Guys, I'm tired of saying it, but phone dude being in his 50s and talking like a surfer bro is literally so incredibly possible it hurts. You don't magically turn senile at 50. If thats your reasoning for me being wrong, I literally have nothing to say other than "thats your opinion".
thats why I love these theory vids, no William being evil mastermind, no illusion disks, no stringtrap virus, no fazbear gue, no mimic like it is mostly the case in the newer fnaf theories
I used to always subscribe to the idea that the pink dude who got out of the car and who waited near foxy to show foxy the bodies was an entirely different person than the purple night guard. We saw running around dismantling the animatronics but at some point Scott fused both those characters into William Afton. And it still makes a lot of sense. When you think about it, why would William Afton drive up to the place he works, get out of his car and kill the first person he saw who happened to be his business partner's daughter standing in front of his business in the rain and then leave. That doesn't seem like a super pre-planned detail. That seems like a generic 1970 serial killer causing everything to go to shit
Yesss I love this theory. Despite my desperation for giving Phone Guy an identity, him being Fritz Smith never sat right with me. I love the idea of him being Phone Dude because it characterizes him in a way I haven't seen before, yet makes total sense. It also makes him more relevant to the lore (the man brought back Springtrap yet no one ever talks about him smh)
this theory makes zero sense because phone dude would have to be in his 40s in fnaf 3 and i have never met a guy in his 40s that sounds like this. he's clearly a millenial.
The fnaf 2 phone calls are honestly really good to listen to and have a really well told story. A detail I noticed is that on I believe night 3 phone guy calls out "our day guard is watching who comes in and out". I always found that odd.
its a pretty common theory, you probably got it from fandom osmosis :p mainly its the paycheck date, lack of mention of the bite during the game, and jeremy moving to the dayshift on the last day of the place being open, so it would HAVE to happen that day. its not really concrete evidence, but its enough to take a guess, and it spread through the whole fandom.
I thought so too, however alot of small in game details and the promotional art for fnaf 4 implied that the bite of 87 was actually going to be what we saw in fnaf 4. Wich is kinda impossible since Fredbear's closed before 87..... Unless you got the Dream Theory route wich was probably the right awnser at the time. Not anyone of course thank god. Having said all that. That would mean that no bite happened in fnaf 2. Wich makes me wonder on wherever the place closed down because of the killings instead like the first Freddy's....
@@thumbgoblin4716Maybe because it was part of the Game Theory video that Scott confirmed got almost everything right (with Matt's conclusion of phone guy and purple guy being the same character being the incorrect part)
I don't think we've ever gotten an official explanation of what the bite of '87 is, so it's definitely possible it could have happened during FNaF 2. I personally like to think Jeremy was the unfortunate bite victim, but there is very little evidence to back any of what I said up (Other than the fact that FNaF 2 takes place during 1987). All in all, I think it's up for interpretation.
Wow. The final theory here actually seems plausible. I can definitely see it, especially with the way Phone Dude talks about stuff like “crappy cosplays” and gets so excited over vintage/real items.
I really like the idea of all the nightguards being different people, the story is so Afton focused so its nice to have other characters. Also, I'm an artist who loves designing characters, so the more I can come up with the better.
Same! I crave all the different characters we can get, and it's fun headcannoning personalities and designs for each one. Plus, having more than just one nightguard makes the games feel more plausible, to me.
This is exactly why I like to imagine Mike Schmidt and Michael Afton are two different people, even if it’s likely they are the same guy in the game continuity.
@@wumpus976 I like them being the same, but besides that I like the others being different. I only see Michael as the main dude in Fnaf 1 (maybe), Sister Location, and of course Pizzeria Sim.
Ok, hear me out. Fritz isn't supposed to be there and he doesn't get a phone call because "Sea Bonnies" confirms that he is a goldfish and goldfish can't be security guards.
Oh my god, I was going on for years thinking that the Toys weren’t possessed at ALL. How could I forget about the Withereds being used for parts? I really appreciate the structure and organization of your content; it helps me gain a clearer understanding of everything when details like that are mentioned and explored. It’s why I tend to stay away from channels like MattPat (no hate to him)- I enjoy research more than speculation and theories that are based loosely on concepts and guesses
I forgot where (probably matpat) but I Heard theory about the how different of small pieces remnant from different dead children makes animatronic erratic and move weird like the funtimes and I think matpat said that was the reason the toy animatronics move like that
In FNAF 2 Night 5 phone call, Phone guy’s mentions to Jeremy that he’s going to be moved to day shift as the position just became available, then he says “We don’t have a replacement for your shift, but we’re working on it”. So Fritz was definitely hired as a replacement night guard to work the shift on night 7. A bit unrelated but I realised two things: 1-Jeremy never got payed for that last shift, he got payed for his work week and for night 6 overtime. 2-Jeremy must have been in a terrible state during the Birthday party, he spend all night trying to survive then he presumably leaves Freddy’s for few hours until the day shift starts for a shower and nap, before returning to Freddy’s. And then is instruction to stay close to robots, the very things that have trying to murder him all week, plus the screaming kids. Man, poor guy.
Being a night guard at closed establishments is normal, actually. Even when a location is defunct, security guards are still put on duty to protect the building from vandals and thieves. It's especially apparent when location owners are moving out of there, which does take a lot of time, more often than not.
I found fnaf 3 phone calls to be cool but they underused phone dude. It would have been pretty cool to hear about were phone dude got the inspiration for the haunted house as it would give us insight as to what is public knowledge in the fnaf universe.
As a lot of people have pointed out, if Fritz is phone dude, that would make him, like, 50-something years old when FNAF 3 takes place. Also, something that many people seem to forget when theorizing about mascot horror games is that abandoned places sometimes do have security staff; even if the place isn't being used, someone still needs to keep criminals out!
There's also the possibility that it's some random name that Scott chose and it doesn't mean anything. Has anybody ever straight up asked him about Fritz?
Scott rarely answers questions in a straightforward manner, and MAYBE in FNAF 1, fairly unlikely by FNAF 2 and 3, and pretty much 0 chance by 4/5, not to mention some aspects being retroactively made incredibly important :V
Don’t worry this guy is the scout from tf2, now if you’ve played tf2 you know that scout has power over the space time continuum which allows him to double jump, he’s just trying to make some money as we have learned from comics that the mercs are no loner in business with both Mann brothers being dead
Just because a place is shut down, it still needs someone to watch over it at night for breaks in, etc. the place was shut down for regular operations, but didn’t have time (permission?) to move things out. Including animatronics. So Fritz was placed there as a night guard and fired for tampering with the animatronics. I know that doesn’t help explain who exactly he is, but that would be why someone could work there and get fired
In all honesty if Fritz was in his 50s and sounded like a surfer dude it would make so much sense. Growing up in the 80s while born in the late 60s early 70s would totally give you that voice in your 50s
I was always partial to Jeremy Fitzgerald being the bite victim and Michael afton using a fake name to work night 7, but this is also an interesting theory to think about
I think that's the most likely scenario honestly, considering how much foreshadowing there is in the FNAF 2 phone calls. Like Phone Guy mentioning how aggressive the animatronics get near adults and how in the last call he tells Jeremy to "stay close" to the animatronics. Which is just asking to get bitten.
While I think this idea is interesting, you are wrong about one thing: Fritz Smith can work at a Freddy's even if it is abandoned. FE seems to be a-okay with letting guards work at their abandoned locations. In The Silver Eyes, "Dave Miller" was the nightguard at an abandoned Freddy's and the Freddy's that Mike works at in the movie is abandoned.
Technically, "Dave"isn't the nightguard of an abandoned Freddy's,but is the nightguard of the abandoned mall But overall that,i awlays thought people knew in FNaF 2 we are playing after the restaurent shut downed,even if we are playing as jeremy,the location has theses birthday party banners,like if a birthday party happend before it shutted down,plus,the restaurent in Phone Guy's tapes will be shut down because of the murders,and not because of the bite.
@@sirmcmoneyston4449 Oh yeah I definitely agree that the FNAF2 location is closed down by the time of FNAF2. The birthday banners and the puddles being left out for a week makes no sense if it was leading to the Bite of 87.
he's my favorite human character now. Just because of how much of an "idiot mastermind" he is. He came up with all these plans for the dumbest of reasons and ended up unknowingly making everything worse
For the life of me, I've always thought Phone Dude said "training tapes for summer employees," not "other employees." The more you know, I guess. Great theory though, makes a lot of sense.
I'm so happy that you think the toy animatronics are haunted by the spirits of the withered. I've had that theory for a while, but everyone else seems to either think that the toy animatronics aren't haunted, or are haunted by 5 SEPERATE kids.
“This stuff is prehistoric” is a hell of a thing to come from the mouth of a guy who actively lived through it’s use. The characterization is fun though.
Amazing content! I also always thought that Fritz was actually the Phone Dude, so I’m happy someone else came to this conclusion. Also, you get bonus points for having the Song of Healing as your outro, specifically the version of the song from the best Zelda game
Great theory but, one flaw. Other employees is most likely referring to how the employee recording the tapes were for the other employees. And also he refers to the 80s equipment as prehistoric, which lets be honest no person born either in the 70s or 80s would say that about the 80s, he also sounds young, which couldn’t be the case if he worked in the fnaf 2 location.
>which lets be honest no person born either in the 70s or 80s would say that about the 80s Gotta counter this, you were born some time before 2000 right, or at least around that time? Would you say that CRT TVs/Computers, VHS Tapes, and Floppy Discs are prehistoric? :V
It doesn't matter when you were born, if something is from the 80s and you're in the modern day, you will more than likely still call it prehistoric. And he could absolutely talk like that if he's in his 50s, he's not in need of a cane or sleeping on a recliner all the time yet.
While I think this is reasonable to point out it in general, but I also think that it is entirely possible to end up living life in way, where years that they were lived in WILL looked by them as distant past. Most likely if they neglected their time, and it flew for them very fast
If your point starts with, "lets be honest," it immediately becomes obvious that you're disregarding the facts to talk about your opinions like they're above facts, which is exactly what you do.
12:00 Or, "They were for other employees" as in "The guy who recorded the training tapes was an employee who was making them to train OTHER employees" with the speaker having no relation to the restaurant chain or prior employment there.
I love these kinds of theories. Even if they don't lead to anything important, connecting the dots to acknowledge the existence of secondary characters makes everything more coherent and more "alive". Specifically this theory is my favorite theory/headcanon.
If Michael was Fritz, that would mean William would already be in springtrap, therefore Michael wouldn’t have any motivation or reason to follow him. Michael at this point is probably just a child. Fritz is likely just a balls-to-the-wall badass who broke into a Freddy’s, tampered with the animatronics to set them all to their hardest difficulty just because he felt like it.
Michael was at least a young teen as of 1983, so he can't be a child in 1987. Plus, William doesn't have to be in Springtrap for Michael to be taking jobs, they can either temporarily be in cahoots until Michael learns about William's actual doings, or Michael could already be scooped before William gets springlocked. Or maybe Michael took the job because he needed the money or for some other reason. According to the survival logbook, he took at least one of the Freddy's jobs because free pizza was involved.
>If Michael was Fritz, that would mean William would already be in springtrap ??? Why would he need to be in Springtrap? You are aware that Springtrap was only created some time after 1993, right? >Michael at this point is probably just a child. Definitely over 13, under 16. So either 14 or 15, which puts him at 18 or 19 at the time of FNAF 2, and 24 or 25 at the time of FNAF 1. *maybe* if FNAF 2 took place in 1985, yeah.
I think it makes more sense for Michael Afton to have been Fritz Smith, since it was really only by then that his father was officially declared a main suspect. If he were Jeremy, he would've had to be ahead of the police and yet not mention to them that he suspected his father in the disappearances. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it makes more sense that hearing about your father being detained as a suspect would lead to you working the night shift at the scene of the crime. Jeremy is there to be the victim of the Bite of '87 and, along with Fritz, help us pin down which two kids were the ones killed at the FNAF 2 location double murder. A FNAF 1 newspaper clipping says that TWO kids were lured away on JUNE 26th, which lines up with this being a SUMMER job. Jeremy was paid so late because of the Bite incident. Cassidy AFTON was killed long before this.
If Fritz is phone dude, and he worked at the FNAF 2 location in 1987, he would be in his 40s at least, possibly in his 50s, but I’d think based off of how he words his sentences, he would be a lot younger then that in FNAF 3, which takes place in 2023.
Is it possible that the phone calls in FNAF 2 are also recordings? I think it does welcome us to a summer job, even though we're working after the summer. Jeremy could possibly be working there after the investigation has already finished. (But that's just a theory.)
@@lpfan4491 Yeah, but that's my point. Are those phone calls directed at Jeremy? Or at someone else and it was just recorded? (I'm mainly suggesting this due to the fact that Phone Guy says "summer job" instead of fall when Jeremy is actually working there.)
Considering how the description for the first game mentions it being a summer job despite taking place in November, I think Scott just uses "summer job" as a way of describing a low-paying job
@@almightykellus2585 that makes more sense imo, I feel like the early games were a lot more jokey since the dark story probably wasn't fully developed at that point. Being fired for "odor" and lines like "yeah they don't tell you these things when you sign up" are examples of the more jokey moments, and referring to a crappy job as a "summer job" fits in with those moments pretty well.
Fritz is some random guy who took up a job. Had no clue about the Animatronics, and them absolutely EMBARRASSES them on 10/20 mode because he's simply him. Taking his minimum wage paycheck without complaint. That's how it should be.
Good theory, never considered Phone Dude having history with the series. Though I still feel Fritz is meant to Michael's Codename. He was fired for the same reasons as Schmidt, Schmidt is very similar to Smith, and I don't see why anyone else would even want to tamper with the animatronics. Also something I just thought of, but if Phone Guy contacted one of the previous owners of Fredbears, what if he contacted William and William forced his son to take the job on short notice? Considering that the Bite of 87 most likely happened the day of Night 7 (which is likely why there was no phone call), I don't think anyone random would sneak in at that point.
I do feel like a possible problem with fritz being phone dude is the fact phone dude is meant to sound very young and he discribes them as prehistoric which would probably emply it was before his time
Calling something prehistoric because it's old is universal, it doesn't matter if it's from your time or not. If something is from the 80s, and you are also from the 80s but are currently in the modern day, you wouldn't go 'oh this isn't old because it's from when I was born' you would say that it's *old* and, dare I say, prehistoric.
It depends how Dude lived back in those days. I think it's possible for someone end up in this way, if they weren't paying attention at how fast time flew for them
This video was strangely nostalgic to older FNaF Theory videos and idk why lol. It's also a pretty solid theory for something that modern FNaF theorists now overlook due to how unnessesarily complex and confusing FNaF lore has become from all the twists, turns, novels, and retcons thoughout the years.
11:50 I feel like by "other employees" he meant that Phone Guy, an employee, was recording them for the other employees. Also, just from a storytelling perspective, what would be the point in having these two characters be the same? They both never show up in anything ever again, and they don't really contribute much the one time they both appear. What would be the point in bringing back someone who's basically just a name for the third game, when you could just make another character? My thought is either Fritz Smith is a fake name for a major character like Michael or William, or he's just a nobody who got fired on their first day as a joke.
I really like the theory, but I feel like “other employees” is just refering to how phone guy is an employee teaching the OTHER employees about the springlocks.
I like this theory, but there’s one thing that doesn’t sit right with me. Phone dude in the phone calls sounds like a semi-energetic young man. But if he were to work at Freddy’s in 1987, assuming he was at least 18 years old during that time, he would have to be at least 54 years old during when FNAF 3 was taking place. This theory is pretty believable, but just something to think about.
Honestly, this is the coolest interpretation for the game. Might even make a potential Smash/Rivals of Aether moveset for the FNAF Night Guards be much more aesthetically interesting.
my only problem with this is phone dude sounds way too young to have worked at Freddy's back in 87, considering that fnaf 3 takes place this year and this guy sounds like he's in his late 20's or early 30's, he might not have even been born yet at the time, but otherwise I think this holds some water.
I always thought that Fritz was Michael or Phone Guy. I mean Phone Guy did say they would take over the night shift (albeit after the restaurant opened back up… and that was before the bite of ‘87) I know it doesn’t make sense but 8th grade me thought it did😂
… tell me why i JUST realized that getting fired for “tampering with the animatronics” after custom night is a reference to the player setting their ai levels
While it has no effect on the greater lore or story, this is honestly a really cute theory and i totally buy into it. Just adds a little bit extra to two otherwise random and unimportant characters.
Phone guy mentions in night 1 of fnaf 1 that most night guards don't make it as long as Mike, implying that there have been multiple night guards between fnaf 2 and fnaf 1. Phone guy could have taken over after Jeremy which would explain why he doesn't call Fritz (because he is him) and he was likely used as Freddy's on and off night guard each time they needed to find a permanent replacement.
i disagreed with you at first but im glad i watched to the end, i fully agree !! i thought it was michael, but like you point out the best fit is the phone dude
Assuming he is 18 years old by the year FNAF 2 is in (1987), His birth date would be approximately around 1969. FNAF 1 location closes 1993 and FNAF 3 is 30 years later, making it 2023. 2023 - 1969 = 54 years old and thats the best case scenario if he was 18. If he is 25 years old when he worked at FNAF 2, that would make him 61 years old. It could techincally be possible but it is something to consider and is a valid concern with this theory.
@@dmuted I agree that phone dude could very well be around 60. There's just not enough evidence for his exact age, and could go both ways. It doesn't debunk or discredit your theory at all. And considering that Scott Cawthon was the one doing the voice acting, we can't really use that as evidence that phone dude sounds younger/older than his age.
Whenever it comes to the mention of Odor I like to think of something that may have a simple explanation If the guy kept coming back to due the night shift when all these robots want him dead. Any man would be stressing their balls off. And to continue working there every night, I doubt hygiene would be a major priority if it was during night when not much people are out to see you And then there’s the other thing. It’s just a humorous jab calling you stinky But that’s just me
Before I start the video, I believe Fritz Smith to be Phone Guy. Why? We don't get a phone call on Night 7, he's Employee 03 when there's clearly been other employees before him (technicians, engineers, chefs, Afton and Jeremy). He was likely rehired due to Fazbear Ent. having a low budget and not being able to hire anyone new. EDIT 1: Damn I completely forgot about the first day thing EDIT 2: Fritz being Phone Dude is actually a pretty cool.
One thing that's interesting to me is that one of the people buried on the hill in Pizzeria simulator is named Fritz. Those people are highly implied to be the missing children. In real life duplicate names are thing that happens, in fiction not so much. I think the supports the theory that William is Fritz in that he might choose to use the name of somebody he killed or at least their first name with a generic sounding last name when coming up with a fake identity.
Whenever I think abt phone guy being a veteran night guard is him flipping through mask and camera at Mach 10 and forgetting the mask doesn’t work in FNAF 1
11:59 I feel like the more implies that the tapes were made by employees for other employees and not corporate making the tapes. Still could be "I used to work there", but I feel him being a super fan is more reasonable
I’m pretty sure the fnaf 2 location was open for a while. The tapes we hear are for a summer job. I think the tapes were recorded when the location opened for the first time. When we play, it’s November. Where also told that is a “Grand Reopening”. The 7th night phone call elude to the 2nd child murder incident just happing recently. I think we can easily believe that the gameplay of fnaf 2 takes place after Purple Guy’s 2nd murder spree. I’m confident that this is even the 2nd and not the first due to the withered animatronics smelling weird and being told that they do get active at night during the phone calls meaning they are already possessed.
I’m a huge Frankenstein fan especially the movies so my theory is Fritz is the first night guard who somehow knew what William afton did (Fritz is the first assistant to Henry Frankenstein in the 1931 whale movie, played by Dwight Frye) and William had one of the animatronics (Frankenstein’s monster, like the movie) kill him to keep him quiet
Personally i think fritz was just this honest to god badass bitch who broke in. Set the animatronics ai to Max bcs he wanted the full night shift experience.
A wound first inflicted upon Henry could be his addiction to diving into his work, or his addiction to MURDER, or making robot children 😮doesn’t have to be the loss of a child
Theres too many problems with this theory for me. One mainly being we're relying too much on the wording of "other employees". When I hear him say that, i hear it as 'other employees than this phone person' not 'other employees than me'. Secondly, I feel like we're adding a lot of assumptions, such as the phone dude taking scraps from when he was fired, and being the guy that launched Fazbear Frights, where I thought he was just some employee if Frights. Either way, good video though 👍
this does make a lot of sense, my only issue is like.. why?? why would this be intentionally added as such a specific detail just for it to be the random narrator for the next game like- i guess to foreshadow or hint to another game coming, or to explain why the third game is decorated like that or exists in the first place it just seems like there should be a bigger more prominent character filling that role but im never sure who
I just think it is one of those “blank character is blank” and Scott didn’t put much thought who Phone Dude is and same with Fritz before FNaF 4 and after existed?
Wouldnt the easiest Explanation be; The reason that the new animatronics (The Toys) are behaving aggressively towards the guards, is BECAUSE of their link to the criminal database? Instead of saying they are possessed and try to circumvent the one thing we know as fact, just saying that the guards that are affected are criminals/ex-convicts would be a 100% legitimate and simple explanation
Imagine if Fritz/phone dude was the protagonist of security breach with him hearing about a copycat killing at a mall and goes full true crime on vanny.
Maybe william is fritz on that day, so he could be at the location and dismantle the animatronics like he does in the minigame. Thats why he broke in at night after the restaurant closed down, so he could possibly hide the evidence that was inside the animatronics before someone finds it. That also explains why his notice of termination says "tampering with the animatronics". After he gets fired, he would come back to the location to dismantle the rest of the animatronics, only to find that the souls of the kids remain, and to get spring locked that same night, and thus is why we don't see the name Fritz any other time. Either way theres alot of things that dont add up with this theory. Fritz really shouldn't exist.
Something I think is funny that I haven't heard other people mention is people ages in fnaf. Like if phone dude was fritz smith he would be around his 60s/70s in fnaf 3. And Michael would be around his 50s/60s in fnaf 3. If I was Michael I don't think Id have enough sh**s to give about spring trap to kill him in my 60s. Same with Mrs afton, if she was behind the pizzaplex shed be in her 90s trying to put her family back together that she lost 50 years ago, that doesn't make much sense to me.
>Like if phone dude was fritz smith he would be around his 60s/70s in fnaf 3. 50s likely. >And Michael would be around his 50s/60s in fnaf 3. If I was Michael I don't think Id have enough sh**s to give about spring trap to kill him in my 60s. 53-55, and he definitely would... Especially since this is the man who killed his sister, tormented him after his brother's death, possibly being haunted by his father's torment in his nightmares decades down the line, after being used as a puppet by him, etc. Was he actively focused on it after FNAF 1, when his father vanished? Probably not, he might have even had kids/a family between 1 and 3... But he DEFINITELY came back for Sister Location and FNAF 6, though.
The toys probably weren’t the first animatronics to Walk around in the day, it doesn’t really make sense why the others can Walk Id they weren’t meant to, and considering phone guy struggled to remember Fredbears name it’s possible he’d never been to an old location
Yeah pretty solid theory! Though im pretty sure that them trying to contact fredbear's wasnt really for finding a night guard, i cant remember it right now but im pretty sure it was related to the investigations. (And for his speech not seeming possible if he's around 50 years old, it is realistic + he might be trying to seem more aproachable and "cool" to the night guard on fnaf 3)
@@dmuted we don't know what happens in the day and in the background. Maybe the building was on lockdown for one day,or Fritwz is PG's friend and they trust each other enough to be allowed inside. Maybe Fritz was a police officer that got hired to work on the case and protect the pizzeria at the same time. All of this is unlikely but still possible and we need to keep it in mind.
@@PatTheFox Which is why I used available in-game information and what I could surmise to reach what I found to be an acceptable and satisfying conclusion.
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Guys, I'm tired of saying it, but phone dude being in his 50s and talking like a surfer bro is literally so incredibly possible it hurts. You don't magically turn senile at 50. If thats your reasoning for me being wrong, I literally have nothing to say other than "thats your opinion".
Yeah it's like these people think that surfer bros just die at like 27.
No, when you turn thirty you immediately get white hair and need a cane.
If anything it's more probable for him to talk like that if he's in his 50s
I feel like Paul Rudd comes to mind, the dudes over 50 at this point and acts like he's in his late 20's early 30's.
@@darcepower1977paul rodd is an anomaly and possibly immortal
this really feels like a 2014 to 15 FNAF theory video
That's why I love DMuted's content so much! It feels classic, and he doesn't fix what isn't broken.
the only fnaf that really matters
thats why I love these theory vids, no William being evil mastermind, no illusion disks, no stringtrap virus, no fazbear gue, no mimic like it is mostly the case in the newer fnaf theories
@aku2136 same!! I missed it when it was simple Ghost & mystery horror
I used to always subscribe to the idea that the pink dude who got out of the car and who waited near foxy to show foxy the bodies was an entirely different person than the purple night guard. We saw running around dismantling the animatronics but at some point Scott fused both those characters into William Afton. And it still makes a lot of sense. When you think about it, why would William Afton drive up to the place he works, get out of his car and kill the first person he saw who happened to be his business partner's daughter standing in front of his business in the rain and then leave. That doesn't seem like a super pre-planned detail. That seems like a generic 1970 serial killer causing everything to go to shit
I always liked the idea that Fritz Smith is just a fake name Michael Afton would use to get the job. But this theory is also really great!
Literally the only reason why I believe Fritz Smith is Michael is because he gets fired for the same reasons Mike Schmidt does
@@foxtrap86flame same here! It would be an easy connection, but I don't know if Scott would've done that or not.
@@foxtrap86flamealso Schmidt is literally the german version of Smith
@@foxtrap86flameits how specific those reasons are, too.
I hate the idea of Michael Afton, being the fun is a Freddys to security guard because he probably be only 17 if it is the bite of 83
I think that it would be funny if mike, fritz and jeremy were just random people and theorists are just looking into it too deep.
MAYBE for FNAF 1, not so much onward :V
Screw Michael Afton
I'm gonna be honest that was 100% Scott's intentions for the early games lmao
@@ImperialZorn686 Exactly. No idea why people decided to call Mike that name. He has always been just a calm, friendly Mike Smidt.
Yeah because why does everyone we play as just turn out to be the same exact walking corpse every time
Yesss I love this theory. Despite my desperation for giving Phone Guy an identity, him being Fritz Smith never sat right with me.
I love the idea of him being Phone Dude because it characterizes him in a way I haven't seen before, yet makes total sense. It also makes him more relevant to the lore (the man brought back Springtrap yet no one ever talks about him smh)
i wish Phone Guy was revealed to be Henry,
@@ketomine.Henry dies in fnaf 1???? Crazyyyyy bro
@@minidreadproductions2566 phone guy brought back to life michael afton-style
@@minidreadproductions2566 do you not know what faking a death is?
this theory makes zero sense because phone dude would have to be in his 40s in fnaf 3 and i have never met a guy in his 40s that sounds like this. he's clearly a millenial.
The fnaf 2 phone calls are honestly really good to listen to and have a really well told story. A detail I noticed is that on I believe night 3 phone guy calls out "our day guard is watching who comes in and out". I always found that odd.
Perhaps they knew who to look for. After all it's mentioned someone got arrested. Doubt it was 'Ol Bill though.
If we assume he is William he's probably pretty on guard for police/planning his next murder.
Guess he was told to
The day guard is afton
@@cybertar most likely
i always thought Jeremy was the bite of '87 victim, bit when he moved to the day shift, at the birthday party
although i cant remember why i thought that exactly
its a pretty common theory, you probably got it from fandom osmosis :p
mainly its the paycheck date, lack of mention of the bite during the game, and jeremy moving to the dayshift on the last day of the place being open, so it would HAVE to happen that day. its not really concrete evidence, but its enough to take a guess, and it spread through the whole fandom.
I thought so too, however alot of small in game details and the promotional art for fnaf 4 implied that the bite of 87 was actually going to be what we saw in fnaf 4.
Wich is kinda impossible since Fredbear's closed before 87.....
Unless you got the Dream Theory route wich was probably the right awnser at the time. Not anyone of course thank god.
Having said all that. That would mean that no bite happened in fnaf 2. Wich makes me wonder on wherever the place closed down because of the killings instead like the first Freddy's....
@@thumbgoblin4716Maybe because it was part of the Game Theory video that Scott confirmed got almost everything right (with Matt's conclusion of phone guy and purple guy being the same character being the incorrect part)
I don't think we've ever gotten an official explanation of what the bite of '87 is, so it's definitely possible it could have happened during FNaF 2. I personally like to think Jeremy was the unfortunate bite victim, but there is very little evidence to back any of what I said up (Other than the fact that FNaF 2 takes place during 1987). All in all, I think it's up for interpretation.
Wow. The final theory here actually seems plausible. I can definitely see it, especially with the way Phone Dude talks about stuff like “crappy cosplays” and gets so excited over vintage/real items.
I really like the idea of all the nightguards being different people, the story is so Afton focused so its nice to have other characters. Also, I'm an artist who loves designing characters, so the more I can come up with the better.
SAME
Same! I crave all the different characters we can get, and it's fun headcannoning personalities and designs for each one. Plus, having more than just one nightguard makes the games feel more plausible, to me.
This is exactly why I like to imagine Mike Schmidt and Michael Afton are two different people, even if it’s likely they are the same guy in the game continuity.
@@wumpus976 I like them being the same, but besides that I like the others being different. I only see Michael as the main dude in Fnaf 1 (maybe), Sister Location, and of course Pizzeria Sim.
@@voiceinyourhead8284fnaf 3 makes sense, with the fire and all.
Ok, hear me out.
Fritz isn't supposed to be there and he doesn't get a phone call because "Sea Bonnies" confirms that he is a goldfish and goldfish can't be security guards.
That's true, goldfishes are constantly being discriminated against and it's hard for them to get jobs
#IStandForGoldfishRights
Give rights to goldfish
#IStandForGoldfishRights
ITS THE MIMIC. OMG GUYS MIMIC. FRITZ IS THE MIMIC. EVERYONE IS THE MIMIC. MIMIC IS THE MIMIC
MIMIIIIIIIIICCCCC
I hate you
We are all the mimic
mimicillion dollars
@@doctorviper2061 I cried when the mimic said "it's mimic'in time" and mimic'd all over the place
EVEN YOU ARE THE MIMIC!
Oh my god, I was going on for years thinking that the Toys weren’t possessed at ALL. How could I forget about the Withereds being used for parts?
I really appreciate the structure and organization of your content; it helps me gain a clearer understanding of everything when details like that are mentioned and explored. It’s why I tend to stay away from channels like MattPat (no hate to him)- I enjoy research more than speculation and theories that are based loosely on concepts and guesses
I forgot where (probably matpat) but I Heard theory about the how different of small pieces remnant from different dead children makes animatronic erratic and move weird like the funtimes and I think matpat said that was the reason the toy animatronics move like that
Since there was a 1987 MCI being described in the Fnaf 2 phonecalls and in the savethem minigame, it's fair to assume they are possessed.
@@straenmusikant7402the fnaf 2 killing spree is called the DCI btw
In FNAF 2 Night 5 phone call, Phone guy’s mentions to Jeremy that he’s going to be moved to day shift as the position just became available, then he says “We don’t have a replacement for your shift, but we’re working on it”. So Fritz was definitely hired as a replacement night guard to work the shift on night 7.
A bit unrelated but I realised two things:
1-Jeremy never got payed for that last shift, he got payed for his work week and for night 6 overtime.
2-Jeremy must have been in a terrible state during the Birthday party, he spend all night trying to survive then he presumably leaves Freddy’s for few hours until the day shift starts for a shower and nap, before returning to Freddy’s. And then is instruction to stay close to robots, the very things that have trying to murder him all week, plus the screaming kids. Man, poor guy.
All of that plus Jeremy is probably the Bite of 87 victim, man had it rough
Being a night guard at closed establishments is normal, actually. Even when a location is defunct, security guards are still put on duty to protect the building from vandals and thieves. It's especially apparent when location owners are moving out of there, which does take a lot of time, more often than not.
I found fnaf 3 phone calls to be cool but they underused phone dude. It would have been pretty cool to hear about were phone dude got the inspiration for the haunted house as it would give us insight as to what is public knowledge in the fnaf universe.
As a lot of people have pointed out, if Fritz is phone dude, that would make him, like, 50-something years old when FNAF 3 takes place.
Also, something that many people seem to forget when theorizing about mascot horror games is that abandoned places sometimes do have security staff; even if the place isn't being used, someone still needs to keep criminals out!
when i’m 50, trust me, i’ll still talk the same way i do now. that doesn’t just go away
Why does him being 50 + change anything?
Thought he died in fnaf 1
@@NightcrawlerNCPhone Guy and Phone Dude are 2 Completly different people
Ahh gypsies
There's also the possibility that it's some random name that Scott chose and it doesn't mean anything. Has anybody ever straight up asked him about Fritz?
Scott rarely answers questions in a straightforward manner, and MAYBE in FNAF 1, fairly unlikely by FNAF 2 and 3, and pretty much 0 chance by 4/5, not to mention some aspects being retroactively made incredibly important :V
Don’t worry this guy is the scout from tf2, now if you’ve played tf2 you know that scout has power over the space time continuum which allows him to double jump, he’s just trying to make some money as we have learned from comics that the mercs are no loner in business with both Mann brothers being dead
Gotta fund that Tom Jones memorabilia collection somehow and hey maybe him getting bitten is why he dies on December 1987 bam done
I like that theory. It solves two questions at once, without leaving any open ones for a change.
3:53 I always viewed this line as a direct call out to Matpats FNAF 1 theory, essentially saying none of this was based on real events
Just because a place is shut down, it still needs someone to watch over it at night for breaks in, etc. the place was shut down for regular operations, but didn’t have time (permission?) to move things out. Including animatronics. So Fritz was placed there as a night guard and fired for tampering with the animatronics. I know that doesn’t help explain who exactly he is, but that would be why someone could work there and get fired
In all honesty if Fritz was in his 50s and sounded like a surfer dude it would make so much sense. Growing up in the 80s while born in the late 60s early 70s would totally give you that voice in your 50s
If there is one thing I can confidently say about Phone Dude, it's that his usual attire probably includes a Hawaiian shirt.
I was always partial to Jeremy Fitzgerald being the bite victim and Michael afton using a fake name to work night 7, but this is also an interesting theory to think about
I think that's the most likely scenario honestly, considering how much foreshadowing there is in the FNAF 2 phone calls. Like Phone Guy mentioning how aggressive the animatronics get near adults and how in the last call he tells Jeremy to "stay close" to the animatronics. Which is just asking to get bitten.
While I think this idea is interesting, you are wrong about one thing: Fritz Smith can work at a Freddy's even if it is abandoned.
FE seems to be a-okay with letting guards work at their abandoned locations. In The Silver Eyes, "Dave Miller" was the nightguard at an abandoned Freddy's and the Freddy's that Mike works at in the movie is abandoned.
I assume this is to prevent scrappers from stealing parts
Technically, "Dave"isn't the nightguard of an abandoned Freddy's,but is the nightguard of the abandoned mall
But overall that,i awlays thought people knew in FNaF 2 we are playing after the restaurent shut downed,even if we are playing as jeremy,the location has theses birthday party banners,like if a birthday party happend before it shutted down,plus,the restaurent in Phone Guy's tapes will be shut down because of the murders,and not because of the bite.
@@sirmcmoneyston4449 Oh yeah I definitely agree that the FNAF2 location is closed down by the time of FNAF2. The birthday banners and the puddles being left out for a week makes no sense if it was leading to the Bite of 87.
There's a difference between being abandoned and closed though, and fnaf 2 was definetly just closed
@@ImperialZorn686 probably not gonna reopen tho
he's my favorite human character now. Just because of how much of an "idiot mastermind" he is. He came up with all these plans for the dumbest of reasons and ended up unknowingly making everything worse
I have never thought of this. Thanks, DMuted!
For the life of me, I've always thought Phone Dude said "training tapes for summer employees," not "other employees." The more you know, I guess.
Great theory though, makes a lot of sense.
This seems like small mandella effect
I'm so happy that you think the toy animatronics are haunted by the spirits of the withered. I've had that theory for a while, but everyone else seems to either think that the toy animatronics aren't haunted, or are haunted by 5 SEPERATE kids.
It also makes sense why he phone dude wanted to make a horror attraction, because he actually experienced the horror first hand in night 7.
Fritz is awesome. He beat the hardest night in his first attempt in his first day
And then immediately got fired lol
Honestly, I don't believe Fritz is Phone Dude due to age. He sounds way too young to be in his 50s
“This stuff is prehistoric” is a hell of a thing to come from the mouth of a guy who actively lived through it’s use. The characterization is fun though.
@@sumthinorother9615 I mean, I've seen game devs mention their old work from the 90's being "from the Triassic period" so it wouldn't surprise me.
That's what I was thinking
you don’t lose your dialect because you age lol. i know lots of old ass skaters who still talk like that. you’d be surprised
@@RustyRants I wasn't talking about his dialect though. I was referring to his voice.
Amazing content! I also always thought that Fritz was actually the Phone Dude, so I’m happy someone else came to this conclusion.
Also, you get bonus points for having the Song of Healing as your outro, specifically the version of the song from the best Zelda game
Great theory but, one flaw. Other employees is most likely referring to how the employee recording the tapes were for the other employees. And also he refers to the 80s equipment as prehistoric, which lets be honest no person born either in the 70s or 80s would say that about the 80s, he also sounds young, which couldn’t be the case if he worked in the fnaf 2 location.
>which lets be honest no person born either in the 70s or 80s would say that about the 80s
Gotta counter this, you were born some time before 2000 right, or at least around that time?
Would you say that CRT TVs/Computers, VHS Tapes, and Floppy Discs are prehistoric? :V
It doesn't matter when you were born, if something is from the 80s and you're in the modern day, you will more than likely still call it prehistoric. And he could absolutely talk like that if he's in his 50s, he's not in need of a cane or sleeping on a recliner all the time yet.
While I think this is reasonable to point out it in general, but I also think that it is entirely possible to end up living life in way, where years that they were lived in WILL looked by them as distant past. Most likely if they neglected their time, and it flew for them very fast
If your point starts with, "lets be honest," it immediately becomes obvious that you're disregarding the facts to talk about your opinions like they're above facts, which is exactly what you do.
12:00 Or, "They were for other employees" as in "The guy who recorded the training tapes was an employee who was making them to train OTHER employees" with the speaker having no relation to the restaurant chain or prior employment there.
I love these kinds of theories.
Even if they don't lead to anything important, connecting the dots to acknowledge the existence of secondary characters makes everything more coherent and more "alive".
Specifically this theory is my favorite theory/headcanon.
If Michael was Fritz, that would mean William would already be in springtrap, therefore Michael wouldn’t have any motivation or reason to follow him. Michael at this point is probably just a child. Fritz is likely just a balls-to-the-wall badass who broke into a Freddy’s, tampered with the animatronics to set them all to their hardest difficulty just because he felt like it.
Fritz wanted 10/20 players' glory for himself, along with Markiplier's crown.
Michael was at least a young teen as of 1983, so he can't be a child in 1987. Plus, William doesn't have to be in Springtrap for Michael to be taking jobs, they can either temporarily be in cahoots until Michael learns about William's actual doings, or Michael could already be scooped before William gets springlocked.
Or maybe Michael took the job because he needed the money or for some other reason. According to the survival logbook, he took at least one of the Freddy's jobs because free pizza was involved.
Tbh i believe fritz is the bite of 87 victim and on the 6th night its william
I like your theory about Fritz.
>If Michael was Fritz, that would mean William would already be in springtrap
???
Why would he need to be in Springtrap?
You are aware that Springtrap was only created some time after 1993, right?
>Michael at this point is probably just a child.
Definitely over 13, under 16. So either 14 or 15, which puts him at 18 or 19 at the time of FNAF 2, and 24 or 25 at the time of FNAF 1.
*maybe* if FNAF 2 took place in 1985, yeah.
I think it makes more sense for Michael Afton to have been Fritz Smith, since it was really only by then that his father was officially declared a main suspect. If he were Jeremy, he would've had to be ahead of the police and yet not mention to them that he suspected his father in the disappearances. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it makes more sense that hearing about your father being detained as a suspect would lead to you working the night shift at the scene of the crime. Jeremy is there to be the victim of the Bite of '87 and, along with Fritz, help us pin down which two kids were the ones killed at the FNAF 2 location double murder. A FNAF 1 newspaper clipping says that TWO kids were lured away on JUNE 26th, which lines up with this being a SUMMER job. Jeremy was paid so late because of the Bite incident. Cassidy AFTON was killed long before this.
Love your content man, you cover lots of parts and theory’s in the community
I always had a head cannon that Frits was phone guy, but the more time that passes, the more I just take it as fact.
If Fritz is phone dude, and he worked at the FNAF 2 location in 1987, he would be in his 40s at least, possibly in his 50s, but I’d think based off of how he words his sentences, he would be a lot younger then that in FNAF 3, which takes place in 2023.
Phone guy said he 'might' take up the night shift himself but eventually didn't.
@@lpfan4491 But he eventually would in FNAF 1's location.
Is it possible that the phone calls in FNAF 2 are also recordings? I think it does welcome us to a summer job, even though we're working after the summer. Jeremy could possibly be working there after the investigation has already finished. (But that's just a theory.)
A game theory
@@lpfan4491 Yeah, but that's my point. Are those phone calls directed at Jeremy? Or at someone else and it was just recorded? (I'm mainly suggesting this due to the fact that Phone Guy says "summer job" instead of fall when Jeremy is actually working there.)
Considering how the description for the first game mentions it being a summer job despite taking place in November, I think Scott just uses "summer job" as a way of describing a low-paying job
@@WWTWW Including asking what you're doing there, that the place is closed, and they're moving you to the Day Shift for a birthday party that morning?
@@almightykellus2585 that makes more sense imo, I feel like the early games were a lot more jokey since the dark story probably wasn't fully developed at that point. Being fired for "odor" and lines like "yeah they don't tell you these things when you sign up" are examples of the more jokey moments, and referring to a crappy job as a "summer job" fits in with those moments pretty well.
Fritz is some random guy who took up a job. Had no clue about the Animatronics, and them absolutely EMBARRASSES them on 10/20 mode because he's simply him. Taking his minimum wage paycheck without complaint.
That's how it should be.
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Good theory, never considered Phone Dude having history with the series.
Though I still feel Fritz is meant to Michael's Codename. He was fired for the same reasons as Schmidt, Schmidt is very similar to Smith, and I don't see why anyone else would even want to tamper with the animatronics.
Also something I just thought of, but if Phone Guy contacted one of the previous owners of Fredbears, what if he contacted William and William forced his son to take the job on short notice? Considering that the Bite of 87 most likely happened the day of Night 7 (which is likely why there was no phone call), I don't think anyone random would sneak in at that point.
What if.. "night 7" actually takes place before night 1 and Fritz is William Afton!
No wonder the animatronics are so aggressive- HE'S THE CRIMINAL!
Phone Dude as Fritz:
“Woah dude these guys tried to kill me last time!”
>shows up for one day
>tampered with then
>survives
>gets fired
chad
I do feel like a possible problem with fritz being phone dude is the fact phone dude is meant to sound very young and he discribes them as prehistoric which would probably emply it was before his time
Calling something prehistoric because it's old is universal, it doesn't matter if it's from your time or not. If something is from the 80s, and you are also from the 80s but are currently in the modern day, you wouldn't go 'oh this isn't old because it's from when I was born' you would say that it's *old* and, dare I say, prehistoric.
It depends how Dude lived back in those days. I think it's possible for someone end up in this way, if they weren't paying attention at how fast time flew for them
This video was strangely nostalgic to older FNaF Theory videos and idk why lol.
It's also a pretty solid theory for something that modern FNaF theorists now overlook due to how unnessesarily complex and confusing FNaF lore has become from all the twists, turns, novels, and retcons thoughout the years.
a freddy fazbears pizza existed before the fnaf2 location, known as the unwithered location for the most part
11:50 I feel like by "other employees" he meant that Phone Guy, an employee, was recording them for the other employees.
Also, just from a storytelling perspective, what would be the point in having these two characters be the same? They both never show up in anything ever again, and they don't really contribute much the one time they both appear. What would be the point in bringing back someone who's basically just a name for the third game, when you could just make another character? My thought is either Fritz Smith is a fake name for a major character like Michael or William, or he's just a nobody who got fired on their first day as a joke.
I really like the theory, but I feel like “other employees” is just refering to how phone guy is an employee teaching the OTHER employees about the springlocks.
I like this theory, but there’s one thing that doesn’t sit right with me. Phone dude in the phone calls sounds like a semi-energetic young man. But if he were to work at Freddy’s in 1987, assuming he was at least 18 years old during that time, he would have to be at least 54 years old during when FNAF 3 was taking place. This theory is pretty believable, but just something to think about.
Considering he talks like a surfer dude, I think it is completely reasonable for him to have lived in the 80’s
I really hate the theory that Fritz’s Smith is just Michael in disguise.
It just doesn’t feel right.
Yeah, let Fritz and fnaf 3 guard be their own characters
They probably needed a guard to stop someone from stealing anything in the building.
i appreciate this video with all my heart it feels so early fnaf... no books, no ai, no charliebots, just.... fnaf.
Honestly, this is the coolest interpretation for the game. Might even make a potential Smash/Rivals of Aether moveset for the FNAF Night Guards be much more aesthetically interesting.
my only problem with this is phone dude sounds way too young to have worked at Freddy's back in 87, considering that fnaf 3 takes place this year and this guy sounds like he's in his late 20's or early 30's, he might not have even been born yet at the time, but otherwise I think this holds some water.
I always thought that Fritz was Michael or Phone Guy. I mean Phone Guy did say they would take over the night shift (albeit after the restaurant opened back up… and that was before the bite of ‘87) I know it doesn’t make sense but 8th grade me thought it did😂
… tell me why i JUST realized that getting fired for “tampering with the animatronics” after custom night is a reference to the player setting their ai levels
While it has no effect on the greater lore or story, this is honestly a really cute theory and i totally buy into it. Just adds a little bit extra to two otherwise random and unimportant characters.
This is a pretty good theory once again!
Fritz is purple guy confirmed
Golden Freddy having beef with Phone Guy over not reporting what he found would explain his death just before his last night.
I think "other employees" is about the phone guy being an employee recording it for the other employees- phone guys next night guard
Phone guy mentions in night 1 of fnaf 1 that most night guards don't make it as long as Mike, implying that there have been multiple night guards between fnaf 2 and fnaf 1. Phone guy could have taken over after Jeremy which would explain why he doesn't call Fritz (because he is him) and he was likely used as Freddy's on and off night guard each time they needed to find a permanent replacement.
Amazing theory keep up the good work man
i disagreed with you at first but im glad i watched to the end, i fully agree !! i thought it was michael, but like you point out the best fit is the phone dude
Assuming he is 18 years old by the year FNAF 2 is in (1987), His birth date would be approximately around 1969. FNAF 1 location closes 1993 and FNAF 3 is 30 years later, making it 2023. 2023 - 1969 = 54 years old and thats the best case scenario if he was 18. If he is 25 years old when he worked at FNAF 2, that would make him 61 years old. It could techincally be possible but it is something to consider and is a valid concern with this theory.
I really don't think it is. I don't think many people in these comments know any 60 year olds.
@@dmuted I agree that phone dude could very well be around 60. There's just not enough evidence for his exact age, and could go both ways. It doesn't debunk or discredit your theory at all. And considering that Scott Cawthon was the one doing the voice acting, we can't really use that as evidence that phone dude sounds younger/older than his age.
Whenever it comes to the mention of Odor
I like to think of something that may have a simple explanation
If the guy kept coming back to due the night shift when all these robots want him dead. Any man would be stressing their balls off. And to continue working there every night, I doubt hygiene would be a major priority if it was during night when not much people are out to see you
And then there’s the other thing. It’s just a humorous jab calling you stinky
But that’s just me
Okay, so after months of theorizing, I've come up with a plausible theory to who Fritz is.
Fritz Smith...
...is the *P O S T A L D U D E ! ! !*
Before I start the video, I believe Fritz Smith to be Phone Guy. Why? We don't get a phone call on Night 7, he's Employee 03 when there's clearly been other employees before him (technicians, engineers, chefs, Afton and Jeremy). He was likely rehired due to Fazbear Ent. having a low budget and not being able to hire anyone new.
EDIT 1: Damn I completely forgot about the first day thing
EDIT 2: Fritz being Phone Dude is actually a pretty cool.
One thing that's interesting to me is that one of the people buried on the hill in Pizzeria simulator is named Fritz. Those people are highly implied to be the missing children. In real life duplicate names are thing that happens, in fiction not so much. I think the supports the theory that William is Fritz in that he might choose to use the name of somebody he killed or at least their first name with a generic sounding last name when coming up with a fake identity.
Glad you guys finally picked up on this
Phone Guy “we found one a yellow one 💀”
I imagine they'd hire a night guard for the restaurant to make sure no one breaks in, even if it's closed.
Whenever I think abt phone guy being a veteran night guard is him flipping through mask and camera at Mach 10 and forgetting the mask doesn’t work in FNAF 1
11:59 I feel like the more implies that the tapes were made by employees for other employees and not corporate making the tapes. Still could be "I used to work there", but I feel him being a super fan is more reasonable
I’m pretty sure the fnaf 2 location was open for a while. The tapes we hear are for a summer job. I think the tapes were recorded when the location opened for the first time. When we play, it’s November. Where also told that is a “Grand Reopening”.
The 7th night phone call elude to the 2nd child murder incident just happing recently.
I think we can easily believe that the gameplay of fnaf 2 takes place after Purple Guy’s 2nd murder spree. I’m confident that this is even the 2nd and not the first due to the withered animatronics smelling weird and being told that they do get active at night during the phone calls meaning they are already possessed.
Someone also pitched the idea that "Summer Job" is simply just "low paying job", we know that FNAF 2's location wasnt open THAT long :V
I thought Jeremy Fitzgerald was the night guard and he was later used in Help Wanted.
he's the main guard from Nights 1 to 6.
I’m a huge Frankenstein fan especially the movies so my theory is Fritz is the first night guard who somehow knew what William afton did (Fritz is the first assistant to Henry Frankenstein in the 1931 whale movie, played by Dwight Frye) and William had one of the animatronics (Frankenstein’s monster, like the movie) kill him to keep him quiet
Personally i think fritz was just this honest to god badass bitch who broke in. Set the animatronics ai to Max bcs he wanted the full night shift experience.
A wound first inflicted upon Henry could be his addiction to diving into his work, or his addiction to MURDER, or making robot children 😮doesn’t have to be the loss of a child
just so you know, Golden Freddy actually doesn't spawn until night six due to a coding error
When, exactly, IS Gfreddy meant to spawn?
Theres too many problems with this theory for me. One mainly being we're relying too much on the wording of "other employees".
When I hear him say that, i hear it as 'other employees than this phone person' not 'other employees than me'.
Secondly, I feel like we're adding a lot of assumptions, such as the phone dude taking scraps from when he was fired, and being the guy that launched Fazbear Frights, where I thought he was just some employee if Frights.
Either way, good video though 👍
Golden Freddy has a VERY rare chance of activating with 1 ai on night 2 and night 2 only
this does make a lot of sense, my only issue is like.. why??
why would this be intentionally added as such a specific detail just for it to be the random narrator for the next game
like- i guess to foreshadow or hint to another game coming, or to explain why the third game is decorated like that or exists in the first place
it just seems like there should be a bigger more prominent character filling that role but im never sure who
I just think it is one of those “blank character is blank” and Scott didn’t put much thought who Phone Dude is and same with Fritz before FNaF 4 and after existed?
Wouldnt the easiest Explanation be;
The reason that the new animatronics (The Toys) are behaving aggressively towards the guards, is BECAUSE of their link to the criminal database?
Instead of saying they are possessed and try to circumvent the one thing we know as fact, just saying that the guards that are affected are criminals/ex-convicts would be a 100% legitimate and simple explanation
Technically none of them exist
I thought the title said, “Who is Rizz?”
Imagine if Fritz/phone dude was the protagonist of security breach with him hearing about a copycat killing at a mall and goes full true crime on vanny.
Maybe william is fritz on that day, so he could be at the location and dismantle the animatronics like he does in the minigame. Thats why he broke in at night after the restaurant closed down, so he could possibly hide the evidence that was inside the animatronics before someone finds it.
That also explains why his notice of termination says "tampering with the animatronics".
After he gets fired, he would come back to the location to dismantle the rest of the animatronics, only to find that the souls of the kids remain, and to get spring locked that same night, and thus is why we don't see the name Fritz any other time.
Either way theres alot of things that dont add up with this theory. Fritz really shouldn't exist.
I also think Micheal, Fritz and Jeremy are three separate characters.
Something I think is funny that I haven't heard other people mention is people ages in fnaf. Like if phone dude was fritz smith he would be around his 60s/70s in fnaf 3. And Michael would be around his 50s/60s in fnaf 3. If I was Michael I don't think Id have enough sh**s to give about spring trap to kill him in my 60s. Same with Mrs afton, if she was behind the pizzaplex shed be in her 90s trying to put her family back together that she lost 50 years ago, that doesn't make much sense to me.
>Like if phone dude was fritz smith he would be around his 60s/70s in fnaf 3.
50s likely.
>And Michael would be around his 50s/60s in fnaf 3. If I was Michael I don't think Id have enough sh**s to give about spring trap to kill him in my 60s.
53-55, and he definitely would...
Especially since this is the man who killed his sister, tormented him after his brother's death, possibly being haunted by his father's torment in his nightmares decades down the line, after being used as a puppet by him, etc.
Was he actively focused on it after FNAF 1, when his father vanished? Probably not, he might have even had kids/a family between 1 and 3...
But he DEFINITELY came back for Sister Location and FNAF 6, though.
The toys probably weren’t the first animatronics to Walk around in the day, it doesn’t really make sense why the others can Walk Id they weren’t meant to, and considering phone guy struggled to remember Fredbears name it’s possible he’d never been to an old location
Yeah pretty solid theory!
Though im pretty sure that them trying to contact fredbear's wasnt really for finding a night guard, i cant remember it right now but im pretty sure it was related to the investigations.
(And for his speech not seeming possible if he's around 50 years old, it is realistic + he might be trying to seem more aproachable and "cool" to the night guard on fnaf 3)
Mike COULD get hired at a closed pizzeria. Someone needs to protect the witherds while Faz Ent gets ready to open the last pizzeria,(fnaf 1)
That makes sense except that phone guy doesn't even want Jeremy there on night 6. They didn't want anyone in there at all, not even a security guard.
@@dmuted we don't know what happens in the day and in the background. Maybe the building was on lockdown for one day,or Fritwz is PG's friend and they trust each other enough to be allowed inside. Maybe Fritz was a police officer that got hired to work on the case and protect the pizzeria at the same time. All of this is unlikely but still possible and we need to keep it in mind.
@@PatTheFox Which is why I used available in-game information and what I could surmise to reach what I found to be an acceptable and satisfying conclusion.
The one peace of lore nobody talks about is phone guy. He had to been close to the establishment to there so long…
Phone dude would have been at least 40 when fazbear flights takes place