Five Nights at Freddy’s (FNAF) is behind your favorite TikTok trend

The animatronic monstrosities from Five Nights at Freddy’s inspire horror. The animatronic monsters from Five Nights at Freddy’s have inspired horror with their lifeless robot faces and jerky movements. This series of survival horror movies began in 2014. But these animatronic creatures do more than the occasional jump scare — they also allow people to make goofs about their cartoonish nature. Here’s a clip taken from the latest game. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security breach, has inspired a series of trends catapulting the game’s influence onto one of the world’s biggest video sharing apps, TikTok.

Five Nights at Freddy’s (FNAF) is a survival horror game series set in fictionalized restaurants similar to chains like Chuck E. Cheese. Freddy Fazbear, a giant animatronic bear, is the series’ mascot, and Security Breach introduced a new version of him that gives him an ’80s neon redesign. Glamrock edited audio saying that he’s a “material girl” has taken off on TikTok. ItsYourSampai uploaded the audio on January 5th. It has garnered over 105,000 TikTok videos, with some of the most popular being close to 2.6million views. The jokes vary, but many videos make fun of someone’s inability to save money, and spending too much.

The trend has reached a level of popularity where it’s being used well outside the fandom, with major influencers like Trisha Paytas using the sound for videos.

ItsYourSampai told Polygon over email that he made the edit because he was “bored” and got the idea after watching a let’s play of the game. Together with his girlfriend, he figured out how to edit a convincing impersonation of the bear’s voice using software called AegeanMusic.

The first edit he made was of Freddy telling the security guard that he “frew up,” a reference to a meme where people laugh at the idea of telling their mom they threw up. After he posted that, the requests came “flooding in” and he made more, including the “material girl” sound. The phrase, “material girl” references a previous TikTok trend that featured the track “Material Girl” by Saucy Santana. He also made other versions like another popular one where Freddy giggles and sings “Scatman” by Scatman John.

Original clip taken from the most current game. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach This shows the security guard finding the robot untethered. As the guard shines their light on him they say, “Freddy! You’re supposed to be on lockdown!” To which Freddy’s garbled digitized voice responds, “Officer Vanessa, I do not know how I got here.” In the meme, Freddy’s line is the one that’s replaced with a funnier line.

The Five Nights at Freddy’s fandom has been a driving sub-culture on TikTok since the early days of the app. In 2019, “Join Us for a Bite” by JT Music and Andrea Storm Kaden drove a trend where people danced and edited their videos as if they moved like the animatronic robots of the world. There are loads of trends — including another separate, dance trend where people dance like robots to a talk box cover of “Let’s Groove” by Earth, Wind, and Fire.

ItsYourSampai stated that the fans were delighted to hear the audio and share new memes. “I hope we’ll all be able to look back at these FNAF audios whenever the next game comes out with fond memories!”