what do you know about five nights at freddy's?
Not much, just that it's a horror game about animatronics and there are some creepy-looking ones. I haven't played any of them but my friends have and they seem like pretty standard fare – you know, the "haunted doll" shtick? (Which is fine with me as long as people aren't pretending to be doing something genuinely new or interesting)
The thing that really impressed me was seeing a post on tumblr which said something along these lines:
I saw this meme [of one of the animatronic characters] and thought 'wait… she has an edgy backstory?' And then I looked up her wiki page and found out she doesn't actually even do anything in canon
That blew my mind because there isn't supposed to be any lore for the animatronics! They are literally plastic shells stuffed with foam and electronics and put together by programmers who think like machines. Like, all those weird glowing eyes and faces are supposedly just programming bugs from debugging. The fact that people had come up with some kind of conceptualization of their personality and motivations based purely on fanon interpretations -- well, how fucking cool is that??
(This is what makes FNAF so fascinating / horrible compared to other games where the antagonists are living actors trying to kill you.)
Anyway, thanks for asking!







