The FNaF Render That Never Was: An Investigation [April Fools 2023]

Game Boy™ Overlay by ‪@OrionsAngel‬
Lightning Effect by ‪@kanadaka‬ at • Lightning Strike with ...
I had the urge to spread misinformation, so here you go.
Yes, the stare render is not, and has never been, used in an official version of the game.
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The changelog mentioned in the video is real:
docs.google.com/document/d/1g...
Joke End Screen Videos:
Purple Guy is REAL!: • Purple Guy is REAL!
The Locked Box Solved: • The Locked Box Solved
Chapters:
0:00 Phone bit
0:23 PC Release
1:22 Clickteam Ports
1:55 Old Mobile Port
2:38 The Missing Link
3:08 Outro

[@callmesilver2683]

People just saw it in the trailer and thought it was in game

[@Queen_Raven_]

I think it was on the mobile version, and I even got a screenshot of it on the mobile version. Unless this image wound up in my phone by some supernatural stuff?? I never saw the trailer, so idk how it would wind up here. Am I tripping?

[@itztaken]

@@Queen_Raven_ feel free to share

[@kashyyi]

@@Queen_Raven_ still waiting to see the screenshot bud

[@Queen_Raven_]

@@kashyyi you can't send screenshots through KZbin 💀

[@kashyyi]

@@Queen_Raven_ or you can do the obvious thing and post a video about it! but you aren't gonna do that so whatever

[@thecannedslap]

Its a shame he removed this reference, i remember playing this game on the gameboy. It was so cool that it was a game you could eat after

[@George_vv]

I think most of the people watched the trailer more times than they remember and I know how much this screenshot was used in speculation videos. That mixed with other parts of the game where the animatronics look into the camera definitely have most people confused.

[@itztaken]

The screen also appeared in a bunch of easter egg videos, even though most of the time it wasn't even faked footage, it was just the raw render from the files lol

[@TheCreepersGood]

This is a genuinely funny video, unlike most April Fool’s videos, thank you for your service good sire.

[@shyguymike]

My man really forgot to mention the Windows Phone port 😞

[@itztaken]

I actually saw an article about it coming to the Windows Phone while wrapping up research, but I did not care enough about it to look any further. I apologize to the Windows Phone port enthusiasts 😔

[@szoty6099]

I vividly remember some old popular fnaf youtuber did a video showcasing all the rare screens in fnaf one, and this one was saved for last. He probably edited the game files to get it in game, most likely replaced one of the used show stage cams with this picture.

[@whyareyouwhite5275]

youre so underrated honestly, great content :)

[@itztaken]

thank you Mean Girls quotation !

[@Uncle-Jay]

Honestly, having the game rendered on a Gameboy makes it look a lot scarier.

[@MarisatoIOK]

I think there is a mandela effect going in here from not only peiple seeing it in the trailer and thinking that means its in the game, but also the fact that I think Freddy, when he is alone on stage, has a chance to look at the camera when being watched but only Freddy. So since thats in the game, and people seeing the image from the trailer, people probably assumed they must also have all three of them staring at the camera at some point.

[@Adriethyl]

Man, you should've used the 3DS version for the meme, because someone made a fan port of it (you'd need a modded 3DS though). This is still funny.

[@theshipysea]

You have LESS subs than me??? God bro, you deserve so much more, I’m loving your content

[@itztaken]

I like to keep my subscriber count low so that I can maintain a close, personal, and very real relationship with each and every one of them. EDIT: Huh, that didn't take long. To celebrate passing the esteemed The Shipy Sea, I have now cancelled all personalized gifts to my subscribers !

[@TheCreepersGood]

Oh hey shipy didn’t expect you here

[@kirby4667]

​@@itztaken do you know me😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@kayzoeditz4105]

​@@kirby4667they definitely do not know you

[@apich2937]

this aged well

[@indigoguy12]

Yo this is so funny why aren’t there anymore views?

[@AttackSpeed407]

We're in the wrong timeline 😔 I distinctly remember this scene happening to me way back when it came out.

[@athleticclipsofficial]

Saaame istg i kept flippibg the stage camera to see itd appear again

[@K0nut]

There is no way this easter egg isn't real. I know about mandela effect but i refuse to believe this hasn't happened. I saw it with my very own eyes and nobody can convince me that what i saw never actually existed.

[@athleticclipsofficial]

I remember it too@@K0nut

[@athleticclipsofficial]

and seeing it@@K0nut

[@StarkMaximum]

WAS THAT THE PORT OF 93

[@SkyaboveRoblox]

these videos are really good

[@IzLidk]

When I first played the game, I had never seen the trailer, never seen any videos about FNaF, and yet I still remember seeing this, on PC

[@wildknoxgaming7158]

wait thats the same date fnaf 1 takes place, 1993. fnaf is that old? it still shocks me that its real and I wish it was on all versions to scare people

[@accuratejaney8140]

This is an April Fools video. It seems that part of the video is a joke.

[@itztaken]

no this is 100% factual information, Scott Cawthon made the original game in 1993 and The Mimic™ was the one who ported it to PC in 2014

[@lunaticlizzie4525]

I am dying for more FNaF from you.

[@cheesydanishgaming3333]

I played this game as recently as 2019 Now sure my word isn’t credible without legitimate proof but I’ve seen this image in game Then I played it again in 2022 and it stopped appearing which I didn’t notice at first since it’s a rare event but it was akin to Bonnie’s face being up in the camera in the supply closet or the crying child seen in the posters on the walls And then I saw a video saying it went unused and I was super confused Now In the case of other Mandela effects I’ve noticed it only targets memories you vaguely remember or haven’t experienced in a long time but 2019 at the time of realizing this image was gone was only 3 years ago Meaning unless I have Alzheimer’s starting to develop there’s no way I could’ve forgotten this or pushed this memory so far back to be considered a vague memory On a crazier note my mom who’s only ever seen me play the game remembers seeing that screen from my gameplay and she’s not exactly gamer type Something else equally as strange I’ve noticed you know that like half asleep half awake state you find yourself in when you’re starting to fall asleep and wake up which causes you to hallucinate until your eyes adjust? I had something similar to that this morning only I’ve never had objects blatantly disappear and reappear in a flash as a hallucination, usually the object I’m looking at during the time of the hallucination is warped to give the illusion there’s something there I’ve never had something like this happen Let’s take this even further by mentioning some shit that could possibly be related I almost never dream but when I do it’s usually a premonition like dream or a dream where I can see events before they happen Now I’m not exactly a skilled psychic or anything as these dreams I only remember while dreaming and then during the moment the events come to pass in reality I had one everytime something drastic happened such as when any member of my family died that being my two aunts and grandmother or life changing events such as a move or something else I do occasionally get them at random as well but like I said I can never remember them to experiment with choices I’ve noticed as well which is very trippy to try to explain any thoughts you have during reality during the timeframe in the dream can trick your mind into believing one outcome is about to happen when in actuality it’s another event entirely Lets also take into consideration one other thing Some of the best genius’s that we have or have had made their brilliant inventions or whatever to note doing meditation during an LSD trip LSD when combined with meditation supposedly let’s you peer into the future Now I’m not a druggie I’m just mentioning this as something that could be related to the Mandela effect And then as well we can’t talk about the Mandela effect without the man who gave it his name The man who lived in 3 different times and timelines one where he died in prison, another where he was president of some country and the third I don’t remember I think it was still the prison with slight changes such as his dod being different Nelson Mandela Other noteworthy Mandela effects being king tuts crown being different, the torch of the Statue of Liberty being inaccessible from a terrorist attack not talked about, and probably the most famous Darth Vader’s dialogue to Luke being different in empire One I’ve noticed myself that I can’t find anyone else remembering the same I remember the kingdom hearts 2 story being vastly different from what it is if you’re curious about that I’ll write a reply to this, and some simplistic ones only seen in reality like the type of pizza I grabbed suddenly changing when I get home (SPECIFICALLY FROM THIS ONE SPECIFIC WALMART) or a whole ass church being made of white wood one day and the next day appearing as a brick church Now with all this said you can choose to believe me or not that’s your choice And credibility goes down with lack of proof and this being posted under a video that has “April fools in the title” But this comment is after April first and I’m dead serious with it And consider this if you think I am lying would I really post a comment this long going into so much detail from my personal life about this? You don’t know me granted but I don’t think I would

[@itztaken]

I have literally seen comments saying it was on the PS2 version, comments linking to videos that just show Freddy staring, and comments saying the toxicity meter was used. I think you can understand why I discount the veracity of KZbin comments when proof is never given.

[@cheesydanishgaming3333]

@@itztaken I mean true but fnaf was a big part of my teenage life I mean I was all over this as much as I was Undertale People are idiots Fnaf wasn’t released until 2014 on August 8th so obviously not during the ps2 era I can’t prove myself but I can assure this was my passion at one point and everything I say I say with 100% honesty May not be 100% factual especially considering we’re talking about an unused camera screen so in this reality if you wanna believe that it isn’t factual But I’m going off my memories and my word so it’s whatever I suppose

[@knatred1489]

I'm curious

[@cheesydanishgaming3333]

@@knatred1489 so my memory of KH2 I remember as such You play as Roxas halfway through the game collecting the lost fragments of Sora’s memory to wake him up all while being aided by Donald and Goofy You play as Roxas all the way up until the Xaldin fight in beasts castle where Sora suddenly reappears in Roxas’s stead You as Sora along with Donald and goofy fight Xaldin but are scripted to fail and that’s where Mickey comes in to save the day Now obviously that’s optional as if you don’t die he doesn’t pop up but what I remember was mandatory and there was a whole cutscene involved as this was technically the first appearance of him in the game After you beat Xaldin as Mickey you revive Sora and play the rest of the game as normal I’ll have you know this memory of mine was on the base ps2 version of kh2 so no final mix edition and no knowledge of COM or 358/2 days this was all from my memory of watching my brother play on the ps2

[@legoboy7107]

I believe there's a nearly identical render in the game that IS used, where they're looking at the screen exactly like in this render, but the difference is one of them is missing (I forget which but I think it's Bonnie, not sure). Other than that it's nearly identical. Maybe that's what you're remembering? (Unless that also doesn't exist and I'm also crazy).

[@BestBoi8]

My favorite part of this is how you made other unlisted videos for it

[@1p_u_r_p_l_e1]

Now I will never understand why I saw this moment when I was playing on my phone...

[@DiabloWindcharmer]

3:06 HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA GAMEBOY FNAF WOULD BE HILARIOUS AND TERRIFYING

[@AbdullahEkici34]

I saw a text says "Removed *lore.txt* from files" What does that mean?

[@MLittleBrony]

huh, i never knew it was in the GameBoy port of FNAF. i always just used that to play Misfortune as a kid.

[@testerwulf3357]

It has to be on the mobile version. I've seen tons of people say it was, some having not even seen the trailer, some even having photos of it or gameplay of it happening..this is bizarre! It feels like that theory people talk about to cover stuff like this, that 2 universes collided and when they did you switched to the other that didn't have what you remembered creating the Mandela effect..I feel like I remember people confirming it to be on the mobile at some point, and now it just isn't??

[@itztaken]

There was a post on the r/fivenightsatfreddys subreddit recently that had a screenshot of it on mobile if that's what you're thinking of? It was admitted to be faked a bit later though. I would like to see what photos or gameplay you've seen because I've never been able to track any of that down.

[@0BlaydeX]

@@itztaken anything that could be found now is gone since the mobile version has been updated to be the pc version. For what it’s worth I swear I remember seeing that screen too when I played it way back

[@keytaurchannel216]

I love how you literally searched the files on the video yet people still believe they saw it in these exact versions you showed lol

[@videoplayback_]

Omg I never knew fnaf is that old, can I play it on emulators too?

[@itztaken]

no i ated it :(

[@jcrimson.]

I found this FNAF 1 unblocked version and this image showed up briefly on cam1

[@itztaken]

it probably did lol

[@DiabloWindcharmer]

This is uh um idk my brain ain’t been working for 2 weeks

[@ItsYee64]

HOW WAS I SPOT ON WITH THE GAMEBOY GUESS WHAT

[@slipsy4139]

if it really wasnt in the game, how do we have the render? usually these sorts of unused things are datamined from game files, but if that isn't the case then where did it come from?

[@itztaken]

You answered your own question, it's from the game files.

[@macjohnson7579]

Bro the game boy version was crazy I forgot that it was real

[@LURSMAND]

It was in the trailer guys chill

[@uliveulearnandregret]

was that censored 1.11 a knod to fnaf security breach? cause when I search it up that seems to be a trendy number for the fnaf sb patch release

[@itztaken]

It was 1.12, the only PC FNaF version that has been lost to time, though it might not even exist. There are three videos of 1.12, but they are all the demo version, which might mean that it's just a lost demo version. EDIT: It was found, it wasn't that interesting, but it was an exclusive demo version.

[@LuigiRulez2022Official]

Fnaf on the gameboy is the best port of the game

[@josaicmosaic]

why is fnaf 1 version 1.11, 1.12 blurred out? is there some joke im missing?

[@crystaljiang5976]

Poisson d'avril!

[@niisf]

I swear i saw that in a markiplier video that freddy was looking at the camera but ik that he also put some shit that wasnt even real in his videos

[@itztaken]

Yeah, it's just Freddy staring at the camera

[@macjohnson7579]

But I do remember getting them all looking at me I was using a different website

[@Speed-TV]

but is there a real explanation for it

[@TheAmethystAurora]

Bro I always play the Game Boy version!

[@rirtrirt4757]

I am 100% sure this was in the mobile port either newer or old one, i remember showing it off to friends once i got it I even remember when one of animatronics leaves the others keep staring in the camera

[@basementdweller235]

What about the Windows 95 port?

[@itztaken]

just unused :(

[@dannymcquaid-oo7ml]

No because I have seen that render on the mobile port o fuckING SWEAR I'VE SEEN IT WITH MY OWN TWO EYES

[@LootGFX]

same I did on the 2014 port

[@Foxy_-rw6yg]

The first Phone Version there was the scene

[@itztaken]

The video isn't that long, but I think you missed the part where I checked the first phone version, and it wasn't there.

[@tonyasajit2417]

I subbed

[@BagnTagstudios19654]

I could've swore I saw this during g markipliers gameplay

[@itztaken]

You're able to re-watch Markiplier's complete series. The only thing you'll see is the single Freddy stare render.

[@BagnTagstudios19654]

@itztaken this can't be...THIS CANT BE,!!!

[@chebryan]

0:54 why was there one version that was redacted?

[@itztaken]

It was 1.12, the only PC FNaF version that has been lost to time, though it might not even exist. There are three videos of 1.12, but they are all the demo version, which might mean that it's just a lost demo version. EDIT: It has since been found, it was an exclusive demo version, nothing too interesting though.

[@chebryan]

@@itztaken ah ok, so you decided to leave it out because of the mystery surrounding it?

[@itztaken]

@@chebryan It's just a little joke about how the version hasn't been found (though the patch notes are known from IndieDB)

[@chebryan]

@@itztaken oh I get it now, thanks for explaining!

[@brian93724]

WHAT THE HEEEEEELLLLL OH MY GOD NO WAYAYYY

[@derpythean-comdoge8608]

i was just watching my friend in a discord call play fnaf 1 and this happened on the first night as soon as he started the game. granted i’m pretty sure he’s playing a pirated version of the clickteam port.

[@TheBadDeadFox]

Tfw yt failed me and haven't sent me a notification

[@tsukoko6058]

what is forbbiden the 0:53 version

[@itztaken]

It was 1.12, the only PC FNaF version that has been lost to time, though it might not even exist. There are three videos that show v1.12, but they are all the demo version, which might mean that it's just a lost demo version. EDIT: It has since been found, it was an exclusive demo version, nothing too interesting though.

[@tsukoko6058]

@@itztaken it looked like some thing that had problems or something

[@codypainter3905]

I swear I got it on Xbox

[@orestisgeorgatos6725]

S tier troll

[@Laughterr69]

Ah shot I’m the 666th viewer

[@rayganthetheremind1216]

Fake

[@hahen8]

You tricked me lol