FNAF Lore Is Its Biggest Strength Because Of Fan Theories, But Over The Years, It’s Actually Hurt The Series More
The first thing any fan of knows is that the series has extensive, sprawling, and often convoluted lore. Beginning in 2014, the first game took the internet by storm with its hints of a tragic backstory hidden behind animatronics and game files. The rise of popular YouTube channels to explore this lore added to the fascination of fan communities.
The very first game was an overnight sensation, mostly due to what seemed to be a deeply hidden story behind the killer animatronics that roamed an old restaurant. However, after the first three games seemingly wrapped up the story of the original animatronics and their murder, the lore became needlessly messy.
What made the first game so fascinating to players in 2014 was that it hadlore that players needed to uncover through careful investigation and analysis. Looking deeper into in-game assets like the jump scare screeches that turned out to be a child’s scream and brightening teaser images to reveal hidden clues were all part of the fun early lore. Fans began to look everywhere for hints at either what was to come in future games or what had happened at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria, especially regarding the Bite of 1987.
The initial lore was relatively simple. Some children were murdered in the 1980s by a serial killer and now haunt an abandoned pizza restaurant that a security guard (the player character) must keep working at to pay rent. Early theories used the limited information to speculate that either the Phone Guy or the Security Guard were the murderers, especially since it would potentially explain why the Guard was coming back night after night. This simple, but slightly vague lore brought attention to the series and created countless fan theories.
The biggest problem for as a franchise is thatit rarely, if ever, confirms what pieces of information are truly canon to the lore, what is a red herring, or what should be disregarded entirely. Any fans that want to create a clear timeline of lore for what happened to
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