The Bite is NOT a Springlock Failure!

Fredbear's jaws are powered by literal hydraulics, he crushed Crying Child's skull like a watermelon in one of those satisfying hydraulic press videos

THANK YOU! I've always gotten irritated by people saying this. A springlock failure is when a suit goes into animatronic mode, how can an animatronic go into animatronic mode if it already is in said mode. The 2nd closest thing would be a reverse-springlock failure where FredBear went into suit mode and ragdolled to the floor.

That is true. Given the springlocks are powerful, Fredbear is in animatronic mode, so a springlock failure doesn’t make sense if the springlocks are already activated for Fredbear to be in animatronic mode. Given The Crying Child is a kid, it would probably be easier for Fredbear to crush his skull. As for why the springlock suits were retired, if we recall to the night 3 phone call in FNAF 3, Phone Guy states that multiple and simultaneous springlock failures occurred at the Sister Location. Not to mention that on Night 4 of Sister Location, we’re inside a suit that has faceplates and springlocks, which Baby mentions is an old suit from her “old pizzeria”. Which is probably Circus Baby’s Pizza World. I imagine the underground bunker was more than just a rental shop, it was also a place for Employees and William to experiment and expand on robotics, but it was probably under the name, “Afton Robotics”. Still, I loved the video, and I wish you luck for your future. 😀👍

No offense but this video honestly wouldn't need to exist if people actually payed attention. The suit is already in ANIMATRONIC mode, which means that all the locks are engaged already. If it were in suit mode then it wouldn't be moving around at all, and we would see someone wearing it. The whole 'his tears and squirming caused them to go off' argument is invalid. The squirming wouldn't really do much in suit mode, and the tears would barely have enough moisture to cause anything to happen. And even if they did, it would probably like short circuit fredbear or something. Great video, you did a fantastic job explaining this, it just sucks there will be people who see it and go nuh uh because they don't agree with logic and facts

Thank you. It's a shockingly common misconception.

THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING! Springlock failure only happens if the suit was in SUIT mode, if the locks were already released and the suit was a animatronic then it PHYSICALLY can't be a failure.

FINALLY this is being talked about! This misconception is shockingly WAYYYY too common. Who did even start it in the first place?

Still dont understand how this only has 1.7k views, you deserve more!.

Here's what I think Phone Guy was referring to when explaining why the springlock suits were retired. Since Fazbear Entertainment is well aware of how deadly springlock failures are, I highly doubt that William getting springtrapped was the only time a springlock failure happened. I think it's very likely that there was another springlock related fatality that happened a bit earlier in the timeline. I personally believe what happened was that a couple of Fazbear employees put on a Golden Freddy and Spring Bonnie suit and died from springlock failures, forcing Fazbear Entertainment to retire the suits. Btw, I say Golden Freddy and not Fredbear for 2 reasons. One, all of the tapes take place at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, not Fredbear's, and in the Freddy Files' description of the Stage 01 minigame, the sprite of who many think is Fredbear is referred to as Golden Freddy. This indicates to me that after the bite, Fazbear Entertainment not only moved the springlock suits to Freddy's, but attempted to rebrand the Fredbear character by replacing his accessories and renaming him to Golden Freddy. Eventhough this is kind of an old headcanon that was never confirmed, I hope it makes sense of what the springlock incident was all about.

The fact that there is a video with 4 up to 5 million views from 2016 that's titled "Top 5 worst FNaF theories" and it talks about this, and yet years later some people are saying that the bite was a springlock incident is idiotic. Thank you for talking about this issue because everytime I see someone saying that the bite is a spring lock failure I die of cringe.

That’s what I’ve been trying to g to tell everyone!!! And if it was, It would have to have a human in it. And then the person in the suit during the 83 bite, could be the spirit of phantom Freddy. That’s just my personal opinion.

Finally someone who has some understanding of springlock suits

I always picked up on that detail and I used to just brush it off as "oh maybe someone forgot to put a springlock in his head back into animatronic mode" because his jaws should be nowhere near powerful enough to crush his skull.

Thank you for saying this. I blame MatPat for this common misconception. Still love him, though.

The bite may have also cause henry and william to swap styles from hydraulic based jaws to hinge jaws with less “crushing power”

Thank You!!!! I have been thinking about this fact for a year now just waiting for someone to bring it up

People saying this annoyed me so much, thank you for making a quick, easy to digest video showing why it wasn’t springlocks. Great vid ❤

2:47 No, it isn't. But for those that don't know what a Springlock Failure is, they'd be quick to accept this as a Springlock Failure. So. Fazbear could easily claim this to be a "Springlock Failure" since the springlocks "failed to work as intended". They weren't meant to be used for biting people (or they weren't meant to have as much force as they did in them, maybe.) In the end, the mechanical parts, the "springlock system", failed to work as intended, causing Fredbear to bite the crying child. Hence, I believe Fazbear said this was a "Springlock" Failure. With no one any the wiser of what the term actually meant (0:58 when the springs keeping the suit in suit mode snap shut). As for the employees that DO know about springlock failures, they'd just hear "there were multiple and simultaneous springlock failures" and assume that multiple suits killed multiple employees (like what theorists did whem they heard the Fnaf 3 tapes for the first time), not knowing the "springlock failure" was just kids putting the crying child into Fredbear's mouth (with the animatronic working as intended, just not being USED as intended).

I honestly thought EVERYONE knew that the jaws are powered by hydraulics.

You have just made a moment in fnaf history proving this man you’re genius!