Previous Chapter: >>540178368>Play Poppy Playtimehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1721470/Poppy_Playtime/>Official Twitter (MOB)https://twitter.com/mobgamesstudios?lang=en>>Show Bibles<<>Playtime Adventureshttps://archiveofourown.org/works/58801258/chapters/149853037>Smiling Critters: Friends Forever!https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QVnGUBQ89bygs0Ox7geW15WbNSw_kSp83MXwv0B-Zig/edit>Ep.1https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z2T7-NSknjOxmuMT13_1qC0B5a2EMmw4Y0v310iIksk/edit>Ep.2https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uo1jXVhF0GCIIqYtn8VwLcdsUc5J_OCBsYKreVNqoN4/edit>Let's Hop to the Moon!https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H2aOqEnG8xAx4go_NGIzP3WhzqGI71mqeLwO1zqeiS4/edit
Sloppy toppy from Poppy
>>540504573Do not.
Why don't any of the toys have genitals (in-universe lore reasons)?
>Introducing Pretty Critte-
>>540509249They're toys. Does your average toy have actual genitals?
>>540520675Yes, but only because a shit ton of a particular toy was produced that have dicks and that skewed the average.
>>540509249Most likely because the kids being nothing more than a blended up slurry shoved into a toy frame wouldn't really need them anymore. That and creating tailored genitals for each toy for all the kids they'd be grinding up would be a waste of resources that could go to just making more toys. They viewed the toys as slave labor first, not people with wants or needs.
>>540509249Touch grass not yourself
>>540527338Kek
>>540536038>This is where my dreams died, Yarnaby
>>540548438Dreamcore
Will Huggy use his teleportation powers in chapter 5?
>>540551724I can see why Catnap fell in love with this man.
>>540564698Cursed.
>>540569206Fuck off Doey!
>>540569241Why are you being so rude to him?
>>540570890Must be a Sawyer fan.
>>540569241Rude!
Poppy Playtime but... the main character has a knife.
Chapter 5 will be politically disruptive. Actual governments will topple.
>>540610479Finally.
>>540606984>Poppy Playtime but the main character is Br*tish
>>540638391I like that look for Huggy.
>notglue had a genuine schizo break and has gone full retardSad when this shit happens, especially to artists I like. I wish him luck on doing what he enjoys, but I don't predict this ending any different than the past hundred or so times I've seen somebody intentionally torpedo their own works because of "pressure". https://nitter.poast.org/notglue9m/status/1971952209681318015
>>540646926Why is the top right guy just Berdly Deltarune...
>>540647206That's ostensibly, from what I can tell, meant to be the 'redesign' for Kickin that notglue is doing.
>>540647334That's what I thought but some of the quote retweets think they're ship fankids so now I'm confused
>>540647878He has a patreon post going into detail about the changes, but I have no clue what's going on there. It might, MIGHT actually be fankids like you've said but there's no way to verify because he's shut off Twitter comments on his posts and the patreon post about them is locked.
>>540647878>>540648348I will say that if they ARE fankids, then I'll actually be a lot more forgiving of the changes than I otherwise would have been. But I'll still be wary and more or less consider this the inevitable end of M&M as an AU - announcing you're completely cutting out any connection to Poppy Playtime (which were already tenuous at best, so I see no reason why he'd announce it beyond last minute spite), blaming being "pressured" for the burn-out as though the fans are to blame, announcing you're completely changing everything, shutting off comments and so on are bright red flags. Every single AU who has done even one of these things has died horribly and in very short order. And notglue is speedrunning all of them at once.I'll still follow M&M for as long as it goes on because it has a special place in my heart as my favorite Poppy AU, and it happens to be (or have been) the longest continuous/consistent AU so I'm committed to seeing where it goes. But I have little faith it's going to last much longer regardless of notglue's work ethic because he's turned away all the non-patreons who supported him and turned everything into a walled garden where you can look but not touch.
>>540610479>>540618586Anon predicted that SOMETHING Poppy-related would be disruptive. Just not politically.
>>540649175>blaming being "pressured" for the burn-out as though the fans are to blameYeah, I found that part strange when reading through the Twitter thread.>I had wanted to do so much: character exploration through past and present, romantic relationships, their dynamics with kids, comfort/angst core… I had so many plans. But I gave in and listened to others, deciding it was safer to please them rather than myself.Like, all of these plans sound like things the fans would ENJOY, don't they? Did they really talk him out of doing these things, or was he just paranoid? What was he "giving in" to?
>>540653835I really feel like he was just paranoid and gave into a depressive spiral mostly. But there WERE people who were VERY fucking vocal when notglue started out and for a good while after who were shitting on anyone explicitly shipping the Critters or giving them fankids. When you factor in stuff like pachi rizuu getting shit on for making fankids then having them get sexually abused further fanning flames, you have a recipe for a lot of uninvolved fan artists catching shit. I can definitely picture that sort of stuff fucking him up mentally and convincing him that he needed to "please" other people rather than just doing what he wanted. This might also explain why he was so vocal on just saying Dogday and Catnap were simply 'good friends' even as their relationship became more and more explicit.
>>540657580>But there WERE people who were VERY fucking vocal when notglue started out and for a good while after who were shitting on anyone explicitly shipping the Critters or giving them fankids.Huh, I actually had no idea about this. I see Smiling Critters ships all the time so I didn't think it was something that anyone considered inherently "bad", at worst I just expected occasional ship wars like in any fandom.
>>540658612We had an entire thing early on where some artist Mob brought on (who didn't even have anything to do with the Smiling Critters concept beyond the bare minimum) got taken as a full fledged authority on the subject and insisted that people shouldn't make art of the Critters (cartoon or otherwise) because "they were kids". It caused several thread shitstorms because of our local schizo but the worst damage was obviously on Twitter. We're past that time now, but it was a bad situation for all involved. IIRC it was that sort of shit + being threatened by dumb kids who bought into it that caused one of the earliest and biggest SC AU artists at the time to just stop caring and leave the fandom, after having gradually distanced her work from the SCs as a concept and Poppy Playtime as a whole.
>>540659741>some artist Mob brought on (who didn't even have anything to do with the Smiling Critters concept beyond the bare minimum) got taken as a full fledged authority on the subjectLet me guess, Amber? I think I vaguely remember that whole ordeal. And even recently she still says stuff in the Discord about it, saying the experiements don't age (and are therefore children forever) and that the cartoon Smiling Critters are also "implied to be children".And then in the same conversation she says that it's "safe to say" that Miss Delight is an adult (as in, made from an employee instead of an orphan I guess) despite admitting there's no lore about her to prove one way or the other. I don't know why fans take her word as gospel when stuff like this proves to me she's just pushing her headcanons as if they were fact. It's annoying that it shuts down alternate interpretations. If Amber was actually writer who decided the lore then I'd understand, but she's just an artist...
>>540660641*experiments, typed a little too fast lolAlso if I recall, the actual creator of the Smiling Critters ended up stating that they were "ageless" or something, right? Or am I misremembering?
>>540660817>Also if I recall, the actual creator of the Smiling Critters ended up stating that they were "ageless" or something, right? Or am I misremembering?Something like that, yeah. Said creator also frequently retweeted ship art of the SCs so you known they didn't give a damn either way.
>>540660641>Let me guess, Amber?Yep. Not surprised she's still at it to this day, but I'm thankful most fans are rightfully ignoring her these days. Too bad it seems notglue might have been another delayed fatality of her BS.
>>540664369It's a shame, but I guess the fans who use her as a lore source are naive kids who assume any member of the team is automatically "Word of God" regardless of their actual role in development.I don't think anything in the game so far definitively answers the "can the experiments age" question, so it's all just personal interpretation currently. And if any new lore drops in Chapter 5 that confirms the answer, I feel like she'd be under NDA if she knew of it. Unless Mob would give her permission to discuss it, but with how she talked about Miss Delight I think she's just pulling from her ass and doesn't truly know anything more on that front than the rest of us do.And chances are the game will never actually confirm it and the fandom will continue to argue about this time and time again...
>>540668950Our villain (and hero)!
Apparently the Fortnite collab is happening this Halloween. Too bad I don't care about Fortnite
>>540678596Will Huggy be a skin or will it be some other crap? I want to default dance as Huggy.
>>540660641>>540664369>>540666745The damage Amber has done to fan content cannot be understated. How does this woman still have a job.
>>540685930>How does this woman still have a job.Probably a combination of her art skills combined with Mob not caring about the fanbase as much as they should.
>>540687489Yeah, sounds about right unfortunately.
>>540659741>who didn't even have anything to do with the Smiling Critters concept beyond the bare minimumThat's false, Amber has appeared on podcasts to say she was involved during the concept art stage. She recalled asking for new assets of Nappy (CatNap's original name) and that they had created a fox critter instead of a bunny originally. She also made the cartoon in Chapter 3.
>>540728558>That's false,>Amber has appeared on interviews to say she was involvedI didn't think it required pointing out, but I do not give a fuck what Amber has to say because she's a pathological liar as are the people who defend her.>She also made the cartoon in Chapter 3.She did not. She worked as an artist on it.
>>540728558>>540732780Avalon Delaney is the ACTUAL lead creator of the Smiling Critters and when asked, she outright said that basically everything Amber said was false and her projecting her headcanons. Nobody believes Amber actually had much, if any, say in how the concepts and final designs went down.The only thing she can ACTUALLY be credited for is that she WAS the lead animator for the Smiling Critters cartoon, but saying that "she made it" like it was her labor alone is disingenuous. An animator did not envision or create the concept for the characters they are animating unless they're ALSO credited separately as being the character designer and developer, which Amber has never been.
>>540698393My husband.
>>540754056Why does this artist think humans have owl necks?
>>540765772He's right there, entities.
>>540754056>no Portable Dogday mechanicWE WERE ROBBED
>>540684117We don't know yet but I'd be surprised if there wasn't a Huggy skin.
What if the Fortnite collab has vital lore?
Gemstin critter comic dub, haven't seen much from this guy in a while.https://youtube.com/shorts/E3V1MhXN0G8?si=AvvNrvYrveESDYhF
>>540772143I will scream.
What is this creature?
None of the leaks I can find actually mention what kind of Poppy content will make it into Fortnite. Most of the other series at least have some promises like new skins and shit.Maybe this is too ambitious, but here would be a fun idea. They hired UE level designers who were specialized in making Fortnite maps back when they were hiring for the pixel artists and retro music makers. They also trademarked a game name, Poppy Playpark. Hypothetically, let's say these are all connected, and the Fortnite collab is actually for a horror experience within Fortnite and not for major cosmetics. This project brings together all the pieces we have, the pixel art, the retro remixes, Poppy Playpark, into a single event.
>>540772143>The head of Mob are super autists who need to figure out a way for the crossover to be canon like the Kingdom Hearts guy did with Smash
who is the glup shitto of poppy playtime?
A whole slew
Puggy wuggy
>>540809405PJ and Huggy fusion...
>>540802273Daynap sex
>>540803316Candy Cat.
So far how many injuries do you think the protagonist is suffering under as of the end of chapter 4?I imagine his clothing is ripped in places, he's got a concussion, scratch marks, bite marks from some toys or railings, I'm honestly a bit surprised none of his bones have been broken yet as he seems to be able to run still, I struggle to call any of what he's doing fighting since he can't really square up to anything in the game it's more like surviving until throwing specific switches in whatever room he's trapped in. It's pretty brilliant of the developer to make his model a generic yellow man it's cheaper and it leaves more to the imagination of the player themselves than say FNAF where you know you're playing as a child or an adult.I just hope this story has a concrete ending and doesn't get all wonky like that FNAF did to it's franchise now it has schizo lore and completely unfinished endings only implications.I fully expect the protagonist to die at the end of this just because the prototype is a spiteful motherfucker and the protag would probably come out of this a mental wreck unable to just return to normal life
>>540819408>than say FNAF where you know you're playing as a child or an adult.We know the PPT player is an adult too though because they were an employee at the factory 10 years prior.
>>540819408He almost certainly has several broken ribs by now.
>>540819408I like the model itself but I hate how vague the Player is. There's no sense of who he is and what his motivations are. Even the blandest of le goofy fun facts would be appreciated. Maybe that's a problem for 5 to fix but we should've had something by now.Say what you want, but at least Fnaf has a recognizable player character. Michael might not have a lot of development but you know who he is and why he keeps going to work.>I fully expect the protagonist to dieProbably, he doesn't have any reason to stick around for new adventures after this.
Tomorrow will make one year since the first trailer for Chapter 4
>>540840523Nyo...
Do we even know if the protagonist is a guy?
>>540855897>Art, Huggy, REPO Guy, Scooby Doo, and K-Pop Demon Hunters all in the same gameAbsolutely schizo line-up.
>>540855897>Still no Looney Tunes
>>540865467Lol nope, they've been kept gender-neutral.
>>540865467No, but it's generally assumed.
Cursed image, do not open
https://x.com/HYPEX/status/1972750161270190166
>>540901063Crush it, Doey.
>>540896506Huggychads. Stay. Fucking. Winning.
>>540896506I really hope we get Poppy and some others as backpacks
>Doey added to Fortnite but he's been molded into Jonesy's model
>>540502283Poppy Playtime is still a thing?Did we get to use the ginger doll as a fleshlight yet?
>>540911867Yeh 2/3rd through chapter 5. We're waiting for chapter 6.
>>540911867No Ollie does though
>>540912880This post is going to age very poorly
She's not happy about Fortnite.
Delete the wuggies.
>>540923615Do not.
>>540920290What did she expect when she's only a couple feet tall
>>540886859Most cused post ever made in these threads.
It's been a whole year now since the Chapter 4 teaser trailer by the way
>>540945661Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>>540920290You could've said this image is 4 years old and no one would know otherwise
>>540955596Kek
>>540955596>Picture somehow gets posted 4 years ago>Everyone intuits that it's about Fortnite still
>>540964676Fortnite is eternal.
>>540930274They make her taller.
>>540935717Dogday pls
>>540989314I love all the art that game is inspiring.
>>540997320Monstrous cuties.
>>540949447There's nothing we can do to stop the passage of time
what if poppy playtime was purchased by Saudi Arabia?
>>541026747Actually some of the cutest designs I've ever seen for them
I've hired this Kickin to stare at you.
>>541028454Well? Where is he?
>>541029372Must've gotten eaten by a wandering Picky.
>>541029372OH FUCK THE WUGGIES GOT HIM
Fuck they got him.
>>541036179>>541042118Nyo...
