The Dark History of the Phone Guy (Who was he?)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- Today we're taking a look at Five Night's at Freddy's first human character, a voice in the dark, the unnamed Phone Guy. Such a big character for the fandom, but who is he? And what was he hiding? Perhaps nothing, but perhaps... perhaps he was something more... Let's find out!
Music:
- Forbidden Nocturne (Sister Location)
- Twisted Birthday (Help Wanted)
- Last Breath
- Sloppy Clav (Godmode - RUclips Audio Library)
- Credits: Dialtown Lo-fi
0:00 A Voice in the Dark
0:59 Who was the Phone Guy?
2:08 Phone Guy in Fnaf 1
3:16 The Bite of 87
4:00 Phone Guy's Apathy
5:04 Phone Guy's Last Night
5:59 The Joy of Creative (Service)
6:58 The Tragedy of the Phone Guy
7:39 Phone Guy's Promotion (In Fnaf 2)
9:50 How Phone Guy Changed over the Years
11:20 The Mystery of Phone Guy's Job
11:48 Phone Guy's Sketchiness
12:51 Was Phone Guy the Purple Man?
14:21 A Suspicious Coincidence (The Switch)
15:21 A Quick Recap
16:07 The Deal with Phone Dude
17:42 Did Phone Guy and Dude deserve better? 
Игры
The saddest thing about Phone Guy for me is how he's overlooked and forgotten by the series as a whole. He's just another nameless victim of the animatronics and by extention Afton to get added to the pile. That's the true tragedy of Phone Guy.
Yeah he’s the most real character. Not a hollowed out zombie man, not an evil genius serial killer, not a ghost controlling a robot, just a simple man trying to make his way in the world… or Hurricane, Utah.
That brings up a brilliant question - how many people died at Freddy’s other than the murdered kids? How many deaths were buried by Fazbear Entertainment?
@@cometvaudin9496 depending on the skill of the player it varies lol
considering they have an entire policy about hiding the body and bleaching the carpets to hide the blood?
I wouldn’t be suprised if quite a few people died, but maybe not many idk
@@cometvaudin9496 A lot, a docens? Hundreds? Who knows because at this point we have to count the repairmen, guards and other employes that could have died due to animatronics or company BS.
I always liked Phone Dude’s line, “We found one. A REAL one!” It’s such a good mirror of our own feelings. The player knows exactly what that means, and it’s wholly different from the sentiment being expressed by the person telling us about it. “It’s dangerous now! You could DIE!” just creepy and cool ig
i have always wondered how they didnt realize there was a fucking corpse inside that suit they found and who was the one that lifted and ransported the damn thing, i would not touch springtrap with a stick
@@carso1500 honestly if I found a situation like that i'd assume a rats nest had been made in the animatronic, afterall the room was abandoned for decades, probably junk all over, seems ideal for rats. And nobody goes "oh boy a dead rat nest, lets get a closer look"
Did he even see the person inside the suit? Like if “we” found one then what’s phone dude pov perspective seeing the suit with blood all around it? I mean that’s not right.
Yes I love that! It's a real "Oh no" moment and it's hilariously contrasted by his excitement!
@@rodgodx345it had been several years since purple guy died, so all that blood could have been mistaken for rust or paint after so long. And since the real animatronics were known for a bad smell, I don’t think phone dude would have recognized the scent of death.
I like how Phone Guy has fully transitioned into being Scott's FNaF self-insert who is characterized as just "some underpayed manager".
True, there's something beautiful in it
“Stop the animatronics from entering your office or you’re fired!”
I always found PhoneGuy's dedication to his job really admirable. Like, considering he's also the same guy who made the instructional recordings for the Springlock suits, he's been with the company for a long time. Knew of the horrific tragedies (and he sounds in his recording deeply disturbed by it) and yet continues working with Fazbear, becoming part of the problem in sweeping everything under the rug.... until his eventual death at the end of his fnaf1 recordings... sounding like he put everything together..... Who used the suit... what happened to the missing children, and that he was next... I just found his tragedy as a character really interesting when we had those three games. So I was pretty happy when he got a slot in custom night. RIP phone guy, your dedication to your work is admirable and your awkwardness palatable. Thanks for always leaving a message for us. Even when you're literally five seconds away from dying.
As for his job my guess was he was originally some sort of district manager hence why he was at multiple locations
Phone Guy’s attachment to Foxy was a really endearing part of his character, a small detail that wasn’t needed at all but adds on to what little we know about him. Really is sad that after Phone Guy’s last appearance in FNAF 3, Phone Guy AND Foxy don’t appear more in the later games. He’s missing in Sister Location and is relegated to nothing more than a plush and a cardboard cut out in Security Breach.
he the dude that have no idea what's going on but still enjoys the animatronics and free pizzas
Here’s my theory it wasn’t the animatronics that killed him but purple guy I know that we heard jump scares but think about it we know foxy stays at the door for a few seconds for two bangs I heard more than two and if the animatronics want revenge they remember killer wore yellow bunny suit. So if that’s correct William put on the spring Bonnie suit to try to make it look like a animatronic got phone guy which he succeeds at but he forgot to count the rest of the animatronics so they saw him and they got golden Freddy and he jump scared William which we heard at the end of the phone call
@@SecondBestArtMuseum foxy is in fnaf 4 tho, he’s also in sister location just as a funtime
I’ve always liked Phone Guy, he’s really under appreciated.
I LOVE PHONE Guy! Sense the start because he has so much to him yet nothing it’s perfect
Exactly! Phone Guy is such an underrated character.
Totally
Phone guy is my fav character lol ;-;. He is funny yet serious.
You gotta love the sacrificial lamb helping other sacrificial lambs.
Phone Guy is honestly such a great example of a tutorial/exposition character.
He's optional and can be muted if the player so chooses, he suits the setting of the game to a T without feeling shoehorned in or immersion-breaking, and is a genuinely endearing and down-to-earth guide through the game's nights... only to tragically die as you hear his last moments relayed to you over a voicemail.
Sure it's heavily implied he might just be a mouthpiece for the sleazy higher-ups, but I can't help but feel like he was just sandwiched in a difficult position (I think a lot of people stuck in toxic work environments can relate). I'm glad he's become a staple of this series
EDIT: Spelling on mobile is difficult :V
Yes, fnaf does tutorials right (and Scott isn't even a voice actor)
Yet it was always annoying when people would mute his calls or not pay attention to what he was saying lol.
@@KDB349fr like this is the one guy who’s actively trying to help you with no greater agenda of his own and he deserves some respect ☎️
@@HannahBaninayeah and also in night 7 aka custom night, phone guy literally takes over the shift for you. Sure it was for one day but if you set it to 11/20 mode he did more than you did on all the other six nights. If you set it to like 0 or something then phone guy pretty much just stood still but the canon would probably be 11/20 mode. Meaning phone guy took over for you on the hardest night. Proof for him taking over is night 6 and him saying he’ll take over the night shift for the player, on night 7 there’s no call indicating he took over the night shift for Sunday aka day 7 and 11/20 mode
Y'know, phone guy being the manager actually makes a lot of sense, not only with the way he refers to the company, but also the fact that he says he'd be filling in for you, which is something managers do all the time in my experience, if someone calls in or unexpectedly quits or just simply is a no-show they usually are forced to take over their position, granted it was a position that has to be filled or can't get another employee to fill said spot
Actual security guard here. I wonder if Fazbear Entertainment outsourced their security to a private security company or if all their security is in-house. My guess is in-house but that’s kinda dumb if their motive is to reduce liability. Most major companies outsource security to minimize liability.
@@pinkanimositygaming it's definitely in-house and hiring any random idiot
@@pinkanimositygaming Your paychecks are signed by Fazbear Entertainment in the first 2 games. Am I correct in assuming that the security company would be the one paying their guards instead of Freddy Fazbear paying them directly?
@pinkanimositygaming9830 They probably could've gotten their guards outsourced, if they weren't aware that the animatronics were possessed by dead children. Lore wise, Fazbear Entertainment is aware that something is wrong with the animatronics, and they are actively trying to cover them up, and having in-house security guards would be more effective in keeping the secret, since it's Fazbear Entertainment themselves that make the rules rather than a different company together, which might question Fazbear's unorthodox decisions.
The phone guy in my mind is just Scott explaining to us how his game works, while subtly dropping lore and playing a character. I respect it.
That’s pretty much exactly what it is lol
Once i learned scott voiced phone guy I started imagining scott as phone guy lol
@@kaiserreichempireofohio834 true lol
I think that phone guy is the developer that Fazbear Entertainment hired to make some games. Scott already used his image for this developer, why not his voice too? So yeah, with the little self insert, phone guy is literally Scott.
@@skarlet9104well the developer that made games made games after phone guy died
What an iconic character, absolutely perfect introduction to the original FNAF and it was nice to have our one other “human” in the setting feel so disconnected from us.
HelpUnit and Henry are both great cohorts, but Phone Guy was a real one. He was just as vulnerable as we were, and just had his own ways of managing his fears. Don’t we all?
I think the biggest thing missing from Phone Guy is a message in UCN, a rare one like the Mediocre Melodies secret lines. Perhaps a somber one about him in the afterlife or a more comedic one about his personal life.
Big missed opportunity
going off of a comment somewhere else in this comment section, I could imagine it being something like "I had you all figured out, but then you sent me to die at the hands of those machines. You'll know how I felt on the 4th Night, William." or maybe something completely different if it feels too edgy
but personally I think it would be cool to have basically Scott's self insert outright confirm WillHell, somewhat breaking the 4th wall (no pun intended) aswell with the "I had you all figured out" line too
@@bloxxybox2576something more rambly like;
"Hello hello? Uhh I'm surprised you lasted this long. But I um guess you can't last forever.
I hope you got caught by Foxy, he's my favorite, with his um hook and stuff. You know I don't blame them for anything that happened, you took these kids icons and didn't respect them.
Anyways you're dead soo... yeah. *click*"
Phone Guy is such a nice little oddity of a character in the grand scheme of what FNaF has become.
Most voiced characters now are much more directly significant to the story (like Tape Girl being integral to Glitchtrap's possession of Vanny) but Phone Guy has just entirely remained as some employee that just made a bad career choice.
To speculate on why he faded out of relevance, I'd wager it's mostly out of Scott himself being as shy as he is. SL was our first mainline introduction to proper voice actors and ever since then our tutorial character has remained HandUnit. I think Scott probably just wanted to shift focus toward a more experienced VA while he tucked himself behind the camera entirely, though maybe the movie might finally change this if he decides to finally reprise his role.
All in all Phone Guy is just a really interesting character for reasons very unique from every other FNaF character, and I enjoyed this video a lot! It's nice seeing him get a little time to shine.
I assume the movie will have some form of Phone Guy, whether it's Scott or someone new. He is a pretty big part of the game, I wonder if he would have new lines or not though.
I agree astanomically(I can't spell) because I really hope he is in the movies
Also I love your vids
I also believe that scott has struggled to do the voice as time has went on, considering how it sounded during the interview he did with dawko.
In my highly inaccurate head canon that I created as a response to current direction that the FNaF story and lore was headed and unnecessarily convoluted and dumb it was becoming, I decided to name Phone Guy "Peter Scott Kennedy" and he goes by the fake name of "Peter David Write" in order to avoid the press.
I honestly think that Phone Guy was originally intended to just be a random employee, before there was any deep lore developed for the game. Its creator probably toyed with the idea, afterward, of making Phone Guy the serial killer responsible for the series' events, and gave him a higher position and a few bits of foreshadowing as a result. Likely concerned about the possibility of creating plot holes, though, he opted to return the character to his initial role as an employee-turned-victim.
For Scott not being a professional voice actor, he really nails phone guy’s performance. The way he shows so much character and personality in simple voicemails is awesome. I feel like no other fangame or indie horror game has really captured the vibe Scott gave phone guy when it comes to the “diegetic lore/tutorial” trope that is in a lot of those games and its one of the reason I love fnaf so much.
Like I love this managerial schmuck so much he’s the only manager I like
A common theory I've heard recently is that Phone Guy was basically forced to become an unwitting accomplice of William in the early 90s after William learned of remnant. Presumably blackmailing Phone Guy with pinning a murder on him given all the stuff Phone Guy knows and the fact that William probably got Henry arrested for the first killing. Phone Guy was always loyal to the company and seemingly knew a bit more than most about everything, not a mastermind, but a complacent order follower. That would make it easy to frame him, and with Henry presumably in prison by the late 80s(He's the most likely candidate for the guy who served time given he vanishes from the story after the MCI until FNAF 6, probably serving time) William would need someone to help him.
Note that FNAF 1 is the only time when Security Guards dying on the regular was a common occurence. The OG location probably either didn't have a nightguard or the animatronics were still too fresh to attack(although it's hard to say for sure) and the FNAF 2 phonecalls imply the Dayshift Guard is the first person to ever really be attacked by animatronics, with them still trying to figure out the 'why' behind it when Jeremy starts his shift. Meanwhile FNAF 1 has a protocol for dead guard cleanup and a 90 day missing person policy, so they deal with that on the regular.
William was nasically forcing Phone Guy to assist in the giant honeypot trap that was the FNAF 1 location(bait to lure in and kill security guards for remnant experiments). Phone Guy clearly had concerns and tried to covertly help the guards, until eventually Phone Guy became a liability and William sent him to die.Probably not too long after this William got fed up with failed experiments and went back to study the originals, cue FNAF 3 minigames.
(Also FNAF 2's tapes make it really blatantly obvious the Dayshift guard is the killer and Phone Guy is a different person from him, so no clue how Matpat missed that back when)
literally no evidence in game points to any of this.
@@frog4307 bro is schizo
@@frog4307 Uh.
1. The ONLY locations where Night Guards are being attacked by animatronics in the evening are FNAF 1 and 2, and in the second game it’s treated as a weird unknown phenomenon while in FNAF 1 it’s a regular occurrence to the point they have a cover story and procedure for it.
2. The FNAF 1 location was a decrepit wreck being kept open by William for reasons speculated on, but it is known he knew about Remnant by this point.
Those two facts combined suggest that William was knowingly using the place as a trap to gather security guards for remnant experiments.
And then consider…
3. Phone Guy has always known a bit more than the public about everything. Always. But most blatantly and criminally in FNAF 1. He’s clearly trying to subtlety warn the guards, but is being forced by ‘corporate’ and ‘legal issues’ to handwave it. The company is a wreck at this point and Henry is either gone or in jail, so who else COULD be bossing him around aside from William? Phone Guy working for William is a logical conclusion. Phone Guy not really wanting to do it and trying to warn the guards is basically directly shown. The FNAF 1 location being a giant trap is logical based on its decrepit state, the procedure for dealing with dead guards, and what we know William was up to at the time.
The only part that’s really speculative is that blackmail was involved, and that’s just because it felt the most logical to me. William framed SOMEONE(probably Henry) for the MCI, and Phone Guy knows a lot of stuff the public doesn’t. Blackmail makes sense.
@@kalkuttadrop6371 you say it's not speculative, but the only real evidence you have is "Phone Guy has always known a bit more about everything," and the rest is you manufacturing his (personal) link to an antagonist who barely existed in the first game.
I always liked his devastated call about how "none of them are acting right".
I just love how everyone just agreed that phone guy and phone dude have telephones for heads
my theory is that he’s just a silly little guy
myth: BUSTED
Phone Guy also has some of the most realistic diction in a videogame ever. He stumbles, stutters, repeats himself, talks perfectly when reading the company greeting... he's sympathetic and tragic. I wish we had more stories about him. He was always one of my top 3 characters in the series. Still sits at a comfortable number 6. Love him!
5:05 That advice actually does work on the PC version if you run out of power. If you stay perfectly still and not move the mouse from the moment power fails, Freddy will take like 10 to 20 more seconds to kill you on top of the rsndom delays.
14:32 I'm not convinced thst it was ever the case past FNaF3, but it would have been a certified "YEAH, I'M BIG BOSS" moment
The playing dead thing actually isn’t true. Look at the code deconstruction of FNAF 1 video.
Steven Stevenson is a Phone Guy and manager of the Freddy Fazbender's Colorado joint, appearing as a major character in Dayshift at Freddy's, the first game in the Dayshift at Freddy's trilogy.
Out of all Phone Guys, he is the only one that opposes Jack regardless of the route. He serves as the secondary antagonist of most endings, specifically the ones where Dave Miller serves as the primary antagonist, aside from the Crafty Ending, where he is the semi-antagonistic deuteragonist. However, if Jack chooses to side with Dave, he becomes the main antagonist instead.
When I play, I always side with Puppet, and Phone Guy tries to frame me for Dave's crimes when I actually freed all 5 souls and gave them their Happiest Day
@@MontoyaGamer1_Entertainment he had to keep business going, no matter what. it happens in all endings
@@bamama1365 all he wants to do is save Freddy's from being shut down
Man his parents must suck to name him Steven
To be honest, I think that the phone guy in dsaf 2 is probable my favorite.
Phone Guy's distressed voice call on Night 6 gives me chills. Going through two sets of child murders happening at the place you work at with the management telling you to keep quiet must have been hard.
I've never believed Phone Guy was supposed to be Purple Guy for the simple reason that FNAF 2 made it clear that the day shift security guard was the culprit.
I never thought Phone and Purple were the same, mostly because I couldn’t really believe the object that disabled Freddy in “Save Them” is a phone
Surprised to see Shady here.
"Hello? Hello hello? Uh, Well if you're hearing this then, Chances are you made a very poor career choice"
Kinda sucks how he was 'THIS' close to being able to finally rest easy. RIP phone guy, we won't ever forget you.
(Unless contractually obligated to disregard all past employees, be it missing or deceased, as is stated in Paragraph 6e, the Fazbear Entertainment employee handbook.)
"He was 'THIS' close to finishing his sudoku puzzle."
Well, he was right about it being his last week, just not in the way he may have expected
@@b4_Alternative haha, was that a pvz reference?
@@b4_Alternative it feels weird i recognise that plants vz zombies reference
Dude was a day from retirement and Freddy said "Hippity hoppity your life is now my property!"
5:50
The image of Peter just sternly pointing at Freddy lol
"I have an idea for if they get into the office... Assert your dominance." - The Phone
At the start of his career in Fnaf 3, Phony is straight-faced and fully factual, making sure all of the information is shared clearly, and ensuring that Freddy’s maintains its safety concerns.
But by the times of Fnaf 2 and 1, he just sounds kinda burnt out and uncaring of it all, but the pressure put upon him by Fazbear Ent. shows in his voice as he tries to dodge the touchy subjects behind the animatronics.
I’ve always found that fascinating. Good video, bro!
..fnaf 3 happens after 1 and 2...
@CichyHub They mean that the tapes from phone guy in fnaf 3 happen before fnaf 2
Why are you talking about the phone guy as if they’re all the same person. The phone guy in FNAF 1 is a different person from 2 and 3
@@melinatedthinka8210 no they are not. fnaf 3 training tape, fnaf 2 and fnaf 1. the first night in fnaf 3 was phone dude in about 2024. also how did he survive fnaf 2 and not 1??? its easy lol
@@theonewhoknockd What’s the chronological order cuz I have no clue
I love that one of the arguments for Phone Guy being William is "have you seen both of them in the same room?"
Yes
The UCN menu
I've seen 3 William in ucn at the same time tbh
@@lungsdude Yes, that’s the Glitch Trap Virus multiplying
And phone guy is also part of this multiplying
I can’t help but wonder if Steel Wool might to bring Phone Dude back some day. He’s seemingly the only human character from the Scott era of fnaf who is presumably still alive, maybe they’d want to more with him.
....what makes you think he's alive? Did he sound alive to you?
@@ihaveaname699 phone dude, not phone guy.
@@shellyvision9693 ohhhhh, surfer guy. okay
The bite of 78 victim is also alive
@@creativenamesmth Probably in a coma, or dead of old age as of, like, what, 2030? Whenever Security Breach is set. I dunno. FNAF 3 says it's 30 years ahead, so it's been like 50 years.
Phone guy has always been a mysterious character. But I like him a lot. Always have, likely always will. And I think Scott's performance of the Phone Guy is very underrated. The way he voices Phone Guy sounds like a real, genuine man who is leaving messages for pretty much everyone who works at Freddy's. He sounds like a real man with real concerns and the way he stutters and corrects himself and rambles, he sounds like a real guy. Now, Andy Field does a great job as hand unit or tutorial unit or whatever. But Phone Guy just sounds so much more real and I suppose that makes sense since Andy Field's voice is clearly meant to be some kind of glorified siri. But Scott just does such an amazing job at making a likeable character, despite so little being known about him without even giving him a proper name or face.
... so I'm not the only one who REALLY wants to see Scott Cawthon himself make a voice cameo as Phone Guy in the FNAF movie, right?
Despite the fact that sometimes he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, like the general confusing info he gives on foxy in fnaf 1, the fact that he isn’t familiar with fredbear’s even though he made the springlock tapes and the fact that he says the bots are 20 years old by 93 even though the first location was in 83, he’s still one of my favorite characters.
Missed opportunity for Scott to include him in the novels, or any of the Frights really. He would’ve been the perfect human familiar face to help or just interact with the protagonists…
Great vid btw!
He’s probably the actual Foxy bro.
The first Fazbear location did open in ‘73, while the animatronics in fnaf 1 are of course significantly more recent than that, being made presumably after the bite of 83. So the company was 20 years old, but the current line of animatronics weren’t.
Phone guy as a character cemented himself in our memory in just the first damn game; many games since, you get a similar character, like Surfer Bro in 3, Pad Thing in Sister Location, and Helpy in Security Breach Ruin. Every tutorial character, we've all thought "oh hey it's the phone guy".
He's just that well done of a character; simple and sweet, he's helping you how he can, trying to calm you down without revealing too much, etc. He feels realistic and such
I started overthinking Phone guy’s death in night 4 and figured out who killed him.
The knocking on the door means that the left door is closed (no Bonnie or Foxy) Freddy’s music box playing means he’s in the kitchen (note the knocking) so the only one who could’ve done it is Chica (I’m most certainly overthinking this)
But it's Golden Freddy's scream and if Chica was there then her door would've been closed too
@@twinzzlers yeah, but Chica’s groaning sounds only play when the monitor is pulled up and she’s in the office, to see Golden Freddy, you would have to flip down the monitor, resulting in Chica jumpscaring you
@@random_user1xx62 Dude thats a gameplay thing and it's still Golden Freddy's jumpscare
I think Chica was about to do it, but Golden Freddy stole her kill (hence his Jumpscare sound playing instead of chica’s)
@@SSKJ64 Maybe, though there's the question of why he didn't close the right door if Chica was there
Mike got fired for tampering with suits. Has anyone else thought he was trying to find phone guys body?
Interesting theory
Nice
Phone Guy is a relic back to a time where this series hadn't driven Mat Pat insane
Phone guy is probably one of my favorite fnaf "characters" he always felt kind of like a friend or someone that wants to help you, but it was so uneasy how he kind of downplayed everything horrible related to the animatronics, it made everything a lil scarier, specially in fnaf too
The last calls when he says things like "what are you doing here?, you didn't get the memo? We are closed, someone stole one of the yellow bear suits (or sum like that) that part always gave me chills, he sounds so worried, and almost makes you feel like you're in even more danger, like william, or at the time (the killer) would also be there in the night
I never thought I'd see someone actually look into Phone Guy beyond thinking he was purple guy in 2017! Cool topic 👍
An often overlooked fact about the phone guy and about Fnaf 2 in general is that the calls that phone guy gives Jeremy aren’t calls to Jeremy at all. They’re pre recorded phone calls from phone guy to the night guard who worked there before Jeremy. The investigation that he mentions and and all of the events that he mentions on the calls happened many months before the events of the games and there’s a lot of evidence for this. First of all the phone guy mentions the in the first call that it’s a new summer job but the events of Fnaf 2 take place in November. Also, the last event that the phone guy mentions is that there’s a birthday party scheduled before they close and yet at the very beginning of the game you can already see birthday decorations up. One of the most obvious ones is the fact that the phone guy mentions that the place is closing down and will be reopening soon and the newspaper in the beginning of the game literally says grand reopening. It’s also heavily implied that the murders that happened during the events of the phone calls are what haunt the toy animatronics and yet the toy animatronics attack you on night one which is much before you get the phone call telling you about the murder. To put it simply, the phone calls in Fnaf 2 aren’t meant for the player at all. They’re meant for the previous night guard who worked there during the murder incident. This also could mean that Phone guy in actually Jeremy Fitzgerald too as the phone guy mentions that he will probably work the night shift once the place reopens and the guard who works the night shift once the place reopens is literally Jeremy.
Edit: The theory that the Fnaf 2 murders happened months before is just a theory and might be straight up wrong but idk. It could just be the case that Scott made it confusing, either intentionally or not, and the story of the games is much more straightforward but it’s always fun to try to dig deep.
okay now that’s TOO much evidence to say otherwise
Now this is gold
Guys we did it, we found Phone Guy's identity
Tsk, sorry but this is all too wrong, the phone guy in FNaF 2 is directly talking to you, and secondly it wasn’t an actual “summer” job with it taking place in the summer, minimum wage jobs are often referred to as “summer jobs”
Thirdly, it’s called a “grand reopening” because it’s the second Freddy Fazbear’s opening, and it was referred to as the “new and improved” along with the old location being mentioned which is the location that the Missing Children’s Incident happened.
Another thing to add, the toy animatronics walk around because of them having facial recognition, and they were made to find where the people are, the murders happened during the day shifts and it possibly happened during day 2 or 3 since rumors started going around, since William was the day shift guard, and due to the murders happening, the toy animatronics would be possessed and they would get aggressive.
The calls could not have happened many months before jeremy's tenure as a nightguard, as the newspaper clipping seen at the end, detailing the closing of the new location states that it was only open for a few short weeks. Secondly, in the night 6 phone call (at least), phone guy seems to be addressing the player directly and tells him that you (jeremy) are being moved to the dayshift, hence explaining why, in night 7, your paycheck is made out to a different person by the name of 'fritz smith'. This also implies that the murders at the fnaf 2 location, also happen during the day shift prior to the 6th night, which may imply that the toy animatronics were never actually posessed, as they were active before the murders were even committed
Here’s a theory that doesn’t add anything to the overall lore of the games but is a somewhat disturbing and interesting thing to think about. Specifically, Phone Guy could not have been the first (or only before Mike) security guard to work at the FNAF 1 location. First, let’s clarify the time period the FNAF 1 location is open for. The unused FNAF AR Faz-Facts state that there was a location that was in operation from 1988-1993. Since this location was in operation after FNAF 2, it’s safe to assume that the FNAF 1 location opened in 1988 and closed in 1993. Ironically, this would make the FNAF 1 location the longest living (and therefore most successful) Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza in Fazbear Entertainment’s history. This is contrary to the popular belief that FNAF 1’s location generated the least profit of the bunch.
I have a feeling that it wasn’t until the 1992-1993 period, towards the end of its tenure and when Mike worked his shifts, that Fazbear’s fell into such disrepair. After all, such an abhorrent, dingy restaurant like the one we see in FNAF 1 could NOT have survived for 5 years. That means that it could have enjoyed some small but steady success until something happened that finally killed the last shred of trust people had for Fazbear Entertainment and thus draining their funds. Proving that Phone Guy wasn’t the first guard there happens to be the first step into figuring out what shut the place down for good.
We know that on the 6th night of FNAF 2 he tells Jeremy that he intends to take the night shift himself once the place opens up again. However, this can’t happen. The key here is to look at how the company acts during both games. Specifically, we’re looking to see how Fazbear Entertainment attempts to protect itself legally in both games. In FNAF 2, Fazbear Entertainment does little to protect itself besides simply claiming they champion safety and deny wrongdoing, but in FNAF 1, the company has to deny responsibility for injury or dismemberment of the newspaper, the company requires Phone Guy to tell new recruits that any deaths will be covered up before the victim is reported as missing (within 3 months!). Essentially, they go the whole nine yards to prevent anything bad like a lawsuit or investigation from happening to them.
These new policies couldn’t have been implemented due to anything that happened at FNAF 2’s location. First, this can’t correlate to the children murdered at the FNAF 2 location because they weren’t really missing at all. The minigames show them out in the open, where there were most certainly witnesses, so filing a missing person’s report or cleaning the scene before anyone realizes doesn’t make sense. It couldn’t have been the Bite of 87 for the same reasons (a public event with everyone watching). It couldn’t have been FNAF 2’s guards because we know for a fact they all survive (and that 3 of them worked there). The first ever guard to work at the new location, according to Phone Guy, survived his week and was moved to dayshift. Then, Jeremy survives 6 nights and is moved to dayshift. Fritz is then the third and last guard before the restaurant’s closure and he finishes only 1 night before being fired.
Since nothing in FNAF 2 could warrant the implementation of these policies, something happened at the FNAF 1 location to force Fazbear Entertainment to implement these policies. Since anything during the day is automatically off the table, this policy was specifically made with regard to night guards, as there would be nobody present to witness their deaths, and the company would have plenty of time to clean the scene and report the guard as missing. Essentially, Fazbear Entertainment has had to deal with enough corpses in the FNAF 1 location that they implemented a new policy perfecting how they should get rid of the evidence. Which brings us back to where we started. Phone Guy couldn’t have been the first because he’s telling us about the new policy in the introductory greeting, so that means other guards had to have worked there before him, and they had to get murdered by the animatronics (enough of them to force the company to create that procedure).
To add more evidence, the phone calls of FNAF 1 are much more centered around how the new guard can actually get through the week. For example, Phone Guy, during the first night in FNAF 1, says, “let's just focus on getting you through your first week.” Contrast this to a similar line in FNAF 2, “I'm here to talk you through some of the things you can expect to see during your first week here.” Phone Guy during FNAF 2 is much more focused on orienting the guard to the new environment, while FNAF 1’s Phone Guy just wants to see the guard literally get through one week on the job. Considering Phone Guy’s Night 3 slip-up, where he says most people don’t make it to their 3rd night, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the company may have been pressuring him to essentially extend the average lifespan of their security guards, which gives us that subtle night 1 line. In fact, that 3rd night slip-up already implies there were others before him. FNAF 1’s phone calls also consist solely of tips and tricks for surviving the night, while FNAF 2’s phone calls were more of a vessel for news about what was happening at the location and company.
Another unused FNAF AR Faz-Fact tells us that “In 1993, the most dangerous profession in the United States was actually night security guard.” That’s a nice way of saying that by 1993, enough security guards died at the FNAF 1 location to single-handedly make night watch security guards the most dangerous job in the US. Such a sizable body count for Fazbear Entertainment turns into a suspiciously long list of guards who mysteriously disappeared while working at the restaurant to the public. I don’t know about you, but I’d be a little bit suspicious about the location whose final rule of safety is to literally leave before dark, and coincidently, everyone who has stayed after hours happens to disappear. I assume this is the event that led to the drop in revenue that eventually led to the place looking like trash and its closure. It also most certainly began the rumors which eventually led to the night guard becoming part of the attraction at Fazbear’s Fright, and why Fazbear Entertainment had a bunch of Freddy Fazbear night guard simulator video games made to discredit the rumors.
Bonus Speculation 1: It’s possible that Phone Guy’s role in the company during the FNAF 1 location’s tenure was that of a temporary security guard. Whenever a new body was found backstage, they had Phone Guy fill in until a new permanent guard was found, which also probably served as further incentive to make the new guard last longer. Of course, Phone Guy was eventually killed during one of those fill-ins. However, that would leave Fazbear Entertainment with no temporary guard, so it’s possible that the pizzeria had NO night guard at all for a few nights until a new one was found. The night following his death, it’s possible that an animatronic causally waltzed into the office and recorded the night 5 phone call. It could also have been creepy paranormal stuff and there was never actually a night 5 phone call.
Bonus Speculation 2: Why did the newspaper at the beginning of FNAF 1 mention dismemberment? It’s possible that to suit up an endoskeleton, it needs to be dismantled (“dismantled” as in the endoskeletons can be taken apart and put back together easily) and each individual piece must be suited up before reassembling the entire animatronic, so when the animatronics attempt to stuff a human into a suit, it’s possible that they dismember the victim to place each individual body part into the empty suit before reassembling everything.
You get a like for your dedication mate.
I ain't reading allat💀
The fact that Fazbear Entertainment goes through great lengths to avoid lawsuits and shutdown to the point where they're killing anyone who ever applies for the job makes them just as bad as William.
I hope Phone guy will be back in the movie in some form. It's honestly a little bit upsetting that we still don't know for sure what happens to him after night 4, that was one of the most popular mysteries when the game came out and even though Phone guy isn't a super important character to the lore I think it would have been interesting to learn more about him maybe in a short story or something.
“They're telling me I oughtta stop making these pre-recorded messages. That gave me an idea: make more pre-recorded messages.“
-Cave Johnson
I’m gonna be honest I remember when he was a key part of trying to figure everything out in this series. To this day, I still wish we got a game where he was the protagonist maybe in the first location before the original core animatronics become withered. In a couple months ago, I was actually thinking to myself damn, nobody talks about the phone guy anymore and then I’ve had a brain fart and ended up remembering he’s not been in the game since three.
I love that you used Oliver for Phone Dude, those guys would get along like two peas in a pod. They'd have a monster hunters club for sure.
Unrelated but something else I wanna add is that the day guard that left his position in fnaf 2 is probably Willy. In the minigames he’s shown to have a badge so he must’ve worked there, or somehow gotten his hands on one. What I think happened is that he showed up for a position once the restaurant opened, killed some kiddies, starting the rumors that PG talks about and then just booked it when he noticed that the older bots were starting to move around. The bodies were most likely hid by Fazbear Entertainment themselves to keep the business afloat after the last time 5 kids died got the previous location to close.
There’s something much creepier about the Spring Bonnie (Springtrap) costume. Fnaf3 heavily implied that the suit was moving on its own before it was locked away.
Fnaf4’s “fun with plushtrap” seems to be depicting the fnaf 2 office and hallway. It makes me think that William witnessed the kids getting snatched away by the Spring Bonnie suit when he flashed his torch at it. And, he had to freeze Spring Bonnie at the right spot to shut him down.
Like somehow, William and his son merged their dreams in fnaf4 of their most tramatic experiences.
"One of the biggest human characters in the series" oh how the mighty have fallen
I remember when I thought he was purple guy, I still kinda think that would’ve been more interesting.
Really Employee, a Battle Scene?
I was happy when the Freddy's uniforms in "Pizzeria Simulator" were revealed to be purple. Looking back, I think the purple color was always meant to show that the animatronics knew an employee had killed the children, but their security programming didn't distinguish between them. That's why the bite victim is implied to be Jeremy. He was on the job, probably wearing a purple uniform, and he got too close to an animatronic that had in its programming that purple = killer. If the Phone Guy also had a purple uniform, that would explain his death too. You wear purple, you're a target.
That's also why there are different "purple guy" sprites. They're different employees. Consider that only one of the "purple guys" is ever actually shown killing a child, and it's the one who pulls up in the car outside. That slasher smile on all three employees was everyone just "putting on a happy face" to cover up a gruesome secret and keep business going, just like we hear Phone Guy do each night.
Later on Scott would use our own association with purple = killer to misdirect blame onto Michael. He was purple to everyone, and not because of his uniform but because he was basically a zombie. And if "Midnight Motorist" is about William after all, he's shown in orange because he isn't in uniform and/or this isn't from the POV of an animatronic. The story if FNaF definitely got too complicated for me to enjoy over the years, but I think we can put the mystery of purple to rest.
I'm actually not surprised this was made canon. The employees wearing purple was a pretty big canon in the fandom for many years! So, it was kind of a nod to them, you know?
*_"[Gets a familiar phone call]... Oh no not this again."_*
I feel like phone dude saw that "the real one" had moved, so he just booked it out of there and left the tapes playing lmao
I like Phone Guy, he's a good character, the way his voice pitch sounds and the phone sound in the first game, it makes him sound like he's from the 80's/90's. Also the bite of 87 didn't happen in FNAF 4 because it takes place in 1983, there's no confirmed animatronic who caused the bite of 87 but theories suggest it's Mangle, because of Mangle's attack animation and a few more things.
Currently the Bite of 83 and 87 are different, but Fnaf 4's source code initially teased it as the Bite of 87. Mangle being the biter is a common fan belief. Likely because of Mangle's popularity.
i believe the bite of 87 was caused by withered freddy, since one of the fnaf 1 posters says "don't touch freddy"
He's actually my most favourite part of the franchise since the beginning. The only character who's identity wasn't revealed. The only character that even MatPat wasn't able to identify.
But perhaps that was intentional. The identity of Phone Guy wasn't supposed to be known. He represents just another nameless, faceless employee. The one who has a significant role behind the scenes, but probably only seen as a low level employee by the company.
That's why I like him. He somehow managed to survive at least 2 Restaurants (Fnaf 2 and Fnaf 3 Training Tapes) before dying in his 3rd (Fnaf 1 location).
His laidback exterior and street smarts let him cheat death at least 2 times. That's a commendable feat. Technically, he almost made it to 5th day.
Phone Guy died doing what he believed in. Sticking up for the little guy, and tryna help him out anyway he could. Leaving behind messages containing hints and clues to survive. Even going as far as to switching shifts with the Guard in Fnaf 2 with his Day Shift. Perhaps he felt that him being more experienced with these, would make it easier for him to survive compared to us. He put his life on the line to spare ours. Not to mention, he did so after witnessing the Bite of '87.
Now that's a Real Standup guy.
I remember when people theorized that William Afton is Phone Guy. As fun and interesting it seemed back then, it wouldn't have worked in the long run. It would have taken out the last sliver of mystique the franchise has left.
People speculate Phone Guy to have been a higher up Fazbear Ent. Executive in his past. He either got demoted for some reason, or was just unfortunately the sacrificial lamb.
Nevertheless, i still love that there's mystique behind the character. Perhaps he'll play a Big role in the Fnaf Film.
Maybe they'll retcon him in the film, and make him William Afton/Henry Emily?
Do you think you were correct?
I wish one of the short stories from tales from the pizzaplex or fazbear frights had a segment on the phone guy. Hell maybe it could be his “bad night”. Dying with his only comfort being a phone to record a voicemail for whatever poor soul is there to replace him.
Miss Opportunity to be honest
Phone Guy was definitely replaced by Hand Unit as time went on.
I like to think that Phone Dude became that one rogue indie developer who made the games for Fazbear Entertainment. I have nothing to base this on, but his fate was kind of left up in the air.
I mean, better than two ideas I have
It's kinda disappointing phone guy didn't appear in the movie. The closest thing we got was William Afton talking on the phone to Mike on his first night.
Wait, did the "phone guy is the killer" theory come full circle?
Hello? Hello Hello?
An aside right off the bat, EXCELLENT choice for an image for Phone Guy. If anyone here still hasn't played the DSaF trilogy, give it a shot. It's simultaneously one of the funniest most off the walls shitposts I've ever seen, and one of the most oddly sincere and in depth looks at the characters in the franchise I've ever seen. I played them with my girlfriend over a couple nights, and by the end of it we were both emotionally devastated in the best way, sore from laughing and tired from weeping.
[Edit: Wait, Oliver too! Dialtown is from the same developer, its their first original work, and it scratches all the same itches as Dayshift does. Just as off the walls bonkers, just as genuinely heart-tuggingly emotional, and just a quick to flip between the two modes. Plus it even has some fun little references to characters from DSaF in it if you know where to look!]
To me, what would make sense is if whoever was in charge before William Afton had some real shady dealings going on and was aware of the fact that Phone Guy was spilling info. The person who owned Feddy’s before hand must have eventually confronted Phone Guy about his assistance in helping the main player and threatened him. It could also be possible that the animatronics got involved.
Whenever I play fnaf, I never mute phone guy. Cause like, hearing a human and somewhat friendly voice in a place where robotic animals possessed by vengeful spirits of dead children wants to kill me help me cope with the anxiety a little bit. I also listen to phone guy calls outside the game because... I don't know, it's relaxing
I don't think Phone Guy was ever intended to be purple guy. Sure, he dies in FNAF 1, which is when purple guy died, but phone guy dies on shift by the animatronics. Purple guy managed to disassemble the animatronics, which could only happen after FNAF 1.
Thank youu. I keep seeing all the comments like "oh yeah it was just a retcon" but it literally makes 0 sense how Purple Guy could've been the phone guy, dying in a suit, and THEN dismantle the animatronics and die from springlock failure. Two different deaths that couldn't possibly line up. If anything I think it was Scott teasing people into that theory with the small hints. Not sure why the creator seems so sure of it..
Which to me is all the more annoying when they say it was a credible theory even while Fnaf 3 was out.
@@-mothman- Yeah the only connection was that purple guy was presumably a security guard as well, but phone guy being the purple guy had as much evidence as any of the other security guards did.
@@ohno5507 Yeahh.. it's also very telling the creator is ignoring any comments that say this while hearting comments that say as much pointless stuff as "scott cawthon" (and that's the entire comment.)
Haven't finished watching but dang, I'm so intrigued with what's being discussed. You always have a way of enthralling me with how you talk about the topics in your videos!
With phone guy here, it really is tragic what happened to him. Honestly made my stomach drop when I figured out what he MEANT, in his last call before the inevitable happened.
Thank you, thank you!
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 Ofc!! 💕
Honestly this is a great little retrospective, Phone Guy was so integral to the early days of the series and nowadays he's kind of a just a relic of the past. I've been around since 2015ish so it's great to revisit it.
Fun Fact (I believe), the Autobiography of a Yogi excerpt is actually a stock sound effect, but I can't help but wonder if the fan interpretations of the audio eventually lead to Remnant.
Unrelated, as a huge DSaF fan too I was very amused by the Peter/Steven sprites, but nothing could have prepared me for Oliver Fucking Swift as Phone Dude. 10/10
While I don't think William Afton's introduction is unrelated to phone guy's quiet retirement as a character, I would argue that it has more to do with the introduction of HandUnit. Outside UCN, every game since Sister Location has had Andy Field taking over the tutorial position, so I think it was more to do with him that Phone Guy was given a pink slip, as he wasn't really needed anymore.
That said, I certainly think that phone guy's absence in recent games was at least partially because of William, as there's no reason PG *couldn't* have continued to make cameos post FNaF4. I think that Scott may have wanted to keep William and PG out of the same games where he could, to avoid Miketrap/Willtrap-esque confusion and arguments as to who was the true purple guy.
(Also this video made me realise that DSaF Phone Guy has been my headcanon appearance for actual phone guy for years. I hadn't realised how absurd that is till now, but I don't see it changing 😅)
So I have this weird theory/headcanon about FNaF 2 that ties into it being part of Michael's story while still having Jeremy Fitzgerald as a nightguard character. Similar to (and inspired by, which is why I'm putting it here) how Phone Guy supposedly had the job before the player in FNaF 1, Jeremy was the nightguard before Mike (he wasn't targeted by the animatronics as much, but they still did drop by the office some: that becomes a bit important later). We're seeing FNaF 2 through Mike's PoV, but Jeremy still was a nightguard at some point (hence us seeing his paycheck to establish him as a character). But Jeremy apparently did something to piss off Mangle during that week he had the job. Then he got moved to the dayshift. And oh boy, Mangle didn't like that (facial recognition didn't help it either).
I think its toy Chica considering the fact that mangle can't walk and phone guy says that the animatronics got the ability to walk taken away combined with toy chicas line in UCN "wears my beak? Lodged in your forehead of course"
@@Somedude3549 ...Random thing but that singular line made me draw Toy Chica with a rocket launcher in an art piece now lost to time
notreal i genuinely LOVE all of the dsaf references in your videos, subtle or not! still makes me feel like someone still cares about it (and to an extent, doggo's work; i've heard dialtown osts in the background/outro too)
just makes me really happy as a longtime dsaf fan is all. i love all versions of phone-guy (dsaf or fnaf) so this video is going to be a treat!!!
Thank you! And I still do. It was a great trilogy, and Dialtown, even though it hasn't gotten as popular, was an excellent game. ^_^
I think is really funny how, after finding Phone Guy's recordings, Phone Dude simply doesn't directly talk to you anymore, he literally just calls you to make sure you listen to the neat vintage recordings he found 😅
There should be some sort of Phone Guy in Security Breach, like a recorded message with instructions meant for Vanessa that ends up helping Gregory by coincidence. It would be a nice reference to the beggining of the franchise, especially now that this characters is getting more and more sidelined and forgotten by the fandom
Oh, that would be AWESOME! 👍
Phone guy is my favorite character by far, and it's sad seeing him be forgotten by the community
I wonder if Phone Guy is like, Henry’s son or something. He doesn’t seem to be just an ordinary guy. When most of the official company stuff is voiced by HandUnit, the spring lock suits instructions are done by Phone Guy. This kind of implies he was there since the very beginning and maybe has a bigger part in the company than one may think.
That’s an interesting theory
Phone Guy is my favourite in this game. He's not related to William or Henry, he died and didn't come back, what not to like about him 😅
My headcanon will always be that Phone Guy held out in the suit and escaped. I don't care if it makes sense, do you know how many things in this series don't make sense.
🤣 there has to be some light
My theory is that he possessed the suit like William afton did
I believe that they couldn’t find a suit to stuff him in, so they put him in the pizza oven head first, held the door shut, and cranked up the oven. 🔥 However, the gas had been shut off due to late payment of the bill, so when six am rolled around they went back to the stage and phone guy escaped.
I am always gonna love Phone Guy, I stand by that he should've been more important, something lovable about him is how he refuses to believe in the supernatural, always blaming the animatronics' weird behavior on glitches which is why he hates The Puppet so much cause of it going against his logic with being able to leave the Prize Corner and go anywhere, he's a very realistic character and in FNAF those aren't too common.
Phone guy was the friend we made along the way. Now lost but not forgotten.
He was definitely ment to be purple guy until scott expanded the lore in my opinion
I disagree, it never added up for me even in the early days
I disagree honestly
The Phone Guy is not necessarily my favorite human character in the franchise but he is clearly my comfort character. When I play the first games it always makes me happy to hear him ! And it always makes me a little sad when he dies...
But I don't know, he always sounded like a real human to me, he looks like a real person who speaks really naturally ! And I really love his personality idk why
Anyway I'm glad you made a video about him because I love him and he's really too forgotten these days.
Besides, I like the Phone Dude also for what he is, he's just almost not present.
phone guy really set the tone for the whole franchise. especially the nonchalance with which faz ent runs its businesses and endangers people. it's sad he's been pushed into the shadows like he has, but i suppose understandable storywise
The phone guys were my favourite part of the game. The iconic 'hello? hello hello?' has transcended the game at this point. It really sucked when he wasn't in any games after FNAF 3.
Like... he was the ONLY other human (the player being the other) in the whole first 3 games and that's what made him so special to me.
Other than UCN
This took me back way back to the fnaf 2 - 3 era. The lore was so mysterious and I was so invested on it, but after a while I just lost track of everything lol. I really enjoyed this video, thank you!
“Hello? Heelllloo?” Phone guy has always been an interesting character to me. It’s characters like him that really add humanity to fnaf, no matter how out there the lore has gotten, there’s always normal joes out there trying to get on with their lives, like Phone Guy and Jeremy Fitzgerald. I really would have liked if in fnaf 4 we could hear some late night buisness related calls between Phone Guy and someone else, who probably later would be retconned to be William Afton during the night gameplay. It would make the house feel more alive, and since stuff people hear in the real world when they’re dreaming can affect the dream it makes sense that CC would be able to hear an ongoing phone call in his dreams. Either way it’s a shame the phone men were forgotten about, but at least we got what we did.
What I find disturbing is that Phone Guy is telling us (the player) to look in the suits in the back room to find his body because he knows he’s going to die. It’s just really disturbing to think about.
Also (unrelated) I love the movie 9 so nice pfp
Thank you! ^_^
And it is very tragic when you think about it...
You know that it’s a good day when Name uploads a video. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! 83
You’re welcome!
I absolutely love that you talk about old theories and/or the plot without retcons, I like to use those things to make my own ""canon""
Headcanon
love your 5 nights at Freddy lore videos! Keep up the great work!
I feel like the Phone Guy does a very good job of both providing exposition, as well as enhancing some of the "horror" of the first game (particularly as a standalone work.) The way he seems like he's pressured to dance around the subject of your immediate danger, the disclaimer read during night 1, and the fact that him dying *on tape* doesn't seem to prompt any action on behalf of management paints a dire situation of your circumstance: if you die here, nobody will find the body, and any evidence of your fate will be scrubbed before it can affect the brand's reputation. It's a sense of isolation made all the more jarring by just how (presumably) crowded the place is during the day, mere hours after your shift ends. Nobody is there to help you, nothing will change, and your demise, much like that of the head guard, will be swept under the rug like everyone else's.
I have this crackpot theory that Phone Guy somehow possessed the bare Endo-01 in the backroom, and it staring into the camera is him trying to send a warning. I can’t explain the heads staring though. Maybe Mike’s just hallucinating like he tends to do, IDK. Good vid, BTW.
Great video as usual, I'm really digging these character biography kinds of videos. So much of the fandom is caught up in locking in puzzle peices and solving the lore that they lose track of some things, but I think having a handy biography that goes into detail about the characters can provide a different way to look at lore bits and clues than people usually take.
If only there was some kind of encyclopedia of characters for fnaf that went into detail like you do and wasn't... wrong about everything like the one we got.
Not many people talk about Phone Guy and I'm glad you're one to talk about him
I often use your videos to help with developing parts of my Fnaf au and this one has definitely helped the most you did a great job at putting all the information together as always great video man!
Oh, that's great! 8D I'm glad to help!
Mike gets fired because of tampering with animatronics, so he maybe tried to find phone guy in one of those suits
It's interesting that you find phone guy to sound nervous, cause I always found him to be the most chill dude ever. He knows there's animatronics that can kill us, but he still keeps working there and is just ok with it, in other words he's weirdly calm about the whole situation. Even when he knows he's probably about to die, he doesn't sound too worried, more like he thinks it's just unfortunate.
Using D.S.A.F.2 Phony (Peter was his name?) here, is perfectto.
'Cause I'm the Phone Guy!
I'm here to take the care and the fear
Once the time ends near I will not be here
Yeah I'm the Phone Guy! Ring! Ring!
These are all the rules I bring
There's not a lot of time before
I trust you to survive!
Yeah I'm the Phone Guy! Tick! Tock!
Watch the hours on the clock!
Time has arisen to be careful
Of decisions you make i am the Phone Guy!
Yes I am, the Phone Guy!
Lov that how after sister location that little jab at Michael "having a skeleton shoved inside you" actually makes sense 😂
Sorry if someone has already made this point but does anyone else think that Phone Guy was sacrifice to the animatronics to shut him up? He's been at three locations he has to know something he definitely knows more than he's talking about I wonder if basically he was sacrificed to the animatronics to silence him?
“ you might wanna check the animatronics” is that because he is in one🤔
My man was just trying to get his 9 to 5 in.
After knowing all the lore now, the Night 6 phone call is a lot more terrifying in FNAF 2.
7:31 It looks like Phone Guy just finished giving Freddy a prostate exam.
Even if it is a mistranslation, you have to admit "The joy of creation" is a pretty raw line, perfect for a horror game like this.
Fun Fact: a FNAF fan game is Called The Joy of Creation
Given Fazebear Entertainment's practices, Phone Guy's recordings probably only got kept for further use by the company and played during FNAF1 directly because PG specifically kept things cryptic and downplayed the danger.
Your videos always give me an itch to go and listen to the OST again
i love the longer form videos 😭😭 its so nice to put one on and listen while i do my makeup or fold clothes 💞💞 i never really thought much about the phone guy, even when i was involved with the tumblr fandom in the early years, and its nice to see a deep dive like this in his (albeit short) addition to the games :D