You only hate it because its popular

> animatronics are obviously haunted from day one
> there are four dead kids and four animatronics, no fucking ennard, no special hauntable metal element, four dead kids
> phone guy is obviously killed by the animatronics, on the night that golden freddy appears
> phone guy was apparently around during the original murders
It's not concrete, but before the other games came out 1's plot was supposed to be cut and dry. Nobody would be dumb enough to leave a cliffhanger or unresolved plot thread on a game they thought they would never follow up, right?

Phone guy being golden Freddy always checked out sice, like you said, he only appears after he dies on the tape
But him being the child killer makes no sense. If the kids wanted revenge for their deaths and they killed the man that killed them, why are they still here?

Give me your best lore videos

I guess my thought was that they'd have no motivation to kill phone guy after he stopped being the nightguard unless he was their murderer, but I can see where that logic falls apart. Maybe it was open ended after all. Doesn't mean the series didn't turn into a clusterfuck eventually.

Does Yas Forums even hate it anymore? Seems to me the board just went through a phase of acting like it's this really cringey thing due to the fanbase and once that passed we were willing to admit it was a pretty cool idea.

It really started turning into a clusterfuck when times and dates were being thrown left and right

I still remember when the first game was a FOTW game this board couldn't stop talking about.

I don't hate it
but I wish scott would stop fucking around with it for one second to fucking make the desolate abandon

Well, that started with the first game and the "Bite of 87" silliness

I find it hilarious how the bite of 87 means nothing now in the grand scheme of all the other crazy shit that has happened in the timeline
The fact that there's a completely different bite that happened makes it even more irrelevant