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

I suppose it was only a matter of time; here's something I found being flipped on Etsy, originally sold on Walmart, AliExpress & Amazon. They even reused the same images from Walmart's website (amongst others). The listing & seller has been removed though, with a quickness.

While not surprising because Etsy, it struck me as extra lazy, just like the figures themselves; though I was surprised to learn they weren't actually homebrewed & painted by an SCP sperg with Parkinsons. I've seen McDonalds HappyMeals toys & Malay sweatshop bootlegs with better QC.

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Which led me down a rabbit-hole:
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I'm sure these have been mentioned ITT at some point; but it's never a good sign for once-interesting IPs, fandoms, and/or memes when Alibaba, Amazon, and Walmart merchandise it.
 
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WebLurker said:
So did Parabooks just completely rip off all those artists? Because it seems like Parabooks just completely ripped off all those artists.
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These are verbatim Duksin’s old ARTSCP books. He had a team of artists working for him, these are their illustrations that this company purchased when they bought the project from Duksin, who made off like a bandit. They have made statements and marketing efforts to distance themselves from the bad name, hence the redesign.
 
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So apparently the 7K contest is up. The theme is “luck”, which doesn’t lend itself quite so easily to virtue-signaling bullshit as the 6k theme, “nature”, did.

Anyone got any entries that caught their eye? Reading through “The Neon God” right now and I’m really enjoying the worldbuilding and imagery of a decaying multiversal transit system.
 
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Gar For Archer said:
So apparently the 7K contest is up. The theme is “luck”, which doesn’t lend itself quite so easily to virtue-signaling bullshit as the 6k theme, “nature”, did.

Anyone got any entries that caught their eye? Reading through “The Neon God” right now and I’m really enjoying the worldbuilding and imagery of a decaying multiversal transit system.
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An article explaining GAW's story breaking LUCK, please
 
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Gar For Archer said:
So apparently the 7K contest is up. The theme is “luck”, which doesn’t lend itself quite so easily to virtue-signaling bullshit as the 6k theme, “nature”, did.

Anyone got any entries that caught their eye? Reading through “The Neon God” right now and I’m really enjoying the worldbuilding and imagery of a decaying multiversal transit system.
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Wasn't the 6k contest last year? Who is it that shit out so many entries in so little time? Kaktus?
 
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I honestly just dislike how many SCPs there are now. I know it's a bit silly to complain about the realism of a setting like this, but with literally thousands of horrific entities running around or other cursed objects, it makes the whole secrecy thing harder to believe. Doesn't help that there are so many ones that are world-threatening, with the number increasing almost daily. I guess there's no true one canon, so you can just assume there's dozens of AUs where only a handful of SCPs exist.
 
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I honestly just dislike how many SCPs there are now. I know it's a bit silly to complain about the realism of a setting like this, but with literally thousands of horrific entities running around or other cursed objects, it makes the whole secrecy thing harder to believe. Doesn't help that there are so many ones that are world-threatening, with the number increasing almost daily. I guess there's no true one canon, so you can just assume there's dozens of AUs where only a handful of SCPs exist.
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I like to imagine that the database itself is a gigantic multiversal anomaly, and that in any given universe there’s only a thousand or so major catalogued anomalies, with maybe 4-5 potential world-enders.
 
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I know it may never become a real thing since... ya know... but I wish there was a skip or tale that actually went into and made GAW less of a bullshit self insert organization, then again that's just me being optimistic and it's just that bad.
 
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I know it may never become a real thing since... ya know... but I wish there was a skip or tale that actually went into and made GAW less of a bullshit self insert organization, then again that's just me being optimistic and it's just that bad.
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There should be a faction that "opposes" GAW and to an extent, SCP.

They do nothing but create things somehow classified as SCPs that just makes fun of both groups and in the end it always makes them seethe and chimp out, and shit themselves and do nothing.

I call them FFF, the Fruit Farmers' Federation.
 
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Iirc popper toys are the new big thing.
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Which is the main reason to jump on that shit while the irons hot. Make a decent product attached to a name, waltz out the door with a secured IP.

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These are verbatim Duksin’s old ARTSCP books. He had a team of artists working for him, these are their illustrations that this company purchased when they bought the project from Duksin, who made off like a bandit. They have made statements and marketing efforts to distance themselves from the bad name, hence the redesign.
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But are they still saying they aren't apart of and/or affiliated with the 'main' site? They had said during the first print run that SCP the site was it's own thing and this was a private project they were doing. Being that they bought the project from Duksin, who has a legit copyright or whatever, it's imagine this is a kind of unofficial official product.
 
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But are they still saying they aren't apart of and/or affiliated with the 'main' site? They had said during the first print run that SCP the site was it's own thing and this was a private project they were doing. Being that they bought the project from Duksin, who has a legit copyright or whatever, it's imagine this is a kind of unofficial official product.
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No official affiliation with the site. Duksin’s trademark has very little to do with legit ownership too; it’s just the trademark for the logo, and only in Russia. It has zero chance of ever extending past Russia. They don’t get to purchase that and it isn’t transitive.
 
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Lone Star said:
I honestly just dislike how many SCPs there are now. I know it's a bit silly to complain about the realism of a setting like this, but with literally thousands of horrific entities running around or other cursed objects, it makes the whole secrecy thing harder to believe. Doesn't help that there are so many ones that are world-threatening, with the number increasing almost daily. I guess there's no true one canon, so you can just assume there's dozens of AUs where only a handful of SCPs exist.
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That could make for an interesting concept for an SCP-001. Perhaps there was a universe that had all the SCPs, but the shear amount of reality defying entities along with the timeline conflict of some anomalies that kill off humanity at a certain date while others have humanity existing past that date just broke that universe apart.

The only thing that remains in that universe is the complete SCP database. Due to the lack of additional anomalies, all entries are free of any memetic or cognitohazards and can be read safely. However, since the only thing that exists is that database, concepts like time, dimension, or matter have trouble existing that universe.

The only way to read these non-anomalous entries is through a specific website which adds entries over time, otherwise known as the SCP Wiki.
 
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That could make for an interesting concept for an SCP-001. Perhaps there was a universe that had all the SCPs, but the shear amount of reality defying entities along with the timeline conflict of some anomalies that kill off humanity at a certain date while others have humanity existing past that date just broke that universe apart.

The only thing that remains in that universe is the complete SCP database. Due to the lack of additional anomalies, all entries are free of any memetic or cognitohazards and can be read safely. However, since the only thing that exists is that database, concepts like time, dimension, or matter have trouble existing that universe.

The only way to read these non-anomalous entries is through a specific website which adds entries over time, otherwise known as the SCP Wiki.
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I think that's already a thing, iirc it's 'SCP-001: Sheaf of Papers'.
 
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Finished reading through all the contest entries. The Neon God was definitely my favourite, followed by Heptaphobia.
Overall this contest was underwhelming. The article that is overwhelmingly winning (The Loser) isn't bad, but is filled with poor reddit-tier attempts at humor and a cinematic-universe type narrative. Never understood why so many authors try making mini-novels out of articles, that defeats the whole fucking point of this format. You can't expect me to enjoy a story when it consists of a bunch of interview logs tacked on one after the other. At that point you're just making a film script, complete with scenes and dialogue.

If it wasn't for the disastrous 6kcon last year this would have been the worst contest so far.
 
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Finished reading through all the contest entries. The Neon God was definitely my favourite, followed by Heptaphobia.
Overall this contest was underwhelming. The article that is overwhelmingly winning (The Loser) isn't bad, but is filled with poor reddit-tier attempts at humor and a cinematic-universe type narrative. Never understood why so many authors try making mini-novels out of articles, that defeats the whole fucking point of this format. You can't expect me to enjoy a story when it consists of a bunch of interview logs tacked on one after the other. At that point you're just making a film script, complete with scenes and dialogue.

If it wasn't for the disastrous 6kcon last year this would have been the worst contest so far.
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After finishing the Neon God I tried reading the other ones and couldn’t get through a single entry without the urge to scroll to the end. They’re all just so bad.
 
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