Game Theory: Did Reddit Just SOLVE FNAF?

jake jake can you hear me jake what did you do today jake i went to the movies we saw a scary movie it was so scary i jumped out of my seat and spilled my popcorn everywhere did you do that jake were you there? jake jake then I went to the arcade, I ate a lot of pizza there, I had red tomato sauce all over my mouth and more red on my clothes. There were so many other kids there and then there weren't any. I love you, Jake, you know that, right? I love it. open the cabinet, jake, come here, open the cabinet, shake it, open it, open it, open the floor again.

Hello Internet, welcome to

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theory

, where today the

theory

comes from you. That's right, only because we are all still waiting for a security breach to occur. The release doesn't mean that FNAF theorists have been sitting idly by; In fact, the lack of a new

game

has led the community to revisit all the pieces that were in place before the pieces that we might have overlooked or overlooked. the first time and it was this extensive re-examination of the clues that caused what could be the biggest fan theory in over a year to explode and that's saying a lot since 2020 was full of us connecting massive pieces of the story of this franchise.

That is, with the help of Fazbear's scares throughout last year's videos, we managed to identify the year of the missing children incident as 1985. We solidly connected Foxy Bro to Michael Afton, even coming to the conclusion that There are two spirits trapped inside Golden Freddy, not

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one. our vengeful spirit Cassidy, as well as our bite of victim 83, the crying boy, but have you ever noticed that that boy has no name? I mean, it's been six years since he was introduced to the franchise in FNF4 and we still don't have him. Do I have any clue as to what the crying child's name might actually be when you know he's experiencing literally every other emotion, wait, that's that crying child, but no, that's a happy child and that's an angry child and that's a confused child, that is an apathetic child, that is a passionate child, no.

No, it's not that, ooh, it's that relatable emotionally repressed child hashtag, but really take a moment to think about that. We know the puppet's name, Charlie, and his father, Henry. We know that the baby was originally Elizabeth Afton. The purple Springtrap boy is William Afton. The other purple boy is. michael afton are the victims of the missing children incident jeremy fritz suzy gabriel and cassidy the vengeful spirit who has at least one of the things trapped inside golden freddy i mean there is a name for almost every character in this franchise except for this one kid, the kid who, wouldn't you know, was also important enough to have the first on-screen death of the series, feels like we should probably be able to figure this out by now, like we should probably have gotten him a name at some point in the process. line or at least the means to

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his name, the pieces have to be in place for us, well today could be the day we

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exactly what a credit user named wolfie 1740 kingdom thinks he has cracked the code to finally solve the final name of the

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mystery to finally give the crying boy bite victim 83 a proper identity, so get out your theoretical tambourines because it's time for morty it's a theory review, leave your theories in the comments to continuation.

I'll pick my favorites in the next episode of Morty. Now today's theory begins where all the best theories begin to appear. Girl, that's right, folks, we're back to the most important story element of the entire franchise.

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afterthoughts at this point, no, we go back to the children's activity book, FNAF survival log book in a past FNAF theory, we had a big reveal about how this works, basically, there are three people present in this book, There is Mike who is alive and always writes everything in red. pen, there is Cassidy who haunts the book and speaks in a ghostly and faded text, but there is a second spirit here, the crying child, who is forced to communicate by altering the words found in the book, the example that proves that is here, cassidy says the party was for you and the crying boy responds on page 89 by altering the text of the book to read it was for me we know that if naf four's party wasn't for mike and we know cassidy wouldn't be saying this to themselves as such, this is what it must be like to be crying boy acknowledging what cassidy has said the same thing here on page 59 with cassidy asking what do you see and crying boy answering on page 109 i can't see again altering the actual impression of the diary so that alone was pretty big and gone It goes a long way to supporting the theory that both Cassidy and the crying boy possess Golden Freddy and that alone would be pretty amazing, but it still leaves a significant part of this unsolved book You see on page 95, there is a loose thread that has never been tied, one that has personally driven me crazy for years is a grid where they tell you to draw an 8-bit fox just another random activity in this children's book well wrong the grid is numbered and you can see in faint print that you are supposed to put letters in the squares and the first ones are already placed, so in our quest to solve the name of Golden Freddy years ago we collected the page numbers where the phrase my appeared name, we add them according to the instructions hidden in the book and then connect them. coordinates on the crafty alphabet grid to get the name cassidy, good game everyone, let's treat ourselves to some orange slices and pat ourselves on the back for solving another part of the story, except that's not how it worked out , you can imagine my surprise and confusion. when the numbers were connected not to the alphabetical grid that was clearly telegraphing us, but to the word search and apparently we were right to do so, as Scott Coffin himself confirmed in the announcement of his FNAF movie the fundamental role that a child plays named Cassidy in the story, but all of this still means one thing: the alphabet grid is awkwardly left completely unused even though it obviously needs to be used to solve one of the mysteries within this book and that's where Wolfy 1740 stepped in. book.

One question remains about Cassidy. posted on page 31 Cassidy asks if you remember your name, of course you do, he's the crying boy, the crying dog, after his friends call him the bite victim, it sure just rolls off the tongue, but seeing that the logbook had helped solve Cassidy's name, Wolfie was suspicious. which might also be helpful in solving this other name using, you guessed it, the foxy alphabet grid. What Wolfy noticed was that the crying boy specifically uses the rating questionnaires from the four and five o'clock shifts to talk to Cassidy for the first three nights.

The section reads like general fulfillment, health, stress, purpose, hope, and existential dread, but on nights four and five you have other things mixed in here, like I'm scared and it's for me. Cassidy asks the question to quote Wolfie's own post. The first is that I can hear sounds. The page he responds to is 75, which says: is he still talking to you? and one tendency to notice is that all four pages have a bit of blood on them. The following was for me, which answers the question on page 103 about the party, was for you. The third is that I can't see, responding to page 59, what do you see? and the last one is that I'm afraid, which stumped me, so I left what I already had the final quote, then completely filled Foxy's table with the alphabet and, following the order in which the victim's answers appear the bite, followed the grid code to find the next four letters e v a n evan after six years, could it be that evan is the name? of the crying child, honestly I'm not sure or at least I'm not convinced by this alone, don't get me wrong, I don't think it's a bad theory, quite the opposite, in fact, anything that tries.

Finding out the true purpose of that stupid fox litter will get credit in my book. The problem here is the methodology throughout the book. Cassidy asks a lot of questions, but only four of them really matter. Wolfy also points out the bloodstains, but there are bloodstains on many of the pages of this book, not just those four, and even then an answer like I can hear sounds to the question of whether he's still talking to you feels a bit out of place, it's not very precise, you know, it feels random. arbitrarily trying to fit pieces into a book that has been designed to be anything but arbitrary, I mean, only the cassidy code required you to find six numbers, find a page that points to another page about what to do with those six numbers, and then translate all. six of them in the word search, multi-step puzzles like this have to be precise to work, and while the puzzle pieces in Wolfy's theory certainly fit together, they fit together a little loosely, you know, I mean, even Wolfie admits that finding the last n was a bit of a stretch and forced him to break his own methodology;

In fact, another f

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user, godzilla 813105, tried to fix that to find the n in a different way. One of the book's other persistent threads is a series of tally marks written by Mike that never amount to anything, are never used, or at least their true use has never been discovered, but again, similar to Foxy Grid, they must mean something right. to quote Godzilla's post. I notice that there is a magazine that Foxy is saving. the first page of gentleman one who has five three, when you add five and three you get eight, then I took each tally mark set out in the book and added them together.

I got this from the idea of ​​what the whole quiz was like at the end of the turn it says count your score putting it all together gives you 47 4 7 on the grid foxy gives you the letter n end of the quote again sounds good on paper and I love the attempt to make sense of it all, but the why I just don't understand why adding tally marks to this issue in Foxy's magazine. How are those elements related and why would they be connected to a completely different set of three numbers obtained from a completely different set of clues plus history? it just doesn't hold up, contrary to what Godzilla says in his post, there is no tally of your score at the end of those nightly polls, so the reasoning just doesn't hold up, in short it all seems like we're convinced that we have a solution to the problem and we're trying to work our way back to how to get there.

This is a classic confirmation bias where, as you conduct research, you try to find sources to justify your belief or adapt the data to fit the conclusion that you are looking for and should know about confirmation bias because many of our theories over the years play with that same concept. Mario is a villain as long as you ignore all the times he saves the kingdom. You play as the king in Hollow Knight as long as you squint. Really difficult during this scene that could refute that, to me, theories like that are about telling a story by connecting dots that definitely exist within a game that change your understanding of the plots but sometimes also go against what you think.

It is much more likely and probably much more. more intended by the developer and the theories I tend to focus on are ones where you can connect a surprising number of dots, even if one or two tend to disprove it, they're just meant to be fun thought experiments, you know, I like to play . with the history of these worlds, but here with

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we have to be very careful, although I love both publications. Quick theories tend to try to figure things out by talking about things in the generally accepted canon and, as a result, the methods by which we arrive there.

The conclusions require more scrutiny and here the methodology for arriving at the name Evan just doesn't hold up as well as I would like, but that doesn't mean the name Evan doesn't hold up because this is the twist, folks, this is it. Not only does it come from the logbook shortly after Christmas, the Fazbear Frights book series released its latest installment Blackbird and contains what is the most moving story in this franchise to date. Real Jake story number two tells the story of a nine-year-old boy. Jake, who is dying as a result of a brain tumor, his mother passed away prematurely and his father overseas in the military.

Jake is under the constant care of young Margie, but there is another special person in Jake's life, a mysterious figure named Simon who speaks. to him at night from a small cabinet in his room. I quote the first night Simon talked to Jake. Simon had made it clear that he would be in the cabinet until Jake recovered enough to walk to the cabinet. When you can do it, I will be there. Here waiting for you to finish the date and although it seems like Simon should be asinister force, since you know, after all, this is a fnaf book, it is actually an expression of love.

Margie had created this little doll named Simon with a walkie-talkie inside him that allows Jake's father to talk to his son by distorting his voice to make him sound younger. Every night Simon insists that Jake talk about what the real Jake is doing. The one who does not suffer from cancer. The one who is outside playing with his friends. This was intended to give Jake hope with Margie updating the doll every few nights with food stains and scrapes on his knees to reflect the adventures the real Jake has been having. It's a wonderfully sad story with some legitimate surprises that I'm not really going for. to spoil it here, but the reason i mention it is because, strangely, it's the only one of the 18 fazbear horror stories so far that doesn't have any explicit connection to fnaf.

No other story so far has mentioned a fazbear's pizzeria or connected to a familiar animatronic in any way, this one doesn't, yes, has any historical connection to the ongoing Stitch Wraith story, but the lack of anything from FNAF is It sticks out like a sore thumb compared to all the other stories so far. It's been connected in some way, which is why Jake's father's name stands out so strongly. Jake's father's name is Evan, which in itself is interesting but becomes much more notable when you consider that he has a brother named Michael, his only living family, and not only that that's how Michael is described in the quote. book, okay, it's a little different, it's intense about making money and it's very good at it, as it is it can make it seem like it's not human, so it's like a cyborg with bad programming. end of quote two brothers, one named michael, who they compare to a hybrid human robot, where have i heard that before? father it's me michael and that's just the skin deep friends looking deeper this is a story about a father communicating with his son through a walkie talkie just like we see in the sister location damn , you see him communicating through the walkie-talkie that is in a stuffed animal in the real jake, it is simon the doll with a walkie-talkie inside him in the games, it is the psychic friend fredbear with a walkie-talkie, both children suffer a serious head injury, Jake with his brain tumor and a crying child with an 83 bite in the story, Jake possesses the Simon doll only to later move on to the stitch spectrum sharing that endoskeleton with another soul. named andrew in the games, could it be that our crying boy dies in the hospital and possesses his psychic friend fredbear, which somehow passes him into freddy's golden suit, where he then shares him with another soul named cassidy and this is all happening in a story that has no connection to fnaf but clearly has a connection to fnaf.

I'm just saying that the absence makes it even more noticeable in short, I'm not convinced that the fnaf survival book is solved or anything like that. At this point I'm just not sure the methodology for coming up with a final name is really as solid as I'd like to go into my personal headcanon, but interestingly enough, the name Evan feels like we're onto something that has some evidence very convincing to back it up from Jake's true story, so at this point I want to hear from you, let me know, are you convinced that the crying boy is Evan along with his older brother, Mike, or is this yet another example of Scott trying to bury the lead a bit and confuse us by using the same name a bunch of times pushing Michael into a bunch of places he doesn't belong.

All I know is that I can't wait for the next book to come out in March right now, forget it. security breach, it's about those sick books my friends, because let's be honest with ourselves at this point, discovering laura's fnaf requires more reading than the typical jrpg, but hey, that's just a theory, a game theory , thanks for watching and if you missed our first quest to solve the security log book, that video is on the screen right now, it adequately conveys my frustration with the series and if you're interested in joining us in our continued quest to solve all the mysteries of naf, be sure to subscribe. button, your frontal lobe will thank you because let me tell you, the last time I told you I was stumped by a puzzle in the security log book, less than a week later, Cassidy was solved, I wouldn't be surprised if something similar happened this Once in a while, my friends, I'll see you all next week.