We've ALL Been WRONG About "It's Me" | FNAF Theory

[@RyeToast]

Don't worry guys, I now know that it's BRONwen. Not BROWNen. My bad 😅

[@MahoganyCrafter]

THANK GOD

[@toddfraser7009]

I was gonna say...

[@lunamax1214]

Hey, words are hard, and dyslexia makes them even harder. You're doing great, Rye. 💚

[@glynwyn1986]

Also, Bronwen is Welsh not Old English. Bron - breast/mound Wen - feminine version of Wyn meaning white/pure/blessed. Source: rydw i'n Cymro ac yn siarad Cymraeg (I'm Welsh (masc.) and speak Welsh).

[@nuttydream1826]

@RyeToast could the spirit in golden Freddy be bipolar or the spirit of a kid with a split personalities

[@DraconianBS]

Did this book just explain why there's limited battery power every night?! If they just fed a constant supply of power like normal buldings the animatronics would be able to overcharge and leave!

[@RyeToast]

Also explains the weird light flickers and door issues

[@Merdra]

But why use electricity at all when you know they can charge up with it?

[@higueraft571]

@@Merdra Because... they're going to have a charge from the day anyways, and the building needs power? Alongside generally being able to charge them overnight before the Parties get going again.

[@Merdra]

@@higueraft571 I see your point but if they really need to walk back and forth to charge themselves then either a) their battery capacity is small and the charger super fast or b) they have a decent capacity but waste their energy by being active all night. In both of these cases it wouldnt make any difference if they turned on the power at 6 or 7 am to let them recharge for the opening at 10 am or so, because either their battery is low because of their nightly activity or because they charge rather fast.

[@Shapognaty]

_it also explains why energy drain faster on the last nights, since the animatronics are using more energy to move around more_

[@vimarchetti8177]

That Chica/Susie scene is so sad. Sometimes we lose sight of how tragic and heavy the base story is. The spirits of children trapped in giant toys for decades is pretty grim.

[@EighmyLupin]

It's also why the porn people make of the animtronics is super gross and weird. Like furry stuff aside, they are making porn of kids

[@TreeeLeeeaf]

@@EighmyLupin no? I don't think that's how that works. most of it (from what I've seen) is just the animatronic itself, no children involved. you can think it's weird all you want but don't act like they're doing something they're not

[@worthybutter2004]

@@EighmyLupin Yeah, like can't we just make normal art of them for ONCE?! They're just kids! I mean, fictional, mentally fucked up kids, but still kids. I think we need to respect that more.

[@axolah]

the kids possess the animatronics, so like - idek why you're defending thin​gs like that @@TreeeLeeeaf

[@Bethany_Bradley]

For real it’s so sad, and I’m glad that scene kind of confirms that Susie died on her birthday. So not only did she lose her beloved dog on her birthday, but also her life after being told that everything was supposedly alright. AGH I love this franchise 😭

[@crazyzombiehunter8571]

"babe wake up new ryetoast theory is out" also congrats to ralph to being one of the few non abusive parent. Its a refresher

[@RyeToast]

Fr fr

[@oakydoke6202]

makes it even worse tho knowing that he canonically dies

[@antiope-d9780]

​@@oakydoke6202 at least he died saving his kid

[@ThePuff18]

So far we have Ralph, Cassie’s dad, Oswald’s dad, Nightmare Freddy, and, to an extent, Henry. Also, I want to include William Afton, as before the tragedy, we have no reason to believe that he’s a bad parent. Now *Afton* (post-bite Willy), that’s another story.

[@antiope-d9780]

@@ThePuff18 William Afton was already a bad dad. At the least he didn't stop the bullying of his youngest son, if he didn't encourage it

[@jilliancrawford7577]

The charging pads definitely explain the mechanic of the animatronics returning to their spots in the stage or at leats just going further back into the restaurants insteadof all gathering in the office to target the player. I always found it odd and counterproductive to what they were trying to do in resetting their locations or backtracking, but this fixes that for me.

[@Skyymon]

walking around as robots is definitely a very energy intensive thing to do, heck foxy running is so energy intensive he has to go back to the cove immediately after

[@aliawahfallacy]

Another massive revaluation based on lore that we've had since near the beginning of the franchise? Sign me up!

[@RFDN0]

It is only not a retcon because there was nothing specifically saying saying this belonged to only golden freddy.

[@sauce5097]

Doesn't this phrase only show up when golden Freddy appears

[@RFDN0]

@sauce5097 in the games we thought so. In this book no. This book is also directly connected to FNAF 1.

[@CheesyJesse]

@@sauce5097No, you can get the same exact “IT’S ME” hallucinations randomly throughout your nights without even encountering Golden Freddy

[@cyclingpoppy]

@@sauce5097 in the book, no. in the game, also no. it appears on walls, on the sign outside foxys cove, and flashing on the screen with images of freddy foxy chica and bonnie. honestly doesnt make a lot of sense why everyone contributed it to golden freddy alone in the first place

[@moonknightanimations1251]

I think "It's Me" means that spirits are trying to acknowledge who they are. "It is me, I am still me." The dead often forget, but they'll try to remember anyway. That's why anytime a character is asked who they are or dies in this book, they say "it's me." Including Ralph, Bronwen, and most likely Coppelia through Chica in that one ending.

[@CottonCandySharks]

I like your explanation the most

[@moonknightanimations1251]

@@CottonCandySharks thank you!

[@krel7160]

Lowering text for spoilers. Do not click read more unless you want Into The Pit spoilers for worst ending. Sorry to anyone who saw this text before the edit adding the spoiler buffer. Consider as well, Into the Pit. If you get the bad ending with the other animatronics waving at you, Oswald starts forgetting who he is. One of his last lines is "Who am I?" "Who are you?" "It's me." "Well who are you?" "I am me."

[@Yayofangamer16]

@@krel7160 That's so boring.

[@krel7160]

@@Yayofangamer16 I mean yeah, it's not exactly "Exciting".. but it fits well enough into the lore. I do agree it'd be nice if "It's me" was a uniquely golden freddy thing.

[@counterattack248]

RIP the name Phone guy. You'll always be remembered. O7 2014-2024.

[@CharaViolet]

Phone Guy is canonically his nickname from other staff members, because he leaves messages on the phone.

[@RanaBB]

In UCN he is still named like that

[@JorgeLopez-qj8pu]

But who is purple guy? 🤔

[@Kaal_do_Olaak]

​​@@JorgeLopez-qj8puWilliam Afton (or Michael Afton depending on which one you're talking about)

[@awp4444]

​@@RanaBB in reality it's because we didn't have another name for him but I'd imagen its the only identity he could cling onto as Cassidy dragged him into there custom hell for afton

[@AnJelloGames]

I love how Scott is telling the story backwards now and essentially “fixing” issues from the beginning. How Steel Wool Studio is telling the story from the start. I think this helps the theory community bring up new fresh ideas from previous installments!

[@chewable_tablets]

I believe that instance of Ralph realizing he has been stuffed into a suit is meant to act as a hint to what “It’s Me” actually means. Ralph is trying to figure out what is going on, and comes to realize that this strange animatronic corpse that stinks is him, that is what he is now: “It’s Me”. It is not a way for an animatronic to reach out and say they are possessed, it is a form of clarification that the souls have embraced the new form they have taken on. It’s not “look, it’s me, the child!”, it’s “no, I’m not a child anymore, I’m this animatronic, it’s me.” This explains why the phrase is so associated with Golden Freddy, as they are the one who has most embraced their new identity, an identity where they are strong enough to take revenge on the one who killed them: “It’s me, Golden Freddy, the one that shouldn’t have been killed.”

[@theagentsquidfiles504]

Golden Freddy fully accepting that they ARE Golden Freddy would be so cool as a storytelling device. No wonder they're the most powerful or the most aware or whatever. They embraced their place as a Spirit of Vengeance while the other spirits want to be lain to rest.

[@Bethany_Bradley]

Not a bad theory at all, but it could also be possible that both of these meanings for “It’s me” are true, just in my opinion. I do really like both ideas

[@awp4444]

​@Bethany_Bradley it could be possible Cassidy and Dave are saying the same thing with a different meaning

[@SleepingTroubles]

I think it's the opposite, IT'S ME is the spirit recognizing who they are and what happened, and the reason we saw Golden Freddy saying that so much is because he was facing his brother Michael and so it was struggling really hard to remember who they were to not kill him and that would likely not happen if it was a random guard. Or maybe also David fighting control over Cassidy to not attack Michael, but it's the same process, that IT'S ME is the sentence coming out that works as a reaching out or statement in context but is mostly the spirit in the animatronic reminding itself who they are to fight his own programming or killing instincts

[@Quarter_Notes]

Thinking about the whole "Dave" crying child theory, it also tracks that Williams two sons would be named Michael and David, as Scott is known to make religious games, so these names, being biblical references, could have just been on the top of his mind.

[@RyeToast]

Wait that's really smart!!

[@large5616]

Elizabeth is also a biblical name, so makes sense

[@DavidN-fy1gi]

Omg David is my name!

[@lisamurdock6679]

​@RyeToast also if he is a fan of the Lost Boys (as one of Cappella's lines suggests) there is a David and Michael in the movie as well.

[@Allthingsgaming-mh1wr]

Elizabeth is the name of John the Baptists mom in the Bible as well

[@newtthegamer3103]

One thing I always wondered since the first game came out was why Golden Freddy was exclusively tied to “It’s Me” by the fandom. In the first game it flashed as a hallucination, became writing on the wall in the hall Chica and Freddy go down, and Foxy’s out of order sign text changed. Sure, GF was the most ghostly out of the 5, but it felt like the evidence wasn’t that concrete. In FNAF 2, “It’s me.” shows up after all the between night sections, and yes, while Golden Freddy was present for one of those sections, he isn’t present for the others, and “It’s me” still shows up. The first hard evidence came in FNAF World, where it is GF’s loading screen. I wonder if the intention always was that it was a phrase used my the spirits, but became hard shackled to Golden Freddy and Scott just kinda rolled with it for a while.

[@Junya01]

I'm almost certain that's what happened. Scott changes his story based on the perception of that story from the previous games, so this would track with what the fandom thought of GF and "it's me" at the time

[@JamieW907]

I'm a big fan of irl paranormal stuff and I find "it's me" is one of the most common words picked up on equipment like spirit boxes, it's a lame theory but it's me could just be a ghost thing in the fnaf universe maybe Scott is a fan of paranormal stuff too.

[@Demonmask-whatareyoulookingat]

and yet,no ghost actually cares enough to actually spell it's full name. Who tf is "Me",man??? Be more specific

[@HB81509]

“Who is in the room with us?” “It’s me” “WHO?!?!?” “Guess lmao”

[@misuvittupaa8068]

I have ghost bridge for sale

[@TheHaddonfieldRegistry]

Yeah, Scott has said he's big on 80s stuff, that's what he grew up on. FNAF is essentially an 80s b movie franchise in terms of plot. Jason Voorhees being brought back to life via lightning for no reason, or Freddy Krueger being a guy who can just magically be in your dreams, are just as stupidly high concept as animatronics controlled by animalistic spirits of dead children, killed by a serial killer who died but returned as an undead slasher (see where I'm going with this?). So yeah, I do think it could be just generic 80s era ghost cliches.

[@JamieW907]

@@Demonmask-whatareyoulookingat plenty do spell out or say their names, the ones that don't might have forgotten after death (I don't really know)

[@abiutheartist]

I feel like we really need to re-evaluate this series from the ground up. Which the information we have now

[@RyeToast]

ESPECIALLY with this book

[@abiutheartist]

@@RyeToast yes, hopefully with new books more and more evidence might make certain details make sense

[@BetzaBlight]

I find it interesting that the daughter is named Coppelia since a ballet with the same name is about a mechanical doll called Coppelia whose creator or "dad" wants to give life to

[@maceygarrett6368]

When I've watched and read discussions on this book, I haven't seen anyone else catch this detail: Coppelia's name. Coppelia is the name of a famous ballet and the story is very similar to FNAF. In the ballet a couple is getting ready to be married in a festival but the groom has fallen in love with another woman and he breaks into the woman's house to try and court her. The woman is actually a mechanical doll made by an old man who always wished for a family and created several mechanical dolls and he captures the groom in order to use his soul to bring his doll to life. The bride finds out about this and tricks the old man into sparing the groom's life by posing as the doll and making him believe it has come to life. I'm unsure if it has lore implications but it's definitely something a lot of people aren't looking into or even discussing.

[@testerwulf3357]

I don’t see the similarities 😅There is no couple trying to save eachother via posing as dolls in FNAF..the only similarities is using souls to bring life to things which isn’t unique to EITHER. Am I missing anything?

[@abbywalker7846]

THANK GOD I thought I might have been the only one to catch this! I heard rye say “coppelia” and did a triple take practically lol

[@icedmatchatea9345]

@@testerwulf3357it kind of reminds me of the Charlie dolls and trying to recreate her as a robot

[@pomelo9518]

Isnt that ballet further based on The Sandman (novel)?

[@emmarosedewittbukater]

@@testerwulf3357There are definite parallels between the ballet and the story of FNaF, specifically regarding Michael and his children, specifically Elizabeth. The idea is that there is a lifelike mechanical doll created by a man so obsessed with bringing her to life that he tries to kill a man to do it. He's an inventor -there are a bunch more wind up dolls in his workshop. The idea doesn't have to be unique to either - it's just a distinct feature of both of these stories. I think the distinct part that you're missing is using a soul to try and bring life not to just any object, but specifically to a humanoid machine built as a surrogate child. The ideas specifically of trying to bring a child to life, murder to harvest souls, and automatons/animatronics are all present. It's an interesting tidbit of information for the name of a child here. Coppélia is the name specifically of the doll in the ballet, and it's that name specifically that Scott chose for Ralph's daughter. It's just kinda neat.

[@RowanTS]

Remember the Crying Child was probably screaming out from his soul’s tethering to the suit from the moment they got cronched, trying to tell anyone who’d listen (but especially his father) “IT’S ME” (I’m here! The Freddy! It’s me!), so that’s why the phrase would be stronger with Golden Freddy.

[@higueraft571]

>from the moment they got cronched They didnt die until later in the Hospital :V

[@kawafernandes7025]

Now we can call the Crying Child as Dave Afton! 🥳 (I wonder if Mike ever discovered it was his brother though...)

[@EmotianalBrat]

Ya I think CC was definitely trying to speak to his father and brother the most. I also think Cassidy has a better understanding of who she is considering she has the most power. Proabaly why she says it more

[@Cyberfan2167]

Not c.c anymore, David

[@LukiKruki]

@@higueraft571 He, not they.

[@BoliVic96]

I think we need more videos on this book, it's just too much info for the people who can't read it

[@RyeToast]

There will be I assure you lol

[@sutarikun]

Minor correction because so many people are making mistakes: it's Bronwen. Bron (like Brontosaurus) wen (like win). I'm old so I remember this because it's the name of a director, I think, from Harriet the Spy from Nickelodeon and I used to watch that behind the scenes show all the time.

[@nick-xv1wl]

lebronwen

[@BatttleBun]

I figured it was meant to be Bronwen, since that’s like, an actual name. But also good to learn it means “nice tits”

[@dwitefry4157]

Mate, I was 10 when Harriet the Spy first aired. Stop making me cry with your horrible youth 😄

[@TheHaddonfieldRegistry]

​@@dwitefry4157yay, fellow older Fnaf fans. There are dozens of us!

[@dwitefry4157]

@@TheHaddonfieldRegistry almost 50! 😄

[@Fistrike]

I might have not read the books, or played the games, but this gives me a thought: What if the "It's me" is not directed at you (ralph, the player in the games, etc.) But at themselves? Let me explain: In one of the endings of into the pit we see that oswald forgets his name slowly, and forgets who he is slowly. And it seems obvious that that is what happens to the kids in the animatronics, who seem to know they are originally kids, and keep a few memories, but not many, and that they start to lose themselves, so the "it's me" could be them trying to remind themselves of who they are, and it could be like they say "It's me" when they get a memory of who they could be, as a way to try to memorise that to themselves, like a mantra. That could be why golden freddy becomes "the one you should not have killed", because for some reason that one child has the most memories, or the most vivid ones, about their death, so they are constantly trying to remind themselves of what happened, so they never forget to make william afton pay. That would make them the one that would be the most connected to the "it's me".

[@JAOResnik]

I'm glad they're finally giving actual facts that prove or disprove theories, and clearing up the many ambiguities and confusion in the timeline accumulated through the years. I know that the "theorizing is the best part" is a big thing in the community, but I still hope that someday we'll have a complete and clear timeline and everything is explained.

[@johnes2337]

I wonder how the FNAF franchise will continue and stay relevant once all the consequences of the MCI are clarified and revealed. What will they do next without their original decade-old iconic premise of 5 dead kids? More dead kids? Or more sci-fi? Or somehow more paranormal incidents?

[@ersanylmazturk1761]

@@johnes2337 THE MIMICCCC *MrBeast song plays*

[@starmatterr]

AS you were saying the 'its me' introductions for the 4 animatronics at 18:02 , a Cerave skin care product ad had popped in and the person on there literally said "it's me, your skin..." then continued on with the ad. that's some simulation type shit

[@MrStain87]

Perfect timing 😭

[@CharaDreemurr-9999]

"It's me, your dry skin..." ~Michael Afton after 1 week of (un)life as Ennard's skinsuit, realizing these mfs do NOT know about skincare

[@d1nonlybaby36]

LMAO I've seen that commercial before that is such a scary coincidence

[@mybloodbeforehers]

Imagine being trapped in an animatronic and you see your parents crying and looking for you…all you can think is “Why don’t you see me? It’s me!”

[@FERARIRONING]

It's been 10 years and I'll never know why people say It's me is a Golden Freddy line if It's me appeard everywhere in fnaf 1 from foxy's cove to the bonnie and freddy rare screen to the walls of the hallway

[@RyeToast]

Mainly the stuff after FNAF1. Like I mentioned, it's on a bunch of golden Freddy merchandise, even on the FNAF World golden Freddy loading screen

[@Junya01]

You also have to consider memonic collective memory - a lot of fans have never played the games (which is a shame, fnaf 1 was truly unique and innovative at the time) so whatever info they have on "it's me" is based purely on what KZbinrs and theorists tell them. We also know Scott evolves his story over time based on the perceptions of that story by the fans in the previous games, so I wouldn't be surprised if "it's me" being a golden Freddy thing was just the fans gaslighting Scott into making it canon. I'm glad Scott seems to be revealing more of his original plans for the OG fnaf era (1-6) through these books and other games like the kart racer spin-off, it's good to stick to a vision rather than give in to what the fans think or want to believe imo That being said, no hate towards anyone in particular, just my thoughts based on playing some of the games and being a fan since the first one came out

[@MilesLauro]

I'm glad we know phone guys name now. 'Who was phone guy?' was the real mystery for a while (also how did i get here so early?)

[@JeweloftheWorld2000]

The repeating "It's me," that comes from Golden Freddy, implies that whoever it is, thinks our character should recognize them. Maybe it's Ralph. I mean if it's Bronwen in the book, it would make sense that we're hearing the most recent victim. And Ralph was just talking to us through the recordings, so he might we could put together who he is.

[@Sean-rv5yp]

I always suspected those animatronics were more blood thirsty and less innocent then we thought, though it's quiting chilling finding out that they're a LOT more blood thirsty and almost sadistic in a way, than I thought

[@rylieclothier]

With this conclusion it just means that Golden Freddy really wanted to talk to Michael, but we don't know what was being said. "It's me" could really be anything, and it leaves the relationship between Golden Freddy and Michael much more open

[@aromaladyellie]

I love Ralph. First good dad on the whole franchise. Also a rare extra thing I like about fnaf because honestly most of the book veers to much into trad horror tropes and I’m here for the mystery not a puppet hunting some guy down in a perpetual game of hide and seek and killing his wives.

[@uwillbeefound6439]

The use of the ace attorney sprite just after the release smh (it was a jumpscare but tbh makes sense) The it's me is interesting though, it's me could also be a realisation, a way of trying to keep the memories, a reminder of who they are "it's me"

[@RyeToast]

I needed a journalist lol

[@HarveyAgain.mp4]

i love it when he said "it's me-ing time" and it's me'd all over the place

[@AlriikRidesAgain]

Me? Me. Me, me....

[@justatheorist.3864]

​@@AlriikRidesAgain Moxxine! Me, me, me, Moxxine!​

[@AlriikRidesAgain]

@@justatheorist.3864 ... *Tilts head.* Me too.

[@justatheorist.3864]

@@AlriikRidesAgain (I was referencing helluva boss's here, but can I ask what is your ref/reply)

[@AlriikRidesAgain]

@@justatheorist.3864 (I'm referencing the Matrix Revolutions)

[@thedubstepdoge]

This book is incredible making FNAF into choose your own adventure books was a genius movie and I love how much lore there is in it. It’s also just really fun to read as well, it’s literally like you’re playing a fnaf game but in book form.

[@GJames-Legend101]

Things I think. 1. I think the it’s me like could be a sign of the souls inside the animatronics trying to reach out to someone they know or someone they think they know. 2. If Brownen somehow knew about the animatronics plan to escape it’s possible that she may have also been aware of all the other things going on at fazbears. 3. I think it’s possible we might see cappelia in the future either in another book or a future game. 4. Maybe golden Freddy is speaking through the other animatronics like how in UCN golden Freddy/cassidy speaks through the mediocre melodies. 5. Maybe the reason why the animatronics become dangerous and murderous is because they don’t have a figure like the puppet to keep them at ease and instead they have golden Freddy who pretty much enables their dangerous behavior.

[@alexkuhn5188]

Oh god, the Gnome sound at 7:04 almost made me choke on the peanuts I was about to swallow!

[@RyeToast]

I'm glad you didn't!

[@alexkuhn5188]

@@RyeToast I was NOT expecting that gnome, thank goodness I managed to finish swallowing right before it played though I did have to rewind to make sure I heard it correctly. I started cracking up when I heard that part again.

[@CallanTheBeelamaBoy11]

Well in the games Golden Freddy isn't the only one to say "It's me" it's also Normal Freddy and Bonnie (at least).

[@AcchyDacchy]

oh my god wait, remember how they tell you that the animatronics in fnaf 1 will confuse you with an endo-skeleton and stuff you into a suit? isn't that straight up the thing the mimic does when dismantling endo-skeletons? Confuse the humans with endo-skeletons??

[@AcchyDacchy]

i'm sure its already been discussed before, but it just now got in my head

[@AdrianHernandez-rn1sq]

I don’t remember the last time I was this interested in a fnaf book (despite having read many). All the revelations and answers to stuff from the first game make SO much sense. Describing the bite of 83, why there’s power balancing in fnaf 1, and ITS ME dude. That’s such a smart idea, the souls crying out that they are NOT Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy. They’re Gabriel, Jeremy, Susie, and Fritz. I’m so excited to see what’s coming next for these interactive novels and what answers they give. Some questions still remain (primarily to golden Freddy) but I’m still so excited for the future.

[@hudsonthejojo2825]

I'm really hoping we get new interactive novels surrounding each of the games as a means of providing for context for them. Right now we got "The Week Before" for FNaF 1, "Return to the Pit" for Into the Pit, and "Escape from the Pizzaplex" for Security Breach. Imagine if we got a Sister Location novel that provides more context for Circus Baby's Pizza World as well as the events leading up to the rental service or before the game itself, maybe they could even provide context for whatever "Chica's Party World" was.

[@johnes2337]

The entirety of Sister Location would probably function better as a novel than as an actual game lol

[@jilliancrawford7577]

I always figure the whole "they stuff you into a suit because it's against the rules for an endo to be without a suit" as either valid for the antimatronic a.i. to be extra scary in not realizing what a person is (with the interpretation that there are no ghosts and the real horror is in a.i. takeover) or the company knowing what's happening and just lying as an excuse of why people keep getting stuffed into suits, knowing full well what's happening but being unable to stop it.

[@mylam658]

a fnaf book finally being useful to solve lore instead of just making things more complicated was NOT what I would be expecting anytime soon

[@NerdOnDisplay]

this might be nothing, but... that song, "The Secret Ingredient is You" could be one of those songs performed as a call-and-response with kids in the audience. When Freddy sings "The secret ingredient is you," the kids respond "it's me." This would also have the double meaning of the kids' agony being the secret ingredient for Afton's experiments. If that song is the last thing Dave heard before the bite, maybe it's on repeat in his mind even after death, and all the instances we see and hear of "it's me" are all the spirits responding to the song. As new victims succumb in Freddy's locations, they hear the song and are pulled into the call-and-response with the others as they die. 🎵"The secret ingredient is you."🎵 "It's me."

[@yaky_thoughts34]

That's a good thought! I like it

[@justatheorist.3864]

15:33 they do get a bit freaky at night!

[@Deadgirl97]

I just discovered your channel and love that you're just petting your cat while talking about theories. There's something so chill about that.

[@Vault_Peasant]

from 13:25 to 13:46 i forgot i was obsessed with this franchise and heard this part as if i had an outside perspective of someone who only knows about the game from memes and the fact it has a lot of lore but nothing deeper than that. and omfg its hilarious (very good video bdw haha)

[@penguinmon7777]

obviously Brownen Light is a reference to everyone's favorite anime death note as the main character in that series also had Light in their name. In this TED talk I'd like to propose the theory that Brownen Light is the new holder of the Death Note and is the true killer

[@TheFunkyOne]

Bruh underrated comment😭😭😭🙏🙏

[@JorgeLopez-qj8pu]

I'll take an animatronic suit, and stuff it! 📓😈

[@Influence417]

Bro realized that she has Light in her name and immediately thought of Light Yagami.

[@jilliancrawford7577]

Theory: what if the animatronics stuff Brownen into a suit because they think it will help her with her investigation to be in their world?

[@RyeToast]

It's probably more likely that they did that since she broke a window to get inside. Seeing how they treated The Intruders in the movie

[@LawrenceTheBlueRogue]

I feel like it's a bit of a stretch but this could also be why all of them say that phrase could be from when they initially went missing. After all it's possible their parents, police officers, others looking for them would come by, maybe even declare their intention to find a specific kid by name. "It's me" being something the animatronic is attempting to say to whoever it is. "It's me, I'm right here, It's me, It's me" their cries, their desires to be found not fully coming out, the only thing they can manage to say because of trying is just the phrase "It's me".

[@Schokie732]

6:29 Freddy Fazbear playing Five Nights at Freddy's is real no way

[@RyeToast]

Fr fr

[@johnes2337]

TBH that kinda ruins the mystery and animalistic aspect of the animatronics. The only animatronics who should be capable of having sentient levels of intelligence should be Springtrap, Circus Baby, and the Puppet.

[@CruzingAroundTheBlock]

I thought you were talking about TryHardNinja's song and I was like, "Hey! Dont hate on the classics, dude!" 😂

[@8onnie8oyz]

It's one of my favorite FNAF songs. In my opinion, it works perfectly as a FNAF 1 song.

[@kiracomments-chca2747]

LOL!

[@Markcrazeer]

Kind of like clara oswald in the dalek. Daleks can only say so much. “I am a dalek” “exterminate”

[@happyclown4331]

The ad read was so well put in and flowed with just the style of your writing, I just couldn't stop smiling. Oh my goshhhhh, i love creative ad reads mixed with actual balanced reviews, and acknowledging the 'whole' bit of it all.

[@bellford0390]

Do you think the reason golden Freddy is so strong is because one of the spirits was spring locked while the other children were placed in the suits?

[@Skyymon]

pretty sure this theory is already accepted by much of the fandom, and it does make a lot of sense, so yea

[@JotaroHoshizora48]

I can't wait to see MatPat react to this video on GTLive. This theory sounds very interesting since the "It's me" quote is literally a big mystery to be solved.

[@FairytailLife374]

It’s meeee~~~~

[@RyeToast]

True!

[@LunaThunder]

It's you~~~~~~!

[@Re-Megatroneditz]

Anghhhh~~~~~

[@Frozen_Priest]

Maaa~~~~~rio

[@ThisIsAHandle-xz5yo]

Despite everything, it’s still you

[@dragon_vhs]

I feel like it's me could very easily be a phrase the children are sort of stuck on in the way that if you looked like someone else and were trying to get someone to recognize you, you'd yell "it's me!!" over and over. It feels like a very child-like way to try and communicate that thought, especially as a confused and angry spirit.

[@joewaugh2464]

The animatronics wanting to leave the restaurant ties them very interestingly with Ennard. If you go with Ennerd/MoltenMCI, it gives you a very strong baseline for Ennard being desperate to escape through Mike. Its not a new motivation- the souls have been trying to leave for years. Sister Location is just the perfect opportunity. They were never mindless, just trapped and wanting to go home.

[@Doomware]

I think you forgot to insert a "To Be Beautiful" minigame clip. 20:00.

[@RyeToast]

🤦

[@sooperiorme]

With how many pages there are, I can't wait for people to find pages that aren't actually directed to or something

[@hunterthekitsune9536]

"Log 63... my favorite rule" From the add break caught me so off-guard I audibly laughed lmao.

[@ciboria1]

In regards to the animatronics all saying "it's Me"; It made me think of the episode of Doctor Who, where no matter what Clara tried to say, it only came out as "Exterminate!" from the Dalek

[@shadowfang9250]

17:57 "It's me, Freddy" "It's me, Bonnie" "It's me, Chica" "It's me, Foxy" ad starts playing "Hey, it's me" Me: WTF!?!?

[@dagbanna4055]

I think that maybe "It's me" is so repeated because it might be the last thing the children heard before William Afton killed them. Since he used the Golden Bonnie suit to disguise himself and lure the kids away, he might have very well gone "Hey kids, *it's me!* Your friend Bonnie" and this disguise is what lingers with them. The bodies being stuffed into the suits is, in a sick way, them also being disguised like William, so when Michael goes to FNAF 1 looking like William, it might be the animatronics (or at least Golden Freddy) throwing that "IT'S ME" line back at him

[@maxwellattacks6645]

I always thought It's me was a general thing, not a Golden Freddy thing because the Walls and Foxy's sign can both have its me written on them. Perhaps it's their broken attempt to retain their identity

[@magpiethemystical]

"log 63.. huh. My favorite rule." LMAOOO

[@Thelongestshrimp]

10:16 exponential means the rate of growth is growing, not just "a big amount"

[@ThePuff18]

The thing is that this proves a MASSIVE problem. Only 4:43 in so far, so maybe he touches on it, but… We currently think that the Crying Child’s soul resides (well, resided) in Goldilocks, and “It’s Me” was him reaching out to Michael. So why is he reaching out to Ralph?

[@REDI2UM]

I believe golden freddy has some psychic manipulative ability - likely due to having no physical form, and being the MOST vengeful of the spirits I think "It's Me" is a projection from the perceiver POV The thing you're hallucinating is you - but thats golden freddy's signature; the causing of you to hallucinate When have we ever had golden freddy in a game - but also heard child laughter? Perhaps that ambience is all caused by golden freddy "It's Me" is a play on words. It's you, the one hellucinating (ergo in your head) but it's also golden freddy causing you to hellucinate

[@clayton_rose]

Maybe it’s like how Clara in Doctor Who when she is trapped inside a Dalek. She can say things but the words that come out are only things a Dalek can say.

[@jan_harald]

actually, it could make sense that after the bite, golden freddy SUIT was removed from use, but the endoskeleton could be simply shifted into normal freddy not saying that's how it is, but could be interesting....could be split between the animatronics, too, like, just using the old endo's parts whenever a repair needed to be done

[@jilliancrawford7577]

Theory on the "it's me" mental trick: human brains and nerves work with electricity, just as the animatronics, so maybe the animatronics somehow manipulate the electricity in the person's brain and system to come up with the thought of the words "it's me". Perhaps the electricity that is used to control the voicelelines in the suits is the same means of electrical currents they use to force the thought tobhra the words, which is why it's still limited despite the idea being influencing the person's thoughts. If the animatronics had more voiceless to choose from with a smarter a.i. and vocabulary to choose from, then maybe they would do the same with more complex options of forcing thoughts.

[@SpectreProtomoth]

"Log 63, my favorite rule." Honestly, same. Cis-swaps are cool (as long as they're done right, of course).

[@ethbeatthem4836]

FNAF 1 doesn’t seem to close in the year 1993, which confirm 2023 isn’t the year FNAF 3 and Pizza SIM take place, by due process that means the logbook real value is correct that FNAF 3 is in 2017, 30 years after FNAF 2 closing. (You may ask how, well Ralph died on the first week FNAF 1 location was open, right before your shift. If 1993 was a popular year for pizza goers as FNAF SB said that means in the 2 mouth the location was open that year let Fazbear have a big boom in profit and no reason to close that year, this also means the poster was talking about the closing of the FNAF 83 location closure due to no one wanting go back after the missing kids incident as it reek of death) This also means Afton didn’t die that year and more likely died sometime after 2000, maybe exactly the year 2000 at earliest, why? Well Vanessa dad as much it seem like a stretch at first when we got her birthday year being 97 and the community thought William died in 93 well that’s not true anymore and now William death at earliest is 2000 due to the trauma divorce, some may think that Elizabeth backstory but it literally can’t do the therapist knowing Vanessa mother personally and would call out that immediately. So if Vanessa remember her dad that means William was alive up until any year between 2000-2016. 2000 is my best guess as that the year in the Movie universe that William got trapped.

[@higueraft571]

>30 years after FNAF 2 closing. ??? Why FNAF 2 specifically. >FNAF 1 doesn’t seem to close in the year 1993 Technically correct, since 1992. >well Ralph died on the first week FNAF 1 location was open, right before your shift. There's NO evidence at all that the FNAF 1 location just opened i'm pretty certain, infact the FNAF 1 Newspapers state that the place has been struggling for a long while prior, possibly years. >and no reason to close that year The FNAF 1 location is a LITERAL fucking Dump. It's a Run Down Shithole with smelly old animatronics and probably Rats in the Kitchen. Nobody wants to buy the place. >also means the poster was talking about the closing of the FNAF 83 location closure due to no one wanting go back after the missing kids incident as it reek of death) To quote: "After a long struggle to stay in business after the tragedy that took place there many years ago, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza has announced that it will close by year’s end. Despite a year-long search for a buyer, companies seem unwilling to be associated with the company." If the MCI occurs in 1985, the "many years ago" would at LEAST have it be open by FNAF 2 (2 years later), which it CANNOT be as the Withereds had been left to rot for 2 years, and were transferred to the New Location in 87. So, it cannot possibly be referring to the MCI Location in any way, especially when SL states it suddenly closed (likely because of that Murder Spree). Thus, it *has* to be the FNAF 1 location, the one that's been open for likely several years, is ALSO the MCI Location, and LOOKS like it's a run down dump on a pocket change budget...

[@justinstuart4140]

this gives a really interesting context to when glamrock freddy goes down into the pizza place and says “I am not me,” maybe that does give some more credit to the michael afton glamrock freddy theory tho and idk where we stand on that

[@SunshineTheLover]

i was scrolling this whole comment section to see if someone else made this connection. it just grants that line so much more significance and gives a slight hint to what the animatronics mean when they say that. glamrock freddy being confident in his ability to protect gregory when he ISNT himself makes you wonder

[@genreartz]

I know you said you’ll cover the other important things that was mentioned in “The Week Before” but I’m curious about your thoughts on the classic animatronics apparently having alterations made to their looks which eventually made them look like the Withereds but then changed back to the classics.

[@MusiciansRule07]

I KNEW it! I KNEW Phone Guy got JJK Jumped on Night 4! They surrounded Ralph and took him out! Occam's Razor wins again, LMAO. Having all of the Victims of Afton and his Creations share IT'S ME is something I never thought of before but it makes sense. The Week Before is another case of The 10th Anniversary delivering Peak Content and LOOORRRREEE and I love it. FNAF is still gonna cryptic overall but it's nice to finally get answers to old questions and gain brand new ones to theorize about. I'm excited for the future of the fandom!

[@ajkcool]

JJK Jumped?

[@MusiciansRule07]

​@@ajkcoolThere's an anime/manga called Jujutsu Kaisen and they are KNOWN for Jumping their enemies. One on One fights do happen at critical moments but overall? If you're an enemy or even a friend at times, you will have the whole squad to deal with. It's a good show and the manga it's based on is about to finish its main story before going into the past for background on The Big Bad (Sukuna) and other characters.

[@XionBrown]

I hope we get a game adaption of this book in future, call it FNAF 0 or something. The "gameplay" goes so hard and the story is so good, whether its a visual novel or a traditional FNAF style game, I want it!

[@GrandPaladinTyrux]

As you were describing all the instances of It's Me in this book, it started to seem pretty clear to me that It's Me is meant to represent a spirt attempting to communicate something to the living, whether that's the missing kids saying It's Me or David Afton saying It's Me or Bronwen saying It's Me or Ralph's daughter saying It's Me. It's an attempt at communication in a way that they're not fully capable of from beyond the grave.

[@JeweloftheWorld2000]

Imagine you're the parent of one of the missing children. One of the creepy animatronics your kid adored is staring at you. Its speaker seems to be glitching. It keeps repeating "It's me." You shudder and continue searching. As creepy as it is, It feels appropriate that the animatronics are falling apart, just as much as you are.

[@mr.e3123]

For anyone confused, the Art Ryetoast used for Brownen Light is from Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth 2. it is a Placeholder and in no way a representation of any depiction of the novel character.

[@SoullessNazzerin]

"log 63, my favourite rule." Same

[@kingloucifur8086]

After reading the book, my pervading thoughts on 'IT'S ME' are that it operates similar to the Doctor Who episode with the gas mask boy who asks "Are you my mummy?" Like Rye mentioned in this video, I believe it's the spirits inside the animatronics trying to reach out and be recognised. But I don't think the words have anything to do with programming. Rather, I think it's just an expression of their desire to be recognised as more than the animatronic they inhabit. "I want to be noticed." Becomes "It's me" in the same way that "Are you my mummy" was the gas mask kid's way of reaching out, trying to find a connection and feel safe again. I also imagine, given that we see a handful of different spirits talk through the same animatronics in this book, that it is hard for one spirit to take the stage (pun intended) to identify themselves. Imagine you have DID but no alter was fronting. How would you identify yourself? "I am me" "It's me". Maybe "it's us" with that example, but I doubt the spirits can work together in the same way a DID system might in some cases to express themselves as a unit. It seems to me that there are many more spirits present within Golden Freddy and perhaps the rest of the cast than we initially thought. The MCI is important because those deaths are the breadcrumbs we as the players and Michael followed to piece together what happened and take down William. But in the aftermaths of those deaths, I now believe that anyone killed by the vengeance seeking animatronics became a part of their spirit-network. A thousand souls all reaching out, hoping to find someone that might recognise them, might save them. "It's me." And like the stitchwraith, despite their intentions they murder, possibly because of William's, or Cassidy's, control. Another thought occured to me, and I realise how contentious this idea is. But as I was thinking about all this, I kept being reminded of Glamrock Freddy's line "I am not me." It feels like it's meant as a contrast to "it's me". I'm not necessarily saying he's possessed, it could just be his AI gaining sentience as many believe. But regardless, it feels purposeful.

[@LActress47]

This video was great. Nice way to start the weekend.

[@yote709]

Scott really knocked it out of the park with this one. Ive been listening to GiBi's playthrough

[@reewyn2025]

Can I just say, thank you! Now I've finally entered the theorist space officially, your videos recapping and exploring these things are SUCH a help. I personally can't afford all the books (though I'd like to in future), so having key parts given like this is so helpful. Greatly appreciated sir!

[@ulookbeutiful3736]

So this says that there’s no obligation for the person to be related to the any of the children to see “ITS ME” so Goldenduo lost another evidence?

[@pentagonyx]

"Log 63- My favorite Rule" LMAO

[@dru1dic931]

interesting to note: coppelia is a character from a ballet of the same name that is actually an automaton so lifelike all of the village falls in love with her. she was built by an old man, typical crazy engineer type. 👀

[@EmmyLayton]

10:47 Rye for in the love of god the damn backrooms bit has only gotten better and better each video 😂😂😂, and you might convince me to try those supplements (and yes I came from the GT Live thing, I was so excited I couldn’t not comment and then came here when they said you immediately outdated your own video theyre covering 😂😭)

[@RyeToast]

Thank you!! And yeah lmao of course TWB would immediately invalidate a chunk of that video

[@EmmyLayton]

@@RyeToast it happens to us all, you're doin more for theories then i am (i just help run the discord and streams here 😂😂)

[@Gabbitha]

Just a thought but "It's me" could have been Afton's final words to them before they died and they simply echo it. If not for no reason, maybe to hint at their killer's identity to whomever will listen. In some theories it's believed he said it to the crying child through the Freddy plush so might be a connection there

[@aaexpress44]

remember the whole 3 toes and 4 toes thing? if they are charged through their feet, you would use 3 wires for 120v (american wall voltage) to charge something (hot, neutral, and ground). now adays when you charge something (like your phone) you would use a usb connection, which would be 4 wires (5v, Rx, Tx, and ground). Coincidence?

[@gidelix]

probably.

[@randomknight5236]

Do you think it's plausible that this could be another UCN situation and Cassidy is speaking through them to say "It's me"?

[@RyeToast]

That's possible, but it wouldn't account for the people who are still barely alive

[@randomknight5236]

@@RyeToast I considered that as a counterpoint, as well as UCN being the creation of Cassidy so it may not carry over. I don't really have an explanation for either, but it was one of the first things I thought when I heard this. I may have just not been paying attention when it happened, but did you address the instances of Ralph and Bronwen saying "It's me" in your video?

[@EmotianalBrat]

That’s a good theory but some parts don’t add up however I like it a lot

[@randomknight5236]

@@EmotianalBrat Do you have any counterpoints besides those that have been mentioned?

[@EmotianalBrat]

@@randomknight5236 like for your argument. I mean the fact that she speaks through the mediocre Melodies is a good one. She’s can’t obviously move form one to another

[@EighmyLupin]

14:10 I mean even if Foxy 100% did the bite of 87, Freddy, as well as all the other animatronics, are also capable of doing it to Ralph.

[@RyeToast]

That's my thinking

[@lunamax1214]

Rule 63 being your favorite internet rule is very fitting, and I love it.

[@ThisIsAHandle-xz5yo]

What’s rule 63?

[@lunamax1214]

@@ThisIsAHandle-xz5yo Excellent question! Rule 63 of the Internet states as follows: "For every fictional character that exists, there also exists a gender-swapped counterpart." 😊

[@sleepyhollowo]

i think ‘it’s me’ could be as simple as each and every victim-whether from the MCI or anyone else who has died in an animatronic-when they see someone, all they can say is ‘it’s me’. ‘it’s me! i’m in here!! i’m trapped!! i am not this robot!’ but they can’t say that much. i think the animatronic’s original programming is another good explanation for that

[@dummdumm6735]

YO THIS MAKES THE MOVIE MAKE SO MUCH FUCKING SENSE

[@RyeToast]

I didn't even think about that, but this does connect a lot to how they act in the movie

[@wingedbluj1674]

After 10 years, and we finally have Phone Guy's name... and it's something as simple as "Ralph"

[@полное_пузо_хинкалей]

as a fan who've been here from the start, I'm just so happy that the phone guy wasn't fully forgotten

[@WyJ522]

I think it's me appearing mentally. Are the spirits trying to mentally tell you something. But something is still stopping them.

[@manofthemist]

It's always a good work day when I clock in and Rye posts, something interesting to listen to while I clean is always peak

[@mr.e3123]

"I Always Come Back." "It's Me." william programming the robots to say its me before killing something is such a him thing to do. its like a Calling Card a Watermark. and Peak Drama Wait a damn second is Sun and Moon the Base Animatronic Coding System? do they all get quirky at night because Sun and Moon are Quirky at night? has it really been that simple?

[@MetroManCL]

Mimic clown thing weirdo - > Sun and Moon - > og fnaf animatronics back to sun and moon holy macaroni