What happened to SCP?It was very popular a few years ago, now nobody cares. My buddy says "normies" and mainstream attention ran it to the ground but idk
>>42361532Who needs fictional conspiracies when we're observing real ones live now.
>>42361532>ask this on /v/>check /x/ out of curiosity>see my question againwe're watching it in the making.
>>42361532A few authors left, they got struck by a few copyright claims and most importantly it was WAY too much of a community project. Unironically should have kept it to the same first 30ish peopleUp until 2017 it was somewhat bearable. A very extensive but still comprehensive and attractive universe. I think scp 4000 was the true beginning of the end. The concept is captivating at first but the article is like 1 fucking million words or whatever. Yeah it's a forest and you cant say it's name twice we get it. The simple, disturbing, scientifical and almost believable nature of the articles disappeared. The best part for me was 231, 2317 and cain and abel and also the montauk procedure (they pussied out now and made an explanation story that it's a fake procedure or whatever im not arsed to remember, before it was speculated for the girls that one of them gave birth to 682). Sarktics are also coolNow there's 20000 universes within it, what happened to it is that it became FNAF. Literally. The audience of FNAF grew older, enshittified SCP, grew older and moved onto liminal or traumacore
>>42361532troons invaded the forums and wiki, it's gone now. Straight men like Backrooms now.
>>42361532SCP wasn't gatekept well enough, and as a result it was ruined by teens and writers who are better suited on AO3. There's way too many downright awful writers now, and it's impossible to reach any sort of established canon. >You need to read Story A to understand SCP-C>You need to read Story B to understand Story A >Story B isn't in the same universe as SCP-C>There's 30 different canons that use Story A and B as key parts of their different frameworksIt started as a fun passion-project spearheaded by some long-time /x/ natives. Introducing new writers was necessary, but doing so opened the gates to turn the SCP wiki into a cesspit for people to inject their headcanons and OCs. See >>42363669 and don't bother reading past Series 4.
>>42363747What happened to SCP happened to the backrooms on a smaller scale but at x100 the rateThere's nothing to understand or get captivated by and you quickly find yourself opening 100 tabs just to understand the implication of a single creature.Having an extensive universe where you need like 10 tabs that feel like a 25x25 jigsaw puzzle or rubiks cube is one thing, needing the entire universe to be laid down just to explain to you that the headless siberian bat dog spits candy or whatever which is why the survivor in that level is diabetic and has swollen fingers making it impossible to slide and activate a trigger... is another
>>42361532>What happened to SCP?the gays ruined it
Anyone remembers the RCP?
>>42361532The whimsical era was taken over by political subversives and power scaling autists. Modern SCP is mostly written by people begrudgingly engaging with the canon because it gives them traction online.
>>42361532Ironically troons and modern social media
>>42361532tumblr/reddit fags invaded and took the position of power and started to kick/ban people because they don't think the right way. Editing old entrees to make them more "inclusive". And shit like that.>>42364819 Are they still alive?
>>42365204The site is still up. I have only read a few entries, they were good. As far as I know, you don't need the kilometres of lore to understand it.
>>42365204>>42364993>>42364721There's no "fags ruined it here" because the original people are also fags. Or at least fag enablers who let them in
>>42366227You aren’t completely wrong, but it doesn’t change what happened. Like any other online community Troons invaded, alongside shitty would be creepypasta writers. Actually the topic of “what happened to creepypasta” is also a solid question. It’s a similar story, but even worse. I’ve noticed there’s a gay TikTok revival in creepypasta.
>>42361532>My buddy says "normies" and mainstream attention ran it to the ground not really,the concept was just tailored in a way that doomed it to irrelevance.let me elaborate:the scps are very comparable to the backrooms in the sense that they both began as a great scary /x/ post that honestly truly worked because of the eerie feeling the op successfully conveyed through a short and concise post about smth you're not supposed to understand (ie.with the op of scp 173 nobody knew what Euclide class meant or what "the foundation was".,for the backroom, the op mentioned something lurking in it and never explained what it was or what exactly noclipping meant.)this kind of post, while really great as a short form, works less and less the more you explain stuff about your universescps are not all that once you know everything about it and the unexplained becomes explained+it did NOT help that the fandom before +-2022 were just focused on writing bad fanfics with their self inserts rather than working on good content(I invite you to read about the shitshow that were the likes of dr bright and dr clef)
>>42361543This, plus the existence of things that would, if an organization like that existed, draw its attention. Stuff with no paranormal origin or effects but if you described them as they appear to function and include the negative effects you would be like, that’s an SCP right?
>>42366293Good post. People don't understand that things are better when they are mysterious. Explaining every detail takes the magic away. Lorefags ruin things by turning a short, intruiging story into a long, borning one.
Legitimately it was trannies and normalfags invading it. Fuck, it was nowhere as bad as it is now even when Markiplier and Co were playing Containment Breach on Youtube.New articles are overly long and quirky, fictional characters like Clef and Bright were run into the ground, the people running the site want to run it according to their whims, the site is plastered with LGBT shit, etc. It lost the soul it had back in 2013 (I was there) when it was a much smaller project and felt more like a creepy Wikipedia.
>>42361532It is reddit property now going on to series 8 already. The attempt to rebuild it, called RCP, basically slowed to a halt. Since /x/ posters are averse to doing fantasy sci-fi as it is cringe.
>>42366293>it did NOT help that the fandom before +-2022 were just focused on writing bad fanfics with their self inserts rather than working on good contentTo be honest, it's still like that.So many of the new SCP entries are focused way more on the author's OC(s) than the actual entity itself, to the point that the actual document ends up criminally short and rather nondescriptive. You can grab a random article, it'll be two paragraphs with links to 12 addendums featuring a specifically named scientist who probably isn't even interacting with or talking about the SCP in question.And they took that "among us genitals obliterated" meme way too seriously, so absolutely no articles have redacted information at all now.
>>42366293>the unexplained becomes explainedSomeone needs to invent a form of horror that becomes scarier the more that you know.
At the beginning of /x/, there was a lot of creative types,Josef K., Fedora Man, anons who could spin an interesting yarn. Nowadays, people on /x/ are not interested on reading or writing, using their imagination, seriously doubt they even read books at all. It reflects the intellectual laziness of this low era. Reading is gay, after all. But it's a cyclical thing, better, more creative times will come. The hardy pupils of Pythagoras knew it.
>>42368812I mean, I'd be willing to try something if there was momentum. Floundering away alone is demoralizing.
>>42368825Even if nobody reads it, it's good practice. Even if they don't interact, there is always someone reading.
>>42368741>Someone needs to invent a form of horror that becomes scarier the more that you know.[spoiler]Real life[/spoiler]
>>42368859Fuck lurkers. All my homies hate lurkers. They are worthless consumers.
>>42368741The stories of J. G. Ballard are kinda like that.
>>42369076>J. G. BallardThank you for the recommendation. I'll see if my local bookstore has anything there.
>>42368741it exists, its called real life politics>>42368674idk i said pre 2022 because i just left the fandom after seeing the fuckass «list of things dr bright isn’t allowed to do»shit might be the cringiest thing ive ever read on this website
>>42361532thing got too big too fast both in popularity and sheer volume of documents. Seriously, there's like a new series every year. popularity also diluted SCP as a whole.
