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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

So! 100,000 subscribers! and a 5 million-view video! I don't have much to say about the numbers themselves! Just glad to see people like watching videos about the stuff I find interesting :D I have no updates to share; stuff is in the works, and progress is (slowly) being made !

Channel analytics screenshot of 100,003 current subscribers with accompanying text "YAYYYYYY! 🎉🎉🎉🎉."

Taken, a blue arctic fox, is splat bottom left, beside a screenshot of "Literally All 172 Glitches in FNaF 1–7" with 5.1M views underlined in red

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I saw Iron Lung. It was very good. If you liked the game, I think you would appreciate the movie.

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Taken is real now and he will get you if you dont watch his videos

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

it was one. this year I will compromise on 1.5 videos

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The 100% FNaF4 Speedrun explained watch it and enjoy or dont watch it and dont enjoy Thumbnail by ThornyDevil

YouTube Thumbnail feature Taken carrying multiple gold trophies running from Nightmare Bonnie. FNaF4's stars and a timer 55:34.86 on the side.

Text below reads:
THE VIDEO IS DONE!!!!!

ITS OUT
WATCH NOW

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

it did not take a year, it was 364 days tyvm (YouTube Taken++ members can watch a day early 🩵)

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Some prerelease builds of FNaF4 leaked today, so I took a couple hours to document them and add them to the complete changelog doc :) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

SteamDB screenshot showing leaked private build manifestIDs, dated between July 20th and July 23rd 2015:

23 July 2015-04:37:02 UTC 6054377051235660590 _steamdb_external_
23 July 2015-01:38:46 UTC 1828667818245938585 _steamdb_external_
21 July 2015-19:19:13 UTC 8603414086933513406 _steamdb_external_
21 July 2015-14:19:06 UTC 570801906545885806 _steamdb_external_
20 July 2015-00:47:16 UTC 3666491312197594337 _steamdb_external_

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Fun Fact: You can fucking escape the FNaF2 8-bit minigames just by pressing right

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

upon carefully reviewing the footage, 3 of the 6 Nightmare laughs allotted during his most lethal sections (20/20/20/20, BM/MF/IF, BM/AN) just *happened* to occur on 10-second intervals actual cursed run, he was out to get me

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

HI IM ALIVE VIDEO EVENTUALLY 🩵

Screenshot of Livesplit FNaF4 100% splits comparing to each category's WR splits.

55:34.86

Night 1 -0.3 6:07.81
Night 2 +6.2 11:10.23
Night 3 +.39 16:11.32
Night 4 -8.0 21:27.97
Night 5 -6.9 26:21.22
2-Star Done -23.5 33:11.00
3-Star Done -21.4 39:18.09
4-Star Done -3:43 45:02.16
BM/MF/IF -20:28 50:41.6
100% Done -28:27 55:34.86

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

2025 youtube goal 2 videos will i do it, find out in real time

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

i love five nights at freddy's 2 windows phone edition

Gameplay image of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 ported to the Windows Phone. Big textures like the pizzeria, and table & fan are comically downscaled 4x, showcased with Golden Freddy's hall flashlight render, barely visible in the compression

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I had a ton of ideas for how well the video was going to perform, but a million in a week was... well beyond them! I'd be very proud of the video regardless, but I really appreciate all the nice comments, y'all are too much 🩵

Screenshot of YouTube video titled "Literally All 172 Glitches in FNaF 1–7" with 1.0M views

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Every Glitch & Error in FNaF 1 through 7, explained in one video. Took me way too long, but it's done.

Video thumbnail with the text "Every Glitch in FNaF," featuring various glitches, UCN Freddy at -999 AI, two arrows on Ladder Tower, Withered Foxy jumpscare over the Prize Corner Camera, "OUT OF BOUNDS!" text, Springtrap jumpscare with another Springtrap running in the background, and the monitor in front of FNaF1 Bonnie's jumpscare

Below, large text reads:
"IT'S DONE AAAAAAAA-
WATCH IT
NOW
or later"

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Finished that video detailing every glitch in FNaF 1–7, releasing this Friday @ 1PM EST! YouTube Taken++ members (ty 🩵) can watch 24hrs prior :)

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

thar be a light at the end of there tunnel

$Davinci Resolve Render Job 9 - Completed in 00:46:28 How FNaF Breaks (D19) | Timeline 1 ...en\Videos\HowFNaFBreaks_FINAL.mp4$

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

I wrote a simulator for the FFPS YOLO strategy, and this is everything interesting/useful I found. 🧵 The best lure location for this strat is the middle left while using the flashlight to the right. Below are the simulated win rates for other locations, and facing directions:

Graph of winrates for different locations for the FFPS YOLO strategy, facing to the left, on Saturday, with 4 animatronics, 3 upgrades, and 4 ads.

Graph of winrates for different locations for the FFPS YOLO strategy, facing to the right, on Saturday, with 4 animatronics, 3 upgrades, and 4 ads.

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

i will one day be free from this video

Davinci Resolve Render Queue with 1 job for the "How FNaF Breaks (D19)" project, EARLYDRAFT render in progress

DURATION 01:16:38:29

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

I love making FNaF tier lists out of pointless information and also not giving any additional context, so this time I'm doing both

Ultimate Custom Night tier list.

Notably Old Man Consequences at the top with the tier "He Persists", Nighmare Balloon Boy with the tier "Can jumpscare after 6AM and other jumpscares", Ballora and Rockstar Foxy in the tier "Can jumpscare during other jumpscares", and Plushtrap, Nightmare Chica, and Bonnet at the bottom in the "Can't Jumpscare on last frame" tier. All others are in can/could jumpscare/do stuff tiers.

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

i’m ⚪️ single ⚪️ taken 🔘 Taken

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Happy 1-year anniversary to the first time I analysed FNaF's code 🎉

Reddit debunk post titled "'Tomorrow is another day' on Night 4 - FNaF 4", on r/fnaftheories on January 2nd, 2023.

TL;DR "Tomorrow is another day" only appears in the post-night 4 cutscene if you are using a fast enough speedhack, and cannot be triggered in normal gameplay. The Fredbear Plush may have once been intended to speak that line at the end of the post-night 4 cutscene, but Scott decided to exclude that from the final release.

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

omg, 5 scrubscriber..... wow ❤️

YouTube Studio screenshot reading:
Current scrubscriber
5 ,
+6, in last 28 days

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

For those wondering what the actual odds of Backseat's double Golden Freddy playthrough are, they're 1 in 395. Not 1 in 2,846 as originally calculated, but he was still very, very lucky.

Backseat originally calculated the probability of getting 2+ Golden Freddy appearances with a binomial distribution with these parameters: (p = 1/100,000, n = 2,675, X ≥ 2)

This calculation ends up with 0.0351%/1 in 2,846, but it's actually 0.253%/1 in 395.

This strategy makes sense, but unfortunately, is a bit wrong. The first mistake is using 2,675 trials. That is the number of seconds in 5 nights, but because of the ordering of events, you can't actually encounter Golden Freddy on the last second of the night.

Secondly, it doesn't take into account the fact that you can only encounter Golden Freddy once a night. A proper calculation would first calculate the odds that you encounter Golden Freddy on any given night, then do a binomial distribution over 5 trials/nights.

Finally, as explained in my new video, it was recently found that Golden Freddy's probability is actually 1/32,768, not 1/100,000. The first two errors don't really change the odds much in comparison to this one.

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Golden Freddy isn't (and has never been) 1/100,000. Because of a couple quirks with Clickteam Fusion's RNG, he's actually precisely 1/32,768 (and Shadow Bonnie is 1/16,384). I've put together a video explaining why, alongside some other things I've found: youtu.be/FcPfQFBwzfU

youtu.be

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

I found some things, video tomorrow at 1pm EST (it contains glitches, but it is not *the* glitch video)

YouTube sample video with thumbnail depicting Golden Freddy in FNaF1 and the text "Not 1/100000", alongside title "why everyone is stupid except me"

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

after moving to a new (better) computer, I finally had a render complete without it exploding 🥲

Davinci Resolve completed "First Draft" render (in 00:05:24)

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Scott changed, on average, less than 2 things every time he released a patch to the FNaF1 Android port. He released 7 versions on September 3rd, going from v1.73 to v1.82 (though, because of the microtransaction backlash)

Timeline of FNaF1 Android port versions, with 21 versions stacked on top of each other in September 2014, and a few remaster versions spread out from 2019 to 2023.

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

i have escaped containment

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