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Harvey Randall

Five Nights at Freddy's Roblox game debuts by accident because series' creator 'approved a skin'—devs say it was a beta, then nuke its Discord over unholy NSFW content

An image of Freddy Fazbear from the as-yet-unreleased FNAF Roblox Game t-posing in front of a security camera with a threatening aura.

Five Nights at Freddy's, a cultural gaming giant big enough to have its own movie (that was apparently Just Okay, according to critics) has come to Roblox—wait, hold on a second, it's gone. Now it's in beta? Oh, but the beta's been "taken down for a few weeks." Err.

The whole thing was a comic misunderstanding according to the series' creator Scott Cawthon (thanks, IGN) who is otherwise retired after significant donations to right-wing parties brought him under fire from LGBTQ+ members of his fanbase. In a response on the game's subreddit, Cawthon writes:

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