The History of Balloon Boy: Fnaf's Problem Child

i’m here im here..notice me fnaf senpai

BB is such a strange outlier character. Doesn't use a standard endo-skeleton, non-hostile, first character to ever talk and a non-animal design. He is quite a strange character.

How my brain works: BB - Balloon Boy JJ - Jalloon Jirl

To me, the most fascinating thing about JJ isn't that she seems to be harmless, but the implication that she's hiding from the animatronics too.

BB is like a kid who uses his scarier siblings to beat up kids he doesn't like

Fun fact: the reason BB was made is so children don't destroy Toy Freddy's shins.

I like to think that BB isnt actually haunted. He is just a normal robot that was designed to be really annoying.

I've always kind of liked Balloon Boy, but the amount of hate he got and the memes that came out of it were really funny

The original gremlin child before we had Gregory! It’s kinda sad how we never got to see these two in the same setting tbh. For such an unassuming little fellow, he really does manage to stand out among the cast. And in a game series where half the characters are robo-furries that’s quite the feat, even though he doesn’t have the same relevance as he did way back when. Neat video on this lil rascal!

As much hate as BB gets, I really think he's a cool character. He's unique compared to the collective of other characters, adorable in a "want to throw him at the wall" sort of way, he was even the first animatronic to have voice lines (unless foxy's sea shanty counts, which i dont usually consider it to). All his incarnations are special, if a tad forgettable, and he's the best nuance in fnaf 2 that is an actual nuance (rather than just another mechanic to be aware of, i.e the puppet or the shadows). He's a good character and it's really sad that not that many people seem to appreciate him.

I've always found it funny that people think Balloon Boy is very annoying. BB was designed to be annoying so of course they'd find him annoying lol. I find him more interesting than anything since he's so unique compared to the rest of the cast. I've always had a soft spot for him

I love how Balloon Boy was such a priority for Illumix that not only was he included day one, but he also got more skins than the literal face of the franchise. And yet I guess Lefty, Funtime Foxy, and the Glamrocks didn't matter to them and were just thrown in trash never to be added despite already being confirmed, because who cares about them, right?

Funny how Baloon Boy is the first animatronic in the series who doesn't directly attack the player... and now he's in BBWorld... an arcade game themed around Sun and Moon......one of them who doesn't directly attack the player

well now he's a movie star. i think they should continue the gag inthe second movie with deedee. bb is a bit now and i'm here for it

I never really stopped to think about balloon boy. He was basically a meme for, like, two or three years and after nightmare balloon boy was introduced in the FNAF 4 Halloween update, he just kind of... Vanished from relevance.

I listened to Balloon Boy's laugh for 1 hour straight. I think I'm going insane.

Bb always stuck out to me in a positive way. Whenever I played FNAF 2 and I heard him coming, it was always a fun challenge to see if I could spot him in time before he took my batteries. I think he’s a character the community loves to hate, but hates to hate at the same time. Glitched Attraction really did a good job implementing his variations into the game.

You know we may not like Balloon Boy, but try to remember something he was still iconic that way no matter what. This surprisingly might be the best and also most important thing about him in FNAF history and surprisingly came out of nowhere.

Not even joking when I say this, BB is genuinely one of my favourite characters of this entire franchise. Seeing a video finally dedicated to him and his band of misfits is a pleasure to see

"The new set of children, though? William hadn’t bothered actually stuffing them anywhere, so the Puppet guided them to select new vessels of their own. Instead of individual characters like it was expecting, though, all of them voluntarily possessed Balloon Boy just because it was mildly amusing. ...but it got extremely stressful because Balloon Boy staged a coup against him with the other animatronics. So, once the week was over, he transferred over to the dayshift position. Balloon Boy wasn’t going to let Jeremy get away free, though, and proceeded to publicly attack him and bite out his frontal lobe. Wow. That face trauma prophecy came true quickly. But hey, don’t worry, it grew back within a month."