SCP Foundation - Creepypasta with roid rage - now ITT: SCP fans

[Steinercard]

frankly the mere participation of Zoe Quinn lends an aura of bullshit to the whole thing.

Frankly, I don't care how much evidence someone scrounged up. If I were a judge and someone mentioned Zoe Quinn as a key witness I'd dismiss any court case with prejudice and a fine. Her name should be mud to anyone considering she aided in harassment that led to suicide and consistently lies about every aspect of her life. Never trust her or anything she touches, never trust the people who think it's a good idea to call themselves her friend. Full stop.

lol. They’ll gladly say that signing up for a Wikidot account is just too much to expect here, but they’ve said repeatedly that if you can’t figure out how to get onto their stone tablet of a chat, it’s because you don’t deserve to be there. They constantly tout it as a sort of entry test.

Now imagine ten years from now when we're all hooked up to GabeN and Elon's brain interfaces some hipster SJW site demanding you use Discord in meatspace as a barometer for "worthyness"

"You kids have it so easy now. Back in my day if we wanted to groom an underage boy into taking HRT we had to type the words in a chat and peer pressure them and their friends. We couldn't even do seamless mindscape visual ERP as our SCP OCs. We had to act like passive aggressive 13 year old girls to manipulate people and never use voice chat. And we liked it, god damn it!"

 

[Baubius]

>djkaktus calls voters of scp low-key shallow and stupid:
<StNickaktus> People get shitty when their dogshit articles don't get votes but little do they realize all you have to do is pretty that bitch up and folks come out of the woodwork to upvote it.
<StNickaktus> I've made a career doing just that
<StNickaktus> I posted an article with 1/13th of a narrative that had pretty css and some nice images and that bad boy was +100 in two days.

god, is he wrong?

 

[Furret]

god, is he wrong?

Nope. You don't get to be the highest rated author on the SCP wiki without knowing what people like. Kaktus has figured out that a lot of casual wiki readers have very low standards as long as an article looks good and at least appears to have a narrative, and he's been exploiting that to farm upvotes for years. He can write well when he wants to, he did study English in college after all, but he rarely tries his hardest when writing because he knows he'll still get at least 100 upvotes most of the time even when he doesn't, and that's all he really cares about. Kaktus has come to be associated with long, narrative-driven articles packed full of addendums and exploration logs, but he would drop the narratives completely in a heartbeat if he thought he could get more upvotes that way.

 

[Furret]

Internet Outreach has decided to shut down the official SCP Tumblr and DeviantArt pages. According to Erasmus, those two pages are simultaneously not growing at all/seeing little use and causing widespread burnout among the people running them.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Internet Outreach has decided to shut down the official SCP Tumblr and DeviantArt pages. According to Erasmus, those two pages are simultaneously not growing at all/seeing little use and causing widespread burnout among the people running them.

Deviantart seeing little use? that's news to me

 

[Furret]

Deviantart seeing little use? that's news to me

I think they only ever had it up because it was low-effort. Yossi is one of the busier Moderators, and he had no problem running it without any help. The comment Erasmus made about burnout seems to mostly apply to the Tumblr. I guess they decided that the single joule of work Yossi was doing to keep it up was better spent doing other things.

 

[Lil' Misogynist]

Internet Outreach has decided to shut down the official SCP Tumblr and DeviantArt pages. According to Erasmus, those two pages are simultaneously not growing at all/seeing little use and causing widespread burnout among the people running them.

This is definitely mostly about the Tumblr blog. The DeviantArt page, as far as I can tell, always received much less attention and didn’t require much moderation beyond manual approval of artwork submissions.

The Tumblr blog, on the other hand, had to engage with the community much more by reblogging posts and answering questions. If I had to guess, the decline in activity is due to last year’s drama/sex scandal combined with many popular bloggers deciding to leave the fandom or abandon blogs. The Tumblr SCP sub-fandom was far more aware of what was going on than people on Facebook, Twitter, and especially Reddit were, even if they didn’t always have their facts straight. Tumblr is callout central, and they don’t forget.

 

[Furret]

If I had to guess, the decline in activity is due to last year’s drama/sex scandal combined with many popular bloggers deciding to leave the fandom or abandon blogs. The Tumblr SCP sub-fandom was far more aware of what was going on than people on Facebook, Twitter, and especially Reddit were, even if they didn’t always have their facts straight. Tumblr is callout central, and they don’t forget.

I'm never going within 40 feet of Facebook or Instagram, so this is based on incomplete information, but it seems like most of IO's resources go towards growing the community on r/SCP, and have been for a long time. r/SCP has always had more people working to run it than any other official IO platform for as long as I can remember, and at some point in 2019 there was a large effort to promote more productive discussion there after a long period where it was disliked by the inner community for being mostly memes and only liking Series 1. Now that Yossi and UraniumEmpire, two r/SCP mods, are no longer running anything else for IO, there will probably be even more focus on it. It really seems like they want Reddit to be the primary place to discuss SCP outside of the wiki itself.

It is perhaps not a coincidence, then, that Reddit is also the platform where they have the most control over what is said about them.

 

[Shitassdeaddude]

It's the current meta, it's not about the anomaly but rather you need a lot of narrative to make your article "good". I see new writers on the forum being told to enhance the narrative in their stories and they are forced to comply. SCP-5000 is literally an invisible suit while a dude transcribes a diary on how Foundation is now evil and stuff, and it won the 5000 contest. Some newer articles are kinda decent but I miss those short and easy-to-digest articles.

I was going to argue with you and say that many of those "narrative focused" articles are good, like 093. But then I realized the difference. In 093, the object itself is the gateway. The narrative actually has something to do with the SCP object. It isn't just "there." In 5000, the suit is nothing but a literal narrative device. It's a suit that used to be able to turn invisible, that literally narrates the plot to them through its databanks. It didn't cause whatever happened in that story. It has nothing to do with the larger goings-on in that alternate timeline. It's just a story delivery service. Another shitty version of that is 2922, where the SCP is a phone that can speak directly to a person's consciousness. Sounds like a neat idea, but instead the bulk of the article is about a badly explained afterlife dimension and some mary sue doctor who befriends an eldritch monster and dupes the foundation because she's just that cool.

I should probably say that in a vaccuum I actually don't mind 5000, but I agree with @gangweedfan. It should've been an incident report, or just a tale.

And also in 093 they didn't feel the need to act clever with the page coding.

 

[Furret]

I was going to argue with you and say that many of those "narrative focused" articles are good, like 093. But then I realized the difference. In 093, the object itself is the gateway. The narrative actually has something to do with the SCP object. It isn't just "there." In 5000, the suit is nothing but a literal narrative device. It's a suit that used to be able to turn invisible, that literally narrates the plot to them through its databanks. It didn't cause whatever happened in that story. It has nothing to do with the larger goings-on in that alternate timeline. It's just a story delivery service. Another shitty version of that is 2922, where the SCP is a phone that can speak directly to a person's consciousness. Sounds like a neat idea, but instead the bulk of the article is about a badly explained afterlife dimension and some mary sue doctor who befriends an eldritch monster and dupes the foundation because she's just that cool.

I should probably say that in a vaccuum I actually don't mind 5000, but I agree with @gangweedfan. It should've been an incident report, or just a tale.

And also in 093 they didn't feel the need to act clever with the page coding.

This is the one thing about modern SCP articles that irks me. I don't actually mind narratives in articles, but sometimes it feels like the author came up with the narrative first and then slapped an anomalous object on top so they could publish it as an SCP. It defeats the purpose of writing an SCP article instead of telling a more conventional story. If you're not working within the constraints of the format, why even bother using the format in the first place?

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

This is the one thing about modern SCP articles that irks me. I don't actually mind narratives in articles, but sometimes it feels like the author came up with the narrative first and then slapped an anomalous object on top so they could publish it as an SCP. It defeats the purpose of writing an SCP article instead of telling a more conventional story. If you're not working within the constraints of the format, why even bother using the format in the first place?

IT GETS TEH 4CHAN BROS MAD TEEHEE

 

[Shitassdeaddude]

IT GETS TEH 4CHAN BROS MAD TEEHEE

You may be shitposting, but honestly it does feel like that with a few of them.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

You may be shitposting, but honestly it does feel like that with a few of them.

They aren't that smart. It IS like that.

 

[Furret]

You may be shitposting, but honestly it does feel like that with a few of them.

I know of multiple SCP articles that were written specifically to piss off people from 4chan. Unsurprisingly, most of them are by Kaktus.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I know of multiple SCP articles that were written specifically to piss off people from 4chan. Unsurprisingly, most of them are by Kaktus.

Hell, they think they have a "bro" infestation. Serious.

 

[Furret]

Hell, they think they have a "bro" infestation. Serious.

A lot of that comes from June 2018. They think that the SCP community is full of toxic alt-righters because people complained about the Pride logo, when the reality is that most people don't give a shit, and the loud minority of people who do have already left.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

A lot of that comes from June 2018. They think that the SCP community is full of toxic alt-righters because people complained about the Pride logo, when the reality is that most people don't give a shit, and the loud minority of people who do have already left.

I still contend that having a multinational paranormal conspiracy turning their logo into the faggot flag (especially the niggerized version) is pretty immersion-breaking. The articles are supposed to be set as scientific articles in an archive, not web-pages engaging in virtue-signaling.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

A lot of that comes from June 2018. They think that the SCP community is full of toxic alt-righters because people complained about the Pride logo, when the reality is that most people don't give a shit, and the loud minority of people who do have already left.

That and they're the type of tard that thinks that "bros" are at every corner, conspiring to kill them.

 

[Valstrax]

I still contend that having a multinational paranormal conspiracy turning their logo into the faggot flag (especially the niggerized version) is pretty immersion-breaking. The articles are supposed to be set as scientific articles in an archive, not web-pages engaging in virtue-signaling.

The GOC are full of cishet white men, obviously.

 

[Jesustakethewheel]

They opened their yearly survey. It seems to be edited quite a bit from last years. Unfortunately, there are only two free responses and the input is limited to one per account. Seems they wanted to leave enough room for trolling.