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after some further research, it's probably about the bright thing (he refused to state his reason for deleting his works, but one can assume.). kalinin has always been a "i'm a real author doing real author things, the scp wiki is serious business" type of guy, and the current discussion about deleting everything bright ever posted probably dismayed him a lot. imagine if we did that in real life - 80% of all french authors would be erased from history.
funnily enough, they are seriously debating on just removing the deletion function entirely now. clear sign of the site doing well.
 
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Men in Black said:
Who even is Kalinin?
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kalinin was one of the most influential authors from the early days of the wiki (s1-s3). he stood out as one of the few authors who actually knew what they were doing - his works had genuine literary merit to them, and they stood out a lot from the usual drivel that makes up the majority of the wiki. i'd recommend finding an archived version of scp-2798 and his following 001 "past and future", you'll notice the difference.

kalinin also gained some infamy for his outspokeness. he had strong opinions on what the scp wiki was supposed to be, and he wasn't afraid to publicly call out popular writers for publishing what he considered to be bad work. in hindsight, he was absolutely correct on most things - he was one of the first to take a stand against things like css abuse, gois as a whole, or esoteric containment classes, and all three of these things are virtually everywhere in the community right now. it's one of the reasons why the wiki fell off so much.

none of his works ever penetrated the offsite community (e.g. youtube animations, containment breach, roblox games... casual stuff), but he's still one of the most important writers in the history of the wiki. you could call him your favorite author's favorite author.
 
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kalinin also gained some infamy for his outspokeness. he had strong opinions on what the scp wiki was supposed to be, and he wasn't afraid to publicly call out popular writers for publishing what he considered to be bad work. in hindsight, he was absolutely correct on most things - he was one of the first to take a stand against things like css abuse, gois as a whole, or esoteric containment classes, and all three of these things are virtually everywhere in the community right now. it's one of the reasons why the wiki fell off so much.
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He sounds like a king. Were any of his opinions archived?
 
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Men in Black said:
He sounds like a king. Were any of his opinions archived?
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i don't think there's a searchable archive of the scp wiki forums. his forum posts are still up, but since he deleted his account you can't view a full list of them. someone better at googling could probably figure it out, idk.
one post i can remember is this one, though. it's his critique of SCP-2137, the "crime-solving spirit of 2pac" scp. he wrote in this style all the time.

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And on that note, is it safe to say that the only reason SCP isn't dead yet is because of the offsite part of the community?
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no, i'd say it's more due to residual momentum - authors who were involved in scp when it was relevant didn't just quit the site at once, a lot of them are still active to this day. you rarely see any new blood, but that's not a major issue. with how big the site was at it's peak, scp could easily decline 5% a year for multiple decades without ever being inactive enough to be considered "dead".
in terms of public consciousness, i'd say that analog horror mostly replaced scp in that regard. it's effectively the same thing - horror, amateur creators, mostly teenage fanbase. unless you're actively looking for it, you're unlikely to randomly stumble upon scp content these days. this was much different in 2020.
 
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This would have been a good review if 20 people hadn't made comments just like this one when the allegations came out. It seems that SCP has been sucking up to authors for over 10 years, with people criticizing only those with a bad reputation. You mentioned analog horror, which I think is very similar to SCP with its environment of not being able to criticize popular creators, but it has even lower standards. Say what you want about new SCPs, but at least they have some differences and are not identical copies of each other. It is astonishing how unoriginal analog horror is.
 
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The voice acting reminds me too much of Hunt Down the Freeman.
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"You fucked up my face containment site."
morfent said:
kalinin also gained some infamy for his outspokeness. he had strong opinions on what the scp wiki was supposed to be, and he wasn't afraid to publicly call out popular writers for publishing what he considered to be bad work. in hindsight, he was absolutely correct on most things - he was one of the first to take a stand against things like css abuse, gois as a whole, or esoteric containment classes, and all three of these things are virtually everywhere in the community right now. it's one of the reasons why the wiki fell off so much.
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Sadly I don't think there's anyone other than here and maybe some obscure subplebbit or forum that calls SCP out for their nonsense these days...I suddenly miss Jim again.
 
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in terms of public consciousness, i'd say that analog horror mostly replaced scp in that regard. it's effectively the same thing - horror, amateur creators, mostly teenage fanbase. unless you're actively looking for it, you're unlikely to randomly stumble upon scp content these days. this was much different in 2020.
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It probably doesn't help that a lot of SCPs (mostly early articles) work without needing to be attached to the SCP format. An example would be if SCP-3008 was done today, it would have been a liminal space/backrooms adjacent horror thing. Hell, it would probably have a Kane Pixels adaptation of it. And the reverse is true too. You could probably adapt the Mandela Catalogue as an SCP article with a tale attached to it if it were to be done back in the day. Creepypasta one day and SCP the next. And by next week analog horror "ARGs." And in some sense the SCP format specifically is antiquated. No need to write your story attached to a greater entity if your story can work on it's own. Not to say the SCP format doesn't still have merit. The thing I liked about SCP is the concept of being able to lock up the monster\"magical" device so you can observe and study it. It's just a shame it became about gay and tranny self insert power fantasies and dropped the original intent of the genre.
 
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To this day, I have no idea how 4chan users let Tumblrinas and Redditors take control of their idea. I guess I can somewhat understand it intellectually, but I still have trouble believing it.

Is Dr. Bright—the character, not the person—still liked these days? The idea behind the SCP is fine, and I’ll give the benefit of doubt that SCP-963 is okay, haven't read it, but I can’t unsee that he was basically one of the earliest successful attempts at someone sneaking in their self-insert OC. The signs of decay were there, at least as early as that.
 
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Mystery Spy said:
To this day, I have no idea how 4chan users let Tumblrinas and Redditors take control of their idea. I guess I can somewhat understand it intellectually, but I still have trouble believing it.
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My guess is that they were subtle about it until their cancer festered enough, that and the "takeovers" weren't as often or as big as they are now. Cancer has a way of going unnoticed until it's too late, that's probably what happened. That and autism, they probably interacted with eachother too little.
 
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Mystery Spy said:
Sigh. To this day, I have no idea how 4chan users let Tumblrinas and Redditors take control of their idea. I guess I can somewhat understand it intellectually, but I still have trouble believing it.

Is Dr. Bright—the character, not the person—still liked these days? The idea behind the SCP is fine, and I’ll give the benefit of doubt that SCP-963 is okay, haven't read it, but I can’t unsee that he was basically one of the earliest successful attempts at someone sneaking in their self-insert OC. The signs of decay were there, at least as early as that.
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absolutely not. using him in your stories isn't banned per se, but any scp using him will instantly get hit with 25 downvotes and then go through the regular deletion process. idt there's been any new content involving him at all since like 2022 or so.

it's one of the sore spots of the community. bright is an objectively terribly written donut steel self insert written by a pedophile, and yet he also is the single most recognizable character scp ever had. people have been trying to unperson him by deleting articles involving bright and inventing a new character explicitly designed to replace him (djkaktus's dr. shawn, who has the exact same powers as dr. bright), but none of it worked & bright still towers above it all. it eats them up from the inside.

Men in Black said:
Someone was banned for downvoting articles. Also, someone else was banned because they thought they had crossed from a fictional world to ours.



I think so. People complain about author OCs and lolFoundation, but these things are still popular.
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why do you talk about things you have no clue about?
 
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I've seen at least five new articles with author OCs like Kondraki, Bright, and many troons. Stop covering for your gay site.
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link me one of these new bright articles.
other 2010 era donut steel ocs are still somewhat popular, but bright is the exception. it's not hard to see why.
(learn to read, while you're at it - i'd be one of the last people to defend current era scp)
 
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Named scientist/researcher characters should never have been a thing in the first place. Completely cheapens the mystique of the organization and gives way too much opportunity to wack mf's trying to make their own Gary Stu look so cool and badass by riding the indestructible lizard while waving around a cowboy hat. Beyond fucking corny. Stick to what brought popularity to this IP in the first place, the anomalies.
 
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