Back in October of 2014, one fateful decision changed the course of this channel and my life forever.

Hey Twitter, time for some scary theories. Which of these guys would you rather see a Halloween theory on?

Slenderman or this new game Five nights at Freddy's and the rest is history

five nights at Freddy's became synonymous with the channel ten years later we still have yet to touch

slender but what if things had turned out differently?

What universe lies behind the other choice?

What episode got lost to time?

The freak accident that killed Aftinside.

I'm back to finally put the original Fnaff Tetrology

to rest today in Solnacht. Oh, Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the smartest show in gaming.

And welcome to our very spook-tacular Halloween episode.

Earlier this month I put out a tweet asking you what franchise you wanted to see covered.

The results were close.

So close. But in the end,

Slenderman won out by a single vote. Good thing too, because I had no idea what I was

going to say about that weird spooky bear game. Now it's been about two years

since our Slim Shadyman first hit the scene and in that time we've been distracted with plenty of Harlem shaking and flappy birding.

So in case you've forgotten, let me catch you up.

Slenderman is basically the grand pappy of horror here on the interwebs.

Even though the game released in 2012, the character actually dates all the way back to June of 2009

when Eric Nudesen, under the screen named Victor Surge, hosted these two picks of a deadly figure

photo bombing some kids as part of a spooky picture contest. In the caption

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