Circus

Circus

The thumbnail for Five Nights at Freddy's, which is commonly associated with "Circus".
Source	Five Nights at Freddy's
First appearance	As a rip: "Circus Theme - Five Nights At Freddy's" (March 21, 2016) As a joke: "Hungry Pumkin - Pumkin World" (November 5, 2016)
Media
Audio preview	File:Circus.mp3
Track information
YouTube Music	YouTube

For the song created for SGFR, see Circus (SGFR).

"Circus" is a frequently ripped track from the game Five Nights at Freddy's and a meme on the SiIvaGunner channel.

Overview

"Circus" is the unofficial name given to a 22-second-long sound file that may play at random during a playthrough of the horror game Five Nights at Freddy's. It is a generic-sounding circus-like fanfare, although its cheap quality, clicking sound effects, and slightly broken rhythm are supposed to unease the player.

Although no official credit is given to this track, it was featured on the album Organ Music: Sound Effects in 2012.

Rips

See also: Category:Circus and Category:Rips featuring Circus

The first rip of this song, "Circus Theme - Five Nights At Freddy's", now known as "Circus (Demo)", was uploaded to the GiIvaSunner channel on March 21, 2016, with a second rip following shortly after on March 23. After the GiIvaSunner Termination wiped those rips, this song changed name to "Circus", starting with the Beta Mix and Alpha Mix uploaded for 4/20 2016.

During the early months of the SiIvaGunner channel, Five Nights at Freddy's series rips were almost always switcheroos, usually beginning with the actual track before transitioning to something with absolutely no relation to the series. "Circus" was most frequently used for this joke, and in turn became the official track title used for rips that don't contain video game music, with the practice being discontinued for general Five Nights at Freddy's series rips. Initially, "Circus" rips were mainly used for edits of dubstep songs, though starting with the rip "Circus (Alternate Mix) - Five Nights at Freddy's", they would start to be used for edits of various other songs, usually mainstream ones. All "Circus" rips with very few exceptions follow this joke.

Over the course of Season 1, realistic mix names names stopped being used for "Circus" rips in lieu of the mix being some sort of clue to the content of the rip. For the Season 1 Finale, a video titled "Circus - Five Nights at Freddy's" was finally uploaded to the SiIvaGunner channel, although it's not featured in the Five Nights at Freddy's playlist due to it actually being an announcement video for the album Five Nights at Freddy's Original Soundtrack rather than a rip. As a final twist to the joke, this video is just the actual unedited track. The album in question holds most of the "Circus" rips uploaded during the first season.

After that upload, "Circus" rips became more scarce as fake game playlists were more common in Season 2. However, near the end of Season 3 and especially in Season 4, "Circus" rips started being uploaded more often again, with a new running joke where they often feature very bizarre mix names that are usually completely unrelated to the rip, usually being puns on "mix" or "version". Curiously, "Circus" rips were uploaded most frequently in Season 4 Episode 2 (rather than Season 1 like one would expect), though the momentum slowed down with the start of Season 5.

There are currently 69 "Circus" rips, making it by far the most-ripped song on the channel; "Raft Ride", one of the only other tracks with over 100 rips (along with "Slider"), is a distant second with 15 rips.

Trivia

• Due to the unique situation for what can be submitted under it, "Circus" is noted to be a track that does not demand higher standards for its large amount of rips alongside "Raft Ride", "Slider", and "Wood Man Stage". However, it is separately noted that rips not based around video game music have higher standards, and thus "Circus" rips are much more case-by-case than other rips.
• Most "Circus" rips credit artists or characters related to at least one of the jokes involved. In Season 1, it was also common to credit "N/A" or leave out the composer line entirely, but this practice has mostly been dropped as of Season 4.

External links

• "Every SiIvaGunner circus rip." - YouTube playlist by NathanTheMan.
• "Rips featuring Circus" - YouTube playlist by aidan.