“Ah, I wonder if SCP has at least improved somewhat.”
>Invalidates the identity one of there former friends and calls them a facist despite them being trans and pretty openly against all the values the farms is stereotypically ascribed to.
“I don’t know what I expected.”
I should just mute this thread at some point, every time I read I just get angrier.
“Ah, I wonder if SCP has at least improved somewhat.”
>Invalidates the identity one of there former friends and calls them a facist despite them being trans and pretty openly against all the values the farms is stereotypically ascribed to.
“I don’t know what I expected.”
I should just mute this thread at some point, every time I read I just get angrier.
This is some gigga cope right here. Writing a story about wanting to be a cute 13 year old girl whilst being a 40 year old man would make anyone not terminally online concerned. If you are reading this thread, do not apologize for or excuse that behaviour you gross weirdo.
This is some gigga cope right here. Writing a story about wanting to be a cute 13 year old girl whilst being a 40 year old man would make anyone not terminally online concerned. If you are reading this thread, do not apologize for or excuse that behaviour you gross weirdo.
This is some gigga cope right here. Writing a story about wanting to be a cute 13 year old girl whilst being a 40 year old man would make anyone not terminally online concerned. If you are reading this thread, do not apologize for or excuse that behaviour you gross weirdo.
Yeah... I don't follow this, I'm pretty sure this SCP article came out way before COVID. So I hardly see the similarities unless the IRL vaccine is making people infertile
Yeah... I don't follow this, I'm pretty sure this SCP article came out way before COVID. So I hardly see the similarities unless the IRL vaccine is making people infertile
It's kind of funny, the backrooms were a "every room safe space" in the literal sense. The reason the original backrooms copypasta was freaky was the idea of being in essentially an endless empty beige/yellow officespace kinda area, with literally nothing and nobody around. The shit with building off that by adding entities or monsters or shit takes away the whole aspect of just complete isolation and deprivation of any real sensation other than hearing faint electric hums from the lights and maybe someone or something else that got trapped there who's starving and will resort to eating you in a mad attempt to survive. The big scary aspect is that there is literally NOTHING there but an endless string of vacant rooms and hallways. Why take shit interesting as that and turn it into basically the minotaurs fucking maze?
I interpret the backrooms as state of the mind/mental place rather an actual place/dimension, so it was really vague whether or not the whole thing was real
it's more of an implication, it doesn't outright say "there's something in there with you" it's more like "if there IS something in there you're fucked"
The foldless ideological typology created by and for anyone who has any regular contact with the SCP Twittersphere showed its symptomatic, near-uniform support of this pro-SCP and anti-anything-else mentality, but it did so with a tremendous amount of cognitive dissonance on display. Some commentors noted through the peer pressure that SCP's basic premise could likewise be thought of as "thin, conceptually", while others noted that such simple premises - - for example, as carbon-carbon bonds are to organic life -- are often the ingredients for an infinite variety of creatively valuable permutations. I would add that such roots of infinite variability have to be conceptually simple by necessity and definition. These counter-arguments did not receive much validation and were all but handwaved out of view, despite having a point.
qntm's assessment of Backrooms itself was in turn memed to make the point more succinctly, for example:
Of course, the point being is that qntm is not wrong -- it is conceptually "thin", but so are the building blocks of all infinitely-variable things -- but that it's idiotic and hypocritical to try to pass this off as a shortcoming for a literary framing device, especially given that SCP's own can be reduced to as "thin" of a concept. That a mirror image of itself is lost on the supposed intellectual leaders of the SCP Wiki's stomping grounds is not a surprise. The culture and community have become increasingly intolerant of other projects with a family resemblance in past years, and truly always have been (e.g. RPC Authority). However, as these alternative communities grow and become more notable and successful, so too does the animosity and resentment from the top-brass of the SCP Wiki community.
Take for example a trend observed on numerous occasions by now in @Punished “Venom” pH's Discord server (The Society for Containment Fiction or SCF): the social extortion of dual-citizen members to leave their other groups in order to gain access to SCP clubs like the SCPDeclassified Discord server and now the Official SCP Discord server. Here are a couple captured instances that have occurred over the months:
There are other examples but I don't want to pull people into this thread who don't want to be here. Virtually all the people in Harmony’s Discord server who applied to the SCP Discord were rejected. If an exception exists, I don’t know of it; and I’m paying attention. Some were rejected without reason, but some explicitly because they are in “anti-harassment associated groups”. These people have not done anything to merit that treatment; they are simply fans of SCP, RPC, Backrooms, Liminal Archives who recognize a commonality between all of them and appreciate the wider genre. Yet the SCP staff are telling them that because they are in casual digital proximity with one (or two) of their boogeymen (or boogeywomen!), they are thought-infected and in a caste of untouchables; guilty of the crime of unsavory association. Meanwhile, sexual pest extraordinaire AdminBright remains active on TikTok with a clueless preteen-teen audience who are, thanks to SCP Wiki staff's suppression of their homebrewed scandals, none-the-wiser to his actual dangerousness; no one is banned or given ultimatums for associating with him or other anti-harassment-banned individuals — certainly not the SCP members and staff who still interact with him, or who vocally support other outed sex pests in the community.
Ignoring that, the tribal ultimatums extend to the official SCP Wiki website & Staff proper, as if there was any doubt remaining over any assumed malevolence towards neighboring, outside groups that we might expect them to be minimally diplomatic to. While there is doubtless variety in the ranks and userbase of the SCP Wiki, this hasn't stopped official and staff-sanctioned statements to the contrary. Here is an instance of a member of the SCP Wiki Chat Staff telling an individual that they are not allowed to both be a member of the RPC Authority and the SCP Wiki:
And more recently, extorted even more officially by SCP Wiki Staff Administrators, is someone who was told in secret that their ban would be lifted if they renounced involvement with both RPC and the SCF:
Atypically, this didn't go the way the SCP Wiki Staff thought it would. In disgust, the author posted this naked message from the admin publicly onto one of their SCP Wiki tales (archived here). The same administration was quick to revert the page's edit and lock it to futureproof their image against any other exposure. The disciplinary records had not indicated that the Admin sent this message, and after it was made public, the staff can be seen panicking in their characteristic bureaucratic speak, "clarifying", and couching it in terms of "community safety", as if for the greater awareness' own good:
But perhaps the most alarming and salient example has occurred in the last days. We are all aware of the Russo-Ukraine War. A Ukrainian resident member of the SCP Wiki community was reportedly in need of financial assistance in order to flee the country, and so a GoFundMe was set up for this, and raised $5k in almost two days, now at almost $6k at the week mark. Two members of the SCF who freelance write for my publication (the URL is censored/deleted immediately if shared in any SCP-related space) decided to donate their pay to the drive, and so the LLC decided to match them in a show of support. The total donation was in the name of the SCF, as that's where we all hang out, and was ticklingly large enough to take the "Top Donor" spot on the fundraiser page. Not only was this accolade previously displayed prominently on the page, it had become, even in the short time the fundraiser went live, something of a competition slot, with individuals one-upping each other by the dollar:
Here is a screenshot of the SCF contribution:
But wouldn't you know it, just a little while later, the organizers of the GoFundMe removed the default display identifying the top donation. It now only shows those who recently donated. You gotta extra-click to see the top donors now.
The organizers of the Fundraiser are in close proximity with the SCP Staff and are themselves influencers in the social media spheres of the site. It seems as though disproportionate action was taken specifically to deny any credit or any positive publicity reflected on a group they deem to be outsiders, and in this case, who are religiously evil by way of a in-group mutant faith. This is some petty shit. Not even the context of a war aid can erase the political differences. They clearly take their politics to be more important than anything else. I could go on, but their response is its own commentary.
What is most alarming about this spiteful move is that doing so killed the friendly competition that had previously been going on for the top donation slot; something that was directly benefiting the individual for whom these donations are meant. The back-and-forth created a sort of bidding war with a helpful pride and publicity being the door prize. Now I am not a genius, but I am smart enough to have anticipated that many who held their nose up at the donation would do something to change it; maybe pool subsequent donations in an organized effort to get a more agreeable name up there. At least that way, more resources would be given to the individual in need. Oddly though, the GoFundMe organizers and the SCP Wiki elite who have doubtless been in communication with them would rather smother the competitive process altogether than let someone they dislike defy one of their propagandistic narratives.
Let me state this clearly; they are telling you that denying out-groups any positive light is more important to them than sustaining an innocuous competition that would further help a community member who is in the midst of an actual, kinetic war.
This example, but all of them really, go beyond mere political or ideological disagreement; this is hate. Pure and simple. This is childish and petty. It writ large is the state of emotional maturity now leading the SCP Wiki and its areas of social influence. Their primary aim is not to compete, not to better themselves and others by rising to an occasion or challenge, but to erase the potential for competition so they don't have to make the effort. The leaders of SCP are cowards. Their utopia is an emotional daycare. In pilfering members from rival communities, their goal is not to better their own selves, but tear down and injure their ideological opponents; and they are fine with community innocents as collateral to get this.
Why do otherwise intelligent people in and around the SCP become so dismissive of their resident qualities when seen in others? Why does the SCP community feel the need to un-person, thin out, bully, and sabotage communities that are, in cases, 1/100,000th their size? Why the xenophobia and hostility to anything edgy; anything unorthodox to their religious attitude? Why do they treat individuals under the profoundly un-nuanced, abstract rubric of superficial group-association? Isn't this right down the shelf from racism? From the bigotry they like to think they are the Marvel Avengers to?
Is it a monster, though? And if it's a monster, maybe she's a really cute monster and you can. . .end up in a really shitty abandoned thirst-SCP rejected by the mods.