How Silly Billy Saved Friday Night Funkin' 

READ ME BEFORE COMMENTING 🗣🗣 I see some comments talking about how Silly Billy didn’t “save FNF from dying”, which is true. I never said that it saved it from completely dying out. Rather, it allowed the game to be pushed out of its irrelevancy and get more people talking about it again as a result. The game was never dead, nor has it ever been “dying”. Also, while the Weekend 1 update did also assist in this. I also stated how from the RU-vid metrics I observed on multiple videos, tiktoks, tweets, forums, etc; It seemed that Silly Billy was a slight bit more influential in the public eye (to my surprise). Obviously not invalidating Weekend 1 in any way. It still played a major part in saving FNF, as I also said in the video. Also also, genuine apologies for forgetting to mention EvilSk8r when talking about the dev team. It kinda just flew over my head when editing, but he def deserves some love so please go support him as well for helping to make this awesome lil game!!! Also also also, I was aware that Subterfuge wasn’t made by Churgney, and that he rather just made a lyrical cover of it. Though for some reason I guess I just skipped the “with lyrics” part in my mind when writing the script??? Not sure tbh lmao, but thank you all for the comments who pointed that out. Also also also also, I didn’t include the “Eye to Eye” version of Yourself due to the fact that he seemed to deviate a lot from the original two versions and seemed to be more of its own thing. Especially design wise, taking a completely different approach than Divide and Doorknob. Lastly, I did not “forget” about Car or Garn47. Neither of them were the topic of the video, and honestly could have their own video dedicated to them lmao. This video is purely about Silly Billy as a song and the character of Yourself. Of course, I respect any and all feedback, really I do!! It is my first time making a video essay after all. But please, watch the video and actually listen to what is said before criticizing me tho 😭😭 Thanks, and hope y'all enjoy the video!! ♥

A song called f*cking silly billy caused fnf to become relevant again, this part of the internet makes me so happy

silly billy to me is a reflection of what fnf has been looking like up until this point

Rest in Peace Divide And creating this character from the cancelled Sonic.exe mod and seeing Yourself saving the FNF community to this day...

Silly Billy became so popular that I started seeing reviewers outside of the FNF space start interacting with it. It is such a good song, but I was fully not expecting it to reach 10 Million views.

He made the whole community say how proud they where of him. Divide had the key to save the fnf community and its sad they didn't get to see it. Silly Billy could also be referring to divide when he sings his lyrics.

Ngl, I really love the effect of Silly Billy bringing back people to the community and finding out all the stuff they missed and going back to what they knew. Finding out about things like Mario’s Madness, FNF Online, Indie Cross, Sonic Legacy, all great stuff.

The Silly Billy mod was the main reason why I regained interest in this game. I’m just glad to finally see a mod that’s not based off some creepypasta or existing ip.

man, it’s even more amazing that the animations were made on a PHONE. A PHONE. truly amazing.

He did, indeed, show us his way.

Proud to have stayed with fnf community throughout every single ounce of it's life, as well as being one of the first to actually play Hit single before everyone latched onto it.

There are so many mods now that have cutscenes with lyrics and I love it.

Finally someone who is able to make a FNF video talking about the rise, fall, and rise of FNF without just shitting on the Sonic.exe mod for "ruining" the community, or acting like all the horror mods we get are bad. Just mentioning that, despite a lot of them being amazing, like the OG Sonic.exe mod, the mario madness mod, and the cartoon cat mod, they did cause a significant fall in popularity. I really appreciate this video for how honest and fair it is, thank you so much S_D_B

THANK YOU for talking about the misinformation regarding Divide's passing. The lengths that hoax of him dying in his sleep has reached is terrifying to me

While I do think Silly Billy was ONE of the reasons it saved FNF, we can't forget how Mario's Madness brought back about EVERY FNF RU-vidr

He sure did make you say how proud you'll be of him... (R.I.P Divide)

Silly Billy just KNEW what its audience was: Horror fans who are just tired of the oversaturared market of Sonic exe mods. Now we have more chance of having Discord Roleplay Servers of FNF without just making it a Creepypasta roleplay server.

"I was always in the fandom since a month after the demo released.So I feel really happy about this."

It’s so funny how this mod got way more popular than the actual fnf update for Darnell

The person who made this song is a legend for what they did, Let's pay respect to the man who saved the Friday night funking community

To think when I saw the notification for this song, I just thought it was another churgney amazing song and that'd be the end of it for a bit, but to think that silly billy started to revive fnf (along with the recent fnf update for weekends) honestly caught me off guard and I can't be anymore happy!

To be honest, Silly Billy is just kinda Mario madness' big brother, because Mario's Madness (for me it feels like) created the whole lyrics trend, no hate to anybody ofcourse, i just feel like Mario madness died of a bit too quick 🦐

I actually stepped back from the fnf community, since everything was getting dry with original ideas(no hate on the creepy pasta, they were rlly cool), but ever since Silly Billy came out, it brought me back to the community :)

i love this mod not only because it saved fnf as a whole but it brought more attention to the late artist divides death. i felt so bad when i found out about it back in 2021 and there wernt alot of people talking about it except for a few on twitter. rest in peace divide. 🕊🕊🕊🕊

Mario Madness V2 and Silly Billy have single handedly saved the FNF community

After this mod, people regained faith in the fnf mod makers and greatly introduced the funkadelix and the new fnf updates!

I also really love how after the lyric part, it gives you a slow and almost relaxing solo, kinda like a break after a boss fight

I thought Mario’s madness was the mod that saved fnf( but that’s pretty cool how silly Billy saved fnf)

The fact that this was also released literally a day before the Weekend Update for the base FNF game also made it more hype And quite a convenience as well. It makes the mod legitimately feel like the end of an era

I was really sad when finding out the real back story of how the mod was made. Listening to the lyrics don’t hit as hard as it did before. It just feels sad now. But don’t get me wrong, the song is still an absolute banger and the people who carried on the legacy for their friend are the real homies. Rest in peace devide, we hope you enjoy the fresh breeze of heaven hitting your wings.

I’m convinced Silly Billy is the Megalovania of Fnf. It’s what is the most popular and no matter how you change it, it almost always sounds good

Went in expecting a sort of outsider perspective from someone not from the fnf community but was pleasantly surprised! This video was really good, I liked a lot of and agreed with a lot of the points you brought up. I had noticed the descendent from unique ideas and stuff into becoming “scary.exe” mods. I’ve been part of this community for a pretty long time now so thank you for making this video.

Churgney deserved that popularity. His musics are really good. Also, he might be partake on a mega man mod soon, as one his friend "duccly" release a song called "let there be light".

Mods at the start were all beloved when the game was at its peak. However, people lost the point of modding. It's not just lore. It's not just making it harder and harder. It's about the experience. It must feel unique and special.

If divide didn’t exist fnf would be dead to this day 😞 Thank you divide for all you’ve done. ☺️ Team Divide 👇

9:16 We might be in luck here, since VS. Retrospecteer P2 is coming out sometime later this year, and every character in the mod is one of Retrospecter's OCs. So we will be getting a HUGE update to one of the most popular OC mods

THE FACT HE REFERENCES A FEW OF THE OLDEST MODS IN THE FNF COMMUNITY IS NOSTALGIC

Im so happy that silly billy brought back the hype of fnf

I think Silly Billy also inspired other creators to make the lyrics and theirs mod like Jeffy's Endless Aethos or Twiddlefinger

Very good Video! I especially like that you talked about the creppypasta-mods overshadowing other great mods. As a huge Deltarune/Undertale fan, mods like Seek's cool Deltarune mod was one of those mods I wish had gotten a little more attention from the community overall (relativ to the then popular ones) as well as some other, more niche mods I personally really enjoyed playing. One of these is the Friday Night Fluffin' mod, which has such a unique art style from many other mods and features whole SFM-animated cutscenes between songs/weeks as well as a whole ass ARG (which im pretty sure I'm one of the few people to actually have done, couldn't find anything about it online lol). This is one of the mods I wish had gotten more attention from more people. Thanks for reading my random blabbing tho :)

The intro, and all the mods leading up to it, SO MUCH NOSTALGIA!

6:48 Correction Subterfuge was composed entirely by Honkish after his experience collabing with the people on Silly Billy as that came first. Sturm did do a lyrical cover of Subterfuge because it seemed fun to do especially after releasing Game Over with Lyrics and Fake Baby for Hit Single on the same day.

"Silly Billy saved FNF from irrelevance!" I honestly agree with that. For almost a year, I never looked back at FNF until SB came out. I'm starting to like FNF again, albeit just watching videos for now!

Kinda crazy how Garn47 wasn't mentioned at all throughout this video. Though I guess it's not really related to FnF anymore it's still attached to the Hit Single mod and has absolutely blown up, especially with the official Twitter account. It alone has spawned it's own fandom and is getting updated separately from Hit Single I believe.

I hope silly billy, garn 47 and darnell will inspire the fnf community to make better mods and be able to do more than just exe stuff again. Not that there bad. We need more variety like how it was back in 2021 where it was a balance between mods that feel connected to each other and expanded the fnf world with it's own characters and lore + ip mods like shaggy and matt and newgrounds mods like madcom mods.

Finally! Someone speaking facts! No theories! No "what if" scenarios! No maybe's!. It's hard to find lore- divers that actually fact check even themselves!. You gotta respect the time and effort of researching to said video and editing it to make it apealing to the audience.

I've recently noticed myself watching more fnf stuff because of this mod, and other mods in general! I've wanted to leave a few times, but once silly billy was everywhere on the Internet. It's brought me back! You've just gained a subscriber dude 👍 (Also fellow Mario's madness fan lol)

True this song and lyrical made the hole community blow up and it the best thin to happen to FNF.(Also W video)

Silly billy is a mix of all the passionate people that make mods in one piece of a whole mod

Are you proud of me?...

It did saved the FNF community, I'm also proud of how Divide himself did create a concept for Yourself

The voice acter of this LITERALLY brought back a entire COMMUNITY

The Single hit real mod really surprised lots of people because of how impressive the songs are. Even though some songs are goofy as hell like a literal pig. What I’m more impressed is the garn47 game that is literally in a fnf mod that is supposed to unlock more songs in single hit real. It is really an impressive mod

This man deserves to get a higher subs of all his work (also a huge fan)

Rip person who made sonic.exe mod but ty for inspiring this to exist

I haven't heard of Silly Billy until this video 😭 Also, great video I enjoyed watching it!! Keep up the good work!!!

XD i saw one of my cover in the gamebanana page you showed at 1:48 . Btw great video, Silly Billy is really one of the greatest mods that i ever seen

i like to think that the lyrics of silly billy not only represent the story behind the character, but also fnf as a game so much effort and and hard work and creativity and love and care has been poured into the game ever since it first released, yet people were starting to care for it less by the day and the song that got the game back off its feet was speaking for the whole modding community and even the original devs, begging people to come back and admit how proud they are

As someone who wasn't that into FNF to begin with, Silly Billy hit me really hard the first time I saw it. Everything about that track, especially the solo, showed that it was made by people who **LOVE** Friday Night Funkin', a game which itself was made by people who *love* Newgrounds. There's *so much story* behind the song, both in the fiction of the mod and in real life, and it all came out in a single relatively brief moment of passion. It was truly awe-inspiring.

the intro almost made me cry, its so beautiful

Amazing video, man.

So true, I never really liked fnf that much, but that single song changed my entire point of view on the game.

In the lyrics section, Yourself doesn't even look like he's trying to threaten bf. Mans is just passionate about what he was saying.

I'm glad this mod saved fnf honestly I thought fnf would be alright ot other people but silly Billy really saved it alright 😊❤

In my opinion it was 3 factors FNF update Silly Billy Mario’s madness’s

I'LLLL MAKEEE YOUU SAYYY HOW PROUDDD YOU ARE OF ME SO STAYYY AWAKEEE JUST LONGGG ENOUGH TO SEE MY WAYYYY MY WAYY❤FRIDAY NIGHT FUNKİN❤

It's beautiful to see such a masterpiece revive a game that brought so much joy for me and my friends.

Silly billy was actually the way I even found out about fnf (I played it before because of my brother but stopped playing for like 1 or 2 years but stilly billy caused me to come back) And with a lyrics version of it out now its pretty much my favourite song

The opening for the video made me have huge chills to where it hurt lmfao, awesome

The intro gave me chills, it was put together so well and the added clips of the first and most popular mods made it so much better

Random shoutout for "Quit Asking me for Sandwiches" being used at the end, was not expecting a random lofi banger on this video haha

the mod makes me jealous and sad at the same time, but happy the community came back, i had my own mod idea awhile back,but it's pretty much dead even if i have the characters design(even if it's missing one thing), i don't have money to hire people to do it, and the people who wanted to help for free lost interest, i wish i could've gotten my mod to be as big as some of the popular mods

yeah the mod really helped fnf get back up. rip divide. good video!!!!

That intro got me emotional. Great video :’)

What makes it so much better is that this song was a tribute to Divide who passed away. This tribute thats an amazing mod lit the fire in FNF again. RIP Divide, we will never forget you for how much of an incredible person you where and your amazing works.

3:02 had me dying 😂

This mod made me work on my own mod. Im grateful for this mod

Man I’m SO glad the FNF community is back alive! Thanks to divide that made such a sick mod, u sure have shown how proud we are of u.

I love how he's syncing up the instrumental of the song with the charting in _each_ song! I love it when people pay attention to detail!😎👍

silly billy is the only reason im back into fnf

Yea I'm happy that the game is alive again

Even some of the people completely outside of FNF reacting to other music stuff did react to this song

Silly Billy is peak FNF and I don't think there will ever be another song or mod that can top it. Silly Billy *PERFECTLY* encapsulates everything we love about FNF and the mods around it. The charting is fun, the animations and art are breathtaking, the music slaps, and the story behind the characters canonically and irl is full of grief and sadness, it's perfect. Silly Billy takes the overused EXE/faker concept and turns it on its head. Yourself isn't some alien or demon or false god, this is Boyfriend. You're fighting Yourself, literally speaking. The grief of losing his Girlfriend made him go insane, and that is reflected in the real world with the loss of Divide still stinging our hearts and minds. And the lyrics only help to push the feelings of pain and grief and suffering, beyond just some song of beeps and boops. That sections still gives me chills, and it's only made better with the god-tier animation. Silly Billy is and always will be, the PERFECT Friday Night Funkin track.

Billy Hits Us With A Memory Flashback

I honestly feel why Silly Billy became one of the best songs is that it felt different. And even though it didn't have a second phase...or overcomplicated backstory it didn't need to. I think the reason why Silly Billy was iconic was because it proved FNF can make good music. It's just that mods and making video game and VGM is hard. And if done well like Silly Billy that's why it became famous. Now to be fair there are other mods that had better graphics or music than Silly Billy. But I feel what made it the global hit and one of the biggest magnum opus in FNF is because of how this song had the most well crated song ever. First off I am not a composer or a musician, but the song Silly Billy is catchy. It is interesting because the catchy beats make it beautiful. For example in the beginning of the song it hinted the foreshadowing of the final lyrics. I also love how it uses music composition done well and make it catchy. Most mods keep relying on loud or reptitive sounds but Silly Billy balances the music sounds. Secondly I feel yes the lyrics made it iconic but it's not just that. There were mods that had lyrics such as Mario Madness or Angry Luigi. But the reason why Yourself's lyrics were remembered is that it feels...emotional. Most lyrics in fnf try to make it scary (if its horror) while some make it more terrifying because the rapper we face is scary yet again...but Yourself was born different. When he sang the lyrics, you feel sympathy for an evil BF clone. He isn't scary he's horrifying to look at yet tragic. He's an alternate BF who lost his innocence yet he isn't a monster. He's grown up yet weary of everything. When he introduces himself to BF he didn't want to destroy him he just got curious he found a version of him and decided to rap because why not? Churgney is a great singer based on him making the words count. When he says "Just Long" you can feel the emotion and mourn of it. The visuals also encapsulate the words as you see Yourself struggle to compose himself like pulling his shirt, shaking his hands, and glimpses of a frown when he sings. It makes it so beautiful rather than lyrics of an insane person, because this opponent doesn't despise Boyfriend he's struggling to sing to honor his dear alternate universe Girlfriend. And yes while I know you said the lyrics weren't supposed to be for Divide and its supposed to be Yourself's lamention to Herself...I do feel it hinted at the late creator. I feel to me Yourself is giving a thank you to his late girlfriend and late creator who made him. As well as the many people who supported FNF despite its ups and downs. He hoped maybe if his GF or his creator was still alive a little longer perhaps they would be proud of him. After all Churgney and the devs did say on twitter, Silly Billy was a way to honor Divide's legacy. I believe in my opinion, the people who believe the lyrics are for the Late Divide are still valid. The only thing bad is overthinking how Divide passed away. So can we please celebrate Divide's work rather than how he passed on? Anyways lastly, this song was unintentionally yet deserving of being the last song before the official FNF update. To me Silly Billy is about Boyfriend but also the legacy of FNF and the modding community as a whole. How this song encorporates peak FNF. Yes perhaps it was elevated by its horror elements, but it felt like a proper magnum opus. Despite the many ocs, horror medium, or characters from existing IP Silly Billy was Boyfriend's climatic conclusion. To me Yourself was a representation of a weary Boyfriend who is trying to enjoy what he had. Like a former FNF fan trying to enjoy the franchise, or in this case a Boyfriend who lost his way. Because it still comes back to Boyfriend, we wouldn't had played FNF if it weren't for the iconic Boyfriend and Girlfriend. So seeing a alternate version be an inverse without Girlfriend is sad but then it doesn't become edgy. The song takes its time to make us enjoy Yourself until the climatoc lyrics happen. The song Silly Billy feels uplifting. Throughout the song I feel Yourself actually has character development throughout the song. In the song Yourself sings with BF not because he wants to end him but to enjoy a rap to make himself feel better. Unlike most fnf ocs or characters they mostly want to end Boyfriend through Phase 3 or havr a friendly rap and that's it. Or some not having a purpose because the mods had no story to it. I feel the reason why I've been burnout by some FNF mods is that the story gets explained too much. Ypu get the feeling they're trying to explain the character but it comes off as tiring. I remembered reacting to Friday Night Fever and don't get me wrong I loved the songs and care but darn it was the dialogue cringy and I was tired from the characters bad humor. Silly Billy gets away with this because the mod doesn't waste any time and jumps right into the song. Most mods have their characters want to make BF perish or infuriate him ot simply just be friendly. Yourself wants to rap against Boyfriend all because he wanted to try it one last time. Though midway we see him frustrated he cannot because of the late memories of Herself bubbling up. As well as BF being better at rapping so he switches to being BF. He isn't threatening he's too busy grieving mentally throughout the rap. He still has funny moments as it's possibly he shapeshifted to Boyfriend as a funny prank with him starting to enjoy the flow. But something tells me he's frustrated a mere counterpart is still thriving and enjoying rap. Then the climax, Yourself breaks down and he laments everything he felt. The icons we see is not him going angry towards BF like any fanmade mod chaarcter, but him slowly breaking down as he finally laments his grief. You can tell the icons were him trying to smile but his smile feels forced. Almost as if he was holding back his emotions until they bubbled. Yourself finally laments yet hopes this rap battle would make his late lover PROUD of him. And probably a meta thank you by the devs towards the Late Divide. Herself appears behind Yourself and she sings one last time to her late boyfriend before fading away. As it indicates Yourself accepted the grief and moved on, though you could sense he feels a bit saddened. The red notes indicating Herself and the purple background (I'm sure it's not supposed to be a JJK Gojo reference) shows him finally reconciling and be at peace. Thanks to BF he manages to regain his passion for rapping, so when Boyfriend joins in they slowly connect and have the best duo singing to conclude the magnum opus that is Silly Billy. Also I believe the Hit Single features added a video game into the mod Garn 47 and its beloved character Carr, a literal rhythm game composed by Lyfer and more so that's why its popular including the amazing voice of Churgney and his dev team. Overall I met many songs and heard from FNF, but Silly Billy is one of the best songs in FnF mod era 1. And I hope we get to see mods that are done well, be different, and dared to be great. Thank you to Churgney and the Hit Single devs team. And thank you to the creators od FNF and the modders as well as fans and rest in peace Divide fly high.

i never even noticed or acknowledged fnf being "less popular", cuz to me it didn't really matter. mods were still being made and redefining the game, introducing new ideas, and i was there for it all. i've been into this game and working on mods for 4 years now, and it hasn't even gotten slightly stale for me.

that intro is one of the most nostalgic thing ever to a fnf fan

Just read until the end to see why I’m stupid Hum I don’t wanna say silly billy didn’t do anything to FNF but there is also idk MARIO MADNESS V2 this mod also save FNF because the dev s took more time then imposter v4 so I was Confused to don’t see Mario mad- (Bro why I always speak Brefore look the video

You know that musician RU-vidr said silly billy was like a magnum opus and that is so damn true now that I think about with this context lol

Legit almost forgot FNF existed until I saw my first Silly Billy short

silly billy may be cool, but i think we can all agree that vs angry luigi single-handedly revived fnf

Finally someone is talking about it

HIS WAYYYYY

Silly billy also has animations cleaner than most simply due to it not being a note spam which allows yourself to not just look like a corrupted pdf or have very tiny variety between notes which makes him feel more alive from what i noticed

Been an fnf fan since week 5 is released, and till this day i still care for the game and I'm never been more proud to be aprt of this big community full of talent and amazing people, sure there are problems but it never stops my love for the game and after watching this and find out silly billy about 2 months ago (My Dear Heavens is 2 Months past already!?) This is incredibly inspiring to me and gives me so much joy thank you making this video, time well spend.

I've never had and still don't have any interest in fnf but the one part of this songs pretty sick

Those transitsions were perfect

im an fnf composer guy, so im in the fnf community (you could prolly put 2 n 2 together) and i genuinely forgot that the game was basically dead, so seeing this video was nice to see, n im glad its back

you win, subscription dropped. Very well researched and given, if you want to keep doing this content type you'll succeed!

W video