Game Theory: Poppy Playtime, Everything You Need to Know Before Chapter 4

what do you need to know before poppy playtime chapter 4 it's been a whole year since the previous chapter and in the meantime mob has done what they do best giving out more law than you can shake a mechanical arm at but don't worry loyal theorists because I have played the spin-offs I watched every trailer I even read the book Al you don't have to here is everything you need to know about the poppy play timeline hello Internet welcome to Game Theory the show that's ready to take relationship with poppy to the next level we

got nothing no new character no new trailer not even a release date that's right just like Scott was releasing games so fast Matt couldn't keep up not 5 minutes before our recent Theory dropped mob entertainment released a new trailer with a new character and a release date 5 minutes are you kidding me I'm convinced poppy wasn't brought to life for law reasons it was to troll me for all eternity I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same thing to us this week regardless because of mob's ridiculous and seemingly never ending amount of content leading

up to chapter 4's release it can be a little tricky to keep up with everything we've had a book two args a Roblox spin-off and over a dozen teasers and videos but if you have someone that's only played the games or you just haven't subscribed to the channel yet then there's been a whole year worth of story that you would have no idea about going into chapter 4 so today I'm going to give you all a hand and fill you in from the beginning with all the important names dates and law mob has given us

as well as a few theories of our own for good measure all in one cohesive timeline now this is a big task so instead of doing this like our usual theories I wanted to try treating this like our FNAF timeline it's more story focused with references in the bottom corner showing thumbnails books titles basically any citations that I'll be pulling from I've also got this Nifty little traffic light symbol in the top corner to clear things up green means what I'm saying are facts that we have physical evidence for Amber means what I'm saying is

Theory but it's supported by evidence and red means it's speculation that makes sense for the story but we don't have a lot of evidence for so keep a close eye on your screens theorists it's time to analyze the history of this forgotten Factory just be careful that the screen doesn't stare back playtime Co was founded in the good old us OFA in 1930 quickly it became one of the most well-renowned toy companies in the world priding itself in making toys locally instead of overseas like its competitor Mattel yes that Mattel the ones who made Barbie

I know exactly where you're going with this and I have to say I really resent it all of this success was thanks to one man the founder of playtime Co Elliot Ludwig all he wanted was to bring joy to children but sadly that Noble goal meant that he spent all of his time at work neglecting his own family and his wife had had enough divorcing him that same year nevertheless Elliot pushed forward though for two decades he struggled to figure out the key to innovating the toy making World until finally he hit a breakthrough in

1950 Elliot created a toy that would change the world forever poppy playtime a little girl can talk to her poppy gives her answers she is the First doll actually able to have a conversation with a child not only that but her hair also smelted like puppies which had been used throughout history to help children fall asleep making her an instant hit with the parents how did Elliot achieve this incredible feat well because Poppy wasn't just a plastic toy Elliot used organic parts to make her allowing poppy to really seem alive he just needed to add

a quick no refund policy to anyone who tried to fix the Poppy Doll themselves just to keep it under wraps thankfully no one ever discovers this little secret of Elliots but poppy sales alone can't keep the toy company afloat so they release a handful of new toys like Bron the dinosaur in 1961 or boxy boo in 1966 though none of them really compare to Poppy in terms of popularity but then out of nowhere tragedy struck since day one Elliot had been encouraging his employees to adopt to bring joy to children who had none of their

own and he lived by example adopting a daughter of his own finally the family that the family man had always wanted until she passed away before his very eyes there was nothing he could do to save her all all Elliot could do was take the biological knowledge he had and turn her into another organic Poppy Doll just so he could keep a part of her with him forever so part of her could live on little did he know how successful that experiment would be somehow his daughter's mind managed to survive the process naturally Elliot is

shocked by this his daughter is back living on inside this doll that he made he couldn't let her fall out of his grasp again so he builds a family home inside the fact storage Bay and locks her inside a glass case to keep her safe he even adds a passage leading directly to his office so he can visit her whenever he or she wants with his family now returned to him his passion to strive for Innovation was restored but with so much ambition he rose back up and continued to fulfill his vision for the Playtime

code Toy Factory the first thing he needed was more people like him smart capable people that could help him continue to innovate and answer the toughest questions the world had to offer like say how was a child able to live on inside a doll perhaps but older minds are harder to shape he needed people who still had some of that childlike wonder and thus the young genius's program was born Elliot sent out flyers and posters similar to that of the time period trying to gather young minds together to turn them into the scientists of the

future stamped with the logo he'd been using for playtime since the early days this attracted many young and bright individuals including a brilliant orbe it slightly cold young man named Harley Sawyer Harley was a peculiar character he didn't care for his comrades he hardly smiled but one thing he clearly loved was science and Elliot took a liking to this strange boy he may not have been normal but neither was Elliot he saw part of himself in Harley this was the kind of kid he could take under his wing mold into someone who could really shape

the future and maybe even catapult playtime into the Stratosphere of success unfortunately that didn't quite work out Harley never lost his distaste for others and while he continued to pursue Innovation he was just doing so to push the boundaries of what could be done not to help Humanity like Elliot envisioned that being said Elliot didn't give up he kept trying to change Harley's point of view but no matter how hard he tried it was no use Harley could not change not here anyway and so Elliot makes the hard decision to kick Harley out of the

program sending him home to the outside world to be around more people hoping it will help him to understand why they do what they do Harley was destroyed by this news his hero Elliot Ludwig was abandoning him all he could see Elliot as was soft pathetic and shortsighted backstabbing him because he was too much of a genius for Elliot to understand though it didn't matter now he had to do what he was told and so Harley left the program disappearing from the halls of playtime C at least for now [Music] foreshadowing as the is go

by more and more Elliot feels like it's not really enough to just encourage his employees to adopt there are still so many children that need a home much like his own daughter did and while the young genius's program was good by taking on young people so late in their childhoods even they were already stuck in their ways like Harley was so in 1976 Elliot announces a new program play care playtime's own onsite orphanage where he can continue to bring joy to children and educate them in the ways they should go creating a mass of young

Brilliant Minds that could help lead the world to Prosperity but while all those programs sound good on paper and they were well received by the public they were beginning to cost Elliot a lot of money poppy was the last big financial success and that was over 2 decades ago but he can't keep innovating in the toy world and run these programs on his own he would need more staff so he hires people like Stella greyber to run the play care leth Pierre as head of innovation Eddie MN rman as the head of research and Jimmy

Roth as the chief marketing officer their first assignment figure out how to stop the company from feeling quote oldfashioned with all their powers combined they try to get the company back on top starting with the release of brand new toys like candy cat in 1979 they can continue to release toys into the next decade they try swap himal that you could mix and match like cby and PJ puger pillar they also try kick me Paul for some reason but nothing could quite match the success of Elliot's original poppy that was until 1984 when Elliot had

another idea he went to the team and shortly after he releases the blue boy himself Huggy wuggy things were looking up Huggy is such a big hit with the kids it basically becomes the face of the brand in the eyes of the public puppy was a long forgotten memory Long Live Huggy of course he has to capitalize off of this success by releasing huggy's pink counterpart kissy Missy one year later she too is a huge success just not as big as Huggy obviously playtime Co is on top of the world at this point it's almost

like they can do no wrong but sadly over the next half of the decade their profits once again decrease sure Huggy was successful but just like Poppy before you can't sustain an entire company off of a single toy even if he has a cute pink girlfriend they needed something new and one of them had an idea what if you create a bunch of toys as part of a set that way kids aren't buying just one toy but several enter The Smiling Critters in 1989 similar to Care Bears or Cabbage Patch Kids these are small cuddly

toys with big personalities but each one is unique and so you would need to collect them all for the full experience this was the perfect way to increase the dropping sales numbers playtime was facing plus to really capture the same appeal as Poppy and her poppy scented hair these Critters would each come with their own unique scents all with calming effects crafty corn smells like Jasmine bobby bear hug like rose but would calming be enough Poppy's hair literally put children to sleep that's what made her such a hit with the parents in the 50s they

needed these smiling Critters to do the same so they get to work developing one more smiling Critter one with the advertised Center lavender a scent associated with sleep but instead of actually using lavender they would create a poppy gas that would actively put kids to sleep just like poppy did they put the smoke inside the purple cat and gave him a name that tied into his sleepy powers catnap and just to be on the safe side playtime Co also commissions the creation of a Saturday morning cartoon featuring this new cast of characters all begging catnap

to help them fall to sleep with his red smoke showing kids and parents alike that this is just what the toy is meant to do initially everything is going according to plan sales for this new line of toys are great they are flying off the shelves both parents and kids really seem to love these new adorable Critters except for catnap after a few weeks doctors began reporting a rise in children suffering from intense nightmares that all started after they received their catnap toys in playtime's desperation to mimic the sleep inducing effects that Poppy had they'd

accidentally concocted something that yes put children to sleep but also gave children horrible nightmares thankfully for ble and the team no connection was ever proven but they still needed to sa face he recalled all of the catnap toys and catnap was removed from The Smiling Critter's lineup entirely The Smiling Critter's disaster put playtime Co in a bad spot if they were going to survive the next decade something needed to be done and fast and so Pierre put his head of innovation status to good use and came up with an unusual but effective plan he hired

a private investigator Jared lockart to track down former members of the young Geniuses program that Elliot had started decades ago these people trained under Elliot they were Geniuses from a young age and most of them had quite impressive careers if anyone was going to be able to come up with an idea to save this company it would be one of them sometime later Jared arrives with the list and when it lands on leth's desk there is one option that immediately catches his eye Harley Sawyer hello boys I'm back this guy was now certified by the

American Board of neurological surgery he was by all accounts a genius and with Elliot using biological parts to make poppy a surgeon felt like the perfect fit Leaf presents this idea to Elliot for final approval and while Elliot is hesitant at first he does remember that Harley was the brightest of the bunch back in the day and maybe all the these years away have taught him the lessons he was hoping he'd learn do it with that approval leth reaches out to Harley on January 15th 1990 giving him an offer to come and join playtime Co

once again and strangely despite the hurt Elliot caused him all those years ago for some reason Harley accepts the offer immediately he begins showing the level of Promise they were hoping for from this recruit he sees the problems at playtime C the public outcry the declining profits and he came up with an idea that would fix everything Giant toys we can increase our Workforce and simultaneously decrease the number of lawsuits and people on our payroll if the people we have working aren't people put me in charge of it and I will save this company LEF

makes Harley head of special projects and together they begin hiring other scientists to help with the development of the bigger bodies initiative some of them are fellow young genius alumni like Dr Bruno white and Dr to Carmine McCay but others are just young and eager biologists looking for their first Big Break like the owner of the orientation notebook PW from here the company begins their experiments Harley takes the new scientists to observe and study the poppy doll that he remembered being in the storage Bay from his days in the young Geniuses program he told them

to use her as the blueprint to bring toys to life I am the cause being able to exist as a doll it has killed so many people everyone Works diligently to try and recreate the magic of this one Poppy Doll but after 814 experiments it's clear that things aren't working with simple rats they need to try something bigger they need to repeat what Elliott did they need to use children Harley delivers the note to Elliot as one of his many updates on the program but once again Elliot is torn up until this point these experiments

weren't really all that bad it was just a few hundred rats that suffered the consequences but now he had a choice to make he'd spent his life trying to bring joy to children to give them a home somewhere they could grow and overcome the odds Harley still couldn't believe this soft old man what is more important to you these children or the business you spent decades building which people rely on for their own families mortality is just a curse on Humanity anyway if we can figure this out all these orphans who had suffered would never

grow old or sick they could live forever and keep bringing joy to other children for centuries to come it was not an easy decision but this argument from Harley does sway Elliot with that permission in hand the senior staff of playtime Co set about building the game station a facility designed to test the orphans physical and mental abilities pairing them with a specific toy and if they were deemed ready taken away for conversion they'd come for games and never come back as part of this process they utilize the red smoke that they made for the

catnap toy where previously poppy gels had failed gas is a much more effective way of getting the mystical powers of the poppy flower that helped bring poppy to life into the bodies of these orphans they installed showerheads throughout the play care to distribute the gas but it wasn't the most effective solution kids could see them and what they were doing they became wary of going to bed an alternate solution would need to be found however they had other problems to deal with over the last few years there had been one employee that had been causing

playtime Co a lot of trouble they weren't ruining their PL PL as such they were just a bit of an administrative headache that man was rich litz initially he was working in the storage room and he seemed to be on board with the general playtime Mission appreciating the good this company did for the orphans sadly though BR had a habit of losing his temper with management and so he was demoted to the rejected toy room which as you might imagine he took really well after years of being ignored the company actually heard all my complaints

I guess my words must have really inspired them to take caption cuz the next day I got demoted down here to the freaking Island of Misfit Toys of course playtime Co had to demote him again putting him to work in construction in the caves beneath the factory down here in relative Solitude he was able to recognize his shortcomings and with the help of his new supervisor began to improve even to the point of getting promoted at first this seemed great for playtime Co a reformed employee the system worked that was until Rich continued being promoted

and began learning what was really going on with the orphans he cared for these kids that was the one good thing he had going for him from the beginning and so he begins flying off the handle once again the problem was now he knew too much he could actually cause a problem for playtime Co if he went to the authorities they couldn't just fire him anymore they needed to get rid of him and with the bigger bodies initiative well underway as well as Harley's requests for bigger subjects they had an idea they took rich and

used him as a guinea pig turning him into the first semi-successful experiment one6 which they dubbed the Prototype not a toy as such more a mix of mechanical and biological Parts it lacked the ability to speak but was able to mimic voices of others to communicate playtime Co was finally seeing success and removing a problem at the same time but rich now 10006 wouldn't forget what had been done to him nor what they were doing to the orphans he just needed to bide his time and wait for the right moment to strike playtime code continued

their development of the bigger bodies but they struggled to find the success they'd had with one6 usually unable to reactivate their brains after surgery that is when Harley decided to try something different he decided to make the bigger body physically bigger rather than just trying to match the size of the test subject it flew in the face of all logic but he needed to try something and the crazy part is it worked they created experiment 1160 boxy Boo and this discovery opened up a new world of possibilities for the future at this point several orphans

are showing promise in the game station although there was one that caught Harley's attention specifically Quinn navidson he was a pretty average kid except he had a strange obsession with removing the heads off of all of his toys however Harley didn't see this disposition as a weakness it was something he could take advantage of manipulate to get his scores higher and make him a more successful bigger body down the road Harley spends some one-on-one time with Quinn convincing him that he understands Quinn better than most and asking him to just simply apply himself at the

next assessment and next time Quinn's scores did improve in most areas although his intelligence seemed to wne a bit but not enough to stop the inevitable in August 1990 Quinn became experiment 1166 yabe he was strong agile Swift but his intelligence still wasn't where Harley wanted it he saw him more like a dog which while not ideal could be useful for protection the more bigger bodies they made the more things there were that could kill him and stop his progress so Harley isolated yanabi making yarab be loyal only to him around that same time another

orphan named Theodore granell began causing some Mischief in the play care breaking into rooms stealing files even stealing a grab pack when questioned about it he just said it was his friend that told him to do those things the staff just assumed this friend is of the imaginary persuasion but in reality it was very very real 10006 had found a way out of containment and was using Theo to help them Escape once it had all the information one6 and Theo made a break for it though due to Theo's inexperience he accidentally overcharges the electrified grab

pack hand and electrocutes himself at this moment 10006 has a choice gain the freedom it wants or save Theo it chooses the latter it gives Theo over to the Playtime Coast scientists and turns itself into to be locked away once again now there is only one way the scientists are able to save Theo and on November 11th 1990 the bigger body catnap was born experiment 11 188 he was put into the play care because he was able to release the red gas just like the toy and the kids would hopefully be much less suspicious of

this big friendly toy than a typical showerhead again playtime Co was killing two birds with one stone the bigger bodies initiative was now in full swing between catnapp and yanabi Huggy was created and in 1991 he was put to work as playtime CO's new security measure though his wandering eyes were noticed by an employee who wasn't supposed to know anything Rowan stole Rowan wanted to get to the bottom of what was going on and over the course of a few months began to figure out exactly what playtime Co was doing when he threatened to leak

what he'd found to the public Harley put his his bigger bodies to good use now we need to start tealing that appetite of yours to fles get me an update on situation that same year another orphan Marie Payne began suffering from unwakeable nightmares thanks to catnaps gas leading to the latest experiment we know of to date experiment 1222 mummy long legs she was violent towards the staff but kind towards the kids making her the perfect Guardian for the gay game station and by May of 1992 the game station is in its Heyday everything is working

as planned but one person is still causing problems Elliot Ludwig had put a picture up in his office that one of the kids had given him of the game station and Mommy longlegs but when he sat there and looked at it those decisions that had led to this point they began to weigh heavy on his shoulders he still felt that Harley's pursuit of innovation for the sake of it wasn't right but the rest of the senior team seemed to be all for him and it was hard to deny that the company was seeing success regardless

he knew he needed to put some kind of safety measure in place something to keep Harley in check just in case his worst fears came true so he promoted one of the fellow scientists and young genius's graduate Dr Bruno white to become Harley's Superior once Harley found out he could think of this as nothing more than another betrayal from Elliot and this time he'd had enough Elliot was too soft to keep things moving forward he need needed to be got rid of just like every other problem employee they' faced one day both the staff and

the public were informed that Eliot Ludwig had passed away but Harley Sawyer was the only one who knew the truth about what happened thanks to Dr White's promotion Harley's involvement in things slowly became less and less leading Harley to become more and more frustrated and driving him more and more insane until one day he decided to take matters into his own hands during a guided tour of the factory in 1993 fires break out in the theater causing casualties all across the facility obviously Leaf Pierre is furious now he has to clean up the mess taking

care of any potential Witnesses this is not the kind of publicity playtime needed he brings back their private investigator Jared to figure out who is to blame and true to his word he gets them an answer Dr Harley Sawyer after spouting rhetoric about one bad day and being betrayed by Elliot all of those years ago Harley had finally gone full Joker and set the theater Ablaze baptizing everyone in the Flames that he was working so hard to save them all from with his bigger body's initiative as leod suggested Harley needed to be punished but he

can't justify the usual methods Harley is an undeniable genius and it would be a shame to lose such a brilliant mind when they definitely still needed him the bigger bodies while alive were temperamental and hard to control they needed to keep perfecting the process this also meant turning Harley into a bigger body wasn't an option either as he too would likely lose his mind and that was when it hit them instead of turning Harley into a bigger body why not turn Harley into a digital Consciousness they could focus all their attention on keeping his mind

alive without the need for a working body that way Harley could still help them and guide the scientific process but he couldn't physically cause any problems it was perfect by 1994 this plan is underway the party line is that Harley is just out maybe on a sabbatical or something and in 1995 the new playtime automated companion is up and running ready to meet with Scientists like PW the system would end up being shut down after May of that year but regardless it was another success for playtime Co however as we've seen time and time again

Pride cometh before the fall and this next F would be the biggest playtime had ever seen behind the scenes while playtime Co had been dealing with Harley one6 had been plotting they'd been Gathering all the toys together and promising them the thing they all wanted Freedom they formulated a plan to take back the factory from playtime and kill all those who'd helped turn them into monsters they called it the hour of joy and on August 8th 1995 they executed that plan they attack everyone scientists tour guides construction workers it didn't matter they were all responsible

they all needed to Die the toys drag the bodies Into the Depths and slowly consumed them to satiate their hunger only a small few managed to escape the Carnage LEF Pierre being one of them despite the insane loss the company was facing he kept insisting playtime Co continue their work he began recruitment efforts for a resource extraction team people that would go back into playtime Co and collect the parts they need needed to keep making bigger bodies but eventually the rising pressure from the public over the mysterious disappearance of the staff their friends and family

was too much for even leth to handle and he shut down the factory for good nearly a decade passed and the Playtime Co Factory as well as all that happened there had largely been forgotten the world had simply moved on but in 2002 deep in the boughs of the factory something or someone was coming back online where am I Harley had a woke Bren from his mysterious Slumber ironically just as he'd always stated his conversion had actually saved him from Death unlike his former colleagues he realized the opportunity he had there was no one left

to stop him his plans could continue he could save the rest of humanity from their mortal coil and convert them all into living Eternal toys so he began hacking into the rest of playtime C systems taking control of all Communications that were coming in and out of the factory his plan would come to fruition at the same time the bigger bodies also remained in the factory waiting for the prototype to save them as promised but Food Supplies were running short some of them began to lose their faith that salvation would ever come dog day was

one such toy and one6 quickly made an example of him this type of threat however wouldn't work forever and one6 knew that it needed to make progress it was still trying to create its perfect body but he just didn't have the knoow rich was just a simple construction worker sure he could do some cool things with tech but biology was a whole other ball game it needed help so in 2005 it writes a note saying that the employees that went missing were actually still in the factory waiting to be rescued and it sends it to

the only person that's not only around to hear it but would actually care enough to make the trip the player character PW PW didn't show up for work on August 8th 1995 they were still alive and more importantly they actually cared about their fellow employees if there was a chance their colleagues were still around they needed to help them now as a former employee they knew their way around the factory they knew where this flower was that they'd been pointed to they just had to get there while also trying to avoid an unpleasant reunion with

one of the many bigger bodies they'd helped create Huggy wuggy PW finds poppy behind the flower in the same room she always was although there are now messages around the room warning them not to trust her regardless once they open the case poppy agrees to help PW Escape see she she's not that bad at all only mommy then shows up and kidnaps poppy after beating all of Mommy's games PW returns to Poppy and takes her to the train only for poppy to now change her mind and stop PW from leaving I'm sorry I can't let

you leave they really should have trusted the signs the train crashes in front of the play and with some surprising help from poppy kissy Missy and their Ally OE who may or may not be the Prototype mimicking a child's voice to trick us PW makes their way through the play care together they defeat catnap and begin the long trip down into playtime's prison but kissy doesn't make the trip she is killed by something on their way down and all of this time Harley has been watching through the security cameras making his way down to the

prison just a bit ahead of them to reunite with yanabi and lay whatever traps he has in store for us down in the depths along with the nightmare Critters pianosaurus and a toy made from Play-Doh doy the do man and that loyal theorist is the entire timeline of poppy playtime so far oh boy this franchise is getting big this is probably the last time I'll be able to do an entire timeline in one video I mean look at that runtime though I have to say it is refreshing that outside of a few bits of connective

tissue post of what we've talked about today are either things mob has told us directly or we have a lot of evidence to support the only real details that are super speculative are things like when the young genius's program started or why Elliot agreed to start using children in the experiment we said that the young Geniuses program started in the' 60s but it could very well be the ' 50s based on the logo maybe they were even the ones that helped make the first poppy dolls but so long as Harley joins the company early leaves

and then comes back to cause a bunch of problems it doesn't really matter which decade it takes place the same thing goes for Elliot's change of heart towards the orphans we've got no evidence saying why he made the decisions he did we may discover his reasoning in the future it's just not going to change the order of events because we have set dates of when things have toen happen but there you have it friends everything you could possibly need to know going into chapter 4 and I don't know about you but now I'm even more

excited to see where all this goes who will our allies be what is Harley's big plan will I have to rethink the identity of the prototype for a third time I'm sure all will be revealed in a few weeks in the meantime remember that's just a theory a game theory thanks for watching World premiere on Game Theory today we end the tour 19 books 11 games eight whole years all leading to this moment the ultimate FNAF timeline is finally complete the pieces are in place for us now all we have to do is put this

story of tragedy jealousy and loss back together