honestly im not angry or crying about it, i'm just disappointed and while i dont know whats next for dr bright (the person), all i can say is that i hope he learns from all of this and changes for the better.
I'm surprised Bright wasn't banned earlier. The evidence on him is INCREDIBLY solid. I've never seen anyone defend him before but the concept of people thinking these allegations are false is honestly kind of baffling.
People often times refuse to believe negative things about their heros. Look at the whole CreepsMcpasta thing. A lot of his fans still talk about the allegations being false despite the evidence being pretty damning. No one who loved his narrations wanted to hear that he liked 12 year old girls.
@@MrERJ1992 He had an inappropriate online relationship with a 12 year old girl that included her sending illegal pictures to him. That Creepy Reading does a pretty good video on it.
@@psyxypher3881 I never just believe victims. The one time I did the guy came forward with a lot of evidence to the contrary and wasted her story and I decided to go back to innocent until proven guilty. The guy was a huge believer in believe all women beforehand too and I've never heard him reference it since he was the victim of a fake victims lies. I'm inclined to believe that CreepsMcpasta did do it though because there is a lot of evidence that points to it, but if there were to be something to prove that it was actually a person using his name and accounts I'd probably switch my opinion on it. I still occasionally listen to him, but have almost entirely switched over to other narrators like ClancyPasta and Big Daddy Stone. Thankfully King Spook came back again too.
Well that is your own opinion but you gonna understand there are other people who like a certain character and would absolutely hate for them to be gone or hated for no reason.
I actually hate that I got so numb to this, because of how many times I've seen someone abuse there postion of power and popularity just to do horrible things
@@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384 how he looks? like i get the beard adds a good 10 years to him but otherwise he hasn't shown any of those kinds of behavior, and jumping to conclusions doesn't fix anything or prevent these things from happening for that matter, just gets the innocent hurt in exchange for maybe hurting actual predators.
From what I saw during university, the fact that people overlooked his earlier creepy behavior is sadly very common and often times something blatantly, in-your-face horrible needs to happen before people take the issue seriously.
@@619to974 In my case, it was some guy who I went to university with. He was a photographer who used his position to sleep with models. He was really creepy around girls and a lot of them felt unsafe around him. Eventually while he was drunk, he tried to force himself on a girl and another guy had to defend her. He was kicked out of his accommodation. Eventually he moved to the same block I was staying in and I considered telling everyone what he had done but also wanted to give him a second chance cus the victim avoided pressing charges for a similar reason. Nothing that I know of happened afterward but I'm really not sure.
@@snowblind9290 best case scenario he learned his lesson. The thing that sticks out to me in your story is that the first models just saw a glipse of the man's creepiness... to me it can already start from here : if a girl feels weird around the guy she needs to talk to other models around her that work with said photographer to corroborate such things from the beginning before it's too late to prevent a "true victim"... worst case scenario the photographer is bad at human interactions and the girl who was suspicious can still apologise for the misunderstanding... I apply the same with grooming kids in churches : if even JUST one kid in church talks about inappropriate things done to his person, this accusation needs to be taken seriously from the beginning (presumption of innocence is still a thing but this happens to many times to NOT be extremely cautious about nowadays)
@@619to974 I think the reason people are not quick to respond to those signs of creepiness is because it's so wildly outside the context of expected behavior so we right it off as a rumor or misunderstanding, there's also the fact that no one wants to be the first person to make an enemy. I tend to keep to myself, but I was friendly with him and everyone else was always hanging out with him even while people knew about how much of a pervert he was, we didn't take it seriously and as a result someone nearly got raped. We were all so fucking stupid.
Well, I always saw the author as no one else besides the name “TheDuckMan”, so despite the fact that he’s the author of a fan-favourite character, I can freely separate the two from being associated with each other. But I know there are people who are going to straight up disgrace the character too, and I just need to prepare myself for that.
Low-hanging joke: This is why he's not allowed to refer to children at all or go near them. Serious talk: Yikes. That's...ugh. That's just plain awful.
While what the real life Dr. Bright did was absolutely deplorable and heartbreaking, I hope that the fictional character Dr. Bright doesn't get affected by the consequences of the real life Bright's actions. It's important to seperate the art from the artist, and so I hope that, while the real life Bright is dealt with properly, that the fictional one continues to remain an important part of the fandom we've all grown attached to and done our hardest to add to
There's plenty of authors who included him in their own stories too and is pretty much like a stock character for the wiki, so it's quite easy to keep them separate for me at least.
You know what sucks? Im in my early 50's, I have always kept up to date with tech, music and modern norms. I'm a gamer from when space invaders came out. I was super nerdy in my teens but forced myself to learn how to interact with all types of people from different social groups. My mind has stayed young, I feel about 30ish I guess. While I worked people could not believe my age, because I well just treated people normally and liked to have a laugh. But now my hair is greying, my beard is grey and people can be stand-offish. This fades once we get talking. But I am aware of it. If I say hi to some kid with their mom, they look startled. I saw some high school kids playing a collectable card game in the library and was peering through the glass to see which game it was, and I suddenly knew how that must look. People like this Bright person makes it so that people cant trust older folk with honest intentions and young minds. It makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable. Oh well, life I guess.
This comment struck out to me, and I just want you to know I think you're a good person. I'm in my mid-20s, and I think as long as you keep being you, you should be good. :)
This just makes me so sad - the character is one of my top favourites in the SCP universe and has been for years. It saddens me that the author is such a horrible person - I’ll still always have a love for the character, but I can never forgive the author for this.
That intro, "we need to talk about something serious....Dr bright" is a Monday morning for the council and as soon as his name is uttered a wave of heavy sighs follows Edit: a lesson was learned today, post comments after the video, not before
I've been a lurker and occasional interacting member on the site for many, many years, long before the "nude pics for applications" joke, and he was pretty well known for being a creep. I think younger people would be shocked that it went on so long with it being such an "open secret", but it comes down to what was common back then. An older guy being inappropriate online with younger people, directly or just in their vicinity, was sadly common in most online spaces. I think it's only being addressed now because we've gotten go an age of transparency where the staff know this could actually cause issues. Especially now that the SCP Foundation isn't the tiny community it once was but has hit the mainstream. He probably won't be the only one, and I have to imagine some of the people who did the whole "Oh, he's just like that" when teens complained are feeling a little nervous now. But this whole thing is a testament to what online communities were in the 2007 - 2015 era, in particular.
Are we not gonna talk about how Clef literally said “didn’t you tell them that SCP got you laid?” heavily implying that Clef knew about Bright’s behavior?
Kids weren't really allowed back then, they only outnumber adults somewhere around 2014. Pretty much all the OGs made such jokes. Cimmerian just isn't from that generation. But if hes been around that year, he *should* remember site19 being not PC. Whether newbies like it or not, site culture in the early days was openly non-politically correct and had no qualms about sexually charged humour.
As someone who doesn’t really know anything about the forum side of things, I’m glad to have learned something here. Like others have said, the character of Jack Bright holds a special place in my heart so I hope we’re able to separate the author from the character. That being said I’m saddened and disgusted by what the author has done and I’m glad things have finally been done about it.
Dont go, its a horrible place. I try to make the spanish translstion of the black god ( since im peruvian I speak spanish and the black god its similar to some myths here) and I got ban because the translation of black in spanish its negro and they got on my ass and I was banned, since for some reason I was being racist, theyre a bunch of assholes to be honest.
Yeah, the author is an awful person and I'm glad they finally got caught, but I honestly don't think the character should be judged, especially because most people remember him by the fanon.
Yeah, it really makes me second-guess myself on whether or not I should bother joining, if this is what they allow and for how long and how obvious it is to everyone.
Well knowing the author has or had a fet life makes those "Doctor Bright is not allowed to deliver disciplinary spanking" entries on the List a lot more clear now
I will happily be against the author so long as evidence stands for it as it seems to do currently, however I will do so while still enjoying the character as a separate entity. Not only because I generally separate such things, but also because they are not the only one to have written this character into SCP content. Some great things exist because of terrible people, when it is the case that statement is true, the creation should outlast the creator. A primary example, Lovecraft. Thank you for the information I was lacking.
In a slight defense of lovecraft, he's often misappropriated as "racist" when it was actually a lot worse than that. Due to a lot of things that happened in his childhood, he was downright xenophobic. And not like the prejudice kind, like the actual mental illness kind where literally anything that wasn't like his childhood room and house was cosmically terrifying to him. So I always tell people to go a little easy on him, because he wasn't an asshole, he was just *very* mentally ill. We also have a lot of evidence that he started getting better almost immediately after just, you know, going out and experiencing the outside world that terrified him so much. It probably didn't help that there was a lot of *actual* racism prevalent at the time, from other sources and probably a lot of his friends. The validation certainly didn't make it easier for him to get better.
was hoping to see something like this. i really enjoyed the character and some stories people wrote featuring it. i hope other people can condemn the person and still like the character. hopefully something will happen to keep the character around but differently. like how overwatch mccree was changed to cassidy.
Adam Ragusea said something similar when it came to the old Molto Mario videos. Like MM, there was many people involved in the character and it's portrayal in the SCP Foundation Wiki. I choose to support the character, not the person behind it.
Bright's continued presence was one of the main reasons I've been keeping my distance from the wiki (except for the occasional read). The time it took to act upon the evidence doesn't make me want to go back.
@@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896 After some time to think and a rewatch of this video i've come to this conclusion. The character is more than the person who made him. Dr. Bright is incredibly popular to write into stories and tales, involving very popular SCPs and scenarios. Dr. Bright is a brilliant if slightly insane man. The Duck Man/Bright is an awful person.
Usually how stuff like this goes unfortunately. A mixture of power dynamics, toxic board culture, the general difficulty of correlating info on the internet, etc all leads to these behaviors going unpunished.
I consider myself a good SCP fan and I enjoy reading stuff from the wiki quite often yet I'm not aware of everything happening on the forum side and this recent topic been around the community, your video cleared all my doubts. Good to know the staff and community fight along to make this fandom friendly for everyone.
I remember this guy on SCP Amino with his irl pic in his profile. And if memory serves, he said “if people saw me irl, they would think I’m a creep.” But the replies were “nah, you’re no creep. You’re cool!” ….just wow
No, quoting drsherms video the character itself is creative commons, we the community can do essitentially what we want with the character. AdminBright does NOT equal the characters behavior and vice versa. Bright (character) basically belongs to the community- though bc of the site rules in the creative commons rule iirc we still have to link the original page of the character file and give a credit to the author (while I disagree of giving a c///nt like AdminBright credit it's still needed as far as I'm concerned). But the character is free, folks like tiktok bright (a british comedian cosplayer) is not affiliated with AdminBright. Same with anyone who roleplays, kins, hell have a system (DID/OSDD) member whose an introject, they arent to blame here at all. It felt right to mention the last sentence here.
It seems like there have always been abusive elements there since the beginning. I'll never forget the ways I was treated by the people involved with the site just a few years back. Those experiences made me sort of look back to the "original" site as something better but now, obviously, it's clear there were always problems from the start. You know, Fish was crazy, but he never did the kinds of things that were done to me or the kinds of things that you mentioned here, to my knowledge.
Dr. Bright cosplayers have been getting harrassed because of this. I know one of these cosplayers, he is the sweetest guy and he got death threats because of this
I cosplayed Dr Bright last week and I had no idea this was going on. I don't even know how to feel about cosplaying the character even if I ignore the threats.
That's my favorite character of the wiki too. :( I'm mostly off wiki, so I only knew him as duckman, but he seemed so nice. You can't tell by that though, obviously
Honestly I love that take at the end of "You're not going to solve this problem by being a worse person". Lots of people reporting on these things say "Don't go after those involved" and leave it there but that in depth reminder is so much more descriptive
thank you for making this video. Im a pretty casual SCP enjoyer and would have never known without this video. You compiled evidence really well and came across very clear and super genuine and caring. I hope youre still on staff bc you are really thorough and seem to care not only for the website but also its patrons which is p uncommon nowadays. Thank you for that!
I have also heard the fictional character is now going to be called "Dr. Elias Shaw" instead of "Dr. Jack Bright". It will take some time for me to get used to the name, but I will eventually get used to calling him "Dr. Elias Shaw" instead of "Dr. Jack Bright".
Unfortunately it seems to be really hard to do, especially in outside wiki communities, who legit still don't know shit about this situation, but I think eventually it will be gotten through and I am all here for that. Time hopefully does its thing here.
At first I thought this was gonna be some joke psa about how the fictional Bright needs to be stopped. Than I thought this was gonna be about how the silliness of Bright is ruining the site somehow. Then you mentioned that the Doctors are basically consistent writers and contributors to the site and then it actually started sinking in. I’m shitfaced and the first minute and a half was a rollercoaster for me.
as much as i am a /x/phile, the SCP community has largely moved away from chan culture and has evolved into something more professional, content is being pumped in and out of it all the time, and i enjoy the site all the more for it. for a website to flourish like this, it needs professional guidelines to keep inappropriate shit to minimal levels. bright is from the 4chan era of people who built the site, but, again, the SCP wiki has moved on from that.
I remember in my teens adoring doctor bright, honestly back then he 100% would have counted as a tumblr sexyman and kid me would of done anything he asked if I was able to chat with him. Kids are stupid especially in the face of something like this where they have contact with an idol. Really feckin sucks, everytime I hear his name or see list references I just think of this. Thanks for bringing it to peoples attention! (I'm autistic, words are hard, me saying it sucks is more of a "its sad this character can't be seen the same anymore, but I understand why and its for the best")
The fact that it took so long before banning him was a mistake, 100%. As someone who is part of an online community with leadership roles and moderation staff, I understand how this mistake was made. In a community, people naturally respect seniority when it comes to making any kind of decision. “They we’re here first, they probably know best.” That idea breeds hesitation when it comes to newer members questioning the actions of earlier members. But, there are other members who have been around just as long as Bright. Interactions for these members can be affected by many things, but the main two I can think of here would be responsibility and activity. Bright had a number of responsibilities related to new members. This is a pretty significant job on its own, as the results can be directly seen within the community as new accounts are made. If the job is done well, others may feel a bit hesitant to call out the person who assisted dozens of active members. And if the discrepancies occurred far enough apart, they could seem “watered down” by the sheer amount of unremarkable activities by comparison. When this environment is presented a sudden, blatant offense like requesting/receiving pictures, vulgar messages, and abuse of authority, the obvious decision to take decisive action gets choked by crowd mentality. Many of the staff members are probably thinking the same thing “I would ban him, but that’s not my decision to make,” or something along those lines. Everyone wants to, but nobody wants to be the first to say it, because they feel like they don’t have the individual authority to make that decision, and they may doubt they’re own judgement. So, when everyone waits for the first move, it never happens at all. Since a decision needs to be made, a more neutral decision is easier to agree on. So the problem gets “addressed” but not “fixed” allowing the problem to eventually pop up elsewhere. In this situation it’s important for everyone to hold each other accountable, and encourage others to do so as well. If a higher authority does not exist above the one in question, than a role needs to be assigned that determines what level of behavior is acceptable. This is basically the reason behind HR in companies. The role is usually pretty undesirable, though, as it tends to put a social barrier between them and other members. In this environment, filled with a authoritative ladder of increasing growth, a natural inclination towards shocking/mature topics (such as the horror/sci-fi genre), and a haystack of activity to hide discrepancies in plain sight, mistakes become much harder to prevent. Yes, it should have been halted right at the start. Now that the staff have been made aware of the issue for what it truly was, hopefully it can be prevented from here moving forward.
This is the most nuanced take in this comments section, so I think I ought to say that, as a newer member of the Anti-Harassment Team that helped make this call, this is indeed exactly what happened. Bright was, by far, the most powerful and influential admin on SCP at the time. He still held immense influence and connections until and even after his retirement. It was incredibly hard to hold him accountable, even with rumors and creepy/weird past behavior. I'm glad that AHT agreed with me to make the correct decision in the end. You're right in that this should have been halted at the start, but at the start, the SCP Wiki was full of 4channers who normalized this behavior, and the Wiki was small enough that no one cared. As it's grown, it evolved naturally, which in some cases resulted in good things (like a culture of accountability), and in some cases bad things (like extreme bias and hostility from staff). We're in the middle of a major staff restructuring right now to try and fix our broken systems, and I'm personally working on a better staff structure to try and fix this mess we've been handed from the last folks. Thank you for your comment. I hope that we never have to deal with another case like this again, because hopefully we'll have gotten rid of all of them already.
The only other thing that could be done that was not mentioned would be to rename Bright, ala Cole Cassidy in Overwatch. I'm not opposed to this, but I'm also not sure if that would help. It's also a different situation, the Blizzard employee that character was used after was not at all ticked off by the naming to my knowledge. Whereas Bright the author has long been known to genuinely hate that this is the sole thing he's known for (besides being an abuser), and that he wrote so few of the articles and is not the only person to use the persona.
I remember that note at the bottom of the sign up page, along with the slightly complicated application process, was why I never joined the SCP wiki officially and continued being a lurker even tho in ~2012/2013 I was absolutely obsessed.
Even if Bright was wiped from the wiki it wouldn't end. There are loads of youtube channels and discord servers dedicated to SCP related things that mention him at some point or another. Anyone looking at SCP lore at this point will come across Dr. Bright many, many times and it would take a whole lot of people working together to even begin to remove the character from the canon at this point.
I hope that we can separate the aurthor from the art, the character themselves is quite goofy fun creation for the SCP universe, a good contrast for the horrors of the SCP universe. Honestly I didn't even know some of the Doctors where irl people.
@@guyferrari8124 I know, it was just a little uncomfortable before (the amulet basically kills whoever touches it, so a teenage girl died and became Bright) this just makes that feels bad story decision… creepy. I hear you with the whole “separation of author and character” thing, and I’m with you, but maybe let’s not have character Bright inhabit underage girls.
Well said, thank you. Long live our beloved Dr. Bright, may the author experience the adage "karma is a b**ch" and may his victims be healed from his abuse.
It's always a shame when a beloved intellectual work becomes tarnished retroactively by the creator doing something abhorrent. I hope the character isn't discontinued because of this. Thanks to the creative commons nature of the wiki, the character isn't real Bright's anymore. At most, I'd want the character to be renamed across the wiki to be dissociated from the person that created him rather than outright wiped from the existing stories.
It not the first time something happened with a author kondraki character is still used despite the author being kicked from the wiki along time ago so the character himself is most likely going nowhere going to still be used
@@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384 this was years ago and it actually noted on website historical bio a history of our universe or what ever it called but basically he kept on bullying users on the wiki who he was also bullying on second life from what I understood plus a mountain of toxic behavior to the point he was banned
Thanks dude. And I agree with , the reality of bright is something that is shaking me to my core, but, the character, I pray never goes away and fuck yes, this has to be put out there so we are able to take back what belongs to this community and make sure what bright has done will not get to happen with someone else.. dude I was like idk maybe 15 or 16 at this time. I vividly recall how much I wanted to join the wiki and to be a part of writing , bc I had been an avid writer. And always just so in love with stories like what the scp genre is about, but when I went to submit my application I remember reading that fu king " humourous note" and just completely having my whole body begin to shake, I was fuc ing terrified of the way bright made me, like he as the real person. I immediately had been fully aware of the type of person that bright more than possibly was, bc I had been through older men grooming me , and abuse and unwanted, furthermore being to young still to even realize or understand the gravity of comments towards me being inappropriate, ext. So this, finally coming to light, thank God, in no way surprised me and I fully had been thinking this long time now. And I am just so grateful that I was able to pick up on that and that I did not get myself into that. Anyway. Thanks again Dr c
I love dr bright as a character, I'm not going to stop, a goofy version of her (Current body is a former pc) is a character in an scp ttrpg rpg i play so I have a very specific idea of who they are in mind. This stuff breaks my heart and while I wont abandon the character I think it does need heavy revision and rethought, i was rereading through the list of things dr bright isn't allowed to do and all the sexual ones make me feel sick now, its not fun anymore.
Entry 500: Dr. Bright is not allowed to perv in the halls, or Foundation Group Chats. Jokes aside, yikes. While ensuring justice is served, I hope above all that the people effected by this can recover and move on and hopefully haven't soured their lives both personally and tying to the SCP wiki community
The fact that the information regarding AdminBright was out for an entire year now is what makes this situation kinda annoying. They had the resource to kick him out, to take action. Yet they didn't. I just hope that those reasons are just misguided good intentions. They didn't want any more mess in the site, and were hoping that AdminBright would stop his creepy antics.
Dr Bright (the character) is definitely one of the most problematic Senior Staff in terms of how his character is portrayed- while some portray him as a humanised character, his place in lore, particularly in many tales, seems to be often for fetishistic reasons. We need more good Dr Bright stories! EDIT: Wrote this before the video premiered- of course Dr Bright needed to be banned long ago; I'm certainly glad that he is at least now.
@@lilyabrams3547 the character himself is rather popular and used in a lot of tales in scp their even a kaktus scp that premise is a site full of dr brights
@@lilyabrams3547 Doctor Bright is exceedingly common in tales, and most of them center around him being the "silly goofy researcher with the chainsaw shark cannon and smoking weed with 682".
Honestly what the author did hurts alot for me as a fan of the scp. I cosplay and I like to play with makeup so when I came across the character of a body hopping character I looked at it as something I could have fun with with makeup. Then all this came out and a freind ask me if I would abandon the work I put into building the cosplay for the character. I told them that alot were still fans were now taking to calling the holder of the scp Dr shaw and revamping the character it got me thinking we could revise the list of what Dr bright now Dr shaw is not allowed to do but have it be something the staff control.
Okay I'm finally getting information on what happened, all I was seeing anywhere else was "admin bright did some things, don't ask about it in the comments, don't talk about it in the comments!" So I've been in the dark
People were seriously going after creators for using a fan favorite character despite the incredibly high probability that they had never met the original creator of said character? Actually, that’s the most believable aspect of this whole thing. “Those who hunt monsters should be very careful they do not become one.” “Those who hunt monsters are at the greatest risk of becoming monsters themselves.” And other variations of that sentiment.
and a black-pilled variant of that I invented and find myself using more and more: “Those who believe they cannot become monsters are already halfway there.”
Honestly wasn’t even aware of the fact that bright was a self insert and I considered myself pretty into scp. I hope more people are like me and the person can just fade behind the character.
OK that's actually kinda disturbing, I thought most of the stuff are just weirdo role-playing but since it's kinda illegal in the rules I guess not... it's much worse especially the hidden one.... Yep he definitely should get banned ah so that's the reason why the age restriction in the future gonna go to 18
Just to add a more light-hearted convo for people who are a bit too uncomfortable after watching the video (I certainly am, and I am not usually triggered/bothered by these types of topics. I can't imagine how it must be if someone who is decided to watch the video): If people decide to rename the character of Dr. Jack Bright (which I doubt they will, but it is always a possibility), what would you want it to be? I kinda like the idea of Dr. Max Life, because it is both ironic and gender-neutral (even though most refer to Dr. Bright as a guy in their stories, some use she/her in stories while they are in a feminine body). What do you all think?
Okay, i hope the character doesn't get hated on because of the author, cause I've grown attached to the fictional bright, well I'm glad that the fountain did the right thing and ban him i hope everything is better now 🙂 Love, 道化師
As someone who has only been on the site once or twice, and just watches youtube stuff about SCP. This is fucking insane and disappointing, like i didn't even know that characters like Bright were also real ppl on the site, i had a pretty strong vibe that they might but I didn't know. So now to have the fun character tarnished sucks, nothing compared to was the actual victims suffered obviously but he also ruined a bit of the SCP world for everyone
i remember messaging YossiPossi about an issue on KaktusKontainer in which a user published an article trying to expose SCP staff for allegedly "running a pedophile ring". authors such as kaktus, bright, ARD, etc, were attacked by the user. now, i can understand why Bright was targeted. in my opinion, he should've been banned off the site years earlier. however, as far as i or Yossi are aware, there's no pedophile ring being run in SCP wiki staff. this, however, is a belief and theory out there.
So Dr Bright character has some basis of Dr Bright RL… Some how I’m not surprised. Never looked deep into the running or people involved with SCP. I’m more about the lore… but if it’s causing RL problems, then it is what it is. 05 Counsel gonna 05.
"Don't make yourself into a bad person, while trying to be a good person." is so needed in todays world. So many self righteous people making life harder for others. not to get political (but I will real quick), the religious right has tried so hard to be pious that they are now affecting the majority of people that don't see their own worldview. This video was measured, articulate, and evermore prescient. Thanks Dr. C! One of my favorite quotes of all time now :)
Honestly it amazes me that Kiwifarms, the bigoted, racist, transphobic etc etc forum were one of the first to come out with that info while most of the defenders who was involved, regardless of political affiliation, ignored or covered it up under the assumption that they weren't speaking any truth.
Problem is though the SCP foundation is cesspool of lefties and I can tell that y'all probably are too you do realize most of the people on the right would just leave you alone if you didn't ruin all of our entertainment and maybe if the SCP foundation wasn't so busy being political they could have caught the creep earlier oh well I guess the information eventually catches on
Never knew Bright to be like this, though him telling people to buy a dildo and a yoga ball was probably not helping Though, I believe he was doing this to get people to stop asking him details of either the SCP OC and the Actual Person... And i also believed it to be him jesting about
I'm only just now learning about this, but I was a member of the SCP community from way back in 2008 to about 2012 when it was just the wiki and an IRC, and frequently interacted with Bright in the IRC, especially in the roleplay channels. I can absolutely confirm that Bright was an enormous creep. He was casually vulgar all the time and solicited female members for nudes, and I clearly remember several instances of highly disgusting behavior toward myself or others.
Im actually creating a female version of Dr. Bright in my own Discord Server, she doesn't have a medalion, she actually uses a ring that grants her immortality that prevents her from getting any type of damage.
Finding out about this horrifies me because I was around 14 when I got into the SCP Foundation, I didn't make an account back then (for some reason) but I could've easily had this happen to me as I like the character Dr. Bright and would've been happy to talk to the actual Bright. This is the second time I've dodged a bullet regarding someone wanting nudes and/or sending nudes to minors without realizing it (the first time it happened in a different fandom, not the SCP).
Also trigger warning for the comments probably. Just something to keep in mind when perusing.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention as well as others who don't really own a account on the wiki nor visit it much but love the scp Fandom.
honestly im not angry or crying about it, i'm just disappointed and while i dont know whats next for dr bright (the person), all i can say is that i hope he learns from all of this and changes for the better.
Sorry, my bad.
Dr. Bright is not allowed within 1000 feet of schools.
@@apexhunter935 Trust me, he won't. Men like him rarely, if ever, do.
The “things Dr Bright is not allowed to do” thing about the character can add “edit the wiki” to the list lmao
im- no but holy shit i
@@thecatdragon589 what?
@@thecatdragon589 SPIT IT OUT WEEE AREE WAITINGGGGG COME ONNN SAY IT EVERYONE GATHERED AND NOW WERE WAITING
I get the feeling that list also includes “Doctor Bright is not allowed near school-age children”
@@raider3167 actually it is. he even isnt allowed around kondraki or clef unsupervised
Things Dr. Bright is not allowed to do: Post to the SCP Wiki
Yes
I knew this joke was here didn't even hold my breath for it
To make light of the situation, I can only imagine Dr Bright (the character) is planning to berate his author with Chainsaw Cannons
That would be the new "Except for that one time"
Pataphysical Chainsaw Cannon
Finally he has the perfect excuse to chainsaw the butt off the real person responsible for his miserable existence.
Didnt he kill several authors in scp 5500 ?
P E R F E C T I O N
I'm surprised Bright wasn't banned earlier. The evidence on him is INCREDIBLY solid. I've never seen anyone defend him before but the concept of people thinking these allegations are false is honestly kind of baffling.
It's like the whole miniladd situation again
People often times refuse to believe negative things about their heros. Look at the whole CreepsMcpasta thing. A lot of his fans still talk about the allegations being false despite the evidence being pretty damning. No one who loved his narrations wanted to hear that he liked 12 year old girls.
@@kikiblair5132 Wait, CreepsMcpasta? What happened with that guy?
@@MrERJ1992 He had an inappropriate online relationship with a 12 year old girl that included her sending illegal pictures to him. That Creepy Reading does a pretty good video on it.
@@psyxypher3881 I never just believe victims. The one time I did the guy came forward with a lot of evidence to the contrary and wasted her story and I decided to go back to innocent until proven guilty. The guy was a huge believer in believe all women beforehand too and I've never heard him reference it since he was the victim of a fake victims lies. I'm inclined to believe that CreepsMcpasta did do it though because there is a lot of evidence that points to it, but if there were to be something to prove that it was actually a person using his name and accounts I'd probably switch my opinion on it. I still occasionally listen to him, but have almost entirely switched over to other narrators like ClancyPasta and Big Daddy Stone. Thankfully King Spook came back again too.
Poor Dr. Bright the fictional character he's gonna get so much backlash cause of the authors doing
Good I always hated that character.
Well that is your own opinion but you gonna understand there are other people who like a certain character and would absolutely hate for them to be gone or hated for no reason.
@@fallenstriker5472 agreed not everyone is going to like a character. But the character is not their Author.
@@fallenstriker5472 yup and some grown attached to the character created by the fanon
hes a gary sue tho i wouldnt be surprised if he also partly self insert
I actually hate that I got so numb to this, because of how many times I've seen someone abuse there postion of power and popularity just to do horrible things
Too many Idols are horrible. The rest are all like this. Likely including people like Cimmerian. But I don’t care anymore.
@@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384 How is Dr cimmerian like this
@@liinnder Call it a hunch. Also how he looks. I have no faith in anyone anymore.
@@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384 how he looks? like i get the beard adds a good 10 years to him but otherwise he hasn't shown any of those kinds of behavior, and jumping to conclusions doesn't fix anything or prevent these things from happening for that matter, just gets the innocent hurt in exchange for maybe hurting actual predators.
@@mr.j36b82 Do you think I care anymore?
From what I saw during university, the fact that people overlooked his earlier creepy behavior is sadly very common and often times something blatantly, in-your-face horrible needs to happen before people take the issue seriously.
some kind of "bystander effect" maybe but sadly it applies to abusive or toxic people with some sort of authority...
@@619to974 In my case, it was some guy who I went to university with. He was a photographer who used his position to sleep with models. He was really creepy around girls and a lot of them felt unsafe around him.
Eventually while he was drunk, he tried to force himself on a girl and another guy had to defend her.
He was kicked out of his accommodation. Eventually he moved to the same block I was staying in and I considered telling everyone what he had done but also wanted to give him a second chance cus the victim avoided pressing charges for a similar reason.
Nothing that I know of happened afterward but I'm really not sure.
@@snowblind9290 best case scenario he learned his lesson. The thing that sticks out to me in your story is that the first models just saw a glipse of the man's creepiness... to me it can already start from here : if a girl feels weird around the guy she needs to talk to other models around her that work with said photographer to corroborate such things from the beginning before it's too late to prevent a "true victim"... worst case scenario the photographer is bad at human interactions and the girl who was suspicious can still apologise for the misunderstanding... I apply the same with grooming kids in churches : if even JUST one kid in church talks about inappropriate things done to his person, this accusation needs to be taken seriously from the beginning (presumption of innocence is still a thing but this happens to many times to NOT be extremely cautious about nowadays)
@@619to974 I think the reason people are not quick to respond to those signs of creepiness is because it's so wildly outside the context of expected behavior so we right it off as a rumor or misunderstanding, there's also the fact that no one wants to be the first person to make an enemy.
I tend to keep to myself, but I was friendly with him and everyone else was always hanging out with him even while people knew about how much of a pervert he was, we didn't take it seriously and as a result someone nearly got raped. We were all so fucking stupid.
Welcome to men. This is what we deal with on a constant basis, guys do these horrible things, and most other guys will look the other way.
Well, I always saw the author as no one else besides the name “TheDuckMan”, so despite the fact that he’s the author of a fan-favourite character, I can freely separate the two from being associated with each other.
But I know there are people who are going to straight up disgrace the character too, and I just need to prepare myself for that.
Agreed...
I love Dr bright as a fictional character, and I'm glad others feel this way too. I'm really disgusted about what's come out
And given how far off the Fictional Bright is.. I'm sure we can just use hi. as we always did
And yet people can't do that for J.K. Rowling...
@@ABlack-wp6yq Jkr is getting money from Harry Potter. Dr Bright is not
I see the SCP staff finally did the right thing. Despite being over 2 years late.
Two years? You're generous.
The foundation has never been known for its speed when dealing with internal affairs.
Sounds like he should have been banned over a decade ago...
@@morningivy9006
Yep.
@Herr Etik More like 12 years
Low-hanging joke: This is why he's not allowed to refer to children at all or go near them.
Serious talk: Yikes. That's...ugh. That's just plain awful.
While what the real life Dr. Bright did was absolutely deplorable and heartbreaking, I hope that the fictional character Dr. Bright doesn't get affected by the consequences of the real life Bright's actions. It's important to seperate the art from the artist, and so I hope that, while the real life Bright is dealt with properly, that the fictional one continues to remain an important part of the fandom we've all grown attached to and done our hardest to add to
Yeah they should keep all the stuff he wrote just yeah you can't really be allowed to do anymore
There's plenty of authors who included him in their own stories too and is pretty much like a stock character for the wiki, so it's quite easy to keep them separate for me at least.
I didn't even realize Dr. Bright was a real persona. I just thought it was a meme SCP
yea i hope not, but these days peaople cannot seperate the carractor from the actor, or in this case the artist from the art.
As a fan of Lovecraft's work, not the man himself, I definitely agree.
Had no clue of any of this as I only visit scp to read of the scps i mostly stay out of everything else but.... well what a thing to wake up to.
You know what sucks? Im in my early 50's, I have always kept up to date with tech, music and modern norms. I'm a gamer from when space invaders came out. I was super nerdy in my teens but forced myself to learn how to interact with all types of people from different social groups. My mind has stayed young, I feel about 30ish I guess. While I worked people could not believe my age, because I well just treated people normally and liked to have a laugh.
But now my hair is greying, my beard is grey and people can be stand-offish. This fades once we get talking.
But I am aware of it. If I say hi to some kid with their mom, they look startled. I saw some high school kids playing a collectable card game in the library and was peering through the glass to see which game it was, and I suddenly knew how that must look.
People like this Bright person makes it so that people cant trust older folk with honest intentions and young minds. It makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable. Oh well, life I guess.
This comment struck out to me, and I just want you to know I think you're a good person. I'm in my mid-20s, and I think as long as you keep being you, you should be good. :)
Word. Good luck to you sir.
This just makes me so sad - the character is one of my top favourites in the SCP universe and has been for years. It saddens me that the author is such a horrible person - I’ll still always have a love for the character, but I can never forgive the author for this.
That intro, "we need to talk about something serious....Dr bright" is a Monday morning for the council and as soon as his name is uttered a wave of heavy sighs follows
Edit: a lesson was learned today, post comments after the video, not before
I've been a lurker and occasional interacting member on the site for many, many years, long before the "nude pics for applications" joke, and he was pretty well known for being a creep. I think younger people would be shocked that it went on so long with it being such an "open secret", but it comes down to what was common back then. An older guy being inappropriate online with younger people, directly or just in their vicinity, was sadly common in most online spaces. I think it's only being addressed now because we've gotten go an age of transparency where the staff know this could actually cause issues. Especially now that the SCP Foundation isn't the tiny community it once was but has hit the mainstream. He probably won't be the only one, and I have to imagine some of the people who did the whole "Oh, he's just like that" when teens complained are feeling a little nervous now. But this whole thing is a testament to what online communities were in the 2007 - 2015 era, in particular.
Are we not gonna talk about how Clef literally said “didn’t you tell them that SCP got you laid?” heavily implying that Clef knew about Bright’s behavior?
Kids weren't really allowed back then, they only outnumber adults somewhere around 2014. Pretty much all the OGs made such jokes. Cimmerian just isn't from that generation. But if hes been around that year, he *should* remember site19 being not PC.
Whether newbies like it or not, site culture in the early days was openly non-politically correct and had no qualms about sexually charged humour.
Having sex is bad!
As someone who doesn’t really know anything about the forum side of things, I’m glad to have learned something here. Like others have said, the character of Jack Bright holds a special place in my heart so I hope we’re able to separate the author from the character. That being said I’m saddened and disgusted by what the author has done and I’m glad things have finally been done about it.
Dont go, its a horrible place.
I try to make the spanish translstion of the black god ( since im peruvian I speak spanish and the black god its similar to some myths here) and I got ban because the translation of black in spanish its negro and they got on my ass and I was banned, since for some reason I was being racist, theyre a bunch of assholes to be honest.
Yeah, the author is an awful person and I'm glad they finally got caught, but I honestly don't think the character should be judged, especially because most people remember him by the fanon.
How about we stop calling “TheDuckMan” Dr. bright, that (in my opinion) could be the first step in separating the two.
Yeah. I've been doing that for a while now.
That's the best thing we could go with tbh. Don't rename the character, just stop calling his author by that name.
Fucking infuriated that he wasn’t banned a long time ago. Regardless, better late than ever.
I can understand the hesitation as he was one of the sites biggest members but they’re waited way way to long
Yeah, it really makes me second-guess myself on whether or not I should bother joining, if this is what they allow and for how long and how obvious it is to everyone.
Well knowing the author has or had a fet life makes those "Doctor Bright is not allowed to deliver disciplinary spanking" entries on the List a lot more clear now
Real...
I will happily be against the author so long as evidence stands for it as it seems to do currently, however I will do so while still enjoying the character as a separate entity. Not only because I generally separate such things, but also because they are not the only one to have written this character into SCP content. Some great things exist because of terrible people, when it is the case that statement is true, the creation should outlast the creator. A primary example, Lovecraft. Thank you for the information I was lacking.
like the music; not the artist.
In a slight defense of lovecraft, he's often misappropriated as "racist" when it was actually a lot worse than that. Due to a lot of things that happened in his childhood, he was downright xenophobic. And not like the prejudice kind, like the actual mental illness kind where literally anything that wasn't like his childhood room and house was cosmically terrifying to him. So I always tell people to go a little easy on him, because he wasn't an asshole, he was just *very* mentally ill. We also have a lot of evidence that he started getting better almost immediately after just, you know, going out and experiencing the outside world that terrified him so much.
It probably didn't help that there was a lot of *actual* racism prevalent at the time, from other sources and probably a lot of his friends. The validation certainly didn't make it easier for him to get better.
was hoping to see something like this. i really enjoyed the character and some stories people wrote featuring it. i hope other people can condemn the person and still like the character. hopefully something will happen to keep the character around but differently. like how overwatch mccree was changed to cassidy.
Adam Ragusea said something similar when it came to the old Molto Mario videos. Like MM, there was many people involved in the character and it's portrayal in the SCP Foundation Wiki. I choose to support the character, not the person behind it.
@@smallsynthexactly, I don’t particularly like MGK because of what he said about Eminem’s daughter, but I do like a few of his songs.
You gotta prepare a class-D amnestic if he’s permanently relieved from duty.
Nah man would be a d class
Bright's continued presence was one of the main reasons I've been keeping my distance from the wiki (except for the occasional read). The time it took to act upon the evidence doesn't make me want to go back.
Hear hear. And add pooryoric, moose, Aelanna and E4D to the mix.
Time to disconnect my idea of Dr. Bright the character and Bright so I can continue to enjoy the fictional antics of a character I really enjoy.
theres nothing wrong with enjoying the works of a bad person, Keep on enjoying
@@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896 After some time to think and a rewatch of this video i've come to this conclusion.
The character is more than the person who made him. Dr. Bright is incredibly popular to write into stories and tales, involving very popular SCPs and scenarios.
Dr. Bright is a brilliant if slightly insane man. The Duck Man/Bright is an awful person.
Whistle-blowers came forward with this information _years_ ago and only _now_ has the SCP wiki actually done anything about Bright. Pathetic.
Reminds me of what happened on Channel Awesome, especially as even after a certain members death they still kept things quiet.
Usually how stuff like this goes unfortunately. A mixture of power dynamics, toxic board culture, the general difficulty of correlating info on the internet, etc all leads to these behaviors going unpunished.
Ugh I am gutted. I am glad you guys got him out. I am just a bit wounded, as I love a lot of Bright's actual body of work on the site...
I haven’t seen such a problem with such a prevalent member since the Fishmonger and their shenanigans
@@scottpeltier3977 I am not as familiar off hand with the name, but I guarantee I am about to piss myself off looking it up, lol.
Looks like we need to add a few more entries into the "Things Dr Bright Is Not Allowed To Do" article.
I consider myself a good SCP fan and I enjoy reading stuff from the wiki quite often yet I'm not aware of everything happening on the forum side and this recent topic been around the community, your video cleared all my doubts. Good to know the staff and community fight along to make this fandom friendly for everyone.
Thank you for what you do for the SCP community and for the wiki now even no longer as a mod/admin. You the man Dr. C!
I remember this guy on SCP Amino with his irl pic in his profile. And if memory serves, he said “if people saw me irl, they would think I’m a creep.” But the replies were “nah, you’re no creep. You’re cool!” ….just wow
Just one question: will this affect Dr. Bright character?
No
No, quoting drsherms video the character itself is creative commons, we the community can do essitentially what we want with the character.
AdminBright does NOT equal the characters behavior and vice versa. Bright (character) basically belongs to the community- though bc of the site rules in the creative commons rule iirc we still have to link the original page of the character file and give a credit to the author (while I disagree of giving a c///nt like AdminBright credit it's still needed as far as I'm concerned).
But the character is free, folks like tiktok bright (a british comedian cosplayer) is not affiliated with AdminBright. Same with anyone who roleplays, kins, hell have a system (DID/OSDD) member whose an introject, they arent to blame here at all. It felt right to mention the last sentence here.
@@wyvolf I figured this was going to be the case, but I just wanted someone else to state it for confirmation. Which you did very elegantly.
How will this affect lebrons legacy
its shouldn't but it may affect peoples wanting to use him in story's. hopefully not though
Thank you for addressing this!
I had no idea that the OG Doctors were actual people in some form or another. It's a pity that this was Dr. Bright.
It seems like there have always been abusive elements there since the beginning. I'll never forget the ways I was treated by the people involved with the site just a few years back. Those experiences made me sort of look back to the "original" site as something better but now, obviously, it's clear there were always problems from the start. You know, Fish was crazy, but he never did the kinds of things that were done to me or the kinds of things that you mentioned here, to my knowledge.
Dr. Bright cosplayers have been getting harrassed because of this. I know one of these cosplayers, he is the sweetest guy and he got death threats because of this
I cosplayed Dr Bright last week and I had no idea this was going on. I don't even know how to feel about cosplaying the character even if I ignore the threats.
Hate it when people do that. Hoping it blew over.
Jesus… people do not know how to separate art from the artist…
New rule "doctor bright is not allowed to come back"
That's my favorite character of the wiki too. :( I'm mostly off wiki, so I only knew him as duckman, but he seemed so nice. You can't tell by that though, obviously
Seperate the author from the character that what happened with kondraki he still being used in stories despite his author no longer part of the wiki
@@michaelliggett1622 good advice.
Honestly I love that take at the end of "You're not going to solve this problem by being a worse person". Lots of people reporting on these things say "Don't go after those involved" and leave it there but that in depth reminder is so much more descriptive
thank you for making this video. Im a pretty casual SCP enjoyer and would have never known without this video. You compiled evidence really well and came across very clear and super genuine and caring. I hope youre still on staff bc you are really thorough and seem to care not only for the website but also its patrons which is p uncommon nowadays. Thank you for that!
I have also heard the fictional character is now going to be called "Dr. Elias Shaw" instead of "Dr. Jack Bright". It will take some time for me to get used to the name, but I will eventually get used to calling him "Dr. Elias Shaw" instead of "Dr. Jack Bright".
Unfortunately it seems to be really hard to do, especially in outside wiki communities, who legit still don't know shit about this situation, but I think eventually it will be gotten through and I am all here for that.
Time hopefully does its thing here.
At first I thought this was gonna be some joke psa about how the fictional Bright needs to be stopped.
Than I thought this was gonna be about how the silliness of Bright is ruining the site somehow.
Then you mentioned that the Doctors are basically consistent writers and contributors to the site and then it actually started sinking in.
I’m shitfaced and the first minute and a half was a rollercoaster for me.
I didn’t even know bright was a real dude, I thought he was just a meme 😭
Things Dr. Bright is not allowed to do at the foundation:
#1. Exist.
Figures my favorite scp character is named after a creepy guy.
I honestly didn't know Dr. Bright is an actual person until I watched this video
as much as i am a /x/phile, the SCP community has largely moved away from chan culture and has evolved into something more professional, content is being pumped in and out of it all the time, and i enjoy the site all the more for it. for a website to flourish like this, it needs professional guidelines to keep inappropriate shit to minimal levels. bright is from the 4chan era of people who built the site, but, again, the SCP wiki has moved on from that.
Part of me thinks that's kind of a shame. /x has such a unique culture, I hope something like the Foundation can from it again
I remember in my teens adoring doctor bright, honestly back then he 100% would have counted as a tumblr sexyman and kid me would of done anything he asked if I was able to chat with him. Kids are stupid especially in the face of something like this where they have contact with an idol. Really feckin sucks, everytime I hear his name or see list references I just think of this. Thanks for bringing it to peoples attention!
(I'm autistic, words are hard, me saying it sucks is more of a "its sad this character can't be seen the same anymore, but I understand why and its for the best")
The fact that it took so long before banning him was a mistake, 100%. As someone who is part of an online community with leadership roles and moderation staff, I understand how this mistake was made.
In a community, people naturally respect seniority when it comes to making any kind of decision. “They we’re here first, they probably know best.” That idea breeds hesitation when it comes to newer members questioning the actions of earlier members.
But, there are other members who have been around just as long as Bright. Interactions for these members can be affected by many things, but the main two I can think of here would be responsibility and activity.
Bright had a number of responsibilities related to new members. This is a pretty significant job on its own, as the results can be directly seen within the community as new accounts are made. If the job is done well, others may feel a bit hesitant to call out the person who assisted dozens of active members. And if the discrepancies occurred far enough apart, they could seem “watered down” by the sheer amount of unremarkable activities by comparison.
When this environment is presented a sudden, blatant offense like requesting/receiving pictures, vulgar messages, and abuse of authority, the obvious decision to take decisive action gets choked by crowd mentality. Many of the staff members are probably thinking the same thing “I would ban him, but that’s not my decision to make,” or something along those lines. Everyone wants to, but nobody wants to be the first to say it, because they feel like they don’t have the individual authority to make that decision, and they may doubt they’re own judgement. So, when everyone waits for the first move, it never happens at all. Since a decision needs to be made, a more neutral decision is easier to agree on. So the problem gets “addressed” but not “fixed” allowing the problem to eventually pop up elsewhere.
In this situation it’s important for everyone to hold each other accountable, and encourage others to do so as well. If a higher authority does not exist above the one in question, than a role needs to be assigned that determines what level of behavior is acceptable. This is basically the reason behind HR in companies. The role is usually pretty undesirable, though, as it tends to put a social barrier between them and other members.
In this environment, filled with a authoritative ladder of increasing growth, a natural inclination towards shocking/mature topics (such as the horror/sci-fi genre), and a haystack of activity to hide discrepancies in plain sight, mistakes become much harder to prevent.
Yes, it should have been halted right at the start. Now that the staff have been made aware of the issue for what it truly was, hopefully it can be prevented from here moving forward.
This is the most nuanced take in this comments section, so I think I ought to say that, as a newer member of the Anti-Harassment Team that helped make this call, this is indeed exactly what happened.
Bright was, by far, the most powerful and influential admin on SCP at the time. He still held immense influence and connections until and even after his retirement. It was incredibly hard to hold him accountable, even with rumors and creepy/weird past behavior. I'm glad that AHT agreed with me to make the correct decision in the end.
You're right in that this should have been halted at the start, but at the start, the SCP Wiki was full of 4channers who normalized this behavior, and the Wiki was small enough that no one cared. As it's grown, it evolved naturally, which in some cases resulted in good things (like a culture of accountability), and in some cases bad things (like extreme bias and hostility from staff). We're in the middle of a major staff restructuring right now to try and fix our broken systems, and I'm personally working on a better staff structure to try and fix this mess we've been handed from the last folks.
Thank you for your comment. I hope that we never have to deal with another case like this again, because hopefully we'll have gotten rid of all of them already.
Wow, that's a very well detailed account. Thanks for explaining!
things doctor bright is not allowed to do: be withing 100 meters from a minor
Or within 400ft of a school or daycare.
The only other thing that could be done that was not mentioned would be to rename Bright, ala Cole Cassidy in Overwatch. I'm not opposed to this, but I'm also not sure if that would help. It's also a different situation, the Blizzard employee that character was used after was not at all ticked off by the naming to my knowledge. Whereas Bright the author has long been known to genuinely hate that this is the sole thing he's known for (besides being an abuser), and that he wrote so few of the articles and is not the only person to use the persona.
I remember that note at the bottom of the sign up page, along with the slightly complicated application process, was why I never joined the SCP wiki officially and continued being a lurker even tho in ~2012/2013 I was absolutely obsessed.
Even if Bright was wiped from the wiki it wouldn't end. There are loads of youtube channels and discord servers dedicated to SCP related things that mention him at some point or another. Anyone looking at SCP lore at this point will come across Dr. Bright many, many times and it would take a whole lot of people working together to even begin to remove the character from the canon at this point.
I hope that we can separate the aurthor from the art, the character themselves is quite goofy fun creation for the SCP universe, a good contrast for the horrors of the SCP universe. Honestly I didn't even know some of the Doctors where irl people.
Hmm… this makes Bright appearing in the body of a teenage girl during scp 5000… uncomfortable
That was not written my authorbright
@@guyferrari8124 I know, it was just a little uncomfortable before (the amulet basically kills whoever touches it, so a teenage girl died and became Bright) this just makes that feels bad story decision… creepy. I hear you with the whole “separation of author and character” thing, and I’m with you, but maybe let’s not have character Bright inhabit underage girls.
@@Veelofar to be fair 5000 was written quite a bit before any of this
God, even the SCP foundation isn't safe from shit like this
They can contain world ending anomalies but couldn’t fight a creep like bright for a long time
Scp 9765- Gettung Me Too'd
Object Class: Keter
Well said, thank you. Long live our beloved Dr. Bright, may the author experience the adage "karma is a b**ch" and may his victims be healed from his abuse.
I hope this whole situation doesn't end up affecting the scp character of Dr bright
It did.
It did because bro put lots of his creepy shit into writing his character.
It's always a shame when a beloved intellectual work becomes tarnished retroactively by the creator doing something abhorrent. I hope the character isn't discontinued because of this. Thanks to the creative commons nature of the wiki, the character isn't real Bright's anymore. At most, I'd want the character to be renamed across the wiki to be dissociated from the person that created him rather than outright wiped from the existing stories.
It not the first time something happened with a author kondraki character is still used despite the author being kicked from the wiki along time ago so the character himself is most likely going nowhere going to still be used
@@michaelliggett1622 What did Kondraki do?
@@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384 cyber bullying
@@michaelliggett1622 Like as in?
@@alpharius2omegaboogaloo384 this was years ago and it actually noted on website historical bio a history of our universe or what ever it called but basically he kept on bullying users on the wiki who he was also bullying on second life from what I understood plus a mountain of toxic behavior to the point he was banned
Thanks dude. And I agree with , the reality of bright is something that is shaking me to my core, but, the character, I pray never goes away and fuck yes, this has to be put out there so we are able to take back what belongs to this community and make sure what bright has done will not get to happen with someone else.. dude I was like idk maybe 15 or 16 at this time. I vividly recall how much I wanted to join the wiki and to be a part of writing , bc I had been an avid writer. And always just so in love with stories like what the scp genre is about, but when I went to submit my application I remember reading that fu king " humourous note" and just completely having my whole body begin to shake, I was fuc ing terrified of the way bright made me, like he as the real person. I immediately had been fully aware of the type of person that bright more than possibly was, bc I had been through older men grooming me , and abuse and unwanted, furthermore being to young still to even realize or understand the gravity of comments towards me being inappropriate, ext. So this, finally coming to light, thank God, in no way surprised me and I fully had been thinking this long time now. And I am just so grateful that I was able to pick up on that and that I did not get myself into that. Anyway. Thanks again Dr c
Wow that shit is just disgusting and it's concerning it took this long to ban him and this should also probably be reported since it involved minors.
I love dr bright as a character, I'm not going to stop, a goofy version of her (Current body is a former pc) is a character in an scp ttrpg rpg i play so I have a very specific idea of who they are in mind. This stuff breaks my heart and while I wont abandon the character I think it does need heavy revision and rethought, i was rereading through the list of things dr bright isn't allowed to do and all the sexual ones make me feel sick now, its not fun anymore.
Dr Bright is not allowed to be within 100ft of a school.
Entry 500:
Dr. Bright is not allowed to perv in the halls, or Foundation Group Chats.
Jokes aside, yikes.
While ensuring justice is served, I hope above all that the people effected by this can recover and move on and hopefully haven't soured their lives both personally and tying to the SCP wiki community
Who would have guessed that the "Dr. Bright is insane" meme has a cernal of truth.
The fact that the information regarding AdminBright was out for an entire year now is what makes this situation kinda annoying.
They had the resource to kick him out, to take action. Yet they didn't.
I just hope that those reasons are just misguided good intentions. They didn't want any more mess in the site, and were hoping that AdminBright would stop his creepy antics.
Dr Bright (the character) is definitely one of the most problematic Senior Staff in terms of how his character is portrayed- while some portray him as a humanised character, his place in lore, particularly in many tales, seems to be often for fetishistic reasons. We need more good Dr Bright stories!
EDIT: Wrote this before the video premiered- of course Dr Bright needed to be banned long ago; I'm certainly glad that he is at least now.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Could you elaborate? I'm not really familiar with any tales involving him
@@lilyabrams3547 the character himself is rather popular and used in a lot of tales in scp their even a kaktus scp that premise is a site full of dr brights
@@lilyabrams3547 Doctor Bright is exceedingly common in tales, and most of them center around him being the "silly goofy researcher with the chainsaw shark cannon and smoking weed with 682".
@@ItzJezze this is why you don't create humanity when your drunk god.
Honestly what the author did hurts alot for me as a fan of the scp. I cosplay and I like to play with makeup so when I came across the character of a body hopping character I looked at it as something I could have fun with with makeup. Then all this came out and a freind ask me if I would abandon the work I put into building the cosplay for the character. I told them that alot were still fans were now taking to calling the holder of the scp Dr shaw and revamping the character it got me thinking we could revise the list of what Dr bright now Dr shaw is not allowed to do but have it be something the staff control.
Okay I'm finally getting information on what happened, all I was seeing anywhere else was "admin bright did some things, don't ask about it in the comments, don't talk about it in the comments!" So I've been in the dark
People were seriously going after creators for using a fan favorite character despite the incredibly high probability that they had never met the original creator of said character? Actually, that’s the most believable aspect of this whole thing.
“Those who hunt monsters should be very careful they do not become one.”
“Those who hunt monsters are at the greatest risk of becoming monsters themselves.”
And other variations of that sentiment.
and a black-pilled variant of that I invented and find myself using more and more:
“Those who believe they cannot become monsters are already halfway there.”
Wow, Dr. Bright went Dark
Things Dr. Bright is not allowed to do.
Being a reprehensible human being.
Please hate on the author and not the character.
“Dr Bright is no longer allowed on SCP foundation grounds”
Thank you for being modest, and moderate. And most importantly from what I can tell, true.
The virgin Author Bright vs. The Chad Tiktok Bright.
Virgin TikTok bright vs virgin-er author bright
@@guyferrari8124 clearly you don’t like Tiktok
Honestly wasn’t even aware of the fact that bright was a self insert and I considered myself pretty into scp. I hope more people are like me and the person can just fade behind the character.
OK that's actually kinda disturbing, I thought most of the stuff are just weirdo role-playing but since it's kinda illegal in the rules I guess not... it's much worse especially the hidden one.... Yep he definitely should get banned
ah so that's the reason why the age restriction in the future gonna go to 18
The outrage makes more sense if he was the only adult in the room. Can't be talking like that too kids man.
Yep
Just to add a more light-hearted convo for people who are a bit too uncomfortable after watching the video (I certainly am, and I am not usually triggered/bothered by these types of topics. I can't imagine how it must be if someone who is decided to watch the video):
If people decide to rename the character of Dr. Jack Bright (which I doubt they will, but it is always a possibility), what would you want it to be? I kinda like the idea of Dr. Max Life, because it is both ironic and gender-neutral (even though most refer to Dr. Bright as a guy in their stories, some use she/her in stories while they are in a feminine body). What do you all think?
Why are all GOOD creators of like anything’s so disgusting 😔
This makes Dr.Bright in SCP-5000 a little uncomfortable to think about
Remember to separate Bright, the writer, from Bright, the character; don't let what the writer does ruin the character.
I wrote for the wiki years ago and I still plan to produce works in the future but it was wrong what they did and I didn't know anything about that.
Okay, i hope the character doesn't get hated on because of the author, cause I've grown attached to the fictional bright, well I'm glad that the fountain did the right thing and ban him i hope everything is better now 🙂
Love, 道化師
This kind of stuff is why I left the community. So much drama and shit.
As someone who has only been on the site once or twice, and just watches youtube stuff about SCP. This is fucking insane and disappointing, like i didn't even know that characters like Bright were also real ppl on the site, i had a pretty strong vibe that they might but I didn't know. So now to have the fun character tarnished sucks, nothing compared to was the actual victims suffered obviously but he also ruined a bit of the SCP world for everyone
Watching this in Feb of 2023...I had no idea about all of this. Goddamn.
i remember messaging YossiPossi about an issue on KaktusKontainer in which a user published an article trying to expose SCP staff for allegedly "running a pedophile ring". authors such as kaktus, bright, ARD, etc, were attacked by the user. now, i can understand why Bright was targeted. in my opinion, he should've been banned off the site years earlier. however, as far as i or Yossi are aware, there's no pedophile ring being run in SCP wiki staff. this, however, is a belief and theory out there.
So Dr Bright character has some basis of Dr Bright RL… Some how I’m not surprised. Never looked deep into the running or people involved with SCP. I’m more about the lore… but if it’s causing RL problems, then it is what it is. 05 Counsel gonna 05.
I really can't believe no one else is talking about this, this is so insane
"Don't make yourself into a bad person, while trying to be a good person." is so needed in todays world. So many self righteous people making life harder for others. not to get political (but I will real quick), the religious right has tried so hard to be pious that they are now affecting the majority of people that don't see their own worldview. This video was measured, articulate, and evermore prescient. Thanks Dr. C! One of my favorite quotes of all time now :)
Honestly it amazes me that Kiwifarms, the bigoted, racist, transphobic etc etc forum were one of the first to come out with that info while most of the defenders who was involved, regardless of political affiliation, ignored or covered it up under the assumption that they weren't speaking any truth.
Problem is though the SCP foundation is cesspool of lefties and I can tell that y'all probably are too you do realize most of the people on the right would just leave you alone if you didn't ruin all of our entertainment and maybe if the SCP foundation wasn't so busy being political they could have caught the creep earlier oh well I guess the information eventually catches on
Right now I feel this has really sullied the SCP Foundation for me.
Cimmerian pursed his lips. "You can't call dibs on killing Hitler."
This might be the most perfect pair of sentences on the wiki.
Never knew Bright to be like this, though him telling people to buy a dildo and a yoga ball was probably not helping
Though, I believe he was doing this to get people to stop asking him details of either the SCP OC and the Actual Person... And i also believed it to be him jesting about
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@@striderhiryu993 ?
I'm only just now learning about this, but I was a member of the SCP community from way back in 2008 to about 2012 when it was just the wiki and an IRC, and frequently interacted with Bright in the IRC, especially in the roleplay channels. I can absolutely confirm that Bright was an enormous creep. He was casually vulgar all the time and solicited female members for nudes, and I clearly remember several instances of highly disgusting behavior toward myself or others.
I didn't even think about who wrote Dr. Bright for even a second. Im actually suprised.
Im actually creating a female version of Dr. Bright in my own Discord Server, she doesn't have a medalion, she actually uses a ring that grants her immortality that prevents her from getting any type of damage.
Dr. Not-So-Bright
Finding out about this horrifies me because I was around 14 when I got into the SCP Foundation, I didn't make an account back then (for some reason) but I could've easily had this happen to me as I like the character Dr. Bright and would've been happy to talk to the actual Bright. This is the second time I've dodged a bullet regarding someone wanting nudes and/or sending nudes to minors without realizing it (the first time it happened in a different fandom, not the SCP).
So you'd have two nickels
Which isnt alot but its weird that it happened twice
i came here from Site-42s video, even though i know a lot about this from the wiki and 05 wiki posts this video has some info i didn’t know
thank you
Damm
This is pretty upsetting frankly
Espically as i don't want the CHARACTER to go
But knowing the man behind him is this bad...it's depressing