For me it was around the end of 2014 and seeing a Markiplier video

You have every right to judge.
2020
Why?
Gacha.
Then i got interested in the original games and lore and left the gacha part of the fandom. God i remember the gacha videos and don't rly like those anymore

Glad you escaped the gacha

You escaped from the pit of hell that is the gacha fandom

To be honest, 90% of thr fandom is a pit of hell. I still feel embarrassed knowing that 2020 me believed that glitchtrap was williams twin.

rip

good job leaving

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i saw the 2018 matpat timeline.

my friends really like it and so i decided to watch some gameplay on youtube. it was too scary for me at the time. a little less than year later, i saw someone playing it in class, and they got jump scared and it was funny. after that i decided to try to play it. it was too scary again (i get scared easily, but not as bad as before), but it wasnt scary for me to watch youtube videos of it. so yea, im a little late to the party, and i still havent played any games except the 1st one, but i enjoy the community and know all the lore.

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I was genuinely terrified of the series until I watched Markiplier's playthrough of FNaF 1, afterwards, I was converted...

in 2014

that is kinda a simplified version of my story, but instead of Markiplier it is Biju Mike

I got in last year, I learned about Purple Guy but that's it

Eventually I learned more this year

my friend kept referencing fnaf back in 2016 I believe, then I slowly jumped far deeper into the pit she had been and it slowly took over my life 😭

Nice and I see what you did there

I didn’t mean to do what I did there tbh 💀

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2014 from "how to make fnaf not scary," which went viral. That let to Markiplier let's plays, and then matpat, with the lore that really got me interested

How to make fnaf scary was kinda good

I can hear the opening music in my head right now

Yes

I think it was when I got a hold of YouTube
After that, everything ✨️changed✨️

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Roblox games kinda took the scary mess away like TPRR but I still like scary

Tprr is the best

say, it's 2018ish. i stumble upon a fnaf video, and my dumb brain clicks on it. i was genuinely terrified that freddy fazbear was going to find me if i didn't go to bed on time, but now that i'm more mature, i've been invested since 2021

2015, I accidentally clicked on a markiplier video, and I became interested in the fandom.

around 2016, I was watching Minecraft animations on my Kindle fire, when I found this animation channel called Zamination, which had a couple of really cool animated music videos I had randomly found

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Ahem "Hello Everybody my name is Markiplier"

Being fascinated by the games on the AppStore when i was four, i got to play the real game two years later, i read the freddy files and book and skip seven years later im still a part of the fandom

Interesting

When Help Wanted came out, so liiiiike, 2019

Cool

uhhhhhhhhh
I think when I asked my mom if I could watch YouTube and not YouTube kids anymore…
Or
It was Roblox but idk

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2019 and it was FNAF 4.

Idk why or how but i know all the lore and everything somehow

I joined in 2016 after a Youtuber I liked at the time posted a highlights video of them playing the games from FNAF 1 to SL

I just played the first game and decided to look up more about it and saw really cool things, and things I wish I could unsee.

I know how you feel about the last part 😭

Off and on for a while until finally settling in when I was 10-12 (3-5 years ago depending on which)

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I knew about FNAf for a long time(First seeing it around 2014 to 2015). I started watching FNAF videos around the release of Security Breach. Security Breach was the first FNAF game I played and I really enjoyed it. I have since played almost all the FNAF games.

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i first saw it when I was like seven
my cousin was playing the first one [maybe freeroam i'm not sure] and Chica didn't even jumpscare him she just kinda appeared 💀
But I really got into it about four years ago from Markiplier's bite of '87 meme and FuzionZGamer's fnaf videos

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