GTLive/Channel History

GTLive started as a daily livestream hosted by MatPat and Steph, where they played games or live reacted to popular trends or viral videos. However over the years, the livestream aspect of GTLive has significantly reduced and the channel has rebranded to pre-recorded episodes, commonly known as "GT-Not-Lives" to the fandom. The GTLive Channel itself started as an archival channel for edited and unedited VODs of the livestreams, which occured on The Game Theorist channel. Livestreams were streamed on The Game Theorists channel from August 2015 to October 2018, after which they were exclusively streamed to the GTLive channel.
Episodes of GTLive can be roughly divided into "Seasons" or Eras of varying length. They do not correspond to a specific amount of time, but rather big events when MatPat and Steph felt like they were starting a new "season" of the show. For example, Season 3 is the shortest season, spanning roughly a month, while Season 5 is the longest, running from 2020 to 2023. In this wiki, links to GTLive episodes are organized on the main GTLive page by year, rather than Seasons. However, this history of the show will use the Season convention as that is event-driven and makes sense within the context of MatPat's vision of the show. For clarity, there is an abbreviated timeline at the end of this page to highlight major events.
==Season Guide == 
*Season 1 (August 26, 2015-April 3, 2017)
*Season 2 (April 25, 2017-September 18, 2018)
*Season 3 (September 19, 2018-October 24, 2018)
*Season 4 (Oct 27, 2018-March 19, 2020)
*Season 5 (April 2, 2020-August 22, 2023)
*Season 6 (September 1, 2023-July 26, 2024)
*Season 7 (July 29-present)
==GTLive Logo==
File:OG Game theorists logo.PNG|Logo used in earliest livestreams (2014)
File:GTLive Logo.jpg|First Logo (2015-2024)
File:GT Live Logo 2024.svg|First Logo PNG
File:GTLive 2024 Update.png|Second Logo (2024-present)
== GTLive Theme Song ==
See GTLive Theme Song
==Backgrounds==
File:GTLive Background couch 1.jpg|First Background 
File:GTLive Background couch 2.jpg|Second Background
File:GTLive Background couch 3.jpg|Third Background
File:GTLive Background couch 4.jpg|Fourth Background
File:GTLive Background couch 5.png|Fifth Background
File:GTLive Background couch 6.png|Sixth Background
File:GTLive Background couch 7.jpg|Seventh Background
Throughout GTLive's history there has been 7 versions of its background, with the first background being set up by Stephanie. The second background was set up by Jason and is the first background that includes fan art of Matpat and Steph. Season 3 has a “woodland” vibe according to Steph. Season 4 is the shortest were it only lasted for a few month’s and brought back fan art and Matt didn't like the circle self in the middle of the background. Season 5 is very similar to season 4 with the same yellow wallpaper but has modular white circles. In Season 6 the background displays grayish wallpaper with fan art and caffeine molecule that has been in the background since season 3. Then Finally Season 7 the wallpaper is a greenish wood with Drama Lama being displayed just like in every background.
center|frameless|400x400px|Created by [https://x.com/GTeaLive/status/1829925292422438999 GTeaLive] and used with permission 
Created by GTeaLive and used with permission 
==Brief Timeline of Significant Events==
Date 	Event 	Description
August 26, 2015 	FNAF Chat with MatPat! 	The 1st Livestream premiered on The Game Theorists channel. This event was not archived
August 27, 2015 	MatPat vs Mario Maker! 	The first archived livestream
September 3, 2015 	FNAF Theorists UNITE! 	2nd FNAF Theorist Livestream, featuring Razzbowski, Smike, Dawko, 8-BitGaming , Alex Faciane (Super Beard Brothers)
September 14, 2015	Creation of GTLive Channel 	The GTLive channel is created to host VODs of livestreams. It also held shortened "Highlights" of episodes for a brief time. It is affectionately called "Archiveland" by the fandom
September 15 2015 	The Sonic Game You Didn't Know Existed (Feat. Guru Larry)	First archived footage of Jason; first "blame Jason" on (archived) stream
October 3-24, 2016	GTLive is promoted to "YouTube Gaming Primetime" 	GTLive is given extra promotion by YT in acknowledgement of their popularity
January 16, 2017 	GTLive reaches 1 million subscribers 	
April 13, 2017 	"Our Mine" hacking 	The channel (along with The Game Theorists, The Film Theorists, and other channels that were in the same network) was hacked by the hacker group OurMine. As a result of being hacked, all their videos were changed to "#OurMine - https://youtu.be/IdJuVgR_-7M (Read the Description)" as the title. But shortly after the same day, all 3 channels were restored with the correct titles and descriptions
October 29, 2018 	Livestreams Transition to the GTLive channel 	
February 19, 2019 	First "GTeaLive" episode 	GTeaLive (sometimes called "TeaSeries,") was a short lived experiment into podcasting by Matt and Steph which was live recorded during GTLive
Feb 25, 2020 	Chris Widin's Final GTLive 	Chris Widin leaves Team Theorist, although he would make guest appearances during the Game Theory 10th anniversary celebration
March 2020 	MatPat and Steph move to North Carolina 	
April 2, 2020 	The first GTLive filmed in North Carolina 	
August 3rd, 2020 	Mirror Matt's first episode 	
March 8, 2021 	Stephanie Patrick retires as host of GTLive 	
March 25, 2022 	Ash's first GTLive episode 	
Sep 9, 2022 	Mirror Matt's final episode 	To celebrate Mirror Matt's departure from Team Theorists, a FNAF Lore-off was hosted by MatPat, with Mirror Matt competing against Ash. Mirror Matt had lost, and as punishment, he was banished to the FNAF section of MatPat's brain.
March 9, 2024 	MatPat retires from the four Theory Channels 	
August 26, 2024 	Ash is announced to become next GTLive host. 	
September 3 2024 	Ash's first time co hosting on the couch with MatPat