The SCP Foundation’s mission statement reads as follows, “The foundation operates to
maintain normalcy, so that the worldwide civilian population can live and go on with their daily
lives without fear, mistrust, or doubt in their personal beliefs, and to maintain human
independence from extraterrestrial extradimensional, and other extranormal influence.”
-- We know the inner workings of the SCP, we’ve discussed it countless times on this
channel.
However, we haven’t truly discussed the creation of this fictional organization, the
facts that exist within reality and not within a containment facility.
So today on Top 5 Scary Videos, I’m going to be counting down our list of the Top 5
Scary SCP Foundation Facts You Might Not Know.
Before we begin, be sure to stick around until the end of the video where I’ll be responding
to a few of your comments.
Lets jump in.
5 Creation The SCP Foundation was established back in
January 19th of 2008, and is a fictional organization documented by the collaborative fiction project
of the same name.
Within the fictional setting, the foundation is responsible for locating and housing individuals,
entities, locations an objects that violate natural law.
However, the real world website is community based and included elements of many genres
such as horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy.
The majority of works consist of special containment procedures with thousands of pages dedicated
to fictional entities that possess bizarre abilities.
Not only that, but you can also find thousands of Foundation Tales, which are short stories
set within the universe of the foundation.
4 Community For those of you who don’t know, the SCP
Foundation originated in the “paranormal” x/forum of 4chan, where the first SCP, SCP-173
was posted all the way back in 2007.
Shortly after, many other SCP’s were created, inspired by 173.
In January 2008 a stand-alone wiki page was created which allowed users to edit the page
and display their own SCP articles.
It did not have moderators, or the ability to delete articles, and members communicated
through individual article talk pages.
However, in July of that year, the SCP Foundation was transferred to its current Wikidot website.
As it stands, the website is moderated by staff members, and each team is responsible
for a different function such as community outreach and discipline.
The website routinely holds creative writing contests to encourage submissions, an example
being back in November 2014, the foundation held a “Dystopia Contest” in which its
members were encouraged to submit writings about the foundation set in a bleak or degraded
world.
The SCP Foundation contains over three thousand short stories referred to as Foundation Tales
-- with the stories set within the world of the foundation, and often focusing on staff
or SCP entities.
3 Examples of SCP’s For those who are brand new to the SCP Foundation,
I’m going to be listing off some of the most notable SCP’s that have been created
over the years.
SCP-108 is a nazi bunker system that is only accessible through a portal found in a woman’s
nose.
Yeah, that’s what the SCP is.
3008 is an IKEA retail store that has an infinite interior space and causes customers to be
trapped.
426 is a toaster that can only be referred to in the first person.
087, my favourite, is a staircase that appears to descend forever.
294 is a coffee machine that can dispense anything that exists in liquid form, something
we all desperately need in life, and finally, 1609, a weird one, is a mulch that teleports
into the lungs of anyone who approaches it in an aggressive fashion or while wearing
a uniform.
That are thousands of entries, each one as bizarre as the last, but there’s something
so incredible about entities that have been respectfully written and crafted by users,
who take so much care and pride in every single SCP.
Again, you need to check it out if you haven’t yet.
2 Cultural Impact The cultural impact of the SCP Foundation
has been vast, with it inspiring a number of different independent video games, the
most popular being SCP Containment Breach, which was released by Finnish developer Joonas
Rikkonen back in 2012.
Other games include, SCP-3008 and SCP-087, as well as Control, a video games created
by Remedy Entertainment, which was first revealed at E3 2018 and is set to be released in 2019.
The game is heavily inspired by the SCP Foundation.
Outside of video games, literature has also been blessed by the foundation, a light novel
called SCP Foundation: Iris of the Mirror World written by Hifumi Shobo is a book which
focuses on a boy kidnapped by the foundation after he sees a picture of Iris, a female
SCP.
So spooky.
But that’s not all.
The stage has also been inspired by the allusive SCP.
In October 2014, a play entitled Welcome to the Ethics Committee was performed in Dublin,
and focused on the foundation’s ethics committee, a body that tries to limit unethical containment
procedures.
1 Reception As you would expect, the SCP Foundation has
received positive reviews from across the globe, with Gavia Baker-Whitelaw from the
Daily Dot describing it as, “most uniquely compelling horror writing on the internet”.
Now, although the series has varying levels of quality, it does not diminish the uniqueness
and creativity behind a fictional organization, that, to many, is as real as they come.
The writings appeal to all readers, whether horror loves, sci-fi readers, or people that
want to escape for a few hours, it’s tongue-in-cheek and that’s what people seem to love about
it.
Winston Cook-Wilson from Inverse compared the foundation to the writings of HP Lovecraft,
one of my favorite writers, and many of yours too I suspect.
The comparison is deserved and warranted, with the foundation cases often lacking any
action and are written in a pseudo-academic tone.
Cook-Wilson went on to state that both Lovecrat and the SCP were strengthened by the tension
between their detached scientific tone and unsettling horrific nature, and honestly,
I couldn’t agree more.
Well, there we have it!
Do you guys agree with our list?
Were there any facts that we missed?
Leave us all your thoughts and feelings in the comments down below.
Before I go though, I just want to respond to a few comments from one of our last videos,
Top 5 Scary Ways The World Could End.
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probably be Ragnarok.”
-- I couldn’t agree more.
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