Students across the US have been playing a viral Five Nights at Freddy's parody called Five Nights at Epstein's, in which you operate surveillance cameras throughout the child sex offender's Little St. James home to avoid being caught not only by Epstein, but by other figures mentioned in the files, such as President Trump and Stephen Hawking.
The game uses real photographs taken of Epstein's home, as released by the DOJ.
As reported by Bloomberg, social media footage shows young boys and girls playing the game in classrooms from Utah to North Carolina, with videos on TikTok and YouTube amassing millions of views. Several platforms host the game to download online, but a fully playable web browser version of Five Nights at Epstein's has proven the most popular, drawing almost 200,000 visitors in February alone.
Meta has begun blocking users from sharing links to the game to limit its reach, while TikTok stated that Five Nights at Epstein's breaches its community guidelines, which prohibit engaging in the exploitation and abuse of children. Schools throughout the US are working in tandem to prevent access to the game, as it has been described as a "national trend" by one district, but several...
