Hello, I'm BlackfootFerret! In this channel you'll find my theories about FNAF, Steven Universe, and whatever else I come across along the way. I have a deep appreciation for music and art, and an OCD obsession with finding The Truth. My videos take a while to research and edit, but I aim to make "The Ferret Theory" a cultural experience worthy of the source material.
I just solved something.There were five victims of course , but in fnaf world there 7 head stones and what fnaf pizzeria simulator shows is 6 grave stones while watching 8bitgameing about the heads in the back and i counted and it equals 7 what do this could mean where there 7 victims
Literally every theorist I know makes this mistake so I want you to hear this. The FNAF shifts are 12AM-6AM. The Dayshift that happens prior is actually the previous dates dayshift. The dayshift on the same date as the Nightshift would happen after it. Why does this matter? Because Phone Guy says the party is 'tomorrow' and the building is closed 'today'. Tomorrow isn't later that day, it's already past midnight, it's the 13th during Night 6. Tomorrow would be the Dayshift on the 14th(there is no Dayshift on the 13th, building is closed). Which means the Bite happens AFTER Fritz Smith's Night 7 shift, a couple hours after. Which means it happens AFTER Fritz Smith(who most people believe is Micheal Afton) tampered with all the animatronics and cranked them up to 20 mode. Which means that's what caused the bite. So that's, what, 2 bites that are his fault now? Who's counting?
I’ll have to carefully listen to the tape again, but if Phone Guy says tomorrow you have a point. Regardless, the Bite of ‘87 must be after Phone Guy’s last call, and before the building closes entirely. Everyone is accounted for, except Jeremy.
@@BlackfootFerret My point was the thing about the party happening on a day the place should have been closed isn't valid, neither is the thing about Fritz being there on a night that should be impossible. Night 7 is the morning before the bite. This also changes the implication of fault. If it's on a day where the place is closed and there's no explanation, Phone Guy looks suspicious as heck. But if it's the day after, that's less odd, and now we have a reason in the form of Fritz Smith setting everything to 20 just a few hours prior. "We have one more event scheduled for tomorrow, a birthday." It's already after midnight when this is said. So this has to be scheduled for the 14th, right after Night 7's shift.
@@BlackfootFerret Do you still think Jeremy is an Afton and gets turned into an animatronic? The plot hole that indicated he was one is fixed by the stuff Darko pointed out(the party is no longer on a day the place is closed) and if Mike caused it during the custom night that’s now a clean narrative reason for it. In his efforts to fix things he’s caused yet a second incident, making things worse. Also, both in real life, Christian beliefs, the beliefs from Boseman, and FNAF stuff the frontal lobe holding the soul or consciousness isn’t really a thing. I get why that made sense way back in FNAF 2, but everything else in that old theory you no longer believe and some of the evidence was a bit weak. And now Jeremy has a role in the story, there’s increasing evidence he’s both Cassie’s dad and possibly even Help Wanted Jeremy. He has a motive and a role to play. And besides, every story needs an outsider. An Adrian Shepherd, a Frisk, someone who’s just as blind to everything else as the audience. And in the classic era, where it’s seemingly always Mike, there’s only one guy who fits the role.
@@kalkuttadrop6371 Please understand I've been learning more about FNAF constantly over the last 10 years, and my videos and theories have evolved in real time, and continue to do so even today. While The Summer Paradox -- the theory the FNAF 2 Night 1 is from Summer 1983 - is start part of my modern model, many other things in this video are obsolete. My most accurate video currently is the Timeline Speedrun, which attempts to explain both the timeline and the story in 82 minutes: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BE0rLSSQC1k.html I'm making the FNAF Wiki version of this as we speak which should be even more focused, but will take a while to build all the relevant pages to make the video. I believe "Jeremy Fitzgerald" is a fake name used by Michael Afton, the younger brother, and the impossible FNAF 4 bite is a result of two closet versions of him (ie, Charlie's Four Closet system from the novels) both getting bitten in '83 and '87 and sharing their memories into one combined scene.
I'm basically doing a full reboot of my videos at this time, starting over with the FNAF Wiki. Trying to express everything I've learned about FNAF in a single video is basically impossible, and borderline incoherent, so I'm switching to a new format and using the videos to highlight each chapter.
6:26 How do you even mistake their sprites?- Micheal is dark-maroon purple like a squished grape. William is the stereotypical shade of purple. Micheal has pants, William needs to learn to put some clothes on- anyways, he apparently forgot his dentures or smth cause he got no teeth, while Micheal does have some. William is standing like an alpha on TikTok live doing a thirst trap while Micheal is leaning down looking at his grippers as if he wants to eat them like cherry tomatoes.
I feel now more than ever, with FNAF in a chaotic state with Matpat gone and Scott dealing with the Talbert hoax, that it might be a good idea to take a step back and do a reflection video on something where we know the right and wrong answers. Steven Universe. We know where the show ended up. We know what did and didn’t happen. We know what’s in the text as fact when it was all over. I very much enjoyed your monologue regarding it in the Afton Horcruxes video. You were prepared for the twist in a way most weren’t. But, and this is being critical as a fan… at the time you were riding the high just a bit too much. The video exactly a ‘total success’ and ‘proven correct.’ That’s a bit over generous. I’d argue the video is somewhere roughly in the 40%-40%-20% bucket, maybe 45%-45%-10%. You got a little under half bang on completely correct, in a way no one else did. You got a little under half completely and utterly wrong and were not on the right page. And there’s a small chunk that’s a little of both. Maybe the right conclusions with wrong evidence or circumstances? Or the right evidence taken in the wrong way due to a reading clues that didn’t exist? You absolutely deserve a victory lap for the entire first 10 minutes of the video. It’s 100% correct and could have saved the community a ton of strife. You can talk about how your methods lead to you coming to the correct ideas when so many others missed it. But, then you’d discuss the things you got wrong. And more importantly, why you think you did? Why didn’t you go straight to Pink Diamond IS Rose, straight up, and instead think power absorption was going on? Why assume floating meant a sapphire had been absorbed when it was simply a Diamond power we hadn’t seen yet outside of Steven/Pink. Why assume diamonds were held to the same shape shifting restrictions? Why take the events of Answer(being told by a biased source) as 100% fact and then assume Sapphire no longer being able to 100% predict the future was because of Rose having future powers(when in actuality it’s because Homeworld is so vigid and predictable there’s little room for variable, while the Earth idealized rebels broke the mold and so does just being on Earth). Or what you called fandom mindsets. Everyone in the SU fandom was solidly against Rose being Pink and had their own vision of her arc in their mind. You broke free of that, and saw the truth behind the specks. But… another extremely sweeping fandom mindset was that the Diamonds would have to be beaten by force and that Steven would soon cure the corrupted gems and get their help. This guided your conclusions as to the story’s direction. Unfortunately this time you fell into the fandom trap and it was wrong. The diamonds were reasoned with. Blue almost immediately and Yellow after getting her ship wrecked. Took less than 15 minutes. That was incorrect, though you were hardly alone here. Same with Sneeple being a thing that either fought or created the gems. Very popular among fans, turned out to not be true. Those mistakes were ones everyone was making, as apposed to stuff like Rose absorbing gems which was your thing and kind of leaned a bit too hard on the FNAF influence. That also might be a good set of things to discuss. In the ‘to be fair’ side of things, Steven Universe was not being run well behind the scenes. Infighting was a problem. There are numerous stories of writers trying to hijack things. Is it really you, and the community at larges fault for assuming the Diamonds had to be defeated with force and perhaps a whole rebel army when you had no real way of knowing half the clues were invalid and the result of writers and artists taking things in their own direction? That leads into the final inverse. How does one look at a story? Not every story with a mystery in it is a full blown mystery story per se, and not every mystery story is quite on the same tier. Full blown mystery stories where EVERYTHING ties into the lore absolutely exist. See Twin Peaks, FNAF, point and click detective games. But you’ve also got stuff like Gravity Falls and Deltarune, where the mystery is prominent, perhaps central, but its control isn’t total. Character and Comedy have their time to shine, and while they often overlap, this is not total. There are character moments in Gravity Falls that have nothing to do with the mystery and just exist to deepen the characters. There are moments in Deltarune that are just jokes or Toby Fox referencing his older works. That is perfectly allowed. Steven Universe I’d argue had two central mysteries. The S1 reveal of Garnet that was built up all season, and the S5 reveal of Pink Diamond that was mainly built up in S4 and S5, with smaller more sporadic hints earlier. These were not the full focus of the show, not even on a Gravity Falls level. S2 especially had basically no known major mystery to the fandom, it was about Peridot’s character arc and the cluster story. The problem is you need to adjust the size of your comb to the detail level of the work. Assuming everything is intentional and planned works great for Scott Cawthom and David Lynch. But the less and less central and dominating the mystery is, the more stuff there will be that isn’t for that. Gravity Falls even being mostly centralized to the mystery still occasionally had fans go down wild goose chases for things with no intent behind them. (Such as the NFPA 704 debacle). Steven Universe was even less centralized than Gravity Falls. One must perhaps ask themselves if the information they’re looking at is a clue to the mystery, a character development moment, a reference, or a comedic moment. This was further effected by the fact Steven Universe even moreso than Gravity Falls had a ton of different staff coming in and out. The series lasted over 150 episodes, artists and writers came and went, people with different ideas leaving and entering. This ALWAYs happens on large projects with this many people. To expect a Cawthon level of consistency would be impossible. Even David Lynch had things in Twin Peaks not always go to plan. If he can’t do it, Rebecca Sugar couldn’t. Especially since she had a notably hands off approach as usually joked about with the character scaling, but this lead to the issues of writers deviating that was brought up earlier. The fine toothed comb approach worked fantastically when you were sluezing in water with those gold nuggets, but when you strayed away from that things went awry. In the end, we all have bias. No one can get rid of them all. You came in willing to look at Pink Diamond and Steven’s powers with fresh eyes, and found patterns no one else had. But you also came in with bias from being neck deep in FNAF theorizing, and brought over tactics not built for a less mystery centered far less controlled and top down series like Steven Universe. The rules of the game are not quite the same. Rebecca Sugar never had a total monopoly on the series, that wasn’t her style for better and for worse. Outside of the core cast many writers especially earlier on had zero clue where the story was going. Pilot era lore that was abandoned and retconned showed up in S1A. Hints about the diamonds were invalid due to writers inventing them. Assuming everything meant something and every clue could genuinely be trusted was not the entirely right approach for a big series that lasted years with hundreds of people involved that wasn’t even a full blown mystery series. Those bias don’t make you better or worse than other SU theorists. You avoided one or two big ones they had and basically confirmed Steven had Pink’s powers in the first 10 minutes. Your FNAF oriented biases and expectations in story telling lead to you using that wrong and making mistakes a more SU centric theorist might not. And there are mistakes and biases you both made. Everyone thought the Diamonds would have to be taken by force. Everyone was wrong. How much of this is on fandom bias and how much on poor writer Managment? Impossible to say. No one is blameless. And hey, sometimes it’s a little of everything. The Cookie Cat evidence was not planned. It’s not on the official list of hints. But it pointed you in the right direction regardless. Steven floating was MASSIVE evidence, but not of Rose snacking on Sapphires. Stuff happens.
Well Matpat retired. There isn't a single dominant theorist at the moment and people are open to new ideas, so if you want to get anyone to listen to your stuff now is the time. DPT is rapidly taking over the fandom with their theory so the window is closing
2:40:50 I get what your saying, but that logic hinges on the writer never making any mistakes, never retconning anything, and never including details for no reason. Scott had never done a mystery game before FNAF. Toby Fox's prior work was Homestuck which was INFAMOUS for retcons and unplanned heelturns. And Steven Universe was written by many, many people. How does one tell a Scabbers 12 year old plant from a genuine flub? Especially in series with multiple writers?
2:26:25 For FNAF sure, though I think your Steven Universe theory shows the danger of jumping to the extreme immediately. Especially if you've found a set of clues that has never really been tested in the first place...well, that and I think you borrowed one too many ideas from your FNAF theories. What works in a top down one man series may not work so well in a broadly run series with a ton of writers and artists who may or may not all be on the same page(And in Steven Universe's case, as story after story of the nightmare in the writers room comes out, they weren't).
I don't see it brought up much, but you actually CAN know which spirit is in which happiest day minigame. Just play Happiest Day without having completed everything. Glitch 01 is what revives Bonnie/Jeremy's spirit. Stage 01 unlocks Fritz/Foxy's spirit. Chica's Party unlocks Susie/Chica's spirit.. And BB's Air Adventure unlocks Gabriel/Freddy's spirit. Puppet and whichever Golden Freddy spirit is at the party(Probably Crying Child given the Happiest Day Parallels and the fact Micheal Afton is the one setting up the clues) are always already there. BB's Air Adventure first playthrough unlocks the balloons you need to reach secret areas. Mangle's Quest unlocks all the cakes. Then you can replay BB and get the 4 spirits as listed above in reverse order. There's also the secret 5 shadow cupcakes under Chica's Party
Scott hasn't had full control over the series since UCN and Security Breach was the last game made with his help before he retired. He has little to do with Ruin or upcoming projects
As someone who knows people with DID, this is way out of line. Diagnosing real people based on their work is MASSIVE yikes territory. Step back on that
I know I went overboard. But I've been listening to MatPat say FNAF doesn't make sense for about 10 years now. I wanted to highlight how important it might be. I should have just stopped by saying William had the condition.
I know a few people with DID also. The possibility that FNAF is trying to make a constructive statement about it is something theorists should be aware of.
@@BlackfootFerret They are. Literally Matpat's first theory was this was an allegory for 5 real murders. Also he retired. That person who made that super popular theory 3 weeks ago is the new kingmaker. You need to talk to need.
The Book mentions that the Springtrap that left Fazbear's Fright is explicitly Dark Springtrap(which would imply it's RXQ in control after the fire knocked down Afton and ended the power struggle for the time), but by the time of FNAF 6(which could well be years later), Scraptrap's suit is heavily modified and it's explicitly, for the first time ever, just "William Afton" in the credits, which implies at the some point RXQ was either ousted forcefully or left of his own violition. It's interesting to note that Shadow Freddy and RXQ are explicitly not a pair, despite Scott's willingness to use fan names everywhere else. Shadow Freddy is based on Golden Freddy and Withered Freddy and is more often depicted as purple, while RXQ is usually black and is based on Toy Bonnie in both the FNAF 2 appearence AND the plush/EON spite in FNAF 3, though is purple in the Glitch01 game(and that one's filename IS literally the full RWQ minigame). Perhaps they eventually diverged in goals in some way, RXQ perhaps eventually forgiving and sympathizng with his own killer and giving him the tools to fight the bigger foe, while Shadow Freddy was vengeful til the last. After all, they were both lashing out in retaliation for a first crime, while Pink Guy's motives were purely selfish. Traitors are lower in the circle than mere murderers for a reason.
Why does Springtrap turn into Dark Springtrap when he leaves FNAF 3? Because Michael already rescued William from the suit, so RWQ/RXQ is the only thing left in there. It seems like simple math, but many people still don't believe another version of William exists, other than Springtrap, even though "Dave" got a job at the Pizzaplex and infiltrated the Sister Location facility before Michael did. This was what I hoped people would take away from the Two Williams video. But, of course, all anyone talks about is the ending.
@@BlackfootFerret I will say if you ditch the Sammy name thing and just fully commit to RXQ = Andrew, you could probably sell the theory to a lot of people. Andrew being the vengeful spirit and being tied to William even before FNAF 3 has blown up in the last 6 months since Matpat left and it's increasingly similar to your theories. Some people even think Andrew is RXQ and Cassidy might be tied to Shadow Freddy and they worked as a duo. In the chaos of SL both Mad Scientist and Soul Metal theory were confirmed. This could be another chance like that
This is probably the vid of yours that’s the most fun to solo watch. It doesn’t require much context. If you know the general consensus around FNAF 2 and 3(easily the most consistent and well known in the whole series) or have seen Matpat’s fnaf 2 theory you can follow it. The prior one is super short and only referenced once or twice as well(but it’s stuffier and has aged terribly. Like come on, death screen Freddy is just withered Freddy under the red light filter of the death screen)
I'm glad you like it, this was my first long-form video. I'm kicking myself a bit because I didn't know how to make good audio back then, and struggled with it for a long time. Except for a few elements -- like the Take Cake Killer not being William and the springsuits being designed to absorb souls via mad science -- I've replaced most of the elements here in my modern theories. My current best video is the Timeline Speedrun, although it condenses a ton of lore into a compariative small package ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BE0rLSSQC1k.html. I'm making a Wiki Timeline video atm.
@@BlackfootFerret This vid is still not too far from the mainstream theories of the day(especially the pre-existing 2 killer theories popular around that era), unlike a lot of your newer theories which are kinda off in their own world so mainstream theorists don’t even look at them.
@@kalkuttadrop6371 Have you seen the Wiki tour videos yet? They're my attempt to leave myself out of it and just focus on the nuts and bolts of the lore.
@@BlackfootFerret I have. One thing of note is your stuff is Hyper-Wattsonian. Everything was made for an in-universe reason and has relevance. And honestly for quite a while most people looked at FNAF that way. The issue is, I think it’s become increasingly clear no man is perfect. Even an expert writer would be unable to tell a story the size of FNAF and make everything 100% meaningful. And the Dawko interviews pretty much show Scott’s more of a ‘by the pants’ style writer. He plans one game ahead at most, he changes character designs or adds details just for the ‘rule of cool’. Things changed intent. The theorist community as a whole only recently realized that. You have to consider Doylist options for everything? Are the wires in FNAF 1 and 2 Ennard tentrils, or did Scott just think creepy dangling wires were a cool touch to add to the ambience. Was the Autobiography of a Yogi thing planned, or did he just grab the stock sound sample of someone reading an excerpt(which is a stock sound from the same site as laugh giggle girl 1) and then 2 years later after finding out from fans a different part of that chapter talked about metal having a soul to run with it when he went full sci fi?
@@kalkuttadrop6371 That approach works well for me with Steven Universe. Lots of little easter eggs suddenly started jumping out of the screen at me when I saw how the fit into my theories. Anything an artist deliberately adds to their work should be considered relevant. We're in no position to declare something not until the final answers are revealed.
hi BlackfootFerret. have you ever heard of ShatterVictim? basically: ShatterVictim is the theory centered around the idea that the Bite Victim's soul/memories are split between the 5 MCI kids. Under this theory, BV's soul splits apart due to the head trauma inflicted by Fredbear - his head literally being crushed causes his consciousness to also shatter
I'm pretty sure this was Pax 2012.... This has been argued since Perkins mixed-up the age of the Pax series and conflated it with the Acq Inc. podcasts...
Have you seen the Bible? There is a lot of strange mysteries people have refused to acknowledge from it. There’s a guy called Mud Fossil University that is a lot like you who uncovers some of the grand mysteries that the Bible mentions.
@@BlackfootFerret hey Blackfoot. have you ever heard of ShatterVictim ? basically: ShatterVictim is the theory centered around the idea that the Bite Victim's soul/memories are split between the 5 MCI kids. Under this theory, BV's soul splits apart due to the head trauma inflicted by Fredbear - his head literally being crushed causes his consciousness to also shatter. the theory had two interpretations: the normal version of ShatterVictim (""ShatterVictim molten"") and the ""timeline"" version of ShatterVictim ( ""ShatterVictim chaos""): ""ShatterVictim molten"": the classic animatronics( and the 5 mci kids) got contaminated with bite victim memories and ""ShatterVictim chaos"" is the interpretations that not only say that the mci kids have the Bite Victim's memories but bv also ended up affecting the entire timeline. for an better explanation you can check out an thread on x call "ShatterVictim for Dummies" made by Oblitus. anyway have a good day !
Appreciate the disclaimer in the start so I didn't get a headache or signs of tinnitus showing again. First time I've subscribed to someone without watching a single video. Looking forward to check this out further when I don't have headphones on :)
@@BlackfootFerret Oooh, you're one of the guys behind the Acquisitions Incorporated videos? Man, those are my personal fav series of DnD out there. No joke, I loved the legalese and documents stuff. Oh shit, just saw there's a lot of new content out. There's a few years ago since I last saw the Pax East/West stuff, what a gold mine I thought was emptied but fell down upon yet again only to see y'all have been keeping it going through all this time! :)
@@BlackfootFerret the knight identity and/or the angel. who wrote the deltarune prophecy (and also the undertale prophecy). What is an "Shadow Crystals". ralsei's connecting to kris. gaster in deltarune. and that it
Sans doesn’t know about resets but he does know about timelines and is more observant than the other monsters Toriel, Papyrus, Undyne, Mettaton, and Asgore have vague recollections of us so it does seem to involve Sans who can just put the pieces together by looking at your expressions and how we act like an educated guess but that doesn’t mean he can see what happened previously
How does he consistently guess exactly how many times he’s killed us? We tell Asgore how many times we’ve died, and he just nods. Sans tells *us* how many times we’ve died. Sure, he loses count around 12, but that’s preternatural.
I did hear a theory that Sans lost his soul at some point, but then his ability to feel compassion should be gone too. Yet he does care about his friends.
Damn I really like Wil. He brought quite a lot to the team. They all are so different. He is nerdy and quick to think and feels comfortable in front of the audience.
1:21:40 Thats probably the 10th time i watched this episode and it just now came to my mind of what the bards play in the background reminds me.. its the danny phantom theme Always find something new with you guys after all that time.. LOVE IT!!!
It will never cease to amaze me how Chris can keep the game on track and moving forward. Mike, Wil, and Scott especially tend to get distracted with jokes or roleplay or arguing, ON TOP of a long planned combat and having bards taking minutes out of play-time to sing custom songs, and yet he STILL manages it super well. All the characters are distinct, super evocative, and were given at least a moment in the spotlight with engaging dialogue and interpersonal relationships within the family. All the family drama is OOZING from these interactions and it's incredible. 10/10
@@BlackfootFerret you made me realise i like watching your timeline cause i think its goffy and now i you got a sub it's a nice break from the convoluted timeline and makes me laugh. Your earned a sub
And yet they mesh seamlessly with everything else. People didn't think Nightmarionne or FNAF World were canon for years. Why make a point of releasing non-canon content for FNAF AR... that never originally appeared in the game?
@@BlackfootFerret as far as I am aware, the FazFacts were leaked, not officially released, and an Illumix employee explicitly said they didnt get approved by Scott & were not written by him. As fun as it is to consider what these FazFacts may mean, they are not canon material. Nightmarionne was explicitly noncanon at the time of FNAF 4 (and was later canonised). FNAF world is a mess in regards to canonicity as it breaks the 4th wall a lot, but either way the reasons people believe it isnt canon are not the same as the reasons FazFacts are not canon.
@@BunBit_And yet if you brightened Nightmarionne's jumpscare in FNAF 4, you reveal human bloodshot eyes similar to the Phantom Animatronic's from FNAF 3. publish.obsidian.md/blackfootferrets-fnaf-obsidian-vault/Nightmarionne#Hidden+bloodshot+eyes+in+FNAF+4+jumpscare. Why would Scott hide a clue like this in a character that didn't matter? If Nightmare Balloon Boy/Sammy was somehow canon - by Scott's weird declaration - why wouldn't his sister be canon too?
@@BlackfootFerret this is completely irrelevant to the actual topic, that being the fazfacts. If you are using them as lore hints, you are actively disregarding what the team behind them said.
