How FNAF Theorists Come Up with Nonsense | Five Nights at Freddy's

The posters in the Security Puppet minigame--wanted posters? missing posters? Freddy's advertisement? What's the meaning of these posters, and how should we treat them?
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[@UnwitheredTruth]

What I imagine happened is Scott designed the minigame, realised the alley looked too bare with a blank wall, and threw together a vague "poster" that could be for anything and then slapped it on the wall a few times just to give the background some texture. If it's a reference to anything, I'd imagine it's showing us that the alley is the same as the one outside the Pizza Place itself, which has lots of trash cans and posters. I don't think the poster itself has significance, as honestly it's such a vague shape that it could be anything - which is probably the point. But yes absolutely agree on the coming up with random nonsense part of the video - it's a real struggle 😂

[@brundle_fly_3895]

I agree with this, to me it doesn’t look like anything except “generic poster”

[@danielobrien8561]

New video when?

[@UnwitheredTruth]

@@danielobrien8561 it's on the way dw 😉

[@longfishy]

Yeah I realised this as I was watching. Either that or it's a poster of Fallfest.

[@picklepepper900]

Oh...what if it's a help wanted poster? Like literally a poster for becoming an employee. Its in an area where adults might walk around. I also think the employees wear hats? Dunno, let me know what you think.

[@madamproducer2102]

Hey Gibi this is actually a really good theory, notice this one. Could be an add looking for a night security guard. Can't remember in the timeline if they would have needed one by this time or not.

[@austriangrenadier7181]

My theory to this is, that they are just movie posters/ads. They are just decoration, and irrelevant to the Lore. Not everything needs to have an elaborate secret meaning. Sometimes, a poster is just a poster.

[@nxmx6ix]

FNAF theorists just doesn't understand that.

[@Mega-Brick]

@@nxmx6ix The point is that it's _fun_ to theorize, people _want_ to give things meaning even if there wasn't any originally. Art is as much what was put into it as-is what people take away from it, and different people enjoy art in different ways. It's all fiction, so it's not like there's ever a true "right" answer.

[@lieeeleeee]

From an artists perspective I really think it’s just a nondescript poster. I had previously thought of it as a man with a hat with text around it, which immediately made me think wanted poster but I’ve never thought that that actually makes any sense. To me the bars have to signify text and the vertical line makes me think of a piece of vertical text that might be on a like magazine cover (I’m a design student so I guess any bars of grey will look like text to me but that’s literally the stock standard way of suggesting text in a layout sketch). That vertical text is what draws me away from the tree on a hill which I do think would be a fun Easter egg/foreshadowing. But when you showed the tree is made me look at it differently (very magic eye puzzle) and now I can see the hat shape as a block of text behind a persons head. While I think the meta reason for the posters all being the same is like, the posters aren’t important so they used the same asset a bunch just to create ambience, the way that it’s the same repeated poster makes me think of the way posters on like the walls of construction sites are often repeated and layered over eachother. The figure in the middle with lots of text around and behind them in that layout along with the context of what sort of posters gets posted on a wall with ten duplicates, makes me think that it’s like a band or musical artists poster for tour dates. But overall I guess my answer still isn’t satisfactory because I don’t think they’re meant to be important (not saying they definitely aren’t important) because all I think the repeated posters and layered posters are trying to communicate is that it’s a rundown dirty alley in the same way that there’s a bunch of rubbish bins and not jsut one dumpster. The mini games have to rely on shorthand so I agree that if it was a newspaper of wanted posted it would look exactly like a clip art wanted poster or newspaper. We have already turned these things into symbols if that’s wanted they wanted to convey they’d use those symbols. A random poster is less easy to simplify so I think that’s where the “what even is that?” we’ve all felt when looking at the alley is coming from. Edit: all this to say I enjoyed this video a lot. I love looking at these little things and analysing fnaf through a load of different lenses and looking at the mini games with ideas of semiotics and visual short hand is one of my favourite things. I love when you analyse fnaf things on a really small scale

[@Charroshi]

I think the posters are there solely to draw connection with the secret screens of the FNAF 6 Pizzeria. In these screens you see the salvage animatronics against a wall that has posters on it next to trash cans with garbage bags next to them. Security puppet shows the exact same scenery: trash cans, garbage bags and posters. I dont think Scott intended what is on the posters to be important, i think the sole purpose of them is to draw connection between the location of security puppet and the location of fnaf 6 to imply the two happen in the same location. Especially with the context of both security puppet and the secret screens being in fnaf 6, i think this is the only connection within fnaf 6 that really makes sense.

[@covereye5731]

I still think unsolving Fnaf would go hard as a series. And yes to me it's a profile shot of Freddy on the poster advertising the place, you walk by and it's telling you to come inside. They did a poor job properly spacing them out, but that is inline with what an underpaid Fazbear employee would do.

[@bluecladchipmunk]

Amazing video you are usually the FNAF theorist that I agree with the most And once again you made an excellent point that sometimes things don't matter and we as a community tend to latch on to every little detail. How very Mr. Hippo of you to point this out "sometimes a story is just a story

[@Spencycle]

People would have to be pretty dumb if there were Wanted posters of William EVERYWHERE and he was literally the head of Fazbear Entertainment at the time. William wasn't this reclusive figure living in shadows like most serial killers are. He was an active business owner, and people saw him a lot. Surely they would have recognized him as the guy from the Wanted posters.

[@TheCollector2401]

Maybe it could be a wanted poster for someone who got framed for the murders. I think FNAF 1 hinted at that being a possibility since the “killer was caught but not convicted.” (But let’s be honest that line is referring to the fact the police couldn’t find the bodies of the dead kids)

[@nxmx6ix]

What if he used a ski mask or something that would be pretty dope

[@TheCollector2401]

@@nxmx6ix you just reminded me, in the original FNAF 1 newspapers the killer used a mascot costume to gain the kids trust. They probably never saw who was in the mascot on the camera feed hence why they couldn’t convict the killer. Meaning the original comments point is moot, and it can’t be a wanted poster for William. Meaning these have to be missing people posters! Edit: I reread the FNAF 1 newspaper to make sure I had all my facts straight and I’m incorrect. It says video surveillance caught the killer, and that police speculate that he used a company mascot to gain the kids trust.

[@webdew-art]

They're just decorations. The wall covers so much of the screen and is only a solid color, it would be lazy to not try and give it some flavour. Posters and fliers are really the only things that would make sense to be on a wall next to the trash, plus they are easy to draw. As to why they're all the same, the focus of the scene is on the characters. Having too many different fliers would take the attention away from what's being narrated and make the viewer think that they're more important than the scene being portrayed.

[@orggannick]

tbh it's probably just a case of "alleys should have posters or something, here's a generic poster design"

[@gregomyeggo4639]

Worth mentioning there are posters outside the fnaf 6 alley in the secret images so advertisements on a Freddy’s building isn’t that bizarre

[@thepainsight]

Posters on the outside wall of a family restaurant could be anything the company wants it to be, be it advertisements for the company, posters looking for more hires, posters of the animatronics inside of the building etc etc

[@spacealien3073]

Honestly I think its just suppose to be minimalist Freddy. I imagine Scott just put those there to fill space so there wasn't a whole bunch of thought put into the design. Honestly when it comes to FNAF I do try to get in the headspace of a game dev because a lot of choices in the 8 bit minigames are clearly super abstract. Its one reason I don't think the DCI happened because it makes more sense the game was suppose to be a non literal event than a whole second batch of kids were murdered in the restaurant and their deaths somehow became so irrelevant that Ralph didn't even think of mentioning them in The Week Before.

[@jibby_0989]

Gibi talking bout the Hatman in the alleyway… bros losing it

[@Jubumby]

Its probably nothing but the closest thing we probably got to this is the fredbear poster with the phone number, or eating pizza

[@Chills-zb9lj]

It's clearly a circus tent wearing a hat advertising fallfest 67

[@noravanguard]

I don't know why but I first thought this was gonna be a video about the rain not mattering in later that night. Because it's not raining during the midnight motorist mini game but it is rain in the Charle game and later that night. I guess I trian my brain to ignore red circles and arrows so much that I didn't notice the posters lol.

[@kreidemadchen7291]

damn, not even the green text saying that the red circle is important got you to pay attention to the poster?

[@noravanguard]

@kreidemadchen7291 The red circle click bait era of of the mid 2010s trains me to ignore most text and all red stuff lol

[@sutarikun]

I love these observations. I think what I get really frustrated with is when the theorist focuses on one detail to the exclusion of all else instead of looking for more support (see: the Mrs. Afton is now running FazEnt theory that Game Theory did years ago). On the other hand, I was trying to do a "no paranormal" theory for myself as a challenge and it actually looks like it's getting more and more possible with the nightmare gas and Fazbear Entertainment gets sketchier and sketchier, and the name drop of Coppelia in The Week Before along with Mike's parallels to Nathanael in The Sandman makes for some interesting theorizing (as I try to go through more of ETA Hoffmann's oeuvre).

[@LB_5346]

I see a Freddy’s poster..? Like I used to work at a theater (Cinemark) and idk how it is/was at yours, but on some of the outside posters, if we had empty slots, we had posters with the cinemark mascot that we could use as filler. Orrrrrrr depending on the death order, we know that the spirits can influence the posters (as seen in the OG FNAF), so you could argue that the spirits are watching this process. I would have argued golden Freddy, since the silhouette matches and GF is seemingly the strongest spirit, but for your last video. And I know the order doesn’t align. But maybe that’ll spark something for you!

[@agustinrios7809]

The Freddy's or Old Man Consequences sprites from FNAF world actually came to my mind!

[@Dinorexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

The news paper is 100% irrelevant as it can’t be an Easter egg because the puppet minigame is an Easter egg in itself. If Scott would have wanted posters to be important he would not have put them here, instead somewhere else like the office. I think all that the puppet minigame is supposed to be is us witnessing how Charlie possessed the puppet

[@ABYTE64]

yea

[@TheCollector2401]

You do realize game designers can hide secrets within secrets right? Also I’d argue this minigame isn’t really a secret, all you have to do is buy the Security Puppet and play it three times.

[@Niyariii]

Reread the title

[@cottagecoral4194]

Then again Follow Me minigames include secret messages that unlock Happiest Day

[@TheCollector2401]

@@cottagecoral4194 exactly! Secrets within secrets!

[@3DOARDC]

7:57 the figure reminds me of the Desk Man from Fnaf World

[@Lettuce_B3]

Those could just be music posters advertising some concert in a club for example. Thats exactly a place i would expect those, slapped hastly on a wall, somewhere noone would bother to take them down.

[@AlrightPlight]

When I make theories I try to focus on having fun more than being correct and as long as I get all the important stuff and create a good narrative within those constraints then I'm happy. From what I've seen the line between fanfiction and theory with this franchise is mostly presentation.

[@TheCollector2401]

This video is a perfect example of why it’s so hard to be a FNAF theorist lol

[@monstrdog7031]

The true lore was that it was desk guy all along, Scott slapping his pixelated self inserts face all over the walls lol

[@littlesweed6764]

Letsssss gooooooo new gibi video

[@riyadsaid8264]

I just realized something that is very unlikely but there’s no harm in trying. What if the 7 posters/newspapers are someone wearing a hat. Not only that, but there are 7 animatronics in FNAF 6 wearing a hat, 6 of whom you buy, one of them being molten Freddy (Lefty can bought or salvaged). Maybe it’s suggesting that in a playthrough you only buy and salvage those animatronics and then something may happen. If someone is willing to try this then please do so and let me know because I don’t have the game. Edit: I realized that I forgot Music Man. In that case, you can just not count molten Freddy because he isn’t bought

[@Chills-zb9lj]

Jokes aside it tooks like a Circus tent with a bunch of balloons above it and the bit that looks like a hat looks like a tedt box probably saying "come to the fazbear circus" like the dark circus posters from fnaf AR

[@Fracc6578]

3:00 actually,we did see someone wearing a hat in the opening cutscene of FFPS,the guy it's wearing a blue suit(and yellowish as well) and I believe he is meant to represent William. In the Fruity Maze,when William talks to Susie,his text color changes from BLUE to YELLOW. There is no way Scott would chose blue if that wasn't meant to connect William with the Blue dressed guy in the opening of FFPS. Also the same thing happens with yellow,we do see a yellow figure later in a minigame which drives a purple car.

[@dim7239]

I see it as a poster with an animatronic arm holding a plate in the air with a cake or pizza on it.

[@ula437]

The poster looks like freddy's side or 3/4 profile with the top hat, what looks like a muzzle and large shoulders

[@Press-Star-ToPlay]

Id say it's probably a newspaper about freddy faz bears pizzeria. I highly doubt it's meant to be anything and if it is meant to mean anything it most likely connects to something we already know because I believe if we all missed out on this important detail Scott would have let us know about it somehow in later games

[@sheepisanvods]

I'd love to see more off the cuff videos on smaller topics like this from time to time

[@caketropolis]

I think it's just some club/band/concert venue promotion posters. They get plastered on buldings, brick walls, alleyways, etc. The reason some are covering others is when the they put up new posters they don't take the time to take down the old ones since it's easier to just cover them up and go.

[@YoBoyNeptune]

I think they're instructional posters for employees and the person on them is just Freddy. Something like "Trash pickup is every Monday. Freddy likes a clean restaurant"

[@graveswisher]

Lowkey reminds me of those minecraft paintings with 8 bit visualizations of cool art

[@HoogIGuess]

"sometimes, a poster is just a poster" - Mr. Hippo probably

[@c.r.blankenship9040]

So for a small town establishment like that, yeah it would be odd for a restaurant to advertise with posters for the restaurant, but not for an event. If I were to guess I would say it could be an event poster and that that’s maybe Freddy on it

[@morgantrias3103]

I'm glad the magic eye actually WAS a shark

[@Yesyes54894]

I'm sure it's been said but the man in purple in pizza sim that says "I can't believe it" and *"trust me"* he has a hat and some people (mostly jokers) say it might be afton but idk that's the only correlation between Afton and hat

[@Pandorga2]

Not everything means something, Mr. Hippo warned us.

[@tomasns6584]

I believe the poster are there to connect the alley of the minigame and the animatronics outside the building during the main gameplay, linking the two buildings as the same one (A.k.a i believe the minigame and FFPS restaurant are both fredbear's family dinner). I don't think they are supposed to be all the same image.

[@rustyvull-i68]

What picture is in the papers is irrelevant but the fact itself that is a detail they decided to put is the important thing. I have seen many people use this as main argument for the building the Charlie incident happened in is the same the Pizza Sim events take place theory. The back alley screens of Scrap baby, Afton and Lefty having these posters on the walls are one of many things that made them look very similar to the security puppet minigame. And of course I don't mean to say that the exact same posters from 80's are still intact and in the same place 30+ years later. But that what I think this posters mean is a clever and subtle clue that lead us to connect the two places.

[@zeldristhecactus1304]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is aware of the community's curent situation on theories. Like, they would even strat making theories Golden Freddy even existed.

[@menotyou8209]

it reminds me of the clickbaity front page of old comic books, with the little square in the corner and all the text beside the depicted scene

[@reilzy]

Looks like an animatronic looking to the right, its either a hat or ears

[@jackwhite2654]

When I'm drawing a background (and this could just be me) I tend to ask myself "what are some general items people associate with the kind of room I'm drawing?" If I'm drawing a dojo I want it to read as a dojo, so I'll draw some punching bags, some belts on a rack, maybe an Okinawa flag, things that will make people think of a dojo. Scott could just be doing the same thing, where he wants the scene to read as an alleyway, so he fills it with trash and old pieces of paper. Personally I also like the idea that the posters are depicting Freddy, because he's the only character known for wearing a hat.

[@mysteriousstranger9496]

I believe it is the key to everything. It's Jar Jar Binks on the poster.

[@fangirl-inator1094]

Well 1. It could be relating to the # of Freddy's there are in the game (idk how many there are off the top of my head but there are a lot of variants) 2. I think it could also be in relation to in Pizzeria Simulator when we go out into the alley to collect the animatronics and there are also posters out in that alley despite it being an alley

[@robinblack9]

The (purple) guy in the cartoon cutscenes IS wearing a hat I always assumed that was William (snake oil CEO vibes)

[@orliag218]

If it is some character with the hat, then we have one few such in the series. And outside freddy itself, i can think for only man from employees tutorials in fnaf 6. There two different characters, one is the white bear man (hmmm, why white bear) which represents the employee who is watching it, and the man in costume and the hate which probably represent the narattor. So the poster can be of that man with something like help wanted posters. Literally help wanted, not vr game

[@shadowfyst997]

What if these are just Freddie's posters? If they're on the outside of the building, and they're not missing posters, then that's the best explanation. Just posters advertising the building they're pasted on. The hat even looks like maybe it's meant to be Freddy himself.

[@RossLynchFan2005]

Plot twist: They're actually windows

[@Adisa_CriticOwl]

Great video. As for your question regarding what the poster represents: yes.

[@Slydog621]

This would just be some concert posters or whatever tbh. I think the posters are really just to signify "hey doesn't this look like the alley where you find animatronics in fnaf6". That's their only purpose, not who it is, or what it is, it's just nondescript purposefully

[@pan.gremlin]

My first thought was that they’re magazines with a headshot. For example, People and Vogue have pictures of celebrities on their covers. The dot in the upper left is some sort of logo, the text in the upper right is the magazine title and subtitle, the text in the middle right is an attention grabber (ie “Person name cheated on his wife?!”), and the long line in the middle left might be some sort of vertical text or a barcode. Maybe this magazine is showing someone relevant to the game, maybe it’s just random background noise to fill an empty wall, maybe it isn’t a magazine at all. But it almost definitely doesn’t matter all that much. It’s a tiny detail in an optional cutscene from an optional mini game. Not only that, but if it was important then I think we wouldn’t be floundering so much trying to parse its meaning. Big important things tend to have big important answers, answers that have an ah-ha moment that make everything else make sense. But things right now already make sense. We don’t need these posters/magazines/newspapers/etc to understand the games. Acting as though we do won’t get us answers. They’re at most an Easter egg, not lore.

[@CubanaWriter]

It’s Freddy. Probably with cupcakes and party decorations in the background. They’re advertising the restaurant. Probably that they offer children’s birthday party services. “Let us host your kid’s next birthday party.” Or something to that effect. It’s not that deep. Restaurants, theaters, clubs, etc. do this sort of thing all the time. They’ll hang posters promoting special events, services, shows, or set menus to encourage people to keep coming back for other occasions, or passers by to check them out. And yes, if it’s a big enough establishment and they’ve got access to the space, they’ll hang them on the alley walls too. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

[@dimitrif.m.4091]

All I see is Heisenberg

[@zepperfox7669]

The person on the posters could be just Freddy with a Hat

[@TiloDroid]

similar to how the number of trash cans is unrealistic, the number of posters can be unrealistic too. i also thought about it being a man since its natural for us humans to recognize human faces. the hat makes me more convinced that its freddy tho. why is it on the wall of a freddys? perhaps its advertising another freddys location. freddys 2 from 1987? by the time of charlies death its probably too early to advertise the new restaurant, although two years wouldnt seem like tooo much time but idk. it could also advertise any other cool event that takes place at a freddys. perhaps a super cool birthday party which william uses as a target for the mci. if it is a wanted poster and if the number is significant, i would advocate for non diegetic haunting. the mci doesnt happen before charlie, but the 7 shows the seven core victims of william. this info reinforces that they have all been killed by the same man (directly or indirectly). they appear in charlies minigame because shes connected to all of their spirits (see happiest day). the overlapping posters could refer to the fnaf 1 newspaper clipping grouping two missing children together.

[@Dinorexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

It’s so true though

[@itsasooz]

Having done some similar graphical work my guess would be dude copied an advert poster he had on hand to just be "generic back alley advertising." I suspect it's not meant to be deciphered- might even be that the actual imagery on the poster is detailed pictures/text in the vague shapes- and we're just victims of pareidolia trying to figure out what the heck we're looking at.

[@atvertin527]

Whats the likelihood that Freddy's is apart of like a stripmall and that's why there's so many trashcans and what not, they belong to the other businesses

[@Korra228]

My theory is you're overthinking to a comical degree, it's almost like satire/April fool's

[@EdmondDantes224]

I gave up on FNAF theories a long time ago because of stuff like this. If something could mean anything, then it effectively means nothing. It doesn't help that even when you do get a theory together, its not that interesting. Why do we care what order the kids died in? They're still dead and we already know who did it. At this point it kinda reminds me of when you meet a guy who did one great thing but now they just want to go over that one thing again and again because it was their moment of glory, and the story keeps getting bigger in the telling.

[@BakerBones]

if you squint it looks like a king chess piece

[@noahjohnson8740]

Just want to mention, you discuss how its weird to have trash cans in an alley and posters/newspapers outside but this is not the only time this occurs in this game. Look at the salvage loading screens and its very similar. Not sure what this could mean but shows Scott is probably using the same logic/ artistic direction for both. OOOORRRR all of the locations in all of the games are the same, fredbears, the MCI location, fnaf 2, fnaf 1, and fnaf 6 are all in the same place 😯 I think fnaf 3 is the only one i havent seen people say is the same haha.

[@FTZPLTC]

The guy in the hat killed the other guy in the hat!

[@joshuavis2736]

What if the posters are meant to connect the fnaf 6 pizzeria to the place charlie died? the fnaf 6 alley had posters near trash cans as seen in those still images of the animatronics. I dont believe any fnaf 6 alley posters featured a person so it would only work as a basic connection between posters

[@zgmfx-09a]

I think the fact that so many noticed this and immediately thought "oh my god wanted posted" might give credence to it being designed to specifically be recognized as a wanted poster on first glance? I know we've collectively been wrong before by first glance of course(cought bite of 87) but that was subversion on scotts end, we expected a bite of 87 because of the teasers, he changed it to 83. This is different. Also consider that if it IS a wanted posted and it IS there to indicate charlie was the last, there's 2 other solid pieces of evidence backing that up. It's just so hard to say for sure because of fnafs eternal lack of consistency in what matters, what's a lie, what's intended and what's a character misremembering. What do you mean "a wound first inflicted on you"?? And you - what do YOU mean by "I was the first"?

[@yeethaw5816]

looks like a magazine or comic cover

[@arstotzkanplaguedoctor]

My theory is that the joke has gone over a lot of people's heads

[@EmotianalBrat]

I don’t think it’s the MCI missing posters bc it looks like they have a hat on their head. Could just be Freddy

[@lordmarmalade]

7:29 I feel more called out than I ever have in life... Lemme at least convince myself my theories are perfect before throwing them out onto the internet T_T

[@philtheneumann]

Your uploads rock dude. Waiting on that DCI theory

[@EmotianalBrat]

No I love ur theories!!!!

[@teo9532]

I don’t personally believe these are missing posters tbh. Not even sure if they have relevance or that they would make sense possibly on the wall or close to the wall of a children’s restaurant.. to be fair tho, there are just a bunch of random posters in the rare screen back alleys from this game too so maybe it has to do with one of those? But I do have reason to think the MCI happened before Charlie when looking back at the first 5 games’ pieces of evidence with that in mind tbh… Henry’s quote is still true but I believe he was talking about someone else. But! If it is a wanted poster… and they’re wearing a hat… there is that business man in FNAF 6’s intro images who kinda looks like William Afton. Even wearing purple and yellow outfits as well as making similar poses to Vlad while also having quotes on top of him like “you can’t prove anything!”… and he does wear a hat which kinda looks like the Indy Fedora very similar to that poster image… keep in mind this is all from the same exact game!

[@DrummerJosh]

I think it's an ad for a western movie. Cowboys and such were pretty popular at the time that this is set, weren't they? This is like, early 80s. Silhouette man is clearly wearing either a stetson or a fedora. Actually, it could be Indiana Jones too. Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 81, and Temple of Doom in 84. I think this is 83? I'm bad with years. Possibly a Temple of Doom advertisement.

[@SzaraWilk]

Ooooooh... So those where Freddie's Posters. Makes complete sense now. I never thought about those pictures before. Sorry if that sound sarcastic. It's not sarcasm.

[@julialugo629]

It's Mario. 🍄

[@ediblefredible]

the only other perspective i can offer is that the hat also somewhat looks like the car from Take Cake. i dunno what that would make the other things though, maybe a photo of a person with their car in the bg? idk lmao i was also thinking, in reference to it possibly being freddy, maybe it doesn't have ears because it's supposed to be "cakebear". not to say that i think there's a freddy without ears, but from scott's pov maybe it's supposed to link us to that sprite. i don't see it being an animatronic though, i feel like scott would've made it fairly obvious if that was the intention (even if it was in-universe art of the character), and the 'body' shape just doesn't say animatronic character to me it is interesting that both of these suggestions lead back to that minigame, i honestly wasn't meaning to do that lol the way the 'hat' is off-centered really bothers me as well. it makes me think the true answer is that it was just a quickly made asset with no meaning to make the alleyway read more as one

[@zgmfx-09a]

Hey henry does wear a hat. When he's wearing the fredbear suit. Lol.

[@firedowns6145]

Honestly, I do believe it’s a Freddy’s poster. In the Week Before, Ralph comments on how there’s a Freddy’s poster in the electrician room in which customers can’t go into, so there’s no point of advertising back there. Ralph spirals about this and thinks that there must be some reasoning to this, before being killed. So I think it’s probably an advertisement as it’s been established that they don’t need to be put into practical areas

[@zenvariety9383]

Could those just be Freddy posters. The image almost looks like a bear wearing a hat.

[@Taro_Yanada]

If these posters actually mean something or are something, I'm pretty sure the most likely is that they are the advertisement images for the player at the beginning of FFPS and HW 2. I mean, they are the only time I've seen people with hats in old-themed posters or advertisements related in any way to FFPS. But, like you said, don't think too deeply into it.

[@StarboundRose]

I don’t think it’s all that complicated, could it just be neighborhood watch posters? They aren’t super uncommon and generally they are images of dark figures wearing a hat. It would make sense if people are going missing

[@1gengabe]

I mean, pizza sim has posters near the trash

[@FTZPLTC]

My two cents: I think they're posters, and I think that they're there to make it clear that there's a wall there, rather than just a dark sky, or pavement. It's a good way of distinguishing a vertical surface in a flat low-detail environment where there isn't a clear horizon. And the image looks kinda like Yorgle the dragon from the Atari 2600 game Adventure (aka the Freakin' Duck from "fhqwghads"). It probably isn't meant to be that, but there was a time when i would have said that Mike's silhouette probably isn't meant to look like Rick Astley, so...

[@king201023]

My theory. it’s a Freddy fazbear poster I mean come on guys it’s a Freddy pizzeria it’s a pictures of the main character outside the building EDIT: I wrote this at about the 4:00 min mark before he mentioned this at the 5:00 min mark

[@briancorvello3620]

"So, you may be asking yourself, how did I go from sitting by the falls drinking lemonade to being wedged in the air duct, not only with Orville, but with an entire assortment of fruity-colored friends? Well, there’s uh, there’s really no good answer to that, but perhaps I met a demise of my own at some point and this is my afterlife or my dream-whatever it might mean I honestly don’t know. Or, maybe it doesn’t mean anything at all. Maybe it doesn’t mean anything at all." - Mr. Hippo, from Ultimate Custom Night

[@StarChargerStudios]

i think that this a mr hippo moment

[@JimmyBusher]

that looks like a picture of freddy so maybe a poster

[@sutarikun]

Maybe there was going to be a Cowboy Freddy game?

[@jod422]

@@sutarikunthis was in fnaf 6, he wasn’t going to make any more games at this point

[@thedarkdevil1661]

5:06 I find it funny I thought of that about a minute before you brought it up too. 5:37 Fnaf Movie Nabraska level posters??

[@NobodyUndefined]

Scott definitely screwed the theory community over. With him saying we arent seeing easter eggs one moment then saying we're reaching the next. Either this poster is important and we are ignoring it or its not and we're reaching. Its why i dont bother with FNAF anymore, its too open ended and vague

[@littlesweed6764]

Yes w video my good sir

[@CobaltTheLioness]

Does it look like any of the book covers?

[@amoralight9339]

Always saw it as Freddy IMO lol

[@_cfmca]

Its rorschach freddy… duh….

[@BlockyBlahaj]

Cake Bear

[@sergeykbrfa]

It's just a Freddy’s poster. You dubm. It's everywhere so that everyone is 100% sure that this mini-game is related to the one in FNAF2

[@minttea9643]

Who's Father and why is he in the bottom right of the screen?