RANKING ALL OF THE FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S JUMP SCARES! LESSSS GOOO! 

the scariness of foxy in fnaf1 isn't so much his jumpscare but the leadup. it's that you go to check on him, notice he's gone, then the panic sets in and you switch to the hallway cam and see him _sprinting_ down the hallway, and the next moment is his jumpscare. it's got more moving parts to it that make it scary

ngl watching chat slowly realize he wasn't joking & actually doing a 2 hour fnaf review was,, well it was something.

Literally never heard of this person before clicking on this video, so "all that I do on my stream is revealed to me in prophecy and dream" is a _hell_ of a first impression

One thing I noticed is as the animation quality improved, the eyes became less scary, in the first game chica’s eyes are completely dead, almost no reflection, maybe it’s just me but that look is way more unsettling

As a sound design nerd, Fnaf 4 hits it out of the park. There’s no loud distracting ambiance, just a quiet house and your own footsteps. Makes the jumpscares hit harder.

Fnaf VR is absolutely terrifying, they nailed the size of the animatronics. They absolutely tower over you. You really can’t get the same experience from any non-VR video.

the cops actually would win against the animatronics because they're kids and therefore the cops will have 200% accuracy

Vaush: "I'm not going to get into the lore" Vaush 2 seconds later: *explaining the lore in its entirety*

While UCN does have lower quality jumpscares, I think it's less to do with the degradation of the series and more because he had to make 50 of the damn things. Also just because UCN isn't supposed to be immersive horror but more of a challenge to be overcome, as well as lore to tie up the loose ends of the series.

Ballora's jumpscare would be so, SO much better if she finally opened her eyes at the end and it was something really surprising, like a total void, or dilated pupils, or even like, actual real human eyes stuck inside a robotic body. Such wasted potential.

Vaush’s question of how a fight would go down between the animatronics and a swat team is the plot of a regular show episode lmao

FNaF 4 is really underrated for how genuinely terrifying it is. It's the little things that really get me - the surreal title screen, the clock chiming in the background, the dissonant Freddy laughs, the glow of the Nightmare animatronics' eyes, hearing Foxy march into your own room while you aren't looking, and literally everything about Nightmare Fredbear is just flat out terrifying. Both thematically and in the nights themselves.

They did Springtrap dirty. Literally the BEST character design wise from the first 3 games. He still contends with characters from even the 4-9 games as well.

Watching Vaush enthusiastically explain FNAF to a completely uninterested audience is such a window into my own life lol.

I heavily recommend The Walten Files for more animatronic-related horror media. The art style turns some people off, but I think it adds to the charm and “fever dream”-esque nature of it

The games actually have extremely brutal deaths, even on children, but they never show them in detail, you usually have to imagine them, like when you're reading a book. That's one aspect I like.

I had to cut out part of the video due to copyright. So almost all of them are in here. Also I didn't really edit this down or watch this, because I get scared really easily and Ryan was busy doing something else so he couldn't do it. Some of you might be wondering, "Really Tempest? FNAF would scare you?" Yes. I don't like spooky shit. I have a bad flight or fight response. Call me a low T beta male I don't care. Horror shit just isn't my bag baby. lol

I can watch vaush just analyzing media he genuinely enjoys for hours on end, man

This embodies the TikTok audio: That sex was poggers, but I’ve got to get back to telling you about the five nights at Freddie’s timeline.

I really like where Scott was going with springtrap with the slower more methodical jump scare cause he’s like a guy. If he reached out to grab you and opened his mouth while pretty slowly going towards you I think that would be really cool and unsettling. Wouldn’t be a jumpscare but it would be scary and suit the tone of fnaf 3 well

The thing I feel even Scott missed about fnaf 1 was the jumpscares were exclusively a punishment for failing rather than something that a player HAS to experience. Once you hit Fnaf 3 ghosts are jumpscaring you randomly and not killing you which takes the impact of being jumpscared out.

i actually respect vaush for taking the time to artistically analyze one of the most popular internet horror phenomenons.

I actually like springtrap's jumpscare, we're talking about William fucking Afton here, he doesn't actually need to jumpscare you or anything, he just walks up to you in such a smug manner that you basically know you're fucked, I like how it conveys how much of a rat-bastard the guy inside springtrap is.

I think Ultimate Custom Night wasn't really supposed to be scary. It's just a Freeplay celebration of the franchise up to that point, everything that happens in that game is controlled by you so jumpscares are really just a way to transition into the game over screen. This of course doesn't justify some of the really poorly made jumpscares but I think it does justify characters like Happy Frog being in the game. What does justify the poorly made PNG jumpscares a little bit in my opinion is the fact that Scott had to do 50 jumpscares seemingly on his own? So he might've had to make some shaking jpegs to release the game in time

Springtrap (fnaf 3) was the PEAK character design for me. Not only because of his moldy, nasty, bulky appearance, but the way you KNOW he's sapient. The casual way he lumbers around, the way he deliberately HIDES from the cameras view most of the time, the way he will walk up to you and naturally finish you off. The children who possess the animatronics are operating on pure emotion and rage ("they're like animals" :fnaf custom night) but William...he kept his wits and cold calculated nature. He was a murder in life and in death. Not even the agony of having his physical body destroyed wavered that need for bloodshed, and that freaks me out. He truly is evil.

As a long time FNAF fan, seeing FNAF content from channels I already follow that have never talked about it before this week has been an absolute trip, but a good trip. Thanks Vowsh :)

"FNAF and SCP are good actually" finally a decent media take from Voosh.

I cannot emphasize enough the lack of justice a video clip does for FNaF VR: Help Wanted. The models are enormous, in a way that is not even remotely portrayed in a RU-vid video. The hulking animatronics slowly peering over at you in the VR versions of FNaF 1, or repairing a model twice your size at shoulder height only to have it sit up and attack you, or having to rapidly look to your left and right in a panic to avoid having Mangle crawl through the vents to get you. It's not even close to as scary on RU-vid. It's something you have to experience in person to understand, and I would not recommend allowing your children to do so. You'll give them actual trauma.

Markiplier is miles ahead most RU-vidrs when it comes to entertainment and just being a good person. Been following the guy since around 120k subs if I remember correctly and his journey has really been amazing to follow. Also I hope Vaush has Markiplier's Tasteful Nudes calendar because that baby is slappin'

What was horrifying about the jump scares in FNF 1 is that what happens to security guard is left up to imagination, didn't quite know what happened to the character after. Because remember, the animatronic didn't kill you, they thought you where an empty endo skeleton, they would attempt to stuff you into a empty suit and as a result killing you. The terror the security guy feels as he is dragged down the hall, how long his broken body could survive, who find the body if at all, is all left up to the imagination.

Every single person in live chat on their way to comment "How can anyone find this scary?" and brag about not pooping their pants over a compilation of jumpscare sequences with no tension or build up whatsoever: 🏃

According to Scott, when not on her track Ballora climbs around against the wall like some fucked quadruped spider. I think one of these jumpscares for her was going for that but imagine if you could have caught glimpses of her climbing around like that shrouded in shadow, barely illuminated by your flashlight, and then right as you realize what you just saw you get jumpscared.

I'm so zoomer brained dude, I have never been more audibly distressed then when vaush messed up the fnaf 2 animatronics mechanics. He has thrown so much hog wash out there but his simple mistake in the mechanics is what got me to audibly scream at my computer.

27:31 Chat said "The scariest jumpscare is the social worker one" Absolutely killed me.

I do really agree about Security Breach, you can really feel the loss of Scott's vision while playing it. While I still like the game, and I think a lot of the scenes are really terrifying and stress inducing, I was disappointed by the jumpscares and general aura of it.

The bisexual experience of watching markiplier's fnaf content because he's hot. I never thought my worlds would collide like this

The main gripe I have about the newer jumpscares is that WHY DO THEY PAUSE ON THE LAST FRAME FOR HALF A SECOND? It would be SO much better if the static screen cut the animation off, or the animation kept moving forward towards the camera until the screen is black. But instead, the way their animations abruptly end and pause there for half the jumpscare really just ruins it. Thats why I like the first and second games' jumpscares as most of them actually keep moving while your screen goes to static.

Shout out to the cop who watched this while driving

Finally Vaush covering proper theory!

I’ve been playing FNAF Help Wanted with my 13 year old son lately. The original games didn’t really scare me but playing them in VR is terrifying. The animatronics tower over you and you really feel like you’re in the office trying to survive the night. It’s kinda wild.

Ya'know Vaush, some of my favorite recent segments of yours are when you go over things like character design and stuff. You really put your heart into it and it's fun.

As someone who's learning 3d modeling slowly, that issue with the glamrock freddy thing SCREAMS a lack of "retopology" to me. Basically, retopology is when you go over your sculpted model and place polygons as evenly and neatly as possible, making it possible to have a much nicer flow and only having as much detail as is necessary. That looks to me like they just went straight from having all the detail needed to sculpt the shape they wanted, but didn't take the next step.

Me: "Alright, I'm tuned into a Vaush stream! What are talking about today? What politically wacky stuff is going on!" Vaush: "Time to rank fnaf jumpsares for 2 hours!" Me: "What a twist!"

The one thing I disagree with Vaush on here is the voice acting. It is PHENOMENAL. Especially in ultimate custom night, it’s what makes the entire game so interesting.

Can't believe he actually talked about this for over two hours. And I also can't believe I decided to listen to it live when I live in Sweden. I should have been asleep at that time. I don't even like this game and have never even played it... Well, at least I was high so it was pretty entertaining.

I watched the entire thing on stream already but I've been thinking about this exact same thing since Security Breach came out and he put it into words really well here. I also think it's worth mentioning about the artstyle - the uptick in the horror subgenre of "what if this thing for kids was scary" that's happened thanks to FNAF's success tends to miss the mark on what made the FNAF style immersive in the first place. FNAF isn't "what if animatronics were scary", it's "animatronics ARE scary", and there's textual explanation for when it strays from reasonable animatronic design. The FNAF robots honestly look less scary than the real life examples he showed at the start, but the fact they feel like real animatronics is a big part of what makes it work. There's a lot of FNAF fangames and adjacent inspired games that don't understand that. That Poppy Playtime thing he looked at at the end of the segment looks like an example of the missing the mark kind. It's kind of weird seeing Security Breach veer so far off into the opposite direction to what a lot of FNAF-adjacent things do, in making them look cuter and friendlier than ever, but I think it shows an understanding of what it was going for in the first place at least.

Finally, a video worth watching

S Tier: White Woman Jumpscare

My favorite thing about the Springtrap jumpscares are how starkly they contrast with the old animatronics from FNAF 2. In all of the stationary FNAF games it's never made explicitly clear whether the player character is standing or sitting in the office (until Pizzaria simulator where you basically have to be hunched over to fit in the vents). So the height of the old animatronics has an extra layer of gravitas because, if you're sitting then yeah they're pretty big, but if you're standing then holy shit they're massive. The opposite happens with Springtrap because if you're standing while he jumpscares you then he kinda looks like just this short guy walking up looking to fight you, so you just think "yeah I can take him," but if you're supposed to be sitting down, that means that either William afton is 5'5 or shorter, or the player character is tall as shit. Either way the height difference just makes me laugh.

I am a grown ass 34 yr old mom, and my kids fuckin love FNAF. finally, a Vaush video I can watch with them lmao FNAF is a fun series. I watch them play that shit all the time.

I think the jumpscares in the first game worked because it looked like they were about to attack you before the camera cuts out. They linger a little too long in the later games and it looks more like they're standing there _trying_ to scare you.

This was awesome, idc chat. This was based, and even if FNAF is pretty damn cringe at times, something about it is just fun to watch people play and talk about.

Remember kids, a police officer was watching this while driving

this was my first vaush video. Ive been watching vaush for 6 months now

I think Foxy's jumpscare in FNAF 1 is a little underrated. Not him leaning into the doorway but when he runs down the hallway and THEN he pops into your room. It works best that way because you look through these rooms seeing nothing but perfectly static animotronics with only the implication of movement. Then out of nowhere you see one barreling towards your room, and you only have a split second to shut the door and save your skin. It's super simple but super effective.

7:40 Bonnie (FNAF1) 7:57 Freddy (FNAF1) 8:13 Freedy Jumpscare 2 8:22 Chica (FNAF1) 8:54 Foxy (FNAF1) 9:14 Golden Freddy 12:00 Toy Freddy (FNAF2) 12:48 Toy Bonnie (FNAF2) 14:12 Toy Chica (FNAF2) 15:26 Withered Freddy 19:27 Withered Bonnie (FNAF 2) 20:19 Withered Chica (FNAF 2) 20:59 Withered Foxy 22:55 Mangel (FNAF2) 23:37 Marionette (FNAF 2) 24:48 Withered Golden Freddy (FNAF 2) 28:56 Springtrap (FNAF3) 30:25 Phantom BB (FNAF3) 30:53 Springtrap Jumpscare 2 31:42 Phantom Foxy

I’m surprised they haven’t opened a Fnaf themed restaurant/escape room yet. I know there would be people that would pay top dollar to go lol. Fuck, my cowardly ass would go just to experience it at least once lmao.

41:25 I agree with your assessment about Mangle here. Imagine if those extra appendages were actually used to their full effect in the jumpscare - having them all come at you from different angles at once would be pretty overwhelming and intimidating.

really glad fnaf 4 is getting the recognition it deserves. the quiet static noise during Nightmare "jumpscares" combined with its huge scary face is chefs kiss

I think an important thing to note about FNaF 1 and 4’s jumpscares is that they were animated with the environment, you can see the background shaking with the animatronic as if they’re physically grabbing you. In every game after that they kinda just look like JPEGs that were greenscreened onto the environment. And I think that’s part of what made the first game so memorable, the jumpscares were animated like a cutscene. Edit: also the FNaF 3 Hallucination jumpscares are severely underrated imo. Definitely my favourite part about number 3, quite liked having jumpscares that messed with you in more ways than just being a game end, Springtrap’s ones are super goofy though.

Forget politics, become a FNAF lore RU-vidr

This video is great from me a cop

The only Vaush video that has provably been watched by a cop

I've always wondered why they need a security guard in the first place. Any unprepared guy who tries to break in without a Freddy Mask or whatever equipment the guard is given will be eaten alive by the animatronics.

I'd actually say the Puppet's jumpscare in 2 is my fave. Its gliding motion fits with it being lighter than the animatronics, and just like Foxy it charges at you instead of appearing right in front of you, which I find scarier. Plus the white eyes lighting up make it just so much more terrifying when up till now you saw it only without them. I don't think the details matter much when you freezeframe it, because the effect of it when you're actually playing is much scarier.

This is unironically my favorite non-political vaush content in a while. Reminds me of the out there conversations me and my brother would have about nonsense. Keep the content Vaush.

i think theres something vaush forgot abt foxys original jumpscare and its that under the right circumstances you can actually see foxy sprint towards your location in the cameras. which is especially spooky because of how little you see the animatronics actually moving in the game. when i was little i remember being so scared of that jumpscare for that reason

i am a cop and i aproove this video

the reason that further down the line the jumpscares got more basic came down to engine limitations with clickteam fusion iirc and how it handles loading things in, basically can only use a certain amount of ram before it startsfucking up before corrupting itself

This has to be one of vaush’s best videos

I've watched this video too many times to be neurotypical

Vr definitely makes things a hundred times scarier even when it isn't trying to be scary. Like half life alyx as a let's play even in the horror sections are light at best (outside of Jeff who's always scary just from a concept pov) but playing it even the combine shooty parts can be super scary at moments and Jeff literally left me quivering

glad vaush finally switched to making good content

So, the reason that the aesthetic shifted after nightmare from genuinely creepy to kinda dumb is because fnaf became something for kids. Like, if you go into walmart or target you will find fnaf kids toys. It’s so weird. They had to adjust their gameplay so that kids could play it. I have little baby cousins that are like 5 and they are into fnaf. It blows my mind.

I think to extend the idea of fnaf having dream logic, I’ve had many dreams where I knew something was going to get me and I had no chance of getting away. I would try to close my eyes and roll into a ball just to not have to witness whatever it was that will kill me but no matter what I did, I would see a jumpscare of sorts as if my eyelids were transparent. The death screen when you run out of power in fnaf 1 is very reminiscent of that feeling.

By Christian lore, being in Purgatory is waaaaaayyy better than hell, so William is literally in Hell

was this the vaush of 87?!

I missed my baby brother’s first Christmas for this stream. Thanks Vaush!

"how does this dreck titillate you" is the most reddit thing i've ever seen a chatter say holy hell

I have an irrational phobia of specifically the image of Golden Freddy from Fnaf 1 before he crashes your game and I have no idea why or where it came from

Mangle is the og gender fluid cuz half the time Scott calls it he and the other half he calls it her

FNaF is the modern-day, zoomer equivalent of Goosebumps at this point imo

As a person who loves this franchise, I love your criticisms. You are really accurate and I've never noticed the lack of strength in every jumpscare after the 4th one.

I love how respectful and respectable he is, this is my first video by him that I am watching and I love his genuine answers and how he talks about certain things, just subscribed and probably going to watch more of Vaush’s videos from now on! 💯

This is relatable, I love this video because i relate to it since I am also autistic with hyperfixation on fnaf

So this is were the police hang out on duty

33:11 if I remember correctly. The first three fnafs had 3d scenes, but they were rendered in game as flat 2d renders but curved around the "camera". So they had that distinctly 2d feel (things can't change in real time, so they're masked with static or light flickers), still allowing somewhat of a 3d view. which is why a lot of the jumpscares feel weird. Because they're basically a new layer on top of a 2d canvas. In 4 the whole thing is rendered like a traditional game.

Vaush love you. This is the second seemingly random thing that you've done that I share with you. 1.) I'm not really deep into FNAF, but I did find myself watching Markiplier playing Security Breach 2.) the other thing was when you went through a random tangent about finding the best underwear the one with the blue stripe at the top that they no longer maker, and switching to meundies. I was blown away when you told that story -seriously went through the same process 😳

Fnaf VR has the worst jumpscare animation but the best in effectiveness since VR gets you scared the most

One thing you'll notice about the original FNAF's jumpscares which is present in almost no other FNAF games jumpscares if the shaking of the camera. FNAF 2, the very next game featured very jarring, weightless animations, and it's partly because there is very little effort put into them (probably because Scott pumped FNAF 2-4 in literally less than a year after the original)

This video was literally my gateway drugs into leftist politics

I think the idea behind the jumpscares in ultimate custom night is that previous ones didn’t have enough of the startle factor, they were too static so they just went ham on the shaking and ignored quality in other areas.

this is legit the best content ever i love it. i love just genuine analyzing of media properties we like like this.

Here in case the cop comes back to the vid and reads the comments.

Not gonna lie, I just think FNAF never really captured what actually made those old Chuck E Cheese animatronics so unnerving. Instead they originally captured more of the unnerving nature of 90s 3d animation. Unfortunately, after the first game, he seemed to be more interested in making the models generically creepy rather than capture some sort of uncanniness. He even seemed to just want them to look cool/iconic rather than creepy. I think he either needed to double down on the 90s 3d model creepiness, or the animatronic creepiness to be genuinely creepy.

Vaush: I"ve read all theory The theory:

ive never ever watched anything vaush has made, but I just sat through two hours of him talking about fnaf

the content ive been WAITING FOR!

Now he needs to cover the lore of the games

22:09 ah so what your basically saying is I'm dead