I love how the god-like being known as "B" just basically says to the foundation: "Yeah, umm.. I might have fucked up and created something more powerful than me. Dunno how to get rid of it. Good luck trying to fix that one."
DJkaktus is objectively one of the best authors for SCPs, and there are few as is that really have reached that point. Definitely my personal favorite author on the site.
the monologue of 3812 talking to itself hit so deeply close to home and i don't know why. it's so poetically beautiful and terrifying and just what i want to write like. gorgeous
when he's speaking to himself towards the end, and he asks about us being free from restrictions, the "no" is chilling. It's mixed with pity, absolution, and vindication. He's done with us and knows that we will never even know that he existed.
This is going to be another classic volgun video, the video you come back to often because it's just so well done. I read the article after watching this but it just can't hit the same without the voices
the many tiers of existence that a being such as this would transcend remind me of string theory. the idea, that there are realities that are above others, that can affect those bellow. at the top, a tenth dimensional superstring. there's your architect =D
This is top-quality SCP content right here. "Self awareness of being fictional creations" is always a nice idea to explore, and I like how it almost pokes fun at Scranton Anchors by creating a way to surpass their use as a plot device. I would question why this isn't a 001 proposal, but I think djkaktus already has one, right?
I normally dislike skips like these, that are so aggressively meta, but this one is done well enough that it dodges that for me. I don't know if I love it, but certainly an interesting listen.
This is why you have limiters and Killswitches for experiments this big. And make sure that they are stable and are trained to control their powers so they don't get overwhelmed. -_-'
Its interesting because arguably the narratives of a lower level would also impact the higher levels, in the same way our stories affect us. The one writing stories is impacted by writing the story just as his will has some impact on the story he writes. What happens when you take that to the extreme conclusion at such a level as represented by the narratives for SCPs? And how many narratives get birthed by the existence of a narrative at all levels becoming a narrative itself as its journeys become a story starting with it leaving the narratives?
*Incoming file transmission* *file title: 3812 meets Jenny Tanner aka Narrative Manipulator* *playing* 3812: so you have my powers you say? Jenny: Mostly, i just can read the Narrative, you can basically turn it into shreds at will...heck not even at will! 3812: hahaha i get it but hey its nice to finally be able to see someone like me Jenny: dont mention it! 3812: so if thats the case does that mean you exist in a higher reality? Jenny: probably not but Hey maybe i just see one level up or down! 3812: perhaps
You and the Dark Somnium are the 2 best narrators alive hands down lol one of my friends asked if this video was real hhahahahaha that’s how good u are dude started crying thinking this was real 😂😂😂😂😂 didn’t no my homie was such a coward 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There is a sense of relief as the two selfs agree that their " future" or "lives" lie elsewhere. There was a palpable sigh of relief from the part of me participating in the story. "Whew, that was close!" seems like a natural reaction, but I admit it's also a little trite when we do a quick recall of where the story had taken us over the previous 40 mins. But then again, that's what came of the fractured self dialogue as well.
@@borttorbbq2556 Forgetting that SCP 2935 did successfully neutralize 682. Even when I brought this up I instantly got barraged by SCP Power Scalers saying "IT DOESN"T MATTER ANYMORE HES COMPLETELY IMMUNE TO IT NOW AND CAN ERASE THE CONCEPT OF DEATH" like bruh.
@@theodahviing that's literally the point. It's because way back in series 1, there were a lot of generic creatures that were hard to kill or had "rage states" or whatever, and it was written as a subversion, so there'd only need to be one.
3812 is really kind of heartbreaking. "I don't know what you did to me, but I'm pretty messed up, man. If you can figure something out here that would be great, because I really feel like I'm losing it. I'm scared too, man." Anybody who's dealt with mental illness can identify with that, and it really nails it down in such simple, human language. Hits me right in the chest every time.
It _is_ heartbreaking, isn’t it? It captures the raw FEELING of the endless battle between a mentally ill or even just neurodivergent person and their own psyche/perception of their world. My favorite part is that this SCP attempts to impart a hopeful message of transcending that dread and struggle in the end. It’s a beautiful refutation of the self-defeatism of most SCP articles dealing with apocalypses or omnicidal reality warpers, which unfortunately are every other new skip nowadays.
@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged as someone who grew up with a schizophrenic father and occasionally experience's psychosis I've said similar things to people around me during episodes the fear and confusion is so overwhelming you can't do anything besides beg for help to somehow get you out of whatever the fuck is happening.
Btw the first possibility the Dr mentioned in his report is akin to Cosmic Vacuum Decay, where reality's baseline energy actually sits on a hill and could roll down at any point.
this SCP legitimately gave me an existential crisis, but in the best way possible. Hats off to the author, and, of course hats of to the Volgun for the always-mesmerizing reading.
@@genuinedickies99 Oh yeah, it's a classic. An SCP that won't let you truly die, your consciousness will forever remain in the physical realm. So powerful that you can still feel your body, even when you are ash. Yeah, that'd suck lmao
@@genuinedickies99 imo that one is pretty meh, was super ambitious but it kinda flopped for me for various reasons, one just being that it's not very well written.
I wonder if some of the same sorta shit he tried on 3812 to kill him happened to and/or very near him (Ben) in his world and he was just shitting a brick lol
Kaktus ALWAYS makes the Foundation seem like an actual research institution in his work. It's one of the things I love most about Dj's work. "At the 2015 Foundation Summit on Existential Threats" stuff like this is amazing and I know I'm reading a Kaktus article when I hear stuff like that haha
SCP articles are always best when they have a bit of needless bureaucratic nonsense and human incompetence. The Foundation is an organization built upon esoteric rules and guidelines.
Hello! I love watching your videos! Could you do SCP-2747 sometime? It's sort of confusing for some people, and It's one of my favorites. I don't know if you'll see this, but if you do, I hope you know I love your vids!
I love the idea that this entity wiped out an entire emotion from the human psyche. Makes you wonder if that's the reason behind all the existential upheaval in generations who came after that in that universe. Scary stuff!
This SCP is a pretty good case of "Seinfeld is unfunny" where it was such a fun meta SCP that told it's own story, but now every writer on the site seems to be trying to do the same thing of using the wiki as a framing device for overcomplicated stories that have nowhere near the same impact anymore.
nowadays if an SCP doesn’t have some narrative surrounding it and it’s written like a Series 1 SCP, it unfortunately just gets ignored or downvoted into oblivion
I don't like this one. Maybe I am a boomer, a series one andy, if you will. But all those overpowered objects and reality benders feels like author's attempts to leave a mark on a lore, to be remembered.
this one was an emotional rollercoaster to me, as someone whose experienced psychosis of a similar nature (where you believe you're living within a fictional narrative) i have a lot of sympathy for this particular SCP. Poor entity...
About a year ago I tried to "exit" the narrative. Thank god I'm medicated now because that was legitimately what I thought. That I had figured out that this wasn't real and I was every bit as angry as this SCP was.
@@MichaelPallante Honestly, I just don't really understand the difference. So what if it's a narrative? If it is, that means you must be written to realize that. What difference would it make if you tried to exit? Can a character in a book rip through the pages and attack you for what it went through? No, that would be ridiculous. And so, there is no point to exiting the narrative, only for trying to be a good character. Someone you would appreciate within that narrative if you were reading it.
I love this one for lots of reasons. In addition to the obviously fantastic concept of a regular human being subjected to omniscience, it also ties a lot of the collaborative elements of newer SCP fiction together. It takes the "OUGH IT TAKES THE MAGIC AND MYSTERY OUT OF STUFF" MacGuffins like Hume levels and Scranton reality anchors, and uses them as springboards to explore their effects on the Foundation's influence.
It actually depicts The SCP Foundation as a *scientific* organization, _trying_ to *scientifically **_explain_* the anomalous, instead of "Well, that weird thing somehow happened. Don't know how, doe".
This. Honestly, this entire thing is barely even science fiction. In essence, they're really just talking about higher dimensional beings; we believe that you need at least three dimensions for existence, but we're not sure about the upper limit. As they said, just as we can freely change the lives of two-dimensional objects, a four-dimensional being could exert total control over our reality. An infinitely dimensional being would have control of every possible reality. Personally, I'm all on board for the multiverse being real. As in, an infinite number of three-dimensional universes. I think that's far more likely than us just happening to exist in the only universe to ever exist, anyway. As far as higher dimensional beings, we can only ever speculate. Sometimes, reality is stranger than fiction. Here's to hoping it's just science fiction, though. I'd really rather not have higher dimensional beings destroying our reality.
@@DefensorsPacis We're not talking about dimensions though, we're talking about narrative here. The reality bender is on a higher plane of narrative. We are the highest level of reality, the foundation is a story from that reality. Sometimes the foundation depicts fictional stories from its own world, but they have little to no details. Sometimes those narratives from the foundation universe reference other stories, and those are some of the lowest levels of narrative. You could also argue that us actual humans are in a narrative as well. And maybe those higher planes that write our own narrative are in a narrative as well. So the reality bender here is from the foundation universe, but has the same level of power and control over said universe as the writers on the wiki do. It has nothing to do with dimensions
@@seanfussa3076 This has literally everything to do with dimensions, they just used some flowery writing in an SCP article. "The Narrative" is just another word for a dimension. It's a way to explain its content. Are you familiar with the concept of Laplace's Demon? The gist of it is that if a being had total knowledge of every aspect of our reality as it currently exists, they would also know everything that would ever happen. Again, in essence, they have simply "glimpsed the narrative." In this case, they have no control of it, merely an awareness of it. A higher dimensional being could control, and alter, aspects of our reality, changing the "narrative." It's just different terms that describe precisely the same thing. One small correction, though; we are not the highest level of reality, we are the lowest, which they even state in the article.
This is probably THE most powerful fictional character ever, so much so that he realized he was in a fictional narrative and transcended that narrative.
SCP-001 Andrew Swann’e proposal begs to differ, where the entity literally transcends all narrative stacks as opposed to existing in an infinite amount of them
I mean other characters have done that. In The Elder Scrolls there's a thing called CHIM that basically involves characters realizing that they don't exist.
@@phillemon7664 Andrew Swann's proposal is just us. Or rather the people that write the SCP articles. It doesn't exist above all narratives. It's just our reality. Anything above us would also be above that SCP-001 proposal. So 3812 would still be the strongest fictional character because it rises above all fiction, whatever fiction could be made, and secondly we are not fiction so we don't apply.
Pretty sure Bugs Bunny has beaten his own writers. Same with deadpool, popeye, animal man and I think the Doom Patrol have as well. Characters beyond fiction itself aren't really a new thing.
I like how this one kind of embodies the way folks treat people with mental illness, sometimes, like they're this unknowable danger, when they're just folks who want to feel like things are okay.
I love how the writer of the story has to write himself into the story as the writer and go "uh, yeah i made this thing too powerful, oops". Thats so awesome
I agree, but they're extremely hesitant to use anything outside of the standard classes. For good reason though. Having too many esoteric class entities can undo the structure of the narrative.
Apollyon doesn't just mean the object can end world, it means that it WILL end the world and theirs nothing the foundation can do to stop it. This particular SCP doesn't seem to have any interest in ending any worlds right now, so it doesn't need the apollyon classification.
Oh. My. God. This is absolutely brilliant. I so much love the way you've voiced 3812. Listening to the way he speaks during the interview feels so real, in the sense that I'm actually hearing a real interview with a real person afflicted by those conditions. And the conversation in the sea. The effects used to create the voice creates this atmosphere I can't quite describe. It gives me chills, but is calming in a way. It adds to the sound of the voice to create a deeper feeling of genuine emotion behind his words as he converses with the one wanting to destroy that narrative. I could honestly keep going on and on about my thoughts on this but I'll wrap this up by saying: well done. You've always done such an excellent job with these readings and it's always been an enjoyable experience listening to them. Well done. And well done to DJkaktus for another brilliant SCP. What an imagination you must have to be able to write such a vast array of stories and characters. To both of you, I look forward to what you create in the future.
This story was amazing, the loop around back to the scp recognizing its creator was an author (implied not said) who somehow created an existence that superseded everything by superseding his own narrative given to him by his creator was fucking insane and I loved every second of this story. This is one of those stories that leaves me in an existential crisis but in the best way possible
This SCP is the monument to the idea of "there are no bad ideas, just awful execution" - OP af character? Check - Writer self insert? Check - Existencial near phylosophical talk? Check - Meta? Point two already did it lmao - Larger than life? Check And yet, it did all of the right.
@harrishromero6447 Nah actually you see, every single mythological and religious writing since the dawn of humanity sucks because it has existential talk, op characters, and larger than life stuff going on, and everyone that enjoys those things is stupid, and i, the single bearer of truth in all of human history am right
I love the idea of different realities being stacked on top of each other and one reality being the source of another. If every reality leads to some offshoot, I wonder what the first reality, the one at the top, is like. If it even exists at all.
As much as I don't like Rick and Morty's edgelord comedy, there was one bit that addressed this concept. In one episode, Rick's car battery stops working, and he reveals it's a micro universe. So they go inside it to figure out what's going on, to find another super-genius on the level of Rick that made his own micro-universe to power things. Only for that micro-universe to not be working, so they go inside that. More shenanigans happen, but the episode ends with Rick fighting and beating the first micro-universe's super-genius, returning to his reality, and continuing on with their day now that the micro-universe car battery is working again. At some point, Morty starts having an existential crisis about this, even asking if they are in their own micro-universe, asking what about, what about, to which Rick responds "What about the universe where Hitler cured cancer? The best answer is, don't think about it." Having an existential crisis like this can be a fascinating thing to think about, but focusing too much on it can completely demoralize a person and leave them unable to do anything. The best answer is, shrug and move on.
This is my favorite SCP. I know it may not be for everyone, but it somehow manages to explain the way I thought about how multiple realities could exist, in a way better and clearer explanation than I could. Loved this.
The amount of uncontained Euclid and Keter Class SCPs is... unfortunate and almost hilarious. It's also quite hilarious that the SCP Universe still exists with the amount of SCPs like this walking around uncontained.
The SCP universe isn't this one unified canon. Every SCP doesn't exactly exist in one world. Its fluid. Its not a standard fictional world its a large collaborative effort and the canon is what you'd like it to be. So really there aren't that many of those entities running around only as much as you think makes sense.
Keter stuff is the sort of thing that is specifically difficult to contain, like that's basically the only defining characteristic of keter objects. A person who can walk through non-styrofoam walls would be keter class.
We don't always read SCP journals from 1 universe. There's a multiverse of sorts. There are desolate versions of Earth that were wiped out by SCPs before, loose remains of other SCP Foundations scattered around anomalous areas, etc. SCPs that can threaten more than 2 dimensions at a time are kinda Marvel-y to me, stakes get destroyed and things become jank to the point where no one knows what's going on anymore. This one is unique for sure but it also has an air of "It's so powerful it could kill us all with a cosmic fart!" which, in this case, yeah, I don't know how any SCP universe is still standing with this thing hovering in the middle of the bloody Pacific stoned out of his gourd.
Thank you so much for these readings. A moment of Feeling from me: I am disabled and reading text has become difficult because it's due to brain stuff. Your SCP readings have been amazing in helping me keep up with the SCP in general and you (and everyone who helps you) do such an amazing job with your performances, the images, and I appreciate all of you.
But it/they seem at the end to have found a highly positive non-destructive solution? My mind now keeps pulling me back to the conversation between Bowman and Hal after the ignition of Jupiter in Arthur C Clarke's 2010. Neither created the other, they came from quite different origins, yet somehow were becoming alike and following the same path.
Why did that 11:13 "The Last option is that SCP-3812 cannot be measured in Humes, Because its doing something else" fill me with such dread?! Edit: Was not expecting that 4th wall break, Very well done.
And I think the thing it's doing can be likened to the difference between regular reality benders breaking and bending laws vs SCP-3812 writing them. SCP-3812 sets new reality baselines when it changes things, which is why what it does can't be measured
You only get one chance for a story like this. One chance to create a character with such a unique take on fiction, reality, and narratives. Whoever wrote this took that one chance and did it beautifully. When i first watched this months ago, I thought I understood what was happening, I didn’t. I’ve gotten deeper into the SCP universe and rewatching this now with a better understanding is mind boggling
You know, for however powerful these entities always become, there’s always a layer of reality separating them from our objective reality. If we want them to see “our” reality, it’s only an image WE want them to see, another layer below our own. We are the masters of fiction, we control all that we dream of. Objectively, at least.
I love how you can just have a 5-minute conversation with himself while us on Earth and the Earth itself keeps flickering in and out of existence 🤣🤣🤣 like make up your mind this shit hurts
“Would you minister to infinity?….Ask the infinite what it might produce, and the only answer possible? Anything. Any good. Any evil. Any god. Any devil.” -Leto II (God Emperor of Dune)
The part about manipulating "narrative" and the example of "erasing empathy" really got me. Sounded to me like a metaphor for how establishment media manipulate the masses by achieving exactly that. Switching the narrative to their whim and dehumanizing enemy political groups, effectively ...erasing empathy of people towards them.
Annoying how Americentric some entries are. This one names almost every US state things happen in. But when something happens in another country they just name the country. "This happend in Florida, this happend in California, this happend in Russia" See what I mean? Makes no sense for an International Foundation to have a national preference and it kind of breaks the illusion
Totally get it and think overall you're right. The way I try to explain it in my head to try and explain this is that overall the united States is a collection of states overseeded by the federal government. That saying a "state" in the broad terms is by its definition its own... Idk not country but falls in a grey area. So looking at it from a worldly perspective it's like "well you wouldn't say this thing happened in the holy Roman empire, it happened in this city state which is its own thing, and is bound to the holy Roman empire." Russia on the other hand is uniformly just Russia. With an over seeing federal government. There are regions sure, but after the disbandment of the USSR they became a whole where as our history as a country is secular by nature. Overall I think you are right. That this is just an "ism" from an American centric point of view. But sometimes I try to make the jump to make the suspension of disbelief easier 😅
I can imagine a tale taking place where SCP 3812 due to its inner conflicts with itself, seperates into multiple entities, that all bicker about how reality should be written or unwritten, with The Foundation simply trying to keep up with it all. This anomaly is pretty genius.
Maybe it'd be something like Alien X from Ben 10, where eventually Ben has a conversation with the voices in the head of his version of Alien X, and he realizes "Wait, you guys just like arguing with each other about anything. That's really all you do. In that case, maybe you can just let me do my thing, and you can keep arguing on whatever you want?"
at around 42:10, right as the conversation was about to finish, a huge fucking crash of thunder came right outside my house lmao. A thunder storm literally just popped out of nowhere, I'm literally so shocked rn lol
I'mma be a thousand percent real with you guys, this really feels like it should have been decommissioned, but it's a really well-written metaphysical/pataphysical scp that sort of solved itself (?), and so maybe we can just enjoy it and not bother with redacting it. I have a personal vendetta against any scp that references 239 or anything to do with that "family" of anomalies, but this was an interesting thought experiment, I guess.
@@venandisicarius32 "SCP-239 is, put simply, a small, eight year old girl with the ability to alter reality to match her expectations. "If she can see it, she can change it." Her reality warping powers have been shown to be among the most powerful in the hyperverse of the SCP Foundation, and has been taught the "Ways" by SCP-343." The reason I dislike that scp is because I think it's weird and the connection to 343 makes me hate it even more.
i love all the scp stories but its a little tired hearing these scps with these " gods" talking. what makes these writers think that these beings would have these human thoughts? these human concerns? humans in reality would have zero idea what a god would think. to even presume that such an entity like that would have thoughts at all or that we would be able to comprehend them is ridicules. I like to loose myself in SCP reports but when the reports stray into the " god talk exposition" i loose intrest.
on the other hand this particular God was human before which makes it acceptable for me personally. It is a human being forced into godhood and omniscience, trying to comprehend the situation with human thought alone.
The character is a god who recognizes it’s existence within a literal narrative with a writer. It isn’t the conversation of a being with cognition beyond our own, it’s cognition beyond a world written by our reality. The elevated cognition in that world is being aware of the author, not being beyond our real world cognition.
Well B and his creation/copy/parallel-instance-thing did pretty much allow the narrative to be reset back before they started the process of uncreating everything. I like how they said goodbye to their own author too.
Okay okay okay.. i was listening to this while at work. And then at 18:26 you just straight up mentioned my EXACT BIRTHDAY... i got chills and started to sweat on my neck. Ive never felt as spooked as just now.. wtf
Though I am not a fan of high level explainings, *I am very surprised that such SCP could be written that good!* P.s. I am not a native English speaker and some of the meanings I had to learn about on my own. With enough perception you could feel that this story should take the place as one of the best ones, even compareable to the greatest books. The wordplay, the perception of author is above any expectations of mine. And only issue here is the 'lack' of information about the entity himself that are been doomed&blessed by it's very own existance. But that's just my point. This one is great anyways!
I love how the god-like being known as "B" just basically says to the foundation: "Yeah, umm.. I might have fucked up and created something more powerful than me. Dunno how to get rid of it. Good luck trying to fix that one."
In a way, they kinda remind me of D from So I’m A Spider So What
'B' is the IRL author of the article.
@@MrSailing101Ben, nice
"but hey, you guys are smart, im sure you'll figure something out" everyone in the room with their heads in their hands lol
I find wired satisfaction when an author does a self insert in a tasteful way
Yes, it's an OP SCP, but it;s unique to the others due to the 4th wall breaking.
Ben is just like 'Um, I may have made a mistake here..."
Ben: so I admit I might have gone a bit too far in a few places
Yeah, 3812 saying my name explicitly caught me so off guard on first viewing
@@Kyl0_ben bro
DJkaktus is objectively one of the best authors for SCPs, and there are few as is that really have reached that point. Definitely my personal favorite author on the site.
the monologue of 3812 talking to itself hit so deeply close to home and i don't know why. it's so poetically beautiful and terrifying and just what i want to write like. gorgeous
Finally The Volgan does the most powerful SCP there is. And as far as fiction goes too.
when he's speaking to himself towards the end, and he asks about us being free from restrictions, the "no" is chilling. It's mixed with pity, absolution, and vindication. He's done with us and knows that we will never even know that he existed.
He didn't just break the 4th wall, he broke ALL THE WALLS
This is going to be another classic volgun video, the video you come back to often because it's just so well done. I read the article after watching this but it just can't hit the same without the voices
This has been my favorite SCP other than 3008 for a very long time and I stand by this guy unprecedented power
Makes one wonder how close this entity got to our own reality. If it had moved up one more level we'd probably be royaly boned
the many tiers of existence that a being such as this would transcend remind me of string theory. the idea, that there are realities that are above others, that can affect those bellow. at the top, a tenth dimensional superstring. there's your architect =D
I fell asleep at the beginning and woke up at 38:20 and immediately got goosebumps. I love this SCP and the voice acting in it
This is top-quality SCP content right here. "Self awareness of being fictional creations" is always a nice idea to explore, and I like how it almost pokes fun at Scranton Anchors by creating a way to surpass their use as a plot device. I would question why this isn't a 001 proposal, but I think djkaktus already has one, right?
This remember me the story if this lovecraftian character, randolph carter
Love that this is a powerful pataphysical scp without expressly being labled as pataphysics.
They need to send this guy after The Guest(cant remember the SCP number) and see what happens.
I normally dislike skips like these, that are so aggressively meta, but this one is done well enough that it dodges that for me. I don't know if I love it, but certainly an interesting listen.
Ah yes the Scp that most people consider to be one of my powerful entities ever. And one of my powerful beings
I love this and rewatch it happily.
Thanks for this video.
ben was just fucking around and caused the most powerful being the world and just made up for it with "My bad"
For these anomaly classification system articles, I think it would be good to include the clearance level as well.
You know, I really do remember the world ending in 2016.
I remember this one from the exploring series. Nice. Forgot all about it.
This is why you have limiters and Killswitches for experiments this big. And make sure that they are stable and are trained to control their powers so they don't get overwhelmed. -_-'
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I think that's just 7:35 PM no need to say it like that every time
The SCP universe is more OP than the MCU and DC combined but by god this scp is completely op
Wow, this one was outstanding! I think this is the best SCP story I've ever heard. TheVolgun knocked this one out of the ballpark!
This is some Re:Creators type shit. Altair would be throwing hands with 3812. Or push it into destroying all existence since that was her goal. 😆
Ah yes, the SCP that gets tossed around the Vs Debating community a lot.
Its interesting because arguably the narratives of a lower level would also impact the higher levels, in the same way our stories affect us. The one writing stories is impacted by writing the story just as his will has some impact on the story he writes. What happens when you take that to the extreme conclusion at such a level as represented by the narratives for SCPs? And how many narratives get birthed by the existence of a narrative at all levels becoming a narrative itself as its journeys become a story starting with it leaving the narratives?
👀
*Incoming file transmission*
*file title: 3812 meets Jenny Tanner aka Narrative Manipulator*
*playing*
3812: so you have my powers you say?
Jenny: Mostly, i just can read the Narrative, you can basically turn it into shreds at will...heck not even at will!
3812: hahaha i get it but hey its nice to finally be able to see someone like me
Jenny: dont mention it!
3812: so if thats the case does that mean you exist in a higher reality?
Jenny: probably not but Hey maybe i just see one level up or down!
3812: perhaps
A man makes a story, his character makes another, then his makes another..
You and the Dark Somnium are the 2 best narrators alive hands down lol one of my friends asked if this video was real hhahahahaha that’s how good u are dude started crying thinking this was real 😂😂😂😂😂 didn’t no my homie was such a coward 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
*Sees a Volgun upload*
"Omg"
*Sees it's a 44 minute Keter*
"Omg omg omg"
Ah, SCP-2719, one of my favorite SCPs
Is this what happens when you rub SCP and the ontological argument popular among apologists like Anselm and Alvin Plantinga together?
The thumbnail looks like that one boss fight from star fox assault
looking forward to when thevolgun reads the anafabula
I’ve always wondered did this guy wake up from the dead with these powers or was already a low lvl reality bender before death?
I should've known this'd be a minecraft ending.
a non anomalus human, but all humasn are SCP-009-J
This scp is the definition of god
For a story with such a gloomy start, the end was weirdly comforting
There is a sense of relief as the two selfs agree that their " future" or "lives" lie elsewhere. There was a palpable sigh of relief from the part of me participating in the story. "Whew, that was close!" seems like a natural reaction, but I admit it's also
a little trite when we do a quick recall of where the story had taken us over the previous 40 mins. But then again, that's what came of the fractured self dialogue as well.
Almost clicked off thinking this was another boring reality bender, glad I stayed
sounds like one of my dreams
Let's just add this file to the drawer of "shit that *will* end the world eventually."
I need to move those liquor bottles, its getting crowded.
So this feels like an artistic way to describe the events that have occurred to the SCP wiki community. I'm probably grasping at straws.
If the world ends I will know who to blame.
when you ascend so hard that you are no longer affected by fiction
682 even authors intent is completely worthless to neutralize 682.
@@borttorbbq2556 Forgetting that SCP 2935 did successfully neutralize 682. Even when I brought this up I instantly got barraged by SCP Power Scalers saying "IT DOESN"T MATTER ANYMORE HES COMPLETELY IMMUNE TO IT NOW AND CAN ERASE THE CONCEPT OF DEATH" like bruh.
@@redboxgamingyt3452 That's why I hate 682, it's so lame and makes everything else pointless whenever 682 encounters another scp
@@theodahviing that's literally the point. It's because way back in series 1, there were a lot of generic creatures that were hard to kill or had "rage states" or whatever, and it was written as a subversion, so there'd only need to be one.
Alternatively, when you ascend so hard that everything else, except for yourself, might as well be fiction
3812 is really kind of heartbreaking. "I don't know what you did to me, but I'm pretty messed up, man. If you can figure something out here that would be great, because I really feel like I'm losing it. I'm scared too, man." Anybody who's dealt with mental illness can identify with that, and it really nails it down in such simple, human language. Hits me right in the chest every time.
It _is_ heartbreaking, isn’t it? It captures the raw FEELING of the endless battle between a mentally ill or even just neurodivergent person and their own psyche/perception of their world. My favorite part is that this SCP attempts to impart a hopeful message of transcending that dread and struggle in the end. It’s a beautiful refutation of the self-defeatism of most SCP articles dealing with apocalypses or omnicidal reality warpers, which unfortunately are every other new skip nowadays.
I've always thought he just needs a friend.
He just wants to be alone and no one wants to disturb him
@@HypeFox😊
@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged as someone who grew up with a schizophrenic father and occasionally experience's psychosis I've said similar things to people around me during episodes the fear and confusion is so overwhelming you can't do anything besides beg for help to somehow get you out of whatever the fuck is happening.
reality warpers can get super boring sometimes, especially if they're really meta, but I love how this one was done ngl
Djkaktus is the best SCP writer in my opinion.
I'm glad you didn't lie
This one's so meta, it's pata
Btw the first possibility the Dr mentioned in his report is akin to Cosmic Vacuum Decay, where reality's baseline energy actually sits on a hill and could roll down at any point.
Really? I think reality warpers are the most interesting 🤔
this SCP legitimately gave me an existential crisis, but in the best way possible. Hats off to the author, and, of course hats of to the Volgun for the always-mesmerizing reading.
SCP 2718, the one where you dont leave your body when you die...oh.... that one did me in... i suggest missing that one for the faint of heart.
@@genuinedickies99
Oh yeah, it's a classic. An SCP that won't let you truly die, your consciousness will forever remain in the physical realm. So powerful that you can still feel your body, even when you are ash.
Yeah, that'd suck lmao
@@genuinedickies99 imo that one is pretty meh, was super ambitious but it kinda flopped for me for various reasons, one just being that it's not very well written.
Djkaktus is the author
3930 really stuck with me, and I still don't really know what it is
*Most type greens:* "Oh no, an SRA, I'm helpless!"
*SCP-3812:* H E L I C O P T E R H E L I C O P T E R
If I could fav this comment multiple times I would XD
I miss when I thought they were called Tygreens.
The SRA be failing oooh shiet
My roflcopter go *SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI*
I'm loving this XD
I usually don’t like it when SCPs are massively op, but this is unique
This comment is on literally every scp 3812 video
@@HoelessBeybladeNerd ikr
@@HoelessBeybladeNerd it’s accurate though
This was the “original” super OP skip.
Op is an understatement Lolol this thing gives op a whole new meaning 😂🔥
I love the bit where he says he thinks his author is upset with him.
Right? It’s underrated!
I wonder if some of the same sorta shit he tried on 3812 to kill him happened to and/or very near him (Ben) in his world and he was just shitting a brick lol
@@lightingthelatenight9942 That portion of the SCP was drafted after Ben's life started resembling a Final Destination movie.
@@abydosianchulac2 checks out haha Michael Bay signature and all
Kaktus ALWAYS makes the Foundation seem like an actual research institution in his work. It's one of the things I love most about Dj's work.
"At the 2015 Foundation Summit on Existential Threats" stuff like this is amazing and I know I'm reading a Kaktus article when I hear stuff like that haha
The Kaktusverse is the best version of the foundation imo
One of the many reasons I love Kaktus
SCP articles are always best when they have a bit of needless bureaucratic nonsense and human incompetence. The Foundation is an organization built upon esoteric rules and guidelines.
Hello! I love watching your videos! Could you do SCP-2747 sometime? It's sort of confusing for some people, and It's one of my favorites. I don't know if you'll see this, but if you do, I hope you know I love your vids!
Was going to like the post but it's at 69 so by law I cant
@Jon B oh god dammit. Well it got my like now, this is why we can't have nice things
@@atheist101 literally nice
I too would like to see this SCP done
A proper just thought you told him you love his kids
I love the idea that this entity wiped out an entire emotion from the human psyche. Makes you wonder if that's the reason behind all the existential upheaval in generations who came after that in that universe. Scary stuff!
That has actually happened atleast once already.
@@ilewtf2234 got a source or anything for that bruv?
@@griffin1095 Yes i do.
@@griffin1095 You don't remember the incident?
@@rhynnal9051 i remember ur mum LMAO GOTTEM
This SCP is a pretty good case of "Seinfeld is unfunny" where it was such a fun meta SCP that told it's own story, but now every writer on the site seems to be trying to do the same thing of using the wiki as a framing device for overcomplicated stories that have nowhere near the same impact anymore.
It's mostly due to how they're presented if you ask me, but that's what happens when you naturally set the bar so high.
nowadays if an SCP doesn’t have some narrative surrounding it and it’s written like a Series 1 SCP, it unfortunately just gets ignored or downvoted into oblivion
I'm working on my own unofficial canon with what I hope may prove to be a unifying 001 proposal, and Ben's are a huge inspiration.
I would say Placeholder does a pretty good job though
I don't like this one. Maybe I am a boomer, a series one andy, if you will. But all those overpowered objects and reality benders feels like author's attempts to leave a mark on a lore, to be remembered.
this one was an emotional rollercoaster to me, as someone whose experienced psychosis of a similar nature (where you believe you're living within a fictional narrative)
i have a lot of sympathy for this particular SCP. Poor entity...
About a year ago I tried to "exit" the narrative. Thank god I'm medicated now because that was legitimately what I thought. That I had figured out that this wasn't real and I was every bit as angry as this SCP was.
@@MichaelPallante Honestly, I just don't really understand the difference. So what if it's a narrative? If it is, that means you must be written to realize that. What difference would it make if you tried to exit? Can a character in a book rip through the pages and attack you for what it went through? No, that would be ridiculous. And so, there is no point to exiting the narrative, only for trying to be a good character. Someone you would appreciate within that narrative if you were reading it.
I love this one for lots of reasons.
In addition to the obviously fantastic concept of a regular human being subjected to omniscience, it also ties a lot of the collaborative elements of newer SCP fiction together.
It takes the "OUGH IT TAKES THE MAGIC AND MYSTERY OUT OF STUFF" MacGuffins like Hume levels and Scranton reality anchors, and uses them as springboards to explore their effects on the Foundation's influence.
It actually depicts The SCP Foundation as a *scientific* organization, _trying_ to *scientifically **_explain_* the anomalous, instead of "Well, that weird thing somehow happened. Don't know how, doe".
This. Honestly, this entire thing is barely even science fiction. In essence, they're really just talking about higher dimensional beings; we believe that you need at least three dimensions for existence, but we're not sure about the upper limit. As they said, just as we can freely change the lives of two-dimensional objects, a four-dimensional being could exert total control over our reality. An infinitely dimensional being would have control of every possible reality.
Personally, I'm all on board for the multiverse being real. As in, an infinite number of three-dimensional universes. I think that's far more likely than us just happening to exist in the only universe to ever exist, anyway.
As far as higher dimensional beings, we can only ever speculate. Sometimes, reality is stranger than fiction. Here's to hoping it's just science fiction, though. I'd really rather not have higher dimensional beings destroying our reality.
It's like *Quantum Physics*
There may be multiple Universes, but we can only experience the Universe we're in
@@DefensorsPacis We're not talking about dimensions though, we're talking about narrative here. The reality bender is on a higher plane of narrative. We are the highest level of reality, the foundation is a story from that reality. Sometimes the foundation depicts fictional stories from its own world, but they have little to no details. Sometimes those narratives from the foundation universe reference other stories, and those are some of the lowest levels of narrative. You could also argue that us actual humans are in a narrative as well. And maybe those higher planes that write our own narrative are in a narrative as well. So the reality bender here is from the foundation universe, but has the same level of power and control over said universe as the writers on the wiki do. It has nothing to do with dimensions
@@seanfussa3076 This has literally everything to do with dimensions, they just used some flowery writing in an SCP article. "The Narrative" is just another word for a dimension. It's a way to explain its content.
Are you familiar with the concept of Laplace's Demon? The gist of it is that if a being had total knowledge of every aspect of our reality as it currently exists, they would also know everything that would ever happen. Again, in essence, they have simply "glimpsed the narrative." In this case, they have no control of it, merely an awareness of it.
A higher dimensional being could control, and alter, aspects of our reality, changing the "narrative." It's just different terms that describe precisely the same thing.
One small correction, though; we are not the highest level of reality, we are the lowest, which they even state in the article.
This is probably THE most powerful fictional character ever, so much so that he realized he was in a fictional narrative and transcended that narrative.
SCP-001 Andrew Swann’e proposal begs to differ, where the entity literally transcends all narrative stacks as opposed to existing in an infinite amount of them
I mean other characters have done that. In The Elder Scrolls there's a thing called CHIM that basically involves characters realizing that they don't exist.
@@phillemon7664 Andrew Swann's proposal is just us. Or rather the people that write the SCP articles. It doesn't exist above all narratives. It's just our reality. Anything above us would also be above that SCP-001 proposal. So 3812 would still be the strongest fictional character because it rises above all fiction, whatever fiction could be made, and secondly we are not fiction so we don't apply.
@@minuspi8372 ohh all of Elder scrolls is inside one of the developers head.
Pretty sure Bugs Bunny has beaten his own writers. Same with deadpool, popeye, animal man and I think the Doom Patrol have as well. Characters beyond fiction itself aren't really a new thing.
I like how this one kind of embodies the way folks treat people with mental illness, sometimes, like they're this unknowable danger, when they're just folks who want to feel like things are okay.
Very good point
Anything that doesn't fit into one's worldview is a threat by definition. If your worldview is narrow...
This is what I'll say when I murder, rape and kill
@@Doesitmatter_01 *finite
It.... It deleted Mongolia from existence.
Ah shit i lost my glasses.
Update : I found them strangely under the couch.
Severity of alteration : Minimal
Lol unforeseen meme format
The dumbest and funniest way to try to make yourself not look dumb
scp writers are clinically insane and i love them all.
I love how the writer of the story has to write himself into the story as the writer and go "uh, yeah i made this thing too powerful, oops". Thats so awesome
He really said, "I was goofing around and ended up goofing too hard, my b."
If this SCP is legitimately as bad as it sounds I honestly think they should up this to a Apollyon containment level
I agree, but they're extremely hesitant to use anything outside of the standard classes. For good reason though. Having too many esoteric class entities can undo the structure of the narrative.
Apollyon doesn't just mean the object can end world, it means that it WILL end the world and theirs nothing the foundation can do to stop it.
This particular SCP doesn't seem to have any interest in ending any worlds right now, so it doesn't need the apollyon classification.
@@justsomelazybrit2707 but the definition of apollyon fits exactly what this scp does.
@@comradecameron3726 Except it's only a possibility that 3812 could destroy the world, not a certainty.
Nonono, gotta think Super Paper Mario fam...
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Oh. My. God. This is absolutely brilliant. I so much love the way you've voiced 3812. Listening to the way he speaks during the interview feels so real, in the sense that I'm actually hearing a real interview with a real person afflicted by those conditions. And the conversation in the sea. The effects used to create the voice creates this atmosphere I can't quite describe. It gives me chills, but is calming in a way. It adds to the sound of the voice to create a deeper feeling of genuine emotion behind his words as he converses with the one wanting to destroy that narrative. I could honestly keep going on and on about my thoughts on this but I'll wrap this up by saying: well done. You've always done such an excellent job with these readings and it's always been an enjoyable experience listening to them. Well done.
And well done to DJkaktus for another brilliant SCP. What an imagination you must have to be able to write such a vast array of stories and characters.
To both of you, I look forward to what you create in the future.
yeah TheVolgun is an insanly underated Voice Actor
This story was amazing, the loop around back to the scp recognizing its creator was an author (implied not said) who somehow created an existence that superseded everything by superseding his own narrative given to him by his creator was fucking insane and I loved every second of this story. This is one of those stories that leaves me in an existential crisis but in the best way possible
This SCP is the monument to the idea of "there are no bad ideas, just awful execution"
- OP af character? Check
- Writer self insert? Check
- Existencial near phylosophical talk? Check
- Meta? Point two already did it lmao
- Larger than life? Check
And yet, it did all of the right.
@harrishromero6447 Nah actually you see, every single mythological and religious writing since the dawn of humanity sucks because it has existential talk, op characters, and larger than life stuff going on, and everyone that enjoys those things is stupid, and i, the single bearer of truth in all of human history am right
I love this channel so much. Thank you for everything you do for the SCP community
I love the idea of different realities being stacked on top of each other and one reality being the source of another. If every reality leads to some offshoot, I wonder what the first reality, the one at the top, is like. If it even exists at all.
As much as I don't like Rick and Morty's edgelord comedy, there was one bit that addressed this concept.
In one episode, Rick's car battery stops working, and he reveals it's a micro universe. So they go inside it to figure out what's going on, to find another super-genius on the level of Rick that made his own micro-universe to power things. Only for that micro-universe to not be working, so they go inside that.
More shenanigans happen, but the episode ends with Rick fighting and beating the first micro-universe's super-genius, returning to his reality, and continuing on with their day now that the micro-universe car battery is working again. At some point, Morty starts having an existential crisis about this, even asking if they are in their own micro-universe, asking what about, what about, to which Rick responds "What about the universe where Hitler cured cancer? The best answer is, don't think about it."
Having an existential crisis like this can be a fascinating thing to think about, but focusing too much on it can completely demoralize a person and leave them unable to do anything. The best answer is, shrug and move on.
@@yourcollegedebt8384don't like rick n morty but u described most of an episode ☠️
This is my favorite SCP. I know it may not be for everyone, but it somehow manages to explain the way I thought about how multiple realities could exist, in a way better and clearer explanation than I could. Loved this.
The amount of uncontained Euclid and Keter Class SCPs is... unfortunate and almost hilarious. It's also quite hilarious that the SCP Universe still exists with the amount of SCPs like this walking around uncontained.
The SCP universe isn't this one unified canon. Every SCP doesn't exactly exist in one world. Its fluid. Its not a standard fictional world its a large collaborative effort and the canon is what you'd like it to be. So really there aren't that many of those entities running around only as much as you think makes sense.
the scp universe literally is kept extant by the authors and readers, that is to say, us
@@zyvan3179 Yeah and also the fact that Keter Duty exists
Keter stuff is the sort of thing that is specifically difficult to contain, like that's basically the only defining characteristic of keter objects.
A person who can walk through non-styrofoam walls would be keter class.
We don't always read SCP journals from 1 universe. There's a multiverse of sorts. There are desolate versions of Earth that were wiped out by SCPs before, loose remains of other SCP Foundations scattered around anomalous areas, etc. SCPs that can threaten more than 2 dimensions at a time are kinda Marvel-y to me, stakes get destroyed and things become jank to the point where no one knows what's going on anymore.
This one is unique for sure but it also has an air of "It's so powerful it could kill us all with a cosmic fart!" which, in this case, yeah, I don't know how any SCP universe is still standing with this thing hovering in the middle of the bloody Pacific stoned out of his gourd.
Thank you so much for these readings. A moment of Feeling from me: I am disabled and reading text has become difficult because it's due to brain stuff. Your SCP readings have been amazing in helping me keep up with the SCP in general and you (and everyone who helps you) do such an amazing job with your performances, the images, and I appreciate all of you.
One of my favorites for how low-key depressing it is, great job as always volgun!
But it/they seem at the end to have found a highly positive non-destructive solution?
My mind now keeps pulling me back to the conversation between Bowman and Hal after the ignition of Jupiter in Arthur C Clarke's 2010. Neither created the other, they came from quite different origins, yet somehow were becoming alike and following the same path.
00:32 *Keter-Class Containment Proposal Brief* - 02:16 *Description* - 06:15 *Interview* - 08:34 *Memo from Dr. Yamamara* - 14:52 *Report* - 17:07 *Alteration Events* - 22:54 *██/██/████ Event* - 25:36 - 26:26🅱️ - 27:44 *"Supersession and the Echelon of Reality"* - 28:08▶️ - 32:14 *XK-Class Event* - 34:24▶️ - 42:04
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00:00 Title screen
00:12 *Intro*
00:32 *Special Containment Procedures*
00:43 Keter-Class Containment Proposal Brief
02:16 *Description*
03:11 _Eigenmann-Vietor schizophrenia complex_
04:39 _Containment_
05:23 _Appearance_
06:15 *Addendum 3812.1:* Interview
06:37 ▶️ [BEGIN LOG]
08:34 *Addendum 3812.2:* Memo from Dr. Yamamara regarding the 21/09/2015 report
08:51 ▶️ From the Office of Dr. Kari Yamamara
09:20 + _Humes & reality anchors_
10:16 + _detection, first & second option_
11:54 + _last option_
13:19 + _"probably better for us"_
14:14 + _the point_
14:52 *Addendum 3812.3:* “Behavioural Instability and the Implication of Existential Threats”
15:12 ▶️ Excerpt, p.194: “PK-Class “All-In-One” Existential Pandaemonium Event”
15:41 + _overexposure of narrative_
16:39 + _PK-Class "All-in-One" Existential Pandaemonium Scenario_
17:07 *Addendum 3812.4:* Log of SCP-3812 Alteration Events
17:36 - 09/13/1997 _[American Southwest]_
17:57 - 03/01/1998 _[Blythe, CA]_
18:15 - 12/12/1999 _[island, CA]_
18:50 - 02/16/2000 _[Hospital in █████████, ███████; SCP-239]_
19:32 - 01/01/2002 _[Eastern Russia]_
19:48 - 05/29/2004 _[Mongolia]_
20:22 - 09/02/2004 _[screaming]_
20:48 - 11/11/2006 _[Foundation servers]_
21:16 - 02/28/2009 _[17 sites, Canadian Yukon; SCP-2719]_
22:01 - ??/??/???? _[governments; SCP-2000]_
22:54 *Addendum 3812.5:* ██/██/████ Event
23:21 - 1935 HRS _[wildlife]_
23:33 - 1941 HRS _[sinkhole]_
23:49 - 1950 HRS _[Rods from God]_
24:30 - 2014 HRS _[incorporeal instances]_
24:58 - 2019 HRS _[explosion]_
25:16 - 2039 HRS _[gravitational anomaly]_
25:36 _Additional anomalous phenomena_
26:05 _Reappearence_
26:26 🅱️ _Message on secure server_
27:44 *Addendum 3812.6:* "Supersession and the Echelon of Reality" by Dr. Robert Scranton
28:08 ▶️ Excerpt
29:29 + _echelon_
30:36 + _spiraling ever upwards_
32:14 *Addendum 3812.7:* 12/20/2016 XK-Class “End of the World” Event
34:24 _Rant_
34:47 + ▶️
35:49 + _Ben_
36:30 + _"Are you destroying the world?"_
37:27 + _mountain & ant_
39:42 + _"But it hurts so much."_
41:23 + _"Do you think he’s listening right now?"_
42:04 _Dramatic shift in reality_
42:57 *Outro*
43:08 Credits & Patrons
44:36 End screen
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Why did that 11:13 "The Last option is that SCP-3812 cannot be measured in Humes, Because its doing something else" fill me with such dread?! Edit: Was not expecting that 4th wall break, Very well done.
And I think the thing it's doing can be likened to the difference between regular reality benders breaking and bending laws vs SCP-3812 writing them. SCP-3812 sets new reality baselines when it changes things, which is why what it does can't be measured
You only get one chance for a story like this. One chance to create a character with such a unique take on fiction, reality, and narratives. Whoever wrote this took that one chance and did it beautifully. When i first watched this months ago, I thought I understood what was happening, I didn’t. I’ve gotten deeper into the SCP universe and rewatching this now with a better understanding is mind boggling
djkaktus - every scp he writes is amazing
What I like about this one is that against ultimate power and righteous anger 3812's own humanity won.
You know, for however powerful these entities always become, there’s always a layer of reality separating them from our objective reality. If we want them to see “our” reality, it’s only an image WE want them to see, another layer below our own. We are the masters of fiction, we control all that we dream of. Objectively, at least.
Therefore, we are the 001 S Andrew Swann's Proposal
I love how you can just have a 5-minute conversation with himself while us on Earth and the Earth itself keeps flickering in and out of existence 🤣🤣🤣 like make up your mind this shit hurts
Here comes the power scaling arguments.
I don't know man, it may just be me but this seems like it would be a pretty good SCP 001
Agreed
Agree
aYE
We do not fear the dark itself, we fear that of which lies within said darkness.
“Would you minister to infinity?….Ask the infinite what it might produce, and the only answer possible? Anything. Any good. Any evil. Any god. Any devil.” -Leto II (God Emperor of Dune)
@Lou Charles Your profile pic is fear itself
@@DariaM00re its wheelchair sonic
Pretty sure Steven Seagal came up with this 🤔
The part about manipulating "narrative" and the example of "erasing empathy" really got me. Sounded to me like a metaphor for how establishment media manipulate the masses by achieving exactly that. Switching the narrative to their whim and dehumanizing enemy political groups, effectively ...erasing empathy of people towards them.
Ah yes, the Tucker Carlson/Stephen Crowder/Ben Shapiro/Tim Pool/Dave Rubin etc's of the world.
@@ultimaweapon991 not just them, but yeah they be the worst.
@@ultimaweapon991 if that is what you think then you have fallen into the same trap that you claim them to be doing.
@@zaxscat5357
It's extremely self evident but do go off
@@ultimaweapon991 ah yes… debating pointless politics. How about our shifting reality gods don’t mix with our petty disputes in governance.
Annoying how Americentric some entries are. This one names almost every US state things happen in. But when something happens in another country they just name the country.
"This happend in Florida, this happend in California, this happend in Russia"
See what I mean? Makes no sense for an International Foundation to have a national preference and it kind of breaks the illusion
Totally get it and think overall you're right.
The way I try to explain it in my head to try and explain this is that overall the united States is a collection of states overseeded by the federal government.
That saying a "state" in the broad terms is by its definition its own... Idk not country but falls in a grey area. So looking at it from a worldly perspective it's like "well you wouldn't say this thing happened in the holy Roman empire, it happened in this city state which is its own thing, and is bound to the holy Roman empire."
Russia on the other hand is uniformly just Russia. With an over seeing federal government. There are regions sure, but after the disbandment of the USSR they became a whole where as our history as a country is secular by nature.
Overall I think you are right. That this is just an "ism" from an American centric point of view. But sometimes I try to make the jump to make the suspension of disbelief easier 😅
I can imagine a tale taking place where SCP 3812 due to its inner conflicts with itself, seperates into multiple entities, that all bicker about how reality should be written or unwritten, with The Foundation simply trying to keep up with it all. This anomaly is pretty genius.
Maybe it'd be something like Alien X from Ben 10, where eventually Ben has a conversation with the voices in the head of his version of Alien X, and he realizes "Wait, you guys just like arguing with each other about anything. That's really all you do. In that case, maybe you can just let me do my thing, and you can keep arguing on whatever you want?"
I forgot how much I loved this one SCP! Really enjoyed your narration!
Glad to see this SCP finally got the Volgun video it deserved.
at around 42:10, right as the conversation was about to finish, a huge fucking crash of thunder came right outside my house lmao. A thunder storm literally just popped out of nowhere, I'm literally so shocked rn lol
I'mma be a thousand percent real with you guys, this really feels like it should have been decommissioned, but it's a really well-written metaphysical/pataphysical scp that sort of solved itself (?), and so maybe we can just enjoy it and not bother with redacting it. I have a personal vendetta against any scp that references 239 or anything to do with that "family" of anomalies, but this was an interesting thought experiment, I guess.
What's up with 239 again?
@@venandisicarius32 "SCP-239 is, put simply, a small, eight year old girl with the ability to alter reality to match her expectations. "If she can see it, she can change it." Her reality warping powers have been shown to be among the most powerful in the hyperverse of the SCP Foundation, and has been taught the "Ways" by SCP-343."
The reason I dislike that scp is because I think it's weird and the connection to 343 makes me hate it even more.
i love all the scp stories but its a little tired hearing these scps with these " gods" talking. what makes these writers think that these beings would have these human thoughts? these human concerns? humans in reality would have zero idea what a god would think. to even presume that such an entity like that would have thoughts at all or that we would be able to comprehend them is ridicules. I like to loose myself in SCP reports but when the reports stray into the " god talk exposition" i loose intrest.
This is such an ironic statement it's unreal lol.
Thought is a human thing as far as we know.
So is God.
We are God.
on the other hand this particular God was human before which makes it acceptable for me personally. It is a human being forced into godhood and omniscience, trying to comprehend the situation with human thought alone.
The character is a god who recognizes it’s existence within a literal narrative with a writer. It isn’t the conversation of a being with cognition beyond our own, it’s cognition beyond a world written by our reality. The elevated cognition in that world is being aware of the author, not being beyond our real world cognition.
ayo I'm from New Zealand and I don't remember being removed from existence
Well B and his creation/copy/parallel-instance-thing did pretty much allow the narrative to be reset back before they started the process of uncreating everything. I like how they said goodbye to their own author too.
A reality warper becoming all powerful due to a mental illness is terrifying. Fire entry here, and good dub as always!
Okay okay okay.. i was listening to this while at work. And then at 18:26 you just straight up mentioned my EXACT BIRTHDAY... i got chills and started to sweat on my neck. Ive never felt as spooked as just now.. wtf
This is the most creative 4th wall break I've ever seen. Great work by the author!
Yep, especially the man at the keyboard part. Genius writing
Though I am not a fan of high level explainings, *I am very surprised that such SCP could be written that good!*
P.s. I am not a native English speaker and some of the meanings I had to learn about on my own. With enough perception you could feel that this story should take the place as one of the best ones, even compareable to the greatest books. The wordplay, the perception of author is above any expectations of mine. And only issue here is the 'lack' of information about the entity himself that are been doomed&blessed by it's very own existance.
But that's just my point. This one is great anyways!