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
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Some retired dude who developed the FNAF Series from 2013-2021. His first three games were "Doofas", "Floppy Disk", and "The Fifth Paradox". His first six games with the FNAF art style was: RPG Max, RPG Max 2, Knight, Elemage, Phantom Core, and Stellar Gun. He would later make the Flan series, with the first being simply titled "Legacy of Flan", or later "Legend of Flan". The series was an instant success on the website The Daily Click and would later make Flanville. Flanville is like the Flan series, but the characters are different, and they have houses.

Flanville wasn't a huge success, so he would later create Moon Minions, then Flanville 2 was created. Flanville 2 brought back the FNAF art style...Later he would create "Chups quest".... Later on, he would revive the Flan series with one last game and the Desolate Room. In 2008, he created his most wonderful non-scary project, titled "Iffermoon". More later, he would come back with Chipper and Sons Lumber Co. (the first installment in FNAF). Jim Sterling complained about it. So later he made casino games, the last being VIP Woodland Casino (the second installment in FNAF).

1 Year later... He would release the first demo 1.0 (now lost) for FNAF 1 on ModDB, later, some demos of his other FNAF games were released. Only UCN, SL, FNAF 3 & FNAF 2 Ext weren't released. FNAF 3's demo is still available on Android via APK since the app was removed in 2019.
Hi! Who created this FNAF???
It's former video game dev Scott Cawthon.
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