 Ahoy-hoy, and welcome to the channel. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today we are going to talk about a decision I have made for the works I have on the SCP Wiki, some of my reasoning behind it, and we're gonna dabble a little bit in something that happened over the weekend, but I'm probably not going to do a deep dive on it until this Thursday because I promised some folk that I would hold off until some other shoes had dropped. I'll put it that way. This weekend there was a thing with the Bright List. You've probably seen it on Twitter. It got deleted off the Wiki and then it got reposted. There's a whole thing that's going to be, I'm going to do a whole video on this on Thursday, but there's some things that may develop between here and then that I'd like to wait for. If you need to know why any of these things might have happened, there's a video I did last year outlining exactly the problems with Dr. Bright. You can find that in a link in the description, but that's the reason why we're discussing this in the first place. It's also the reason why the Bright List was briefly deleted over the weekend, but again we'll talk about that on Thursday. However, this has prompted a bit of a discussion about the validity of leaving Bright works up on the SCP Wiki and I was thinking about this this morning and as I was going through the articles I have on the SCP Wiki that include the character Dr. Bright, I was starting to think about the effects that reading those articles might have on someone who was a legitimate victim of Dr. Bright, the author, and it gets complicated, right? Because on the one hand you'd hope that people can separate the author from the character, but expecting that out of everyone is also unreasonable, I would say, especially people who are victimized. Sometimes it's not about logic or a dispassionate observation. Sometimes it's about the idea that this person hurts you and the name alone could cause you pain and then I thought about the fact that that means that a not insignificant number of my own articles actually are likely or at least possibly causing pain to someone unnecessarily and so I was starting to examine the articles that I had up on the Wiki with Bright in them and I looked this up a long time ago to find out how many articles there were and there's over 200 I think there might be close to 250 or it's between 200 and 300 and about was it 11 or 12 of those maybe no more than that actually but close to I remember like at least 11 or 12 of those were written by me in fact out of all of the authors on the Wiki who aren't Dr. Bright the author I've written more articles containing that character than literally anyone else and so I have my own sort of I guess the apologies is a little informal I'm sort of formulating this as I'm talking this is me personally talking to you the audience here I have a bit of a responsibility to examine how necessary is it to retain the name Dr. Bright in the articles I've written because maybe I want to keep the tails right like the tail maybe the tail doesn't need Dr. Bright's name in order for it to function as a story you just need a wacky doctor who does wacky things sometimes right that could be Dr. that could be Dr. Clef could be Dr. Sumerian in a couple of cases and I looked through my articles and unfortunately there was a large number of them that are going to if I'm going to remove Dr. Bright from them will require me to rewrite them to some degree or some sort of acceptance on the side there is you know some new character Dr. Simmons who has exactly the same elements in place as Dr. Bright does which would probably be the simplest solution but it's hard to get that many people on board with that an idea of that sort of that extreme let's put that way the best example I can give is the article I have with Dr. Bright getting a Nintendo Wii it's a it's supposed to be funny he gets into a gunfight with Dr. Clef to get the last Nintendo Wii but the reason he's getting it is because he has switched bodies and he needs to get a hold of well he doesn't need to but he wants to get a hold of a Nintendo Wii to acclimate his motor functions to the new to his brain and motor functions to the new body and that's not easily transferable to a random other character because everyone understands who Dr. Bright is already and so I didn't have in that our article or in that tale I should say I didn't have to explain why that mattered or at least I didn't have to go into as much detail as to why that mattered Dr. Bright switches bodies with the necklace and so he would naturally have problems with his motor function so on that was the development of it I can't easily change it but he could change it I'm gonna wait and see what the overall what's the best way to put this the overall consensus is on this topic but I've already changed two stories one of which is my most popular tale and it's possible that it will be less popular after this I believe is Dr. Bright is no longer allowed to use temporal anomalies in order to travel back in time to kill Hitler I've changed it to Dr. Sumerian is no one because Dr. Sumerian's character in that story changes to Dr. Sumerian is no longer allowed allowed to you use temporal anomalies to go back in time to kill Hitler and I words searched Bright's name and switched it out with Kentucky because Clef is another character in the story already so he wouldn't be usable as a substitution and that's it it's easy there's two or three stories I did that to this morning and depending on the how the consensus comes down on this topic or if people stop talking about it entirely and no consensus comes down on this topic I will probably begin to rewrite or at least alter in some way the articles I continue to have on the wiki that include the name Dr. Bright and while I don't expect anyone else to do the same I think for me it's the right thing to do anyway that's it if you enjoyed the video hit the subscribe button then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos and then head on over to patreon.com forward slash D Sumerian and pledge at any level like everybody here on the screen already has including Sinjeriki who's pledged at a hundred dollars it is nice to know that I'm not alone out here and I will see you all again on Thursday I promise