#I feel like fucking Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar right now

[dukeofriven]

So Scott Cawthorn has announced his retirement for specious reasons (he wants to spend more time with his kids and is not at all upset at the blow-back that he financially supported traitors and monsters. Reagan was friends with gays and actively made the AIDS crisis worse, why can’t Scott fund the same level of harm and still be beloved?), and I just have to say:

The scope and scale of the FNAF fandom baffles and confuses me. I have been confused and baffled by it ever since a friend approached me for help because she found FNAF porn on her daughter's computer (just some really, really bad CGI gifs of smooth furry robots grinding), and I didn’t know how to help her... or entirely understand what help she was looking for, admittedly. (This ranks up there with the day my boss’ wife turned to me and asked if i knew what furries were.) I go forward now no less goddamn confused about what emotional fulfilment so many people were getting from the What If Chucky Cheese Murdered People game.

"Man FNAF was already there when I needed it-" People say, to my puzzlement. I played that game: it's you trapped in a badly rendered room with some cursory game mechanics and jump scares. How is this a deep emotional well of comfort?

But obviously my total fucking ignorance on the subject doesn't matter, because it clearly matters to these people anyway. Anyway, I just wanted to specifically say to all the fans bemoaning Scott’s retirement because of your love for the franchise and the vicissitudes of cancel culture (and this is not all of you): This is the dude who made the What If Chucky Cheese Murdered People game, why is this the cornerstone of your personality, why are you defending the bad behaviour of the What If Chucky Cheese Murdered People Game Man, what the hell is wrong with you?i Parasocial relationships are weird, y’all.

#Scott Cawthon #FNAF #parasocial relationships #I know the games have lore #I've seen the lore #it is as mediocre of the games #the jump scare games #THE CRUMMY JUMP SCARE GAMES #WHY ARE YOU LITERALLY CRYING ABOUT THIS MAN? #I feel like fucking Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar right now #This guy? This guy is your king? #this loser? #The gu ywho made the FNAF games? #That guy? Really? no seriously #REALLY? #Your king is the FNAF man? #WHY?