On the contrary, I wish Star Wars was accurately described like this so more people could realize how ridiculous and uncreative the entire franchise is. For something as popular as "Star Wars" to be considered by many "Sci-Fi", rather than sheer unapologetic fantasy, is tragic. Rememberance of Earth's Past, the Hyperion Cantos, Blindsight, Echopraxia, The Martian, Interstellar.. These are all Sci-Fi. Star Wars is the equivalent of a man-child playing with action figures and centering a camera on it.
@@stevenhetzel6483 I agree that Star Wars is fantasy, but something being lighthearted fantasy does not make it bad. In fact, I think this is the main problem with the sequel and prequel trilogies. Star Wars was always meant to be a callback to the Pulpy movie serials where the question is never whether the good guys win but how it will happen. Same with Indiana Jones. Not everything has to be complicated or morally ambiguous. I think Jon Favreau is the only person working on the later franchise who really understands this.
I like how the anomalies only began to be seen in 2008, the same time as when the SCP Wiki was founded. By becoming a fictional universe, the threat also came into existence,
/u/Chaltak here. I am so honored and flattered that something I wrote made it into a Volgun video! Thank you so much for making such an incredible and professional video on a fascinating SCP. Edit: I think people are confused. A different author (minmin) wrote 2747, I wrote the SCP Declassified article explaining it which Volgun reads from in the second half.
@player penguin :D nah they made a reddit threat explaining the SCP document. They wrote the "extra credit" part TheVolgun read through Great explanation of the SCP article though. I understood most of it but the explanation reddit post clarified a few things I missed/overlooked
Maybe this has been mentioned but the extra credit is missing a major, and I think the surprise twist, point to this entry. This entry itself is an infected document. There are stories within stories, there is an ominous, unknowable antagonist, the text has been changed to make it more antagonistic (it reclassifies itself Keter black) and the promised containment protocol, B, turns out in the end to be empty. It's honestly one of the best gotchas I have seen.
Not containment, but the document about the results of identifying the actual thing. The entire article is a metanarrative for which the narrative doesn't exist. Yeah, it's self referential.
If you want to apply the rules here in a really metanarrative within narrative within narrative sense, the SCP Foundation itself does 'seem' like a manifestation of SCP-2747. A website dedicated to cataloguing a narrative made up of narratives within narratives, concepts and ideas. One of the examples toward the end does almost seem like a pretty direct reference to that.
Struck the right balance of. 1. Seeming like something an organization that processes a lot of information like this would actually do and 2. Being creepy af.
I don't like it. I use these videos to help me fall asleep at night and the artificial voice is loud and jarring compared to the rest of the reading :(
My favorite type of SCP: Smart, mysterious, no apparent "oh no it's a big monster" and the file itself might be part of the entity - this is great writing! Thank you for narrating it!
The extra credit has actually become my favorite parts aof the videos lately. Learning the scientology tye in to the acp where celebs shoot smoke out their mouth was super neat.
@@jwalster9412 Mainly because it's fucking stupid? Which nothing will fuck that other nothing? Remember that time those two nothings were getting flirty that time? I wrote a fan fiction about how nothing A pounded nothing B until she passed out. Describing imaginary and non-existent relationships between two descriptions of sentient beings that only hold value to the fans who partake in the non-existent work of fiction to make their own extra non-existent version of "fucktion".
Another recurring theme in the deleted works not mentioned is the recurrance of the number seven. Given the association of this number in the SCP universe to the Scarlet King ("seven brides, seven chains, seven seal for the Scarlet King") who is according to his SCP-001 entry a metaphysical metanarrative spontaneously generated to destroy the Foundation's baseline universe in mutual annihilation this lends credence to the idea that SCP-2747 is a manifestation of that entity working to enter the SCP universe.
Or in another canon, 2747 is its own entity and controls the number 7, and is at war with fifthism/3125, the one who owns the number 5. I recommend reading 'Why is Five Afraid of Seven.' or 'Fifthdation'. Or in another SCP I forgot which, the Anafabula trapped the Scarlet King inside its own story, leading the King to give up and realizing the number 7 was never his, but the queen in black robes.
100%; specifically the 001 proposal's "black wind/howling" buried and ambiguously false fiction; it's the space left behind by the idea of the scarlet king that lived only ever as a cast shadow, devouring every narrative reflection of itself in every direction like the goddamn Langoliers. Or, more aptly and directly - like the empty charred space spiralling blackly out behind the racing line of scarlet cinder as it blossoms across the parchment of reality from wherever Mr. Butterfingers dropped the narrative obliterating match. Hell, it could be the natural consequence in-universe of 110-Montauk concluding. Or even just of its conclusion being forecast.
Thank you. I will look them up. Also, I like the idea of the Scarlet King and the Black Queen discovering love through their mutual passion of cosmic destruction and becoming a terrifying powerful couple. Just imagine the kids.
Also, the first concept of SCP-3125 being at war with SCP-2747 still works if 2747 is an aspect of the King. And given the nature of the King, even if 2747 wasn't originally the King, if enough people believe that 2747 is the King it will retroactively become true.
In theory, if the Foundation can make the Anafabula meet the right prerequisites then they can make the Anafabula into the part of the Narritive that its trying to remove. It would require some extreme manipulation of the meta of "our" Narritive, but it is possible if we can put all of the pieces in the right places. Once we identify the Narines that facilitate the Anafabula's occurance and dicate its target, we set up the factors such that the Narines that cause Anafabula's occurrence match with the Narines that dictate the Anafabula's target, causing it to target itself and hopefully remove itself from our Narritive Layer, which would prevent it from reaching higher layers of the Narritive and stopping it from causing cascading Narrative disruptions stemming from a higher Layer that we cannot effect.
@@jeremiahwallace2275 Set up the scenario in a manner that causes the fiction-erasing being to see itself as the fiction it needs to erase before it can reach a reality in which we are the fiction its erasing.
It's a bit confusing because why would it even say appendix B or data lost? All the rest of the fictional fictions just kinda trailed off and ended with no warning. They didn't have a specific point of "stuff should be here but it's not for no reason." This would have been an opportunity to make less sense in order to make more sense. As in no mention of appendix B at the end at all and Appendix A just kinda stops mid sentence.
"A bit" confusing? The IQ required to read the original article is well above average. I'm above average, and I wouldnt be able to understand it without quite a bit of work if the "extra credit" section wasnt there to help fill me in.
@@CodeguruX Well, some of them did. The video game reviews said it was glitchy and incomplete, with data missing that seemed like it should have been there. The Radiohead album is only six tracks, and reviews say that it felt like it fell short, as it never quite touched upon a center, which could be referring to a 7th track that had already disappeared when those reviews were written. I think the way it works is that a work of fiction exists in a sort-of complete form (while still having the idea of whatever dark emptiness there is inside it.) Then that part of the fiction disappears, and the work around it feels less complete. And then the whole fiction disappears, leaving only the online commentary.
@@CodeguruX the idea is that the anomaly is some kind of narrative that erases itself from its fictional medium, and appendix b ended up recreating the narrative by recording enough of its traits so it was erased. appendix a includes just enough hints of what it is without containing the anomaly itself, basically like a spaceship circling a black hole while appendix b got too close and was sucked in
Kind of surreal to hear things I actually recognize and find familiar in this one, especially the Something Awful forums. Normally I only loosely recognize irl references in SCPs, or don't recognize any at all, but this one felt the most real world to me of the ones I've read/listened to.
The Satoshi Kon one was my favorite of them all, because it’s just similar enough to movies he’s actually made, (Paranoia Agent, for example) to sound familiar.
I legit am going through that SCP on my next lunch hour to better understand why those sounded so familiar. If there were just referring to specific material or if are criteria met by multiple sources. I suspect the later.
When I heard Bloemfontein and the SCP infected Afrikaans culture I snapped to attention. Usually we are so far removed from the world scene, the world passes us by. Now the horror hit close to home. For a split second I was terrified.
Highly recommend the book mentioned in the extra credits "House of Leaves". It's got several meta layer stories going on, but the main story about the house is the filmmaker gets a house and a door appears which leads to a hallway that defys physics and the house keeps getting bigger in the inside. It eventually bend a labyrinth. It's very much SCP adjacent.
I'm kind of curious how long ago you decided to cover this one. This coming out so soon after Goncharov absolutely blowing up on Tumblr is just so perfect. Also as an aside, I liked how you fit in the footnotes for this.
I have never seen an episode of "Extra Credit" before. I was just about to ask it the Volgen just did it once for this entry. Which would fit the whole meta-fiction deletion theme. Especially if he later deleted that part of the video so that some people remember it but it no longer exists.
I gotta say, 'Extra Credit' adds to the narrative and help explain a few words that I didn't quite understand, greatly enhancing my enjoyment of the stories- stories I'd already have to read manually if it weren't for videos like these. It adds more than just a little bit at the end, or in this case double the playtime, it adds to my initial understanding of the story. If you could make more standalone Extra Credit videos covering videos you've already done, that would be amazing. There's more than a handful of them that I felt ended abruptly because I just didn't quite understand the narrative of the story itself, but understood the story as a whole.
The scp foundation is aware that they are a work of fiction written by authors. Its one of the original scp proposals as well as being referenced or used in multiple scp.
I really like the idea of this one. A story that doesn’t exist which hides inside descriptions of other thematically related stories which also don’t exist?
Its waaaay more concerning than that. The stories *DID* exist at some point but they contained some specific incompatible combination of features that caused the story to destroy itself and be wiped from the above layer of fiction while leaving behind traces of it that eventually disappear as well. Basically its a story that quite literally cannot exist and will destroy everything around it to remain non-existant leaving only some lingering references to it with vague details. The SCP universe itself is a work of fiction (which the top levels of the scp foundation are aware of) and at the end in attachment B having been both the results of researching this phenomenon and the fact that the data has disappeared strongly implies that the foundation has accidently recreated that specific combination and now their own universe is potentially going to erase itself..
I think this article is the foundation realizing it's fiction, but at one point was not fiction, along with all of its anomalies, which are stories within a story that are partially erased from existence, but not fully.
@@rwberger6 the foundation did exist, but it accidentally erased it's self and the only remaining part of the SCP wiki, which it's self is a work of fiction within fiction that technically has the variables to erase itself??
It's definitely worse... It's an Anti Narrative that attacks any fictional narrative that tries to explain it. Even if it's inside another fictional narrative itself . The first narrative existed, but it just removed when attacked by 2747 out of existence... Clean slate, if the narrative that has it also tried to explain it, it will be attacked by the Anti narrative, 2747
Thank goodness for the extra credit bc i decided to watch this while working and that was a lot of big words to think abt. Also “shipping commences” in a low voice got me busting out laughing
Fantastic! Don’t think I’m alone in stating that the “extra credit” added a great deal of understanding to the original article. I thought I had a grasp on it but realized I missed about half of what was going on after the explanation.
No actually. Goncharov is missing 3 things of this SCP: no fractals, no manifestation of the scp like the villain or the anti narrative, and no ambiguous ending or one where the narrative is “eaten by itself”.(Goncharov conclusively ends with his death)
The Pattern Screamers are legit the scariest thing to come from the SCP setting. Malevolent information that seeks to be unmade by destroying every being that perceives it... That's some good horror.
@@damiendean90 You tend to see their echoes in anything that's sufficiently complex and involving anti-memes, narrative transcendence, and malevolent (rather than merely hazardous) information. It's a bit of a classic horror trope too, "Once you know it, it can hurt you".
Have you done Extra Credit sections before? I don't remember any such section in your videos previously... Either way, that was super fun! I don't think I ever quite pieced together that the Foundation had caught on to it, or exactly what was going on, so this was a nice addition! Lets you actually put together what's happening. I hope we get this for any future convoluted skips.
I just found the time to watch your Star Signals video last night so this an excellent double treat. You really make some of the best content I have ever seen on youtube and I really mean that. Thank you for all the excellent videos over the years.
Spookier when you realize the scp universe itself is a work of fiction (and it being a work of fiction is actually about as canon as things can be in the scp site) and by studying this scp and trying to accurately describe it they accidently released a fiction destroying narrative into their own fictional universe.
The extra credits part is my favorite part. I hope you keep it up because you really help me understand what’s going on and sometimes it gets way scarier.
I was initially pretty bummed out because after hearing the January 2008 date, I assumed that it was just another meta article about the foundation finding second hand references to itself in-universe. VERY pleasantly suprised with how damn deep the rabbithole went, great article and as always a great reading.
This content just keeps getting better and better. The addiation of the Extra Credits section was illuminated. Thanks for what you've done, and please keep on keepin' on.
I like the repeated references to the number 7 which implies that the crimson king, or the concept of the crimson king is a part of the anafabula (possibly the antagonist). This especially works as the only description of the crimson king comes from other people talking about the crimson king.
I have no idea what this video is about or what it is but it is extremely informative and interesting. Edit: well I think I got it. The Foundation knows they are in a fictional world and they want to keep the status quo as is which is crazy.
Basically its a story that erases itself from the "above" layer of narrative and leaves only vague references behind. The scp universe being a work of fiction could also be destroyed if this story happens to manifest in their universe. So of course by studying it they accidently create the story, which depending on your interpretation either erased just part of the file or potentially is starting to erase the scp universe as well.
Feels like it’s manifesting itself into our universe and it’s erasing things lol probably because we clicked this video to keep the narrative going. It sounds like it all leads to death though. No matter what universe it’s in.
You deserve the doctor. Your content has always been among my favorites and somehow you still keep improving. Thanks for so many great (listening mostly while diy) hours.
So, this SCP can create instances of shipping from media that was annihilated from possible existence? this isn't the effect of an SCP, this is an effect of the internet.
I love this scp and this recording, because any time i try to sit down and listen or read it i get immediately dissociative and subconciously focus on anything else
Not exactly, it's pieces of fiction that are made which have some combination of elements that cause them to be incompatible with reality. One of these elements is a metastory, or in other words a story existing inside the story. The implication being that since SCP is fictional, the nature of this SCP with infect their universe and destroy it.
@TheVolgun been watching for years and youre my favourite creator. Youve been consistent in your videos (which i know you hold to very high standards) which make it so easy to listen to, and understand, scp’s without spending hours on the wiki. Your channel is amazing and you should be proud of yourself.
TL;DR at the bottom I've got a theory on this one. The destruction of a fictional work based on its inability to be completed properly mirrors a lot of real life creators experiences: burnout. an artist who struggles to finish a piece might completely erase a drawing. A writer who can't come to a conclusion despite hours, days, weeks, etc. of hard work could completely restart, deleting the original. This could be why the narratives we find this SCP in all share the same tropes. Giant monolithic mountains that one can't get closer to, being unable to finish a piece on a deadline, the issues with the Radiohead album all being in post-production. Daunting tasks that have no reward in sight. The themes of darkness, shadow, and destroying fictional works also make sense. To use the base phrase, "as above, so below." The mindscape of the creator would be reflected in the work. If you're tired, angry, or sad due to the work you're doing, those tropes and narremes are likely to enter into your piece, even if by accident. This even makes sense given the (likely) timeline of when this SCP would be written. This is a Series III entry, and if it was written when Series III was still being filled (instead of replacing a deleted or archived one), it was written when the SCP wiki was just figuring out where to go from just being a database of weird monsters and quirky items. For new authors trying to write something with more substance and less invincible reptiles, this could feel nearly impossible. Admittedly, I made a few assumptions about what some of the themes of this article mean, but I think it's pretty sound. TL;DR everything here is burnt out artists destroying their work, but spooky.
It definitely feels like it was written by a younger or less experienced author. References to Satoshi Kon and Radiohead might be indicative of the author’s tastes (it’s good taste, certainly…). Lost/ media rabbit holes are particularly interesting the more in depth they are. The music group Coil (I believe both main members have passed) worked on a soundtrack for the Hellraiser film, but it was cancelled at some point. The demos are still available to listen to. Some inspiration from a real world occurrence might be very interesting. Henry Darger, TempleOS, any well known “outsider” art might be a good reference for a media anomaly SCP. But it’s a popular topic these days, this story might have been on the precipice of the boom in appreciation for lost, obscure, and outsider art.
I appreciate the extra credit so much. I didn't really understand everything the first time around so I only saw it as "people reference fiction that didn't exist". I didn't see the recursive destruction aspect of it. Scary stuff.
I never made the connection that the anafabula could destroy the foundation's reality. I originally thought they were keeping an eye on it because it was taking existing fictions and non-existing them. Thank you for the inclusion of the extra credits, Volgun.
Was anyone else struck by how this could effectively be a version of that one SCP who was created to be able to exist on all levels of reality at once having just gone so far up that he's started coming back up from below again?
I have been following your content for so long now it seems and it just gets leaps and bounds better with every video. Very well done sir i think this is my favorite SCP from you.
Sometimes I wonder if I am dumb listening to reality warping/metaphysical scp's or if I'm just blown away by the implications. Once explained by the extra credits section I completely understood it, but during the initial lecture I was semi lost with an overwhelming sense of impending doom thinking to myself, "why does this remind me of vacuum decay?". To be fair, that is pretty much what this scp is, a metaphysical version of vacuum decay.
Darkness and shadows are a motif of the anafabula, eh? I think the real question we should be asking is: . . . . . . . . . . . DOES THE BLACK MOON HOWL?
I'm at 7:33 and I'm calling it, SCP 2747 is just a bunch of Cognitohazard SCPs that were redacted by the congnitohazard division and this indirect evidence of their existence was uncovered by another division.
"Farm boy destroys moon hammer with space magic."
Damn y'all didn't have to do Star Wars like that.
On the contrary, I wish Star Wars was accurately described like this so more people could realize how ridiculous and uncreative the entire franchise is.
For something as popular as "Star Wars" to be considered by many "Sci-Fi", rather than sheer unapologetic fantasy, is tragic.
Rememberance of Earth's Past, the Hyperion Cantos, Blindsight, Echopraxia, The Martian, Interstellar.. These are all Sci-Fi.
Star Wars is the equivalent of a man-child playing with action figures and centering a camera on it.
@@stevenhetzel6483cry more
He said planet smasher but yeah
@@stevenhetzel6483 geez man it's a story it's not real. you sound like it killed your family.
@@stevenhetzel6483 I agree that Star Wars is fantasy, but something being lighthearted fantasy does not make it bad. In fact, I think this is the main problem with the sequel and prequel trilogies. Star Wars was always meant to be a callback to the Pulpy movie serials where the question is never whether the good guys win but how it will happen. Same with Indiana Jones. Not everything has to be complicated or morally ambiguous. I think Jon Favreau is the only person working on the later franchise who really understands this.
I like how the anomalies only began to be seen in 2008, the same time as when the SCP Wiki was founded. By becoming a fictional universe, the threat also came into existence,
In the scp 3125 page, mid 2008 is also described as the peak of anti memetics research
there are some that are older I think
I believe the term is "pataphysics"; the story becomes real.
/u/Chaltak here. I am so honored and flattered that something I wrote made it into a Volgun video! Thank you so much for making such an incredible and professional video on a fascinating SCP.
Edit: I think people are confused. A different author (minmin) wrote 2747, I wrote the SCP Declassified article explaining it which Volgun reads from in the second half.
It was a lot of fun, well done!
Thanks to your explanation, the real SCP-2747 document can be stored among "Explained" shelf. 🍵
Final Assessment: Explained
YOUR THE CREATOR?! Cool
@player penguin :D nah they made a reddit threat explaining the SCP document. They wrote the "extra credit" part TheVolgun read through
Great explanation of the SCP article though. I understood most of it but the explanation reddit post clarified a few things I missed/overlooked
That one about the dream entity describing the earth sounds like something that I'd love to read
Maybe this has been mentioned but the extra credit is missing a major, and I think the surprise twist, point to this entry. This entry itself is an infected document. There are stories within stories, there is an ominous, unknowable antagonist, the text has been changed to make it more antagonistic (it reclassifies itself Keter black) and the promised containment protocol, B, turns out in the end to be empty. It's honestly one of the best gotchas I have seen.
Not containment, but the document about the results of identifying the actual thing. The entire article is a metanarrative for which the narrative doesn't exist.
Yeah, it's self referential.
I was going to say, is this video an example? Cuz it feels like it is lol
It doesn't miss it, that's it's conclusion at the end, that the anafabula erased appendix B.
If you want to apply the rules here in a really metanarrative within narrative within narrative sense, the SCP Foundation itself does 'seem' like a manifestation of SCP-2747. A website dedicated to cataloguing a narrative made up of narratives within narratives, concepts and ideas. One of the examples toward the end does almost seem like a pretty direct reference to that.
technically any reference back to the contaminated story would itself feel like an instance of its effect.
hypothetically in theory
Dude the addition of the artificial voice for the footnotes is super underrated!! It just adds a level of immersion that is so cool!
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Struck the right balance of. 1. Seeming like something an organization that processes a lot of information like this would actually do and 2. Being creepy af.
I don't like it. I use these videos to help me fall asleep at night and the artificial voice is loud and jarring compared to the rest of the reading :(
My favorite type of SCP: Smart, mysterious, no apparent "oh no it's a big monster" and the file itself might be part of the entity - this is great writing! Thank you for narrating it!
*Big monster*
Oh so this is the SCP that’s hit Tumblr for some reason the last two months. Good to know. Wonder why this SCP sounded so familiar.
I don't know what you mean, Goncharov is an actual movie, it just bombed initially
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THE GREATEST MAFIA MOVIE EVER MADE
"Time waits for no man, goncharov"
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@@clowntown3 why would he be talking about that?! That's a real movie. It has nothing to do with this skip
When the extra credit is longer than the actual SCP, you know there's some good stuff.
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@cak01vej Dude, 20-18:56= 1:04. 17:39+1:04 = 18:43. Brevity is the essence of communication.
@@ryanricks318 Your Chinese is excellent dude, well done
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The extra credit has actually become my favorite parts aof the videos lately. Learning the scientology tye in to the acp where celebs shoot smoke out their mouth was super neat.
Poor Volgun sounded so dead inside on the “shipping commences “ line
I want context for why he sounded so dead on that line.
@@jwalster9412 Take a wild guess.
@@jwalster9412 Mainly because it's fucking stupid? Which nothing will fuck that other nothing? Remember that time those two nothings were getting flirty that time? I wrote a fan fiction about how nothing A pounded nothing B until she passed out. Describing imaginary and non-existent relationships between two descriptions of sentient beings that only hold value to the fans who partake in the non-existent work of fiction to make their own extra non-existent version of "fucktion".
@@Mate397 I'm still lost lol.
@@jwalster9412 Shipping tends to involve a lot degenerate fiction writing with godawful scenarios for sex.
Another recurring theme in the deleted works not mentioned is the recurrance of the number seven. Given the association of this number in the SCP universe to the Scarlet King ("seven brides, seven chains, seven seal for the Scarlet King") who is according to his SCP-001 entry a metaphysical metanarrative spontaneously generated to destroy the Foundation's baseline universe in mutual annihilation this lends credence to the idea that SCP-2747 is a manifestation of that entity working to enter the SCP universe.
Or in another canon, 2747 is its own entity and controls the number 7, and is at war with fifthism/3125, the one who owns the number 5. I recommend reading 'Why is Five Afraid of Seven.' or 'Fifthdation'.
Or in another SCP I forgot which, the Anafabula trapped the Scarlet King inside its own story, leading the King to give up and realizing the number 7 was never his, but the queen in black robes.
100%; specifically the 001 proposal's "black wind/howling" buried and ambiguously false fiction; it's the space left behind by the idea of the scarlet king that lived only ever as a cast shadow, devouring every narrative reflection of itself in every direction like the goddamn Langoliers. Or, more aptly and directly - like the empty charred space spiralling blackly out behind the racing line of scarlet cinder as it blossoms across the parchment of reality from wherever Mr. Butterfingers dropped the narrative obliterating match. Hell, it could be the natural consequence in-universe of 110-Montauk concluding. Or even just of its conclusion being forecast.
001 keter duty, conflicting or opposing scp containing each other, puts the scarlet king against narrative(I believe) as one cannot destroy the other.
Thank you. I will look them up.
Also, I like the idea of the Scarlet King and the Black Queen discovering love through their mutual passion of cosmic destruction and becoming a terrifying powerful couple. Just imagine the kids.
Also, the first concept of SCP-3125 being at war with SCP-2747 still works if 2747 is an aspect of the King. And given the nature of the King, even if 2747 wasn't originally the King, if enough people believe that 2747 is the King it will retroactively become true.
In theory, if the Foundation can make the Anafabula meet the right prerequisites then they can make the Anafabula into the part of the Narritive that its trying to remove.
It would require some extreme manipulation of the meta of "our" Narritive, but it is possible if we can put all of the pieces in the right places.
Once we identify the Narines that facilitate the Anafabula's occurance and dicate its target, we set up the factors such that the Narines that cause Anafabula's occurrence match with the Narines that dictate the Anafabula's target, causing it to target itself and hopefully remove itself from our Narritive Layer, which would prevent it from reaching higher layers of the Narritive and stopping it from causing cascading Narrative disruptions stemming from a higher Layer that we cannot effect.
Shut up, meg
Mmm yes, I definitely understand
Can you explain your idea in layman terms?
@@canned3880 You connect the doohickey to the thingamabob, and that turns the whozeewhatsit which powers the fangdangelator.
@@jeremiahwallace2275 Set up the scenario in a manner that causes the fiction-erasing being to see itself as the fiction it needs to erase before it can reach a reality in which we are the fiction its erasing.
The [DATA LOST] at the end was a very nice meta-element. Well written SCP, if a bit confusing at first.
It's a bit confusing because why would it even say appendix B or data lost? All the rest of the fictional fictions just kinda trailed off and ended with no warning. They didn't have a specific point of "stuff should be here but it's not for no reason." This would have been an opportunity to make less sense in order to make more sense. As in no mention of appendix B at the end at all and Appendix A just kinda stops mid sentence.
"A bit" confusing? The IQ required to read the original article is well above average. I'm above average, and I wouldnt be able to understand it without quite a bit of work if the "extra credit" section wasnt there to help fill me in.
@@CodeguruX Well, some of them did. The video game reviews said it was glitchy and incomplete, with data missing that seemed like it should have been there. The Radiohead album is only six tracks, and reviews say that it felt like it fell short, as it never quite touched upon a center, which could be referring to a 7th track that had already disappeared when those reviews were written.
I think the way it works is that a work of fiction exists in a sort-of complete form (while still having the idea of whatever dark emptiness there is inside it.) Then that part of the fiction disappears, and the work around it feels less complete. And then the whole fiction disappears, leaving only the online commentary.
@@CodeguruX the idea is that the anomaly is some kind of narrative that erases itself from its fictional medium, and appendix b ended up recreating the narrative by recording enough of its traits so it was erased. appendix a includes just enough hints of what it is without containing the anomaly itself, basically like a spaceship circling a black hole while appendix b got too close and was sucked in
@@CodeguruX I disagree. See the game developed by the S Korean company. There was supposed to be an end game but the *data was lost/missing*.
Kind of surreal to hear things I actually recognize and find familiar in this one, especially the Something Awful forums. Normally I only loosely recognize irl references in SCPs, or don't recognize any at all, but this one felt the most real world to me of the ones I've read/listened to.
Makes sense given what it is about
Exactly!! Satoshi Kon was the perfect director to pick for this, too.
I actually can swear Ive heard about a book called the tio of the spire before
The Satoshi Kon one was my favorite of them all, because it’s just similar enough to movies he’s actually made, (Paranoia Agent, for example) to sound familiar.
I legit am going through that SCP on my next lunch hour to better understand why those sounded so familiar. If there were just referring to specific material or if are criteria met by multiple sources. I suspect the later.
When I heard Bloemfontein and the SCP infected Afrikaans culture I snapped to attention. Usually we are so far removed from the world scene, the world passes us by. Now the horror hit close to home. For a split second I was terrified.
Representation! \o/
Even if the pronunciation was... Debatable
Highly recommend the book mentioned in the extra credits "House of Leaves". It's got several meta layer stories going on, but the main story about the house is the filmmaker gets a house and a door appears which leads to a hallway that defys physics and the house keeps getting bigger in the inside. It eventually bend a labyrinth.
It's very much SCP adjacent.
Love that you're doing the extra credit sections now. I feel like they're so much more helpful for fully appreciating the story,
Extra Credit expands your horizons so much.
It allows you to narrorate these more esoteric scp's without the lot of us getting confused.
Well done.
I'm kind of curious how long ago you decided to cover this one. This coming out so soon after Goncharov absolutely blowing up on Tumblr is just so perfect.
Also as an aside, I liked how you fit in the footnotes for this.
i had the same exact thought and was about to make a comment abt goncharov myself lmao
Goncharov?
@@dubuyajay9964 it's the greatest mafia movie ever made champ
Never stop doing Extra Credit. It brings your content to the next level.
I have never seen an episode of "Extra Credit" before. I was just about to ask it the Volgen just did it once for this entry. Which would fit the whole meta-fiction deletion theme. Especially if he later deleted that part of the video so that some people remember it but it no longer exists.
I gotta say, 'Extra Credit' adds to the narrative and help explain a few words that I didn't quite understand, greatly enhancing my enjoyment of the stories- stories I'd already have to read manually if it weren't for videos like these. It adds more than just a little bit at the end, or in this case double the playtime, it adds to my initial understanding of the story. If you could make more standalone Extra Credit videos covering videos you've already done, that would be amazing. There's more than a handful of them that I felt ended abruptly because I just didn't quite understand the narrative of the story itself, but understood the story as a whole.
Is Scolipendra a reference to the SCP foundation within an SCP?
Thats pretty meta.
Yup, nothing else that could be.
The SCP Foundation is also an SCP, also all of humanity is an SCP... Basically everything is an SCP if you look at it hard enough
The scp foundation is aware that they are a work of fiction written by authors. Its one of the original scp proposals as well as being referenced or used in multiple scp.
Yeah. Another one is the fact that the first reported appearance of 2747 was in January 2008, which just happens to be the month the SCP wiki opened.
@@rwberger6 3812 showed us that the one of the "writers" for the Narritive the SCPs takes place in is named Ben, and he's sorry for what he did.
I really like the idea of this one. A story that doesn’t exist which hides inside descriptions of other thematically related stories which also don’t exist?
Its waaaay more concerning than that. The stories *DID* exist at some point but they contained some specific incompatible combination of features that caused the story to destroy itself and be wiped from the above layer of fiction while leaving behind traces of it that eventually disappear as well. Basically its a story that quite literally cannot exist and will destroy everything around it to remain non-existant leaving only some lingering references to it with vague details. The SCP universe itself is a work of fiction (which the top levels of the scp foundation are aware of) and at the end in attachment B having been both the results of researching this phenomenon and the fact that the data has disappeared strongly implies that the foundation has accidently recreated that specific combination and now their own universe is potentially going to erase itself..
I think this article is the foundation realizing it's fiction, but at one point was not fiction, along with all of its anomalies, which are stories within a story that are partially erased from existence, but not fully.
@@rwberger6 the foundation did exist, but it accidentally erased it's self and the only remaining part of the SCP wiki, which it's self is a work of fiction within fiction that technically has the variables to erase itself??
It's definitely worse...
It's an Anti Narrative that attacks any fictional narrative that tries to explain it. Even if it's inside another fictional narrative itself .
The first narrative existed, but it just removed when attacked by 2747 out of existence... Clean slate, if the narrative that has it also tried to explain it, it will be attacked by the Anti narrative, 2747
Kinda has a House of Leaves vibe to it.
Fantastic work on this, Volgun. Just purely fantastic.
Love the extra credits parts. I really appreciate you going through the extra effort for us.
Thank goodness for the extra credit bc i decided to watch this while working and that was a lot of big words to think abt. Also “shipping commences” in a low voice got me busting out laughing
Hope we get to see some more Extra Credit sections in the future. The analysis really tickles my brain just right.
Fantastic! Don’t think I’m alone in stating that the “extra credit” added a great deal of understanding to the original article. I thought I had a grasp on it but realized I missed about half of what was going on after the explanation.
Binging Volgun's reads while waiting for Goncharov's midnight re-release at the mall. This one seems pretty dubious, though.
Goncharov SCP?
Edit: Hmm, maybe not. Very interesting though, and uncomfortably similar to the D&D campaign I'm running right now. Very nice
No, its definitely goncharov
No actually. Goncharov is missing 3 things of this SCP: no fractals, no manifestation of the scp like the villain or the anti narrative, and no ambiguous ending or one where the narrative is “eaten by itself”.(Goncharov conclusively ends with his death)
The extra credit bit where he reads "shipping commences" I can tell his soul dies a little reading that lmao.
Great video as per usual.
The SCP is about meta-narratives. The extra credits is a meta-narrative about the SCP.
...so what I am hearing is that a great april fools would be to remove the first half of this video...
I love these videos! The extra credit is like the amazing side dish I didn't know I wanted.
Bravo to Volgun and the writers, you are truly wonderful
This gives me Pattern Screamer vibes. Starting at the bottom and moving up, taking things as it goes and destroying what it leaves behind.
The Pattern Screamers are legit the scariest thing to come from the SCP setting. Malevolent information that seeks to be unmade by destroying every being that perceives it... That's some good horror.
@@trebacca9 exactly, and while never stating it, this had a lot of the earmarks of them.
@@damiendean90 You tend to see their echoes in anything that's sufficiently complex and involving anti-memes, narrative transcendence, and malevolent (rather than merely hazardous) information. It's a bit of a classic horror trope too, "Once you know it, it can hurt you".
Scientists should watch Goncharov (1976), they seem stressed
Honestly one of his best, I recommend it to everyone
The only problem is that it is really hard to find, but if you look hard enough, it is great.
absolutely LOVE the extra credit segment!!!! its amazing and really helps me understand and appreciate the SCP even more!!! keep doing it!!!
"Keter, previously Euclid" is such a scary thing to consider.
Have you done Extra Credit sections before? I don't remember any such section in your videos previously... Either way, that was super fun! I don't think I ever quite pieced together that the Foundation had caught on to it, or exactly what was going on, so this was a nice addition! Lets you actually put together what's happening. I hope we get this for any future convoluted skips.
The last three had them, I think, and I agree, it's a good addition for the obscure metaphysical SCPs that we can encounter
Two of my favorite SCP readers covering the same SCP that I like around a similar timeframe. Almost feel spoiled. lol
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So so so so so happy and proud of the direction you’re taking the channel. Congrats and you deserve all the success.
this has honestly become one of my favourite SCPs ever. The idea of all reality being fictions within fictions is so fascinating
I just found the time to watch your Star Signals video last night so this an excellent double treat. You really make some of the best content I have ever seen on youtube and I really mean that. Thank you for all the excellent videos over the years.
Fiction within fiction that deletes fiction. This is actually spooky when you get your head around it
Spookier when you realize the scp universe itself is a work of fiction (and it being a work of fiction is actually about as canon as things can be in the scp site) and by studying this scp and trying to accurately describe it they accidently released a fiction destroying narrative into their own fictional universe.
The extra credits part is my favorite part. I hope you keep it up because you really help me understand what’s going on and sometimes it gets way scarier.
I was initially pretty bummed out because after hearing the January 2008 date, I assumed that it was just another meta article about the foundation finding second hand references to itself in-universe. VERY pleasantly suprised with how damn deep the rabbithole went, great article and as always a great reading.
This content just keeps getting better and better. The addiation of the Extra Credits section was illuminated. Thanks for what you've done, and please keep on keepin' on.
I love this one, it's basically anomalous gaslighting
No it isn't, you are just looking at it wrong.
I like the repeated references to the number 7 which implies that the crimson king, or the concept of the crimson king is a part of the anafabula (possibly the antagonist). This especially works as the only description of the crimson king comes from other people talking about the crimson king.
I have no idea what this video is about or what it is but it is extremely informative and interesting.
Edit: well I think I got it. The Foundation knows they are in a fictional world and they want to keep the status quo as is which is crazy.
Basically its a story that erases itself from the "above" layer of narrative and leaves only vague references behind. The scp universe being a work of fiction could also be destroyed if this story happens to manifest in their universe. So of course by studying it they accidently create the story, which depending on your interpretation either erased just part of the file or potentially is starting to erase the scp universe as well.
almost thought this was a joke about the scp destroying this video lmao
Feels like it’s manifesting itself into our universe and it’s erasing things lol probably because we clicked this video to keep the narrative going. It sounds like it all leads to death though. No matter what universe it’s in.
Thanks for including the extra credit, there was so much jargon that i had trouble following along
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Sir yes sir!
You deserve the doctor. Your content has always been among my favorites and somehow you still keep improving. Thanks for so many great (listening mostly while diy) hours.
Lmao autocorrect almost had me listening moistly for hours. Shoulda left it in probly.
This one is a great entry according to the voice I keep hearing behind me.
Dude, the extra credit is an amazing addition to the videos, only wished this was done sooner! Great job!
This only confirms that Goncharov (1973), directed by Martin Scorsese, the best mafia film ever created, is as real as it can be.
Thank you for including the Extra Credit. I was completely lost in the original article.
Depressed, unmotivated, bored
*TheVolgun uploaded
Omg, My day is so much better now
Keep up the amazing content!
the article about SCP-2747 is itself an SCP-2747-affected instance brilliant!
So, this SCP can create instances of shipping from media that was annihilated from possible existence? this isn't the effect of an SCP, this is an effect of the internet.
Gonna watch this before sleeping, hopefully isn't traumatizing like when I watched your audio recording for this thing a quiet madness made
I'm so glad to see this adapted, its one of my absolute favorites.
Thanks a ton!
This is such a cool way or bringing the SCP world to RUclips. Subscribed.
the fact that the author of this scp managed to perfectly nail pitchfork's pretentiousness in that review says a lot about his talent
I love this scp and this recording, because any time i try to sit down and listen or read it i get immediately dissociative and subconciously focus on anything else
A fictional piece of fictional fiction attempting to realize itself into fictional existance. Neat.
Not exactly, it's pieces of fiction that are made which have some combination of elements that cause them to be incompatible with reality. One of these elements is a metastory, or in other words a story existing inside the story. The implication being that since SCP is fictional, the nature of this SCP with infect their universe and destroy it.
Your voice legit makes my headphones vibrate cause how amazing it is
Mummy SCP-2747 :DDDDD
I was looking for a fellow 2747 simp in the comments xD
@TheVolgun been watching for years and youre my favourite creator. Youve been consistent in your videos (which i know you hold to very high standards) which make it so easy to listen to, and understand, scp’s without spending hours on the wiki.
Your channel is amazing and you should be proud of yourself.
TL;DR at the bottom
I've got a theory on this one.
The destruction of a fictional work based on its inability to be completed properly mirrors a lot of real life creators experiences: burnout. an artist who struggles to finish a piece might completely erase a drawing. A writer who can't come to a conclusion despite hours, days, weeks, etc. of hard work could completely restart, deleting the original. This could be why the narratives we find this SCP in all share the same tropes. Giant monolithic mountains that one can't get closer to, being unable to finish a piece on a deadline, the issues with the Radiohead album all being in post-production. Daunting tasks that have no reward in sight. The themes of darkness, shadow, and destroying fictional works also make sense. To use the base phrase, "as above, so below." The mindscape of the creator would be reflected in the work. If you're tired, angry, or sad due to the work you're doing, those tropes and narremes are likely to enter into your piece, even if by accident.
This even makes sense given the (likely) timeline of when this SCP would be written. This is a Series III entry, and if it was written when Series III was still being filled (instead of replacing a deleted or archived one), it was written when the SCP wiki was just figuring out where to go from just being a database of weird monsters and quirky items. For new authors trying to write something with more substance and less invincible reptiles, this could feel nearly impossible.
Admittedly, I made a few assumptions about what some of the themes of this article mean, but I think it's pretty sound.
TL;DR everything here is burnt out artists destroying their work, but spooky.
It definitely feels like it was written by a younger or less experienced author. References to Satoshi Kon and Radiohead might be indicative of the author’s tastes (it’s good taste, certainly…). Lost/ media rabbit holes are particularly interesting the more in depth they are. The music group Coil (I believe both main members have passed) worked on a soundtrack for the Hellraiser film, but it was cancelled at some point. The demos are still available to listen to. Some inspiration from a real world occurrence might be very interesting. Henry Darger, TempleOS, any well known “outsider” art might be a good reference for a media anomaly SCP. But it’s a popular topic these days, this story might have been on the precipice of the boom in appreciation for lost, obscure, and outsider art.
I appreciate the extra credit so much. I didn't really understand everything the first time around so I only saw it as "people reference fiction that didn't exist". I didn't see the recursive destruction aspect of it. Scary stuff.
I don’t know if I’m getting dumber or these SCPs are getting more complicated.
This one is basically describing itself; inherently it is a troll. Would you like for me to help you?
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I never made the connection that the anafabula could destroy the foundation's reality. I originally thought they were keeping an eye on it because it was taking existing fictions and non-existing them. Thank you for the inclusion of the extra credits, Volgun.
Was anyone else struck by how this could effectively be a version of that one SCP who was created to be able to exist on all levels of reality at once having just gone so far up that he's started coming back up from below again?
I always love extra credit, but this time i really needed it cause I was really lost until you explained it
Nothing's more dangerous than narrative-manipulator SCPs.
I do love the extra credit. It really helps me fully understand the point and underlining terror of it.
This scp is an amazing demonstration of a concept I have never been able to explain. 10/10
I have been following your content for so long now it seems and it just gets leaps and bounds better with every video. Very well done sir i think this is my favorite SCP from you.
Goncharov (1973)
Thank you so much for Extra Credit, I super never would have figured any of that out at all. T_T
Very nice. Always enjoy the cozy Sunday uploads.
damn this is a deep scp thank god for the extra credit really did a fantastic breaking it down, made me feel smart after words
Sending this to my friend who won’t shut up about “Goncharov”.
Goncharov is a current SCP-2747-positive phrase for sure
so glad that Goncharov is an SCP now
Sometimes I wonder if I am dumb listening to reality warping/metaphysical scp's or if I'm just blown away by the implications. Once explained by the extra credits section I completely understood it, but during the initial lecture I was semi lost with an overwhelming sense of impending doom thinking to myself, "why does this remind me of vacuum decay?". To be fair, that is pretty much what this scp is, a metaphysical version of vacuum decay.
This SCP seems more jargon than actual story.
Thank god for the Extra Credits, this is a lot more horrifying when you understand it better.
this puts goncharov in horrifying perspective 👀👀👀👀
Very glad I'm not the only one that thought of it
goncharov is REAL
That fricking recursion joke at the end hit just right. Like advice and science dad joke *chef's kiss*
Goncharov is an SCP confirmed
it said at some point that there's a connection between an SCP 001, obviously as we know there are multiple 001 proposals and we also know that which one or ones are canon are entirely up to interpretation and within the files themselves depend on the universe. on a writers point of view, this was likely redacted to keep that interpretation open to the reader, BUT as an IN UNIVERSE standpoint i noticed a few things.
in the destroyed medias, there were a few references to different proposals. I think the first one listed references the spiral path; talking about how someone ends up in the same place no matter how far he goes and the whole thing being titled about a spire or spiral. As Chaltak said in the extra credit, theres also an overarching theme and concept of a nameless dark antagonist and the idea of self annihilation. this is very reminiscent of he black moon and the ouroboros cycle, the latter especially when bringing up the ideas of creation as a whole.
whether in the 𝙇𝙤𝙧𝙚© this is just a red herring or not i have no idea, but its just something i noticed
Goncharov: The SCP
Darkness and shadows are a motif of the anafabula, eh? I think the real question we should be asking is:
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DOES THE BLACK MOON HOWL?
Why do people keep mentioning the 1976 classic Goncharov? It's one of Martin Scorsese greatest films!
Didn’t realize how much I needed extra credit until you started doing it, another great video !
goncharnov scp
My thoughts exactly
38:23 Damn, his videos have become so good he even managed to get former (and also very deceased) U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson to back his Patreon
I'm at 7:33 and I'm calling it, SCP 2747 is just a bunch of Cognitohazard SCPs that were redacted by the congnitohazard division and this indirect evidence of their existence was uncovered by another division.
This is the first extra credit I saw and it's awesome