 Ahoy-hoy and welcome to the channel. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today we are going to go over memes from the r slash dank memes from site 19 subreddit. Let's get started. Tenoni writes a complex narrative about a scenario where the SCP foundation turns on humanity after discovering something about humanity as a whole. Dr. Sumerian, hop in, we're going to find out who asked. Actually, I feel like this is inaccurate. It's not that no one asks. People do ask legitimately why about that proposal. My problem is that I've read it and was like, I don't really care why the foundation is doing what it's doing. I don't even know if I, I was kind of tepid on that one. Wasn't that I disliked it? I just was never really, I didn't particularly enjoy it. That's, we'll put it that way. But yes, and part of that was that like the driving force, the driving point of the article, which is supposed to be inspiring the reader to be like, what could be so bad about humanity that the SCP foundation wants to kill everybody? But all I could think was, I mean, the SCP foundation wants to kill everybody. It's anomalous. So it doesn't really matter why. I don't believe there's a deeper reason. Something weird happened. Something illogical. There is no logical answer to that. So I don't care. Anyway, the latest in universe revision of the same article, the first in universe, in universe version of an SCP article. I don't know. I get what they're saying. When we're talking about in universe revisions, not out of universe revisions, it is weird. Oftentimes, I mean, I understand from a narrative standpoint why this is done, but I do believe it breaks a little bit of the verisimilitude of an SCP article to include the previous containment procedures in there. Now that said, I'm sure I've done it in an SCP article in the past, so I'm probably being a bit of a hypocrite there. But it does just feel like it's not, it doesn't, it breaks verisimilitude a little bit to be like, here's all the previous stuff. You have to read all of that before you get through to the to the ending here. I do believe, now hold on, I do believe there would be iterative versions of a particular document, obviously, but the version you read on the page would be simplified down to just the stuff you need to know. And in a lot of them, not all, but in a lot of them, you don't need to know the stuff that came before. It is not relevant. It just builds suspense for the reader to be like, oh my god, it got kept getting worse and worse and worse and worse. What happened? But you don't need to know that. If you're working for the, if you were working for the foundation, you wouldn't need to know all of that, not every time. There are cases where that's not true. So, I mean, this is very accurate. People who give the Ouroboros cycle as an introduction to SCP, people who give series one articles as an introduction to SCP, both of these approaches are wrong. Let me just throw that out there. I have nothing against series one SCPs, and I also have very much nothing against the Ouroboros cycle. However, they are two ends of the spectrum, overly simplistic and very complex. Find your favorite SCP article that includes a narrative. It doesn't have to be a strong narrative, but an underlying narrative attached to the article. If you introduce somebody that way, they'll understand both sides of the spectrum better. But if you introduce somebody to just series one articles, it's really young people. Series one articles are better for young people because they are incredibly simple. And there's nothing wrong with that. However, introducing somebody to the SCP with the Ouroboros cycle is going to more often than not alienate them from the SCP Wiki and be like, ah, that's a stupid narrative-based SCP. You know, it does the opposite problem. And a lot of people, for a lot of people, introducing them to series one stuff is going to also do that. So, I feel like, and I don't want to, I'm not going to promote my own stuff, but there's a lot of SCPs of my own that I feel are very good introductions to the SCP universe. No fury. I would say it hits that perfect sweet spot of just enough narrative to get, it is a little bit dialogue heavy though. Maybe, maybe how I got to Memphis is a better option. It was an interview, but it's not very long. It's not expository. There's a lot of people enjoy no fury, because for exactly what I said, it's kind of a light to medium narrative SCP, where there is a focus on the SCP object as well, the narrative that's attached to it. But I have some problems that I don't, I don't know, I could just fix them. I have some problems with it myself, actually. So, and that's that the, there's an interview in it that's just too long and too much exposition for my tastes. I should go back and fix it, but everybody loves the damn thing. Not everybody, but most people I know, and whose opinions I respect, quite enjoy it, so I've just left it alone. Anyway, moving on, find something in the middle. Don't, don't go to the extremes. I know this is a meme, so it's a joke, and this is a very good point, but I just find something in the middle. Mother, I have joined the minimalism trend, SCP Foundation. I only included this because it looks like the SCP Foundation logo in the last one is a, a sucker mouth with teeth, and somehow has more, it somehow has become somewhat terrifying, which I never really think the SCP is a particularly terrifying logo, but hey, someone has managed to make it look like it's some sort of alien mouth, so good job. SCP Illustrated makes a video about how SCP animation channels are killing the OG SCP channels, everyone else. Now, this is an Avengers level threat. Okay, okay, okay. I made a video a while back that, or while back literally like I think the last video I did that was, SCP Illustrated is right, and again, I agree he is mostly right about the effects of it. I'm not 100% sure I'm behind the idea of the us versus them narrative that has been very strongly coming out. I mean, like, and this is the funny part, it's not as bad on my video because I was pretty clear about my intentions, but on my video, I talked about like how I need to figure out how to fix things going forward, right? And what I'm going to do about it, and that was my little solution is like, I need to adapt or die is basically what I'm like, I'm saying, I need to adapt or my channel will die one way or the other. One, eventually, people were still left comments that were like, you shouldn't stop complaining, adapt or die. And I'm like, I feel like that was my whole point. But thanks, I guess. And really, that is my point here, like, regardless of what I think is or isn't good content or etc. and so on and so forth. If I am presented with a problem, I really only have one solution, and that is to change me and what I'm doing to fit the new paradigm. And if the new paradigm is cheap and easy animation, then we're going to do that. Eventually, I got some work to do. D-Class and MTF, personal thinking about the fact that they both have the narrative objective to get slaughtered before an anomaly is understood by the foundation. Now, I've included this because I'm aware of these two independently, but for some reason, it never occurred to me to think of them together. But it's totally true. I knew that the MTFs were for that purpose, and I knew that the D-Class was for that purpose. But it never at some point was like, literally exist for the same reason in the narrative. The D-Class are kind of a cheap kill, whereas the MTFers just show that despite training, despite equipment, despite all of the planning necessary, this is still incredibly dangerous and can still get you. D-Class on their hand are just like, hey, look at us experimenting. Also, this guy's D-Class outfit is kind of fly, yo. Just saying. Celebrities when they see the number five, you can make a religion out of this. If you don't know what the fifth this church is, read Star of Science. And if you do know what the fifth this church is, read Star of Science. And if you haven't read Star of Science, read Star of Science. There we go. A lot in between a tale and an SAP article are really starting to blur, having objects that are basically an entire tale attached to a document with little importance put on the object itself leaves very little to be explored later. Sir, this is a Wendy's. The first guy, I have said this before, not to a Wendy's employee. Maybe I've said it to a Wendy's employee. In fact, almost certainly I've said it to a Wendy's employee considering, because I've said it on this channel. And considering the numbers, well, I mean, not almost certainly, but this is a pretty good chance that at least one Wendy's employee has seen this. So anyway, but I completely agree. Well, I don't completely agree. I don't think there's a problem with leaving very little to be explored later with an article. However, that is true. I think that expanding too much makes it kind of impossible for you to actually expand later. I shouldn't say impossible makes it difficult. But the I mean, like, here's a funny thing, like the number one SCP that I think of when I think of a tail, basically, but we wanted an excuse to put it in an SCP slot is Shaggy Dreadlocks proposal. Or is it SD locks proposal? Either way, that's the Shaggy Dreadlocks proposal. And I remember when day breaks is a cinch is almost almost entirely a tail. But people have had plenty of time to expand upon it, tails don't preclude further exploration of an idea or an SCP. But it does cover a lot of the possibilities. So it's a little bit of give and take here. And I really, really hate, though, totally understand this propensity to turn tails into SCPs. Because, okay, it is born out of the certainty, and the certainty is not incorrect, is born out of the certainty that tails on the SCP wiki will necessarily get less traffic than SCPs on average. There are some very, very highly rated tails. But all of the top five, I believe, are all SCPs. And if not, there's like one, and there's like one or two in there. And then they start to and then there's some differentiation as you get further down. But the vast majority of tails get no nothing. Nobody pays attention to them. SCPs, on the other hand, easy to easier to share. You hand it off to somebody and go, Hey, look at this number. And they look and then they've got the thing. And they don't require, generally, they don't require any previous knowledge, whereas tails can oftentimes require previous knowledge of some kind, either of an other SCP or about the canon that it's built in, or just the series that it's part of. You read an SCP, you don't need to know anything other than the baseline foundation exists, and it contains anomalies. And then you can go from there. I made a mistake. Yes, I saw this. This was a thing about my apology video, which was like a minute and a half long, where I misgendered somebody because I didn't quite understand the rules of how that worked. Or I should say, how the exact rules of the exact situation I was dealing with worked. Because I felt like that was, you know, to make a minute and a half, you make a mistake, you apologize for it, try and fix it in the future and go forward. But I guess apparently, and also funnily enough, they put down, you know, there's monetization. I hadn't thought of this, but I do, I do now under, I do now recall this being a thing where apology videos are like three hours long, everybody knows they're going to get clicks. So they put advertisements on it. I had not considered that when I said to myself, you know, I'm not going to put any ads on this apology, this a minute and a half long apology video, much less one every, it looks like every 15, no, not every 15 minutes, but like every 10 minutes, maybe either way. I didn't, I didn't put it ads on mine. It's only a minute and a half long. I tried not to make it too big of a deal. I don't think I deserve any kind of like applause for that. That feels like the baseline. You know, thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video, please hit the subscribe button and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. If I'm a little bit down today, it's because one, I could not sleep last night. And two, the reason I couldn't sleep last night is because I'm a little down in general over a thing that happened. It's not a huge deal, but like I can, I can feel my energy level is a little lower. And I didn't want you guys to think there was anything seriously wrong. I mean, it's seriously wrong. It's complicated, not a huge deal, but I am a little bit bummed out. That's all. Thank you very much for watching. Hit the subscribe button, 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 Dr. Jay Redacted and Sinjeriki who have both pledged at $100. It's nice to know that I'm not alone out here, and I will see you all again on Thursday.