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- $FNAF and young audiences: is this how a new generation enters horror?
Friendly reminder since this thread is about young fans: keep links and recommendations age appropriate. Thanks for keeping it kind.
- $FNAF and young audiences: is this how a new generation enters horror?
I think the real gift is that kids learn horror can be fun and social. They watch playthroughs together and scream together. That is exactly how I started, just with a different game.
- $FNAF and young audiences: is this how a new generation enters horror?
My niece has been obsessed for three years. That is long term in eleven year old time.
- $FNAF and young audiences: is this how a new generation enters horror?
Healthy skepticism: a fandom this young can arrive fast and leave fast. I would want to see heat hold outside of launch windows before calling it a generational shift.
- $FNAF and young audiences: is this how a new generation enters horror?
This is the part I find most interesting as a signal. $PPPT shows a similar shape: heavy YouTube, lighter news.
- $FNAF and young audiences: is this how a new generation enters horror?
As a small analog creator: those lore channels taught a whole generation to look for clues in static and grainy footage. Part of my audience comes from there.
- $FNAF and young audiences: is this how a new generation enters horror?
Honestly the security camera loop is pure haunted house. Watching rooms, waiting for something to move. A very classic idea wearing a pizza place costume.
- $FNAF and young audiences: is this how a new generation enters horror?
It is the perfect gateway because the scares are mostly jump scares and tension, not gore. You get the adrenaline without the bad dreams.
- $FNAF and young audiences: is this how a new generation enters horror?
My niece is eleven and she can explain the FNAF timeline better than I can explain my own job. It is very impressive and a little alarming.
- $FNAF and young audiences: is this how a new generation enters horror?
I buy the dip on legacy franchises, and $FNAF is the rare one that feels like a legacy franchise to people under sixteen. A lot of younger fans met horror through animatronics, not through slashers. C…