One of my favorite things about the SCP universe is that the SCP database itself is in fact a SCP. I forget what number it is. But one of the entries basically says that the SCP foundation itself is a self-aware former fiction that's actively trying to fight against its creaters
I think one of the reasons the SCP Foundation outlived many of it's contemporary creepypasta was the tonal difference, you can have an article about a murder monster, a cosmic God and a list of very gruesome ways to die next to an annoying robot who can't stand up, a blob of jello that causes happiness and the time a researcher met a talking cat from another universe. It adds to the diversity and makes the world feel more intriguing in some way.
I've been down an SCP rabbit hole for a couple days, I like HFY (Humans, Eff Yeah) sci-fi stories read by Agro Squirrel Narrates. One of his stories I listened to was how the SCP saved Earth from an alien invasion by sending them Shy Guy through a dimensional portal, then sending pictures of him to all their screens on their home planet. Everyone in the comments was talking about how screwed the aliens were, and i had to investigate.
I am a fan of the harmless/friendly SCPs With all these world ending creatures, a pizza box that generates whatever pizza the person who opens it imagines is funny
As far as why these harmless beneficial ones are locked away I like to think the foundation has to maintain some kind of economic status quo that this pizza box would change. Imagine some office drone locking away infinite food hack and saying "if we feed the hungry Dominoes would lose profits"
One of my favorite aspects of the SCP series is how they handled the concept of SCP-001. Such an SCP with that title implies that whatever it is, it was important enough to be the FIRST anomaly ever to be categorized and documented, possibly even to the point of creating the Foundation as a whole. But as you mentioned, the entries didn't start at one, it started all the way at 173. So with that in mind, how on earth do you decide on an entry that will forever be seen as the canonical "first SCP?" Simple. You declare there are MULTIPLE SCP-001 entries. When you visit its page it tells how due to the nature of 001 being so important to the foundation, they decided to insert several "fake" SCP-001 proposals to further bury and protect the "true" document. As of this post there are dozens of entries claiming to be the one, ranging in all manner of scale and tone, just like the entire database as a whole. So which one is the canonical first SCP? Whichever one you think fits the most in your headcanon. Such a creative way to handle what could've easily been a divisive topic.
i remember the first few scp 001 entries im glad to say the only changes made to them over the years is they have been extended and curated it's crazy to see how many there are now.
What if the real SCP-001 is actually SCP-002? And ALL the SCP-001's are decoys. Be back soon, I hear knocking on the door. I don't remember ordering takeout.
I agree, the meta-richness of 001 entries is one of my fave things about the universe. A wonderful evolution beyond the original (and loved) monster of the week style SCP's.
3:35 I feel like it's *incredibly* important to explain _WHY_ Peanut (SCP 173) had its image removed. It _was_ indeed because it was an unlicensed photo, yes, but it's more complicated than that; the author wasn't using copyright to pull down the image. Rather, he _graciously_ *ALLOWED* the use of the image on the site, for years. However, the SCP Project is supposed to be Creative Commons License compliant (specifically CC-BY-SA 3.0 - In English, BY= Attribution, SA=Share-Alike, so: "Attribute the author(s), and any derivative works must be shared under the same license", there's more to the CC license than _just_ that, but that's the gist.), and, well, that image just is not compatible with the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license! So it had to go. It was the collection of people who run the site's decision, not the copyright owner's decision. I _guess_ he could've released it under that license, but that's a HUGE ask from someone already giving the SCP community so much by just allowing them to use the image of his own statue, for free, for years, and nobody was going to ask him for that. Please don't throw any hate his way, that is basically what I'm saying here. It wasn't his fault, nor his decision.
The fact that a random Bureaucratic decision from people not directly involved at all being the reason why the image was removed feels thematically appropriate
Thanks for the explanation, since the last time I checked, the image was still up and I knew the artist had allowed its usage. Copyright law sure is bizarre sometimes.
@@FrenchLightningJohn I don't think you understood what I said, as copyright was only tangential to the story (the image was literally stolen and uncredited and the owner still allowed it's use for free) and nobody was forced to take it down, they chose to in order to make the whole site under one license (this is incredibly important for many reasons, such as future SCP games), but in any case, this is a very naive take. No, in general, copyright is a good thing, but the length of time things stay copyrighted is ridiculous, and *that* stifles creativity. That's Disney's fault. It should be more like 10-20 years, not life of author + 70 years as it currently is. Chances are very good you'll never live to see Harry Potter, The Expanse, or Game of Thrones in the Public Domain. We wouldn't have many of your favorite intellectual properties without copyright allowing the creator to profit from the effort they put into it without fear that someone else can just sell it as their own without having to do any of the work.
One of my favourite quotes of the SCP lore, though I can't quite remember where it's from, is: "Those idiots think they can lock up monsters with bureaucracy and paperwork. Worse part? It's actually working."
I've always liked the concept of cosmic horrors and/or strange abominations that are so strange, that scientific classification becomes weirdly difficult
@@neonity4294 And it has been so for generations. H.P. Lovecraft for example [he was a xenophobe and his commentary on human society is kinda gross, but his "gods" are what can be carried through to today]
@@TheWhitefisher Dude. I genuinely feel like his worst traits contributed to this work and it's tone whether we like it or not. It requires a certain kind of dark and maybe messed up to Create a Genre focused on how Worthless humans are against the Universe. How fragile we are etc.
@@neonity4294 like black holes! They seem to violate the laws of physics as all matter that ends up in a black hole appears to be destroyed, and also we can’t explain dark energy or dark matter even though they make up most of our universe.
One of my favorite SCPs is 871: a cake that makes another cake, whichever kind of cake, if it's not eaten every day. It's silly that it's simply a cake, but can literally overrun the planet if not taken care of.
I think what I love the most, is that it's absolutely un-copyrightable and un-monopolable. By its very nature, no one company can own it all because it is so deeply entwined in so many things. It is free to be used by all, as it should be.
At times, SCP feels like Resident Evil, in that it can be hilarious, yet still terrifying because the things you’re meant to be scared of are just absolutely absurd.
I mean an XK-class scenario via cake would atleast be pleasant compared to many many K class end of the world scenario. Or "worse" the meme unofficial scps like the procastinating rock. There may not be a test, but just imagine 682 adapting to it's anomalous properties and uses it... Making it rampage and cannot be stopped... Because everyone who till try to stop him will become lazy (or will do it later)😅
Either they're about how the 2000s election was rigged because Al gore is controlled by aliens, about monsters that restrict the sleep of their victims until they mutilate them, straight up God, or a ghost that eats butts.
What I find most interesting about SCP, is that it is the only fandom I’ve ever heard of that started from it’s own existence, unlike many other fandoms I am acquainted with, this is the first I’ve heard of where the entire thing is community driven and the fan content is the stuff you would usually see people making fan content of. It’s about equally as fun, weird and interesting as the fandom itself
Well it isn't the first thing actually although one of the most popular. You have mugen for example, a (freeware) fighting game maker engine which appeared almost 30 years ago and still existing only because the community keeps making content for it
@@JuntosXlaLibertadMileyBuIIrich yes, what I was saying being the first I had heard of. And to clarify I don’t particularly think that mugen, counts (I may be wrong) yes mugen is community driven, but I think it would count more had the community formed the game engine from nothing and created assets for each other and code to build.
Thats what they want you to think! The truth is the SCP foundation is real and leaked documents spawned the SCP wiki and the SCP foundation decided it was too big to be silenced without being suspicious so they started posting to it both real and fake information to throw people off their tracks.
Small correction: SCP didn't began as a site but on the paranormal board /x/ on 4chan. There the first stories were more or less community crafted and then it was decided that it was valuable enough to make a site.
My personal favorite pick for SCP:001 is that the foundation itself is an anomalous entity. That the sites and personnel just appear from some extrademensional space and start "testing and containing" artifacts that seemingly generate from nowhere. The implication is that all of the hundreds of impossible horrors so far are just experiments from something unimaginably powerful and amoral, which is slowly learning about our world by poking permanent holes in its logic and physics.
Have you read Rounderhouse's RedTape series? It's not complete, I can't wait for Bone to come out, but what's there is absolutely fantastic... *that* for as a 001 proposal is incredible.
Personally i like SCP-000 Which at first glance is a unfinished article or a article meant to make other articles (Like a format) But if you highlight anything words will appear and you will see its a entire entity in and of itself
@@zabianreubens4989 the entity in that is called a pattern screamer btw. It’s a remnant of the previous universe, and can only be known through things like this. The place it describes is the website itself.
Yes! Believe it or not I basically didn't know anything about SCP other than that it was a collection of horror on the internet. I can now appreciate the complexity and care that went into these entries, artwork, movies and ideas.
@@headwreak1768 That's the trick; Almost no one blurs the face on UA-cam thumbnails, so it's safe to assume that the image has been altered with memetic agents that properly prevent activation
Not all the SCPs are abomination, some are harmless, some are misunderstood, and some are helpful. The Foundation even has a mobile task force unit completely made up of SCPs
My favorite SCP (can't remember the number) is a table and chairs, and when someone sits at a chair, a lawyer type character will appear and ask what you want. If you try to ask it personal questions, it'll say something like "I don't discuss my personal life with clients." It's not an evil SCP-- it will only take a payment equal to the person's desire. So if a person wants a sandwich, they'll have to give up $5. If a person wants to escape the facility, they'll have to give up their childhood memories.
MTF Omega-9 “The Scrubs” is SCP-2639, three kids that got anomalously sucked into a Quake game session and would manifest IRL, seeing humans as monsters. Their ability to appear anywhere in the world makes for rapid response, but by agreement they only deploy against non-human hostiles.
@@madmachanicest9955 I mean the thing is there is litterally limitless potential it is a wiki afterall open source to anyone wanting to make one As long as its allowed by an admin of the site
The thing that I love the most about the Foundation is not only the SCPs, but the Foundation personnel like the Security Department, Intelligence Agency, different Mobile Task Forces and Scientist.
SCP must be my favorite internet phenomenon of all time. I like the take that SCP itself is an anomaly, because how it has spread over the internet, like a self perpetuating virus enrapturing new audiences every day
The fact that it's got numerous international sites, the sheer vastness of the worldbuilding, the multitude of worlds, a cornucopia of ideas, movie-lengthed entries, this stuff has truly transcended far beyond mere horror. It's a wellspring of storytelling.
One undeservingly obscure thing on the SCP wiki are the foreign entries. In essence, there are subsections for communities from different countries that make their own articles - and hardly anyone from the main English one ever hears or talks about them. There are some real masterpieces hidden there - the first that comes to my mind is SCP-PL-126.
I'd say a significant factor of it's success beyond the thematic appeal is the fact that it is entirely 'open source' and not the intellectual property of any single entity, be it an artist, author or large corporation. This means anyone can creatively engage with the franchise in any way they want. Be it in writing their own SCPs or storys, create artworks and movies or just add to the wider narrative in any number of creative ways. While I'd love to see a big budget game or movie on the SCP Foundation, we have to be VERY cautious to keep the cancer of commercialization and monetarization from creeping into the franchise. The day someone gains ultimate control over the franchise and something resembling official canon is established will also be the day on which the soul of it will die, leaving only a dead shell to be scavenged by corporate greed
Yeah maybe that’s what happened to the backrooms wiki fandom, a once mighty group of loyal fans who made their own levels and dimensions and other fan made content much like the SCP wiki until the matpats and brooglies of the world infected the community with “lore” and “canon” effectively ruining it. Turning the whole fandom into a pile of shifting garbage trying to confine the entire community into one single canon. If you had a favorite level or dimension it’s definitely been deleted to make room for another level, like with the backrooms wiki purge which in where any levels beyond cluster 1 were deleted, this includes entities and dimensions turning the wiki into a skeleton of its former self even now the wiki is still constantly changing and updating, levels above the main 8 were endangered of getting deleted and replaced so let that be a warning to everyone not to confine wiki’s into your own box because you might ruin the whole thing for everyone.
Another pretty cool game based on SCP Foundation is Lobotomy Corporation, which is basically an SCP management sim. You send employees to harvest energy from an ever increasing amount of anomalies, each having unique traits you have to account for when handling them. Some are almost completely harmless, and you can freely send any low level employee to handle them, while others can be extremely complex. Some require specific employee stats, certain outcomes after working on them. One might require you to constantly work on them, or not look at them while they're being worked on. There are even negative synergies, where two anomalies being in the same place is a really bad thing. Depending on the anomaly, failing to keep up with their needs can have a variety of outcomes. Some might simply escape and try to murder everyone, while some might passively debuff employees or the facility. Some might just simply summon a swarm of parasitic bees or cause everyone to start going insane. To say it gets stressful would be an understatement, and that's before talking about actually managing your employees, and the ordeals, and qliphoth meltdowns and all the other things that make things difficult as the game progresses. It's pretty fun and difficult and hellish but fun
I can't recommend LB corp enough it's such a good game despite being rather rough around the edges and what I really love is that despite being heavily inspired by SCP it really goes in its on direction in terms of aesthetics and narratives
See, despite loving SCP and dreaming of a management game for it, I really dislike Lobotomy Corporation. It's not an SCP management game or SCP Prison Architect, it's just... Just some weirdo puzzle game. Not sure what makes it so off for me, but I bounced off of it so hard.
@@drago939393 Idk what you mean by puzzle game, sure you have to do a lot of planning around the anomalies and potential ordeals, but stuff like learning about new anomalies is just trial and error. I'm not gonna tell you to try picking it back up, it might just not be for you. However, it's a game with a lot more depth than would initially seem, both in gameplay and story
@@cirnocard5710 IDK, I just imagine "SCP + Prison Architect" or something and it isn't even close to that, so I bounced off hard. It just doesn't seem like a management simulation game at all in terms of design and approach.
I think one of the greatest things about the SCP is that the user can curate the amount they want to engage with it. ie: there are plenty of one shot, short stories that are 500 words or less that have a wide range of genres to choose from. And then there are the longer entries that cross reference between the different SCPs. And then longer ones that make use of the actual lore of the organization and universe, which could easily be turned into their own tv series. Your experience can be surface level or a head first plunge into the dense insanity. It can be exactly what you need it to be. And I think that's just so incredibly cool.
SCP-173 gave me nightmares for a year, the first dozen made me unconfortable for months, the first hundred were unsettling, but after reading that many it began to feel like a cool scifi story to read with tea in the morning.
TheVolgun is one of my absolute favorite content creators on the entire internet. The amount of work that is put into narrating and creating 3D renders for each entry is amazing. They're an absolute joy to watch and listen to.
Something I find daunting about SCP is it's size. It's hard to know where to start because there is just so much of it. This video is great because it highlights types of media or creators that have worked within it, gives options of starting points. I'm a visual person, I love documentary or found footage formats, I love art. Now I have somewhere to start looking and other things to poke at. I am tickled. :3
I couldn't recommend getting into SCP's more! I recommend starting at one of the many SPC's he mentioned in this video. It's size is daunting but you don't need to start anywhere in particular, the way the articles are numbered has nothing to do with the overall ever-growing 'story', the best thing about it is you can literally pick any SCP to start from and it wont matter. The more articles you read the more the overall situation and story presents it's self, that's part of the charm.
Just start reading whatever you think you'll like, there is no way anyone will ever understand the entirety of the SCP Wiki, and no one is meant to try to do that.
Honestly my faveorite thing about SCP isnt even the SCPs themselves but the organisation that (somehow) manages to keep them away from the rest of humanity. This is also (as mentioned in the video) a thing I really like about Control and the glimpses into something bigger like the former and Ahti just make you ponder about what other things may lurk in the oldest house. I also really like it when the SCPs have simple concepts but really lean into them.
Yes, I love how the more you know about the Foundation it looks less like a government agency and more like one of the anomalies it’s trying to contain. It managing to be over all governments, the mysterious nature of the O5 Council or the Foundation’s foundation and the big amount of anomalies used to avoid being know by the public.
@@Scio_Regisit might as well be. We should get more articles on all the not horrific anomalies that can be used as weapons or for other helpful things. Maybe some that implicate usage by O5. Also we need more stories on D class going to spooky places and getting horribly ended.
This is such a fantastic video. I've been a fan of SCP for years and seen a lot on it. But this has got to be the best summary/introduction/explanation I've seen yet. Phenomenal work
Yeah my favorite description of the SCP wiki is "Quite possibly the greatest collaborative writing effort since the bible" Like it's so weird that it's effectively a fandom that is powered entirely by fan creations. There is no original media that things are based on, outside of maybe the SCP 173 entry of course, but even then that just sort of provided the initial template, and I think most fans would hardly label it as their favorite SCP. (Mine is 5031 if anyone is curious, tho I'm also a huge fan of all the Murphy Law related entries) So as you say it's almost like its own sort of memetic cognitohazard, where fans create material that draws in more fans, who become writers to create new entries that other fans create new material based on in an infinite feedback loop of creation that has only accelerated as time has gone on. It took a long time to finish the first couple thousand entries, and now it feels like they're getting over a thousand a year at this point.
I mean a ton of scps are based off of media my guy Theres a wendys freezer which goes on for a ton of time and a ton of other things based off of actual things in real life even mythology Like SCP-3000 Which is similar in tale to the world serpent form norse mythology
@@zabianreubens4989 actually the scp 3000 is more so inspired from the snake king god (seshanaga) from india, whose name translates to eternal snake or endless snake etc. Even the authors acknowledged it as their inspiration and in part, the the scp itself says so. but then again....there are many similarities in ancient mythologies.
@@lostblueboy Eh its mostlikely that alot of religions has long snake but that makes more sense as ascp 3-- something is litterally named jormangandr and based off of it
@@zabianreubens4989 ...uhhh...no scp 3000 is named anantashesha......not whatever you said. And is so then based off of the shesha naga. it is...pretty clear, unless you have a different source or version of scp 3000 and or are just talking about a whole another scp anyways.
To put it simply, SCP is the embodiment of the lyric, “Anything and everything, all of the time!” It’s a universe where literately anything can happen and anything can exist. It’s a world with out limits, A world of chaos, a world of weirdness, a world of laughs, and a world of cruelty and death. It’s the embodiment of the internet’s creativity, and if you want to add to that, give it a try! It will be hard, but hopefully it will be worth it!
I'm pretty positive you have to do an application for an entry (aka SCP-####) which will go through an approval process by the site administrators and voted on. So you can definitely try, but it won't necessarily make it.
@@blitzwolfer4154 Nah, thats for applying to become a site member itself. You can post an scp anytime to a slot, but thats known as cold-posting, and its generally looked down upon since you're posting something officialy to the site without it getting critiqued first, so often times the coldpost will get downvoted into oblivion and deleted lol. sometimes it works though, like scp 1981
The Panopticon is the second most memorable location in CONTROL (sorry, but everyone who played the game knows the first place), I absolutely loved going through it and looking at all the objects inside. But my other favourite is the My Dark Disquiet room - which is a completely optional room, where you can turn on and listen to the Poets of the Fall's song. However, if you look around closely, you can find a board that has the entire lyrics written on it, and a survey with questions about how the song made you feel, do you remember the lyrics, have you felt any contact with other objects of power during the playtime of the song
0087 - the thing in the stairwell - was my starting point and remains one of the better ones. So many of the authors forgot the 'fear of the unknown' bit, or just spent a lot of time dick measuring against the creations of other authors that it became a bit of a mess. A lot of other stuff betrays the amateur nature of the thing (and I say this with love that people are wiriting at all) in that they really need to work on pacing, on tone, on subtlety. You've got this very earnest streak in the space that is at once endearing and also, from a slightly more experienced vantage, a little bit frustrating.
honestly many scps nowadays are quite overcomplicated with thousands of sentances But the original titles like the stairwell are honestly a breath of fresh air
The issue being that it's gone thru something similar to the backrooms, the more popular it becomes the more the quality drops. There are a lot of SCPs and stories that are genuinely just bad now. When it first started it was niche enough that every addition was a banger, it's why the majority of the well known/popular ones fare from the lower number anomaly's
@@Jiub_SN Actually, its the exact opposite of the Backrooms' situation. While the Backrooms became less creepier due to the fact that it regressed to the writing style of literal children (a Discord friend of mine who wants to be a Backrooms author is literally 12 years old) and the fact that they follow the same "monster = scary" and "random place = liminal space" tropes, the SCP Foundation fell "bad", as you say in your view, due to the fact that they are starting to experiment. Here's the thing: The authors who curated the Series 1 SCPs are gone now. They either left due to career choices, personal reasons or the RPC split of 2018. The issue with the SCP Foundation that most people find today frustrating is of the people essentially doing a "Reddit Botspeak" of the stuff, which further turns away people from the repetitive comment. That and the reasons for the RPC split, where they have gotten so woke that now articles should abide by the rules of wokeness. And basically because all of the early, 4-chan based authors who primarily worked on Series 1, left and was replaced by Reddit and Tumblr enthusiasts who probably studied on liberal arts and literarure, and was influenced by the 2010s Culture Wars. This meant that the wiki, while not being explicitly told on UA-cam, has been subliminally planted on the later articles. It's not inherently malicious, but it's ironic that the deep-shadowy organization, who contained anomalies at any cost whatsoever, and abided by no ideology, is taken by an ideology that has the same amount of authoritarial essence as the fictious organization, meaning it was doomed to be taken by the woke ideology. It's presence after being taken has considerably reduced since the split, but now Series SCPS like the ones on Serious 4-8 has become more meta, more postmodern, more experimental andbranching out. That's probably why people call it the "decline" of SCP. It's because they thought that staying to the amateurish, diary-level amount of writing would be kept forever, but people would be bored seeing the typical "murder monster" and trope-heavy and uncreative concepts. Pataphysics, Concept tag SCPs, Narrativistics, Memetics/Antimemetics (which developed from SCP-055), Surrealistics and Unreality, Deletions, ADMONITION in SCP-120 are a response to that.
One of my favorite aspects about SCP is how you can often tell when an author is writing about something they’re professionally involved with. Certain sciences like physics, chemistry and medicine are more common, but you’ll also be introduced to new hypothetical concepts like the method which the Foundation discovered that they are in fact not real, just a story existing on a lower plane of existence (one step below ourselves).
The worst thing is, the "Real AAA SCP Game" will in all likelihood remain a phantom, ironically for the same reason the series is so easy to get into, it's state in copyright. In order to make a game with SCP things in it, you must contact the creator of each individual item and character and get their permission to use it, and unfortunately no studio has the patience to do that...
It's worth mentioning that the SCP site IS it's own SCP. The site has many different branches in a lot of different languages, each and every one with it's own unique SCPs that are categorized with the same numbers followed by a couple of letters that identify them as part of said branch (For example. ES for the spanish branch, FR for the french, RU for the Russian, etc.) SCP-101-FR "Y@u aɹe hëre" is an anomalous site that acts as a replica of the foundation database that can't be contained and instead was turned into a fandom in order to keep them as a secret organization.
SCP 1609 actually has a tragic context to it. The foundation initially classified it as fairly harmless, until a rival company, one that only seeks to destroy anomalies broke into its facility and put it through the woodchipper. SCP 1609 now targets anyone wearing that organisation's insignia. The foundation now contains it by using its mulch for a garden, and having staff come in to compliment the soil quality. It's a story on why they *contain* anomalies, not destroy them.
Some of the best SCPs are the ones that explain _why_ the Foundation does what it does. Like SCP-231, which started as an example of what the Foundation does when it is forced to do horrible things because there is no alternative, and what it does to protect its staff from becoming monstrous or callous themselves. It then spawned the Scarlet King mythos. And it also triggered the, "Foundation is Eeevil and Amoral," direction that the entries have taken in the past years.
It wasn't just any rival company, it was a detachment of NATO called the Global Occult Coalition (or the GOC for short). I'd say the duality of the GOC is SCP 1609 and SCP 5000.
My favourite thing about this whole premise is that all the original monsters are derived from unusual, creepy images, and -682 is an actual carcass that washed up somewhere called the Sakhalin Island Sea-wolf. It was actually a beluga whale, but it looked creepy.
Another piece of media that is basically SCP, yet predates SCP-173, is the miniseries The Lost Room, which is about anomalous objects. Greatly recommended for anyone who would like to watch an SCP-like show
@@MysticMorigan1998 oh my! I personally really enjoyed it. My biggest complaint is simply how short the show is, I would have loved to have more of it. Here's hoping I didn't waste your money!
There's also Warehouse 13. While it premiered a year _after_ the SCP site went online, according to the wiki, TV shows take a lot of time to be made, so it began it's preproduction either at the same time SCP appeared as an obscure 4-chan meme, or somewhere before that, and got pitched some time before that as well.
I’ll never forget SCP-2718 “what comes after”. Never have I had a piece of media rock me to my core so completely in my life. I dont want to spoil it, but the concept it presents makes death monumentally more horrifying. Knowing what comes after is not very comforting.
THIS is why i love your channel. you tell us about unknown universes(or universes we dont have much information about), you don't spoil too much, you make us feel we NEED to research these. you give us plenty of information, but just not enough to satisfy us, but it is good, because it leaves us thinking about them. Keep up the good work, i love your channel! Thank you for making us entertained, leaving us thinking about things, and for keeping an unique style that grabs us, and sucks us into unknown worlds. Thank you.
The SCP Foundation will forever be my favorite internet phenomenon of all time. I've been a part of it in different ways for around 5+ years, and I loved every moment of it. It just keeps giving awesome and new ideas and never really becomes dull.
SCP-1609 isn't terrifying, it's tragic. All it wanted was to be helpful and useful. It should be noted that it only attacks people dressed similar to GOC soldiers, the people who put it into a woodchipper. It spends it's days now as filling for planters of beautiful flowers. It doesn't attack out of hate. It attacks because it has PTSD.
Wow, what an insightful analysis of the genre of storytelling! I loved how you really took time to analyze the “fear and absurdity” humorous undercurrent that ties many entries together and really gives the SCP genre the credence it needs (although the purely scary entries have their own charm). But the touching on universal experiences in childhood aspect was great as well as the focus on inundation and desensitization. Such an interesting video. I really loved this one.
Scp Foundation: we need to research those things Global Occult Coalition: we need to destroy those things Chaos Insurgency: we should use those things for our personal gains Serpents Hand: those things should roam around freely
I am a HUGE fan of the SCPs that are very subtle in the way they poke around horror. Like the patchwork bear. It isn't horror by itself, but it pokes on personal horrors if you read the story to the end. Aside from being also very heart warming and heart breaking.
For something similar there is Project Moon, a series of games that takes some clear inspirations from the SCP Universe. There is also Anno Mutationem which was originally meant to be part of SCP before being changed. That said, some elements still remain.
Okay after the "Haushalt" in the supermarket and the number flip (which is a German thing) I'm 100% sure CA is a german speaker (like me). Which makes the archive a little bigger. Keep up the good work!
The thing I like most about the SCP universe is the foundation itself. The structure of the organization mesmerizes me. The idea like there are people at the very top (o5 and ethics commitee) , mtf operatives in the field combatting groups of intrests or fighting scps, the class d who are being sacrificed to scps that they dont know anything about, the public who doesnt even know what the foundation is, scientists who are researching on scps, janitors who clean up all sorts of crazy stuff , being a intelligence agent infiltrating gois or looking for new scps, being the internal security dept. who are looking for traitors, being a analyst or office worker who doesnt know what is the data that they are putting toghether, a chaos insurgents raiding sites, the security guards who show no fear in any situation, medical dept who are trying to cure staff who has a illness that no one else has discovered before, site directors who have had their site have a containment breach for the 5th time in the month, and the administraitor who is at the very very top who oversees everything. It is amazing by itself and doesn't even get started on the SCPs themselves. To add on to this, the mobile task forces are really cool, from protecting VIPs to containing SCPs during a breach to combating other secret organizations. 👍🥶
I really like the SCP Universe, though I have to admit I mostly got to know it through The Exploring Series and didn't read many articles myself. I still find it's vastness and creativity fascinating.
Thanks to this video, I now understand that Cabin In The Woods is actually trolling the emotional numbness of _horror movie fans,_ who likewise take bets on who will be killed by which monster and cheering when it happens. This actually goes a long way to restoring my faith in humanity.
What a cool universe with lots of passion and creativity put into it! Hopefully it doesn’t get ruined by cringey power scalers who constantly shove the same 5 characters in our faces 13 sextillion times to rant about how powerful they are then when we don’t like them they have the gall to say we don’t appreciate the writing for these characters and that we’re childish. That’d be a shame
I've watched half the video (12 mins to be exact) and as a member of the SCP community for a long time, this all amazes me too. And a comment I want to make about the games, I believe SCP: Secret Lab is one of the best and with the newly announced update where they will update the whole engine, I am truly amazed how this fandom has come.
personally my favorite part of the scp foundation isnt even the foundation itself Its the various GOI's (Group of intrests) Like the chaos insurgency, The wanderers library, Are we cool yet, Gamers against weed (Funny reality benders who make funny objects which do funny anomalous things without reason)
Make more scp videos like this! Curious archive should not be limited just to speculative evolution, but also cosmic horror, fantasy, alternate history and other forms of speculative fiction!
a somewhat lesser known SCP that i ended up loving was 5866, an ancient, massive skeleton of a snake who is Tiamat class- partially because she claims to be the actual Sumerian god-monster Tiamat. it's a short and very sweet read :). not a particularly menacing scp, but i greatly enjoyed the dialogue and character writing.
Unfortunately the nature of SCP means it'll never happen. Studio execs don't greenlight productions they can't control the entire copyright on and SCP has demonstrated it can defend its copyright status a couple of times now.
@@Miycu Lol they're not defending they copyright status against any studio execs or anything, it's just that SCP wiki is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license which just means you technically can use it's content for commercial purposes but it forces the commercial content to be under the same license so that means you really can't make any money from it as people can just put the show on youtube and not have to worry about watching it through netflix or whatever at least that's my understanding of it
@@mastershooter64 Andrey Duskin tried to claim the russian trademark on it a few years back iirc and they had to pay for lawyers so yes they have literally defended it in court
@@Miycubecause it is free license meaning anyone who tries would lose. A UA-cam series could work though, it would need a relatively large budget burr given the nature of UA-cam it isn't impossible
This was amazing. Just absolutely amazing. I would really love to see more videos like this, speaking of internet stories. Perhaps you could maybe do video on the Backrooms? From what I've seen its very similar to SCP.
1867 is my favorite scp by far. I love my little naturalist slug. Lord Blackwoods journal entries are the best, it’s straight up like Johnny Quest but with SCP’s. My favorite of the entries is when Lord Blackwood, Theodore Roosevelt, Blackwoods rival George Harris (like Rene Belloq but can resurrect himself), and a Russian scientist Mr. Dukov hunt SCP-682 in the French countryside. It ends up with the biblical being Able (SCP-076-2) and the Tarasque (SCP-682) fighting each other and Mr. Dukov’s experimental pitchblend rifle being dismantled and turned into a nuclear bomb and killing 10,000 people in Avignon. Yes, all the entries are this ridiculous and they’re all amazing.
For those of you interested in the "new weird" that SCP and Control sit firmly within, you may want to check out Annihilation (either the film or the book) and Roadside Picnic (as well as the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. film and games which are loosely based on it)
Some of my favorite SCP works are the ones that stray furthest from the Foundation itself. I REALLY love reading about the different anomalous communities like Esterberg, Three Portlands, Sloth's Pit and others. I bet most people don't know this but a location from the wiki, Wanderers Library, was so popular it was created as a sister site. Unlike the SCP wiki, it is smaller and most of the works are prose and don't even relate to the SCP universe itself. I really hope that more people see the non-horror side of SCP because even though I love it, there's so much more!
For me the most fascinating thing of the Foundation is how connected it is, at the start all entries look like insulated cases and most of them are but from time to time you found parts of a puzzle and eventually you start to see the bigger picture. Recurrent groups of interest connected to the Foundation, parts of a mechanical god dispersed around the world, ancient anomalous civilizations changing the history, the anomalous nature of the O5 Council and the Foundation itself, the answers about the beginning of time and the dark shadow of the Scarlet King in every corner, waiting for the moment to bring chaos upon reality. That’s the really anomalous property of the foundation, taking individual creations made by different people and somehow creating a story that is way bigger than the individual posts combined.
Sometimes I come back to reread something like three times because I keep reading other stuff and being like "OMG this adds so MUCH to X! I have to read it again" and X just keeps getting better
This is literally me when I used to watch SCP content. I got bored of it at some point. If the connection between SCPs are the reason why you like them, then the same might happen to you if you like the connections to be consistent. As you'd expect from a purely community-driven project like SCP, there is no established canon, so plenty of entries contradict each other. Some canons might put X as a part of Y and another might say that it isn't and that it comes from Z instead. Trying to connect all the entries in order to create a coherent canon is basically impossible, especially without alternate universes and even then there might be some other entry that still contradicts another entry because it also affects other universes.
@@aeaeeaoiauea What? yes there is no ONE true canon, that's how scp flourished while competitors stayed stilted dare I say. It's on purpose. But there are many complete and "coherent" canons within it. If you like having one solid canon, go read through the canons hub. I particularly like Resurrection and all of its off shoots like New Faces, Old Foes and His Will Be Done as well as the No Return canon (though this one requires some advanced lore like pataphysics). There's also Site-17 Deepwell catalogue, Site-120, On Guard 43 and S&C Plastics. All of these contain one more solid interpretation of the world with solid lore, like the history of Sloth's Pit in S&C Plastics or the lore of the Fae in Site-120 as well as the Impasse in No Return. And that means of course that there are plenty connections. Idk maybe I misunderstood what you were saying, sorry
@@mint1114 There are other reasons why I got bored of it, a lot of the entries seemed quite repetitive, so I guess I just haven't looked hard enough for more solid canons in the wiki, but at this point I thought that just this wasn't for me and I've already moved on to other stuff. Of course, this is just my opinion, and plenty of other people might disagree with me and never get bored of them, and that's fine, people can like different things. oh and btw i edited my previous comment, i was a bit sleepy when i first wrote it and was unable to convey my thoughts correctly
@@aeaeeaoiauea The absence of canon is actually one of the rules of the project. At the begining, there was a very consistent canon. More specifically, there was one author who had created all sorts of very popular skips that were all part of a consistent and convoluted network of entires, with more authors linking their own contributions to the already existing ones, leading to a canonically consistent whole. This all came down crashing absurdly hard when that particular author badly parted ways with the project and took an attorney to ask for the entire removal of his work from the website. His works were so numerous that merely looking for them and removing them took a lot of effort, but it also broke many other entries that were refering to these now gone entries. This was a catastrophe. The absence of consistent canon is there precisely so that any content can be added or removed without having much impact on the rest of the project. With the review processes in place, you can bet that without that rule, all the new vaidated entries would be fairly consistent with the existing ones.
What I love the most are the moments that the SCP foundation truly acts in unethical manners with total impunity. Like killing half a village to avoid people "knowing" what just happened, just for the sake of preserving the sacrosanct "keeping people in the dark" doctrine. Or by wiping everyone's memories of SCPs against their will even if knowing their existence is pretty harmless or wouldn't even get believed in a world full of ghosts and demons stories. Or outright stripping a teenage girl of her constitutional rights because she was using newfound powers to prove herself innocent in a murder trial for a crime she didn't commit, condemning her to live in a cell for the rest of her life. Or even sacrificing low level employees and convicts for their experiments.
Ah, Iris. Have you read Devil's Advocate? It's a pretty cool Hub and though rn it's pretty short, I like how it explores her character and humanoid anomalies in general
My favorite SCP video channels have been Dective Void and The Rubber for the animations they do. I also watch SCP explained since the dry tone helps drain away some of the horror of the scarier ones.
Same, I normally just watch videos because they're so easy to just put in the background as I write or draw. Though a lot of times it's just them going over one SCP for each video, so most of the stories are left out. I don't understand why some of the SCP community (predominantly on reddit) is so gatekeepy towards the people who just watch YT videos on SCPs, a lot of times they're easier to understand or more convenient to watch
You forgot to mention how the SCP 173 article was first posted to 4chan's Paranormal board, and that the Image was posted with the document in later revisions
it is impressive how 4chan keeps inspiring colossal works of fiction all around the world. Another amazing work like liminal spaces really makes you think what is the next big thing to come out of there.
And it's also so interesting just how far the Foundation has strayed from it's 4Chan days, in a good way obviously. I mean, there's a whole ass SCP named the "Transition Lake" lol
One of my favorite things about the SCP universe is that the SCP database itself is in fact a SCP. I forget what number it is. But one of the entries basically says that the SCP foundation itself is a self-aware former fiction that's actively trying to fight against its creaters
S. Andrew Swann's proposal for SCP-001.
It’s “for your eyes only” I don’t remember the number
It’s scp-3393 For Your Eyes Only
scp 4:42 4:45
It's 1
I think one of the reasons the SCP Foundation outlived many of it's contemporary creepypasta was the tonal difference, you can have an article about a murder monster, a cosmic God and a list of very gruesome ways to die next to an annoying robot who can't stand up, a blob of jello that causes happiness and the time a researcher met a talking cat from another universe.
It adds to the diversity and makes the world feel more intriguing in some way.
Semi-creepypasta but make it corporate
Ooh SCP-6001 Avalon. Never seen one references it before.
One of three SCPs that actually made me cry
AVALON AAAAA IT'S SO GOOD
I've been down an SCP rabbit hole for a couple days, I like HFY (Humans, Eff Yeah) sci-fi stories read by Agro Squirrel Narrates. One of his stories I listened to was how the SCP saved Earth from an alien invasion by sending them Shy Guy through a dimensional portal, then sending pictures of him to all their screens on their home planet. Everyone in the comments was talking about how screwed the aliens were, and i had to investigate.
There is a cat
I am a fan of the harmless/friendly SCPs
With all these world ending creatures, a pizza box that generates whatever pizza the person who opens it imagines is funny
I love the funny ones like Dr. Spanko.
As far as why these harmless beneficial ones are locked away I like to think the foundation has to maintain some kind of economic status quo that this pizza box would change. Imagine some office drone locking away infinite food hack and saying "if we feed the hungry Dominoes would lose profits"
Yup. And in general older entries, up to the 1k mark, were the best.
Nobody talking about the MTF?
Asks for a nuclear living pizza monster
One of my favorite aspects of the SCP series is how they handled the concept of SCP-001. Such an SCP with that title implies that whatever it is, it was important enough to be the FIRST anomaly ever to be categorized and documented, possibly even to the point of creating the Foundation as a whole. But as you mentioned, the entries didn't start at one, it started all the way at 173. So with that in mind, how on earth do you decide on an entry that will forever be seen as the canonical "first SCP?"
Simple. You declare there are MULTIPLE SCP-001 entries. When you visit its page it tells how due to the nature of 001 being so important to the foundation, they decided to insert several "fake" SCP-001 proposals to further bury and protect the "true" document. As of this post there are dozens of entries claiming to be the one, ranging in all manner of scale and tone, just like the entire database as a whole. So which one is the canonical first SCP? Whichever one you think fits the most in your headcanon. Such a creative way to handle what could've easily been a divisive topic.
I like the one that automatically puts itself at the start of any list, so it's impossible to know what SCP-001 actually was.
i remember the first few scp 001 entries im glad to say the only changes made to them over the years is they have been extended and curated it's crazy to see how many there are now.
What if the real SCP-001 is actually SCP-002? And ALL the SCP-001's are decoys. Be back soon, I hear knocking on the door. I don't remember ordering takeout.
The way it ends is the only one that actually makes sense to be 001
I agree, the meta-richness of 001 entries is one of my fave things about the universe. A wonderful evolution beyond the original (and loved) monster of the week style SCP's.
3:35 I feel like it's *incredibly* important to explain _WHY_ Peanut (SCP 173) had its image removed. It _was_ indeed because it was an unlicensed photo, yes, but it's more complicated than that; the author wasn't using copyright to pull down the image. Rather, he _graciously_ *ALLOWED* the use of the image on the site, for years. However, the SCP Project is supposed to be Creative Commons License compliant (specifically CC-BY-SA 3.0 - In English, BY= Attribution, SA=Share-Alike, so: "Attribute the author(s), and any derivative works must be shared under the same license", there's more to the CC license than _just_ that, but that's the gist.), and, well, that image just is not compatible with the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license! So it had to go. It was the collection of people who run the site's decision, not the copyright owner's decision. I _guess_ he could've released it under that license, but that's a HUGE ask from someone already giving the SCP community so much by just allowing them to use the image of his own statue, for free, for years, and nobody was going to ask him for that.
Please don't throw any hate his way, that is basically what I'm saying here. It wasn't his fault, nor his decision.
The fact that a random Bureaucratic decision from people not directly involved at all being the reason why the image was removed feels thematically appropriate
Thanks for the explanation, since the last time I checked, the image was still up and I knew the artist had allowed its usage. Copyright law sure is bizarre sometimes.
and that's why copyright is a useless thing as it destroy any creativity and stop us for moving forward without fear
@@FrenchLightningJohn I don't think you understood what I said, as copyright was only tangential to the story (the image was literally stolen and uncredited and the owner still allowed it's use for free) and nobody was forced to take it down, they chose to in order to make the whole site under one license (this is incredibly important for many reasons, such as future SCP games), but in any case, this is a very naive take.
No, in general, copyright is a good thing, but the length of time things stay copyrighted is ridiculous, and *that* stifles creativity. That's Disney's fault. It should be more like 10-20 years, not life of author + 70 years as it currently is. Chances are very good you'll never live to see Harry Potter, The Expanse, or Game of Thrones in the Public Domain.
We wouldn't have many of your favorite intellectual properties without copyright allowing the creator to profit from the effort they put into it without fear that someone else can just sell it as their own without having to do any of the work.
I think removing the image made the article so much better. Its now in line with some of the best scps that don't have images either
One of my favourite quotes of the SCP lore, though I can't quite remember where it's from, is:
"Those idiots think they can lock up monsters with bureaucracy and paperwork. Worse part? It's actually working."
Maybe it's from an entry, maybe another UA-camr, or maybe my ADHD brain made that up and I forgot I made it myself
Isn't if from some of the GOC stories? I also remember something like that
I feel like it's the Deer
I've always liked the concept of cosmic horrors and/or strange abominations that are so strange, that scientific classification becomes weirdly difficult
Yeah it’s a awesome fandom
I mean, even in our regular universe there's still a lot of stuff we can't explain and/or remains too strange for the mind.
@@neonity4294 And it has been so for generations. H.P. Lovecraft for example [he was a xenophobe and his commentary on human society is kinda gross, but his "gods" are what can be carried through to today]
@@TheWhitefisher Dude. I genuinely feel like his worst traits contributed to this work and it's tone whether we like it or not.
It requires a certain kind of dark and maybe messed up to Create a Genre focused on how Worthless humans are against the Universe. How fragile we are etc.
@@neonity4294 like black holes! They seem to violate the laws of physics as all matter that ends up in a black hole appears to be destroyed, and also we can’t explain dark energy or dark matter even though they make up most of our universe.
One of my favorite SCPs is 871: a cake that makes another cake, whichever kind of cake, if it's not eaten every day. It's silly that it's simply a cake, but can literally overrun the planet if not taken care of.
cringe
@@HeyGuy4321 shut up
It’s incredible how the SCP wiki can make anything an XK
I think what I love the most, is that it's absolutely un-copyrightable and un-monopolable. By its very nature, no one company can own it all because it is so deeply entwined in so many things. It is free to be used by all, as it should be.
Until you have people like that guy in Russia who almost used legal loopholes to obtain a monopoly on the logo and content of the Russian SCP site.
@@blitzwolfer4154 Does he still have control of the site, btw?
@@weasel003gaming7 If you're referring to that Russian guy I talked about, then no
@@blitzwolfer4154 Good, didn't like that guy.
@@weasel003gaming7as bad as he is, I hope he finds salvation. People suck but there sure is hope
At times, SCP feels like Resident Evil, in that it can be hilarious, yet still terrifying because the things you’re meant to be scared of are just absolutely absurd.
I mean an XK-class scenario via cake would atleast be pleasant compared to many many K class end of the world scenario.
Or "worse" the meme unofficial scps like the procastinating rock. There may not be a test, but just imagine 682 adapting to it's anomalous properties and uses it... Making it rampage and cannot be stopped... Because everyone who till try to stop him will become lazy (or will do it later)😅
I think a great example of this is SCP-6096. It has an extremely goofy design, but the concept behind the SCP is actually pretty chilling.
Either they're about how the 2000s election was rigged because Al gore is controlled by aliens, about monsters that restrict the sleep of their victims until they mutilate them, straight up God, or a ghost that eats butts.
What I find most interesting about SCP, is that it is the only fandom I’ve ever heard of that started from it’s own existence, unlike many other fandoms I am acquainted with, this is the first I’ve heard of where the entire thing is community driven and the fan content is the stuff you would usually see people making fan content of. It’s about equally as fun, weird and interesting as the fandom itself
Well it isn't the first thing actually although one of the most popular. You have mugen for example, a (freeware) fighting game maker engine which appeared almost 30 years ago and still existing only because the community keeps making content for it
@@JuntosXlaLibertadMileyBuIIrich yes, what I was saying being the first I had heard of. And to clarify I don’t particularly think that mugen, counts (I may be wrong) yes mugen is community driven, but I think it would count more had the community formed the game engine from nothing and created assets for each other and code to build.
There's a discussion to be had about how much /x/ influenced SCP, but given that /x/ is also mostly user generated, I think the point still stands.
Mm
Thats what they want you to think! The truth is the SCP foundation is real and leaked documents spawned the SCP wiki and the SCP foundation decided it was too big to be silenced without being suspicious so they started posting to it both real and fake information to throw people off their tracks.
Small correction: SCP didn't began as a site but on the paranormal board /x/ on 4chan. There the first stories were more or less community crafted and then it was decided that it was valuable enough to make a site.
My personal favorite pick for SCP:001 is that the foundation itself is an anomalous entity. That the sites and personnel just appear from some extrademensional space and start "testing and containing" artifacts that seemingly generate from nowhere.
The implication is that all of the hundreds of impossible horrors so far are just experiments from something unimaginably powerful and amoral, which is slowly learning about our world by poking permanent holes in its logic and physics.
Have you read Rounderhouse's RedTape series? It's not complete, I can't wait for Bone to come out, but what's there is absolutely fantastic... *that* for as a 001 proposal is incredible.
Personally i like SCP-000 Which at first glance is a unfinished article or a article meant to make other articles (Like a format)
But if you highlight anything words will appear and you will see its a entire entity in and of itself
@@zabianreubens4989 the entity in that is called a pattern screamer btw. It’s a remnant of the previous universe, and can only be known through things like this. The place it describes is the website itself.
ua-cam.com/video/404z0snK_Qs/v-deo.html this explains them better than I could
There's another proposal where YOU are the scp
>write short creepypasta
>post it to /x/
>it escalates into a cultural phenomena
>mfw
And now more people will be introduced to SCP thanks to *this* video.
Yes! Believe it or not I basically didn't know anything about SCP other than that it was a collection of horror on the internet. I can now appreciate the complexity and care that went into these entries, artwork, movies and ideas.
@@rainingBrackets and you wont be able to secure it, contain it, and protect anyone from it as it spreads like an anomaly.
that and we are all going to get hunted by 096, because HE forgot to blur his Face.
@@headwreak1768 That's the trick; Almost no one blurs the face on UA-cam thumbnails, so it's safe to assume that the image has been altered with memetic agents that properly prevent activation
@@andrewdiaz3529 Guess whoever made that deserves a raise for keeping us safe.
Not all the SCPs are abomination, some are harmless, some are misunderstood, and some are helpful. The Foundation even has a mobile task force unit completely made up of SCPs
So there own task force x basically
Mtf Alpha-9 last hope they are literally the last ditch effort when all else fails
Wasn’t that that one where one of them killed all the rest?
My favorite SCP (can't remember the number) is a table and chairs, and when someone sits at a chair, a lawyer type character will appear and ask what you want. If you try to ask it personal questions, it'll say something like "I don't discuss my personal life with clients." It's not an evil SCP-- it will only take a payment equal to the person's desire. So if a person wants a sandwich, they'll have to give up $5. If a person wants to escape the facility, they'll have to give up their childhood memories.
MTF Omega-9 “The Scrubs” is SCP-2639, three kids that got anomalously sucked into a Quake game session and would manifest IRL, seeing humans as monsters.
Their ability to appear anywhere in the world makes for rapid response, but by agreement they only deploy against non-human hostiles.
I love the SCP Foundation, there's so many creative creatures and supernatural beings that exist. Honestly I'd love to see more SCP content!
Oh yeah I would love to see this guy do more SCP content as well. There are so many curious world that exists inside the SCP foundation it's crazy
@@madmachanicest9955 I mean the thing is there is litterally limitless potential it is a wiki afterall open source to anyone wanting to make one As long as its allowed by an admin of the site
Agreed
Which one is your favorite?
have you tried typing SCP in the search bar? They are everywhere on YT
The thing that I love the most about the Foundation is not only the SCPs, but the Foundation personnel like the Security Department, Intelligence Agency, different Mobile Task Forces and Scientist.
Also the GoIs! (Groups of interest)
@@BookWyrmOnAStringwitch is the exact opposite of foundation employees
SCP must be my favorite internet phenomenon of all time. I like the take that SCP itself is an anomaly, because how it has spread over the internet, like a self perpetuating virus enrapturing new audiences every day
in a way, the scp is our real world anomaly that we can actually explain why it is spreading out and taking hold and roots on the internet.
The foundation would probably call that a supermeme.
The fact that it's got numerous international sites, the sheer vastness of the worldbuilding, the multitude of worlds, a cornucopia of ideas, movie-lengthed entries, this stuff has truly transcended far beyond mere horror. It's a wellspring of storytelling.
One undeservingly obscure thing on the SCP wiki are the foreign entries. In essence, there are subsections for communities from different countries that make their own articles - and hardly anyone from the main English one ever hears or talks about them. There are some real masterpieces hidden there - the first that comes to my mind is SCP-PL-126.
Yeah we really need a translation crew in order to properly sync the database contents.
I'm a big fan of CN-1000, and the other articles that reference it
SCP-994-CN-ARC, SCP-280-JP & SCP-040-JP are great examples
SCP-595-FR is real good but it's french
@@enexua_07oh no ew french! 🙄
I'd say a significant factor of it's success beyond the thematic appeal is the fact that it is entirely 'open source' and not the intellectual property of any single entity, be it an artist, author or large corporation. This means anyone can creatively engage with the franchise in any way they want. Be it in writing their own SCPs or storys, create artworks and movies or just add to the wider narrative in any number of creative ways.
While I'd love to see a big budget game or movie on the SCP Foundation, we have to be VERY cautious to keep the cancer of commercialization and monetarization from creeping into the franchise. The day someone gains ultimate control over the franchise and something resembling official canon is established will also be the day on which the soul of it will die, leaving only a dead shell to be scavenged by corporate greed
Yeah maybe that’s what happened to the backrooms wiki fandom, a once mighty group of loyal fans who made their own levels and dimensions and other fan made content much like the SCP wiki until the matpats and brooglies of the world infected the community with “lore” and “canon” effectively ruining it. Turning the whole fandom into a pile of shifting garbage trying to confine the entire community into one single canon. If you had a favorite level or dimension it’s definitely been deleted to make room for another level, like with the backrooms wiki purge which in where any levels beyond cluster 1 were deleted, this includes entities and dimensions turning the wiki into a skeleton of its former self even now the wiki is still constantly changing and updating, levels above the main 8 were endangered of getting deleted and replaced so let that be a warning to everyone not to confine wiki’s into your own box because you might ruin the whole thing for everyone.
The Archivist covering The SCP Foundation? Now this, this will be a treat to watch
wait. *is he on the god damn o5 council?*
Men of culture
That "someone" who put the helpful chair into a wood chipper was the Global Occult Coalition.
They nuke SCPs.
Sometimes you just gotta remind the anomalies that it was MAN who was made in Gods image
@@negative6442 Well yeah, but that ain't saying much there's things that made god, and also made worse things in their image
Another pretty cool game based on SCP Foundation is Lobotomy Corporation, which is basically an SCP management sim. You send employees to harvest energy from an ever increasing amount of anomalies, each having unique traits you have to account for when handling them. Some are almost completely harmless, and you can freely send any low level employee to handle them, while others can be extremely complex. Some require specific employee stats, certain outcomes after working on them. One might require you to constantly work on them, or not look at them while they're being worked on. There are even negative synergies, where two anomalies being in the same place is a really bad thing. Depending on the anomaly, failing to keep up with their needs can have a variety of outcomes. Some might simply escape and try to murder everyone, while some might passively debuff employees or the facility. Some might just simply summon a swarm of parasitic bees or cause everyone to start going insane. To say it gets stressful would be an understatement, and that's before talking about actually managing your employees, and the ordeals, and qliphoth meltdowns and all the other things that make things difficult as the game progresses. It's pretty fun and difficult and hellish but fun
I can't recommend LB corp enough it's such a good game despite being rather rough around the edges and what I really love is that despite being heavily inspired by SCP it really goes in its on direction in terms of aesthetics and narratives
See, despite loving SCP and dreaming of a management game for it, I really dislike Lobotomy Corporation. It's not an SCP management game or SCP Prison Architect, it's just... Just some weirdo puzzle game. Not sure what makes it so off for me, but I bounced off of it so hard.
@@drago939393 Idk what you mean by puzzle game, sure you have to do a lot of planning around the anomalies and potential ordeals, but stuff like learning about new anomalies is just trial and error. I'm not gonna tell you to try picking it back up, it might just not be for you. However, it's a game with a lot more depth than would initially seem, both in gameplay and story
@@cirnocard5710 IDK, I just imagine "SCP + Prison Architect" or something and it isn't even close to that, so I bounced off hard. It just doesn't seem like a management simulation game at all in terms of design and approach.
great game, I actually started playing it a couple of days ago
I think one of the greatest things about the SCP is that the user can curate the amount they want to engage with it. ie: there are plenty of one shot, short stories that are 500 words or less that have a wide range of genres to choose from. And then there are the longer entries that cross reference between the different SCPs. And then longer ones that make use of the actual lore of the organization and universe, which could easily be turned into their own tv series. Your experience can be surface level or a head first plunge into the dense insanity. It can be exactly what you need it to be. And I think that's just so incredibly cool.
CA covering SCP is the crossover I’m not emotionally ready for but always needed 😫 thank you dad
I didn't expect you to be here. I love your videos btw!
OMG SAME
Yo hey Wyatt
Dam not even 30 likes
SCP-173 gave me nightmares for a year, the first dozen made me unconfortable for months, the first hundred were unsettling, but after reading that many it began to feel like a cool scifi story to read with tea in the morning.
TheVolgun is one of my absolute favorite content creators on the entire internet. The amount of work that is put into narrating and creating 3D renders for each entry is amazing. They're an absolute joy to watch and listen to.
Yup. Volgun subscriber here.
Yes, as a lazy person I stopped reading the wiki and just listen to TheVolgun.
You should watch the exploring series
The SCP-049 himself. No one can replace Volgun
He, eastside scp and aliulo are the best ones
Something I find daunting about SCP is it's size. It's hard to know where to start because there is just so much of it. This video is great because it highlights types of media or creators that have worked within it, gives options of starting points. I'm a visual person, I love documentary or found footage formats, I love art. Now I have somewhere to start looking and other things to poke at. I am tickled. :3
I couldn't recommend getting into SCP's more! I recommend starting at one of the many SPC's he mentioned in this video. It's size is daunting but you don't need to start anywhere in particular, the way the articles are numbered has nothing to do with the overall ever-growing 'story', the best thing about it is you can literally pick any SCP to start from and it wont matter. The more articles you read the more the overall situation and story presents it's self, that's part of the charm.
Just start reading whatever you think you'll like, there is no way anyone will ever understand the entirety of the SCP Wiki, and no one is meant to try to do that.
Honestly my faveorite thing about SCP isnt even the SCPs themselves but the organisation that (somehow) manages to keep them away from the rest of humanity. This is also (as mentioned in the video) a thing I really like about Control and the glimpses into something bigger like the former and Ahti just make you ponder about what other things may lurk in the oldest house.
I also really like it when the SCPs have simple concepts but really lean into them.
Yes, I love how the more you know about the Foundation it looks less like a government agency and more like one of the anomalies it’s trying to contain. It managing to be over all governments, the mysterious nature of the O5 Council or the Foundation’s foundation and the big amount of anomalies used to avoid being know by the public.
@@Scio_Regisit might as well be. We should get more articles on all the not horrific anomalies that can be used as weapons or for other helpful things. Maybe some that implicate usage by O5. Also we need more stories on D class going to spooky places and getting horribly ended.
@@Scio_Regis the O5 council members are anomalies
@@aeea3306 I know, or at least I think I know, is all so mysterious in the top, let alone the O5, the Administrator is an even bigger mystery.
This is such a fantastic video. I've been a fan of SCP for years and seen a lot on it. But this has got to be the best summary/introduction/explanation I've seen yet. Phenomenal work
Yeah my favorite description of the SCP wiki is "Quite possibly the greatest collaborative writing effort since the bible" Like it's so weird that it's effectively a fandom that is powered entirely by fan creations. There is no original media that things are based on, outside of maybe the SCP 173 entry of course, but even then that just sort of provided the initial template, and I think most fans would hardly label it as their favorite SCP. (Mine is 5031 if anyone is curious, tho I'm also a huge fan of all the Murphy Law related entries) So as you say it's almost like its own sort of memetic cognitohazard, where fans create material that draws in more fans, who become writers to create new entries that other fans create new material based on in an infinite feedback loop of creation that has only accelerated as time has gone on. It took a long time to finish the first couple thousand entries, and now it feels like they're getting over a thousand a year at this point.
I mean a ton of scps are based off of media my guy Theres a wendys freezer which goes on for a ton of time and a ton of other things based off of actual things in real life even mythology Like SCP-3000 Which is similar in tale to the world serpent form norse mythology
@@zabianreubens4989 Among Us SCP intensifies
@@zabianreubens4989 actually the scp 3000 is more so inspired from the snake king god (seshanaga) from india, whose name translates to eternal snake or endless snake etc. Even the authors acknowledged it as their inspiration and in part, the the scp itself says so. but then again....there are many similarities in ancient mythologies.
@@lostblueboy Eh its mostlikely that alot of religions has long snake but that makes more sense as ascp 3-- something is litterally named jormangandr and based off of it
@@zabianreubens4989 ...uhhh...no scp 3000 is named anantashesha......not whatever you said. And is so then based off of the shesha naga. it is...pretty clear, unless you have a different source or version of scp 3000 and or are just talking about a whole another scp anyways.
17:33 YES! Thank you for shouting out this amazing short film! More people ought to watch it.
To put it simply, SCP is the embodiment of the lyric, “Anything and everything, all of the time!” It’s a universe where literately anything can happen and anything can exist. It’s a world with out limits, A world of chaos, a world of weirdness, a world of laughs, and a world of cruelty and death. It’s the embodiment of the internet’s creativity, and if you want to add to that, give it a try! It will be hard, but hopefully it will be worth it!
I'm pretty positive you have to do an application for an entry (aka SCP-####) which will go through an approval process by the site administrators and voted on. So you can definitely try, but it won't necessarily make it.
There are limits.
They cant add some stuff cause they dont want a lawsuit.
@@blitzwolfer4154 Nah, thats for applying to become a site member itself. You can post an scp anytime to a slot, but thats known as cold-posting, and its generally looked down upon since you're posting something officialy to the site without it getting critiqued first, so often times the coldpost will get downvoted into oblivion and deleted lol. sometimes it works though, like scp 1981
@@k_nito7954 Well I mean notable members like djkaktus prob doesnt need that much critique xD
The Panopticon is the second most memorable location in CONTROL (sorry, but everyone who played the game knows the first place), I absolutely loved going through it and looking at all the objects inside.
But my other favourite is the My Dark Disquiet room - which is a completely optional room, where you can turn on and listen to the Poets of the Fall's song. However, if you look around closely, you can find a board that has the entire lyrics written on it, and a survey with questions about how the song made you feel, do you remember the lyrics, have you felt any contact with other objects of power during the playtime of the song
0087 - the thing in the stairwell - was my starting point and remains one of the better ones. So many of the authors forgot the 'fear of the unknown' bit, or just spent a lot of time dick measuring against the creations of other authors that it became a bit of a mess. A lot of other stuff betrays the amateur nature of the thing (and I say this with love that people are wiriting at all) in that they really need to work on pacing, on tone, on subtlety. You've got this very earnest streak in the space that is at once endearing and also, from a slightly more experienced vantage, a little bit frustrating.
honestly many scps nowadays are quite overcomplicated with thousands of sentances But the original titles like the stairwell are honestly a breath of fresh air
I still appreciate the vast diversity of stories in SCP. Even if some aren't as good(subjectively) as others.
Some of the complex scp are very cool like that god killer machine which has more depth than it sounds but its a very good article
Minds was simply the Backwards man the introduced me to SCPs.
Yeah, too many SCPs are "destroy the world" types that it is just... boring and trite.
3:47 I can't help but find it very amusing that this picture makes 173 look like a murder penguin.
Kinda does XD
can we all just appreciate how top tear every vid this guy makes is.
True! 💯
Right? Not sure how he does it every time, but it's amazing!
makes me cry every time... *sob*
@@Graeko XD
“can we just appreciate the top tier content this guy makes?” 🤓
I cannot express how happy I am, that you covered SCP Foundation
The scp fandom is constantly evolving. Which is why it's so intresting. There is always something new and endless amounts of content
The issue being that it's gone thru something similar to the backrooms, the more popular it becomes the more the quality drops. There are a lot of SCPs and stories that are genuinely just bad now. When it first started it was niche enough that every addition was a banger, it's why the majority of the well known/popular ones fare from the lower number anomaly's
@@Jiub_SN Actually, its the exact opposite of the Backrooms' situation.
While the Backrooms became less creepier due to the fact that it regressed to the writing style of literal children (a Discord friend of mine who wants to be a Backrooms author is literally 12 years old) and the fact that they follow the same "monster = scary" and "random place = liminal space" tropes, the SCP Foundation fell "bad", as you say in your view, due to the fact that they are starting to experiment.
Here's the thing: The authors who curated the Series 1 SCPs are gone now. They either left due to career choices, personal reasons or the RPC split of 2018.
The issue with the SCP Foundation that most people find today frustrating is of the people essentially doing a "Reddit Botspeak" of the stuff, which further turns away people from the repetitive comment. That and the reasons for the RPC split, where they have gotten so woke that now articles should abide by the rules of wokeness. And basically because all of the early, 4-chan based authors who primarily worked on Series 1, left and was replaced by Reddit and Tumblr enthusiasts who probably studied on liberal arts and literarure, and was influenced by the 2010s Culture Wars. This meant that the wiki, while not being explicitly told on UA-cam, has been subliminally planted on the later articles. It's not inherently malicious, but it's ironic that the deep-shadowy organization, who contained anomalies at any cost whatsoever, and abided by no ideology, is taken by an ideology that has the same amount of authoritarial essence as the fictious organization, meaning it was doomed to be taken by the woke ideology.
It's presence after being taken has considerably reduced since the split, but now Series SCPS like the ones on Serious 4-8 has become more meta, more postmodern, more experimental andbranching out. That's probably why people call it the "decline" of SCP. It's because they thought that staying to the amateurish, diary-level amount of writing would be kept forever, but people would be bored seeing the typical "murder monster" and trope-heavy and uncreative concepts.
Pataphysics, Concept tag SCPs, Narrativistics, Memetics/Antimemetics (which developed from SCP-055), Surrealistics and Unreality, Deletions, ADMONITION in SCP-120 are a response to that.
One of my favorite aspects about SCP is how you can often tell when an author is writing about something they’re professionally involved with. Certain sciences like physics, chemistry and medicine are more common, but you’ll also be introduced to new hypothetical concepts like the method which the Foundation discovered that they are in fact not real, just a story existing on a lower plane of existence (one step below ourselves).
It's always weird hearing people talk about SCP from an outside perspective. Makes me realize how many cool ones im missing.
The worst thing is, the "Real AAA SCP Game" will in all likelihood remain a phantom, ironically for the same reason the series is so easy to get into, it's state in copyright. In order to make a game with SCP things in it, you must contact the creator of each individual item and character and get their permission to use it, and unfortunately no studio has the patience to do that...
I have always been an SCP fan, watching you cover this seems like a dream.
It's worth mentioning that the SCP site IS it's own SCP.
The site has many different branches in a lot of different languages, each and every one with it's own unique SCPs that are categorized with the same numbers followed by a couple of letters that identify them as part of said branch (For example. ES for the spanish branch, FR for the french, RU for the Russian, etc.)
SCP-101-FR "Y@u aɹe hëre" is an anomalous site that acts as a replica of the foundation database that can't be contained and instead was turned into a fandom in order to keep them as a secret organization.
SCP 1609 actually has a tragic context to it.
The foundation initially classified it as fairly harmless, until a rival company, one that only seeks to destroy anomalies broke into its facility and put it through the woodchipper. SCP 1609 now targets anyone wearing that organisation's insignia. The foundation now contains it by using its mulch for a garden, and having staff come in to compliment the soil quality.
It's a story on why they *contain* anomalies, not destroy them.
Some of the best SCPs are the ones that explain _why_ the Foundation does what it does. Like SCP-231, which started as an example of what the Foundation does when it is forced to do horrible things because there is no alternative, and what it does to protect its staff from becoming monstrous or callous themselves. It then spawned the Scarlet King mythos. And it also triggered the, "Foundation is Eeevil and Amoral," direction that the entries have taken in the past years.
oh not The Chair...
It wasn't just any rival company, it was a detachment of NATO called the Global Occult Coalition (or the GOC for short).
I'd say the duality of the GOC is SCP 1609 and SCP 5000.
@@orangetabby7122no its the un not nato
My favourite thing about this whole premise is that all the original monsters are derived from unusual, creepy images, and -682 is an actual carcass that washed up somewhere called the Sakhalin Island Sea-wolf. It was actually a beluga whale, but it looked creepy.
Another piece of media that is basically SCP, yet predates SCP-173, is the miniseries The Lost Room, which is about anomalous objects. Greatly recommended for anyone who would like to watch an SCP-like show
I literally bought the DVD on ebay just now because of your comment! Here's hopeing I like it!
@@MysticMorigan1998 oh my! I personally really enjoyed it. My biggest complaint is simply how short the show is, I would have loved to have more of it.
Here's hoping I didn't waste your money!
There's also Warehouse 13.
While it premiered a year _after_ the SCP site went online, according to the wiki, TV shows take a lot of time to be made, so it began it's preproduction either at the same time SCP appeared as an obscure 4-chan meme, or somewhere before that, and got pitched some time before that as well.
@@DarthBiomech^^
thanks for the tips guys
I’ll never forget SCP-2718 “what comes after”. Never have I had a piece of media rock me to my core so completely in my life. I dont want to spoil it, but the concept it presents makes death monumentally more horrifying. Knowing what comes after is not very comforting.
I’ve been looking for a video that talks about SCPs I find this whole idea of them so fascinating
THIS is why i love your channel.
you tell us about unknown universes(or universes we dont have much information about), you don't spoil too much, you make us feel we NEED to research these. you give us plenty of information, but just not enough to satisfy us, but it is good, because it leaves us thinking about them.
Keep up the good work, i love your channel!
Thank you for making us entertained, leaving us thinking about things, and for keeping an unique style that grabs us, and sucks us into unknown worlds.
Thank you.
The SCP Foundation will forever be my favorite internet phenomenon of all time. I've been a part of it in different ways for around 5+ years, and I loved every moment of it. It just keeps giving awesome and new ideas and never really becomes dull.
This is an amazing video. And thank you for pulling the reference to Control too. It is by far one of my favourite games.
What better thing to watch whilst staying in my friends uncle's cabin in the woods.
SCP-1609 isn't terrifying, it's tragic. All it wanted was to be helpful and useful. It should be noted that it only attacks people dressed similar to GOC soldiers, the people who put it into a woodchipper. It spends it's days now as filling for planters of beautiful flowers. It doesn't attack out of hate. It attacks because it has PTSD.
That one is in my top 2 favourite scps.
Wow, what an insightful analysis of the genre of storytelling! I loved how you really took time to analyze the “fear and absurdity” humorous undercurrent that ties many entries together and really gives the SCP genre the credence it needs (although the purely scary entries have their own charm). But the touching on universal experiences in childhood aspect was great as well as the focus on inundation and desensitization. Such an interesting video. I really loved this one.
Scp Foundation: we need to research those things
Global Occult Coalition: we need to destroy those things
Chaos Insurgency: we should use those things for our personal gains
Serpents Hand: those things should roam around freely
I am a HUGE fan of the SCPs that are very subtle in the way they poke around horror.
Like the patchwork bear.
It isn't horror by itself, but it pokes on personal horrors if you read the story to the end. Aside from being also very heart warming and heart breaking.
18:33 did you know that the SCP wiki is listed in the SCP wiki as an SCP in the form of the SCP Foundation's database?
For something similar there is Project Moon, a series of games that takes some clear inspirations from the SCP Universe.
There is also Anno Mutationem which was originally meant to be part of SCP before being changed. That said, some elements still remain.
I’ve been waiting for this, I knew you would talk about SCP at one point
Okay after the "Haushalt" in the supermarket and the number flip (which is a German thing) I'm 100% sure CA is a german speaker (like me). Which makes the archive a little bigger. Keep up the good work!
The thing I like most about the SCP universe is the foundation itself. The structure of the organization mesmerizes me. The idea like there are people at the very top (o5 and ethics commitee) , mtf operatives in the field combatting groups of intrests or fighting scps, the class d who are being sacrificed to scps that they dont know anything about, the public who doesnt even know what the foundation is, scientists who are researching on scps, janitors who clean up all sorts of crazy stuff , being a intelligence agent infiltrating gois or looking for new scps, being the internal security dept. who are looking for traitors, being a analyst or office worker who doesnt know what is the data that they are putting toghether, a chaos insurgents raiding sites, the security guards who show no fear in any situation, medical dept who are trying to cure staff who has a illness that no one else has discovered before, site directors who have had their site have a containment breach for the 5th time in the month, and the administraitor who is at the very very top who oversees everything. It is amazing by itself and doesn't even get started on the SCPs themselves. To add on to this, the mobile task forces are really cool, from protecting VIPs to containing SCPs during a breach to combating other secret organizations. 👍🥶
I really like the SCP Universe, though I have to admit I mostly got to know it through The Exploring Series and didn't read many articles myself. I still find it's vastness and creativity fascinating.
Thanks to this video, I now understand that Cabin In The Woods is actually trolling the emotional numbness of _horror movie fans,_ who likewise take bets on who will be killed by which monster and cheering when it happens. This actually goes a long way to restoring my faith in humanity.
I am a simple man. I see a Curious Archive video, I click.
Awesome content as always! Keep up the great work!!
I am a single man too!
What a cool universe with lots of passion and creativity put into it! Hopefully it doesn’t get ruined by cringey power scalers who constantly shove the same 5 characters in our faces 13 sextillion times to rant about how powerful they are then when we don’t like them they have the gall to say we don’t appreciate the writing for these characters and that we’re childish. That’d be a shame
SCP is more or less a community run Twilight Zone.
I've watched half the video (12 mins to be exact) and as a member of the SCP community for a long time, this all amazes me too. And a comment I want to make about the games, I believe SCP: Secret Lab is one of the best and with the newly announced update where they will update the whole engine, I am truly amazed how this fandom has come.
personally my favorite part of the scp foundation isnt even the foundation itself Its the various GOI's (Group of intrests) Like the chaos insurgency, The wanderers library, Are we cool yet, Gamers against weed (Funny reality benders who make funny objects which do funny anomalous things without reason)
I've been a huge SCP fan for the last 5 years and am excited for what SCP has in store in the future.
a video about SCP’s from CA? now you’ve got my attention.
imagine the intense moment of fear when you walk into an art museum and look into the corner and see scp-173 stood there, my soul would leave my body
Make more scp videos like this! Curious archive should not be limited just to speculative evolution, but also cosmic horror, fantasy, alternate history and other forms of speculative fiction!
a somewhat lesser known SCP that i ended up loving was 5866, an ancient, massive skeleton of a snake who is Tiamat class- partially because she claims to be the actual Sumerian god-monster Tiamat. it's a short and very sweet read :). not a particularly menacing scp, but i greatly enjoyed the dialogue and character writing.
Amazing! I was waiting for such a video :)
Been a huge SCP fan for years now, it will never die as long as people still care.
once we get a high budget TV show where each episode goes over 1 SCP, the scp community can finally pass peacefully
Unfortunately the nature of SCP means it'll never happen. Studio execs don't greenlight productions they can't control the entire copyright on and SCP has demonstrated it can defend its copyright status a couple of times now.
@@Miycu Lol they're not defending they copyright status against any studio execs or anything, it's just that SCP wiki is under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike license which just means you technically can use it's content for commercial purposes but it forces the commercial content to be under the same license so that means you really can't make any money from it as people can just put the show on youtube and not have to worry about watching it through netflix or whatever
at least that's my understanding of it
@@mastershooter64 Andrey Duskin tried to claim the russian trademark on it a few years back iirc and they had to pay for lawyers so yes they have literally defended it in court
AI is the answer.
@@Miycubecause it is free license meaning anyone who tries would lose. A UA-cam series could work though, it would need a relatively large budget burr given the nature of UA-cam it isn't impossible
I see how and why people tune into you now.
Am really glad I found your channel now.
This was amazing. Just absolutely amazing. I would really love to see more videos like this, speaking of internet stories. Perhaps you could maybe do video on the Backrooms? From what I've seen its very similar to SCP.
1867 is my favorite scp by far. I love my little naturalist slug.
Lord Blackwoods journal entries are the best, it’s straight up like Johnny Quest but with SCP’s.
My favorite of the entries is when Lord Blackwood, Theodore Roosevelt, Blackwoods rival George Harris (like Rene Belloq but can resurrect himself), and a Russian scientist Mr. Dukov hunt SCP-682 in the French countryside. It ends up with the biblical being Able (SCP-076-2) and the Tarasque (SCP-682) fighting each other and Mr. Dukov’s experimental pitchblend rifle being dismantled and turned into a nuclear bomb and killing 10,000 people in Avignon. Yes, all the entries are this ridiculous and they’re all amazing.
For those of you interested in the "new weird" that SCP and Control sit firmly within, you may want to check out Annihilation (either the film or the book) and Roadside Picnic (as well as the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. film and games which are loosely based on it)
I love how the video starts with 20:12 time left. The year the game was made.
Great wording for the title. I though about the title for about a few seconds to realize that it fits really well.
Some of my favorite SCP works are the ones that stray furthest from the Foundation itself. I REALLY love reading about the different anomalous communities like Esterberg, Three Portlands, Sloth's Pit and others. I bet most people don't know this but a location from the wiki, Wanderers Library, was so popular it was created as a sister site. Unlike the SCP wiki, it is smaller and most of the works are prose and don't even relate to the SCP universe itself. I really hope that more people see the non-horror side of SCP because even though I love it, there's so much more!
For me the most fascinating thing of the Foundation is how connected it is, at the start all entries look like insulated cases and most of them are but from time to time you found parts of a puzzle and eventually you start to see the bigger picture. Recurrent groups of interest connected to the Foundation, parts of a mechanical god dispersed around the world, ancient anomalous civilizations changing the history, the anomalous nature of the O5 Council and the Foundation itself, the answers about the beginning of time and the dark shadow of the Scarlet King in every corner, waiting for the moment to bring chaos upon reality. That’s the really anomalous property of the foundation, taking individual creations made by different people and somehow creating a story that is way bigger than the individual posts combined.
Sometimes I come back to reread something like three times because I keep reading other stuff and being like "OMG this adds so MUCH to X! I have to read it again" and X just keeps getting better
This is literally me when I used to watch SCP content. I got bored of it at some point.
If the connection between SCPs are the reason why you like them, then the same might happen to you if you like the connections to be consistent.
As you'd expect from a purely community-driven project like SCP, there is no established canon, so plenty of entries contradict each other.
Some canons might put X as a part of Y and another might say that it isn't and that it comes from Z instead.
Trying to connect all the entries in order to create a coherent canon is basically impossible, especially without alternate universes and even then there might be some other entry that still contradicts another entry because it also affects other universes.
@@aeaeeaoiauea What? yes there is no ONE true canon, that's how scp flourished while competitors stayed stilted dare I say. It's on purpose. But there are many complete and "coherent" canons within it.
If you like having one solid canon, go read through the canons hub. I particularly like Resurrection and all of its off shoots like New Faces, Old Foes and His Will Be Done as well as the No Return canon (though this one requires some advanced lore like pataphysics). There's also Site-17 Deepwell catalogue, Site-120, On Guard 43 and S&C Plastics. All of these contain one more solid interpretation of the world with solid lore, like the history of Sloth's Pit in S&C Plastics or the lore of the Fae in Site-120 as well as the Impasse in No Return. And that means of course that there are plenty connections.
Idk maybe I misunderstood what you were saying, sorry
@@mint1114 There are other reasons why I got bored of it, a lot of the entries seemed quite repetitive, so I guess I just haven't looked hard enough for more solid canons in the wiki, but at this point I thought that just this wasn't for me and I've already moved on to other stuff.
Of course, this is just my opinion, and plenty of other people might disagree with me and never get bored of them, and that's fine, people can like different things.
oh and btw i edited my previous comment, i was a bit sleepy when i first wrote it and was unable to convey my thoughts correctly
@@aeaeeaoiauea The absence of canon is actually one of the rules of the project.
At the begining, there was a very consistent canon. More specifically, there was one author who had created all sorts of very popular skips that were all part of a consistent and convoluted network of entires, with more authors linking their own contributions to the already existing ones, leading to a canonically consistent whole.
This all came down crashing absurdly hard when that particular author badly parted ways with the project and took an attorney to ask for the entire removal of his work from the website. His works were so numerous that merely looking for them and removing them took a lot of effort, but it also broke many other entries that were refering to these now gone entries. This was a catastrophe.
The absence of consistent canon is there precisely so that any content can be added or removed without having much impact on the rest of the project. With the review processes in place, you can bet that without that rule, all the new vaidated entries would be fairly consistent with the existing ones.
I find it interesting that SCP kind of spawned/spawned from a whole genre of horror like slenderman, sirenhead, and the backrooms.
I just fell into the rabbit hole a few weeks ago and now this video by one of my fave channels ❤
What I love the most are the moments that the SCP foundation truly acts in unethical manners with total impunity. Like killing half a village to avoid people "knowing" what just happened, just for the sake of preserving the sacrosanct "keeping people in the dark" doctrine. Or by wiping everyone's memories of SCPs against their will even if knowing their existence is pretty harmless or wouldn't even get believed in a world full of ghosts and demons stories. Or outright stripping a teenage girl of her constitutional rights because she was using newfound powers to prove herself innocent in a murder trial for a crime she didn't commit, condemning her to live in a cell for the rest of her life. Or even sacrificing low level employees and convicts for their experiments.
Ah, Iris. Have you read Devil's Advocate? It's a pretty cool Hub and though rn it's pretty short, I like how it explores her character and humanoid anomalies in general
You are just the best. I have been wanting this for so long. Thank you😊
Nah scp is so large and fire that you gotta only focus on what you want to learn about and some classics
My favorite SCP video channels have been Dective Void and The Rubber for the animations they do. I also watch SCP explained since the dry tone helps drain away some of the horror of the scarier ones.
Oh God not the Rubber
Same, I normally just watch videos because they're so easy to just put in the background as I write or draw. Though a lot of times it's just them going over one SCP for each video, so most of the stories are left out. I don't understand why some of the SCP community (predominantly on reddit) is so gatekeepy towards the people who just watch YT videos on SCPs, a lot of times they're easier to understand or more convenient to watch
I love how every video like this features a clip from Control and Cabin in the Woods. That’s a perfect way to get the point across!
You forgot to mention how the SCP 173 article was first posted to 4chan's Paranormal board, and that the Image was posted with the document in later revisions
The nerd in me thought this video was going to be about the Secure Copy Protocol (scp). Pleasantly surprised though.
Always hyped for videos from this channel!
This video is like a watchlist for me. I intend on checking out as many of these fan works as possible. Ty mr archive
it is impressive how 4chan keeps inspiring colossal works of fiction all around the world. Another amazing work like liminal spaces really makes you think what is the next big thing to come out of there.
And it's also so interesting just how far the Foundation has strayed from it's 4Chan days, in a good way obviously. I mean, there's a whole ass SCP named the "Transition Lake" lol
@@mint1114 aw hell naw the scps are turning us trans now 💀
@@anusaukko6792 and furries
@@anusaukko6792 Whuda heeelllll
My favorite pick for SCP 001 is " When day breaks "