I know I’m posting this on my jokey alt account, but i atleast wanna get through one month being away from this site on my main. That aside, I need to talk about this. Where do I even begin??

I’m sure most of you here know about this, but if you haven’t, I’ll explain. Some people found a record of Scott’s donations. If you aren’t aware, Scott is well known for donating quite a lot to...well a lot of causes. Mostly charities when it comes to fnaf shit. But Scott does do political campaigns as well. Now, that isn’t really all too surprising. But, what got people talking was certain donations Scott made towards uh....republican figures of the sort.

I’m not gonna give my personal viewpoint on figures such as mike McConnell because I personally don’t feel like it’s necessary to force my political beliefs into this. That and I don’t really care all that much about it. Now, if you aren’t aware, one or two of these figures Scott made donations to have made uh...advances towards the lgbtq community. And not positive advances either.

naturally, twitter set about tearing the man apart. Classic eh? I personally didn’t know how to react at first. Ive had this problem with mob mentality sometimes where I’ll immediately go “oh yeah this person sucks fuck them aha” without fully understanding this situation. This doesn’t happen often, but it does happen occasionally. But here, I was pretty split. It’s sorta like Black Lives Matter to me honestly; I can see why people are fighting for this sorta movement, while also see people’s legit criticisms with it too.

so, I was pretty hesitant to make a post about it at first. Twitter was pretty split. Some defended Scott and stood with him, while others went “yeah I don’t like Scott”, some didn’t feel comfortable supporting him knowing that their money could potentially be going to people looking to do harm to certain communities (which i can understand) while still saying Scott wasn’t a bad person, and some tried full on doxing him. This is where the line is drawn.

it doesn’t help that scotts wife is currently pregnant as of writing this, so it didn’t help that dipshits were trying to threaten scotts familys life. Doxing isn’t going to help things, it’s only gonna make things worse.

scott made a post about all this on Freddit, the FNaF reddit if you couldn’t tell. I wasn’t sure what to think. I didn’t know how to feel. Some parts i could see, while others i had a difficult time understanding. Still though, it didn’t seem like much change conversation wise. Some more discussion about this situation....until we got the newest scottgames image.

when I saw this image, I knew I had to make a post about it. I mean, this is a franchise, which, although as much as I may think it has flaws, and how much I dislike the general community, I appreciate. And i like. A lot.

in this post, Scott clarifies that he’s retiring from developing the series to focus on things outside of fnaf mostly, such as irl life and maybe even returning to rpg development (which i could actually be really into). I feel like this whole drama was just a final bomb, and it was a sign to Scott that the minute had come for him to pack his bags, hand the series off to someone else, and just keep doing what he’s doing.

I saw a thread from Kane Carter (fnaf news reporter lol) about this, and in it he says that he believes that the fanverse was an early way to start his departure, giving people the money to carry on this franchise, to give people inspiration to make their own projects. And honestly, even if Scott may not be actively crafting the story, there’ll still be someone out there willing to put together the pieces. Maybe even shift them into their own tale.

as I’m writing this I’m still trying to gather my thoughts about this. I had a bit of feeling something might happen like this, I just wasn’t expecting it to happen so suddenly. A part of me does think this might be another fnaf6 excuse to take some time off, but honestly, I don’t think so. I mean, why else would he show an 8 year old’s fanart in an image? How does that make any sense outside of a final goodbye note?

I don’t really know how to end this, so I’ll end it with this:

• if you support Scott and believe he was good intentioned, I totally understand. Even if Scott isn’t perfect, he’s a good person and i really do hope he does recover from all of this.

• if you don’t feel comfortable supporting Scott after all this, again, i can understand. Even if i may feel like people are just assuming Scott consumes the same amount of media as the rest of us, i can see why it wouldn’t feel comfortable knowing that money could possibly go towards people you may not be comfortable with.

• if you make jokes at the expense of scotts family or actively threaten him, fuck off. Seriously, fuck off. I am a little lenient towards jokes, sure, but actively threatening him??? No????

apologies if this post seems a little disorganized. It’s currently just turning 12am as I’m writing this (haha I’m starting a new night), so I’m a little tired right now.

maybe I’ll keep scrolling through twitter and all the thank you artwork, the subverting expectations jokes which thank something else scott (which are pretty funny in a fucked up kinda way), and just “haha fuck Scott” posts. Or maybe I’ll go to bed and wait until tomorrow. Who knows.

regardless, I really do have to thank Scott. No matter how I may think of you after this, I really do gotta thank you. Fnaf has been a franchise that, while a little embarrassing to admit i like yes, it’s a franchise that basically made me create an account here. And look where I am now! Still nowhere pretty much, but hey, I don’t feel nearly as much of a pussy posting here now than I did in the past!

anyways, have a good night/day/whatever everyone. I’m not good with endings so uhhhhhh....hmmm how should I end this. Oh I know!

Yeah it’s a gif of a fire. Ysee i chose this bc it reminds me of Fazbear’s fright burning down in fnaf3. And sadly, I think that fits quite well right now.

alright, good night.