I can't believe they missed the part on the clipboard titled "Mandatory Suicide" that explains if the worker had gotten that far, they'd already seen too much :(

I think the reason the hips are so crucial to their movements is cause they literally have no spine, their back is completely stiff because it’s a hard plastic or metal (at least to my knowledge) so all movement in the torso has to be done with the hips. So indeed, those hips do not lie.

Hey, I voiced in the Maintenance Report VHS, working with Spectre was really fun and I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for covering this, Spectre deserves so much credit!

The cries of the child inside Bonnie hit so hard, and really remind you how the game’s story really started. Matpat’s mentioned before that we often forget about how truly sad the story is, and it’s true. We all make jokes like “Oh, funny purple guy! Man behind the slaughter!”, but when you really think about it, it’s so sad and unsettling. Kids died, probably in horrible ways. They might’ve not even been fully dead when they were brutally stuffed in the suits. Parents were devastated. Hearing those cries is just downright painful. I don’t often get actual chills from FNaF (not anymore), but this did it for me. It made me freeze up and had my skin covered in goose bumps. I really hope the mainstream games lean more into this type of horror, as it’s something I think we can all agree has been lost in the franchise.

Hiring Ash was such a win. Delightful addition to this channel.

MatPat is too powerful for his studio's own good.

For those curious, the final step in Maintenance Report reads: "4. Mandatory Suicide If you've made it this far you've seen too much. At this point, the animatronic should become fully aware and hostile because of your recent tamperings. Accept your death with open arms because the door is now locked and you can/will not from this room. Even if you somehow manage to evade this situation, do not think you have saved yourself because I will know." There's approximately 13 lines to the paragraph, with roughly 8 being entirely decipherable. Based on letter shapes and what I can infer, line 9 reads as "Do keep in mind I know where you and your family live." Line 10/11 looks roughly like "You must realize by now that suicide is necessary." In 12/13 it looks like it's goading you a little. "[?[ really must be a [?] [?] of [?] animatronic." It ends with what I can assume is "Do suffer in peace", however I'm not quite sure if the second word is correct (I can't see the tails of an S and it is a longer word than "rest", but the final sentence is definitely "do [blank] in peace") . If anyone can suggest or help me infer I'd love to have the whole 4th step complete, just for posterities sake and because my eyes hurt. Edit: Using some measuring and general english formatting, I've come up with the relative length of each word in line 12/13. Word one: 11 letters, give or take 1 or 2. Word two: 6 letters with 2 repeating, and a y. _"Really"_ Word three: 4 letters. I assume it's _"Must"_ Word four: 2 letters. Must be a determinative. _"Be"_ Word five: 1 letter. Must be a determinative. _"A"_ Word six: 4 letters, give or take 1 or 2. Word seven: 4 letters, give or take 1 or 2. Word eight: 2 letters. Must be a determinative. _"Of"_ Word nine: 8 letters, give or take 1. Word ten: 12 letters, give or take 1 or 2. The grammar in the writing as a whole is fine with minimal errors or typos, so I can assume that Spectre is a native English speaker. I am confident with what I've found so far, and really I could probably ask directly if I got it all correct, but I'm shy 👉👈

I'm surprised Mat didn't notice the "Mandatory Suicide" on the checklist in Maintenance Report. It's a really cool detail that adds more shady characteristics to Fazbear Ent.

Did anyone else notice that step 4 of the bonnie salvage was “Mandatory Suicide”? And the steps were “By now, the animatronic should be fully aware and hostile due to your tamperings. You should accept your death with…” and then it gets too hard for me to read 47:11

This sort of stuff isn't created through VR, its done using a 3D software such as blender, and then importing real tracked camera footage data to the camera within the 3D space. It's a method I use for my FNAF VHS tapes, as well as how Kane produced the Backrooms found footage - once again similar to me and many other creators👍 Hope this gives you further insight as to what goes on behind the scenes.

49:14 I love how Spectre had a rational explanation for Bonnie’s behavior: it wasn’t just “oooh deadly spirit haunting” it had enough ambiguity for it to be the maintenance guy to have just left things on or for it to be the missing child’s spirit working! Very well done and very well done GTLive for going through this story! 💃🏾🕺🏾

Ash's delivery on "it does assert dominance" actually killed me I laughed so hard

I think the "hips" line around 27:00 was more to do with the fact that Chica was leaning forward. I don't think her eyes disappeared, they were just hidden by the shadows

I feel so bad for the second guy. He was a cheerful man just doing his job. He didn't deserve that

Only matpat can go from FNaF VHS to floppy disk sounds Never change Mat

The talk about using sounds for animatronic movement/a secret animatronic language is actually really funny to me, because that is EXACTLY how the 1980s Teddy Ruxpin toy works Because he works by using a variety of different cassette tapes, all the programming needed to blink his eyes and open his mouth is on the tape itself. They're stereo cassettes, but only the right channel has audio. There's a total of 8 channels on the tape, but only a few are utilized. Channels 2-4 have the Teddy Ruxpin programming, which is frequency based. The next channel is used to determine if Teddy is singing along with his (sold separately) friend, Grubby! Then, channels 6-8 are used for Grubby's programming. The funny thing about this is that Grubby doesn't have a cassette player built in, so he's only functional alongside a Teddy, tethered together with an proprietary audio cable - aka, Teddy has to "talk" with Grubby in a language only they understand, just so Grubby can talk and blink. All of this means that if you were to play a Teddy Ruxpin tape in a normal cassette player, it would sound VERY weird, because it would play ALL channels, instead of just the right side. Kinda like the audio cues here, but not as intense and pretty quiet all things considered. I think it's a pretty neat attention to detail :)

Spectre and his friends are very underrated youtubers. Glad to see him getting recognition on this channel.

the look on chica's face is just constantly triggering my fight or flight response and it's crazy how different context and visuals can change a character in your mind

Imagine the 'Ruined' dlc just completely changes the timeline MatPat has worked so on. Scott watched the timeline videos and was like 'lets really show why we called this dlc 'Ruined'. That would be terrible and hilarious at the same time.

It's too bad they didn't spot number 4 on the Bonnie salvage. "Mandatory Suicide". "If you've made it this far you've seen too much. At this point, the animatronic should become fully aware and hostile because of your recent tamperings. Accept your death with open arms because the door is now locked and you can/will not escape from this room. Even if you somehow manage to evade this situation, do not think you have saved yourself because I will know." After that I can't really read since it's cut off, but it's something like "Do also keep in mind" something something "and your family" something something, etc.

Another thing I've never heard mat talk about is that the Silver Eyes is called the Silver Eyes because of Foxy's eyes, which scare charlie. However, in the graphic novel, Dave, or Afton, is the only one with colored Irises, which are grey.

"Thankfully I'm not repairing this piece of junk." Bonnie will remember that.

28:50 “Tom’s learning the flute!” Me: *hearty laughter as a flutist* Mat: *holds imaginary flute like a clarinet* Me: *instant disappointment* DUDE THE FLOPPY DISCS WERE SO PERFECT 💀

Matpat and ash just sharing a braincell lightens the horror of the tapes it's really amazing

I'm so glad MatPat's finally covering this series!

At 49:10 I think in terms of sound design, FNAF 1 and 4 nailed it in terms of giving off a sense of being uncomfortable. From the moans, you hear from Bonnie and Chica in 1, to Nightmare Fredbear's laugh and the breathing just gives me goosebumps every time I play.

My guess for the warbling audio cues in the first video is that they're basically encoded messages, designed to be impossible to accidentally reproduce in, say, a loud pizzaria.

Listening to them talking about Air Up genuinely is actually quite refreshing. By that I mean a lot more genuine than the traditional sponsor sections and hearing things they don’t like, for example the size of the regular bottle or one of the flavours. My sister bought one, and at first we thought it just didn’t work. Then we figured out that we just had Covid and none of us could smell properly. Tried it again a few weeks later and it does work. Personally, it’s not my cup of tea, I don’t like weaker flavours. When I have things like squash, I’ll add more than you’re supposed to. I don’t like things like sparkling water or tonic water. But it does work, better than I expected it to. I’m personally gonna stick to squash, as it does make me drink a lot more than normal, but I can understand why people like it, and for once it’s not just a marketing ploy.

You know it's a good day when there's new fnaf lore

I've only been watching GTLive since 2020 but in the last 3 years it has been my main source of comfort, I will never be able to fully explain how much this channel means to me

I love how Mat and Ash always go on tangents! It’s far more interesting than other reaction channels, Wich just make silly noises and or scream the whole time watching the video…

Matt, he didn't read it out, but you NEED to read the 4th step in the Bonnie scrapping process. It's paints a whole new story

Am I the only one who saw the "mandatory suicide' part on the clip board in Bonnie's tape? Really creepy stuff!

Finally, Mattpat is covering this series. I love it.❤❤

19:43 another good example if we think about the restaurant layout, the fact that the exit is CLOSER to the robots trying to kill you

Speaking of sound design, the first game is always the scariest to me because i can still feel the adrenaline and fear in me shoot up when i hear foxy's clonky running as he tries to kill you. still gets my heart racing.

So the original 5 1/4” floppy disks were actually floppy, as compared to the hard cover 3.5” ones, but the name stuck as it was essentially the same tech. I’m personally familiar with them as I got to mess and setup some OG macs in middle school for kicks.

To the people who make the fnaf vhs tapes they are really amazing!and horrifying at the same time!

FINALLY Mat is watching these! They’re the only FNAF VHS tapes that scare me, I’ve been wanting so badly to see him watch them. Awesome to see Spectre getting the recognition he deserves!

48:40 the thing that intrigues me the most that I think Mat missed is that the video loops essentially, if you go the beginning, we start at where we end. Almost like somebody kept a tape on replay, and the intro got messed up. (My 2005 brain doesn’t understand older technology like the ancient ones do)

matpat didn’t read the notes the creator meticulously detailed that instructed the salvager he was about to die 😂

The man in the second video is very bold,after seeing bonny's head turning and stopping right in front of him and tilting around making weird noises i wouldn't even think of getting closer to it to check what is wrong,i would be far away from this place as soon as possible

Just in case anyone's wondering: they're called floppy disks because the older larger disks were actually floppy. Only the later smaller 3.5" ones were mostly rigid which can make it kind of confusing.

As a band kid myself, I don’t think that was a double-reed; if it was reeded, I think it was closer to a clarinet; however, it sounded more like those instruments which use glass cylinders in a “keyboard” layout to play. I’d be interested to know how they actually made that audio prompt… Edit: that instrument is called a “Cristal Baschet.” Forgot for the moment of writing.

well made vhs tapes are so genuinely unnerving. it's wonderful

25:53 To be fair, most people will usually try to rationalize peculiar behavior. Something weird happens? Well, I guess the eyes were in the shadow and the noise had a delayed reaction making the hips move

Hey Mat! If you want to go through a connected VHS series with a lot of lore, I highly recommend ReachAnimation's series! It's so good, and you could probably make at least two GTlive's out of it haha

Those 5¼" disks were in fact floppy. 3.5" disks were smaller and plastic encased. But the video did insert them backwards, lol. Interesting he didn't mention the mandatory suicide. Enjoyed these, thanks GTL

I love how matpat and ash randomly turn into banjo & kazooie characters 💀

After watching this witty banter we need a food theory on why people don't like water

16:04 If she's about to kill you, you're frightened, if she's about to kill you but she's in a t-pose position, you accept your fate without any fear.

6:27 The way Ashley *smoothly* reminded Mat about the Air Up sponsorship 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I liked how specter shower withered Bonnie’s arm, slouch, leg and face loss from salvaging. I for some reason thought it was because they got old o certain pieces just fell off but I was dumb lol

MatPat and the entire theorist team, camera people, etc. are the only people capable of making my day better. Keep it up.

I went and watched all the tapes currently out before watching this video and I can say it’s definitely worth it! They were actually VERY well done. Self soothing, how our eyes dart around when things get weird, etc. I’m curious to see how what Mat has to say about it.

Fun fact: the real reason they're called floppy disk, is in 1971, the first generation of easy portable media was made: the 8in diskette. Big and floppy, it earned the nickname "floppy disk". Shortly after, another format, the 3.5 in diskette was introduced, this is what MatPat is talking about, it kept the "floppy" nickname, since it looked like a smaller version of the bigger ones. No other reason.

Fun fact! Those ARE the floppy kind of floppy disks. Computers like the Commodore64 used them and I (the bratty little kid I was) loved waggling the disks because they always returned to their normal flat shape. If you creased them, though, they could be ruined. You're thinking of the smaller plastic-case 3.5mm floppy disks...which were NOT floppy.

the hip movement thing is so funny to me. Mat, chica's eyes stayed in, she is leaning forward (using her hips) and that casts a shadow on the eyes

I am shocked that Matpat didn’t know that the original floppy disks were floppy. They were super big too (I think around 8 inches). It wasn’t until the much later 3 1/2 inch floppy disk that they had a hard case.

the best part of this video is the fact that for 10 minutes straight Ash and Matt are talking about anything but what the video is about 😌

I grew up with the smaller floppy discs. I think the bigger ones were pretty floppy compared their smaller cousins.

for years, people spoke of how la croix was like drinking the fart of a flavor (like a strawberry's fart, or a peach's fart, or whatever), but now, air up has skipped that level entirely and gone straight for giving you flavor farts...that are surprisingly actually more effective than the farts of flavor in la croix, apparently.

I’m so happy MatPat is finally taking a look at these VHS tapes. The VHS tapes really remind me of the “hidden lore” of FNAF. But whatever it is, MatPat can solve!

17:13 I think these sounds, that got recorded, are naturally playing in her environment. She thinks no one is there, so she moves. That’s the test, to see if she reacts or not. Unless, these sounds are talking to her and telling her to do things.

I know I'm tired when I'm trying to like the video MatPat is watching.

i don’t think i’ve ever said this about any sort of channel show ever but i literally tune to listen to ash as much as i do to see mat. i love them sm

What he meant by the hips moved is that Chica leans forward when the eyes disappear.

In my opinion, you can't say t-posing is outdated for withered chica when she's been doing it before t-posing even became a meme. "She was the first... she's seen everything!"😂👌

These always creep me out so much 😭 I hope the fnaf movie is as unnerving and creepy at these, or even creepier

It still bothers me so much that the _first and only_ time I really and instantly wanted to try any kind of sponsored product, it isn't even available in Canada... I sure hope that it will one day, I want to get one so bad! 😭

It's probably a good thing Freddy's reuse their stuff because the recycling plant probably isn't equipped to deal with remnant and while dilute, remnant in everything made from recycled materials might be a problem. Honestly I'm surprised we haven't had a story where someone's hip replacement has been contaminated with remnant.

The sounds of the disc drives awakened a nostalgia in me I haven't felt in a long time, in such a good way!

MatPat never disappoints us

Honestly looking at how we all see FNAF in our own way is what I love about it. It's a spring board for us to come up with our own twists and Ideas. My view of it is vastly different than others is, and I find it wonderful.

Bees?... oh no the bees... The BEES! (Runs away screaming in terror) The BEES is a phrase used by the Worm fandom to describe the main character at her scariest... AKA when she is inflicting the 3rd, 4th , and 7th plagues of Egypt on her foes...

This video is certainly a trip at 3-4 am. Oh someone finally noted how simple it would be to lift the clipboard and write while keeping eyes on the animatronic? Goddamn finally. Oh, we're learning about floppy and hard tapes? Sick, I had no idea how those worked anyway, you learn something new every day ig. Oh now it's playing music ?? ?? Sick. I wonder what awaits me in the near future.

I'm so happy you guys got sponsored here again! You all pump these out every week without fail!

Oh man, I was hoping to see his reaction to the fourth step on the list.

Nice to see these tapes get more attention. These tapes are very impressive from a production standpoint, from the animation to how they captured the camera movements and effects, they're very well done. And they do a good job at selling the idea of Freddy Fazbears being a real place that people come and work at. I hope Matt watchs the next tape from Spectre as it's easily my current fav at how it not only portrays the FNAF universe ina realistic way, but also how it characterizes the actual spirits that posses the animatronics. Not spoiling but seriously Matt, check it out when you can. You won't be disappointed. ;)

Mat and Ash geeking about floppy disc sounds is adorable I can't (tbf they are bangers)

Fnaf VHS might be the closet thing we get when it comes to watching the fnaf movie

You guys are awesome! Thanks for covering all the fnaf stuffs and helping us understand the lore!

34:00 those floppy disks were 5 3/4 inch disks. They didn't have the protective slider. The protective slider is on 3 1/2 inch floppies. and compared to the 3 1/2 floppies, the 5 3/4 floppies were rather floppy..but not as bad as the old 8inch floppies.

I really would like to see Mat cover the Interviewed series by J-Gems because that series is fantastic. Fnaf fan-made content is honestly just great.

I'm so glad Matpat's finally covering this series. i can't wait for the rest.

I genuinely could not tell if that was an actual sponsor or just the usual rant about a cool thing that was found

I like the idea the withered ines look how they do due to salvaging. It explains toilet Bonnie's whole thing much better

17:30 I just played Face Your Fears VR and it shows how the thing were you look somewhere and where you don't would matter if you feel "there"

I love the fanf tapes! They are everything i want to do in my own arg series! Congrats on completing the theory weel btw guys!

Yes the disk is definitely backwards. Also those looked like the old 5.25” floppy disks which weren’t made of hard plastic.

Omg that one scare in the middle really got me, I totally screamed and dropped my iPad. Lol. I haven’t been caught by a jumpscare like that in a while!

oh i am SO EXCITED to see matpat reacting to spectre, i found out abt this series not too long ago and it INSTANTLY became my favourite fnaf vhs series! i cannot WAIT to see the reaction to the third video in the series :D its (in my opinion) the best of the series, and one of best fnaf vhs videos in general

Hi MatPat! I LOVE UR THEORIES AND CONTENT ❤

The chaos from the beginning alone is amazing

33:00 Those were 5 1/4" floppies. They were a magnetic film disk enclosed by a soft plastic envelope. They were floppy enough that you could easily roll them into a tube though that would likely ruin it. They had no gate covering where the reader read the disk so they had to be stored in sleeves. They could store 160 kb, 360 kb, or 1.2 mb of data depending on the manufacture. 3 1/2" floppies 💾 were what you were describing that had a hard plastic shell with the metal gate. They could store up to 1.44 mb of data.

First time I heard when MatPat say “Spectre”, I immediately thought of the ghost hunting game on Roblox, Specter. I highly recommend playing the second game, hilarious when playing with family and friends

cannot WAIT to see you do this series!!!

My favorite part was when they talked about the secret code for a long time

I’m surprised no one is talking about it, but at around 47:19 you can read on the clipboard and it says “Mandatory Suicide- if you’ve made it this far you’ve seen too much. At this point the animatronic has become fully aware and hostile on account of your tampering…” someone should show this to Mat

21:15 the voice kind of reminds me of a spirit box I think it’s called where people play something and you can hear the spirits.