


Additionally, there was a void of new gateway/transitionary horror films and TV shows that could bridge the gap between family-friendly spookfests, and legitimate horror releases. Video game YouTubers often have young fanbases, so they were the first ones to be introduced to the games through their favorite content creators. Playing "Five Nights at Freddy's" (or watching playthroughs online) was the evolutionary next step of staying up late and seeing a midnight movie on TV. Tragically, the terrified tears of the little boy caused a short in the animatronic, triggering the mouth to snap close and kill the child.

The story focuses on a little boy with a massive fear of animatronics who was forced to attend a birthday party at the pizzeria, where his older brother tried to scare him by putting his head in the FredBear's mouth. "Five Nights at Freddy's 3" introduced Fazbear's Fright, a horror attraction built to capitalize on the real-life horrors and urban legends that surround the famed chain of pizzerias, while "Five Nights at Freddy's 4" is a prequel game that chronicles the "Bite of '83" tragedy, one of the many horrific "accidents" related to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

It was rumored that Afton used the kid-friendly allure of Freddy Fazbear to kidnap and murder five children, shoving their corpses into the animatronic mascots of the pizzeria: Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy. Fazbear Entertainment was co-founded by a man named William Afton, who is also behind the company Afton Robotics. Freddy Fazbear's Pizza was once a thriving utopia for family fun but is now a run-down, derelict shadow of its former glory due to a string of tragedies connected to the pizzeria.
