Huggy Wuggy Breaks FREE! | Matpat Reacts To Poppy Playtime VHS Teaser (Restricted Disappearance)

Time to see how MatPat is able to stretch a 3 minute video into 45 minutes 😂

The saddest part about Huggy Wuggy in this scenario is that the child inside might not even have ties to that specific house. As a kid, you’re taught to run and find a safe place if you get lost or kidnapped. When Huggy escaped Playtime Co, he was probably trying to find a safe place where people could help him. The house that we see him at could just have been the first house he found. The reason he just stands there is because he realizes he can’t knock at the door and ask for help like a normal kid because of what Playtime Co did to him. He has no voice to yell or tears to cry so he just stands there, with his mouth open panting like a stressed dog, and accepts his fate :(

The initial "jumpscare" in the video really reminds me of common car accidents you see with deer or moose running while in "flight" mode. To me, Huggy wasn't aiming for the car, he was barreling down the road in a blind panic and ran into it. The term "deer caught in the headlights" is apropos here as animals that are active during darker hours are easily stunned by bright lights. In the dark, the animal's eyes are fully dilated to capture as much light as possible, thus when a headlight hits them, they tend to freeze until their eyes can adjust or they run blindly through it. Now Huggy's eyes are typically dilated when he's active, likely so he can see where he is going in vents and the dark corridors of the factory (this also fits if he was meant to be after hours security). So, it's also likely he could see where he was going on the dark roads at night and was stunned by the car. He was probably thrown into "fight" mode when the security staff got out of the car to shoot him. They cornered him in the forest, and cornered animals can be some of the deadliest.

I am constantly impressed by matpat's ability to pull lore knowledge out of his brain considering he hasn't been keeping up with poppy playtime stuff by his own admission

28:15 You two made a REALLY good point there. In FNaF, Poppy, and most ghost-themed horror games, you never see how it has happened, only the aftermath. So you don't really feel emotional about it since you never really get to know the characters or their families. But there are these small scenes that make you realize "gosh that is so messed up". We sit there making jokes and hours talkin' about these stories as if they are normal. "Oh yeah so this rabbit guy killed kids and shoved them in suits". "So these toys were made from dead orphans killed by the company".

Matt hit upon a really good point in his analysis. I love horror things that go "no seriously, look how fucked up this is" far more than I do cheap jump scares or horror effects. I wish more franchises would lean into that.

Matpat wearing the blue jacket makes me feel like I've found a shiny pokemon

15:40 the reason you remember his bowtie being yellow is from the in-game “remember to take breaks” poster-it exists!! In his cartoon form he is depicted with a yellow bowtie instead of a blue one; I wonder why Mob Games did that?

Seeing Huggy Wuggy while listening to MatPat about how they were just standing there beside a house made me wonder if that child is not actually an orphan... like he was living a life in their respective home until someone from the Poppy Playtime Co. abducted them and called them as "orphan" cuz they don't want to expose the identity of the child if they went missing, and how it leads to this...

The fact that you got Huggy just wants to go home from that photo was jaw dropping. Almost as if the child inside has some semblance of what he has become and is willing to do anything to get out and go home. Thats chilling.

Question: Was it ever confirmed that Huggy is one of the orphan children or is this just a fan theory? I always figured he was originally one of the adult workers, maybe even a human security guard, before being transformed. Poppy is confirmed to have been an adult before becoming a doll and MLL is also thought to have been one of the staff members, so why not Huggy and even Kissy? I have a theory that all of the smaller toys were definitely orphan children, while the bigger toys were adult staff members who either volunteered or were forced. This makes sense to me mainly because you don't really have to train adults to look after children or do security patrols, and the orphans could just continue to be children in toy-form since they're designed to play with other children anyways. Seeing Huggy run straight to (or the vague direction of, since he had to divert from road to woods) a home from the factory, without any help or directions, makes me think that it's a route he's taken before, from home to his job at the factory and vice versa, and that he may even still have a family there. Could also explain how they were able to find him in the end as well, since they'd have his previous home address if he worked there. They'd have had an idea of where he was heading and met him there before he had a chance to get inside the house. This is just my own word-vomit theory, so feel free to comment if you know something here is incorrect.

The cameras in the woods are most likely hunter cameras, they're used to monitor traps or areas were game (animal that is hunted) is spotted, someone out there now knows about Huggy and isn't talking

I love watching matpat analyze this in real time and see the process that leads to new theories it’s super interesting

Weird thing to notice but since huggy traveled half a mile in 3 minutes which is 10 mph or 16 km/h that makes him about the speed of like a squirrel or a mouse. Like the ones in the poppy fluid.

I love how Matpat made an actually a bit realistic timeline for breaking bad in a poppy playtime video😂

I love that the hour long "Aquatic ambiance (donkey kong country)" on the side of the screen has been fully watched. I imagining Mat listening to it trying to calm himself down while writing theories x)

Maybe when huggy escaped, a explanation to why he just stood there at the house when they found him might be this: when he found the house he stood there in disbelief, the building he once knew, his house, his family, his pets (if he had any) , was all gone and replace with things unfamiliar. He realised his life was gone, along with that building he called home.

It is also possible that this Huggy is an ex-employee rather than an orphan child, right? That gives them a specific home to which they can return as well.

There are a few things that you can be sure of in life: That life is going to be unpredictable, and that MatPat is gonna be making great content!

Honestly, Mob games deserves credit for all the stuff they've done *right*. This three minutes is horrifying and terribly sad. It hits you right in the places that horror should.

I like to think that in the first Poppy playtime, that Huggy attacked us after we made the toy because he thought we were hurting another kid and he kept hunting us down out of starvation. If the toys are made out of kids it only makes sense that he watches you and gets angry when he sees it happening again.

I love the way these guys tell their story across different media. It's a shame they went for nfts first but in general doing cross media storytelling is awesome

Since in chapter 2, they mentioned that Huggy wuggy's temperment and obedience was ideal. I wonder if afterwards they made kissy who turned out passifistic, and started using the original huggy as security, they decided to make another (which i believe would be the one that escaped, the fresher less obedient and more panicked expirament) and maybe that is why they changed directions from huggy, is that not all of them were going to be as easily controlled, and so they moved on to more diverse ideas.

i was like "oh boy what crazy theory could this delightful man have" then i hear "huggy wanted to run back there" and then i was mind blown after 2 seconds processing it through my brain cause it is mostly confirmed that they are children so it would make sense. good job mat

matpat is the only one to make a 3 minute video into a 50 minute one

The fact that Huggy just wanted to go home was what upset me the most. This kid had a home, friends who cared about them. They might not have parents anymore, but they could have the memories of their family. You're always taught to got to a house with a family if you're in trouble, but Huggy can't anymore, they realise that they're powerless to go anywhere, or ask for help. They can only stand there, helpless as they're brought back to the facility. Helpless, as they realise the monster that they've become.

The more lore I learn about Poppy’s Playtime the more I’m reminded of the movie 9. Especially the resemblance between the war machine that makes other war machines and the Prototype and all the toys.

I think it's interesting that Huggy is the experiment that does this, because he was listed as the perfect mix of obedient and smart enough, so its interesting to speculate when his loyalties shifted from the factory to the Prototype. Before Project Playtime, I assumed that Huggy was continuing his job of security for the factory in Chapter 1 and Mommy was playing a different more revenge-driven game. Now this and Project Playtime confirm that his obedience shifted to the Prototype at around this point and there was some kind of awakening for him.

I'm leaning more on the theory that Huggy was originally a worker. I think that, like Mommy, Huggy surely had to be a worker. He appears to be more intelligent, bigger in size, has the capability to think (like already pointed out by others: he clearly found/followed the player and started the chase only after we made the toy - making it clear we used to work there, kinda giving the player a probability of a doubt), knows his way around, etc. Of course there has been a lot time to roam around the factory, but taken into account that there was a need for cheaper labor - inhuman workers don't really need paychecks, plus young children propably wouldn't have the skills to complete the needed tasks. And since the workers were propably from nearby area anyway (easy/fast to go to and if there wasn't much working possibilities, even a low-paying toy factory would be a good catch) it seems likely that the house could be Huggy's former home. Maybe he tried to return to his family? To warn them, to protect or maybe he found it abandoned - and that's why he's staring towards the cameraman at the end. But I also agree with the possibility @Joshua Lewis comes up with - a safe place to go. See how the lights appear to be on at the windows? It oculd be from the streetlamp, but I find it a little too bright. And for a child in distress, finding a house with what looks like a lit up window during the dark night hours, surely seems like a safe point to go. Or it just happened to be the firts house Huggy found. Anyway it's seriously saddening to think he propably realised he could not go inside. He would not fit there and on top of that, if anyone was inside there, would have scared them to death.

Hey if anyone has been paying close attention to the series has Matpat established that the big toys aren't made of ex employees? Because the child visiting house theory is strong but I was under the impression Huggy was an adult turned toy

Thank you Matpat and Ash to acknowledge that when you think about these stories it's extremely dark. Especially as a parent I'd be terrified something like that happened. I used to struggle HARD alone in FNAF until doing years worth of Lore all in the span of October to December 2021

The toys could also be some of Playtime Co's employees. One of the lines the "Doctor" said in his tape was "What if the people we have working for us aren't people?" It'd be harder to train young children how to use factory equipment rather than using employees who already know how to use it.

35:02 - 37:21 This got me thinking, what if after all this time the big rug pull isn't just "you're the one who helped cause this" but it's that you are Pierre and you were the one who is entirely responsible, and now you are stuck facing your actions and mistakes. On the topic of the video, I feel so bad for the situation huggy is put in, they were tormented in the factory and the dude just wanted to see his home, so he could remember his life. Although on the part of playtime co, You can't just let that get out, it would create mass panic among the world. The public can not see these monsters that have been created by playtime co, because while playtime co deserves to be shut down if these were seen at all, how would you react if you saw that one day in real life? You would be terrified!

31:01 Yes. I'd much rather a kid experience these horrific stories with the safety of fiction (some sort of reasonable age restriction is still important) rather than/before experiencing these in person. Even if similarly horrific things happen to them in person, these can be tools to help them process those events.

I feel like this is the first non-chaotic cold open we’ve had on this channel in a long while

Another thing I think, Huggy was created as a security guard, so he must've seen people enter through that vent, therefore he may've known some path to escape, but he just waited for the right time to do it.

Huggy went to the last place he remembered he was ever truly happy. That's a big possibility. When under stress and feel depressed you always go to the place where you last felt safe and happy. When you technically don't have a real home you go to the last place you ever had that feeling. I hope that made sense

I find it so impressive at how much the devs of poppy playtime have based the lore on how our minds respond to adrenaline, trauma, fear, and so on.

the fact that MatPat is a Greg really adds to his lore

this video is literal heaven to me i love matpats analysation of horror vids.

For some strange reason seeing MatPat actually finding pretty deep meanings to video games is a great late night binge watch.

33:50 Mat just made that person's whole day.

I'm shocked Mat didn't mention (or he didn't by 27:55) that when we see Huggy at the house it's a different camera feed. It is not one of Poopy Playtime's cameras it's a civilian's camera someone knows of the experiments and stayed quiet, or got offed and they stole the footage to be safe.

14:31 So, Huggy is clearly extremely good at being stealthy.

I love how he is going insane about the mp4 when it could've just been converted into digital

I remember seeing a comment on the original video saying that MatPat was going to make a 20-minute analysis video on 3 minutes of footage. How little they knew... EDIT: Nevermind, Ash mentioned it in the video. As always, she's one step ahead of me.

The day when Ash moves on to do other work at gt it's gonna be sad, her personality and banter adds a lot

15:46 This actually prompted me to double check whether or not Huggy still wore the bow in chapter 1 and according to in-game images he did. And this video actually brought up a question with me. If some sort of remaining part of the larger toys had some compulsion that could draw them back towards some link to their human lives, what kept them in the factory after Playtime Co. collapsed? They spent 10 years essentially unsupervised by anyone from the factory and they seemingly remained that entire time. So that leaves a question: were they just locked in when the factory came down, or is there something else that’s been keeping them inside as some sort of instinctive thing?

Dude Poppy Playtime needed this VHS treatment, gives not just more *LOOOOORRRRREEEE* but depth to each character. I’m assuming next is Mommy Longlegs

I just love Mat Pat’s theories, they are so intriguing and exciting and changes your perspective on games lore.

Didn't one of the posters and lore bits talk about Poppy Play Time Co. encouraging and sponsering the fostering orphans through the company and employees? I think it would be extra tragic if the house at the end of the video, was one of the employee's house who not only worked at Poppy Playtime, but also the person who was fostering the child at the same time.

That's why I wanted a regular smiling Huggy Wuggy plush instead of the ones with big teeth as my first from this series. Huggy is not a bad boy, he's friendly but he's also lost, confused, and afraid.

I love how matpat watched the entire donkey Kong ambient sound for a hour

My only question that I have that might sound dumb (I haven’t been on top with most theories in the game), is how old would the child be in the spirit of Poppy to know where the house is? If this child was raised in this house, I would imagine the child to be a bit over past 7-8 years old. I wouldn’t think younger kids will have a strong recollection of directions and where they came from after being transformed into the toys.

26:46 "we all laugh and joke about dead kids" That is a sentence no one has ever said before

If Huggy traveled a half mile in 3 minutes, then he would have traveled a full mile in 6 min. Meaning he was running at 60mph.

I really appreciate the talk about the desensitization of these stories. I think it's something that definitely needs to be talked about.

25:00 if you look at huggy's face you can see he's in happy mode

I want to mention something that I thought about after Mat pat talked about the true horrific nightmares that are these indie stories. He said stuff about the missing kids incident, and all I could think about was, if that was real, what those kid would have witnessed just before their deaths. It’s terrible to think that the last thing four of those kids ever saw before they died was a bunny man murdering at least one other kid. Of course this is only if William Afton killed all five kids at the same time, which he likely didn't.

Watching this I had the same reaction as Ash where I felt the moment when Huggy was standing outside the house. I think MatPat is correct, that the kid is standing outside the house. My first instinct was "oh he went home, he went back to the place where someone promised to love him and keep him safe."

I think it actually makes a lot of sense huggy would run to a home given that in the first game we saw that playtime co was encouraging employees to adopt the orphans. It’s possible huggy was adopted by an employee and that’s the home they lived in. I feel like how close the home was to playtime co kinda backs that up, as the employees would be living within daily commuting range.

When you look at the deer that huggy killed, the antlers show that it is either a species of elk or red deer. This would place playtime co in either the western/mountainous regions of the US, or somewhere in Europe such as England or Scotland

I have my own sort of long theory. I think the reason he went to the house even though he was an orphan is because that was the house the employee that adopted him lived in. We can see that the orphans didn't live at the factory, they just came for a day to do the challenges and to be tested. So before that (and after if they failed) they would be at the homes of their new adopted parents because we can see that the orphans they turned into toys were adopted as a part of the initiative. So the orphan inside Huggy Wuggy, with their parents dead fled from the factory and went to the only safe place they knew. I think what makes it sadder is that they were too big to go outside and given that it was night their adopted parents would probably be inside and woken by the noise. What if they saw Huggy and called Playtime? What if the orphan inside Huggy was betrayed by the only family they had because they went to the last place they felt safe? That makes it a lot sadder and fits with the lore. Anyways thanks for reading my theory. What do you think?

Huggy ran all the way home just to realise he could never really return because he was a monster

The backstories are truly the terrifying thing about the games, but it's so easy to not think about them because of the medium that they're being displayed with. Also - I was distracted by MILK ME DAMMIT for a good portion of this episode.

the fact that he analyzed this 3 minute video into a 45 minute video is actually crazy

When we saw the shot of the house at the end of the tape, my mind also immediately went to Huggy going back to a house that he lived in when he was human. Thinking way more about it than I should, it made me so sad for him that I cried a little bit. I feel so so bad.

I like how you can tell Mat doesn’t watch BB but still tries to joke. So sweet.

“Who is posting security cams in the middle of the woods?” Mat never heard of a trail cam used by hunters to track and observe deer and other game on their land

only matpat can turn a 3 min video into a 40-60 min video

I already put this comment in another video but I think matpat should take a read: What if Poppy was never sealed in the glass case by the employees, but rather the prototype. She is the only toy that seems to want to bring the factory back to life, and with the player being "too perfect to lose" as she says, she could create a new prototype to begin the factory making toys again.

Weren't staff encouraged to leave their kids in Playcare? What if those kids were used too and their parents just sent to Boxy Boo to hide the evidence? Imagine that "kid" escaping and running back to the family home only to find a new family living there. I would have no idea what to do either if I was that kid/Huggy.

Everyone who said he was going to make this egregiously long was right. The original video was 3 minutes long, and MatPat stretched it 15 times that.

I never noticed huggy woogie's face in the last picture. I thought you could just only see his gloves and when it's exposed higher his face is terrifying He's staring right into the camera

Since there have been placed cameras in random places in the woods means two things: 1) If toys are leaving the factory they want to track them down, as seen in the video. 2) Huggy Wuggy might have gone that route before.

The saddest part is that if Huggy was indeed one of the orphans this was more likely his old home where his parents/guardians died to become apart of poppy’s playtime orphan program.

10:47 0.5 miles per minute = 30 miles per hour. So Huggy's fast compared to the average human, but he's not crazy fast.

So, in regards to Huggy traveling almost exclusively through the vent system seems to imply that he possibly feels safe in there. And it's also possible that after his fall in chapter 1, Huggy went back to the last remaining place where he felt safe to an unspecified degree to die, or to recover from his injuries.

Security person: Matpat: "That's rough buddy."

If I was ever gonna make a game or series, I would start randomly, then watch Mat making theories about it and use those as my story

Being a parent can really give you perspective on indie horror about dead kids.

What would really be horrifying is if they'd opened up the testing they did on children to the general public, found the kids they wanted, and then made them orphans by taking out the parents or maybe just kidnapped the kids and told them their families were dead and no one was the wiser. Improbable because that's a lot of work, but what if they needed really specific things from the kids that were hard traits to come across randomly in actual orphaned children

matpat is like my physics teacher. the guy will literally make anything about physics. mat is making everything about FNAF. (and that is hilarious)

Comment section of that video: Can't wait for MatPat to make a 20 minute video about it Matpat: *creates a 45 minute live stream about it*

Can we just take a moment to realize that MatPat watched the entirety of a two and half hour long Vampire Diaries video?

honestly Matt and Ash are just chaos together lol

Mat is the only TRvidr that can turn 3 minutes of video in to 45 minutes 11 seconds long video

Honestly the question about how many people it takes to make these Giant Toys from the Bigger Bodies Initiative is one I've been wondering about for a while now. We know Mommy Long Legs is Marie Payne, so it only took one body for her, but whether or not it was because she was an adult is hard to pin. Since we assume Huggy Wuggy was a child, it's difficult to decide whether you'd only need one body to make something of his size. It's something I hope we get answers too, eventually.

the convo around 29:00 Mat, thats because you have empathy. your mind doesnt want you to feel those feelings so it compartmentalizes everything, until you get a sympathetic story teller.

It's nice to see that you realize that MLL is an adult and not one of the kids (I can't properly remember if you mentioned that or not, and I'm not bothered to go back in the video to find it) because most ppl say that she was one of the orphans, even though she has the voice of an adult and acts like one. This is quite refreshing actually, thank you!

Every horror game got the vhs tapes now but honestly I can't complain

I really liked how matpat put it and I think what makes it more sad is that this is most likely the reason they(the company) chose orphans, cause they have no one and nowhere else to go. That's what makes it so much more sad cause like when huggy was just standing in front of the home, who would even recognize you, you have the body of a giant monster in the form of a toy but with the mind and heart of an innocent scared child. This game has so much potential and I'm excited to see where they take it

Only mat can make a 45 minute video with only 3 minutes worth of content💪

Love seeing Matt over think everything 😄

Is anyone else interested with how deep MatPat went when he was talking about unsolved crimes? And how it intrigues a lot of people? Might be a long shot but it would be cool hearing MatPats take on unsolved/ COLD cases (Blue color). I might be too high tho lmk

He a runner he's a trackstar he be glitchen out of da cameras 10:17

The best part of this for me is seeing he listened to 1 hour of aquatic donkey Kong ambience 😂

Your enthusiasm gives me absolute life 😂👏🏻 Thanks so much Steph and Matt! ❤

Poppy playtime has so much lore, thanks for helping us explore it!

Cas Van de Pol riding the Crash Bandicoot wave was pretty great. Would definitely recommend him as a creator.