00:00fredbear's Family Diner this is where it
00:03all began the animatronic Empire the
00:06string of deaths and Williams's descent
00:08into madness everything stemmed from
00:11this one location or at least that's
00:13what we all thought until
00:17today hello Internet welcome to Game
00:20Theory where it is finally time today I
00:24graduate from FNAF boy to FNAF man and
00:26take on my very first FNAF Theory
00:29although I say that I have actually been
00:31helping Matt write FNAF theories for the
00:33past 3 years thanks Tom thanks safe
00:35flight back I didn't get to talk to you
00:37about Gregory as a robot all right I
00:39mean to be fair that was both of our sin
00:41but you know I threw something out my
00:43first math the I threw something out
00:44there Gregor is a robot first FNAF
00:46Theory and look how well received it's
00:47been look how good that's gone for all
00:49of us it's done so well for all of us
00:51yeah what could possibly go wrong but
00:54don't worry theorists I promise today's
00:56theory is way less crazy hopefully
00:59because today I'm going to be tackling
01:01one simple teeny tiny detail that I
01:03think is really important to
01:05understanding this franchise H Wanted 2
01:07was full of Collectibles most of which
01:09you get from a prize machine after you
01:11beat a mini game some are set prizes
01:12that relate to the level you just
01:14completed like a sun figure for beating
01:15the first daycare Mission or a meat
01:17pretzel for beating the Fazbear theater
01:19however after you beat the game there
01:20are some extra prizes to collect that
01:22are given to you at random when you
01:23replay a stage usually this is just
01:25extra plushies models or food but
01:28sometimes you get posters and one one of
01:30these posters stood out above all the
01:32rest it ends up on the back wall right
01:34next to the Faz wrench entrance for the
01:36princess Quest mini game it's a poster
01:38promoting fallfest 1970 now to the FNAF
01:41Community fallfest is nothing new we
01:43first saw this name pop up almost 5
01:45years ago in the curse of dread bad DLC
01:47for the original had wanted a Halloween
01:49inspired event full of attractions rides
01:51and of course spooky versions of all our
01:53favorite characters to fit in with the
01:54Halloween theme but there is one crucial
01:57difference between this fo Fest and the
01:59one we see on the post from help wanted
02:00to the date the banners around the curse
02:02of dreadbear Hub World showed that this
02:04event was taking place in 1983 but this
02:07new poster is from over a decade before
02:10this whole fallfest thing has clearly
02:12been running for a very long time in
02:14fact it's been running since before the
02:16earliest confirmed parts of the FNAF
02:18timeline in the silver eyes when Charlie
02:19is looking for news articles on
02:20fredbear's Family Diner she starts the
02:22search at 1979 seeming to imply that
02:25this was when the dino was founded but
02:27that is nine whole years after after
02:30this poster was published and that's not
02:31all look at the design of this poster
02:33while it's advertising forfest it's not
02:35inherently spooky like the event we see
02:37for the curse of dreadbear instead it
02:38has ainal elements but it's mostly
02:40designed to look like an old two-tone
02:43circus poster complete with a giant
02:45circus tent right in the middle and this
02:46isn't the first time steel will has
02:48offered us hints that circuses might be
02:50important to this franchise there's the
02:51mini games in H22 like the Carousel and
02:53fazer blast there's the circus costumes
02:55that are down in the basement of Ruin
02:57there's even circus themed Funko merch
02:59clearly Steel Ste will is beating us
03:00over the head with this circus thing for
03:02a reason but why well back in 2022 in
03:05the buildup to security breach's Xbox
03:07Port steel will did an interview with
03:08game jolt to talk about how they made
03:10security breach give some updates on
03:11ruins development and drop some little
03:13hints towards what might be coming down
03:15the pipeline for them and the FNAF
03:16franchise and when asked what kind of
03:18game they'd like to make in the future
03:20they said this one thing that I've I've
03:22always would love to do is get back to
03:24kind of like the origin of like fazar
03:27entertainment kind of see how things
03:28were made same here I'd like to head
03:30further back into the 70s they want to
03:33create a game about the origins of
03:35Freddy's set in the' 70s most of us at
03:37the time assumed this would just be
03:39fredbear's Family Diner but with all
03:40this circus imagery popping up it begs
03:42the question what if fredbear's Family
03:44Diner wasn't the origin of Freddy's What
03:47If instead it was this circus forfest
03:501970 and once I realized that things
03:53started to fall into place this poster
03:55is the key to clarifying some massive
03:57holes in the FNAF timeline it confirms a
03:59number of things we've been predicting
04:00for a while and it shines a little more
04:02light on the franchise's latest villain
04:04come to think of it maybe this isn't
04:06such a small Theory after all whoops so
04:08you better grab your popcorn theorist
04:10because the show is about to begin and
04:12I'm going to reveal to you the true
04:14origins of Freddy's but just before we
04:18get into that I need to talk to you
04:19about something else that's really
04:20important it's something you may have
04:21seen if you watch our own sister
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04:25exciting theorist event coming up we are
04:27putting on a fashion show it's called
04:29create hater in fashion and it is the
04:31first of its kind not just because a
04:33fashion show has never been done on
04:34YouTube before although that is pretty
04:36cool but because we're getting weird
04:38with it how weird well the first Runway
04:40of the night is going to be FNAF themed
04:42you heard that right we've had FNAF
04:44games a FNAF movie A FNAF cookbook and
04:46now FNAF is completing the theorist
04:47Gauntlet and getting a FNAF Runway
04:50although if you've ever bought a high
04:51quality FNAF merch FNAF being high
04:53fashion may not be that surprising but
04:54what might be surprising is what
04:56creators we have planned for the event
04:57it's called creators in fashion after
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05:00spotlighting creators from all corners
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05:11up to strut their stuff we've got simply
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05:14and the whole thing is going to be
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05:18Trisha herburger talk about star power
05:20but of course we couldn't do a fashion
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05:23little theorist Antics going on besides
05:25the FNAF Runway we've also got dogs
05:27walking the runway and no I'm not just
05:29talking about ay I mean literal dogs
05:31strutting up and down and I'm not lying
05:33to you when I say they look both
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06:15there but for now let's Get Off The
06:17Runway and head back to the circus now I
06:20understand there may be some hesitancy
06:21in me changing up the entire beginning
06:23of the timeline I get it it's a pretty
06:25big claim and while there have been a
06:27number of hints towards circuses
06:28throughout the games and books it
06:29doesn't necessarily mean that's where
06:31this whole thing started so let's take a
06:33look at one of the more recent examples
06:34of the circus being hinted at so I can
06:36show you where I'm coming from in the
06:38basement of the ruined DLC where you
06:39find the mimic there are two costumes
06:41hanging up an old lady Blackbird and an
06:43elephant dressed as a clown in the game
06:45files there's also a lion wearing a
06:46varsity jacket three animals all
06:48associated with the circus elephants
06:50often perform tricks lions were
06:52regularly tamed by lion Tamers and while
06:54crows or black birds aren't
06:55traditionally circus animals they do
06:57often appear in Circus focused media
06:59like Disney's Dumbo plus the elephant is
07:01literally dressed as a clown it doesn't
07:03get more circusy than that but the most
07:05important part isn't actually their
07:06circus theming it's the fact they aren't
07:08animatronic suits in our initial theory
07:10on ruin we talked about how these
07:12costumes seem to be related to Circus
07:14babies because you know circus however
07:16when circus baby's entertainment and
07:18rentals or even circus baby's Pizza
07:19world was due to launch they were all
07:21animatronics and complex ones at that
07:23why then would they have physical
07:25costumes they wouldn't unless these
07:27costumes actually came from something
07:29Circus theme that was before
07:31animatronics were part of this franchise
07:33in the mimic not the robot the tales
07:36from the pizzza Plex story named after
07:38him we learn of a character named Edwin
07:39who owns a robotics company getting big
07:41off of making a robot vacuum cleaner
07:43however with the birth of his son the
07:45death of his wife and then the crippling
07:47pressure of running his own business he
07:48decides to sell the company to none
07:50other than Fazbear entertainment why
07:52does Fazbear agree to purchase because
07:54they want Edwin for his robotics
07:56knowledge specifically they want him to
07:58turn their character costumes into
08:00full-blown animatronics we've seen him
08:02do exactly this with chica in the first
08:04few pages of the story later on he goes
08:06on to explain that this is the 18th
08:08character he'd been asked to create
08:10describing the collection as quotes a
08:11circus-like array of animal and other
08:14character costumes circus like you say
08:17we believed for a long time that Edwin
08:18is the book's parallel for Henry the
08:20animatronic genius that helped Afton to
08:22grow Fazbear into the animatronic Empire
08:24we know today so the circus themed
08:26costumes we see in the basement of Ruin
08:27likely came from that same time period a
08:30period where Henry was transforming
08:31costumes into animatronics and these
08:33costumes aren't Henry's only connection
08:35to the circus either when Charlie goes
08:37back to her childhood home in the silver
08:38eyes she looks through Henry's office
08:40and finds an assortment of books that
08:41quote would have seemed eclectic to
08:43anyone who didn't know the man there
08:44were books on biology and Anatomy some
08:46on human beings others on animals there
08:48were books about the history of the
08:50traveling Carnival and of the circus
08:52there were books about Child Development
08:53about myths and legends and about sewing
08:56patterns and techniques there were
08:57volumes that claimed to be about trickst
08:59to gods about quilting bees and about
09:01football cheering squads and their
09:02mascots most of these make a lot of
09:04sense things like Anatomy mascot sewing
09:06patterns it all ties into the idea that
09:08he was creating characters and turning
09:09costumes into animatronics the books
09:11about Child Development either tie into
09:13the fact that he was catering to kids
09:14and so was trying to figure out how he
09:16could best serve his customers or it's
09:17linked to the human anatomy books and
09:19ties into Henry creating robot versions
09:21of his daughter Charlie but there's one
09:22selection that has always stood out as
09:24odd one that I've never had an
09:26explanation for and that is the history
09:28of the traveling Carnival of the circus
09:30why would Henry need books on that topic
09:32if all the work he's ever done is on
09:34animatronics and diners he needs it
09:36because the origins of Fazbear are
09:38rooted in traveling circuses and
09:40carnivals it was a hint as to the first
09:42years of this business so this circus
09:45forfest seems to be where fazar
09:48entertainment All Began but now the
09:49question is who else was there and I
09:51don't mean human characters let's be
09:53honest we don't have many of them that
09:54are actually important especially not
09:56back in 1970 I mean which of the Fazbear
09:59character were part of the original
10:00roster as I've mentioned during H one 2
10:02we get a number of mini gamess that take
10:04place in carnival like settings namely
10:06fazza blast and the Carousel and it's
10:08the carousel that I want us to take a
10:10look at first the game itself is pretty
10:11straightforward you know when you don't
10:13have an ash trying to desperately keep
10:15your microphone attached oh my God oh my
10:17God but despite this Matt did manage to
10:19notice a very interesting detail in the
10:21level's design a random pumpkin just
10:23sitting there waiting to be thrown I
10:25think we can all agree that pumpkins are
10:27something we specifically associate with
10:28Halloween and the only event we know to
10:31take place at Halloween in this
10:32franchise is you guessed it full Fest we
10:35even get a Halloween themed version of
10:36moon appear during the nightmare level
10:38of the Carousel Ride the carousel is
10:40from fallfest which means it's from the
10:43early part of the franchise but then
10:45take a look at the characters that are
10:46used on the carousel Freddy Bonnie Chica
10:49foxy which you know is what you'd expect
10:51except it's not just the original
10:53versions from FNAF 1 the one that
10:54immediately stands out to me is this
10:56white and pink version of Foxy Funtime
10:58foxy well kind of because you might also
11:01notice it has a hooked hand something
11:04that Funtime foxy is clearly lacking in
11:06Sister location however there is a
11:08version of Funtime foxy with a hook hat
11:10and that's in FNAF World a game that
11:12came out before sister location and
11:14doesn't have any other Funtime
11:16animatronics present implying that
11:18Funtime foxy didn't originally belong
11:20with that group of animatronics instead
11:22belonging to an earlier set and this
11:24Carousel tells us exactly which group
11:27that is the other characters on this
11:28ride besides Funtime foxy and the
11:30original four all have rosy red cheeks
11:33which aligns with the toy animatronics
11:35from FNAF 2 toy Freddy toy Bonny toy
11:38Chica and Funtime Foxy the toy version
11:41of Foxy the toy animatronics being here
11:43feels wrong doesn't it the toys don't
11:45become a thing until 1987 with their
11:47special recognition software and new
11:49more complex endoskeletons they replaced
11:52the old withered versions of the
11:53original Freddy Bonnie Chica and Foxy
11:55from the original Freddy's how then are
11:57they on a ride from 197 well this is
12:00because I don't think the toy
12:01animatronics are meant to call back to
12:03the 1983 Freddy's animatronics they're
12:05supposed to be referencing the original
12:07circus costumes going back to the mimic
12:09Story Once Edwin abandons the warehouse
12:11Fazbear employees are sent in to collect
12:13any Fazbear property things like their
12:15costumes one character mentions a few of
12:17them a brown Freddy Fazbear costume a
12:19yellow chica costume a foxy costume a
12:21Bonnie costume the original four were
12:23all in existence as costumes before
12:26their introduction as animatronics at
12:28Freddy Faz pizza and what's even crazier
12:31is the designs of those costumes
12:32actually exist a few years ago there was
12:34a let's just say controversial but at
12:36the time official FNAF artist that
12:39dropped an image onto the FNAF subreddit
12:41with zero context or explanation the
12:43only thing we knew is that these images
12:44contained Scott's official copyright
12:46these images were commissioned by Scott
12:49which makes them as good a piece of
12:50evidence as any and what are these
12:51images of versions of Freddy Bonnie and
12:54Chica in a similar style to the mascot
12:56costumes you'd find at a theme park like
12:58Disneyland all with large proportions
13:00and big round heads in order to have a
13:02human fit inside them these appear to be
13:05the original costumes for the characters
13:07and where were these costumes used I
13:08suspect they were worn at the circus why
13:11well notice the bright red cheeks
13:13exaggerated features like big red noses
13:15or cheeks have been used by clowns and
13:17circus performers for centuries Joseph
13:19galdi is recognized as being the
13:21ancestor for modern clowns and in 1802
13:24he created the design for his most
13:26iconic character Joey the Clown and one
13:28of this characters iconic features was
13:30painted red cheeks similarly Albert
13:32falini is known to have helped redefine
13:34a type of clown in the mid 1900s known
13:36as the August clown complete with the
13:38bright red nose we know today why did
13:40both these performers feel it necessary
13:42to have bright red features for the
13:43evolution of the clown because when the
13:45word clown was first recorded in 1560 it
13:47meant rustic bore or peasant this often
13:50boiled down to one simple stereotype the
13:53town drunk who you would often see after
13:55you'd had a bit too much to drink with a
13:57bright red nose and red cheeks this
13:59happens when your body isn't able to
14:01digest alcohol properly causing a
14:03release of histamines that essentially
14:04cause your face to have an allergic
14:05reaction namely red cheeks and nose the
14:08idea of referencing this was to make
14:10clowns or characters immediately look
14:12foolish silly or disarming so people
14:14would be quicker to laugh at them rather
14:16than be scared of them which is pretty
14:17ironic when you think about it that is
14:19why I believe these costumes are circus
14:21costumes not because they're trying to
14:23make characters look like drunks that
14:24wouldn't be very child friendly it was
14:26to invoke those same reactions of Sly
14:29goofy fun and the kicker is you can see
14:31this trait carried over into the most
14:33definitively circus costume we've got
14:36available elephant costume down in the
14:37ruined basement usually you don't get a
14:39chance to see them up close but freeze
14:41the frame just right or you know search
14:43the game files and you'll find that
14:45although a little faded it too has rosy
14:47red cheeks so red cheek characters like
14:50the ones we see in these designs would
14:51have been right at home at a circus
14:53which also opens up the door to other
14:55red cheek characters from this franchise
14:57to potentially be part of the original
14:59roster maybe characters that weren't
15:00originally animal costumes but more
15:02likely humans wearing the same kind of
15:04face paint case and point balloon boy
15:06hello balloon boy has never really fit
15:08in anywhere we turned on FNAF 2 and he
15:10was just there and we've hated him ever
15:15the but in security breach he got his
15:18own arcade cabinet balloon world and if
15:19you played that game you'd see a circus
15:21tent in the background balloon boy's
15:23only Standalone Adventure places him at
15:26the circus but while he never fit in
15:28with FNAF 2 new characters he did have a
15:30striking resemblance to a handful of
15:32characters in Sister location and circus
15:34babies other wooden puppets like the
15:36magician and fortune teller all jobs
15:38that would be found at a circus selling
15:40balloons was an important part of any
15:41circus so balloon boy with his little
15:43sign offering them to children would be
15:45right at home with the rest of them and
15:47to top it all off when Funko decided to
15:48release their new circus line of FNAF
15:50products it contained not just clown
15:52versions of all the characters are
15:53versions of all of them wearing balloon
15:55boys iconic outfit we were being shown
15:58that balloon car and specifically that
16:00outfit are inherently tied to the circus
16:03balloon boy has to be a part of this
16:05Fest is where he finally makes sense
16:07another example would be circus baby
16:09she's been showing up a lot in recent
16:11games just like the circus imagery so it
16:13feels like steel Willer purposely trying
16:15to connect the two she's also got the
16:16red cheeks we've talked about as well as
16:18that white face paint that we see on
16:20most traditional clowns she'd fit right
16:22in at a circus plus you know she's
16:24literally got circus in her name maybe
16:26this character whose placement in the
16:28timeline has perplexed Tex us for so
16:29long belongs way earlier in the
16:31franchise's history than any of us
16:33expected but above those two in the
16:35books there is one other costume that
16:37gets called out the core four but always
16:39one more a jester costume now I'm sure
16:41mad is once again freaking out because
16:43Jesters aren't clowns and they aren't
16:45part of a circus and dude I get it but
16:47just trust me on this in that quote from
16:49the mimic story about the rack of
16:51costumes after listing off the main four
16:53characters we know and love they finish
16:54off by adding and bright pink yellow
16:56green court jester costumes ilar so the
16:59colors we see Sun wearing in security
17:01breach yeah I know they're a little off
17:03but they're they're pretty close and
17:04just look at the rest of his costume
17:05curly pointed toes with bells puffy
17:07trousers or pants I suppose and the tutu
17:10like Frills on his waist and ankles he
17:11is 100% meant to be a court jester he
17:14even jumps out of a freaking Castle when
17:16we first meet him in security breach and
17:18as Matt was very keen to point out
17:20Jesters originated as performers for
17:22royalty in their castles during the
17:23Middle Ages finally there's the
17:25epilogues where the jester character
17:26once again returns but this time we get
17:29description of its mask quote Lucius
17:31stepped up to the costume suppressing a
17:33shiver at the Jester's learing toothy
17:35grin and its wide eyes one of son's most
17:38distinct features is his obnoxious
17:40toothy grin it's so iconic that he had
17:42to have teeth underneath his teeth just
17:44in case and those large vacant eyes
17:46definitely give off that learing vibe
17:48that Lucia was describing so even though
17:50sun doesn't have the red cheeks like we
17:52talked about he still appears to be very
17:54obviously connected to the original crew
17:56Freddy chica foxy and Bonnie as as well
17:59as the circus here is the last one
18:01mentioned when they're all being listed
18:02off as if the costumes were grouped
18:04together like they came from the same
18:06collection of characters characters that
18:08came from Fazbear's circus days sun and
18:10moon actually make a lot of sense as
18:12characters in a traveling circus in the
18:14tale story Bobby dots we get a bit of
18:16much needed backstory on this character
18:17who just showed up in security breach
18:20not matching any of the 80s tastic
18:21designs of the pizzza Plex it turns out
18:23they weren't always a daycare attendant
18:25but instead a performer they put on
18:27shows where Sun would be the hero and
18:29when the Lights Went Out Moon would
18:30appear as the story's villain that ties
18:32into the comedy and tragedy masks that
18:34we've found in ruin masks that display
18:36sun and Moon's face so it would have
18:38also been an ideal performance to keep
18:40kids entertained at a circus venue and
18:42later on when the daycare was introduced
18:44that same Bobby dot story describes the
18:46dayc Care's design as a carnival like
18:48space hammering home the connection to
18:50the character's Origins and then the
18:52icing on the cake juring help wanted to
18:54he is the one we face when we're trying
18:56to fix the carousel from those old
18:57fallfest days he's been there since the
19:00start and when you think about it in the
19:02early days of the franchise when you're
19:03trying to keep cost down buying a full
19:05mascot costume or fur suit from a
19:06trusted provider can cost upwards of
19:08$5,000 while costumes for professional
19:11jesters and clowns are typically just a
19:12few hundred bucks keeping costs nice and
19:15low when you're first starting out it
19:16really feels like the circus origin is
19:18helping characters that are out of place
19:20have a place to finally belong sun and
19:22moon baby balloon boy all of them would
19:25be right at home here at the circus
19:27however fallfest isn't just just the
19:29origins of the Fazbear franchise it's
19:31also the origins of William aton's first
19:33major tragedy Faz blast in help one2 is
19:36a shooting gallery that matches the
19:37design of the Hub World during the curse
19:39of dreadbear DLC dreadbear even makes an
19:41appearance at the attraction so this
19:42attraction clearly takes place during
19:44four Fest 1983 however the penultimate
19:46fazer Blast Level ends with you shooting
19:48a number of rockets and popping all the
19:50balloon versions of the animatronics
19:52that appear doing so seems to cause a
19:53chain reaction that leads to the Whole
19:55Thing ending up in flames and when you
19:57go back for the final level the place is
19:59burnt to the ground we see the same
20:00thing happen during the Carousel Ride as
20:02you try to fix it Sparks Fly and the
20:04thing lights up leading to the nightmare
20:06version of the level where the whole
20:07place is already Ablaze and if you go
20:09out of bounds during that Carousel level
20:11you can see the Red Sky burnt trees
20:13Water Tower and windmill that are all
20:16present during that final fazer Blast
20:18Level off in the distance steel wool is
20:20clearly showing us that much like every
20:22other establishment in this franchise
20:24this event forfest 1983 ended in fire
20:271983 sucked for this franchise but
20:30especially for Afton he loses his kid to
20:33a malfunctioning spring lock suit and
20:34his other son's negligence fredbear's
20:36Family Diner gets shut down and to top
20:38it all off he loses the thing that
20:39started this whole business the circus
20:42steel wool is all about a sympathetic
20:44villain backstory try not to set out to
20:47make a cool looking villain go make a
20:49monster they have a reason for it these
20:51aren't just like the supernatural forces
20:53that came out of nowhere to just hurt
20:55people and punish people right like
20:56there were results of other wrongdoing
20:59adding a fire to an already pretty awful
21:01list of tragedy and loss it would make
21:03it a little less surprising that Afton
21:05could suddenly snap and go out a murder
21:07spree but this fire tells us more than
21:09just how this first chapter in FNAF
21:10history ended it also tells us that
21:12there was one other character here
21:14someone else present from the beginning
21:16that you wouldn't suspect the mimic yeah
21:18I know I was surprised too but
21:20everything seems to be pointing to this
21:22guy being here since the earliest days
21:24of the franchise we get a lot of
21:25different descriptions for the mimic
21:27during the epilogues of tales from the
21:28sulex sometimes it's a traditional
21:30endoskeleton other times it's a
21:31spider-like mess of slimy black wires
21:34but when we are first introduced to it
21:35we're given one extra detail a detail
21:38that I never fully understood quote it
21:41wasn't just a basic metal structure its
21:43steel frame was contained within a
21:44building collection of metal rods and
21:46curved plates and an impressive system
21:48of ball joints and pistons all of it was
21:50topped with a long vaguely rectangular
21:52shaped shiny steel skull the skull was
21:54the only part that was shiny the rest
21:56was dark and discolored as if it had Sur
21:58survived some kind of fire that's a
22:00pretty specific way of phrasing it
22:02especially when it points out that the
22:04head isn't blackened by the same issue
22:06we're being given a clue as to where
22:08this mimic came from because the other
22:10detail that's important to bear in mind
22:11is that quote comes from the very start
22:13of the story when the endoskeleton first
22:16arrives at the pizz Plex it was
22:17delivered to this location already burnt
22:21which tells us that it had to be in a
22:23previous Fazbear fire and I believe that
22:25fire was the fire of f Fest but what
22:28makes me so sure that the mimic got all
22:30burned during that fire specifically
22:32here's the thing I know we always joke
22:34that everything in this franchise ends
22:35in fire but we can actually count the
22:37number of fires on one hand even if
22:39you're an animatronic with only four
22:40fingers which means it shouldn't be too
22:42difficult to go through each one and
22:44determine which one the mimic came from
22:46working backwards there's a fire at the
22:48end of security breach if you beat the
22:49burn trap ending Aon is defeated the
22:51blob steals him away and the entire
22:53pizzza Plex catches fire and collapses
22:55but as we've talked about before it
22:57doesn't seem like this is the cannon
22:59ending for security breach we find
23:00Gregory's drawings for the non-cannon
23:02endings during ruin and the last one we
23:03collect is his drawing of the burn trap
23:05ending which means this fire wasn't a
23:07real fire and even if it was this ending
23:10takes place at the pizz Plex so the
23:12mimic couldn't have been delivered to
23:14the pizzaplex burnt from a fire as the
23:16burn trap ending comes later in the
23:18timeline second option is the FF 6 fire
23:20but once again we Face issues with
23:22timeline the petplex is being built on
23:24top of the ff6 location which means the
23:26mimic wouldn't be able to be delivered
23:28to that location when the pizza Plex is
23:30being constructed like we see in the
23:32book because it would have already been
23:33there the only other fire left other
23:35than forfest is the FNAF 3 fire but the
23:37owners of Fazbear fright seemed pretty
23:38stoked when they found their first
23:40working animatronic springtrap up until
23:42this point they'd only had bits and
23:43pieces like a foxy head so it feels like
23:45they'd have also made a pretty big deal
23:47of finding a mimic bringing it back to
23:48the location even if they thought it was
23:50just an endo so it doesn't feel like it
23:52can be that one either which leaves only
23:54one fire for the mimik to have been
23:56burnt in the fire of forfest 19 1983
23:59meaning the mimic has been around for a
24:01long time we actually theorized this
24:03back when we covered sun and moon after
24:05the events of Ruin we connected the
24:06mimics thrown together thin simple
24:08animatronic design to that of sun and
24:10moon namely a very weird but distinct
24:12feature independently moving teeth it's
24:15a strange design detail that we've never
24:16seen before so for both characters to
24:18have the same detail in the same game
24:20makes it seem like they have to be
24:22connected in some way and if sun and
24:23moon come from the early full Fest
24:25origins of the franchise then the mimic
24:27being around at the same time would
24:28explain that connection but there's one
24:30more detail that tells me that the mimic
24:32has to have been around during the
24:33forest era of FNAF something that's been
24:35right under our noses for years for a
24:38while now we' believed that the glitch
24:39trap virus in help wanted one the virus
24:42that takes the shape of a yellow bunny
24:43rabbit and takes over Vanessa's mind
24:45isn't actually William Aton himself but
24:47instead a version of the mimic program
24:49that is mimicking aton's behavior in the
24:51game we heard about Fazbear trying to
24:53keep cost down for this new game they're
24:55developing I mean they sent us that
24:57stuff in the first place with no
24:59explanation told us to scan it said it
25:02would expedite the process so we
25:03wouldn't need to program any pathf
25:05finding ourselves it was a budget thing
25:07I guess it was just junk circuit boards
25:10and things like that look pretty old
25:12that game was help wanted it's an in
25:14Universe game that takes the original
25:16FNAF games and turns them into new VR
25:18experiences which is exactly what we
25:20learn happened to the mimic program in
25:22the Storyteller quote it's a simple
25:24template style software that takes
25:26previously created stories and rearrange
25:28changes them into new scenarios for VR
25:30AR and arcade games that is what glitch
25:33trap is the mimic program having been
25:35scanned into the system gets a crash
25:37course in aton's murdery Tendencies and
25:39is now mimicking it hence he appears as
25:41afton's iconic yellow Rabbit Except
25:43there's one part of this explanation
25:45that never sat right with me if the
25:47glitch trap mimic was learning about
25:48Afton from the in Universe games of FNAF
25:501 to 6 then why does he take this form
25:53afon in all of those games even in the 8
25:55bit mini games is always wearing his
25:57spring lock suit because that was the
25:58costume he wore at fredbear's Family
26:00Diner but the version of the suit the
26:01mimic shows us as glitch trap is a
26:03completely different design and at the
26:05time we'd never seen this version before
26:07this isn't his spring lock suit it's a
26:09hand sewn suit with plastic looking
26:11facial features similar to the ones we
26:13saw on that concept art those suits came
26:16from forfest and so it would make sense
26:18for this handsone golden rabbit suit to
26:20have also come from the same time period
26:22but for the mimic to have been able to
26:23copy this design it would have to have
26:25some memory of this version of afon in
26:27its memory banks prior to being uploaded
26:29to The Help Wanted game system it would
26:31have to have observed Aton perform in
26:33this iconic golden rabbit costume
26:35alongside a golden singing bear at
26:37fallfest the mimic would have to be
26:39around during the early costume days of
26:41the franchise tape girl did say the
26:43circuit boards looked pretty old after
26:45all it was just junk circuit boards and
26:48things like that look pretty old maybe
26:50the mimic was originally meant to mimic
26:51afon specifically I'm not entirely sure
26:54of this to be honest but it does feel
26:55like this is where the clues might be
26:57headed both for W Fest and the dino were
26:59open until 1983 after all so they
27:01coexisted for at least 4 years with the
27:03dino opening in 1979 and we know that
27:06Aton was performing as spring Bonny at
27:08the diner so it's possible that the
27:10mimic was part of aton's plan to expand
27:12the business he could literally be in
27:14two places at once eventually the mimic
27:16would be locked underground with some
27:17circuit boards containing its
27:18programming set aside just in case and
27:20when the mimic software was finally used
27:22again to help speed up the process of a
27:24new VR game it was shown all of those
27:26old FNAF games and while it watched and
27:28learned it recognized someone William
27:30Afton the golden rabbit from the circus
27:33and so decided to take on the form it
27:35remembered from all those years ago
27:37creating the monster we have spent the
27:39last three games and two DLCs trying to
27:42stop but hey that's just a theory a game
27:45theory thanks for watching
