"Five Nights at Freddy's 1 Song" by The Living Tombstone (FNAF 1 Song)

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About

Five Nights at Freddy's 1 Song or FNAF 1 Song is a song by YouTuber and musician The Living Tombstone based on the game Five Nights at Freddy's. The song was published to YouTube in August 2013 and went viral over the following years, garnering over 250 million views by 2023 and becoming a viral sound on TikTok. The song inspired the FNAF Beatbox meme in 2021. The song has also become the subject of numerous remixes and covers over the years, including a big band version similar to Frank Sinatra songs known as "FNAF Sinatra" in mid-2023.

Origin

On August 31st, 2014, YouTuber^[1] The Living Tombstone posted "Five Nights at Freddy's 1 Song," a FNAF inspired song, garnering over 293 million views in nine years (shown below).

We're waiting every night
To finally roam and invite
Newcomers to play with us
For many years, we've been all alone
We're forced to be still and play
The same songs we've known since that day
An impostor took our life away
Now, we're stuck here to decay

Spread

Throughout the late 2010s and the 2020s, the song became popular on TikTok,^[4] garnering over 343,000 uses by 2023. On October 31st, 2019, YouTuber^[5] BonBun Films posted an SFM using the song, garnering over 7.1 million views in four years (shown below, left). On January 22nd, 2023, YouTuber^[6] MrDarkOmega01 posted a Twitter sings video of the song, garnering over 986,000 views in five months (shown below, right).

FNAF Sinatra / FNAF 1 Song (Big Band Version)

On December 12th, 2020, YouTuber^[2] Coda posted a big band version of the song that features a singer who sounds similar to Frank Sinatra, garnering over 3.4 million views in three years (shown below).

The song became notably popular on TikTok in May throughout June 2023. For example, on May 30th, 2023, TikToker^[3] @orcabite posted a video using the track, garnering over 3.4 million views in two weeks (shown below, left, additional example below, right).

FNAF Beatbox

FNAF Beatbox refers to a viral video of a TikToker in a yellow shirt sitting in his car and beatboxing to The Living Tombstone's FNAF themed song "Five Nights at Freddy's 1 Song." The video was uploaded to TikTok in August 2021 and went viral, inspiring numerous videos under its original sound. The video saw an increase in popularity around December 2021 as an exploitable on YouTube.