the first few seconds caught me off guard 💀

The way everything is accurate and technically inaccurate at the same time is actually hilarious

Thanks for turning 8 shorts into one video, really appreciate it

I love how unironicly accurate your video is compared to other fnaf lore in 60 second videos.

"And that's everything we know!" FNAF 3, the original book trioogy, the movie, FNAF VR, FNAF SB: *hands on hips

5:03 THE SOUND EFFECT MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD

"the apple-ton family" ah yes, the family who has TONS of APPLES 💀

Respect to the kid in the green shirt who randomly ran past William every 10 seconds 😂

4:58 MIMIC

This series took monthssssssssss, and it was worth it. One of my favorite fnaf lore series videos 👍

5:12 William: remember son, dying is gay Michael: Yes dad.

At first glance, you will likely not mistake Five Nights at Freddy’s to be the work of an arthouse auteur. Designed by Scott Cawthon, a reclusive programmer from Texas who hasn’t conducted an interview in years, its rudiments are famously brainless. The first entry in the series - released in 2014, long before the brand was big enough to receive a film adaptation - is a horror game stripped to its loudest, dumbest essentials. You’re working the night shift at a haunted children’s pizzeria in the Chuck E. Cheese mold where the rickety animatronic band comes to life after dark and hunts for prey. The player sits at a computer and monitors an array of security cameras while attempting to stymie the approach of the bloodthirsty mascots. Fail and you’ll be met with a terrible, mind-piercing jump scare: a demonic facsimile of Helen Henny or Mr. Munch crashing through your screen with murder burning in their cold, dead eyes. So Five Nights at Freddy’s is pulp. It’s camp. It’s proudly low-culture and far removed from the work of an Aster or an Eggers, who imbue their ghost stories with high-concept psychedelic dread - motifs stacked upon motifs - of familial abuse, toxic masculinity, oedipal psychodrama, and so on. However, if you dig below the surface, as millions of fans have, an alternative truth begins to reveal itself. Because Five Nights at Freddy’s is also one of the most complex horror stories ever written, though much of its narrative is etched in unseen places: furtive cutscenes, recursive symbols, keystone clues slotted into hidden alcoves. Taken all together, Five Nights at Freddy’s is capable of generating the sort of hallucinatory fan theories you’d expect from the biggest Severance diehards, or that friend you have from college who still swears that The Shining is a metaphor for a faked moon landing. If you stumble across the rabbit hole, there’s a good chance you’ll tumble down, too. “You could play through one of the early games of Five Nights at Freddy’s in about three hours. But as you do it, you’d fixate on these small details. The number of buttons on an animatronic, or a background detail shifting based on your camera angle, things like that,” said Matthew Patrick, better known by his KZfaq alias MatPat, who is the foremost Five Nights at Freddy’s thinker in the world. “It’s all told through atmospheric storytelling. It had never been done before. In a lot of other games, if a character has extra toes or whatever, you’d just assume that the developer forgot, or that it’s a bug or whatever. But in Five Nights at Freddy’s, there are no coincidences. It felt like each of those details was an intentional choice leading you to a different part of the story.”Five Nights at Freddy’sFive Nights at FreddyPatrick describes his Five Nights at Freddy’s coverage as a full-time job. His KZfaq channel, The Game Theorists, has published dozens of different videos - meted out in 30-ish-minute episodes - deciphering the many cryptic tendrils of the series’ lore, all of which routinely achieve millions of views. I have no chance of effectively distilling the whole scope of the franchise’s narrative; there is simply too much of it, and the specifics will always be shrouded in constant fan debate. (The 18th game in the franchise is scheduled for release later this year.) But basically: Five Nights at Freddy’s tells the story of a serial killer, and his degenerate family, who prowled through a chain of family pizza restaurants - the Freddy’s in question - in the 1980s. The killer was named William Afton, and his modus operandi was to abduct a child and hide their bodies in the fursuits of the animatronic performers. Afton was never caught, and the spirits of those victims melded with the Freddy’s cast - which is why they seek vengeance in the fiction.

“A theory A GAME THEORY” -matpat I will miss you matpat

“Infinite level of charm” is crazy

2:00 "nineteen, EIGHTYSEVEN"💀

I love how you say “He exploded” so calmly

William Appleton, the furry who thrives of furry role-playing

I remember this being a mainly meme channel. Talk about a character arc. Cool vid

matpat needs 2 hours, this man needs 8 minutes

All awesome content, truly. One question, though: what do Help Wanted and Security Breach have to do with ANY of this? Is it just a new set of characters? An alternate universe entirely?

I'd really like to know where security breach comes into all of this

After that in Fnaf ruins he is back like he always is he always comes back

I think the one he shouldn't have killed was Cassidy.

really sums this up, thanks bro XD

The entirety of the original trilogy has left the chat

The “I aWaYs cOme BacK” killed me

4:04 H A L F W A Y L O L

I love this video. thanks s much Johnny for all of your hard work

William: dying is gay son. Micheal: yes father

i was totally going to compile these videos yesterday, you beat me to it

“Please deposit 5 coins” The stuff of nightmares

3:16 THE SOUND 💀💀💀

The lore gets a bit quirky at night

U did great just like always

This is the best way to learn the Fnaf Lore

amazing video! I can finally explain the fnaf lore to my date

Willam had that murder rizz

This complex and mysteriousl story is a compelling tale of good and evil from the souls of the dead young children helping each other for revenge this vengeful attack marks the end of a killer this is a excellent piece of art

Yeah....letting the scrap squad have free reign ober utah probably isnt a great idea

William Appleton always grows back 🍎🍎

yay thanks for uploading this

Dude you did what mat Pat couldn’t

This was so helpful thank you so much man ❤

I`m never gonna trust 50 year old in a rabbit suit

Imagine being killed by an animatronic and then you get out but your put in time out😂

Willaim when from Children entetainer to Children murderer real fast.

Pov: Being an Undead Furry For 90+ Years and Not Getting Out Pov: Being an Person That Was Been Stuck In a Infinite Purgatory

The fact that the shorts loop and go into each other is awesome Edit: I always return inexplicably

bro said "24/7? more like 25/7 💀"

I ALWAYS RETURN INEXPLICABLY! -William Appleton

0:31 it says 25/7, theres always been an extra hour, but only Afton knew

7:16 MOVIE REFERENCE MOVIE REFERENCE SKJDHFJSKDJFHS

i love your humor so much

That explains 4:58 the mimic from security breach ruin DLC

“I always return inexplicably” 😂

7:56 *now he can't come back*

i was waiting for a compilation, sadly that means no more fnaf lore shorts

So what ever happened to the puppeteer? All I know is that it was supposed to protect the kids or Henry’s daughter, but was it actually possessed by anyone?

moral of the story: role-playing is dangerous

I swear to god micheal always gets the spider man treatment he just has constant trauma and a indomitable will

4:56 It was a strange endoskeleton that had the ability to *M I M I C* voices to lure people into his lair. caught me off guard 💀

ITS BEEN SOO LONG sorry, i just felt nostalgic

6:20 someone had to he was going up

Matpat is gonna kill himself after this

Going into a place you wanted to go for your last wish but instead just get exploded

Somehow I keep finding my way back here

7:00 for some reason the funniest part of this video

This is canon

Thanks now I can show this to my parents so they understand the lore 😀

How did he know what a fursona is

Fnaf undeniably canon sequel

"He's a furry "caught me off guard 💀💀💀💀

1:24 freddy: Hi, how are ya

'He's a furry' caught me off guard XD

I should’ve known William Afton was a furry. It was all too obvious. Also, the scrap squad is one of the best team names I’ve ever heard

Someone please send this to MatPat, for the sake of his sanity.

1:56 caught me off guard tho lol

Its great you covered the original fnaf series before steel wool took it over because after the end of the original games with a good narrative defeat to the villain security breach help wanted help wanted 2 and the ruin dlc come in and make the lore even more confusing then ever with for some reason the defeated villain turns into a physical and ai conscious

Did the priest ever ask why William Appleton was in a bunny suit?

Thank you, I finally got to know The Fnaf Lore💀

Well in 6:50 The one that he shouldn’t have killed doenst control the withered Bonnie btw

Alternate title: FNaF lore explained in one thumbnail

William Appleton F1 podiumsitter confirmed?

Can someone explain to me the end I’m so confused. I thought after Henry burned the scrap squad William left a chip or whatever of basically him on it and Clara tried to rebuild William by having a VR game where glitchtrap infected Vanessa and like what happened to everything Clara did

I alway come back

“This is William Afton, he’s a furry” 💀😭

Where’s the scrap trap designed from? Looks amazing

I just watched this like 10 times 😂

2 questions. Isn't FNAF 2 before FNAF 1? If so then why in the video did Henry Emily rebrand the FNAF 1 restaurant into the FNAF 2 restaurant. FNAF 2 takes place before FNAF 1. And this question isn't about the video but since FNAF takes place before FNAF 2 then how does Evan Afton have nightmares about Nightmarionne (Nightmare Puppet) and Nightmare Mangle if FNAF 4 is before FNAF 2. Mangle and The Marionette didn't exist in FNAF 4.

“I always come back”

"So in nineteen EIGHTY SEVEN ??!"

What dose the William say hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop

William is always gonna come back as a furry, whether its a furry suit from wish. Talking about you scraptrap.

this is beautiful

Bro, I think my brain is now full of fanf

Burn trap: I am back

William wasn’t going to heaven in the first place💀

0:19 ayo afton you good??

Something you missed is that in fnaf six is that Henry didn’t trap Michael, Micheal agreed to cleft that animatronics and then they would burn down the pizzeria an Mike would finally die after completing his life’s goal

2:14 I didn't know that the phone guy is actually called the fungi