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

[shnoopsis]

Kind of a piggyback, but didn't see anyone mentioning this on Kaktus's Author page.

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God complex at its finest.

I'm pretty sure it's ironic, is all. Maybe we're taking an author page with 'The Based God' at the top a bit too seriously, but I dunno.

 

[Punished “Venom” pH]

Kind of a piggyback, but didn't see anyone mentioning this on Kaktus's Author page.

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God complex at its finest.

What a super cool and Normal way to express your self-image. I know it definitely started off as an ironic expression but at a certain point even irony has its limits.

 

[Furret]

Kind of a piggyback, but didn't see anyone mentioning this on Kaktus's Author page.

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God complex at its finest.

This is pretty obviously irony, but it's made funnier because Kaktus actually does have a massive ego, as anyone who has had the misfortune of sharing a space with him can tell you.

 

[AnOminous]

Baffling to me why they’d want to keep anything Mitch/Bright related in the zeitgeist but all the more rug to yank out from under them when the full scope of his crimes becomes widespread knowledge outside this thread and the chattering classes.

Not everything he did was awful, even if he is nearly personally responsible for the plague of self-insert Mary Sue bullshit on the site.

I always thought the general vibe, which mostly prevailed before 4-digit SCPs, was an impersonal bureaucracy. This added to the haunting atmosphere of early /x/ influenced SCPs. Once people started inserting their own personalities into it, this died.

 

[alanshaffer3293]

Not everything he did was awful, even if he is nearly personally responsible for the plague of self-insert Mary Sue bullshit on the site.

I always thought the general vibe, which mostly prevailed before 4-digit SCPs, was an impersonal bureaucracy. This added to the haunting atmosphere of early /x/ influenced SCPs. Once people started inserting their own personalities into it, this died.

Before 4 digit SCP's? the LOLfoundation self insert era peaked in 2008-2010

 

[Furret]

Before 4 digit SCP's? the LOLfoundation self insert era peaked in 2008-2010

Yeah, a lot of the really obvious self-insert characters that people on here decry (Clef, Kondraki, Bright) were created and popularized during Series 1. Hell, Clef and Kondraki had both their characters established in one tale that also functioned as a decommission for a bunch of really bad old Series 1 SCPs.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

Sorry for butting into a serious discussion, just wanted to say
SCP-1472 is still infuriatingly hillarious for what it is. Just today, the phrase "The Council of Libidinous Elders" randomly wandered into my brain while out for groceries, and I was giggling like an idiot to myself for a while.

 

[Punished “Venom” pH]

Not everything he did was awful, even if he is nearly personally responsible for the plague of self-insert Mary Sue bullshit on the site.

I always thought the general vibe, which mostly prevailed before 4-digit SCPs, was an impersonal bureaucracy. This added to the haunting atmosphere of early /x/ influenced SCPs. Once people started inserting their own personalities into it, this died.

I was referring more to his mixing of his sex life and his site activity, I don’t see the Mary Sues being negative because the nature of the site means that somebody is going to give them depth or eventually people get bored and move on to new ones.

 

[meinkraft]

This is pretty obviously irony, but it's made funnier because Kaktus actually does have a massive ego, as anyone who has had the misfortune of sharing a space with him can tell you.

With people like Kaktus, you can't tell if its ironic or not nomore.

 

[shnoopsis]

I found a...manifesto? Of an author who we've mentioned briefly before. I found it because we had referenced an article they wrote before, 4058, and then with some searching I managed to find their author page, even though their account was deleted. Their original name is scpcrnp, but according to the hidden collapsible at the bottom of their author page lies their other names, such as Mnml (who they wrote 4058 under) and Ghosthorses.

I'd recommend reading the author page here: link

Also, the discussion is very...unique. I'd post snippets but it's better in context. Someone who knows how may want to archive it, since the page is far below the downvote threshold and some have suggested it may be deleted.

However, I did find this under an alternate account's alternate sandbox:

 

[Furret]

I found a...manifesto? Of an author who we've mentioned briefly before. I found it because we had referenced an article they wrote before, 4058, and then with some searching I managed to find their author page, even though their account was deleted. Their original name is scpcrnp, but according to the hidden collapsible at the bottom of their author page lies their other names, such as Mnml (who they wrote 4058 under) and Ghosthorses.

I'd recommend reading the author page here: link

Also, the discussion is very...unique. I'd post snippets but it's better in context. Someone who knows how may want to archive it, since the page is far below the downvote threshold and some have suggested it may be deleted.

However, I did find this under an alternate account's alternate sandbox:
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@ToS's author page has been discussed at length already, including the times when staff tried to delete it for its content. The community reactions to it will always make me laugh, because it very obviously struck a nerve with a lot of them. That they still talk about it to this day is proof that, although some of the things it says are really stupid, there are truths in that "manifesto" that keep them thinking about it. If it was really nothing but bullshit, they would have forgotten about it by now.

 

[LordSifr]

I always thought the general vibe, which mostly prevailed before 4-digit SCPs, was an impersonal bureaucracy. This added to the haunting atmosphere of early /x/ influenced SCPs. Once people started inserting their own personalities into it, this died.

What is often lost in narrations of this so-called "golden age" is that it coexisted with what is seen as one of the lowest points of site history. lolFoundation and the "golden age" between post-editthis and pre-1k contest are not mutually exclusive periods, and in fact largely overlap. It doesn't make for much of a compelling narrative, so this detail is mostly glazed over in recountings of the time -- including harmony's own "History Of The Universe" series, especially part II.

It is in fact very hard to contemplate the idea that some of SCP's best happened at the same time (the version of SCP-093, the Red Sea Object, that would become impossibly famous today was posted in March 2009) SCP's worst was (Incident 239-B Clef-Kondraki was posted in November 2008.), and that a lot of "original greats" were in fact rewrites posted during this period.

 

[BurnerPhone]

What is often lost in narrations of this so-called "golden age" is that it coexisted with what is seen as one of the lowest points of site history. lolFoundation and the "golden age" between post-editthis and pre-1k contest are not mutually exclusive periods, and in fact largely overlap. It doesn't make for much of a compelling narrative, so this detail is mostly glazed over in recountings of the time -- including harmony's own "History Of The Universe" series, especially part II.

It is in fact very hard to contemplate the idea that some of SCP's best happened at the same time (the version of SCP-093, the Red Sea Object, that would become impossibly famous today was posted in March 2009) SCP's worst was (Incident 239-B Clef-Kondraki was posted in November 2008.), and that a lot of "original greats" were in fact rewrites posted during this period.

That's fine, but it still doesn't change the fact that I prefer the older series' SCPs vs the newer ones. I don't care how bad the some of the old series articles were, I prefer those any day over whatever anarcho-commie fanfiction that gets posted today.

 

[Shitassdeaddude]

What is often lost in narrations of this so-called "golden age" is that it coexisted with what is seen as one of the lowest points of site history. lolFoundation and the "golden age" between post-editthis and pre-1k contest are not mutually exclusive periods, and in fact largely overlap. It doesn't make for much of a compelling narrative, so this detail is mostly glazed over in recountings of the time -- including harmony's own "History Of The Universe" series, especially part II.

It is in fact very hard to contemplate the idea that some of SCP's best happened at the same time (the version of SCP-093, the Red Sea Object, that would become impossibly famous today was posted in March 2009) SCP's worst was (Incident 239-B Clef-Kondraki was posted in November 2008.), and that a lot of "original greats" were in fact rewrites posted during this period.

The difference is in site culture. Yeah there was plenty of stupid shit back then. 90% of everything is shit, and SCP has never been an exception. What changed was the culture. People weren't looked down on for making simple spooky object/creature articles, there wasn't an enormous hate-boner among the staff and rockstar writers for the three-digits and the blatant insertion of thinly veiled topical politics wasn't as widespread.

So nowadays when somebody drops a decently scary SCP you don't hear about it (or in some cases it's even actively downvoted) because it isn't a full novella, or the monster isn't Trump or a trans allegory or an Among Us player. There are plenty of good quadruple-digit articles but due to the current zeitgeist those gems will stay hidden.

 

[LordSifr]

People weren't looked down on for making simple spooky object/creature articles

Well... Those early days were possibly the worst SCP got in terms of reception to anything. Only the worst of the worst newbie horror stories have come to be known -- Decomissioning is probably the only visible sign that a gatekeeping sentiment ever existed at this time -- but I think it's fair to say that every newbie since the TVTropes page had an uphill battle against a community that would scorn them for making common mistakes and treading ground that had already been tread. It definitely got worse with Containment Breach, but it didn't spring out of nowhere. Aelanna (aka "Honey Badger") was around by then, although she wouldn't earn her fame until post-CB.

there wasn't an enormous hate-boner among the staff and rockstar writers for the three-digits

Honestly, I can't help but empathize with the sentiment. Being staff/longtime writer, you've tried to push the site forward, given your grain of sand and helped tread new grounds since forever, and having reddit children constantly whine about your best efforts not being as good as a half-assed 4chan post from a decade ago because they don't do the exact same thing SCP did for its first half-decade probably takes a toll on your tolerance to retarded takes.

This is not to say the hostility toward everyone who ever liked the first 1000 is justified or warranted, just that it's the most logical and human response to an internet paradigm that has nailed itself firm in the early 2010s and refused to budge an inch since then, whining all the way to the next decade.

There are plenty of good quadruple-digit articles but due to the current zeitgeist those gems will stay hidden.

100% agreed. It's not good enough to be good, you also have to be memorable, and most people remain memorable by chasing trends earlier than others and/or being controversial. I've found a good portion of really great articles don't break the 100s -- ratings above that level, while they also have their own greats, have a shitton of crowd-pleasers, dead trends and deflated drama.

 

[Furret]

Well... Those early days were possibly the worst SCP got in terms of reception to anything. Only the worst of the worst newbie horror stories have come to be known -- Decomissioning is probably the only visible sign that a gatekeeping sentiment ever existed at this time -- but I think it's fair to say that every newbie since the TVTropes page had an uphill battle against a community that would scorn them for making common mistakes and treading ground that had already been tread. It definitely got worse with Containment Breach, but it didn't spring out of nowhere. Aelanna (aka "Honey Badger") was around by then, although she wouldn't earn her fame until post-CB.

Yeah, I've mentioned this already, but 2008-2010 was a bad time to be a nobody on the SCP wiki. There weren't many restrictions on what could and could not be said to people, especially for staff and people staff liked, so if you posted garbage without knowing any better you would be promptly burned at the stake by a crowd of abusive critics who really didn't care if you couldn't actually do anything with their "advice". If you made it through the initial hazing, you could still be treated like shit if you happened to end up on the bad side of, say, Bright or Yoric. That's definitely one of the areas where the site has improved since the old days.

Honestly, I can't help but empathize with the sentiment. Being staff/longtime writer, you've tried to push the site forward, given your grain of sand and helped tread new grounds since forever, and having reddit children constantly whine about your best efforts not being as good as a half-assed 4chan post from a decade ago because they don't do the exact same thing SCP did for its first half-decade probably takes a toll on your tolerance to retarded takes.

This is not to say the hostility toward everyone who ever liked the first 1000 is justified or warranted, just that it's the most logical and human response to an internet paradigm that has nailed itself firm in the early 2010s and refused to budge an inch since then, whining all the way to the next decade.

I think the hatred for the offsite communities is super excessive. They don't read newer SCPs, who cares? You can still get +100s.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

www.scpwiki.com/scp-4248

Yeah, you read that right. Terry. And there's not a single glow in the dark nigger.

Shameful.

 

[Furret]

www.scpwiki.com/scp-4248

Yeah, you read that right. Terry. And there's not a single glow in the dark nigger.

Shameful.

No CIA niggers? That's just disgraceful.

 

[Sin Eater Observant]

I assume the town halls thing is being quietly forgotten since theres been no updates in the 05 thread. Guess staff can't ever change.

 

[Furret]

I assume the town halls thing is being quietly forgotten since theres been no updates in the 05 thread. Guess staff can't ever change.

The conversation timer doesn't expire for another 2 days, so that's how long we have until official action is taken, if they take any.