That's kinda how they are in the books, but even then the hooks that are used to secure the endoskeleton in are held in place with springlocks. Not quite as deadly as the game version, as they don't dig in as deeply as full on animatronic parts and it is possible to survive a failure, but still not exactly a good design. It seems that regardless of the universe, William can't seem to let go of his golden cow.
There's another channel where someone went through all of FNAF and made a complete list of OSHA violations from the various restaurants. IIRC the total amount of fines was around $10 million dollars.
Imagine William being arrested for his engineering crimes, then having the corpses of his victims found inside the animatronics during the investigation. The series would have been a lot shorter, and way less complicated.
Just the statement “designed spring lock suits that are more expensive and dangerous than just buying the animatronics and matching costumes combined” is enough to prove that Mr. Afton is neither business smart or engineering law smart (Even if some of his creations are potentially revolutionary if they weren’t used as tools for murder)
I always thought the reason they hired security guards was to act as bait so that the animatronics don't try and leave the building. They realized that the robots started acting weird and attacking things and didn't want that getting out onto the streets. Also, to answer your question about the Funtimes, they were designed to scan the room and only strike when a kid was left alone with them. No one would be around to see it, and no one would suspect that the kid is inside the robot.
They are programmed to be physically incapable of entering the saferoom, its safe to say they were probably programmed to be physically incapable of walking out the front door as well
the whole concept of the funtimes to strike when a kid is left alone in a party is like. one of the reasons why they didn't really get another since yoinking william's daughter. as a case like that in a party is VERY slim. surprising, i know
Remember the night 1 phone call, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.
Yeah, they were programmed to be fun party animatronics that worked perfectly until they got a child alone and out of sight to snatch. Then they’d be programmed to do so only if one child was present.
Like how does it take multiple accidents to retire the suits? One accident should be more than enough of a red flag to indicate that the suits are in fact incredible dangerous🙄
@luukherfst1209 that lends credence to the notion that William purposefully built them to be dangerous. I think it was only once they killed someone that were retired, because he couldn't say the "benefits outweighed the risks" anymore.
Remember night 1 phone call "Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced" So they totally know people are dying they just don't care
Not only did Henry's negligence lead to two deaths (Assuming you mean William and his youngest son)... It's implied that he saw William in that back room, crumpled over in a pool of his own blood in the suit... and just blocked off the back room...
If the goal was to give the hapless security guards just enough of an illusion of being able to defend themselves that when they are finally taken they are as terrified as possible, then the security room would be functioning perfectly.
It would also make sense if Afton Deliberately made it as terrifying as possible so that whilst he's still around he can just harvest remnant from the victims as it is implied there are night guard deaths of an unknown amount and honestly I think that's a factor that's probably massively overlooked In the theorising community just what Aftons body count is since even if we assume they all last an average of 5 days dying soon after then that's roughly 100 Victims every 2 Years and Thats Being Generous, (I think Aftons Remnant Harvesting was way bigger then most of the community thinks) (Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced (night 1 fnaf 1 phone call)
Thank lord you actually mentioned Henry, because I was getting worried that you were accusing William of making the Springlocks entirely. In the novels, Henry is the one who made the original FNaF 1 animatronics and the Springlock suits. I do think it's possible William did know about some of the mechanism and mechanics behind the suits though since he was Henry's business partner and he knew how to use the suits in all continuities.
16:00 They take them when nobody is looking and they're soundproof but yeah what parents would be like "where'd billy go? Oh well who knows send the robot back and leave a 5 star review with no notes"
Its implied in FNAF3 that someone other than William got hurt by a springlock failure. Phoneguy says the thing about bleeding out away from customers and also that the springlock suits were discontinued due to multiple springlock failures.
13:45 William might not even be the only spring lock victim! The Fnaf 3 Night 3 training tape (which takes place way before Fnaf 3) mentions what to do in the event of a spring lock failure: "In the case that the spring locks come loose while you are wearing the suit, please try to maneuver away from populated areas before bleeding out, as not to ruin the customer experience." The Night 4 tape mentions a spring lock failure at a sister location: "After learning of an unfortunate incident at the sister location involving multiple and simultaneous spring lock failures, the company has deemed the suits temporarily unfit for employees. Safety is top priority at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, which is why the classic suits are being retired to an appropriate location (safe room) while being looked at by our technicians."
They suspected he did the murders, but they couldn't pin it on specifically him. All the evidence pointed to was that it happened at the restaurant, and the murderer used one of the suits. Since Afton never had his face showing, no evidence pointing to specifically him. It would just take a reasonably competent lawyer to show how many other people had access to the suits and the restaurant and such at the times the murders took place to get Afton off.
Yeah but there is bound to be some DNA evidence left in the suit. Sure, the police cannot narro it down to William himself but the list of suspects is still him, Henry, and 2 other employees shown in the crying child minigames. One of them is guilty and even if they couldn't see William's face, they could have checked the entire CCTV Footage and checked of the other three had any alibi.
@@FrankWalker2356 Apparently not, because William went free. Either the police are incompetent (which, fair point), or they couldn't pin it on specifically him with the evidence they had. but it is implied he was arrested (or someone was anyways). we aren't told anymore than that a suspect is been detained, or whatever the wording on the newspaper was. but if it was William, I would assume the charges didn't stick, because it wouldn't make sense for the timeline.
Personally I think that Henry (and probably most of the higher-level management) had to have turned a blind eye to the child murders and helped William cover it up. Whether it was from gross negligence, being obsessed with getting Charlie back, or just greed in wanting to keep the restaurant open, there's just no way that he didn't know.
one interesting point to mention is that since Afton designed and deployed all his products under Fazbear Entertainment, any gross negligence suit would inherently have to go through them. and, now, of course, any reasonable discovery for a lawsuit would reveal that Afton is nearly solely responsible for all the horrendous engineering decisions of the company, but Fazbear Entertainment is an infamously ruthless defendant. like Better Call Saul type bullshit
Very fun video, here are my thoughts as I watched: 13:40 The phone calls also mention a failure resulting in the suits getting discontinued, so at the very least an employee (or maaaybe a customer) was hurt. 13:50 Employees did wear them, as noted in the FNaF 3 phone calls and shown in the FNaF 4 minigames. 16:15 Minor nitpick, but Circus Baby's memory monologue makes it clear that she only attacks when there are no other children (and possibly no adults) present, so that drastically lowers the chance of witnesses. However, a child going missing at any point of the party and not reappearing afterward would still raise suspicion. 17:28 The company not only knows about it, they make it very clear that they hide the bodies and don't expect employees to survive, thanks to the FNaF 1 night 1 phone call. Quote: "Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced." They _do not care_ about employee life, and they probably have the doors because they want plausible deniability - "oh, the employee had these doors, they should have been able to protect themselves!". The ending actually gave me a thought: what if William and Henry were arrested for gross negligence as early as possible? What would the series of events look like afterward?
Just make the default state the suit mode, that way failures just result in an animatronic collapsing on itself when walking around rather than killing someone
I like this video it's really great, but I just have one problem with this whole video, and it's the fact that William Afton did not create the original animatronics or the Springlock suits from the 80's, Henry Emily created the original animatronics and the Springlock suits.❤❤❤❤❤😊
16:30 for the other people thing, (especially with baby as eg) we know the animatronics were counting people in the room to kill only when there was only one person there. and (this part is a joke but) If I made something to experiment souls of course I would like to get my patent on it!
To think, all William would have had to do was just make a suit that could just be put on and taken off of the endoskeleton, no springlocks required, basically just a fnaf cosplay
you're so underrated, all of your videos are just 2017 game theory where it was more about science and nerdy stuff and not just lore and i absolutely love it!
The fact that they can program the animatronics to not be able to enter or even see the safe room shows that for some reason they didn't program them to ignore the night guard's office.
16:03 Circus Baby only brings out her ice cream (what lures the kid into being captured) when there’s no one else around 18:49 They’re genetically modified sea monkeys (which are already genetically modified brine shrimp), not robot fish
My headcanon for the Sprinlock suits existing is that Afton is so full of himself that he thinks every idea comes up with is the literal best thing ever, and his engineering is so glawless that they could never fail.
The springlock suits, as far as we know, are completely safe when used properly and in accordance with standard operating procedure. The only reason William died is because he was putting the suit on hastily and in a damp environment, violating the standard operating procedure. If you operate a table saw not according to procedure, you’re liable to be injured; but that doesn’t mean that the table saw is poorly designed. As for Fredbear, the reason the pistons in the mouth are so powerful is because they need to be strong enough to actuate the presumably very heavy upper head of the animatronic. It wasn’t the strength of the pistons that caused the Bite of ‘83, it was the weight of that upper head part.
While that’s technically true, as an engineer you need to expect that people won’t follow all the rules all the time. The fact that this problem could have been solved simply by turning the srpinglocks around so that you’re not in the line of fire is what makes this so negligent and criminal. Just because nobody got hurt (until they did), doesn’t mean it’s safe
These are supposed to be used by human beings, last I checked, those sweat, getting the inside of any mascotte suits unpleasantly damp as time goes on. And in a restaurant, there is 100% chances that the suits would get splashed with a spilled drink, so moisture should have been part of the considerations when planning and testing the design. Also, quick changes are a staple of the most performances, so being able to get in and out of the suits quickly and safely becomes a basic need for them to be fit for purpose.
@@TheChiptide technically it's not the spring locks that kill someone it's them launching the Animatronic Parts that they Hold Back Into Your Body, but that's still a Failure of engineering and safety non the less
Man I love your videos! This whole video I was just laughing at Williams incopetence and the way you expained everything was very entetaining and funny. Hope you have a nice day.
My theory(Game Theory hehe) is that William’s stupidity got amplified by his psycophaty, he made the springlock suit out of his first and simplest idea, and his lack or worry for human life made him just skim over the safety process
William is characterized as being insanely egotistical and overly confident. I think he simply didnt think his stuff could fail so didnt account for it
At the time even a normal animatronic was way more involved because they were inventing new tech animatronics werent really a thing before henry made them
While it is debated on what Glitchtrap is exactly, William did not create it. It's either William's own consciousness or a computer program influenced by his legacy. In either case, he was long "dead" by the time Glitchtrap was born.
My only concern is how you calculated the prices. Depending on the year, you'll have to factor inflation. Still expensive, but something to note nonetheless.
"Purple man comes back to life several times after being sentensed to several death penalties and claims he has completed them" Kind of penalty in the end but yea
6:38 this is why it’s my personal theory that Afton never used a spring lock suit for his murders as they seem too quirky for what he did. Remember how in fnaf 3, phone guy says that the Springs set off easily like with moisture and if you are going to off kids, their will be lots of blood and movement going on. Plus I imagine it must be hard to clean blood off of a spring lock suit versus just a regular mascot costume
My headcannon is that William and Henry were just robotics amateur's who barely did any brainstorming when making their first inventions and just rolled with it and got lucky.
What else could have solved the power outage issue is having a manual way to open the doors or even better, a back door. Also why would there ever be two incredibly expensive heavy steel doors? Just get one if you really want to get them.
While all these points are valid, i should like to point out that the result of a springlock failure seems to be temporary death, you do come back, some may say you always come back
Your show is absolutely amazing man!! I love it, partially because im way too much of a much of a nerd in this type of stuff but the other part being that its like game theory! amazing show man, keep up with the amazing work.
some slight issues that don’t really take away from the video but just for peoples information: the fredbear jaw design is a Henry design, Henry is Williams business partner, the puppet is possessed by Henry’s daughter charolette, Henry’s name is Henry Emily.
I now wonder how you feel about the mangle as it was torn apart by children and presumably put back together by those children, and not only that, it was just left in that state it was still in a place where it entertains children.
William certainly seems to be a person who prioritized his passion projects over his business. It is just at first that was over engineered child's entertainment and then it expanded into that and um serial murder.
0:12 you know, there's something that's often forgotten about the 1st game that i find frustrating that people ignore. here's a quote from a news article found in the game: *_"Five children now reported missing. Suspect convicted._* *_Five children are now linked to the incident at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, where a man dressed as a cartoon mascot lured then into a back room. While the suspect has been charged, the bodies themselves were never found."_* so, William WAS arrested. it's just nobody pays attention before i get any comments saying "then how did he end up in the suit?", i'll cover that now. while its a common belief that he died in the 90s, i believe he would have actually died (at most) months before Fazbear's Fright had begun gathering props from old locations. it's likely he either escaped, or his sentence wasn't for murder but kidnapping, as no bodies were found. this provides explanation for the ruined state of the restaurant, including the boarded up bathrooms, messed up tables, rats, leaking ceiling, among other things. further evidence to support this claim comes from his own corpse. it's still rotting. a body doesn't take 30 years to rot. even in a coffin, it wouldn't reach 10 years before the corpse becomes a skeleton. Michael has an excuse, as he's not possessing a robot but his own corpse, and he only started possessing it after Ennard left and his body, which had already rotted significantly by that point. William however is possessing the SUIT, as he wouldn't be able to move otherwise.
When people call Willy an evil genius and/or stupid, I think it depends on what one specifically means. Willy has invented some revolutionary bits of technology and is a rather skilled manipulator of people, but he's also an utter egotistic with very limited self-control. He is not a cost-smart lad, and he's impulsive. One might be able to argue he is on some level, good at actually BUILDING things, as some of this is complicated, sophisticated stuff. But he seems to care way more about appearing smart and experimenting and making it because he can, rather than being sensible in the slightest.
although the springlock suits were more expensive, they were more profitable in the long run because they gave the company an edge over its competitors. because of this, i wouldn't consider the creation of springlock suits to be a bad decision (in terms of cost - it's a different story when you take the dangers into account).
Everytime I watch these videos I just imagine William being forced to watch this guy rip him to shreds. Either just standing there like: 😐🧍♂️ Or just straight up tied to a chair while chiptide just rants about how stupid he is Like: 👁️👄👁️ oh?
Yeah, but the spring lock suit that killed him was decaying, had holes and vegetation growing on the suit, on top of the bad conditioning of the building, and it is in a state of disrepair on the suit. William also may have not even designed the suit, as Williams stitched together suit in fnaf 3 was most likely the original suit designed by him judging by the stitch marks, compared to Henry’s bulky design. He most likely used high quality springlocks, maybe too powerful to kill people. But throw all that out the window as the suits may have never been actually used, as only 2 existed. THE DOORS were designed to keep the person watching the security cameras just in case a break in would happen, so they could call 911. (They didn’t have portable phones back then) then the anatronics would attack people after hours because they’re on low power mode, as the doors would only be close of 6 out of the 16 hours saving a lot of money. While it might be considered unsafe to keep killer robots that walk around. Maybe it is because their servos lock up if left off for too long, considering if the place closes around 6, that’s 5 still five hours before 12. William always had doors in HIs astablishments. Fnaf 1, SL, and in the location before fnaf 2, he states in fnaf 2. “As you can see, there’s no doors for you to close…” all the locations he owned, all had doors to protect the night guard.
“Uh, hello? Hello, hello! Uhm, there has been a slight change of company policy, concerning you and the suits. Uhm, don’t. After learning of an unfortunate incident at the sister location involving multiple and simultaneous spring lock failures, the company has deemed the suits temporaily unfit for employees.” You don’t say Mr Guy on the phone. Also “multiple and simultaneous spring lock failures” yikes..
I mean the standard is "Professional Engineer"(PE), which is usually gained after passing the EIT/FE exam and shadowing a PE for four years. Then you can display PE after your name and be confused with a physical education teacher. Do we actually know if he did all of that, or are we just saying if he was?
Yes, Henry shares some weight, we really don't know how much because again, but his needless self-sacrifice is, I think, him trying to pay penance for giving William access to the knowledge to begin with. Otherwise....why? He could have built the trap, walked away and watched from outside and made certain nothing escaped. It just....okay if Michael had an exit he COULD use, then that means so does ANYTHING else down there. Nevermind, Henry is a dumbass. His designs are rubbish. His trap alone speaks to that. He's essentially Dr Doofenshmirtz with a dead Vanessa. Carry on with your tearing apart of how the real villainy is the engineering.
Wow, what a bad engineer! I can't wait to absolutely avoid all of these mistakes! Joke aside, maybe I'll refer to this video before deciding to do somethign stupid
I believe the piston jaws was a Henry design not Afton's The circus animatronics would only go for isolated children so no one would see them get snatched. Also about the door thing, wouldn't make more sense to hire a security guard to walk the perimeter? You know to stop an adult from breaking in and getting murdered? After finishing the video, though it doesn't matter who invented what I think we should give credit for the dumb designs to the person who's brilliant idea it belonged to. That is one of the few things we know if something was Henry or Afton's design. Like the security puppet who had the flaw of you could place stuff on top of it's box to stop it from coming out.
Desconozco mucho de el lore de FNAF pero si los animatronicos Funtime estaban diseñados únicamente para matar niños, el hecho de que al final hayan decidido voluntariamente escapar de sus exoesqueletos y unirse para crear a Ennard y matar al guardia de seguridad para usar su cuerpo como traje, ¿acaso es técnicamente una falla en el diseño/programación de los mismos? (Digo, se que Baby está poseida por el espíritu de la hija de William Afton, pero que hay con los otros?, además, si no eran animatronicos diseñados para usarse como trajes (como Springtrap, por ejemplo) ¿cual es la necesidad de hacer removibles los exoesqueletos de los Funtime?)
William really should've just had the costumes be safe to take off of the animatronics and put on performers.
Speaking the truth right here
That's kinda how they are in the books, but even then the hooks that are used to secure the endoskeleton in are held in place with springlocks. Not quite as deadly as the game version, as they don't dig in as deeply as full on animatronic parts and it is possible to survive a failure, but still not exactly a good design. It seems that regardless of the universe, William can't seem to let go of his golden cow.
but what is the fun in that?
@@MrAppleSalad I think you mean brazen bull but golden cow is still kinda fitting as a concept
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Purple guy commiting crimes? Impossible
Wait a sec. Your comment is from a day ago but this video was made 5 hours ago
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One day ago
Huh what the video was 5 hours ago and oh wait I fogor patron supporters get vids early
The police in the fnaf universe:
This comment defies the laws of time
Ah yes, lets convict a serial killer for his *O S H A VIOLATIONS*
I mean they got al Capone for his tax violations
There's another channel where someone went through all of FNAF and made a complete list of OSHA violations from the various restaurants. IIRC the total amount of fines was around $10 million dollars.
"Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of OSHA violations!"
-Matpat, 2016.
Imagine William being arrested for his engineering crimes, then having the corpses of his victims found inside the animatronics during the investigation. The series would have been a lot shorter, and way less complicated.
this sounds more realisitc than what actually happened in the series
and if they found the bosies, size fnaf world have paranormal and sobrenatural concept so...
Just the statement “designed spring lock suits that are more expensive and dangerous than just buying the animatronics and matching costumes combined” is enough to prove that Mr. Afton is neither business smart or engineering law smart
(Even if some of his creations are potentially revolutionary if they weren’t used as tools for murder)
Yeah i mean the funtimes if we remove the murder part would revolutionize animatronic use
wait someone's
comment is from 9 days ago but the video was posted 8 days ago
*reply*
But didn't he do it? Besides, he also didn't just want to know about money
I always thought the reason they hired security guards was to act as bait so that the animatronics don't try and leave the building. They realized that the robots started acting weird and attacking things and didn't want that getting out onto the streets. Also, to answer your question about the Funtimes, they were designed to scan the room and only strike when a kid was left alone with them. No one would be around to see it, and no one would suspect that the kid is inside the robot.
They are programmed to be physically incapable of entering the saferoom, its safe to say they were probably programmed to be physically incapable of walking out the front door as well
I prefer the theory that they saw it, and just went huh, time to get some cake
the whole concept of the funtimes to strike when a kid is left alone in a party is like.
one of the reasons why they didn't really get another since yoinking william's daughter.
as a case like that in a party is VERY slim. surprising, i know
Remember the night 1 phone call, Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced.
I think the Funtimes only capture kids when they're alone.
Yeah, they were programmed to be fun party animatronics that worked perfectly until they got a child alone and out of sight to snatch. Then they’d be programmed to do so only if one child was present.
Yea, Baby tells us that she counts children, and when there's 1, is when she snaps.
Yeah it was specified that’s how it works
William wasn't the only one to wear the Springlock suits. Phoneguy mentions they were retired after multiple accidents involving multiple employees
Like how does it take multiple accidents to retire the suits? One accident should be more than enough of a red flag to indicate that the suits are in fact incredible dangerous🙄
@luukherfst1209 that lends credence to the notion that William purposefully built them to be dangerous. I think it was only once they killed someone that were retired, because he couldn't say the "benefits outweighed the risks" anymore.
@@luukherfst1209did you forget we are talking about fazbear ent here?
People think that these are the shadow animatronics
Remember night 1 phone call "Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced"
So they totally know people are dying they just don't care
Not only did Henry's negligence lead to two deaths (Assuming you mean William and his youngest son)... It's implied that he saw William in that back room, crumpled over in a pool of his own blood in the suit... and just blocked off the back room...
YUP, Great friend and business partner he was...... And apparently, also a criminal! YAY!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
The Spinglock, Toy, and OG animatronics where built by Henry not William, so everyone is a criminal!!! YAY!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
- Master Chiptyde, there are too many of them, what are we going to do?
**Ignites Charmander**
- Richard, hit that intro...
If the goal was to give the hapless security guards just enough of an illusion of being able to defend themselves that when they are finally taken they are as terrified as possible, then the security room would be functioning perfectly.
It would also make sense if Afton Deliberately made it as terrifying as possible so that whilst he's still around he can just harvest remnant from the victims as it is implied there are night guard deaths of an unknown amount and honestly I think that's a factor that's probably massively overlooked In the theorising community just what Aftons body count is since even if we assume they all last an average of 5 days dying soon after then that's roughly 100 Victims every 2 Years and Thats Being Generous, (I think Aftons Remnant Harvesting was way bigger then most of the community thinks)
(Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced (night 1 fnaf 1 phone call)
"Not getting sued, is always better than, getting sued" ~TheChiptide, 2024
I thought getting sued was better
Thank lord you actually mentioned Henry, because I was getting worried that you were accusing William of making the Springlocks entirely. In the novels, Henry is the one who made the original FNaF 1 animatronics and the Springlock suits. I do think it's possible William did know about some of the mechanism and mechanics behind the suits though since he was Henry's business partner and he knew how to use the suits in all continuities.
16:00
They take them when nobody is looking and they're soundproof but yeah what parents would be like "where'd billy go? Oh well who knows send the robot back and leave a 5 star review with no notes"
Its implied in FNAF3 that someone other than William got hurt by a springlock failure. Phoneguy says the thing about bleeding out away from customers and also that the springlock suits were discontinued due to multiple springlock failures.
wouldn't most safety issues with the springlocks be solved by simply making them open upon failure instead of close?
Yep! It would have been that easy!
@@TheChiptide and using springlocks that aren't insanely powerful probably would've done the trick too
The issue with that is that the jerky motions of the animatronic would set off the springlocks, causing it to crumple on stage.
“You had one job! Be purple, and do murder!”
“That’s two jobs.”
*Slasher missing intensifies*
13:45 William might not even be the only spring lock victim!
The Fnaf 3 Night 3 training tape (which takes place way before Fnaf 3) mentions what to do in the event of a spring lock failure: "In the case that the spring locks come loose while you are wearing the suit, please try to maneuver away from populated areas before bleeding out, as not to ruin the customer experience."
The Night 4 tape mentions a spring lock failure at a sister location: "After learning of an unfortunate incident at the sister location involving multiple and simultaneous spring lock failures, the company has deemed the suits temporarily unfit for employees. Safety is top priority at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, which is why the classic suits are being retired to an appropriate location (safe room) while being looked at by our technicians."
If all it takes is the suit getting wet to kill the performer, how the hell did getting body slammed by crowds of children not set it off?
William Afton makes robots to commit crimes, and he couldnt even do that right
What about the scooper? That wasn’t designed to kill anyone, only open animatronic casings up.
I would say we need to consider, springlock suit was design in 80's so animatronics could not be as cheap as it it presented
17:45 they did say that they would put a missing person report after 90 days or until the carpet were bleached
The night 1 phone call (I brought up that exact point
i honestly thought purple guy bought the endos and springlocks for like $5 and cleaned them up a bit, and that's why they were so prone to failures
They suspected he did the murders, but they couldn't pin it on specifically him. All the evidence pointed to was that it happened at the restaurant, and the murderer used one of the suits. Since Afton never had his face showing, no evidence pointing to specifically him. It would just take a reasonably competent lawyer to show how many other people had access to the suits and the restaurant and such at the times the murders took place to get Afton off.
Yeah but there is bound to be some DNA evidence left in the suit.
Sure, the police cannot narro it down to William himself but the list of suspects is still him, Henry, and 2 other employees shown in the crying child minigames. One of them is guilty and even if they couldn't see William's face, they could have checked the entire CCTV Footage and checked of the other three had any alibi.
@@FrankWalker2356 Apparently not, because William went free.
Either the police are incompetent (which, fair point), or they couldn't pin it on specifically him with the evidence they had.
but it is implied he was arrested (or someone was anyways). we aren't told anymore than that a suspect is been detained, or whatever the wording on the newspaper was.
but if it was William, I would assume the charges didn't stick, because it wouldn't make sense for the timeline.
@@FrankWalker2356 also, did Henry even ever use the bonny suit?
Personally I think that Henry (and probably most of the higher-level management) had to have turned a blind eye to the child murders and helped William cover it up. Whether it was from gross negligence, being obsessed with getting Charlie back, or just greed in wanting to keep the restaurant open, there's just no way that he didn't know.
one interesting point to mention is that since Afton designed and deployed all his products under Fazbear Entertainment, any gross negligence suit would inherently have to go through them. and, now, of course, any reasonable discovery for a lawsuit would reveal that Afton is nearly solely responsible for all the horrendous engineering decisions of the company, but Fazbear Entertainment is an infamously ruthless defendant. like Better Call Saul type bullshit
16:00 thats why she specifically counts the room until only one child is left
0:11 beg to differ, he's also British
Very fun video, here are my thoughts as I watched:
13:40 The phone calls also mention a failure resulting in the suits getting discontinued, so at the very least an employee (or maaaybe a customer) was hurt.
13:50 Employees did wear them, as noted in the FNaF 3 phone calls and shown in the FNaF 4 minigames.
16:15 Minor nitpick, but Circus Baby's memory monologue makes it clear that she only attacks when there are no other children (and possibly no adults) present, so that drastically lowers the chance of witnesses. However, a child going missing at any point of the party and not reappearing afterward would still raise suspicion.
17:28 The company not only knows about it, they make it very clear that they hide the bodies and don't expect employees to survive, thanks to the FNaF 1 night 1 phone call. Quote: "Upon discovering that damage or death has occurred, a missing person report will be filed within 90 days, or as soon as property and premises have been thoroughly cleaned and bleached, and the carpets have been replaced." They _do not care_ about employee life, and they probably have the doors because they want plausible deniability - "oh, the employee had these doors, they should have been able to protect themselves!".
The ending actually gave me a thought: what if William and Henry were arrested for gross negligence as early as possible? What would the series of events look like afterward?
Just make the default state the suit mode, that way failures just result in an animatronic collapsing on itself when walking around rather than killing someone
I like this video it's really great, but I just have one problem with this whole video, and it's the fact that William Afton did not create the original animatronics or the Springlock suits from the 80's, Henry Emily created the original animatronics and the Springlock suits.❤❤❤❤❤😊
Watch till the end, IT DOESN'T MATTER! Both supposed to verify each other, but didn't even notice the thing, gross negligence, both guilty!
16:30 for the other people thing, (especially with baby as eg) we know the animatronics were counting people in the room to kill only when there was only one person there.
and (this part is a joke but) If I made something to experiment souls of course I would like to get my patent on it!
To think, all William would have had to do was just make a suit that could just be put on and taken off of the endoskeleton, no springlocks required, basically just a fnaf cosplay
you're so underrated, all of your videos are just 2017 game theory where it was more about science and nerdy stuff and not just lore and i absolutely love it!
The fact that they can program the animatronics to not be able to enter or even see the safe room shows that for some reason they didn't program them to ignore the night guard's office.
16:03 Circus Baby only brings out her ice cream (what lures the kid into being captured) when there’s no one else around
18:49 They’re genetically modified sea monkeys (which are already genetically modified brine shrimp), not robot fish
My headcanon for the Sprinlock suits existing is that Afton is so full of himself that he thinks every idea comes up with is the literal best thing ever, and his engineering is so glawless that they could never fail.
11 year old daughter:
Gets eaten by animatronics stomach
Parents:
Erm well that just happened
*Stands up*
*Applauds*
Chiptide's out here not afraid of telling the truth
The springlock suits, as far as we know, are completely safe when used properly and in accordance with standard operating procedure. The only reason William died is because he was putting the suit on hastily and in a damp environment, violating the standard operating procedure. If you operate a table saw not according to procedure, you’re liable to be injured; but that doesn’t mean that the table saw is poorly designed.
As for Fredbear, the reason the pistons in the mouth are so powerful is because they need to be strong enough to actuate the presumably very heavy upper head of the animatronic. It wasn’t the strength of the pistons that caused the Bite of ‘83, it was the weight of that upper head part.
While that’s technically true, as an engineer you need to expect that people won’t follow all the rules all the time. The fact that this problem could have been solved simply by turning the srpinglocks around so that you’re not in the line of fire is what makes this so negligent and criminal. Just because nobody got hurt (until they did), doesn’t mean it’s safe
These are supposed to be used by human beings, last I checked, those sweat, getting the inside of any mascotte suits unpleasantly damp as time goes on. And in a restaurant, there is 100% chances that the suits would get splashed with a spilled drink, so moisture should have been part of the considerations when planning and testing the design.
Also, quick changes are a staple of the most performances, so being able to get in and out of the suits quickly and safely becomes a basic need for them to be fit for purpose.
About the weight of the head: it can't be that heavy, people should wear it over their own head
Finally someone who acknowledges this. Sheesh...
@@TheChiptide technically it's not the spring locks that kill someone it's them launching the Animatronic Parts that they Hold Back Into Your Body, but that's still a Failure of engineering and safety non the less
Ah, a worthy prosecutor for this trial...
Let's see your evidence!
Bros the new matpat 😂
All I’m saying is, if y’all are counting on me to solve any sort of lore, I’ve got some bad news…
@@TheChiptidechiptide lore videos when
I think he's more of the Austin from The Science series on Game Theorists.
Man I love your videos! This whole video I was just laughing at Williams incopetence and the way you expained everything was very entetaining and funny.
Hope you have a nice day.
At least the springlock design has brought me to Shadow Freddy’s conga line now
Bros bouta be the next matpat
My theory(Game Theory hehe) is that William’s stupidity got amplified by his psycophaty, he made the springlock suit out of his first and simplest idea, and his lack or worry for human life made him just skim over the safety process
William is characterized as being insanely egotistical and overly confident. I think he simply didnt think his stuff could fail so didnt account for it
Isn't it interesting the Animatronics Henry supposedly designed were fine but all the ones that William made were super dangerous???
17:30
I mean, the most complex swiss watches can still be reliable.... But as simpler as they are the more reliable they are anywways
This video made me think about why did they use spring locks like there has to be a reason
At the time even a normal animatronic was way more involved because they were inventing new tech animatronics werent really a thing before henry made them
Actually the Funtimes were designed for Circus Baby's Pizzaria but after his daughter died he closed it and shifted methods a bit
Yesterday I was writing a script for a video about spring locks
It's ironic that this appeared in my recommendeds first thing in the morning
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I feel that, but also I do that to other engineers all the time cuz nitpicking is fun.
While it is debated on what Glitchtrap is exactly, William did not create it. It's either William's own consciousness or a computer program influenced by his legacy. In either case, he was long "dead" by the time Glitchtrap was born.
My only concern is how you calculated the prices. Depending on the year, you'll have to factor inflation. Still expensive, but something to note nonetheless.
"Purple man comes back to life several times after being sentensed to several death penalties and claims he has completed them" Kind of penalty in the end but yea
"It doesn't really matter...." Talk to MatPat...
6:38 this is why it’s my personal theory that Afton never used a spring lock suit for his murders as they seem too quirky for what he did. Remember how in fnaf 3, phone guy says that the Springs set off easily like with moisture and if you are going to off kids, their will be lots of blood and movement going on. Plus I imagine it must be hard to clean blood off of a spring lock suit versus just a regular mascot costume
They should have brought in a third, more murderous but less negligent engineer.
16:12 I think the other animatronics were supposed to distract them or lure the child to a secluded area
You forgot other people did wear the suits 2 people did die wearing them and also William
My headcannon is that William and Henry were just robotics amateur's who barely did any brainstorming when making their first inventions and just rolled with it and got lucky.
A free roaming purple coloured guy? Yeah he seems harmless of course he is
What else could have solved the power outage issue is having a manual way to open the doors or even better, a back door.
Also why would there ever be two incredibly expensive heavy steel doors? Just get one if you really want to get them.
While all these points are valid, i should like to point out that the result of a springlock failure seems to be temporary death, you do come back, some may say you always come back
Your show is absolutely amazing man!! I love it, partially because im way too much of a much of a nerd in this type of stuff but the other part being that its like game theory! amazing show man, keep up with the amazing work.
I do love this, I just want to say that some stuff like the springlock suits were made by Harney. but this is still a 10 out of 10 vid
18:46 actually, its not 50! its 54 in fazbears frights (book 11 + stitchwraith) and idk how many in the tales from the pizzaplex
16:16 baby checks for if anyone can see and the others have methods for distraction
some slight issues that don’t really take away from the video but just for peoples information: the fredbear jaw design is a Henry design, Henry is Williams business partner, the puppet is possessed by Henry’s daughter charolette, Henry’s name is Henry Emily.
Never mind I got called out lol
I now wonder how you feel about the mangle as it was torn apart by children and presumably put back together by those children, and not only that, it was just left in that state it was still in a place where it entertains children.
William certainly seems to be a person who prioritized his passion projects over his business. It is just at first that was over engineered child's entertainment and then it expanded into that and um serial murder.
0:12
you know, there's something that's often forgotten about the 1st game that i find frustrating that people ignore. here's a quote from a news article found in the game:
*_"Five children now reported missing. Suspect convicted._*
*_Five children are now linked to the incident at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, where a man dressed as a cartoon mascot lured then into a back room. While the suspect has been charged, the bodies themselves were never found."_*
so, William WAS arrested. it's just nobody pays attention
before i get any comments saying "then how did he end up in the suit?", i'll cover that now. while its a common belief that he died in the 90s, i believe he would have actually died (at most) months before Fazbear's Fright had begun gathering props from old locations. it's likely he either escaped, or his sentence wasn't for murder but kidnapping, as no bodies were found. this provides explanation for the ruined state of the restaurant, including the boarded up bathrooms, messed up tables, rats, leaking ceiling, among other things. further evidence to support this claim comes from his own corpse. it's still rotting. a body doesn't take 30 years to rot. even in a coffin, it wouldn't reach 10 years before the corpse becomes a skeleton. Michael has an excuse, as he's not possessing a robot but his own corpse, and he only started possessing it after Ennard left and his body, which had already rotted significantly by that point. William however is possessing the SUIT, as he wouldn't be able to move otherwise.
When people call Willy an evil genius and/or stupid, I think it depends on what one specifically means. Willy has invented some revolutionary bits of technology and is a rather skilled manipulator of people, but he's also an utter egotistic with very limited self-control. He is not a cost-smart lad, and he's impulsive. One might be able to argue he is on some level, good at actually BUILDING things, as some of this is complicated, sophisticated stuff. But he seems to care way more about appearing smart and experimenting and making it because he can, rather than being sensible in the slightest.
Fredbear was designed and built by Henry, not William. Few other mistakes in this video but it makes sense
I thought animatronics with those clamp jaws were made by Henry.
You clearly didn't finish the video
although the springlock suits were more expensive, they were more profitable in the long run because they gave the company an edge over its competitors. because of this, i wouldn't consider the creation of springlock suits to be a bad decision (in terms of cost - it's a different story when you take the dangers into account).
another banger video from chiptide 😎😎😎😎
Well.. He must have Put alot of Money into the Springlock Suits because be was Expecting to get the money back from the sales of pizza
Back then.. The Prices must have been cheaper than today
Everytime I watch these videos I just imagine William being forced to watch this guy rip him to shreds. Either just standing there like: 😐🧍♂️
Or just straight up tied to a chair while chiptide just rants about how stupid he is Like: 👁️👄👁️ oh?
It always makes me giggle
Yeah, but the spring lock suit that killed him was decaying, had holes and vegetation growing on the suit, on top of the bad conditioning of the building, and it is in a state of disrepair on the suit. William also may have not even designed the suit, as Williams stitched together suit in fnaf 3 was most likely the original suit designed by him judging by the stitch marks, compared to Henry’s bulky design. He most likely used high quality springlocks, maybe too powerful to kill people.
But throw all that out the window as the suits may have never been actually used, as only 2 existed.
THE DOORS were designed to keep the person watching the security cameras just in case a break in would happen, so they could call 911.
(They didn’t have portable phones back then) then the anatronics would attack people after hours because they’re on low power mode, as the doors would only be close of 6 out of the 16 hours saving a lot of money.
While it might be considered unsafe to keep killer robots that walk around.
Maybe it is because their servos lock up if left off for too long, considering if the place closes around 6, that’s 5 still five hours before 12. William always had doors in HIs astablishments. Fnaf 1, SL, and in the location before fnaf 2, he states in fnaf 2. “As you can see, there’s no doors for you to close…” all the locations he owned, all had doors to protect the night guard.
all this is the result because William, lugwig says it best, "he liked bear!"
Your channel is so underrated, great videos
It would have been funny if you took the price FROM BACK THEN and convert it to the price for nowadays
“Uh, hello? Hello, hello! Uhm, there has been a slight change of company policy, concerning you and the suits. Uhm, don’t. After learning of an unfortunate incident at the sister location involving multiple and simultaneous spring lock failures, the company has deemed the suits temporaily unfit for employees.” You don’t say Mr Guy on the phone. Also “multiple and simultaneous spring lock failures” yikes..
your throwaway joke about fish blood mind flayers isnt that far off from a real Fazbear Fright story btw
I mean the standard is "Professional Engineer"(PE), which is usually gained after passing the EIT/FE exam and shadowing a PE for four years. Then you can display PE after your name and be confused with a physical education teacher. Do we actually know if he did all of that, or are we just saying if he was?
Yes, Henry shares some weight, we really don't know how much because again, but his needless self-sacrifice is, I think, him trying to pay penance for giving William access to the knowledge to begin with. Otherwise....why?
He could have built the trap, walked away and watched from outside and made certain nothing escaped. It just....okay if Michael had an exit he COULD use, then that means so does ANYTHING else down there. Nevermind, Henry is a dumbass. His designs are rubbish. His trap alone speaks to that. He's essentially Dr Doofenshmirtz with a dead Vanessa. Carry on with your tearing apart of how the real villainy is the engineering.
The real villain of FNAF isn’t an evil genius, it’s people who THINK they’re geniuses!
So your average conspiracy theorist.@@TheChiptide
Good video btw
This is a brilliant concept, awesome video!
Wow, what a bad engineer! I can't wait to absolutely avoid all of these mistakes! Joke aside, maybe I'll refer to this video before deciding to do somethign stupid
Fnaf makes me want to become a mechanical engineer
The internet is running out of content to make.
Finally, crimes to pin on Afton
I believe the piston jaws was a Henry design not Afton's
The circus animatronics would only go for isolated children so no one would see them get snatched.
Also about the door thing, wouldn't make more sense to hire a security guard to walk the perimeter? You know to stop an adult from breaking in and getting murdered?
After finishing the video, though it doesn't matter who invented what I think we should give credit for the dumb designs to the person who's brilliant idea it belonged to. That is one of the few things we know if something was Henry or Afton's design. Like the security puppet who had the flaw of you could place stuff on top of it's box to stop it from coming out.
Pretty sure the murderbots would be good enough security guards already
@@elin111 Yeah, but then you got lawsuits. Or worse have to wake up extra early to get in to clean the mess before opening up.
Desconozco mucho de el lore de FNAF pero si los animatronicos Funtime estaban diseñados únicamente para matar niños, el hecho de que al final hayan decidido voluntariamente escapar de sus exoesqueletos y unirse para crear a Ennard y matar al guardia de seguridad para usar su cuerpo como traje, ¿acaso es técnicamente una falla en el diseño/programación de los mismos?
(Digo, se que Baby está poseida por el espíritu de la hija de William Afton, pero que hay con los otros?, además, si no eran animatronicos diseñados para usarse como trajes (como Springtrap, por ejemplo) ¿cual es la necesidad de hacer removibles los exoesqueletos de los Funtime?)