READ ME BEFORE COMMENTING 🗣🗣 I see some comments talking about how Silly Billy didn’t “save FNF from dying”, which is true. I never said that it saved it from completely dying out. Rather, it allowed the game to be pushed out of its irrelevancy and get more people talking about it again as a result. The game was never dead, nor has it ever been “dying”. Also, while the Weekend 1 update did also assist in this. I also stated how from the RUclips metrics I observed on multiple videos, tiktoks, tweets, forums, etc; It seemed that Silly Billy was a slight bit more influential in the public eye (to my surprise). Obviously not invalidating Weekend 1 in any way. It still played a major part in saving FNF, as I also said in the video. Also also, genuine apologies for forgetting to mention EvilSk8r when talking about the dev team. It kinda just flew over my head when editing, but he def deserves some love so please go support him as well for helping to make this awesome lil game!!! Also also also, I was aware that Subterfuge wasn’t made by Churgney, and that he rather just made a lyrical cover of it. Though for some reason I guess I just skipped the “with lyrics” part in my mind when writing the script??? Not sure tbh lmao, but thank you all for the comments who pointed that out. Also also also also, I didn’t include the “Eye to Eye” version of Yourself due to the fact that he seemed to deviate a lot from the original two versions and seemed to be more of its own thing. Especially design wise, taking a completely different approach than Divide and Doorknob. Lastly, I did not “forget” about Car or Garn47. Neither of them were the topic of the video, and honestly could have their own video dedicated to them lmao. This video is purely about Silly Billy as a song and the character of Yourself. Of course, I respect any and all feedback, really I do!! It is my first time making a video essay after all. But please, watch the video and actually listen to what is said before criticizing me tho 😭😭 Thanks, and hope y'all enjoy the video!! ♥
Just a little correction:silly billy became popular DUE the update, the weekend 1 had more views than silly billy in one point, you can search it in view back machine. Anyways, AMAZING video Man!
I wasn’t just referencing the community game videos, but everything else such as gameplay videos, tiktok posts, tweets and such lol. Still though, this is pretty interesting, and I did not know this before. Thanks for the info!! Glad you enjoyed the video 😄
really :0 ?!!, like i know ppls can draw on phones my friend do that too but HOW ??? HOW ARE THEY SO TALENTED !?? how can they see the lines are in the right places behind their finger 0.o ??, also i'm wondering if the artist who did this re-draw of BF was the one from Hypno's Lullaby because their name and art style seem familiar to me :0•°☆, but maybe i'm wrong
yes it is! i saw a video made by the animator showing the process of making the intro. and they said the made it on ibis studio or something like that..
yourself you see yourself in the mirror your reflection it stares making your faces back at you but something feels off the way it smiles a little too wide every time it frowns you can feel its pain the cracking at your jaws but you stare as the world fades
@@Fsacon it acts as both the end of an era (last mod till new update) and the start of one (the skyrocketing demand for songs with lyrics stemming from the popularity of silly billy)
I think for the people who dropped the game or didn't like it, this mod brought a level of maturity to the game that nobody thought possible; people whose ears are not adjusted or accustomed to the chibi & robotic vocals are unable to appreciate the songs. Silly Billy broke that trope by introducing actual lyrics & vocals in a large way, and did it at an extremely high quality & with strong emotional impact.
He made the whole community say how proud they where of him. Divide had the key to save the fnf community and its sad they didn't get to see it. Silly Billy could also be referring to divide when he sings his lyrics.
As someone who wasn't that into FNF to begin with, Silly Billy hit me really hard the first time I saw it. Everything about that track, especially the solo, showed that it was made by people who **LOVE** Friday Night Funkin', a game which itself was made by people who *love* Newgrounds. There's *so much story* behind the song, both in the fiction of the mod and in real life, and it all came out in a single relatively brief moment of passion. It was truly awe-inspiring.
The Silly Billy mod was the main reason why I regained interest in this game. I’m just glad to finally see a mod that’s not based off some creepypasta or existing ip.
Horror mods based on already existing ip are getting as stale as creepypastas if I have to be honest. No matter how good they are, I just can't see why some of them have entire cult followings whatsoever. Silly Billy and the new wave of originals are such a breath of fresh air.
@@alivelake69Not here to judge, but the reason of "existing ip" mods being so popular is because people already liked those things before, and is easier to like them when they get a music in a mod (especially if the music is good)
@@interceptionbug4166 Sure, you could say that. My view still doesn’t change though, though it’s probably because I find the original the mods are based off of bland and dull since I’m from the era of the golden age of creepypastas and my brain is just tired of it, completely. I genuinely cannot find anything fascinating about them, especially creepypastas around games with the sole exception of that one Godzilla game. Edit: Although there is also the gen alpha crowd, there’s that I guess.
Went in expecting a sort of outsider perspective from someone not from the fnf community but was pleasantly surprised! This video was really good, I liked a lot of and agreed with a lot of the points you brought up. I had noticed the descendent from unique ideas and stuff into becoming “scary.exe” mods. I’ve been part of this community for a pretty long time now so thank you for making this video.
Finally someone who is able to make a FNF video talking about the rise, fall, and rise of FNF without just shitting on the Sonic.exe mod for "ruining" the community, or acting like all the horror mods we get are bad. Just mentioning that, despite a lot of them being amazing, like the OG Sonic.exe mod, the mario madness mod, and the cartoon cat mod, they did cause a significant fall in popularity. I really appreciate this video for how honest and fair it is, thank you so much S_D_B
@@AtrotiousAnti I meant that people started to get bored of FNF because the main game was taking too long, and the mods all mostly consisted of horror mods, or at least those were the ones being pushed out the most as they became the most popular. So people started leaving and the game started losing popularity. Popularity doesn't mean just attention, it means positive attention.
Silly Billy just KNEW what its audience was: Horror fans who are just tired of the oversaturared market of Sonic exe mods. Now we have more chance of having Discord Roleplay Servers of FNF without just making it a Creepypasta roleplay server.
To be fair, oversaturation of concepts/jokes is a problem in many fandoms. It's hardly unique to FNF. And even amidst that oversaturation, many goods mods have been made!
It was so wild hearing people talk about Div again. I was one of his friends! He was such a sweetheart and I miss him all the time. It's an honor to learn about one of the many projects he worked on, thank you for making this video. I hope everyone can love what he created and continue to be inspired. :') I still remember him showing off his EXE sketches!
Ngl, I really love the effect of Silly Billy bringing back people to the community and finding out all the stuff they missed and going back to what they knew. Finding out about things like Mario’s Madness, FNF Online, Indie Cross, Sonic Legacy, all great stuff.
@anticringehero You're trying so hard to convince people (in multiple threads) that a game you don't like is dead, just because you don't like it. No one's engaging because you've already made up your mind, it would be pointless. Go ahead, say "cope". Or "I ain't readin allat", idfk
i love how there's 3 replies to a comment but then the comment itself is deleted, im not sure what he said but with an extreme trollege profile+the name "anticringehero", pretty sure he said something contradicting his whole user(his profile picture too LOL)
What makes it so much better is that this song was a tribute to Divide who passed away. This tribute thats an amazing mod lit the fire in FNF again. RIP Divide, we will never forget you for how much of an incredible person you where and your amazing works.
THANK YOU for talking about the misinformation regarding Divide's passing. The lengths that hoax of him dying in his sleep has reached is terrifying to me
who even spread that news?? i mean divide hasnt posted on his twitter since 2021 (unless i got the wrong account) but like.. still. i literally do fake vomitting when i think about it.
Very good Video! I especially like that you talked about the creppypasta-mods overshadowing other great mods. As a huge Deltarune/Undertale fan, mods like Seek's cool Deltarune mod was one of those mods I wish had gotten a little more attention from the community overall (relativ to the then popular ones) as well as some other, more niche mods I personally really enjoyed playing. One of these is the Friday Night Fluffin' mod, which has such a unique art style from many other mods and features whole SFM-animated cutscenes between songs/weeks as well as a whole ass ARG (which im pretty sure I'm one of the few people to actually have done, couldn't find anything about it online lol). This is one of the mods I wish had gotten more attention from more people. Thanks for reading my random blabbing tho :)
Man I’m SO glad the FNF community is back alive! Thanks to divide that made such a sick mod, u sure have shown how proud we are of u. Edit: I also wanna say that when sometimes when I listen to it, it makes me feel like silly Billy sang to revive the fandom, the intro is an example kinds.
Proud to have stayed with fnf community throughout every single ounce of it's life, as well as being one of the first to actually play Hit single before everyone latched onto it.
I've been here before mods even became that big lol, when they were mostly just recolors or random shit, until slowly they became more and more ambitious. I'm so proud of seeing this community grow this big after being here from the very beginning
8:06 For me i think of this three resons The Three resons 1-The first reason is that there are people who are attracted to evil characters or strange and scary characters, and the design of “Silly Billy” was the best design, especially because of the animation. 2-The second reason is the rhythm of the shot, which at the end added a frightening and exciting nature to the character 3-The third reason: the words and their rhythm. The way in which the words were said, along with the music in the background and the animation of the character, gave a kind of awe, enthusiasm, and attraction.
yess sirrrrrrrrr the silly billy just come back an communton form being dead like d e a d like never come back to life but with silly blly it just make fnf go back to life
Mario's Madness V2 deserves an honorary mention. It may not been as beloved or perfect as Silly Billy was, but it def poured the gas on the FNF community to let Silly Billy spark it with a massive boom.
@@zombielizard9383 ight too be fair you get anyone else's voice on that and it'd be straight gas but his voice is straight ass I personally feel like they should've given for something like a record scratch, like how Pico is a mumble rapper. Jus something to keep it all in the same asthma or however tf you spell it
i never even noticed or acknowledged fnf being "less popular", cuz to me it didn't really matter. mods were still being made and redefining the game, introducing new ideas, and i was there for it all. i've been into this game and working on mods for 4 years now, and it hasn't even gotten slightly stale for me.
i like to think that the lyrics of silly billy not only represent the story behind the character, but also fnf as a game so much effort and and hard work and creativity and love and care has been poured into the game ever since it first released, yet people were starting to care for it less by the day and the song that got the game back off its feet was speaking for the whole modding community and even the original devs, begging people to come back and admit how proud they are
i really like the idea that the reason yourself's design is so tall is because he no longer wanted to be viewed in his chibi form, but during the fight he gets so lost in the trance of rapping against bf he returns to it briefly.
The fact that this was also released literally a day before the Weekend Update for the base FNF game also made it more hype And quite a convenience as well. It makes the mod legitimately feel like the end of an era
Churgney deserved that popularity. His musics are really good. Also, he might be partake on a mega man mod soon, as one his friend "duccly" release a song called "let there be light".
Silly billy is a perfect ending to fnf Fnf ending by coming back to what made it popular is just amazing, especially since the character was made by divide, who worked on the .exe mod, one of the first ever popular fnf mods. Love how it has all came full circle
@@jennvirtudes2617 Honestly, I don't even play the game, I just check out the community to see what's up once in a while, and ever since 2021 it was interesting seeing how the mods evolved as the devs took the long break
@@t00nedd00d the devs never took a break, they have been working on the game this whole time, and they have a lot more done already, not just the weekend 1, pretty sure the director said that they already have 60% of the weeks done for base game, wich are 20 weeks (full story mode)
Mods at the start were all beloved when the game was at its peak. However, people lost the point of modding. It's not just lore. It's not just making it harder and harder. It's about the experience. It must feel unique and special.
To think when I saw the notification for this song, I just thought it was another churgney amazing song and that'd be the end of it for a bit, but to think that silly billy started to revive fnf (along with the recent fnf update for weekends) honestly caught me off guard and I can't be anymore happy!
Silly Billy is talking to herself, but the dev is talking to the entire FNF community. *”ill make you say how proud you are of me* - making the community say how good the mod is. *so stay awake just long enough to see MY WAY* - having people stay in the game to see the new approach to songs.” I am yapping
Im REALLY hoping “the cycle doesn’t happen again. Talented modders come to the community These talented people end up doing some illegal shit(BBPanzu) or are just assholes (Kolsan) People see this, are upset but still have some faith in the rest of community After enough modders are cancelled all thats left is “horror” mods and everyone gets bored and leaves again.
6:48 Correction Subterfuge was composed entirely by Honkish after his experience collabing with the people on Silly Billy as that came first. Sturm did do a lyrical cover of Subterfuge because it seemed fun to do especially after releasing Game Over with Lyrics and Fake Baby for Hit Single on the same day.
What broke my. Heart is that the term "stay awake long enough to see"is silly Billy telling divide to stay with him and make it through the cancer rio divide.
9:16 We might be in luck here, since VS. Retrospecter P2 is coming out sometime later this year, and every character in the mod is one of Retrospecter's OCs. So we will be getting a HUGE update to one of the most popular OC mods
Silly billy is the climax of fnf in my opinion the huge step from beeps and bops to full ahh lyrics and a story just makes the evolution seem that much more real
@@agirlontheinternet5701 all i’m saying is that this is the most widely known and a huge step for fnf regardless since it caught the eye of so many gamers that haven’t played fnf in a while and actual music creators
To be honest, Silly Billy is just kinda Mario madness' big brother, because Mario's Madness (for me it feels like) created the whole lyrics trend, no hate to anybody ofcourse, i just feel like Mario madness died of a bit too quick 🦐
i love this mod not only because it saved fnf as a whole but it brought more attention to the late artist divides death. i felt so bad when i found out about it back in 2021 and there wernt alot of people talking about it except for a few on twitter. rest in peace divide. 🕊🕊🕊🕊
"Silly Billy saved FNF from irrelevance!" I honestly agree with that. For almost a year, I never looked back at FNF until SB came out. I'm starting to like FNF again, albeit just watching videos for now!
I actually stepped back from the fnf community, since everything was getting dry with original ideas(no hate on the creepy pasta, they were rlly cool), but ever since Silly Billy came out, it brought me back to the community :)
@@Yume-AWWell that is not the fault of MM V2. This mod objectively is better and Provided far more quality content. Silly Billy just happens to get more attention which is great because it is a great Song. No Match for this huge MM2 Mod though. That the original def of this mod tragicaly died while making this mod also heavily contributed to the success of this mod i assume
I’ve never seen the MM v2 mod so I won’t say anything abt comparing quality or smth. Honestly in my opinion, MM v2 reminded people of the talent that the ppl that make these mods have, and Silly Billy on the other hand brought back the fans and youtubers that would make fnf content a few years back. So technically both mods had their own part in reviving the fnf community
I never knew what happened to divide, and guess I’ll never know and that’s fair. I had heard they passed away, would’ve been nice to hear, cause I would’ve hoped to donate to whatever it was, dude died way too early. RIP. Btw great video, you gave me Saltydk vibes and I love it lmao
im an fnf composer guy, so im in the fnf community (you could prolly put 2 n 2 together) and i genuinely forgot that the game was basically dead, so seeing this video was nice to see, n im glad its back
The Single hit real mod really surprised lots of people because of how impressive the songs are. Even though some songs are goofy as hell like a literal pig. What I’m more impressed is the garn47 game that is literally in a fnf mod that is supposed to unlock more songs in single hit real. It is really an impressive mod
I just wanna thank you for making the instrumental line up when you can see the mod's gameplay. I noticed it while the smaller form was in the back and I really needed to register it
I hope silly billy, garn 47 and darnell will inspire the fnf community to make better mods and be able to do more than just exe stuff again. Not that there bad. We need more variety like how it was back in 2021 where it was a balance between mods that feel connected to each other and expanded the fnf world with it's own characters and lore + ip mods like shaggy and matt and newgrounds mods like madcom mods.
I hate hoy people use silly billy to shit on EXE mods. Silly billy is INSPIRED in sonic.exe mod, darnell wet fart is another version of fight or flight, a song of the SONIC.EXE mod. Hit single has 2 sonic exe songs and garn47 1 2017x song. Silly billy is not the sonic.EXE enemy, stop with the cap.
@@jennvirtudes2617 fnf is open source meaning people should be allowed to make whatever they want. The whole strict modder mindset has gotten so bad it's even affecting exe and imposter despite them not owning sonic or Mario.
i'm not a major fan of fnf like i used to be (i still think it's cool), but it makes me want to cry, knowing that Divide won't be here to see how awesome this mod is. this is their legacy that will hopefully never be forgotten.
Kinda crazy how Garn47 wasn't mentioned at all throughout this video. Though I guess it's not really related to FnF anymore it's still attached to the Hit Single mod and has absolutely blown up, especially with the official Twitter account. It alone has spawned it's own fandom and is getting updated separately from Hit Single I believe.
As someone who has never given a single shit about FnF I must say that Silly Billy had absolutely no reason to go as hard as it did, especially the part with actual lyrics.
Thanks for correcting the misinformation regarding Divide’s death. I wouldn’t have known if otherwise, people were twisting that and I didn’t know they were lying man.
Its really nice seeing FNF has a resurgence because this was the game that I found out about loads of older Newgrounds characters and properties that have come about thanks to Newgrounds, and while I did like a lot of the creepypasta stuff there definitely was way too much of it. So its super refreshing seeing mods that dont do creepypasta stuff
Thanks for talking about this, I'm currently trying to get to a point where I can make a mod I'm really passionate about but I've been losing hope as the hype around fnf has been dying down. But this gives me hope my future mod has a chance =D
I think the main reason that FNF's community is shunned uppon is not because of unoriginality, but because so much of it reminds people of their embarrassing, overdramatic, meme-loving, deviantart browsing, poorly sensitive topic tackling, creepypasta reading phase that they had when they were still kids on the internet. It's the reason why i don't feel comfortable with touching the FNF community with a long pole.
I was really sad when finding out the real back story of how the mod was made. Listening to the lyrics don’t hit as hard as it did before. It just feels sad now. But don’t get me wrong, the song is still an absolute banger and the people who carried on the legacy for their friend are the real homies. Rest in peace devide, we hope you enjoy the fresh breeze of heaven hitting your wings.
Fun fact: I used to think FNF was overrated, but after hearing Silly Billy's Hit Single Real, I literally fell in love with the franchise. It's not overrated, or even perfectly rated. It's underrated *af.* Rest in Peace, Divide, may his legacy live on forevermore...
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I see some comments talking about how Silly Billy didn’t “save FNF from dying”, which is true. I never said that it saved it from completely dying out.
Rather, it allowed the game to be pushed out of its irrelevancy and get more people talking about it again as a result. The game was never dead, nor has it ever been “dying”.
Also, while the Weekend 1 update did also assist in this. I also stated how from the RUclips metrics I observed on multiple videos, tiktoks, tweets, forums, etc; It seemed that Silly Billy was a slight bit more influential in the public eye (to my surprise). Obviously not invalidating Weekend 1 in any way. It still played a major part in saving FNF, as I also said in the video.
Also also, genuine apologies for forgetting to mention EvilSk8r when talking about the dev team. It kinda just flew over my head when editing, but he def deserves some love so please go support him as well for helping to make this awesome lil game!!!
Also also also, I was aware that Subterfuge wasn’t made by Churgney, and that he rather just made a lyrical cover of it. Though for some reason I guess I just skipped the “with lyrics” part in my mind when writing the script??? Not sure tbh lmao, but thank you all for the comments who pointed that out.
Also also also also, I didn’t include the “Eye to Eye” version of Yourself due to the fact that he seemed to deviate a lot from the original two versions and seemed to be more of its own thing. Especially design wise, taking a completely different approach than Divide and Doorknob.
Lastly, I did not “forget” about Car or Garn47. Neither of them were the topic of the video, and honestly could have their own video dedicated to them lmao. This video is purely about Silly Billy as a song and the character of Yourself.
Of course, I respect any and all feedback, really I do!! It is my first time making a video essay after all. But please, watch the video and actually listen to what is said before criticizing me tho 😭😭
Thanks, and hope y'all enjoy the video!! ♥
Just a little correction:silly billy became popular DUE the update, the weekend 1 had more views than silly billy in one point, you can search it in view back machine.
Anyways, AMAZING video Man!
I wasn’t just referencing the community game videos, but everything else such as gameplay videos, tiktok posts, tweets and such lol. Still though, this is pretty interesting, and I did not know this before.
Thanks for the info!! Glad you enjoyed the video 😄
Proud of Silly Billy for bringing FNF into a new light. And this is coming from an FNF fan since 2021 that actually didn't leave the fandom
I was about to comment "silly billy didn't save FNF" but yea, it did throw thne irrelevancy out the window and made it new again.
Poor alternate BF. He just wanted to make us proud of him. He just wanted us to see his way.
I'm glad I lived to see Silly Billy/Yourself shine.
Rest in Peace Divide
And creating this character from the cancelled Sonic.exe mod and seeing Yourself saving the FNF community to this day...
Truly divine
Divide sacrificed himself for FNF. He is truly a hero
Yourself wasn’t sad about the death of his gf he was sad about the death of his creator
@@DragonMaster1818 no, he was sad about girlfriend’s death, not his creator
@@MonkeComix2 he seems to be referring to both I guess not in the canon law but in a logical sense
man, it’s even more amazing that the animations were made on a PHONE. A PHONE. truly amazing.
really :0 ?!!, like i know ppls can draw on phones my friend do that too but HOW ??? HOW ARE THEY SO TALENTED !?? how can they see the lines are in the right places behind their finger 0.o ??, also i'm wondering if the artist who did this re-draw of BF was the one from Hypno's Lullaby because their name and art style seem familiar to me :0•°☆, but maybe i'm wrong
yes it is! i saw a video made by the animator showing the process of making the intro. and they said the made it on ibis studio or something like that..
@@kg259eg no wonder i love it so much :D !!! i only wish it had more lyrics, i know there's ppls making some but i really love the original voice :3
aight who's the animator
@@Josuh pretty sure it’s Stonesteve. They made a video on it.
A song called f*cking silly billy caused fnf to become relevant again, this part of the internet makes me so happy
Don't violate billy dawg
@@somisimons I love the song ngl
@@Summer_FOXX_Real Same
what about the weekend update
@@clyded_thysilly that as well
“Yourself” is literally a lore accurate version of the player with some horror mixed in, and it works amazingly
yourself
you see yourself in the mirror
your reflection
it stares
making your faces back at you
but something feels off
the way it smiles a little too wide
every time it frowns you can feel its pain
the cracking at your jaws
but you stare
as the world fades
silly billy to me is a reflection of what fnf has been looking like up until this point
Edit : pun unintended
Fr, for me it feels like a sort of finale to the past era of mods pre-week 8
Me too, just a flashback of the years of mods we've gotten
Makes sense for it being a reflection, since yourself literally comes out from a mirror
@@Fsacon it acts as both the end of an era (last mod till new update) and the start of one (the skyrocketing demand for songs with lyrics stemming from the popularity of silly billy)
Basically made a new trend; lyrics in songs.
I think for the people who dropped the game or didn't like it, this mod brought a level of maturity to the game that nobody thought possible; people whose ears are not adjusted or accustomed to the chibi & robotic vocals are unable to appreciate the songs. Silly Billy broke that trope by introducing actual lyrics & vocals in a large way, and did it at an extremely high quality & with strong emotional impact.
I mean... Is a 40 seconds segment of an 6 minutes song, if people doesn't like robotic voices they're not gonna like FNF songs anyways 🤷♂️
He did, indeed, show us his way.
We were, indeed proud of him.
Underrated comment.
Maybe the real way was the friends we made while staying awake to see the way.
Literally is 12:00 am
but do you know the way?
I’m convinced Silly Billy is the Megalovania of Fnf. It’s what is the most popular and no matter how you change it, it almost always sounds good
Madness is the most popular FNF songs, with garcello ost
Also, people forget there are other things from this source
He made the whole community say how proud they where of him. Divide had the key to save the fnf community and its sad they didn't get to see it.
Silly Billy could also be referring to divide when he sings his lyrics.
Same name lol
Also silly billy is what got me back into the fnf community
The lyrics are talking about Divide yes.
@@Th30nly0nand from a lore standpoint, he talks about herself too, that's what makes the lyrics so clever and poetic
They?
Was divide multiple people?
@@LURKTec no, it’s just a grammar mistake
As someone who wasn't that into FNF to begin with, Silly Billy hit me really hard the first time I saw it. Everything about that track, especially the solo, showed that it was made by people who **LOVE** Friday Night Funkin', a game which itself was made by people who *love* Newgrounds. There's *so much story* behind the song, both in the fiction of the mod and in real life, and it all came out in a single relatively brief moment of passion. It was truly awe-inspiring.
There are a lot of good mods out there but they don't usualy get views because all people care about are creppy pasta mods for some reason.
Watch Mario's Madness V2 please
The Silly Billy mod was the main reason why I regained interest in this game. I’m just glad to finally see a mod that’s not based off some creepypasta or existing ip.
Same
Same here man
Horror mods based on already existing ip are getting as stale as creepypastas if I have to be honest. No matter how good they are, I just can't see why some of them have entire cult followings whatsoever. Silly Billy and the new wave of originals are such a breath of fresh air.
@@alivelake69Not here to judge, but the reason of "existing ip" mods being so popular is because people already liked those things before, and is easier to like them when they get a music in a mod (especially if the music is good)
@@interceptionbug4166 Sure, you could say that. My view still doesn’t change though, though it’s probably because I find the original the mods are based off of bland and dull since I’m from the era of the golden age of creepypastas and my brain is just tired of it, completely.
I genuinely cannot find anything fascinating about them, especially creepypastas around games with the sole exception of that one Godzilla game.
Edit: Although there is also the gen alpha crowd, there’s that I guess.
Went in expecting a sort of outsider perspective from someone not from the fnf community but was pleasantly surprised! This video was really good, I liked a lot of and agreed with a lot of the points you brought up. I had noticed the descendent from unique ideas and stuff into becoming “scary.exe” mods. I’ve been part of this community for a pretty long time now so thank you for making this video.
Finally someone who is able to make a FNF video talking about the rise, fall, and rise of FNF without just shitting on the Sonic.exe mod for "ruining" the community, or acting like all the horror mods we get are bad. Just mentioning that, despite a lot of them being amazing, like the OG Sonic.exe mod, the mario madness mod, and the cartoon cat mod, they did cause a significant fall in popularity.
I really appreciate this video for how honest and fair it is, thank you so much S_D_B
Sonic.exe didn't ruin the fanbase, the contreversy was the damn reason
@@jennvirtudes2617 Exactly!
Wdym with "fall in popularity"?
@@AtrotiousAnti I meant that people started to get bored of FNF because the main game was taking too long, and the mods all mostly consisted of horror mods, or at least those were the ones being pushed out the most as they became the most popular. So people started leaving and the game started losing popularity. Popularity doesn't mean just attention, it means positive attention.
Fnf: We are gonna be forgotten...
Silly Billy (Hit Single): Dont worry i got ya bro
Silly Billy just KNEW what its audience was: Horror fans who are just tired of the oversaturared market of Sonic exe mods. Now we have more chance of having Discord Roleplay Servers of FNF without just making it a Creepypasta roleplay server.
And also a shit-ton of controversy envolving FNF
That is the most realist response that I have seen besides the paragraph essays that I have seen in this common section
To be fair, oversaturation of concepts/jokes is a problem in many fandoms. It's hardly unique to FNF. And even amidst that oversaturation, many goods mods have been made!
I mean it's creators literally made sonic exe mods and the mod it was part of it literally had sonic exe type characters.
Roleplay what? What tf are you guys doing over on discord? 😂
It was so wild hearing people talk about Div again. I was one of his friends! He was such a sweetheart and I miss him all the time. It's an honor to learn about one of the many projects he worked on, thank you for making this video. I hope everyone can love what he created and continue to be inspired. :') I still remember him showing off his EXE sketches!
Ngl, I really love the effect of Silly Billy bringing back people to the community and finding out all the stuff they missed and going back to what they knew. Finding out about things like Mario’s Madness, FNF Online, Indie Cross, Sonic Legacy, all great stuff.
@anticringehero get a load of this guy 😹😹
@anticringehero You're trying so hard to convince people (in multiple threads) that a game you don't like is dead, just because you don't like it. No one's engaging because you've already made up your mind, it would be pointless. Go ahead, say "cope".
Or "I ain't readin allat", idfk
@anticringeheroNo, you.
i love how there's 3 replies to a comment but then the comment itself is deleted, im not sure what he said but with an extreme trollege profile+the name "anticringehero", pretty sure he said something contradicting his whole user(his profile picture too LOL)
@@PlayerHateness basically just saying how the community is still dead and how i was coping even tho what i said had nothing to do with that
What makes it so much better is that this song was a tribute to Divide who passed away. This tribute thats an amazing mod lit the fire in FNF again.
RIP Divide, we will never forget you for how much of an incredible person you where and your amazing works.
THANK YOU for talking about the misinformation regarding Divide's passing. The lengths that hoax of him dying in his sleep has reached is terrifying to me
who even spread that news?? i mean divide hasnt posted on his twitter since 2021 (unless i got the wrong account) but like.. still. i literally do fake vomitting when i think about it.
YES, I CANNOT APPRECIATE S_D_B ENOUGH FOR CLARIFYING THAT!!
UR COMENT LITERALLY GOT RECOMMENDED THE MOMENT I SAW THAT IMAGE 😭
What actually happened
@@AbyssalOverture We don't know. We know he passed but the circumstances of his passing were never publicly stated and they don't have to be.
Very good Video! I especially like that you talked about the creppypasta-mods overshadowing other great mods. As a huge Deltarune/Undertale fan, mods like Seek's cool Deltarune mod was one of those mods I wish had gotten a little more attention from the community overall (relativ to the then popular ones) as well as some other, more niche mods I personally really enjoyed playing. One of these is the Friday Night Fluffin' mod, which has such a unique art style from many other mods and features whole SFM-animated cutscenes between songs/weeks as well as a whole ass ARG (which im pretty sure I'm one of the few people to actually have done, couldn't find anything about it online lol). This is one of the mods I wish had gotten more attention from more people.
Thanks for reading my random blabbing tho :)
There are so many mods now that have cutscenes with lyrics and I love it.
Yea and good lyrics btw
Rotten.... molding.... slowly decaying.....
For better or for worse..
After all…..
Same
Man I’m SO glad the FNF community is back alive! Thanks to divide that made such a sick mod, u sure have shown how proud we are of u.
Edit: I also wanna say that when sometimes when I listen to it, it makes me feel like silly Billy sang to revive the fandom, the intro is an example kinds.
Proud to have stayed with fnf community throughout every single ounce of it's life, as well as being one of the first to actually play Hit single before everyone latched onto it.
Ayyy, high-five bud! I've been around FNF for a long while too. :D
I was there the day the 1st mickey mod released.
I've been around before it even got popular
Ive been there when it was relased playing on a school computer
I've been here before mods even became that big lol, when they were mostly just recolors or random shit, until slowly they became more and more ambitious. I'm so proud of seeing this community grow this big after being here from the very beginning
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For me i think of this three resons
The Three resons
1-The first reason is that there are people who are attracted to evil characters or strange and scary characters, and the design of “Silly Billy” was the best design, especially because of the animation.
2-The second reason is the rhythm of the shot, which at the end added a frightening and exciting nature to the character
3-The third reason: the words and their rhythm. The way in which the words were said, along with the music in the background and the animation of the character, gave a kind of awe, enthusiasm, and attraction.
He sure did make you say how proud you'll be of him...
(R.I.P Divide)
yess sirrrrrrrrr the silly billy just come back an communton form being dead like d e a d like never come back to life but with silly blly it just make fnf go back to life
He also stayed awake long enough for us to see his way
While I do think Silly Billy was ONE of the reasons it saved FNF, we can't forget how Mario's Madness brought back about EVERY FNF RUclipsr
mario's madness brought me back to the community too
Mario's Madness V2 deserves an honorary mention. It may not been as beloved or perfect as Silly Billy was, but it def poured the gas on the FNF community to let Silly Billy spark it with a massive boom.
marios madness is bad
@@porky777 the only thing bad about mario madness is your profile picture baby ass.
@@porky777 wtf is wrong with you
The intro gave me chills, it was put together so well and the added clips of the first and most popular mods made it so much better
It’s so funny how this mod got way more popular than the actual fnf update for Darnell
Well, that's because the base games are the mods but not all that great
Well, the most recent pitstop update was more popular, due to a certain results screen animation...
Plus it sounds better in my opinion. I feel like Darnell's weekend 1 song was ass
@@The-Hampterger 2Hot and Blazin were peak tho
@@zombielizard9383 ight too be fair you get anyone else's voice on that and it'd be straight gas but his voice is straight ass
I personally feel like they should've given for something like a record scratch, like how Pico is a mumble rapper. Jus something to keep it all in the same asthma or however tf you spell it
i never even noticed or acknowledged fnf being "less popular", cuz to me it didn't really matter. mods were still being made and redefining the game, introducing new ideas, and i was there for it all. i've been into this game and working on mods for 4 years now, and it hasn't even gotten slightly stale for me.
FNF is like a blank slate that people use to make the true game shine
I also really love how after the lyric part, it gives you a slow and almost relaxing solo, kinda like a break after a boss fight
In the lyrics section, Yourself doesn't even look like he's trying to threaten bf. Mans is just passionate about what he was saying.
"I was always in the fandom since a month after the demo released.So I feel really happy about this."
“released.So”
@@galacticp1what happened when I click it
@@Oliverdoesthings- it’s a business website
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Wth released.So is an actual website
i like to think that the lyrics of silly billy not only represent the story behind the character, but also fnf as a game
so much effort and and hard work and creativity and love and care has been poured into the game ever since it first released, yet people were starting to care for it less by the day and the song that got the game back off its feet was speaking for the whole modding community and even the original devs, begging people to come back and admit how proud they are
i really like the idea that the reason yourself's design is so tall is because he no longer wanted to be viewed in his chibi form, but during the fight he gets so lost in the trance of rapping against bf he returns to it briefly.
The fact that this was also released literally a day before the Weekend Update for the base FNF game also made it more hype
And quite a convenience as well. It makes the mod legitimately feel like the end of an era
You know, thinking about it, it's so weird how long it took for someone to make a mod featuring a Boyfriend doppelganger
Churgney deserved that popularity. His musics are really good. Also, he might be partake on a mega man mod soon, as one his friend "duccly" release a song called "let there be light".
I’m still confused on how he’s the one that voices Yourself, I thought it was someone else
Silly billy is a perfect ending to fnf
Fnf ending by coming back to what made it popular is just amazing, especially since the character was made by divide, who worked on the .exe mod, one of the first ever popular fnf mods.
Love how it has all came full circle
Mario Madness V2 and Silly Billy have single handedly saved the FNF community
The base game updating definitely helped too, and it seems that it's updating again sometime this year
@@t00nedd00d Their just back from their big break that's all
@@jennvirtudes2617 Honestly, I don't even play the game, I just check out the community to see what's up once in a while, and ever since 2021 it was interesting seeing how the mods evolved as the devs took the long break
@@t00nedd00d the devs never took a break, they have been working on the game this whole time, and they have a lot more done already, not just the weekend 1, pretty sure the director said that they already have 60% of the weeks done for base game, wich are 20 weeks (full story mode)
@@hypercake23 Makes sense, nice that they're on track to getting it done maybe 2025-2026
Mods at the start were all beloved when the game was at its peak. However, people lost the point of modding. It's not just lore. It's not just making it harder and harder. It's about the experience.
It must feel unique and special.
To think when I saw the notification for this song, I just thought it was another churgney amazing song and that'd be the end of it for a bit, but to think that silly billy started to revive fnf (along with the recent fnf update for weekends) honestly caught me off guard and I can't be anymore happy!
@anticringehero It's better than how it was before
Silly Billy is talking to herself, but the dev is talking to the entire FNF community. *”ill make you say how proud you are of me* - making the community say how good the mod is. *so stay awake just long enough to see MY WAY* - having people stay in the game to see the new approach to songs.”
I am yapping
After this mod, people regained faith in the fnf mod makers and greatly introduced the funkadelix and the new fnf updates!
New updates shit, I feel like most of ppls was upset with new goofy ahh update demos so they go watch silly billy
Im REALLY hoping “the cycle doesn’t happen again.
Talented modders come to the community
These talented people end up doing some illegal shit(BBPanzu) or are just assholes (Kolsan)
People see this, are upset but still have some faith in the rest of community
After enough modders are cancelled all thats left is “horror” mods and everyone gets bored and leaves again.
@@mr.trololo9073 read this in spongebobs voice and its 100x better
Silly Billy exploding in popularity right before the new fnf update announcement was probably a blessing from heaven bro
The person who made this song is a legend for what they did, Let's pay respect to the man who saved the Friday night funking community
People think animating on a phone is crazy but wait till they realize a few mods and silly billy has been made in scratch
THE FACT HE REFERENCES A FEW OF THE OLDEST MODS IN THE FNF COMMUNITY IS NOSTALGIC
Silly Billy: I GOT U JUST RUN!
FNF: but what about you?
Silly Billy: IM FINE JUST GO!
Silly Billy, saving FNF in a nutshell
6:48 Correction Subterfuge was composed entirely by Honkish after his experience collabing with the people on Silly Billy as that came first. Sturm did do a lyrical cover of Subterfuge because it seemed fun to do especially after releasing Game Over with Lyrics and Fake Baby for Hit Single on the same day.
What broke my. Heart is that the term "stay awake long enough to see"is silly Billy telling divide to stay with him and make it through the cancer rio divide.
9:16 We might be in luck here, since VS. Retrospecter P2 is coming out sometime later this year, and every character in the mod is one of Retrospecter's OCs. So we will be getting a HUGE update to one of the most popular OC mods
Silly billy is the climax of fnf in my opinion the huge step from beeps and bops to full ahh lyrics and a story just makes the evolution seem that much more real
As if Silly Billy is the first FNF song with lyrics. 😒
@@agirlontheinternet5701 no I know the first fnf song with lyrics is the intro theme but I’m just saying it was a very long time between the two
@@Opdudall There were so many other FNF songs with lyrics in between though. It’s nothing new or special. 😅
@@agirlontheinternet5701 all i’m saying is that this is the most widely known and a huge step for fnf regardless since it caught the eye of so many gamers that haven’t played fnf in a while and actual music creators
To be honest, Silly Billy is just kinda Mario madness' big brother, because Mario's Madness (for me it feels like) created the whole lyrics trend, no hate to anybody ofcourse, i just feel like Mario madness died of a bit too quick 🦐
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Silly billy is a mix of all the passionate people that make mods in one piece of a whole mod
i love this mod not only because it saved fnf as a whole but it brought more attention to the late artist divides death. i felt so bad when i found out about it back in 2021 and there wernt alot of people talking about it except for a few on twitter. rest in peace divide. 🕊🕊🕊🕊
This man deserves to get a higher subs of all his work (also a huge fan)
Im so happy that silly billy brought back the hype of fnf
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I'm literally at 0:57 and that introduction gave me chills, I have high expectations for this video lmao
I hope it met them lmao
Omg same!!! I need to find the full song lol ^-^ but this video is amazingly informed (weird words lol sorry brain is being weird)
@@SDBCookieGuy it definitely did
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XD i saw one of my cover in the gamebanana page you showed at 1:48 . Btw great video, Silly Billy is really one of the greatest mods that i ever seen
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"Silly Billy saved FNF from irrelevance!"
I honestly agree with that. For almost a year, I never looked back at FNF until SB came out. I'm starting to like FNF again, albeit just watching videos for now!
I actually stepped back from the fnf community, since everything was getting dry with original ideas(no hate on the creepy pasta, they were rlly cool), but ever since Silly Billy came out, it brought me back to the community :)
Well the people who made those original ideas got in trouble
@@jennvirtudes2617 i already know that no need to tell me, im an og fnf fan
@@Mathivich idk that mod sadly, since I wasn't in the community to see that mod-
It gets tired seeing a lot of creepypasta's taking over
𝐈'𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮❤
i like how silly billy encouraged lyrics so like theres just thousands of them
❤
The voice acter of this LITERALLY brought back a entire COMMUNITY
The intro, and all the mods leading up to it, SO MUCH NOSTALGIA!
I thought Mario’s madness was the mod that saved fnf( but that’s pretty cool how silly Billy saved fnf)
To me Mario’s Madness proves how much content and creativity can be put into a mod that takes a couple years to make.
I mean Mario madness kinda did cuz it blew up for a while but silly billy did gain more attraction (from what I’ve seen)
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@@Yume-AWWell that is not the fault of MM V2. This mod objectively is better and Provided far more quality content. Silly Billy just happens to get more attention which is great because it is a great Song. No Match for this huge MM2 Mod though. That the original def of this mod tragicaly died while making this mod also heavily contributed to the success of this mod i assume
I’ve never seen the MM v2 mod so I won’t say anything abt comparing quality or smth. Honestly in my opinion, MM v2 reminded people of the talent that the ppl that make these mods have, and Silly Billy on the other hand brought back the fans and youtubers that would make fnf content a few years back. So technically both mods had their own part in reviving the fnf community
I never knew what happened to divide, and guess I’ll never know and that’s fair. I had heard they passed away, would’ve been nice to hear, cause I would’ve hoped to donate to whatever it was, dude died way too early. RIP. Btw great video, you gave me Saltydk vibes and I love it lmao
True this song and lyrical made the hole community blow up and it the best thin to happen to FNF.(Also W video)
Rest in peace divide.
We all miss you.
Divide would be proud if he was still here to this day. May you soul rest.
I haven't heard of Silly Billy until this video 😭
Also, great video I enjoyed watching it!! Keep up the good work!!!
Bro thinks he can do anything
im an fnf composer guy, so im in the fnf community (you could prolly put 2 n 2 together) and i genuinely forgot that the game was basically dead, so seeing this video was nice to see, n im glad its back
The Single hit real mod really surprised lots of people because of how impressive the songs are. Even though some songs are goofy as hell like a literal pig. What I’m more impressed is the garn47 game that is literally in a fnf mod that is supposed to unlock more songs in single hit real. It is really an impressive mod
It's beautiful to see such a masterpiece revive a game that brought so much joy for me and my friends.
Funny how the "character that saved Friday Night Funkin'" is the literal main character
Boyfriend, more like boyfiend
Divide is a W for saving Fnf.. he is the reason people love Fnf again we will never forget you bro.
The opening for the video made me have huge chills to where it hurt lmfao, awesome
I just wanna thank you for making the instrumental line up when you can see the mod's gameplay. I noticed it while the smaller form was in the back and I really needed to register it
I hope silly billy, garn 47 and darnell will inspire the fnf community to make better mods and be able to do more than just exe stuff again. Not that there bad. We need more variety like how it was back in 2021 where it was a balance between mods that feel connected to each other and expanded the fnf world with it's own characters and lore + ip mods like shaggy and matt and newgrounds mods like madcom mods.
That's because OC Mods have the most contreversy and after the contreversy the OCs will be put on the banlist, meaning they'll never be used again.
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I hate hoy people use silly billy to shit on EXE mods.
Silly billy is INSPIRED in sonic.exe mod, darnell wet fart is another version of fight or flight, a song of the SONIC.EXE mod. Hit single has 2 sonic exe songs and garn47 1 2017x song.
Silly billy is not the sonic.EXE enemy, stop with the cap.
@@jennvirtudes2617 fnf is open source meaning people should be allowed to make whatever they want. The whole strict modder mindset has gotten so bad it's even affecting exe and imposter despite them not owning sonic or Mario.
@@AtrotiousAnti I'm not saying it's the exe enemy. Look at my comment again
Completely off-topic, but the perfectly cut Whitty scream at 2:43 had me dying lmao
the intro almost made me cry, its so beautiful
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i'm not a major fan of fnf like i used to be (i still think it's cool), but it makes me want to cry, knowing that Divide won't be here to see how awesome this mod is. this is their legacy that will hopefully never be forgotten.
Kinda crazy how Garn47 wasn't mentioned at all throughout this video. Though I guess it's not really related to FnF anymore it's still attached to the Hit Single mod and has absolutely blown up, especially with the official Twitter account. It alone has spawned it's own fandom and is getting updated separately from Hit Single I believe.
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WHAT WAS THAT?! I should fly towards it!
Plus there's already original merch, like the Car Youtooz
As someone who has never given a single shit about FnF I must say that Silly Billy had absolutely no reason to go as hard as it did, especially the part with actual lyrics.
So true, I never really liked fnf that much, but that single song changed my entire point of view on the game.
Thanks for correcting the misinformation regarding Divide’s death. I wouldn’t have known if otherwise, people were twisting that and I didn’t know they were lying man.
Its really nice seeing FNF has a resurgence because this was the game that I found out about loads of older Newgrounds characters and properties that have come about thanks to Newgrounds, and while I did like a lot of the creepypasta stuff there definitely was way too much of it. So its super refreshing seeing mods that dont do creepypasta stuff
Thanks for talking about this, I'm currently trying to get to a point where I can make a mod I'm really passionate about but I've been losing hope as the hype around fnf has been dying down. But this gives me hope my future mod has a chance =D
Don’t give up on it dude, I’m sure your mod will be outstanding!!
But it was forgotten after all that... R.I.P silly billy 😓
He made us say how proud we are of him. We stayed awake just long enough to see his way.
his way.....
In my opinion it was 3 factors
FNF update
Silly Billy
Mario’s madness’s
Same
Bro you need to more subs man your vid’s are tbh fire
I think the main reason that FNF's community is shunned uppon is not because of unoriginality, but because so much of it reminds people of their embarrassing, overdramatic, meme-loving, deviantart browsing, poorly sensitive topic tackling, creepypasta reading phase that they had when they were still kids on the internet.
It's the reason why i don't feel comfortable with touching the FNF community with a long pole.
i truly love how this one song also inspired other songs to include lyrics like shucks aethos rotten smoothie etc
I was really sad when finding out the real back story of how the mod was made. Listening to the lyrics don’t hit as hard as it did before. It just feels sad now.
But don’t get me wrong, the song is still an absolute banger and the people who carried on the legacy for their friend are the real homies. Rest in peace devide, we hope you enjoy the fresh breeze of heaven hitting your wings.
Fun fact: I used to think FNF was overrated, but after hearing Silly Billy's Hit Single Real, I literally fell in love with the franchise. It's not overrated, or even perfectly rated. It's underrated *af.* Rest in Peace, Divide, may his legacy live on forevermore...
silly Billy is the literal reason why I came back to fnf.
Random shoutout for "Quit Asking me for Sandwiches" being used at the end, was not expecting a random lofi banger on this video haha
Amazing video, man.
It’s crazy how the song actually gave me the chills 😭
Butttt I love the songs SO MUCH
Yeah when silly billy came out I was like “WE ARE SO BACK”