There is a nonprofit foundation that manages Uni code characters. This comment seems to be implying that the SCP wiki sponsors this foundation. Many foundations allow you to sponsor specific offerings of theirs.
@@grilledleeks6514 Unicode has an "Adopt a character" campaign which lets you donate to the Unicode Consortium to "preserve" and encode characters. In this case, bronze sponsorships are unlimited (I assume multiple people can adopt the same character?) and cost $100.
@@chinglebingle8243 I'll rephrase... what does "managing unicode characters" mean, and why would a wiki page care about sponsoring someone who does it?
@@grilledleeks6514 managing it means maintaining the standards for unicode. Like how we have standards organizations like the ISO for all sorts of things. They’re the people that decide when there is a new emoji, or a new character. Unicode is the ‘unified code’ for all typed characters on computer systems in all commonly used languages. The full character used for redactions in SCP articles is a unicode character, and they sponsor that foundation by sponsoring that one. I’m at the limits of my knowledge. Google Unicode characters and the Unicode foundation.
My favorite case of a nonsensical redaction was the fact that the Shy Guy's top speed was redacted. I always imagine some MTF commander flipping his lid at Dr. Gears for redacting that because now he doesn't know how much time he has until a nearby town get obliterated. Redactions are a useful tool, but it is important to remember that the Foundation is motivated to having useful information easily available to anyone with access. If something is redacted, it has to mean that the Foundation doesn't want its own employees to know that bit of info.
Knowing his top speed would make him weaponizable. If you know exactly how long it takes, you could work around it. On a meta level, it would make him less scary, require more effort, and leave him vulnerable to power scaling. "Oh, Superman could outrun him!" "Oh, he's unreasonably fast, there's no realism."
1: It is already weaponizable. 2: The foundation already works around it. It's kinda what they do. 3: The less scary argument doesn't really work for me. I feel "fear of the unknown" clashes really harshly against the format of SCP, for various reasons. 4: I do agree, it is a lot of work for something that can be covered just by saying "It's really fast, dude." It's an issue of writing this kind of thing.
@brianlewolfhunt The point of horror is that some portions are unexplainable or unknowable. Shy Guy feels more like a campfire story if no one knows how fast he is, and it makes no sense to clock a max speed for him when he could possibly exceed that in a new attempt. I'm sure the Thaumaturgy department has protocols against tempting fate by publishing what is essentially a dare to escape containment. If it minimizes casualties and prevents Chaos Insurgency tampering, the Foundation will do it. That's the in-universe explanation. Having a max speed for the Inherited Dog, by contrast, has no risk as its mechanics are well understood and it can't be weaponized effectively.
You're assuming that the information is redacted for everyone. Redactions on documents are normally used when people not fully cleared to know that information can still access the document. Basically: it's only redacted for us. People that need to know that information have access to it.
Timestamps for those who keep falling asleep: 1. SCP-579 - Starts at 01:03 2. SCP-7481 - Starts at 06:39 3. SCP-8798 - Starts at 15:25 4. SCP-5790 - Starts at 23:25 5. SCP-4182 - Starts at 31:38
Whenever I can’t sleep I turn on this video and imagine myself being lightly cuddled and pat by the narrator while having the wiki explained to me (not gay tho)
I'd like to think that 8798-1 is likely... sense of humanity, or hope. "Unexpected light in a cave" or whatever. "8798-1 used for aboveground power". Hope or sense of humanity being exploited for those above humanity itself. It seems that way to me. At least thats my interpretation.
I really like the idea of these ones. In a world where seeing, perceiving, thinking or simply being somewhat close to something can pose a gigantic risk, it makes sense that somethings are needed to be completely and totally removed from any method of learning about them. It will probably make more sense in universe to simply not designate any SCP number to something that kills you if you know about it, but I think a lot of the time scp's that are about their own redactions is very clever.
Every time I'm reminded of these kind of articles, I remember that one Icarly meme where she's reading a completely expunged page while saying: "Interesting"
I used to look at the redaction in the game control as an example of the worst of the type of redaction used in bad SCPS: it was often random, with seemingly useless info redacted (e.g. Alan Wake's wifes name is redacted only half the time) what I realised more recently is that its actually more in line with the FBC, neing a realistic organisation that is still clearly held together with duct tape and prayers. There is no consistent use because the different departments dont communicate, they each do their own thing.
I like the idea of 579 being the ultimate memetic hazard. It also makes sense given how the Foundation considered terminating those who knew enough about it to create its containment procedures and how any group outside of the Foundation knowing about it can lead to a breach. It either is incredibly deadly and grows more deadly the more people know about it or it can infect people via knowledge about it and cause something bad enough to destroy an entire site.
IMO things like The Pattern Screamer do a better job of this sort of thing compared to 579's blunt force approach. I don't think there's any solid reason for thinking it's memetic.
This guy's commitment is insane. Seriously, making a nearly 40 minute video of continuous beeping is both ambitious and thematically relevant! Bravo, Mr Series!
0:06 we went from simple containment procedures that would look at home in a file storage center of some government buidling, to ever-expanding SCP's with containment procedures, exploration logs, etc. That are the size of a small novel and then some. We went from short and simple procedures to enormous and wonderful stories, and I love how far we've come.
Good timing, just finished reading "Theres no Antimemetics Division". At first I thought the whole blanking out parts the text would annoying, but IMO it works better in real life/on real paper than on the internet. (Theres multiple SCP books/stories on Amazon btw, great reads for the psych ward!)
I think 5790 is actually the "information's afterlife", or at least, that's the part that interests the foundation. Information that nobody remembers (such as antimemes or reality prior to some warping) would be hood to have access to, that's why they talk od mediums and "necromancy", they are talking to the soul of information.
i suggest that an unredacted name for this information afterlife could be the river Lethe, from greek mythology. not at all because i'm obsessed with the concept of a river that consumes memories, and is therefore filled with lost knowledge (or maybe filters that knowledge into Mnemosyne, the river of memory). maybe the waters of Lethe are even a source of amnestics. and the theological suppression could be related to keeping the implication of Hades being real from spreading. since proof of a specific afterlife would mean some acknowledgment (and giving power to) that pantheon of gods. i'd personally be willing redact a lot of shit to keep zeus from walking the earth. edit: this is partially with the assumption that this scp universe has covered up the idea of greek (and possibly roman by extension) mythology. maybe the hellenic pantheon in this world had some cognitohazardous powers, or the gods' power was fueled by knowledge and belief, so the only way to contain it is to hide it. speculation is fun
29:30 this part kinda refutes my theory, but also the foundation is not above lying 31:26 this is the part that made me think of the amnestics source thing, as well as the implication of its twin river containing memory storing properties
Oooo fun idea for something to go wrong. What if an info hazard or antiemetic entity made it into an afterlife and started devouring souls because the foundation stored information related too it in an afterlife
SCP 5790 is an interesting one because it's just 579 with an extra 0. We've seen a similar pattern with SCP 682 and SCP 6820 where the latter was a document from an alternate foundation depicting their attempt of neutralizing scp 682 In this case, 5790 is heavily indulgent on theology and the collective human consciousness. Based off of the role of SCP 579 in SCP 5000, where the foundation had discovered a danger present in the collective human consciousness and had decided to kill all humans. But the suit guided the main character of that document to reset the universe using 579. This leads me to believe that 5790 is probably the article where the foundation attempt to neutralize 579 be aise over here, they try to control all the information on 5790 and redact everything, which kinda sounds like you're trying to kill a god by cutting it's faith.
579 also might have its own connection to religion in some way as the mention of "Action Israfil" suggests, Israfil being an archangel in Islamic faith.
Although not strictly an SCP object, I'd really like to know once and for all what the Pestilence is that SCP-049 claims to be fighting. My hypothesis is that it is Sin.
I suppose 7481 is a fairly unique SCP in that there's no description of it, but rather it's described by what is used to contain it. Additionally, with the document requiring LV3/RAPTURE to fully view and the mention of a K-Class scenario, it's fairly clear that SCP-7481 is The Rapture, or some similar theological event that only occurs when "cumulative sin" is below a certain threshold, only occurs to individuals below a certain sin threshold, or other similar criteria. The idea that the Foundation is combating the very rapture itself in order to keep humanity stable by forcefully introducing sin to humanity is... heavy, for sure
I can't help but feel like this is a subtle jab at us for only watching the SCP videos and not responding as well to ExploringSeries other recent ventures into other realms of lore.
08:25 I beg to differ, I don't consider silver to be a chemically inert metal like gold and platinum. It does oxidize and chemically alter into other compounds.
The redacted era was the best era of SCP. Redaction takes actual intelligence to use in order for the article to be actually intelligible. I've read SCP's where they just use it willy-nilly in order to appear "mysterious," when all it actually did was render the premise of the entire subject either terribly obnoxious to read, or missing the point of redaction entirely. Actually talented use of it as a mechanical aspect of the SCP's design was typically a sign that someone actually understood how that kind of presentation functions, adding more verisimilitude to the entry.
Happy Holidays Mangg! I hope you have a blessed holiday; thank you for all of the hard work. I know this year has been challenging for you and your channel but I really hope you feel how much your fans appreciate you
While I do like the longform writing that seems to define modern SCPs, there was a lot of good stuff which came from earlier entries, redactions and all. The puzzle-like way you have to take the knowledge you do have about the entry and try to fill in gaps is fun. Generally it makes sense for containment procedures to remain accessible, but if the SCP has mimetic effects, is a cognitohazard, or is easy enough to be exploited, keeping the description part of the document redacted make sense.
Iirc, apparently The Great Hippo said that while 4182's true nature is meant to be up for interpretation by the audience, with their own interpretation being only one possibility, their interpretation is that it was a death camp. The bodies ARE of foundation personnel though. Whatever happened down there, discovering it can rot your brain out as you process what happened. The site is on the real life Hashima Island where such crimes took place. The Foundation keeps rediscovering it and trying to cover it up more and more thoroughly, but people keep remembering and leaving clues for others to find. The documents aren't being altered by a real anomaly, people are just doing that. I think the idea that the necrosis is induced by discovering what happened there should be more explicitly explored in the article. There's no hint of that in the article so the author just saying "whatever they did was so horrifying it rots your brain out" seems a bit over-the-top. Other than that, I think it's a really interesting explanation with some neat historical parallels (that the author explained better than I am). I do have a slightly varied interpretation I figured I'd put forward. Namely, incorporating the video's interpretation that the anomaly is luring people in deliberately. I propose that this facility was related to either the Ichabod campaign or a similar campaign against anomalous individuals. Whatever anomalous properties these people had, they endure after death, and crates a presence that forces the information of what happened to them into the minds of any witnesses either because it's lashing out due to the sheer agony and rage of the victims or because it's desperate for someone to learn what happened to them and its method of telling them is just so aggressive it accidentally destroys the brains of those who try. In the case of a vengeful presence, I presume it has a memetic effect on people who learn of it to compel them to investigate and inform others too so they can be drawn in. The goal being to kill as many Foundation personnel as possible. In the case of a more desperate one who's not actually trying to kill anyone, I figure some agents are lucky enough to survive the process or perhaps not going too deep into the facility allowed them to get the information more safely. They then feel compelled to inform everyone else, not because they're forced to but because that's what you do when you learn about something like this.
Apologies if this is reductive but is the implication of 5790 not that a) it is possible for humans to apprehend the form/reality of a Real God and that b) attempting to render that form into informational media (including visual and conceptual imagination) in such a way that would intercede into worship of that god, e.g. a "false idol," attracts the attention and anger of that god? It's a little vague but the mention of "global-theological cultural shift" in particular suggests to me that the Foundation is considering the possibility of reorienting human religion to be incapable of producing an informational construct offensive to said divine being in the first place.
It was a brilliant idea to put redacted text in the title. I instinctually clicked it because my instincts to show spoilered text on discord kicked it.
First off, thank you and you’re welcome for the extra views, but I have tried to listen to this twice already to go to sleep and can never remember any of it. So it does appear to be very [REDACTED]. Here goes attempt 3!
Sorry, but I personally find redactions to be lazy 90% of the time. Sometimes they're perfect, rest is just people wanting everyone else to do the work.
What part of the fun with some of them is filling in the blanks with your own imagination because sometimes the stuff that we can come up in our imaginations is far more terrifying than what someone else can come up with. But you are right not always sometimes it's just lazy.
4182 is made even more disturbing when you take the author’s explanations into account. While The Great Hippo has made it clear they left the article open-ended to allow for varying interpretations, their personal explanation is that the facility wasn’t just for _storing_ those corpses. Site-5 was a place of genocide; those people didn’t just die from some random horrible anomaly, they were systematically slaughtered by the Foundation of the time, for reasons we can only imagine. The modern Foundation leadership is deeply horrified and ashamed of the actions of their predecessors, but rather than openly acknowledge and condemn those atrocities, they are trying to bury any evidence it ever happened, declaring the site nonexistent and claiming that any references to it are an anomalous issue with the database.
Personally I liked it a lot better before this explanation. One of the things I most consistently oppose about SCP writing is the portrayal of the Foundation as corrupt, selfish, incompetent, or otherwise no better than a Walmart corporation middle manager. This is a century-old international shadow agency with knowledge of Satan, Cthulhu, the Wendigo, the Fountain of Youth, and more; they're not going to be run by Captain Planet villains and they're not going to break every rule on the Evil Overlord Checklist when they hire subordinates. We've got enough human misery coming from the SCPs themselves; the Foundation, at every level above Senior Researcher if even that far down, should be sufficiently winnowed down to only the knowledgeable and competent, simply through the horrific deaths of anyone otherwise, that none of them are ever going to shoot themselves in the foot in the way that a lot of writers seemingly want them to (as if they didn't have the entire rest of the fictionverse to explore those tropes).
I have joked before that 'Redacted' translates as 'I couldn't be assed to write anything for this part', but these are golden. That said, I can;t recall which log it is in, but, I remember the stupidest, most pointless redaction I've seen was redacting the number designation of the D-class in the test, when, even without the incredible turnover for D-class in early Foundation writings, is pointless, as the numbers get reused as D-class expire.
Redactions should be used to cover up information that is critical to the foundation, stuff that could break the veil, expose the higher ups' misdeeds, or anything that could jeopardize containment procedures, and of course, memetic hazards, it shouldn't matters if some low level workers were to know the place of origin of the most destructive scp imaginable unless there are more specimens of that scp in that place, or if there's memetic hazards present, or if the information about its origin poses a significant geopolitical paradigm, it really pisses me off when there are redactions at random in articles in which nothing would change if the information was exposed.
*sees title*
"Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?"
*why do you need*
To do this. Just say the thing without the cringy roleplay shit.
@@Jayfive276 Stop acting like a *[REDACTED]* . An MTF is on its way to *[Your Momma Expunged]* .
Woah, captain buzzkill over here. 😩😩😩@@Jayfive276
@@Jayfive276its only cringe when ppl speak like that irl. In text form it can give context or make it more interesting.
@@Jayfive276 This is the internet, kiddo.
Funny enough, the SCP Wiki is a Bronze level sponsor of the Unicode Foundation for █ (U+2588), the Full block character.
What does that even mean lol
There is a nonprofit foundation that manages Uni code characters. This comment seems to be implying that the SCP wiki sponsors this foundation. Many foundations allow you to sponsor specific offerings of theirs.
@@grilledleeks6514 Unicode has an "Adopt a character" campaign which lets you donate to the Unicode Consortium to "preserve" and encode characters. In this case, bronze sponsorships are unlimited (I assume multiple people can adopt the same character?) and cost $100.
@@chinglebingle8243 I'll rephrase... what does "managing unicode characters" mean, and why would a wiki page care about sponsoring someone who does it?
@@grilledleeks6514 managing it means maintaining the standards for unicode. Like how we have standards organizations like the ISO for all sorts of things. They’re the people that decide when there is a new emoji, or a new character.
Unicode is the ‘unified code’ for all typed characters on computer systems in all commonly used languages.
The full character used for redactions in SCP articles is a unicode character, and they sponsor that foundation by sponsoring that one.
I’m at the limits of my knowledge. Google Unicode characters and the Unicode foundation.
Loved the part where ████████ ! Thx for the upload!
The most redacted and expunged moment 😂
7481 sounds like rapture, they use sin shampoo to indefinitely suspend rapture/ascension.
i'd say thats [Redacted]
A bold choice to upload a 39 minute and 58 second video of absolutely nothing
There's plenty of content, it's just all redacted.
Oh no that redacted earth
You don't got the clearance
But if anyone can pull that off, its our boy here! ❤
There was a sitcom that became wildly popular doing this for about 12 years, it was called Seinfeld.
29:21 "Negligible risk Necromancy" is gonna be the name of my metal band.
Personally I’m going with ‘Tactical Theology Division’
And they are a Christian Rock Band. Personally, I'd give them a listen. Just for the name alone.
I must resist making a redacted joke. No one else did.
@@SquirrellyTime holy shit you’re right 🤣
Damn.... I guess it really is [DATA EXPUNGED] all the way down...
@@SquirrellyTime *Laughs in [Redacted].
...... As you redact 😂 the one line joke.
@@SquirrellyTime Well I'll be damned. I guess it really is [DATA EXPUNGED] all the way down....
My favorite case of a nonsensical redaction was the fact that the Shy Guy's top speed was redacted. I always imagine some MTF commander flipping his lid at Dr. Gears for redacting that because now he doesn't know how much time he has until a nearby town get obliterated. Redactions are a useful tool, but it is important to remember that the Foundation is motivated to having useful information easily available to anyone with access. If something is redacted, it has to mean that the Foundation doesn't want its own employees to know that bit of info.
Knowing his top speed would make him weaponizable. If you know exactly how long it takes, you could work around it. On a meta level, it would make him less scary, require more effort, and leave him vulnerable to power scaling. "Oh, Superman could outrun him!" "Oh, he's unreasonably fast, there's no realism."
1: It is already weaponizable. 2: The foundation already works around it. It's kinda what they do. 3: The less scary argument doesn't really work for me. I feel "fear of the unknown" clashes really harshly against the format of SCP, for various reasons. 4: I do agree, it is a lot of work for something that can be covered just by saying "It's really fast, dude." It's an issue of writing this kind of thing.
@brianlewolfhunt The point of horror is that some portions are unexplainable or unknowable. Shy Guy feels more like a campfire story if no one knows how fast he is, and it makes no sense to clock a max speed for him when he could possibly exceed that in a new attempt. I'm sure the Thaumaturgy department has protocols against tempting fate by publishing what is essentially a dare to escape containment. If it minimizes casualties and prevents Chaos Insurgency tampering, the Foundation will do it. That's the in-universe explanation.
Having a max speed for the Inherited Dog, by contrast, has no risk as its mechanics are well understood and it can't be weaponized effectively.
You're assuming that the information is redacted for everyone. Redactions on documents are normally used when people not fully cleared to know that information can still access the document.
Basically: it's only redacted for us. People that need to know that information have access to it.
@JakesFavorites didn't know you could fit this much nonsense in a single comment
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Timestamps for those who keep falling asleep:
1. SCP-579 - Starts at 01:03
2. SCP-7481 - Starts at 06:39
3. SCP-8798 - Starts at 15:25
4. SCP-5790 - Starts at 23:25
5. SCP-4182 - Starts at 31:38
Whenever I can’t sleep I turn on this video and imagine myself being lightly cuddled and pat by the narrator while having the wiki explained to me (not gay tho)
Thank you!
@@RorysHappyHouselightly cuddled by the narrator? You're weird
and.....
6-SCP-04-CR4P - Work Starts at 08:00 !!!! Damn! iv done it again!
i felt called out a little
███████████████████████████████ █ ████████ May his empire rise and his enemies fall
No not the...eh...what was I afraid of again?
My name is *[DATA EXPUNGED]* . Look upon my works ye mighty and despair
I'd like to think that 8798-1 is likely... sense of humanity, or hope.
"Unexpected light in a cave" or whatever. "8798-1 used for aboveground power".
Hope or sense of humanity being exploited for those above humanity itself.
It seems that way to me. At least thats my interpretation.
I like this interpretation!
What interpretation? Every time I look at his comment it's nothing but squiggly lines. Also, my nose is bleeding but that's definitely unrelated.
Vikander Kneed's Feed N' Seed, formerly
The [DATA EXPUNGED] is a subtle meme
It’s a subtle [REDACTED]
Man I love chuck's
I can't believe he talked about ████████!!! Been waiting for this one!
Hey, spoilers!
I really like the idea of these ones. In a world where seeing, perceiving, thinking or simply being somewhat close to something can pose a gigantic risk, it makes sense that somethings are needed to be completely and totally removed from any method of learning about them. It will probably make more sense in universe to simply not designate any SCP number to something that kills you if you know about it, but I think a lot of the time scp's that are about their own redactions is very clever.
Get a load of this [REDACTED BY ORDER OF THE 05 COUNCIL]
Those plant families are Frankincense and Myrrh.
"The more you know..."
Thank you.
We three kings of orient are
"And I brought you... Myrrh."
"Thank you."
"Myrrh-dur!"
"Judas! N-"
@lyrics_m_sic absolutely brilliant. You made me laugh very hard
@@williamlazenby314 unfortunately not original. that's a quote from vine
Every time I'm reminded of these kind of articles, I remember that one Icarly meme where she's reading a completely expunged page while saying: "Interesting"
“Wide scale SCP-7481-1 contamination in Florida.”
Explains a lot. 😅
As a Floridian, the effects seem to be mostly concentrated in South FL 😂
*OH BOY! IT'S 3AM!!*
*MERRY CHRISTMAS FRENS!!*
I used to look at the redaction in the game control as an example of the worst of the type of redaction used in bad SCPS: it was often random, with seemingly useless info redacted (e.g. Alan Wake's wifes name is redacted only half the time) what I realised more recently is that its actually more in line with the FBC, neing a realistic organisation that is still clearly held together with duct tape and prayers. There is no consistent use because the different departments dont communicate, they each do their own thing.
That’s an interesting point! The Foundation have it easy. Their Sites aren’t Anomalous themselves! “Usually”
I like the idea of 579 being the ultimate memetic hazard. It also makes sense given how the Foundation considered terminating those who knew enough about it to create its containment procedures and how any group outside of the Foundation knowing about it can lead to a breach. It either is incredibly deadly and grows more deadly the more people know about it or it can infect people via knowledge about it and cause something bad enough to destroy an entire site.
IMO things like The Pattern Screamer do a better job of this sort of thing compared to 579's blunt force approach. I don't think there's any solid reason for thinking it's memetic.
How strange that you uploaded an entirely blank video for todays upload!
Yup
would make for a killer april fools joke though.
College's been rough. Needed some time to relax so thank you for the upload
Hoping you made it through alright, bro. Just keep on keeping on, and know that you're gonna do great.
This guy's commitment is insane. Seriously, making a nearly 40 minute video of continuous beeping is both ambitious and thematically relevant! Bravo, Mr Series!
The craziest thing I learned from this video is that there's 8k SCPs now. I'm old as hell I remember when 3 and 4k were a big thing
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@@FiveHundredHungryGhosts {redacted redaction re-redacted in iteration .52 .16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.16.
*inhales* F[redacted]!
0:06 we went from simple containment procedures that would look at home in a file storage center of some government buidling, to ever-expanding SCP's with containment procedures, exploration logs, etc. That are the size of a small novel and then some. We went from short and simple procedures to enormous and wonderful stories, and I love how far we've come.
Good timing, just finished reading "Theres no Antimemetics Division". At first I thought the whole blanking out parts the text would annoying, but IMO it works better in real life/on real paper than on the internet. (Theres multiple SCP books/stories on Amazon btw, great reads for the psych ward!)
(21:15) Your ability to convey the chilling atmosphere of SCP-8798's containment measures is truly remarkable. Excellent work!
It's redacted 'O clock!
I think 5790 is actually the "information's afterlife", or at least, that's the part that interests the foundation. Information that nobody remembers (such as antimemes or reality prior to some warping) would be hood to have access to, that's why they talk od mediums and "necromancy", they are talking to the soul of information.
i suggest that an unredacted name for this information afterlife could be the river Lethe, from greek mythology.
not at all because i'm obsessed with the concept of a river that consumes memories, and is therefore filled with lost knowledge (or maybe filters that knowledge into Mnemosyne, the river of memory). maybe the waters of Lethe are even a source of amnestics. and the theological suppression could be related to keeping the implication of Hades being real from spreading. since proof of a specific afterlife would mean some acknowledgment (and giving power to) that pantheon of gods. i'd personally be willing redact a lot of shit to keep zeus from walking the earth.
edit: this is partially with the assumption that this scp universe has covered up the idea of greek (and possibly roman by extension) mythology. maybe the hellenic pantheon in this world had some cognitohazardous powers, or the gods' power was fueled by knowledge and belief, so the only way to contain it is to hide it.
speculation is fun
29:30 this part kinda refutes my theory, but also the foundation is not above lying
31:26 this is the part that made me think of the amnestics source thing, as well as the implication of its twin river containing memory storing properties
That second scp is such a weird one but I love it. Thanks for talking about these 🙏😃
Love your narrations. Always. I wish you a lovely and happy new year.
Oooo fun idea for something to go wrong. What if an info hazard or antiemetic entity made it into an afterlife and started devouring souls because the foundation stored information related too it in an afterlife
SCP 5790 is an interesting one because it's just 579 with an extra 0. We've seen a similar pattern with SCP 682 and SCP 6820 where the latter was a document from an alternate foundation depicting their attempt of neutralizing scp 682
In this case, 5790 is heavily indulgent on theology and the collective human consciousness. Based off of the role of SCP 579 in SCP 5000, where the foundation had discovered a danger present in the collective human consciousness and had decided to kill all humans. But the suit guided the main character of that document to reset the universe using 579. This leads me to believe that 5790 is probably the article where the foundation attempt to neutralize 579 be aise over here, they try to control all the information on 5790 and redact everything, which kinda sounds like you're trying to kill a god by cutting it's faith.
579 also might have its own connection to religion in some way as the mention of "Action Israfil" suggests, Israfil being an archangel in Islamic faith.
The list of effects that 7481 has on people is giving me total Apature Science testing vibes 😂
I just love every time you say 'let's take a brief intermisson for a good'ol exploration log' the best! :)
That or at least redacted for comedic effects such as censorship of slur or to change the context of a situation
14:57 Hey that's the HRA lab from Control 👀
I liked the video! The title was a nice touch, expunged and redacted.
Now I think of that meme of the food and the guy saying: "Do you know what you are doing? This is a carcinogen."
The greatest cause of death is life, I hear
It’s 3 am you know what that means
MAN MADE HORRORS BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION!!!YAY!!!
Hearing your english has helped me do my essays really informative
Merry Christmas, TES!
So SCP-7481 affects involves the seven deadly sins? Pride, wrath, gluttony, sloth, lust, envy, and greed
Sounds similar to scp-1133 a medical device that extracts and injects liquid sin from humans
@@gc6096 7481 might be someone’s attempt to add onto that SCP
Although not strictly an SCP object, I'd really like to know once and for all what the Pestilence is that SCP-049 claims to be fighting. My hypothesis is that it is Sin.
Could be SCP 2718 or the entity from 5000, perhaps those two are related?
So SCP 7481 explains why Florida always gets the reputation of "crazy" or "different"😂
Just what i needed: nothing
I suppose 7481 is a fairly unique SCP in that there's no description of it, but rather it's described by what is used to contain it. Additionally, with the document requiring LV3/RAPTURE to fully view and the mention of a K-Class scenario, it's fairly clear that SCP-7481 is The Rapture, or some similar theological event that only occurs when "cumulative sin" is below a certain threshold, only occurs to individuals below a certain sin threshold, or other similar criteria. The idea that the Foundation is combating the very rapture itself in order to keep humanity stable by forcefully introducing sin to humanity is... heavy, for sure
Oh hell yeah, here early. Love ya, man! I always look forward to your uploads. Thank you so so much for everything you do.
So detailed and intricate! I love how everything was explained so thoroughly.
I can't help but feel like this is a subtle jab at us for only watching the SCP videos and not responding as well to ExploringSeries other recent ventures into other realms of lore.
OH BOY ITS 12AM
WEST COASTER SPOTTED
Expecting something critical but I enjoyed hearing how redactions can be creatively used
What a [REDACTED] video! Keep up the good work!
Oh boy exactly what I wanted for Christmas 🎁 Merry Christmas Exploring Series!
"Can't fit square pegs in round holes. Can't fit round pegs in square holes." - SCP-001 "Keter Duty"
Just started watching and remembered a classic SCP that actually redacts documents
08:25 I beg to differ, I don't consider silver to be a chemically inert metal like gold and platinum. It does oxidize and chemically alter into other compounds.
Thank you, that was bugging me as well. But I question blends of material, like does Stirling silver work given it doesn't oxidize like pure silver?
Keep up the amazing work !! You're one of my favorite RUclipsrs
There's something surreal in the fact that a major spill of 7481 in Europe and South America can be helped with a football game
bless your heart Mangg
The redacted era was the best era of SCP.
Redaction takes actual intelligence to use in order for the article to be actually intelligible. I've read SCP's where they just use it willy-nilly in order to appear "mysterious," when all it actually did was render the premise of the entire subject either terribly obnoxious to read, or missing the point of redaction entirely. Actually talented use of it as a mechanical aspect of the SCP's design was typically a sign that someone actually understood how that kind of presentation functions, adding more verisimilitude to the entry.
The mining one is basically the Star Trek TOS episode "The Cloud Minders", minus the floating cities and Kirk saving the day.
Happy Holidays Mangg! I hope you have a blessed holiday; thank you for all of the hard work. I know this year has been challenging for you and your channel but I really hope you feel how much your fans appreciate you
You typed Merry Christmas. That is appreciated.
Hope we’ll get to hear about the phobia anthology next year
A nice look into the more mysterious side of the wiki.
Thank you. This was very informative.
While I do like the longform writing that seems to define modern SCPs, there was a lot of good stuff which came from earlier entries, redactions and all. The puzzle-like way you have to take the knowledge you do have about the entry and try to fill in gaps is fun. Generally it makes sense for containment procedures to remain accessible, but if the SCP has mimetic effects, is a cognitohazard, or is easy enough to be exploited, keeping the description part of the document redacted make sense.
I think it’d be hilarious if this whole video was completely silent with no pictures after he says the title
A Reduckted SCP might pay the bill, but you should always expect fowl play.
The classic [DATA EXPUNGED]. Never fails.
Iirc, apparently The Great Hippo said that while 4182's true nature is meant to be up for interpretation by the audience, with their own interpretation being only one possibility, their interpretation is that it was a death camp. The bodies ARE of foundation personnel though. Whatever happened down there, discovering it can rot your brain out as you process what happened. The site is on the real life Hashima Island where such crimes took place. The Foundation keeps rediscovering it and trying to cover it up more and more thoroughly, but people keep remembering and leaving clues for others to find. The documents aren't being altered by a real anomaly, people are just doing that.
I think the idea that the necrosis is induced by discovering what happened there should be more explicitly explored in the article. There's no hint of that in the article so the author just saying "whatever they did was so horrifying it rots your brain out" seems a bit over-the-top. Other than that, I think it's a really interesting explanation with some neat historical parallels (that the author explained better than I am).
I do have a slightly varied interpretation I figured I'd put forward. Namely, incorporating the video's interpretation that the anomaly is luring people in deliberately. I propose that this facility was related to either the Ichabod campaign or a similar campaign against anomalous individuals. Whatever anomalous properties these people had, they endure after death, and crates a presence that forces the information of what happened to them into the minds of any witnesses either because it's lashing out due to the sheer agony and rage of the victims or because it's desperate for someone to learn what happened to them and its method of telling them is just so aggressive it accidentally destroys the brains of those who try.
In the case of a vengeful presence, I presume it has a memetic effect on people who learn of it to compel them to investigate and inform others too so they can be drawn in. The goal being to kill as many Foundation personnel as possible. In the case of a more desperate one who's not actually trying to kill anyone, I figure some agents are lucky enough to survive the process or perhaps not going too deep into the facility allowed them to get the information more safely. They then feel compelled to inform everyone else, not because they're forced to but because that's what you do when you learn about something like this.
I love these videos about types of scps
Apologies if this is reductive but is the implication of 5790 not that a) it is possible for humans to apprehend the form/reality of a Real God and that b) attempting to render that form into informational media (including visual and conceptual imagination) in such a way that would intercede into worship of that god, e.g. a "false idol," attracts the attention and anger of that god? It's a little vague but the mention of "global-theological cultural shift" in particular suggests to me that the Foundation is considering the possibility of reorienting human religion to be incapable of producing an informational construct offensive to said divine being in the first place.
Thank you Mangg for the upload. Please have a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2025! 🎊 🎉
Remember, if you feel like you in a bad timeline, just try putting square pegs in round holes and the timeline will reset
Thank you for [DATA EXPUNGED]
Ha! I was hoping a video like this would be made! Must’ve been difficult to research.
Man this makes me feel [DATA EXPUNGED]
It was a brilliant idea to put redacted text in the title. I instinctually clicked it because my instincts to show spoilered text on discord kicked it.
If you're reading this,SCP 579 is you.The power is in your hands to end this all and start again.
7481 sounds like some kind of corporeal hellfire.
Dr. [Redacted]: Hahaaha, im not the only one! now where i left that chainsaw cannon
This just reminded me of the Dr. Bright list entry that just says: "[REDACTED]! [REDACTED] hard!"
I was expecting this to be 40 minutes of the tv bleep sound.
First off, thank you and you’re welcome for the extra views, but I have tried to listen to this twice already to go to sleep and can never remember any of it. So it does appear to be very [REDACTED]. Here goes attempt 3!
I looove what you did with the title!!!
notice how noone cares
@basic6735 notice how noone cares
Why have I been sitting at this terminal for forty minutes?
I'm sure the Isle of Anomalous Waste is a big reason why the Foundation would rather not destroy what they contain.
We gonna [redacted] with this one!
I'd love to see a compilation of cognitohazard SCPs
Hey, I really enjoyed the [redacted]
Something about a Department of Tactical Theology sounds so metal.
OH BOY IT'S ████████
lol perfect
Sorry, but I personally find redactions to be lazy 90% of the time. Sometimes they're perfect, rest is just people wanting everyone else to do the work.
At least "site-5" is really redacted
Yap Yap yap
What part of the fun with some of them is filling in the blanks with your own imagination because sometimes the stuff that we can come up in our imaginations is far more terrifying than what someone else can come up with. But you are right not always sometimes it's just lazy.
4182 is made even more disturbing when you take the author’s explanations into account. While The Great Hippo has made it clear they left the article open-ended to allow for varying interpretations, their personal explanation is that the facility wasn’t just for _storing_ those corpses. Site-5 was a place of genocide; those people didn’t just die from some random horrible anomaly, they were systematically slaughtered by the Foundation of the time, for reasons we can only imagine. The modern Foundation leadership is deeply horrified and ashamed of the actions of their predecessors, but rather than openly acknowledge and condemn those atrocities, they are trying to bury any evidence it ever happened, declaring the site nonexistent and claiming that any references to it are an anomalous issue with the database.
Well, they had to do something about 1680
@@Metal_Mayhem2024 Lmao
Personally I liked it a lot better before this explanation. One of the things I most consistently oppose about SCP writing is the portrayal of the Foundation as corrupt, selfish, incompetent, or otherwise no better than a Walmart corporation middle manager. This is a century-old international shadow agency with knowledge of Satan, Cthulhu, the Wendigo, the Fountain of Youth, and more; they're not going to be run by Captain Planet villains and they're not going to break every rule on the Evil Overlord Checklist when they hire subordinates. We've got enough human misery coming from the SCPs themselves; the Foundation, at every level above Senior Researcher if even that far down, should be sufficiently winnowed down to only the knowledgeable and competent, simply through the horrific deaths of anyone otherwise, that none of them are ever going to shoot themselves in the foot in the way that a lot of writers seemingly want them to (as if they didn't have the entire rest of the fictionverse to explore those tropes).
I have joked before that 'Redacted' translates as 'I couldn't be assed to write anything for this part', but these are golden. That said, I can;t recall which log it is in, but, I remember the stupidest, most pointless redaction I've seen was redacting the number designation of the D-class in the test, when, even without the incredible turnover for D-class in early Foundation writings, is pointless, as the numbers get reused as D-class expire.
Redactions should be used to cover up information that is critical to the foundation, stuff that could break the veil, expose the higher ups' misdeeds, or anything that could jeopardize containment procedures, and of course, memetic hazards, it shouldn't matters if some low level workers were to know the place of origin of the most destructive scp imaginable unless there are more specimens of that scp in that place, or if there's memetic hazards present, or if the information about its origin poses a significant geopolitical paradigm, it really pisses me off when there are redactions at random in articles in which nothing would change if the information was exposed.
Always remember: to save all existence, you must R E D A C T E D
This is what happens when you have grok write an scp......🌚😵🙃