The Tragic and Terrifying Life of the Staff Bots (The Silenced Staff)

[@notrealnamenotatall2476]

I noticed more audio errors that I didn't pick up in editing this time, and I wanted to apologize in advance. >.< I'll be sure to catch them next time, so I hope it doesn't dampen your experience.

[@GoofyMonsterGuy]

whoops

[@reject1877623]

I'm not worried about it I just want to hear you talk about the nightmare of minimum wage labor for a pizza company that's.... Very dangerous and a real nightmare and doing experiments with the afterlife

[@FNStriker]

What if STAFF stood for Single Task-Type Assigned by Freddy Fazbears?

[@echothesilent4693]

No apology necessary, keep the vids flowing

[@Lou-Lou-]

Not a problem! Keep up the good work!

[@samr8889]

It’s not a security breach video without the phrase “but half of it was not used”.

[@JunkieSama]

Yeeeep. The Sonic Boom of FNAF 😂 .

[@Roadent1241]

It's amazing to me that huge (in space and size) games have so much unused when my GB games have maybe some screens that I've had to un-detail but I basically use everything I make and it's still like maybe 2MB at most regardless of how many assets and dialogue boxes there are and I could have been working on it for the same amount of time on my own.

[@satsujin-shathewitchkingof6185]

As a robot,being mistreated and disrespected by humans is probably expected but being mistreated by the Glamrocks? Fellow robots? That's gotta hurt

[@HB81509]

Racism and Classism frfr

[@marcusaaronliaogo9158]

Reminds me of the vehicons and normal cybertronians

[@CharaDreemurr-UT]

@@marcusaaronliaogo9158 FOR REAL BRO

[@catbatrat1760]

They just can't catch a break

[@satsujin-shathewitchkingof6185]

@@catbatrat1760 Poor Robos,didn’t deserve this

[@chaosbeam4654]

Imagine being killed by some guy being puppeted by another guy with a god complex, and you wonder up possessing a staff bot instead of something cool

[@peterjones426]

I'd probably scrap myself or make it everyone else's problem.

[@player0589]

Make pineapple pizza!!

[@peterjones426]

Now that's just mean.

[@Aremous219]

The Acronym would probably along the lines of Service Technician for Automated Fazbear Facilities

[@Hambrack]

"This doesn't look like the work of disgruntled employees" buddy if I got fired at 5 to midnight after a 14 hour shift I'd do much worse to that place.

[@liseverschuere7610]

If i had had a 14 hour work shift, there’d probably be no need to kill me anymore, considering id already be dead

[@highbahamut6188]

"i'm the milkman my milk is delicious, special delivery today."

[@reject1877623]

Being a custodian myself I relate to the mop bot a lot. All the cleaning and sanitation duties. I do it everyday and it feels a little soul sucking at times. But still worth it

[@tashibalampkin8555]

Thank you for your service.

[@liviwaslost]

Thank you for keeping things clean!

[@TheWizardMus]

As a fellow custodian I also like mop bot a lot because I too will stay in my lane unless you step where I'm cleaning. A kid long after kids have gone home? Not my problem. A kid who stepped where I literally just mopped, buddy where's your mom.

[@reject1877623]

@@TheWizardMus I do mopping also but most of what I do at work is trash collection.

[@TheWizardMus]

@@reject1877623 are you in an office building? I do everything in my area of the school, wipe down desks, trash, vacuum, mop, and I also do our building's linoleum floors cuz I have less classes than my coworkers

[@legionbeast]

While Moon may have torn some of the staff bots up, Help Wanted 2 implies that Sun isn't too happy either and on a whim, he could turn on a brainless bot and likely vent out a lot of his own rage. This makes the idea of his Moon side even worse since despite venting his rage out, it would mean Moon is a lot more unhinged.

[@danielsantoro6332]

The STAFF bots are easily overlooked. But they're really the best characters to represent Security Breanch, in my opinion. You don’t realize just how much more the game would feel empty without them, intell you think about it. Also, STAFF bots are now the butt-monkeys of the FNAF series.

[@John-mp4qc]

Yeah there like background characters that make Sb have some life.

[@gemrock]

I think that would be truly awful. Being stuck as a mindless robot forced to be a skeleton crew for a company that will throw you away when the restaurant goes belly up.

[@elgavino111]

I only recently noticed how the bunny ears on the mask bot are ripped from its head instead of just put on

[@zipperozicvideodump]

The phrase "there will be cake!" tipped it off for me If I have ever learned anything, it's when a megacorporation associated with robotics offers you cake-- it's a lie.

[@w1nterdays]

Portal?

[@liseverschuere7610]

Consider this, there was cake, just not for the employees, or maybe there was, but they got murdered regardless. Them being murdered in the end does not exclude the possibility of there having been cake. But yea i do agree it’s obviously a tactic to get as many people in that room as possible.

[@rabnadskubla8594]

Isn’t that how GLaDOS killed all the Aperture Science employees?

[@Brite-um2tq]

No, that would be neurotoxin.

[@rabnadskubla8594]

@@Brite-um2tq Never played Portal. It would be a way to lure people to kill them with toxic gas though.

[@wafagdplqs4421]

In all honesty, I always saw the staff bots as the perfect open window on Fazbear Entertainment's treatment of their employees and business philosophy.

[@nixxie119]

I never understood how people thought that the all staff meeting led to a large amount of human staff being killed. Anytime I've heard people talk about it, they always point fingers at Vanny and/or the Mimic. If there were even just *10 people,* 2 or 3 people could easily subdue Vanny if she started swinging around a knife, and they could get out of the Pizzaplex with limited damage. And with all the chairs around, 5 people could do some serious damage to the Mimic while the others call for help. But when you brought up that the Staff Bots could have a hand in it, that makes so much more sense. I refuse to believe a person confined in a rabbit suit or a murderous endoskeleton could kill a large amount of people and get off scot-free. But a Staff Bot to each person would definitely make the job easier.

[@gaminganimators7000]

I agree, but i don't think chairs could hold Mimic off, especially when you realise it lifted a forklift with one arm in ruin, I doubt a chair would do much to stop it

[@thechoirtar6077]

You'll be so disappointed then when you find out how easily The Mimic slaughtered two separate groups of Fazbear Entertainment employees, the second group of which ended in The Mimic piling up all of the bodies together.

[@_Berserk_984]

There’s one flaw in this staff massacre theory- unless every employee at Fazbear Entertainment didn’t have family, a huge amount of people would’ve noticed their loved ones meant missing and then the authorities would notice that all the missing people had one common link-The pizzaplex.

[@thechoirtar6077]

@@_Berserk_984 Too bad Scott and everyone else running or assisting the franchise couldn't be bothered to make any authorities existent within the mass majority of things in FNaF. :/

[@Perdix64]

@@thechoirtar6077I’ll be honest, it’s just easier to say they got fired instead of killing them. These people straight up don’t have a cognitive feeling to think, “Huh, dad/mom is not home, let’s just ignore it!”

[@belle5234]

Staff Bots can give u all sorts of stuff. Maps, Masks, Fired, and a clown that can jump out of a music box and kill u while u work.

[@cleodoesstuff8248]

honestly, 'being killed at your shitty minimum wage mall job staff party is bad enough, but then going on to be forced to possess your robotic replacement and be eternall stuck in your shitty mall job but now with even less freedoms' has to be one of the worst fates that this franchise has managed to come up with, even theoretically.

[@indigopines]

I think I'd rather be scooped

[@MusiciansRule07]

​@@indigopines The Scooper only hurts for a moment.

[@BlueSkyBirdies]

​@@MusiciansRule07...While menial labor is forever

[@whisper_ishere518]

Along with the chef bot, there's also bots behind the bowling alley in Ruin that hang from the ceiling and are shut down holding bowling pins

[@giovannisoto4353]

The plot point about the staff being killed by vanny was so interesting to me but since the game can’t actually show it just feels like yet another dropped plot point. And it still doesn’t make sense as to why Fazbear entertainment would have V.A.N.N.I masks for employees, did they know she was there and did nothing because they’re evil and stupid?

[@GJames-Legend101]

That’s something I’ve been thinking of as well, why does the antagonist have a literal AI Mask System designed and named after her, if I had to make a guess I would say that the mask came first and that’s where she got the idea, something else I wan to pick out is in Help Wanted theirs an in universe game development company called Silver Parasol who wouldn’t you know it have a White Rabbit Mascot on their logo and in the Curse of Dreadbear DLC were introduced to the mask for the first time. Now before I say what I think I need to talk about Vanessa and vanny, now personally I think the 2 of them are 2 completely different people, but not in the way you think, I’m more under the impression that Vanny is a Inner Thoguht Form Digital Consciousness that was made inside of Vanessa’s mind (possibly by Agony) and she saw the VANNI mask and was inspired by it, so it’s like 2 minds sharing 1 body, Vanessa is the normal and original meanwhile Vanny is basically a Dark Reflection of her and her polar opposite while sharing certain Aspects and Traits, also fnaf KZbinr/Theorist ryetoast made a theory that when Gregory beat princess quest rather than destroying Vanny he simply removed the Vanny Persona/Consciousness from Vanessa’s mind and body and she was put inside the mask, then during Help Wanted 2 we see the Protagonist find and use the mask which allows Vanny to Influence/Manipulate them into helping her Overcome and get rid of Glitchtrap and the she just leaves them to rot, and during Ruin Cassie finds the mask it’s very possible that Vanny will either possess Cassie or try to Influence/Manipulate her into getting revenge on Gregory, Vanessa and Glamrock Freddy.

[@TheSpacePyro]

so the classic jeckal and Hyde cliche of one personality is the actual person while the other is the evil and twisted dark side of them but mixed with the cut off the evil part and seal it away but some idiot manages to find it and unleash it cliche

[@Oli6906]

Ok but "I have never been there, I am confined to this building" actually made me laugh

[@liseverschuere7610]

And at the same time its such a deeply unsettling and sad line if you think about it

[@picklepepper900]

Did that security staff bot say "I always come back" What the hell, how have I not noticed that, is that a cut line?

[@UnnamedSecurityGuard]

Good video. I am very curious about the all staff meeting and didn't know that even the word blood was censored. In typical Fazbear fashion, killing all of your human staff somehow garners LESS attention from the outside world.

[@notrealnamenotatall2476]

Yeah, it's crazy! Remember the line where Freddy says Gregory is 'broken'? Initially he detected blood because Gregory scratched himself.

[@UnnamedSecurityGuard]

@@notrealnamenotatall2476 Wow I didn't know that. Maybe I'm just getting older but it's wild to me that a series with a child serial murderer, you apparently can't even have the concept of blood mentioned.

[@waggieentertainment9387]

@@UnnamedSecurityGuardshhh it’s not murders it’s disappearances! it just feels weird how now they want to keep fnaf pg

[@UnnamedSecurityGuard]

@@waggieentertainment9387 I honestly never noticed. I always thought it was an achievement of horror to not have to show blood or gore and still be terrifying. Now that I know it's a requirement, it kinda takes away the magic :/

[@tashibalampkin8555]

4:10 What?! That fact genuinely surprised to me. Why is the daycare attendant doing this? Maybe its their way of letting off steam after dealing with children all day.

[@liseverschuere7610]

I didn’t see it coming either, but it would explain part of sun’s unhinged ready to snap kind of anger, as he’d probably be deeply traumatized watching his other half, that’s supposed to have his back, destroy those staff bots every night. It would make a lot of sense, as Sun probably got to experience first hand how something turned Moon evil, and Sun would be watching without being able to intervene.

[@kitdoesstuff_official]

Map Bot has got to be the best character introduced honestly

[@magnuspkmn]

Woah didn’t expect to see you here!! 😂

[@kitdoesstuff_official]

@@magnuspkmn I wasn't expecting to see you here either 😅

[@Thommy_A]

Tbh even though I don't like to admit it, the scariest part of my security breach playthrough was the mapbot jumpscare.

[@j.a.m.m]

29:15 "Back in my days the killer at Fazbear's lured the children in the backroom and killed them himself, with only his brains and some elbow grease! Didn't need all those virus-controlled automated robots you young'uns use, there was some god-dang human contact! Ah, those were the days!" Real talk tho, great vid, and while we indeed don't have much evidence for the whole mass murder/conversion scenario you suggested, it still sounds a delightfully awful idea, smthg that could very well be a plot for a Doctor Who episode lol. Though, gotta say, I prefer the idea of Fazbear Entertainment only being willfully ignorant and negligent, rather than straight up evil and collaboration with Vanny/Glitchtrap. Making Fazbear Entertainment negligent is overall just more interesting and entertaining that making them straight-up evil. Still, great vid as always!

[@Takejiro24]

"That's nice, Peepaw Afton. Now, let's put you to bed."

[@justsomerandomperson6506]

I’ll never understand why they decided to have(at least) 2 of the security bots’ routing to be right next to save points(those being in Fazer Blast and the entrance of Roxy Raceway). Also sad that the staff bots got far more love then Monty.

[@RipleyCLASSICS]

TAKE A FREAKING MAP GOSH DARN IT!!!

[@captainet2457]

No

[@apersonowo307]

Fazbear’s not mistreat employees challenge! (*IMPOSSIBLE*)

[@StrawTadpole701]

There is no evidence, that Fazbear Entertaiment knew about Exotic Butters Incident

[@yurinogueira4693]

Well, I think that your video shows the new horror in the fnaf games, something out of jumpscares and ghosts, something more real. Big enterprises being more capable of doing what they want in the way they want, that's the horror, I pray for Steel Wool and Scott to bet on this, it can be so terrifying and good in the gameplay and lore, don't you think ?

[@notrealnamenotatall2476]

I definitely think it could!

[@BrandonJames2016]

I really wish the nightmare staffbots were actually a threat in the main game and couldn’t just kill you in the garbage section of the game. Would’ve made things a lot more challenging and tense trying to get around them. They looked really creepy and seeing the theories that they are possessed always stuck with me.

[@pkmntrainerlilly5]

I work in a factory that uses automatic robots to help deliver materials to work on, and it sticks out to me just how unsafe the staff bots are. I don't care how many waivers they claim you agree to, if one (1) robot runs into a customer, that is a huge lawsuit on their hands. The company I work for takes a massive amount of steps to ensure you know a bot is coming and how it will be moving. And even then, if one runs into an employee, regardless of if it's the employee's fault or not, they're still very liable. If it happened to a customer in a more retail environment? There wouldn't just be civil (money) litigation, but criminal (jail time) legal issues.

[@mikaroni_and_cheez]

If you don't mind me asking, what parts of delivery do the robots do

[@pkmntrainerlilly5]

@@mikaroni_and_cheez Its a semiconductor (computer chip) factory and there's possibly a trip with either an overhead robot or a wheeled robot on the ground between each step of the process. A person can always manually store things if robots are down or blocked by maintenance on tools. The wheeled ones beep a royalty- free midi tune to alert people to them coming.

[@foiledagain1914]

2:59 if I may say: the security puppet from fnaf 6. That is SOOOOO the reference. of course the model isn't similar to the security puppet specifically- but the puppet's original function was security!

[@omegastudios88]

Nice Job! There are so many different staffbots and you only missed the one staffbot who manages the Pins Backstage in Bonnie Bowl👍

[@vanishingllama7342]

26:53 If this theory is true, then Fazbear is even WORSE than we thought!

[@loganentertainment1814]

I agree with you. The Staff Bots are an interesting case, because not only are they human like, but are supposed to be “better” than humans (even though that’s impossible). I do think Mask Bot is probably the only Staff Bot that’s possessed, especially when you wear the Vanni mask and look at him. As for the nightmare bots, I’ve noticed in HW2, they don’t have glowing eyes, but they have glowing eyes in security breach, plus, they don’t show up in Ruin. It’s clear these robots are more than just simple robots who were added as filler. Like you said, there’s a mystery. 🤔 I am excited to see what that Staff Bot in SOTM looks like when we see footage. 😱😀👍

[@the-real-brady-boi2]

A FNAF video about staff bots? This is a great day!

[@lychenthrope]

Maybe S.T.A.F.F = Synthetic Trained Assistants For Fazbear?

[@SomeePerson]

Map bot is still my favorite thing that came out of the dumpster fire that was security breach

[@Max-iq8hi]

The Staff Bots have no mouths, and they must scream!

[@aidanpurkiss9457]

Allow me to scream for them... (inhale) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! (inhale) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! (INHALE) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHEEEHHHHHHEEEEHHHHEHHHHAHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Galvatron: NGH! STOP IT! STOP THAT HIDEOUS NOISE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Galvatron: YOU WANNA SCREAM?! NGH! I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO SCREAM ABOUT! (breaks free) AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[@MusiciansRule07]

They CAN'T scream. Even with their voices, they can't speak outside of a monotone! TERRIFYING.

[@_rj261]

18:20 Nightmare hours? Well, that's a terrifying concept!

[@MRR3INB0W]

The nanny bot reminds me of the Ms. Nanny versions of the Mister Handy robots from Fallout

[@Sparkling34]

11:43 that mime staffbot is actually so cute!!

[@jimmuthedeath1215]

I think the STAFF Bots as entertaining as they are, are a core reason why the Pizzaplex isn’t scary. The obvious part is the fakeout common jumpscares, but I’m not just talking about that. I feel like the vibe of wandering a liminal abandoned mall is hindered by the presence these security robots everywhere. It’s much more uneasy to be in an abandoned location alone, especially such an open one. Even though the staff bots aren’t alive per say, their presence offers the illusion of the Pizzaplex being occupied by guards and staff to the point it’s more comforting and lively than lonely. I know the question of, “well without security bots, what’s stopping someone from breaking in”, and that’s a good thing to have in a horror setting. The unsettling feeling that you’re alone but you could be not alone. The Pizzaplex is a massive wealthy complex but with only one night guard? What’s stopping this place from being robbed? Where are the would-be-robbers? Are they here now, or did something happen to them? It would be lazy, but if they were going for this type of game design I think the STAFF bots should’ve been replaced with a wondering spotlight security camera. It would set off an alarm and the Animatronic would begin running towards that area. No automated security guards, no fakeout jumpscare. Just a simple mechanic.

[@captainet2457]

4:36 gotta respect them for their work. They’re pretty cool

[@regulargoat7259]

I think the "why isnt there more weirdly behaving bots" thing is easily answered: because the ones that died and became possessed couldnt be shown to other people, so they dumped them down into the basement. Only the ones down there are violent enough to kill. Perhaps the nightmarionette faces are representative of an evil character bringing them back rather than a more benevolent spirit like Charlie.

[@Max-iq8hi]

All the trapped souls have a tragic and terrifying life, because they’re all indefinitely trapped inside of animatronics, until they can make their killer pay, and find a way to escape and go to the afterlife

[@snomgangscorch9557]

The biggest plothole in the entire series, is how the hell did fazbear entertainment get that much money to be able to afford that big of a building, and that many robots.

[@caimanthechimera679]

Personally, my guess would be money-laundering.

[@lapvona]

i don’t remember if this is said in the video but in the ending where gregory escapes at 6 am the newspaper he uses as a blanket it says “local residents missing”. it would make sense that fazbear got rid of the employees

[@HareRaisingRobot5]

I always thought Steel Wool wanted to tell a bigger story with the STAFF bots that was unfortunately cut with the rest of the story they had due to time constraints. I believe if you look close enough through gameplay and interaction, you can still see the story they wanted to tell about consumerism, automation and companies' failed attempts at lowering budget costs that end up costing them more. The STAFF bots being so basic and predictable is done on purpose to show how new isn't better and how businesses shouldn't be in a hurry to replace the human element just because they can. They were actually kinda ahead of the curb on that and if fleshed out a little more, would've made the side story of these bots more horrifying and memorable.

[@loorthedarkelf8353]

So a theory / brainstorm I had *while* playing Security Breach was that the Staff Bots are *storage vessels.* The whole point of a basement full of endos is so whenever a preformer breaks down they can be replaced, yeah? So.... how do you *store* remnant without whatever you put it in getting a personality? Put it into something boring. 1 in 10000000. Blank faces and roller bases that take up *approximently* the same floor space as a person. Which means the bots may in fact perceive themselves as *people,* the ones who remember the most projecting onto those around them and picking up signifies that set them apart.... which is why bots who get to have *any* specific role take to it like WHOA. It's not 'this is the only personality trait we gave this bot,' it's 'we dressed the bot as a comedian and the remnant inside it perceived itself as a comedian and did the rest'-- which saves on expensive programmers. But it also means you can't call the Geek Squad when there's a malfunction or a Bot just stops working. So you keep the ones that refuse to behave deep down in the basement, ready to juice up a new Chica or Freddy should a catastrophic failure happen, while the ones upstairs *knows exactly what happened to the others* and are kept in line by fear of being sent into the pit. [ pardon the reference, couldn't resist once I realized I could work it in XD ] Where are the souls coming from? Kids. Lost kids. Orphaned kids. Kids whose family didn't come to the security office, or who were too afraid and escaped/ran before anyone could pick them up. When a kid goes missing, one of the biggest difficulties is *a scared child hides on reflex.* It's a very old part of our brain that remembers when Sabertooths liked to *hunt* us, and so young humans have a terror reflex to find a low to the ground hidey hole and *stay there.* And since most parents don't wanna think about their kid going missing, unless the *parent* had an experience where they got lost they are unlikely to make a plan with their child of "What to do if you can't find mom or dad." The little camps scattered around the Pizzaplex read to me as Lost Kids, orphans and kids who went missing for any other reason within the mall, hiding and scrounging and *surviving* as best as they know how. Stealing food out of the trash [ like Chica ], making up stories about themselves to Seem Normal And Good to other kids [ Like Roxie ], probably acting out occasionally with all the stress that comes with *being homeless and a small child* [ Like Monty ]... and, very rarely, but when able? Doing what they can to help out others and be kind, even if doing so means they might get found out [ Oh Hi Freddy! ]. I think the Staff bots are, all together, rolling batteries for the entire Pizzaplex that can be harvested at Fazbear's leisure. The suffering of the kids while they are alive feeds the Pizzaplex, thus why there's striped power conduits that look like the puppet's limbs spanning many hallways; most abundantly in the arcade. And once they get found out and brought back to the security office, and have been missing long enough that the police have given up? It's harvesting time. I think the Pizzaplex literally sustains itself on the souls of children. And Fazbear *fully* knows about it and *built the building* to be entirely powered by it. The Pizzaplex Itself Is Alive, with the Blob / MimicTrap at the center, and the extra souls waiting to be used acting as *slave labor.* But that's just a theory :3

[@AbsolXGuardian]

This makes way more sense to me than them having the remnant of Fazbear employees in them. Most of those people have families. Now the unhoused or those in other vulnerable positions, like foster care or just not actually having any family: they're fair game. I don't think they disappeared a bunch of people at once, but I can buy them slowly harvesting those who wouldn't be missed (which would include some employees after everyone was laid off) The Frights story Ready Player 2 features a girl in foster care dying in a malfunctioning Freddy's attraction because no adults looked for her.

[@captainet2457]

5:15 I love playing as them in SB. I love their hat and his cooking

[@captainet2457]

6:44 I like her hair and I wish that they still had their voice lines in game.

[@FNaF_Fan_4yd3n]

I think I could have an explanation for the nightmare staff bots and why they look like Nightmarrione. Remember that one game theory where Matpat said that Charlie is haunting the pizzaplex? I think he might have been on to something. But instead of it being Charlie specifically, it’s her agony that has haunted the pizzaplex representing the death and agony that fazbear ent creates. It could even explain what Nightmarrione is, he is charlotte’s agony after she died that is the embodiment of death for the franchise.

[@Midnight_Afton645]

The first sentence speaks for itself

[@noname-qw9td]

So after watching this... Cassie's dad could be in the Mapbot/ Maskbot? 22:33 Dad was there no longer is, favourite character is Bonny (+ rabbit ears on the Mapbot an allude in genral anyway), that it is possible to plonk people into the bots, what was a Mapbot became a Maskbot, so on and so forth, giving Cassie, the mask

[@ToyFreddyGaming1987]

29:15 This actually hits kinda hard. Its not really brought up often, but the characters of Fazbear Entertainment have truly and thoroughly have been disgraced. They are no longer seen as friendly faces that want to make children smile, now they are just the beasts that hunted people down. They've been rebooted so many times, and while out of universe they are seen as separate characters, in-universe: people are supposed to see Classic Freddy, Toy Freddy, and Glamrock Freddy as simply "Freddy Fazbear". Not to mention how its implied that they simply erased Fredbear and Spring Bonnie from their branding. What started as simply a cozy local pizza place with two Golden animatronics, has turned into a soulless huge tycoon. No more enjoyment will ever come from the characters of Fredbear, Spring Bonnie, Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Baby, Ballora, Balloon Boy, Mangle, or any of the others. They will forever serve as a burning reminder of the tragedies that have happened, as Fazbear Entertainment desperately tries to shove it under the rug, while even more tragedies occur because of the companies' need to keep people silent every day. The Staff Bots serve as a reminder of how far Fazbears has fallen, and will be able to bring few smiles to the guests they serve, like the rest of Freddy & Co. Truly a tragedy.

[@kietdo4379]

If the staff bot are actually possessed by human soul then that means "inject remnants to metal body" is now officially canon.

[@captainet2457]

4:50 one of my least favorite bots. They’re so annoying and doesn’t look that cool

[@bluestrangler0447]

I love the image of the puppet put up during the description of the mime bot because I was thinking the same thing 😭

[@properjellydontbeproper3652]

Sun & moon putting the work in to bully them 😂 to blow off steam lol

[@Alkeeros]

Around 18:20 you said "we will be reducing nightmare hours" and I like that. "You all have been doing overtime with your nightmares. Let's reduce that. More pleasant dreams." Or else... Nightmare confirmed at the pizza plex?!?

[@wakkaseta8351]

The party room incident was obviously done by the Mimic doing Mimic things. The Nightmare Staffbots? Also the Mimic, yes even when there's two or more on screen at the same time. Mapbot? Oh, you better believe that's the Mimic.

[@xXMalhareXx]

Hello! It’s me! Great video! Also question from last time, if I make fan art where should I put it to show you!

[@notrealnamenotatall2476]

Oh, anywhere! Maybe post on your community tab? ^_^ Then you can send me a link!

[@FTZPLTC]

The ComedyBot mispronouncing "Chica" is pretty funny, ngl.

[@Whyteroze28]

It's like he's being run by a Text-to-speech engine, because they are horrible at pronunciation.

[@sweethistortea]

I named all the bots on my discord server after the staff bots. I love them so much.

[@thenightscythe2030]

Still don't get why the one Security Bot has the line "I always come back...".... this is obviously an Afton Reference, but makes no sense that it would be programmed with this line

[@Zipzap1313]

5:28 Watching Mark play this moment I hear Scott (the voice) say 'you can now FORCE the bot to make your perfect pizza' These poor things..

[@That_FNaF_Kid]

Watching this made me think the STAFF Bots are parallels to the Bobbiedots: they can do everything, yet often get treated harshly. The Bobbiedots might be examples of the STAFF Bots having snapped, or being possessed by Glitchtrap. The Nightmare Bots and the old Bobbiedots are both feared, abandoned, damaged versions of their "loved" new versions. So, this might mean the Nightmare Bots actually mean well

[@tvb5509]

I genuinely don't think the employees were killed off. Fazbear is stupid cheap, but they're not that brainless. It'd be safer to fire everyone than for literally every employee to dissappear overnight. We know at least some of them had families, since Cassie's dad exists. It would be too risky. William (and Glitchtrap) are not stupid either. It's implied he's smart about his kills, always choosing easy targets and taking their lives one at a time. He also didn't get caught (?FNaF 1 newspaper retcon or someone else was convicted). Even the Pizzaplex's missing kids are spaced out, since Gregory seems to be the only one investigating and worries that it will "keep happening." Tl;dr Mass murder ain't the Fazbear style. Killing all staff at once would be riskier than firing them all.

[@Burningtoast212]

While I agree that not ALL the staff went missing during the meeting, I wouldn’t be surprised if a few went missing and were maybe placed in specific bots (maybe the ones that emote more, like the manager bot In fizzy faz or the head chef bot). Staff bots do have to be taught specific tasks, so giving more critical thinking to the higher level staff bots would make more sense. I mean, like you said, Cassie’s dad had a family but he still was kidnapped and put in Mask Bot, so that doesn’t deter (at least Glitchtrap) from kidnapping people. Faz Bear Entertainment wouldn’t care enough to look into the small number of employee disappearances, much like they never cared to look into the “accidents” at their older establishments. Just put in a non liability clause to cover their butts at least until they decide to go all automated

[@buddyzilla4557]

18:08 -At prior jobs they would do employee appreciation get together. One in particular gave us two options. One was to have pizza or something brought to the job site for lunch every week or so and the other was to go out somewhere of our choice. There was always the same amount left for budget so those were the conditions and restraints. Typically the majority would have us all go out and vote by majority. It sucked in that there was a lot of nepotism with most staff being very close and overwhelming the majority with their chosen picks every time. We were function from a mall and regular hours had to be kept. Basically a supervisor staff from off-site would come in for the last 30 minutes to hour. Our supervisor and to pay for everything onsite so we would meet them there but we could not drink or do anything against the job rules in front of her or during on the clock time. The "party" was basically chosen so there was just enough on the clock hours of us to get set up and do a little celebrating as staff but then our supervisor would leave and we were free to continue or leave at our will. A bunch would order alcoholic drinks and spend more time chatting afterward than they did during the "real" outing.

[@slaphead6938]

comparing these guys to the robots we unfortunately have and will inevitably get, I'd much prefer to see these guys bumbling around

[@clarenceandgennymcneil251]

I Didn't think to much of the S.T.A.F.F bots being maybe part of the lore, Thank you for putting that in.

[@Taro_Yanada]

21:04 And not only that, but there is also a cake spilled on the floor in the endo-daycare. Maybe it was the STAFF bots, but the endos had something to see with it...

[@irysgundam0052]

3:55 Oh, yes. Monty does indeed bust up the STAFF bots. If you go into his room either when you are getting the Party Pass or when you have the access needed to go into the Glamrock Green Rooms whenever, you can actually find a pair of busted up STAFF bots on the floor. Considering the wreck Monty's room is in, and how we hear him trashing it early in the game, I'm guessing he brought those in there specifically to junk them as a means of venting his frustration over the party getting fouled. 24:30 The common idea I've heard is that both endings are cannon. We know that the Maskbot gives Cassie the VANNI mask in RUIN, while Glitchtrap was confirmed KIA in the Fuhnaff interview with Jason Topolski. So that implies, at least to me, both endings are cannon. If you want to guess how, its entirely possible that the Glitchtrap Ending occurs first, and then afterwords, the Fazbear Technician, now as the Maskbot, went back to help Vanny take out Glitchtrap for good. Though that's just my thought progress. :/ Now regarding the STAFF themselves....these things are messed up. The idea of these robotic machines replacing actual employees because Fazbear is so unwilling to actually pay their employees is bad enough. But factor in the idea of them being haunted by the Pizzaplex human employees (wither it be because of Glitchtrap, Vanny, or hell, even Dr. Rabbit if we want to throw GGY into the mix) turns these things just nightmarish. Assuming this happened *before* the events of Security Breach, that means that some of the STAFF bots we see in the game could be haunted, and thus, their treatment in-game becomes even worst. 0_0 Side note: I feel bad for the dude who winds up becoming Maskbot. Of all the machines to get stuck in, Mapbot would be my last choice. XD

[@breadclone]

Im thinking the nightmare staff bots r like full of agony- that's why theyve got black tears after all... the blobs connection to them seems mostly to be that they're both full of agony? That only leaves open what happened to the actual souls then

[@J_productionss]

9:42 I've seen enough. Let this man host The Oscars

[@uzi_-_]

I love how a game with so many funny glitches and sometimes moments has scary fucking lore( talking about the glam rocks and megaplex in general) I really wished this game was more well made so we could see more stuff that was cut

[@soapy_.dishes]

My beloved staff bots clicked immediately

[@vincentmorris8431]

Something that gets to me about the company aspect of Fazbear, when compared to the likes of Joey Drew Studios or Playtime co: Those two have quite a bit of documentation and details on their history, activity, and employees, but Fazbear's notably different. While compared to a toy factory or animation studio, where it's likely for there to be just one building, the likes of a party place with pizza and animatronics sounds like there'd be multiple. And while that does get established in books and even FNAF 3 tapes, the narrative feels as if (not counting Fredbear's or Baby's) there was only one Freddy's at a time - the founders' (and their kids') involvement, a single group of haunted bots being dealt with, with no others brought up... And regarding how the company seemed to revive in HW, I really can't buy Mr Burrows bought the band back then, when the company already had a massive reputation to clear, and he didn't even like the brand. And the whole thing of this all done in a single year that you said in your Glamrock Foxy video. Did Henry's short week of FNAF 6 actually make the brand popular enough for a Revival to be done?

[@momojamojamo3197]

21:17 if the meeting takes places the same night as the game (or relatively close to it) that might also explain why every single exit, even the emergency ones, have been locked up tight. Though if an army of staff bots were ordered to take out the staff, I doubt there would have been much chance of escaping that room unscathed, but hey best to have all the bases covered

[@Strobertat]

I wouldn't be surprised if all of upper management was an AI. That would explain how Vanessa got the job with instructions from the top - hax.

[@AkumuVids]

It's details like the ones you pointed out that make me really hope that Scott and SW give another shot at Security Breach at some point. In his interview with Dawko, Scott did express his disappointment in Security Breach, and that is was mostly his fault for not communicating the story to Steel Wool at all.

[@sutarikun]

Thank you for bringing up the parallels in the HW2 Endings to the HW1 Endings, but the one oversight I think you might have made is a parallel in the Crane Game ending to Sister Location (if you add in a few logical steps). The Princess Quest ending takes you down further and leads you through the mini quest where you light memorials at the graves of those children, then you make the trade, then you go into the Sister Location Elevator... And then a crane machine. Yes, we see Vanny and Moon, but what also resembles this room if we think of Sister Location and Ruin? The Scooper Room with the Ruin Scooper, with Vanny standing behind the glass like Baby and Moon acting as the Scooper, removing the "Afton" from you.

[@jimmnator9875]

14:38 the true villain IYKYK

[@soundwaveravagesuperior]

Haven’t watched this channel in a hot minute but you are one of my favorite fnaf theorists. Glad to catch this upload so soon.

[@benmikell1313]

A couple of things: 1) In the All Staff Meeting note, it refers to the collective staff as "service team" (including the quotation marks). My assumption is that Service Team makes up the first two letters in the S.T.A.F.F. acronym, and the Steel Wool team put those words in quotation marks to help them stand out as a clue. 2) In the end credits of both Security Breach and Ruin, the voice actors are listed under Cast with the actor listed first followed by the character they voiced (e.g. Andy Field - Dread Unit). However, the S.T.A.F.F. Bots are listed as "S.T.A.F.F. Bots - Themselves" in Security Breach and "S.T.A.F.F. Bots - Still Themselves..." in Ruin. I haven't worked out a full theory on that, but I think Steel Wool is definitely trying to tell us something 🤔

[@endymon5240]

Just for fun, Standard-Trained Automated Facility Force? Force as in a group poeple, like a worker's force.

[@shadowfluff2255]

What if the reason they don't have mouths is cause they can only say programmed lines and the soul possessing them can't communicate like the puppet or Freddy or Chica? I could be wrong since well I don't remember when they have voicelines. Or maybe a Helloy Kitty like thing. There's lore on why she doesn't have a mouth...

[@shadowslayer205]

You forgot to mention the most memorable characteristic of staff bots: Their ability to move at a choppy 15 FPS.

[@avadoksorem2854]

The only comfort you can take is that the staff bots don’t have any real ai. They’re not truly aware, alive, and able to feel. They can’t actually suffer. But it’s the same as seeing a broken toy or tool. There’s a certain sorrow to be had in seeing something that once benefited people ruined. Secondly, mass disappearances overnight would’ve been a PR nightmare for Fazbear Entertainment *at best* had they arranged for the entire staff to have been slaughtered that fateful night. The law would have caught up to them swiftly. That devastated dining hall is one big blank note at this point we may never get an answer on.

[@baisakhimukherjee7524]

Gotta admit glamrock animatronics are super lucky,they don't get electrocuted like funtime.And they can take down whichever staffbot they want and the human workers are too terrified from them if they dare to speak to them they are killed.

[@the_local_idiot6719]

5:14 okay William afton 🙄

[@Pro_Bro18]

Honestly I want to see some staffbot merch.

[@Rydernort]

I’d like to point out, the mask bot, when viewed with the mask, seems to have innards and a brain inside it. This is different from all the others, possibly the glitch trap ai (or maybe the mimic copying Afton) wanted to emulate him and stuffed the man (Cassie’s dad) inside the staff bot

[@Deefry]

An eventual remaster that handles either Scott's Puppet/staffbot/blob story OR Steel Wool's Rogue AI story would do this game a world of good.

[@DraxxDTDK]

i am crazy with all your fnaf video, really intertaining and even has a huge security breach fan, you show me that i still miss a lot of details on character or background. thank you for making them

[@notrealnamenotatall2476]

Oh, no problem! Thank you so much! ^_^ I've been trying to do my best!

[@kookiesanimations3079]

So I have a very morbid theory on the brand for FNAF and even some parts of the game confirm some part of my theory. I don't think the human employees got fired; I think they were killed because in Parts and Service, particularly the machine you use to fix Freddy up, if you look really closely, you can see dried blood splattered on the doors, even the floors. In other parts of the game, if you look closely, you can also find blood. I mostly keep finding it in the basement of Parts and Service or the true ending. I think somehow Vanessa was involved in it because if she is brainwashed to think like Afton, who's to say if she also doesn't know how to make Remnant, glamrock animatronics, and even the daycare attendance or so human-like because they have a little bit of Remnant in them. Not enough to make them possess, but enough to make them aware. That's the vibe I keep getting, some security breach, like something horrible happened here, and the fact maybe a party will make people happy before killing them will make positive Remnant for the animatronics to have more human traits so they won't be too aggressive to people, like we saw in the first game when it was just negative remnant. Does Dora stay with me for a long time what happened why the company of Fazbear entertainment the new one and the old one wants to keep willing Afton around because you unintentionally gave life to the lifeless make him look like a vast AI when they're not that is very remarkable so every time we played as the security guard or just another protagonist just because they want to work they hiring them to train the animatronics for something casually know how to train them not to be aggressive to staff not to kill other customers or or hurt the staff no matter is day or night and that's why so many office and security breach have power doors they have electricity because they wasn't always the friendly happy animatronics receive them in the game it took years of training to get them this way once they had everything they wanted they got rid of the employees I may use for them in other ways.

[@captainet2457]

6:18 can’t say much because, I haven’t played HW2. (Though, they look cool)

[@garythemoth8049]

The fazbear company is basically just a slightly less bad disney at this point