How Silly Billy Saved Friday Night Funkin'

READ ME BEFORE COMMENTING 🗣🗣 I see some comments talking about how Silly Billy didn’t “save FNF from dying”, which is true. I never said that it saved it from completely dying out. Rather, it allowed the game to be pushed out of its irrelevancy and get more people talking about it again as a result. The game was never dead, nor has it ever been “dying”. Also, while the Weekend 1 update did also assist in this. I also stated how from the YouTube metrics I observed on multiple videos, tiktoks, tweets, forums, etc; It seemed that Silly Billy was a slight bit more influential in the public eye (to my surprise). Obviously not invalidating Weekend 1 in any way. It still played a major part in saving FNF, as I also said in the video. Also also, genuine apologies for forgetting to mention EvilSk8r when talking about the dev team. It kinda just flew over my head when editing, but he def deserves some love so please go support him as well for helping to make this awesome lil game!!! Also also also, I was aware that Subterfuge wasn’t made by Churgney, and that he rather just made a lyrical cover of it. Though for some reason I guess I just skipped the “with lyrics” part in my mind when writing the script??? Not sure tbh lmao, but thank you all for the comments who pointed that out. Also also also also, I didn’t include the “Eye to Eye” version of Yourself due to the fact that he seemed to deviate a lot from the original two versions and seemed to be more of its own thing. Especially design wise, taking a completely different approach than Divide and Doorknob. Lastly, I did not “forget” about Car or Garn47. Neither of them were the topic of the video, and honestly could have their own video dedicated to them lmao. This video is purely about Silly Billy as a song and the character of Yourself. Of course, I respect any and all feedback, really I do!! It is my first time making a video essay after all. But please, watch the video and actually listen to what is said before criticizing me tho 😭😭 Thanks, and hope y'all enjoy the video!! ♥

A song called f*cking silly billy caused fnf to become relevant again, this part of the internet makes me so happy

silly billy to me is a reflection of what fnf has been looking like up until this point

Rest in Peace Divide And creating this character from the cancelled Sonic.exe mod and seeing Yourself saving the FNF community to this day...

He made the whole community say how proud they where of him. Divide had the key to save the fnf community and its sad they didn't get to see it. Silly Billy could also be referring to divide when he sings his lyrics.

Silly Billy became so popular that I started seeing reviewers outside of the FNF space start interacting with it. It is such a good song, but I was fully not expecting it to reach 10 Million views.

The Silly Billy mod was the main reason why I regained interest in this game. I’m just glad to finally see a mod that’s not based off some creepypasta or existing ip.

He did, indeed, show us his way.

Ngl, I really love the effect of Silly Billy bringing back people to the community and finding out all the stuff they missed and going back to what they knew. Finding out about things like Mario’s Madness, FNF Online, Indie Cross, Sonic Legacy, all great stuff.

man, it’s even more amazing that the animations were made on a PHONE. A PHONE. truly amazing.

Finally someone who is able to make a FNF video talking about the rise, fall, and rise of FNF without just shitting on the Sonic.exe mod for "ruining" the community, or acting like all the horror mods we get are bad. Just mentioning that, despite a lot of them being amazing, like the OG Sonic.exe mod, the mario madness mod, and the cartoon cat mod, they did cause a significant fall in popularity. I really appreciate this video for how honest and fair it is, thank you so much S_D_B

Proud to have stayed with fnf community throughout every single ounce of it's life, as well as being one of the first to actually play Hit single before everyone latched onto it.

THANK YOU for talking about the misinformation regarding Divide's passing. The lengths that hoax of him dying in his sleep has reached is terrifying to me

There are so many mods now that have cutscenes with lyrics and I love it.

Silly Billy just KNEW what its audience was: Horror fans who are just tired of the oversaturared market of Sonic exe mods. Now we have more chance of having Discord Roleplay Servers of FNF without just making it a Creepypasta roleplay server.

He sure did make you say how proud you'll be of him... (R.I.P Divide)

I’m convinced Silly Billy is the Megalovania of Fnf. It’s what is the most popular and no matter how you change it, it almost always sounds good

It’s so funny how this mod got way more popular than the actual fnf update for Darnell

While I do think Silly Billy was ONE of the reasons it saved FNF, we can't forget how Mario's Madness brought back about EVERY FNF Youtuber

"I was always in the fandom since a month after the demo released.So I feel really happy about this."