A Look Back at Five Nights at Freddy's - 9 Years Later

[@indigoguy12]

I can’t believe FNaF is almost a decade old. It feels like it’s only been *5* years of FNaF

[@Lemonbattter]

faxs dude

[@asa_andromeda]

well hey uh pizza sim is like 5 years old

[@SnoFitzroy]

also known as FYaF

[@Ballykety]

@@asa_andromedaI swear it was only three

[@yourfriendlybud1902]

YO İTS YOU AGAİN ELLO

[@whoknowzwut]

You’d think that having a horror game about dead kids being one of my favorite franchises during my development would be bad for me (maybe it was) but I don’t regret it for a second

[@MartyDoesStuff]

9 years later and the community stills moves on. But Just like Afton, the series always comes back.

[@mkgeostar]

i like this comment.

[@k0mentator507]

i like this comment.

[@cottoncandy9416]

I am the purple guy 👾

[@Fangamer1254]

Even 30 years later I'll tell my kids about this game my kids will tell their kids ABOUT FNAF EVERYONE MUST KNOW FNAF.

[@mkgeostar]

@@Fangamer1254 yes bro

[@sweethistortea]

I remember my FNAF phase as a teenager…. It never truly left me.

[@PolarisxAndromeda]

I love hoe realistic the fnaf 1 and 2 renders are it just has a style no other game has reached in years

[@Beefoulotus-OFFICALL]

(how)

[@bigcooltony437]

haha they said hoe

[@metrical2879]

Fnaf having a fandom still over these years is very impressive!!! Its very nice that it hasnt even died down ONCE. Happy bday fnaf! 🩷

[@colekiesler6218]

I don’t think there will ever be a horror game video franchise as special as FNAF. It was once a series that was a short point and click experience and now to this day it has become possibly one of the most important things to ever exist.

[@andarilho_31]

How is fnaf one of the "most important things to exist?

[@pianoman4204]

@@andarilho_31 I'd say it's up there with fertilizer and nuclear bombs tbh

[@1298Tomcat]

​@andarilho_31 it went from a single game with barely any backstory other than "A guy killed kids and put them in animatronics and they're haunted" Into a massive franchise with fan made games, countless sequels, countless merch, and even a movie on the way

[@RhythmOSauce]

And after 9 years of this franchise, there is still no game that has the player survive for exactly 5 nights.

[@ahmetbulutguner1198]

there is fnaf sister location

[@conicthehedgehog9166]

The theorys that people made before even any context of some events in the lore were revealed were crazy

[@TroyP-z9n]

yeah some people thought scott sold his soul to the devil for this game

[@Rudiced]

god man, i have so many memories of fnaf. it'll always hold a special place in my heart. good video mate.

[@HeisenbergFam]

9 years later and FNAF fandom still being strong goes to show how dedicated community is

[@buggiebug56]

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[@skawoskas]

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[@45hAsh]

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[@SlovakChestnut12233]

Yeah, dedicated at starting drama 💀💀

[@Imidentifiednow]

​@@skawoskashamburbur

[@AUGUSTIN-MUSIC]

Happy birthday FNAF!!! And thank you plaintrace for being an awesome part of this community and making great content!! :)

[@aiiv7839]

Man, nearly 10 years old. How far we've come! As for tier-list...I'd put it in A as well. Gameplay's simple but effective, if a bit repetitive. Everything else is fantastic!

[@ImKingReal]

The fact the game was released 9 years ago just blows my mind, that's literally over half my life, I remember watching so many people playing the game and I'd be so terrified of it, this game will always hold a special place in my heart.

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

Fun fact: Foxy can actually be halted on any camera since his AI is tied to overall camera usage. So as long you stay on the cameras for a significant amount of time, he'll be put at bay way longer and won't exit his curtain throughout the night if you're good enough.

[@LuigiXGamer]

I remember learning this on my own when playing and its helped me to this day.

[@witchymaoki5165]

yea the only two things u gotta do is checks cam for foxy, light and door, repeat

[@arnasvajauskas9979]

I remember that back in my day, there was a group of kids, which I was in was wild. We theorised that William got scooped then turned into a murderer by the robot manipulation and the killed and somehow reborn. We even sometimes did big pauses talking about Afton, cause thinking about that was disgustingly scary.

[@Splatooty]

Nearly a decade… let’s go!

[@TRIXTONSABIOGALLARDO]

I like how plaintrace just talks so chill in his videos, like he is just spot on with everything that he says

[@guy124]

The FNAF community will live on forever

[@Super-7327]

Is that even a good thing?

[@Rqdu96]

theoratically speaki-🤓

[@vladimirhorejs5477]

We always come back!

[@Rascky]

Maybe

[@SlimyCrabGlizi]

@@vladimirhorejs5477Is that a fnaf reference!!

[@tjehue]

I find it crazy how Fnaf literally gave people jobs and the popularity they needed to have a stable life style

[@ZapperRS]

Are you talking about the fangames?

[@CharlieND]

Awesome video! I can't believe it's been nine years. I still remember being freaked out by the first game when I was 11. but I just want to point out: 2:08 the original demo for dark deception came out before FNAF 1 did

[@leik7728]

8:16 that makes me think that that’s how all their souls acted before they got stuffed in a suit, the way you characterized them made them seem like qualities of children, especially the “needing to be watched”

[@ashuradauploader]

You did such a good job making this video! I love it!

[@popohoho35]

fnaf has given me sm happiness more then a loving single mother gift shopping for xmas eve my life would literally be sm different if this game didn't exist 😭

[@tamimlight]

tbh hearing phone guy death scarred me as a kid. this part sacred me most as a kid10:43 i just dont know why it scared me... and to this day its still iconic

[@Wheaty03]

everyone always craps on matpat's first fnaf theory, despite everything linking surprisingly well. everyone is like "oh it's disrespectful" like bro how? he's just saying "this thing is like this other thing", which it absolutely is.

[@grimmsoul3096]

14:18 PlainTrace clearly did not hear the part where Theory man CLEARLY pointed out that he is not trying to make light of that horrific event.

[@HereAndOhSoQueer]

just because you're not trying to make light of a horrible event its still disrespectful. why would you even make a theory about an actual event and connect it to a game.

[@grimmsoul3096]

@@HereAndOhSoQueer quote from game theory: "this... is a tragic story. A disgusting waste of human life, and one I won't joke about or make fun of in any way. But I want to address it because I have a strong suspicion that this story is the one that inspired Five Nights At Freddy's." there are your reasons

[@christian4688]

Honestly feels so surreal knowing this franchise is nearly a decade old. I can remember the day Markiplier uploaded his first lets play of the first game, at that time I was only 9 years old, and now the game itself turns 9 while I become an adult. Bro.....

[@5pectre]

I appreciate how you look back at your video and correct any missaid things, gotta be pretty hard to look through a whole 18 min video for errors.

[@mr.x6313]

Hey, that was a darn good game theory. He wasn’t claiming it was true: he was making a case that Scott may have been inspired. He meant no disrespect and you know it.

[@neon_theawesomerobot7013]

Its my birthday today actually, Its nice to celebrate on the same day as one of the biggest game franchises ever.

[@PPEFwatch]

For anyone who knows/watches Ambience's videos, you know that Foxy and Freddy can be easily dealt with

[@Famast]

Yeez man, you grew up as fast as a plane. Hope to be here for the 500k❤

[@eggworth_III]

Almost a decade man, all day ive been vibing to classic(and obviously cringey) fnaf music, going over tons of fnaf videos, ive just been reliving my childhood.

[@FromShadows87]

I can't belive it's been 9 years, I feel old now. #thankyouscott

[@AtovicYT]

Yoooo me and my dad love your content , keep it up!

[@Peakpecan]

9 YEARS AT FREDDYS! Wow, it has been a crazy journey.

[@HiWelcomeToIKEA]

It's still astonishing how far this game has gone from the start to the present

[@TroyP-z9n]

foxy fax: 1: it is actually possible to cut off foxy's jumpscare by running out of power 2: you can beat 4/20 mode whil afk by setting the game to run at 2 or 3 fps, because freddy, bonnie, chica, and golden freddy can't kill you if you don't put up the moniter (golden freddy can only be summoned by using the moniter), and foxy takes around 1500 frames to get from the cove to the office, so you can finish the night before foxy kills you 3: in foxy's jumpscare, the reason why he just goes "ayo the pizza here" instead of screeching in your face is likely because his jaw is actually broken, so he attacks the nightguard in other ways (also foxy appears to have some control over his jaw, as in the first frame of his jumpscare, his mouth is closed)

[@vhsguy032]

I can’t believe next year fnaf will be 10 years old and transformers will be 40 years old

[@anijay64]

Matpat did say about Chuck E. Cheese shooting incident that it was tragic and that he won’t make any jokes on it whatsoever. So I personally don’t think it was that bad of him comparing them. It was a stupid theory and I’m sure a big coincidence but I don’t think he was disrespecting the incident at all. I do understand your point of view though.

[@PaintedLive]

I don't think matpats video was disrespectful. It was just a theory, and he took it very seriously to not disrespect the victims in it or downplay the situation that occurred. Literally multiple times.

[@gaminggoddess85]

"I also made theories back when I was a kid" Your voice suggests you're still a kid.

[@defnotatroll]

3:35 I'd say Freddy is the scariest one in the game. His laugh is haunting and he only becomes really active in the later nights like he's the final boss

[@leethememerwolf]

I am proud to be a FNAF fan! 3 days since the anniversary. 7 days from now is August 18th the Steam release date of FNAF 9 years ago. Great video PlainTrace

[@hylianxbox6586]

To this day the first FNAF game is perfect and is easily in my top 3 favorite fnaf games

[@theplaguesreturn]

the realisation of me being with fnaf since i was 7 now makes me feel way older than i probably should feel

[@AUGUSTIN-MUSIC]

Same dude. I’m right there with you…

[@brandonlam3756]

Next year Fnaf is officially 10 years old. And it would be cool if we got a game centered around the unwithered animatronics for Fnaf 10 Year Anniversary, or switch the Fnaf 1 animatronics with unwithereds for a day

[@Jaxon56787]

I remember playing fnaf 2 and crying when the puppet got me 9 years. That's so crazy 😢

[@TacticaLLR]

Happy 9 year anniversary! Thank you Scott!

[@Jadebeard51211]

9 years ago I was playing fnaf 1, 9 years later I’m playing security breach ruin 😭 THANK YOU SCOTT

[@llamanortena6600]

Nice video dude! Also, you should try this fangame called fazbear entertainment:storage since its actually really good!

[@BasementDweller_]

Really sad that we won’t see that amazing remake that got scrapped…

[@breadybeans5427]

Man, I remember hearing about this game as a kid and decided to play it, somehow the first time I played fnaf I got jumpescare by golden freddy and had nightmares for roughly a year after 😂

[@tupe444]

remember back when the community gave the killer a name even before he got called purple guy?

[@spiritdragonplayz3.032]

2:09 glad that dark deception is still remembered

[@cihloun]

Man. Almost 57 years

[@SnoFitzroy]

even with the volume down and the length shortened all of the jumpscares in the footage (that had their original sound) got me LMFAO

[@skrub_king]

It was said that 1-9-8-7 in the custom night menu would give you a secret ending so Scott updated the game to give a jumpscare to believers

[@Aie-kun]

Man this game bring back some memories.

[@insertrelevantmeme9219]

couldn't we wait a year and just make a 10th anniversary special

[@izzqyhere]

nuh uh

[@ItsNothingRichy]

i dont think matpat's vid was disrespectful. Simply speaking on the situation isnt mocking it. literally in the next video, he said the theory was wrong, not to mention fnaf 1 theories were always just wrong, since no one really knew shit about the lore until fnaf 2.

[@teasteel4900]

bro i thought movie unleashers fnaf videos were cannon as a kid. it blew my mind to find out years later that it wasnt.

[@supermegagalaxyfloof924]

No fnaf game instills the same fear and anxiety of running out of power at 5 am and quietly begging for 6 am, especially with Freddy playing that damn song

[@Radioactive45]

Happy 9th Anniversary!🎉🎉🎉

[@epicstar86]

oh wow do I feel old, feels like it only released a few years ago

[@WhiteDeath_46]

"9 years isn't that long!: Me who's been playing the game since it first released: 👴🏻

[@kentrellmyworld5832]

take a bow Scott, you’ve given us everlasting memories with a simple risk on a new kind of horror game

[@HoldOnImStillFlacid]

Time flies man, I was 10 years old when fnaf released

[@Doomguynowaying]

I now am 16 years and still love the games i cant wait to tell my kids in the future this amazing game

[@celiogarcia3206]

Man, that thing where Freddy does that jingle and then it becomes 6AM gives me a lot of nostaligia.

[@TricBrosStudios]

Now we gotta wait for December 4th. They’ll all be gathered in one place.

[@Smoken-si4lp]

9 years wow it’s truly been so long

[@RobocopStealerOfFridges]

I am just realizing that I ended up starting my first ever playthrough of a FNAF game on it's anniversary.

[@funnyguy2440]

Woo! 9 years!

[@darkmatter-mc5iv]

Fnaf is one of those games that changed the industry.

[@elijahbrown-ut3bq]

Happy birthday Fnaf 🎉🥳🎁🎊

[@SebastianGMSFB]

It's so nice that we're getting a FNAF Movie/Film after it's 9-year anniversary. The game may not have reached it's first decade-birthday yet, but that doesn't make me complain about the movie/film happening as early as 2023 (a 9-year gap which is slightly less than 10).

[@kriceis]

10:56 almost all of the sound effects were taken from royalty free sound libraries, so the distorted call could be from there

[@Pumpkin_with_autism2007]

and knowing that the 8 bit big band may make another hella good version of a tombstone song

[@scottstephens5442]

I turned 10 when fnaf 1 came out so its not a big suprise to me lol, the everpresent march of time is the only thing that doesnt change

[@Lemon.pk3]

Fnaf has been influential to the internet and horror as a whole, for better or for worse

[@KiiBon]

Now that I think about it, why would keeping the doors down drain power faster? Shouldn't it take more power to keep them up?

[@OodlesDoodles19]

So cool that my birthday is right after FNAF's release.

[@comedystore0]

Don't know if others have said this, but, Outlast is not a Triple AAA game, it is made by an indie studio!

[@Thegoatone23]

Happy birthday to the big brown bear himself

[@Th3_Int3rn3t_RuIn3d_M3_]

Cant believe its been nine years...i was ten when this game was released and i remember it being so popular in my elementary school and now im almost 19 in September and its been nine years since it was released and this game is still good as it was back then Still cant believe it was nine years ago

[@VMProductions2008]

I was 5 when this game out, and I've been a fan of this series since then. (Foxy is still the best.)

[@yourneighbour3309]

glad to see this vid so soon!

[@r0llingp1n71]

I have been a fan since I was 6 and in my honest opinion, fnaf 1-6 were the best because of just how you had such little vision and either no cameras or very dark cameras.

[@thegamerlegoshi4320]

Plaintrace is basically uhyeah but more underrated

[@RadioHazzardToxieDrop]

Its hella pogg that even through the rough (and i mean *ROUGH*) patcheswe still got it goin

[@Rascky]

Love the vids keep it up.

[@inktirrell5016]

Happy 9 Years Scott :D

[@dquire0989]

Bioshock, a horror game? Their might be some mildly offsetting areas, but when you remember you have the ability to shoot lightning, telekinesis, and rockets, it's a little hard to be afraid.

[@CerulnusDoesThat]

Your goated PlainTrace

[@Ziq_Aurelius]

Man i was 2 years old when fnaf 1 came out i think i know fnaf when sister location came out so nostalgic

[@GiulioSantomauro2007]

9 Long years... Man time flies

[@starfoxp51]

3:50 You actually stop Foxy's movement chances just by having the monitor up. The one who needs to be watched directly is Freddy

[@Cheddsar]

awesome video!!!!! (I totally watched it al!!!)