The FNAF VHS Tapes: An Analog Horror Adaptation
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@@lpc9929 nah bro it's good.
Thanks dad
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Hey have you heard of the walten files? I'm just starting the vid so idk if you mention it, if not it's really cool you should check it out, just finished the vid ignore this lol
squimpus
edit: you got a key thing wrong. each character in this series, when text shows up, has their own specific color for that text. when it's white, charlie's talking, when it's yellow, joseph's talking, etc etc. joseph absolutely Loathed his brother ever since he died, but charlie always had faith that he'd be the key to ending everyone's suffering. that was JOSEPH apologizing in company psa
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McGoatmpus
I love you squimpus
i think u r really cool
Thanks for letting us know. I think I was hyper focused on Joseph being bitter & Charlie being sympathetic that I didn’t think of Joseph showing empathy to the other victims. Goes to show how well you wrote your characters. Thanks for the excellent series!
"MICHAEL, DONT LEAVE ME HERE" is actually ridiculously funny without context and in some circumstances
same with the "criminal" part for some reason i think its funny
I had a tiktok on my fyp the other day with Michael Clifford from 5 seconds of summer getting into his tourbus with that sound over it and I was in TEARSSS
I had no idea this waswhere that audio was from 😂😂
That sounds like a line Dwight would say in The Office
five at nights (fnaf freddy) fnaf freddy five at
Honestly, even the pure *description* of the William confession tape is terrifying, specially the part about how he *always* checks the position of the tape so if Michael discovers it, he'll know, it gave me goosebumps.
I love it because I love William
To clarify I love his villainy his threat his menace
what rlly gets me about it is that i think he made it SOLELY for the purpose that michael would one day hear it and live in fear for the rest of his life, which is insanely villainous
crazy how the tables turn, now squimpus is the *criminal criminal criminal*
@@PythonMFD what?
For me personally, when the scene with William Afton's photo with the word "criminal" repeating in the background, it kinda freaked me out when I first saw it.
Even hearing the audio freaks me out
@@mysticcangel1654 replac it with Nico's nextbots
I interpreted it as Henry coding the facial recognition system to go apeshit when it sees Afton
And the reason why they attack Michael is because he looks like his dad
before, i hated that purple face. Now, i have come to love it.
I just make it into a one lyric song lol
The whole “children’s souls trapped in animatronics” thing gets thrown around a lot and the usual response is about how tragic that fate is, but it takes that scene of the girl coming over to try and comfort her brother to drive the point home that _“oh my god these are children”_ if that makes any sense.
Simply hearing “tormented souls of children” doesn’t have that same weight
I think that why we clung to circus baby when sister location came out. It’s the first time a character FELT like a broken desperate child.
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ive heard the phrase "children souls in the animatronics" so much since 2014 that it doesnt phase me, and seeing that one scene made me realize its quite fucked. amazing
The guy who voiced William Afton knocked it out of the park, especially in those Springtrap tapes. Hearing him scream *”MICHAEL! HELP ME!“* is just so haunting.
It was Nolan the god damn nifty motherfucking table VA baby yeah
There’s memes of that sound and it makes it more light hearted (in a dumb way lol)
right?? it literally made me feel so uneasy. being trapped in the same place for years is just horrible, it drives anyone towards insanity. although he did deserve it in my opinion because of everything that he has done. but even though i think that way i can't help but to feel bad and anxious because of his cries for help.
I saw that posted on 4chan and people though it was real lol
Was he actually acting though? Is that the key?
Honestly, Squimpus being outed as a predator was more scary than the actual series.
Real crimes are scarier than fiction? How
this being how i find out about this information is wild
Why is everyone a nonce what the fuck
@@violeta373nah thats so fr how did i not know this.
yo what? where was this announced??
The one problem of fnaf is that it never really dug into the horrifying concept it had created, children, locked in purgatory by a murderering they're hopelessly hunting with no chance of ever finding him, its brutal, its depressing, and fnaf never really went into that (probably cause Scott was lowkey making it up as he went along and had to make it compatable with a game) in glad the VHS tapes are creating more of a story with things
Scott probably realized that there’s so many impressionable kids, to give them the true horror would’ve been so bad
Also, he’s just… not a horror aficionado. I’m impressed at how he managed in spite of the odds
Lmao literally, I hate when pple act like Scott had a whole flesh out plot mapped out from the first game and so on , FNAF was his last shot before he gave up making videogames , dude wasn't worried Abt lore, he was worried Abt makin it 😂😂
@@bingoboiii4209 yeh, its nothing against him he did the best with what he got and to be honest he tied it up pretty well with pizza simulator (shame he continued going but hey-ho)
It’s my personal headcanon that the lord is so complicated just to troll Game Theory
Scott is a bad horror writer. He doesn't understand why his series was so scary to begin with. It's pretty obvious that sci-fi is where his real passion is.
I didn't know that the "Micheal Don't Leave Me" voice wasn't from the original games, I hear it everywhere and just assumed. It's so cool to see what the community creates
the thing is that out of context, it can be somewhat hilarious
I’ve been a fan of the games since the first and even I didn’t realize at first that it wasn’t from a game. I just thought I had missed a cutscene lmao
*MICHAEL
I thought it was Michael's brother from prison break. No clue this is what it was from
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I dunno what it is about William Afton's face in this but the normal image somehow looks uncanny, even though it's supposed to be him normally. I guess thinking of a normal looking guy behind actions described in this series is much more frightening than the slightly morphed purple version of him.
He looks like the “have you seen this man” guy with smaller eyebrows
'slightly'
It's because they've taken the photo of a normal guy and exaggerated his features using photoshop. His smile, his crinkly eyes, all of that. It's subtle enough that you don't get it immediately, but your subconscious still registers it as 'uncanny'.
Pretty sure that was the intent of it.
@@dataexpunged6969 The Walten Files guy does a similar thing.
Fun Fact, in Sound Check, the bird was originally uncensored. The censor was added due to CZcams's restrictions.
I thought I was the only one who noticed
But what was the bird like? Was it dead? Why was it censored?
@@limabarreto911 it was censored because there was blood in the snow around it. You couldn't actually see the birds too well; mostly just a black shape in the snow with blood around it.
@@ashumon23 I see, thanks
@@limabarreto911 ya it was just a dead bloody bird in some snow
Apparently unlike William, turns out Squimpus really likes kids...
can't believe the other comment is how i found out for the first time
whats the situation about him i just heard from this comment
grooming huh?
How many times has this exact same thing happened? I lost track.
Looks like 90% of talented creators turn out to be predators. It's like a fucking disease.
Honestly, a good way to describe such derogatory crime, it’s like a damn disease.
This series has done one thing even Scott could never do.
End it when it should’ve
I'd laugh if it wasn't such a huge problem
Shame he never truly went all out horror minus maybe fnaf4 instead he just started catering to younger audiences… now that I read that over that doesn’t make me feel too comfy
HA
@@error_the_crow Seriously. Some things are best left done and over with. To be remembered and cherished.
@@error_the_crow I've played enough God of War to know that's a bad idea
That 'criminal criminal' thing has to be revolutionary as far as the entire genre of horror goes
_"S m o o t h C R I M I N A L"_
@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 to me it sounds like a intro to a beat.
Criminal *©riminal* *©r!m!n@l*
It filled me with a raw, primal fear I had never felt before.
@@JonathonJDog fr I almost cried
@Flower is eaten by wasp i hope that all the food in your house rots and that your roof collapses tomorrow
i hate these bots so much dude 💀
The scariest thing of this whole Squimpus VHS series is that he publicly outed himself as a pedo less than a year after this video was released. It sucks because just like myself, Wendigoon was simply analyzing and showing respect to a very well made fan series without knowing the person who made it was this terrible person
homestuck pfp spotted? the scratch?
The true horror of this generation, so many pedophiles as big creators.
Hold on what 😶
I swear every FNAF creator seems to have a negative reputation, and the fact that most are involving children is concerning
It’s almost ironic in a disgusting way
Same with some minecraft youtubers, i think it may have smthn to do with the significant child audience for both fandoms. Large prey population attracts predators(in both senses).
Battington?
@@DaedSixes Squimpus, even Mirth were accused of the forbidden combing, currently don't recall Battington but if it's the case as well... Wtf is happening with many these days, they just become guppie combers the next it's just not normal.
It’s disgustingly ironic unfortunately
The VHS tapes are creepier than all the games combined.
@Flower is eaten by wasp Yeah. The person who asked
bro fr, specially the confession imo
@Flower is eaten by wasp nobody was waiting
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I still find the games scary.
I love that the minds behind these terrifying tapes have names like Squimpus and MemeBear.
Lol
It’s always the unassuming ones.
Yep lol love them tho
Truly dreadful names
Battington too
One thing I really liked about Squimpus's version of Afton is his voice. Obviously the voice acting was great, but I mean the sound of his voice in general. It sounds like the VA is doing a performative upper class affect, similar to Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman, and that detail fits his version of Afton incredibly well.
Perhaps it was a little... too good
@@delunimbus lmaooo
let’s see william afton’s card
Afton was only there to check up on... some VHS Tapes...
Talk about a British Psycho! Imagine Christian Bale as Afton but BRI-ISH!
As fucked up as it is. Some of those children’s souls were trapped in those suits for longer than they were alive.
Like imagine only living for 8 years and then being stuck as a soul for 10 years. Or 30 years.
Not having a chance for growth. For education or really any enrichment or change.
I can’t begin to imagine how warped a soul/existence would become after that.
I absolutely adore the voice actor for William in this series. I can't exactly put it to words, but his portrayal of a deeply disturbed, psychotic man was absolutely perfect and incredibly enthralling
@@malachiatkinson7245 Imagine watching SA2 fandub and hearing "MICHAEL" in the dub lol
@@CNMashin "I've come to make an announcement-
_I don't love you either."_
SAME, it's just amazing
@@liberpolo5540 if the movie ever does happen they should have him reprise his role
When he told me to put the tape back neatly as possible and start running, I actually felt kinda scared. I felt like I *WAS* michael.
I loved the VHS series I couldn't stop replaying the William Afton audio tape.
You could easly put yourself in the place of Michael, being so scared from the things that you are listening to that when you get to the end you don't even remember how the cassette tape was placed and that's the true horror that William knew that if Michael found out he would absolutely find out too.
So you can only run now hoping that your killer dad won't catch you before you get to the police station with that cassette tape.
I agree! It works so well on so many levels.
William's confession tape is just so goofy to me, he's so chill about the murder of 5 children and is just like "yeah that was me lol"
Ok
it's giving "so THAT just happened"
i like how nonchalant he is, really emphasizing his complete lack of compassion or remorse
I mean, how do you expect a serial child murderer to sound? Remorse, or anything that implies a sense of compassion, wouldn't be it
ok ☝️🤓
Lol finding out Squimpus is a pedophile was not on my 2023 bingo card but here we are
lets see... A horror creator with a dubious name, creating fnaf stuff and being outed as a groomer... And the free space... Yeah thats a bingo good game
As someone who has never played FNAF and had very little exposure to the game (besides what's unavoidable because of the hype) these videos are extremely easy to comprehend and understand. Don't think I'm alone on that opinion
My friend sent me them, and I think I more or less understood what was going on. It's great storytelling
you're not alone! i've been watching Fnaf lore (just for fun) and i understand it too
@@AndromedaD same here, glad he's not too far into the lore where he can't explain it to outsiders. This is just what I've needed as I never really played the games. Still some confusing parts, but less then more so.
not alone! his first video of FNAF was the first one i’ve watched and i’ve always been interested in it and it was EXTREMELY easy to comprehend!
Wendigoon is good at that.
I honestly appreciate the vhs tapes for the maturity, tragedy, and seriousness they brought to a relatively accurate but condensed version of the story. Those qualities, both at the time the videos were being released and especially now, were noticeably lacking in the official series.
Exactly, that’s why the VHS tapes work so well and the more recent games don’t. Like SL had some good mature themes, but only if you were invested in the lore. Same deal with PS. (Let’s not even talk about SB)
@@BrapBrapDorito what are SB, PS and SL, if you don’t mind me asking?
@@DocBree13
PS=Pizza Simulation
SL=Sister Location
SB=Security Breach
(FNAF games basically)
How the hell does no one see the face on the top left of facial recognition testing, it has literally haunted me for years
Lmao saw it too, I was watching with the lights off, that might be it.
its there I saw it too
I don’t see it? 😭
Me too it's spooky 😭😭
Hi, I k ow its been a year, I'm like 90% sure it's the puppet
the fact that squimpus kept everything near to the original story, yet creating his own headcanon and making it so charmingly different is great
One bit of information that people tend to forget is Michael supposedly looks just like his father William. So the tortured souls see the face of their killer. The toy versions see the face of the person that they are programed to attack on site.
Agreed, it's a an important part of the story in my opinion. Having the animatronics attacking the very person who is trying to help them because he's the son of their murderer is an extremely interesting point
oohhhh
I never even thought about that
Not sure what the timeline is for the VHS series but in the games Micheal isn't the protagonist of FNAF 2.
Ethn in night 7 he is
Thank you for being the only person on CZcams I've ever heard openly acknowledge the fact that the 5 Nights series was not/is not made for kids yet somehow, yes, super weirdly, got marketed to kids. A million thank yous.
Not to go full boomer mode, but I'm so tired of almost everything somehow attracting a mostly child fanbase. Fnaf, Friday Night Funkin, creepypastas, etc. Are not meant for children at all, but people think of kids when they think of these series. Probably because kids are so incredibly easy to market to and profit off of unfortunately. Fnaf came out when I was a teen, and even then it gave me nightmares, lmao. Seeing it turn into security breach and become a "kids horror game" depresses me a lot, because the dark atmosphere of the original fnaf games is still unmatched to this day imo, but has been sanitized to hell for the sake of money it seems 🥲
@@vglycorpse to be fair the majority of creepypastas' writing was so terrible it could only be enjoyed (unironically) by kids
@@vglycorpse I knew about this series before I became a parent & I never once thought it was for kids. Now it's super popular with kids & I know of several people that let their child be fans. I'm just baffled.
I can tell you why FNAF got marketed towards kids.
CZcamsrs.
@@JeanMarceaux personally i disagree
i think it was because nothing especially graphic is ever shown
the worst it gets is probably when you see purple guy get springlocked but that's in 8-bit so it's pretty much as low quality as you can get
its ironic that squimpus made this considering his is also a criminal who did horrible things to children.
excuse me?
@@ocucas_antigo hes a kiddy diddler
@@shaxxercize8094 when did this happend?
omg finally i was so confused that no one else was talking abt this; i didn’t know he actually did anything, i just heard abt his inappropriate online interactions with a 14 year old
@@shaxxercize8094more accurately he showed adult images to someone 6 years his junior when he was 19 for around 4 years
“MICHAEL, DONT LEAVE ME HERE!” IM CACKLING I DIDNT KNOW THAT CAME FROM THE TAPES
the afton voice acting in the finale type thing is amaxing. especially that "MICHEAL!" part, and right after. ugh its so good. and even better is the depiction of chicas child soul not understanding being dead. its so good
My favorite was always the Memories video. That monologue, how casual he is while talking about KILLING CHILDREN, followed by the chilling reveal that he knows exactly who's listening.
Definitely some great voice acting
Yeah. The voice acting is mind blowing. I love the "MICHEAL! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE! MICHEAL! **Hysterical Sobbing** MICHEAL!"
Toy Bonnie's response to William's face makes more sense when you learn that (apparently) in the books the Toy Animatronics were programmed to _kill William on sight if they ever saw him_
Edit: Michael's younger brother isn't arguing with Charlie, its just him speaking to her in general. The yellow text is what the younger brother is saying, Charlie doesn't actually 'speak' in this video.
Imagine kids are just partying in the pizzeria, William walks in and brutally gets ripped apart in front of everyone 💀
What book are you teferring to? The twisted ones?
@@JustAnAverageGuy5731 The worst of it is they would never learn that this was trauma-inducing that would would have happened to them
@@llewelynshingler2173 The alternative is death, and therapy can't treat that
@@JustAnAverageGuy5731 imagine a kid is like: mr bonnie what are you doi- OH MY GOD
I really like the part where it shows Afton while it goes CRIMINAL CRIMINAL CRIMINAL, and then Afton transforms into Squimpus sending NSFW art to a minor. Makes my spine tingle every time, best part about the VHS tapes.
If you look closely during the Facial Recognition video, after Bonnie got up and attacked the guy, you can actually see an faint image of William. You can see it in the top left corner at 12:42
Wendigoon,
I always appreciate that you don’t make these videos any scarier than they have to be. You let the content do the work as you explain it. As much as I like horror and the fear of it I’m very glad that you play calm music and you don’t use any kind of low scary voice or anything.
It’s very comforting and allows me to consume these spooky topics in a more controlled and not completely terrifying setting.
I feel like a lot of CZcamsrs that cover spooky stuff and horror topics overdo it but not you! Thank you so much for that.
Yeah, I agree with you!
this is exactly why wendigoon is goated
Are you gonna check out any of these channels or their content
That is because theres a difference between a Man who is passionate about horror stuff and comes around to share it with us, and a man who tries to make horror content
This is a big appeal for me, and I very much appreciate him for it.
He's FINALLY got the lighting right.
This has been a journey!
Almost lmfao I think the lighting could be more centered
I don't know why , but your profile photo goes well with your comment in my humble opinion .
Its like adding the finishing touch to a michelin star meal .
@@whootywhoo6274 sounds like a bot comment
Leave him be, he may have a huge following but he's still fairly new in the game
@@amildlydisappointingsalad6058 How?
13:49 i haven’t seen all the squimpus tapes yet but damn, this one really dug deeper into the mind and torment of a child. So heartbreaking
I love how Squimpus McGrimpus humanized the dead souls in the animatronics. Seeing the animatronics get emotional in the state that they're in and then seeing the obituaries at the end with the classical music really hit different. I never thought I'd get emotional over a FNAF fan series.
I don't like how Squimpus McGrimpus touches kids tho
@@thedillybarboyBased
Honestly, William is such an underutilized character in the main series despite "always coming back". The mere fact that this serial child murderer has a family could have made for some very personal horror from the perspective of one of his children. This is a man who presents himself as pleasant and polite to the outside world, hiding his true nature as an unstable sociopath just beneath the surface. It's kinda ironic how the main villain of the entire series is both used too much and too little at the same time.
I had hoped Security Breach would show us the more controlling, manipulative side that William is hinted to have through Glitchtrap's connection to Vanny, but unfortunately they went the easy route and just had him return as Springtrap yet again instead of doing something interesting with him.
You play as Michael in 1, 2, 3 and pizzeria simulator. You see William face to face again in pizza simulator
@@lonewanderer1328 Yes. I know that. This doesn't change the fact that the dynamic between William and his family is never fully explored despite the fourth, fifth and sixth games centering around what happened to the Afton family.
Weird thing is I do not think its the easy route as much as..Half the game is gone
Like, cut content implies we were going to see more of Vanny and Williams relationship and how Afton is abusive to her
tfw sb lore-wise feels like a filler
@@formerlymakkas Filler that had three years worth of build-up.
One thing about the FNAF 4 locked box, originally the text was “Maybe some things are best left forgotten, for now.” But was later changed to “Maybe some things are best left forgotten, forever.”
This was because of all the theories about what was in the box, Scott was genuinely disappointed nobody could figure it out and as such left it where is was. As far as I know, this is the one true unsolved FNAF theory.
I always thought that it would've been the foxy mask michael was wearing when his brother died idk
The fact that nobody could figure it out is proof Scott got way too far up his own butt trying to make "The lore" cryptic and hard to find.
@@chibiraptor agreed…
I think its more of Scott had no real thing planned for the box
@@KrislaneGC well, no, because Scott’s offical statement was he was disappointed they couldn’t figure out what was in the box. So there was something in the box
I've only just now noticed that after Bonny jumps forward during the facial recognition test we see William Aftons face appear in the top left corner
The dialogue of the tape under William's bed is some of my favorite horror dialogue in anything ever. The delivery of each line is spoken like a true serial killer, and the line "Put it back as best as you can, and start running", is up there with the most dread inducing lines I've ever heard in a video series
Wendigoon, you out here constantly making my day bro
Same here
Bruv definitely in my top 5 CZcamsrs
he literally can talk about child murder and still get a smile from us
Exactly
Ong this nigga is so handsome for no reason bruh
The 'Criminal' scene traumatized me very hard. I literally was terrified of the purple face.
me too bro, i remember watching it very late at night in the basement of my house which was the worst idea i’ve ever had. when i saw that initial face and then the switch to the purple distortion, i just stared at it for a while and then spent the next like 10 mins just watching and waiting for something to come out at me.
the worst part was i had to go back upstairs afterward and go to bed in the middle of the night :(
@@holllow Oof
I've rewatched these multiple times and honestly William as a whole always just sticks into my mind. The morphed faces during the Criminal scene and his death. His screams for Michael to let him out. William was done really well as he was the most haunting part of the tapes in my honest opinion.
@@douglasnewdell absolutely man. he’s the most haunting part of the entire series for me and always has been. i’ve said it before but the story of fnaf is really a tragedy more than anything. a man who lost everything turned to killing which caused pain for others, and eventually it all came back to him.
Lean man
The tragedy and horror aspect of kids being trapped in animatronics actually really remind me of cybermen from doctor who. In the series when the cybermen (who are people transformed into these killing machine robots with the inability to feel) are given the ability to feel emotion, they instantly die from the horror of their situation.
Pretty neat
I cannot stress enough how the kids are not only in near eternal pain, but can no longer have a childhood, let alone see their parents/loved ones as it is...
It's gotten to a point where they know going to Heaven was their only way out of such hell...
It's really all the more saddening the more you think about it 😔
Speaking of Doctor Who, the Doc is also someone who suffered to the upmost unknownable reaches, not even a just as unknowable eldritch entity could handle the Doc's experinces and was MORTIFIED, it too died because of it I think...
Let it sink in that the Doc's sufferings were so outlandish, that an incomprehensible being couldn't handle.
I love how so many of these disturbing moments in the sqimpus series are hilarious when taken out of context
Actually most of analog horror moments when you think about it.
The Squimpus tapes are one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen in regards to the fnaf series. It's very easy to get wrapped up in the absurdly complicated and convoluted lore that you forget what started it- 5 dead kids and their neverending torment.
It's extremely jarring to see the Chica video with the image of the girl, or the Facial Recognition testing going so wrong. It's easy to forget that there are people in this universe who have feelings, motives, families, love interests, and that they experience everything we do as humans.
On a darker note, the depiction of abuse is scarily accurate (in my experience). As a kid, you don't realise how bad it is until you leave and I know Michael feels no remorse for killing his father in fnaf 3 (at the end of the tapes) there will be that niggling in the back of his head and throat always wondering 'what if'. 'what if I could get through to him?' 'what if I could change him?'. The way the VA for William perfectly captures that sadistic side is brilliant and almost triggering for me. You know that scene where he says 'I miss the days where you used to cry when I screamed at you'? I've had that exact conversation with my own father. It's amazing and terrifying at the same time.
It's the perfect series, imo.
throw ur whole dad away goddamn
I can't say "Squimpus tapes" in my head without laughing.
@@melvinmerkelhopper5752 fr like what 😭😭😭
Squimpus tapes were so good, they've convinced me that FNAF can actually be scary, and not just enjoyable ironically.
Hella good job. Chica's tape still haunts me.
i know right!! theyre horrifying and fantastic
Hey Wendigoon, in case nobody else said it already: I'm that guy you mention at 29:41 (or at least one of them since I'm sure I can't be the only one). I never played any FNAF game and didn't know anything about the story before the previous video, and I watched both of them and not only understood them but greatly enjoyed them.
Thank you! Again it’s all my interpretation but I hope it helped
@@Wendigoon hayy!! (hit my brother up he has me in a cage and if i dont write this reply he will throw me in the river Thames !! 😉😊😊)
@@mar-ul5pd great you deserve it
Yep you aren't the only one, here's another🙋♂️
@@Fly40 just asked him if he could let u go 🤞🤞kinda hard writing this from the bottom of a river but hope u get set free!!
"the 5 missing kids of freddys. that was me. ill elaborate on that later." idk why but thats just so funny
the problem with my relationship with fnaf is: love it, find it amazing, have large interest in all it's versions and would love to play it but can't deal with horror without having nightmares for days (I'm 20 for the record) to save my life so I end up with this kind of video being the closest to the experience i can get. Quality content.
Same
Relate relate
For some reason the William Afton face strikes a primal fear in me even without the purple and burning effects
I agree, something about how soulless his eyes are, and how fake his smile looks, isn’t necessarily terrifying, but more alarming, gives me the feeling like I’m about to get jumped lol
So at this point the comment is very old but I still wanna say why you and a lot of other people think like this. In the short of it it's uncanny, the face is a bit too stretched not too much to where you'd notice at first but after seeing the picture for a while it's mainly the smile it's too big, it's unnatural and the eyes like the other commenter said they look soulless un caring of others around him. Things like this is what make it so scary without it being horror movie like
Well it's just a black and white photo of a former U.S Representative or something. And politicans are the most soulless and uncaring things on the planet.
The confession tape story is fantastic!
That could be a whole horror movie.
Imagine your father telling you he murdered a bunch of children, and you better put that tape just as it was, because he always checks.
Fucking horrific.
fnaf movie here we go
the fnaf movie will be centered around micheal soo, who knows? Maybe (hopefully) something like this will happen.
That line was by far the scariest thing ive ever read from fnaf in the many years ive been a part of the fandom. So chilling
17:16 I remember watching this tape at 1 am in the summer of 2021. I was super invested in the series and fnaf at the time.
I think it was somewhere towards the end of the video when all the electricity in my house got cut off. It was somewhere after William told Michael that he knew that his son would find the tapes.
I love horror and I'm not easily scared, but since I was so invested in fnaf and specifically the vhs tapes. I got so scared and actually thought that Springtrap was real and was gonna kill me. I don't think I've ever been that afraid in my entire life. I even started to cry a little.
The lights turned on after like a minute though. And some people texted me saying that the same happened to them and they all lived in the same town. I laughed it off after I read the messages and finished the video before going to bed.
8:17 “You didn’t juju on that beat.”
That image became a lot funnier now that I know the original context of it.
This was the first time I think any FNAF fan content has really hit me. It's even better than the original in my opinion. It humanizes the victims and paints Michael as this dude who really wanted to do good after doing something bad to his brother. And even though his brother doubted him and every spirit began to lose hope (and honestly you can't blame them), Michael still did what Charlie asked and killed his father to free their souls. Even Charlie, who despite being told there's nothing she can do, still worked with Michael anyway. That's some damn good dedication and a really satisfying end to a horrific story.
Yeah. Scott hasnt been doing a great job with his story but in his defense fans force him to make more and more and that really doesn't help quality
Hmm how about making a fnaf vhs that completely flips on its head
If only we could make clones of Wendigoon. His content is honestly inspiring me to deep dive on mysteries and weird situations wanting to make videos on them.
@Flower is eaten by wasp ngl I thought you were responding to the comment instead of promoting some weird video
@@justtosharefiles678 same lmao boy had me rethinking everything for a split second lol
Could they.... Could they kith?
The Wendigoons
@@justtosharefiles678 nah fr
“That was me 😌😏…. I’ll elaborate on that later💅🏻✨” 17:23
Whoever voiced William Afron deserves a role in a horror series for his performance being stuck in the backroom
One thing that must be mentioned about Squimpus' tapes in particular is excellent use and understanding of Caretaker's style of creepy ballroom music to amplify the horror. While FNAF's target audience mostly knows about it as just "spooki old music/sound jumble", Squimpus used it to represent both old times and memories about it (the use of Lullaby of the Leaves after kids talking was fantastic) and using EATEOT samples (the dementia speedrun album) to represent madness. The only VHS creator to have done a better job at it for now is Martin Walls, but thebar was set pretty high IMO.
As a huge caretaker fan, this is something I’m deeply interested in. If you’re interested, I’m working on a video essay regarding the crossover between the caretaker and analog horror, with this series being a major part of the vid.
😢😊😂
Can we admire that the crying child’s name is joseph, just like the joseph of the Bible that was also the favorite child? It’s a cool parallel
The crying child is actually Evan, where did you get Joseph from?
@@gallaviching the video. 17:42
@@gallaviching watch the series before saying anything, its joseph
@@gallaviching Evan isn’t even his confirmed canon name, it’s just a theory, and one with a few gaps in it as well.
Wake up Joseph. Wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up
Such a bummer Squimpus got all pissy and cancelled the remake series
OH WHAT HE DID LATER WAS AN EVEN BIGGER BUMMER WOW
@@KotoCrash what sort of cosmic power do you have
[Then]:
Shows william...
Criminal...
Criminal...
Criminal...
[Now]:
Show squimpus...
Criminal...
Criminal...
Criminal...
I wonder what it is about the "criminal criminal" thing that triggers such unease or terror. I think it's because of how real and mundane the picture is, driving home the reality of everyday people being serial killers.
But also because there's something PARTICULARLY not right about the eyes and the smile.
It's really funny you bring up how this series really brings the murdered children being a horrendous crime back into the forefront. Recently I was talking to a friend about why I disliked the later games of FNAF because the first ones start off so strong; with a viscerally unnerving concept of murdered kids. The focus is the animatronics and the souls that possess them. But as the series goes on, the fact the kids were killed is more of a background plot to William and Michael's interactions. "Dead kids" stops being a main focus and is just like a character trait of William's decent into madness.
What I love about the VHS is that, it's like you said, it puts the focus back onto the kids and the horrible things that happened to them. It draws on that deep well that the first game did so well.
I agree. The weight and horror of the happenings is only made stronger by also conveying the murders from the children’s perspectives.
Descent*
i love all the games and the fact that there's an intricate story but yeah, the "main" story/the afton storyline ended with pizzeria simulator and that might also be my absolute favorite game of them all.
Yep, squimpus really loved focusing on the kids
I like the fact that the VHS tapes correctly portray Micheal as a huge pos. In the games he's seen as a hero for fighting his dad, but it's a fact that he killed his younger brother for a prank
He was a kid dude he fucked up made a terrible choice suffered for it and spent his life trying to right it
he didn't purposely try to kill him though
He was a child it wasn’t on purpose. It haunted him for his whole life and he knows he caused his fathers downfall through that. The whole series is basically him trying to find out the truth
„It‘s just a prank bro“
Michael defenders out here with the cope. He most likely knows this, and knows michael changed, but he was indeed a huge pos beforehand
squimpus being exposed is a tragedy but it doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy this series. it wouldn't be fair to the other people who poured their talent and passion into it
I think this is the best way to go about it, respect the series for what it is, as it's objectively really good! Scrimpus' actions are irredeemable but it didnt' seem to seep into his series, so you can enjoy it on it's own merits.
Separate the art from the artists
Thank god for battington.
@@darshansooful9559as long as the artist doesnt turn their art into their own opinion outlet, absolutely.
These FNaF VHS videos really make William a disgusting and TERRIFYING dude. VHS videos make him seem like a happy dude but under that fake smile is a monster.
i know! the tape where he is talking to michale makes me VIOLENT
Unlike squimpis version of vanessa where under that fake smile is depression
The fact that Wendigoon says, “And as always…” and doesn’t follow it up with, “Don’t forget to like and subscribe” but instead, “Thank you for watching.” Makes me enjoy watching him so much more. 💕
Edit: if you’re reading this comment and feeling the need to comment hate, you’re toxic. I like when CZcamsrs don’t tell me to subscribe. Sue me.
“Oh CZcamsr please notice me”
@@LargeAl Cuptie Big Al
@@thenotsoamazinggracetnsag3463 hey I like when I’m not told what to do, so you can focus on yourself instead of scrolling through comments waiting to find someone to fight with or to agree with someone for fighting with someone else who is expressing genuine thoughts. You’re miserable enough to do that, and that’s your problem.
@@LargeAl tbh I genuinely dislike when you tubers tell their audience to like and subscribe so then I had a genuine “oh wow this is nice” at wendigoon and then you went “ew I’m gross so this is annoying to me” 🙃 this is one of those moments where you’re genuinely being toxic
@@aGrapeInUtero sorry but your saying he's toxic, but your just as, if not more toxic than him.
fnaf started with so much potential for good horror, but later down the line they decided to abandon all that just to please kids and toy companies rather then making a good horror game series
19:34 THAT’S THE CONTEXT OF THAT TIKTOK AUDIO?!?!?!?!?? Jesus Christ that’s so dark I had no idea 😭😭😭
It’s amazing how simply yet effectively Fnaf VHS managed to adapt Five Nights at Freddy’s into a scaled back, short analog horror series. The format is so perfect not only for how the 80s vhs aesthetic fits so naturally into the creepy 80s animatronics inspired world of fnaf, but it also managed reminded me and so many others what made the story of the first few games truly terrifying to begin with.
Once you strip away spooky animatronics, the jump scares, the convoluted lore, the endless sequels and the series’s oversaturated popularity… at its core, Five Nights at Freddy’s is the story of children who lost their innocence and lives to a truly awful man, and the child of that man’s struggle to come to terms with and finally free himself and others from the trauma which that man caused.
Hmm I wonder if there's a sequel to fnaf vhs?
Wendigoon: “I wanna talk about this FNAF CZcams series but no one knows the story…”
*solves the entire story of the game in a single video after years of no one knowing what happened*
Wendigoon: “There we go, now I can get to work.”
To be fair, Wendigoon himself admitted that he didn’t “solve” the FNAF lore so much as take the work of others and describe it in a way that is easier to understand. Literally everything he talked about had already been figured out by a FNAF CZcamsr or by Someone on Freddit. He gets points for taking a huge and complicated lore and distilling it down into something a newbie can understand, though.
Even then he still gets a few issues wrong but for a video that compiles the entire known FNAF lore into a single video a few mistakes are bound to happen
@@ScoutScoutScoutScoutScout yeah, as a longtime theorist it was a pretty good summary of what happened
@@ScoutScoutScoutScoutScout honestly this whole franchise is built on "a few mistakes" lol I doubt even Scott could answer every question he planted in this series.
“so put it back michael, as neatly as you can. and start running.”
i think the "Micheal dont leave me here" was inspired by the UCN easter egg, where if you play with ONLY old man consequences on 1 and catch the fish, you get transported into a world thats in reference to FNAF WORLD. the audio that plays during that mini game is extremely slowed down but when sped up, its screaming. its very vague but you can hear words like "Micheal", "Henry", and "Help"
i think thats why so many people thought that it was from one of the games. because its inspired by something from one of the games.
my name is gloomy, im autistic, and five nights at freddy's has had a grip on my life since 2014 and it WILL NOT let me escape its grasp.
i came across the "criminal criminal criminal" vhs tape ages ago, one of the few bits of fiction to actually unsettle me, and was then totally shocked to learn years later that it was not technically canon. blew my mind.
Squimpus and Battington are literally so talented. I recommend checking out Battington’s other content as well
Battington is so good, I loved his Horror and Harmony series
19:39 10 year old me when my sister locked me in the bathroom and shut off the lights
8:18 you didn't juju on that *beat*
That’s what i was gonna say 💀
No one:
The roach I just sprayed with raid: 20:10
I would love to see you tackle Majora's Mask and the world of Termina with how unnerving and confusing the game itself is, would definitely be interested in seeing you make content pertaining to it
Strongly agree!!
vouch!
No
@@xiopia3940 NFT profile picture automatic L
Please do.
Bruh I love Wendigoon so much. Dude covers all these darker and creepy things I didn’t know existed and occasionally we’ll get a little drop of faith as well. It’s stellar
22:49 I think that its possible (albeit unlikely) that this girl would go on to (eventually) possess Mangle, as:
1. that animatronic looks like a dog
2. that animatronic has two heads, one for her and one for the dog
3. WE ARE FORGETING THAT ENDOSKELETONS CAN BE PUT ONTO DIFFERENT SUITS
4. Chica was two animatronics, the Chica and the cupcake, and mangle is technically two, the mangle and the extra head thing
BASICALY the girl started out as chica, was always connected to her dog's spirit, and then eventually became mangle as her endoskeleton was put into a new foxy like suit
(and before someone says "but the fnaf2 animatronics were high tech why would they use an old endo?" Remember that if Mangle was really that high tech and important, they wouldn't have let the thing get mangled in the first place! They probably saw that the kids were destroying it, so they changed the endo to an older, cruddier one).
Well thats my schizo rant of the day, hope i get credit for this theory, MattPat beat me by literally a day or two to that secret discovery in that motorcade arcade game in Fnaf pizzeria Sim
The video of Lucas and Angie talking about heaven always makes me feel nauseated it's so sad and horrifying. I'm so glad you covered these and showed some more, cool creators!
It feels how an actual child would react.
Names lucas, hate it when the name lucas is in horror stuff, just feels really wrong idk
I LOVE that the FNAF community is finally embracing the horror side of the franchise. I remember back in the day being frustrated that all the fan content I could find, other than a few solid songs on CZcams, was fanfiction shipping the animatronics or personifying them. High school me would have adored Squimpus' videos 👌
a product of fnaf fanbase growing up along with the game. great stuff
He would’ve adored highschool viewers
Well, back in the day FNAF was a horror game.
Now it's a family friendly adventure game.
So nobody gonna talk about Squimpus abusing kids via grooming ?
People have been mentioning it recently, but it's a one year old video. I doubt it's going to be a big topic here of all places.
Kids plural?
I've seen these multiple times and I gotta say, the imagery still fucks with me. Its unsettling, subtly grotesque, and too easy to fall into. I love it
Fnaf is literally the only game series I've ever seen that is completely and utterly defeated by its fan content. Like it's actually pathetic looking at the difference in quality and writing but at the same time, I love Scott Cawthon for fueling these brilliant and talented creators.
Do you mean the more recent games or the older ones are defeated
@@FastBoxGaming i guess its the newer ones
Bethesda
@@FastBoxGaming I like the older ones and pizzeria simulator but security breach was an actual affront to god
For real I love fnaf and all but the writing's gotten goofier over time imo. Like it went from uncanny 80's/90's animatronics to just straight up robot furries in the future.
If the FNAF movie ever ends up happening I hope it's more of a murder mystery with these elements thrown in. Like the night watchman learns of the murders on the first night, sees how the animatronics almost seem to be haunted, and feels compelled to come back the rest of the 4 nights to try and solve the mystery, and he discovers VHS tapes similar to this, and maybe there's some creepy moments where there aren't jumpscares but the animatronics just do some of the terrifying shit they do in these really creative fanworks.
Also they must write MatPat as phone guy, it just makes since at this point
@@gallaviching no
@@gallaviching absolutely not
@@gallaviching Scott or Markiplier are good choices too
@@gallaviching god no
Weird knowing now that squimpus was a pedo
battington is incredible im so glad he got a mention
Analog Horror Fans when you show them videos that somewhat resembles low quality 80s vhs footage: 😳
😩😩😩😔😔😔
Wendigoon _and_ FNAF VHS? My two favorite things!!! Maybe now if I make a _House of Leaves_ video and it too gets a lot of views, Wendigoon will finally make his own as well!
Heyheyhey! Dude! It's you!
I love how much more personal the tapes tend to be, they hold on things the series brushes over scope wise so you really feel more grounded rather than an outsider looking in imo
something that you probably didn't notice in the facial recognition VHS after toy Bonny attacks the person you can see William Aftons face in the dark looking at the camera
This series is so great! Giving William Afton a real motive and humanising the dead children instead of just using them as plot devices in one big tally count
It all makes this series so much more understandable, cohesive and interesting!! Great job squimpus
I always thought the clip saying “Michael! Don’t leave me here! Michael!!” at 19:34 Was from Dwight of The Office and someone distorted his audio 😂
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