The FNAF NFT Scam is Getting a Game (Kandyland)

mascot horde that newfangled little term that everyone is throwing around nowadays we have FNAF poppy playtime hello neighbor Garden of ban ban and a bunch of other fan games that are trying to start their own franchises we're getting more and we're gonna keep getting more whether we like it or not that's right mascot is getting another brightly colored face to capture the sub goldfish attention span of the iPad kids snack time wait a second Susie's snack time poppy playtime snack time play okay then even though Candyland just got an early development trailer in early April it and the person behind it have already been pretty well known on the internet in both good and bad ways enough YouTube intro aim let's dive into the history of the most infamous FNAF fan project ever made the story of Candyland starts with the YouTube channel golden Lane Studios it was created on April 26 2010 by someone named Roman and it was originally named JS Machinima its first video was a teaser for a silent hill mod for Half-Life 2. so the guy behind this channel has been invested in horror from the very start as we can see after this they made some various sfm horror game animations until they discovered and made an animation on a very influential game in November of 2014. I bet you can guess exactly what that game they must have had some success with that first FNAF video because the next video that they made was a concept trailer for FNAF 3 and guess when they posted it and guess where it happens to take place November 18 2014 one week after the release of FNAF 2. today it's sitting at a relaxed 16 million views so I think a couple people may have watched it as for the setting of this supposed FNAF 3 it's a Freddy Fazbear Mall Complex this trailer was extremely high quality for the age of the channel and the success of this video shows you where the rest of the story might be going JS wanted as much of that massive FNAF Pie as they could get so they made FNAF animations the main focus of their Channel and it worked the animation that he made directly after the fan made trailer got over 30 million views and almost every one of the 29 FNAF episodes that they made over the years has Millions if not tens of millions of views over time the animations increased in quality as more and more FNAF games and characters came out alongside them the JS Machinima Channel became the single largest FNAF animation Channel and it was safe to say that they had a bright future ahead of them if they kept it up sadly what I just said wasn't exactly 100 safe to say right in the middle of 2021 things really started to slow down for the channel they had switched to Unreal Engine 5 for their animations instead of Source Filmmaker better known as sfm and the animations were looking better than ever but it wasn't enough the SCP back rooms and FNAF related videos consistently started getting less than 1 million views for the first time in years JS was facing the challenge that many other YouTubers dread the situation where they needed to change up their content soon or else they would slowly Fade Into Obscurity same thing just wasn't going to work anymore they made actually a couple of official animations for Apex Legends in Call of Duty which one would think should have helped their Channel receive some much needed exposure but it just didn't work on June 3rd 2022 a back room's animation was uploaded that sits at 142 000 views today an extreme low point for the channel although that's not that bad all things considered this appears to be the push that really inspired JS to start working on something different on August 19 2022 the Candyland Twitter account posted a short but extremely polished animation of a partially built animatronic face coming to life two days later a dancing silhouette of what appeared to be a finished version of that same animatronic face was posted saying five hours left after the countdown ended candy the new face of Candyland was shown in his full Glory he was a kangaroo animatronic who looked like a mix of candy see the name similarity and Funtime Foxy from the original FNAF series what is this new project that they're starting with these animatronics is it a fan game or like a short film another animated series like they were doing on their YouTube channel hashtag nft okay I know people are sick of hearing about nfts so if you don't want an overview of what an nft is Skip to this timestamp but I really think it's important to understand what an nft is for what I'm about to tell you so here we go when people heard that Candyland had a line of nfts they immediately assumed that it was a scan and I completely understand why by now you probably already know that nft stands for non-fungible token fungible means able to be replaced and non-fungible means individual non-replaceable for example if you wanted the original microphone that Freddy Fazbear holds in the FNAF movie you probably wouldn't be satisfied with a microphone of the same model you specifically want the microphone used in the movie because it's specialty that microphone would be non-fungible it's the only FNAF movie microphone making it valuable to some people that is essentially how an nft works when you buy an nft you digitally become the official owner of some digital item like a picture for example of course people can just screenshot it if they want to look at it but like a painting it's the official ownership of the official real thing that makes it special why do some people think that all nfts are a scam because the many fiascos involving big YouTubers cryptocurrencies and nfts like Logan Paul and I show speed which always turned out to be poor Investments at best and downright scams at worst because of the rocky history of big nft projects run by YouTubers it's easy to understand why people would assume that this is a scam but what is the end goal that this project is using nfts to fund it's Susie snack time making her very original looking debut with her very original name with her very innocent design there's a very loaded future but this character that I'll get to very very soon on October 14 2022 the first video of the animated Candyland series was posted to YouTube and it received a lot of attention mostly because of the sheer quality of this animation it shows candy the kangaroo performing then going backstage to what looks like his charging pod a mysterious man wearing a mouse mask comes in and does something on a laptop in the room that causes Candy's eyes to turn red and start to malfunction whatever the mouse man had tried to do didn't work as intended because it says firmware update failed candy walks back to his performing area but it's empty and he continues to glitch out as his eyes turn even redder or more red I'm not kidding when I tell you that these are Moody levels of quality when it comes to the visuals five days later Tuki toucan was revealed on Twitter and on November 5th Mr Smiles made his grand entrance and it was announced that all of the characters had been revealed now it's time for phase two if you thought that things seemed a little off in phase one you haven't seen nothing yet on October 3rd a dedicated Susie snack time channel was created just over a month after the character was revealed on Twitter the way that Susie was designed was just a little too perfect for YouTube shorts and tick tocks and golden Lane definitely knew that with the way some of these videos are presented the content is completely family friendly as far as I can see but the character design mixed with the titles are intended to get certain people's attention in a certain way and that's all I'll really say about that and this carried over to the full episodes which heavily featured Susie instead of the main mascot in episodes three and four she kneels in front of a lonely kid with a stuffed rabbit in a back room her mouth falls off in front of the kid and tension slowly builds as the kid asks if she's okay in this video a really cool and interesting aspect of Susie's character design is highlighted she has a mouth but it doesn't move at all meaning that her facial expression pretty much always Remains the Same even when she speaks you using her voice box and this character design really clicked with a lot of people since the channel for Susie's snack time now has over 400 000 subscribers on November 16th they announced a grand opening that allowed those who interacted to have a chance to win a Golden Ticket which I must say is some very clever Willy Wonka theming for a project called Candyland after this it was just four nfts of different variants of the four main characters like Queen Susie snack time Christmas candy and Susie with a rainbow sword for whatever reason huge amounts of people were complaining about Candyland in the comment section though because they wish that these fantastically designed characters and amazing visuals in the videos could be used for something more substantial like an actual game for example Roman and their team are insanely talented at what they do and it really is a shame to see them use those talents just to sell expensive pictures when they could be making more money by making more Interactive content episode 3 came out on YouTube on March 17th of 2023 showcasing Tuki the toucan doing his thing with playing cards after he gets done with his performance he heads backstage to see Susie standing there still missing her mouth as she twitches and stares at Tookie what on Earth am I saying right now she holds the toy that belongs to the girl that she talked to in the previous episode but there's no sign of the Girl episode ends with her saying there is one big misconception about the nature of the Candyland nft project these nfts exist to help fund the Candyland project they aren't Roman's main goal here they aren't the project I understand why some people think it's a scam like vexidus and his videos about the series and I think I'm pronouncing that name right but scam or not the Creator is actually trying to make a product with these characters not just digital pictures [Applause] now we're here at 8 23 floor of an abandoned Mall Complex her mouth detached from her face again and she suddenly boots up puts on her mouth and looks around showing Susie looking around curiously like this in the beginning of the trailer makes it seem like we might actually be playing a Susie in the game which would be an interesting choice we hear voice lines from someone who sounds almost exactly like the hand unit from the FNAF games but they wouldn't do as they were told but as my brother once said fixed with a little smile and apparently his brother said that anything can be fixed with a smile as we see Mr Smiles jump into the action we see a doorway and glowing red eyes appear in the darkness behind it along with a hand holding out a lollipop to us the rest of the trailer shows us stunning shots at other locations of the mall and there we are this is the product that all the nfts and thirst traps existed to fund it looks very similar to security breach and setting and animation little callback to their FNAF 3 concept trailer though hopefully it's a little bit less over ambitious than steel wool was the characters are well designed the story is written the characters act and it's safe to say that the visuals are going to be breathtaking no matter what the whole hand unit voice and the my brother is now an evil robot who used to be the co-founder of this place is disturbingly close to the plot of FNAF but they could still surprise us with the story it's just unfortunate to see that Candyland has taken the low road to fund their project because it's just not a good look for their reputation and the slightest now we're back to the question that I asked at the very beginning is this going to be a disappointing and low effort cash grab split into 10 chapters with 30 minutes of gameplay in each one I feel like this will either end up being really disappointing or it will exceed our expectations dramatically it could end up being exactly what security breach should have been if done right but there's the biggest issue it doesn't have to be done right to make money as proved by Garden of banban and Poppy playtime it really only has to please the kids who like seeing YouTubers play it and the visual is cool enough to buy a Susie playtime Snack Time Candy plushie thing with the derivative nature of the characters and Concepts mixed with its questionable methods of raising money you can't blame people for their reluctance to get their hopes up for Susie's snack time of Candyland hey I know you aren't here to hear any more ads than necessary but if you like my content and want to support me I would really appreciate it if you became a channel member the first tier is only three dollars a month and it makes sure that I see your comment and it gives you a special member badge as well but if that's not for you that's fine you've already helped Enough by watching as long as you have thank you so much for watching bye

Channel: Johnny the Night Guard

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Length: 13min 47sec (827 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 23 2023