Game Theory: The Secret Lore of Friday Night Funkin'...

okay, we're here looking at the story, I want you to show me if you know the score, tell me what you know, tell me what you know, I'm going crazy with that bippy arc, your words are homogeneous, they're all completely meaningless I'm getting seriously you're making me delirious i forget you boyfriend i'm doing it myself hello internet welcome to

game

theory

the only show that prides itself on including the word homogeneous in its rap lyrics

friday

night

funkin

is so indie of a

game

As independent as you can get, it was originally created as a prototype for a 48 hour game jam, but despite those humble beginnings, it's a game that now needs no introduction due to how popular it has become in recent months, this would be the part of the video where you would direct your attention to the kickstarter in progress that helps fund a full version of the game that will include over 40 levels and 100 music tracks, but due to the realities of video production, this one won't be finished until it's over. the kickstarter saying that with the game currently on track to raise over 2 million dollars I think they really need our help in case you're out of the loop here's a quick recap of the

friday

night

funkin

in which You play as the boyfriend whose only mission is to flirt with his girlfriend and yes, it has been confirmed that canonically their names are boyfriend and girlfriend.

Anything else is just because of the laws on the road. His quest to achieve love will be challenged by the bride's father, the most beloved canon, along with his mother, mami. simply, yes, that is also confirmed along with all kinds of other rivals and antagonists, you conquer them through your sick flow in a ddr style rhythm game, best of all and you are on your way to friday night funkin, which is actually a euphemism for exactly. What it looks like, Game Over Fatality's screen shows your boyfriend succumbing to a case of his family jewels turning blue, but there's a lot more here than just trying to woo the girl Friday Night Funkin's a Card love to a bygone, should I say, bygone era.

Internet, yeah I guess so, Internet history lesson here, people before there was YouTube, there was new ground and with it the first home of some of the Internet's biggest creators before there was Aaron Hansen, the Grump game , there was Aaron Hanson, ego raptor, no one told me that. There were bombs there, hey snake, there are bombs there before the video game donkey existed, there was a taco meat elf, who's your dentist? Oh my dentist, qantas and New Grounds were the place to find them. Newgrounds creator and CEO Tom Fult created the site in the '90s.

When he was still a teenager, it began as a digital version of a magazine he created when he was 13 years old. From the beginning, Newgrounds, for better or worse, has been the result of what you get when you take a group of bored teenagers with nothing but free time and an internet connection and give them complete creative freedom, it was and still is, In many ways, the place you went to watch games that were too crude, too random, and too violent for conventional parody videos of your favorite characters with questionable results. things and where you would adjust your age settings late into the night to see what was behind those big red and classified videos.

Remember, this was back in the '90s and early '00s, when most of us hadn't even heard of concepts like brand safety and there was no worry about being demonetized because, well, none of it was monetized in the first place. Instead, we were just doing things to do things Friday Night Funkin is packed with history and Newground references and if we tried to unpack it all we would be here. for literal hours and it would be a different type of channel to say that if you are interested in a deep dive into the history of the new terrains, check out the channel, two left thumbs that have already created literal hours of content documenting the numerous eggs Easter eggs hidden throughout this game. along with interviews with the original Flash creators of many of the series it references.

No, what I'm here to do is delve into the story of this game because yes, there is a story beyond the blue-haired boy wanting to have the girl we know. through amas on reddit with the creators of the game that there is an overarching story here and that, in regards to that, each week has a reason to exist, even those that do not have dialogue yet, so that is our search today, reconstruct the existing history and try to fill it. the plot holes we have and then predict where things are headed for the final release of the game and I think I'm in for some big reveals like haven't you wondered why mom and dad are attacking a maul santa? in week 5 or what is the origin of the lemon demon, well I think I'm on my way to solving all this, will it be absolutely speculative?

Is it more of a hypothesis than a real

theory

? Am I aware that the game developers are gone? online to talk about some of this stuff in a way that directly contradicts something we're talking about today yeah and I don't care because I think they're keeping

secret

s for the end game, give me a chance to spend? A week of listening to this music on loop while researching the script, no doubt, and my friends are the reason we're here, so let's get one thing out of the way right away: the way the weeks are presented in the game is misleading.

They are numbered one through seven, but from a historical perspective, this is not an accurate timeline of events. Phantom Arcade. The story of the game. The main animator of the game. The character's creator confirmed this during a live broadcast. Week 2 is supposed to come after the mother, which means the events. of week 2 actually come after the events of week 4. In other words, we have something to unravel, luckily our story doesn't start out too confusing the first week, week one is actually the first week chronologically, the boyfriend fights with the dearest dad, who apparently doesn't like the idea of ​​his daughter being weird on a Friday night after losing her dearest dad.

He is humiliated, so he hires a mercenary to kill his boyfriend. Why not enter Pico, the main antagonist of the third week? He is a hired mercenary. by the father to go to the boyfriend after the boyfriend humiliated the father by beating him in the first peak stage he doesn't really know who he is sent to kill until he gets there and then he finds out it's someone he used to know he used to know, huh, who could it be? Pico is a mainstay old and new with its own series of games including pico school pico sim date and pico infantry covert operatives game to name a few, but in one of those games, kiko's school love conquers all. .

Released last month for April Fool's Day, we received hints that Pico and his boyfriend might have had an intimate history. This is my boyfriend. Everyone at school is totally fine with that. I'm not saying everything is perfect, but our planet is getting better now, obviously. was an aprils project and most likely set in an alternate universe so can we really believe that the boyfriend and the friday night funkin could have a romantic story with peak, yes actually 100, yes don't look more than the developer's posts on reddit and Twitch streams, pico and bf? are canonically x just because they are real doesn't mean that if you played the level and assumed pico was a jealous of mom fighting. the roof of a limousine racing down the road with an army of backup dancing henchmen and if the limo didn't warn you, your girlfriend's family is loaded, we see it briefly in one of the game's early trailers, but dad, the most dear, he's a former rocker. star and according to details shared on the game's Kickstarter, Mom Meerist is a pop star in her own right, hence the limo and all the dancers.

It's also worth noting that those backup demonic dancers are apparently grown in bottles, a detail that will become very important later. While we're talking about the story, the fact that they could grow back is nice considering that in the final game they will probably die during one of the song transitions in a now-deleted tweet. Ghost Arcade hints at this surprise death and looks at the unused sprites. Hidden in the game we see them torn apart and the first in the sequence clearly shows them being hit in the stomach by something that is probably a low light pole, another unused sprite found in the game files, now this is where we are.

I'm really going to start filling in the story holes with puzzle pieces from various developer comments after his battle with her mom's boyfriend's musical ability apparently manages to win him the family's acceptance. We know this based on a bit of history that dev phantom arcade dropped during a livestream. the boyfriend is accepted by the family because the second week is supposed to come after the mom and yes, well, dad and mom may not consider the boyfriend a murder target anymore, they are still willing to mess with him, which It takes us to Halloween when the groom is accepted.

On the family side, they invite him over and like to play cruel pranks on him, so they make them come to his creepy Transylvanian house and pass out like candy with his girlfriend on Halloween and the creepy kids pass by those creepy kids by the way. They are skid and pump characters from the spooky month video series and creators of the spooky dance, however everything is not as it seems, it turns out they were tricked by someone not so nice, someone not so nice is the monster with the head in the shape of a lemon. and yes, he's just shaped like a lemon and isn't really a lemon according to the developers and another deleted tweet regardless of what his head actually is, although he doesn't hide the fact that he intends to eat some pretty explicit stuff from his girlfriend there, but Why just because? either he's a monster or there's something else going on here and this is where we return to heavy theory territory.

Remember when I said that Mama Murist's backup dancers are born from a bottle, that's why they were murdered with a telephone pole, hereditary style. matters a lot because they could just grow back, it could relate to something in the lemon demon lyrics, while the fan community had to reconstruct the appearance with skid and pump using unused resources. the lemon demon officially appears in week 5 on Christmas in the level with the mall Santa appears out of nowhere randomly, it's a strange transition, it's the only one like it in the game so far, but in his song Winter Horrorland we get this lyrics: Fallen angels, also known as demons, created from your flesh.

Another reference to things growing or being born unnaturally, could this monster be related to the backup dancers in some way? Maybe it's a bug created by Mommy Meerista and Daddy Dearest during their henchman trials because remember the monster's goal here is to kill and eat his girlfriend, I would do that. You won't be surprised if her only beef against her boyfriend is simply that he got in the way now that the connection between the monster and the family may seem far-fetched, but consider that this other unused asset in the game has the monster literally growing out of a pumpkin. notice the misplaced eyes on the jaw, he's like goo, he's able to transform from things again, like a henchman that would be born from a bottle, he also canonically has the demonic ability to alter someone's perception, which one is your explanation of why the bottom. in week 5 he can switch between songs 2 and 3.

Again, this was in a deleted tweet which tells me it's something they might be trying to save for the end game, but think about that for a second, he's able to transform . and reality guess what santa claus is, yeah, isn't it a little strange that daddy dearest and mommy first hold santa claus hostage in week five? Super random. Well, I'm going to predict that it's because Santa Claus is really the monster in disguise or because we see a silhouette in the background of all of them, maybe one of the transformed warrior monsters hiding waiting to get revenge and yes, like I said before, I know the developers are They went online to say that Santa is dead and that Santa is just Santa, but neither of them.

Of those statements actually contradict something about this theory, another monster could very well be hiding inside that normal Santa using his body as a kind of disguise because, as we're about to see in week 6, body swaps occur in this universe and are one hundred percent canon and this prediction also ties into next week, see in a seemingly random twist week six completely shifts gears and puts it in a video game styleps1 title of the week hate simulator an obvious game in the dating simulator features a battle against a handsome man called senpai who after defeating him twice turns into a horrible floating spirit head, it's another one of those strange transitions, so what's going on here, well it was confirmed through a live stream that senpai is a character from a video game that his girlfriend plays and that the spirit is trapped inside that video game character, but senpai is still himself, senpai its just a video game character that is inside the game she plays there is a human soul that was trapped inside that character so first of all why are we suddenly in a video game well the common belief online is that dear old dad has the ability to trap human souls within video games, which would coincide with all the soul experiments we've been talking about with both the henchman and the lemon monster.

This would also match what the spirit says during the scene where he breaks off direct contact with real humans after being trapped here for so long and she, of all people, will make her father pay for what he has done to me. me and everyone else. Beat them and force them to take my place. They don't mind their bodies being borrowed. Wow, there's a lot to unpack there, so let's talk about that last line first. They don't mind their bodies being borrowed. It has now been confirmed that it is a world where soul exchanges can occur and where people can walk inside each other's bodies, this gives us more evidence to support my hypothesis that Santa is actually a monster in disguise, which is why Mom and Dad is getting attacked at the mall, that could also explain why Dad would put us inside this video game?

Isn't it strange that Dad would put his boyfriend here after he had already canonically won over the family in the previous weeks? Well, it could very possibly be because we doubt he saw mom and dad hugging. santa at gunpoint the boyfriend tries to stop him just to give the monster the opportunity to transform and because the monster escapes or whatever dad punishes us by putting us inside the video game but there is one thing that is not explained with this interpretation why it seems that The bride is here. It's strange that dad punishes her daughter too by sending her to the game and maybe dad sends them both to a game.

It's been confirmed via a tweet or something, but I haven't been able to find an original source to back it up. It made me wonder, what if none of this is Dad's doing? Remember that the lemon monster can alter perception in reality, perhaps it is he who is really doing this. Oh, sure, the line is I'll make his father pay for what he's done to me and everyone else. implies that dad is the one who put everyone in the game, but there's another way to read that line, it could simply reference all the souls dad has been experimenting on, which led to the creation of the lemon monster in the first place and resulted in spirit. get stuck here because again consider this in your lines, the spirit calls for direct contact with real humans, implying that there is some difference between you being in the game, real humans capable of retaining their own bodies and him being in the video game, a spirit that possesses a character.

It also implies that he's the only one here with no other real humans, which sort of debunks the idea that Dad is sending the souls of failed boyfriends into the video game as punishment, which is a theory we've seen floating around the internet, but either way it doesn't align with what we're seeing in the game, whether it's Lemon Demon or Daddy, you're trapped in a video game and only one thing can save you: the power of sick beats, so there you have it folks. There seems to be a lot more brewing beneath the surface between shape-shifting monster soul experiments and a lot of people wanting revenge for the

secret

experiments Mom and Dad have been doing.

I know I haven't talked about Tank Man in Week 7 yet, but we're on page 5 of this script and my Tank Man stuff is another 2 pages long, which, to be honest, would be unfair to the editors, so that I say no to decisive time and I tell them that hey, did you enjoy this. maybe we can save that part for another day, let me know in the comments below if you want to see more theories about friday night funkin, tell me what bebop, finish writing the next theory and I know what you're thinking, why in Why would I spend a considerable part of my life unraveling the story of a game with five lines of dialogue?

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