I've never been in the fandom but I have been aware of the game's existence since its very start in 2014, back when I first heard of it in middle school. I've seen the weird SFM animations, the "spooky scary analog horror vhs overlay filter" videos (though those are more recent than anything), the fan videos/games, the "Not Scary" series, the fan songs by TryHardNinja and DAGames, the "top 10" theories, that Smike guy, almost pretty much everything. And yes, let us not forget the depravities, too. I can't believe the franchise's so strong almost ten years now. I practically grew up with FNAF despite not being an autistic fan of it. I just simply liked it but never did I play it or really went deep into it. It was just a game I never touched with fan things that I really liked looking at back then.
I should've expected the fanbase to be filled with the LGBT crowd. I'll never get over how these people treated Scott Cawthon. A man who literally done no wrong got treaded away cause how dare he be a conservative Christian, as one user said here. I feel there's a lot to uncover in the fandom and its people.
Don't know if this thread will last or not but, if there's something I learned from the Caden thread again, that one should never underestimate a thread's activity - at least, not all the time. So for now, I'm staying optimistic in hearing something new and major in that dumpster fire of a community.