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Old FNAF Fandom Was Odd
Apr. 28th, 2025 03:25 pmSo, for those who remember the old days of Five Nights At Freddy's fandom, you know it was pretty diffrent from what it is today. Now, I'm not really deep in any fandom nowadays. I've personally grown tired of fandom drama so I try to avoid it like the plague. But I'm not here to talk about that here. I'm here to talk about the period of time where the main fandom activity in the FNAF fandom was make gijinkas + make up backstories for them.
Now it wasn't the only activity obviously, theorizing was popular since the first game. But How we theorize and ingage with the games has changed. Now this is partly because over the years Scott & now Steel Wool has added a lot more lore and actual charactization for the charcaters for FNAF. Back when before 4 or 5/sister location (depending on how you count them), there wasn't actually a lot of charactization for the characters or even setting. It very much feels like Scott was just throwing spaghetti at the walls and seeing what sticks.
Back then, people went buck wild with this. They would design gijinkas or anthro designs, make up their own bullshit characterization, and make stories semi-set in pizzarias & just go wild with what the story could be. Anyone who's been here for a while knows no-canon-characterization couldn't stop hundreds of people from having shipping wars with the bots.
Now not everyone loved this. I vaguely remember there baing hate for FNAFHS (which I get, but also I was one of the ppl who loved that series regardless). And now that kinda fan interaction has gotten a whole less popular unless you're going selfshipping with mostly the Daycare Attendant ngl.
To be honest I kinda miss old FNAF fandom. Yes eventually the series would need to do new stuff with itself and yes, this would naturually change fandom. But I can't help but have nostalgia for the fandom I grew up watching too many speedpaints for.
Now it wasn't the only activity obviously, theorizing was popular since the first game. But How we theorize and ingage with the games has changed. Now this is partly because over the years Scott & now Steel Wool has added a lot more lore and actual charactization for the charcaters for FNAF. Back when before 4 or 5/sister location (depending on how you count them), there wasn't actually a lot of charactization for the characters or even setting. It very much feels like Scott was just throwing spaghetti at the walls and seeing what sticks.
Back then, people went buck wild with this. They would design gijinkas or anthro designs, make up their own bullshit characterization, and make stories semi-set in pizzarias & just go wild with what the story could be. Anyone who's been here for a while knows no-canon-characterization couldn't stop hundreds of people from having shipping wars with the bots.
Now not everyone loved this. I vaguely remember there baing hate for FNAFHS (which I get, but also I was one of the ppl who loved that series regardless). And now that kinda fan interaction has gotten a whole less popular unless you're going selfshipping with mostly the Daycare Attendant ngl.
To be honest I kinda miss old FNAF fandom. Yes eventually the series would need to do new stuff with itself and yes, this would naturually change fandom. But I can't help but have nostalgia for the fandom I grew up watching too many speedpaints for.
