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Josh had quite possibly the absolute worst description of SCP I've ever heard

I used to be super into SCP back in the early 2010s. It was genuinely some of the best shit ever. There was so much creativity and originality. Every kid thought it was real at first because the whole raw creepy aesthetic and scientific government organization shtick was so well done. One of the big things was that there were images with most articles that looked like actual real photos, like 478 and 173. And there were hundreds of articles, and most of them were good or at least interesting. You could spend all day just clicking the random button and reading them. Not all of them were famous so it really had the discovery and exploration feeling to it. There was an article for anything and everything. A vending machine that dispenses any liquid, a tree that will grow anything that touches it on it, the endless staircase, a virus that turns living things into clockwork cyborgs. Not to mention hours of youtube content and discussion and theorizing about it. It was genuinely some of the best horror content on the internet ever.
I don't think you're later points about IDpol degradation are right, but I think that the core phenomenon that degrades online things so severely over time is a really pervasive culture of "yes, and..." on any sort of mainstream internet community. The initial SCP's were very effective because of their limitations. The found-document form was novel because it so strongly implies the existence of this vast other world but didn't specify it. When done well, this serves to give the reader the perfect amount of flexibility to fill in the subtler blanks themselves, making it more affective for different individuals. This can be a bit of a cheap trick - later entries use excessive censorship to say "something soooo crazy happened it can't be printed!"- but it's still the core of SCP

The yes, and effect destroy this entirely as each new commenter or writer feels compelled to fill in those gaps explicitly for others. The worst case of this is something I noticed in Reddit comments and seems to be somewhat Reddit-specific. Any time someone makes a pun or a joke in a Reddit comment, other's cannot resist the urge to add on with what is essentially the same exact joke but worse. If there's a link to an article about a lobster stealing someone's lunch, the first commenter may say "Stop being so shellfish" which isn't exactly brilliant comedy, but it makes sense and is indeed a joke. The Redditor then sees this comment and is compelled to reply something like "Yeah, I bet that make's him very CRABBY!" Which, being generous, is just repeating the initial comment.

I've gone a little bit off track, but I think it's part of the same phenomenon and is a "type of guy" I've spent far too much time trying to figure out. It's definitely one of the features that makes being online in Current Year feel unsettling
 
I finally caught up with the thread, and I have to say, I'm actually disheartened by the fact that I never knew how long the SCP community has been in shambles. My introduction to the community's existence was through SCP: Containment Breach and me eventually finding the site where you'd read about all those SCPs. Most of them ranged from good, to well, mediocre at best. My favorite out of them was SCP 106 as he was geninuely terrifying in Containment Breach.
 
Did no-one tell Tranny's that the unknown is what makes things scary?

Or did the laundry list of what people find repellent and horrifying about THEM make them think that's how all horror works? Seriously who needs 15 paragraphs about an SCP?
The most egregious examples are the fucking trope filled self masturbation jobs by the likes of Kaktus that just rush through poorly thought out "Containment Procedures" to then diarrhea out 50 pages of "logs" and "Interviews" where you can tell the author is overly impressed with his own (deluded) cleverness, filled with pseudo-intellectual moralizing shit, in some way I find them more offensive than shitshows like 3999 that just abandon the SCP format entirely for stream of consciousness rambling that reads like a hack writers mental breakdown.
 
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The most egregious examples are the fucking trope filled self maturation jobs by the likes of Kaktus that just rush through poorly thought out "Containment Procedures" to then diarrhea out 50 pages of "logs" and "Interviews" where you can tell the author is overly impressed with his own (deluded) cleverness, filled with pseudo-intellectual moralizing shit, in some way I find them more offensive than shitshows like 3999 that just abandon the SCP format entirely for stream of consciousness rambling that reads like a hack writers mental breakdown.
Thought you was exaggerating, but no what the fuck.

Also I go to check 3999 and I am greeted with.

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Color me shocked, a fictional horror website, about a fictional organization that likely has a mortality rate of 80%+ for the testers, might have ADULT CONTENT. :story:

Again what the fuck.

Dr clef little metaphor about almost going off the cliff with sillyness has taken a 180 and turned into going off the cliff with edgy grim darkness. You got to one up each other with how different and special and unique your SCP is with nonsense meta warping powers god powers. And your OC SCP must be as cool as Coldsteel the hedgehog

I wish we go back to when SCP was just silly ideas like my favorite SCP-1015

It's just a penny that does the Midas touch curse, but rather then gold turns things into more pennies. :story: God what a stupid but simple premise. Can't help but love it.
 
The most egregious examples are the fucking trope filled self maturation jobs by the likes of Kaktus that just rush through poorly thought out "Containment Procedures" to then diarrhea out 50 pages of "logs" and "Interviews" where you can tell the author is overly impressed with his own (deluded) cleverness, filled with pseudo-intellectual moralizing shit, in some way I find them more offensive than shitshows like 3999 that just abandon the SCP format entirely for stream of consciousness rambling that reads like a hack writers mental breakdown.
Long format SCPs work when there’s a nice hook at the beginning. Take SCP-5000 for instance. It starts off by saying it’s a damaged Foundation stealth suit containing a record of files, a dead Foundation employee that’s currently alive, and that it appeared out of nowhere. You’re compelled to learn more about the mystery of where the suit came from and so you start reading the files.

Then you read that the Foundation has sent a global public alert that they are going to kill every human being on Earth. It’s an enjoyable read as you get to read about some of the most well-known SCPs be unleashed against humanity in brief asides, like SCP-069’s face being uploaded to social media.

There’s also a lot that’s unanswered as to why the Foundation is wiping out humanity. There’s hints that there’s some anomaly within all humans but it’s never stated outright.

So you have an interesting hook and narrative with a lot to explore in the unanswered questions like other long format SCPs such as When Day Breaks.
 
Thought you was exaggerating, but no what the fuck.

Also I go to check 3999 and I am greeted with.

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Color me shocked, a fictional horror website, about a fictional organization that likely has a mortality rate of 80%+ for the testers, might have ADULT CONTENT. :story:

Again what the fuck.

Dr clef little metaphor about almost going off the cliff with sillyness has taken a 180 and turned into going off the cliff with edgy grim darkness. You got to one up each other with how different and special and unique your SCP is with nonsense meta warping powers god powers. And your OC SCP must be as cool as Coldsteel the hedgehog

I wish we go back to when SCP was just silly ideas like my favorite SCP-1015

It's just a penny that does the Midas touch curse, but rather then gold turns things into more pennies. :story: God what a stupid but simple premise. Can't help but love it.
Don't forget DJ Kaktus shitty canon and Pataphysics bullshit.
 
There’s a sort of beautiful irony to the whole situation, as The Foundation now must be contained for being an abhorrent mockery of nature and normalcy.

There’s youre SCP-001, Clef. It’s you.

Don't forget DJ Kaktus shitty canon and Pataphysics bullshit.
In terms of writing a narrative, Metaphysics is already a faux pas and some of these writers should know this, it’s not rocket science. If at all, it’s applied sparsely and with a pretty deft hand, and that’s because it makes your narrative so low resolution that nothing makes any sense. You’ve essentially zoomed into the picture of the universe so much that it’s a blurry mess and there’s no structure.

Pataphysics has that same problem x100.
 
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There’s a sort of beautiful irony to the whole situation, as The Foundation now must be contained for being an abhorrent mockery of nature and normalcy.

There’s your SCP-001, Clef. It’s you.
So in other words futurama twilight zone joke was right all along?

 
So in other words futurama twilight zone joke was right all along?
SCP-001: Nature’s Mockery

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Object Class: Troon

Special Containment Procedures: None. We can’t contain it.

Description:

SCP-001 is a memetic cognitohazard that infects internet sub-cultures and makes young, naive people (SCP-001-A) already predisposed to mental illness descend further into their delusion to the point of self-mutilation. They then propagate the cognitohazard with then perceived harmless activism, under the guise of acceptance and equalitY.

There is no method of containMent, nor can it be destroyeD. It will enveLOP the earth and swallow everythinG in its path.

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Tehe.
 
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I think the issue with SCP, which others have alluded to, is that they explored everything you can really do with the SCP concept, so all the creative and interesting people moved on to something else, leaving the weirdos and lunatics to run things into the ground.

It's the same issue that plagues long-running American television shows like the Simpsons or (in its own way) Futurama, albeit with even more open degeneracy.
 
I think the issue with SCP, which others have alluded to, is that they explored everything you can really do with the SCP concept, so all the creative and interesting people moved on to something else, leaving the weirdos and lunatics to run things into the ground.
They should have just closed and locked it and made it a static archive some time around when it went into four digits.
 
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