Has Five Nights at Freddy's Affected Children's Psychological and Mental Health? Let's Talk About It.
Five Nights at Freddy's is a very popular horror-themed video game that came out in 2014 and was made by a man named Scott Cawthon. Since the game's release, as well as practically a dozen more games after the first one, Cawthon retired in 2021. Five Nights at Freddy's originally was about a security guard who was hired to watch over animatronics from 12 am to 6 am. The voice recording giving you instructions on how the game works mentioned that the animatronics get a bit "quirky at night". I was about eight-years-old when the game released, and I watched YouTubers play it until I eventually got it myself. On the surface, the game seems like just a regular ol' horror game about surviving the night while these animatronics are trying to kill you. Pretty standard. What isn't standard is the lore in the series. One of the most basic parts of the lore, something you learn at the very beginning, is that the animatronics aren't just robots. The animatr...