On August 10, 2024, Lucas Tracy (@LucasTracyMMA) made a big dramatic announcement that he was walking away from YouTube. Here was the dramatic opening for his retirement video, “It’s Time for Something New”:
What’s going on? It’s Lucas Tracy MMA, and I am signing off. That’s right, you read the title. This is the last final video, maybe not of all time, but for the foreseeable future. Guys, it’s time for me to make a tough decision in my life, and I’ve been thinking about this for the past six months. I’ve been thinking about this since the winter about, do I just want to do this for a living?
I love MMA. I’ve been watching MMA for years before I ever made content covering it, and I’ll be watching MMA for the rest of my life unless I get bored of it, which I do not think I will. Because I think once you’re an MMA fan, you’re an MMA fan forever. It’s addictive. The sport is addictive.
I like being a YouTuber. I like making content. I get to be creative. It’s a dream job. I talk about MMA for a living, which is the sport that I love. I get to banter with people. I get to crack jokes. It’s a dream job. But when I think about my future, and when I think about, do I want to invest work and a career into just this, or do I want to do other things in life as well? That is the reason why I am going to pursue something else, which I’ve even been working on behind the scenes, SC, for quite some time—specifically, a health-related business idea that is going to require a lot of effort.
I’m not this half-ass type of person that, you know, can only do a little bit here and then, you know, like. I’m an all-or-nothing type of person. For YouTube, you can’t be half-ass with YouTube, and that’s the same thing with anything else in life. If you do something in life and you want to make it your career, and you want to it.
He continued to rattle on and on for minutes.
And you want to turn it into some kind of a job, you’ve got to put a lot of effort forth. You’ve got to put a lot of hours into it. Making MMA content has been a huge part of my life for the past couple of years, and I am never going to forget this time. I’m never going to forget the memories that I had making MMA content, live streaming, cracking jokes, bantering, creating inside jokes, coming up with catchphrases, having the niche Lucas Tracy memes, debating things in our live streams, going back and forth with the real hardcore fans, discussing Volkanovski’s legacy.
I mean, there’s a lot of things that I’m going to remember about this time that I can look back on and say, this was a good moment. This was a good thing in my life, and I’m going to remember it for the rest of my life. I want to thank all of the subscribers that have been supporting this channel. I want to thank everyone that has been here on this channel’s journey from the moment we started in January or February of 2022 till now.
I wasn’t really hammering a lot of content back then. It wasn’t really until the fall of 2022 where I actually started consistently posting. But for those of you that have been subscribed for a long time, for those of you that have been in my live streams, for those of you that have been members of the channel, dedicated followers of the channel, I cannot thank you guys enough for the support that you guys have given me over the past year and a half.
This is a big part of my life. This has been my life for the past year and a half. Making content in general has been my life for the past like three years. And I want to let you guys know that I appreciate all the moments that I’ve had with the people that have supported this channel.
Yeah, I mean, like, I’m not trying to get emotional or whatever, but I’m going to have a lot of good memories, man. I’m going to have a lot of good memories. A lot of good memories again.
Then, on Sep 27, 2024, he posted a Predictions & Breakdown video for UFC Paris Moicano vs Saint Denis. And after that first comeback video, he’s now posted 23 videos in the last 53 days.
What makes him a complete attention whore and absolute drama queen is this was all his own doing. He could have just posted a few less videos or made mention in passing that he would take a two week break or anything else besides posting a retirement video.
But, no, he had to throw his channel a funeral and he couldn’t even last 50 days before he was back to posting stupid pedantic videos like UFC Fighters that share the same style.