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

This is the most obvious answer so you know no one will do it
"Real" media has done this. The thing with SCP is, the only thing you need to recreate the "feel" is two simple elements:
1. "Anomalous objects", usually in the form of strange artifacts or everyday objects with unusual properties
2. A secret organization that collects and contains these objects
SCP isn't really even the originator of these tropes - it's really just an evolution of the whole "men in black" thing except with a bigger focus on the objects literally being unexplainable anomalies rather than following any scientific or mystical rules - but it's definitely responsible for its current popularity.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (which was directed by Max Landis, so the similarities absolutely are not a coincidence) features an organization that's pretty much literally just the SCP Foundation, and has a few episodes where the characters are trapped in a house that would be described in SCP terms as a "spatial anomaly".

The game Control is also an SCP game in all but name, and I'm pretty sure the creators have admitted that SCP was a major inspiration.

Even Lord Bung's SCP animations (which are honestly really well-done and looks better than a lot of actual cartoons, not that that's saying much) could easily be divorced from SCP canon if he just made up his own monsters. Because that's the thing with SCP - while there's definitely iconic SCP's, they're pretty few in number, and it's pretty easy to just make up a random concept that still "feels like" an SCP precisely because... that's literally what the wiki is already.
 
Maybe stop wasting your talent on SCP...
It's not a terrible strategy for success. SCP has a lot of fans who don't really interact much with the wiki outside of the games and places like Reddit, and these channels cater to that audience. Want to be exposed to new writing from the wiki without actually going there and reading it yourself? They've got you covered. Volgun in particular got in early by voicing 049 and others in Containment Breach, so reading SCP articles probably comes naturally to him.

The problem, of course, is that any remotely popular thing on the Internet has people factory farming easy content about it for views, and the people who actually try to make good SCP content are now competing with those channels.
 
I don't know it seemed like jealousy but after viewing some of the animations I'm not so sure

these ad-revenue-farming corporate channels

Christ, DJKaktus is a ratings whore who admits he writes shitty articles with pretty pictures, knowing most SCP fans will upvote them because they have his name on them. That secondary media reflects the foundational issues in the site should not come as a surprise.


<djkaktus> 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.
<djkaktus> I've made a career doing just that
<djkaktus> 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.
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<djkaktus> not_a_seagull: yeah definitely throw in different ideas and formats and stuff to keep people guessing.
<djkaktus> Interviews, test logs, exploration, etc.
<jjcooper0811> most kids' literature for instance
<djkaktus> jjcooper0811: yeah it's all very manufactured for the lowest potential reader.


Basically take the YouTube algorithm SCP illustrated talks about with its limited ability to gauge quality due to an over-reliance on surrogate metrics, and replace it with the rating module, "loyalty to the SCP file" to "loyalty to the format", and you get a perfect description of what I've been trying to shout spergly about. djkaktus is a the biggest tumor in a cancerous body.
 
This is the most obvious answer so you know no one will do it
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There's this organization called the CPS that federally shares its banner with Child Protective Services, uses its offices and naming, but is actually a Pentagon Black Budget Operation known as the Containment and Preservation Service. It was developed in 1958 during Operation Paperclip by a Vichy Physicist working on the occult in Nazi-Occupied France, Naomi Laplace, great-great-great Grandchild of the famous scientist by the same name.

She was researching on making a functioning Laplace's Demon a reality for the Nazis, so they could win the war. What she actually discovered was that our Earth, due to some function of the Big Bang in our universe, was slightly displaced from other dimensions. This displacement caused other dimensions to infringe on our own, dimensions in which the laws of reality and physics differed or did not actually apply to our own. This infringement was expressed as quantum entanglement, meaning that the infringement of other dimensions could not be separated from our own, which meant that the invasion of other dimensions would cause the unique properties of their worlds to be inseparable from our own and co-exist within our own laws of reality, defying our understanding of nature and the universe. The dimensions that infringe and invade our own are known as 'transposed dimensions'.

While no methods of travel between these transposed dimensions are known, the expansion and contract of these universes allows certain objects or even people to be randomly affected by these transposed dimensions. The incidents, in CPS terminology, are known as 'Anomalous Events'. These can result in several phenomenon, branched out into 'major' (world changing) and 'minor' (world infringing):

Minor

Cryptids - Animals affected by anomalous events and changed and altered in some way.
Wahnsins - Humans affected by anomalous events who are extremely dangerous. Their behavior, appearance and form are so outside the norm to be completely alien. Often times they are extremely dangerous and hostile. The term originates from the first human sighted by a unit of German infantry. The entity was not described, but the sole survivor could only repeat one word: "Wahnsinnig", meaning demented or insane.
Changelings - Humans affected by anomalous events who are less dangerous or more human in appearance.
Incarnations - Creatures that have no origin in our world and came through by some unknown means through anomalous events. Non-Sentient or Sentience unknown.
Goetia - Items that have been affected by an anomalous event. They vary greatly, and can be anything from something as innocuous as a pen to something as dangerous as a weapon.

Major

Askashic Event- An anomalous event which reveals or challenges human perception or nature of the universe and significantly alters the course of science. Laplace's discovery of the infringed worlds is the first recorded 'Askashic' since the founding of CPS. For example, discovering how to manipulate transposed dimensions, either sealing them off, traveling through them, or even detecting them, would be an Askashic Event.
Black Sun Event - A grouping of people using any items or creatures in the care of CPS for nefarious purposes. The term comes from the development of the sun wheel in Nazi occultism, as a replacement for the SS logo. It requires immediate action and termination of all individuals involved.
Constructs - The use of several Goetia to form a much more powerful and possibly dangerous one, either through an anomalous event or human construction.
Anthroposophic Event - An occurrence where a person makes contact with a transposed dimension and is able to interpret it with their senses. No person recorded has come out sane. They are often incredibly violent and operate outside the laws of reality. Containment is not possible, only execution.
Animus/Anima - A sentient incarnation. May be totally alien and incomprehensible. Something that has traveled from a transposed dimension into our own. Unknown mode of travel.
Golgotha - An area where an anomalous event is occurring, has occurred or has permanently altered the landscape.

There, I fucking did it Reddit. It only took me a half hour. The formatting took longer than that.

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Here, I'll even add the danger levels for you too.

Since this was developed in the late 1950s under an Allied Operation, the NATO phonetic language was used as quick terminology to define events as no terms existed before. While in the 50s, it was improvisation, now it has become standardized, mostly due to habit. Each object is given a character. Some characters have been retired as well, as they have been rendered obsolete by the more modern scale. While characters and numbers were used previously, the numbers were eliminated as the danger classifications were rarely able to be quantified, only estimated. The organization didn't want agents getting complacent in seeing a high or low number. The ambigious designation through the phonetic language adds much more care when handling events. The danger scale works like the DEFCON scale, so the lowest character equals the highest danger, another hold-over from the cold-war era.

The danger typically refers to the anomaly going unchecked and risk exposed to personnel in containment. The terms can also be combined or use singularly. Combinations are used when physical and psychological effects differ. For example, a Delta-Whiskey is equivalent to minimal physical, but high psychological threat. If terms are combined, the physical danger level is always put before the psychological. They can be and are often abbreviated (D-W).

Alpha - The highest level. Possibly world endangering, altering, or ending scenario.
Bravo - High loss of life probable. Equivalent to major natural disaster or major terrorist attack.
Charlie - Medium loss of life probable. Equivalent to a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
Delta - Low loss of life probable. Equivalent to a minor natural disaster or a mass shooting incident (Delta is the most common level)
Echo - High Danger. Severe injury and death possible. This includes total loss of sanity.
Foxtrot - Medium Danger. Injury, maiming and death possible. Irreversible psychological harm is highly likely.
Juliette - Low Danger. Injury and maiming possible. Death unlikely. Psychological harm is highly likely, but reversible through counseling and training.
Kilo - Minimal danger. Injury and maiming unlikely. Death very rare. Psychological harm possible.
Whiskey - High Psychological Danger. Permeant mental illness, insanity or impairment highly likely.
Victor - Medium Psychological Danger. Permeant mental illness or impairment highly likely.
X-Ray - Low Psychological Danger. Reversible mental illness or impairment likely.
Zulu - No physical or psychological danger (if psychological, temporary symptoms that go away with no permeant or ill effects. A curiosity)

There's one special designation:

November - Threat unknown or cannot currently be assessed.

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I'll even make a wikipage when I have time. All this is not free for anyone to use yet, its my shit for now. And not because I think this will be valuable. Its because I'm a cunt.
 
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@Secret Asshole God damn, you can't just give it away like that for free! I hope that whatever you drop on the Farms, you've got an even better story in private somewhere that lazi can't just steal.
This is shit I came up with just by reversing the letters of SPC to CPS. Everything stemmed from the three letters and I branched out from there. This hasn't been cooking in my brain at all, its stuff I just made up on the spot out of an acronym in an hour. There is quite literally, nothing else unless I decide to keep going or revise it.

So this is it for now. And it still falls under copyright even though its a forum. And even if someone steals it, I will tell everyone they stole it from an alt-right hate site, so its evil by nature.

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I really should eventually do a long post on story-telling. Because you can give me anything, a name, a number, a sequence of letters, a word, a concept and I can build you something from it.

This was originally going to be a shit post with me just reversing the letters of SCP and mocking it. But then, it turned out to be CPS. Which is an actual agency. Then you're planning to replace SCP. I just stopped thinking shit-post and doing it for real. So, SCP isn't governmental, but what if it was? How would you hide it? In an organization. Child Protective Services. Which is ironic, because the function is similar in concept, and the names work out. It would have to be funded through the Pentagon's black budget, because its a secret, right? Black Budget, that goes to CIA. Which goes to Operation Paperclip. Germans are too cliché, but what about other Nazi territories? No one says shit about Vichy France.

So I just took it from there. And that became that entire little story I put up. In my other threads in Multimedia, I talk about organic growth of a story. This is what it looks like, sort of.
 
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In my other threads in Multimedia, I talk about organic growth of a story. This is what it looks like, sort of.
I'll take a look. It's just that with the stuff you post sometimes I assume you must do this for a living.

On a more on-topic note I was thinking about saving the older revisions of certain SCPs because I think it's not beyond them to delete it all and pretend it never happened but I'm not sure when's the best point to save specific skips. I'd like to know what people here think is the most wokeified article and at what point was it not shit?
 
"Real" media has done this. The thing with SCP is, the only thing you need to recreate the "feel" is two simple elements:
1. "Anomalous objects", usually in the form of strange artifacts or everyday objects with unusual properties
2. A secret organization that collects and contains these objects
SCP isn't really even the originator of these tropes - it's really just an evolution of the whole "men in black" thing except with a bigger focus on the objects literally being unexplainable anomalies rather than following any scientific or mystical rules - but it's definitely responsible for its current popularity.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (which was directed by Max Landis, so the similarities absolutely are not a coincidence) features an organization that's pretty much literally just the SCP Foundation, and has a few episodes where the characters are trapped in a house that would be described in SCP terms as a "spatial anomaly".

The game Control is also an SCP game in all but name, and I'm pretty sure the creators have admitted that SCP was a major inspiration.

Even Lord Bung's SCP animations (which are honestly really well-done and looks better than a lot of actual cartoons, not that that's saying much) could easily be divorced from SCP canon if he just made up his own monsters. Because that's the thing with SCP - while there's definitely iconic SCP's, they're pretty few in number, and it's pretty easy to just make up a random concept that still "feels like" an SCP precisely because... that's literally what the wiki is already.
Speaking of precursors to SCP, does anybody remember an old website where you'd click a button and it would give you a random anomalous object? I think it was called Warehouse... something. It was nowhere near as elaborate as SCP, just small stuff like "a flashlight that works without batteries". I'm almost sure it predated SCP.
 
Speaking of precursors to SCP, does anybody remember an old website where you'd click a button and it would give you a random anomalous object? I think it was called Warehouse... something. It was nowhere near as elaborate as SCP, just small stuff like "a flashlight that works without batteries". I'm almost sure it predated SCP.
Could have been a Warehouse 13 thing. It was a SyFy channel series that dropped at about the same time as SCP started, so it would be around before it became popular at least. I could see that as some little interactive thingy on the series website.
 
I'll take a look. It's just that with the stuff you post sometimes I assume you must do this for a living.

On a more on-topic note I was thinking about saving the older revisions of certain SCPs because I think it's not beyond them to delete it all and pretend it never happened but I'm not sure when's the best point to save specific skips. I'd like to know what people here think is the most wokeified article and at what point was it not shit?
Any Series 1 article I could name is probably already archived on the Wayback Machine. I'm not sure that this is necessary.
 
I don't know it seemed like jealousy but after viewing some of the animations I'm not so sure
Honestly, I actually agree. The YouTube algorithm is pretty flawed, favoring content made by content farms or companies moreso than individual creators. Take those "my story animated" channels, for example.

Storybooth is a YouTube channel that creates animations based on a kid's story. You can tell they are verifiable because you can find identifiable information on said kids. Despite the fact their videos get millions of views, searching up "animated stories" won't bring the channel up; in fact, it brings up tons of copycat channels, all of which stemmed from one channel.

Actually Happened was owned by "The Soul Publishing", a Russian company who's infamous for owning over 50 channels that get far more views than the average animator. despite their quality being subpar at best.

Someone could spend months on a single animation, and get around 10,000 views at best, maybe 500,000 if they're lucky. However, a content farm could spend those months pumping out a ton of videos that get millions more views.

The point is, the YouTube algorithm is heavily geared towards these companies and favors them over the individuals. And even though Actually Happened was taken down for unknown reasons, a ton of content farms had their own version that took it's place.

I think what he means by "a mature community" is probably moreso that, prior to most of the animation channels popping up, it was far smaller as a community. I believe things were more "close together" off-site, since not many people gave a shit about the drama on-site. That, or it could be rose-tinted nostalgia goggles.

I'm not sure how many of these animation channels are company owned (All I know is that SCP Explained is owned by Infographics), since some are from individuals or small teams, but there's also the issue of these cooperate channels tracing or stealing artwork from smaller artists. I heard that was a pretty big issue.

Here's another take on the issue. Tons of recapping on SCP Illustrated's video, but it is rather interesting hearing people's inputs on it.
 
I'll put aside the usual choices and bring you the poorly disguised webcomic pilot.

It was never not shit.
This is just a worse SJW version of SCP-085.
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I found these, and I think they make a rather good point.
 
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I found these, and I think they make a rather good point.
There's something there when it comes to all of the characters being LGBT. A lot of webcomics do have disproportionately large LGBT casts and often it's because people find writing/reading them more "interesting," or because the author thinks performative "wokeness" is going to net them the tumblr crowd. It isn't something I really give a shit about like that commenter from the image, it's fiction and they're all monsters. Whatever. The actual problem is that having every single character be some different, unique form of Queer is that trope almost to the point of parody. Honestly if it were a parody it might have worked with some tweaking. Except it isn't parody, pastiche, or criticism. It's played entirely straight within and without the fictional context. The author made that clear in their initial comment. They are completely unaware of what they did.

As someone in that comment thread also pointed out, even the format screw is lackluster. It isn't formatted like a webcomic with navigation buttons. It's just a bunch of images pasted in a vertical column. If the author had actually put the effort in, it would have worked way better. Fuck, you could even do a flipbook effect or something. Something to make it actually stand out.
 
There's something there when it comes to all of the characters being LGBT. A lot of webcomics do have disproportionately large LGBT casts and often it's because people find writing/reading them more "interesting," or because the author thinks performative "wokeness" is going to net them the tumblr crowd. It isn't something I really give a shit about like that commenter from the image, it's fiction and they're all monsters. Whatever. The actual problem is that having every single character be some different, unique form of Queer is that trope almost to the point of parody. Honestly if it were a parody it might have worked with some tweaking. Except it isn't parody, pastiche, or criticism. It's played entirely straight within and without the fictional context. The author made that clear in their initial comment. They are completely unaware of what they did.

As someone in that comment thread also pointed out, even the format screw is lackluster. It isn't formatted like a webcomic with navigation buttons. It's just a bunch of images pasted in a vertical column. If the author had actually put the effort in, it would have worked way better. Fuck, you could even do a flipbook effect or something. Something to make it actually stand out.
also what is it with scp people and having bumpkin art styles? theyre either sorta-fat mutants or thin vivziepop-style tumblr sexymen. and then we have the actual blackface fairy, which i'm having a hard time believing slipped past the crit phase.
 
I don't know it seemed like jealousy but after viewing some of the animations I'm not so sure
To be quite honest it’s really annoying how he acts like the Animated channels are ripping him off when he did not even create any of the SCPs or articles he is reading in the first place.

I get the sentiment of the algorithm being horrible but throwing a bunch of channels under the bus since I know some of them are just regular content creators (minus SCP Explained who is clearly part of a corporate entity) is honestly just a bad take especially since YouTube is the clear source of the problem.

But he does an annoying thing that annoys me about YouTubers by saying “UwU I’m not wanting to cause drama and don’t harass these channels” while simultaneously saying they are ruining the SCP community.
 
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Intro Theme -

There's this organization called the CPS that federally shares its banner with Child Protective Services, uses its offices and naming, but is actually a Pentagon Black Budget Operation known as the Containment and Preservation Service. It was developed in 1958 during Operation Paperclip by a Vichy Physicist working on the occult in Nazi-Occupied France, Naomi Laplace, great-great-great Grandchild of the famous scientist by the same name.

She was researching on making a functioning Laplace's Demon a reality for the Nazis, so they could win the war. What she actually discovered was that our Earth, due to some function of the Big Bang in our universe, was slightly displaced from other dimensions. This displacement caused other dimensions to infringe on our own, dimensions in which the laws of reality and physics differed or did not actually apply to our own. This infringement was expressed as quantum entanglement, meaning that the infringement of other dimensions could not be separated from our own, which meant that the invasion of other dimensions would cause the unique properties of their worlds to be inseparable from our own and co-exist within our own laws of reality, defying our understanding of nature and the universe. The dimensions that infringe and invade our own are known as 'transposed dimensions'.

While no methods of travel between these transposed dimensions are known, the expansion and contract of these universes allows certain objects or even people to be randomly affected by these transposed dimensions. The incidents, in CPS terminology, are known as 'Anomalous Events'. These can result in several phenomenon, branched out into 'major' (world changing) and 'minor' (world infringing):

Minor

Cryptids - Animals affected by anomalous events and changed and altered in some way.
Wahnsins - Humans affected by anomalous events who are extremely dangerous. Their behavior, appearance and form are so outside the norm to be completely alien. Often times they are extremely dangerous and hostile. The term originates from the first human sighted by a unit of German infantry. The entity was not described, but the sole survivor could only repeat one word: "Wahnsinnig", meaning demented or insane.
Changelings - Humans affected by anomalous events who are less dangerous or more human in appearance.
Incarnations - Creatures that have no origin in our world and came through by some unknown means through anomalous events. Non-Sentient or Sentience unknown.
Goetia - Items that have been affected by an anomalous event. They vary greatly, and can be anything from something as innocuous as a pen to something as dangerous as a weapon.

Major

Askashic Event- An anomalous event which reveals or challenges human perception or nature of the universe and significantly alters the course of science. Laplace's discovery of the infringed worlds is the first recorded 'Askashic' since the founding of CPS. For example, discovering how to manipulate transposed dimensions, either sealing them off, traveling through them, or even detecting them, would be an Askashic Event.
Black Sun Event - A grouping of people using any items or creatures in the care of CPS for nefarious purposes. The term comes from the development of the sun wheel in Nazi occultism, as a replacement for the SS logo. It requires immediate action and termination of all individuals involved.
Constructs - The use of several Goetia to form a much more powerful and possibly dangerous one, either through an anomalous event or human construction.
Anthroposophic Event - An occurrence where a person makes contact with a transposed dimension and is able to interpret it with their senses. No person recorded has come out sane. They are often incredibly violent and operate outside the laws of reality. Containment is not possible, only execution.
Animus/Anima - A sentient incarnation. May be totally alien and incomprehensible. Something that has traveled from a transposed dimension into our own. Unknown mode of travel.
Golgotha - An area where an anomalous event is occurring, has occurred or has permanently altered the landscape.

There, I fucking did it Reddit. It only took me a half hour. The formatting took longer than that.

EDIT:

Here, I'll even add the danger levels for you too.

Since this was developed in the late 1950s under an Allied Operation, the NATO phonetic language was used as quick terminology to define events as no terms existed before. While in the 50s, it was improvisation, now it has become standardized, mostly due to habit. Each object is given a character. Some characters have been retired as well, as they have been rendered obsolete by the more modern scale. While characters and numbers were used previously, the numbers were eliminated as the danger classifications were rarely able to be quantified, only estimated. The organization didn't want agents getting complacent in seeing a high or low number. The ambigious designation through the phonetic language adds much more care when handling events. The danger scale works like the DEFCON scale, so the lowest character equals the highest danger, another hold-over from the cold-war era.

The danger typically refers to the anomaly going unchecked and risk exposed to personnel in containment. The terms can also be combined or use singularly. Combinations are used when physical and psychological effects differ. For example, a Delta-Whiskey is equivalent to minimal physical, but high psychological threat. If terms are combined, the physical danger level is always put before the psychological. They can be and are often abbreviated (D-W).

Alpha - The highest level. Possibly world endangering, altering, or ending scenario.
Bravo - High loss of life probable. Equivalent to major natural disaster or major terrorist attack.
Charlie - Medium loss of life probable. Equivalent to a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
Delta - Low loss of life probable. Equivalent to a minor natural disaster or a mass shooting incident (Delta is the most common level)
Echo - High Danger. Severe injury and death possible. This includes total loss of sanity.
Foxtrot - Medium Danger. Injury, maiming and death possible. Irreversible psychological harm is highly likely.
Juliette - Low Danger. Injury and maiming possible. Death unlikely. Psychological harm is highly likely, but reversible through counseling and training.
Kilo - Minimal danger. Injury and maiming unlikely. Death very rare. Psychological harm possible.
Whiskey - High Psychological Danger. Permeant mental illness, insanity or impairment highly likely.
Victor - Medium Psychological Danger. Permeant mental illness or impairment highly likely.
X-Ray - Low Psychological Danger. Reversible mental illness or impairment likely.
Zulu - No physical or psychological danger (if psychological, temporary symptoms that go away with no permeant or ill effects. A curiosity)

There's one special designation:

November - Threat unknown or cannot currently be assessed.

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I'll even make a wikipage when I have time. All this is not free for anyone to use yet, its my shit for now. And not because I think this will be valuable. Its because I'm a cunt.
See? That’s literally all you have to do! Just throw some renamed ideas onto the wall, ask a couple of elaborating questions to yourself, and voila! The aesthetic of SCP with none of the baggage.

Hell, I’d argue writing is the easiest artistic sphere to mark as your own. You don’t need the budget that kills off most indie film and game projects. If you’re so upset about an author or literary series going to shit, writing an “OC donut steal” just takes a few minutes on a keyboard.
 
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