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Gregory Is None Other Than… or Gregory Is Crying Child refers to a clip from a Game Theorists video about Five Nights At Freddy's: Security Breach claiming the player character Gregory is actually the Crying Child, a character featured in a series of minigames in Five Nights At Freddy's 4. The clip became the subject of edits on YouTube in January 2022 with users changing the character theorized by MatPat to a more comedic character, poking fun at the channel's broad comparison.

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On January 1st, 2022, YouTube^[1] channel The Game Theorists posted a video theorizing that Gregory, the protagonist of FNAF: Security Breach, is the Crying Child, a pixelated character featured in a series of minigames in FNAF 4.^[2] At around the 4:29 timestamp in the video, MatPat compares Gregory's hair, striped shirt, shorts and dark eyes to the Crying Child, suggesting this means they're the same character before elaborating on the theory (shown below).

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On January 3rd, 2022, Instagram^[3] user transgeners posted a screenshot from the clip showing the comparison from the video, replacing the Crying Child with Frisk, the protagonist of Undertale, who also has dark hair, shorts and a striped shirt, gaining over 270 likes in a week. The caption reads, "ik this has been done already but i literally can’t find the post it’s from so i had to improvise…" (shown below).

On January 4th, 2022, YouTuber^[4] Cheese Person uploaded a low-res video recreating this meme, adding Undertale music to the reveal, gaining over 5,000 views in six days, although this does not appear to be the original upload. On the same day, YouTuber^[5] MashuDMellow posted a higher quality version of the meme, gaining over 934,000 views in the same span of time (shown below).

MashuDMellow posted a number of variations of the meme over the following days, including one where MatPat reveals Gregory is a character from the video game OMORI, gaining over 37,000 views in six days (shown below, left). On January 5th, YouTuber MetaPhoton uploaded an edit where a second Gregory is used in place of Crying Child, gaining over 102,000 views in five days (shown below, right).

On January 6th, 2022, YouTuber MashuDMellow posted a new version of the meme using the Ned Leeds Just Standing There meme throughout, gaining over 13,800 views in four days (shown below).

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