What LORE Is In FNAF Help Wanted? | FNAF Theory

THE CORKBOARD IS BACK!! Time to go through all of the direct and explicit lore within the modern FNAF games, and pin it to the board. Every great theory starts with a solid foundation, and this is how we get ours. Help Wanted and Special Delivery really are chock full of lore, and the games only get more dense here on out.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Preheating the Oven
01:01 What is the purpose of my Loreboard?
02:04 What is the story of FNAF Help Wanted?
06:55 What lore do we get from the cassette tapes in Help Wanted?
12:16 What other lore is in FNAF Help Wanted?
16:20 What lore do we get from FNAF Special Delivery?
21:56 Letting it cool
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The style of this video is similar to Fuhnaff, Pastra, FusionZGamer, and uhyeah. A large influence on this channel has been Wendigoon, Game Theory, Markiplier, and Dawko.
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#fnaf #fivenightsatfreddys #fnafsecuritybreach

[@Vib_me_is]

10:04. After around 10 hours dried blood looks black, even in well lit situations. I’m positive I’ve heard an interview with someone who discovered a crime scene, but didn’t realize it. They thought it was just spilled soda on the carpet and drops of ink on the wall

[@nekoboygames7786]

Also, it doesn't seem like they specific in what room she sees the mask and ink. It feels like it's where Jeremy is standing as she mention him having ink on him too.

[@RyeToast]

That's actually a great point, that it's dried

[@syweb2]

@@nekoboygames7786 It's heavily implied to be the supply room, as that's where she goes first, and the supply room has a lot of attention brought to itself, being brightly lit. She then sees Jeremy in a different room.

[@taylort3674]

I can see the Halloween mask even if in a brightly lit room either being meant to tell us she doesn't realize he cut his face off due to the presumed ink and Jeremy in another room but I can also see a case that Jeremy tried to remove the headset and he was just too late when glitchtrap took control so he just played the game until he died as he wasn't gonna be much use. And possibly this meaning Vanessa was a second choice. But the mask could even been one Jeremy made like Vanessa's Vanny mask. Or even just a preventative measure making it harder to be removed.

[@leolloredol3130]

Also it could be that he was making a mask the same way Vanessa was making a mask.

[@ClownManJames]

We see springtrap in the blacklight level of Ennard Vent Repair, and it is confirmed that there's springlock spriglock suits at the Rental Facility, suggesting that's where Afton got the scraptrap suit

[@Ziv_Afton]

Damn it Rye! You had to do it while I’m gonna be at school!? That’s ok, I’ll just watch it immediately once I get home :3

[@jenniferhorsman5294]

Ima get more likes on my comment

[@requiemthethethe]

@@jenniferhorsman5294nah, I’d win.

[@A-n-d-y780]

You don't have summer break????😮

[@dumflame]

@@A-n-d-y780it’s May

[@sweetpoison4228]

​@A-n-d-y780 its not even summer

[@SarcasticAsexualMegane]

omg thank you for pointing out the thing about fnaf3 never officially being stated to be in 2023, sometimes i feel really crazy whenever people call it canon 😭

[@teapub9119]

the idea that the insanity ending log we hear from Henry in ffps is the 223rd log he's recorded makes me so sad, that gives Henry such much character just through that. imagine how broken he'd be under that idea, how much he's lost, how stuck in this tragedy he is

[@loganentertainment1814]

in the photo booth of FNAF AR, there’s a filter that has a set of red curtains, and a sign that says come one come all the Fazbear circus. That could indicate that Fazbear Entertainment started off as a circus.

[@maymay5600]

meaning william bought out their assets? william didn't own part of those characters yet until maybe the circus went under

[@loganentertainment1814]

Probably.

[@phobiaanimations]

18:45 this could be two things possibly, either when Vanessa put his virus into the PizzaPlex, or when in the therapy tapes Vanessa says “I compartmentalized him, he’s locked away”

[@ThemightyTelevision]

She turned him into an emotional support plushie that talks.

[@kiracomments-chca2747]

@@ThemightyTelevision: "Vanessa, don't turn me into a marketable plushie T^T " - William Afton's agony

[@tee-yup]

it always irked me that people just assumed fnaf 3 took place in 2023 when the anniversary line has always said "30 years after closing its doors", nothing about when in the timeline we ever played fnaf 1. ive always felt strongly that fnaf 3 takes place in 2015

[@LiMe251]

That puts the FNAF 2 location as being open during the 30 years Freddy's was closed, might I suggest FNAF 3 as somewhere from 2017 to 2019.

[@CatOnVenus183]

FNAF 3 states it specifically takes place 30 years AFTER the closing of Freddy's Pizzeria. I think it's talking about the first location that closed in 1985, so 30 years later would be 2015, which is the year the game came out in which makes even more sense then 2013

[@LiMe251]

2015 requires locations opening whilst still being considered closed.

[@Samoth1995]

Something to help corroborate the "223 is not a year in the HRY223 filename" argument: I have NEVER in my life seen a year abbreviated by dropping only the second digit. Dropping the first 2 is common - usernames do it, we all do it when discussing a decade, sometimes we use it in normal parlance when talking about a given year (the early 2000s in particular come to mind - 05, 06, 07, etc.). I cannot think of anyone ever referring to a year by dropping the second digit and only the second digit.

[@bingonoid]

Not to mention that naming a recording just based on the year seems unrealistic.

[@thenumberzer0798]

⁠@@bingonoidyeah, trying to find an file you named after the year would be horrible if you had more than one file you saved that year

[@agnesterek7530]

If we really want to connect it to a date, could it stand for february 23rd? As in Henry recorded it on that day. Just a thought

[@Wizardjones69]

and so if frights are canon, and into the pit take place in 2020, fnaf 3 would be broken by the fact that jeff's pizza doesn't have anything more of fazbear artefacts to collect, so it places fnaf 3 much before 2020, it must be at least in 2010s, so its 2015

[@revolv8379]

@@Wizardjones69 i saw you comment this somewhere else, too, but is pit in 2020 confirmed? also i think it's safe to say that if any of the frights are canon and in the same universe as the games, pit would be the first one, especially with the game coming out. i think fnaf 3 taking place in 2015 makes the most sense, especially considering it is when it came out.

[@liamg.5014]

I saw a KZbinr named ImmenseAndrew discover in the logbook that FNAF3 took place in 2015, using the real value of the ticket in that book

[@mackthisarrowhearth295]

19:00 This V_A take-over literally sounds like the HW2 Princess Quest ending. As an employee, the protag experienced what really happened.

[@FelineDeskFan13]

Rye’s creamsicle lookin orange and white cat is adorable All their cats are adorable tbh :3

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

Ironic really that the era with the most stated lore is also the era which is the most confusing. Also that "Foundation" is really big for how little it really says!

[@ciboria1]

I don't know why, but at 2:45 my brain just shouted; "STICHTRAP! We stitch the tapes/pieces back together, and it was a trapped virus based on/fed data/ recorded William Afton, Springtrap." Does that make sense for anyone else? I did have a smoke before watching

[@ciboria1]

I guess I just mixed HW + Alternative reasoning for Glitchtrap

[@GendoRokabundi]

Feb 23 (or 2/23) would be a Tuesday in 2016 (or Monday in 2015, Sunday in 2014). The insanity ending where you listen to HRY223 can be unlocked as early as day 3. So it was probably recorded on or before Wednesday of that week. It really could be any date though, since we don’t know how long in advance Henry recorded most of the tapes (his final one recognizes who Mike is so has to have been made during the week). Those dates fit it between fnaf3 and fnaf AR while allowing for the tapes to have been recorded after Mike starts working but before he buys the egg baby.

[@br2891]

14:27 that right there is speculation, in the books it was said that the indie dev didnt finish the fourth game and there are other possible explanations for Ennard and Scrap Baby, there was an active camera in the scooper room and around circus baby's entertainment and rentals so Ennard could've easily been caught on camera and scrap baby had been wandering around for decades so she also was possibly known as an urban legend kinda like the stitchwraith

[@Wizardjones69]

and in hw is showed screen shoots of fnaf sl gameplay, so maybe fazbear inc or other employee continued the crazy indie dev games

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

I got here just in time for the premier, woooo! Also, Ness=Nessy=Loch Ness Monster=Mysterious Water Creature=Crabs=Vannessa is a Crab confirmed! DON'T TRUST THE CRABS! BLAME THE CRABS!

[@phobiaanimations]

LOL

[@captaincatgirl42069]

Y'know, she does seem kinda crabby in the game so... Headcanon accepted!

[@AuroraIceFlame]

Everything really does evolve into crabs

[@kiracomments-chca2747]

LMFAO

[@fantasticfroggaming]

2015 would work a lot better than 2013 for a fnaf 3 date. The game came out in 2015 so it is not just a random year. That would also mean Freddy FazBear’s Pizza shut down in 1985 which is the date given for the MCI in the books.

[@ItsB1998]

Game info implies the MCI happens in 1983

[@syweb2]

@@ItsB1998 Please elaborate.

[@ItsB1998]

@@syweb2 The girl with the Pigtail's in the FNAF 4 8 bit minigames talks about there being rumors of kids being stuffed into animatronics and the animatronics coming to life at night. It goes without saying how this implies the MCI had already happened by that point. In the Crying Child deathbed scene, the other plushie characters show up when the FredBear plush tells CC: "we are still your friends, do you believe that?" This can be seen as CC previously being friends with the MCI victims, especially given how the logbook seemingly shows that Cassidy knew about Crying Child's life and FNAF World shows us that CC was connected to the MCI for Happiest Day. HW2 also seemingly shows us that Charlie died in 1983 in the games, since the code 1983 has to be typed in to unlock the Puppet plushie. The same game then has the Puppet in *last* place with the victim's grave order, which inherently implies MCI83 again.

[@Speakenth]

agreed, 2015 seems perfect as its 30 years after when most people assume the mci took place 👍👍👍👍

[@fantasticfroggaming]

@@ItsB1998 That is a valid interpretation however if MCI 83 is true it most likely happened while CC was in a coma bc William wanted to get back at the children for bullying him and making him afraid of the animatronics. The 1983 code could just a throwback to the code from SL but could also imply Charlies death. I still think MCI 85 most likely happened although that is compelling evidence. I also feel like it makes no sense for Scott to pick a random year in the feature or past when it could have taken place directly when the game came out and when popularity was the highest.

[@shleycrazy8191]

Vanessa’s name and birthday info is under September is the ninth month; what if the 97 is the month and day of her birthday? Then everything we had originally established makes sense; she’s just born much later (sometime around 2010-2015? Would LOVE if she was born 2014 lol)

[@Lightman0359]

By that logic it could also me July 9, since most of the world outside the US writes dates day/month/year. However the 97 is from her Email/handle, and numbers in those are usually either your birth year, the order in which you are assigned the handle, or some random specific number that means something to the person [420, 69, 666, 187, and 86 are common meme numbers]. Is your birthday August 1 [or January 8, by my logic] 1991? The dates line up pretty well with the Steel Wool games being set in or around the time they are released and not "historical" [like FNAF 1, 2 and 4] or future vision. Nothing in VR/AR really precludes the tech being from today and not 10+ years in the future [especially since in the FNaF universe, in the 80s there were robots that could not only walk around unassisted, but were trusted enough to interact with children. If FNsF3 is set set 30 years after the first Freddy Fazbear's Pizza opened, and not say Fredbear's Family Diner, which could push the date back, or the speculative date of FNaF1 [which both was NOT the first Freddy's opening, and never actually confirmed, only inferred to bi in 93], then we need to admit incorrect speculation and go forward where the new evidence points. That is how you create THEORY and not Fan Fiction. If new evidence challenges your narrative, you have to be able to accept when you are wrong. Your feelings on the matter or a consensus of other speculators matters not.

[@Eggs_benedict_afton83]

Hear me out. If the game takes place in 2029. And she's 23 in the middle of that year (when sb takes place). 2007 is when her birth month would be. So what if the 97 September. 2007?

[@Lightman0359]

@Eggs_benedict_afton83 years are almost always shortened to a 2-digit number, that would be 907

[@tttm7396]

I feel like this is steel wools attempt at dragging agony into the games. The ink that was all over could be agony from the vr headset while Glitchtrap corrupted Jeremy.

[@kiracomments-chca2747]

Yeah! instead of dried blood(which I swear is dark brown not black once dried), it's agony since it's black!

[@Schnirt]

Nothing quite like a ryetoast video to cheer you up after your dog died

[@kiracomments-chca2747]

Thanks for reminding me of our dead dogs... T~T

[@Vault-vw8fw]

I've seen you bring up the fact the Ennard should have only been seen my Micheal, but thats actually wrong there are cameras all through out the Sister Location including one in the Scooping Room. So its not that far-fetched that Fazbear would know about them.

[@syweb2]

13:30 Also, the intro has a direct screenshot from Sister Location (repairing Funtime Freddy). As mentioned by others, the Sister Location bunker has a bunch of cameras throughout, and Mike is rescued from Night 4 by workers who see him on the cameras in the Scooping Room. It is highly likely that Ennard was caught on camera when it was scooping and wearing Mike, and thus its likeness was recorded and seen by Fazbear Entertainment. Therefore, Ennard's presence alone doesn't mean that Sister Location is a game, while the intro screenshot makes it a certainty. 15:25 Something to note is that Help Wanted's bare Endo-01 model generally has 3 toes (as seen in the gallery), so I think these are just supposed to be Endo-01s without any 02 parts.

[@joewaugh2464]

FINALLY FNAF 3 THRUTHERISM. Fnaf 3's "30 years since closing" makes the most sense as reference to the mci location, 1985. Putting it in 2015, the year fnaf 3 was released, IT JUST MAKES SENSE PEOPLE

[@johndavid1611]

The year it was released

[@bluegold1026]

It does!

[@bossco839]

FFPS taks olace in 2023 because of the HRY223 tape so I think that's pretty inconsequential anyways.

[@joewaugh2464]

@@johndavid1611 yes, thank you! Edited to correct

[@Rad0115]

I guess, but what’s the point of mentioning thirty years since *one* of the restaurants closed? I feel like that line was strongly implying that it was thirty years since Fazbear was closed FOR GOOD, which would have been fnaf 1.

[@mjm3091]

The thing about how Help Wanted games know about Ennard - Sister Location explicitly has camera all over the place. We directly get found in the Scooping Room after Night 4 thanks to the cameras. There would almost certainly be a footage of Micheal getting scooped and taken over by Ennard. Ennard itself likely would have been captured at some point as well. Especially, if the good ending in Sister Location happened in some way - where Michael found the security room. Ennard being visible on security cameras is literally a gameplay mechanic. This specifically can also be a way how Henry learned about a lot of the animatronics he needed for the fire. And in similar manner we could speculate that Scrap Baby also was captured and seen at the Pizzeria Simulator location, with potentially monitoring being present there. And then obviously there is also the part, where there could have been sightings of both Ennard and Scrap Baby. We see Ennard leave Michael on streets - even with most elaborate sewers systems, someone had to see giant robots and dead animatronics travel to Pizzeria Simulator location. If someone would have that footage - it would be Fazbear Entertainment. And then there are dozens of untold stories that could have happened between Sister Location and Pizzeria Simulator. Those are not extreme secrets no one knows about - we can't forget how almost every game and situation had multiple unnamed workers, government employees and normal people being involved in the background.

[@rifarira9160]

idk man, there's a counter to this. Reason why ennard need mike body to escape is so no one know they escape, so if Ennard is real he presumably would delete the footage when they leave.

[@acetbg2764]

9:42 I don't know this might be a stretch but with the descriptions of how she describes the room it reminds me of a photo darkroom the ones that are brightly lit in red light. The ones that would have a paper guillotine and would explain why she thinks blood would look like ink because the whole room in bathed in red light and the blood would be a shade darker making her think its ink. also it could be used as a supplies room because maybe not that many people use it anymore but maybe Jeremy did idk lol it defiantly feels like a stretch but just something I felt I should say.

[@bluegold1026]

Another awesome vid! I look forward to watching vids talking about SB and HW2 in your distinct, easy-to-understand style.

[@birdmcturd1626]

I would like to point out that the previous game tester says that once Glitchtrap has fused into her logs,they become impossible to delete. That feels supernatural in nature. I should also point out that Springtrap (the actual suit,not a recreation) appears in AR (working with the virus,seemingly) which means it has to be between fnaf 3 and 6

[@phobiaanimations]

My personal thought on glitchtrap is that he’s both Mimic AND Afton. I’ve been reading through the Storyteller and Tiger rock, the Mimic1 program is the mimic via books, which Glitchtrap was originally labeled as such but I think turned into “SpringbonnieMAN” or maybe the other way around. Helpwanted2 entails that Glitchtrap has “memories” from UCN showing old man consequences, ALL of the murders including Charlie’s which was private, ect. Even in the AR trailer there’s a sprite of Purple guy right after Glitchtrap, and Springtrap in universe AR has lines from UCN. So, there’s no way in my book that Afton isn’t apart of the hive mind, maybe they scanned in both Mimic and Afton, so he has a gateway to appear as this mascot, I dunno. I like thinking about it like that, having both villains so everyone’s happy. 💜

[@ZavoyHarwood]

Thats incorrect fnaf ar says Glitchtrap came from ONE BOARD. So either mimic or afton. (I think it's safe to say it's confirmed to be afton)also the memory plushies are a part of mimics memory and the unused voiclines prove you can "realese"these memories from Glitchtrap

[@phobiaanimations]

@@ZavoyHarwood wrong, she said “circuit boards, looked pretty old.”

[@ZavoyHarwood]

@@phobiaanimations no. In fnaf ar it says they traced the virus back to ONE circuit BOARD

[@Doomware]

The file name might mean February(2nd month) 23rd day.

[@bossco839]

Why would Scott give us such useless information in a game that was supposed to tie up loose ends? The copium is insane

[@Wizardjones69]

@@bossco839 into the pit taking place in 2020 while having NOTHING of fazbear artefacts to fazbear fright collect, fnaf 3 2015 must be the right awnser

[@TheHaddonfieldRegistry]

​@@bossco839why would Scott abbreviate a year in a way that literally no one else ever has? Sounds like people seeing what they want to see.

[@Wattson19]

​@@Wizardjones69 Have you just forgotten the fact that Fnaf 3 is 30 years after Fnaf 1?

[@Wizardjones69]

@@Wattson19 30 years after the mci, not 30 years after fnaf 1

[@dredgengam4610]

13:07 That's not quite on the mark. The reason why is so easy to miss too. Baby's voice in what at first felt like a throwaway line, admitted that they did this at least once before, and we can assume they were caught and restored back to how they were originally. So only from what we see, Michael should be the only one to see ennard, however based on what the line hinted, the employees and by proxy the company should've learned about the circus group's little stunt In forming themselves into ennard.

[@kiracomments-chca2747]

0:10 LOL The cat is like "Why have you stopped servant? Keeping petting me." XD 15:56 I cannot with you XD That was just too funny to me XD LMAO!!!

[@elegysonnet5466]

Speaking of the dark circus, Stormister did a video of 100% the game before it became unplayable, including the DLC, and got some pretty good video of great escape golden freddy ^^

[@Juisyorange]

3:48 The backstage exit which leads to the outdoors with the Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex being constructed in the distance with the build board saying "coming soon" which results in the FNAF Security Breach teaser ending wasn't added in the FNAF Help Wanted Curse of Dreadbear DLC, it was added when the flat mode of FNAF Help Wanted released on 12-17-2019. That's why it's snowing when you go outside. Is this information necessary important? Probably not, I just wanted to correct you LOL

[@Juisyorange]

Me for real: 🤓

[@RyeToast]

Oh shit really? My bad. And no it's not necessarily important for the timeline, but it's important that we get our information right!

[@gavinjames645]

If they make a dlc for help wanted 2 here are some things I would love to see. 1. A minigame with the blob/tangle. 2. A minigame with glamrock Bonnie or perhaps a glamrock foxy. 3. A minigame about creating animatronics. 4. Facing glitchtrap with the princess quest sword. 5. A new character (whether human or animatronic). 6. Reference to the tales from the pizzaplex books. 7. Tape girl return. 8. Facing off against the mimic. 9. Fnaf pizzeria simulator and ultimate custom night. 10. A minigame about playing arcade 8-bit minigames.

[@FelineDeskFan13]

22:38 PinkConkonut’s art style is adorable :D

[@Igor_Dust414]

21:00 Fnaf 3's steam description states "30 years since Freddy Fazbear's CLOSED It's doors" and FFP was opened in 83 and CLOSED in 85 after MCI so it IS 2015 👀👀👀 I always said it is! No one believed me

[@PERIX_QR]

Could the ink.... Be agony?

[@TengryEmily1982]

It seemed that way to me too

[@The12thCrashmaster]

@RyeToast An idea I have for Jeremy in VR is that maybe the mask is some sort of proto-Vanny mask or something that Jeremy made for Glitchtrap like Vanessa did. The ink doesn’t have a specific color said, but red ink could just be blood, or, maybe if the ink is black, which would be most likely in my opinion, maybe it was Agony. I'm not 100%, but it is some theories that could fit with Jeremy being a sort of Proto-Vanny. Also, the minimum for Fazbear's Fright is 2015 or 2017, since Fazbear's Fright opened 30 after the closure of a Freddy's, not an opening.

[@impossiblewolf2371]

ImmenseAndrew makes a really good argument for FNAF3 taking place in 2015 in “The Survival Logbook is still important and it changes FNAF3”. He points out that when Michael says the “real value” of the coupons is (insert numbers here), it seems like adjusting the price for inflation, and with his math it seems to be adjusting between early 90s-2015.

[@therealkanyewestforreal]

9:46 the way she says "dark room" makes it sound like one word, like darkroom. And a darkroom is the brightly lit red (yet hard to see in) room where photos develop, which would explain why the red blood looked black, since it had nothing to contrast on. When everything is red it is hard to distinguish between blood and ink. Also, in the context of a room used for photography and developing, ink and a paper cutter being used makes sense. Why they would use a dark room in 2035? I dont know, but that makes the most sense to me. Also, that is just an awesome horror visual to imagine, a dude with his face sliced off with blood everywhere in a completely red room. Also #2, tape girl only really says that she only initially thought it was a mask, and as far as i know didnt go into any further detail. I think this was intentional

[@mamadev7687]

love the foxy x bonnie fanservice in the background footage

[@pentagonyx]

Haven't watched you in a while- I love the new background! I love the FNAF World in the back- it's the FNAF equivalent of Subway Surfers

[@eyzmaster]

4:20 Plot's getting wild in this theory, oh, my!

[@TactlessC]

Because I watched GiBi's 9 hour video, I just wanna jump in with a "speculative correction" FNAF 3 doesn't say it's the 30th Anniversary, it says it's "Thirty Years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors". Which means it'd be 30 years after the Missing Child Incident that is presumed to take place in 1985 and caused the first restaurant before FNAF 2 to shut down, which would put the game at 2015, the same year the game itself was released which is a really convenient marker and it's weird nobody in the larger community ever considers it.

[@CheshireCatMystic]

13:31 I think people saying “only Michael could know about Ennard” are probably forgetting that security cameras exist and Fazbear would probably have the footage from the bunker. But yeah thats how I think they got the design for the “in game” Ennard.

[@mawa349]

When rye said "It's almost if it was mimicking the game" and it went absolutely hard 🗣️🔥🔥

[@charajaznao2829]

Min 6:50, i don't think its the only possible choice to think that the person made the mask, but instead the little glitchy bunny plushy that is given by the old mand consequences of Help Wanted 2 when we then give it to moon to bring it to bunny to destroy glitchtrap in that weird situation. I think that plushy is some kind of representation of the glitchtrap virus

[@Wizardjones69]

fnaf 3 takes place in 2015, change my mind

[@RyeToast]

Nah you're right, that was my b I had a brain fart

[@GingyPreston]

I’ve wanted a video just like this

[@KangaGamer]

Imagine if Matt Patts orignial theroy surronding chucky cheese was true, that the games are based on the murders, and Chucky Cheese hired Scott to make the games, and it turns out now we are all sleeper agents to a rouge AI.

[@magicpaul24]

I didn't know where to ask so here I go it's a thing concerning fnaf 2: what is your take of who we are playing? I mean at each sum up of the game I heard it's : you play as Jeremy Fitzgerald ... but I have 2 issues: number one the message we hear are pre recorded (summer job despite the winter month?) so the week described can have happened before (not too long before as the toys are not destroyed yet). Then there is the state of the restaurant each night: EXACTLY IDENTICAL, still with the birthday decoration and with the exact same puddle of water still not cleaned every night... I'm not saying debating over if Jeremy exists or is he the victim of the bite of 87 but rather that the person that we played in fnaf2 is not him (yes there is his paycheck but the context of fnaf 2 makes it hard to believe that the restaurant is actually running during fanf 2). We may be playing as Mike (like the 6th night) under another alias but its strangely presented or someone else ( but who?). I really wanted to have your opinion about that because it's usually something taken like obvious by most players but a bit strange when you spot that.

[@treyvonlavell7334]

The summer job thing is likely just a hyperbole or Phone Guy reading off an outdated script. We know the location was only open for a few short weeks in November (night 6 newspaper), so this is the most logical conclusion you could come to. Also, the state of the restaurant throughout nights being the same is just Scott not caring about consistency. Most folks won't notice it, so I don't think it's something he was worried about. We definitely cant be playing as Michael, since Jeremy was switched over to the dayshift at the end of his first week once the position became available, and since we know what happened to him after he was instructed to stay close to the animatronics... Unless you want to argue that Mike is the Bite of '87 victim despite the mental gymnastics you'd have to go through to reach that conclusion, then our protagonist is clearly a different character.

[@shaelynmartin1996]

Yeah the "Summer Job" thing was a mistake on Scott's part. He's tried to make that clear multiple times. It was a mere flub when he was recording.

[@magicpaul24]

@@treyvonlavell7334 No like I said Jeremy is the victim and he's not Mike. It just that if you didn't know that these were mistakes ( wich I didn't) well it was not consistent with an open restaurant and as such open at a situation similar to the 6th night. That's all

[@treyvonlavell7334]

@@magicpaul24 My bad. Sorry that I misunderstood you.

[@clayton_rose]

Oh that’s how you get the image. I though it was an alternate route of foxy pirate log ride

[@Hayatonyaaa]

I always assumed it was 2015 for fnaf3. Not only is it the year the game came out, it's 30 years after the MCI. It was supposed to be 30 years after the tragic events.

[@nagyzita3583]

im pretty sure that jeremy did lose his face since every jeremy in the games (as far as i am aware) are linked to missing part of their head. fnaf 2 jeremy is probably the 87 bite victim, and withered bonnie also has no face and bonnie was posessed by another jeremy so i think that its a logical conclusion that vr jeremy must have lost his face

[@AustinTatious02]

Always excited when RyeToast uploads. His FNAF content is goated!

[@CheshireCatMystic]

21:37 I’ve always had an issue about that date of FNAF 6, mainly because that’s not how dates are written! So assuming that’s the date was always a odd leap in logic.

[@leolloredol3130]

10:04 Think about this, the mask and ink could be Jeremy making a mask, just like how Vanessa made a mask.

[@scorcher69]

something to add onto this is if vanessa was born in 1997, then its still possible for vanessa to be the daughter of william afton. it was never stated how long fnaf 1 was shut down before william went to collect the mci remnant and the springbonnie suit. william could have waited a few years either to make sure the place would be long abandoned and have no security or witnesses. or he didn't bother until he needed more remnant. also considering how afton's corpse looks it most likely hasn't been sitting in the saferoom for 30 years. the building is infested with vermin and even if you say he was totally sealed off from pests, the leaking when it rains would provide the needed moisture for bacteria to decompose the corpse. he honestly looks mumified at least with his head. they could most likely found him when there was a dry spell. note im not a professional with this stuff so if im wrong with something someone can correct me on this.

[@Wizardjones69]

Maybe fnaf 1 doesnt take place in 1993, but rather 2003, this makes the time skip between 1 and 3 less absurd

[@realblank8709]

Multiple people have proved that Fnaf 3 Took Place in 2015 well I guess not proved but I was given a lot of evidence

[@alicehoman7761]

So, I don't know if this is something that anyone else has brought up, I had an idea for what the voice in the Vanny mask might have meant. Since it's generally assumed that the voice is Vanessa, and it kinda matches the Vanni mask, what if they are the same mask and she was telling, presumably Glitchtrap, that she had built the Vanni system and the system that traps the mimic in ruin?

[@makaylaserniotti1474]

Help wanted has a special place in my heart since it was released in my birthday haha

[@seeskittyplay3620]

Can grim foxy be an analogy of Mike "returning from the dead" and trying to stop vanny?

[@gingerfeliciano9531]

14:47 THANK YOU

[@SamGlastonbury]

The FNAF 3 steam page states this: "Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed it's doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory..." The sentence specifies that something happens at this particular location. I think that this sentence could refer to the location where the missing child incident takes place. The books are pretty consistent at placing the missing child incident in 1985, so I think it is plausible that Fazbear Frights takes place in 2015. Otherwise the only other plausible year to use is 1993 which is when the final freddy fazbear's pizza place closes and this line refers to the missing children's incident AND the guards deaths. There is also the 1987 location but I don't think this location is significant enough to be referenced specifically compared to the other two locations. I think using "nessie97" to determine the year that Vanessa was born in to be a fallacy. '97' could refer to something else. For example Vanessa birthday is listed as September. So it could refer to the day/month of her birthday, the 7th of September. That being said if FNAF 3 actually takes place in 2015 then it would still be possible for Vanessa to work on Help Wanted by 2020 using this timeline. I've always thought that "hry223" either refers to the 223rd audio log Henry has recorded or the day/month. So the audio log is recorded on the 23rd of february. Years aren't abbreviated like '223' and so can't be used as evidence to determine the year. If the numbers do represent 2/23, then that would likely place FNAF 6 in the year after FNAF 3. In the proposed timeline that would be 2016. Help Wanted says that "We have recreated many of the fictitious scenarios (lies) that you have been fed over the last few years" I want to emphasize the 'last few years' part. It would have taken several years of time for the 'rogue' indie developer to create the games and then for Fazbear Entertainment to 'respond.' IRL FNAF 1 was released on the 8th of August 2014. FNAF 6 was released on the 4th of December 2017. FNAF UCN was released on the 27th of June 2018. This suggests that it would have taken 3-4 years before FNAF Help Wanted even started production. The calender shown in Security Breach places the game in 9-10th March of either the year 2018 (Far too early), 2029 or 2035. The quarterly magazines for the Pizzaplex have been running for 4 and 3/4 years. So the Pizzaplex would have opened in the summer of 2024 or 2031. If Help Wanted takes place in 2020 then that would give 4 years to construct the pizzaplex if the pizzaplex opens in the summer of 2024. FNAF 3 takes place in 2015, 30 years after the location where the MCI closes down. FNAF 6 takes place in late February 2016. FNAF Help Wanted happens in 2020. The Pizzaplex opens in 2024 and the events of Security Breach take place in 9-10th March 2029.

[@Wizardjones69]

meh, even fnaf 1 date being in "1993" doesn't feel right, most likely its 2003

[@Sorrows_Ending]

I think we’re overlooking the most important piece of evidence: Foxy and Bonnie are in love, as seen in the two plushies kissing

[@AlexMourning5635]

I've always been bothered by the mask/blood/guillotine incident with Jeremy. It kinda reminds me of how people portray madness when influenced by an outside force, see the madmen of skyrim or Valerio Jimenez from The Evil Within (fair warning, he literally claws his brain out). But the way the story is framed sounds like someone trying to recall a traumatic memory they witnessed as they realize why it's so alarming, calling out details that seem innocuous but make sense in hindsight. I don't know how much I commit to Jeremy slicing off his own face, but if it were the case I *kinda* get it, Jeremy was in a lot of duress from the virus and being written up, as he was losing his identity he tried to pull it out from under the skin? It just doesn't make much sense from an audience perspective since we weren't there.

[@partygoer1]

if you ever watched the 9 hour long fnaf lore video by Gibi, he makes a great point that fnaf 3 takes place in 2015 and helps date fnaf 1. He explains that the fazbear attraction was made 30 years after the events/rumors of fazbear entertainment, which we know to be the MCI incident in 1985 (adding 30 years neatly makes it 2015 which was when fnaf 3 released) it also just makes more sense for fnaf 3 being the "modern day" to actually be happened the same year as its release. He used some paycheck math to estimate fnaf 1 taking place in 1995 ALSO he made the greatest point ive ever heard. we all assume fnaf 1 to be in 1993 because of matpats very first theory in which the real life murder in chuck e cheese took place in 1993, no where in fnaf 1 does it state it takes place in 1993 (or any other games for that matter)

[@RyeToast]

Yeah I was thinking about this today and I wish I realized the 2015 date when editing. It's a much better option

[@skeletaltrees]

13:12 wasn’t the bunker covered with security cameras that the player character didn’t control? it could have been caught on one of those

[@vincenthall5908]

“Without any speculation” look man, i agree with a lot of the stuff youre saying, but a lot of it was speculation 😭

[@Monkeyman18214]

Hey love the channel I was just wondering if you heard dual process theory they made a fnaf time line that I like and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on it

[@RyeToast]

I did! I made a community post on it. Tl;Dr it's good!

[@Monkeyman18214]

@@RyeToast thank you for responding and sounds good I'll check the community tab for it thank you love all the videos keep up the good work👍🏽😁

[@_kadoodles_]

21:38 Re: FNAF 3 not taking place in 2023, I think you're right, even down to the range it has to be in!! There's actually a really good video by ImmenseAndrew that goes into an overlooked clue in the Survival Logbook that we were supposed to solve to find out that FNAF 3 takes place in 2017 (or possibly 2015), highly recommend checking his vid out if you haven't!

[@Wizardjones69]

2015 most likely, 30 years after the mci

[@Bugaboo1018]

With the whole HRY223 thing, I know specific dates that aren’t just years have never been super important to the lore, but I don’t see why you couldn’t just take the numbers to mean that it was recorded on February 23rd

[@Poseidon4862.]

20:37 The 30-Year jump defining when FNAF 3 takes place could have started with the 1985 murders. That way FNAF 3 would take place in 2015, the same year the actual game came out. Granted, this is just speculation, we’d need more information to really pinpoint the exact year. It is interesting to point out that the pizzaplex could have lasted for fifteen years, though.

[@anime_world6684]

I have been waiting for this video for so long, since whenever I search up this topic I get “help wanted 2” instead

[@legend-qr5qm]

Baby does say that they've been out multiple times before but they always find a way to put them back wich to me could mean that they've been enard before Edward just separated and put back again

[@Spawnmatism]

21:39 Hey Rye. A few theorists, myself included, have suggested that FNaF 3 could take place in 2015. It cannot take place in 2013(30 years after 1983) because the Steam description says Fazbear’s Fright takes place 30 years after Freddy Fazbear’s *closed down*. And 1985 is a speculated year for the original Freddy's to have closed down. Not only that, but the easter egg of the real value of the american dollar in the Survival Logbook also could suggest 2015 if you compare it to 1992(the year of FNaF 1, 1993 is solely based on a real incident). And on top of that, 2015 is also the irl release date of FNaF 3. So I think it all wraps up neatly.

[@Wizardjones69]

i think the fnaf 1 events takes place in 2003 at best, phone guy talks about how the fnaf 1 animatronics have to sing stupid songs for 20 years, and freddy's opened in 1983 1983 + 20 = 2003 (which is pretty close to the movie events btw)

[@Astromayu69]

Yo I've watched so many theorists play help wanted, how have i only just now seen the dreadbear ending? Wild.

[@Mommacado]

Love the video, couldn't help but notice you mentioned fnaf 3 taking place on the 30th anniversary, yet the direct quote is "30 years after Freddy Fazbears Pizza closed it's doors." I think it's important to distinguish that it's the anniversary of the closure, not the opening :3

[@Wizardjones69]

So it takes place in 2015

[@Mommacado]

@@Wizardjones69 That's my thought, tbh.

[@gathaspar5295]

Story of the Help Wanted is pretty clear but a lot of people still don't get it. First, Tape Girl is not Vanessa. Second, Tape Girl was never brainwashed by the Anomaly. She tells how to get rid of the anomaly hoping that this will work but it was before he attached himself to her audiologs and now can't be erased from the game. Remember that tapes were not in order. Her last tape was the warning not to collect them as it would put back together the Anomaly. Thus the Anomaly is not mimicking Tape Girl and her voice is heard when he appears because he attached himself to her audiologs. At that point Mimic seemingly didn't exist even as a concept. Jeremy definietely cut off his face. He used gilotine paper slicer, ink is blood and the mask is his face. Clear reference to Withered Bonnie/Jeremy Victim and possibly Fitzgerald/TBof87 Victim. I really like the story of Help Wanted but the new story goes downhill from there with introduction of the Reluctant Follower/Vanny.

[@klaibefhuoaiuwehjklbdfsnxnik]

I dont think the endos in the furnace prove Molten MCI because Ennard is *already made* when we see them. Its possible they were melted into something different but I don't think they made Ennard or Molten Freddy.

[@aiwdmsm9014]

I think its also worth considering that the 223 in HRY223 could be a date or time maybe? like, february 23rd (which, yeah, doesn't line up with the halloween posters in the alley but those dont necessarily mean its halloween, they are in an alleyway after all) or 2:23.

[@Wizardjones69]

maybe its henry LOG223 maybe henry have ALOT of logs made over time, from log 0 into log 223 before the fire

[@lwes4]

that guy who made that 8 or 12 hour fnaf time line video figured the fnaf three was like 2015 from the reffinces in the log book about real value an by assuming the Freddy that was closed was refering to missing kids incident in 85. in his mind fnaf 3 and fnaf pizza sim take place in there realses year and while i'm thinking about same guy make great point that fnaf 2 1987 pay date is on thursday, which mean that fnaf 1 took place in 92 since that when dates match up.

[@MichaelMSHuber]

Oh, what's up with that face about the mention of the word "mimic" 😂

[@keeby10]

I think fnaf 3 takes place in 2015, because a horror attraction would advertise themselves as being 30 years after the MCI, plus it puts the game in its release year

[@jenniferhorsman5294]

I will say it’s still technically a possibility that she’s Nessie_97 due to other emails being Nessie 20:51

[@the_great_thinker6430]

what if henry, as part of his mission to end the horrors of fazbear, was the one to commission the game developer? i mean, if fnaf 3 took place in 2013, and the first game IRL came out in 2014, maybe that's when it came in-universe too. id say if he was working on covering up, that places fnaf 6 in 2014 as well. after all, people did feel safe enough to come to the fnaf 6 location. from there, henry died, but the company continued. i wonder if he told the developer to write that he was dead, when in reality, he either left or was kicked out of the company, hence why its still around, after "fazbear entertainment is no longer a coorpret entity".

[@DZ_97]

I can barely pay attention I've been up since yesterday 6am and its currently 5am, in a hotel with friend who drank to much and stayed up all night to make sure he didn't puke again. I don't know why I'm saying this shit lmao wtf

[@jonathanbreeze5415]

YEEEEEESSSSSSS VINDICATION SOMEONE ELSE FINALLY AGREES FNAF 3 ISN’T IN 2023 I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS SINCE LIKE A FEW MONTHS AFTER SB CAME OUT AND EVERYONE THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY Fantastic video overall, keep up the good work!

[@achievedworld]

10:40 whats a paper Gallatin? Well i had one in my art room in high-school its basically what it sounds like it a huge heavy thing that cuts paper in straight lines you can angle it and it'll cut that direction its used for cutting paper for projects in art mostly hand drawn it should be stated that i dont actually know the name of the machine it just what my teacher called it because it can cut through multiple stacks of paper and students wasn’t allowed to use it unless the teacher was there

[@YuriTheChaosLord]

Vanessa is Ness meaning she's also Sans

[@drlolzsilllyz]

and the best fnaf movie ACTOR

[@YuriTheChaosLord]

@@drlolzsilllyz Of course!

[@jk844100]

I think GiBi convincingly proved that Fnaf 3 happens in 2015

[@Wizardjones69]

ryan, maybe fnaf 1 takes place in 2003 instead of 1993 or 1992 phone guy :"No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath?" freddy's opened in 1983, so 1983 + 20 = 2003, pretty close to the movie i might say

[@spongebobguy2cook]

15:43 Its call the Freddy Fazbear's Virtual Experience

[@RobbyRosemary]

Guys go to 19:44, something cool is there

[@tylamcgilverson3923]

Welp I'm late again. But I'm here. So butter me Rye, let's get toasty

[@isaac5524]

….help wanted wasn’t 5 years ago…right….it can’t have been……???!

[@XirkuKagi]

Maybe it’s on the anniversary of the mci

[@zayatoon]

This entire game: PIN