Newspapers

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**Newspapers** are post-level objects that appear in *The Joy of Creation: Story Mode*. They detail relative events that happened outside of and are invisible to the player's experience in the game.

There are two newspapers for each memory, one after completing the level and the other in secret given to the player via Ignited Golden Freddy.

## **Bedroom**

The heading for the newspaper itself reads:

> "**NEWS - ENTERTAINMENT**
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> August 8th, 2016"
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And the headline for the story is:

> ***"TWO YEARS OF FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S"***
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> ***"CREATOR COMMEMORATES THE OCCASION BY RELEASING BRAND NEW BEHIND THE SCENES SCREENSHOTS!"***
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It references the 2nd anniversary of Five Nights at Freddy's which happened on August 8th, 2016, the time The Joy of Creation: Story Mode happens within, in the real world as well as the game world.

Below is another article that details nodes within a games studio, presumably Unreal Engine 4, the studio *The Joy of Creation franchise* is created in:

> ***"LEARN HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES"***
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This is the only newspaper out of the five memories that is fully intact.

## **Living Room**

The top of the newspaper is ripped due to the fireplace, making the category as well as the publish date unknown. All about the headline for the story that can be read is:

> ***"THE HAUNTED WOODS!"***
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> ***"INCREASED PARANORMAL SIGHTINGS NEAR THE COUNTRYSIDE SPARKS FOR A FULL INVESTIGATION"***
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It references the forest surrounding the area and that paranormal characters originate from it. Despite this anomaly, it wasn't investigated previously for unknown specimens, having one only struck in recent times.

## **Office**

The heading for the newspaper itself reads:

> "**NEWS - ENTERTAINMENT**
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> August 16th, 2016"
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And the headline for the story is:

> ***"CANCELLED! NEW FNAF GAME STOPPING PRODUCTION"***
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> ***"SCOTT CAWTHON ANNOUNCES THE CANCELLATION OF THE FIFTH ENTRY IN THE POPULAR GAME SERIES "FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S". FANS ARE TORN ON THE SUDDEN NEWS."***
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It references the cancellation of Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location which happens after Scott Cawthon's death in the game's last memory. Considering this happened eight days afterward, as the game's creator died on August 8th, 2016 in reality, the person who is canceling the game in question here is Michael in the form of Scott and not the actual Scott himself.

Below is another article that details a collection of games receiving negative views by a game critic noted to be mediocre with critique in itself:

> ***"RECENT GAME RELEASES CONSIDERED DISAPPOINTING BY SHODDY GAME CRITIC"***
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## **Basement**

The top of the newspaper is ripped, making the category as well as the publish date unknown. All about the headline for the story that can be read is:

> ***"DOPPELGÄNGER SPIRITS"***
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> ***"SIMPLE TRICKS OF THE MIND, OR SOMETHING MORE SINISTER?"***
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The text within the article states:

> *"'**A**ccounts of these strange apparitions, present all the way back since ancient egyptian mythology, tell chilling tales of ghostly doubles whose sightings usually precede horrible tragedies for the people whose faces they've stolen. We interview many who claim to have seen or experienced encounters with their own "evil twin."*
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It references the characters the player encounters of The Ignited and The Fallen and their true nature. It explains that they're all copies of the characters from the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, and that all who have had similar experiences have lived through a similar tragedy to the one the Cawthon family lived through, bar Scott Cawthon himself.

It also explains exactly how Michael's role in the story is to be Scott's "evil twin," pretending to be Michael Schmidt and copying the mannerisms of the character's creator.

## **Attic**

The top of the newspaper is ripped, making the category as well as the publish date unknown. All about the headline for the story that can be read is the headline and category:

> "**NEWS - U.S."**
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> ***"MAN FOUND DEAD IN HIS OWN HOUSE"***
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> ***"BODY FOUND BY LANDLORD IN RECENTLY REPAIRED COUNTRY HOUSE"***
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It references the death of Nick Cawthon, the game's protagonist, after he enters the Cawthon residence after an estimate of 20 years, and his corpse being found by his landlord, Tobias. This is made clear by the specification that the country house is repaired rather than charred and destroyed, as Scott's body would be absent within it due to Michael taking complete control of it rather than disintegrating it completely via the house fire, as well as the presence of a landlord.

Compared to the four other newspapers, this one is based on more recent events within the story.

This newspaper article is consistently misinterpreted as Scott Cawthon's body being referred to directly after the events of Attic take place. This is not the case, however, as Michael actually took over Scott's physical form, allowing him to parade around as Scott inconspicuously, and Scott actually died in a destroyed house instead of a reconstructed house. If the misinterpretation were the case, it would be more specific and state that a game developer was found dead in a burned house instead of using the generic term of "man".