If anyone wants another example of the sorry state of the SCP wiki, check out
SCP-7056.
tl;dr: It's the logo of an SCP site, draped in pride flag colors. Any attempt at changing the logo, including (
especially) altering or removing the pride stripes, causes all SCP personnel to not recognize the logo as official.
No, I shit you not. That is the actual SCP article. That's all there's to it. Currently at +71.
Oh wait no,
I lied. That's
not "all there is to to it", because the article continues for another 3 pages, with
a goddamn Tumblr persona talking to you, as a reader, and presenting the obligatory overwritten stageplay ("transcript") about a bunch of self-inserts talking about this utterly pointless SCP. Complete with an entire paragraph of political soapboxing about gender and sexual identity and the historical context of the LGBT flag! Wooo! Isn't SCP fun?
This might be one of the worst articles I've read in a long time, and this is coming from the sort of masochist who actually reads through new SCP pages,
in 2023.
I am not surprised or even disappointed anymore. I am just dejected. Demoralized, even. This is awful. This is like a
parody of what nu-SCP is like. It feels like a joke written by some right-wing RPC sperg in 2018. But no, this is
real.
What a fucking shitshow.
Follow-up:
I decided to look up the author of this SCP page.
First thing to note is that "Dr. Blank" from SCP-7056 is not just a name placeholder (i.e. literally
blank) as I initially thought. It is a self-insert.
HarryBlank loves inserting himself into everything. So much so that he actually included an entire section on
his homepage where he proudly lists articles and tales he's written himself into. The list is not comprehensive. Yes, this guy fucking loves himself
that much. His most recent tale, released a couple of days ago,
is literally just him wishing himself a happy birthday. Current rating:
+43. This is where the SCP wiki is at.
Interestingly, he mentions on his profile that he is a professional historian. He also says something about being a politician from Quebec, but that comes off as a stupid inside joke.
I didn't go full autism and read through this guy's entire posting history, for precisely one reason: The guy is a prolific writer, in the same sense a sewage runoff pipe is a prolific dispenser of human waste.
He has shat out some ~100 SCPs and tales in just under three years. That amounts to roughly
one new SCP or tale every 10 days. Would it also surprise you to learn 95% of his articles are overwritten, boring trash that uses the SCP format as nothing more than a vehicle for his "addendum", "log" and "interview" short stories? The few exceptions I could find just skimming through his "recent contributions" page are unfunny joke articles and memes like
SCP-5977 and
SCP-6263.
Some other notable articles are
SCP-5054-EX, an extremely unfunny article about an obscure Canadian PM;
SCP-5729, an entity that only Dr. Blank, being so super-duper special, can interact with; and
SCP-6965, about the anomalous anti-fascist properties of left-wing folk musicians like Woody Guthrie.
Harry's tendency to self-insert and overwrite is best seen in his work on
Site-43. Site-43 is located in Canada, and hey, what a coincidence! That's where Harry lives! He's written an entire sub-canon set in that site, complete with a fuckton of super-original characters. SCP-7056 is just one of the many literary abortions adorning Harry's little bonzai garden of retardation.
Oh, and check out
this lovely gem I found among his contributions. I couldn't be assed to actually read it, but skimming through it I realized it's self-insert erotica. No, seriously. It has almost nothing to do with SCP. It's literally just Harry imagining himself and all of his favorite Site-43 characters fucking each other. Something tells me this guy isn't married.
At least the DeviantArt-tier drawings that accompany it are good for a laugh.
That last one is supposed to be his self-insert.
At the end of the day, Harry here is just one out of the many bottom-feeders that occupy the SCP wiki's rotting corpse like a bunch of maggots. He is unfortunately not the exception, but the rule. I'm sure HarryBlank is notorious among people who actually delve into the behind-the-scenes bullshit that happens on the wiki, but it still amazes me this horny retard managed to secure himself a position as a wiki administrator. The complete lack of standards on display here is appalling.
For a short while back in its earliest days, the SCP wiki was full of parasitic morons like Harry. But around 2010-2011 they started cleaning up their act and by 2013 have booted out all the narcissistic weirdos. But now the cancer has recurred, and has developed a built-in immunity to all criticism by hiding behind an impenetrable shield of political correctness. Because worthless halfwits like HarryBlank submit articles like SCP-7056, they are here to stay. Anyone who disagrees is a bigot.
