The SCP Foundation: Declassified | Monstrum
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2023
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Join us as we delve deep into the mysterious world of the SCP Foundation, uncovering the most enigmatic and anomalous objects ever contained.
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Written and Hosted by: Dr. Emily Zarka
Director: David Schulte
Executive Producer: Amanda Fox
Producer: Thomas Fernandes
Editor/Animator: Jordyn Buckland
Illustrator: Samuel Allan
Executive in Charge (PBS): Maribel Lopez
Director of Programming (PBS): Gabrielle Ewing
Additional Footage: Shutterstock
Music: APM Music
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It's a nice touch to render your own version of 173. For those that don't know, the original version of 173, a peanut colored and shaped, humanoid figure (hence the nickname Peanut) was originally Izumi Kato's art. Kato wasn't pleased with this, but allowed the photo to stay so long as it was not used commercially. Despite not demanding the photo to be taken down, due to the legal and moral grey area, the Scpwiki maintainers decided to take it down themselves. To prevent a similar issue from happening again, the maintainers won't allow a reappropriation of another artist's work, and instead allow any and all artists to render their version of 173. Aside from the description of 173, there is no longer a canon appearance of 173.
I like to think that 173 is able to reshape its concrete and rebar at any given time, hence the sounds it creates in its containment cell.
@@Constantine_Cvl8 There is an scp tale where one researcher is transported to a 'perfect' reality where all problems are gone from earth, and 173 has employed itself as a living art exhibit that changes itself in it's entirety each time you look at it, so that's a possibility.
for reference, the tale in question is an entry proper. SCP-6001.
It's a very different sort of story from the site's usual fare, but I enjoy it quite a bit.
SCP Wiki admin here: Oh god we're mainstream now.
Sorry not sorry-*Dr.Z*
@@pbsstoried In all seriousness, thank you for this well researched presentation of the site and its work. From all of us on SCP Staff.
Hey bleep 👋
@@yossipossi Hi Yossi
343 help us all 😮
The SCP Foundation is also critical to modern, evolving concepts of intellectual property.
Really working out that Degree in Understatement, right there.
Yeah, remember that Russian guy who tried to copyright the whole thing?
@@kaleb2643 I don't think that case has been fully resolved
@@kaleb2643Seriously??
That's worth a video itself.
Just realized the Secure, Contain, Protect also applies to the actual writings
They secured the original SCPs' articles by finding their archives
They contained all the articles in a single website
They protect the articles from trolls vandalizing them
Not to mention being forced to evolve a bureaucracy that mirrors the fictional one.
As an author on the modern SCP wiki (and scriptwriter for the UA-cam SCP show "The Offshoot") it's really nice to see this kind of attention from a big media company that not only gets the facts right about our community but also capture exactly what it is that makes it such a nice place.
I’m honored to have done it even a small bit of justice.*Dr.Z*
It’s incredibly validating
Hi! Would you mind sharing how you became an author for the wiki?
@@Mal_O_Ware I became an author by joining the site and writing drafts for people to crit, and then posting
It can be intimidating but that’s all it takes, really
If you dont mind me asking, what anomalies have you written? And what were the anomalies that got you hooked in the first place? For me the one that really got me hooked was SCP-3001 (the idea of a Hume field is similar to the idea of the Higgs field and that lead me down a rabbithole lmao)
Love how the SCP editors, posters, and writers had to become the SCP itself to contain the out-of-control spammers and archive the historic posts before they disappeared.
Life imitates art imitates life 🤷♀️ lol
Wow! It's crazy to see art of something I wrote (SCP-5001) on PBS!
It's also really nice seeing an academic/educational take on the SCP Wiki, especially the open license! I would like to point out that it's not public domain, but specifically Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 (which I only know about thanks to the Wiki itself!); the license means that anyone can adapt the work and even make money off of it, but with the condition that credit is provided and the adapted media is released under the same license.
It's an honor to help contribute to the new age of copyleft, and it's an honor to have something I made show up (albeit briefly) in this video! 😄
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@@pbsstoried Just for fun. DO you have favorite SCP?
Funfact: the original author of 073 dissapeared from the internet cause his wifi was malfunctioning, he totally forgot about that post, but initially, it was going to be like area 51 with more typical monsters. When he discovers the impact of his initial work, he was so amazed that consider more interesting the new lore over his own lore. His favorite SCP is the soda machine.
Aw, that's so wholesome, thanks for sharing!
I'm just surprised no one has made a straight up SCP movie. The lore on this world is already so extensive to make multiple series.
Due to the licensing it would be very hard for movie studios to make any money from it
It deserves the Hollywood treatment, but after the Slendeman movie and Grimcutty I kind of want to keep it as far away from the studios as possible.
not big studio movies, but there are movies
There are some youtube movies that have been made like "096" "SCP: Dollhouse" and "SCP: Overlord" all free to watch
@@b3z3jm3nnyAlso the fsct that under the SCP Foundations copyright status nobidy can fully own the rights characters or creatures,and studios love to straight up OWN what they have others make.
Beyond humbled that PBS chose to cover us. I was absolutely a PBS kid growing up, any time the teacher rolled the TV into the classroom and we had something from PBS to watch it was a great day. To see this project grow to such a scale that it ended up being content of its own is mind-blowing. Thank you for the coverage, and thank you to the commenters for reading, being fans, contributing in your own ways, or for just giving this video you've never heard anything about a watch. I'll remember this day for a long time.
I...wow. It's crazy to see something I helped build show up on a PBS video. This is absolutely trippy.
Which scp is your full/ partly creation?
I used to be a translator at the Russian Foundation somewhere around 2010. It's still insane to see how the project has expanded over the years.
Can’t believe you found us!-*Dr.Z*
@@pbsstoried, I'm sure that, like me, you're glad he did!
But I have a question for you, Dr. Z . . . You mentioned "The X Files", Area 51 and another organization, if I recall correctly. But you didn't mention "Warehouse 13". What's up with that?
One more thing, if I may. I currently live in Montgomery, Alabama. At the corner of Union Street and I-85, you'll find the campus of ASU -- Alabama State University. I'm also aware of Arizona State University, with several campuses -- one of which hosts a PhD program in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology. So which ASU are you with?
This video has the absolute best understanding of so much of the foundation, its lore, writing style etc...really this is excellent and I'll be pointing to this video as an intro when anyone asks about it. Thank you so much for making it!@@pbsstoried
Hey kids, we made it to PBS! Nice. It's wild how far a spin off from a different creepy fiction/late night posting board has become what it is today and gone so far and influenced so many other formats. Support the wiki if you can!
Wow. I’ve written like ~150 stories for the site, including some 001s - it’s really awesome to see this wonderful corner of the internet highlighted! Wonderful stuff.
Which 001 is yours?
I'm an old guy and while I don't really know much about the SCP world, my kids are fans. I have a ton of respect for it as kind of this open-source creature project in the modern world. Creative and weird, big props to that community for making and maintaining something like this.
Don’t worry, some of us SCP creators are old guys too :)
My spouse and I generally hang out in very different corners of the internet, so it was really fun and exciting to have a video that crossed both of our long-standing interests. I watch Monstrom and he reads SCP
I'm so glad you made a video on this! The SCP universe is such an incredible example of internet folklore and the potential offered by a collective mythos. The fact that no one can claim ownership of SCP is a crucial part of what makes it so wonderful, and, I think, brings it closer to the storytelling traditions of old.
Yes! It's such an incredible project with an incredibly dedicated and creative community. It's actually the largest piece of collaborative fiction in history, and while horror is the most common genre featured in articles, you can find an entry or tale of literally any genre. Hell, there's even a comedic film noir SCP (Murphy Law). There are a lot of standalone articles that can be read and enjoyed independently of any other, but there are also so many entries that build on other ideas, characters, and objects created by other authors, and it makes it so much more of a rich and satisfying experience to read. Anytime I can get someone interested in the SCP universe, I'm happy.
Also, shoutout to DJKaktus, you're the goat and I can't wait for more of Project Paragon.
"No one can claim ownership." Tell that to the people who retconned out real scp 166 -_-
It's a shining example of weird writers coming together for so long.
@@ShugoAWay
Omg as a woman, that was SO annoying and SO stupid
@EspeonMistress00 exactly like to ret con established lore and make changes only serves to make the collaborative process harder like that entire entries can change on a whim makes interconnection nearly impossible like if suddenly 614 became a totally different 1 on a whim now so many other entries have to be redone from the ground up
Can we get another show of just Dr. Z reading and dissecting SCP. There's so many creepy entries. I'd be amazing to see her analyze them
Wait till she finds SCP-686
Some of my favorite entries are actually the ones that aren't creepy, either being wholesome (like SCP 999) or not creepy, but just plain strange (like SCP 294). I'd be curious to see her dissect these kinds of entries as well.
This is incredibly validating, after having spent the last four years on writing and editing projects for SCP
For anyone interested, the project really allows for all sorts of stories, not just horror. It’s really strange fiction, and allows for comedy, romance, intrigue, fantasy, science fiction, on top of the core horror elements.
And it’s a wonderful writing community that is for the most part very welcoming to new voices
The SCP is so fascinating to read and watch on UA-cam. People's imagination can go to new heights on the stories there!
Being an older internet user it's kind of interesting to see how people took Creepypasta and essentially organized it into a connected storyline. It's like, idk, the street gangs becoming a Mafia or something.
Connected storyline? SCP has no overarching storyline, just a bunch of seperate canons that have no relation to each other.
@@TheHornedKing I think they meant that it all belongs to a single "franchise" instead of a bunch of disconnected stories.
@@TheHornedKing There are connections between many of the stories. While there are different canons, there's still many examples of certain parts of the fictional universe appearing across multiple articles, like the Scarlet King and SCP-682.
@@Mordalon I know. I was just speaking broadly.
We should make writers mafias. Especially in this era; if collaborative megaprojects were more numerous that would be awesome. They clearly allow for more independent stuff.
As someone dedicated highlighting the works of The SCP Foundation’s authors and multimedia creators as well as educating people on the ways of the wiki, I must say this is an excellent explainer. Thanks for your work in highlighting our creative community! -Dr. Sherman🖊️ (Not a real doctor 😂)
One of my favorite parts of SCP lore is that the foundation is fully aware that they exist in a fictional universe, and they have an entire department that studies this. They try to predict how "stories" will end, identify people undergoing hero arcs, etc, all just trying to prevent/predict threats. They also established that there is a hierarchical multiverse of fictional universes, where we are a fictional universe to another universe, and the foundation is a fictional universe to our universe, meanwhile the foundation has their own fictional universes, which have their own, and so on. They have also canonized wiki moderation, there is an SCP that erases poorly worded/confusing SCP articles from the foundation's database.
Usually stories might try and poke fun at the fourth wall, but the SCP universe fully canonized the fourth wall, and somehow turned it into extreme existential horror.
Yes!! I love pataphysics
SCP Foundation Lore is probably the most meta lore I have ever read once you start going down the rabbit hole
Interesting fact: one of the SCP Foundation's most closely guarded secrets is that they KNOW their universe only exists as a creative writing project in our world, with all the existential horror that calls to mind.
I’m an author of the site, and I just have to say that this is an excellent breakdown of the wiki. A few things could’ve been more specific, but overall you made it clear why the process we have is important. The wiki helps people grow as writers, and you highlight that well. Things being up to interpretation is something I use a lot in my works, and I love you highlighting that being something the wiki is for. This video is an excellent introduction to SCP. It’s great to see us being appreciated.
Monstrum needs an episode about raiju, the lightning beast yokai from Japan. If you don't know, it is most commonly depicted as dog or wolf, but is also depicted as shrew, bear, weasel, wild boar and even crab or lobster
ooooh, so this is what "Control" was inspired by! I loved that game and thought its worldbuilding was super unique and immersive. It's basically exactly this, a game set within this secret gov agency.
Probably, but the theme of government hiding spooky stuff goes back several decades. Look at Indiana Jones films.
@@edcrichton9457 sure, but "Control" goes way beyond a thematic similarity to SCP. The way the story is told in Control is _exactly_ this, via report files and the whole game has this clinical focus on bureaucray. I mean, the "Control" wiki specifically says it was inspired by SCP.
@@Krustenkaese92 Oh yeah definitely. Control was such a good game too.
and House of Leaves
I think it's really important to SCP's tone that the files begin with the containment procedures before getting to a description of the object. It causes the imagination to create a kind of "negative space" where you try to imagine what thing could need these kinds of procedures and precautions. It's very much like how Lovecraft created a sense of horror from "indescribable" things that defied human perception, by instead focusing on their effects on their surroundings and the close approximations that human senses could conjure.
"I think it's really important to SCP's tone that the files begin with the containment procedures before getting to a description of the object."
An excellent and insightful point!
I love how SCP-universe contains other organizations too. Especially competitor organizations.
Honestly, I like the scp foundation because it can go from silly to down right terrifying to wholsome. Like it can go from a murderous toaster that causes its victims to refer to themselves as a toaster to a man that chases you down through walls to teleport you to its own hellish torture dimension to a civil war statue that gained sentience and fell in love with grounds keeper. Not to mention I love how varied the storytelling can be and how different the horror or the wholesome can be. There are adversery groups, hero groups, there's its own avengers like team, several prominent doctor characters who study scps with their own backstorys, there's famous monsters and objects too.
My favourite SCP 2006 that thing that can turn in to anything and mission is to scare but it doesn’t understand what scares humans. So they show it crappy horror movies to keep it under control and stop it from understanding real fear.
Never thought I'd see a PBS program cover SCP... wild.
Now, of course, Dr. Z needs to make her OWN entry! I'm sure with her wide experience in the paranormal, she could churn out something truly diabolical.
Thank you so much for this video! Last year I showed my students your video about Siren Head and we discussed the creation of monsters. It was a whole writing unit where they created their own monsters and they had a blast. Several of them asked me if there was a similar video about SCPs and I had to tell them no. And suddenly this video appeared! I need to go back and change my lesson plans for October, I've got to add this to the unit. My students are going to be so excited!
It's interesting how both the SCP and Backrooms Universe began with a single 4Chan Post
Waiting for the third one, though it might take another 8 years to do so!
@@caringheart34 must be something about creatures & alternate realities then
I don't recognize the bodies in the water
This SCP Does Not Exist
It's amazing to see a Community effort to save something. And for it to be so in-depth. We all need an indomitable spirit like that. Imagine if people did something similar for protecting the Earth.
I've been thinking a lot about how big of an impact SCP has had on lit and sci-fi and... so many things recently. So awesome to see it done justice in a PBS video
I've been a reader of the Foundation for... basically ever. I think 2010 was when I first learned about it. I'm happy to see how it's evolved and improved over time.
Love seeing stuff like SCP and Slenderman on big name productions like PBS. Your team recognize what modern day folk and horror stories look like today and why they're important.
I came across SCP when one of The Volgun's SCP videos was recommended to me some years back. I fell down the SCP rabbit hole IMMEDIATELY and I have no desire to climb back out.
Very cool choice, Dr Z. I must admit I find the scp stories compellingly like a guilty pleasure.
you shouldn't feel guilty enjoying peak fiction
why guilty?
@@mint1114 idk, ask OP
@@laquedibuja2003They were asking the OP tho 😂
@@EspeonMistress00 oh XD i did't know🤣🤣🤣🤣
Back in my day the object classes were Safe, Euclid, and Keter, and that's all we needed, darn it!
"Calm down peepaw, it's time for your amnestics"
This was cool the first SCP story I ever heard was the story SCP 1762: "Where the Dragons Went", It its like Alan Moore wrote a sequel to the Narnia books.
I'm pretty sure I ugly cried the first time I heard about/read it. Tale Foundry did a video on it once.
I'm one of the authors (5392 and 6253) and I absolutely love that you acknowledged one of the things that it meant for me, place to grow and show off what you can do.
I’ve been involved with the Creepypasta/SCP community since about 2014, and it is fascinating seeing the highs, the lows, and the bizarre in betweens folklore has impacted upon reality. People think writing and artistry are just nebulous, abstract concepts that float in the void, but these ideas can affect us physically. What the kids today call “manifesting” is basically the dime store variant of what horror can do for us when we absorb it fully - its effectively magical. It gives us power and it transmits ideas further along through time.
It is low these days with talentless wanka just copying what hot for cheap upvote
@@MyHentaiGirl I admit I haven't cared much for SCP since around Series III. Came back a few times to see if it was at all just nostalgia? But, most everything before Series 4 was just perfect. And then they butchered the site art and tone and I was like "gross." But SCP will always hold a special place with me.
@fountain0000 now unless you have "high IQ" or high as a kite and have deep knowledge about the "multiverse" with all the connected plot line ......you would get instantly put back with the WALL of words
i heard that SCP used to be like that but they kick out the "artistic super writer" and everything was great with classics
now....just yuck
@@MyHentaiGirl skill issue
Never thought Storied would talk about SCP but I am deeply glad to be wrong.
SCP really is great for "horror without jumpscares".
My friends hear that I dislike jumpscares and think I dislike horror. On the contrary, I LOVE horror. Like the video explains, the SCP writing style of "method of containment, brief event descriptions" is perfect for giving the reader enough to get an idea of the entity, and imagine the rest. "Let the audience imagine it" is horror at its best, imo. Thank you PBS for explaining how much there is to love about SCP monsters and stories!
Thanks for the video! For anyone interested, TheVolgun is a great channel that incredibly narrates the SCPs and The Exploring Series analyzes it well.
SCP Illustrated as well, he has made a lot of fantastic works of art, especially the "When Day Breaks" & "What happened to Site 13" series.
This video should have been made a long time ago. I have stumbled across these strange posts online for at least the past ten years, and I have always had an urge to understand things like this. The horror aspects of this one in particular are more than intriguing enough for me to be curious.
I did grow up watching the classic horror movies, Vincent Price is my hero, and this SCP creation story is a blessing to me.
I cannot say how much this pleases me.
SCP has been a fascinating rabit hole of short fiction for me to dive into every few months. So many fascinating stories with creative concepts that they absolutely run with.
Yoooo you talked about the SCP Foundation? That’s so awesome! So many people don’t even know what it is and that’s so sad to me. Truly an amazing collaborative work of art.
SCP would work great as an anthology show, different characters doing different roles within the organization showing off different scp’s- the capture and study or maybe some of them escaping- I think it would be a great horror show
Was not expecting a breakdown of the Scp foundation but hell I’m all for it!
I started watching SCP videos during the pandemic, I was fanscinated by how creative (but mostly creepy), these videos get
I love this series for its exploration of many a fantastic mythology! Though I never realised there’d be explorations into fictions like SCP! Love that world so much and it’s amazing to see this!
As a fiction writer, the SCP Foundation is especially exciting for me. To think that they could easily be slotted in for any of my stories is really cool.
You've put me in the mood to do a full Warehouse 13 rewatch.
I am always excited to see an alert for a new Monstrum video. I run a first edition AD&D campaign in a world of my own design with players who have been in the hobby since the wood-grain box set and some of your presentations have put a sparkle in their eyes at encountering something totally unknown. This is one of the rare times you have not presented a specific creature or type of creature and it got me thinking - I have been doing research on The Flying Dutchman as I wish to put a manifestation of an entity of pure chaos off the coast where the characters are currently exploring. Could you do an episode on this legend?
Those were good times!! While the younger generations call it D & D, all of who played during the " golden-age" refer to the game as AD &D !
In many ways I saw the SCP franchise(?) akin to the Amazing Stories type fiction magazines of the 1930s. Writers/Creators putting their ideas together.
People on the future will either think these anomalies did exist, or they will think this was the mythology of our civilization.
SCP-173 isn't just a rip-off of the weeping-angels from _Doctor Who,_ that wasn't the first to do this concept, before that, there were the mannequins in _Condemned: Criminal Origins,_ and before that, there similar creatures in D&D and other myths. It's an ancient concept. Likewise with the SCP itself, being derivative of _The Lost Room_ with a similar collection-of-anomalous-items plot before it, or the ending of _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ with that massive warehouse of contained stuff.
The collaborative nature of the SCP is nice and makes it possible for everybody to contribute, but on the other side of the same coin is the fact that as it keeps growing, the good entries will be drowned out by utter dreck. The fact is that the vast majority of creepypastas are written by amateur tweens and they sound like it, and the SCP is no different. The random-entry function is more likely to return a waste of time than something interesting. This is true of other media as well, such as video-games and music and video; the democratization of creation means everybody can have a chance to create, but not all works deserve to be experienced. 🤷
Its up the the audiences consuming content to grow a bit of a backbone and critically analyze garbage work before trying to capitalize on it. Everyone always complains about how bad this or that genre is - and usually I agree, depending - but these are the same people who clamor for it everytime, yknow?
I dislike new SCP since the unique charms of each entry and premise are now being recycled into slightly different flavor formats. “Oh its SCP X, but with a narwhal.” Oh okay cool, so did that come before or after the terrible site layout and aesthetic failure? Eesh.
Great episode as always Dr. Z! As a former, very sheltered child, I am slowly getting into creepypasta in my adulthood, but there's just so much of it. This seems like a fun rabbit hole to dive into. Also, your bloopers at the end reminded me of Nemo trying to say anemone.
I've heard of this before but never gave it a chance, I just bookmarked it in my "Library" section so I'll remember it next time I search for reading material, i.e. tonight before going to sleep.
Loved this episode. IIRC, the SCP wiki, itself, is an SCP, and I do wish this was brought up just for the sheer creativity of it. While there are so many SCP to mention, this is one that I wish made it in the episode haha.
The crossover episode we need and deserve. Nice.
Regan is right. The phrase you should fear is I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
I enjoy that some SCPs are actual real world cryptids, so sometimes I had watched some Monstrum episodes knowing exactly what the creature was and it's background, because I had seen it in SCP media
I've followed the foundation's stories since I was a kid, I love them. ❤️
This video helped me remember and find a story I remembered but have been unable to locate for more than 10 years. Thank you so much!!!❤️❤️❤️😮
The SCP is one of the best positive things the internet has actually produced.
I hate I had to wait this long to hear Dr. Emily say, "feces and blood." Be still my heart.
This is so cool! I'd never thought you'd talk about SCPs on this show. Thanks so much!
I am so happy you guys didn't use the artists statue like so many others continue to do. The SCP community thanks you.
It is so weird to have this video posted amongst the SCP videos in my feed
I would like all these chapters to be in the future seasons of Monstrum.
*Sea Serpents
*Leviathan
*The Headless Horseman ✅
*Phantom Vehicles
*Boogeyman
*Ghosts
*Possessed Dolls
*Shadow People
*Undead
*Goblins
*Bigfoot ✅
*Man-Eating Plants ✅
*Creepy Clowns
*Killer Robots
*Swamp Monsters
*The Mummy ✅️
*Scarecrows
*The Invisible Man
*Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
*Merfolk
*Demons
*Skeletons
*Stingy Jack (Jack of The Lantern)
*Gnomes
*Sea Monsters that attacked Submarines
*Alien Abductions ✅
*Ogres
*Ghouls
*Lich
*Cyborgs ✅
*Witches
*Kaiju
*Cthulhu ✅
*The Rake
*Revenants
*Vampires
*Dagon
*Ogopogo
*Colossal Claude
*Spectral Carriages
*Kappa
*Flatwoods Monster
*The Flying Dutchman
*El Charro Negro
*La Santa Compaña
*Davy Jones & the Undead Pirates
*Mutants
*Beast People of Dr. Moreau
*The Picture of Dorian Gray
*Haunted Houses
*Jiangshi
*Ahuizotl
My spouse contributed an SCP article! I stumbled across the site back in 2009 or so, and I was taken with it for years. I drifted away in 2011 and came back last year and was delighted with how much the lore has exploded over the intervening years, to the point that there are three distinct series of articles that tie together major anomalous factions (the Daevites, the Sarkites, and the Church of the Broken God) in a hidden history of the world, each in a dramatically different way, with one of them further incorporating the landmark SCP-1000 article and the Fair Folk of SCP-4000. It's a truly astonishing and admirable collective body of work!
as a fan of the scp wiki, this actually gets everything correct. good job.
Dr. Zarka covering the SCP Foundation was NOT on my 2023 bingo card, but I'm so glad you made this episode! I hope you had a great time looking into the world that is SCP!
"There is no memetics division" is a book inspired by SCP.
It is SO GOOD, I can't recommend it enough
Though this is the first time I've heard of it, the SCP reminds me heavily of the video game Control by Remedy! From the bureaucratical nature to the case files to the not-so safe items residing in The Oldest House, hell, even to The Oldest House itself!
yep, control was very heavily inspired by scp!
Control was inspired by scp yes
We've been SCP fans for three years so we are pleased to see the foundation be treated with such respect. Thank you.
I can't believe they did an entry on The SCP foundation! Let's go!
i remember being 13 or so years old clicking the random button on the scp wiki and coming across my first interactive page. can't remember what it was, but you'd click a link and it'd display a "cognitohazardous" image (really just a fractal). the measure of "security" as compared to the relative openness of the rest of the wiki spooked the hell out of me, really and genuinely. i was convinced i was looking at something i wasn't supposed to and closed the browser, hopefully before the cognitohazard could take effect.
that feeling of a story being able to break through the safety barrier of "this is just a story" is something i've been trying to find again since i realized i was spooked good. so whoever wrote that story, good job!
Man, I remember when the SCP Foundation started up on /x/ on 4Chan. Never thought I'd see it on a PBS channel!
S.C.P. is one of the best for crowd-supported web originals that looks beyond the idea of copyright infringement and offers something more: a new way to explore what it means to be creative in a crowd....what it means to be a part of something more.
After all, there are so many canons and universes that take this organization in so many directions. It captures the imagination of those who view it.
Never in my life did I think storied would do a episode on the scp foundation.
My favorite, I'm so glad you did this one. Awesome!
Never before did i expect to see SCP in my favorite channel of short documentaries. I'm not complaining though, this is literally the best thing I've seen in so long!! You guys are awesome!!
I absolutely love the SCP Foundation
SCP is such a rabbit hole of mystery and so easy to get lost in the stories.
Perfect amount of inspiration to play a Horror-Paranormal-Investigative TTRPG with friends 😎
One of my favorite things about the wiki is that the lack of a canon and allowing anyone to contribute brings it so much closer to how storytelling was in the original days of humanity, even before the advent of literacy.
Everyone contributing to and spreading the stories.
First time heard of it.
I am fascinated and scared at the same time. I know I would love to scroll through those stories and at the same time I know I shouldn't if I want to sleep at night...
Not everything on the wiki is horror, there is humor to be found. And a few scps are just really sad
@@jacthing1 nice to know! I probably will go don that rabbot hole. But probably on another day...
It's not only horror!! Some of the other popular genres are comedy, sci-fi and urban fantasy
It can be pretty treacherous! You are going through wholesome articles and then bam, something not-safe-for-life. Not to discourage you thoug, it's really great.
Honestly sounds like The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense from Hellboy
Oh no. This video is gonna send me on week-long binge of the SCP wiki now
I found out about the SCP from a student in my creative writing class a couple of years' ago, who was obsessed with it. It was pretty interesting, because as part of the class, we had to talk about plagiarism, which has a pretty interesting intersection with SCP and other creative writing communities online (like creepypasta and fan fic). Lovely to see that the internet gives creative kids a place to write weird stuff though. I remember writing poems on wyvern's library, as a teen, so I get it.
This video is gonna save me a lot of time when talking to people about SCP stuff. I love listening to The Volgun's longform SCP videos and when I mention them or share them with people I usually have to explain the whole SCP thing.
I think it should also be noted that the SCP wiki is not only a source for horror. Some SCPs are there to make you smile, laugh, feel sad, or just leave you in complete awe of how much creativity can be put into writing about an SCP. SCPs like 999, WTF-J, 1762, 5094, 529, 530, 343, 105, 049-J, 2295, 2137, among many others may not be scary but bring so much creativity and contradict the idea that the SCP series is just horror.
Creepypastas are a very unique breed, they evolve into many unique things, SCP is a prime example.
My favorite SCP is SCP-999, aka The Tickle Monster, mainly because of how wholesome some of his stories are.
Speaking of cute monsters, please do a video on Digimon.