I don't know if I came across as saying that this is how I discovered MatPat, but that is not the case. I meant that this post is how I found out about his stepping away (kinda) from the Theorist channels. I've known him for almost the full 13 years that he's been making videos, though I've kinda fallen out of love with his channel since FNAF.
I wonder how reliable this workaround will be in the future. Will the external repositories be purged in the future as well? Perhaps straying away from github is a more sustainable answer.
The original project was bought by a company known for injecting ads into their apps, so this fork was made by one of the original maintainers in order to keep it ad-free. This is just off the top of my head, so go look into the project if this interests you.
Reading this thread, I found myself quite surprised that Freud seems to be so disliked. I had no idea that him being a nutjob was the consensus, though this niche forum might not be the greatest sample size.
It's always a Bowser with Nintendo