Why Does Golden Freddy's Hat Change Color? - FNAF Theory 

For the brown hat I feel like the colour was chosen because a black hat in a black background just wouldn’t work. The comparison between golden Freddy and the puppet and baby is such a fantastic idea

This is actually so clever. How did we not see this before??? The animatronic colors/details changing once possession happens was established in SL and reiterated in FNAF 6, both instances were Scott clarifying the hat change shown by FNAF 4

Personally I think the brown hat color for Golden Freddy is just because the minigame’s background is black. My main evidence for this is because he still has a black bowtie, and if his top hat was black, you wouldn’t be able to see it. Also the brown hat only appears in this one minigame, so I don’t think that it means anything.

Honestly i think that it is just because he is eroding over the years, so the paint on his hat and bowtie starts going away

4:28 Thank you for reiterating this. There are some who are still saying that HW retconned the prior games to never have been real despite everything you said here being revealed in HW itself.

(Gets to 2:32-2:42) So basically Golden Freddy's accessories reflect the hair colour of the kid possessing it at the time? Ya, makes sense. (Cassidy's Black Hair, and CC's Brown Hair) I actually posted this theory on reddit a while back, that "The Black Accessories are Golden Freddy's tearstreaks". Especially since they and the puppet are the only ones with serious super natural powers. (The others CAN do supernatural stuff, like blinking lights and Twitching, but not teleporting or floating) As per that theory, I suggested that since Cassidy was stuck in an immovable suit, and that their desire to "MOVE!!" the suit with no endo caused them to gain the ability of teleportation. Same with Charlie's floating mimicking how the puppet is supposed to be floating, via strings on the ceiling (not a jack in the box, but more moving on the ceiling). Both of them being in an animatronic, unable to move, either due to rain and not being on their rail system, stopping it from working, OR by being in a Suitmode Springlock Suit. No endo = No skeleton to move the body. Only able to twitch it, like in the final UCN cutscene. (Springtrap can walk normally, since his is in animatronic mode)

I think the reason that the hat is brown when the crying child is possessing it is because Evan has brown hair, and then when Cassidy is possessing it she has black hair so the colour of the hat changes from brown to black because of the change of hair colour

That urge of FNaF fans to overthink every single detail they notice

Real reason golden Freddy gets up goes to the store, buys a new hat, goes back, and gets too tired to stand up.

I think the brown hat is because the mini games all have black backgrounds so it would’ve blended in si they had to make it a close color to black, brown

I noticed that whenever some form of golden freddy or fredbear appears in the main game, it always matches with the design of the rest of the animatronics, even yenndo could technically count as golden freddy considering his behavior, he's a freddy endoskeleton and he has yellow eyes

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Based on matpats timeline the bear in those posters was never apart of fazbear entertainment but rather a separate attraction in the 30's that inspired William to create the company. So my guess is that the hat was added to that poster to make the bear look friendly rather than something fazbear entertainment is trying to cover up

Glamrock Freddy's bowtie was also originally purple and was later painted black. The original purple paint can be seen when Freddy's paint starts to wither as the game progresses

Honestly, I do really like the idea that something on Golden Freddy changes once he’s possessed, and the hat and bow tie are really good examples of potentially that happening. That said, I always thought that Fazbear just like, repainted them as a rebrand; we know they used the Springlock suits in Freddy’s because Phone Guy (who barely even remembers Fredbear’s name) instructs employees on how to use them, but why would they use Fredbear, the one that crushed a child’s head in his jaw? As for the brown hat uhh idk he wanted to make it visible on a black background? Who knows, FNaF1 Bonnie is blue in the minigames so I’m not losing sleep over it personally. What I AM losing sleep over is why he looks so different in FNaF2. Like UCN Fredbear (and presumably OG Fredbear) and FNaF1 Golden Freddy I can accept as a redesign, but the ‘withered’ Golden Freddy? I have no clue for that dude, why he changes back or why he changes in the first place

Hey the security logbook art with the puppet could be explained by the logbook being made in the FNaF 3 era, so those making the logbook may be unaware that the puppet didn't have them at one point (or only learned after the art was completed)

0:55 FNaF 3 and FNaF 4 together suggest that there are at least two sets of Springlock animatronics, as Freddy's and Fredbear's both had instances of Fredbear and Spring Bonnie. Obviously, Fredbear's had them as their main stars, but FNaF 3's phone calls also were all about the Fredbear and Spring Bonnie Springlock suits before and after their use was discontinued, and Fredbear's seems like a perfect place to be the "sister location" that had a springlock failure that caused Freddy's to stop using them (not talking about the Bite in this case, as it was not in Suit mode to begin with there). 1:30 I personally think Brown Hat exists for clarity - after all, that minigame takes place on a black background, a black hat wouldn't show up at all there. The black bow-tie is sort of shown with its white shine, but the hat is the most important part of the shape/accessories. That's a cool bit about the company altering the merch to fit with the new designs in order to cover up spirit-induced design changes. That has been adopted into my headcanon now.

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I never thought about that, I always just thought that it was just a redesign or Golden Freddy was a different version of Fredbear or not a Fredbear at all. Very good theory!

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The effect of the souls changing the animatronic could explain the withereds looking _completely_ different in fnaf 2.

i always assumed the hat going from brown to purple was the same reason his eyes go from black with white irises to white with brown irises basically being that the brown hat/black eyes was when fredbears first opened and the animatronics werent as colorful/friendly enough looking yet but got better over time

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Fredbear in the ucn and golden Freddy in fnaf 1 have so many differences in their designs….

He simply changed hats

Wow, I never considered this. Good theory :3

Amazing Video!

fun fact the UCN fredbear actually has slight differences from fnaf 1 freddy body, (if I remember correctly the nose is bigger, but I believe there is more details besides that)

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You’re overthinking tf out of it

Finally!! i knew i wasn't the only one with this same theory

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ive noticed that there is a fall fest poster with puppet in the background as a scarecrow and it also has the tears

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Love this!!!

Nice theory!

It’s really funny listening to that last tangent asking us if we think Fazbear is covering up and pretending as if you’re talking about a real company after the fact

Happy knowing I'm not the only one who acknowledges Fredbear's brown hat.

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This is a really valid theory! I cant find any flaws honestly

I enjoy looking at fnaf lore from a narrative pov, and I always just said there were multiple suits ( one purple, one black ) but I never noticed the third version! This is a good theory

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I always thought Golden Freddy and Fredbear were two different characters

To be honest, I always thought that the purple hat was a swap for the brown one. And then I thought that, because of the fact that Fredbear was wearing a purple hat when the accident happened, they felt no urge to change the suit. Purple might fade to black with rust, maybe? I wasn't sure when it came to that part, although the agony part fits so well. So confusing, so complicated, so FNaF!!!

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I think its because for a long time fredbear is old, so maybe the hat is still purple but since the hat is super old it looks like its black but its not

I think Golden Freddy is the spirits' memory of Fredbear. Because these are like, kids basically that couldn't remember much other than their deaths and the circumstances surrounding it. I don't think that's how he looked, I think it's just what they remember him to be, as well as being based off of the current location's Freddy, because yk being kids they'd likely be like "Oh here's Freddy right here that's probably what he looked like or something idk"

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yeah this makes a lot of sense.

I think that the crying child possesses the fredbear with the purple and brown hat and bow tie while Cassidy possesses the black one. You might be asking, “why does the crying child possess two different color hats, that makes no sense!” But remember, Fazbear Entertainment loves to conceal events that have happened in the past. So they most likely rebranded Fredbear to Golden Freddy after the bite and made his bow tie and hat brown. But I think that when Cassidy entered the suit, the crying child was kicked out of it. Because it makes sense that a greater collection of agony will push out the smaller one, so I think the crying child took the little bit of agony he had left to make Shadow Freddy. Shadow Freddy isn’t known to attack the night guard. As we all know that shadow Freddy’s model is a one to one copy of Withered Golden Freddy’s model except it’s purple. And I also don’t think Withered Golden Freddy from FNaF 2 is a springlock suit anymore, sense he was probably being remodeled but then abandoned after the toys were said to be made. So it couldn’t be a springlock victim, but then that brings up another question, how in the world does Shadow Bonnie exist?

I always tought the brown hat was simply to be distingable from the background

Different hats for different occasions

fazbear entertaiment is currently drinking coffee

I’d say they just likes collecting hats

Btw, I do believe in the Golden Duo Theory, but then I got a dream I swear was a vision and it was telling me that CC was now Golden Freddy meaning In The End(Dropping a Linkin Park ref for no reason) CC is now only controlling GF while Casiddy is with William because of UCN. Don't know what's happening between them now like if one or both moved on now or if it's the same. Btw, I get visions of both the past and future in the form of dreams sometimes, but most of the time awake. They are so random... as random as my forgetfulness ;-;

The posters do have purple hats and bow ties look at the reflection on them

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this is the most accurate theory of fredbear I've ever seen

I though his hat was brown in the mini game bc the backround is black and if they made his hat black you wouldn’t be able to see it

1:43 the blue represents the crying child the red represents Cassidy

If you look at the reflections in the security breach posters for Fredbear’s you will see that the reflections are purple so it is just a very dark purple

first of all, I do believe what others have said, that the brown hat is just a design choice for the minigame itself. Aside from that I do like the theory of the color changing due to agony, however my head canon has always been that after CC got bitten they had chosen to scrap the og Fredbear and replace him with one that had a closer resemblance to Freddy in order to cover up. Considering the MCI took place in 1985 (going off the books) than that should be plenty of time for them to swap him out so Cassidy can possess him. That could mean that there are still 2 souls possessing Fredbear, just not in the way we initially thought. Again, just my head canon, there may be some random detail that I forgot.

For me, Golden Freddy and Fredbear are different for me, Why? Fredbear in UCN Has a different head shape, belly, and different size. Golden Freddy Is basically just Freddy with a yellow body and nothing else.

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I always assumed that the black hat design was because Yellow Bear (called "Golden Freddy" by the fans) is simply a recolor of Freddy Fazbear without changing the saturation. I thought that the purple design was to tell Fredbear apart from Yellow Bear, as if Yellow Bear is just a ghost, and Fredbear an actual mascot that existed. As for the brown tophat, I simply thought that it was an artistic choice since it is just a minigame. I back this up with the fact that William Afton is not actually purple, that is just a minigame artistic choice to say that somone is in the shadows. However, this is all just theories. I really liked your video since it covers an aspect that is often overlooked.

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Honestly i think fredbear and golden freddy are different animatronics, and golden freddy was just the freddys springlock suit, which many locations had, and the brown hat rotted to black over time, also golden freddy was planned to be used again in fnaf 1 but wasnt finished, but thats just my theory

Not a bad theory, IMO i feel like black hat Fredbear is the very very early design of him, the purple hat could've originated once they planned to extend the cast As for the brown hat? I feel like it's the result of Scott wanting to give Fredbear a different design than Golden Freddy, and came up with the purple hat during FNAF 4 development

Here’s my take (I’m commenting this at the beginning of the video so if it lines up it’s just a coincidence) Fredbear had originally a purple hat, after the bite fazbear entertainment tried to rebrand fredbear by giving him a brown hat and possibly changing his name, then the murders happen (as seen in the Fnaf 3 mini game), so they try to rebrand him one more time giving him a black hat and bow tie, but they decide to scrap it and just throw it backstage. This theory also makes sense as well, but let’s be honest, this is probably just Scott being inconsistent 😂

Well, also a theory is burntrap is the mimic.

I always took the Fredbear’s brown hat as a stylistic thing like William being purple

It could also be that fazbear entertainment has different fredbear heads for different occasions cuz in the fnaf 4 minigames when crying child goes into the parts and service room there's a spare springbonnie and fredbear head thats different from the ones that are on the stage and in the minigames you see William helping a employee in a springbonnie suit

I just think that fredbear and golden Freddy are different animatronics, alright hear me out, the crying child is fredbear and golden Freddy had a brown hat but after Cassidy took over golden Freddy his hat turned black and fredbear is still out there rotting, but that’s just a theory A GAME THEORY and cut.

Another thing to possibly consider is the official sanshee plush called “possessed” Fredbear that has the purple hat

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Fredbear with the brown hat was from the earlier days purple hat was used in 1983 and the black hat because it was first it could have been a design choice and golden freddy could have been changed with the possession of the animatronic

The difference between the fnaf 1 animatronics and the withereds is just scott loves redesigns

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Have you considered that perhaps Scott didn't think to hard about the color of the hat of the quirky yellow bear that doesn't have consistent models/appearance throughout the games.

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the purple hat was for the original Fred bear then the bite of 83 happened so they wanted to cover it all up so they switched their color pallet from yellow and purple to yellow and brown and they also changed the deign of Fred bear so they made Fred bear 2.0 which is the one you see in fnaf 1 so that represents the brown hat and when the crying child was trying to change his appearance he made his hat black

i think the stage 01 minigame from fnaf 3 might have taken place WAYYYYY back before the bite of 83, for example: chuck e cheese animatronics designs can be changed when they're getting older. i think the minigame takes place probably in 70s, but hey! thats just my theory.

i like this theory!

Puppet also gets those stripes on her limbs from Charlie as seen in fnaf 6 in the security Puppet mini game

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I always just assumed Fazbear Entertainment swapped the accessories to black ones after the bite so people don’t recognize him. I also never thought of anything for the brown one.

If the Crying Child possesses Golden Freddy, would there even be a Gregory? Or coming from SB and the books, would Gregory be a digital minded clone of Crying Child?

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In the covering up bit i think thay realised fredbear’s hat was black and thay just remade the posters with a black hat to forget the bite of 83

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Regarding 5:54 (sorry for bad timestamp) I think it's for the night guards, other staff, people that enter the abandoned pizzerias or, maybe, the actual police. Because there will be almost always that one guy who would notice the most insignificant detail. If people find out about those details, they will ask questions. If you (the franchise) say that you just changed the hat and bow tie of gf, they would ask more questions "why?" "Why would you change the hat of a broken animatronic" etc. I know what i just said doesn't make any sense, i only hope the idea will help you find a better one🧍

I LOVE THIS THEORY!

Happiest day may break the golden duo theory. As of pizzeria simulator someone was saved in the happiest day mini game in Fnaf 3 but we know for sure it wasn't the puppet or the original 4 mascots meaning it could ONLY be the one late to the party: Golden Freddy. This could mean the crying child was put to rest explaining Cassidy having an agony fuelled rampage in ucn as her partner was no longer around to calm her down, something eluded to buy old man consequences who tells her; 'leave the demon to his demons, rest YOUR OWN SOUL there is NOTHING ELSE.' this implies that Cassidy is the ONLY active soul left and is keeping herself active with a potent mix of rage and agony gleaned from the fleeting remaining remnants, rage and agony are two emotions that can be used by remnants to taint objects in the living world.

Here’s mine:there are 3 sprits.cassidy Andrew and Evan/c.c.when Cassidy is in control the hat and bow tie is black.when Andrew is in control it’s brown.when Evan is in control there purple

Interesting theory, though I personally think that's because Golden Freddy is not related to Fredbear at all. Both are a complete different animatronic, for my theory is that Golden Freddy is the original Freddy Fazbear designed to replace the image of Fredbear after the bite of 83 but due to the damage already done to the Fredbear family diner they abounded the idea all together including the yellow color and springlocks. This idea can be supported by both Shadow Freddy and Phantom Freddy, despite the fact that they have **FREDDY** in their name they take the shape of Withered Golden Freddy. If Golden Freddy was related to Fredbears that means Shadow Freddy would also be the manifestation of Fredbear appearance, in conclusion RWQFS would also should have taken shape of Springbonnie instead rather than a Bonnie animatronic. The reason why fnaf 2 withered golden freddy looks way different than fnaf 1, that is because he was never remodeled unlike the originals instead he was either scrapped or thrown away. But the agony and the ascended conscience of the 5th child didn't pass away to heaven not until they murder Afton which ended up with them taking a more hallucination form of Freddy. AKA Ghost Freddy, this idea can also be supported in fnaf world on how Golden Freddy is using Ghost Freddy as an attack. If we take a look at fnaf 3 minigames its clear that all the four animatronics had to be killed out of their physical body to take the spiritual shape.. but not Golden Freddy he was already a ghost when we get to play as him this already gives more proof that fnaf 1 golden freddy was never a physical animatronic instead a hallucination form taken and manifested to Freddy appearance mainly because Withered golden Freddy looked like withered freddy. In conclusion Withered freddy was modeled after Golden Freddy when Golden Freddy was scrapped which identifies Golden Freddy as corpse, this also gives us an idea on why Golden Freddy is in a shape that crosses between Fredbear and Freddy that is due to the fact that he is actually the one to fill the middle hole. Edit: My bad if this is too long, you don't have to read if you don't like paragraphs. Edit 2: Also the counterpoint for brown hat, that is because it fits better with the black background. On Marionette case she is meant to be black which leaves scott with no choice but to go with grey as a decision, with the grey logic the shadow animatronics and PURPLE Guy himself should have been the color grey to either represent the color black or shadow but no they are purple to be more appealing to eye like the color brown. The brown hat is not canon and was not meant to be taken serious to the physical appearance that is why it was never used, just like springbonnie skin color and stuff. Edit 3: And for the posters, I agree with you. Its all covering things up just like why Golden Freddy came to existence and Freddy Fazbear. Edit 4: And UCN is not canon, and its already been debunked on why its not canon. It does contain certain puzzle pieces but overall its just a game created to challenge the player. FINAL EDIT: And a bit more proof for my statement, fnaf 1 Golden Freddy behaves like a ghost variant of Freddy implying that he was once the original.