The FNAF Lore Explained in 487 Seconds (Full Series) 

"And that's everything we know!" FNAF 3, the original book trioogy, the movie, FNAF VR, FNAF SB: *hands on hips

I love how unironicly accurate your video is compared to other fnaf lore in 60 second videos.

the first few seconds caught me off guard 💀

The way everything is accurate and technically inaccurate at the same time is actually hilarious

Thanks for turning 8 shorts into one video, really appreciate it

"the apple-ton family" ah yes, the family who has TONS of APPLES 💀

Respect to the kid in the green shirt who randomly ran past William every 10 seconds 😂

5:03 THE SOUND EFFECT MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD

0:31 it says 25/7, theres always been an extra hour, but only Afton knew

4:56 It was a strange endoskeleton that had the ability to *M I M I C* voices to lure people into his lair. caught me off guard 💀

All awesome content, truly. One question, though: what do Help Wanted and Security Breach have to do with ANY of this? Is it just a new set of characters? An alternate universe entirely?

At first glance, you will likely not mistake Five Nights at Freddy’s to be the work of an arthouse auteur. Designed by Scott Cawthon, a reclusive programmer from Texas who hasn’t conducted an interview in years, its rudiments are famously brainless. The first entry in the series - released in 2014, long before the brand was big enough to receive a film adaptation - is a horror game stripped to its loudest, dumbest essentials. You’re working the night shift at a haunted children’s pizzeria in the Chuck E. Cheese mold where the rickety animatronic band comes to life after dark and hunts for prey. The player sits at a computer and monitors an array of security cameras while attempting to stymie the approach of the bloodthirsty mascots. Fail and you’ll be met with a terrible, mind-piercing jump scare: a demonic facsimile of Helen Henny or Mr. Munch crashing through your screen with murder burning in their cold, dead eyes. So Five Nights at Freddy’s is pulp. It’s camp. It’s proudly low-culture and far removed from the work of an Aster or an Eggers, who imbue their ghost stories with high-concept psychedelic dread - motifs stacked upon motifs - of familial abuse, toxic masculinity, oedipal psychodrama, and so on. However, if you dig below the surface, as millions of fans have, an alternative truth begins to reveal itself. Because Five Nights at Freddy’s is also one of the most complex horror stories ever written, though much of its narrative is etched in unseen places: furtive cutscenes, recursive symbols, keystone clues slotted into hidden alcoves. Taken all together, Five Nights at Freddy’s is capable of generating the sort of hallucinatory fan theories you’d expect from the biggest Severance diehards, or that friend you have from college who still swears that The Shining is a metaphor for a faked moon landing. If you stumble across the rabbit hole, there’s a good chance you’ll tumble down, too. “You could play through one of the early games of Five Nights at Freddy’s in about three hours. But as you do it, you’d fixate on these small details. The number of buttons on an animatronic, or a background detail shifting based on your camera angle, things like that,” said Matthew Patrick, better known by his RU-vid alias MatPat, who is the foremost Five Nights at Freddy’s thinker in the world. “It’s all told through atmospheric storytelling. It had never been done before. In a lot of other games, if a character has extra toes or whatever, you’d just assume that the developer forgot, or that it’s a bug or whatever. But in Five Nights at Freddy’s, there are no coincidences. It felt like each of those details was an intentional choice leading you to a different part of the story.”Five Nights at Freddy’sFive Nights at FreddyPatrick describes his Five Nights at Freddy’s coverage as a full-time job. His RU-vid channel, The Game Theorists, has published dozens of different videos - meted out in 30-ish-minute episodes - deciphering the many cryptic tendrils of the series’ lore, all of which routinely achieve millions of views. I have no chance of effectively distilling the whole scope of the franchise’s narrative; there is simply too much of it, and the specifics will always be shrouded in constant fan debate. (The 18th game in the franchise is scheduled for release later this year.) But basically: Five Nights at Freddy’s tells the story of a serial killer, and his degenerate family, who prowled through a chain of family pizza restaurants - the Freddy’s in question - in the 1980s. The killer was named William Afton, and his modus operandi was to abduct a child and hide their bodies in the fursuits of the animatronic performers. Afton was never caught, and the spirits of those victims melded with the Freddy’s cast - which is why they seek vengeance in the fiction.

This series took monthssssssssss, and it was worth it. One of my favorite fnaf lore series videos 👍

0:01 Another motive for hate William Appleton

William Appleton, the furry who thrives of furry role-playing

5:12 William: remember son, dying is gay Michael: Yes dad.

I remember this being a mainly meme channel. Talk about a character arc. Cool vid

I love how you say “He exploded” so calmly

2:00 "nineteen, EIGHTYSEVEN"💀

“Infinite level of charm” is crazy

I think the one he shouldn't have killed was Cassidy.

I love this video. thanks s much Johnny for all of your hard work

4:57 MIMIC

“A theory A GAME THEORY” -matpat I will miss you matpat

I liked how instead of you placing the event of Elizabeth’s scooping in chronological events, you mentioned it through Michaels flashback before HE got scooped, because we dumdums can’t agree on when she gone done SCOOPED

This is the best way to learn the Fnaf Lore

I'd really like to know where security breach comes into all of this

Yeah....letting the scrap squad have free reign ober utah probably isnt a great idea

i was totally going to compile these videos yesterday, you beat me to it

matpat needs 2 hours, this man needs 8 minutes

Imagine being killed by an animatronic and then you get out but your put in time out😂

3:16 THE SOUND 💀💀💀

That explains 4:58 the mimic from security breach ruin DLC

2:35 its not just a theory ITS A GAME THEORY

bro called henry a minion💀 and the please deposit five coins caught me offguard

really sums this up, thanks bro XD

The lore gets a bit quirky at night

So what ever happened to the puppeteer? All I know is that it was supposed to protect the kids or Henry’s daughter, but was it actually possessed by anyone?

0:19 Oh that is horrifying

Something you missed is that in fnaf six is that Henry didn’t trap Michael, Micheal agreed to cleft that animatronics and then they would burn down the pizzeria an Mike would finally die after completing his life’s goal

This complex and mysteriousl story is a compelling tale of good and evil from the souls of the dead young children helping each other for revenge this vengeful attack marks the end of a killer this is a excellent piece of art

Can someone explain to me the end I’m so confused. I thought after Henry burned the scrap squad William left a chip or whatever of basically him on it and Clara tried to rebuild William by having a VR game where glitchtrap infected Vanessa and like what happened to everything Clara did

Bro exploded at 7:58 💀

"He's a furry "caught me off guard 💀💀💀💀

I swear to god micheal always gets the spider man treatment he just has constant trauma and a indomitable will

Pov: Being an Undead Furry For 90+ Years and Not Getting Out Pov: Being an Person That Was Been Stuck In a Infinite Purgatory

Thank you, I finally got to know The Fnaf Lore💀

Matpat is gonna kill himself after this

2:14 I didn't know that the phone guy is actually called the fungi

“Please deposit 5 coins” The stuff of nightmares

5:11 bro came back 😳😳😳😳

The entirety of the original trilogy has left the chat

Guess who’s back guess who’s back guess who’s back

After that in Fnaf ruins he is back like he always is he always comes back

William is always gonna come back as a furry, whether its a furry suit from wish. Talking about you scraptrap.

Alternate title: FNaF lore explained in one thumbnail

U did great just like always

This is canon

amazing video! I can finally explain the fnaf lore to my date

0:00 This is William Appleton. Hes a furry

"So in nineteen EIGHTY SEVEN ??!"

The fact that the shorts loop and go into each other is awesome Edit: I always return inexplicably

At this point William afton deserves to be more free than Cassidy ☠️☠️☠️

Thanks now I can show this to my parents so they understand the lore 😀

4:58 MIMIC

(this video is great) Yall early gang here.! ⬇️

William wasn’t going to heaven in the first place💀

6:05 Fr tho😭

“So Michael had to look after Evan 25/7” not correct😂😂😂

Well in 6:50 The one that he shouldn’t have killed doenst control the withered Bonnie btw

“William’s fursona” 💀

0:30 he’s causing the MCI

ah yes,the appletons the apple family with THEEOORYYS in LONDON a family that caused the "the apple bite" that happened in 1983🇬🇧☕️

William is not a furry he IS A RABBIT BACK in the dayd

mike actually couldve escaped but didnt for THE LORE

You didn’t go over fnaf 3

2 questions. Isn't FNAF 2 before FNAF 1? If so then why in the video did Henry Emily rebrand the FNAF 1 restaurant into the FNAF 2 restaurant. FNAF 2 takes place before FNAF 1. And this question isn't about the video but since FNAF takes place before FNAF 2 then how does Evan Afton have nightmares about Nightmarionne (Nightmare Puppet) and Nightmare Mangle if FNAF 4 is before FNAF 2. Mangle and The Marionette didn't exist in FNAF 4.

2:00 anyone else feel like this could be a spamton voice line thingies?

Golden Freddy’s real name is Cassidy

ITS BEEN SOO LONG sorry, i just felt nostalgic

0:19 ayo afton you good??

What dose the William say hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop

1:38 GAME THEORY

Security Breach left the chat.

The “I aWaYs cOme BacK” killed me

Where’s the scrap trap designed from? Looks amazing

Don't Wanna Be Mean But You Forgot About FNAF 3

Furry role-playing had me dead

Insanity speedrun

4:04 H A L F W A Y L O L

2:11 ah yes the fungi list

“I always come back”

All I learned from this was that you should never trust a furry, like me.

I should’ve known William Afton was a furry. It was all too obvious. Also, the scrap squad is one of the best team names I’ve ever heard

I ALWAYS RETURN INEXPLICABLY! -William Appleton

Doesn't mean you like dressing in animal costumes doesn't make you a furry

Cassidy was the spirit in golden freddy (one of them) that tortured william

I alway come back

Genuine question: WHAT'S THE ORIGIN OF THAT DAMN WILLIAM PIC?!

William Appleton always grows back 🍎🍎