What If 5 Nights At Freddy’s Was Real?
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Nights at Freddy’s has become an internet phenomenon since the first game launched in
2014.
Since then, countless people have been scared silly by the creepy and murderous animatronics.
Thankfully, these freaky robots exist only in our imaginations, but what if they didn’t?
Let’s explore.
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Now get ready, it’s time to ask the question: What if 5 Nights at Freddy’s was real?
It should be noted that there are roughly, oh, a billion theories about 5 nights at freddy’s,
which would have various implications on this video.
However, since they’re just theories, I’ll focus on the main premise of the game, with
animatronics at a children’s restaurant coming to life and attacking the security
guard.
In reality, it’s highly unlikely that the events of Five Nights would have happened,
for a few reasons.
For one, the odds are slim that the previous security guard would be so chill about the
moving animatronics, especially knowing that they are dangerous.
He likely wouldn’t say “Oh by the way, they like to move,” but rather “GET OUT
GET OUT NOW, WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THERE THEY WANT TO KILL YOU!”
Not only would the past security guard act differently, but the new guards definitely
wouldn’t be so blasé about the apparently murderous animatronics.
Going to work on the first day is understandable, it seems like it would be a wonderfully cushy
job.
But once they learn that they have limited power, and the animatronics move, and they
want to kill the guard, most people would bail immediately.
Not to mention that they’d be doing all this, risking life and limb, for freaking
minimum wage.
Most people wouldn’t do this job for a million dollars, let alone 120 dollars.
There’s desperate for money, and then there’s straight up suicidal.
One way to explain this happening in real life is the sunk cost fallacy.
This states that when someone has already spent resources on something, they are less
inclined to leave it, since they feel their efforts or resources would have been wasted.
In this case, the person had already made it through one night, so they had already
spent time on the job.
The sunk cost fallacy would say that they wouldn’t want to quit and give up the pay
for the first night, and would finish the week in order to receive their pay.
However, I think most people would agree that the cost that was sunk the first night would
not even be close to enough to convince a sane person to risk their life for a second
night, let alone a 5th or 6th.
However, let’s not forget the fact that children keep dying at these establishments.
And they keep opening, these establishments.
Especially today with the internet, news of this would spread like wildfire, and there’s
a pretty good chance that there wouldn’t be any new locations springing up anytime
soon.
If Fazbear was linked to the murder of children in any way, it’s pretty safe to assume that
Twitter wouldn’t let anyone forget it.
There is, however, another thing to mention.
We know from the games that the animatronics come to life at night.
If 5 Nights at Freddy’s was real and they started attacking people at night, the suits
could simply be grabbed and destroyed in the daytime when they aren’t moving.
There’s a good chance that this would release the souls of the children thought to be inside
the suits, and it would stop them from attacking others.
Rather than either working all the nights or leaving, the security guard could have
recorded them moving, shown the authorities, and had the suits destroyed the next day.
Or he could sneak in and do the job himself.
This wouldn’t necessarily end the problem, but it would be a pretty good start.
There are other things that could be done to make it safer for the security guard.
For one, the doors could be naturally closed, and not require power to keep them closed.
Because that’s a really stupid way to make doors work anyway.
While we’re at it, why not just make it so that the security guard doesn’t need
to rely on a limited power system anyone?
I don’t care about the power budget, if the company wants to save money just destroy
the murderous animatronics that you keep around for whatever reason!
And now we return to our question: What if 5 Nights at Freddy’s was real?
Well, there’s a pretty good chance that the establishments would be shut down.
With public outcry following the killings, not to mention the inability to find someone
who will go on a suicide mission for minimum wage, the company likely wouldn’t last very
long.
However, if the owners had any brains at all, they would change the needlessly dangerous
work environment, or better yet, destroy the suits for good.
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