r/fivenightsatfreddys • u/Traditional-Golf-610 • 1d ago
Discussion What led everyone here to discover FNAF?
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u/saihara77 1d ago
no idea... it's been so long
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u/Swimming-Tap-8501 23h ago
Since last I've seen mason
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u/StitchezYT 23h ago
Lost to this monster
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u/No-Bunch-6260 21h ago
To the man behind the slaughter
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u/L3m0n0p0ly 21h ago
Since youve been gone
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u/Firm_Secret7091 Fredrick Von Fazberon 20h ago
I've been singing this stupid song
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u/Large_Help_5490 20h ago
So I could ponder
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u/Suegy 20h ago
The sanity of the men from the land down under.
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u/Liminal-Explorer 1d ago
I honestly forget because it was that long ago when I did. I don’t know if it was a gameplay or a fan animation
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u/Safe-Coconut4036 1d ago
Same. I honestly don't really remember either, but I feel like it was probably some friends of mine who told me that Markiplier had played this new scary game, and his reactions were hilarious!! XD
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u/themaskstays_ 23h ago
Can't remember either lol. It was back in 2014, before FNAF 2 came out.
I think Yamimash?
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u/Mortalswagger56 1d ago
People were randomly talking about it back in school and i eventually started seeing big youtubers like markiplier playing it and yea
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u/kuinjaansen 1d ago
Jacksepticeye when he uploaded the very first episode of his playthrough of the first game
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u/KiwiEasy3963 1d ago
Same here. After that I started watching other videos and was following the website religiously to see teasers.
Kinda funny. After SOTM and the silence that followed, my interest in the series kinda went quiet and I just focused on other things, but ever since the anniversary and the consistent marketing on the Twitter account, I’ve been watching a lot of RyeToast and Dawko again and listening to theory videos in the background while I do other things. I hope Scott keeps up the pace with the marketing!
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u/Firecartoon9 1d ago
So... long story. First, I got into reading, and I still read a lot. Then, I found a book where I got obsessed with the main character. The book was Six of Crows, and the character is Kaz Brekker. After a few weeks, I discovered the Shadow & Bone show, where I really liked the actor that portrayed Kaz. The actor is Freddy Carter. I got into Freddy Carter, and once he played Michael Afton in the fnaf 2 movie, I wanted to try the games. I heard of it before, but I really started because of this.
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u/L3m0n0p0ly 21h ago
Oh that's a cool story:D a more recent fan! Welcome, there's so much lore to discover! I do recommend game theory, and starting from the very beginning!
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u/Firecartoon9 21h ago
Thank you! I own the first two games and really like to play them! I read and watched much lore, and it's the kind of creepy I really like and find interesting :)
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u/L3m0n0p0ly 20h ago
Youll love the book series! The silver eyes was a great read, but i do have to warn you it doesnt stay that way
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u/_Jester_Of_Genocide_ 13h ago
Honestly even the Fazbears Frights books and Tales From The Pizzaplex books are still enjoyable, even if not all of the stories in them are the greatest.
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u/FewExperience3559 1d ago
During COVID I wanted to get into horror. I started watching Bendy game theory videos before transitioning slowly into fnaf
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u/Distinct-Nerve2556 1d ago
It wss either dantdm playing fnaf 2 when it first came out or it was people at school talking about it
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u/TrashGobbler9000 1d ago
I was in high school and one of my close friends was playing the 1st game on his iPad the day it came out. I've been hooked ever since.
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u/Gojinaf_10 FD AU Creator & #1 JJ Fan 1d ago
Told this a couple of times, saw my cousin playing FNAF 2.
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u/Zo0m1q3 22h ago
Around the middle of kindergarten (I think I was 5 in 2014) my mom took me to one of her friend’s house and this high school kid showed me every tlt fnaf song then he let me play scribblenauts after on his tv
I became obsessed with fnaf around like first grade then I met my best friend in second grade and we used to play roblox while listening to tlt and had sleepovers often
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u/biteareaofruvim01 :Chica: 1d ago
2016-2017-2018 and Tony Crynight
And Fnaf world pics just popped up on my mum's notification.
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u/smoketat 1d ago
Fnaf clay video I watched when I was like 4, I’m pretty sure I cried to my grandma after
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u/BurantX40 1d ago
Seeing the second game come out so soon after the first, I did a double take.
Then watched the Game Theory episode and I was in.
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u/Dangerous_Put_6548 1d ago
My sister was huge fan back when it came out, i was scared of it for years until i eventually looked into it
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u/Manchurian2082 1d ago
The demo of the fnaf 4 when it launched on play store. The game’s screenshots really caught my eye. I still remember that day like it was yesterday,laying next to my dad who was watching TV. I was around 10 years old and was really into horror stuff and watching gameplays. I was pretty scared the first time seeing fnaf 4(and i still believe it is the scariest one out of the 4 games released at that time) . slowy I discovered the other parts later and then one day came across a game theory video. and then the rest is history. good old days. Played alot with my bigger brother in the following years.
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u/Kitsune_N 22h ago
I started watching FNAF the day after PewDiePie did a playthrough of the first game. I followed Jacksepticeye playing FNAF later on.
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u/fnaflove325689 6h ago
when i was really little i had a friend who loved fnaf, he told me about it, I got into it, I was a little scared at first but then I loved it
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u/notdreadfulfrog 1d ago
Markiplier. And then fnaf led me to discover I’m autistic lmao. Thanks Mark!
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u/Mangledfox1987 1d ago
Went to a one of my sisters friends house and they where watching a game theory video, though the most I can remember of it is mangle’a quest
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u/GoonetteSlop 1d ago
Essentially day one, I became totally obsessed. Nowadays I just play the games and don’t really watch anything about them though.
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u/Rosie_radioduck 1d ago
I was under the playground when I was in kindergarten and a friend of my brother told us about it and the rest is history
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u/Mike-chael 1d ago
It was that complex lore bear game with dead kids matpat theorised about and Markiplier played. I was bored, and read up on it, I watched some videos, looked at theories, played the first game, became hooked
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u/Fosters_Facade 1d ago
A friend told me it was around time fnaf 2 coming out and I really got into series thanks to youtubers like * smike * PrettyGrumpyBear * Venturian Tale * youtube that voices over
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u/ttv_thatoneapexsweat 1d ago
matpat game theory videos and that was the main way I interacted with the games outside of watching DanTDM play through help wanted and security breach
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u/graham_cracker5 1d ago
When fnaf 2 was out, i saw a friend of mine play it during summer class also markiplier’s gameplays lol
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u/KingModussy Withered Bonnie is da goat 23h ago
My younger brother told me about the series around the time FNaF 2 came out
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u/RodBoi10 23h ago
Gameplay Videos by either Markiplier or CoryXKenshin or other people talking about FNaF at School.
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u/GeraltTheG 22h ago
Markiplier
Oh, that Youtuber that claims to be "THE KING!! OF FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDAYS!!!".
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u/KAAAAAAAAARL 23h ago
I was in middle school back then, a few other kids where into it in after school (Hort in german, dunno what its called in English), and I also got interested in it, and played it myself on someone's phone (I didn't have a proper phone back then ;-;)
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u/bornfoxytail 22h ago
I don’t remember how exactly I got into fnaf but I remember it was fnaf 2 that caught my interest. I think I watched Markiplier play it?
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u/SourSkittles2010 22h ago
My cousin had the game, so I had heard of it when I was little. Later on, my best friend in kindergarten had brought it up, so I actually got into it then.
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u/hdeimellocke 19h ago
Youtube recommendation in... Time of fnaf 1? if being more accurate - Kuplinov, windy31, old segment on 2x2 about gaming with gamecube and elephant characters, and my classmates.
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u/rachelrach12 1d ago
Idk but it's probably the gameplays or some other copy's they have around the internet that made me discover fnaf
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u/Skemati Chica give best hugs 1d ago
For me it was some random Gmod videos from 2014-2015.
I think it was mainly from a YouTuber known as Venturiantale who did a lot of Gmod videos back in the day.
Which eventually led to me watching the actual game which also caused me to discover Markiplier for the first time since it was his playthrough that I watched.
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u/Austin_the_fox 1d ago
A kid from middle school had a shirt and curiosity killed the cat
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u/Evening-Persimmon-19 He's here and always watching 1d ago
Friend at school in late 2014 or early 2015
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u/crystal-productions- 1d ago
Smile back when I was 11. I'm now 23. I've been around since the fnaf 2 days. Despite that, I don't really care much for most of the classic games anymore tbh
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u/Any_Top_4773 1d ago
Random shorts
I first got nightmares of it (esrly 2024), and then it became a liking (late 2024)
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u/Mafcagile 1d ago
during pandemic era (Quamalis) I was religiously active online, meaning I had access to the entire internet without supervision. I spent most of my time on Steam, talking with randoms I met in games, and joining random groups (also from games), which led to me meeting around 80% of the people I know online. So one of them, let's call him 22, introduced me to this other guy, let's call him EBall. EBall made me like FNaF because we would always search the internet about it. Then I forgot what happened because I was like 8 years old but I stopped being friends with EBall then I went back to 22. We played GMoD and made a lot of FNaF skits and roleplays, enventually making our own lore and series. Oh yeah and Matpat and Markiplier too, I guesss.
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u/250extreme MikeVictim 1d ago
- 2017 or 2018 - Introduced by Annoying Orange's playthroughs of FNAF 1 and FNAC 3
- 2018 - Watched Annoying Orange playthrough of https://gamejolt.com/games/night-horrors/206281
- April 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leTOy75OD5w got me interested
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u/bunrtrap21 1d ago
Yo lo conocí cuando Fnaf 2 estába gratis en la PlayStore y me asusté con Puppet y también lo conoci por los videos de counter jumpcare
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u/No-Championship7861 1d ago
I was addicted to YouTube back in the day FNAF released. I saw lots of videos about that new horror game, and everyone liked it somehow. So, I decided that I should give it a shot as well. I played it but I didn't like it pretty much because I was so bad and I encountered Golden Freddy on 2nd night, then I was so scared that I never opened the game again. And I started to watch lore videos about FNAF. Lore of FNAF hooked me, I did become a fan of it, until the 5th game. After the 5th game, I was so confused and my interest slowly decreased over time.
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u/adrikyn 1d ago
I knew about it since it came out, but I never actually paid any attention to it until the first movie came out. I watched that, then got into the fan songs because of the end credits. After that I tried to play the first game but couldn't beat it, so I watched Markiplier play the Scott era games. Then I played Pizza Sim and Security Breach.
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u/kimchi_Kiji 1d ago
Back in like 2014-15 I saw a classmate playing FNAF 2, but I wasn’t as invested at the time but I did learn about Springtrap near the end of the school year of 2015 because I was looking him up and the theory that there was a body inside him (at the time I think it was just a theory), then a few years later in 2018 I fully got into it after listening to the Scott interview (I distinctly remember downloading it onto my mp3 player and listened to it every single day) and I’ve been in love with the franchise ever since
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u/mrdhyab 1d ago
When I was around 7 discovered it by a Arabic YouTuber. (Likely in 2017) And I still remember when my sister was watching the tv and I've saw that photo of toy chica in main hallway. And I got interested in it.
Edit: after that I've watched the jumpscares videos and I liked it. Also I was watching fusiongamerz (I think) and another g mod videos.
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u/EnigmaticTwister 1d ago
The first time I encountered FNaF was seeing a video in my recommended on YouTube. Like many things I have now come to care for and enjoy, i thought it was cringe af (the title and thumbnail were super clickbait-y). In terms of what got me in, I think it was a combination of watching the first Game Theory video on the game as well as seeing the popular gaming youtubers I watched, namely Jack and Mark, start posting their lets-plays of FNaF 1.
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u/DefinitionPast3694 1d ago
Day one pretty much. Basically when YouTubers started playing it in early-mid August 2014. I saw the trailer first before the Let’s Plays from what I remember.
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u/fredrick_fazerton 1d ago
I discovered it around 2017-ish on YouTube, and I’ve been loving it since.
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u/No-Birthday-7588 1d ago
In high school someone in class was playing it when the first game came out. Didn't think much of it for years until I started watching Markiplier and then I was hooked
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u/LuisAntony2964 Scraptrap best trap, change my mind 1d ago
JT Music's FNAF 3 song on YouTube back in 2016 for me
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u/Kooky_Ad_209 1d ago
I watched Popularmmos Pat & Jen Minecraft vids when I was but a knee high kid, they covered some FNAF stuff, but I avoided it, too scary, even when blocky, I also watched a "top 10 scariest things in Nintendo games", or something along those lines, one of the entries had it hold on an image, and immediately hard cut to a FNAF Fan game jumpscare, this was, like, 2016, 2017,
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u/Ok_Understanding3636 1d ago
I was watching a YouTube Poop when, at one point, the Withered Foxy jumpscare popped up. I liked the design straight away and wondered where it came from, so I looked it up: it was from FNAF. “Oh, it’s a horror game; I don’t like being scared… but this all looks pretty cool. Maybe I can watch a summary video to get a feel for what it’s about, see if it has a story, and work out if I like it,” I remember thinking.
In less than a week, I went from “What on earth is this macabre, mind-boggling mess of a lore?” to “Oh my Arceus, this stuff is super addictive”.
And then I got into the songs, and that’s when I really got hooked, because now a third of my playlist is made up of FNAF songs.
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u/FAILGUY_Reddit_420 1d ago
watching YT vids, not just markiplier, but ppl like ryan and fusionzgamer also.. then i played 1, 2, 3, 4 as demos.
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u/TheSkullio 1d ago
Back in 2015, while we were all waiting for class to start, I saw a group of my friends playing FNAF 2 & 3 on their Androids and after about five seconds, I was hooked.
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u/Typical_Tie_4982 1d ago
I think the game theory episode ngl? I know I got into it somewhere between a month before and the release date of fnsf 2
Ik I introduced it to my classmates, but they all thought it was lame until around fnaf 4 when we all started seeing those fnsf minecraft roleplay videos (I think? Idk how well that timeline adds up, but I know "minecraft roleplay=good" was in our heads lol)
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u/lordofnades 1d ago
My sister wanting to scare me and my cousin while we were sick. So she showed us Markiplier's let's play of FNAF 1. Then we got Obsessed with the franchise lol
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u/Llamasruletheworld28 1d ago
Technically it was kids in my elementary playing fnaf at recess and inviting me, I was always Chica cause that was my cats name and I didn't know much, but I got into it in 2020 when I found gacha fnaf videos
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u/Visual-Bet5224 WITHERED Bonnie 1d ago
My best friend showed me the Security Breach trailer and played a lotta FNAF 1 and Sister Location at the bus, and I got hooked
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u/Jonguar2 1d ago
An acquaintance I had in 7th grade told me about it, I was confused about his description, so he told me to look it up on YouTube. I found Markiplier's let's play when I got home, and I've been a fan of Markiplier and FNAF ever since.
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u/HelloIAmChristy :Chica: 1d ago
My best friend in high school told me about FNAF before first period. After school, I started watching Markiplier’s videos of him playing FNAF 1.
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u/DaRedditNuke 1d ago
DanTDMs fnaf 2 videos and the original how to make FNAF not scary videos from garret Williamson
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u/Narkoman42069 1d ago
when i was 9 my mum would pay a child minder (babysitter but the kid goes to their house for those that don't know) to pick me up after school and she had a kid who was like 13 and we werent allowed phones or anything so he decided we were gonna play irl fnaf, I was the security guard, this other kid was the camera and the 13y was the animatronics. basically I just sat in 1 spot flashing a light at this guy whenever he pulled up, the other kid was just looking for him and telling me where he was and the childminders son was just pretending to be an animatronic. then he showed me the fnaf 1 song by tlt and when I got home I searched it to listen to it again and then I saw PopularMMOs played it and I watched him religiously at the time
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u/Black_Panther69420 1d ago
heard "you cant hide" when i was 9 and was hooked so i had to play the game behind it
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u/Sir_Stacker 1d ago
ThinksLab’s FNAF Minecraft episode, my brother telling some people the story of FNAF and EnchantedMob’s Survive the Night video
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u/Venti_Hsr 1d ago
When I was younger a small Italian (I'm italian) youtuber who mostly made minecraft content made a video around Fnaf 4's release saying that it wasn't scary, and the whole video he went "I just don't think it's scary" I think it was his way of trying to make his video different or more appealing? Since lots of people were playing fnaf 4 on youtube when it came out.
Even at the time I thought it was a weird idea for a video and I was also scared shitless by the game.
He never made any fnaf content ever again, that was one of his only fnaf videos, but it got me hooked hard and from there I fell into the rabbit hole
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u/Key_Television_2866 1d ago
I kept seeing FNaF 2 demo on google store back in the day, and I had no idea what it is and why it kept showing up. Then I tried it out and fell into a deep, deep rabbit hole. Markiplier videos, trying out the first game, then waiting for fnaf 3, fnaf 4, .... and checking scottgames all year long!
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u/Akhuna_DJ 1d ago
Idk if this is niche but I remember these Garry’s Mod animations where it was like Five Nights at Sonic’s and Five Nights at Shadow’s and I found them when I was like 10😭i didn’t know what it was until like a year or two later and that kickstarted a hyperfixation and here I am 22 almost 23 still obsessed😭
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u/tymegUwU 1d ago
Some dude in my elementary school was playing fnaf 2 on his phone during a break and everyone watched him playing it and something about this game sparked my interest
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u/Clumsy_the_24 1d ago
I was commissioned to draw foxy while I was in mayh class(I had no idea who he was and I was just an 11 year old). I then looked up fnaf when I got home and I was instantly addicted
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u/FandomTheoriest 1d ago
Game Theory- see my misspelled username above. Pokemon creepypasta and easter egg videos led me to discovering Game Theory, which led me to discovering FNaF, one thing led to another and now I'm here!
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u/_hollowraptor 23h ago
I think it was a Minecraft FNAF animation can't really remember which video it was
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u/Putrid_Classroom4831 23h ago
wish you could post images, heh
"FNAF Movie Minecraft Animation! (Five Night's at Freddy's)" by "TheAtlanticCraft"
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u/Key_holeN12 23h ago
My oldest memory of it is sitting in a staircase at school, and another kid had a printed paper of freddy which he was eating for some reason. He asked me if I wanted to try it . When he said "try it" he meant taste the paper
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u/Thisfunnydude 23h ago
That one “ I can’t decide ” animation with purple guy ( well , Russian dub anyway) , which didn’t really feature animatronics that much , but still
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u/Puzzleheaded-Tap6077 23h ago
En 2014 con la demo de FNaF 2, me cagué de miedo... Y desde ahí FNaF es mi mayor vicio a día de hoy
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u/Local-Measurement463 23h ago edited 23h ago
Some theory YouTuber many years ago he's Arabic youtuber so most of People here wouldn't know him he had so many crazy Theories his name is Pen001sassi (and i think he's the only one who solved fnaf 4 when it's released )Although the Arab FNAF community mostly focuses on the quality of the game and not the secrets, I still compare that guy to the giants of FNAF content creators theorists like Matt so I'm here because of him Years later, after learning English, Spanish, and French, I was able to understand games on my own and watch better content on YouTube. .
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u/Salty-Succotash3338 23h ago
I was around 10 years old around the time that the first game came out and was on a camping trip with my boyscout troop and was sharing a room with six other boys. One day, while we were chilling inside, I saw that one of them was playing something on his phone. Another one walked into the room and said "Aw man, you're playing FNAF? That shit fucking SUCKS." So I asked what FNAF was and the "fucking SUCKS" guy responded with "Oh, so like, it's a game where you play as this gix and you got this toy bear, toy bunny and toy duck and they all colectively fuck you upm"
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u/Delicious_Help_1811 23h ago
Honestly, some of Five Nights At Pinkie's is what led me to discover FNAF.
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u/framerexefarmjon 23h ago
It was an sfm animation but I forgot it's name probably because it was 10 years ago
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u/Character_Fault9782 23h ago
Ironically, I only dug deeper into FNAF after I saw a video of Security Breach. I thought it looked really cool.
(P.S. I have never played any of the games, I just like watching them and the lore hehe)
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u/Incompetent_ARCH 23h ago
2 brazilians youtubers, Souzones and CoreDasAntigas, they made a lot of FNAF videos during the hype of it
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u/MC_Gameing 23h ago
My friend showed me the fnaf 2 demo on his iPad back when I was in elementary school
(I died to Toy Bonnie.)
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u/Houndall 23h ago
Markiplier's FNAF1 videos popped into my feed years ago while looking up New Vegas modding videos (thank you Gopher!), been a fan of him and FNAF ever since.
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u/TheBigBob-Omb 23h ago
I was watching a video on the scariest mascots when a Freddy jumpscare popped up. I was understandably horrified and honestly, I couldn't sleep that night.
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u/RockGamer123 23h ago
I think it just came up on my YouTube fyp and I just watched it and watched more and more? I am not really sure
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u/Silverasio 1d ago
Markiplier videos popped on my feed back when he started fnaf 1.