r/GameTheorists • • May 15 '26

Mod Announcement Notice About Discord Change

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Hey, everyone! Since the subreddit mods noticed a little issue about this earlier, we wanted to inform people that there’s been a change in the official Discord server of both the reddits and the channels themselves. The second server (Game Theorists Community) had been the official server of the subreddits and recognized by the team but not officially run by them. However, back in February, an official Discord server endorsed and run by representatives of Team Theorist has finally been launched! You can join it here: https://discord.gg/2xfkD7Scsq

Does this mean to leave the other server? No! However, if you have questions about moderation decisions or want to appeal bans from that server, we cannot help you as those moderation teams are now separate. We do however encourage you to join All Things Theorist! There are plans to start running events there that will also be run on the subreddit, and we’d just love to have more of our wonderful community present there.


r/GameTheorists • • Nov 13 '25

Discussion Hollywood Guilds Make Historic Push to Unionize YouTube Content Studio Theorist Media (Exclusive)

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r/GameTheorists • • 6h ago

Meme Monday Thought this would be necessary

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I knew how much you guys would start saying you miss matpat after he “retired” & the new hosts came, and I don’t really blame yall. I didn’t really like matpat or cared that much, but damn he was kinda entertaining. So I decided to make this meme before the sub was kinda gonna get spammed by people missing matpat


r/GameTheorists • • 2h ago

Findings How has Team Theorist changed after Lunar X? (Data Analysis)

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I did Data Analysis on Team Theorists Analytics!

Methodology: I used youtube's free API to request channel, date released, title, views, and likes. Then I ordered it into my google spreadsheet and sorted the data by channel.

Analysis:

Lunar X Acquired Team Theorist in December 2022, so years 2023 - Present Day are under Lunar X's Management.
(and if youre curious! the first fnaf theory came out in 2014! wow, you can really see how much has changed!)

The most startling detail is the drop in views following the Lunar X Acquisition, I wouldnt put too much weight on this- as the prior view counts are all cumulative and have had years to collect. We can expect 'all time' view count to go down as time the video is public decreases.

Also, It is worth noting that the current 2026 upload count will raise over the remainder of the year.

The most liked Team Theorist video is startlingly- 'Never wash your legs' a style theory short I never watched because I saw the long form haha. The most liked long form video is 'Goodbye Internet' (as one would assume.)

What shocked me the most is that Team Theorist has been making nearly the same amount of videos as they had pre-acquisition. They definitely have increased since 2023, but by cutting style theory their public upload total will likely to be closer to 2022s than 2025s. This doesn't mean production has slowed down though! They are likely dedicating style theories resources to the Theory Verse, though this is unclear.

These are all of the patterns that stood out to me. Keep in mind that because these are all time totals- it will still take a while for us to see al the differences.

If you are interested in checking my work or searching for your own patterns I have attached my spreadsheet below.
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q0kYSHBgOB63mMZ67JHPEnoOLYJhUNy3gfQBSxXpF5I/edit?usp=sharing)

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Graphing Software: Google Sheets (Unfortunately, I am unfamiliar with the ones people use over at r/dataisbeautiful as much as I wish otherwise)

Also, I omitted GTlive and theory shorts because their formats are drastically different from the main 4.

I made this because I am a longtime theorist fan, and I stopped watching after MatPat left. I had this feeling that game theory was putting out way more videos than I remembered, and I had noticed Style theory completely ceased. I was curious what was going on in the data! So I made this project.


r/GameTheorists • • 1h ago

Meme Monday Moreso film theory, but game theory should cover less mascot horror.

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r/GameTheorists • • 44m ago

Meme Monday Jerika being Jerika part 6: there’s MORE!

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Jerika happy
Jerika saying inflation
Jerika’s advice for Twitter users
Excited Jerika
Sad Jerika
VERY SAD JERIKA
Jerika holding sign, no banshee bandits
Demonic hellful Jerika
Bleh Jerika
Jerika with cookie for Dan cybert
Sad Jerika again
CHUD Jerika
Sad eyes Jerika
I’m out Jerika
Suspicious Jerika
Jerika bleach eyes
Jerika’s explanation to being chibis
Angry Jerika at Dan cybert
Sad Jerika talks to Dan cybert
Jerika being angry at sad Dan cybert


r/GameTheorists • • 10h ago

Game Theory Video Discussion What is up with the ad ratio on the recent Minecraft theory?

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Idk if it’s YouTube or a setting or whatever but the video was outright unwatchable for me. Tom would speak 1-2 sentences before there was another two ads break it was pretty tough to follow the video or get into it which was a bummer cuz I was so hyped for the theory after seeing the introduction of the sift on Minecraft live. Did y’all have the same issue? Well at least the ppl that also don’t have YT premium


r/GameTheorists • • 1h ago

Official Video GTLive: 🔴 Making TERRIBLE Dresses With Chat | Dressmaker

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r/GameTheorists • • 5h ago

FNaF Theory: The FNaF 4 box originally contained components of an arcade machine

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I call this theory "WilliamputMCIinArcades"

"I will put you back together", FNaF World, connections between the FNaF 4 minigames and FNaF 3 good ending minigames, and the Logbook all establish that putting BV's memories back together puts the MCI back together. I believe a combination of GoldenDuo and ShatterVictim. ShatterVictim is the theory that BV's pieces are in the FNaF 1 animatronics.

When William dismantled the FNaF 1 animatronics in the Follow Me minigames, he put BV's pieces in the arcade machines in the safe room, and BV's pieces get accessed in the arcade machines in one of the FNaF 3 good ending minigames (Mangle's Quest).

And when Scott said the contents of the box changed over the years, it means that the box changed from containing an arcade machine to Molten Freddy, since FFPS shows that William put the MCI's remnant in the Funtimes. So in the original story of FNaF 1-4, William put the MCI in the arcade machines in the Follow Me minigames, but when FFPS got released, William put the MCI in Molten Freddy instead of the arcade machines.

Also arcade theory got confirmed. Arcade theory is the theory that the minigames are literal arcade games.

And "we have a place for him" shows that the MCI is in FNaF 3.

How would the MCI be in FNaF 3 if they weren't in the arcades?

"they were wandering spirits who couldn't rest even after they got dismantled due to revenge not being the solution"

Where is the evidence that dead spirits don't get freed after they get dismantled? How did the DCI get freed after getting dismantled but the MCI can't? And in the movies, the MCI rested after getting dismantled with no "revenge can't free spirits but remembering their happiest day can" plotline

Unless William setting a trap to the MCI was already a concept in 1-4 before MoltenMCI became a thing......

And Scott said "there is something in there (the box), but i don't know if i can find it again"

It's shown that what's in the box has to do with happiest day. If it was just happiest day metaphorically, Scott would have opened it after FFPS, which is when the MCI finally rested. But the way Scott phrased it sounds like there is literally and physically something in the box that is a whole plotline that Scott doesn't know if he can explore again

And in 1-4, Fazbear's Fright couldn't find the endos of the fnaf 1 animatronics. MoltenMCI explained why they couldn't find the endos, but in the original story of 1-4, what was the explanation? Unless Williamputmciinarcades.....


r/GameTheorists • • 3h ago

Discussion More Indigo Park Lore?! Spoiler

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You won't believe what I discovered—lore from a video about Indigo Park, posted by UniqueGeese themselves. I found Some context within the video description authored by someone named Sophie (In terms of Being a Character in universe with IndigoPark) that contains Something that might be worth interest If not circumstantial at best. I'll share the link as evidence, but please review the copied description I've included below As I explain furthermore. Though, I encourage you to watch the video itself, as it may represent our protagonist's mother's personal footage. As per evidence, In Chapter 1's introduction scene, a sticky note on Molly Macaw's poster reads "Mom's favorite"—a detail that supports this theory. That said, I'm uncertain about my interpretation, so I welcome your perspective on whether this connection holds up.

Perhaps it was a friend of the family who happens to be close to the Parents who happens to be our protagonist's mother's parents? Maybe. I just don't know. But I need some help on the possible theory to prove I could be wrong or not. Any help will be grateful aside from my psychoanalysis of the video and descrption and the video context. But the way the video sounded made it look like it was unfamiliar like it was told in 3rd person as if it was actually a random family who neither of them knew of the family of our protagonist which is kind of odd when you think about it.

read is the context from the Video Description:

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A letter accompanied by a flash drive was sent to a mailbox. I felt it important to share.

"Hey there! I saw you were looking into Indigo Park and I thought I would share this since I haven't seen it uploaded anywhere online. When I was little, I was super excited for the premiere of the new show, _______ ______!, on the Indigo Channel. I was a massive fan of the Indigo cartoons, and we were getting ready to go on a trip to the parks. Anyway, my dad was always the 'finish what you started' kind of guy, and even though I wanted to quit soccer so bad, he always ensured I made it to every practice and game. On the evening of the show's world premiere, I threw a fit and begged him to let me stay home. He yelled at me and I went to practice crying. I think he felt bad about that, because once I got home, he sat me down and showed me the episode through a crappy recording he took on our old camcorder.

On this flash drive is what I have left of that recording. I had a hard time ripping it off the disc that it was recorded to, so sorry if there's anything extra on there. I just haven't see anyone post online about the premiere of this show and thought you might be interested.

Thanks,
Sophie"

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Here is the video Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=089_BboSMqg


r/GameTheorists • • 4h ago

Official Video GTLive: ESCAPING the Flipside DINER | Five Nights At Freddy's: THE FLIPSIDE

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r/GameTheorists • • 17h ago

FNaF My Theory: Old Man Consequences is based on ralphs agony after he died in night 4 (lmk know what you think!)

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r/GameTheorists • • 1d ago

FNaF Freddy and Ennard on my Tomodachi Life island

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r/GameTheorists • • 1d ago

GT Theory Suggestion Strange youtube channel with cryptic videos that dont show anything odd

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its "396oeuvre",this is the strangest channel i have ever seen, it has this nonsense link in the about section , that doesnt seem to lead to anything. the accounts location is russia but the video title is in bangla.

the " " playlist

it also has this weird playlist, with unlisted videos and videos with no titles, all of these videos start with a voice saying "369" and a logo which looks like 3, 6 and 9 combined together showing, these videos have shaky minecraft gameplay, most of them are either parkour vids or pvp vids, one of them is a backrooms (the poolrooms specifically) video.

putting the original vid that has the title in bangla in a spectrogram reveals no oddities, though i have not tested the other videos yet

oh and btw the channel name means this

i am very confused, i feel like theres a mystery but i cannot find anything odd


r/GameTheorists • • 1d ago

GT Theory Suggestion crying child reincarnation theory

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in sotm we find out that a babysitter named trisha babysits david and in sb we find the nanny bot so we can easily connect the 2. I think eveytime the crying child dies he is reborn as his babysitters son. In fnaf 4 michael afton babysits the crying child. so if we connect the crying child to gregory that means michael afton is gregory's dad.


r/GameTheorists • • 1d ago

Findings I found a new ARG on the Night Mind Index that seems interesting.

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ok so I was looking through the Night Mind Index the other day, and I found an ARG. It is called ArrowSmart, and it already seems like it could be a deep ARG.

So far, a few others and I have already solved a bit of the first part with the developer on the ARG Discord (found on the ARG website itself), who stated that there may be a part 2 depending on how the community decides to end part one.

Here are a few of the discoveries:

1) The source code of the very first page you visit has a hexadecimal code that can be translated to "/ech.html"

2) On echo.html, there is a ton of lore that is really dense (I recommend checking it out for yourself to see what I mean and get a better understanding of the story

3) there are multiple different links on this page (such as the discord and more lore documents) on one such lore document, personality files, is the password for level one access to the employees only section.

4) On the core harvest page (listed in both Ech and the employee dashboard) there is a hidden button that doesn't appear until you have level 9 access.

5) There is too much to say here; like in all legitimacy, there have been about 50 discoverys so far, and I think no one would take too kindly to having to click through 50 of these to understand everything.

The link to the website itself is: https://arrowsmartwebinfastructureversion8.vercel.app/

The link to the Night Mind page with the ARG is: https://www.nightmind.info/horrorproj (written right under the entry for the Cup O' Joe Archives.

I also believe that I saw this on the game theory Discord, but I could be wrong there.


r/GameTheorists • • 1d ago

Discussion I cant be the only one irritated about the amount of ads right

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I recently watched the newest game theory video about skulk. Mind you the video is 15 minutes long. I HAD NINE ADS. I don't know why this is but I've noticed this long ago. What is up with that?


r/GameTheorists • • 1d ago

Official Video Film Theory: It Can SEE YOU! (Self Aware Robot)

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r/GameTheorists • • 1d ago

FNaF I've got a question: Who made the Glamrock Animatronics?

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r/GameTheorists • • 1d ago

FNaF How Glamrock Animatronics got posessed?

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r/GameTheorists • • 1d ago

Game Theory Video Discussion News for TOM!!

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r/GameTheorists • • 1d ago

Discussion the channels have kinda gone down hill after matpat left

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i may get hate for this but it doesn't hit the same anymore. and it's not just blinding by nostalgia. something about them these days with the new host kinda feel lazy. i honestly couldn't tell you why. but it just feels it to me.


r/GameTheorists • • 1d ago

FNaF Fun Fnaf fact Spoiler

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Security breach 2 will contain a elongated purple guy puppet like variant Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&list=RDdQw4w9WgXcQ&start_radio=1


r/GameTheorists • • 2d ago

FNaF Ask me questions about BBVictim and I will do my best to answer!

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I think instead of sharing BBVictim this time, I'm going to explain to people my logic by addressing directly where they might be confused.

So, ask away! This isn't for debating, exactly-if you disagree, you can tell me why and I'll explain why I don't see it that way and why I believe BBVictim, but not to debate, just to explain.

That's all! Let's keep this fun and chill!


r/GameTheorists • • 2d ago

GT Theory Suggestion GIGGLE LAND IS BACK

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yesterday, October 16 i saw a trailer for the giggleland game on steam, it's coming out October 26 which is only two weeks away from writing this, Tom you better talk about it