When the fnaf world teasers were being posted back when I was in middle school I was so stoked that I decided to write Scott an over enthusiastic email. In it I mentioned that "if you're adding characters to the game don't forget the crying child and the paper palls, I think they'd be fun to play!" The next day both characters had been added to the teaser along with I think an endo. It was probably just a coincidence but ever since I've felt personally responsible for the paper pals being a reoccurring character Edit 8/24/24: Oh no. I made the mimic.
love how the last time we physically saw paper buddy was in hell while the other two are still in the land of the living that kinda implies that paper buddy died and he is in hell
@@boanoah6362They could also be a creation of Cassidy. Of course, I'm just speculating, but Cassidy has no reason to be in hell so we can (possibly?) assumed Cassidy went there on their own volition and power, and if they can access William's personal hell at will, then it would be logical that they can also control that environment, creating the other animatronics to torment the purple man. I also say that because I personally don't think it makes any sense for someone to be hallucinating in a metaphysical plane of existence where (I'm assuming) they are simply a spirit that doesn't need to eat or have other restraints brought by the brain.
@@Warmhammernah, i think it's would be even cooler. You just can teleporting anywhere you want and troll your frendoz(or nightguard boi) by appear behind then when they even don't see you.
The one difference I have with this theory is that I firmly headcanon Paper Buddy escaped the FNAF3 fire and the only reason he’s not in SB and Ruin is because he’s simply too good at teleporting (he was the only one capable of it in FNAF2, so he’s definitely better at it than Paper Bonnie and Paper Freddy, who only learned how to teleport decades later) for Fazbear Ent to catch him and put him in the Pizzaplex.
That can't be that would be so dumb and why wouldn't Scott fix it the human astietc is an entirely different pizzeria we've seen already at the very least as a concept
@@owenmeier it can't be his idea because we have seen fredbears and I love it when people bring up theories with no damn common sense you want my theory ok. then the lemonade and fruit punch clown mini games show a bb with no hat no balloons no sign so what does that leave boy. just b so maybe perhaps it just shows freddy bonnie and the kid that drew it by the way I also love it when people confuse spring bonnie with bonnie scott literally retcon bonnie's color into being blue so you wouldn't make this connection jesus non-existent christ
I think, in a franchise where everything can mean anything, and anything could solve everything, the Paper Pals are just supposed to be that one thing that keeps coming back for no reason with no purpose or relation to anything else. Kinda like Kracko in Kirby, he ALWAYS shows up no matter how unlikely, but he never has any significant role in the story, the Paper Pals are the same, they’re just Always There.
The Paper Pals are 100% the best characters. People have complained about how major lore characters were all killed off, and how 3 of the OG 4 animatronics (not including Golden Freddy) have had major character reworks (except Foxy. He’s still Foxy), and yet the Paper pals have been around since FNaF 2, and other than going through the same Cawthon to Steel Wool visual degrade that most of the old characters went through, they’re still the same Paper Pals (except that time when they weren’t)
SW should have never gotten involved with FNaF outside of Help Wanted, imo. Security Breach reeks of sheer incompetence and overambition. It still baffles me how they made a game so fundamentally broken and unfinished while having almost three years to work on it. It's like the Sonic Boom of the FNaF series. And yeah, they're definitely the best characters lmao.
@@myst1que_mach1ne They also literally forgot to make the Hello Neighbor 2 DLC they made actually beatable at launch. I don’t get how they made a great VR game, then a bunch of games ranging from really terrible to pretty good but unplayably broken, then made Ruin, which, while not perfect (you literally can’t see a major easter egg if you missed *any* of the wet floor signs during the daycare section), is still way better than anything since Help Wanted.
I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR LORE ON THESE GUYS Like, imagine being murdered and then inhabiting some craft supplies for the rest of your afterlife. I'd be livid.
I’ve always read them as being the 3 main driving forces in the series. The Puppet (see the 3 buttons and lanky limbs), Springtrap (Crooked ears, tear tracts, and in FNAF 3 dark yellow color) and Golden Freddy (yellow eyes originally, moreso symbolic really, but the FNAF 3 version goes full yellow). This is also why in FNAF 3 the Puppets is down, her day is done and she’s no longer able to fight Afton. It’s just Afton and Cassidy now.
If paper pals had 100 fans I'm one of them If paper pals has 10 fans I'm one of them Even if paper pal only had 1 fan. I'd be that fan. (And Scott too because I'm shocked they lasted this long please keep them)
I love these guys so much! I can’t believe how different they look in all the Steel Wool fnaf games! ( as someone who made these goobers [ + the silly squad ] IRL, it’s shocking how much they got {wrong?} on these designs.
FINALLY SOMEONE TALKS ABOUT THESE GUYS!! They were rlly popular at the start of fnaf and now no one even talks about them!! gained a sub! This video is rlly interesting :D
I think the bonnie one having only one pupil and having tears running down it's face might resemble Shadow Bonnie or be a very abstract version of a springlock failure (dark liquid comes from the face, eyes might be destroyed unevenly, fnaf 2's location seems to come right after Fredbear's Family Diner)
Can we mention that the paper plate pals are also in help wanted 2 in the pizzeria as well at different sizes depending if you have the mask on or not? After watching this after the release of hw2 I think it’s weird that they are all included in the 3 games (wouldn’t steel wool make different versions like Scott did in pizzeria simulator?) it’s just something to think about
So happy someone's talking about this. Saw the paperbuddies in the help wanted 2. Think we've been missing something for a while. And yeah they changed Bonnie's to purple from the original black so that has to be a link to shadow Bonnie meaning more than we also thought. Also bc of the movie the smiling paper buddie is 100% balloon boy
i always thought the paper bonnie was withered bonnie the paper freddy was from fnaf 1 and paper buddy a random kid from fredbear's family dinner and he made a paper version of himself.
Haven't even started the video, but I love the Paperpals, they were always so interesting to me, and the fact that they're such theory bait and still show up in Security Breach makes me so happy
I like to believe that paper buddy is the only one with a soul which is why he's the only one who died and appears in ultimate custom night while the other 2 lived on to become in security breach
Everytime any video shows something that moves when you don't see it, it gives me Weeping Angel vibes and I feel the need to never stop looking at it so it won't move
I do believe that the paper pals originated from the Fredbear restaurant, and due to their smaller stature, the animatronics mistaken them as children.
I’d imagine Paper Buddy is supposed to represent a kid, either the one who made them or just in general, given how it doesn’t quite resemble any animatronic and the name just being “Buddy” rather than an actual character’s name
Referring to the Freddy Paper Pal: "It kinda looks like the bear from the original like the... what-like, dog shaped bears and all that from the original but..." - Total Dino, 2022 (Whilst analyzing the Paper Pals)
It would be cool if the pals get an explanation that ties a wierd FNAF 2 thing into the Steel Wool era. In general it feels like FNAF 1-3 are left in the background nowadays.
when you mentioned that only the 2 shadow paper pals were in security breach with no paper buddy to be seen, and the fact that theres a plush of nightmarionne everywhere in SB, i think its confirmation that the paper buddy from fnaf 2 is indeed the puppet
i think the change to black in security breach and help wanted are to say they represent shadow bonnie and freddy and I think paper buddy is just a kids representation of themself
I think that their continued inclusion in the games is a combination of the fact that they help make the game locations look like real places that real children have been too and the fact they are an iconic part of fnaf's visual style at this point, just like the checkered floor and the balloons
Fun fact: I accidentally left my "watch later" list autoplaying in my sleep, and this video gave me nightmares 😂👍 Now watching this while awake, I'm glad to hear about paper plate lore, I was always curious about these guys and I had no idea one of them moved in fnaf2!
I always liked to imagine the paper pals (the original three) were meant to be the shadows and puppet, and since the two shadows are manifestations of agony, maybe their paper pals are still around to watch over things whilst they’re not there
When the fnaf world teasers were being posted back when I was in middle school I was so stoked that I decided to write Scott an over enthusiastic email. In it I mentioned that "if you're adding characters to the game don't forget the crying child and the paper palls, I think they'd be fun to play!" The next day both characters had been added to the teaser along with I think an endo. It was probably just a coincidence but ever since I've felt personally responsible for the paper pals being a reoccurring character
Edit 8/24/24: Oh no. I made the mimic.
That's so cute I love it
It was you
@@igotbored-minecraft I'm so sorry
@@natertot736don't be sorry. these things are wonderful
You did this
love how the last time we physically saw paper buddy was in hell while the other two are still in the land of the living that kinda implies that paper buddy died and he is in hell
His resemblance to BB has assured his place in Hell I assume lol
Fnaf ucn is KILLING ME
Technically no one is in hell except Afton and Cassidy, everyone else is just a phantom/demon.
@@boanoah6362and paper buddy /j
@@boanoah6362They could also be a creation of Cassidy. Of course, I'm just speculating, but Cassidy has no reason to be in hell so we can (possibly?) assumed Cassidy went there on their own volition and power, and if they can access William's personal hell at will, then it would be logical that they can also control that environment, creating the other animatronics to torment the purple man. I also say that because I personally don't think it makes any sense for someone to be hallucinating in a metaphysical plane of existence where (I'm assuming) they are simply a spirit that doesn't need to eat or have other restraints brought by the brain.
Pretty sure the paper pals are the most important characters in the whole series.
Paper buddy did the bite of 87
Without question tbh
Paper bonnie is literally mxes guys
Paper Freddy is one of william afton's accomplices
The paper pals made purple guy go insane and kill people!
FINALLY SOMEONE DOES A VIDEO ON THESE GUYS! Me and my siblings dressed as the paper pals for Halloween a few years ago.
Reject humanity become paper pal
@@SeagullManbest comment on youtube
Really?... did anyone know what you were?
@@nonbinaryartist8661 nope xD, was still fun tho
@@SeagullManarts and crafts
Imagine being one of aftons many victims and coming back as a paper plate
You see all the other kids get these cool robots and then you're a plate
@@Warmhammer You see a Toy Bonnie was Withered Chica laugh at you for being a simple plate
@@Warmhammernah, i think it's would be even cooler. You just can teleporting anywhere you want and troll your frendoz(or nightguard boi) by appear behind then when they even don't see you.
They're not even murder victims, they're just the schmuck employes who died from expired pizza
The one difference I have with this theory is that I firmly headcanon Paper Buddy escaped the FNAF3 fire and the only reason he’s not in SB and Ruin is because he’s simply too good at teleporting (he was the only one capable of it in FNAF2, so he’s definitely better at it than Paper Bonnie and Paper Freddy, who only learned how to teleport decades later) for Fazbear Ent to catch him and put him in the Pizzaplex.
Correct option
Correc opinion_
I'm glad you brought up the possiblity that they're meant to resemble the cast of the original Fredbear's! I'm a huge fan of that theory
No that's dumb FNAF 6 already solved this mystery
That can't be that would be so dumb and why wouldn't Scott fix it the human astietc is an entirely different pizzeria we've seen already at the very least as a concept
@@Dr_Damon_1111astietc
@@Dr_Damon_1111I love how people like you always say “wrong, I know the answer” and then give no evidence
@@owenmeier it can't be his idea because we have seen fredbears and I love it when people bring up theories with no damn common sense you want my theory ok. then the lemonade and fruit punch clown mini games show a bb with no hat no balloons no sign so what does that leave boy. just b so maybe perhaps it just shows freddy bonnie and the kid that drew it by the way I also love it when people confuse spring bonnie with bonnie scott literally retcon bonnie's color into being blue so you wouldn't make this connection jesus non-existent christ
11:04 is exactly why Scott got a copyright for them. Too easy to recreate and pass off as official merch.
I think, in a franchise where everything can mean anything, and anything could solve everything, the Paper Pals are just supposed to be that one thing that keeps coming back for no reason with no purpose or relation to anything else. Kinda like Kracko in Kirby, he ALWAYS shows up no matter how unlikely, but he never has any significant role in the story, the Paper Pals are the same, they’re just Always There.
There is no solution, Scott just makes this shit up as he goes with no actual answers, only mysteries
You know, who also always comes back?
"I ALWAYS come back"
Paper pals, most likely paper buddy
@@nikos8599Mr. Big D!ck Davey the Miller Boi!😂(or just William Afton/Purple Guy/Springtrap)
@@jeremypanjaitan4039 Papertrap when
I always thought the Bonnie paper pal snout was a screaming mouth
0:12 According to FNaF World’s Android port that lasted a grand total of one day before being removed, it was Bouncepot
"It all makes sense when you think about it... ALL HAIL BOUNCEPOT!"
I was popping off when you correctly identified the Toy Chica Party Room 4 render as unused
It isn’t?? Ive seen it in game!
Right???
What is real? Mandela effect is crazy
i'm gonna need that gif of the paper pals being pet by a hand
It can be recreated online using Petpet generator, where you can put custom images of things being pet by that hand
@@mihailos8701 thank you so much! this will be very useful ꟼ:
I was thinking theyre just objects infected with agony/remnant
That would explain their designs in FNAF 2, and why Whitered Chica seems to protect (i assume, it could be false) one of them.
The Paper Pals are 100% the best characters. People have complained about how major lore characters were all killed off, and how 3 of the OG 4 animatronics (not including Golden Freddy) have had major character reworks (except Foxy. He’s still Foxy), and yet the Paper pals have been around since FNaF 2, and other than going through the same Cawthon to Steel Wool visual degrade that most of the old characters went through, they’re still the same Paper Pals (except that time when they weren’t)
SW should have never gotten involved with FNaF outside of Help Wanted, imo. Security Breach reeks of sheer incompetence and overambition. It still baffles me how they made a game so fundamentally broken and unfinished while having almost three years to work on it. It's like the Sonic Boom of the FNaF series.
And yeah, they're definitely the best characters lmao.
@@myst1que_mach1ne They also literally forgot to make the Hello Neighbor 2 DLC they made actually beatable at launch. I don’t get how they made a great VR game, then a bunch of games ranging from really terrible to pretty good but unplayably broken, then made Ruin, which, while not perfect (you literally can’t see a major easter egg if you missed *any* of the wet floor signs during the daycare section), is still way better than anything since Help Wanted.
Ok
Paper palls are the best just one tier away from foxy because...foxy is foxy
I'm pretty sure the Paper pals are just Scott's favorite ANimatronics, Balloon Boy, Freddy, and Bonnie
I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR LORE ON THESE GUYS
Like, imagine being murdered and then inhabiting some craft supplies for the rest of your afterlife. I'd be livid.
Omgggggg they had the paper pals at the birthday section in the fnaf movie at regal I didn’t even notice!
this with the current knowledge that sun has you make paper pals in fnaf vr 2 is very interesting
Here after the game theory video on the paper buddy, I truly think it is the mimic. You were onto something
I’ve always read them as being the 3 main driving forces in the series.
The Puppet (see the 3 buttons and lanky limbs), Springtrap (Crooked ears, tear tracts, and in FNAF 3 dark yellow color) and Golden Freddy (yellow eyes originally, moreso symbolic really, but the FNAF 3 version goes full yellow).
This is also why in FNAF 3 the Puppets is down, her day is done and she’s no longer able to fight Afton. It’s just Afton and Cassidy now.
If paper pals had 100 fans I'm one of them
If paper pals has 10 fans I'm one of them
Even if paper pal only had 1 fan.
I'd be that fan. (And Scott too because I'm shocked they lasted this long please keep them)
I love these guys so much! I can’t believe how different they look in all the Steel Wool fnaf games! ( as someone who made these goobers [ + the silly squad ] IRL, it’s shocking how much they got {wrong?} on these designs.
Dude your editing is insanely good holy moly keep it up
I think... we might learn who that is in the next game
I love these obscure character videos
same
Shadow freddy and shadow bonnie are just dead employees in fnaf jr whose souls keeps just roaming without harming anyone
Ah, a fellow oooftroop enjoyer
2:10 I swear I saw that on the old mobile ports
who's here after watching tom's game theory about paper buddy being the mimic?
FINALLY SOMEONE TALKS ABOUT THESE GUYS!! They were rlly popular at the start of fnaf and now no one even talks about them!!
gained a sub! This video is rlly interesting :D
I never realized how fricking huge the paper pals were until you showed the security breach clips- they are more terrifying than the glam rocks- dang
I think the bonnie one having only one pupil and having tears running down it's face might resemble Shadow Bonnie or be a very abstract version of a springlock failure (dark liquid comes from the face, eyes might be destroyed unevenly, fnaf 2's location seems to come right after Fredbear's Family Diner)
I always assumed that it was a reference to Bonnie from FNAF 1, one of his eyes were missing went he went to a corner of the pizzeria.
These guys have plot armor(they survived for so long, longer that william💀)
Can we mention that the paper plate pals are also in help wanted 2 in the pizzeria as well at different sizes depending if you have the mask on or not? After watching this after the release of hw2 I think it’s weird that they are all included in the 3 games (wouldn’t steel wool make different versions like Scott did in pizzeria simulator?) it’s just something to think about
I just realized that the paper pals match the shadow counterparts (shadow bonnie, shadow Freddy, shadow deedee)
Who is shadow deedee?
@@bigearl1624 The shadow version of Deedee, I believe she pops up frequently on 50/20 mode in UCN (correct me if I’m wrong though)
Bro, I love your videos, they're always funny and with on point editing! And the topics you bring are also very interesting
Thank you, glad to hear that!
@@lotodots Obvious answer to the Mystery:
William never said "I Always Come Back", Paper Buddy did.
Paper Pals are Eternal deities...
@@lotodots No prob bro! Hope your channel grow a lot more!!
10:16 I love how casual he says that like it’s confirmed canon
So happy someone's talking about this. Saw the paperbuddies in the help wanted 2. Think we've been missing something for a while. And yeah they changed Bonnie's to purple from the original black so that has to be a link to shadow Bonnie meaning more than we also thought.
Also bc of the movie the smiling paper buddie is 100% balloon boy
Finally, after all these years, fnaf lore has been solved.
(Great vid btw)
i always thought the paper bonnie was withered bonnie
the paper freddy was from fnaf 1
and paper buddy a random kid from fredbear's family dinner and he made a paper version of himself.
I SWEAR THAT TOY CHICA GRAPHIC IS IN GAME!?!? what in the Nelson Mandela is this?!
Now that I look at a video all about these guys, I see how simple there design is and I want to make some!
i think that toy chica with the paper pals screen happens on the mobile version
In my version, Whitered Chica stood in front of one.
Rip Paper Buddy
Gone But Not Forgotten
Haven't even started the video, but I love the Paperpals, they were always so interesting to me, and the fact that they're such theory bait and still show up in Security Breach makes me so happy
Endoplush, no question, he is weirder than weird, even weirder than paperpals
Well, it took you a while, but you’ve Finally done it. You’ve caught my attention, and now, you’ve earned a new subscriber!
I mis read the title as FNAF's Strongest "Character".
It's also possible that they had to recreate the paper bunny and freddy, because they did burn at fnaf 3.
This was my favorite mystery as a teen
Rip paperbuddy, gone too soon
Paper buddy is actually paper puppet
I like to believe that paper buddy is the only one with a soul which is why he's the only one who died and appears in ultimate custom night while the other 2 lived on to become in security breach
they were the first,
they've seen everything
oh man you just keep making bangers!!
paper buddy is my favourite animatronic
Why does one of the new paper pals from FNAF6 have a flower that matches the flower in the bedroom from FNAF4's cutscenes/mini games?
Scot: "I'm going to make a silly eater egg of silly versions of the characters"
Fandom: "ARE THE PAPERPALS IMPORTANT TO THE LORE????"
Everytime any video shows something that moves when you don't see it, it gives me Weeping Angel vibes and I feel the need to never stop looking at it so it won't move
Oh my God finally someone is talking about this, ever since the FNaF2 Easter egg I always wondered “what’s the meaning of this?”
I do believe that the paper pals originated from the Fredbear restaurant, and due to their smaller stature, the animatronics mistaken them as children.
Chica being in Party Room 4 was unused??? I swear i’ve seen it
Interesting, great vid! your one of my favorite fnaf UA-camrs.
With all do respicts paper buddy looks more like the puppet to me with that smile and the three buttons.
Wonderful video. Who knew there so so much to learn about the paper pals?
My nephew wanted me to let you know he really enjoyed this video 🤝
I’d imagine Paper Buddy is supposed to represent a kid, either the one who made them or just in general, given how it doesn’t quite resemble any animatronic and the name just being “Buddy” rather than an actual character’s name
4:04 can you spot THE MIIIMMMICCCCC
Referring to the Freddy Paper Pal:
"It kinda looks like the bear from the original like the... what-like, dog shaped bears and all that from the original but..."
- Total Dino, 2022 (Whilst analyzing the Paper Pals)
It would be cool if the pals get an explanation that ties a wierd FNAF 2 thing into the Steel Wool era. In general it feels like FNAF 1-3 are left in the background nowadays.
I had this one paper pal in my Office in fnaf 2 yesterday and i was like, wait a minute... This thing aint supposed to be here, is it...? 😂
CLOWN MIMIC!!!
I LOVE VIDEOS LIKE THESE MAN!
Withered Chica must not like that she got excluded from the Paperpals, huh?
I love the paper plate pals
I’m happy they are playable in fnaf world it’s nice to have a group character also I have the mystery mini
when you mentioned that only the 2 shadow paper pals were in security breach with no paper buddy to be seen, and the fact that theres a plush of nightmarionne everywhere in SB, i think its confirmation that the paper buddy from fnaf 2 is indeed the puppet
Bruh my sleep addled brain only read "Paperpal's: FNAF strongest characters' I'm crying
I LOVED the IRL Paper Pals! Bro was put in the trash!
i think the change to black in security breach and help wanted are to say they represent shadow bonnie and freddy and I think paper buddy is just a kids representation of themself
I've been following this series since the first game and I completely missed these guys. They are cute 😭
@5:52 what is this hallway!? It seems like it has a lot of things we were supposed to "forget about"
I can't believe the paper pals are back in FNAF The Movie The Game
I think that their continued inclusion in the games is a combination of the fact that they help make the game locations look like real places that real children have been too and the fact they are an iconic part of fnaf's visual style at this point, just like the checkered floor and the balloons
Great video!
I always thought when they moved it was a ghost moving they like there puppets when we arent looking
Saw recreations of these at my movie theater when I went to see the movie
Paper pals
Aper pals
Per pals
er pals
R pals
Pals
"When you clean your plate, then you see their face!" *Que Jumpscare*
Should've ended it by turning around to find Buddy sitting on the wall behind you after having just thrown him out
i think that paperpals are shadow animatronics but they are drawn by the kids possessing them
Perhaps some things are best left forgotten… forever.
We all love paper pals but there never researched enough
I love your profile picture max from the sam and max video games
The third paper pal in FNAF 6 looks kind of like Mr. Hippo.
Fun fact: I accidentally left my "watch later" list autoplaying in my sleep, and this video gave me nightmares 😂👍
Now watching this while awake, I'm glad to hear about paper plate lore, I was always curious about these guys and I had no idea one of them moved in fnaf2!
I always liked to imagine the paper pals (the original three) were meant to be the shadows and puppet, and since the two shadows are manifestations of agony, maybe their paper pals are still around to watch over things whilst they’re not there
My paper pals are over my back while I'm watching this
ok so the silly pals and og buddy is rotting in william aftons hell hold while paper freddy and bonnie chilling in the Pizzaria
RIP paper buddy, a legend (in my eyes) turned to ash to soon
this is fnaf
you can never dig too deep
It's the endoskeleton/mimic making those hes been slowly changing his endoskeleton when one gets damaged or sort (theory btw)
your my favorite content creator keep up the good videos! :D