Golden Freddy

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Golden Freddy is a character from the mascot horror video game Five Nights At Freddy's (FNAF). The character, who is also known as Yellowbear in FNAF game files, is a prominent character in the Fazbear Fright series in which he appears as a ghostlike character with no eyes and a rusty golden exoskeleton. Golden Freddy memes include the Golden Freddy Scream. In 2024, Kanye Golden Freddy Comparison memes were notably popularized on X.

Origin

Five Nights At Freddy's was released on Steam on August 8th, 2014. The character Golden Freddy is featured in the first video game as a secret antagonist, under the filename "Yellowbear," where he can be seen wearing a black bowtie and a tophat similar to Freddy Fazbear.

Golden Freddy may appear when the player views a Freddy poster on the wall, often following the player back to the office and displaying the message "IT'S ME." The FNAF 1 Golden Freddy jumpscare is shown below.^[1]

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On June 6th, 2019, YouTuber^[4] Dark Taurus posted a video showing the evolution of Golden Freddy's character through the various FNAF titles, gathering over 8 million views in five years (seen below).

Golden Freddy's mysterious backstory in the FNAF game series made the character a prominent subject of fan theories in the community. Well-known FNAF YouTuber MatPat made a series of videos exploring fan theories about Golden Freddy, including a September 12th, 2020, YouTube^[2] video posted by The Game Theorists titled, "FNAF, We Solved Golden Freddy!" The video gathered over 10 million views in three years (seen below, left).

On November 5th, 2022, The Game Theorists posted a video^[3] titled, "FNAF, Golden Freddy NEVER Existed!" gathering over 6.8 million views in two years (seen below, right).

Golden Freddy Scream

On August 13th, 2014, YouTuber Zumb^[7] posted the earliest known video showing the Golden Freddy Scream from the first FNAF game, gathering over 1 million views in ten years (seen below).

Memes comparing videos of people screaming to the Golden Freddy Scream have been a popular trend on TikTok since 2023, with TikToker^[5] @knifegunner posting a clip of a Chinese gamer playing Crossfire on July 4th, 2023, and comparing his scream to Golden Freddy's, gathering over 3 million plays and 400,000 likes in a year (seen below, left).

On February 27th, 2024, TikToker^[6] @the_rand0m_account posted a video of Don Pollo yelling, comparing his scream to Golden Freddy's and gathering over 60,000 views and 6,000 likes in six months (seen below, right).

Black Guy Doing The Golden Freddy Pose

On February 6th, 2024, TikToker^[9] @micahdaileywhite posted a video captioned, "When Y'all Both Have A Common Enemy." THe video shows the TikToker mimicking the Golden Freddy Pose, sitting up with his head tilted, his mouth open, and his hands laying by his sides palms up.

The screengrab came to be used as a reaction meme online, as seen in a September 7th, 2024 post on X^[8] by user @RockWitNoRoll, who gathered over 88,000 likes on a post captioned, "How it feels to drop all the combos you practiced in a real match."

Kanye West Golden Freddy Comparisons

Kanye Is Golden Freddy, also known as Can I Have the Nitrus Today, refers to memes and jokes connecting rapper Kanye West with the character Golden Freddy from Five Nights At Freddy's. The memes were popularized by leaked iMessage chats shared on X / Twitter by Kanye's former Chief of Staff Milo Yiannopoulos, showing a purported conversation between Milo, Kanye's dentist Dr. Thomas Connelly and Kanye (aka "Ye"). Many internet users posted memes and jokes about how Kanye's contact photo in the iMessage conversation is Golden Freddy from Five Nights At Freddy's, and how Kanye followed up a message sent by Milo about the ill effects of nitrous oxide use by saying, "Can I have the Nitrus today." Yiannopoulos was seemingly inspired to use Golden Freddy as Ye's contact image after seeing a meme posted by the X account of the subreddit /r/GoodAssSub.