1) The creator of the highly-successful Five Nights At Freddy's Franchise.

2) Turning into one of the biggests sellout on the face of the planet.
1: Scott cawthon created FNAF all by himself.

2: Nintendo is making Mario Games on mobile now? They're really Scott Cawthoning
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To release a game earlier than the planned release date.
Call of Duty 4 was due to be released in June, but they just had to pull a Scott Cawthon and release it in May.
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An effect in which the fandom of an awesome indie game becomes cancerous and starts ruining the game.

The name itself is named after Scott Cawthon, the creator of Five Nights at Freddy's. The game itself has been ruined by its Fandom.
This entry was created in 2017, the same year Bendy and the Ink Machine, a horror puzzle indie game, was released and its community has the Scott Cawthon effect. Do you know how quick that was?
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Not to be confused with Scott Cawthorn.
A videogame dev most famous for creating the Five Nights at Freddy's before handing it to Steel Wool after the release of Security Breach. He made FNAF because many of his older games such as The Pilgrim's Progress, Iffermoon, Chipper and Sons, and Legacy of flan were complained alot, the most famous being the infamous Jim Sterling.
FNAF was first released on August 19, 2014, with a sequel coming on November. Some Let's Players got an extended version of the demo of the game.
Stranger 1: who created FNAF?
Stranger 2: Scott Cawthon
by JadenTheMoose February 17, 2022
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