You ever think about taking a crack at FNAF? Or do you think MatPat has already split the whole ordeal open?

I have more intense empathy and understanding for MatPat at this stage in my life than I ever suspected. On that note, I have more empathy with YouTubers in general now than I ever thought I would.

I imagine MatPat has spent as many hours trying to punch answers out of the wall over FNAF as I did glaring at the ceiling attempting to make sense of Marble Hornets for nights on end. He’s had a much more difficult stressor, though, which I didn’t; at the time he began his journey, he had an audience… a massive audience. I only gained my audience after delivering the majority of my Marble Hornets series.

MatPat has suffered the extreme hell of bearing viewers’ expectations of him being the storyline-cracking messiah for Five Nights at Freddy’s, and I don’t wish that on anyone. I imagine at this moment, he’s having the insufferable time of trying to shake off the nagging truth that everyone expects a FNAF World video out of him, and he just doesn’t want to make it, because Scott Cawthon really kind of laid it all out there this time in his own way of saying, “I just can’t stand to keep caving to the pressure anymore.”

I mean, the insane amount of people who went to the comments section and yelled, “UNDERTALE THEORY!” when there wasn’t much of anything in Undertale to fully theorize over resulted in him creating a video that has been widely laughed at, harshly attacked, and generally dismissed. The Undertale video didn’t need to be made, but similar to the FNAF vids, the sign-carriers outside wouldn’t stop yelling.

MatPat has done a lot of theory work and made a lot of connections, and he ought to be recognized for the pieces he put together. He also deserves a full month’s vacation from anything having to do with critical thinking and video games in the same box. But has he put together the end-all, be-all video covering everything from beginning to end in a master theory video? No. And, on top of that, there’s just so much to talk about when it comes to this series that isn’t really Game Theory domain.

And here I sit, itching at the thought of talking about it with our own community, those things that nobody else is really discussing that need to be given an autopsy and examined.

So, yes, I have absolutely thought about it. But like everyone else who is sick of the smell of burnt pizza from 1987 wafting through a crack in the wall every couple of weeks, I just want the entire nightmare to be done and over and all out in the public before we take a crack at it. All the games, announced and released. The novels, published. The teasers, over. When all we have left is the movie and official merchandise, and we’ve had two weeks or so to air out the internet, I’ll walk down to the morgue with my best robot disassembly kit and take all of you guys along with me for the night.

If I do make a video, it’s going to be one video. Only. One. Video. All the things, all at once, take no prisoners, leave no survivors. And then we’re running out of there as fast as we can.