Hey, so I wanted to clear up some confusion people had when watching this video, whether you're a newcomer- or a returning viewer. Commenters seem be confused about me explaining the "supernatural" activity as Mike's imagination acting up or him hallucinating. So allow me to clear some of this up because I admit I kinda rushed through that part in the video and could've cleared it up better: -Mike seeing "IT'S ME" everywhere is him knowing Fazbear Entertainment is partially responsible for the missing children's incident and in my opinion, it's him imagining Fazbear Entertainment confessing their guilt once they're caught and saying "It's me!" over and over again. -The Freddy Fazbear poster changing from Freddy... to ripping his own head off... to Golden Freddy's poster is Mike sometimes not getting a clear view of that poster in the dark and seeing it as something else entirely in the dark through a terrible security camera. -Golden Freddy appearing in the office after seeing his poster is Mike thinking about how the man in the yellow bear suit would sneak in, hide and attack him if he was there. -Bonnie and Chica head twitching, the posters of the crying children and the newspaper clippings being on the wall is the job of surviving real animatronics hunting him down getting to him. He read up on the events in the newspaper... so it would only be natural for him to hallucinate the clippings on the wall. The last thing I want to address before anymore people bring it up to me is that there is a fan game I wasn't aware of when making this video called "Graveyard Shift at Freddy's" that has a similar story to my theory. I have since checked out the game and while both stories in my theory video and the game are similar- clearly a lot more effort was put into the fan game, character names from other sources were used in the game and more importantly the game's story is more interesting than mine since more details were put into it I just stick to working with what I got from the official game. All in all, both stories are similar but separate enough to tell neither of us were aware of each other when making our content! ADDENDUM: Just found out the creators of that game aren't well received (but won't get into it since I don't wanna cause drama) and I want everyone to know I have nothing to do with the creators and I'm separating the game from the creators if it sounds like I'm praising it.
@@pyroonbusinesschannel118 Artistic liberty on Scott Cawthon's part I guess. I try to explain everything in my video using in universe context and how people living in that world would explain things. I thank you for bringing that up and challenging me with it though!
@@twotailedfox3349 It is from a movie, specifically from a scene in the 1981 British-Hong Kong science fiction horror film Inseminoid. The scream is from the character Sandy played by Judy Geeson, who was giving birth to an alien in the scene. I haven't seen the movie, but I have seen the clip, and it's the exact same sound, however it is modified to sound more robotic
Bonnie and Chica: Deathly groans, doesn't attack the player unless they lift the camera Building: has posters supernaturally appear Foxy: runs into the room as many times a night as he can TH-camr: They're not haunted
Just a quick note for you: Golden Freddy, while it CAN be implied in the second game that it was the suit used in the murders, the Give Gifts, Give Life minigame shows us that there IS, in fact, a fifth child which possesses our favorite golden Fazboy.
Side tangent: Whilst Golden Freddy was probably meant to be the murder suit the killer used in the first game I think there is evidence of Spring Bonnie existing in the second game. RWQFSFASXC or Shadow Bonnie is a recolor of Toy Bonnie. However unlike Shadow Freddy who’s a recolor of Withered Golden Freddy with no differences between the two outside of their color, there is a difference between Shadow Bonnie and Toy Bonnie, their teeth. Toy Bonnie has two buck teeth, while Shadow Bonnie has four, this is the only difference between the models, their bottom row of teeth are the same. Springtrap and Spring Bonnie in every appearance (including FNAF World) have four upper teeth like RWQ, so I think Shadow Bonnie was intended to foreshadow Springtrap in FNAF 3. Also Scott said in the interview that FNAF 2 & 3’s stories were made together.
Like you said, Scott stated that when developing FNaF 2, he had a solid idea of what would happen in FNaF 3, I think it's either likely he simply changed which suit William killed the children in, or that it was an attempt to throw people off and make the surprise more authentic.
Freddy doesn't leave the room, he just has a random chance every second, and can't enter when the cam is on him. The TH-camrs "Tech rules" and "Thebones5" didn't do this much work for nothing.
Sorry about that! A lot of play throughs I've watched by respected let's players have claimed Freddy can leave the office. I always thought he could leave too with the way he acted whenever I played the game.
wait a second this is literally the story of the fangame graveyard shift at Freddy’s. A owner sending non possessed animals after a private investigator to keep them off their scent. this isn’t a knock against it i just find it weird how you got to that
I don't play the fan games much or keep up with them, but I'm not surprised to hear there's a fan game that explores this. Maybe the creator thought the same as me. I wanna check it out now! Edit: didn't mean to sound like the creator of that game stole from me or I stole from him, just that two fans thought of something similar!
It’s not really confirmed that much in the game if they are living breathing mammals that look like cartoon characters or not they could be just animatronics possessed by evil entities
@@decomposingdave2902 nah they’re probably breathing animals (specifically demons) given they are said to be hungry, they have bloodshot eyes, they have no visible mechanical joints, the boss found foxy’s bones, and references to satan and making a deal with him.
@waggieentertainment9387 the joint thing is because real life animatronics don’t have visible joins it’s simply a realistic style choice like the game jrs also in the world of the supernatural you don’t have too be a living creature to try and eat people it’s either done because of sadistic fun or just primal instinct that was given because that came with them when summoned they were built too be animalistic in nature also also just because it has a bit of organic growths doesn’t make it any less mechanical
At 4:55 you say Scott leads us astray with his story telling. I agree with this. But wouldn’t it make more sense that Scott would be leading us on thinking Phone Guy was telling the truth not making things up, only for those who looked beneath the surface and found all the rare secrets to discover that actually, the robots are haunted.
Ahhhhh, reverse reverse psychology! This video was just a fun "what if?" or possible retcon. That's why I admitted at the beginning that the ghosts do INDEED haunt the animatronics.
@ well its clear in the first game that Scott intended the robots to be possessed. Look at the newspapers and changing posters + plus golden freddy’s child-like laugh. Also, the idea that Mike is simply hallucinating, while cool in concept, is simply wrong. The pizzeria is haunted by the ghosts which isn’t something we learn in the sequels, it’s something obvious from the get-go. Ig what I really mean is this feels more like fanfic than a theory, still cool though (adding on to this, scott has said in interviews that there was no overarching story in the first game. So all that we see in the first game is all that he had planned to that point)
I figured that it could actually be the original story a while ago, but i never heard anyone else actually say this. I like that. The idea that they are just big, cold hunks of metal with no soul that only do those things to you if they can because they don't understand that you're a human, nor what a human is.
The story almost sounds like the movie's plot, except for the haunted part. Afton would still have control of the animatronics but would suffer his own little accident trying to kill Mike, and Vanessa and Abby wouldn't be there. The phone guy would have given the exposition instead of Vanessa.
People have died of heart attacks due to overactive imaginations, if your mind believes something will happen to you enough, it can cause your heart to overwork itself into giving out. So yeah, you can literally be "scared to death".
Someone please make a fan game with this concept in mind. This is the thing that fixes all of the problems with modern FNAF and the mascot horror genre in general.
Honestly I like this, I would love to imagine if William was a performer who was driven mad by the company leading to the murders, I would then in this case imagine that he was killed off, so nobody could track it back to them
I actually like this approach to the franchise more. I honestly wish it could be rebooted with this alternative perspective in mind. This is such a better and more mature approach to Five Nights At Freddy’s.
Idk if this was the original intention of FNAF1, but I can definitely see it as plausible if you take away all the stuff from later games and look at just this one game. It did always seem weird for them to follow the exact same patterns if there was a ghost piloting them
this doesn’t explain the groaning sounds bonnie and chica make, or bonnie taking off his mask in the trailer. I don’t believe this theory but I do have to respect how much effort you put into making this seem plausible.
Thank you for disagreeing with me respectfully, also I knew forgot about the groaning sounds! I don't go off of anything other than what the game itself provides me, so as far as I'm concerned, the trailer with Bonnie taking his face off is non-canon.
I think Spring bonnie was always ment to be the suit atleast in the first murderers. The fnaf 2 ones can still have been made inside Golden Freddy, but they're have always been 5 kids and 5 animatronics. Also, Silver Eyes was released after Fnaf 3 even tho it "implies" Golden Freddy was used. The book trilogy also says that William has always used the Spring Bonnie suit and Golden Freddy is posessed by a kid(just not the same one as the games), so Golden Freddy was always posessed and Spring Bonnie was always used. Fnaf 1 was made without Scott being sure it was gonna go right, but when it did, he made 2 and 3 on the same base. If you get Fnaf 1-3, the story is perfect without letting anything unanswered, so it would be weird for a retcon to be made from 2 to 3 if, when 2 was made, it was already a success.
This isn't a bad idea, although I would bring up in the video the moans they make, the random circus music and the "they'll think you are a naked endo" thing. The last 2 don't neccesarily disprove anything, but they should be mentioned to close every bit of evidence Edit: Yeah, the goverment stuff is a bit far away, like the army stuff in the fnaf 2 movie script. Also, I am personally more interested in a story where the children are suffering being kept here, like if they just die and nothing happens I don't really feel anything about that, but that's probably just me
To be fair, I think Mike smoking a bowl before working would've made it easier for him to face the deadly robbits and not hallucinate any of the weird stuff!
I replied to someone that brought this up before that I simply forgot about it, I also forgot about the circus music too>.< Though I would've chalked it up to the groaning to the broken voice boxes and the circus music as actually happening but coming from malfunctioning arcade machine.
W theory. Just like the Phone guy said, they were allowed to move around at night pretty bc the animatronics were made to protect the pizzeria so Fazbear entertainment wouldn’t let anyone find out about the killings and such. So i get it. 👍😑
Tbh this theory really comes across like you started from the conclusion and worked from there. There's a lot of reaches and iffy reasoning here and I don't believe it personally. - The animatronics having basic movement paths is just to make gameplay more interesting. Using this as reasoning is odd at best, because what else was he supposed to do? Put an intelligent AI in each of the animatronics? I think it's a lot more likely that he just gave the animatronics gameplay mechanics that he thought would be interesting. - I can understand the idea of Mike hallucinating because of the stress of the job, but it feels like a mechanism to just not acknowledge any of the contradictions to the theory. Especially with the sheer amount of things that have to be explained with tangential reasoning specifically based off of the story that you crafted, it's circular reasoning. - If the intention wasn't for the animatronics to be possessed, why did he make them that way in FNAF 2? There wasn't any obligation for him to make it that way. FNAF 2 came out literally 3 months after the first game, and the animatronics being possessed wasn't accepted fact or anything like certain other parts of the story you could argue fans made canon. You also have to remember that, since the game was made in 3 months, he probably already knew what he wanted to do with the story not long after he started making it. - The thing about Fazbear Entertainment trying to 'get rid' of Mike feels like an attempt to write yourself out of a corner, because it really doesn't make sense imo. Why would they be trying to get rid of their night guard? How and why did they activate Foxy and Freddy after the first night? Why not just activate them all immediately? Why do they get more aggressive throughout the game? And especially, if they don't want people investigating, why would they open a job application to let investigators into the building? - Might sound stupid but I also think the story is too complicated? FNAF 1 is not the same as what it became when FNAF 2 came out. FNAF 2 was made when Scott decided that he actually wanted to craft a full story out of these games, but FNAF 1 was supposed to be Scott's last game. This is a lot of effort to put into a story for a game like this, and there are so many pieces that have to be assumed for it to work. Tbh, I think Scott had some details worked out but the rest was just left up to interpretation. The animatronics being possessed is something I really feel was intended though. I think the idea of this is very cool but I just don't think it's true.
You're thinking with the sequels in mind, I was going off of a story before the sequels were even thought of. Stress can actually cause people's imaginations to go wild and even have them die of a heart attack. All in all, I made sure to make it clear at the beginning of the video that this theory had no way of being true by acknowledging the animatronics were possessed and this was just a fun "what if?" video. People claim I'm trying to explain things from Phone Guy's perspective, so you could try seeing the video that way! Thanks for the critiques though!
@hareraisingrobot When mentioning FNAF 2, I was mentioning how some decisions wouldn't make sense if the animatronics being possessed wasn't the original intention. I didn't say that them being possessed in FNAF 2 would make them have to be possessed in FNAF 1, I know that goes against what this theory is about. I was asking why, if the animatronics weren't meant to be possessed initially, that Scott would suddenly change his mind when writing FNAF 2. Also, you referenced FNAF 2 and The Silver Eyes when talking about it being confirmed that the killer used a suit to lure the kids into the back, which iirc wasn't a confirmed thing in FNAF 1. My point about stress was very hand wavey, I'll admit that. It's a valid point. I could definitely be misinterpreting, but the impression that I got when watching the video was "I theorize that, when FNAF 1 came out, the intended story did not include the detail that the animatronics were possessed." Which is I gave my critique in the manor I did. Thank you as well for responding calmly, I appreciate you being willing to engage meaningfully in the conversation.
@@TheLiquidSaturn Oh, no problem, I like talking with people who disagree with me! Makes me want to see things from their side and learn more to better myself! You were right about the last part though, my intention was "maybe the intended story was that the animatronics weren't possessed?" even though I think Scott himself has said in MULTIPLE interviews that he wanted them to be possessed from the beginning. I just want to tackle this story from a different, more realistic angle, even if I'm wrong about it ^_^
Sorry, but handwaving away the obvious irrefutable evidence of ghosts as the job getting to Mike and him hallucinating is just bad theory crafting. This theory is about as valid as "Angelica is hallucinating the Rugrats because they all died".
I'm sorry you feel that way, but I'm not just handwaving away everything as "Mike is delirious, lol" If you're arguing that when the newspaper clippings appear on the wall, they're actually there- then why would Fazbear Entertainment put them there? How would the ghosts get ahold of them if they can't leave the pizzeria? I find it easier to believe that mike is hallucinating seeing newspaper clippings he read earlier on the wall through a security camera than a ghost in an animatronic suit going out to the library or store, getting a copy, rushing back and tacking them on the wall or the company doing this. I admit I should've made this more clear in the video. This video is not about Mike imagining the animatronics coming to get him, I make that very clear in the video. I state that they are after him, they're just not haunted in this version of the story. However, I apreciate the feedback and will try to be more clear on any points in my future theory videos.
@@thexplodenator3007 Hate to be that guy, but the newspaper needs to come from somewhere. Even ghosts need something to work with. They can't just materialize outta nowhere if they're actually on the wall.
@@mishapp4439 While Mike isn't hallucinating the animatronics going after him or working at Freddy's, all the weird stuff is his imagination going into overtime. Have you ever looked at a poster or framed photo in the dark and thought it looked like something else from what it actually was? That's what's going on with the Freddy poster since the ripped Freddy head and Golden Freddy poster are the same dimensions.
Well, I'm not 100% sure this was the intended narrative, but it does seem to work quite a bit. Heck, it doesnt even have to be retconed. Allow me... The order is FNaF 4, FNaF 2, FNaF, FNaF sister location, FNaF 3 (and FNaF world at the same time), FNaF Pizza Sim, Ultimate custom night. In FNaF 4, or 1983, a young child had their frontal lobe bitten by fredbear. It was a freak accident caused by the kids older brother and his friends deciding that since the kid was scared of fredbear they should tease him for it. These kid were likely teenagers at the time and didnt realize how dangerous the robots were. While the injured child is in the hospital they, or their brother, have relentless nightmares of the animatronics that they fear, made worse by the events that occured. Eventually the injuries proved fatal. The father of these kids is william afton, a guy who worked at fazbear entertainment. He is driven mad by the loss of his young son, and in a drunken and jealous rage takes his first victim, charlie emily, the daughter of his coworker henry. Four years later freddy fazbears has been through a few iterations since the events of 83, and long since had the springlock animatronics, including fredbear/golden freddy, been locked to the back as spare suits. The og fazbear crew of freddy, bonnie, chica, and foxy were initially planned to be retrofitted with upgraded parts for security, but they decided that the robots were too ugly and not very appealing to children, thus they created a newer set of robots. Toy foxy became mangle because foxy lacked a stage, and kids kept tearing them apart. The other toys had high tech security and access to criminal data bases, they malfunction due to either being cared for improperly or just wear and tear. One day an individual on the dayshift, presumably william, chooses to wear the yellow suit from the backrooms, or move the suit from the backrooms. He witnesses the puppet being haunted, once a plain white mask now streaked with purple tears he assumes the robot is haunted by the first child he kills, so he attempts to repeat the events. Thinking perhaps in doing so he can either bring back his lost son, or at least gain immortality. He stuffs the missing children into the withered suits, and leaves the building. Even if you believe springtrap to have existed originally he had to have brought the golden suit home with him. Maybe he just brought fredbear first before returning to collect the metal from the withereds after the pizzaria shut down. He did not move springbonnie from its spot however. The mangle does the infamous bite of 87 on the last day freddy fazbears pizzaria is open. Then the company opens a new location a few years later, but after all the events, not many are interested in visiting the restraunt. Mike, perhaps the same person from 83 to have accidentally harmed his brother, has kept tabs on fazbear ent. He has researched the missing children, and the many events, and ge does not suspect his father to have been the murderer yet. He takes the job, and the robots act strange. They are broken but not haunted as they are completely different models than the ones from 1987. He hallucinates all the things hes witnessed or read, and thus the golden freddy, its me, and crying child poster are all memories flooding back from the bad things he did as a teen. He inevitably gets fired after following phine guys instructions to check whats in the spare heads backstage. Then mikes father goes missing. Upon not hearing from his father, mike reads the letter addressed to him "incase I (william) am unable to reach you (mike)." He reads about visiting his father's secret bunker of underground robot rentals, "circus babies pizza world" to visit circus baby and the supposed spirit of his long lost half sister Elizabeth. (She mustve died between 87 and 93 at some point. Most likely closer to 87, as thats when william was made aware of spiritual stuff and remnant or whatever. Thus the funtime animatronic experiments, utilizing the same exact metal from the withered animatronics that housed the missing children.) He finds circus baby and the funtimes to be practically sentient and violent. They team up to trick him and use him as a flesh suit to escape, all because he looks exactly like his father william. After finally gaining control of his body again, he is determined to find his father. And when fazbear frights opens, its the perfect chance for him to find any and every lead he can as to where his father disapeared to. He falls asleep during some of the nights (the only way the minigames for the happiest day can be canon), but he does eventually see springtrap. At first he isnt too suspicious, it just looks like a damaged springlock suit, and he knows from fazbear that those suits were particularly dangerous and were discontinued when a springlock failure occuered. But thanks to the hallucinations and dreams he learns that the body decaying within springtrap is his father, who died presumably trying to collect his suit. So he does what any rational being would and burns the horror attraction to the ground. This doesnt stop everything. A few more years later henry is released from prison, he did time as the number one suspect in the crimes of the missing children as he owned the pizzaria and was one of the most likely to know how to use the springlock suits. Now with a vengeance and proof of william being the evil culprit he was, he opens a trap pizzaria to capture the actually haunted robots, circus baby, the pupet, the mci/molten freddy, and afton. He didnt expect mike to show up to this as well, but wasnt upset about it either. In The canon ending to that game, all the remnant/haunted robots burn, all the tragedy trapped and melted to the ground. Afton by this point had commited such evil deeds, but one of his victims is particularly vengeful and has completely lost themselves. They keep him alive in a coma to relive the horrors caused by his evil deeds. And i think the perfect one to uphold this status to be none other than mike afton, his own son who trusted him. The one that he sent to die in the bunker with circus baby. And the one that likely endured years of neglect from him. After all, mike never had HIS happiest day. From then on is the story of the mimic, vanny, and the pizzaplex murders. But those arent important to this half of the story. So yeah fnaf 1, the robots could just be regular malfunctioning robots and hallucinations from the mind of a troubled young adult. Infact this is the easiest interpretation of the story imo.
That's more of an issue with the game engine than with the robots themselves. I've always imagined them as walking or running around and you just don't see it (unless it's Foxy). Sometimes, yes THEY DO teleport, but that's just the game glitching and I can't use a game glitch to say either way if the building is haunted or not!
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Hey, so I wanted to clear up some confusion people had when watching this video, whether you're a newcomer- or a returning viewer. Commenters seem be confused about me explaining the "supernatural" activity as Mike's imagination acting up or him hallucinating. So allow me to clear some of this up because I admit I kinda rushed through that part in the video and could've cleared it up better:
-Mike seeing "IT'S ME" everywhere is him knowing Fazbear Entertainment is partially responsible for the missing children's incident and in my opinion, it's him imagining Fazbear Entertainment confessing their guilt once they're caught and saying "It's me!" over and over again.
-The Freddy Fazbear poster changing from Freddy... to ripping his own head off... to Golden Freddy's poster is Mike sometimes not getting a clear view of that poster in the dark and seeing it as something else entirely in the dark through a terrible security camera.
-Golden Freddy appearing in the office after seeing his poster is Mike thinking about how the man in the yellow bear suit would sneak in, hide and attack him if he was there.
-Bonnie and Chica head twitching, the posters of the crying children and the newspaper clippings being on the wall is the job of surviving real animatronics hunting him down getting to him. He read up on the events in the newspaper... so it would only be natural for him to hallucinate the clippings on the wall.
The last thing I want to address before anymore people bring it up to me is that there is a fan game I wasn't aware of when making this video called "Graveyard Shift at Freddy's" that has a similar story to my theory. I have since checked out the game and while both stories in my theory video and the game are similar- clearly a lot more effort was put into the fan game, character names from other sources were used in the game and more importantly the game's story is more interesting than mine since more details were put into it I just stick to working with what I got from the official game. All in all, both stories are similar but separate enough to tell neither of us were aware of each other when making our content!
ADDENDUM: Just found out the creators of that game aren't well received (but won't get into it since I don't wanna cause drama) and I want everyone to know I have nothing to do with the creators and I'm separating the game from the creators if it sounds like I'm praising it.
quick question: why when they jumpscare, its a child laughing sped up
@@pyroonbusinesschannel118 Artistic liberty on Scott Cawthon's part I guess. I try to explain everything in my video using in universe context and how people living in that world would explain things. I thank you for bringing that up and challenging me with it though!
@@hareraisingrobot neat answer, also what abt those pictures of crying faces in hallway
@@pyroonbusinesschannel118
i thought the jumpscare sound was from some kind of movie? where can i find the source about the sped up child laugh?
@@twotailedfox3349 It is from a movie, specifically from a scene in the 1981 British-Hong Kong science fiction horror film Inseminoid. The scream is from the character Sandy played by Judy Geeson, who was giving birth to an alien in the scene. I haven't seen the movie, but I have seen the clip, and it's the exact same sound, however it is modified to sound more robotic
Bonnie and Chica: Deathly groans, doesn't attack the player unless they lift the camera
Building: has posters supernaturally appear
Foxy: runs into the room as many times a night as he can
TH-camr: They're not haunted
Just a quick note for you:
Golden Freddy, while it CAN be implied in the second game that it was the suit used in the murders, the Give Gifts, Give Life minigame shows us that there IS, in fact, a fifth child which possesses our favorite golden Fazboy.
Yup
The saddest thing about Fnaf is that Freddy lost his fazball
You're welcome btw
This vid is bassicaly if Phone Guy tried to explain the stuff in FNAF1 for 30 mins
Lol, guess the alternate title could be "Phone Guy tries really hard to convince you the Animatronics Aren't Haunted" 🤣
Side tangent: Whilst Golden Freddy was probably meant to be the murder suit the killer used in the first game I think there is evidence of Spring Bonnie existing in the second game. RWQFSFASXC or Shadow Bonnie is a recolor of Toy Bonnie. However unlike Shadow Freddy who’s a recolor of Withered Golden Freddy with no differences between the two outside of their color, there is a difference between Shadow Bonnie and Toy Bonnie, their teeth. Toy Bonnie has two buck teeth, while Shadow Bonnie has four, this is the only difference between the models, their bottom row of teeth are the same.
Springtrap and Spring Bonnie in every appearance (including FNAF World) have four upper teeth like RWQ, so I think Shadow Bonnie was intended to foreshadow Springtrap in FNAF 3. Also Scott said in the interview that FNAF 2 & 3’s stories were made together.
Like you said, Scott stated that when developing FNaF 2, he had a solid idea of what would happen in FNaF 3, I think it's either likely he simply changed which suit William killed the children in, or that it was an attempt to throw people off and make the surprise more authentic.
Freddy doesn't leave the room, he just has a random chance every second, and can't enter when the cam is on him. The TH-camrs "Tech rules" and "Thebones5" didn't do this much work for nothing.
Sorry about that! A lot of play throughs I've watched by respected let's players have claimed Freddy can leave the office. I always thought he could leave too with the way he acted whenever I played the game.
wait a second this is literally the story of the fangame graveyard shift at Freddy’s. A owner sending non possessed animals after a private investigator to keep them off their scent. this isn’t a knock against it i just find it weird how you got to that
I don't play the fan games much or keep up with them, but I'm not surprised to hear there's a fan game that explores this. Maybe the creator thought the same as me. I wanna check it out now!
Edit: didn't mean to sound like the creator of that game stole from me or I stole from him, just that two fans thought of something similar!
It’s not really confirmed that much in the game if they are living breathing mammals that look like cartoon characters or not they could be just animatronics possessed by evil entities
@@decomposingdave2902 nah they’re probably breathing animals (specifically demons) given they are said to be hungry, they have bloodshot eyes, they have no visible mechanical joints, the boss found foxy’s bones, and references to satan and making a deal with him.
@waggieentertainment9387 the joint thing is because real life animatronics don’t have visible joins it’s simply a realistic style choice like the game jrs also in the world of the supernatural you don’t have too be a living creature to try and eat people it’s either done because of sadistic fun or just primal instinct that was given because that came with them when summoned they were built too be animalistic in nature also also just because it has a bit of organic growths doesn’t make it any less mechanical
If I had $100 for each retcon for fnaf, I'd retire early as a millionaire.
At 4:55 you say Scott leads us astray with his story telling. I agree with this. But wouldn’t it make more sense that Scott would be leading us on thinking Phone Guy was telling the truth not making things up, only for those who looked beneath the surface and found all the rare secrets to discover that actually, the robots are haunted.
Ahhhhh, reverse reverse psychology! This video was just a fun "what if?" or possible retcon. That's why I admitted at the beginning that the ghosts do INDEED haunt the animatronics.
I don’t care if people say this doesn’t make sense, that’s a damn good story right there, sir! 👍👍👍
As good of a concept this is, it makes no sense 😭
how so
@ well its clear in the first game that Scott intended the robots to be possessed. Look at the newspapers and changing posters + plus golden freddy’s child-like laugh. Also, the idea that Mike is simply hallucinating, while cool in concept, is simply wrong. The pizzeria is haunted by the ghosts which isn’t something we learn in the sequels, it’s something obvious from the get-go. Ig what I really mean is this feels more like fanfic than a theory, still cool though (adding on to this, scott has said in interviews that there was no overarching story in the first game. So all that we see in the first game is all that he had planned to that point)
I figured that it could actually be the original story a while ago, but i never heard anyone else actually say this. I like that. The idea that they are just big, cold hunks of metal with no soul that only do those things to you if they can because they don't understand that you're a human, nor what a human is.
The story almost sounds like the movie's plot, except for the haunted part. Afton would still have control of the animatronics but would suffer his own little accident trying to kill Mike, and Vanessa and Abby wouldn't be there. The phone guy would have given the exposition instead of Vanessa.
If Mike is hallucinating Golden Freddy, how does it kill him if he looks at it for too long?
Cardiac attack maybe
People have died of heart attacks due to overactive imaginations, if your mind believes something will happen to you enough, it can cause your heart to overwork itself into giving out. So yeah, you can literally be "scared to death".
Someone please make a fan game with this concept in mind. This is the thing that fixes all of the problems with modern FNAF and the mascot horror genre in general.
Honestly I like this, I would love to imagine if William was a performer who was driven mad by the company leading to the murders, I would then in this case imagine that he was killed off, so nobody could track it back to them
I actually like this approach to the franchise more. I honestly wish it could be rebooted with this alternative perspective in mind. This is such a better and more mature approach to Five Nights At Freddy’s.
Idk if this was the original intention of FNAF1, but I can definitely see it as plausible if you take away all the stuff from later games and look at just this one game. It did always seem weird for them to follow the exact same patterns if there was a ghost piloting them
this doesn’t explain the groaning sounds bonnie and chica make, or bonnie taking off his mask in the trailer.
I don’t believe this theory but I do have to respect how much effort you put into making this seem plausible.
Thank you for disagreeing with me respectfully, also I knew forgot about the groaning sounds! I don't go off of anything other than what the game itself provides me, so as far as I'm concerned, the trailer with Bonnie taking his face off is non-canon.
@@hareraisingrobot Ah that’s fair enough!
24:54 I'm glad they're no ghosts either. If ghosts did exist, these spirits are no better than their murderer killing guards.
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Woah I really like this alternate universe of the original fnaf, no ghost included yet it still make much sense
I think Spring bonnie was always ment to be the suit atleast in the first murderers. The fnaf 2 ones can still have been made inside Golden Freddy, but they're have always been 5 kids and 5 animatronics. Also, Silver Eyes was released after Fnaf 3 even tho it "implies" Golden Freddy was used. The book trilogy also says that William has always used the Spring Bonnie suit and Golden Freddy is posessed by a kid(just not the same one as the games), so Golden Freddy was always posessed and Spring Bonnie was always used. Fnaf 1 was made without Scott being sure it was gonna go right, but when it did, he made 2 and 3 on the same base. If you get Fnaf 1-3, the story is perfect without letting anything unanswered, so it would be weird for a retcon to be made from 2 to 3 if, when 2 was made, it was already a success.
FINALLY IM NOT ONLY ONE THINKING THAT NO MORE!!!!
Amazing video btw
This isn't a bad idea, although I would bring up in the video the moans they make, the random circus music and the "they'll think you are a naked endo" thing. The last 2 don't neccesarily disprove anything, but they should be mentioned to close every bit of evidence
Edit: Yeah, the goverment stuff is a bit far away, like the army stuff in the fnaf 2 movie script. Also, I am personally more interested in a story where the children are suffering being kept here, like if they just die and nothing happens I don't really feel anything about that, but that's probably just me
Dang! That's another thing I forgot, I could've talked about the circus music for a while!
"I knew I shouldn't have smoked that pot before my shift" -mike probably
To be fair, I think Mike smoking a bowl before working would've made it easier for him to face the deadly robbits and not hallucinate any of the weird stuff!
11:37 Apparently they are looking for the Fire Type Fox Pokémon from Pokémon X and Y.
This theory may not be true but it's still pretty dang good
The saddest thing was that this series went on for too long
You forgot to explain the moaning sounds coming from the animatronics
I replied to someone that brought this up before that I simply forgot about it, I also forgot about the circus music too>.< Though I would've chalked it up to the groaning to the broken voice boxes and the circus music as actually happening but coming from malfunctioning arcade machine.
W theory. Just like the Phone guy said, they were allowed to move around at night pretty bc the animatronics were made to protect the pizzeria so Fazbear entertainment wouldn’t let anyone find out about the killings and such.
So i get it. 👍😑
Tbh this theory really comes across like you started from the conclusion and worked from there. There's a lot of reaches and iffy reasoning here and I don't believe it personally.
- The animatronics having basic movement paths is just to make gameplay more interesting. Using this as reasoning is odd at best, because what else was he supposed to do? Put an intelligent AI in each of the animatronics? I think it's a lot more likely that he just gave the animatronics gameplay mechanics that he thought would be interesting.
- I can understand the idea of Mike hallucinating because of the stress of the job, but it feels like a mechanism to just not acknowledge any of the contradictions to the theory. Especially with the sheer amount of things that have to be explained with tangential reasoning specifically based off of the story that you crafted, it's circular reasoning.
- If the intention wasn't for the animatronics to be possessed, why did he make them that way in FNAF 2? There wasn't any obligation for him to make it that way. FNAF 2 came out literally 3 months after the first game, and the animatronics being possessed wasn't accepted fact or anything like certain other parts of the story you could argue fans made canon. You also have to remember that, since the game was made in 3 months, he probably already knew what he wanted to do with the story not long after he started making it.
- The thing about Fazbear Entertainment trying to 'get rid' of Mike feels like an attempt to write yourself out of a corner, because it really doesn't make sense imo. Why would they be trying to get rid of their night guard? How and why did they activate Foxy and Freddy after the first night? Why not just activate them all immediately? Why do they get more aggressive throughout the game? And especially, if they don't want people investigating, why would they open a job application to let investigators into the building?
- Might sound stupid but I also think the story is too complicated? FNAF 1 is not the same as what it became when FNAF 2 came out. FNAF 2 was made when Scott decided that he actually wanted to craft a full story out of these games, but FNAF 1 was supposed to be Scott's last game. This is a lot of effort to put into a story for a game like this, and there are so many pieces that have to be assumed for it to work. Tbh, I think Scott had some details worked out but the rest was just left up to interpretation. The animatronics being possessed is something I really feel was intended though.
I think the idea of this is very cool but I just don't think it's true.
You're thinking with the sequels in mind, I was going off of a story before the sequels were even thought of. Stress can actually cause people's imaginations to go wild and even have them die of a heart attack. All in all, I made sure to make it clear at the beginning of the video that this theory had no way of being true by acknowledging the animatronics were possessed and this was just a fun "what if?" video. People claim I'm trying to explain things from Phone Guy's perspective, so you could try seeing the video that way! Thanks for the critiques though!
@hareraisingrobot When mentioning FNAF 2, I was mentioning how some decisions wouldn't make sense if the animatronics being possessed wasn't the original intention. I didn't say that them being possessed in FNAF 2 would make them have to be possessed in FNAF 1, I know that goes against what this theory is about. I was asking why, if the animatronics weren't meant to be possessed initially, that Scott would suddenly change his mind when writing FNAF 2. Also, you referenced FNAF 2 and The Silver Eyes when talking about it being confirmed that the killer used a suit to lure the kids into the back, which iirc wasn't a confirmed thing in FNAF 1.
My point about stress was very hand wavey, I'll admit that. It's a valid point.
I could definitely be misinterpreting, but the impression that I got when watching the video was "I theorize that, when FNAF 1 came out, the intended story did not include the detail that the animatronics were possessed." Which is I gave my critique in the manor I did.
Thank you as well for responding calmly, I appreciate you being willing to engage meaningfully in the conversation.
@@TheLiquidSaturn Oh, no problem, I like talking with people who disagree with me! Makes me want to see things from their side and learn more to better myself! You were right about the last part though, my intention was "maybe the intended story was that the animatronics weren't possessed?" even though I think Scott himself has said in MULTIPLE interviews that he wanted them to be possessed from the beginning. I just want to tackle this story from a different, more realistic angle, even if I'm wrong about it ^_^
Sorry, but handwaving away the obvious irrefutable evidence of ghosts as the job getting to Mike and him hallucinating is just bad theory crafting. This theory is about as valid as "Angelica is hallucinating the Rugrats because they all died".
I'm sorry you feel that way, but I'm not just handwaving away everything as "Mike is delirious, lol" If you're arguing that when the newspaper clippings appear on the wall, they're actually there- then why would Fazbear Entertainment put them there? How would the ghosts get ahold of them if they can't leave the pizzeria?
I find it easier to believe that mike is hallucinating seeing newspaper clippings he read earlier on the wall through a security camera than a ghost in an animatronic suit going out to the library or store, getting a copy, rushing back and tacking them on the wall or the company doing this. I admit I should've made this more clear in the video.
This video is not about Mike imagining the animatronics coming to get him, I make that very clear in the video. I state that they are after him, they're just not haunted in this version of the story. However, I apreciate the feedback and will try to be more clear on any points in my future theory videos.
@@hareraisingrobot the newspapers appear because the building is haunted
@@thexplodenator3007 Hate to be that guy, but the newspaper needs to come from somewhere. Even ghosts need something to work with. They can't just materialize outta nowhere if they're actually on the wall.
@@hareraisingrobot What about the Golden Freddy poster? Or the poster of Freddy ripping his head off?
@@mishapp4439 While Mike isn't hallucinating the animatronics going after him or working at Freddy's, all the weird stuff is his imagination going into overtime. Have you ever looked at a poster or framed photo in the dark and thought it looked like something else from what it actually was? That's what's going on with the Freddy poster since the ripped Freddy head and Golden Freddy poster are the same dimensions.
Gabriel - Freddy
Jeremy - Bonnie
Susie - Chica
Fritz - Foxy
Cassidy - Golden Freddy
Could you continue this storyline? Maybe a fanfiction
I'm currently working on a part 2 that shows how FNAF 3 would be different in this universe!
@@hareraisingrobot fantastic! Really loved your video. Either way, you have a subscriber
мне понравилось видео, интересная теория. создаётся ощущение, что скотт изначально так и задумывал. по крайней мере, хотя бы на этапе разработки
Thanks, never thought I'd have someone who speaks a different language comment on my video! That's cool!
it takes place in 1989 not 1993 10:55 just thought i'd let u know
sum1 did a video not long ago proving exactly why too
Just wanna say, there’s only one confirmed retcon. Scott said Charlie was originally gonna be a boy
Oh trust me, there's WAY MORE retcons than just that, I can assure you!
@ probably, but the only one I’ve heard of is the one O stated
i like this idea, but it is 100% unsubstantiated fanfiction
I pretty much agree, I just thought it could've been possible or a nice "What If?"
@@hareraisingrobot alright, alls good then
This was great I want more I want to hear what happens at the horror attraction
Well, I'm not 100% sure this was the intended narrative, but it does seem to work quite a bit. Heck, it doesnt even have to be retconed. Allow me...
The order is FNaF 4, FNaF 2, FNaF, FNaF sister location, FNaF 3 (and FNaF world at the same time), FNaF Pizza Sim, Ultimate custom night.
In FNaF 4, or 1983, a young child had their frontal lobe bitten by fredbear. It was a freak accident caused by the kids older brother and his friends deciding that since the kid was scared of fredbear they should tease him for it. These kid were likely teenagers at the time and didnt realize how dangerous the robots were. While the injured child is in the hospital they, or their brother, have relentless nightmares of the animatronics that they fear, made worse by the events that occured. Eventually the injuries proved fatal. The father of these kids is william afton, a guy who worked at fazbear entertainment. He is driven mad by the loss of his young son, and in a drunken and jealous rage takes his first victim, charlie emily, the daughter of his coworker henry.
Four years later freddy fazbears has been through a few iterations since the events of 83, and long since had the springlock animatronics, including fredbear/golden freddy, been locked to the back as spare suits. The og fazbear crew of freddy, bonnie, chica, and foxy were initially planned to be retrofitted with upgraded parts for security, but they decided that the robots were too ugly and not very appealing to children, thus they created a newer set of robots. Toy foxy became mangle because foxy lacked a stage, and kids kept tearing them apart. The other toys had high tech security and access to criminal data bases, they malfunction due to either being cared for improperly or just wear and tear. One day an individual on the dayshift, presumably william, chooses to wear the yellow suit from the backrooms, or move the suit from the backrooms. He witnesses the puppet being haunted, once a plain white mask now streaked with purple tears he assumes the robot is haunted by the first child he kills, so he attempts to repeat the events. Thinking perhaps in doing so he can either bring back his lost son, or at least gain immortality. He stuffs the missing children into the withered suits, and leaves the building.
Even if you believe springtrap to have existed originally he had to have brought the golden suit home with him. Maybe he just brought fredbear first before returning to collect the metal from the withereds after the pizzaria shut down. He did not move springbonnie from its spot however. The mangle does the infamous bite of 87 on the last day freddy fazbears pizzaria is open. Then the company opens a new location a few years later, but after all the events, not many are interested in visiting the restraunt. Mike, perhaps the same person from 83 to have accidentally harmed his brother, has kept tabs on fazbear ent. He has researched the missing children, and the many events, and ge does not suspect his father to have been the murderer yet. He takes the job, and the robots act strange. They are broken but not haunted as they are completely different models than the ones from 1987. He hallucinates all the things hes witnessed or read, and thus the golden freddy, its me, and crying child poster are all memories flooding back from the bad things he did as a teen. He inevitably gets fired after following phine guys instructions to check whats in the spare heads backstage.
Then mikes father goes missing. Upon not hearing from his father, mike reads the letter addressed to him "incase I (william) am unable to reach you (mike)." He reads about visiting his father's secret bunker of underground robot rentals, "circus babies pizza world" to visit circus baby and the supposed spirit of his long lost half sister Elizabeth. (She mustve died between 87 and 93 at some point. Most likely closer to 87, as thats when william was made aware of spiritual stuff and remnant or whatever. Thus the funtime animatronic experiments, utilizing the same exact metal from the withered animatronics that housed the missing children.) He finds circus baby and the funtimes to be practically sentient and violent. They team up to trick him and use him as a flesh suit to escape, all because he looks exactly like his father william.
After finally gaining control of his body again, he is determined to find his father. And when fazbear frights opens, its the perfect chance for him to find any and every lead he can as to where his father disapeared to. He falls asleep during some of the nights (the only way the minigames for the happiest day can be canon), but he does eventually see springtrap. At first he isnt too suspicious, it just looks like a damaged springlock suit, and he knows from fazbear that those suits were particularly dangerous and were discontinued when a springlock failure occuered. But thanks to the hallucinations and dreams he learns that the body decaying within springtrap is his father, who died presumably trying to collect his suit. So he does what any rational being would and burns the horror attraction to the ground. This doesnt stop everything.
A few more years later henry is released from prison, he did time as the number one suspect in the crimes of the missing children as he owned the pizzaria and was one of the most likely to know how to use the springlock suits. Now with a vengeance and proof of william being the evil culprit he was, he opens a trap pizzaria to capture the actually haunted robots, circus baby, the pupet, the mci/molten freddy, and afton. He didnt expect mike to show up to this as well, but wasnt upset about it either. In The canon ending to that game, all the remnant/haunted robots burn, all the tragedy trapped and melted to the ground.
Afton by this point had commited such evil deeds, but one of his victims is particularly vengeful and has completely lost themselves. They keep him alive in a coma to relive the horrors caused by his evil deeds. And i think the perfect one to uphold this status to be none other than mike afton, his own son who trusted him. The one that he sent to die in the bunker with circus baby. And the one that likely endured years of neglect from him. After all, mike never had HIS happiest day.
From then on is the story of the mimic, vanny, and the pizzaplex murders. But those arent important to this half of the story.
So yeah fnaf 1, the robots could just be regular malfunctioning robots and hallucinations from the mind of a troubled young adult. Infact this is the easiest interpretation of the story imo.
Oh wow that was a lot to read, but very interesting! You should make this into a video ^_^
My only issue is that they literally teleport around
That's more of an issue with the game engine than with the robots themselves. I've always imagined them as walking or running around and you just don't see it (unless it's Foxy). Sometimes, yes THEY DO teleport, but that's just the game glitching and I can't use a game glitch to say either way if the building is haunted or not!
5:46 Freddy takes a sweet time of a girls bathroom potty break 💀😭🤕
You gotta pace your videos better man, this had no reason to be 30 minutes, the entire video could've been explain in like 12 minutes or less
This ain't five nights at freddy's it's Friday nights at fozzie bears
holy shit, why does every fnaf theorist sound like ponguj?
Maybe we're all just that guy and it's all one big clean-spiracy! I actually don't know you're talking about is in reality.
@hareraisingrobot ponguj is a polish fnaf theorist
@@ikaiju-eu9wn Oh noes, I'm mostly Polish! The conspiracy thickens!
@hareraisingrobot i could tell
😁 good video
Thanks, I don't think it's all that great of a video, but I'm improving!
The darkest theory of FNaF is purpr gy is p diddy
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