 Sound check sound check Calling all foundation staff. Do you read me? This is dr. Theron Sherman We are broadcasting live anomalously from site 42 If you can hear us, let us know in the chat and make sure to like Share subscribe hit the bell all that YouTube business with your foundation issued encrypted YouTube account that is your encrypted YouTube account and not your civilian one Steve With that in mind Let us start the show in three two one Hey there foundation staff. This is dr. Theron Sherman, but you can call me sherm Welcome to another anomalous broadcast from site 42 for those of you unfamiliar with our show the rundown goes like this Number one I brief you on any new site 42 business new projects new team-ups series shows we're working on stuff like that Number two, I introduce our guests for this week show if I remembered to book one Three myself and Schrodinger's guests read and discuss an scp article number four We read off and answer your super chats and five finally for site 42 patrons after the main show We do a quick bonus chat stream the link to which will show up in your patreon feed five to ten minutes after the stream ends Remember that if you enjoy the show like comment and let us know subscribe at the bell And if you really want to help us out become a patron at patreon.com slash site 42 at the link at our bio Tonight site 42 business. We have two pieces of mine You should have get through number one friend of the channel Radiger is Challenging us to get her channel on YouTube to 5k subs She says if we succeeded that she will release a full sound effects suite of SCP 682 Completely free for public use now I believe this task will be trivial in the face of the sheer might that is the site 42 fan Especially after we got the scp redacted live show over 5k in less than 24 hours In fact, we did it less than 1k in less than an hour. So go sub to rad. I left that in the description for you Let's get that 682 sound effects suite released to the world also watch their latest video SCP authors exposed because they rip on me mercilessly and it's hilarious second piece of business Fellow tick-tock scp streamer Emotional entropy is traveling to LA to go visit scp signals the live-action scp immersive theater experience They are doing so this Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. So the way this is gonna go down is I am gonna be live on YouTube Watching their stream and making sure everyone knows where they are because they're at 18k followers I have a lot more than that. So I'm gonna be playing Send people their way they are gonna be Live on tick-tock with the critical hazard assessment team or the chat where you will be able to help them with the choose your own and that Choose your own adventure aspects of the show meaning that you will be able to help them make Radically different decisions than the ones I made in my go and that means we're gonna be seeing a completely different show They'll talk to different people. They'll do different things and as Dr. Adelby told me They are looking to sow chaos where I tried to sow order. So I Heard they're going to be simping for 049 as well So if that's your cup of tea, then you should be part of their critical hazard assessment team this Saturday afternoon With the site 42 business out of the way tonight show we are looking over scp 5681 titled Gehenna arcade Written by scp authors Grigory Carpin and Vavarian and luckily for us Grigory is here for us tonight So let's bring them on boom Hello Hello Grigory welcome to the anomalous broadcast from site 42. How you doing tonight? I'm good. I don't know you're talking about Ranagar was very nice on that video I came out looking like a champ So I seem to remember I wish I had put theater kid on this person's list of sins I think you got a little better than I do friend Yeah, well, I just talked about the the wonders of you know French cuisine and whatnot Yes, I was I think a Europe Sympathizer in that one me too me too. I was pro-France which was on my cons, which you know, whatever All right, so tell the chat a little bit about your scp writing history Well, you know, I I joined the wiki I've discovered the wiki back in like 2015 But I didn't start writing for it until 2019 and I didn't really start going at it with gusto until probably Pandemic which you know, it's true of a lot of people. So I Got really into writing this sort of epic gothic horror story and somewhere along the lines I I didn't stop writing that but I started writing other sorts of things including sort of things that we're gonna be reading tonight and then about six months ago I started a Podcast with my fellow SCP author Harry blank and between the two of us we have something like a hundred and eighty articles on the wiki and We host this podcast where we have guests on and we talk about the deep dives on geo eyes general themes on the wiki and give certain Recommendations trying to curate actual articles from the wiki because we've always felt like off-site communities Don't always feel welcomed onto actually meeting wiki and there's thousands of them, right? So There's so many articles that's intimidating so we thought we would You know serve to curate and kind of joke around while talking about articles and different random things and we have authors on and Hopefully we'll be expanding that as well Fantastic, so that's you and Harry blank on the simply creative people caught podcast I got to tell you this is One of the best ideas for a podcast out of you know the cornucopia of SCP podcast that we have right now Because you guys is focus on the geo eyes Specifically is just wildly useful and you know, I'm gonna be bugging you a little bit for After the article I believe right Yeah You know and the idea behind it was always to be kind of partially an informative resource and Partially entertainment and so we try to balance those things sometimes. It's much more clearly us joking around but And right now it's geo eyes But eventually we'll start talking about cannons and things like you know different departments in the foundation And we've already gotten lots of responses from people that have said this convinced them to give it a shot to join the wiki or To dig into things that they had never really heard of like Wondertainment for example, we had the author dark stuff on and he gave us this incredible history of all the Developments of entertainment both in the lore but then off-site as well Basically the different eras of different authors that that have taken it through its journey And you know, we've had a really good time getting people involved with actually seeing both sides of the creative process from the fandom side But also from you know, the creative side because we also talk about on every episode We talk about our creative processes and how we write and come up with ideas and whatnot absolutely Wonderful and for the chat from this point on I have seen your Notes that my mic volume was a little too low. I have made a switch to my game So let me know if that works out for you guys in the chat as we continue on So for SCP 5 6 8 1 do you have any primer for us going in on this article a bit of background? Vicander need technical media is the GOI that I created in January of last year and had some other authors come on board to help me create it and Vicander need is shortened to vktm or victim and they are ostensibly just a media company but There as we'll see from this article and if you go to read any other ones, there's a lot more going on behind the scenes It's just that they are completely opaque to the foundation the foundation doesn't know what they're doing or why they're doing it And it's I've always encouraged people to try and look between the lines There's there's an element of humor There's an element of horror and usually there's an element of both I try to kind of go back and forth on the in these articles from something disturbing to something Hilarious or I try to anyway, and I believe you said you wanted to read some of this along with me, right? Yeah, so Why don't I read once we get into this stuff? Why don't I read? The main I could read the main Anomaly the the the host if you will that's what I was hoping you'd say I'm looking forward to it All right, let me move my microphone into the document reading position Let me get right up in this microphone that way everyone can be sure to hear what I'm saying here and Let us take it from the top item number SCP 5681 object class safe site responsible site 43 so close Director Alan J. McKinnis research head dr. Lillian s. Lily hammer assigned task force mobile task force Kappa 43 Special containment. Oh classification level 3 special containment procedures SCP 5681 is to be kept in high yield data storage facility 1 at site 43 The anomaly may be viewed under strict limitations with explicit approval of site director McKinnis IO Metatron is to monitor electronic communications at all television studios for mention of SCP 5681 or group of interests 5889 Pictured as the stage featured in SCP 5681 moments before SCP 5681 dash 1 enters the frame Description SCP 5681 designates a VHS tape Containing a single episode of the game show Gehenna arcade Sponsored and distributed by group of interests 5889 known as the Vikander need technical media The tape is intended to serve as a pilot for a syndicated series to be viewed by entertainment executives in order to sell them on the merit of the show Individuals who begin watching the recording find it difficult to stop recording or to stop watching SCP 5681's other anomalous effect only manifests when a subject watches the entirety of the VHS in one sitting in In this scenario the subject will develop a need to repeatedly watch the episode Forgoing personal hygiene eating and other activities in favor of repeated viewings So, you know my average weekend If the subject is restrained from viewing SCP 5681 for a duration of 24 hours the compulsory effect will cease Upon release from the effect there is a chance for development of anomalous side effects such as cognitive or behavioral changes Discovery on the 28th of July 1991 Embedded Foundation agents in three major television networks sent out an alert for anomalous media recovery The copy of SCP 5681 sent to ABC and NBC were retrieved without any need for amnesicization Unfortunately the copy that was sent to CBS found its way to Jeff Sagan eski president of CBS entertainment Mr. Sagan eski Sagan ski Sagan ski Mr. Sagan ski was reticent to surrender the VHS tape to his assistant an embedded foundation agent Suspecting a prank. Mr. Sagan ski of began obsessively watching SCP 5681 Over and over missing meetings and failing to return home that evening at 0100 hours on the 29th of July Personnel from Mobile Task Force Kappa 43 were mobilized and covertly entered CBS headquarters in New York City, New York Agents found mr. Sagan ski bent over face pressed against the CRT monitor slash VHS combination unit Attempts to pull the subject from the monitor revealed. He was catatonic The SCP 5681 instance was recovered and mr. Sagan eski was airlifted out for medical treatment Footnote subject was amnesicized and hospitalized under the cover story of a mild stroke Treatment from Foundation physicians ensured his recovery and mr. Sagan ski was returned to his family within a week with minor persisting cognitive defects Contents of SCP 5681 At the opening of the VHS the following description of the show appears Gehenna arcade is the next exciting project from bicander need technical media a classic game show featuring host Jeremy Kincaid footnote designated SCP 5681-1 and three contestants each segment presented features a unique sub game Scores are allotted to each consistent Based on how well they did at the individual games at the end of each segment a prize will be awarded to the contestant Who scored the most points at the close of the show point totals for each contestant are tallied and a grand winner is declared The following is a transcript of the first segment SCP 5681-1 walks out onto the set He's wearing a black and white checkered suit coat wide black tie over white colored shirt and gray slacks His skin is sallow Individuals with advanced jaundice and his eyes are consistently leaking black oily tears He smiles at the camera his teeth are bloody and stained yellow. He is holding a long thin microphone measuring at least 45 centimeters Audience applause follows SCP 5681-1's appearance behind this podium Welcome to the very first episode of Gehenna arcade the game show designed to challenge the wits and physical Internets of our contestants like no other brought to you by the fine folks of Viking and eat technical media The contestants come out and stand in line on the stage Kiara and Kevin look excited while Sandra is sweating and frowning Let's introduce our three contestants Kevin Fillmore Sandra Gonzalez and Kiera Bakshi light audience applause Here's where I'll ask each of you each to tell us a little about yourself Oh Well, I go to University of Washington with a majoring criminal justice Oh No, Kenneth. You've already lost the point not a good start Camera cuts to a large scorecard with three parallel columns with each with one of the contestants names over it The sound of several dogs whining loudly plays and the zero under Kevin's name drops to negative one Actually, it's Kevin Right, so Sandra your turn. I'm currently unemployed, but I just graduated with a master's in psychology from University of Texas And I'm sure you'll get a lot of use out of that degree Audience laughs Sandra frowns again and looks down at the floor All right, so Kiara, let's keep this train moving Here opens her mouth to speak but SCP 5681-1 interrupts her. Oh Shoot just ran out of time. Let's talk about the game SCP 5681-1 beckons the three over to the front of the stage where three wide low platform stand in a row each is approximately 18 centimeters off the floor So this is what we like to call the trivia game three contestants stared SCP 5681-1 Who is bending down to pat one of the platforms? He steps back and smiles none of the three move What's the matter? I Thought you said this was a trivia game It is not afraid of heights, right? Turns to look at the camera with an arched eyebrow the audience laughs get on the platforms All three stem on the platforms Wow members of the audience remember don't help any of the contestants Camera turns and looks at the audience, but none of them are lit There are several dozen figures sitting in the audience fairly perceptible silhouettes not moving at all several sets of eyes begin to glow a dull red To great. I knew I could count on all of you So the rules are simple the most correct answers get you the most points Just shout out when you have an answer and make sure you keep your footing if you step onto the stage before the round is done You lose two points a countdown overlay utilizing LCD numbers begins with zero three with an accompanying buzzer sound Does each second passes when the countdown hits double zero SCP 5681-1 begins asking questions What is the fourth amendment to the Treaty of Versailles all three exchange looks without speaking Sondra visibly shrugs after 30 seconds of buzzer sounds I'm sorry. No winners audience The contestants are pelted by gravel from the direction of the audience next question 11 hours of footage are cut for the sake of brevity The length of this segment is far beyond the normal storage capacity of VHS tapes It is unclear how the tape contains this much data along with four other segments SCP 5681-1 continues asking questions many of which were dependent on knowing fine details of historical and scientific knowledge Each time the group fails to answer they are pelted with gravel sand or what appears to be potting soil By the end of that period Kevin has four points Sandra and Chiara have 11 points each All right. It's time to break that tie Each of the contestants are dirty and covered in small scratches where they had exposed skin Sandra and Kevin's legs exhibit obvious tremors Do do I even need to keep playing at this point? Yes, Carl. You do. We'll get back get you back to your criminal justice degree soon. Don't worry When they throw sand solely at Kevin Kevin shakes his head Okay, what is the source of life on planet Earth? God single-celled organisms developed out of proteins being created because of optimum conditions for the development of life I'm sorry Chiara. That's incorrect. Sandra close enough. You win Wait a minute. That's bullshit No one likes a sore loser Chiara So what do I win? win Yeah, the the producer said there'd be a prize at the end of each round for the winner. Oh Right. Well, I award you the satisfaction and the job well done That doesn't seem like much of a prize Hey, Jerry, I think I hate this one The following is a transcript of the second segment SCP-5681-1 is behind his podium smiling at the camera. His suit jacket is stained along with the front of Along the front with the black fluid weeping from his eyes and flowing down his face and neck Each of the three contestants stands in front of blue door with their name labeled in gold Now we come to the part of the show called labyrinth of death All three contestants look back at SCP-5681-1 with varying degrees of displeasure evident It's just a phrase. Come on. Okay. So each of you will enter the maze through your separate doors And the first one to meet me on the other side wins the prize I hope it's a better prize in the last time. I heard that The scoreboard having reset to zero for each shows Sandra with a negative one It's like they don't know I'm vindictive by now, right? Camera cuts the audience the seats are empty The camera holds on the empty audience for three full minutes before switching back to SCP-5681-1 Three two one, let's go All three doors in front of the contestants open each Contestant is followed by cameras to allow for continued monitoring the screen split into three Despite the fact that each was standing within a meter of each other each contestant is now alone Kevin walks forward down a passage. He does not notice at first, but the floor begins sloping down Sandra similarly leaves the starting room and finds a narrow passage that twists in a spiral pattern Which should have crossed with where she had come from but does not Chiara opens the door at the end of her starting room and finds a ladder going up and into open air She climbs to a wooden scaffolding extending off until the horizon She looks down and sees only clouds the ladder and the passage gone She sits and hugs her knees to her chest shivering the host begins speaking over the split screen footage Oh, and we're off to an excellent start Chiara is basically struggling to breathe. Hopefully that doesn't count her out Sandra continues down the spiral corridor until she reaches a red door set into brick It is roughly half the height of a normal door and she needs to crouch down to shuffle through it Kevin has found himself slipping as the sloping floor's angle increases screaming until his voice gives out Chiara manages to get up and move forward along the scaffolding But it begins narrowing until it's less than a half a meter across. There are no handrails Kev Kev is making real headway Kevin continues sliding until he lands in a pool of brackish water Sinking below the surface for 30 seconds before breaching the surface the pool is at least two kilometers in diameter Sandra is crawling through a corridor that is getting slowly smaller in diameter as she continues Chiara is holding out her arms for balance as she walks along the thin scaffolding until finding another ladder going down into the Mist Look no one's dead yet Kevin climbs out of the water onto a pontoon bridge leading into an enclosed storm corridor Sandra continues crawling until she reaches a wider corridor constructed of the same stone Kevin was last seen in Chiara climbs down the ladder through the mist and finds herself in the same corridor at the opposite end of the package Passage a spotlight illuminates a single blue door a blinking red sign appears above the door reading exit And I'm whistling. I can't whistle. Sorry The three contestants now in the same room continue down the corridor and begin jogging and then running towards the door Kevin pulls ahead and slams open the door throwing himself through as he collapses on his knees just outside It closes on its own SCP 568 1-1 is directly in front of Kevin applauding lightly Ah Congratulations, Trevor you've won the scoreboard shows an increase of 10 points under Kevin's name Kevin stands and brushes off his knees Yeah, thanks, so what do I win? Screams are heard through the exit to the labyrinth blood and viscera flow through the space under the door What the hell you said labyrinth of death was just a phrase Sorry, I meant to say it is a phrase because it is I mean I'm gonna shoot you in the face mark is a phrase Doesn't mean I'm not about to murder you Kevin bends over and screams slowly sinking to his knees on the stage God you think you'd be excited to win next segment The following is a transcript of the third segment SCP 568 1 is standing at the front of the stage looking out towards the audience applause follows for 45 seconds SCP 568 1-1 holds up his hands in a waving motion as if to tell the audience to stop But he is smiling his entire face is covered in the black substance from his eyes Which are now two empty sockets constantly producing more liquid his clothes are slick with the black liquid such that small wet Sounds are produced every time he moves All right. All right enough of that. We've got our final segment of the show and it's a fan favorite Let's get our contestant out here Kevin is pushed into frame by a pair of hands off camera He is followed by Sandra and Chiara both clevered in blood, but otherwise apparently unharmed all three contestants have faces stained with tears and shift back and forth on their feet Wait didn't you SCP 568 1-1 touches his ear and starts beating in a low tone still audible on the recording What the fuck Jerry didn't they die Uh-huh Right, right, okay feelings. I just wonder about the brand You know calling something a labyrinth of death isn't gonna have a lot of impact with the demo if they ain't dead. No, right Okay, we'll figure it out in post SCP 568 1-1 turns to the three contestants and smiles Well, Sandra and Chiara looks like you've still got the chance to win it all rides on this last game Turns back to the camera still smiling What's that worth is our final game for the day? Contestants take turns guessing at the value of a reveal prize and the closest wins points at the end We tally all the points accrued and we announce a grand winner. Okay contestants. Are you ready? Sure, whatever Okay Connor. I'm gonna need you to perk it up a bit. All right. This is a game show. What about Sandra and Chiara? You girls ready? Whatever gets me home the fastest Sandra flips off the camera Excellent. Let's go Spotlights illuminate six doors ringing the stage label with corresponding Roman numerals Camera cuts to the scoreboard showing the totals as Kevin negative eight or no Kevin eight Sandra 11 and Chiara 11 Right, let's give George a chance to catch up. You're up first That is not my name SCP-5681 smiles and nods and gestures to the doors Spotlight center on door number one which opens to reveal a rusted car missing its two front tires and the hood Used 1972 Plymouth Dodge. How much is that worth Leo? $100 girls Jack shit $150 well Kendall's closest without going over so he gets the points Kevin score goes up by two points Wait, isn't that just the prices? Shut up. Okay next door 16 minutes cut for brevity The game continues with the following items a rotten apple core a sign first edition of Dante's Inferno a Parking ticket Footnote none of the contestants got this correct with SCP-5681-1 stating it was worth the lesson learned and A 27-inch color television the score at this point is Kevin 12 Chiara 13 and Sandra 13 This competition is fierce. Let's see who comes out on top final door, please The spotlight center on door six which opens to reveal a bachelor of arts degree in criminal justice from University of Washington The name has been filled out to read Kevin Fillmore. Oh What in the hell? $23,000 24 5 24 5 Fred Sandra and Chiara are ushered off stage by production assistants while SCP-5681-1 approaches Kevin Goddamn what an upset you were so far behind, but you pulled it off my boy. I Didn't even guess well You knew the value in your heart and that's what matters six years of wasted effort and a chance to join a police academy to help Oppressed people of color and other marginalized minorities. Aren't you proud? I Don't even think I want to be a cop for who cares Well, that's gonna do it here for Gehenna arcade Make sure to tune in same day same channels sponsored by vikander need technical media for a better tomorrow Yeah SCP-5681-1 appears to pronounce the trademark symbol all researchers viewing the tape report this effect But are unable to explain it as am I right at this moment Oh Wait, I don't even win anything. Oh Right, you do SCP-5681-1 reaches into his inner suit coat pocket pulling out a slip of paper It is slick with the black substance covering the entity's clothes and face SCP-5681-1 slaps it against Kevin's chest. It sticks to his clothing a $50 gift certificate to red lobster. Congratulations Jesus what even is that stuff? Oh He's already started the other rising process against those different for himself. Isn't it cute folks little baby police officer Kevin You're a dick. Hey cab Update 13th of October 1991 Follow-up research revealed that all three contestants are who they cling to be and are unharmed by the experience All three when interviewed invariably failed to remember the events of filming Kevin Fillmore continues to pursue his criminal justice degree. He is set to graduate in May 1996 What intonation Well, yeah, let me give you a deep description of what's going on here. No, actually, I don't think I will Sighted out Yeah, you know so This is a good example of victim They're all sort of different. They're all different media although sometimes we have done similar ones But they all have kind of at its core the idea of some social commentary, but fit in with Absurdity and and usually absurdity that is like just bouncing between horror and Humor and I've my favorite part is figuring out how people react because I have had a Significant amount of people that have come to me and said this is disturbing or one of the other articles was disturbing And I just write them because I think they're funny It could be because I'm broken. I'm not sure that I like the labyrinth of death the imagery in the library of the death labyrinth of death really did well with the Horror aspect of it. I appreciated that a lot Yeah, well, I Kind of I'm always trying to keep the reader guessing with these I think it's not even intentional It's just that's how the first one started and I'm trying to keep that tone up Although some of them kind of lean harder into horror or lean harder into humor but a lot of them kind of find this balance where The tone of the message is often told in this very Either sardonic or very corporate sort of positivity But then the actual context of the message is either disturbing or fairly dark Up until this point my only exposure to victim here was the victim novelty Twitter account I Have I mean, I don't I've never even heard of that never even heard of that and the memorable things for me are the heavy-level branding and I Can't tell if it's capitalist or anti-capitalist. It seems to be both maybe yeah, so I Have had multiple people try to like nail me down about political philosophy of vikander need and I mostly have said no comment, but what I will say their Political philosophy is summarized in such that higher-archical power structures can go fuck themselves And that's about it And man, oh man. Oh What was it also? I think there was a recent tweet about Satan. Oh Yeah, yeah, there definitely was That's just the MO over here You know, I will think about things that I think are funny about corporate I mean, sometimes I'll look at like like promoted tweets or things on tiktok and I will try to mimic the tone while Changing the context significantly. For example, the one you're talking about is There are those that would say that victim is anti-religion. This is categorically false. We're pro-religion We want you to worship the media call now for your free victim branded sacrificial altar Just 2999 shipping a hamlet 1-800 PRS essay T. A. N. That's 1-800 crazy And then and then and then and then the last thing that was on my mind about it Ah, oh, yeah, cuz I'm trying in my brain. You said that the politics are not clear on purpose But this entire time I know what I've been doing is I've tried been trying to place them in relation to our other capitalism-adjacement groups of interest Sure such as dado fine capitalist and Marshall Carter in dark who? one percenter capitalism Well, interesting you've said that because myself and it wrote a victim article that was crossing over with that. Oh In which dotto hires victim to do an advertising campaign for them. Are you serious? Yeah, absolutely that one is It is it is SCP 6780 and I am really happy with that one as well SCP 6 Do you say seven six seven eight zero? six seven eight zero Yeah, which is he get that real quick. I mean first thing which is It's titled health by dotto presented by Viking or need technical media first thing I got to do obviously is this is a Five six eight one is a thumbs up is a up up vote from dr. Sherman and also Someone else in the chat. I think up voted so you're up to 93 now great success Yeah, this one's actually sort of an under performer for a victim Some of the other ones I've done so I'll give maybe some examples without explaining there is a SCP radio channel that's five eight eight nine where the radio specifically targets people and has like personalized Broadcasts for them and then the people get so scared that they forget what happened, but they remember the trauma and then it's just filled with little snippets of weird otherworldly radio shows There's another one that it is a human resources orientation video Which I will say nothing more than that and those are both like over 240 There's another one. That's a documentary that follows around the viewer for the previous week as if they had a documentary crew following them and It's being reviewed by a foundation researcher who has been a nest of size and is presented with things that she's not aware happened There's a puppet show Oh Yeah, there's a puppet show. There's a wildlife documentary. There's Harry blank did a video game one Plague and jay dune did a Halloween special one Plague also did a jazz or size video I'm trying to think of some there's a lot. There's actually 33 articles and I only created it last January. So Yeah, it's been picking up steam. I'm really really really proud of it Good work my dude and honestly, I mean as we've been talking about this now The biggest thing that jumps out to me personally the thing that Frickin site 42 fam's got to keep an eye on is that this here and Also, some of the other ones you just mentioned the radio show the puppet show These would make amazing mixed media Oh articles to pick up either to have someone Record them and like insert the clips into your articles or just to adapt them outside Yeah, um, they are Often intentionally crafted that way. Um, I some of them are a little more clinical From some of the other authors, but myself. I've always tried to get as quickly through the Containment procedures and the description as possible In fact, a lot of people have noted that the descriptions are actually like at most two or three paragraphs and very dry and I'm like, yeah Yeah, that's not the point And we get into the context of the actual media and it's always just a little snippets because they have all they all have Medic effects and that's dangerous, etc. Etc. And I just tend to write them like a script Because you know, I think of them as the actual media that they represent I've actually, you know a little sneak peek Myself and vivarium are joining up together to do The contest entry for 7k For the 7000 contest that is going on right now that's posting in a few weeks And we're doing something that may or may not relate to this that may or may not have the video component Oh Oh, that makes me excited I'm like I'm not quite done with everything, but I'm done with all the visuals and the video and I am I wasn't even going to join 7k this time. I'm working a lot Last time I joined with seven other authors eight or six other authors to do 6500 which was this like novel length article I couldn't possibly do that on my own or anything like that again And I just didn't even want to think about trying to like, you know, match something of that intensity And so I wasn't even going to do anything and then I was convinced to do this And it's basically a shitpost But like all victim articles are I mean, they all have the thing is what people don't realize is they think it's all just anti-capitalism, but honestly Victim is just as often pro-capitalism as they are anti-capitalism But I always have a specific purpose In mind. I just don't ever explain it And when people really pushed I have said, okay victim wants to make the world better And the way that they're going to teach people how to do things in a better way Is the same way that homelander tried to teach his son how to fly By throwing him off the building Ow Off-top, they're not sponsored. The boy season three was amazing. Go watch it. It was very good, you know, very enjoyable But yeah, so I started off my career writing seps, you know, my career quote-unquote That were very serious kind of gothic horror mixed with like kind of geopolitics to some extent And I'm still I still write those occasionally and I have also written some very kind of haunting articles or horror based articles But a lot of my effort over the past year and a half or so has been about victim Because I get to like unleash I wrote this article that we just read in like three hours um I wrote I've written most of them in a few hours And I just kind of go into a zone and they just kind of vomit And then I clean them up to make sure that they don't have mistakes and and if they work or not, but People have compared it to Like lynch Ian, uh, which I find very complimentary But I've always been most influenced by Alan resnick if you're familiar with him I am not Okay, so, uh, have you ever heard of this house has people in it or the children with the mirror? Yes, I have heard of that. Okay, so he's like the main writer but behind that theater group and so I don't know if he's the main but he's done a lot of the main He's done a lot of the writing and directing for that And so, you know, for example, may I please enter if you've ever seen that Or a footage of a unedited footage of a bear Um now that one I and yeah, it's incredible. Um, and it's You know, I never have tried to copy his content But in terms of like his tone the tone of those pieces But applied to scp has been a strong. I didn't even realize it at first until um enough fellow author famine pulls Planted it out to me that it reminded him of Alan resnick and I went, oh Yeah, no, that's actually a deep influence. I didn't even think of it I feel like the I feel like the genre one could call that is simply Tim and Eric but horror Yeah, yeah, um Sure, I think so too. Um absurdity but absurdity applied So, you know, I I called these humor articles But I mostly am trying to go for an uncomfortable laugh at all times. Um, I'm never trying to just tell jokes Uh, I want like I would never make these one of these a dash jay because they're not joke articles They're serious. It's just they're absurd. Um, and and sometimes they're creepy as fuck And then sometimes they'll swing back into the absurd and I love that weird I don't even know like I I I just live for it and so every person that is uh, even dr. Samarian wrote one recently 6 6 1 3 Um, nice It's been it's gotten a lot of support and I'm really really proud of it and how and it's it also Even while we were reading it there were parts of it that made me want to laugh Uh, and which is hard to do when you're looking at something you've written So I'm very happy with it. The voice is very clear It's a character you've seen before but not exactly like this Um, I get shades of like cousin johnny asks supernatural bad guy stuff, but With that use car salesman charm on top of it Oh, yeah, and this is the only article where this character has shown up. Um, they're often different people mostly because I don't want so one of the things I put on to the Because it is a goi. So I have welcomed contributions from, you know, anybody. It's free to I just put a golden rule. There's no explanation of anything to do with their motives their origins or how they do what they do Um, specifically don't go into deep discussions of how they make anomalies But they are obviously a media company. So, um, this isn't torture porn Although we have violence and horror in these skips these articles Uh, this isn't about extreme core. They should be focused on the implication of horrible violence Uh, but also social commentary comedy and the ways media's affect us Uh, additionally, there is no face of this company. There is no entertainment or Anderson equivalent We don't get to see how victim operates from their perspective If you want to characterize their motives or behavior keep it vague and restrain to the media itself Meaning like we between the line stuff um so For the human resources article, which is 5904 that is entirely It's just a transcript of the media the same thing with with all of these. So we never get to see Uh behind the scenes. We never see internal documents. Um, and so recently I did have them show up at the So people a lot of fans, uh, have have asked me or talked about it online Who are these people? What are they like? Um And I've always just been very resistant. And so, uh, as a joke I wrote the most recent article that I wrote which was 6897 you won't believe how the sausage is made Um, which is supposedly a behind the scenes exclusive documentary on how victim makes media and like a tour around their headquarters Um, and that article proceeds to explain nothing So I have a lot of fun with it How weird how weird Yeah, you know, it is weird fiction is strange fiction and it's just like scp is a very interesting format because It allows So much to happen Because you're not really tied down to say a single concept like slender man or the back rooms You have a lot more flexibility in the universe. It seems like The a big factor of victim doing its job is that you have so many different directions You can go because you're not allowing for that centralization that kind of pigeonholes it Yeah, yeah, exactly. Um, you know, it's pretty clear And I would strongly advise someone not from doing something that was like socially conservative with victim But otherwise, you know, whatever people want to do. I mean, some of the articles are just comedy. Samarians is basically just a You know a thousand word joke, which is excellent. Like I laughed my ass off when I got to the end of it Um, I would be shocked at a media company that's so like pushing boundaries pushing where they are I mean, that's not quite progressive in politics, but it's definitely not standing on tradition as one would Take the real meaning of the word conservative to be Yeah, yeah, I mean, um I would hope so too, but um You know, there is no canon and all that people can think whatever they like But it is a lot more fun that I just have refused to define the canon I have answers Like I have the deep seated lore in my head as to how they do this and what they are doing And I've written it all down. I have like a fucking bible about it Um, I just refuse to explain it to anyone Even even my co-authors And then you get to see what everyone else makes out of it while you're still so much. Yeah It's so much fun. Like I will sometimes go on to discord, you know, either the, you know scpd or other ones that are kind of scp spaces And I will sometimes just search out vktm and and and see what people are talking about and sometimes you'll see these Big deep conversations about people theorizing and it's just so fucking great And I'm like, oh, I like that one and there will be like, oh, is that it? No, no comment. I don't what are you talking about? I'm not I I won't reveal that And you know, like I said to you before we even started, you know Streaming, you know at this point if I was to reveal the deep sea secrets It probably would disappoint people it's better to let people's imagination go nuts while I get to continue telling my weird stories It gives people a lot more freedom not knowing because then they can use their imagination within the box. You already have Yeah, exactly. The other thing that does it really well is What looney in the chat has called candy coated in darkness vibe uh, I call What's the phrase I'm looking for uh In a tiktok video I recently talked about how to Make an article or concept that goes memetic on the wiki because people want people to make fan art and be big fans of their articles Not just be successful, but be wildly successful And one of the the two things I said were keep it simple. Obviously if it's too complicated, it can't thrive But because you have to take too long to explain it for it to be a good meme But the one that victim really nails is the what the fuck factor which is You need to yeah, if an article makes you say what the fuck Then If that emotional reaction is triggered it sticks with you from now on Yeah, yeah, no, I mean I intentionally go for that most of the time I am Thinking about the pacing and the way that I end little segments like here like the fuck is going on like Because I have you know Concave the host of this game show breaks character several times um And so I don't even like dedicate myself to the rules that I set up in the beginning oftentimes There are weird uh timing consistencies here that I won't explain to anyone either For example, the video is over 14 hours long and yet somehow the uh executive watched it multiple times in a single day Which is impossible And people point that out to me and I went uh-huh. Yeah, that's true And that's not a that's not a plot hole. No not at all Nope, and it wasn't I just I had a whole paragraph in there explaining it and then I went um What if I just deleted that great? Okay, it's gone now Wibbly wobbly timey wimey Yeah, and you know it all kind of came out of the first article Which was amnestic capital a capital m nestig Which was uh written by myself and Dissip drawn another author and this is drawn. He just told me he had this idea for an anomaly that made people so scared They would forget the original anomaly and then But the the emotional trauma would stick around and that's all He gave me and I came back to him 24 hours later with this draft about a radio show Well a radio channel that like specifically targets people Um, and it just became this very flow of consciousness And most of these articles are where I just kind of go and uh, sometimes I get really in depth And then I go back and I cut out the in-depth stuff oftentimes Because I don't really I don't know that's not what this vibe is for The I mean if I stopped and explained a deep lower explanation of where they come from and what they're doing Then then no one would be going what the fuck and I like them. I like people going what the fuck All right, I've got a request for you before we move on to super chats and it's I need you to give the uh audience here one victim article that you think they should go read after this stream and one victim article that you Were shocked at what another author made with it. Good or bad. I I'd prefer good though Uh, yeah, um, okay, so uh article that I think everyone should go read is um A movie of you, which is scp 5479. Uh, that's by myself Uh, and then another victim article, um, let's see. You know what I'm going to suggest by callie bold scp 6156, which is called. Oh dug Exclamation point And actually we'll do two we're gonna we're gonna do two for this and the other one I'm gonna suggest is scp 6358 messiah in all capital letters by muck and two So what shocked you about the direction they took that? Um, oh dug So all of these articles are sort of encased within The larger universe that harry blank has set up called on god 43, which is about site 43 And it has established character in it, but you don't need to know any of them. Uh, oh dug does a wonderful job of Like surgically disassembling the tropes of a, um Of a um, what do you call it? Um, what is friends called? The show friends and say sitcom. Sorry. Um, so what is the show friends called? What's the name of the show friends? I know sorry. Um So it just like disassembles The tropes of a sitcom while also if you were Informed about this stuff from site 43 It overlaps things in this really brilliant way, but it completely stands on its own You don't need to know anything about it because of the strange and wonderful story that it tells And much like the one we just read it has a lot of what the fuck um And that's six one five six and then the other one I said was six three five eight Where someone did something that I didn't expect which was I had avoided doing a book Because this is you know victim does media of all sorts But I thought what's the point of just like recreating a series of excerpts through my book I I never thought I could really pull that off in the same way that the scripts sort of formatting would work and moccan With six three five eight did this really intense Sort of attack on charismatic leaders It it sort of uh, it's not really that it's kind of a fantasy novel And it's kind of a commentary on charismatic political leaders and it's kind of A discussion of like religion. Uh, it's brilliant and it has a lot of what the fuck and it's way darker and it's not funny And which I love about victim is that it's a spectrum They can go from as light as possible Or some marriage article is is it basically just a joke that plays on word play and it's brilliant Uh, and it can go incredibly dark like messiah where it is full of of kind of uh social commentary But also just horror And you know, I I've done things like the puppet show and I've done things like a children's uh record Which is literally just lyrics of a song That's the whole article Um because it's wide open. It's media. What can you what couldn't you do with media? anything Now i'm now i'm very afraid of what the The vik vik hander technical media vik hander need technology. I got to learn how to say it all at once Vik hander because I I say vik hander and as soon as I say vik I get it all wrong I am terrified what the tiktok version of vik hander need technical media is um Yeah, I I've actually you know I have kind of a baby tiktok myself that I've been putting up little video edits Uh of like little snippets of like advertising and whatnot, uh, which is acro gory carpet if anyone's interested um And I've got I think probably like 10 or 11 on there, uh, and and I think I'll continue doing that because it's fun. You know a lot of times I'm working now So I'm not as it's not as easy to you know make an article a week like I was doing for a while and uh This you know it takes this takes very little effort to write the script of like 15 seconds Uh, and so then I just find a cc compliant image and I start messing around video editing and and suddenly I've got You know a tiny little tiktok. That's like an ad for some victim product or another Make sure to check out that tiktok y'all All right real quick here at the our mark. Let me knock out these super chats. We only had a couple uh Desk, thank you for using a super chat to warn me about the Mic volume because I hadn't seen it. I am probably going to refund you that super chat because that's just staff work and then uh time keep I am was not familiar with scp 670 until You just told me about it in your super chat And if I would say it has Coralyn vibes, it seems like the Coralyn vibes are aesthetic only And you know when I think about vibes I think about the Uh whole story so I see the yarn. I see the clay. I see what seems like stop motion here I just don't see the You know the horror of uh Coralyn the same way that it is in the movie where it's all family drama and stuff like that But that covers our super chats easy peasy for the night and so Greg anything left to promote to the audience? Yeah, so just you know, it's repetitive, but uh, please go and check out harry and my Podcast simply creative people. We're on spotify apple podcast google podcast and stitcher and uh, the website for the the show is is in the description um, we've put out, uh 17 episodes, uh about all sorts of different gois. We did one on comedy And we just put out a bonus episode that was uh harry and I doing some readings like we've done here today Which is a and in the bonus one I do A reading with some people of five eight eight nine, which is the first very first victim article Oh fantastic Is that episode about victim or is that just a bonus part of the bonus episode? It's just a bonus episode. I've been avoiding doing victim because sometimes I have a hard time talking about things that I have done um Like being a guest is in talking about an article is cool But people have been saying oh, you should do an episode on the podcast of the victim and I will do it, but I I've been holding off Because I want to do something weird with it probably We'll call this episode your toe in the pool of talking about your baby here. Yes All right, I'm gonna put you on mute for the end of the show and then we'll move over to the patreon stream sound good Thanks everybody All right And site 42 fam that brings us to the end of our first reunion episode of the anomalous broadcast from site 42 It's been a year But I hope that the upgrades to the aesthetics and the internet speed and the lag and hopefully the volume is Just as loud next time. I hope you enjoyed the show. I hope you learned something about the foundation and vikander need technical media Thank you again to gregory carpon. I said it french for some reason gregory carpon for joining the show Uh, make sure to like share subscribe hit the bell all that good stuff And become a patron if you want to see the after show we're about to hop over to Thank you so much and we'll see you at the next anomalous broadcast from site 42 Ada ara shadow of 1471 ara ara