Working out the exact date when the studio was closed

Watching SHB’s latest Bendy video, I was perplexed when he said that the studio was closed in 1959, because that date has never been stated anywhere in canon. After some digging, I found that some enthusiastic wiki editor put that date on the Bendy wiki. That’s probably where SHB got it from.



Of course, that date is only some wiki editor’s personal headcanon. It’s not official. I assume they got that date by making an assumption that Joey Drew Studios closed down exactly 30 years after it opened.

I would have dismissed it as yet another case of wiki editors posting their headcanons as canon on the wiki, if it weren’t for one little detail, which actually makes this date seem much more valid: the record in Joey’s apartment has the date 04.02.1958 on it.

If those are the same ritual items mentioned in Wally’s audio log, it means that the ritual had to be performed after 04.02.1958, so the studio must have survived at least up to that year, if not longer.

And seeing as The Unknown’s audio log is from 1948, either he was secretly roaming around the studio for 10 years (Bendy?) or he was human at the time of the recording (Nathan?).

EDIT: This timeline would also imply that none of the ritual items belonged to Thomas, Allison, Sammy, or Norman, since they’ve all been gone or dead by that time.

