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I think with the story general, the best to look at it is look was what detail are shown as important and in general what scott intention was with the story. as mr hippo once said, "sometimes a story is just a story" of course yea look to much in the detail will just drive you circles. and sometimes small details just aren't really important. how ever there part of this is kinda scott's fault, as which it should be made more clear what details are relevant and which are not. this mostly started with fnaf 4 with the whole " I didn't put in bunch of random Easter eggs". a story need some level of confirmation to so viewer can understand it. now to fair to scott he has admit he kind regrets making the story so vague in fnaf 4, and think he tried to improve and be more clear on the story going forward, and in general I respect him for always taking criticism into account to always strive to improve him self. although will say I think sister location should been it's own thing, connecting it back to fnaf 4 kind just bring back all the vagueness form that game to sister location

Thanks for including time stamps/chapters so I could know when a jumpscare was coming up 😂 Very impressive!

7:19:09 really is the most important part... *squeak squeak squeak*

The FNaFb gameplay jumpscared the shit out of me.

woagh your voice is so soothing... i wanna have a soft voice like that

This was such a great video oh my :)

good work

I think there is a difference between a retcon and a continuity error

Scott Cawthon himself- "none of the Easter eggs in fnaf 4 are random" A CZcamsr years later-"that phone guy reversed audio is a random Easter egg"

I see you using Homestuck tracks 👀

Oh no 162 views after 4 hours 😢

Your last point about retcons is right on the mark. If you google "retcon definition" the first hit is "a piece of new information that imposes a different interpretation on previously described events". It's obvious when Scott says retcon he means retroactively changing the actual events, not just introducing new information. Because like you said, every game was Scott introducing new information to reframe the events of the previous games. Whether that new information was to bring popular theories in line with the story he had in mind, or to actually change the direction of the story, only Scott knows that. But the point still stands, there were retcons in every game.

I definitely agree with your point about the FNAF 1 phone call (though there are some interesting theories that suggest Audibiography of a Yogi was an inspiration for parts of the series without being intended as lore-relevant), and that many things like the shadow animatronics have lost their importance if they had any at all. However, I think a large premise of the video, being that the things the average player would experience are the important bits, just isn't fully correct IMO. Early in the series for sure, but by the time of FNAF 4, tiny details like Toy Chica's missing beak, stupidly convoluted minigames, and source code hints were important for figuring out wtf is going on in this series. There are plenty of audios that Scott could have used for garbled background, but I'd absolutely bet he knew his use of crazy hard-to-find hints would set a precedent for people sifting through every detail. Idk, that's just my two-cents, but I do love you Mr. Hippo-ing the community

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homestuck music , my beloved

Why is he putting on such an weirt voice 🤔

15:50 okay, i know that these notes are from umbral ultimatum (and that it's the motif from doctor playing there) but i got jumpscared by it because the penumbra phantasm deltarune theory made my brain rot a bit too much

I haven't watched the video yet, but i just want to say that i really really like the thumbnail. it caught my eyes immediately somehow will watch the video now!

Personally, and I wish this was cannon. But I just love the nightmare version of the Puppet in the FNAF 4 Halloween edition. Because that version of the Puppet has so many mysteries to it's design and why it's a recolor of Nightmare Fred Bear in the original FNAF 4. My theory surrounding it, and this isn't cannon to FNAF by the way. But what if just like what the puppet dose in FNAF 2, (which is give life to the dead kids), what if the Nightmare version of the puppet gives death to people in FNAF 4. A sort of grim dark version of the Puppets give life sort of idea from FNAF 2. But taken to the extreme in a messed up way. And if anyone is confused on what I am saying, what I am saying is, what if the Nightmare Version of the Puppet in FNAF 4 Halloween Edition is death itself that give death to people when there time is up. Kinda like a sort of Grim Reaper sort of comparison. I know it's not cannon, but isn't it kinda cool when you think about it? The puppets is meant to give life to the dead kids, right? So what if the Nightmare Puppet did the opposite and gave death to people? This sort of Grim Reaper sort of character that can appear when someone has died.

Congratulations!! I'm so excited for the future of this channel!

I always knew that Fredbear and Golden Freddy are the same, for one simple reason, Yellow Bear, who else has that name? the Yellow Rabbit

I’ve spent some time thinking about the ideas you’ve shared in this video, and this really got me thinking about the first 4 games + fnaf world again. I have a few ideas of my own I would like to share: I really think that the original missing children’s incident happened before the fnaf 4 mini games during 1983 or earlier. The evidence for this is that the original Freddy fazbears pizza wasn’t closed for many years after the incident, and at the latest, the fnaf 2 location was opened in the summer of 1987. If we go with the more popular 1985 date, there’s only 2 years between the MCI and the grand reopening, which seems like less time than the games make it out to be. In my opinion, a date in the early 1980s is more plausible. This would mean Freddy fazbears pizza existed during the same time as fredbears family diner, which could explain why the plushies and masks for the fnaf 1 characters exist even though we never see them as animatronics, and it would probably explain why the crying child is scared. I think that the crying child’s friends were killed in the MCI and they are the spirits that talk to us during the fnaf 4 mini games, as well as yellow eyes/ glitched fredbear in fnaf world. Fredbear’s promise to “put you back together” is to reunite the crying child with his friends so he can finally have the birthday he would have gotten if his friends were never murdered. Like you said in this video, the pieces put together is the happiest day. Some things in your video I disagreed with: I don’t think the bite of 83 was ever going to be the bite of 87, and that Scott was just trying to trick us, like how fnaf 2 looked like it would be a sequel but it actually takes place earlier in the timeline than fnaf1. I think more than 2 springlock suits exist because we see many around fredbears family diner, and there would need to be a spring Bonnie suit at Freddy fazbears pizza for purple guy to use. This could also explain why golden Freddy’s hat and tie are a different color, he was the other of the 2 suits mentioned to exist at the fnaf 1 location in the fnaf 3 phone calls. Here are some of my speculative thoughts I’m less confident are correct: I think the puppet is the fredbear that talks to the crying child and gives him his happiest day after giving the spirits life to get revenge on the purple guy, in the last fnaf 3 night mini game. The crying child has to find the clocks because the puppet uses his memories (from the fnaf 4 mini games) to gather the spirits for the happiest day. I think golden Freddy wasn’t related to any of the other victims though, which is why the puppet never gave him a gift, and he was never in the happiest day. Golden Freddy being separated from the crying child is why he torments purple guy in UCN (I don’t know why the crying child would be the one you should not have killed) I also think golden Freddy is the culprit for the bite of 87, if he was the most vengeful about his death. I think that’s most of the thoughts I’ve had after watching this and thinking about it, let me know what you think. I know this doesn’t solve everything (No idea what the lore in sister location’s private room means) But it could be what the story of the first 4 games was. Edit: I realized after writing this that the golden Freddy mask having its lights go out during the happiest day makes it difficult for the crying child to not posses golden Freddy while also being the one who receives the Freddy mask during the happiest day.

This is one of the best videos that I could watch before the 10th anniversary of fnaf. Thank you for making this video, you did a great job on the hard work that you put into it.

What is the song in the beginning?

THIS IS AMAZING!

18:36 huh, something about the way you said that just clicked something in my brain I'm not sure how i didn't see before. I don't think it's particularly relevant to this video but I'm gonna note it here before i forget anyway... Could HIM also be a pun on _Hymn_ ? With all the talk about this angel and their heaven in DR and some suggestions that angel may be or have something to do with Gaster, his "theme" being a hymnal would make sense 🤔

Okay but what about the 5th child that was explicitly shown to be murdered alongside the other four and is havily implied to possess Golden Freddy?

hats off to you if you figured out what was retconed

irrelevant comment but man i just heard homestuck music

One thing i've thinking more and more during these last years... Is how Fnaf as a whole feels... Immature. Almost... Almost like how a little boy imagine how work feels like. If you tell an 8 year old that you work as a security guard for a Pizzeria that features moving mascots... I believe FNAF1 gameplay is what that child will describe. Just switching cameras around while trying to not be eaten by the monsters... Then Fnaf2 Feels like a school break rumor/challenge... Like OHHHH YEAH! well... how would YOU survive if there weren't any Doors eh!? Fnaf3 trying to up the ante it's all about how the place is haunted While FNAF4 shows what the thing really was about... How the brother and his friends terrorized the little boy day and night which make him believe the rumors... YEAH... i do believe there is a REAL world component (contained in the newsclippings and tapes), but i think there are Two competing stories in FNAF... What it really happened and how it's being tainted by the way a kid interprets these things and present them to us. Hence why the importance of the TOYS, the toy phone, the fan, the grand father clock... To me the pieces put together are the toys they used to recreate these school rumours... The masks, the toy phone, the fan, the news clipping and his bedroom which features two opposite doors just like the office they pretended to play in. After all the box looks quite a lot like an old Toy trunk... I believe what Scott was afraid was... Will this be better than a dream? That this was all in the kid's imagination?? and How the 4th game is all about how the game they used to play/the game his brother used to scare him is creating a nightmare that explains FNAF1 as he dies and convinces himself to be one with Fredbear What would a kid believe you earn for that work? What would a kid believe as a good firing reason... Yeah, you were killed, you suck

I went to this convention too this year. I hadn't actually been there since 2019, so it was really fun for me to come back after so long. I remember that Scott the Woz hosted his first ever panel at TMG back then, but he didn't show up this year. Overall I had a great time and it's interesting to see what people thought about the convention like this!

This may have already been said by others, but the Papyrus interview and talking about green grass is weird seeing how he didn't know what the sun was when they exited the underground, though could just be meant as a joke idk. Alos, i dont know where this would fit in, but San's store is clearly Grillby's but with the name scratched out, feel like in a loop hed have to go to undertale first right?

I love you for the Mega Man 10 music. W taste. Also really good video, it really made me rethink a lot of my perspectives on the first 4 FNAF games.

This is such a good video, It really takes me back to the earlier days of the theories. Well done :)

I like a theory that pretty much excuses all the confusion in the lore regarding GF and CC, which is that FNAF 1-3 is an enclosed story, FNAF 1-4 is enclosed, FNAF1-6 is enclosed, and then finally there’s the ongoing modern story built off everything previous. Because clearly the story shifted and what was intended for FNAF 4 is not the same answer as today.

this music slaps

Finally a FNAF video that actually includes a recap of events in release order... I feel that's really important to understanding the fandom experience and I hate how so many theory/timeline videos neglect to mention it. So many videos are like "So you wanna learn about FNAF? Well ok, it starts with William Afton and Henry Emily" and I'm like "No it doesn't! It took 3 years for us to learn those names!"

Thank you for your video. You mentioned quite a few new things to me like comparing sound effects in the game. That was very cool to see! Unfortunately, I'm a bit confused what your core message was. It seemed like you mentioned quite a lot of evidence, compared different games, established a connection but then it wasn't clear to me what meaning or motivation is behind those connections. I also have a few questions content wise: In the night gameplay of FNAF 4, you can hear the phone call from the FNAF 1 game (reversed and distorted: czcams.com/video/_x-DqezKMVc/video.htmlsi=qY76yeXeJq5nFNl0). You said the crying child seen in the day gameplay is experiencing the nights. How can the child dream about the phonecall? I also understand you said the child got scared of the animatronics because he saw a person stuffed into a costume. How do you explain his fears before this event? Once again, thank you for your video! I'm looking forward to your video about the retcon!

I love the drawn to Life music! What a sadly forgotten game franchise

Close enough welcome back dream theory

Ngl, I would LOVE to see Scott Cawthon watch this video and then give a response to it somehow. Imagine how cool it would be if he explained if this was right or wrong? I genuinely love this theory and hope it was true, even if it got retconned at this point.

It's more of a Sans Cycle than a timeloop. A timeloop makes one think of someone experiencing the same thing over and over. A cycle speaks of creation. Creation of oneself. I'm gonna throw up.

Mike has to be the protagonist for fnaf 4 it doesnt make much sense for anyone else being it

Dead sanses are the enmy

Love this video. Can't wait for more!!

Interesting. Nice video. As unlikely it would be, Sans, Gaster, and Papyrus could mirror the Fun Gang. Gaster|Kris - If Gaster is who we think and know he is, then he can create fountains like Kris. Both fell into terrible situations regarding a loss of control. Sans|Susie - Both kinda have a control over some of the physics in the game. They do things usually their way when they are serious and have semi-meta moments. (I guess...?) Papyrus|Ralsei - Both want many friends and both (for now) hide things from everybody. Their nice, get lonely, and want friends.. On an unrelated note, maybe the doors in the hallway that lead to Castle Town could mirror the Titans. This could have hive interesting implications to Ralsei as his town is located in the biggest door.

I always assumed it was the bite of 87 but ppl started really reaching with theories and it got so derailed from what the story was intended to be

Deltarune is Sans' reality. Undertale is an unfinished game on Asriel's computer, in DR In essence, Sans got shoved from Deltarune into Undertale and can't return to DR for some reason. He went from his "real" world into a "game" world.

Cool 😎