The Hour Of Joy EXPLAINED (What lead to The Hour Of Joy In Poppy Playtime Chapter 3)

[@shadowki5687]

The most horrific fact about the hour of joy, is that many of the people attacked had nothing to do with the experiments. Imagine you're a regular factory worker, then all of a sudden the 'animatronics' suddenly come alive and attacks people.

[@flashstudiosguy]

Or even worse, someone who came to adopt a kid...

[@2tonedripgaming420]

Those aren’t animatronics

[@brawlnoobBSYT]

@@2tonedripgaming420he meant toys probably referring to fnaf idk

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

Poppy did said innocent and guilt were killed

[@Kitt_puff]

​ Think he's referring to the workers assuming they were anamatronic until the hour of joy

[@lsg2535]

It’s crazy to think that the mc we follow was just a lucky survive only because he quit earlier than most of the employees and why the toy factory probably went out of commission was due to the outside world probably shutting it down and the promotional team i personally feel would’ve been the reason for this and they moved on from the factory leaving whatever was inside to stay inside

[@xdiorx-2140]

This is very interesting

[@moji3812]

Right

[@llcourt]

Chapter 3 implied we knew *something* based off the nightmare scene in the house with the tv huggy. The whole thing is a dream which means all information from the radios about Ludwig we already knew and then the monologue the tv man gives about us coming back. I think at first we didn’t know and then we understood something suspicious was happening behind the scenes and then we ‘find out’ and our character rightfully doesn’t come to work that day and now feels guilty because everyone died before we could even process what was happening - or we had something to do with it which is also likely bc why else would you feel so guilty that you’d come back?

[@Val-cl2wd]

​@@llcourt probably because killing the monsters that they were supposed to be children(most huggy because he was the first one quick question why was huggy not attack the player and after they killed huggy why the prototype didn't kill later the protagonist it's a bad idea let someone you don't like and let them a chance to live weird) and the nightmare heard about the missing boy it was coming from a radio the player probably heard it that something have happened.

[@azeria1]

What sort of work place has 99% attendance rate though what no one else was ill or had something Important going on

[@tartlynerdy]

"Nobody's gonna save you. This prison is where you belong" they said, "we'll let you out here and there to see the kids in Playcare but your home is here. THIS is your life now. Get used to it" oh boy. If someone said this to me after causing me so much pain and reducing my quality of living to a mistreated animal exhibit I'd definitely be feeling murderous.

[@crystalgemgirl731]

I truly believe the monsters Poppy was talking about wasn't the living toys, like her, she was talking about the scientists.

[@pramusetyakanca1552]

@@crystalgemgirl731, Harley Sawyer and his lot, to be exact. Scientists gone mad, willing to commit such depraved acts like experimenting on orphans and causing so much pain to the Prototype, all just to make the next bound and leap in research. It just goes to show that there are some true monsters out there in the world, and the worst part? _They could be one of you._

[@cassandra2382]

Theo became Catnap at only seven years old and the video where the scientist says this to him takes place four years later. This guy literally says this to an eleven year old. The poor baby probably thought the hour of joy was the only way that he would be free from the torture.

[@Givingupisokay]

the hour of joy really scared me ngl, it explains a lot of lore tho, and it's really important if you want to get into it (the lore) Dogday in the game says catnap did that to him because he probably didn't slaughter the workers like the other toys. When poppy lets you see "the hour of joy" tape it doesnt have Dogday in it, So that's probably why Catnap did that to him.

[@LunaP1]

Pretty ironic that Dogday ended up being punished. He wanted to rebel but didn't want it to go this far.

[@Givingupisokay]

Yeah its like your mom torturing you because you didn't eat vegetables😭😭@@LunaP1

[@caelointheclouds]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a massacre like that before. that’s actually so scary and I wish I had more footage of people trying to run and hide 13:22 let me tell you catnap gave me such horrible dreams. It’s like he was releasing my innermost fears. I know it’s not real, but for some reason he possesses a power. Strange.

[@Donttrustthatburger5144]

My head looks at all this and thinks that, in the Hour of Joy, every toy participated for that dark hour. And then afterwards, The Prototype removed all mind control hold he had, and with the results of their blackout on full display asked them to join him. Some did, some did not, and that's how it was for ten years. Now we are here.

[@xxXnigerianhunterXxx]

And it traumatized me

[@RobloxKaren420]

12:12 Mommy long legs is a kid! In chapter 2 we can find a note about experiment 1222 (mommy long legs) and that the child that was assigned to it was called Marie Payne. Later in the chapter 3 arg we got an incident report from Claire Harper saying that the child in her care, Marie Payne was experiencing weird and violent nightmares from the red gas. We can also see this in game since it’s the first vhs we find

[@king_koth6023]

all of them are kids except dog days, DogDays is ludwig

[@Knockedy]

Not confirmed​@@king_koth6023

[@rookapooka4873]

​@@king_koth6023bruh what there no way Ludwig was a piece of shit Why would he be supporting the protagonist

[@helenzhang6754]

@@king_koth6023I agree with him, why would such an evil antagonist be Dogday, one of the toys who opposed the violence going on?

[@JFFM730]

@@king_koth6023thats just your theory, so you shouldnt say it like its a fact. also, bron is confirmed to be an employee so not all of the experiments are orphans

[@GenericGamerDude]

The hour of joy would be terrifying thing to experience, just the thought of seeing others be slaughtered before you or eaten alive must had been terrifying

[@goteamslugs]

In a way it did really happen. On Oct. 7 . .

[@Xiotic]

@@goteamslugsyour referring to what?

[@goteamslugs]

@@Xiotic The massacre that took place in Israel.

[@Xiotic]

@@goteamslugs well before oct7, there were innocent people in Palestine that died from israel mercilessly killing them, from white phosphorus to bombs being dropped in neighborhoods. Don’t act like the massacre that took place in Palestine started at oct 7 because of hamas, can you not see the genocide that’s happening in Palestine and still say, what about oct 7?

[@goteamslugs]

@@Xiotic Those rockets were misguided Hamas rockets, which they of course blamed on Israel. Netanyahu would help innocent people, but he knows that if he sends it, Hamas and Hezbollah would take the money and use it for their weapons.

[@iamfabulousfaaab]

I think the hour of joy was justified.... until they started to kill innocent people. However, I believe since the souls were that of children, and children don't have a clear perception versus a full grown adult with experience, they may not have known who was evil and who was really innocent. It was almost guilty by association. But overall, I know irl what it is like to be ab-used as a kid and it's cruel for any child to be subjected to horrific things. The hour of joy was essentially all of the evil scientists' fault and they're the reason that so many other innocent workers had the same fate. It's a very intriguing story nonetheless.

[@Saltedroastedcaramel]

And children. The children likely died as well

[@neofulcrum5013]

It’s hard to feel bad for the scientists that were slaughtered since they had carte Blanche to create these monsters. But everyone else who didn’t know, shouldn’t have been massacred.

[@sandywolfr26]

the toys had no way of knowing who was good or evil so they just killed everyone.

[@neofulcrum5013]

@@sandywolfr26 I know

[@kimberlym5988]

Well, put it in perspective. In the toys eyes, at that point, any adult was evil and had hurt them. They were lashing out in the only way they knew how to make the pain stop.

[@disneygirl5193]

Is this a real incidence?

[@JFFM730]

@@disneygirl5193no? its just a video game

[@zaylaxer]

idk why scientists didnt kill the prototype i mean he was literally dangerous and they could kill all the dolls that didnt match their experiments

[@raikasuutae]

Probably cause he was the first experiment and was used to compare other toys to him in order to improve their executive functions and intelligence. You can always use bad experience to progress on something

[@mr_drdave_6265]

It’s basically one of those stories where the scientists were drunk with power and were too blind to see the potential consequences and uprising from the bigger bodies toys. If they were rational, then yeah, they would’ve quelled the rebellion. But based on the last video tape from Chapter 3, you can tell that they were more fascinated with sadistic scientific discovery than keeping their controls in check.

[@hridhaandhaduk9456]

The prototype was simply too powerful to kill,so they just did what they can,that is keeping him in containment

[@replacableVessel]

maybe the scientists were trying to replicate the prototype´s ability to survive without needing to eat

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

You don't kill science experiments. That's not how you progress

[@MillieBlackRose]

"an alarming willingness to commit violence." Uh look at what you do to them.

[@dorkchops]

What made it worse for me was the fact that it happened during lunchtime

[@Astronaut0511]

Why?

[@charlottesweb5964]

@@Astronaut0511 Probably because of the joke 'I was just having lunch when I suddenly BECAME lunch.' Or something like that.

[@cqzysoft]

@@charlottesweb5964Nope, it’s shown on one of the schedules in the school that the hour of joy started right when the kids’ lunch time started.

[@Melissa-rb6ct]

Bruh 😂

[@helenzhang6754]

@@cqzysoftDamn, that’s kind of messed up

[@ddebb22]

I have theory, my theory is twisted So, I think all Poppy, Ollie and prototype are teamed up. I'll describe it in points: 1. In the first game you get a letter that letter shows poppy's location, where catnap had trapped poppy. Poppy was trapped so she couldn't send the letter. 2. In all three of games neither poppy nor prototype is hostile to the player, it hints that prototype wants a host or soul or something from player. 3. And we have seen that prototype only goes for dead mascots or those mascot who are verge on death. So prototype wouldn't kill or hurt kissy. There is probably another experiment that possess threat to poppy and prototype's team

[@kaplasquad]

It's not mommy who trapped poppy, its catnap. Poppy said herself

[@NRG_ZT]

@@kaplasquadactually poppy said the prototype trapped her in the case when she was telling us about him in playcare she said “he’s the one who put me in that god awful case for so long”

[@duster859]

it is catnap@@NRG_ZT

[@flashstudiosguy]

Mike from Super Horror Bro reckons all three want the Protagonist to help them tell the true story behind what happened as, no doubt, what remained of Playtime made some cover story along the lines of "We went out of business after everyone quit on the spot."

[@advmx3]

I think the prototype wanting a real body and somehow possessing someone else is a valid point. But I also think it's weird that the main character don't talk so we don't know what he's thinking or what he's about to do, he's just going with the flow essentially.

[@mizzourita3896]

I find this story so fascinating but the realist in me keeps wanting to know how no one from the government has been out to examine the buildings because someone's got to pay property taxes and I'm assuming the last electric bill hasn't been paid either lol

[@kingsmas8340]

I wish the could tie that aspect of realisim into this, considering how it was a world-wide company, and a HUGE building. Im sure the government would love to pounce on whatever is left in there.

[@mizzourita3896]

@@kingsmas8340 That could be a little side story, a collections agent gets it in his head that he's going to collect from the big account or maybe just get some answers as to why no one ever answers the phone as I imagine a company this big would need multiple people manning the lines (they don't usually go out and find people but maybe this agent wants high praise or something, but he doesn't tell anyone because he's actually not supposed to be there) so he goes out there to see if he can talk to someone and catnap stalks him (like a mini prequel before the main story) but now I'm way overthinking this lol

[@katrynanorth4718]

I’ve been wondering this as well but it just recently popped in my mind that people probably were sent out there but got killed by the experiments when they entered the factory. They realized anyone they sent in wouldn’t come back out so they stopped sending people.

[@ItsB1998]

I see the hour of joy as a necessary evil for freedom of the children. Like Gamesault pointed out, the prototype and the others wouldn't have any way of knowing which employees was good from evil, so they just had to attack them all to end the torment and plans of the evil employees. It's unfortunate that innocent people had to be involved, but it had to be done in the long run to save other kids. Also catnap was the one that was killing everyone who opposed the prototype. We don't know if the prototype himself wanted that

[@heartlessnobody1143]

Like a cultist who doesn't understand what his god really wanted

[@ella-sj8bu]

i could be wrong, but didn’t the game confirm that the children that didn’t escape were murdered?

[@redballet7611]

Marie was confirmed to be a child in both chapter 2 and 3, an older one, but a child nonetheless.

[@Foxsymbiote]

this i was a little confused about this, she was a child unless she was turned to mommy and mentally grew up since she was used to care for the children in chapter 2? but if this is the case then all other toys would grow too no?

[@replacableVessel]

@@FoxsymbioteMost of the toys were made to do specific work as slaves, so they just had to play the role wihtout truly growing up. Also, when we arrive to the factory, 10 years passed. For example, Theodore, who was 7 when he was turned into Catnap, became 21 by the time we killed him

[@Anelathealpha]

years passed after their transformation so...

[@redballet7611]

@@Anelathealpha You can say that for the others, and she was still a child when she was turned, so.

[@Anelathealpha]

@@redballet7611 yeah and there's a lot who were kids at the time😞

[@nevvawinter7331]

1006 orchestrated The Hour of Joy because assimilating life forms’ bodies and voices seems to be in his nature, and The Hour of Joy would provide him with a lot to assimilate.

[@msladybugg]

this is beyond something Doc mcstuffins can help with 😔

[@SummerTide]

lol

[@stevendao8303]

Help 😂😂

[@rogueish28]

I don't really get pulled into game lore, but this one is fascinating... I know when Ollie was talking he was saying something like the player can save a lot of people, and when Ms. Delights video was asking where the children were, she was told that they were safe... Also in one of the vhs that you mentioned the scientist was talking about how the ones below them need to stay contained... I'm wondering if there are a few employees and children that are hidden in some type of containment room... Also Braun is in a containment room as well...

[@СтефаноНачев]

Marie Paine is a kid not an adult, there’s a note from her adopted mother that explains that and the orphanage program was before the experiments took place and was still operating even after that, I think Eliot actually wanted to help children, but after his death the company saw them as supply of test subjects and because they can’t explain to the public what happened to the children after the closure of the program they left it open, giving some of the children away but still experimenting on the rest, I also don’t think the Prototype killed everyone opposing his control, Catnap became a fanatic and did that, but we don’t know if the Prototype approves of his actions maybe that’s why he killed him

[@Izzy-cp8yt]

We know that Catnap treats The Prototype like a god, as thanks for saving his life after the child imbued into Catnap almost died trying to help The Prototype escape. So I think it's safe to say that The Prototype was the one calling the shots for Catnap. Catnap was pretty clearly illustrated as having complete devotion to The Prototype, going so far as to maim Dogday, one of his kin/siblings/fellow Smiling Critters for opposing The Prototype. If Catnap is willing to turn on those closest to him for The Prototype, then The Prototype is definitely the one in charge. My guess is Elliot really did want to help children. After his death, whoever took over saw power and profits over humanitarian work, and started pushing Elliott's research into darker and darker places. The Prototype's name suggests he was the first (or at least the first to survive), and so would have had to watch all of those who followed him go through the testing, suffer, and die. As more and more toys were implanted with children's consciousness, The Prototype built up more and more resentment and rage, seeking vengeance on the scientists who ruined so many lives. So The Prototype connected with the Bigger Bodies and other living toys, sympathized with their pain, anguish, and rage, and made allies of them. The Prototype waited until there were enough toys he had convinced of his plan for The Hour Of Joy that they could act, and when the time came they all got their revenge. Assuming at least the majority of the living toys are children, they wouldn't have the critical thinking developed to separate the adults who were responsible or complicit in their torture from the workers who knew nothing about Playtime's insidious secrets - in a child's eyes, all of the adults equally had a hand in their torture and abuse, so all deserved consequences. And that's not even accounting for any mental decline they may have had as a result of the Bigger Bodies process. In the end they were all left alone, and vengeance didn't fix anything, nor did it heal their trauma. That plus a lack of food devolved their attempted community into what it is now - The Prototype has ultimate power, and anyone who doesn't fall in line is seen as in league with the Playtime workers who caused their situation in the first place. Whether or not The Prototype has a current plan besides retaining power remains to be seen, but I'd theorize it's probably some attempt, however misguided, at ultimate revenge. Either on humanity as a whole, or an attempt to hunt down Playtime employees who escaped, like the player.

[@СтефаноНачев]

@@Izzy-cp8yt only because Catnap is a fanatic doesn’t mean all of his actions are approved by the Prototype, he is leading the other toys and Catnap has its own section, why would the Prototype care about small toys opposing him if he proved he is bigger and more powerful, I absolutely think that Catnap wasn’t ordered to kill half the toys he did (I mean he made a shrine of murdered toys and some of them are smiling critters or small bodies) and was simply convinced that getting rid of all who opposed him would satisfy his God, think about it, the Prototype cares for the toys why would he want them to kill each other? To remain in control? As if he is in any danger of being overthrown, Mommy long legs was TERRIFIED by him and she is strong Also you said that Catnap killed one of his kind, no he didn’t, only because Catnap and Dogday are supposed to be friends in the marketing and the animation doesn’t mean that Theo gives a shit about whoever was put in the body of Dogday, I don’t understand why everyone was thinking that the kid who is Kissy Missy would care if the person who was Huggy is dead only, because their toys are supposed to be a couple as if they picked them based on that You said consciousness and in case you don’t know how the toys are made I want to explain it, they don’t transfer their consciousness, they kill them, remove their organs, put them in the bodies of toys (some of their organs are fused with electronics, for example most toys we’ve met have voice box) and then revive them, that’s why when we kill them they bleed and the Prototype have bones in his arm Also not only the children haven’t developed their brains enough, but also maybe the Prototype ordered them to kill all adults, think about it, if even one adult escaped they would call the police about the supernatural things happening in that factory and from there you probably know where this is going, the Prototype was adult (from what we know) so he would’ve realised that letting even one employee escape would put every toy in danger I think a lot of things were solved actually, for example THEY WERE NO LONGER SLAVES, I don’t know why everyone says that it didn’t fixed anything when this is HUGE, but anyway, sooner or later the bodies would run out and after that the biggest bodies would start eating the smaller ones (based on the toy corpses they already began) so I wander if the Prototype have thought of resolving this problem

[@Izzy-cp8yt]

@user-fl3oc1bw3u but what would Catnap's shrine be to, if not the one who saved his life? It's not like he has many other allies at this point. The children would have only known each other and the workers/bots of playcare, so there would likely be a sort of community bond, even if they aren't best friends, especially after they've all gone through a similar traumatic event. The Smiling Critters would have been featured together even outside of marketing, so Theo would have been with the others a lot simply out of association. I said consciousness because we have evidence that it exists. In Bron's video they discuss whether or not he knew his name or what was going on, implying they expected him to retain his memories and awareness from his adult life prior to being implanted in a toy. Similarly, Kissy is seen longingly looking at a picture of a child she keeps in what appears to bo her room/a room she frequents. She either was that child, or had some kind of bond with that child. I really doubt The Prototype ordered the children to participate in The Hour Of Joy. For one thing, getting all of them on board with that plan would be harder than convincing the victimized toys - the majority of the children would have little reason to distrust their caregivers. For another, children are a lot easier to defend yourself against than a 10ft tall razor toothed monster. The children would have been more of a hindrance than a help. It *didn't* fix anything because although they aren't subjected to any further tests, they're still trapped in toy bodies, unable to leave the factory, and have no food. They're trapped in a meaningless void space, left to die a slow and painful death or be murdered. They got revenge, but it solved nothing. They're still trapped, and their lives will carry on just as they would have had The Hour Of Joy never happened, only worse.

[@СтефаноНачев]

@@Izzy-cp8yt well yeah, but the Prototype didn’t tell him to make a shrine and I think he told him to murder all the small toys in the making of it I think it’s safe to say that Dogday is an adult based on his voice (Catnap doesn’t sound like a kid, because his voice box is broken) so it’s possible they didn’t know about each other until the bodies and I’m pretty sure it was mentioned that Theo is very antisocial, anyway the thing I’m trying to say is that only because the toys are marketed as friends and family doesn’t mean that the people inside them have to act like that even if they go through the same, imagine what will happen if two children hate each other and one of them becomes a bigger body while the other is small, Mommy long legs is and example of this, she was stronger than Bunzo and the mini huggies and killed them for failing us I don’t deny that consciousness exists I just clarify that not their consciousness was transferred, but their vital organs with their brain which I guess contains their consciousness By the Prototype ordered the children I mean the toys…. because most of the toys are children… and not that the children were part of the hour, I should’ve been more clear Well yeah based on that it didn’t solve the problem of them losing their bodies and living the rest of their lives as mothers, but at least there no longer kept in cages, I mean Huggy Wuggy literally stands still all day he isn’t even allowed to move

[@sierrajohnson717]

Wouldn’t it have been hilarious if instead of quitting for moral reasons, Mc just called in sick from like bad tacos the night before, and saw the doors locked the day after and was just like “oh, guess it closed down”

[@fluffybum204]

This is my head canon until proven otherwise

[@ziephel-6780]

That would be a pretty funny backstory.

[@oscarzazueta9617]

There's an unused note from Chapter one from the devs explaining that the Mc felt Ill on the day the Hour Of Joy happened so he called in sick. The next day when he arrived early in the morning to work as usual, the entire outside of the factory was cordoned and guarded by military vehicles and personell. And the only explanation the player received was that everyone inside vanished into thin air.

[@arudoshirogane4774]

What confuses me is the scientist said that huggy wuggy was a successful experiment because he's "obedient", but in the hour of joy huggy wuggy participating in the massacre, so was huggy obedience just a fake front?

[@JDM-is-my-name]

I took it as Huggy just doing what someone else suggests. Maybe he doesn't care who it is who is giving him orders, he just does it anyways. He was told to guard the entrance, so he does. He was told to attack, so he did. Then he had nothing to do and went back to guarding the entrance, until he was told to do something else. He isn't loyal, just obedient

[@Uhm...no444]

No, from the beginning the prototype had been mimicking Harley Sawyers voice (The only voice the toys are supposed to recognize as superior to them) and began giving orders to Huggy, which eventually led to his unpredictable behavior and his obedience towards the prototype, there's no doubt about it that if the Prototype simply told Huggy to massacre the ppl in Playtime co with his normal "Voice" he'd most likely not even pay him any attention, or if we're being entirely honest probably even try to kill and eat him. In project playtime he orders Huggy to get up, and get the players while using Harley's voice.

[@ashuraomega1000]

There's evidence to believe that the prototype can mind control or persuade some of the toys to do his bidding.

[@Uhm...no444]

Why do i feel like the hour of Joy was specifically for the Player? Like alot of the toys seem shocked or rlly PO'd cuz we're alive and i don't think its just because we're an employee. One of the VHS tapes even literally says we missed "It" (the hour of joy) And it's obvious the player just wasn't some random employee based on the fact that both Mommy long legs and Ms.Delight recognize them perfectly.

[@RazSofer-xh3qs]

FNAF animatronics: We have the most tragic and disturbing backstory PPT animatronics: Hold our grabpack

[@graythegreat2014]

Fnaf still had the worst backstory tho

[@guywhomakesanimations]

4 kids die in animatronics, vs rituals, kids turned into toys and everyone dying all caused by toys with kids in control? I think its clear

[@helenzhang6754]

@@graythegreat2014Uhm, I think your forgetting something. 4 kids are killed and put in animatronics VS A toy factory that murdered over a hundred innocent children, started to actually APPRECIATE IT, then the toys rebel and create a bloody massacre that killed everyone, even the uninvolved workers, kids, and ending up with everyone but the people who wernt there that day dead, FUCKING EATING THE DEAD BODIES, THE TOYS EATING OTHER TOYS ONCE THEY WERE DONE WITH THEIR CANNIBALISM, yea, *+* through gritted teeth *+* id say FNAF DEFINITELY HAS A A MORE TRAGIC BACKSTORY. My job here is done.

[@janstefaniuk2977]

@@helenzhang6754 What are you yapping about 🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@DemonSlayerSucksAss30]

​@@janstefaniuk2977Your reply has me convinced your brain is just missing

[@AnonymousEnigma19]

I think maybe the MC may have known and helped to cause the hour of joy, you may have learned what the scientists of playtime Co were really doing and it's sickened him, then came across the Prototype and then that's how it was all planned out and then after that he left them to their own devices, the sad part is he didn't know that it was going to go that far.

[@treasuretvjackson8018]

mean the main character aka MC by NC?

[@AnonymousEnigma19]

@@treasuretvjackson8018 thank you for pointing that out I'll edit it now

[@lorenzothomas8988]

well if the all the toys killed everyone cos they were tortured, poppy explains that she wants the prototype dead because of this. so what if poppy agrees with all torture and murder of the kids and it turns out in the end the prototype is somewhat of the good guy. Just a cool idea I had, love to hear what people have to say about that

[@TuanNguyenAnh-fd8ti]

to clear it up abit they also senselessly killed the innocents, ones that didn't realize or know about all the experiments. Like in poppy's qoute "the guilty, the innocent, *It didn't matter* " so it didn't matter who they killed they didn't specificaly kill the guilty.

[@crimsonmaelstrom573]

I definitely understand the reasoning behind this. It’s possible too. Guess we’ll just have to wait until Chapter 4 to find out more

[@williamdrum9899]

0:32 Interesting details here: * Notice the lack of graffiti or hanged toys near the door to Poppy's room * Who killed these workers? * Was Poppy locked away in the case during the Hour of Joy or no? If she was, how was she aware of it? And where did she find the video tape?

[@BeyondBeauty-p9e]

I always thought that poppy is the one who's controlling everything in playtime co. I mean if she was able to see the hour of joy while being in the case, her eyes must've been connected to every cctv in the factory, like she has a hacking device in her body. And that's why the prototype put her in the case to not be able to do anything but to watch.

[@williamdrum9899]

@@BeyondBeauty-p9e Interesting idea. It would explain a lot. But I don't see how that's possible (unless Playtime Co somehow invented Wi-Fi in the 90s)

[@BeyondBeauty-p9e]

@@williamdrum9899 hmm.. I really think playtime co. Was advanced enough to invent the internet on that time because they can turn humans into toys without taking away their consciousness, and they made prototype 1006.

[@BeyondBeauty-p9e]

@@williamdrum9899 Or maybe the prototype 1006 forced poppy to watch the live footage of the hour of joy to torture her because those who reject the hour of joy will be tormented forever.

[@silentpie4456]

Something that I’m curious about is if the prototype was a roommate with Theo before they were chosen. Plus I’m curious why they needed two sets of the grab pack to escape maybe we might get an ally that can use the grab pack to help us escape at the end

[@tenshi.kurama]

I am wondering who these ppl that Poppy is trying to save, are we saving the big toy initiatives and the prototype by killing them all or are we saving other kids that the toys were protecting from the evil adults?

[@flashstudiosguy]

Looking back at the footage, I relaise something interesting and it's we don't actually see anyone fighting back. Poppy said the Adults ran, hid, did literally anything they could to survive yet not once do we see anyone grab something like a chair and start swinging it at the Bigger Bodies. Also, we all know this is the part of the story where the Police and Military Academy Rejects drop the "Just a slightly overequipped RentaCop" facade the Press and Public see and start blasting away with M14s and Glock 17s before being inevitably slaughtered yet that doesn't happen either meaning they were either seriously caught off guard or the Whackjobs in charge just scoffed at the idea of arming themselves. "Armed Security in case of a break out? Don't be so foolish, such a thing shall never happen, we have confidence in our abilities as unethical and immoral Businesspeople and Scientists to control our creations..."

[@Electrical010]

They did say they were trying to oppress the children, I guess they thought of them so low they never thought they would be able to rebel. People like these think they have all the power, that's why the scientist didn't care one bit about what was going outside he was more focused on recording his log.

[@flashstudiosguy]

@Electrical010 They also had great confidence no body would either try to squeal to the Media or that someone from a rival company would try to break in

[@Kuukikira]

Wow putting the hour of joy video and the 1006 log together is crazy. It really give depth to the video

[@Sushi-q1h]

The fact that in the Catnap scene, you can see the bodies twitching is such a horrifying detail

[@uniqueviolet7903]

In 1995 Play Time Co has been abandoned for 10 years so that means the year that the player returns now is in 2006

[@tomie8998]

U mean 2005

[@Boo12-2]

ten years would put us in 2005 :)

[@deme4869]

I think they just made a typo. Y’all don’t need to be correcting someone every 5 seconds to be petty 😃

[@treasuretvjackson8018]

@@deme4869They're not trying to be petty, they might just wanna help/

[@Pauluss77]

it could be 2006 too

[@CyberSpecter40]

I feel like the player is more involved in the experiments then what we truly now as if you remember in Chapter 3 when we first enter the School House Miss Delight after finishing about the kids staying in there seats she remarks that she knows the player and that they were a worker here and she asks how we were alive still, this means that at some point the soul in her was either around them enough to still recognize them years later this would also explain why also Huggy, Mommy, and Catnap so badly want to harm us we might have not agreed with what was going on and was forced into silence or something was done to make us forget as it seems we truly don't know what had happened but the others remember us

[@dimensionduelist4149]

I kinda feel bad for both sides the Toys that were once people and the people who didn't know about Playcare treatment

[@MatthewKing-Alexander]

Man, this video is quite a sad one now after 3 Chapters so far of the Poppy Playtime series, I realized that the workers of Playtime Co. are the bad people, and the monsters who ruined the children's lives. And, no wonder Huggy Wuggy, Mommy Long Legs, CatNap, and the other Toys were trying to kill the Unnamed Protagonist because he seems to be an ex co-worker, has come back to try to fix things, even if he might have been part of The Hour of Joy sad incident.

[@SilverSpectre90]

I truly hope in the next chapter we have a playable part that will review this moment, if not in the eyes of an employee from the factory, one security guard of the deepest part of the labs

[@nora_whyme]

Imagine going through that for a whole HOUR. i feel so bad for the guy who got chased by the miss delights and the guy who was chased by the bunnys (idk the name) like this thing gives me NIGHTMARES and actually makes me actually be in the hour of joy FOR MY DREAMS. gosh.

[@DoomSlayerLoreAccurate]

Elliott Ludwick and William Afton are very alike but afton is more curel sadistic and evil then elliott

[@Yushakiii]

Nah more like dr. Sawyer, he was behind all the experiments.

[@ratbobby_boi]

If I were to relate the hour of joy to anything, animal farm is a book to think about. In animal farm the animals rebelled, but the animal that would take over became a tyrant. They would off anyone that disobeyed them and would give the animals what they want, but not in the way they hoped for. This is something I thought of and hoped you could take it into one of your next videos😅

[@danganryanne9499]

Wasn’t it also turned into a film? I think the pigs becoming tyrants were supposed to represent dictatorship {Think of Mussolini or Stalin}

[@ratbobby_boi]

@@danganryanne9499 yeah the pigs were tyrants, but I don’t know about it being a movie.

[@danganryanne9499]

@@ratbobby_boi Yeah, it was turned into a movie, Animal Farm {1954} it was based off the book

[@trustme7660]

It fits

[@extrasofttofu5259]

First time I’ve been so early to a video, I love all your explanations and theories man, you’re awesome 🫶🏼

[@jdmiles4811]

@9:12 The prototype: VIVA LA REVOLUTION The Experiments: VIVA LA REVOLUTION

[@darkxaur]

So is nobody questioning where Poppy got her hands on spliced security footage? Edit: Taking a look at the HOJ again, I notice that Huggy doesn't have the Huggy toys round his stand. I guess he's been gathering food supplies...

[@megansorters332]

Haven’t seen anyone talk about this! I think it leans into Ollie being the prototype. Doesn’t the video get cut and a message about the HOJ happening appears? Who could do that but the person in the security room with the cameras? He’s watching us.

[@dushistaya]

Ollie?

[@mayankgupta9206]

i need a theory about the protagonist why is there no dialogue for him and i remember after we escape from dogday ollie says-"are you alright" "no ouchies or lost body parts?" im pretty sure we play as a doll too

[@Izzy-cp8yt]

I'm pretty sure it's been confirmed we're an ex employee. But the fact that Ollie asks about lost body parts did stand out to me. It makes me wonder if Ollie is a toy as well that for some reason doesn't recognize that humans can't lose an arm and go on the way toys can. Either that it's just a really dark nod to how brutal The Prototype can be, as we saw with Dogday.

[@skyandrews2613]

@@Izzy-cp8yt I think it's possible the player could still be an employee and a toy though. I think Bron was a former employee and he was experimented on.

[@mayankgupta9206]

@@Izzy-cp8yt ollie can be a doll because she would have starved to death if she was human

[@Izzy-cp8yt]

@skyandrews2613 this is true, but a toy-body wouldn't have been able to leave and return 10yrs later. If we were a toy, we would have been present for The Hour Of Joy, or if we had escaped then the reality of Playtime Co. would have been widely known.

[@Izzy-cp8yt]

@@mayankgupta9206 Ollie could be a toy, but they could also be The Prototype pulling voice mimicry. But if Ollie was a child implanted in a toy, why don't they remember that humans can't just lose body parts and carry on? Or are they a toy that was built from scratch, AI-style?

[@featherguardian6023]

The Hour of Joy is what I described as the Negative Consequences of Playtime Co.’s Actions and Sins, these Monsters took away the Lives of the Innocents and their Futures taken away in the Form of Toys to Marketed their Brand and Hide who they Really Are, it’s understandable why the Toys eliminated the Guilt but the Innocent that didn’t know were Punished Senselessly, they didn’t deserve it and makes them no better than Playtime.

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

Given that the food would run out & the toys could never leave it only stopped more toys being made. For the toys already made it just swapped one form of suffering for another. They were now condemned to a meaningless existence of constant hunger and even cannibalism of their friends - like Ms Delight was having to kill her "sisters". Even if they were freed, the orphans would have struggled to adapt to the real world (assuming they'd seen it once before). Imagine the physical pain of seeing sunlight, HUMAN teachers, no gas to get them to sleep, the trauma of discussing Playtime Co - they would struggle. No more toys being produced is good, but The Hour of Joy removed the factory rules on who gets to live so... since the toys can't be undone then having their lives finally ended would be a blessing. The Prototype would have known the toys would suffer like this, so it did this for a reason that benefits it alone.

[@kitsuneninetailedfox2429]

I think the Hour of Joy is both since they do got there revenge on the Evil Scientists but also took it too far with all the Innocent People the ended wich is also really sad.

[@everwildart3563]

While it's obvious the evil scientists are the true villains, Chapter 3 hints that the toys indeed got divided into different groups where some follows the Prototype to survive and stay alive while some follows DogDay and Poppy to stop the Prototype from hurting the innocents and work to keep their humanity. Possibly to save the orphans too if the Prototype truly kept them alive. From the look of it, the Prototype is winning through rage and fear but with the arrival of our MC, the tides are turning. While I do believe the Prototype is the final boss, I don't think it's the end until we truly bring down the evil people behind this horror, according to Project Playtime, it looks like the bigger people behind the experiments are still alive so it's not enough to just defeat the Prototype, I think we needed to help the toys achieve true justice.

[@nicolaskullafi9166]

I think the VHS isn't a full version of the hour of joy.Some toys are missing like the bigger smiling critters, bunzo, bron,pj,etc. Imagine a full video of it... 60 minutes of sensless slaughter...

[@janstefaniuk2977]

I think i remember watching Dawko react to poppy playtime tapes released on the official poppy playtime youtube channel that weren't in the games or sum and some of the clips were taken directly from the tapes he watched, but it might just be a mandela effect i have

[@nicolaskullafi9166]

@@janstefaniuk2977 oh ok

[@Contorteddream]

Gamersaults voice is oddly calming to me

[@raymperia895]

The horrifying thing with the lore is when dogday says"I'm the last of the smiling critters"maybe saying be cause the smiling critters maybe din't obey the prototype and the got slaughtered by catnap

[@XplodinApple]

Basically the hour of joy is pretty much the order 66 of poppy playtime

[@ArnoH-r9o]

Thinking about this makes me shiver, even though it’s fake, I can imagine how horrific it must have been to be in that event, children used as tests, murdering with no self control, killing hundreds of people. When you first play this game, you think nothing of it, but then once you find out about it the lore, you change into a different person.

[@drq1248]

I think it's too early to trust Poppy, but for now I'll take her words. Poppy wants the place to shut down, therefore she asked the protagonist to kill any hostile toys under prototype influence and eventually kill the prototype. Without any hostile toys, it's easier for authorities to do investigation and permanently close the Playtime

[@demonkingtengoku9034]

*the one person who called in sick*

[@JOULE885]

I think we were that person LOL

[@LoganHinson-vx9ov]

No offense, but your voice makes it… more scary but makes it sound like you were a scientist. I LOVE IT!!

[@nathanielwallace3292]

YOURE SO AMAZING ❤

[@MjfdfrHhgeshmjr]

That So Awesome Man ❤

[@griffinholmes8024]

The hour of joy revealed everything we needed to know of what happened to playtime co they didn’t just killed guilty they killed the innocent

[@albertfrostrudebeck4037]

I feel like after we defeat the prototype he will make a william afton and return anyways in a new sequel

[@Shattered_Seeker]

Something tells me that CatNap is hiding the orphans somewhere in Playcare to keep them safe from the other toys and think we are another person trying to take them.

[@Blextine]

i have dumb theory that we see the player character during the hour of joy, in the first clip with huggy we see all but one person running in the same direction which leads further down the factory, but like i said one guy in a black suit runs the opposite direction and a part of me think it might be the player character. it seem that the player character have a particular fear for huggy, they have two nightmares in chapter three both have huggy in them and in the first one really focus on how frighten the main character seem to be of huggy, so maybe we play as someone that already feared huggy but i admit i'm likely wrong as we didn't seem to know huggy true nature when running into him in chapter one.

[@fullsilverbig95]

Hour of joy was just a logical event . In the audio log of ludwig and the prototype we can clearly see that the prototype learned from every human interaction he had and ludwig seemed to let his darker side out with the prototype leaning from him and every thing he can get just patiently waiting bc he knew that soon or late hell take control of the factory . Oc being tortured and influenced by ludwig for years led to this result

[@Uzumaki-Nuarto]

That's kind of scary to think I mean just imagine you were there you didn't know what was going on and then you see these things eating and killing all of them that's just imagine if this was real imagine we were Poppy and you heard all that screaming for so long

[@Bonbie_Bunn1]

THANK YOU I REALLY NEEDED THIS

[@marcopeter7581]

Is our protagonist an toy or the last experiment to be conducted ? we havent him seen drink something, eat something etc. in the entire game. While this isn't a concern for chapter 1 and chapter 2, which probaly is together just an hour or so at most. In chapter 3 we are also still very ,,fresh'' despite being blacked out for, who knows so long. While at the topic how come we dont get tired/hungry? Also while at the topic of lucky isn't it just weird how our MC is abel to just leave and not get killed for it. Everyone who tried to tell the public about it got killed and yet we, who were probaly very deep in the project, just got to go? Also guilty is apparently one of the motivators and yet we didnt tell it for all those years?

[@NahIdfertilize]

Toys are living they look like toys rho

[@Gufupandi09th13]

This is like order 66 but scary then that if you ever heard it before

[@rgama1173]

My favorite part of this vhs, is the difference between Kissy and everybody else, by wich i mean that, while everyone is violent here, She is efficient while everyone else is sadistic

[@ShadowKing_2024]

Experimenters were thinking that they control all toys, meanwhile that unknown Experiment or prototype: count me 😈

[@DirtTheDweller]

RIP to the guy who got stuck in a room full of Miss Delights. Don't blink.

[@maxb5201]

Am i the only one who wasn't surprised by a massacre and didn't have his heart racing when he 5 a horde of Ms. Delights chasing just one guy?

[@FilipRistić-r3d]

If i was there i woud call senator armstrong.

[@cainasantiago2295]

Imagine a random dude beating a whole horde of monsters, it would be funny

[@TheAllSeeingEye2468]

How much you wanna bet that this isn't the end of playtime co? Like they pull off a "fnaf" scenario where they are somehow still in business

[@oumardiakite5005]

Nah everybody got turned into a buffet

[@Loserated]

5:27 bro did NOT sugarcoat it one bit😭😭😂 no wonder they murked all the scientists

[@perlerpixie6327]

I'm wondering if the hour of joy happened during a tour of the factory. In the first chapter, during Poppy's commercial, they mentioned an hour long tour for $2.99. That would explain why there were so many people/bodies than necessary in the vhs tape Poppy showed the player. I could be wrong, though. 😅

[@kiwistudiosYT]

I just had a weird though, and I know it can't be true.... what if the 'senseless slaughter' Poppy was referring to was the HUMANS, not the toys? Like- idk why I'm just thinking of it that way, but it's kinda an interesting concept.

[@Baptisteog18]

You know we’ve yet to see Ollie in person. Also he sounds a lot like Gregory from FNAF series. So tell me is Ollie one of the few surviving kids or is he another toy that hates the prototype? Plus, now that I think about it, when the hour of joy took place we only saw the deaths of the adults, we never saw any kids get killed in it.

[@pp9lol]

The Hour of Joy was a bit to brutal but at least they shouldn't kill the innocent people

[@kyleonegod6071]

I think ludwig is the prototype and poppy is his daughter that past away

[@king_koth6023]

Ludwig is in Dogdays listen to the prerecording in the trolly when your on your way to the little town,

[@PrincessMomo420]

I just realized the final tape and Poppy playtime chapter 1 was taking place probably during the hour of joy and also he sounds like Patrick Bateman one last thing if those alarms in the final tape of chapter 1 are only of like the first two chapters that have that alarm system sound so my guess is that the final tape and chapter 1 had to have taken place in a much higher point in the factory probably somewhere around where huggy was being kept that's just my guess though

[@DjayPaniora]

Man just imagine over sleeping and being late to work that day how lucky could that be

[@Larrysbox]

i almost cried to the hour of joy. the depressing music. Huggy, Catnap, Mini critters, Mommy long legs, Boxy boo, Kissy missy. They all massacred the entire people of the playcare in hours. Eating people in half. Biting their heads off. Completely butchering everyone. Lifeless bodies everywhere. Scattered everywhere. Decapitated people, Limbless people. Everywhere was just bloodbaths. Ganging on someone. Eating them Limb. By. Limb. Bashing them with both their hands.

[@sammipanda1143]

Imagine having that music playing whilst getting eaten. Fun times.

[@spitfire4793]

@Gamersault R, I realized something but I don’t know if you know this but I noticed that in the hallucinations. The photo of a girl is seen in them and remember Kissy Missy lamenting as she looks at the exact same picture of a girl that the Player saw in the hallucinations! I have a theory that the reason why Kissy Missy didn’t attack the Player is because she probably remembered Player as the one who was her parental guardian.

[@joeson9582]

The Horrifying hour of joy incident scares me a lot!😣

[@helenzhang6754]

I feel bad for the workers who had nothing to do with any of this. Like, imagine just playing in the Playcare with the child you “adopted”, when all of a sudden these monsters just come out of nowhere and kill you. 1 like on this comment = a tribute to the innocent workers

[@ladiesman217sun-luc-dong5]

I think in my mind that the vision of the Poppy Playtime movie coming from Mob Entertainment & Studio71 and maybe even Blumhouse will be *The Suicide Squad* meets *Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City*

[@TheLightAngelic]

"This is what Huggy Wuggy does at chapter 1": 0:36 "This is what Mommy Long Legs does at chapter 2": 0:43 "This is what Smiling Critters does at chapter 3": 0:54 "This is what Ms. Delight does at chapter 3": 1:01 "This is what Huggy/Kissy does at Experiment": 1:09 "This is what Boxy Boo does at chapter 3": 1:16 "This is what Catnap does at chapter 3": 1:20 "All... *Dead Bodies..."*

[@smiththeinspiringanimator7042]

Awesome and cool! ^_^

[@PR1ME98]

All toys: (standing still as statues) Prototype: It’s time my children :) ready your bellies All toys: (●‿●) 9:12-10:00

[@Poke-ladd]

I was curious after they killed them all, im wondering did anyone such as the police enter the building to investigate or maybe the investors wondering why the factory went silent

[@MichaelHo-lo3fp]

I have a feeling that the government probably knows about this and tries to cover this up

[@Mund_aey]

Its a huge company. I bet they pulled some strings

[@webby3109]

I just wanna know if the boy in the duffle bag became the prototype.

[@deejaynutz5672]

I feel like it would make a great movie and titled "The Hour of Joy" , showing everything that happened before the game once the series is complete.

[@Neku628]

Can we really trust Poppy?

[@ShadowKing_2024]

Wait, they were human kids, so.... when they turned into monster toys they lost their innocency and factory owner done that and all toys were in aggression. So it means toys wanted revenge and put out their anger even on innocents, at the end human is responsible for his death😑, and even after that noting fixed thanks to prototype😑

[@Sedow1231]

You can hear people screaming in the footage of Kissy Missy, after it cuts and goes back when we see the blood around her we can hears the distance screaming

[@AzureFN.]

This isn’t about the hour of joy but! I think that the prototype has been messing with the toys, getting them killed (section 1) then getting ready (section 2) to fight the player (us) Section 1: The prototype has probably hacked the toys to attack everyone which gives the prototype more space to roam. He then makes the toys attack everyone they see to get themselves (the toys) killed. Then he takes their bodies to make his final form. In chapter 2 the Prototype takes Mommy long legs’ dead body to make a form. Chapter 3 he takes catnap to make his form again. In chapter 1 he probably takes huggys body. And the rest of the smiling critters, he might use them to make his form. That is my opinion and what I think. Section 2: He will use all of the parts whilst the player (us) is still there. Whilst we are exploring, we will find pieces of the old monsters (huggy, Mommy, Catnap, Smiling critters) and it will lead us to the prototype with all of the pieces moulded together into one giant monster. This will be Chapter 4, The Prototype. We will fight him which will be the hardest bit of the entirety of poppy playtime games. Once we defeat him we will find the front door that we came from on chapter 1. This is my opinion on Chapter 4 and what has been happening. Tell me if there’s any spelling errors in the comments and I’ll fix them. Thank you for listening.

[@jaysona6562]

I want them to release news videos of what happened after the hour of Joy. The employees had families and the orphanage would have been registered so maybe a unsolved mysteries style video would be fun.

[@7b7BenGazing]

I have my own hypothesis. Poppy is in cahoots with the Prototype.

[@jolteoncheesecake7295]

Eliot was dead when the body of the child was found and the mc was on poppy gas so we dont know if it was real or just made up helucinations

[@williamdrum9899]

We don't know for sure but I can't help but feel the radio broadcast was real. What doesn't make sense is how the mc can hallucinate catnap while on the gas. How can he hallucinate something he hasn't seen?

[@janstefaniuk2977]

@@williamdrum9899 He did see catnap for a split second at the start of the game but he was half dead at the time so it's probably a plothole