I feel like fnaf world was the moment where Scott needed to give to some characters they officials names since he maybe don't wanted fnaf world to be confusing whith the names and decided to probably choose the name given by the fans to make it easier
Of all fan names that didn't catch on, I'm upset that I'm one of the only few who thought of calling the plush versions of Scrap Baby in Help Wanted "Plushscrap". It works perfectly!
@@broccolize and plushtrap sounds similar to springtrap, which is also the whole point. Of course two killer plushies gonna have similar names, they are basically in the same category
I remember when I was younger I saw that Golden Freddy was a fan name officially adotped into canon and REALLY wanted to try and pioneer one for Springtrap around when FNAF 3's trailer first released, so being the creative genius I was at like, 12 years old, I tried pioneering the name "Gretel" for him, combining "Gruesome" and "Metal" together. I'm genuinely so glad no one even acknowledged me back then
Surprised you didn't mention Funtime Foxy, Scott naming 2 similar characters the exact same name and the fanbase unanimously agreed that was stupid and refused to call the FNaF 2 one that. Originally called Toy Foxy or New Foxy in the FNaF 2 game files, the name for Mangle before being Mangle was usually assumed to be Toy Foxy, some people would also just call them Pre-Mangle or Fixed Mangle, then FNaF World came out and officially named them Funtime Foxy right before SL called another character by that name. Officially some merch still calls them Funtime Foxy iirc.
I thought they were the same character and Scott just had Funtime Foxy in FNAF World as a "teaser" of a new character in Sister Location. Especially because that game also references Baby directly in the Clock ending
@@kotori6938 You can tell FNaF World's is FNaF 2 and not SL because of a few design traits. 1) SL Funtime Foxy is entirely white and pink with yellow eyes. FNaF 2 also adds red to the colour palette with the lipstick, bow tie, and cheeks. FNaF World matches the latter. Also noteworthy that SL Funtime Foxy has a speaker instead of a bowtie and FNaF World has the bow tie. 2) SL Funtime Foxy has a speaker and the typical Funtime plates as notably design traits which World Funtime Foxy lacks. 3) The real giveaway. In the FNaF 2 teasers it's shown Mangle before being Mangled had a hook hand. SL Funtime Foxy doesn't have a hook hand. FNaF World's does. So yeah FNaF World is definitely Mangle Pre-Mangled and not SL's Funtime Foxy. ALTHOUGH it kinda is still a SL teaser as FNaF 2's game files actually does call Mangle Toy Foxy (as well as New Foxy depending on where in the files). So although it is Pre-Mangle, I'd still say the name being the same as Funtime Foxy (SL) is intentional and probably has a lore reason.
@@TheREALManBehindTheSlaughter i think they mean the halloween ending, where you see the "maker" talk about making a mistake they can't fix now that SHE is free. And then the lights go out, we see two eyes appear and hear baby talk about "the show starting soon" and when the lights come back on the toy maker is dead. Which some people believed originally to be scott and later to be Henry.
Btw MXES isn't that character's actual name, just the system that it's tied to. While I'm not sure what it's called in the game files, the subtitles adress it as "Anomaly".
I remember on freddit when fnaf 6 came out people were debatting calling W.Afton Scraptrap or Springscrap too. Also Malhare is such a cool name i love it i wish it was the most popular name for Glitchtrap
I'm not sure if anyone else has said this, but people before FNaF 3 came out also referred to Springtrap as "Nightmare" because of the shear difference within his appearance compared to the other animatronics thus far in the series.
ah you forgot about BB! Unless it's somewhere in fnaf 2's game files, and im pretty sure its not, "Balloon Boy" was also just a fan name originally. There's a good chance thats what BB stood for in Scott's mind, but honestly I don't even know the first time he's called "Balloon Boy" officially
I think he was originally called balloon boy in fnaf 4’s halloween update, they call the mini game fun with balloon boy but then refer to him as bb in the games instructions
During the Purple Guy section I had a slight fear that the name Vincent would be brought up and immediately deal me psychic damage and I got close to the end and thought I wouldn't hear it today and then. yeah. I got the psychic damage.
I knew it! I knew the Withered animatronics used tl be called the Old animatronics. I just didn't remember if it was in-game on an older version or by the fans
Yeah I remember younger me calling the the " Old " ones but I always thought that was just me coming up with a name myself, I guess I just seen it somewhere
As matpat pointed out in his one video on FNAF 4 surprisingly the toy animatronics were always called toy animatronics and not a fan name made up by the community
Honestly, I see Vincent and William as different characters since they're kinda from different eras of the FNaF fandom, plus the Rebornica guys were from an AU anyway. I love them both
Idk why but this made me think of how everyone yaps og Springbonnie is unwithered Springtrap, but in the movie he's called "Yellow Rabbit" wonder if thats a nod to golden freddy's file name being called "Yellow Bear"...
Heh, even then, the Classics' names were just placeholders. And yet, the Adventure Withereds seem based after the Classics, including the incorrect buttons. Was she called Balloon Girl in the Freddy Files? As i think this whole Miketrap thing spawned after SL'S custom, I imagine this being the 'misconception in the September 2017 post, which led to Scraptrap just being William. But to have *that* be William's page for the Encyclopedia? Super glad 'Scraptrap' slipped in on a cabinet. I believe Rockstar Foxy's parrot often got referred to as Pickles, he's green and the jar for happiness. I think 'Moondrop' also seeped into a book...
I still remember perfectly how when the first Security Breach trailer came out where Moon appeared, everyone started giving him different names like Moon Guy, Moon Dude, Moon Jester, Magma (due to a false leak that had been made). Sun was also called by the same names
Something that a lot of people don't know about Markipliers FNAF series is that he changed the name of Episode 2 a day or two after it came out. It originally had the title and thumbnail that Episode 3 has now, but after he learning how rare Golden Freddy was, he changed Episode 2 title to ride the hype. The name "Golden Freddy" was being thrown around even before Mark even played the game.
There's also Purple Man, which was THE top name circa FNAF-2 and was still pretty popular in the 3 Era. Not sure why it fell off. Matpat switched in his 3 video.
You know knowing that the name for the the most important characters to the history and lore of this franchise came from the KING himself just feels right 💛
I do wonder why Purple Man ultimately lost out to Purple Guy. During the FNAF 2 era it was the most popular name(Matpat's FNAF 2 theory calls him Purple Man), and as you showed at 6:19 'man' was in the games code. This is especially since the second most popular name for him during the FNAF 2 era was "The Golden Freddy Killer", with the MCI often being called "The Golden Freddy Murders", both Matpat and Grumpybear did this. This was because people had made the incorrect assumption that that was the suit used, when it was Springbonnie. (This debate got pretty nasty in the FNAF 3 era despite all the evidence pointing to Springbonnie at that point). And due in part to internia and the Purple Man and Purple Guy options nobody ever felt like going with "The Springbonnie Killer" and "The Springbonnie Murders", by the time the GF crowd gave up it was way too late to change the name again. So I get that. I also know that the color coded options were popular because of Pink Guy theory being a big deal in the 2 and 3 era. So specifying you meant Purple Guy/Purple Man was helpful in case the other guy believed in Pink Man / Pink Guy theory. That's also probably why simply calling him "The Killer" or "The Murderer" like was done in the FNAF 1 era died out. A lot of those people were the ones using the Golden Freddy based names and those died out due to being wrong and them fighting it too long to pivot to "The Springbonnie Killer" or something. And if people were two killer believers just saying "The Killer" was useless. So I can explain every other alternative dying out. But I have zero clue why Purple Guy overtook Purple Man around the time of FNAF 3. Zero clue. EDIT: I checked a couple of Google Trends and RUclips Trends sources. Purple Man showed up on Day 1 when the demo came out, Purple Guy was first used on the 15th of November. Purple Man was solidly and fully ahead until the last week of December, around 19-23 depending on the source, when Purple Guy overtook it daily for the first time. After this both would stay relatively neck and neck, Purple Man sometimes ahead, Purple Guy sometimes ahead, but within range of eachother. When FNAF 3 came out both names got a big spike, but Purple Guy took the lead immediately, albeit Purple Man took it back once or twice in March and April tied to uploads by creators using Purple Man(8-Bit specifically). Matpat's FNAF 3 theory using Purple Guy was seemingly the nail in the coffin as after that Purple Guy surged ahead and Purple Man rapidly declined into near non-existence by the time 4 came out.
I remember when fnaf 4 was still new there as a popular fnaf fan animation of the bite of 87, in which the crying child was referred to as "Chris," while foxybro was referred to as "Terrence". What's funny is that to this day, the crying child still doesn't have an official canon name, while foxybro was later confirmed to be Micheal Afton.
I thought Golden Freddy got his name because somebody who got the easter egg in fnaf 1 asked Scott something like "what's with the Golden Freddy" and Scott said something I don't remember
Great video! I remember a good deal of people flipflopping between calling FFPS Afton either Scraptrap or Springscrap, but seeing how one could mistake the latter as spelling out something else, you might be able to see why the former was the one that stuck. The RUIN DLC also has the M.X.E.S. entity, referred to as DLC Rabbit and Blackrabbit in the game files, which has been referred as everything from Pegtrap, to Chadtrap, to the Genie, to if memory serves me right, even ARabbit for a very short while as a callback to VRabbit.
10:59 bro glitchtrap scared the hell out of me here I wasn't expecting him 😭 Also technically if you think about it, Glitchtrap's actual name is Mimic1, considering Mimic1 is an AI/code created by the mimic and then became the glitchtrap we know by being inside of the freddy fazbear virtual experience (If I explained badly anyone please correct me. I get Mimic1 mixed up a bit when explaining it)
"Shadow Bonnie" was also a fan name given to a FNaF 1 Hoax of an edited frame of Bonnie from the office hallucinations. When RWQFSFASXC was introduced in FNaF 2, people believed that they were the Toy version of this hoax, calling him "Shadow Toy Bonnie " This eventually evolved into just "Shadow Bonnie" once the original hoax was lost to time, unlike Sparky.
One of the fan-made names I remember for Springtrap back before FNAF 3 even came out was 'Salvage the Springtrap', that fan-name was from non-other 8-Bit Gaming themself during the FNAF 3 teaser speculation days.
Yellow Bear is honestly my preferred name for GF. Golden Freddy just sounds like a rare version of Freddy from an RPG, Yellow Bear sounds mysterious, ominous, like he's not even supposed to be there.
Wanr to point out that there are two other nicknames for the puppet, one being called the baby which I'm pretty sure only Markiplier called them that (however it was referenced later on in nightmareons teaser image name) and I remember a few people used to call it the Puppet Master so yeah
You honestly have the best png tuber like oc i have seen in a minute. A lot of png tubers oc's piss me off solely because their its like super dramatically expressive for no reason idk its probably just me but its incredibley refreshing.
something that i didn't see brought up is that prior to fnaf 2's release, people were calling the toy animatronics the 2.0s (freddy 2.0, bonnie 2.0, etc); i vividly recall seeing this kinda thing in for example youtube titles speculating on the game trailer and whatnot lol
Baby's name was revealed at the end of the FNAF World halloween update of all places before we even knew what she looked like, which is why she had no fan nicknames before SL came out
FNAF is a testament to how language forms around things that need to be referred to and even without official names get something just because we need to talk about it
I think we often forget the original 4's names were originally placeholders of some sort before Scott *essentially* went 'nah these work' and, to be fair, he was right.
I know this one is unique compared to the rest you mentioned, but Mangle being originally "Toy Foxy" was another non-confirmed name the fans created when talking about this game. Then Scott went with "funtime foxy" in fnaf world, then called a completely seperate character "funtime foxy" as well just to confuse us all.
Here are some suuuuper creative names that the fnaf franchise has had just so you can see how lazy we are (and scott is) at naming things: phone guy phone dude (wow much different!) purple guy pink guy (who was literally the same guy!) mustard man tape girl crying child foxy bro bonnie bro balloon boy ball boy brow boy red bear yellow bear yellow rabbit the blob There are others but these are the ones I could call from the top of my head and its so funny!!
I can't forget the times before FNAF3 was released when the hispanic fanbase wrongly translate Springtrap name into Trampa de Primavera (They translate the spring part as literally the season.)
"Puppet Master" was also a pretty popular name for the Puppet back in the day. Some people also called them "Jack" (as in Jack in the box), although it was a minority.
i seem to remember the toy animatronics being referred to as "new ___" before the game came out and their real names were revealed in the custom night screen
honestly, the freddles names being "Fred, Fredd and Freddy" is peak comedy
Fudge it that’s their Canon Names
Ed, Edd and Eddy lol
The freddles names are Ed Edd & Eddy but fr
So, is fredd would be called f double d
Ok,that’s actually so funny
Let's all just take a moment to appreciate how the "Torture Freddy" machine in the movie's official name is "Shreddy Fazchair"
If I remember correctly, its Chainbear, not Fazchair
@@MrBohDiamond Fazchair sounds funnier, so let’s stick with it
I told my boyfriend this information and he lost it.
AstralSpiff referred to it as "The Soupinator" and that's what it's been to me ever since
nobody is ever gonna believe me when I say that i came up with the Shreddy Fazchair name and I'll have to live with this forever
Fun Fact: Scoot Coffin himself actually confirmed that JJs real name is Jalloon Joy, trust me.
Jalloon Jirl
Canon
Jalloon Johnson
I know it's a joke but I want to say the JJ does actually stand for something... It's short for Jay Jay
BRO THIS IS MY MOST VIRAL COMMENT EVER!
"Funsized Freddy" is the best name I've ever heard
This and malhare are better than the actual names we got
@@Ban-zx9seMALHARE GANG RISE UP
@@Ban-zx9se
FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE WHO CALLS HIM MALHARE
I like glitchtrap
Ive seen scorchtrap floating around for burntrap which is amazing, i wish we got the objectively more fun interesting names canonised
Petition to bring Frank the Hotdog back to modern FNAF.
FRANK 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I remember seeing people call Circus Baby "Sister" before the names leaked
I mean they weren't wrong.. she is someone's sister after all..
He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere. Who you gonna call? Psychic friend Fred bear!
YEAH BABBYYYYYYY
I feel like fnaf world was the moment where Scott needed to give to some characters they officials names since he maybe don't wanted fnaf world to be confusing whith the names and decided to probably choose the name given by the fans to make it easier
Except RXQ...
@@kotori6938 rxq is literally just scott mashing his keyboard since the letter that spells his name are on one side of the keyboard
@@mtwhelios i appreciate the comitment to the bit with having RXQ go "Say my name"
Of all fan names that didn't catch on, I'm upset that I'm one of the only few who thought of calling the plush versions of Scrap Baby in Help Wanted "Plushscrap". It works perfectly!
sounds too close to plushtrap
@@broccolize That's pretty much the point.
It's hard for me to say it out loud like a tongue twister but it's a good name 👍
@@broccolize and plushtrap sounds similar to springtrap, which is also the whole point.
Of course two killer plushies gonna have similar names, they are basically in the same category
I thought this said "PlushCRAP" lmao
I remember when I was younger I saw that Golden Freddy was a fan name officially adotped into canon and REALLY wanted to try and pioneer one for Springtrap around when FNAF 3's trailer first released, so being the creative genius I was at like, 12 years old, I tried pioneering the name "Gretel" for him, combining "Gruesome" and "Metal" together.
I'm genuinely so glad no one even acknowledged me back then
i am now going to always refer to springtrap as gretel now
I think something like 'Gruetal' might have worked a bit better.
One you missed was hiw people called carnie from hw2 righty for a while
At Righty, I just think of David Baron with the ai creation of Bar Fight Brothers.
@@vincentmorris8431 I think I get that, but I'm not sure can you clarify
In a video where they submitted a bunch of story prompts to ai, and see what mess it conjures up.
@@vincentmorris8431 oh ok
How does that even happen? Like the official name is stated in the subtitles which most people use.
“Freakshow Baby” sounds like it could be used for a FNAF game where it takes place in some sort of carnival, I would love to see someone make that
I do believe there is already a fan game for that.
"Circus Baby's Freak Show" I think it is called.
One that you forgot about was Dawko giving the wet floor bots the nickname of “PatPats”
Also, Markiplier originally called the puppet “the baby”
I still remember a time in the fandom when "freakshow baby" was actaully a thing. Nostalgic times looking back
Many who saw DSAF always called the Purple Guy, Dave Miller.
That was his name in The Sliver Eyes, too.
@@worthybutter2004 wasn't that his Alias for The Silver Eyes? Correct me if I am wrong, since it has been a long time when I read it.
DSaF brainrot
@@tyruku18 Fake name, to be precise.
in both dsaf and silver eyes it was a fake name yeah
No honorable mention for Chadtrap
😔
William Appleton
or Cheesetrap
Or Jimmy Neutron and Peanuthead.
I never heard anyone call them by "Fred, Fredd, 'n Freddy" before and now I wish they were their real names because THIS IS GOLD!!!
I’m so using that! Freddles collectively but each of their names are Fred, Fredd and Freddy
"funsize freddy" is fkn adorable but helpy is a bit more handy to use lol
Freakshow Baby and Salvaged Springtrap sounds way better than Scrapbaby and Scraptrap imo
Agreed
Scraptrap kinda goes hard though, but Freakshow Baby definitely would’ve been a better fit for Scrapbaby.
Scraptrap is better.
Nah Scraptrap is a really good name imo
i misread freakshow as freakbob 😭😭😭😭😭
Surprised you didn't mention Funtime Foxy, Scott naming 2 similar characters the exact same name and the fanbase unanimously agreed that was stupid and refused to call the FNaF 2 one that.
Originally called Toy Foxy or New Foxy in the FNaF 2 game files, the name for Mangle before being Mangle was usually assumed to be Toy Foxy, some people would also just call them Pre-Mangle or Fixed Mangle, then FNaF World came out and officially named them Funtime Foxy right before SL called another character by that name. Officially some merch still calls them Funtime Foxy iirc.
…who else didn’t read that-
I thought they were the same character and Scott just had Funtime Foxy in FNAF World as a "teaser" of a new character in Sister Location. Especially because that game also references Baby directly in the Clock ending
@@kotori6938 You can tell FNaF World's is FNaF 2 and not SL because of a few design traits.
1) SL Funtime Foxy is entirely white and pink with yellow eyes. FNaF 2 also adds red to the colour palette with the lipstick, bow tie, and cheeks. FNaF World matches the latter. Also noteworthy that SL Funtime Foxy has a speaker instead of a bowtie and FNaF World has the bow tie.
2) SL Funtime Foxy has a speaker and the typical Funtime plates as notably design traits which World Funtime Foxy lacks.
3) The real giveaway. In the FNaF 2 teasers it's shown Mangle before being Mangled had a hook hand. SL Funtime Foxy doesn't have a hook hand. FNaF World's does.
So yeah FNaF World is definitely Mangle Pre-Mangled and not SL's Funtime Foxy.
ALTHOUGH it kinda is still a SL teaser as FNaF 2's game files actually does call Mangle Toy Foxy (as well as New Foxy depending on where in the files).
So although it is Pre-Mangle, I'd still say the name being the same as Funtime Foxy (SL) is intentional and probably has a lore reason.
@@kotori6938 how does it mention baby? The clock ending is relevant to the crying child finally being put to rest.
@@TheREALManBehindTheSlaughter i think they mean the halloween ending, where you see the "maker" talk about making a mistake they can't fix now that SHE is free. And then the lights go out, we see two eyes appear and hear baby talk about "the show starting soon" and when the lights come back on the toy maker is dead.
Which some people believed originally to be scott and later to be Henry.
I remember the names "Ghost Freddy" and "Yellow Freddy" being thrown around for GF before the more popular one catched on.
Btw MXES isn't that character's actual name, just the system that it's tied to. While I'm not sure what it's called in the game files, the subtitles adress it as "Anomaly".
And or pegtrap
@@fernoagent8581 i was waiting for him to mention astralspiff gave them that name
It's official name is "The Entity" and it's called "New DLC rabbit" in the game files.
I was wrong. MXES is the canon name of the Entity.
@@leothebrat2048might want to edit your original comment then 🙏
I still call Afton as Purple Guy sometimes. Calling the antagonist by their primary color as a nickname is too funny.
He do be a purple guy doe
I remember on freddit when fnaf 6 came out people were debatting calling W.Afton Scraptrap or Springscrap too.
Also Malhare is such a cool name i love it i wish it was the most popular name for Glitchtrap
I remember calling Glitchtrap "Creepy Spring Bonnie" when I first drew him when I was younger as I didn't know his name.
i love the creepy line of animatronics
I used to call him Drugs Bunny cuz he looked like he was high
bro how young you are 😭😭
@@deleteduser122 3 years away from being an adult.
@@The_Axolotl_1 15? I expected you to be 12 or something like that
I'm not sure if anyone else has said this, but people before FNaF 3 came out also referred to Springtrap as "Nightmare" because of the shear difference within his appearance compared to the other animatronics thus far in the series.
ah you forgot about BB! Unless it's somewhere in fnaf 2's game files, and im pretty sure its not, "Balloon Boy" was also just a fan name originally. There's a good chance thats what BB stood for in Scott's mind, but honestly I don't even know the first time he's called "Balloon Boy" officially
i wonder what the bb could stand for? all i see is a boy holding balloons
@@AngTheHunterSame can be said for JJ.
I think he was originally called balloon boy in fnaf 4’s halloween update, they call the mini game fun with balloon boy but then refer to him as bb in the games instructions
@@RobinRhombusHead jalloon jirl
You also have everyone calling the Crying Child... ugh... *Chris*
His name is Crying child in my brain and it's better
"It's a boy, what should we name him"
Well he was crying when he was born so
What, disgusted by the name Chris or smt ?
And evan
Yeah defintly evan
Thats what ive been callin him
oh god,i remember the whole rebornica vincent era, i think he had a addiction for toast as well, since the badge looked like a slice of bread, lmaoo
“Freakshow Baby”, “Funsized Freddy”, and “Malhare” are all cool names
During the Purple Guy section I had a slight fear that the name Vincent would be brought up and immediately deal me psychic damage and I got close to the end and thought I wouldn't hear it today and then. yeah. I got the psychic damage.
I knew it!
I knew the Withered animatronics used tl be called the Old animatronics.
I just didn't remember if it was in-game on an older version or by the fans
Yeah I remember younger me calling the the " Old " ones but I always thought that was just me coming up with a name myself, I guess I just seen it somewhere
@@thatnoobbelike5054Same
The fancomics back in the day used to use an lot the "Old" instead of "Withered"
Remember, one of the designers for Torture Freddy calls it “Shreddy Fazchair”
The fact that we went for Glitchtrap when Malhare was in the running is shocking
Malhare is such a killer name 🤦
I still call him Malhare.
As matpat pointed out in his one video on FNAF 4 surprisingly the toy animatronics were always called toy animatronics and not a fan name made up by the community
Honestly, I see Vincent and William as different characters since they're kinda from different eras of the FNaF fandom, plus the Rebornica guys were from an AU anyway. I love them both
Idk why but this made me think of how everyone yaps og Springbonnie is unwithered Springtrap, but in the movie he's called "Yellow Rabbit" wonder if thats a nod to golden freddy's file name being called "Yellow Bear"...
Heh, even then, the Classics' names were just placeholders.
And yet, the Adventure Withereds seem based after the Classics, including the incorrect buttons.
Was she called Balloon Girl in the Freddy Files?
As i think this whole Miketrap thing spawned after SL'S custom, I imagine this being the 'misconception in the September 2017 post, which led to Scraptrap just being William. But to have *that* be William's page for the Encyclopedia? Super glad 'Scraptrap' slipped in on a cabinet.
I believe Rockstar Foxy's parrot often got referred to as Pickles, he's green and the jar for happiness.
I think 'Moondrop' also seeped into a book...
It funny how in the movie novel golden Freddy is named the yellow bear
Wake up babe, new lotodots vid just dropped.
I still remember perfectly how when the first Security Breach trailer came out where Moon appeared, everyone started giving him different names like Moon Guy, Moon Dude, Moon Jester, Magma (due to a false leak that had been made). Sun was also called by the same names
6:16 Ah yes, the greatest FNaF villain - "Man"
Why did William experience a springlock failure? Is he stupid?
Something that a lot of people don't know about Markipliers FNAF series is that he changed the name of Episode 2 a day or two after it came out. It originally had the title and thumbnail that Episode 3 has now, but after he learning how rare Golden Freddy was, he changed Episode 2 title to ride the hype. The name "Golden Freddy" was being thrown around even before Mark even played the game.
There's also Purple Man, which was THE top name circa FNAF-2 and was still pretty popular in the 3 Era.
Not sure why it fell off. Matpat switched in his 3 video.
6:16 what is Man doing at Freddy's? Did Fred evacuated him from cave?
You know knowing that the name for the the most important characters to the history and lore of this franchise came from the KING himself just feels right 💛
My body convulsing in pain at being reminded of Vincent.
I'm used to hearing Whithered Bonnie be called Toliet Bonnie, RWQFSFASXC called XQC, and Scraptrap called Peanut Afton.
One note, the official character encyclopedia refers to William as Purple Man.
I do wonder why Purple Man ultimately lost out to Purple Guy.
During the FNAF 2 era it was the most popular name(Matpat's FNAF 2 theory calls him Purple Man), and as you showed at 6:19 'man' was in the games code.
This is especially since the second most popular name for him during the FNAF 2 era was "The Golden Freddy Killer", with the MCI often being called "The Golden Freddy Murders", both Matpat and Grumpybear did this. This was because people had made the incorrect assumption that that was the suit used, when it was Springbonnie. (This debate got pretty nasty in the FNAF 3 era despite all the evidence pointing to Springbonnie at that point). And due in part to internia and the Purple Man and Purple Guy options nobody ever felt like going with "The Springbonnie Killer" and "The Springbonnie Murders", by the time the GF crowd gave up it was way too late to change the name again. So I get that. I also know that the color coded options were popular because of Pink Guy theory being a big deal in the 2 and 3 era. So specifying you meant Purple Guy/Purple Man was helpful in case the other guy believed in Pink Man / Pink Guy theory. That's also probably why simply calling him "The Killer" or "The Murderer" like was done in the FNAF 1 era died out. A lot of those people were the ones using the Golden Freddy based names and those died out due to being wrong and them fighting it too long to pivot to "The Springbonnie Killer" or something. And if people were two killer believers just saying "The Killer" was useless. So I can explain every other alternative dying out.
But I have zero clue why Purple Guy overtook Purple Man around the time of FNAF 3. Zero clue.
EDIT: I checked a couple of Google Trends and RUclips Trends sources. Purple Man showed up on Day 1 when the demo came out, Purple Guy was first used on the 15th of November. Purple Man was solidly and fully ahead until the last week of December, around 19-23 depending on the source, when Purple Guy overtook it daily for the first time. After this both would stay relatively neck and neck, Purple Man sometimes ahead, Purple Guy sometimes ahead, but within range of eachother. When FNAF 3 came out both names got a big spike, but Purple Guy took the lead immediately, albeit Purple Man took it back once or twice in March and April tied to uploads by creators using Purple Man(8-Bit specifically). Matpat's FNAF 3 theory using Purple Guy was seemingly the nail in the coffin as after that Purple Guy surged ahead and Purple Man rapidly declined into near non-existence by the time 4 came out.
Ah, the days of Salvage, I remember those days fondly.
I have a head cannon that Williams middle name is Vincent and that micheals middle name is Terrence for reference purposes
Scott: names a character
Fans: makes a better sounding nickname
Scott: “Of course. F*ck it’s genius. Why didn’t I think of that?”
I remember when fnaf 4 was still new there as a popular fnaf fan animation of the bite of 87, in which the crying child was referred to as "Chris," while foxybro was referred to as "Terrence". What's funny is that to this day, the crying child still doesn't have an official canon name, while foxybro was later confirmed to be Micheal Afton.
I thought Golden Freddy got his name because somebody who got the easter egg in fnaf 1 asked Scott something like "what's with the Golden Freddy" and Scott said something I don't remember
Great video! I remember a good deal of people flipflopping between calling FFPS Afton either Scraptrap or Springscrap, but seeing how one could mistake the latter as spelling out something else, you might be able to see why the former was the one that stuck. The RUIN DLC also has the M.X.E.S. entity, referred to as DLC Rabbit and Blackrabbit in the game files, which has been referred as everything from Pegtrap, to Chadtrap, to the Genie, to if memory serves me right, even ARabbit for a very short while as a callback to VRabbit.
This is pretty interesting as a unique video talking about something from FNAF. Nice Halloween costume as well.
I still remember when i used to call JayJay "balloon girl" and all the withered animatronics "old"
10:06 “William Afton: Basically, it’s all his fault” should be on the mf’s tombstone (if he ever stays dead long enough to get one)
I laughed out loud hearing the malfunction noise in the fnaf 3 intro card 😅
10:59 bro glitchtrap scared the hell out of me here I wasn't expecting him 😭
Also technically if you think about it, Glitchtrap's actual name is Mimic1, considering Mimic1 is an AI/code created by the mimic and then became the glitchtrap we know by being inside of the freddy fazbear virtual experience
(If I explained badly anyone please correct me. I get Mimic1 mixed up a bit when explaining it)
Correct!
"Shadow Bonnie" was also a fan name given to a FNaF 1 Hoax of an edited frame of Bonnie from the office hallucinations.
When RWQFSFASXC was introduced in FNaF 2, people believed that they were the Toy version of this hoax, calling him "Shadow Toy Bonnie "
This eventually evolved into just "Shadow Bonnie" once the original hoax was lost to time, unlike Sparky.
I remember when people used to call The Puppet, "Puppet Master"
3:01 I saw the warning and almost pressed on the vid to wind the music box 💀💀💀
One of the fan-made names I remember for Springtrap back before FNAF 3 even came out was 'Salvage the Springtrap', that fan-name was from non-other 8-Bit Gaming themself during the FNAF 3 teaser speculation days.
now with into the pit, we dont actually know what the specific names of the animatronics are so people just call them pit freddy, pit bonnie, etc.
Gerrrr how dare you leave out Pickles the Parrot
Anyway this was really cool lmao love me some good ol nostalgia
Yellow Bear is honestly my preferred name for GF. Golden Freddy just sounds like a rare version of Freddy from an RPG, Yellow Bear sounds mysterious, ominous, like he's not even supposed to be there.
Wanr to point out that there are two other nicknames for the puppet, one being called the baby which I'm pretty sure only Markiplier called them that (however it was referenced later on in nightmareons teaser image name) and I remember a few people used to call it the Puppet Master so yeah
Frank the Hotdog is one of my favorite FNAF characters.
a small part of my soul dies whenever i hear someone say "glitchtrap". malhare bros were robbed
wow this is the earliest i've ever been to any video..
Audibly said "God I remember" when you mentioned Springtrap's fan names
You honestly have the best png tuber like oc i have seen in a minute. A lot of png tubers oc's piss me off solely because their its like super dramatically expressive for no reason idk its probably just me but its incredibley refreshing.
something that i didn't see brought up is that prior to fnaf 2's release, people were calling the toy animatronics the 2.0s (freddy 2.0, bonnie 2.0, etc); i vividly recall seeing this kinda thing in for example youtube titles speculating on the game trailer and whatnot lol
Baby's name was revealed at the end of the FNAF World halloween update of all places before we even knew what she looked like, which is why she had no fan nicknames before SL came out
I remember calling Moon “Moondrop” before the game came out.
FNAF is a testament to how language forms around things that need to be referred to and even without official names get something just because we need to talk about it
I think we often forget the original 4's names were originally placeholders of some sort before Scott *essentially* went 'nah these work' and, to be fair, he was right.
I love your bunny/ or rabbit avatar so much dude
11:40 my guess on why it's just a nickname is because glitchtrap is likely mimic, more specifically the mimic1 program.
I know this one is unique compared to the rest you mentioned, but Mangle being originally "Toy Foxy" was another non-confirmed name the fans created when talking about this game. Then Scott went with "funtime foxy" in fnaf world, then called a completely seperate character "funtime foxy" as well just to confuse us all.
JJ: joyful Janet
Here are some suuuuper creative names that the fnaf franchise has had just so you can see how lazy we are (and scott is) at naming things:
phone guy
phone dude (wow much different!)
purple guy
pink guy (who was literally the same guy!)
mustard man
tape girl
crying child
foxy bro
bonnie bro
balloon boy
ball boy
brow boy
red bear
yellow bear
yellow rabbit
the blob
There are others but these are the ones I could call from the top of my head and its so funny!!
I can't forget the times before FNAF3 was released when the hispanic fanbase wrongly translate Springtrap name into Trampa de Primavera (They translate the spring part as literally the season.)
after seeing the new scott interview i cant believe after all this time scott is actually taking the time to name characters BEFORE the games come out
When you think about it, the name Mr. Cupcake just implies that Cupcake is his last name, so I’m choosing to believe that his first name is Carl
Same here
Yeah. I feel like it would be a nice take one things. 10-% using that tbh
i rlly wish malhare was the one that stuck for glitchtrap cause it’s cool as hell
Anyone else remember when Toy Bonnie was called Bonbon before the game came out?
"Puppet Master" was also a pretty popular name for the Puppet back in the day. Some people also called them "Jack" (as in Jack in the box), although it was a minority.
2:38 Nah nah, I think I get it. His full name is Carl the Cupcake. Therefore, formally he would be referred to as Mr. Cupcake.
We love our man Frank the Hotdog
I'm surprised you didn't mention the "Eclipse" as for the glitched arcade version of Sun and Moon! 😄
Great video, just wanted to add Phone Dude in there cuz i miss him
Frank the hotdog... interesting choice of name
Ngl sometimes I still slip up and call Afton Vincent on occasion lmao
i seem to remember the toy animatronics being referred to as "new ___" before the game came out and their real names were revealed in the custom night screen
Frank! Absolute legend!
Was kinda hoping for part 2 of characters best and worst merch but this is still an absolute w video
Springtraps Salvage nickname takes me back, i remember that being the most popular back in the day