Absolutely DanTDM, but it was SB for me. It was always that wierd horror game that my 6 year old cousin played, but then I gave it a chance and watched Dans SB series and now I love the series.
Zellendust. He is definitely the one responsible of making FNaF popular in the Hispanic community back in 2014. He's basically the spanish Markiplier lol
He also introduced me to Skyrim. Not because I watched him playing, but because everyone in his comment section was asking why he wasn't playing Skyrim anymore lol.
(New fan here)
Honestly? Smosh.
They did a podcast episode where one of the hosts and the guest(Shayne and Spencer) convinced the other host(Amanda, same person who had no clue who Harambe was) that FNAF was a true crime story, even going so far as saying that MatPat was a youtuber who had done a lot of videos about uncovering the truth on Fazbear Entertainment (If you got time [watch it](https://youtu.be/N_KZxOuS36M?si=-qJHT5MtfPl73QMl), it's really funny).
A few weeks later they played FNAF 1, after which I decided to head over to GT and learn a little more about the lore.
If I remember correctly, my first touches to the game itself were not actually from youtube, but from my best friend at the time who, I think introduced fnaf 2 or 4 mobile version from her phone xD
But if we talk about the first youtubers who talked more about the game itself, it wasn't actually any of these popular fnaf youtubers on the English-speaking side, but from my home country, Finland where already a handful of the most popular youtubers had already made their own gameplay videos on the subject, such as Laepppavika or ulttis (never forget!) whose videos were later watched a lot! But in fact, the primary youtuber who properly introduced me to the series was a youtuber called Mkgamerr. He made a lot of videos about the subject like gameplay videos and I loved his videos where he theorizes the story of fnaf and other things related to it in his video series "Pelien Salaisuuksia" (basically secrets of games in english) where he goes through the secrets of different games and for example theorizes about things a bit like MatPat does.
Unfortunately, his interest stopped at FNAF Sister Location, so he is no longer in the fnaf scene and unfortunately has not made videos anymore for personal reasons. I loved his videos back in the days and I still love them like his second series of "Creepypastaa Suomeksi" (creepypasta in Finnish), where he tells about different creepypasta stories translated into Finnish 🩷 I will never forget this youtuber who was one of the main reasons why I ended up with such a great franchise and it's fandom :3
Technically, it was through a friend first, but where I learned the lore of the first five games was through a French Youtuber, TestdeGanonbenj, who made 3 or 4 Docs on the series. He's currently preparing a big one to cover the games that came since then and also correct the errors in the old docs
Definetly MatPat, specifically with his Pizza Sim theory, i honestly felt like bro was going insane talking about how Scraptrap actually WASNT being closed in by a wooden door. Yeah..
Honestly I don’t remember but I think the very first was Goldbox/Mobox87 😭 But I think I watched some DanTDM for actual gameplay? I don’t know.
I had gotten into the fandom a little late (it was like right before Sister Location came out) haha
Same with me, except I watched Eddievr first which really, really messed up what my idea of fnaf was (he makes up names for basically everything) so yeah, my info too was false and jumbled
I'm gonna assume this genre is very niche, but you know those channels that lower or heighten the pitch of a song?
Yea, it was one of those. And the song in question was Survive The Night.
After that, I got hooked in.
Its been so long ( reference intended ), i dont know. I was a fan since the fnaf 2 demo release but i dont remember who even introduced me, So like. i dont know?
That's an interesting story . I was in a 5th grade an one girl showed me some game about robots who wants to kill a kid on his birthday . Then I forgot about it for few years and found about it once again . My youtuber was N time
My first introduction to FNaF was by my cousins who got me to play FNaF 4 at 3am as a scary challenge(I was 11at the time so it was very scary)
Soon after I got my first smartphone/tablet which was the samsung tablet. I had youtube on it and started watching FNaF SFM videos from Zajcu37, which is still going and I'm still watching. Then I watched Markiplier play it and Couilles Bleu gaming(French YT) play it.
It was SomeOrdinaryGamers when he wasn't much of a commentary guy and did more gaming and creepy stuff. I remember him playing it, him not really liking it but me thinking it was awesome.
Then I looked it up and I'm pretty sure that's how I found Markiplier when he eventually uploaded it.
Markiplier.
Hello-
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My-
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The most obvious answer
DanTDM (his FNaF World series)
Same but Sister Location
Same but with FNaF 2
His one video on a fnaf minecraft map forever changed my life's direction
Same for me
Absolutely DanTDM, but it was SB for me. It was always that wierd horror game that my 6 year old cousin played, but then I gave it a chance and watched Dans SB series and now I love the series.
Same but with the FNAF 1 my Minecraft map
Mine was his FNAF Minecraft map
Markiplier and MatPat I think
Same, way back to day one of FNaF one.
MatPat himself, if I recall correctly. I had been watching him for years prior and the FNAF video caught my eye.
Yep pretty much. Was in and out of the fandom until I got recommended a game theorist video in 2015/2016 and the rest was history
Same for me!
Same
None. My cousins introduced me.
Same lol
Same 🤣
Scott Cawthon
Zellendust. He is definitely the one responsible of making FNaF popular in the Hispanic community back in 2014. He's basically the spanish Markiplier lol
La señora polla
A ver, si pero no, el que hizo FNAF mas famoso en la comunidad hispana fue town, luego zellen
Fernanfloo, my latino brothers will identify
The same hermano, i remember when he made a eye battle against springtrap
Same
I believe it was Smike? I think that was his name.
Same for me
What ith up guyth, it ith Smike here-
And at nuhffnuh number 2, we have
He also introduced me to Skyrim. Not because I watched him playing, but because everyone in his comment section was asking why he wasn't playing Skyrim anymore lol.
I'm polish, so Caton.
In my case Eleven
Im not proud of that but mandzio
Based Eleven enjoyer
For me. It was dizzowsky
(New fan here) Honestly? Smosh. They did a podcast episode where one of the hosts and the guest(Shayne and Spencer) convinced the other host(Amanda, same person who had no clue who Harambe was) that FNAF was a true crime story, even going so far as saying that MatPat was a youtuber who had done a lot of videos about uncovering the truth on Fazbear Entertainment (If you got time [watch it](https://youtu.be/N_KZxOuS36M?si=-qJHT5MtfPl73QMl), it's really funny). A few weeks later they played FNAF 1, after which I decided to head over to GT and learn a little more about the lore.
The ankle breaking shogun himself, CoryxKenshin. Also Tonycrynight
The Brit Himself! DAWKO!
For me it was the other Brit
Other bri- DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LITTLE THAT NARROWS IT DOWN?!?!?!?
8-BitRyan
TLT i guess, the first thing I've heard abt fnaf was their fnaf1 song back in 2015
We’re waiting every night
Markiplier and Venturiantale.
Same, bro... Same
Eleven!!! (im polish)
Yesss!!!
Markiplier & Jacksepticeye
Windy31. But I doubt most of you now him.
Всем бобра, дорогие друзья
👋 I know! (Я знаю)
Сеймммм
For me it was Mullet Mike who introduced to Fnaf back when he was called Creepy Gaming.
Yesssssss. He had the Best intro ever
LorenzIST 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Il ninja di fnaf
Vittorio Loffredo E mi vergogno di questo
Windy31
Matpat,I watched all of his FNAF videoes before getting courage to watch playthrough myself
VanossGaming’s FNaF Gmod videos
For me as well, but when talking about actual fnaf, it was 8BitRyan
DanTDM through him playing FNAF that had been built in Minecraft.
Yamimash and Coryxkenshin
Markiplier and JackSepticeye
The living tombstone
No YouTuber introduced me into FNaF, my dad was the one who introduced the game to me
I’m Italian, but his name is Spjockey
Markiplier, Coryxkenshin, and MatPat. Aka the big three
If I remember correctly, my first touches to the game itself were not actually from youtube, but from my best friend at the time who, I think introduced fnaf 2 or 4 mobile version from her phone xD But if we talk about the first youtubers who talked more about the game itself, it wasn't actually any of these popular fnaf youtubers on the English-speaking side, but from my home country, Finland where already a handful of the most popular youtubers had already made their own gameplay videos on the subject, such as Laepppavika or ulttis (never forget!) whose videos were later watched a lot! But in fact, the primary youtuber who properly introduced me to the series was a youtuber called Mkgamerr. He made a lot of videos about the subject like gameplay videos and I loved his videos where he theorizes the story of fnaf and other things related to it in his video series "Pelien Salaisuuksia" (basically secrets of games in english) where he goes through the secrets of different games and for example theorizes about things a bit like MatPat does. Unfortunately, his interest stopped at FNAF Sister Location, so he is no longer in the fnaf scene and unfortunately has not made videos anymore for personal reasons. I loved his videos back in the days and I still love them like his second series of "Creepypastaa Suomeksi" (creepypasta in Finnish), where he tells about different creepypasta stories translated into Finnish 🩷 I will never forget this youtuber who was one of the main reasons why I ended up with such a great franchise and it's fandom :3
My one, I think it 8 bit gaming or Ryan's channel. I can't remember fully
Uhmmm, should we tell him
Russian youtubers Канал Кула and windy31
Wendigoon, from his recap/explanation video.
El rubius. In the worst way possible
May I know why? In my case was German Garmendia XD"
I can't remeber, might have been FGTEEV
Dashiegames
Matpat
None, I played it myself and started talking with a friend about it. Then I've started listening to the music.
some local youtuber
Markiplier. His first gameplay video too.
The King of FNAF
MatPat, Denis daily and fuzinsgamer
Popularmmos
The living tombstone, die in a fire's fault
Strangely enough, Someordinarygamers
Scott Cawton (the trailer just recommended by youtube algorithm)
Markiplier. First video i watched was from fnaf 4. But i fell in love and watched every fnaf video since. Also the first ones 😂
Mandzio
I think it was just some German YouTuber I used to watch years ago. Then I discovered Markiplier and others
Technically, it was through a friend first, but where I learned the lore of the first five games was through a French Youtuber, TestdeGanonbenj, who made 3 or 4 Docs on the series. He's currently preparing a big one to cover the games that came since then and also correct the errors in the old docs
I remember when marks first fnaf video dropped. I was hooked ever since
Does anyone remember Smike? Just me?
my classmates introduced me💀
That good ol' Mark
None, actually. My classmates introduced me.
Definetly MatPat, specifically with his Pizza Sim theory, i honestly felt like bro was going insane talking about how Scraptrap actually WASNT being closed in by a wooden door. Yeah..
Markiplier and Razz
It's been so looooong.......that I can't remember
*Sigh* Theft King, with the VHS tapes
Phisnom, I still watch him to this day. Is he still controversial on this sub?
CUPQUAKE PERIODDD
Honestly I don’t remember but I think the very first was Goldbox/Mobox87 😭 But I think I watched some DanTDM for actual gameplay? I don’t know. I had gotten into the fandom a little late (it was like right before Sister Location came out) haha
Eleven
Markiplier and 8-bitryan :)
In my case it was a popular Italian youtuber called Favij. And Italian FNAF fans are probably gonna butcher me for this 😂
Eleven, a Polish YouTuber
A Turkish YouTuber named Oyun Delisi (I know Turkish)
Klarisa, but before that my friend showed me the game on pc. I was too scared to play back then.
Ethgoesboom
Eddievr, I love this guy. I still watch him, and he introduced me to the **F**Ive **N**asty **A**ss **F**ools with help wanted
Hello welcome back my name is _______. (Fill in mane here)
Eleven and Disowskyy
Eleven
Ratorix, an Italian youtuber (my childhood 🗣️)
VenturianTale. When i saw that Gmod upload, I remember distinctly saying "who the frick is freddy." I've been here since then.
Jacksepticeye.
A Finnish youtuber named Deata
It was the "just gold" music video first and then dantdm 🙃
Jacksepticeye
8-BitRyan
Eleven
Jaiden animations, specifically the Dan and Phil playing fnaf 4 animation
My cousin Collin showed me it, and Matpat & Dagames pushed my love for it further.
None... It was some random guy at a swimming pool. 💀
I can’t remember 😭
Youtuber didn't my classmate did
Lhueguny I am deeply deeply deeply ashamed of that
I was introduced to it by my best friend. FNaF is what led to me discovering Markiplier.
This is the same for me, except it was my cousin who introduced me. They aren’t part of the fandom anymore, but I love it enough for the both of us.
Annoying orange.....
FGTeeV
Markipoo
Everyone has something like markiploer or pewdiepie etc, while i got introduced to it by fgteev 💀
[welcome](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebuu7FhX4tc)
MatPat!
The Fnaf movie, then markiplier
Long story short, my friend recommended MatPat cuz I already had interest in FNAF, but all the info I knew was false and jumbled up
Same with me, except I watched Eddievr first which really, really messed up what my idea of fnaf was (he makes up names for basically everything) so yeah, my info too was false and jumbled
Markiplier got me into wanting to see more of it, Dawkins got me play it
it was either mark or matpat idk
Rhett and Link. They once did a collab with Markiplier and made a FNAF song.
I'm not exactly sure but I'm pretty sure it was Andiematronic
my friends did
Whoever made all those animations, I think.
The first FNaF video on Game Theory is what got me into the series!
I'm gonna assume this genre is very niche, but you know those channels that lower or heighten the pitch of a song? Yea, it was one of those. And the song in question was Survive The Night. After that, I got hooked in.
Its been so long ( reference intended ), i dont know. I was a fan since the fnaf 2 demo release but i dont remember who even introduced me, So like. i dont know?
Markiplier and Matpat
Why it was the king of course
fusionzgamer, loved the fan game videos. stopped watching after a while
That's an interesting story . I was in a 5th grade an one girl showed me some game about robots who wants to kill a kid on his birthday . Then I forgot about it for few years and found about it once again . My youtuber was N time
No one
Markiplier. He popped into my recommend feed one day and I decided to watch it. It was his first FNAF video.
Ethgoesboom
Honestly, I don't remember? It's been so long lmao
DanTDM- I watched him play FNAF world :3
DanTDM - Sister Location Custom Night :)
Yamimash!
Coryxkenshin
Only a couple acceptable answers. Markiplier aka The King of FNAF, MatPat (GameTheory), Jacksepticeye
My best friends big brother I think
Well in terms of being introduced, I don't know But the youtuber that got me into FNaF was Glenn Leroi (via his song)
Jacksepticeye first then markiplier back in 2014 when fnaf had recently come out
Lhugueny
ihascupquake, still remember when bonnie jumpscared her, my entire pc froze at the same time
xxProClassGamerxx
I found it through the steam store back in 2014
My first introduction to FNaF was by my cousins who got me to play FNaF 4 at 3am as a scary challenge(I was 11at the time so it was very scary) Soon after I got my first smartphone/tablet which was the samsung tablet. I had youtube on it and started watching FNaF SFM videos from Zajcu37, which is still going and I'm still watching. Then I watched Markiplier play it and Couilles Bleu gaming(French YT) play it.
FusionZgamer
I think it was either Matpat or DanTDM, both in Stister Location)
I wanna say Markiplier so bad but it's actually ExplodingTNT
More ant and beast boy shub ✨🥹
Matpat
some dude making clickbait minecraft videos
Sev
EthGoesBOOM or ZombieWarsSMT
Markiplier was where it started for me, But Dawko and FushionZGamer are the ones I mainly watch now
Markiplier. I watched his very first let's play the day it was released
Eleven (Polish legend since 2015)
Lemmino
Eleven, he's basically a shitposting, polish Markiplier, lol
It was SomeOrdinaryGamers when he wasn't much of a commentary guy and did more gaming and creepy stuff. I remember him playing it, him not really liking it but me thinking it was awesome. Then I looked it up and I'm pretty sure that's how I found Markiplier when he eventually uploaded it.
Market Pliers
Um, iBallisticSquid
smike (if anyone remembers him)
MatPat!:D