alchemical sign for sulphur. I have watched that show so many times that I can draw Sypha and Saint Germaine’s conclusions from memory lol!
@@asleepyb0i400 u making some sence- E
Honestly I related it to tboi and brimstone.
@@DausBugaboo Saaaame
I love that MatPat always maintains respect when talking about various beliefs, never treating any of them as invalid.
Well they are all invalid and pointless so no need to treat any of them with disrepect.
@@Slevin_KalevraMy point exactly on the attitude I don’t like. Thank you for being a demonstration. Take a bow.
It is because they are all theories so he considers them as options
@@lukescheffe9851the thing i love about respect is you can tell pretty easily who DOESN’T have any of it
@@allenrichiez930yes not him
11:03
The swastika in Latvian culture is know as the "Fire cross" (Ugunskrusts) or the "Thunder cross" (Pērkona krusts). The usage of this symbol in our territory dates back to the 3. century. It was used as a symbol of protection. You can still find it being used a lot of souvenirs and on traditional garments like skirts and crowns. The Thunder in Latvian mythology is a force of good and a motif in a lot of poetry and music dedicated to our countries indepence.
It just makes me sad that the Nazis took this symbol of multiple cultures and used it to promote the exact opposite of its meaning.
Imagine a dude walking around with that on his pocket square or smtn and he gets arrested for influencing communism XD
@@thatdoofus4529 lol. I actually have a lovely necklace with the Fire Cross, but I am kind of worried about wearing it :/
@@plushy_doctor2299 I can't even wear my cool reindeer hat because of racist ppl wearing Bison horns.
.
I love Christmas and now I can't even wear a hat without
ppl thinking I'm a racist
(I'm Hispanic but not dark enough apparently)
@@dandywaysofliving Jesus
@@dandywaysofliving are you referring to the jan 6th thing with that one guy? ("the racist")
Thank GOD you brought up St Peter's cross and the Leviathan cross, it makes me happy to see the origins of it finally brought to light.
Tf is that
Yet MatPat didn't go deep enough into more symbols. He is letting the show be more of a Theroist than him. If he did go deeper into the symbols then he might get into more than what he bargained for; for the more you go into what is being done with symbols, etc today-even the show said it, by the writers of the show that the Relevance of the Past is Relevant Today. Why!? Is there more going on than what the Media/Social Media/ internet is saying and Doing?
I was waiting for him to say some mean things about Satanists and had my fists ready for throwing.
Hail Satan 🤘
@@laurenwiles2400 wow
@@laurenwiles2400 you know the origin of the 'horns' symbol?
The pentagram is another symbol that has vastly different meanings depending on who you ask. To some, it's a satanic symbol used to summon demons, to others it's a protective charm meant to either draw in good energy or wards of bad energy depending on how it's drawn and to others still, it represents the balance between the 5 elements (water, fire, earth, air, and spirit) and shows how they relate to each other.
Oh boy! I could rant about this but I’ll hold myself back… to the point of what I wanna say tho - the history of the pentagram is super interesting as well as the whole stigma that rose from it as a symbol of the occult. Like…. Mmm… i have to hold my tongue or I’ll chew your ear off but it is fucking mind blowing
@@machomancake If you wish to rant then rant away. I find these things fascinating and I'm always happy to learn something new
@@lillimay98 same here so rene go ahead
@@machomancake go ahead! Learning new things is good
@@XiELEd4377 wait has my reply not posted? Lol I sent my rant like 7 hours ago according to my time-stamp
I really want MatPat to do an episode covering the TH-cam series “The Monument Mythos,” by AlexKansas. It’s such a cool Analogue horror series that is so underrated, Game Theory doing an episode or two on it would give it so much popularity. I hope it ends up on this channel!
I hope he picks this, It seems interesting:)
Is it an ARG? Or you just used the word wrong? Anyways, monument mythos is a really cool series
*Oh no*
Actually according to my calculations it’s not even scary at all it’s so freaking garbage (my mom didn’t let me curse)
@@v4mpire.sh1t if your mom does'nt let you curse you can't have an opinion
100% MatPat, this was one of the most enlightening, scary, honest, completely eye opening theories you've done so far. Thank you for being so objective, honest, good-natured, and brave. You really brighten my days, and cause me to deeply reflect. Keep doing you no matter what the close-minded haters say. Thank you. Truly.
*eye opening you say*
How is he brave
I'd agree, except that part where he enforced leftist propaganda... Pepe is a symbol of people oppressed by the ADL
@Onouphrios I didn't bring it in, he did. He directly referenced politicized propaganda....
@@jimjam5570!!!! !politics alert!!!!!!
FYI:The three leg symbols is also the flag of the Isle of Man, An Irish(Manx) Island Nation
I edited this because some people decided to get bitchy with me on my wording
Triskelion here is a official seal of tau gamma phi grand fraternity here in philippines We also call our self triskelion when you are the member of that fraternity
It’s not Irish, the Manx people are their own, separate Celtic ethnic group.
And the rock in his fist is for the giants channel
The Manx are to the Irish as the Swedes are to the Danes.
Not irish
FYI:most “demonic” symbols have a backstory of being alchemical symbols plus not all symbols are good and not all are bad.
Too many fucking bots...
Fun Fact, The Church of Satan doesnt actually worship him. They're actually a cult who revear logic and self improvment. The demonic iconography was chosen primarily as a slight to the Chatholic Church.
Not to mention many symbols we see as demonic are the exact opposite, take the upside down cross or the pentagram, the former is a reference to St. Peter who was crucified upside down, and the pentagram is representative of the 5 wounds of Christ.
Ignore the first bit, I didn't realize MatPat mentioned it.
@@kaimagnus5760 So to “revear logic and self improve” they go out of their way to insult followers of the biggest religions in the world as a “slight”. Seems very backwards to me.
@@maismade6013 Look into the founder's history with them and it makes more sense.
Fun Fact about the Swatstika: European nations weren't the only ones to use it. There was even an American Unit that had the swatstika as their symbol
imagine what happened when the unit came across nazis
I wish it was a real department, a minor or elective at least. I would have taken that course in a heartbeat. Understanding each others cultures in multiple faucets should be taken more seriously than it is.
Try "semiotics," which is the right name for it.
Well said. And I'm convinced that it becomes A LOT harder to be bigoted when you know about somebody else's culture (especially once you've had their food!). You always find out that they're mostly just like you, but the ways they aren't are usually pretty neat too!
It's fair to say that MatPat has had his "eye" on this symbol for the longest time now.
Oh its you again
ok
Yo?
@@dogge4649 yo apparently translates to me.
You again
It’s so weird to see this because I just finished an art history lesson about cathedrals and symbols XD this is so cool!!
It’s nice seeing MatPat telling the truth and how truly the symbols might as mean nothing as it is only given a meaning from us people who are willing to take something and create something out of it
My daughter absolutely LOVES you MatPat seriously you've got her looking for theories in everything. So this is one of hers:
Gravity Falls: Blendin and Bill are secret partners.
There is a point when Blendin escapes from an impossible to escape prison. With Bill more than likely being behind that. Giving he's almost certainly messed with time and therefore knowing time police there is a good chance that Blendin made a deal with Bill to escape to cause problems with the twins.
Speaking about Gravity Falls, I think MatPat is due for a theory postponed for 4 years...
That actually makes a lot of sense. And to fill in for his end of the bargain, Blendin had to give Bill his body, causing the events of Mabel giving Blendin the dimensional rift, and of course Weirdmagedon. Actually an ingenious idea of what actually caused Blendin to get possessed by Bill.
Could you please do a theory abt Disney's original sleeping beauty and how the fairies are actually bigger villains then maleficent herself. For example when the fairies mess up and don't avoid aurora's curse they don't tell the king (her father!) Instead they cast a curse of their own which is actually bigger than malificents original one. They make everyone sleep which is just wrong on so many levels and take a risk that the prince will actually survive the challenge but oh well! Another thing is that whilst raising aurora they totally mistreat her and only make choices that benefit themselves
Thanks for the likes 😊
Thank you, finally someone says it.
Not to mention, they never tell Aurora about the curse. If she knew what to avoid, she might not have fallen asleep in the first place.
"Symbols are just memes of the past"
Never would have thought I agree with such a statement
Edit: This is a great reply section
Full of bots smh
@@TitleGoesHere I really dont know how to feel about this
What was it with this comment thas was so appealing to bots ???
Jesus christ the bots
Kiilroy was here
This is exactly why they censored Tokyo Manji Revengers. People in the west would associate the Manji with a hate symbol
I love studying symbols, it’s so fascinating to me, and it’s partially why I got into sociology: I wanna study why things are made into bad symbols, or get bad connotations.
I LOVE that you brought up st. Peter's cross. As someone raised catholic who loves horror movies it's my biggest pet peeve. The pet peeve list is growing as I learn about some of the other symbols and religious themes twisted for sinister vibes, but st Peter's cross was my first issue with horror so it had a weird special place in my heart.
so she was always😐😚😊😂
go into her room, don’t 🤙🤘🖖🤞✌️👇
but took a pair of scissors💯🆎
ayo wtf is going on in the reply section
@@joesheridan6209 bots...
this is the book i read when i was in jail
Please elaborate
@@owyemen9367 man went to jail
You shouldn't read in jail, unless you know you can finish, lest you be doomed to return.
Nobody cares
@@ChiefHitemBong What a stupid thing to say
The swastica, when you horizontally flip it, was also the nordic rune for the sun.
I watched the first episode of the tv series and have to say its amazing how they went through literally half the book in one episode. They also changed quite a few things from the book, like Katherine being Peters daughter instead of his sister.
You cannot believe how amazing it is for me that you're covering this, this is my favourite book of all time. Thank You MatPat
This actually blowed my mind with the actual meaning of the seeing triangle and the infinity with cross symbol, and the message at the end actually made me reflect on human history and how symbols have been changing all the time without looking at their origins
Why tf are there so many of these annoying gross bots in this reply section
@@bonzopippinpaddleopsicopolis idk but I already reported all of them
@@g4m-3r same
As someone who has had a triskelion tattooed on their back since 2015, seeing this pop up made me so excited
I love these kind of episodes. It reminds us that, whilst humble, Mathew really is the smartest person in the room lol.
I mean I learned a whole bunch of stuff from this, good stuff.
The fact that Mat didn't mention "Illuminati" even once while explaining the eye symbol is kinda sus ngl
E
He's part of it.
He not tryna get kidnapped or silenced lol
he don't wanna be demonetized.
He also said that the Freemasons only adopted the Eye of Providence AFTER the USA used it, failing to mention that Freemasons had a direct hand in the creation of the USA, with 9 members signing the declaration of independence, including a Grand Master, Benjamin Franklin. Or that Freemason members had been using that symbol for at least 70 years before the Declaration was even signed.
It's either very poor research on his part, or he's intentionally mispresenting the truth.
I'll be honest, when you were talking about the triskelion I was kinda hoping you'd mention that it's also the symbol of the Air Nomads in Avatar.
th-cam.com/video/IAjs0Zi_k3o/w-d-xo.html
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Until The show is secretly an Avatar spin off, where the world stopped relying on bending and forgotten about it.
E
Its not.....they look similar but they aren't the same symbol.
The lost symbol was my first adult novel and I was in love with it. I found out about the show thanks to this video! Thank you mattpad I'm super excited
In this video matpat explains all of humanity’s existence, lore, and culture in less than 20 minuets when everyone wants to hear it for 1 hour.
I can't wait for a thousand years later, when I'm a ghost, and looking at people seeing the Superman S symbol as some kind of injustice and amorality symbol.
Or the bat as a symbol of nonviolence
E
The Injustice comics and games pretty much did that by making Superman a dictator
@@sarahrah7449 Stop with the spam and delete this comment
@@strixsoren6847 I was going to say that in my comment but thought it would be too long. In any case, that's pretty cool
From the moment MatPat started talking about symbols and their original meanings I started waiting for him to talk about the swastica
Reminds me of that Zelda 1 dungeon in a swastika shape. If that game was released today, can you imagine the outrage it would cause?
THIS BOOK WAS SO AMAZING. i wasn’t very into this topic but it’s very easy even for beginners. beautiful and well written characters who were actually smart
This is very informative, MatPat! Good job! 😁👍
MatPat, you and I would be the best of friends on this topic here. This entire video is what I've been trying to tell people for at least 9 years now. Symbols that we consider "evil" today, aren't really evil at all when you look at the origins of the symbol.
@@Schlex i agree with both of you. Yes, we can acknowledge the origins of symbols and learn from it. But once a symbol is associated with a negative, it is very hard to revert this back.
My favorite symbol to tell people the history of is the swastika, it tends to freak people out when you tell them it used to represent immortality, and good fortune.
Yeah but like legal eagle said countless times... it all depends on intent of the one drawing it...
@@Schlex I would go so far as to say symbols do not change, but are simply misused or altered.
So long as someone is willing to use the symbol for it's intended purpose, it hasn't changed, people have changed.
I'm surprised that they haven't just made "The Conspiracy Theorists" their fourth channel yet
I remember them(Mat and Steph) discussing that topic a long time ago in their GTLive stream of some longer series I think. Basically they considered it, but decided not to because they believed it would affect Mat’s mental health negatively. Like he did not respond to Welcome to the Game well and said that he didn’t want to research a bunch of morbid or dark things that seemed realistic. I could have misremembered this wrong, but that’s what I remember. If I had to guess what game he was playing I think it was either Life is Strange or during the year he played that.
@@anthonynguyen1289 They say it because it would bring a bad image to them, also considering that MatPat is a big channel, it would cause more backlash to their channel
@@thailailai9257 was that it? I thought it was mental health reasons, but I could just be mixing that up with other things they’ve said.
@@anthonynguyen1289 i don't see why it wouldn't also be his mental health. this guy does a lot of research as well as his research team or whatever. probably would stress him out even more if he made another channel. and researching creepy as dark stuff can probably make someone a little bit messed up mentally ._.
@@anthonynguyen1289 There is also the issue that some conspiracies can become outright Political and you know how TH-cam treats Politics.
Ty may pat I have been needing something to watch and now I’m hooked with theory bait
This was a very infesting episode I love it! I love history and this is right up my ally!
Matt is becoming an even better detective then he was in escape the night!
Memento mori
@Techno faked his cancer proof is on my videos Also nobody cares
@Techno faked his cancer proof is on my videos ok, let’s go through this one by one. This is quite long but your comment is so stupid I feel the need to explain why it’s so stupid in excruciating detail so you’ll understand.
1. That proves nothing, it’s a running joke on his channel that he only cares about money and success, it’s also a running joke that he doesn’t care about serious circumstances, and it’s common for people to joke about their situation because it helps them cope and relives pressure, which would explain why he would do this for a joke, on top of that he made his reasoning for doing it clear in the video, he said he’d had the plushies for a while and wanted to get it over with, people are a lot less likely to watch an update video than they are a normal video so an update video with a blank thumbnail would be a terrible place to advertise it, so this wasn’t just for his advertising.
2. He mentioned in his video that he enjoys making videos and wants to spend time doing it, people with cancer are capable of living their lives as normal people.
3. What you are describing is illegal, Technoblade already makes thousands from TH-cam and donations, the amount of money he would have earned from that stream is only a drop in the ocean compared to what he’s made over the years, so why would he risk going to jail for a relatively small amount of money?
4. Despite leaving on a major cliffhanger in his last stream he left TH-cam for months without even popping up on other people’s streams, in that time he could have been streaming and making thousands of dollars from donations, but instead he was just gone, also, he doesn’t show his face often, and hasn’t in a while, we have no idea whether he has hair, he made a joke about not having hair and since we have no reason not to trust him when he says he has no hair, Im gonna guess he has hair.
5. To do all what? He made a stream which made slightly more than usual, he uploaded two videos, and he got people to spam #TechnoSupport which I guess boosted his clout? But he already had people saying other catchphrases like Technoblade never dies, or a Sun Tzu quote, so why would he risk his reputation for such a minuscule gain?
Your comment is illogical and clearly just a pathetic attempt to get people to watch your video.
@@KangarooMonkey well I mean his pathetic attempt to get people to watch his video worked on you
@@americanmapper2445 no it didn’t. Why do you think that?
I can see they deleted their comment so in case you didn’t see it let me fill you in.
Their comment listed 5 points which were “evidence” for why Technoblade faked his cancer, I went one by one and explained how they were stupid and so is anyone who could believe it. I never clicked on his video.
It's important to note that the hate groups didn't try to claim pepe until they were told it was associated with them, it was a meme being used on the social media sites they frequent, and then when people started to claim it was a hate symbol two types of people started making memes of it, those who were using it ironically to mock the idea that it was a hate symbol, and those who embraced it as such, personally I was already sick of the meme long before that but it's interesting how things played out.
The same as the other symbols that were shown and calling 4chan as a hive of scum and villainy is funny they did the ok symbol as a joke for the idiot left and they bought it hook line and sinker :) plus several others that I saw in the show are only bad to woke left. I give the ok and thumbs up to every one I see :)
Awesome to get a combined theory about symbols, the history of them, and even memes. I legit laughed when I saw monkaS in this vid.
11:03 Ayyyyy, finally I hear Latvia
Fun fact - In Latvian symbolism, it is a fire sign attributing to the God of thunder.
The first archeological founding dates back to the 3rd century in the ring from Rauna Mūri that relates to the Baltic Finnish cultural area.
So yeah.... we still use the other variants of the fire sign, that's usually branched out and doesn't look like... you know what...
Fellow Latvian?
@@kattachibana7932 Nu protams :)
Still somewhat curious to see if Matt will ever cover Project: 863, the TH-cam mystery series created by Matthias. I would like to hear his take on D3B, Wes’ Murder, and some of the other stories behind Syntec.
I was so into it until it was not revealed that it was all planned
I’ve been commenting about this for a while
@@JediDrewsterT Hopefully we’ll see a theory
Had a discussion slightly similar to this on an HP forum recently. That modern teens and tweens get the symbol of the Deathly Hallows as a tattoo because it's a simple cool image from our favourite fandom.
But were an older individual from in-universe Europe to see those teens, they'd take it entirely differently. The symbol of something, well not mundane as the Hallows are pretty special already, was taken by a group preaching hate and turned into a symbol of that hate. Just look at how 21/22-year-old Viktor Krum, who wasn't even alive during Grindelwald's campaign, reacted to seeing Xeno wearing it. Now imagine what that would be like to someone who endured Gellert's actions.
This is what the Nazi's did with the swastika. Took something that already had a meaning and perverted it by association with their own agenda.
So, Thats a no on the Hallows Tatto when i get older?
@@cjl7045 Not in the slightest. It's just an interesting tidbit that I think would make for a compelling storyline in one of those fanfics where Harry and crew learn the HP books and fandom are a thing in their world.
False propaganda.
@@sdhjsjana72js That's true, and the truth is that the WWII winners were the real bad guys.
@Phoenix 𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚢 PROFILE Nope.
OMG, I'm just watching this now, a year after it went up and I'm a hot footing it to watch this on Peacock!! So excited! I love his books! Thank you!
Watching this video was like reading one of those shadow books, where the shadow seems to be doing something menacing but it turns out to be a mundane or everyday action
Hey Matt, it seems like you’re starting to go into the study of Semiotics! Semiotics is the Philosophical Study of Symbols and how they change in history. There is a philosopher named Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose, who studied symbols especially since he was living under Fascist Italy and was interested in the symbols of how groups changed the meaning of symbols. Look Prof. Eco up! It’ll help you further this idea of Semiotics.
That sounds like a fun topic Marcos! I’m now interested in learning more about it
In Germany the one with the three "legs" actually dates back to celtic times where it also is a Symbol of All the trinetys in life. Like birth life death but other threes as well
I found out that that symbol's been appropriated too, by a skinhead group
It was also historically on the flag of the Isle of Mann, nestled snuggly between England and Ireland. Makes me wonder what date it originated there, because I highly doubt they had much care for Hecate.
@@KieranBarnbyAcoustic as far as I can tell the Isle of Man has had its current flag since the 1930’s
I think if im not wrong isle of man flag also has that three leg symbol as well since isle of man also has some celtic ancestry
@@Gunn3r71 in its current design, yes, but the usage in Mann was first documented in the 13th century
Great video! Thank You for making it!
👍😁👌‼️
Film Theory: Shows a symbol as red when it's corrupted into an evil symbol.
13:25 Also Film Theory: Shows the Film Theory Logo as glowing red.
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Well, there's also the Game Theory ARG symbol that's also red.
Edit: and there you go, instead of a symbol it's a color this time!
This is literally the definition of book theory, disguised in film theory
Book theory would be amazing
It wasn't even a theory either
we need matpat an analytics channel
YES you support Book theory? good if you do! if not, well, goodbye
Waiting on the Squid Games theory's LOL
Nahh I think the squid games are cool but..... it’s kinda annoying at this pint I can’t get away from it it’s like one of the times when you love something but people over use it and you loose interest yk
@@wasitamrormrss6186 just like among us
@@wasitamrormrss6186 agreed, I really wouldn’t like a theory video on squid game
Squid game is over rated and annoying
@@scargamer0097 very
this seems like a good video to watch at midnight while sick
He should just have a history theory where he tries to uncover theory from real life
Doesn’t matter how right MatPat is, I’ll still watch it even if he literally has no evidence.
The amount of bots above me is obnoxious
I know, there's just something compelling about the way he explains things.
100%
I’ll be like “wow, that is so wrong it hurts” but still continue to watch it lmao
@@sanujakhanal8745 I'm curious, what is wrong in the video?
@@SebasDaviid not this one specifically, I have never read the books so I couldn’t tell you
I feel like that intro is really accurate to whenever MatPat makes mistakes. The biggest clue is right under his nose, but he's thinking too outside the box to see it.
He does that a lot.
Hes also bad at sourcing when the ADL is a fucking joke of an organization.
i'm disappointed that i haven't watched this till now. Good video, and another reason i believe you should make a secret conspiracy theory channel.
If you're interested and intrigued by this topic, I recommend you read novels by Umberto Eco (1932 - 2016).
He was an Italian author of best sellers, but also, long before that, an internationally recognized expert, and university professor, of Semiotics (i.e. the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation).
Basically all of his literary works are about this, at various depths, and they're a lot better reads than anything by Dan Brown (no offense to the acclaimed author: I'd argue Dan Brown himself might agree on this).
Thanks for your videos!
Was looking for a comment like this
Hit the nail on the head Pat.
This is why we learn at school on how to look at these things, or at least, school should learn us on how we can find the answers.
Loved the episode, thanks :)
like did you have a stroke while typing that up
@@Schlex Thanks for pointing that out, another language is always difficult
@@Schlex minor spelling mistake = uneducated apparently
Flawless logic
Just what is it you're saying here, exactly? He was off on multiple bits of information and his opinions that were shoehorned into places where at least an "alleged factual basis" would've been satisfactory. Like saying that the "Symbol for Sulfur" was nothing more than just that, is to ignore the entire idea of occulted knowledge that is Alchemy and the language of it's symbolism, as well as, the reason for all of the hidden meanings in centuries old, leather bound, anthological tomes produced by the original practitioners of chemistry, who had to hide their work in plain sight, lest they be accused of performing magic, and seen as a sorcerer or some kind of conjurer, ultimately leading to their death by being burned at the stake...the most common method of execution for a witch or wizard, and any other sort of blaspheming heretic who was thought to be evil by the church officials. So yeah, you don't really know much about Symbolism or Symbology and it's probably best if you stick to what you do know, like comics and puns about even cornier dad jokes. Good luck sucking off the satanic psychopath that provides your paycheck. And talking bad about Sicily's flag is about the best thing you could do when people know who you are and where you live and stuff. Sicilians are so bad that Italy kicked them out and relegated them to an island that they renamed to ensure distinction from those "Pre-Mafia" nutjobs like most of my family members. So just be cautious who and what you insult without thinking about it....you think the flag is scary???...
8:42 "Surely one of these symbols from this series has to be frightening, right?”
*Proceeds to show the Albanian eagle*
Serbians: *sweating profusely*
Wasn't that merely adopted over from Roman rule as a way to state they were an ancestor of the Latin empire, same as the usage on the Holy Roman Empire's flag?
@@KieranBarnbyAcoustic yeah but the comment refers to the Jugoslawian wars
It nice how he makes videos for us to enjoy when we'll never need this stuff again
I love that he finally says the word instead of 'censoring' it
I’d love to see book theory so you don’t have to wait for a theorize-able book to become a game or movie
Children of Time would be a great one for that.
I totally agree, that should be the final channel to fill the theory logo
couldn’t we call all of mat’s videos decoding history’s darkest mystery
Yes absolutely
@Techno faked his cancer proof is on my videos ok, let’s go through this one by one. This is quite long but your comment is so stupid I feel the need to explain why it’s so stupid in excruciating detail so you’ll understand.
1. That proves nothing, it’s a running joke on his channel that he only cares about money and success, it’s also a running joke that he doesn’t care about serious circumstances, and it’s common for people to joke about their situation because it helps them cope and relives pressure, which would explain why he would do this for a joke, on top of that he made his reasoning for doing it clear in the video, he said he’d had the plushies for a while and wanted to get it over with, people are a lot less likely to watch an update video than they are a normal video so an update video with a blank thumbnail would be a terrible place to advertise it, so this wasn’t just for his advertising.
2. He mentioned in his video that he enjoys making videos and wants to spend time doing it, people with cancer are capable of living their lives as normal people.
3. What you are describing is illegal, Technoblade already makes thousands from TH-cam and donations, the amount of money he would have earned from that stream is only a drop in the ocean compared to what he’s made over the years, so why would he risk going to jail for a relatively small amount of money?
4. Despite leaving on a major cliffhanger in his last stream he left TH-cam for months without even popping up on other people’s streams, in that time he could have been streaming and making thousands of dollars from donations, but instead he was just gone, also, he doesn’t show his face often, and hasn’t in a while, we have no idea whether he has hair, he made a joke about not having hair and since we have no reason not to trust him when he says he has no hair, Im gonna guess he has hair.
5. To do all what? He made a stream which made slightly more than usual, he uploaded two videos, and he got people to spam #TechnoSupport which I guess boosted his clout? But he already had people saying other catchphrases like Technoblade never dies, or a Sun Tzu quote, so why would he risk his reputation for such a minuscule gain?
Your comment is illogical and clearly just a pathetic attempt to get people to watch your video.
Well, this is weird.
@@destroyerz123 bru, I live in a lot of military land. Were they test things and stuff.
@@destroyerz123 ah that's cool! :D yeah out in utah they have a lot of those around. They always are doing test calls. It does get annoying at time lol
A theory to consider: Are Mr. Misstoffelees and the Cat in the Hat one in the same, or at least, related? There is a bit of evidence to support this. They can both teleport. They both have a hat that they can conjure stuff out of. The Cat in the Hat also has a box that acts as a gateway between dimensions (universes). Is it possible that Mr. Misstoffelees learned more magick from Makavity in return for redeeming him and allowing him to get to the Heaviside Layer. The magic allowed him to create a gateway between the world of Cats and the world of Seuss. The world of Cats may also be lilliputian, which could explain why Cat is taller in the Seuss-iverse than in the Cats universe. 🤨🤔
You know the eye on the back of the dollar makes sense actually, now Mat Pat have given me knowledge, thank you for that ^^
We’re not kidding Matpat! A CONSPIRACY THEORY channel as your last one would be absolutely amazing! I need it!
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He was gonna make one but he hasn't yet
Yesss I want it!
Conspiracy Theory would actually be great
But hey, that's just a theory, a CONSPIRACY THEORY!
The Sun is basically revered in every religion, even Christianity. Hopefully one day the importance of these common symbols becomes common knowledge.
The sun is even revered in science...
It will. One day, we will know.
@@ArtamisBot to be fair it is the reason we exist so i think it earned that
@@ArtamisBot Religion is how the smart race taught agriculture to the dumber races of earth.
Common misconception (popularized by Zeitgeist and New Agers) that Christianity reveres the sun -- the sun doesn't hold any particularly powerful reverence in worship compared to the moon or other stars like its adjacent religions (Moon in Islam, Star of Remphan in Judaism), but there are some visual similarities when showing the glory of God or the Angels or even the Saints with the use of halos, but none of this is ever meant to invoke the physical sun as an object of reverence or worship.
The rune at 12 seconds in is, in fact, not Nordic, It is the rune Ophis (the Bright Lantern) designed by Jim Thompson for Profound Decisions fest live roleplaying game Empire. If someone's tattooing it on their finger, your detective should look into the possitiblity that they may be a Steinr Runesmith who's really into Day magic.
honestly, when matpat talked about "the all-seeing eye" and gets to the bit about the free masons the entire national treasure script and scenes started flashing through my head
“Ancient symbols are the memes of the past.” Pretty sure it’s a bit too early to be calling 2010 memes ancient symbols
They were made before last Tuesday so ancient enough.
The MatPat of 3031: "Decoding the Mysterious Pointed S Symbol!"
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If you are interested lemmino did a video about the history of the symbol and found the origin of it
I like how you mention the Revolutionary War. It’s my second fave war :)
If someone’s already given note of this, I wouldn’t know.
But I’m blown away that MatPat didn’t also mention how the legged Triskelion is also the symbol used for the Isle of Man.
AHA! Caught you there Matthew Patrick.
8:10 I doubt Hecate was represented with ears or kernels of corn/maize in any ancient depictions-corn/maize didn’t exist in Europe, Asia, or Africa, it’s native to the Americas
In British English, corn can sometimes refer to any kind of grain (the term predates discovery of the Americas with this meaning), maybe MatPat read corn somewhere and got confused?
Me: “Sees the Leviathan Cross”
Also me: That’s not a leviathan cross, that’s brimstone!
(Shout out to all the Isaac players!)
still not as good as SSSSIIISSSSSSSSSSAAAAYYYYY!!!!
And whenever she had 🎂🍪🍩🍨🍤
bottle, and then your grandmother😾😿🙀
piece of cake and a bottle😒🤤😝😜😛😌😴
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Now the meaning of the eye is probably representing the internet seeing almost everything
The moment I found out that Matpat did a theory on a show adapted from one of Dan Brown's works, I practically leapt out of my seat ! :O
As a Pagan, I *love* this episode. Symbols have so much history that people tend to take a face value.
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Hi, fellow pagan!
Hey! also, man do i feel this
As a catholic I hope this will educate people of the importance of historical context.
Sup pagan dude.......So you worship stone gods or do some bon fire activity and also follows rules on not to go to the forest or any nature park because of forest spirits
I’ve always wondered, matpat has a strong influence over theory community on TH-cam. This video was very well made , great job as always. I know TH-cam guidelines have become more strict, and monetization is how they make their money. Why never a conspiracy theory channel? Is it really too risky of a play ? I’m sure he has plenty of thoughts on mainstream conspiracies as well. This video shows how well you can actually put stories together, even with real world events. Matpat could very well become the internets Indiana jones, but that’s just a The.. I mean an idea
Like "bisness theory" where he inspects bisnesses and see how trustful or biased they are?
MatPat has ALOT to lose to post a political opinion that could atleast permanently divide his audience.
I mean... Every video ends remarking the 'fiction' of each theory, and this video itself debunks any hope of theorizing with real life symbols and calling out to really research the history behind everything.
The way I see it, conspiration theories connect information in the same way as any game/film theory does, but there's a difference. All the information connected coming from the films/games exist, usually, inside of it own fictional world, and thus this theories are, while fun to make, not anything to be taken seriously. The source of that info is confirmed to be fictional.
In the other hand, the sources of the information that shapes most conspirational theories are not that easy to confirm. And so, it is up to the people to make assumptions about it. Maybe overlooking confirmed info because of doubting of the source, or taking into acount some roumor as an undeniable truth. Those assumptions can be strongly fixed by the "theorizer" personal beliefs. Even if some people can indeed take a conspiration theory as a possibility, their real strenght comes by when they are shown as hidden truths.
If they are real or not, can only be confirmed when enough information is released to the public, pretty much the same that happens to fictional content. But, when talking about fiction, the theories get confirmed or denied easily, with just the author's release of more content. But, can we say the same for conspirations? The problem is, there is never going to be real confidence in the source. That can be kind of dangerous if a person decides to keep going, and more if they decide to get tons of people in the same track.
And given the amount of conspiration theories going on, at this point is more about the theory that a person relates the more given it believes of the world than about really making interesting connections between suspicious information. And so, the risk comes actually from sharing your real worldview, rather than from making the actual theory.
That kind of risk is going to be up to MatPat, but is not something that he has shown lots of interest into making a channel. Or maybe he has, I really don't know, but maybe there are production limitations related to a project like that. Or just is not related to the style he wants to mantain. Again, I just cannot know with the info I have.
And so, maybe he prefers to stay with "just" game/film theories. It would be interesting to see a channel of him focused on his opinions about politics? Welp, maybe! Is he willing tho? Welp, I guess he knows, but I don't.
@@nathanjereb9944 He's been doing that a lot over on Food Theory.
I’ve always wanted him to touch more on mainstream conspiracy theories, or the history of freemasonry and the “Illuminati” or how fucked the cia and nsa is. It’s funny cuz none of those are actually conspiracy theories, but they are seen as crazy even though they all have very real real world roots
and regarding the association between symbols and thing that related to them, the main turning point of the story, is all about that, lol love the dettail
It’s odd that Da Vinci Code blew up, considering it wasn’t even the first book in the series. It’s actually a sequel to Angels and Demons. The movies did it backwards.
I was very into this series when it first came out (when I was around 11), I enjoyed the first two movies too, then my interest just dwindled slowly. The Lost Symbol was the last book I truly enjoyed, and I was sad that it didn't get a movie adaptation, as I thought it did more interesting things wit Langdon's character arc than the later books (namely, in this book he actually had some character development).
Also, even though the conspiration theories in the series were very far-fetched, I appreciated that it made art history, a subject I was quite passionate about since childhood, look cool.
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@@user-jb9nz2fs2u Ahh, yeah, thanks. Something was weird about that word, but I couldn't figure out what for the life of me. That's what I get for writing comments on my phone where I don't have a spellcheck installed. :'D
I think Matpat is going to drop all his marbles when he hears about the book called “The Secret.” A more real life treasure hunt that has actually things to find out, and a gem to win.
This video was very enlightening! Makes me wonder if there’s ever a chance to revert the symbols back to their original meanings or if society is just too closed minded to see them in any other light.
That would be brilliant, it would have to be made on a huge scale to say these symbols were stolen etcetera but with so many people having so many traumatic experiences seeing these symbols I'm just not sure it will happen
thank this vid gave me a topic for an essay matpat
A good fictional example of how easy it is for symbols to change meaning is in Injustice, where Superman snaps and starts a global regime, and the Superman S, which usually stands for hope, stands for oppressive dictatorship.
I literally just watched your Wilbur Soot theory and as it finished you uploaded this. Awesome
Spot on MatPat. I wish this video is seen by tons of people. The power does not lie in the symbols, but in how it is viewed by society and that so many of these symbols' meanings were corrupted by various religions. The part about the memes being the symbols of the modern era was deep, real deep. Love it!!
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Excellent job Matthew Patrick. Probably your best work (on debunking theories) yet.
And you're absolutely right. Symbols are easily taken and mutated to suit the desires of the individual. Which is disappointing.
This was the most engaging video I’ve seen in a while
I am convinced that MatPat is the cocreator of literally everything in the entire universe, considering he can uncover anything about everything.
So he's Mickie Mouse?
alot of bots today
@@xixcl I think he meant in your comments
Because he learns about things you think he mist have helped create said things? That says a lot about your own education 😉
You must love watching magicians too don't cha? 😂 Probably religious as well. 🤣
Mate all he just did was advertise the show and give us a history lesson on symbols. There was no point to this video except the sponsor.
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Also on another note- the Church of Satan is more a school of thought viewing Satan more as simply the representation of aspects- of countering opinion, of individualism etc.
(Edit: It's even actively atheistic- with the founder/leader proclaiming that anyone who believes in a higher power- devil or god- is crazy.)
Just kinda bears noting I feel, and is kind of interesting.
Indeed. Also he says that the Church of Satan didn't exist until 1966, while technically true he ignores that the beliefs the church has go back hundreds if not thousands of years. It's just that back then you couldn't openly practice it because the Church would come and make your death very painful...which is ironic.
Exactly, it is all made of good heart. It sounds bad, yes, but the 7 tenets are actively making the world around yourself better!
Awesome one here.
Man, I haven’t read any Dan brown in a while…
I prefer inferno over the da Vinci code
You should read Origin it’s great.
@@shadowtriber666 I bought it, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Hollywood's butchering of Inferno's ending annoyed me.
@@jamesahibbard right??? How much they deviated from the book is so annoying
I prefer angles and demons over da vinci code. I haven’t gotten around to inferno
Yess, I loved the book and I can't believe it's finally on big screen since I wanted it to happen for so long. I'm happy that you actually covered it. I mean this is like the perfect topic for this channel.
I think this one was the best of the series
I read the book when it came out. I was really disappointed with the movie adaptations of the other books. Is the show better?
@@bubblegum1366 I only just started so I can't really say much about it so far but it looks interesting for sure. Though I'm surprised you didn't enjoy the movies, I loved them I think they are really well made adaptations as movies. The only one I didn't enjoy as much was the movie for inferno. It was just kinda "meh" compared to the other ones. But to each of their own.
This has to be one of the best Theory episodes, it gave me chills!! As someone who's been fascinated for YEARS by symbolism and the way it's used especially in art, it was fantastic to listen about just how many different symbols appear in multiple cultures with similar or completely different meanings; and as you say extremely well by the end of the video - how symbols themselves are just icons and the context around them is what always has to be considered as well. Huge round of applause Team Theorists!! This was great!!!
At 8:15 MatPat says that Hecate is symbolized by 3 ears/grains of corn. This is literally impossible, as corn/maize wouldn’t leave the Americas for thousands of years after this point. Perhaps your source meant corn of a different type, but the corn you showed is definitely wrong.
It's a misuse of the word by mat. Corn in british english, or other germanic languages (e.g. German Korn) often means wheat. I assume he meant 'ears of wheat'.
Corn in British English just refers to any kind of grain grown in a field. Barley, wheat, even oats.