Matt Jarbo (born: March 26, 1982), formerly known as MundaneMatt, is an American commentary YouTuber from Oregon that mostly covers current events. He joined YouTube in 2009 and covers topics such as news stories, feminism, gaming, and movie reviews (now 3 Buck Theater). In 2014, he was one of the main contributors of the hashtag #GamerGate. Matt Jarbo announced he was Mundanematt when he got doxed for being friends with ReviewTechUSA (the dox was because trolls were upset with ReviewTechUSA for an issue with a sponsorship deal). He is friends with Chris Ray Gun, ReviewTechUSA, ShoeOnHead and Sargon of Akkad. He used to live in California (where he ran for Governor back in 2003) and then went back to live in his hometown of Portland, but in 2017 he moved to the suburbs of Seattle, Washington.
In December 2017, Matt became a father for the first time when his girlfriend gave birth to a baby girl. On August 2018, he was accused of false flagging and lying about it on a killstream with TheRalphRetort. On 23 December, he was again caught lying about false flagging.
The Backlash towards Matts false flagging was large enough for a parody account of his to gain significant traction under the name Jarbo the Hutt.
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WTF News[]
On June 18, 2013, MundaneMatt started a series called "WTF News." The series is him ranting about current news stories and giving his opinion on them. In the past, he would cover news stories but started calling certain episodes "WTF News." The title of this series was mostly based off of his reaction to the news stories. In 2015, he changed it into Weird, Wild and WTF. In October, he changed it to "Russel" for ad purposes.
Z-DAY[]
On June 21, 2013, MundaneMatt came out with a special series called "Z-DAY TIPS". This was also the same day the movie "World War Z" was released. Although this lasted only one day, he managed to upload 24 videos at a rate of 1 video per hour. These videos were tips on what to do during a zombie apocalypse.
Live Streams[]
Because of the Ad apocalypse of 2017, Matt started Mundanechatts where he does livestreams (when he can) talking to his audience and records some of the news stories he wants to do and allows people to give money from super chats.
History[]
Matt had a presence on YouTube since 2006 when he uploaded several skits featuring him and his friends presumably during college. Matt Jarbo would eventually abandon that channel and create his current channel "MundaneMatt" on October 14th, 2009.
Much of Matt's early content were skirs similar to his previous channel, all created by himself including the controversial "Poley the Polar Bear" in 2011. Eventually Matt would shift his focus on politics, news, and gaming. From here Matt's channel would grow albeit slowly at first.
During 2013-2014, Matt became friends with another YouTuber ReviewTechUSA and received a shoutout. However, Matt's rise to fame would arguably be GamerGate and Zor Quinn. Matt produced numerous videos on the GamerGate controversy, as well as 50 videos on Anita Sarkeesian, the controversial creator of Feminist Frequency. Eventually Zoe Quinn would take down one of Matt's video via a DMCA strike. Another bigger YouTuber brought this to attention and because of this, Matt gained a substantial boost in subscribers and followers. Matt became a face of GamerGate and throughout his career advocated for "free speech" and railed against censorship.
In 2015, GamerGate began to calm down and Matt's viewership dipped considerably. As the 2016 election cycle began, Matt decided to join a newly emerging anti-SJW community known as the Skeptic Community. Matt would produce videos in talking about politics, would began to detract his original follower base away from his content. As his viewership stagnated in 2016, MundaneMatt's channel also slowed down in terms of subscribers and viewership. Matt also hosted three videos for ReviewTechUSA after Rich had his son in 2016.
In 2017, the Adpocalypse hit YouTube and Matt decided to start livestreaming. Matt was also embroiled in several controversies. 2017 was also the year Matt had his first daughter, a baby girl. Matt's channel progress stalled to 160k subscribers with only a few. However during late 2017-early 2018, many YouTuber began to call out Matt for false flagging their videos critical of MundaneMatt. More drama involving Matt would eventually boil over in 2018.
In April 2018, Keemstar and MundaneMatt had a heated Twitter argument. Keemstar created a Twitter video calling Matt a "snake" and a "POS" amongst other insults. More and more complaints against Matt began to expand as the Summer of 2018 began. Several YouTubers had their videos taken down and/or demonetized due to the content being critical of Matt. Eventually the accusations boiled over when on August 6th, 2018, Matt decided to go on Ralph Retort's Killstream in order to clear his name. After almost two hours of denying his false flagging, and having heated exchanges of words with Keemstar, another user on the stream showed a way to reveal one's report history. Matt spent 10 minutes to show his, and it was revealed that two week prior to the stream, Matt reported Dame Pesos, a YouTuber critical of Matt as well as AndyWarski. After this stream, MundaneMatt received huge backlash from the YouTube community and a stream of dislikes came on his video which still continue. Matt also began losing subscribers over the months and Matt currently lost well over 20,000 subscribers due to this incident.
On December 23rd, 2018, Matt denied he false flagged other users on a livestream. This received in renewed criticism against Matt and more dislikes.
Matt's older videos (the aforementioned Poley the Polar Bear) received backlash due to its controversial nature and usage of racial slurs.
Matt rebranded his channel as simply Matt Jarbo in March 2019. He continues to loss subscribers and receive dislikes as a result of the controversy in August 2018.
On April 20th, 2020, Matt mass purged his channel of news-related spam content and instead started a new series called "Milk Carton Mysteries" which covers murders and unsolved crime mysteries. In these videos Matt disabled all like to dislike ratios and these videos receive less than 1,000 views on average, marking the gradual decline of viewership on his channel. Matt currently stands at 125,000 subscribers, a loss of his height of 160,000 in August 2018.
Trivia[]
- Matt ran for a political office in California in 2003.
- Despite the fact Matt promoted free speech during his GamerGate videos, Matt himself flagged videos deemed critical him in order to take down said videos of him.
- Matt is currently on very bad terms with Keemstar, predating even before the Killstream.
- Matt is a member of the Liberty Insanity livestream.
- Matt is affiliated with other YouTubers such as Kraut, and ReviewTechUSA.