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

also happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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 · 14/02/2026

the answer is that all of her labels on Wikidata are labelled "en-gb" or "en-us", not "en" as that website wants

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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

real fans rewatch them a tenth time in a row

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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

And yes, if you own the game, you can download them using the Steam Console (steam://open/console) and typing "download_depot 388090 388091 [manifestID]"

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

Nothing groundbreaking in there, but some funny things, and an interesting rework for Fredbear/Nightmare that explains why their design is so fucking stupid

post-Night 1 Cutscene sprite of FoxyBro from Prerelease Build 71

post-Night 1 Cutscene sprite of FoxyBro from Prerelease Build 73 (his shirt is slightly darker)

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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

i only found this out yesterday from a comment by ivon1671. Because pressing right accidentally moves you a pixel down, and how terrible the hitboxes are, you can just leave TCTTC and GGGL

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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

it wasn't *that* long, but congrats :D

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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

the 100% run alone is faster than every FNaF4 WR but because of leaderboard cutscene rules (which might change) i had to submit a couple other runs to achieve the #takensweep

Speedrun.com screenshot of user runs

Five Nights at Freddy's 4

2 Stars ★1st 33:24.033
Any% ★1st 26:50.800
3 Stars ★1st 39:18.100
4 Stars ★1st 45:02.067
100% ★1st 55:34.900
Fun With Plushtrap ★1st 00:12.267
Fun With Balloon Boy ★1st 00:12.233

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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 · 22/02/2025

That was nearly 7 years ago

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

the exact meaning will depend on the person, but I'd usually think of it as them being a part of a group that is by far the best, like when there's a gap between the group at the top and everyone else

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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

the main thing is that you can't see to begin with

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

no one misses the windows phone port

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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 · 10/12/2024

One would usually use a problem whose solutions are difficult to find, but easy to verify, like prime factorization.

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

am i reading this right, are they genuinely arguing that inclusivity and diversity is for bigots too ???

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Taken @itztaken.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

not that I'm aware of, it'd be some hardware or lag issue if there were

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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 · 19/11/2024

i was actually cursed to roam this mortal plane until someone pointed that out thank you so much

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

FNaF World is not a real game; it is a pile of bugs masquerading as gameplay.

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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 · 14/11/2024

There's just an event that ends the application

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

im out of practice releasing videos, maybe i should do this more

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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

the edit is done, not a ton to do after that so ... :)

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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 · 17/10/2024

i don't post on either regularly but HI regardless

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

I created this simulator to estimate the win likelihood of Backseat's strategy for his new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EoQ... The simulations were tested for accuracy using actual automatic real-time gameplay and had 22.5% wins (~24% was expected), which I'm pretty happy with.

4x4 grid of FFPS games playing the Night section. Most are watching the right vent, with one being jumpscared by Scrap Baby, and another watching a Marty's Plungers ad.

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

I was interested in how the difficulty curve looks with this, but you'll often get ads/upgrades/anims at different times so I just simulated as if you had all ads/upgrades/anims LOL From Night 1–6, I got 94% -> 58% -> 40% -> 33% -> 27% -> 18%.

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

I also created some charts of lethality (chance of dying at any given 2-second interval) and run length. They were generally uninteresting, but simulating stalling for 12 seconds in the middle a couple of times (like Backseat did in his playthrough) showed up pretty clearly {:}

Distribution of Simulation Times. There are spikes around when tasks would be completed, with lulls while using the flashlight in the vent. There is a slight decrease over time as most simulations end in death.

Lethality Over Time: The first possible death occurs at 10 seconds, and the danger increases until ~30 seconds. There are spikes around when tasks are completed, with lulls while using the flashlight in the vent. There is seemingly little or no decrease in danger over time.

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