I do agree, Gregbot is silly and really farfetched + it makes no sense, but tbf the official game series is so wild and unexplainable that I can see why people have to come up with wild theories just to b a r e l y piece it together
I can definitely see there being good will behind a theory like it, but unfortunately even from when it was first proposed I thought it was extremely stupid & seeing it taken as gospel really pissed me off.
What always pissed me off the most was that part of it hinged on what was actually mentions of Gregory being injured being censored. This is something that I'm annoyed with the game for doing, because like God Forbid you describe a kid being scraped up in your series about murdered children, but seeing the phrasing that Was published being used to say Gregory was a robot made it double annoying.
My largest issue with FNaF in the current day is how convoluted it has become & I cannot really extend much good will on theories that just serve to convolute things further. I don't like ruining people's fun, but I don't think the story being "hard to understand" is actually like... something to wear with pride, at least in FNaF's case. A lot of modern theory culture is trying to solve a series by throwing out the most insane thing possible, most likely for clicks. And I don't think this is good! FNaF's story isn't hard to understand in a good way, it's hard to understand because Scott kept adding more and more with new entries and never actually clarifying Anything. With one answer we would get several new questions. This all sucks & theory culture only serving to complicate it has grown to annoy me so much that I cannot touch them anymore unless I know FOR SURE that someone I'm going to watch is coming from more proper analysis than they are trying to one-up their peers.
I genuinely loathe theory culture nowadays and I feel like Gregbot was sort of my wake-up point for it, even if it took until more recently (specifically with me getting into TADC, where this treatment pisses me off 10x more, though some fan reactions to the FNaF 2 movie got the ball rolling first) for me to get fed up with FNaF theories as a whole. None of this is fun when it's being treated like actually solving the series. It's just annoying.
Apologies for the length of this I have a LOT of strong feelings on this subject. Thank you for the ask anon, it was really fun to get to answer!!! This is just what having a fixation on FNaF since age 9 does to a guy.
