When I was 9 years old I discovered the trailer to a fnaf fangame I've never heard about before. After watching the trailer I instantly fell in love with the game for its graphics and how unique it was. That fangame was JOLLY 3.

Fast forward almost 8 years later, I am 17 years old, a Junior in High School, and witnessing the fate to the fourth installment to my favorite fangame series I had been waiting for for almost 4 years now.

I pretty sure everyone who's reading this already knows what happened to J4 but for those who don't; controversy happened with the co-director, whom of which I will talk about later in this post.

Jolly 4 was probably my most favorite upcoming fnaf fangame ever. Every bit of information shared for J4 made me more and more excited for its release. From the point-and-click gameplay to the cast of characters to even the story made me more invested to this ambicious fangame. One of the things I was most excited for was the inclusion of a Hard Mode which, from the sounds of it, could have been the ultimate challenge of J4 and that made me determined to make a worlds first.

But, of course, not all good things can happen. Even as of writing this it still feels unreal that all of this happened. Once the Jolly server got taken down I knew that J4 fate was sealed, and I guess I was right. Though I'm not entirely sure if J4 is 100% cancelled as from the sounds of it there could be a slight it might return but I highly doubt it.

Lets talk about Weshek. For those who don't know he was the co-director, script writer, and composer or J4. It's still surreal to me that he did all this.

Whenever Weshek mentioned the contracts to us in the Jolly server I didn't really think too much about it. Considering how most of J4 is basically original content, besides some gameplay elements and the inclusion of Fazbear Entertainment in the lore, this game was basically an original game that didn't have to be a fangame, hence why I didn't think about the contracts that much. Even when VIP was announced I, once again, didn't think too much about it as I was under the assumption that the money would go back to the team, just like the BMC. (To think I was so close to purchasing a 6 month subscription lol)

What Weshek had done was dumb, stupid, and... well I can't say the other word on gamejolt (iykyk) but you get my point. However, I do not wish him ill will. Now, just hear me out for a second. Maybe I'm just too much of a nice guy but I want to see him improve. We're all human after all, including Weshek. I just wish that he takes this situation, reflect on all his work, and work to become a better person.

From my knowledge J4 is the first project where he took on as a co-director, project manager, and other duties he had besides script writing and composing.

Weshek, if you are reading this, I hope, for the love of god, that you actually take this situation and try improve yourself as a person, for you own sake. Take time to reflect, see what went wrong, and try not to do it again. I do wish you the best of luck with that show, but please do consider working on yourself.

The death of the Jolly server kind of broke me to some degree, but only for a short while. That server is where I met a lot of online friends and had some goodtimes and some badtimes (that's a reference btw). But if I'm being honest, I really won't miss it in the slightest.

The Jolly server was the server I was always active in. I was on there everyday for the past year and a half, almost 2 years if I'm being honest. I was basically terminally online just being in that server. But with it gone I started to feel some sort of... relief? Almost as if some sort of chain that had kept me there had been broken and set me free. So I guess, thanks Weshek for freeing me from the shackles that bonded me to that server, the shackles I could not free myself from.

Honestly this whole situation has been a mess. Even now with all the stuff that's been shown off I'm struggling to decide whether or not it waiting 4 years was worth it in the end but who knows.

Anyways, apologies if this post didn't make sense or just felt like some dumbass yapping about nothing for no reason. This might be my last post I'll ever make about Jolly, for now at least.

Well I've been talking to a brick wall so I'm gonna shut up now.

-Grim

Edit: I forgot to add this on eariler but to anyone on the Jolly 4 team who is reading this, I wish you the best of luck going forward. I'm looking forward to see what you guys make next, even if it isn't together.