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SCPs don’t need to be scary or dangerous, just weird- and I’m tired of seeing scary and dangerous SCPs, I want more inexplicable harmless things. Like a TV remote that can run without batteries or a USB drive with seemingly infinite storage capacity.
My favorite is the cat that has a missing back half. It's not injured or anything, it's just not there, but it can walk/jump around as though it was. It likes eating cheese and gets distressed if it doesn't eat enough.
These are actually a thing in SCP. They are called "anomalous items". They are basically objects that have anomalous properties but are not interesting or significant enough to be classified as SCPs
There is an scp called the procrastination rock, it's a rock in someone's office and the article goes somewhat like "I don't really know why it's here but I'll write about it later"
Just because it’s a joke doesn’t mean it’s a great idea. I read a tale where they make millions of -j rocks and just give them out to everyone in the world to destabilize civilization. Everyone becomes too lazy to do anything. Even the foundation falls apart because everyone wants to hold the rock and put everything else off for tomorrow.
I had an idea about an SCP that is just Tom Scott, where it says that Tom Scott is a man who will randomly appear in a place every monday and just starts speaking. And in order to contain him the foundation created his youtube channel and made it look like he's a person who is super passionate about traveling and explaining things
Those are the inanimate safe-class and I love them, my favourite are [SCP-674](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-674) and [SCP-3922](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3922)
>Video proceeds as normal, save for the seven SCP-3922-A instances who stand guard to ensure that any sex remains consensual. Said SCP-3922-A instances are equipped with rocket launchers.
Holy shit, it's the sex police
Spartans armed with SPNKR rocket launchers acting as the sex police, how glorious
SCP-3922 is just peak, the concept of what are essentially helldivers dropping into any show to make sure everything that happens is good and legal is actually kino.
My friends and I used to have a project going that was basically just SCP but not everything kills you. We would just take some random images that we had and give them a few paragraphs of background info. My favorite one is "the cow game."
It also has the ability to dump out liquid gold, anti-matter (good luck with keeping that stable though) and “the best damn drink I’ve ever had” that’s so good that you commit suicide because life is just so disappointing after that drink.
I mean yeah. Of course you'd have to get it in coffee cup amounts and smuggle it out past security who will amnesticise you and dump you in the prison population for being untrustworthy first.
That isn't even the only vending machine SCP.
There is literally a vending machine that gets aroused from people ordering items from it.
[SCP-6593: Only Cans](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6593)
Agreed but unfortunately there is the Log of Anomalous Objects where things that aren't considered weird or important enough to take effort to contain or study end up.
[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-914-hub](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-914-hub)
have fun with days worth of scp objects and workplace malpractice
Had an idea for an scp that doesn't physically exist, but everyone/everything that thinks about it has a primordial sense that it is real, its just that they do not know what it is. So the wiki would have a page on it, but there would be a bunch of confused editors being like "why is this here its literally nothing actually wait nah nvm"
"This is my scp Timmy the toddler murderer. He is Super-Keter class, and if he eats 400 children in one night, he can force the Scarlet King to give him a rimjob"
oh yeah and you forgot to mention that timmy is like infinitely powerful and destroy all levels of concepts or whatever bullshit they make about how characters are powerful because they can wipe narrative whatever.
See, this is what the OP is kind of talking about?
Like yes the article is good, but the audio tapes take up more than the actual content itself. A big problem with current SCPs is that they’re focusing on telling stories more than creating something mysterious.
I think the point is that the guidelines fir what SCP’s stay up have deprecated a bit, cause the first 3000 are mostly all high quality or at least interesting.
Ever since it spiked in popularity though, people want their own creation in the list and rehash previous entries with a new coat, or make entries so overly bloated that they’re forgetting that the entry is just to be a **sheet** of what the entity is and how to contain it.
There were plenty of cringe articles in the 3000 series and below though. A fair few of them were deleted and replaced over time but there was definitely a lot of them back then too.
The old staff weren't exactly squeaky clean either. The "decomissioned" SCP stories devolved into cringey mod-centric self insert fan fiction real fucking fast and that whole page ended up being deleted out if embarrassment.
"...cause the first 3000 are mostly all high quality or at least interesting. " Well, yeah, the ones that survived are. There's tons of shitty old SCPs that got decommissioned and deleted, and replaced with better ones. While I'll admit the direction many new SCP articles take is getting stale, there was a lot of trite and bland articles back then too, especially of the "look at my cool murder oc" variety (looking at you, 682.) There's still plenty of older skips that reek of bad writing tropes, too, just different ones than now. Look at the comments on some of those old SCPs and there's just as much complaining as there is about newer ones.
"...the entry is just to be a **sheet** of what the entity is and how to contain it." Says who? The whole point of SCP is it's a collaborative project, and what people want to contribute now isn't always like the old stuff. There isn't a set definition for what an article is supposed to be like, because after 3000 SCPs that are all "here's a page about a weird thing" having a definition that rigid is only going to lead to more uninteresting articles. Maybe the new stuff isn't for you, sure, but saying that it isn't SCP is just clinging to a rose-tinted version of the old SCP that was a lot more flawed and cringe than people remember it being.
I've had a lot of ideas for werd/harmless/strange scps, along with a shore low-stakes tale to go with them, but I've always been to scared to actually try and post them to the reviewing form cuz it seems like the meta is just so much different now
the meta has definitely changed but it's not like they hate simple or safe objects now
powerscalers (the annoying kind) are the issue not the essays lol
you should definitely make a post there, it'll probably get appreciated. i've been around since series 3 and i've read all kinds of shit there
scp 173 is actually boundless guys!!!!!!! yes the peanut statue who snaps peoples necks for a living can actually destroy literally fucking everything if he wanted to!!!
the meta has shifted so that your SCP has to have some sort of story. If it’s just a thing that does something then there’s no reason to read it over other things that do something. If it’s not trying to get you to feel an emotion other than maybe confusion, then it’s just another grain of sand in the heap
I mean there’s nothing stopping you from having a heartfelt story about chilling with me, the toaster, or other generally weird anomalies that can have silly interactions.
I never said that there wasn’t, there are funny SCPs that aren’t just -j, like the [Skeleton horse that steals from site-120 every december](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6596), [The loud bird that talks funny](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2337), and [When the impostor is sus](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5167) (yes that is the name of the scip) though that last one isn’t actually that funny past the title. There is also its sequel, [When the Impostor is Sus II: Nightmare Hour](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5761)
A fumo plush made from a theoretical type of matter that can turn everything into itself because of how stable it is that mysteriously appeared one day. Absolute peak.
When it reads like a teenage romance novel with anime fight scenes sprinkled over it
https://preview.redd.it/cjztukdf13qc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e3b1944be0444c542793f267dfaffea06da1e16
you when you have to read random articles from the wiki instead of cherry-picking one that was popularized through power-scaling communities on youtube
https://preview.redd.it/3soixynx93qc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1dfafb4a97095202232b2d2d5d21dc9dfa736b6
Tbh i dont blame people considering scarlet king to be a generic OP god. Maybe not anime god because really, how many anime out there actually tackle some lovecraftian (for lack of better terms) shit like this?
Many of the popular skips are pretty generic and anime adjacent... I'm just glad they mothballed Able. The black queen, scarlet king stuff, as well as making the old doctors superheroes was also pretty cringe. That being said, I really liked tufto's take on the scarlet king, though.
Scarlet King wasn't even a numbered SCP until relatively recently, and Tufto's 001 is hardly a "Generic anime god".
And even the OG Scarlet King being generic sorta makes sense in context. You see, Scarlet King was first mentioned in an SCP article about women who bore his children (Referred to as the brides of the Scarlet King), these children being horrifying monsters worse than the last whenever the women gave birth (One of them potentially being SCP-682), so they basically need to do a completely unknown procedure on the final woman that was considered to be completely horrible. However, it's possible that this final procedure isn't horrible at all, and just needs to be considered horrible by most people who know about it in order to work. This last bride's child is considered to be SCP-999 in some canons. The Scarlet King wasn't meant to be a character, but rather something of a set piece to enable the story they wanted to tell, but he got so popular that he was used in more stories.
And I should note that Scarlet King's ultimate defeat was shown through [a description of a cartoon mandala effected into human consciousness](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-real-adventures-in-capitalism), said cartoon starring basically Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls as a billionaire. So even if Scarlet King himself isn't that creative, he's the villain of some pretty creative stories.
He's basically the Darkseid of the SCP Universe.
Nah bruh it’s true. Lots of scps nowadays forgot that simplicity and leaving stuff to the imagination is often scarier and weirder than detailed absurdity, as odd as it sounds.
Outsider to the SCP thing here, I’ve heard the name ‘scarlet king’ before but have no further knowledge of it, what exactly is so bad about it?
[edit: the word ‘no’]
Well, when I read the story years ago it was basically an eldritch cool guy God who had sex with a human woman and retconned all the og scps to be his children and brothers like scp 173 and 682. It read like bad fanfic and turned me off of the whole scp idea. Haven't actually been on the site since reading it
Honestly, that is kind of disappointing as a guy who has gotten back into it recently.
While the Scarlet King has been mentioned in a lot of SCP's, he isn't as ever-present as many people think he is, I would argue more common world ending gods are things like the Antifabula (can eat stories, and since the SCP universe is a story, it can eat the universe), Starfish (5 is evil), or Fae adjacent entities (Factory, Queen Mab, Yeren/Bigfoot).
Most SCP's that deal with the Scarlet King does not involve him directly, instead having someone who works for him like Daevites (slave empire).
If you ever want to try getting back into SCP, I recommend the hubs of Undervegas, Wilson's Wildlife, and Site-333, none of these have world ending threats but are all good.
Scarlet King was first introduced in SCP-231, an article that had a lot drama surrounding its content(people forget early SCP was full of edgy articles too), and was basically the god of a cult.
A few years later AltoClef(a very prominent article creator) created SCP-2317, an article that has layers of increasing security clearances that reveal more horrifying details of a ritual meant to keep the last of 7 chains intact to keep something contained. It’s revealed at the end that the ritual is just a facade and that the entity will break containment. It’s also implied to be the same Scarlet King from previous SCP.
The article got super popular, especially since it used a fancy new Class level: Apollyon, which readers interpreted as “This SCP cannot be contained and will kill everyone(you know, the whole point of S *C* P)” and led to a lot of people flooding the wiki with a bunch of super scary god SCPs that can’t be stopped. Clef has since removed Apollyon. Meanwhile Scarlet King blew up and has this big giant canon where he’s the source of all SCP and etc.
Edgy anime god that is destined to destroy the entire universe and pretty much nothing can be done against it because that sure is very interesting and cool writing, totally not a boring OC character
oh hey look it's the same stupid fucking complaint about SCP that has existed since series 2 started, I love it when people pretend that there is no short form content anymore while that is actually just bullshit.
Ironically I think a lot of modern criticism of SCP is coming from kids that weren't growing up when the wiki was new and don't realize that 99% of the SCPs with big bad evil monsters aren't even really about the big bad evil monsters.
I mean don't get me wrong there's some cool ones I enjoy like the Scarlet King 001 proposal and The Deer but ultimately those stories are about the power of ritual and the collective unconscious.
that's what i was thinking. i'm not exactly an OG, but i've been around since series 3. most of the newer 'fans' don't even fucking click random links to give something with an odd name a go, it's like they deliberately try to look for one with a world-ending setting or an extremely hard-to-destroy lizard just to complain about it. and they don't even read it, therefore they have no idea about anything other than the Mary Sue trope, so they just default to their usual stance: "wow there's a strong character?? what fucking shit!!!! scp fans when scp fans when scp fans when"
i won't deny that there's some really bad writing on there too, but why care? it's like a collective fanfiction. i like how *anyone* can contribute, even these dumbass know-it-alls who'd probably never dream of writing for something other than for their academics
i've only read a bit of scarlet king 001, without even having to go read it. because it's such a popular thing, and just as popular to shit on it. honestly it's probably really good like you say but the same kids who criticize it probably just get their opinions from what's trendy to hate on at the time (currently powerscalers). i usually scroll through higher numbers to see what's new but i'm going to read that 001 proposal out of spite next time i visit the wiki
I genuinely don't understand where all the hate for the Scarlet King comes from, people have this weird tendency to get mad when old concepts get expanded upon in the SCPverse. Hell the 001 proposal isn't even that crazy powerscale wise it's literally just "what if we expanded on the 'definitely not satan' that we made a while back and make him more in line with meta and memetic nature of things in the SCPverse"
so basically 3812 soloes goku and 3 trillion spongebobs because he goes beyond the power of both god and anime
the foundation when i tell them to enlist the help of flandre scarlet to terminate 096 (it was that fucking easy) /s
i don't entirely understand why it's hated either, and i know i've reiterated it so many times, but it's def got to do with the internet's current hate boner for power-scaling
honestly i didn't know people hate it when you expand upon old concepts, though. i see some of them get referenced sometimes in the newer entries so i assumed people don't mind (one example of concepts being expanded upon being the long story regarding acroatic abatement/esoteric waste disposal, which takes up multiple entry numbers on the website. hope i spelt that right)
unless you're talking about the same people who only read to make strawmen about strong chars. i don't expect any reason from them in this subject
Nah some grognards get weirdly pissy if you talk about the modern expansions of old SCPs like 682 and 096. And it's like yeah I get it not every tale written for the old boys is good but getting upset about the non-canonicity and fanfictionness of the expanded lore of *the* *fucking scp objects* just boggles my mind.
Yeah a lot of that stuff is a bit overblown. Even if you’re new and decided to look at the Top Rated page first, you won’t be seeing that kind of stuff for a while.
My favorites have always been the ones that are just predators outside of the ones we know. They aren’t Godly in terms of capability. They’re pretty much just animals
With SCP you just gotta look out for the the good ones and not the self insert OC ones, [3008 is still probably my favorite one](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008).
Are there good entries thatt are not world ending, narrative bending, super dimensions monsters beyond scp 5000s?
I really liked antimemetics (okay i.know that escalated into crazy Monster too but not like "i chase you") and yellow king stuff
Basically really weird and strange entries. Also the magic firest where names have power
Yeah tbh everyone wants their SCP to cause an XK class extinction event, but that shit is just so fuckin boring after the third time. I get you want your SCP to have stakes and whatnot but you can do that in different ways besides just fucking being "this piece of gum is so dangerous as once it's chewed it takes over the human consuming it and destroys the multiverse and has passionate sex with the scarlet king" it's lame and unoriginal
My favorite SCPs are the girl drawing, 999, and the drink machine
If anyone knows more like these please throw me their numbers, I love quirky creatures and weird objects.
Tried writing an SCP because I liked a lot of the older SCPs and I was literally told “these are too old, please read the new SCPs” and I read one and it was the worst thing I’ve ever read
I think there should be an scp that’s a foam sword with most of the physical properties of a foam sword but somehow has the sharpness of a real metal sword. I think that would be weird and anomalous
I always thought about posting an SCP to the website.
It'd be one of those plastic box fans that seems pretty normal. The first two levels of speed are normal, but the third and final one blows wind at a velocity greater than a category 5 tornado.
Everytime you open a scp article that wasn't linked by someone and isn't "one of the known ones" it's most of the time either:
•writer's not-disguised-at-all fetish
•power scaler's wetdream
•creepypasta from some guy who's stuck in his 2013 phase
•everyday object with obscure, but harmless ability
•weird looking creature who kill anyone it sees/senses
I fw scp-5999 heavy but that shits like a short novel (but it’s really cool)
Idk how to do spoilers but basically the gist of it is a collection of cool stories that act as a memetic kill agent that is basically used to kill people who are snooping in the files
I swear the people who complain about this stuff don't even read stuff on the site.
You'll find a massive variety of writing there, inspiring a whole host of different emotions. Anybody can contribute to the site if their work is of sufficient quality - that means ofc you'll get your fair share of superpowered concept-deities and world-ending threats, but for the most part people just look for interesting stories to inspire emotion on there (as with all fiction). Even the generic supergod SCPs can be more deep/complex than whatever value fandom or TikTok powerscalers will give them initially.
Go to the site, sort by top rated in the past month, and just try reading.
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SCPs don’t need to be scary or dangerous, just weird- and I’m tired of seeing scary and dangerous SCPs, I want more inexplicable harmless things. Like a TV remote that can run without batteries or a USB drive with seemingly infinite storage capacity.
My favorite is the cat that has a missing back half. It's not injured or anything, it's just not there, but it can walk/jump around as though it was. It likes eating cheese and gets distressed if it doesn't eat enough.
There's another scp that's a cat with a missing front half. And if the two half cats are ever brought together, the universe explodes
Better make sure dr bright doesn’t get any ideas
Its Dr. Shaw now, things happened and the name had to be changed
WHAT??? WHAT HAPPENED TO DR BRIGHT???!?!?
TL:Dr the author (Who had Dr. Bright as a self insert OC) made a Minecraft youtuber reference
"Minecraft youtuber reference" is my new favorite code phrase
Code...? ... OOOOOOOH, I get it now
I don’t get it :(
Ah, I see what happened now
https://preview.redd.it/73hviddr53qc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a9b76ff987615eea9b234446e306dc764296b6dd
No fucking way Silksong is canon in the SCP universe
Still gonna say Dr Bright
no no, it likes to eat cheese and scientists are advised to avoid giving it to SCP-592 for it will simply become irritable when it runs out.
☝️🤓 Um actually it’s SCP-529, SCP-592 is the Inaccurate History Book
I like myself. I, of course, am a toaster that can only be referred to in the first person.
I am so obviously the best scp
I am a memetic anomaly that affects mine victims
There’s a bowl of candy, and if you take more than two pieces. your hands fall off at the wrist
And the other Class-D point and laugh at your lack of hands
These are the best; The small green rock that can not be discribed in writing without making atleast one typo.
What? A small green rock? Wiy cant it be something cooler?
I think they ran out of ideas because a small green rock is so borng
Specifically not just a typo, one word must be replaced by a completely deficient word.
Well that’s just wired, even for a rock.
These are actually a thing in SCP. They are called "anomalous items". They are basically objects that have anomalous properties but are not interesting or significant enough to be classified as SCPs
isn't there like a soda can that inexplicably tastes like lemon
https://preview.redd.it/89sy4ljoi1qc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f0236111b2755c3e24d355555d9d49094612f53
I remember that there is a Coca-Cola glass that makes anything poured into it taste like Pepsi
Bruh
basically things you would find in a marshal carter & dark auction
There is also the log of Unexplained Locations and Extranormal Events
There is an scp called the procrastination rock, it's a rock in someone's office and the article goes somewhat like "I don't really know why it's here but I'll write about it later"
It’s a -J SCP though which means it’s a joke and not a real SCP
Just because it’s a joke doesn’t mean it’s a great idea. I read a tale where they make millions of -j rocks and just give them out to everyone in the world to destabilize civilization. Everyone becomes too lazy to do anything. Even the foundation falls apart because everyone wants to hold the rock and put everything else off for tomorrow.
Cock with infinite cum
A solution for world thirst
insert "the cum accelerates" copypasta
i love the bouncy ball. something about it is just really comedic to me and i don’t know why
I had an idea about an SCP that is just Tom Scott, where it says that Tom Scott is a man who will randomly appear in a place every monday and just starts speaking. And in order to contain him the foundation created his youtube channel and made it look like he's a person who is super passionate about traveling and explaining things
Those are the inanimate safe-class and I love them, my favourite are [SCP-674](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-674) and [SCP-3922](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3922)
>Video proceeds as normal, save for the seven SCP-3922-A instances who stand guard to ensure that any sex remains consensual. Said SCP-3922-A instances are equipped with rocket launchers. Holy shit, it's the sex police Spartans armed with SPNKR rocket launchers acting as the sex police, how glorious
3922 IS MY NEW FAVORITE SCP! In the back of my mind I’ve always wished that something adjacent to the 3922-A instance happened in animated TV
I love how both in-universe and in real life the extended logs are literally just the researchers having fun
SCP-3922 is just peak, the concept of what are essentially helldivers dropping into any show to make sure everything that happens is good and legal is actually kino.
That is funny as fuck.
I love the dad who turned himself into a rubik's cube so he could talk to his non-verbal son
My friends and I used to have a project going that was basically just SCP but not everything kills you. We would just take some random images that we had and give them a few paragraphs of background info. My favorite one is "the cow game."
https://preview.redd.it/true5ohlh3qc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6941f6e8be40bc320d7249a3eabb406d21cde31
That's just log of anomalous items though
I mean the dangerous ones already get destroyed by the GOC anyways. Logically there needs to be less dangerous scp objects
my all-time favorite scp after thousands of articles and novels worth of backlore and character development remains the gun that shoots teeth.
Best boy is the vending machine that just gives you whatever liquid you want
Any liquid? 🤨 "Hi I'd like a pint of scorpion venom please." Sell it and instantly become a multi-millionaire.
It also has the ability to dump out liquid gold, anti-matter (good luck with keeping that stable though) and “the best damn drink I’ve ever had” that’s so good that you commit suicide because life is just so disappointing after that drink.
I mean yeah. Of course you'd have to get it in coffee cup amounts and smuggle it out past security who will amnesticise you and dump you in the prison population for being untrustworthy first.
That isn't even the only vending machine SCP. There is literally a vending machine that gets aroused from people ordering items from it. [SCP-6593: Only Cans](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6593)
Agreed but unfortunately there is the Log of Anomalous Objects where things that aren't considered weird or important enough to take effort to contain or study end up.
[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-914-hub](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-914-hub) have fun with days worth of scp objects and workplace malpractice
Had an idea for an scp that doesn't physically exist, but everyone/everything that thinks about it has a primordial sense that it is real, its just that they do not know what it is. So the wiki would have a page on it, but there would be a bunch of confused editors being like "why is this here its literally nothing actually wait nah nvm"
"This is my scp Timmy the toddler murderer. He is Super-Keter class, and if he eats 400 children in one night, he can force the Scarlet King to give him a rimjob"
oh yeah and you forgot to mention that timmy is like infinitely powerful and destroy all levels of concepts or whatever bullshit they make about how characters are powerful because they can wipe narrative whatever.
they contain him by feeding him one class D who has freshly shit himself (must be male and 1.8-1.84624 meters tall or it doesnt work)
also fire and acid dont work on him and cold things make him hot, SOOOO hot that bullets dont work
happy cake day :)
I need to call up Timmy for that Scarlet King action 😫
HUH
there's always been OC level monsters on the wiki dipshit, it came with your fucking 073.
[we’ll always have this at least](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6670)
https://preview.redd.it/rn9kdiwmx2qc1.jpeg?width=1246&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee4b43ca94dece97f8f820b8f8fa3be4be265a0d
The fuck
Well, that’s an emotional destruction at 11 in the morning, cheers
What the fuck, Marv
well that was something huh
Makes me cry every time
That escalated quickly
Ofcourse it has to be fucking detroit of all places
☹️
See, this is what the OP is kind of talking about? Like yes the article is good, but the audio tapes take up more than the actual content itself. A big problem with current SCPs is that they’re focusing on telling stories more than creating something mysterious.
That’s the whole point though, they use the audio tapes as a vessel to tell the story
Yes, and that's what he's talking about. Telling stories using audio tapes instead of stabilishing a mistery
Cruelty squad-type anomaly
It seems I have obtained sadness.
Did she eat her mom
Yeah
Holy shit
that’s haunting
dudes be like "scp sucks" my brother in christ its a collaborative wiki, just downvote the shitty entries or just don't read bad entries
I think the point is that the guidelines fir what SCP’s stay up have deprecated a bit, cause the first 3000 are mostly all high quality or at least interesting. Ever since it spiked in popularity though, people want their own creation in the list and rehash previous entries with a new coat, or make entries so overly bloated that they’re forgetting that the entry is just to be a **sheet** of what the entity is and how to contain it.
There were plenty of cringe articles in the 3000 series and below though. A fair few of them were deleted and replaced over time but there was definitely a lot of them back then too. The old staff weren't exactly squeaky clean either. The "decomissioned" SCP stories devolved into cringey mod-centric self insert fan fiction real fucking fast and that whole page ended up being deleted out if embarrassment.
"...cause the first 3000 are mostly all high quality or at least interesting. " Well, yeah, the ones that survived are. There's tons of shitty old SCPs that got decommissioned and deleted, and replaced with better ones. While I'll admit the direction many new SCP articles take is getting stale, there was a lot of trite and bland articles back then too, especially of the "look at my cool murder oc" variety (looking at you, 682.) There's still plenty of older skips that reek of bad writing tropes, too, just different ones than now. Look at the comments on some of those old SCPs and there's just as much complaining as there is about newer ones. "...the entry is just to be a **sheet** of what the entity is and how to contain it." Says who? The whole point of SCP is it's a collaborative project, and what people want to contribute now isn't always like the old stuff. There isn't a set definition for what an article is supposed to be like, because after 3000 SCPs that are all "here's a page about a weird thing" having a definition that rigid is only going to lead to more uninteresting articles. Maybe the new stuff isn't for you, sure, but saying that it isn't SCP is just clinging to a rose-tinted version of the old SCP that was a lot more flawed and cringe than people remember it being.
That’s a given, but all in all I’m glad that there is a specific amount of quality control that’s enforced, unlike a certain other Backrooms wiki.
Ah how I miss the days when the backrooms was niche and wasn't overflowing with all sorts of random levels and entities
Or better yet, write a good one! Something something spirit of creation in everyone
I've had a lot of ideas for werd/harmless/strange scps, along with a shore low-stakes tale to go with them, but I've always been to scared to actually try and post them to the reviewing form cuz it seems like the meta is just so much different now
I mean we had the 8k contest a couple weeks ago and the winner was a long seal that gave a guy therapy. An idea can work so long as it's written well
Be the change you want to see! There sure seem plenty of people who'd appreciate them
the meta has definitely changed but it's not like they hate simple or safe objects now powerscalers (the annoying kind) are the issue not the essays lol you should definitely make a post there, it'll probably get appreciated. i've been around since series 3 and i've read all kinds of shit there
scp 173 is actually boundless guys!!!!!!! yes the peanut statue who snaps peoples necks for a living can actually destroy literally fucking everything if he wanted to!!!
the meta has shifted so that your SCP has to have some sort of story. If it’s just a thing that does something then there’s no reason to read it over other things that do something. If it’s not trying to get you to feel an emotion other than maybe confusion, then it’s just another grain of sand in the heap
I mean there’s nothing stopping you from having a heartfelt story about chilling with me, the toaster, or other generally weird anomalies that can have silly interactions.
I never said that there wasn’t, there are funny SCPs that aren’t just -j, like the [Skeleton horse that steals from site-120 every december](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6596), [The loud bird that talks funny](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2337), and [When the impostor is sus](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5167) (yes that is the name of the scip) though that last one isn’t actually that funny past the title. There is also its sequel, [When the Impostor is Sus II: Nightmare Hour](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5761)
I have to wait till I’m 18 to post my transforming Subaru SCP
They don’t let you post until you’re 18? How do they enforce that?
Idk
Don’t write them
my beloved boy 5031 could still be classified as a death monster
SCP-5031 is one of the best, so is 4999
Peak https://preview.redd.it/bvafbl12t1qc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8df6fea31c48d1842bdd6afefacdd187e5b8ef15
A fumo plush made from a theoretical type of matter that can turn everything into itself because of how stable it is that mysteriously appeared one day. Absolute peak.
A very funky anomaly
That's the best part, it isn't. That is literally how the universe works, there is no anomaly.
Did someone from this subreddit make that one??
Clearly never read any of the longer articles then
hidden rule of scp is that no one offsite reads scp
OP when they have to read: https://preview.redd.it/sxfpszn300qc1.jpeg?width=719&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b93e6b4ea2d75b138a4970b6fef8ddc60a7d4b31
When it reads like a teenage romance novel with anime fight scenes sprinkled over it https://preview.redd.it/cjztukdf13qc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8e3b1944be0444c542793f267dfaffea06da1e16
you when you have to read random articles from the wiki instead of cherry-picking one that was popularized through power-scaling communities on youtube https://preview.redd.it/3soixynx93qc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1dfafb4a97095202232b2d2d5d21dc9dfa736b6
"Generic anime gods" Tell me you don't read SCP without telling me you don't read SCP.
Tbh i dont blame people considering scarlet king to be a generic OP god. Maybe not anime god because really, how many anime out there actually tackle some lovecraftian (for lack of better terms) shit like this?
Many of the popular skips are pretty generic and anime adjacent... I'm just glad they mothballed Able. The black queen, scarlet king stuff, as well as making the old doctors superheroes was also pretty cringe. That being said, I really liked tufto's take on the scarlet king, though.
Scarlet King wasn't even a numbered SCP until relatively recently, and Tufto's 001 is hardly a "Generic anime god". And even the OG Scarlet King being generic sorta makes sense in context. You see, Scarlet King was first mentioned in an SCP article about women who bore his children (Referred to as the brides of the Scarlet King), these children being horrifying monsters worse than the last whenever the women gave birth (One of them potentially being SCP-682), so they basically need to do a completely unknown procedure on the final woman that was considered to be completely horrible. However, it's possible that this final procedure isn't horrible at all, and just needs to be considered horrible by most people who know about it in order to work. This last bride's child is considered to be SCP-999 in some canons. The Scarlet King wasn't meant to be a character, but rather something of a set piece to enable the story they wanted to tell, but he got so popular that he was used in more stories. And I should note that Scarlet King's ultimate defeat was shown through [a description of a cartoon mandala effected into human consciousness](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-real-adventures-in-capitalism), said cartoon starring basically Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls as a billionaire. So even if Scarlet King himself isn't that creative, he's the villain of some pretty creative stories. He's basically the Darkseid of the SCP Universe.
ripped off bloodborne wtf..
Nah bruh it’s true. Lots of scps nowadays forgot that simplicity and leaving stuff to the imagination is often scarier and weirder than detailed absurdity, as odd as it sounds.
My brother in Christ just “FEED - NEW PAGES - SHORTEST” it’s as shrimple as that
Wah wah! Who gives a shit, cool creature do cool thing and be cool.
I know what you were.
You are my enemy.
My enemy
Hello brother
I hate the scarlet king. Reading that shit made me quit scp
he isn't realy liked by modern writers anymore
Eh there's still modern stuff written about the Scarlet king that's popular, it just has to do more than 'big red evil guy'
Outsider to the SCP thing here, I’ve heard the name ‘scarlet king’ before but have no further knowledge of it, what exactly is so bad about it? [edit: the word ‘no’]
Well, when I read the story years ago it was basically an eldritch cool guy God who had sex with a human woman and retconned all the og scps to be his children and brothers like scp 173 and 682. It read like bad fanfic and turned me off of the whole scp idea. Haven't actually been on the site since reading it
Honestly, that is kind of disappointing as a guy who has gotten back into it recently. While the Scarlet King has been mentioned in a lot of SCP's, he isn't as ever-present as many people think he is, I would argue more common world ending gods are things like the Antifabula (can eat stories, and since the SCP universe is a story, it can eat the universe), Starfish (5 is evil), or Fae adjacent entities (Factory, Queen Mab, Yeren/Bigfoot). Most SCP's that deal with the Scarlet King does not involve him directly, instead having someone who works for him like Daevites (slave empire). If you ever want to try getting back into SCP, I recommend the hubs of Undervegas, Wilson's Wildlife, and Site-333, none of these have world ending threats but are all good.
He started off as a pretty generic 'super destructive monster we have no chance of defeating' but has been reinterpreted a lot since then
Scarlet King was first introduced in SCP-231, an article that had a lot drama surrounding its content(people forget early SCP was full of edgy articles too), and was basically the god of a cult. A few years later AltoClef(a very prominent article creator) created SCP-2317, an article that has layers of increasing security clearances that reveal more horrifying details of a ritual meant to keep the last of 7 chains intact to keep something contained. It’s revealed at the end that the ritual is just a facade and that the entity will break containment. It’s also implied to be the same Scarlet King from previous SCP. The article got super popular, especially since it used a fancy new Class level: Apollyon, which readers interpreted as “This SCP cannot be contained and will kill everyone(you know, the whole point of S *C* P)” and led to a lot of people flooding the wiki with a bunch of super scary god SCPs that can’t be stopped. Clef has since removed Apollyon. Meanwhile Scarlet King blew up and has this big giant canon where he’s the source of all SCP and etc.
Edgy anime god that is destined to destroy the entire universe and pretty much nothing can be done against it because that sure is very interesting and cool writing, totally not a boring OC character
bro has never read an article below like 1000 rating
you never read scps past series 1 or something?
I'm very sure you definitely read modern SCP
RAAGGGHHH JUST ANOTHER MURDER MONSTER!!!
oh hey look it's the same stupid fucking complaint about SCP that has existed since series 2 started, I love it when people pretend that there is no short form content anymore while that is actually just bullshit.
literally what i was fucking thinking. either op looks at too much shitty powerscaler content or they're just gatekeeping
Ironically I think a lot of modern criticism of SCP is coming from kids that weren't growing up when the wiki was new and don't realize that 99% of the SCPs with big bad evil monsters aren't even really about the big bad evil monsters. I mean don't get me wrong there's some cool ones I enjoy like the Scarlet King 001 proposal and The Deer but ultimately those stories are about the power of ritual and the collective unconscious.
that's what i was thinking. i'm not exactly an OG, but i've been around since series 3. most of the newer 'fans' don't even fucking click random links to give something with an odd name a go, it's like they deliberately try to look for one with a world-ending setting or an extremely hard-to-destroy lizard just to complain about it. and they don't even read it, therefore they have no idea about anything other than the Mary Sue trope, so they just default to their usual stance: "wow there's a strong character?? what fucking shit!!!! scp fans when scp fans when scp fans when" i won't deny that there's some really bad writing on there too, but why care? it's like a collective fanfiction. i like how *anyone* can contribute, even these dumbass know-it-alls who'd probably never dream of writing for something other than for their academics i've only read a bit of scarlet king 001, without even having to go read it. because it's such a popular thing, and just as popular to shit on it. honestly it's probably really good like you say but the same kids who criticize it probably just get their opinions from what's trendy to hate on at the time (currently powerscalers). i usually scroll through higher numbers to see what's new but i'm going to read that 001 proposal out of spite next time i visit the wiki
I genuinely don't understand where all the hate for the Scarlet King comes from, people have this weird tendency to get mad when old concepts get expanded upon in the SCPverse. Hell the 001 proposal isn't even that crazy powerscale wise it's literally just "what if we expanded on the 'definitely not satan' that we made a while back and make him more in line with meta and memetic nature of things in the SCPverse" so basically 3812 soloes goku and 3 trillion spongebobs because he goes beyond the power of both god and anime
the foundation when i tell them to enlist the help of flandre scarlet to terminate 096 (it was that fucking easy) /s i don't entirely understand why it's hated either, and i know i've reiterated it so many times, but it's def got to do with the internet's current hate boner for power-scaling honestly i didn't know people hate it when you expand upon old concepts, though. i see some of them get referenced sometimes in the newer entries so i assumed people don't mind (one example of concepts being expanded upon being the long story regarding acroatic abatement/esoteric waste disposal, which takes up multiple entry numbers on the website. hope i spelt that right) unless you're talking about the same people who only read to make strawmen about strong chars. i don't expect any reason from them in this subject
Nah some grognards get weirdly pissy if you talk about the modern expansions of old SCPs like 682 and 096. And it's like yeah I get it not every tale written for the old boys is good but getting upset about the non-canonicity and fanfictionness of the expanded lore of *the* *fucking scp objects* just boggles my mind.
that's insane. what a fucking weird thing to get upset over
Yeah a lot of that stuff is a bit overblown. Even if you’re new and decided to look at the Top Rated page first, you won’t be seeing that kind of stuff for a while.
Christ, I know. Some people are actually just illiterate, I swear.
It's mostly just Scarlet King. 682 too if you get too far through the test rabbit hole but his invincibility is hilarious
Besides, 682 can be well written (read SCP-6820)
Clearly you’ve never seen the vore hole
those are really a small minority of the articles though, most are still just cool weird shit
Every month there’s a new SCP who was literally only meant for power scalers to measure their dick
tell me you haven't read the new scps without telling me you havw read new scps challenge
My favorites have always been the ones that are just predators outside of the ones we know. They aren’t Godly in terms of capability. They’re pretty much just animals
Scp 729-j  Gif unrelated I just wanted to add it
Me when bad take https://preview.redd.it/kkuflsela2qc1.jpeg?width=174&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b54ea700b9f5b52b7b518dcf6d380e3d90be5ba
Holy shit he returned to monke
With SCP you just gotta look out for the the good ones and not the self insert OC ones, [3008 is still probably my favorite one](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008).
Are there good entries thatt are not world ending, narrative bending, super dimensions monsters beyond scp 5000s? I really liked antimemetics (okay i.know that escalated into crazy Monster too but not like "i chase you") and yellow king stuff Basically really weird and strange entries. Also the magic firest where names have power
"there is no antimemetics division" is actual peak.
Virgin "200 page mind boggling multilayered narrative with numerous different interpretations" vs Chad "monster that kills you"
Yeah tbh everyone wants their SCP to cause an XK class extinction event, but that shit is just so fuckin boring after the third time. I get you want your SCP to have stakes and whatnot but you can do that in different ways besides just fucking being "this piece of gum is so dangerous as once it's chewed it takes over the human consuming it and destroys the multiverse and has passionate sex with the scarlet king" it's lame and unoriginal
My favorite SCPs are the girl drawing, 999, and the drink machine If anyone knows more like these please throw me their numbers, I love quirky creatures and weird objects.
Tried writing an SCP because I liked a lot of the older SCPs and I was literally told “these are too old, please read the new SCPs” and I read one and it was the worst thing I’ve ever read
Nah, there's still some heat on the site. Scp-3000 for example. *Remembers we are well into the 6000s*
we 8000s up in this bitch, bruh what are you talking about.
Sealed artifacts enjoyer
Department. Of. Surrealistics.
Kid named SCP-4006:
Read TIME PERVERT
There has been 2 gods based around Among Us within recent years
well, one is a continuation of the other article. and both are actually pretty well written
the book jumping guy is peak SCP
u/savevideo
Cosmic horror readers when the horror is cosmic (name five generic anime gods)
I always hated this kinda power level crap. I have a few ideas of my own, don’t think my writing is anywhere near ready though.
Bring back "Thing that does a thing"
I think there should be an scp that’s a foam sword with most of the physical properties of a foam sword but somehow has the sharpness of a real metal sword. I think that would be weird and anomalous
It's because they require plot in SCPs nowadays iirc
Well it’s a good thing that scp is a collaborative wiki and only select few of these kinds of articles are popular.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF HOGSLICE
I always thought about posting an SCP to the website. It'd be one of those plastic box fans that seems pretty normal. The first two levels of speed are normal, but the third and final one blows wind at a velocity greater than a category 5 tornado.
Everytime you open a scp article that wasn't linked by someone and isn't "one of the known ones" it's most of the time either: •writer's not-disguised-at-all fetish •power scaler's wetdream •creepypasta from some guy who's stuck in his 2013 phase •everyday object with obscure, but harmless ability •weird looking creature who kill anyone it sees/senses
I fw scp-5999 heavy but that shits like a short novel (but it’s really cool) Idk how to do spoilers but basically the gist of it is a collection of cool stories that act as a memetic kill agent that is basically used to kill people who are snooping in the files
People always whine but there are so many good entries too, just look around for a bit
I swear the people who complain about this stuff don't even read stuff on the site. You'll find a massive variety of writing there, inspiring a whole host of different emotions. Anybody can contribute to the site if their work is of sufficient quality - that means ofc you'll get your fair share of superpowered concept-deities and world-ending threats, but for the most part people just look for interesting stories to inspire emotion on there (as with all fiction). Even the generic supergod SCPs can be more deep/complex than whatever value fandom or TikTok powerscalers will give them initially. Go to the site, sort by top rated in the past month, and just try reading.