Freddy Five Bear / At Least They Don't Look Like Freddy Fazbear

About

Freddy Five Bear or At Least They Don't Look Like Freddy Fazbear, also known as At Least They Don't Identify As Freddy Fazbear, is a series of memes in which videos of people sharing problematic opinions, often videos by TikToker @daterightstuff sharing transphobic ideas, are interrupted by a person or character awkwardly ranting about Freddy Fazbear from the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, sometimes intentionally misspeaking his name as "Freddy Five Bear." The meme was started in July 2023 by TikToker @xenontf and went viral in January 2024 as other TikTokers began posting similar videos.

Origin

On July 29th, 2023, TikToker^[1] @xenontf posted a Stitch to a transphobic video by TikToker @daterightstuff where he says, "Teach your boys to become men before their teachers teach them to become women," in which @xenontf interrupts the TikToker after he says the phrase and says, "At least they're not being taught by Five Nights at Freddy's" and goes on an awkward rant about FNAF lore, almost mispronouncing Freddy Fazbear as "Freddy Five Bear" in the process, garnering over 2.4 million views in six months (shown below).

The TikToker continued to post similar videos over the following months, often as Stitches to the same TikToker. On October 6th, he posted one of these videos to TikTok^[2] that garnered over 3 million views in three months (shown below, left). On November 5th, he posted a video to TikTok^[3] that gained over 1.1 million views in two months (shown below, right). He posted another to TikTok^[4] on December 10th, garnering over 900,000 views in a month.

Spread

Following this, other TikTokers began posting versions of the meme, in which a fictional character interrupts the TikToker to rant about FNAF, often calling Freddy Fazbear "Freddy Five Bear." For example, on December 29th, 2023, TikToker^[5] @overweight_steve posted a version of the meme featuring Vegeta from the Dragon Ball franchise, gaining over 900,000 views in 2 months (shown below, left). On January 2nd, 2024, TikToker^[6] @buddyboy768 posted a video where an alien interrupts @daterightstuff, garnering over 40,000 views in two days (shown below, right).

On January 3rd, TikToker^[7] @johnmarstonbacon posted a version of the meme where Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2 interrupts the TikToker, garnering over 900,000 views in under 24 hours (shown below, left). On the same day, TikToker^[8] @_bakeonsalad posted a version of the meme that garnered over 1.1 million views in a day (shown below, right).

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