It's so jarring as a 20 year old full grown ass man watching internet history video essays on the shit I lived through. Like I was literally there, it was my mid - late childhood. I remember the first fnaf models releasing on gmod, I remember spending hours dicking around with (my now best) friend on sandbox maps with fnaf playermodels, I remember the "stop making fnaf dupes" movement, and I remember the bullying I got from people who are now in their late 30's and early 40's about my fnaf pfp. Loved this video, it was super nostalgic.

In my opinion, fnaf did sorta have a mass swarm over the gmod workshop. But I think the main was issue was people overreacting, sure there were so many add ons and dupes but let's be real some people were taking it way too far.

That was my music video you showed with gman as William Afton. I wanted to comment at the time, you were correct in saying I hadn't played Half Life before. However, the decision to use that model was primarily my animators in 2020. Now I'm obsessed with the lore thanks to Alyx! I also no longer use SFM and create my own models for peak authenticity.

The idea that fnaf got younger people into gmod is funny to me. My first introduction to fnaf as a kid was seeing the models on the gmod workshop page

Man, the old clunky gmod fnaf models are always nice to see no matter how garbage they actually are

I was in the GMOD community since roughly 2011 when I was given the game as a gift by a friend. I remember the GMOD 13 upgrades and how many add-ons were absolutely trashed due to it, but, honestly? I never saw a point in the whole FNAF Hatred thing. Garry's Mod, at least to me, was always a sandbox. It's quite-literally one of the gamemode titles. In a sandbox, anything and everything that can be used should be allowed and welcome. Sure, it was annoying to have tons of servers filling with kids screaming into the microphone, but that's just the way videogames have gone. Videogames are no-longer seen as these niche things that only weird nerds play. Part of GMOD's pull for me was just how much could be done, and I remember those old FNAF models becoming inside jokes in my friend group, where we'd hide one somewhere in screenshots. FNAF brought people into the GMOD and Source communities. It got being coding in LUA and creating maps in Hammer. Sure, it was aggravating at the time, but it was ultimately good for the longevity of Garry's Mod, but that's just me.

Knocked the part 2 out of the park man, you brought up some things I haven't even considered until now. Great video pal

Now we just need a video talking about Nextbots, looking at the workshop today, it's filled with moving pngs with sound, and you can't just press a button to hide them like you can with dupes and saves. Even filtering out NPCs doesn't get rid of all of them

Whoa, I had no idea Garry Mod knew Freddy Five-Nights

Seems like a lot of people got into animation through FNAF Gmod. That's actually pretty cool.

the mentioning of venturiantale made me genuinely sad. Like, I remember when I was a kid and I discovered them back when they only had a small handfull of videos on their channel and no-one knew about them. as a kid, I saw the channel go from a bunch of videos of siblings goofing around, to a soulless channel focused on making money. And with bethany coming out talking about the abuse she and her sister went through, I just cant really think about htem anymore

I feel like the Fnaf and Gmod collision was one of the things that made me unconsciously explore different game series since I can go back to certain videos and go: "WAIT, THAT SHIT IS FROM *insert game*" I would call Gmod the gateway to many other things.

I don't think people using source characters in FNAF stories is a bad thing, keep in mind there's not that many models of FNAF human character's in the gmod workshop mostly because people have no reference to go off of.

I started playing Gmod in 2006 at 10 years old. I'd argue getting into it was like getting into legos. Its beauty is anyone can enjoy it, but you can also get as technical as you want too. You could be 3 and stacking your favorite colors, or 50 and building a perfect replica of NYC; just like you could be messing around with ragdolls or building server communities. Gatekeeping the age misses the point. And like a parent seeing their kid play with their old bricks, I'm just happy they're keeping the flame lit. If anything, my hope is that they pull enough interest back to this game to get a revitalized sequel made.

7:30 reading this is really funny considering even HALF LIFE doesn't always take itself seriously. This is the franchise that gave us "STAHP", "NO" and "Do you know who ate all the donuts?"

Hearing Venturian Tale makes me kinda sad cause I remember hearing about something happening that split up their group

GMOD and FNAF 100% got me into animation. I got introduced to so many valve properties such as TF2 and I wanted to try and make my own animations. Especially with FNAF and SFM.

Mods can't ruin a game, especially when it's up to the player to install or ignore mods. You don't have to install and play with them, yeah it can annoying when the waves of stuff flood the workshop, but what does it matter if you're hunting for something specific? I think people need to calm down, it doesn't ruin a game to bring in more players, it helps it. That goes with any game

fnaf kids pretending skibidi toilet is bad will always be the funniest thing to me

I discovered Gmod and by extension the Source engine through the FNaF craze, carefully leading me into discovering my still uncontested favorite game of all time, Half Life 2 (I played it merely just by the pure curiosity of the strange assets Gmod had by itself, ended up loving it), on top of helping me find my most passionate hobby, being 3D animation introduced with Source Filmmaker. I definitely owe a lot to the hype back in the day, the simple novelty of exploring the FNaF locations and models in 3D alone was enough to sink my teeth into this engine like no other. While I already was a Portal and TF2 player, FNaF really was the last straw for me being obsessed with this crazily coded yet simply enjoyable engine and by extension, Valve's iconic and near perfect catalogue of games. While I lost interest in FNaF and it's lore after Sister Location, and by extension have long since lost touch with it's community, I still have great memories of fucking around with friends on the first Gmod FNaF maps, copllabing, teaching and making friends with animators in the early days and creating things I would have otherwise never been able to create by myself if it weren't for Gmod and the Source engine. I owe a lot to Valve and Scott Cawthon. I could go on and on about 2014 and my relationship with the FNaF universe, the Source engine and it's community, but this sums it up pretty well.

I don't believe Fnaf ruined GMod. It introduced a lot of new people to the GMod and also a lot of people started doing SourceFilmmaker animation. Thanks to Fnaf, I found my passion for the animation

GMod players when someone makes an addon related to something they don't like (literally unplayable)

As for the point about ruining Half-Life characters, Gordon Freeman himself is not a vanilla model in GMod so his image and legacy remain relatively untarnished to those who haven’t experienced Half-Life. Way I see it, he’s the glue that holds all these serious characters together as the main protagonist to a serious game franchise. You can still play the HL2 games today as a primarily Gmod fan and still take the games seriously as Gordon Freeman.

As someone who grew up with GMod FNaF and is now an animator, I really am happy that this happened.

FNAF gmod stuff was the real shit back in the day for me, it was awesome. I've grown off of that obviously, but sometimes it's still fun to load up those old maps every now and then Having seen the end, you nailed it at least for me- I'm s blender modeler now, in fact my first one was recreating the OG FNAF Bonnie model... It comes full circle, doesn't it?

As someone who’s been playing gmod before fnaf and the kids that are obsessed with fnaf were even existent, I can definitely say that fnaf had a profound impact on gmod and the workshop and still does today.

This video brought back so many memories over simpler times when i was introduced into fnaf and seeing these creators inspire me with their work got me into art and 3D modeling. I can never thank enough the creators and artists who made these videos 8 years ago. Saying its been 8 years feel so funny to me, iam no longer the dumb child being hyped after coming from school to see if my favorite creators made something. And now heading to college, hopefully making something thag inspires someone out there too.

“You’d be hard pressed today to find GMod content that isn’t expressly catered to kids.” Tha Vanoss crew would like to have a word with you. Also, I’m pretty sure a large reason behind this has less to do with FNaF taking over GMod, and more to do with KZfaqs stricter policies. People who didn’t make child friendly videos on the platform would just end up being thrown off of it.

Without FNAF I’d never know what a half life is.

The only thing that bugs me about FNAF dupes/saves is that it makes things very samey. The save/dupe sections were always full of low-effort stuff, but at least the type of stuff (vehicles, buildings, character poses, etc.) varied.

My thoughts on this has massively changed over the years. I was one of the young teens upset that my 'cool' space was invaded by annoying kids, would constantly get upset over the idea that the community i'd been apart of first might have seemed diminished as a result of kids discovering and enjoying the game due to some new trend amongst them, then receiving far more attention than any of us had at that time. Bear in mind this was during the time period where it became increasingly more obvious Half-Life 3 wasn't happening, at least not any time soon. I like to think I've matured since then, at least a little bit. Honestly, I don't think it's my place to decide who gets to enjoy such a phenomenal game, I hope they found Gmod as a gateway towards the wider Source community - I know it was for a lot of people and that is nothing but a GOOD thing if you have any shred of respect for these games, but even if not? I can't be too upset that these younger kids, probably now in their early teens, aren't too keen on playing decade old games.

I feel like some of the people say "fNaF rUiNeD gMoD" are the same people who take Gmod waaaay to seriously

Reminds me of what happened with SFM community as well. Workshop overfilled with FNAF contents, a lot of circlejerks and arguments on the discussion forums, and full on hate on any FNAF contents, videos and posters that got filled with hate comments. I still remember some people demand someone to create a FNAF-focused SFM asset site like SFMLab and even someone tried to make one but failed. I was personally dislike the FNAF content on the SFM workshop due to some if not most of them are low quality like shitty FNAF "OC" models (re-colors mostly) and high-quality yet unoptimized models with extremely high polygon count that would crash SFM. There was even a drama about whose made the best FNAF models that is 99.99% accurate to the games and who owns these particular "OC" designs. It's all in the past now, and the SFM community is pretty chill right now.

A lot of kids played Gmod, I remember thinking that Half Life 2 was just Gmod's inbuilt campaign mode.

the moment you said "VenturianTale" a wave of nostalgic memories flooded my brain... bro that guy and his siblings took up a lot of my childhood....

The Bonnie jumps jumpscare at 3:58 didn't get me, the ad right after did lol

I'm so happy to have a new video put out by my favorite freak named richter blobertime. Also I love VINNY and JERMA so goddamn much

Honestly, when fnaf mods on gmod got popular on KZfaq. It was how I actually discovered gmod. Eventually I found youtubers like vanoss gaming and just loved the game since.

The person behind Cry of Fear did have a point though. Sometimes you want to protect your characters from getting the improper legacy than the one they deserved instead. You did mention how they ruin G-man's character by making him a child killer in their edgy videos, and in the similar fashion, he wouldn't have preferred to have Simon turn into someone's Gacha OC.

i love how both games kinda came together

Despite the reputation both FNAF and VenturianTale have in their own regards, I'll always give them full undeniable credit for introducing me to Garry's Mod, then eventually Half-Life, and then the entirety of Valve's catalogue of games and the Source engine... and that's been almost a decade ago. Time sure does go by fast, doesn't it?

In 2014 it was Fnaf, in 2015 it was Splatoon, in 2016 it was Undertale. Now in 2022 its Friday Night Funkin. You can always be sure that whatever new game comes out, one of them will dominate the workshop for a good couple of months and then procedural years after.

6:59 gman had to take some new carreer paths during the gap between HL2 and Alyx

hey richter, the creator of CoF (and AoM) was a cringe nae nae teenager when he developed those games. i know this because i am the same age as RuMpel. seeing a screenshot of the old forums REALLY brought me back, and further cementing the notion that the youth should be free (and defended) to make asses of themselves in our shared creative spaces. it’s only fair, because we all shit up the place at one point, and someone was patient with us.

Without Fnaf I would never know what a gravity gun is

"FNAF ruined HL2 characters" In the Virtual End:

Love your videos man! I've been getting a lot more into valve games as of recent and these videos are super fun to watch alongside playing the games

Ah yes, nostalgia from the fnaf themed vids from vannossgaming, really brings a tear to my eye.

Pretty cool video. Would you ever do a video on gmod 13 and it’s impact on the community?

Jerma was the ORIGINAL v-tuber.

2:28 wtf man that was so scary

Fnaf actually introduced me to Gmod but now i play the game for building, driving and killing

Hey Richter, maybe in you’re next GMOD video maybe you can talk about Nextbots? Mainly the loud insta kill PNGs

*I have a story: Everything was normal before FNAF was released in the summer of 2014. At that times, the TF2 expiration date video came out plus Love and WAR! And then when I finished 3rd grade elementary school, FNAF came and then after the summer ended, FNAF 2 came And when I was in 4th grade everybody was playing FNAF 1 and 2 on their Phone plus even using phones in elementary school was forbidden. Scott Catwoon, what did you do to take over the world in this state in one go? plus even my best friend yusuf plays a lot i still remember going from night 4 to night 5 plus when you accidentally left the game he went back to night 4 and everyone congratulated it was disappointed... and unfortunately my favorite friend yusuf was 12 august 2016 due to heart disease He passed away at the age of . :-( and our cellar didn't even know about this incident. Of course, we saw it only after 1 year and we couldn't believe it. History wrote like this. Mid 2010s. For some it was a golden age, for others it was a nightmare or a nightmare. Scott Catwoon got him to this point, and so he did all of these.*

It's great seeing you making so many great videos You grew so much

"It's pretty hilarious in some contexts seeing people who have never played a Half-Life game in their life use G-Man to represent a serial child murderer in their edgy story" Also the literal creator of the music video they use as a representation, In the comment section: "Maybe the G in G-Man stands for Glitchtrap? 🤔" I don't know man, It seems like they know what a G-Man is to me

fnaf and sfm are really what introduced me to gmod

Nice video, never thought Gmod had this amount of lore behind it. Thanks!

I remember making a crappy "tutorial" video as a response to a thread on Gmod's steam discussions forum about how to cure the "FNAF Virus" at the time of this trend's peak. The video was simply just setting a filter on Gmod's workshop to show "add-ons" instead of all the FNAF dupes and other spammy content. I've since set the video to private. What a fun time the Gmod workshop was then.

Honestly in my opinion - what truly is destroying the gmod, its community self - I dont want add so much details, but examples: toxicity, racism, attacking people with different orientation and more. I know, there gonna be fine servers; which having normal players and don't attacking self - but its minority. The most servers of gmod is just... Toxic, Dark city rp? Oh dear god, no. SCP? Polish servers are good example about how they treats the players and using n-words or slurs. But honestly u even notice somebody warn player for writing n-word? Because I think I played a lot servers and even Zombie mod; then nobody care about these slurs. If that's gonna be tolerate and nobody will doing to stop that - then Gmod popularity will change drastically to being known as toxic community. I want hear your opinion Richter about it, if you reading the comments ofc ^^' Btw, cool video

Without FNaF SFM's, I wouldn't have discovered my passion for animating, I wouldn't have discovered TF2, Portal, Left 4 Dead or Half-Life. I owe a lot to that fast bear.

Honestly, this video just reminded me of something primarily unrelated to the topic that happened to me once in high school and the mid 2010s after five nights at Freddy's became popular. I had just beaten Half-Life 2 for the first time and because I was a high school student who didn't have a job I decided to ask my step brother to pirate half life two episode one for me so I could play it and see what the rest of the story was, so I was playing this pirated copy on one of the school computers in the library during homeroom period, And these two freshmen walked up to me and asked me If I was playing Gmod. And these kids wouldn't stop back to gaming me talking about how two security cameras that were offline saw me and that combine soldiers were going to come and get me, of course that didn't even use the word combine so. I basically just ignored them put my headphones back on and kept playing and then they left. I wouldn't be surprised if those kids were familiar with Gmod through five nights at Freddy's so to be honest, but you can't be sure.

“And there have been channels like VenturianTale which have built their careers off the back of this phenomenon” Ouch, I remember VenturianTale way back before FNaF was a thing, how time flies.

I discovered Gmod through animators like Kitty0706 and DasBoSchitt, and TF2 through Criken2's L4D2 play-through as Sniper. It left such an impact on me I wanted to pirate Gmod so I could animate like them. Then SFM came out, and my hand at animating is, ultimately, a bit lacking. However, I will be remissed to say I didn't have fun, even if my range was "absolute dogshit" up to "Dingo Pictures" quality.

I still blame FNaF (and Slender) for shaping the new age horror genre to what is today. Until RE7, most horror games is boiled down to 1 or 2 formula: run and hide to avoid getting jumpscared, or do mechanics to prevent getting jumpscared. I hate that especially if the jumpscare is also a losing condition, which is most of those games were.

Venturian played a huge role in my interest in GMod. I didn't watch most of their FNaF related videos, but their use of the models help contribute to my eventual purchase of the game.

2:35 thats my lockscreen for my laptop

If they remove those Add-ons then XAN 723 would be out of a career

i can make an entire mile long list of everything wrong & bad in fnaf and most certainly in the fandom, but the pure fact that i have been sucked into this series since the beginning, watching EVERY SINGLE matpat video on it, watching dawko since then, and being able to experience all the fangames, fan models, community interaction, and growth with my own two eyes had solidified it as my completely personally biased favorite series

VenturianTale scratched some long forgotten itch from a life time ago... I used to watch it when i was in my teens tho mostly random mod, family rp and skyrim videos. I think i even done some stuff on wiki for that channel

FNAF didn’t ruin gmod but it did have a very large impact on it, especially when both games were very popular at the same time. You saw gmod fnaf maps being played by big KZfaqrs even markiplier, you had maps, npcs models etc made after fnaf. I wouldn’t say it ruined gmod because now adays you see very little of that era, I don’t think I could find a fnaf map on the first few pages of the top maps of the gmod workshop. Point being that whilst it was a big and explosive impact, the fallout didn’t last for long.

Crazy that you've played gmod for 13 years, truly a dedication

0:32 memory unlocked holy shit

At first I didn't think this would be a very interesting topic but this video provided a lot of value in learning the history behind Gmod and overall, is quite good!

Back in 2014 or so, a friend of mine and I went into the GMod workshop and tried looking for the first page to show up that DIDN'T have anything FNAF related. We went on for about 50 pages before giving up. Shit was wild yo.

i almost cried when i saw dod character in 5:10 ❤

VenturianTale being mentioned unlocked memories in my head, AND THEN I REMEMBERED IT ALL WENT DOWNHILL

I can't unsee that they fucking Ruin G-Man into William Afton. Even though the Fnaf community thought he was wearing a Purple suit. EDIT: I forgot to Mention that they also Ruined characters for the Trash series "Skibidi Toilet"

4:19 why they getting sturdy

I was one of those die hard FNAF fans back in 2014, which was what got me into Garry’s mod in the first place. Now here I am, in college for 3D animation and modelling, working to get into the film or video game industry. I would’ve never chose this career path if it wasn’t for five nights at Freddy’s and Garrys mod.

You mentioning the Venturians made me feel like that food critic from Ratatouille, I remember coming home from elementary school and watching them play Minecraft and Garry’s Mod

I'll be honest I think 2D nextbots are ruining gmod at the moment

I remember playing gmod the year prior to fnaf coming out. It was beautiful chaos and it was full of nonsense. In all honesty, not much has changed.

I never really looked too much into the overlap of FNAF and Gmod, but now that I think about it, I did learn about Gmod from a fnaf video, and through Gmod learned about a lot of my favorite games today. Kinda crazy looking back that if it weren't for FNAF and Gmod crossing paths, I might have an entirely different taste in games.

What is that addon with models at 10:00? Looks great

Tbh, without FNaF I probably wouldn't know what Gmod or what the source engine is and I probably wouldn't be here writing this comment or be subbed to ur channel

Just asking, what did I just witness? 7:17

that VenturianTale mention hit me right in the nostalgia, i grew up on their gmod/skyrim/fallout content

When i was younger i used to play on a sandbox server running the freddys map. This was during my 2-3rd grade year and i was pretty big on fnaf until 4-5th grade. I remember always basing in the power room or the bathrooms and annihilating people with the m9k 73 winchester. Fnaf wasnt what got me into gmod, but it probably made me stay with it ((trainbuild did the same thing too though))

bruh richter is born in 2004, so he is 18 now

fnaf is the reason i know what all the valve titles are and how i became an invested gamer. i owe those funny furry robots my childhood.

anyone else remember the "luigi save no more bad fnaf saves" save that was on the front featured page

God that last one is true. I remember watching a tf2 demoman meme in class and some kid said "isnt that the guy from that fnaf video?"

The fnaf community has to stop flooding the workshop we can all agree on that

I swear people complaining about fnaf and other fandoms is way more common than the actual "problems" with the fandoms.

what was the map right at the end right before the bit about subscribing to richter

I'll never get used to the fact that some of the KZfaqrs I watch are just younger than me, especially since I saw this new form of entertainment rise when I was young

as someone who has casually played gmod for over a decade, hardly participated in the forums and only really played on sandbox servers, I hardly ever saw FNAF content in game or out or talked about it with other people. Of course I watched a few Markiplier, Seananners and Vanoss videos back in the day, but they also covered TTT, Prop Hunt and Hide and Seek. I don't care for FNAF, I have never played it or participated in fandom spheres but it also doesn't bother me that they exist for other people to enjoy. I do kind of like Friday Night Funkin, I don't play it but it makes me happy to see old Newgrounds characters like Tankman and Pico continue to be relevant.

*insert male_07 and low poly Freddy fazbear model kissing*

And now we gotta worry about the fucking skibidi toilet shit that pops up 24/7