Update: Since this video got swept up into the yt algorithm recently I just wanted to correct a few things. 1. When I critiqued the fnaf series at the beginning as “not scary”, those were all my opinions from someone who knows little about fnaf. I understand that it may have not sounded like that. 2. I wanted to apologize for referring to Squimpus as “he” and not “they”. I obviously do not know them and meant no offense. It was an honest mistake, and I wish them all the best! This video was made back in August and I only hope that since I have made improvements in both my research and production to be the best Pagan Valley for all of you! ❤️

The voice actor who voiced the father/William Afton was a pro, he voiced a full blown psycho so well, it was terrifying

What I really like about the fnaf vhs tapes is that it’s giving us a more cleaned up version of the first four games without it being plagued by the lore of the games that came after. It’s actually refreshing to see the story not be so convaluted and give us a more clear cut time of events.

you know squimpus did fnaf justice by doing the story telling in this way when someone who isn't hip to the franchise's lore is able to comprehend the story

William Afton in this series absolutely terrifies me. He legitimately sounds like a psychopath with no empathy, and has a clear motivation for his crimes. This interpretation of the character just feels so...real. The voice actor and the writer did the character more than enough justice. Edit: Okay wow I thought only a few people would see this. Thanks for the likes everyone.

Fun Fact: Squimpus revealed that in this "timeline" Afton did die, but he wasn't in the end's memorials since unlike the others, he's "in the deepest pits of hell"

The one with just Bonnie and Chica has always been the only one that never scared me, but made me extremely sad. Just the childlike way Chica says, "We're going to heaven because we're supposed to," or however it was worded, was just amazing and makes you realize that although to an outsider or viewer it's extremely terrifying, but in universe these are kids just wanting to be free. I love this series and it's just so excellently done.

It's so odd to watch a video on FNAF by someone who doesn't know much about the franchise. But as odd as it is, it's kinda refreshing.

The more you learn about the fnaf story the more you realize that Michael is one of the most tragic protagonists of all time. He caused the accident that killed his brother pretty much setting off the entire series of events. Even after getting scooped and working in the 1-3 locations he still does everything he can to try to free the children and get forgiveness. Knowing all this really makes pizza simulator's ending great when you realize michael was successful and finally got to die after spending most of his life as a walking corpse

Dude, its so much more disturbing because he says things like "another fazbear robot" and "the fox character" because it loses the sense of familiarity that would desensitize you to this stuff

I’ve just realized, in 2002 in “The Finale” William has lost his sense of time so badly, in 9 years to the world, a month for him has went by. That is just insane to think about

In regards to "He does not exists", its probably telling us that Michael tried to forget what happened to his brother

wow, i am extremely impressed on how you managed to piece everything together correctly so well despite your heavily limited knowledge on the main series, as a person who's been a fnaf fan for a long time and a person who loves the hell out of these vhs tapes, i really appreciate the effort you've put into this video. thank you

man, turning fnaf into an analog horror was absolute genius. this game and its content was practically begging to be this kind of horror

"So sit back, relax, and turn out the lights." Its 11 am, gimme a second to go turn the sun off real quick lmao.

The fact that you hardly know anything about the lore of the games and yet correctly figured out what was happening in the VHS series (which is basically the lore of the first 4 games) is pretty impressive. Still don’t completely agree with the bashing of the franchise and its fandom in the first few minutes though. Sure every fandom has it’s cringe side, but of course there’s the good side too. The VHS series is a product of that good side.

its cool how the VHS tapes did a good job at basically doing a tldr of the fnaf lore ! its cool seeing someone whos never consumed fnaf media interpret the lore through these VHS tapes

Hilarious how Pagan says "Oh this series and its story isn't scary, but THIS is scary" and then goes over a series that is essentially a TL;DR of the entire games' lore up until FNAF4 with similar jumpscares. Like literally this is the first four games in video form.

You know you're doing something right, when I consider the FNAF VHS canon. No bringing childen back to live with the "AID OF TECHNOLOGY!" BS. Just a simply story about an eldest son who seeks redemption for the actions he both directly, and indirectly caused.

FNaF VHS is basically what happens when you speedrun the essential lore.

I don’t think fnaf was meant to be “scary”, I think it was meant to have an eerie ambiance. Thats why I think fnaf 1 and 2 are the most creepy. Once you get on edge from the auditory and visual terror, a jumpscare to finish it off.

I love how Pagan Valley is unfamiliar with the series, calling the animatronics by their descriptions (“the yellow bear”, “the bird robot”, etc.). It really adds to the mystery behind FNAF, even for seasoned fans like me. Loved the video!

It’s pretty bad faith to say that the fnaf fan base is “humiliating and setting games back (that part is debatable)” when the VHS tapes themselves come directly from the fandom :/

All the horror aspects aside, just the thought of Springtrap sitting in the saferoom and ranting about various philosophic topics is the funniest shit ever

I love to see people blindly jumping into series they have no idea about. Its like watching myself piece together all the lore tidbits and story pieces from another perspective. Great video, my guy. Will be sticking around for more stuff.

"Times, dates, and locations don't matter." Matpat: That's not true! That's impossible!

I love how the guy screaming Michael in the hallway bathroom is the sound of Dwight banging on Michael's door and screaming Michael from the show, The Office.

I think the best part about this is that they don’t know who The Puppet is (the animatronic described as the “ Creepy Doll Thing”.), let me explain. The Puppet is a very important character, if not THE most important, she’s the one that sort of guided the souls to posses the animatronics, and not knowing who she is in the first place adds to the mystery and just makes the experience better to those who haven’t been exposed to it as much. I’m just glad that Pagan has such an open mind despite making it very clear they didn’t really like the franchise at all. Great video.

Man this just makes me wonder how much better FNAF could of been had it stayed focused on the horror instead of the memes

I love how you talk about FNAF with a more objective perspective- I've basically grown up with the games so seeing someone analyze the horror side of it without tearing into lore from the start feels like a breath of fresh air. Can't wait to see more of this style of content!!

One thing that is important to note about the first video, the music in the background was used in an actual training tape for a chain of restaurants called showbiz pizza. They owned the Chuck E Cheese characters and the copyright owner of Showbiz Pizza's band didn't want to give up his copyright for free, so they converted the band into Chuck E Cheese characters. The process was called "Concept Unification" and the track in the background was used in the video manual

Honestly a movie like this, following Michael as he tries to free the spirits from the animatronics while hunting down his undead dad while still engaging with the lore would be tops

It’s actually really interesting to watch this, because I have all of the lore (especially from the first four games) ingrained into my skull at this point, so instead of a mystery when certain points are mentioned I just get this sense of foreboding. When you know what happened / will happen there’s just this sense of dread. “He does not exist” really set that off.

1:51 Actually, I was going to point out that there's a fine line between "I don't find it scary" and "It's not scary". The former is your opinion, and you are perfectly entitled to it. The latter, however, is an assertion of fact, and must be backed up with additional facts if it's to carry any weight. Otherwise, there's nothing stopping people from just saying "I disagree" and ignoring you. I'm not trying to be mean or anything (frankly, I don't even play FNaF, I just find the lore interesting) so I apologise in advance if I've offended you, I just wanted to clarify that.

I mean it is definitely accurate to the lore and I very much enjoy analog horror more than FNAF horror. But my biggest problem with analog horror is the "why is the spooky ship happening in this seemingly professional video"

I remember watching these high as hell with a couple of buddies and being absolutely terrified they really knocked it out of the park with these

It’s so weird to have everything explained without any outsider information. Not having the animatronics referred to with “Bonnie” and such is interesting

This is a really good adaptation of the fnaf universe that scraps the bad lore and puts all the good stuff to use.

You think it would've been the tapes themselves that scared me, but no, an add for a car got me 😞

When it comes to scaryneess i want to remind everyone that the definition of horror games, movies, books etc. has nothing to do with fear. The main criteria on wchich we categorize something as horror are disturbing impression, feeling anxious, disgusted, bothered. You don't have to be scared of frightened when you watch/play/read a horror. The same with thriller but thrillers are focused more on disturbance made by real life threats and situations, when horror is focused more on paranormal or sci-fi stuff. Horrors also could be based upon real life threats but in that case the distinction is made upon level of violence and brutallity. Horror is in this situation more brutal but only when is centered around the same reason of disturbance as thriller. When reason of upleasant feeling is different horror doesn't have to be brutal.

it was really interesting watching you figure out what is now unanimously agreed upon lore for the main FNAF series on your own, as well as using the VHS tapes to do it.

A small word of advice: most of the people that you're going to attract to a video like this are likely already fans of the game seeing as you have to have at least a rudimentary understanding of the franchise to get anything out of fnaf vhs. So condescending to them in your intro and calling them cringy is probably not a wise move. I'm not saying you have to shape your opinion around this, if the games aren't for you that's fine. But don't insult the tastes of the people who do like it since that's probably where most of your viewership on this video is gonna come from.

Personally, I find it refreshing to hear someone's unfiltered opinion about something. Feels like its taboo now to say you don't like something or that something is bad; you have to be so careful with your wording or you get mauled by a group of people who are looking for anything that they don't like worded a certain way. I feel like it goes without saying that if someone says something is bad then obviously it's their opinion, it shouldn't be necessary to start every sentence stating that its something that you think, or that its how you feel. That on top of not being able to make any definitive statements out of fear that it will offend someone who likes that thing, makes talking about anything lately so exhausting. Its good to see that it looks like the negative comments nit picking small portions of your video haven't gotten you down, and you're continuing to put out some comparatively engaging stuff for how small your channel is.

I don't think bashing the game many people love and calling them "humiliating" is a very clever move to try and reel in those who have an interest in this series. After all, 90% of the fanbase of the VHS tapes are directly from the FNAF series, and showing your clear distain for the franchise is a piss-poor way to start an analysis video and could lead to some believing your criticisms are in bad faith :/

I’m not sure what scares me more, the analog VHS videos or the games. Both have struck true horror and fear in my heart. The games kind of stick to you, I sometimes can’t stop thinking about it. I like the lore and the hidden details, it made the game series so much more interesting then regular games I was used to. As for the VHS series, For me it is like a nightmare I sometimes remember but want to forget.

No shade on you cuz I really can’t blame you for your opinion but the fnaf vhs tapes are a recount of the story of fnaf so when they said it’s about the story this is what they meant.

18:22 he will look different, he will have turned himself into a pickle, it will be the funniest shit you’ve ever seen.

the games were always terrifying for me, lore or no lore. the character desings (at least up until fnaf 4) are totally brilliant and effective.

It feels so weird seeing somebody review a fnaf thing and not know who the purple guy is

its almost refreshing to see the perspective of someone who doesnt know anything in the lore watching this series and liking it. the fact that you also got most of it right just shows how good this series is at portraing the story

"So you better put it back Michael. *As neatly as you can...* And start running..." FUCKING GOD, that horrifying mix of calm, and contempt, and malice, and confidence. It's enough to chill you to the fucking bones. To the soul. It makes hearing him suffer actually reassuring.

I love the fact that you don't know the lore but you guess it for this tapes have a HUGE weight on the story

I like watching a stranger to the FNaF universe explaining the tapes. It offers a whole new perspective to our story.

Also I just wanted to say, I'm so happy I found your channel so early. You're giving real top quality content, and I know you're going to make it if you keep it up.

Watching someone who isn’t familiar with the fnaf lore figure it out in this way was so refreshing after all the game theories and dabbing Chicas

William: "I'll give you the warmest welcome." Michael: *uno reverse*

i’m sorry he did not just call the puppet “some elongated mime creature” 😭😭😭

If you’re wondering what happened in the incident between Michael and his brother was that his brother literally had his frontal lobe eaten by the Fredbear animatronic

a bit off-topic from the video, but, i'm super thankful for the sqimpus tapes for introducing me to analog horror. without them, i wouldn't be into stuff like; the walten files, mandela catalogue, monument mythos (that series sorta counts as analog horror so,) etc. and a few other series im too lazy to list off. (and literally the only reason i found the whole fnaf vhs genre was because i watched reactions to them, specifically by dawko and 8bitryan. the reason for that is because despite my love of horror i still need some sort of hand to hold when watching horror stuff cuz im a little baby).

your channel feels like the early days of horror youtube essays 😭it takes me back to when I was a teenager and I'd stay up until 5-6am scaring myself with longform content 😭😭

I wish the story explained charlie and Henry a little more. The series was extremely well put together

I like when he makes a mistake he quickly says “cut” and forgets to cut it out

You know it’s scary when it activates your flight or fight response

I hope this series keeps going along with the progression of the games. By now, it seems to stay very loyal to the main lore, only adding some headcanons like the haunted chica and bonnie talking to each other and all. Either way, I really like this analysis, and I'm really happy I found this channel still being so "small", compared to others that cover these things! I hope you keep this up, the vid is pretty good. I would recommend checking out some ARGs, you seem pretty fit to cover those. Like for example, Flesh Pit National Park! It's not much of a game on itself, but it's some pretty interesting cosmic horror that's covered mostly in posters and things.

watching this dude explain feels like fnaf just dropped.so refreshing.

This is actually very informative and interesting to hear opinions from a outside source, always glad to see more love for Squimus tapes

The foxy tape honestly is my favourite as 1. It's insanely eerie to watch and 2. It's based off the Foxy GO GO GO secret minigame from fnaf 2 which could play at random after dying or starting a new night, the underlying minigame well correlated with the tape and honestly, Squimpus did amazing with these tapes

The fact that Angie (Chica) was six years old when she died is probably the saddest part of this whole series

24:54 Had a defensive weapon ready, and was ready to quit after almost dying. I think we found the most competent man in all of Fazbears.

It's crazy to think some people aren't well versed and deep into fnaf lore, feels like at this point everyone I interact know most of the lore. Great video, it was nice hearing a new perspective 👍

The whole criminal scene with Afton’s face slowly coming into view is one of the most iconic analog horror scenes

It's really cool to get a tour of these tapes from a perspective of someone not familiar with the lore of the series, and as someone who is it's great to get the little references to the lore and see how the tapes tell the story so concisely.

This VHS series is THE reason why I love FNAF now. It's legitimately creepy with a tragic mystery to solve, and William Afton is actually scary here; I can actually picture someone like him existing in real life. If the FNAF movie is anything near this level of creepiness, I think it's in good hands.

Small note, the audio seemed a little low. Even then, awesome video. I was super surprised you only had 2k followers

i aint even gonna lie, these descriptions of the animatronics and purple guy and the puppet are so funny to me cause this is what people would think of the fnaf characters if they didnt care abt the lore or the game the vhs tapes reference the lore A LOT, so it would make more sense to catch up on it before actually watching said tapes sou u can get a better understanding of whats goin on here imo

I like how in Squimpus‘ interpretation of the time while William was hidden. He, even though his heart stopped is still conscious and we see a rapid decline in his mental health. And he becomes delusional. Weird is that Squimpus cut the time Will is in there in half, meaning he‘s in there for 15 years.

I really like how you came at this from the perspective of someone who knows little about the FNAF lore, yet the tapes told the story so cohesively that you were able to pretty accurately tell the lore from it.

Spring bonnie says, "For example, there was the time I got stuck In a washing machine..." Glad to see the horror series has a sense of humor>

One thing I love (/hate) is how there's this face in the dark at all times. It so terrifying. Example: 25:00 left top corner.

You know what jumpscares the most? Loud KZfaq ads in the middle of a quiet video about horror VHS...

It's bad that I literally can't take this seriously because there's so many memes in the fnaf vhs tapes alone 😭💀

29:46 I love how the music is from everywhere at the end of time.

bro going in without any prior knowledge on the lore and then getting almost all of it right is amazing and the tapes are really well made

I love the completely objective and purely analytical feel of this, without bringing in the games, it feels like I'm rediscovering the franchise again

I feel like fnaf VHS videos deeply inspired pretty much all the analog horror series on KZfaq

Don't forget about Battington. Squimpus gave him the okay to remake and continue the series.

It’s really nice to see someone who isn’t familiar with fnaf look at this series. Watching you put the puzzle pieces together on your own was weirdly refreshing, since this story is usually “common knowledge” for fnaf fans.

Things that need to be known to better Piece together what you have seen are "The Purple Happy man" also known as William Afton. The Father of Michael Afton, The person we take the roll of in this video Fred bears family Diner Was originally founded by William Afton and his Friend and Business Partner Henry Emily. The Spring lock Suits Known as "Fred Bear" and "Spring Bonnie" that were worn were dangerous because a small bit of moisture even from human breath could loosen the spring locks causing the large metallic endoskeleton to snap back into place with a human still inside effectively completely crushing every part of them. Though back to Michael. It is mentioned in the first 5 Tapes that he shall be forgiven. This is because the death of Michaels younger Brother who is currently not given a name I'm pretty sure was caused by Michael shoving his brothers head inside the Fred bear Animatronic killing him, This is known as the Bite of 1983. This is the event Michael feels guilty about It is not confirmed what happened to Michaels Brothers souls William Afton did infact cause the death of the children. ((I will now list the Victims of william in relative order) Charlotte Emily, Henrys Daughter was slaughtered by william outside Fred bears family Diner before later being possesed by what you call "The Mime" Its true name being the puppet, or Marionet. This robot is responsible for giving life to the other robots. Next William Kills 5 more kids at a Freddy's location by luring the children into a room called the safe room, that was out of view of cameras using his old Spring bonnie Suit These Children being Gabriel (Freddy), Jeremy (Bonnie), Susie (Chica), Fritz (Foxy,) and Cassidy ( Golden Freddy/Fredbear) The Puppet later in a last resort to save the children's souls put the children inside the animatronic suits in order to bond their souls with it with its own thoughts being [Give Gifts, Give Life] At this point William had formed his own company known as Afton Robotics. Leaving Henry to manage Freddy Fazbears on his own. Though soon William had tragically lost his daughter Elizabeth Afton to one of his own robots in an accident resulting in her death and Afton robotics was quickly put on pause before being turned into a robot rental service William later killed 5 more kids at a newer Freddy's location (FNaF 2) it is unknown what happened to these souls but it is assumed they possessed the toy Animatronics. The picture that caused the Toy bonnie robot to launch at the mechanic in the facial recognition video was likely a picture of william causing the suits soul to go haywire. Later A security Guard known as Jeremy Fitzgerald Is almost killed by the Mangle Animatronic causing him to lose his frontal lobe in the Bite of 1987 An Unknown amount of years later After Fazbears entertainment and Afton robotics had shut down William returned to Destroy his own creations. William returned to the abandoned Freddy's Location (FNaF 1) William dismantles all 5 robots unknowingly Releasing their souls. When William is confronted by the souls he attempts to retreat to his old spring bonnie suit. He puts on the suit, It is unknown what his objective here was. Though due to the building being old and moist, the springlocks snap on Williams body killing him instantly, or in a slow painful death whichever you think Though the puppet (and mabey Cassidy/ Golden freddy) were not content with letting william die so they "gave him a gift, gave him life." William rotted in the sealed off safe room for 30 years. The bagging heard and the voice screaming Michael. and the purple text afterwards are william Screaming for help still alive inside his rotted suit. The boarded up room in the bathroom hallway is the saferoom he is trapped in. [30 Years Later] A person only known as phone dude is on a mission to open a horror attraction based on myths from the old Freddy's location. Phone dude contacts the old owners of the resturaunts, his sources eventually leading him and his crew back to the FNaF 1 location. William now fused with the rotted spring bonnie suit now known as spring trap is uncovered by phone dude. Sprigtrap is brought back to Fazbears fright the horror attraction Michael in his long hunt for his father after his disappearance 30 years ago signs up for a job as nigh watch for Fazbears fright. Eventually after 5 Nights Fazbears Fright is burned down by Michael in his attempt to kill the abomination his father had become Though Spring trap and Michael both escaped the fire and Michaels efforts were in the end in vain... Well this has been my recounting of the First few games up until 3. I did skip over a few games like Sister location and 4 because they were not really relevant to the Tapes But if you want here is the FNaF games in order FNaF 4 ---- FNaF Sister Location --- FNaF 2 ---- FNaF 1 ---- FNaF 3 ---- FNaF Pizzeria simulator --- FNaF Ultimate Custom Night --- FNaF VR ---- FNaF Security Breach Please Tell me If I missed anything I was quite Low on sleep when I wrote this

This whole video sounds like it’s from someone who has never looked into FNaF lore before. It feels weird

To be honest when most of us think the actual game is not scary, the vhs is a something that might be disturbing or gets you to have a bad feeling

The fnaf vhs tapes are a perfect combination of staying true to your source material while also being your own entity. Especially in the way William Afton is written. While we don’t know much about him in the games, this series does a wonderful job of imagining what he would be like. As a fnaf fan myself, I especially liked all the callbacks and references to the source material. A 10/10 series for fnaf fans and casual viewers alike

Most of it feels like it's trying way too hard but there are parts that actually kinda creep me out. That 'criminal' scene is scary as hell and the bird in the snow thing is really unsettling just having those eyes looking directly at you not knowing the intent of the stare. I'd still only give it about a 7/10 just because I feel like the first half is so boring and not just boring in the sense of not being interesting but in the sense that it tries so hard to be scary to the point of just doing too much. The ideal analog horror to me is subtle build up but the first half of this just does lazy jumpscares and robot voices. The second half brings the narrative up and mellows down on the horror choosing to instead make the audience peice together the things that actually make the story scary overall making the final product an actually creepy series.

It feels weird to watch this knowing almost all of the secrets of fnaf and seeing him try to figure it out

Okay so I watch a lot of these type of videos but this is literally the only one where I have actually gone to the original videos because you were so convincing. While I don’t know literally anything about FNAF so a lot of stuff was…. Confusing at best, it was still fun! Unrelated, and I’m sure you know this, but the volume makes this a little hard to watch and I’m glad you haven’t had this issue in newer videos!

Elongated mime creature, old yellow bear and happy man are my favorite FNaF 2 characters

22:32 don't know if it was pointed out before but when we see Fredbear (the spring lock animatronic bear) the transition to show blood would be the bite that happened in FNAF 4s ending

I like how half of these comments is just mfs who’s mad about what you said about the fanbase. Sure, most of them is hella creative in some aspects, but y’all gotta know that the ones who make y’all look bad is the loudest ones

It was fun watching someone who doesn't know about the fnaf lore react, as someone who does know. I liked watching it all piece together when it was clear to me what was happening from the start.

i love these sorts of videos man when i watch them alone i feel so uneasy but having you talk between clips makes me feel like im not alone,,

this dude just solved the fnaf lore without even knowing the fnaf lore lmao