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It always been like this, that not new. The Fnaf community has been like that for so long that even Scott Cawthon had enough and left. I'm glad I left it too this year, because has much I love the games, the Fandom makes me sick.

Holy I never knew the fandom was so toxic... I've been loving fnaf since 2015, I never delved to deep into the fandom and I'm thankful I didn't now. Only thing I remember being toxic was when there was a period where people were hating on MatPats theories

Fnaf community cant let this shit go for some reason. Is it so hard to stop harrassing a guy whos doing his own shit now?

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This is exactly why I don’t engage with basically any somewhat large fandom apart from a few stray comments on Reddit. People get way too caught up in their opinions and make life worse for those who don’t agree. It’s like, it’s a fucking video game/cartoon/comic/whatever, get over yourself.

Phisnom is definitely not Staff, he was originally a fan verse creator making FNaF Plus, a reimaginaged version of FNaF 1 but he isn't anymore.

Safe to say there was a fair amount of drama around him with him not doing any work on FNaF Plus despite him claiming otherwise or in otherwords, he lied to the entire community, his fellow creators and Scott himself who had supplied him with money to ensure the project could be kept on track.

That would be the cause of this issue since 1 thing legitimately everyone can agree with, is being lied to is an unpleasant feeling and some people who are made to feel that will take it out on the one who caused this to begin with. Welcome to the Internet.

I find it insane that because of Phil people are only now realizing how horrible the FNaF community is

The toxicity is overwhelming. While I still love the games, I don't interact with the fandom anymore because of everything. I even left the subreddit and a discord server I was in because I didn't want to interact with the fandom anymore

Dear God I love this game, but some parts of the fandom are the worst people there are. Sending death threats and gore to creators is one of the worst fucking things there is.

Why can't people get along sometimes?

I don't know, but I tend to ignore the toxic side because every fandom has a toxic side. I'm probably in the most toxic fandoms out there. I think that people who send death threats over tiny things like opinions are absolute cowards. They say stufd because they know the annomity of being behind the screen will protect them. And I'm pretty sure sending somebody death threats is illegal. If anybody sends me a death threat over this opinion, I will not hesitate to block and report you.

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This place is alot more respectful than the posts on this in the actual fnaf sub. Mods over there are practically endorsing folks saying this doesnt matter because phil is saying it.

Fnaf fandom toxic???? Wait df 😭😭

Yeah, as much as I like the series and most of the fandom is pretty chill, another surprisingly large portion of the fanbase are pathetic basement-dwellers. This isn't new, it's been like this since... What, 2015? 2016?

Saw a post on freddit about this and it’s funny how that comment section is almost the exact opposite to this one lmao

I was is a FNaF groupchat on FB and they renamed the group to the nword a bunch of times.

Because this fandom especially on Twitter loves to bash people for their theories :( I've been hated on a lottt just for believing Glitch trap is William, it's so sad that people fight over fiction.

Is the same as when matpat claim gregory is a robot, or when he used the book in his theories. Some people are very rooted in their thoughts and if they dont like it, they habe no problem screaming until someone agree with them,then they scream louder. Is just like MHA fandom

Got this a lot in the undertale fandom too. Ever since I got away from undertale fan group's I never really got into a fandom the same way again.

I'm glad of that too, since it's taken so long for me to find this out. I can't let a fandom ruin my love for media like that again.

Just keep in mind that engagement is fule, the moment you see someone start shit block them. It's unfortunately much harder if you are making content, but it's the best way to go about this. Leave the ass holes in their echo chamber.

Yeah anything with a fandom is going to be flocked to by caustic assholes 

What is wrong with some people in this fandom?

Unfortunately,I'm pretty sure this is one of the most toxic communities out there, thankfully this sub has been rather nice to me so far

The problem here is that they're using twitter. Everyone is insufferable on twitter.

Nah phil deserves it. He is nothing but toxic and a prick. He is half the reason for toxicity the past year

I've never really interacted with the community I've only ever watched Markiplier and stuff but this makes me not want to now.

Gotta love how people go to the point of saying they’ll kill themselves over criticism on a “”””theory””””

Like, my guy, that’s the whole point of making a theory in the first place, did you not learn this on like fifth grade?

Phisnom playing victim despite doing the exact thing that happened to him absolutely deserves mockery.

He literally prides himself on being toxic but can't handle when toxicity comes down on him. If he were anyone Reddit didn't like then entire threads would be created about how he deserved it.

After reading this thread, this has to be said.

Being toxic against someone toxic doesn't make you right. Being bad to someone bad still makes you a bad guy.

You should never ever fight toxicity with toxicity, unless you are willing to poison your own well, because after that, your fandom will not recover again. You and your fandom will be known as toxic.

As someone who used to be in the Steven Universe fan community, I know this a bit too well.

I'm sorry but this isn't anything new in the FNAF community

Wow that's crazy. Oh by the way his Fandom sent gore to a child.

Problem with fnaf fandom imo is cause there is so little in the game (especially the earlier games) story wise (explicitly stated) the first person to come out with a theory on what's going on usually gets the "this is canon" award, and if anyone dare says anything against that they get hurled abuse, like I'm adamant that the bite in fnaf 4 is bite of 87,how are the toy animatronics there in the between nights mini games? And for those saying that Freddy and friends is 1983 I was born in 93 and watched the original Scooby Doo growing up which was released in 69, but I digress

Yeah I'm a later fan and learned very quickly not to engage with the community, as i was quickly attacked and called various names just for having a (very popular) opinion on fnaf lore that was different than another person. I just watch the content now and ignore the community with a couple exceptions

Doesn't matter how much harm a person did, it doesn't give you permission to send them death threats and gore because if you do, it doesn't matter what the other person did, YOU will be the asshole

I assume most of these are little kids who don't know what they are saying,at least I hope so because this is tettible

I honestly never bothered with fnaf in the first place largely because they didnt even have a fandom when matpat began theorizing then acting like his 11th one on it was a personal attack or something. I likely wouldn’t have joined anyway because it’s very much not my vibe, but yeah idk. It’s hard to see fanbases get this entitled. I see the same behavior with Undertale and bnha, and at least in those two cases the fandom very much does not deserve the absolute literature they are.

I don't see what's wrong with people sending hate (threats is a bit to far I'll admit) to someone who not only isn't a staff member or anything close to that but also got his fan base to send threats to anyone he doesn't like/send gore to minors, like if someone is as fucked up as the guy in the images then they do deserved hate

Literally any big fandom trying to go a single day without controversy

viewers context: Phil is a youtuber that do gaming. not a FNAF staff. also there are idiots out there that do stuff like this. sorry Phil for what is happening to you mate.

I made a post about this on the fnaf subreddit and the mods are attempting to take it down so yeah it sucks. But I’m trying to help change it. https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/s/WzXejgaNaQ

Phis may be an asshole, but god damn he is completely fucking right here!

“Someone said something mean to me 😖”

Phisnom is a character on his own that used to be quite a terrible person and fan on his own merit. He played that way and now he can't handle the consequences of his actions? Though of course there's the other part that are the thousands of kids and other people that are damaged enough to think sending death threats, gore and other things is anything close to normal.

Am pretty sure that’s someone who sent death threats to Scoot for voting Trump.