Popping in because I will never feel I have said enough how appreciative I am to see everyone here enjoying the new upload! I just recently have been able to pour full time energy into this channel and the only thing making that possible is all of you guys and I will never be able to thank you enough for it. I truly feel like there are some very exciting things awaiting just around the corner! I love all of you who come even to just watch the video, everything counts and I'm eternally grateful 😌
Some of my favorite FNAF VHS content creators include Squimpus McGrimpus, Battington (who remade most of Squimpus McGrimpus's tapes but has since moved on to making wholly original tapes), and Spectre. Theer is also a horror content creator named Vibing Leaf who does remakes of old creepypastas and other horror media, if you're interested.
8:50 Pretty sure this is William pretty plainly telling the audience that he killed the kids in order to find a way to bring back C.C back to life through whatever way animatronics get haunted. "I will put you back together".. Remnant n' all, Edit: watching a bit further, yeah- you figured it out-,
The thought of Afton taking pieces from the kids bodies, to try and literally "put him back together", him being the crying child, is actually terrifyingly brilliant for the character, it gives meaning to the murder, and how William has gone so mentally insane, to the point were he's makes an amalgamation to try and bring his son back to life.
It also works as a call back to the cadets stories, all being about putting five things together in the hopes of making something good, but creating a monstrosity instead
Idk I liked the idea of him being a serial killer who then goes through a similar tragedy like the victims of his crimes, especially in matpats timeline bcs William is an over qualified genius who kills his rivals child to then also lose his own
to be fair in the lore he is literally a genius who pioneers animatronics, who just so happens to go insane from the lost of his son, and daughter, and his emotions slowly devolving into blinding rage mainly directed towards innocent children and his son@@nickperez915
fuck I knew it was coming and I still flinched. I can't even figure out *why* this works so well even out of context. Like if I see any of the loud screaming jumpscares from the game and Im ready for it nothing happens, but this one genuinely made me shudder
Limbs sticking out of the animatronics would be a super cool design but it won't happen because that's too dark for a kids game, which the fnaf franchise has become at this point
I literally CANNOT let myself watch FNAF analog stuff anymore. If I do my fear of the dark will return with a vengeance like I'm a little kid again, it freaks me out on a primal level that sticks in my head.
... saying this I can't stay away from it, I started watching this video and couldn't stop. The fact that it's so scary to me is too exciting or something.
Nah if one of them was in your house you'd listen them coming in even from the street, that'd give you time to run away. Hope this calmed down ur subconscious kid, it's what i tell myself 🤡
Listening to you not understand FnaF lore or not know about certain characters is both comical but also extremely refreshing to me, because on one hand, a lot of these are very important characters that you don't know, like that "Rat" animatronic is actually just a cloth version of a spring bonnie suit that has a ton of lore attached to it from the more recent games. But it's also insanely refreshing that you don't know this stuff because nowadays the FnaF lore is just super congested and annoying to try and follow for the most part.
Last misconception I noticed is the fact he thinks that the crying child is the face we saw come out of golden Freddy’s mouth that is in fact the one you should not have killed / Cassidy
Just a thought - Goosebumps was also a media franchise mostly enjoyed by children where the horrible stuff only happened to the children. Imo - FNAF appeals to kids as their first taste of horror. The games have dark topics, but they're obscured by bright visuals and vague allegory. And as a horror media, a little jump scare is a much more approachable horror than games like Outlast, where the adult themes are on screen.
You'd be surprised by how many "made for kids" media is super not kid friendly yet has a huge audience of children for some reason. I mean for Pete's sake, a series about talking cats has said cats get mauled by dogs, each other, and death of kittens everywhere.
Plus there are depictions of super toxic relationships (Squirrelflight and Bramblestar/Ashfur), heavy xenophobia/racism (Kittypets, Loners, Sisters), ableism (Cinderpelt/Jayfeather/Briarlight) and politics (Especially in The Broken Code). As much as I adore the series these points really piss me off, especially the xenophobic and toxic relationships aspects
As a kid who grew up on Fnaf. Its the horror. Its the horror that we love. I hate that its turning kiddish. Because its ruining what brings kids to it. Its like the creepypasta community used to be alot of kids. Same with Fnaf. We loved the Horror.
??? FNAF has always pandered to kids, just like old creepypastas (which arguably, were even more), FNAF was just a taste of horror, if you go back to the first few games they were nothing like how these ultra-horror series like this potray them to be
@@MrClauwsnah, FNAF 1 is terrifying without needing to be gory. It’s still horror and the concept of these missing kids being murdered and stuffed into suits is morbid. I liked FNAF a lot more when it stuck to what made the first two games what they were.
From what I’m seeing with the Fnaf trailers I’m kind of disappointed. It’s amazing how indie creators on UA-cam can make a horrifying version of a game/video to show the true horrors of actual children meeting tragedy and the end of murder. But now it’s just saturated with recent creations of the games.
@@The_Artist_Official shit there’s a Backrooms movie? Hopefully they stick to an analog style of that uncomfortable feeling of getting stalked or watched.
I think FNAF's darkness and brutality is really overlooked, as it never seems like people stop to think or care enough for how violent the lore is and just how much child murder it involves. Maybe because many of us (myself included) were the same age as the kids when we got to know the franchise.
This is why I hate when people say that the VHS tapes are not "real fnaf" and that the franchise isn’t that scary The VHS tapes just show what actually happened and how gruesome it was Especially the springlock ones since that’s actually what happened
The "rat" is (sit yourself down for this one) a digital version of Afton after being burned for a second time by his own son then put into a VR game to corrupt some random person's mind
(Please read this. I spent so much time on this comment) They turned a complex story full of rage, sorrow, and revenge, to games focused on completion, and new, flashy looks for the animatronics, and other factors that have been twisted and manipulated turn the franchise into a not so interesting series of games later released. Here’s what it was: a dark, twisted man, who killed a great amount of children, stuffed them into suits, and got away with it. Their helpless, innocent souls are trapped in those robots, forever. Later, the killer, William Afton, destroys the possessed animatronics, which sets their souls free. As the spirits corner William, his eyes dart around the room, desperate, for something to save him. He spots an old, spring Bonnie spring lock suit, sitting there. He puts the suit on, an starts laughing, thinking that he has fooled the spirits. The mixture of his laughter, and the leaking of the roof, caused the spring-locks in the suit to go off. as they crush him, head to toe, he lets out blood curling screams, shouting people’s names, hoping for someone to come. After a few seconds of quick, dreadful pain, the spring locks located just in the neck area, go off, crushing his vocal cords preventing him from even making the slightest of sounds. He lays there, punctured everywhere and hopeless. For the next 30 years, he is trapped in a room, thinking of the things that have happened to him in the past, and what could of been prevented. That is just one example of the many things that happened. Here’s what it is now: a boy named Gregory, runs around Freddy’s pizzaplex, dodging animatronics, and he’s friends with freddy. No gore, no scary scenes, nothing. Does that sound like true fnaf to you?
the DLC tried to improve and bring in more mystery but it just wasnt enough to turn it around. at this point i am more convinced that scott just brought in more nonsense hoping it would make sense during fnaf 4 (when it got hate for it being "all but a dream" type thing) and onwards, the books dont even make much sense like a glowing mushroom cave? in the damn pizza complex???? oh and the AUs are getting out of hand.
Isn't it weird to anyone how the allure of these games to real life children parallels the games' plot points of luring children to their doom? Might be strange coincidence but it seems like the creator nailed exactly what he set out to create in his fictional world so well that it had similar (though far less violent) effects in our world.
As someone who started her fnaf craze back when i was 10~11 i can tell you the unusualness of the horror in this game was what appealed to me, there was nothing like it at the time. I was scared shitless and would scream along Markiplier as i watched the gameplays, but it was still so captivating
11:57 Tale Foundry actually made a video about children's alure to horror, fnaf being a big example. While I would say that the newer games definitely brought in a more younger audience, I think children also just want to be scared, and since fnaf is a game where the scares upfront aren't as horrifying as the subtle story (like how there's barely any gore, but death is a present theme) behind it unlike other more "adult" horror games that straight up show the more intense horror, children are more naturally attracted to it similar to how they're attracted to ghost stories like bloody mary. It's only when we get older do we realize the actual horror of the story behind Fnaf, and is something that these VHS tapes perfectly convey
Wow, these tapes are so disturbing and well-made. The idea of limbs sticking out of the animatronics is terrifying. As for the young audience, at least in France, a lot of famous youtubers challenged themselves to play / stream the games and these youtubers have a very young audience so most of the kids I knew were introduced to the game like that, by watching youtubers playing it. My little cousin and her friends never played by themselves but they knew everything about the games and watched so many videos about it. I think most of them didn't even care about the "murdering children" part, it was just creepy and scary enough to gain their interest. I'm not sure it's a valid explanation but it's something I noticed.
Dude, I honestly don't know how you don't have more subscribers. Now granted I only watch your analogue horror videos, but they are SO good. When I first saw one of your videos, I thought you would've had at least 500k subs. Keep it going man! God bless!
I was really hoping that they would take this direction with the movie, like if they had just replaced Vanessa with some tapes that appear in Mike's office every night, and they all slowly uncovered pieces of the children's stories in a way that feels more tragic.
The first FNAF game was a masterful act of more subtle horror. Nothing about it is inherently scary, but the setting and the lighting makes it uncanny. Even the later games leave the really messed up stuff to implication and I think that’s also a very good way of handling it if you wanna go the subtle route. These analogue horror videos really show that FNAF could be excellent in snore directly horrific setting. If they didn’t leave the subject matter up to interpretation.
Seeing your journey going through multiple Analog Horror series has been a great watch. I remember I got into this genre of horror back in 2021 with Kane Pixel's first Backrooms video. Since then, more and more people have been creating their own Analog Horror series and I'm proud of the work these creators have made.
the reason why fnaf and these analog horror series r so popular among young people is solely bcs of the horror aspect. i was 14 when the series started and i got into it bcs of the horror, not bcs it has children in it or it has animatronic mascots.
I honestly love watching your videos, they make me less scared of stuff like this and introduces me to some interesting stuff like the Jurassic park analogue horror series, monument mythos, and explaining why we love slasher movies. Also your theories about what’s going on makes things make so much sense keep up the amazing work man
Meme bear was the single most effective tape set I’ve watched at scaring me. Not like Markimoo’s famous “The first night isn’t that bad in any of the games” FNAF 4 moment, (if you know you know) but a sickening sense disgust, seeing Mahler intestines and other organs strewn throughout the animatronics, the mangled corpses, along side with the gleeeful William, so happy, your disgust and hatred is *real.* Memebear is a spectacular animator. Love that guy.
tbh the reason why this game series has so many children in it's community probably has something to do with the newest games being increasingly less scary, I'm glad that there are some analog VHS tapes being made to show just how truly terrifying the events that the fnaf series deals with really are. Edit: Yes, I am aware that children have been in the community since fnaf 1, I myself have been in the community off and on since the fnaf 2 trailer came out. What I was trying to say is that this series newer games caters a lot more to younger audiences then it used to and that is why I believe there has been a increase in the amount of younger audiences and thus is a large reason why there is so many children in the community today.
@@xlking2835and apparently the series has continued to be dumbed down for you, and newer fans. I don't get the appeal, but I hope it continues to work. As long as it continues to act as a quarantine like fortnight did for child fans, y'all can have fnaf
@@xlking2835 well, for one. The horror in the games feel more like what you'd expect from a haunted house than wandering the streets alone at night. Not necessarily bad, just a different sort of scary that kids prefer. There's a difference between falling because of a rollercoaster and thinking that you've fallen off of a ladder.
as far as i know kids have always been fans of fnaf, even when the first game came out. I mean, my friends and i were in elementary school when the 2nd game came out and we were huge fans!! besides, have you seen how the fandom was like during early fnaf??
I highly recommend Wendigoon's video on the FNAF Lore. In my opinion, it's the best balance of actually explaining enough to understand the lore while also not being 8 hours long, and he made it specifically for people to be able to understand the VHS tapes. Also on that topic, I'd recommend going over the Squimpus McGrimpus FNAF VHS tapes.
To your point about kids liking fnaf, I've been watching and playing the games since it was released. I was only 4 years old and I've been eating up the content ever since, now I'm not really sure as to why, even as a really young kid, I loved fnaf and other horror medias. I guess I'll have to research this phenomenon
I love this channel. Been a big analog horror and analog horror adjacent media fan for a long time and its nice to see a channel that really appreciates it and covers it. I see this channel going places for sure keep up the awesome work.
Battington makes some dope sh*t in fnaf theme. If you'd like to check more of this out. BTW the animatronics you idintified as a "rat" is actually glitchtrap from the vr game and it's also William Afton
I love how you reviewed a couple of different content creators's work on this topic. Sad to see that Squimpus wasn't on here, but given the (semi) recent controversy, I can understand why haha. Still a great video, and I loved your analysis on the lore these videos were trying to convey! I would love more videos like this in the future
this is the true spirit of FNAF in my opinion. Sort of wish we could get an R-rated movie later down the line that is more in line with these kind of videos.
I once saw a video with chica (im not sure if it was classic or withered chica) where a man was trying to question her about her death I believe?? I cant remember the exact details, but i remember he complained about his finger turning purple after he hit it on the table, and the mention of "purple" set chica off. Then it cut to some kind of police responding to possibly his call? Where the officer eventually reaches him and you can hear the first man screaming in the background while the officer calls for an ambulance, saying the mans jaw was ripped off. Im not able to find it again, however its just one particular analog horror video that stuck with me.
at 15:11 i knew there was gonna be a jumpscare but that GOT ME. I guess since the big mechanic footsteps and the big bear animatronic running at us a full speed is just so scary. Me personally, think that is the scariest jumpscare that actually made me jump
I think Greylock is my favorite analog horror, its the best combination of ideas being original, the visuals being terrifying and realistic and the story telling and mediums it tells us the story in make it an absolutely terrifying and that scene with the therapy session is genuinely peak horror.
A primer on FNAF lore: Two guys open a restaurant chain with robot performers. For some reason, one of them decides to murder children. He murders some himself at first(?) and decides to build murder robots while using the same branding. One of his kids gets reverse chestbursted by a giant Clown Toddler robot and he decides not to open the child murder restaurant where he was gonna murder children all the time. We will come back to this. He has two other children. The elder shoves the younger into one of the non-murder robots. The robot goes chomp. Young kid dies and old kid feels remorse at this. At this point dozens of kids died and a majority of the various robots are super haunted. The serial killer guy gets away with murdering a bunch of kids on camera due to wearing a bunny robot-suit. The robots want to kill adults who stick around Fazbear Facilities now and that's why the gameplay of FNAF 1 and 2 happens. Okay so remember the Child Murderer guys murderrobots? Yeah he wants to study ghost juice, which can be split into Remnant and Agony. Remnant is basically just normal ghost matter but with a steel dual type. Agony is an emotion, and in FNAF, emotions can make stuff haunted somehow, and Agony just happens to be the most potent one. Later books say he studies fear too and suggest that's what happens in FNAF 4 but Imma just assume that game is actual nightmares had by either Elder child or Younger Child because the crap child murderer guy was getting away with was ludicrous enough as is. Speaking of Elder child, he goes into the basement where the murdererguy stores the murderrobots while not using them for murder. The clowntoddler who ate his sibling and might be possessed by her now gets him into the Scooping Room where the murderrobots, who are sapient by the way, have turned themselves into a convenient pile of electronic Spaghetti ready to use him as a skinsuit. This works out great, until his body rots away, and the Robot Spaghetti bails. Right so turns out that this Elder child was apparently maybe all the protagonists of all the games up till then and some after, and that's why the protagonists keep getting fired for being smelly. Apparently the ghost juice the murderrobots and Scooper left on and in him means he can possess himself, and maybe regenerate. We are not quite sure about that one. Right right. Forgot about the child murderer still at large? He decides to break into the FNAF 1 location and break all the haunted robots apart for some reason. (A theory states that he uses them to power and uplift the murderrobots with ghost juice, but there are already other ways for him to get ghost juice so I don't see the point). (Another theory states this actually happens way back between Fnaf 2 and Fnaf 1 and the robots are rebuilt after but let me just stick with the less complicated interpretations here). Right so he destroys the robots and the kids decide to show up as apparitions instead. He hides in that bunny robot-suit from earlier and it malfunctions and kills him. He decides not to die, and instead possesses his own body, much like his child would do in a later game. That's right, this happens in FNAF 3. For those having trouble keeping track, the order goes FNAF 4 minigames - FNAF 5 aka Sister Location (maybe?) - FNAF 2 - FNAF - FNAF 3. FNAF 4s gameplay happens either around the same time as FNAF 4, or sometime after FNAF the first, depending on whose nightmares they are. Leaning towards the latter myself. Right right right. So elder child works for a haunted house inspired by the Freddy murders now. They find his dad, in his bunnysuit, and the two passive aggressively bicker for a while. That's FNAF 3. Meanwhile (or maybe way later or way earlier) one of the ghost children decides to help the other children move on. By throwing a banger party! FNAF World (a spin-off) is about setting this party up, and it finally happens two games earlier in FNAF 3. At the end of FNAF 3, the building burns down, but murderbunny escapes. Now, remember how I said "Two guys" at the beginning? Turns out the other guy had one of his kids murdered by the murderer, and been plotting his revenge ever since. He sets up a semi-fake Pizzeria as a trap for the various robotic horrors now roaming around the town. That is, it's a real building that serves Pizza, but its storerooms are a weird maze structure designed to be confusing and unescapable. He builds a hollow bear robot to capture the ghost who is his dead child (who is probably also the one who set up the party earlier), and a fun buffet for the Murderbunny and the Still-at-large Spaghetti. Who has had a messy breakup, and the main Spaghetti decided to grab a Freddy mask, while the probably haunted former toddlerclown tries to rebuild her toddlerclown form. Also, the Murderbunny looks really weird now. The eldest son (we believe) takes the job, and after gathering everybody the other guy burns the whole ass mess to the ground, himself included. Whoops, it didn't quite work, murderbunny is still undead enough for Ghost juice CPR, and also, he forgot at least one of the kids, who took the murder thing really personally and simulates Ultimate custom Night to torment him. If the second book series is partially canon, That particular kid gets up to adventures with some other also forgotten murder victim while various forgotten ghostjuiced robots and critters cause mayhem in the vague vacinity. Murderbunny comes back again, they defeat him, there's a weird shapeshifter, it doesn't really matter all that much, and is basically just a weird epilogue interrupted by unrelated anthology stories that may or may not be connected. So yeah, that's the story of FNAF!!! Except turns out that ACTUALLY FNAF was made up by a rogue Indie dev. The Fazbear Company trademarked makes another game, this one VR, to poke fun at them. Except turns out that ACTUALLY the dev was hired by FazCo. And also they were lazy with development and scanned something bad in. This something is either the Murderbunny again, or a leftover robot built to replicate what it sees deciding that the Murderbunnyman is a good role model. Whoever it is, they brainwash the person playing the game. The THIRD bookseries (the first is confirmed non-canon thank fuck) details the building of a megamall theme park known as the Pizzaplex (and how parts of it keep breaking down because the robots there get murdery), and the backstory and continued shenanigans of that Replicator Robot. If the books are canon, Replicator was built by some nobody who wasn't named in the earlier games and died before he could appear in the later games, whoops. The mobile tie in game, FNAF AR, happens, where someone else does the murderbot thing again, but this time with even more on the nose Fazbear branding. We don't know who, but we do know that this seems to be canon. The game lacks a story mode so it thankfully limits itself to characterizing the brainwashed character, and some others. Security breach happens! Young homeless(?) boy Gregory needs, with the help of the friendly sapient robot Freddy Fazbear (Glamrock edition), to hide from other robots, and the brainwashed person from FNAF VR. She is wearing a budget fursuit (without robo parts), modeled after a mask that shows up in FNAF VR. Her name is Vanny, and she appears to be the alter ego of the local security guard, Vanessa. Over the course of the night, Gregory vandalizes the FazCo property in self defense, and ends up playing video games to defeat Vanny and cause Vanessa to stop being a jackass to him. A bossfight with maybe-murderbunny-maybe-Replicator-bot does not happen, where we do not see an entity that looks like the Spaghetti robot from FNAF 6 gathered enough wires and leftover junk to qualify as megafauna. The noodle dish does not proceed to eat MMBMRB after the latter fails to murder Gregory. But it seems something similar maybe happens, we don't really know yet. Also Gregory might be a brainwashing victim too and might have murdered more people than Vanny, we don't know for sure yet. Zzzzoop! Fast forward an unknown amount of time. An earthquake destroyed the wretched Pizzaplex. Cassie, Gregory's childhood friend whom he doesn't mention or talk to, finds out he's trapped beneath, and decides to rescue him, murdery robots be damned. She gets a hold of the mask Vanny modeled her fursuit after, which can warp reality and brainwash people. After getting all the way down the ruins, through the remains of the FNAF 6 Pizzeria, through the staircase beneath that, through a cave system, and through a magical tunnel in not that order, she finds... Not Gregory, obviously, but that Replicator Robot, who was mimicking him all along. Who could have seen that coming. The Robot chases her through some tunnels while she finally connects to the real Gregory, and we don't know which ending is canon so: 1. She flees into an elevator. Either Gregory or the Robot decides to mcfucking kill her by dropping the elevator. A stinger suggests this failed. 2. She finds a Character cutout and decides to give up. 3. She runs into a secret room where the mimicking Replicator Robot (who is wearing a weird attempt at a Gregory costume) gets scooped by a scooper that doesn't look like the one that also scooped the Elder child from way back, but might be the same one anyway because this franchise is stupid like that sometimes. The costume remains, seemingly empty. Spooooky. ...So yeah that's the short version. For the long version, please refer to phisnom's "Teaching a FNAF noob about FNAF lore" livestream.
8:16 hi, resident autistic here. To answer the question about spring bonnie and spring trap, theyre they same animatronic but spring bonnie is used to refer to the animtronic before aftons accident and srping trap is used to refer to him post aftons accident
Analog horror and FNAF are honestly a match made in heaven. The genre is the perfect way of exploring the retro 80s-inspired horror that the early FNAF games (and to an extent even the newer ones) lean so heavily into. It’s just a shame that one of the biggest content creators in FNAF analog horror turned out to be such an utterly vile excuse for a human being; they influenced the subgenre in a huge way, but now it’s genuinely hard to look back on their content without feeling nauseous.
My favourite of the fnaf vhs series will always be the ones by Battington, despite the convroversy I think they ended up being involved in. In particular "Sound response check" has such a terrifying opening to me, please check it out.
Me, who waited almost a decade for such a formative experience as the FNaF movie, but what was supposed to be an incredibly joyous memory, is actually a deeply melancholic one, because it was with someone I loved more than life itself who would leave me only a few months after it.
as for some confirmation for you here. ( 8:11 ) Springtrap and Springbonnie are the same. Springbonnie is the mascot/character that the suit originally was. Springtrap is the name given for after William gets springlocked into the suit.. a very slow and painful death that merged his body and soul to it.
Haha I think it's the first time I've seen someone who's this analytical of horror but so unaware of FNAF lore react to content like this, the clash of genuinely trying to understand the story being delivered and being knowledgeable in horror of this style yet being unaware of all the references made for an extremely engaging vid for me
Idk what's worse, the absolute darkness the analog horror fnaf tapes *could* go or the fact that i don't even flinch at the vids people deem to be the scariest
That "rat" looking animatronic was actually William (or rather, the Mimic copying William) wearing a more cartoony springbonnie costume where he's called Glitchtrap
My favourite of them all is the police car VHS tape. Where two officers are driving while on duty and they get radioed to rush to the pizzeria since CC got bit. You don't get any footage of the pizzeria itself, just dialogue over the radio with officers and medics in distress, children and parents crying and screaming, while the officers in the car keep rushing down the road. It's insane how well the narration and dialogue is, since you can easily paint a picture of what is going on inside the place without difficulty. It's a unique approach to the VHS style and probably has the most effort put into it.
I swear to god every time I watch one of your videos its always the extremely effective jumpscares that get me. first the spinosaurus in the Jurassic park video now the fucking withered freddy one here I hate this shit (intrigued beyond measure with electricity all over my body)
In the video ultimate custom night, the childs face we see is cassidy, since they were also put into golden freddy. The rat could be Vanny since it looks like a handmade suit, or glitch trap from fnaf vr, which would make a bit more sense considering the name of that episode
Because of how convoluded the actual fnaf lore is and most of it just being theories with almost no straight out statement on the accuracy from the developers it allowed the community to take the ball and run with their interpretations of the events.
it's currently 2am. Im only 5 minutes in and already getting pretty unsettled. id rather not have a nightmare about a bunch of innocent kids getting tortured so i'll save this one for tomorrow.
Man I'm surprised that you didn't go over the FNAF VHS tapes by Squimpus McGrimpus or Battington in this one , I think they're' some of the most notable fan created analog horror series lol, if you haven't already chosen your next picks, then I'd probably recommend these [edit] okay apparently Squimpus got into some pretty bad drama, not sure about Battington though.
i will always be terrified of withered freddy running at full speed down the hallway into your office that is so scary i couldn't watch the video i had to pause and wait for a bit to calm down
As much as i love these animations and args and stuff i do kind of like how fnaf itself isnt really as gory or intense as these videos I think its great to have a more family freindly horor series that can bring in younger audiences so they themselves can get into the horror genre
Popping in because I will never feel I have said enough how appreciative I am to see everyone here enjoying the new upload! I just recently have been able to pour full time energy into this channel and the only thing making that possible is all of you guys and I will never be able to thank you enough for it. I truly feel like there are some very exciting things awaiting just around the corner! I love all of you who come even to just watch the video, everything counts and I'm eternally grateful 😌
Some of my favorite FNAF VHS content creators include Squimpus McGrimpus, Battington (who remade most of Squimpus McGrimpus's tapes but has since moved on to making wholly original tapes), and Spectre.
Theer is also a horror content creator named Vibing Leaf who does remakes of old creepypastas and other horror media, if you're interested.
You are the best analog horror channel simple as that please keep making more!
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Pretty sure this is William pretty plainly telling the audience that he killed the kids in order to find a way to bring back C.C back to life through whatever way animatronics get haunted. "I will put you back together".. Remnant n' all,
Edit: watching a bit further, yeah- you figured it out-,
Ong she bad as hell
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The thought of Afton taking pieces from the kids bodies, to try and literally "put him back together", him being the crying child, is actually terrifyingly brilliant for the character, it gives meaning to the murder, and how William has gone so mentally insane, to the point were he's makes an amalgamation to try and bring his son back to life.
To me that just makes him sound to sympathetic
It also works as a call back to the cadets stories, all being about putting five things together in the hopes of making something good, but creating a monstrosity instead
Idk I liked the idea of him being a serial killer who then goes through a similar tragedy like the victims of his crimes, especially in matpats timeline bcs William is an over qualified genius who kills his rivals child to then also lose his own
@@keckingrabbit354 not really if the kid is already whole then there’s zero need to Frankenstein him up
to be fair in the lore he is literally a genius who pioneers animatronics, who just so happens to go insane from the lost of his son, and daughter, and his emotions slowly devolving into blinding rage mainly directed towards innocent children and his son@@nickperez915
"I was a serpent disguised as a dove" is honestly a horrifying sentence for Afton to say
Hey Avatar Korra! How is Jinora doing?! 🥹
@@clonetrooper2003 I think she's fine not sure though
Okay nice!@@Korra228
I'm pretty sure thats from the Bible where the snake lures Adam and Eve to eat the fruit (I believe in God)
@@TheLordofLoafs yeah I got the reference...
15:18 I can confirm that jumpscare scared the hell out me more than any of the official jumpscares in the series.
It gave me a heart attack and nothing even happened
No for real, I remember jumping away from my phone
bro my body took a screenshot
Literally! I was bracing for it and I still took a lean back
fuck I knew it was coming and I still flinched. I can't even figure out *why* this works so well even out of context. Like if I see any of the loud screaming jumpscares from the game and Im ready for it nothing happens, but this one genuinely made me shudder
Limbs sticking out of the animatronics would be a super cool design but it won't happen because that's too dark for a kids game, which the fnaf franchise has become at this point
Not really. It's just gore for the sake of gore most of the times
Unfortunately yes. It really has become a kids game 😞
@@iskanderrg yeah true. I mean one in a while maybe, but all the time. Might as well call it "fnaf vhs: the gore fest."
It has always been a kids game😐
@@tonkafonka Not intentionally what Scott was going for, but yes it always was a kids game. (Still is).
I literally CANNOT let myself watch FNAF analog stuff anymore. If I do my fear of the dark will return with a vengeance like I'm a little kid again, it freaks me out on a primal level that sticks in my head.
... saying this I can't stay away from it, I started watching this video and couldn't stop. The fact that it's so scary to me is too exciting or something.
Nah if one of them was in your house you'd listen them coming in even from the street, that'd give you time to run away.
Hope this calmed down ur subconscious kid, it's what i tell myself 🤡
@@Mayayapayapaoh okay tough guy
You’re not afraid of the dark, you’re afraid of what’s in it.
So am I 🥲
@@Mayayapayapa ye bro, as if you could "run" from a litteral supernatural entity
Listening to you not understand FnaF lore or not know about certain characters is both comical but also extremely refreshing to me, because on one hand, a lot of these are very important characters that you don't know, like that "Rat" animatronic is actually just a cloth version of a spring bonnie suit that has a ton of lore attached to it from the more recent games. But it's also insanely refreshing that you don't know this stuff because nowadays the FnaF lore is just super congested and annoying to try and follow for the most part.
Last misconception I noticed is the fact he thinks that the crying child is the face we saw come out of golden Freddy’s mouth that is in fact the one you should not have killed / Cassidy
It’s frustrating opposite ly
Hurts my soul lmfao
@@crawwhat isnt cassidy CC?
Just a thought - Goosebumps was also a media franchise mostly enjoyed by children where the horrible stuff only happened to the children. Imo - FNAF appeals to kids as their first taste of horror.
The games have dark topics, but they're obscured by bright visuals and vague allegory. And as a horror media, a little jump scare is a much more approachable horror than games like Outlast, where the adult themes are on screen.
15:40 the Freddy jumpscare spooked me so much it cleared my sinuses
You'd be surprised by how many "made for kids" media is super not kid friendly yet has a huge audience of children for some reason.
I mean for Pete's sake, a series about talking cats has said cats get mauled by dogs, each other, and death of kittens everywhere.
not to mention graphic depictions of cat childbirth and cat illness and death, as well as cat torture in cat hell
what show even is that@@commoncastor
Warrior cats?
@@hayzenthlay Right on the money!
Plus there are depictions of super toxic relationships (Squirrelflight and Bramblestar/Ashfur), heavy xenophobia/racism (Kittypets, Loners, Sisters), ableism (Cinderpelt/Jayfeather/Briarlight) and politics (Especially in The Broken Code). As much as I adore the series these points really piss me off, especially the xenophobic and toxic relationships aspects
As a kid who grew up on Fnaf. Its the horror. Its the horror that we love. I hate that its turning kiddish. Because its ruining what brings kids to it. Its like the creepypasta community used to be alot of kids. Same with Fnaf. We loved the Horror.
you do seem to ruin yourself too
literally what@@HaydenTheFox
??? FNAF has always pandered to kids, just like old creepypastas (which arguably, were even more), FNAF was just a taste of horror, if you go back to the first few games they were nothing like how these ultra-horror series like this potray them to be
@@MrClauwsnah, FNAF 1 is terrifying without needing to be gory. It’s still horror and the concept of these missing kids being murdered and stuffed into suits is morbid. I liked FNAF a lot more when it stuck to what made the first two games what they were.
fnaf was always made for a younger audience. it's these analog videos that make it seem more violent/darker than it was.
From what I’m seeing with the Fnaf trailers I’m kind of disappointed. It’s amazing how indie creators on UA-cam can make a horrifying version of a game/video to show the true horrors of actual children meeting tragedy and the end of murder. But now it’s just saturated with recent creations of the games.
Well, hopefully that Backrooms movie can help the analog horror medium come to mainstream
@@The_Artist_Official shit there’s a Backrooms movie? Hopefully they stick to an analog style of that uncomfortable feeling of getting stalked or watched.
A24 produced too so I'm really curious as to how it'll turn out!
@@4Plus419 same!
Nah
I think FNAF's darkness and brutality is really overlooked, as it never seems like people stop to think or care enough for how violent the lore is and just how much child murder it involves.
Maybe because many of us (myself included) were the same age as the kids when we got to know the franchise.
This is why I hate when people say that the VHS tapes are not "real fnaf" and that the franchise isn’t that scary
The VHS tapes just show what actually happened and how gruesome it was
Especially the springlock ones since that’s actually what happened
The "rat" is (sit yourself down for this one) a digital version of Afton after being burned for a second time by his own son then put into a VR game to corrupt some random person's mind
The reason why golden Freddy (Fredbear) looks so nightmarish is because it's the nightmare of CC after being bitten
If you do a part 2 (which you should) I have 2 suggestions.
The incident logs and Battington. They are a long watch but are really good.
You watched a lot of... Lesser videos
Like it’s literally glitchtrap
I would say that was the case back then for Glitchtrap, but now that the mimic is here it changes everything
6:06 this specific scene, you might not have noticed but there are 2 dead kids on the floor
(Please read this. I spent so much time on this comment) They turned a complex story full of rage, sorrow, and revenge, to games focused on completion, and new, flashy looks for the animatronics, and other factors that have been twisted and manipulated turn the franchise into a not so interesting series of games later released.
Here’s what it was: a dark, twisted man, who killed a great amount of children, stuffed them into suits, and got away with it. Their helpless, innocent souls are trapped in those robots, forever. Later, the killer, William Afton, destroys the possessed animatronics, which sets their souls free. As the spirits corner William, his eyes dart around the room, desperate, for something to save him. He spots an old, spring Bonnie spring lock suit, sitting there. He puts the suit on, an starts laughing, thinking that he has fooled the spirits. The mixture of his laughter, and the leaking of the roof, caused the spring-locks in the suit to go off. as they crush him, head to toe, he lets out blood curling screams, shouting people’s names, hoping for someone to come. After a few seconds of quick, dreadful pain, the spring locks located just in the neck area, go off, crushing his vocal cords preventing him from even making the slightest of sounds. He lays there, punctured everywhere and hopeless. For the next 30 years, he is trapped in a room, thinking of the things that have happened to him in the past, and what could of been prevented.
That is just one example of the many things that happened.
Here’s what it is now: a boy named Gregory, runs around Freddy’s pizzaplex, dodging animatronics, and he’s friends with freddy. No gore, no scary scenes, nothing. Does that sound like true fnaf to you?
the DLC tried to improve and bring in more mystery but it just wasnt enough to turn it around. at this point i am more convinced that scott just brought in more nonsense hoping it would make sense during fnaf 4 (when it got hate for it being "all but a dream" type thing) and onwards, the books dont even make much sense like a glowing mushroom cave? in the damn pizza complex???? oh and the AUs are getting out of hand.
Can't explain analog horror without explaining Fnaf Analog horror! Next is probably Godzilla Analog Horror, very under looked yet scary
That actually sounds very enticing!
Him as a horror character would be awesome
my man is self promoting!!
Isn't it weird to anyone how the allure of these games to real life children parallels the games' plot points of luring children to their doom? Might be strange coincidence but it seems like the creator nailed exactly what he set out to create in his fictional world so well that it had similar (though far less violent) effects in our world.
As someone who started her fnaf craze back when i was 10~11 i can tell you the unusualness of the horror in this game was what appealed to me, there was nothing like it at the time.
I was scared shitless and would scream along Markiplier as i watched the gameplays, but it was still so captivating
12:56 That jumpscare is f***** amazing. I used to watch the exact video they took the audio from, so seeing that caught me so off guard.
what movie
@@Kamixkazenah. video.
i think it's from the series "every Bonnie in a nutshell" (whoops). might watch it again
@@KamixkazeI think it’s something like “Every version of Bonnie be like”
Could be wrong but it’s a FNaF classic series.
@@MMinz26 it’s “Every Bonnie in a nutshell”, but you were close
11:57 Tale Foundry actually made a video about children's alure to horror, fnaf being a big example. While I would say that the newer games definitely brought in a more younger audience, I think children also just want to be scared, and since fnaf is a game where the scares upfront aren't as horrifying as the subtle story (like how there's barely any gore, but death is a present theme) behind it unlike other more "adult" horror games that straight up show the more intense horror, children are more naturally attracted to it similar to how they're attracted to ghost stories like bloody mary. It's only when we get older do we realize the actual horror of the story behind Fnaf, and is something that these VHS tapes perfectly convey
15:25 that is probably the best way to do a jumpscare
No obnoxious screeching, no in your face stuff, just fast freddy
This vhs is better than some movies i watched
Wow, these tapes are so disturbing and well-made. The idea of limbs sticking out of the animatronics is terrifying.
As for the young audience, at least in France, a lot of famous youtubers challenged themselves to play / stream the games and these youtubers have a very young audience so most of the kids I knew were introduced to the game like that, by watching youtubers playing it. My little cousin and her friends never played by themselves but they knew everything about the games and watched so many videos about it. I think most of them didn't even care about the "murdering children" part, it was just creepy and scary enough to gain their interest. I'm not sure it's a valid explanation but it's something I noticed.
15:20 I had a feeling what was going to happen but my body still took a screenshot when he came running😭
Four plus one nights at freddys?!
LOL
Dude, I honestly don't know how you don't have more subscribers. Now granted I only watch your analogue horror videos, but they are SO good. When I first saw one of your videos, I thought you would've had at least 500k subs. Keep it going man! God bless!
ok
I was really hoping that they would take this direction with the movie, like if they had just replaced Vanessa with some tapes that appear in Mike's office every night, and they all slowly uncovered pieces of the children's stories in a way that feels more tragic.
Glitchtrap getting called a rat is funnier than Nightcove’s fans calling him a Weasel
The first FNAF game was a masterful act of more subtle horror. Nothing about it is inherently scary, but the setting and the lighting makes it uncanny. Even the later games leave the really messed up stuff to implication and I think that’s also a very good way of handling it if you wanna go the subtle route.
These analogue horror videos really show that FNAF could be excellent in snore directly horrific setting. If they didn’t leave the subject matter up to interpretation.
I’m gonna say it, FNAF would not be considered a kids game if these analog horrors were used as advertisements
Seeing your journey going through multiple Analog Horror series has been a great watch. I remember I got into this genre of horror back in 2021 with Kane Pixel's first Backrooms video. Since then, more and more people have been creating their own Analog Horror series and I'm proud of the work these creators have made.
the reason why fnaf and these analog horror series r so popular among young people is solely bcs of the horror aspect. i was 14 when the series started and i got into it bcs of the horror, not bcs it has children in it or it has animatronic mascots.
i like that the story is unsettling :3
13:30 that “rat” is called glitchtrap, and is basically a springbonnie suit before it became a spring lock suit
Also the gold bear with a yellow hat is fredbear, not golden freddy (yet)
I honestly love watching your videos, they make me less scared of stuff like this and introduces me to some interesting stuff like the Jurassic park analogue horror series, monument mythos, and explaining why we love slasher movies. Also your theories about what’s going on makes things make so much sense keep up the amazing work man
10:53 "it's just so damn depressing" don't worry, it gets even more depressing after the 4th game
Meme bear was the single most effective tape set I’ve watched at scaring me. Not like Markimoo’s famous “The first night isn’t that bad in any of the games” FNAF 4 moment, (if you know you know) but a sickening sense disgust, seeing Mahler intestines and other organs strewn throughout the animatronics, the mangled corpses, along side with the gleeeful William, so happy, your disgust and hatred is *real.* Memebear is a spectacular animator. Love that guy.
you obviously are a special person
@@brenbaee and proud
tbh the reason why this game series has so many children in it's community probably has something to do with the newest games being increasingly less scary, I'm glad that there are some analog VHS tapes being made to show just how truly terrifying the events that the fnaf series deals with really are.
Edit: Yes, I am aware that children have been in the community since fnaf 1, I myself have been in the community off and on since the fnaf 2 trailer came out.
What I was trying to say is that this series newer games caters a lot more to younger audiences then it used to and that is why I believe there has been a increase in the amount of younger audiences and thus is a large reason why there is so many children in the community today.
I was a child when the first game came out. So were many of the fans today
@@xlking2835and apparently the series has continued to be dumbed down for you, and newer fans. I don't get the appeal, but I hope it continues to work.
As long as it continues to act as a quarantine like fortnight did for child fans, y'all can have fnaf
@@Touriquette what do you mean by dumbed down?
@@xlking2835 well, for one. The horror in the games feel more like what you'd expect from a haunted house than wandering the streets alone at night.
Not necessarily bad, just a different sort of scary that kids prefer. There's a difference between falling because of a rollercoaster and thinking that you've fallen off of a ladder.
as far as i know kids have always been fans of fnaf, even when the first game came out. I mean, my friends and i were in elementary school when the 2nd game came out and we were huge fans!!
besides, have you seen how the fandom was like during early fnaf??
5:25 If this is something that interests you in a story, I recommend reading Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni (Higurashi when they cry).
I highly recommend Wendigoon's video on the FNAF Lore. In my opinion, it's the best balance of actually explaining enough to understand the lore while also not being 8 hours long, and he made it specifically for people to be able to understand the VHS tapes. Also on that topic, I'd recommend going over the Squimpus McGrimpus FNAF VHS tapes.
To your point about kids liking fnaf, I've been watching and playing the games since it was released. I was only 4 years old and I've been eating up the content ever since, now I'm not really sure as to why, even as a really young kid, I loved fnaf and other horror medias. I guess I'll have to research this phenomenon
I love it since it came out too since i was 6 or seven
The children yearn for the mines
Reading this made me feel old as hell
No shot you were born in 2010
09 just far into the year but yea
@@amala1333
Fnaf is my favorite genre of analog horror, thank you for covering this ❤
Man if violence against children upsets you, you should definitely not watch Skinamarink.
Already have, and already scarred
Videos like these make me glad I’m not 13 anymore this literally would’ve kept me up for MONTHS
first time i played fnaf 4 or two can’t remember i got jumpscared and immediately shit myself
i watched the playthrough for fnaf 4
i couldnt even watch the first episode :-:
i will NEVER play fnaf 4 -__-
I love this channel. Been a big analog horror and analog horror adjacent media fan for a long time and its nice to see a channel that really appreciates it and covers it. I see this channel going places for sure keep up the awesome work.
Battington makes some dope sh*t in fnaf theme. If you'd like to check more of this out.
BTW the animatronics you idintified as a "rat" is actually glitchtrap from the vr game and it's also William Afton
the more real it is the more it taps back to that primal instinct , that basic human emotion that everyone feels
i feel the primal instinct when im touching myself to ur comment
Nah imagine being in that universe
These giant 6-8 foot tall heavy machines can sprint like Usain Bolt. I’d self delete in that resutrant so fast💀💀
I love how you reviewed a couple of different content creators's work on this topic. Sad to see that Squimpus wasn't on here, but given the (semi) recent controversy, I can understand why haha. Still a great video, and I loved your analysis on the lore these videos were trying to convey! I would love more videos like this in the future
this is the true spirit of FNAF in my opinion. Sort of wish we could get an R-rated movie later down the line that is more in line with these kind of videos.
you are a very underrated content creator based on the quality of the videos you produce, you just earned a new sub!
15:24 I actually freaked 😂
11:50 - sadly this is because of the new games, after fnaf vr it kinda started getting marketed towards children, VHS tapes are mostly for the OGs
I once saw a video with chica (im not sure if it was classic or withered chica) where a man was trying to question her about her death I believe??
I cant remember the exact details, but i remember he complained about his finger turning purple after he hit it on the table, and the mention of "purple" set chica off.
Then it cut to some kind of police responding to possibly his call? Where the officer eventually reaches him and you can hear the first man screaming in the background while the officer calls for an ambulance, saying the mans jaw was ripped off.
Im not able to find it again, however its just one particular analog horror video that stuck with me.
at 15:11 i knew there was gonna be a jumpscare but that GOT ME. I guess since the big mechanic footsteps and the big bear animatronic running at us a full speed is just so scary. Me personally, think that is the scariest jumpscare that actually made me jump
I think Greylock is my favorite analog horror, its the best combination of ideas being original, the visuals being terrifying and realistic and the story telling and mediums it tells us the story in make it an absolutely terrifying and that scene with the therapy session is genuinely peak horror.
"I was a serpent disguised as a dove" Actually goes hard ngl
13:03 never thought id hear half life 2 sfx in a fnaf analog series
A primer on FNAF lore:
Two guys open a restaurant chain with robot performers. For some reason, one of them decides to murder children. He murders some himself at first(?) and decides to build murder robots while using the same branding. One of his kids gets reverse chestbursted by a giant Clown Toddler robot and he decides not to open the child murder restaurant where he was gonna murder children all the time. We will come back to this.
He has two other children. The elder shoves the younger into one of the non-murder robots. The robot goes chomp. Young kid dies and old kid feels remorse at this.
At this point dozens of kids died and a majority of the various robots are super haunted. The serial killer guy gets away with murdering a bunch of kids on camera due to wearing a bunny robot-suit. The robots want to kill adults who stick around Fazbear Facilities now and that's why the gameplay of FNAF 1 and 2 happens.
Okay so remember the Child Murderer guys murderrobots? Yeah he wants to study ghost juice, which can be split into Remnant and Agony. Remnant is basically just normal ghost matter but with a steel dual type. Agony is an emotion, and in FNAF, emotions can make stuff haunted somehow, and Agony just happens to be the most potent one.
Later books say he studies fear too and suggest that's what happens in FNAF 4 but Imma just assume that game is actual nightmares had by either Elder child or Younger Child because the crap child murderer guy was getting away with was ludicrous enough as is.
Speaking of Elder child, he goes into the basement where the murdererguy stores the murderrobots while not using them for murder. The clowntoddler who ate his sibling and might be possessed by her now gets him into the Scooping Room where the murderrobots, who are sapient by the way, have turned themselves into a convenient pile of electronic Spaghetti ready to use him as a skinsuit. This works out great, until his body rots away, and the Robot Spaghetti bails.
Right so turns out that this Elder child was apparently maybe all the protagonists of all the games up till then and some after, and that's why the protagonists keep getting fired for being smelly. Apparently the ghost juice the murderrobots and Scooper left on and in him means he can possess himself, and maybe regenerate. We are not quite sure about that one.
Right right. Forgot about the child murderer still at large? He decides to break into the FNAF 1 location and break all the haunted robots apart for some reason.
(A theory states that he uses them to power and uplift the murderrobots with ghost juice, but there are already other ways for him to get ghost juice so I don't see the point). (Another theory states this actually happens way back between Fnaf 2 and Fnaf 1 and the robots are rebuilt after but let me just stick with the less complicated interpretations here).
Right so he destroys the robots and the kids decide to show up as apparitions instead. He hides in that bunny robot-suit from earlier and it malfunctions and kills him.
He decides not to die, and instead possesses his own body, much like his child would do in a later game.
That's right, this happens in FNAF 3. For those having trouble keeping track, the order goes FNAF 4 minigames - FNAF 5 aka Sister Location (maybe?) - FNAF 2 - FNAF - FNAF 3.
FNAF 4s gameplay happens either around the same time as FNAF 4, or sometime after FNAF the first, depending on whose nightmares they are. Leaning towards the latter myself.
Right right right.
So elder child works for a haunted house inspired by the Freddy murders now. They find his dad, in his bunnysuit, and the two passive aggressively bicker for a while. That's FNAF 3.
Meanwhile (or maybe way later or way earlier) one of the ghost children decides to help the other children move on. By throwing a banger party! FNAF World (a spin-off) is about setting this party up, and it finally happens two games earlier in FNAF 3.
At the end of FNAF 3, the building burns down, but murderbunny escapes.
Now, remember how I said "Two guys" at the beginning? Turns out the other guy had one of his kids murdered by the murderer, and been plotting his revenge ever since. He sets up a semi-fake Pizzeria as a trap for the various robotic horrors now roaming around the town. That is, it's a real building that serves Pizza, but its storerooms are a weird maze structure designed to be confusing and unescapable.
He builds a hollow bear robot to capture the ghost who is his dead child (who is probably also the one who set up the party earlier), and a fun buffet for the Murderbunny and the Still-at-large Spaghetti. Who has had a messy breakup, and the main Spaghetti decided to grab a Freddy mask, while the probably haunted former toddlerclown tries to rebuild her toddlerclown form.
Also, the Murderbunny looks really weird now.
The eldest son (we believe) takes the job, and after gathering everybody the other guy burns the whole ass mess to the ground, himself included.
Whoops, it didn't quite work, murderbunny is still undead enough for Ghost juice CPR, and also, he forgot at least one of the kids, who took the murder thing really personally and simulates Ultimate custom Night to torment him.
If the second book series is partially canon, That particular kid gets up to adventures with some other also forgotten murder victim while various forgotten ghostjuiced robots and critters cause mayhem in the vague vacinity. Murderbunny comes back again, they defeat him, there's a weird shapeshifter, it doesn't really matter all that much, and is basically just a weird epilogue interrupted by unrelated anthology stories that may or may not be connected.
So yeah, that's the story of FNAF!!!
Except turns out that ACTUALLY FNAF was made up by a rogue Indie dev. The Fazbear Company trademarked makes another game, this one VR, to poke fun at them.
Except turns out that ACTUALLY the dev was hired by FazCo. And also they were lazy with development and scanned something bad in. This something is either the Murderbunny again, or a leftover robot built to replicate what it sees deciding that the Murderbunnyman is a good role model. Whoever it is, they brainwash the person playing the game.
The THIRD bookseries (the first is confirmed non-canon thank fuck) details the building of a megamall theme park known as the Pizzaplex (and how parts of it keep breaking down because the robots there get murdery), and the backstory and continued shenanigans of that Replicator Robot. If the books are canon, Replicator was built by some nobody who wasn't named in the earlier games and died before he could appear in the later games, whoops.
The mobile tie in game, FNAF AR, happens, where someone else does the murderbot thing again, but this time with even more on the nose Fazbear branding. We don't know who, but we do know that this seems to be canon. The game lacks a story mode so it thankfully limits itself to characterizing the brainwashed character, and some others.
Security breach happens!
Young homeless(?) boy Gregory needs, with the help of the friendly sapient robot Freddy Fazbear (Glamrock edition), to hide from other robots, and the brainwashed person from FNAF VR. She is wearing a budget fursuit (without robo parts), modeled after a mask that shows up in FNAF VR. Her name is Vanny, and she appears to be the alter ego of the local security guard, Vanessa. Over the course of the night, Gregory vandalizes the FazCo property in self defense, and ends up playing video games to defeat Vanny and cause Vanessa to stop being a jackass to him.
A bossfight with maybe-murderbunny-maybe-Replicator-bot does not happen, where we do not see an entity that looks like the Spaghetti robot from FNAF 6 gathered enough wires and leftover junk to qualify as megafauna. The noodle dish does not proceed to eat MMBMRB after the latter fails to murder Gregory. But it seems something similar maybe happens, we don't really know yet.
Also Gregory might be a brainwashing victim too and might have murdered more people than Vanny, we don't know for sure yet.
Zzzzoop! Fast forward an unknown amount of time. An earthquake destroyed the wretched Pizzaplex. Cassie, Gregory's childhood friend whom he doesn't mention or talk to, finds out he's trapped beneath, and decides to rescue him, murdery robots be damned. She gets a hold of the mask Vanny modeled her fursuit after, which can warp reality and brainwash people. After getting all the way down the ruins, through the remains of the FNAF 6 Pizzeria, through the staircase beneath that, through a cave system, and through a magical tunnel in not that order, she finds... Not Gregory, obviously, but that Replicator Robot, who was mimicking him all along. Who could have seen that coming. The Robot chases her through some tunnels while she finally connects to the real Gregory, and we don't know which ending is canon so:
1. She flees into an elevator. Either Gregory or the Robot decides to mcfucking kill her by dropping the elevator. A stinger suggests this failed.
2. She finds a Character cutout and decides to give up.
3. She runs into a secret room where the mimicking Replicator Robot (who is wearing a weird attempt at a Gregory costume) gets scooped by a scooper that doesn't look like the one that also scooped the Elder child from way back, but might be the same one anyway because this franchise is stupid like that sometimes. The costume remains, seemingly empty. Spooooky.
...So yeah that's the short version. For the long version, please refer to phisnom's "Teaching a FNAF noob about FNAF lore" livestream.
8:16 hi, resident autistic here. To answer the question about spring bonnie and spring trap, theyre they same animatronic but spring bonnie is used to refer to the animtronic before aftons accident and srping trap is used to refer to him post aftons accident
The potential of the FNAF lore to make a truly horrifying game is sky high but they just wont
its sad that it's marketed to kids when it has so much potential
@@bakagostinks9281 its not marketed to kids and never has been
@@tamacon9000 shut up
@@tamacon9000it wasn't at the begining but now it kinda is, look at security breach
@@toeeater199 your point being?
I love your videos man, always can make my day a bit better. Amazing.
Analog horror and FNAF are honestly a match made in heaven. The genre is the perfect way of exploring the retro 80s-inspired horror that the early FNAF games (and to an extent even the newer ones) lean so heavily into. It’s just a shame that one of the biggest content creators in FNAF analog horror turned out to be such an utterly vile excuse for a human being; they influenced the subgenre in a huge way, but now it’s genuinely hard to look back on their content without feeling nauseous.
Wendigoon has a video on the fnaf lore, but most of these fnaf vhs series go off of their own canon
ur underrated bro
Only if those kids were smart enough to just spit on william while he was in the spring bonnie suit
My favourite of the fnaf vhs series will always be the ones by Battington, despite the convroversy I think they ended up being involved in. In particular "Sound response check" has such a terrifying opening to me, please check it out.
we need the squimpus mcgrimpus fnaf vhs series
Me, who waited almost a decade for such a formative experience as the FNaF movie, but what was supposed to be an incredibly joyous memory, is actually a deeply melancholic one, because it was with someone I loved more than life itself who would leave me only a few months after it.
The video playing in reverse to show the kid without the frontal lobe while he said I will bring you back is perfect
the video randomly stopped and i LITERALLY JUMPED
4:55 those aren't rocks
It's a pit of BALLS
the child audiences watch it so they can prove they arent scared. but get pulled into the mix start enjoying the nervous chases in the VHS tapes
as for some confirmation for you here. ( 8:11 )
Springtrap and Springbonnie are the same.
Springbonnie is the mascot/character that the suit originally was.
Springtrap is the name given for after William gets springlocked into the suit.. a very slow and painful death that merged his body and soul to it.
That rat animatronic is from the VR Fnaf game, named "Help wanted".
the him guy is wiliam aftons son who got his frontal lobe chomped by fredbear
Haha I think it's the first time I've seen someone who's this analytical of horror but so unaware of FNAF lore react to content like this, the clash of genuinely trying to understand the story being delivered and being knowledgeable in horror of this style yet being unaware of all the references made for an extremely engaging vid for me
Idk what's worse, the absolute darkness the analog horror fnaf tapes *could* go or the fact that i don't even flinch at the vids people deem to be the scariest
its even more disturbing when you realize that it was the puppet, another child who stuffed those children into said suits and not william
I just started binging old fnaf vhs series thank god you posted
That "rat" looking animatronic was actually William (or rather, the Mimic copying William) wearing a more cartoony springbonnie costume where he's called Glitchtrap
What Scott wanted fnaf to become:
What it became:cringe goofy ahhh furry robots screaming,becoming friends and making forts with chairs
My favourite of them all is the police car VHS tape. Where two officers are driving while on duty and they get radioed to rush to the pizzeria since CC got bit.
You don't get any footage of the pizzeria itself, just dialogue over the radio with officers and medics in distress, children and parents crying and screaming, while the officers in the car keep rushing down the road.
It's insane how well the narration and dialogue is, since you can easily paint a picture of what is going on inside the place without difficulty. It's a unique approach to the VHS style and probably has the most effort put into it.
I swear to god every time I watch one of your videos its always the extremely effective jumpscares that get me. first the spinosaurus in the Jurassic park video now the fucking withered freddy one here I hate this shit (intrigued beyond measure with electricity all over my body)
In the video ultimate custom night, the childs face we see is cassidy, since they were also put into golden freddy. The rat could be Vanny since it looks like a handmade suit, or glitch trap from fnaf vr, which would make a bit more sense considering the name of that episode
Because of how convoluded the actual fnaf lore is and most of it just being theories with almost no straight out statement on the accuracy from the developers it allowed the community to take the ball and run with their interpretations of the events.
I really like the implied gore of fnaf it’s really leaves the horror up to the imagination, but it’s also nice breath of fresh air to just see it tbh.
Battington''s tapes are some of the spookiest out there and a neat place to start, I'd recommend them for part 2!
it's currently 2am. Im only 5 minutes in and already getting pretty unsettled. id rather not have a nightmare about a bunch of innocent kids getting tortured so i'll save this one for tomorrow.
Well, I’m bored and I want to see what happens soooo wish good luck to me😊 nvm fuck this shit I’m out 😊
10:52 why is bro already only have 5% of power at 2 AM😭😭😭
More than likely these kids who were obsessed with fnaf loved it so much because of the youtubers who played it and because of MatPat's theory videos
Man I'm surprised that you didn't go over the FNAF VHS tapes by Squimpus McGrimpus or Battington in this one , I think they're' some of the most notable fan created analog horror series lol, if you haven't already chosen your next picks, then I'd probably recommend these
[edit] okay apparently Squimpus got into some pretty bad drama, not sure about Battington though.
Prolly cause Squimpus is already outed as a Groomer. Not sure about Barrington either but just saying.
@@giantpinkcat Oh fr? Damn that sucks
Analog horror is just creepy in general but mixing it with FNAF makes it so much creepier that I love it
FNAF VHS tapes are amazin, and it is terrifying on how they expose the true terrors behind the original games.
Great work on this video man🗿
i will always be terrified of withered freddy running at full speed down the hallway into your office that is so scary i couldn't watch the video i had to pause and wait for a bit to calm down
I would heavily suggest watch Squimpus McGrimpus’s VHS tapes terrifying stuff!
As much as i love these animations and args and stuff i do kind of like how fnaf itself isnt really as gory or intense as these videos
I think its great to have a more family freindly horor series that can bring in younger audiences so they themselves can get into the horror genre
The undamaged Spring Bonnie suit is fucking terrifying in the 1983 Archive god damn
i love your analog videos