 Ahoy Hoy and welcome to the 2020 year in review for the SCP Foundation wiki and let's just say community in general. It has been a wild and we'll say pretty crazy year for the SCP Foundation and the world in general. We've been experiencing multiple Keter class breaches and XK class scenarios. One of which is COVID-19 which has been a serious problem all year for a lot of people. So a lot of people have been staying home. Maybe a lot of people have been reading the SCP wiki especially early on. But we've gotten through it at the very least. For now and we're now about to hit into 2021 and I'm sure it'll be great. In the meantime let's go over a few of the things that have happened this year. So the very first thing I want to talk about is the contests. This year we had several contests and I think it's not entirely new. Like contests like this have been done before but this year was almost defined by the contests that were run. We had the SCP 5000 contest which brought us the new classic why. Which I can go over as we're doing this because they're almost all they're all contest entries. This works out. The top five articles for the year SCP 5000 is almost rated at plus 2000 now. So I guess people really want to know the answer to that question. The actually second rated one is also another yeah another 5000 contest entry. This one is by let's take a look at the co-authorings originally by Shaggy Dreadlocks and I believe his co-authors are let me see here there we go. One Erasmus, The Sherm, The Vulgan and Wodenaz who have all who all get to share in another article that's above plus 1000. I give SCP 5999 a look one of these days and SCP 5031 which isn't quite over a thousand but it is at 971 so it's feel like it's worth mentioning I'm gonna leave the other two out since they are below a thousand. This one is a Jamcon 2020 entry so there is that too. Give those three at the very least if you want to get up to date on the wildly popular things this year give SCP 5000, 5999 and 5031 a little bit of a look they like I said this year has been defined by its contests we had the SCP 5000 contest which had a mystery theme we had the Jamcon which of course you know did he not win somehow oh day two winner I got you that's like who won the contest looks like the winner of I should be clear about who won what so the winner of the SCP 5000 contest was Tanhoni the winner of the Jamcon 144 hour contest was Rounder House the ultimate winner I have no idea what's going on with the exquisite corpse contest I still I never paid too close of attention as to what was going on I think multiple people were writing parts of articles I I don't know and that felt like a mess to me without felt like a mess but then again I didn't look into it too deeply but then we had the canon renaissance contest which I think was actually a really good idea and helped bring back several cannons in fact it doubled the size of one of my cannons so I'm happy with that one but beyond our contests we also had two major fundraisers running this year the first one started in November 2019 but it wasn't over and it's still not over I don't think it's still accepting donations and that's the SCP legal fund fighting the Russian trademark problem the Andre Duxen issue that is still ongoing we've I've done videos on that issue before so I don't know that I need to totally rehash it also Gears Dr. Gears was sick had cancer and I don't know if he like there hasn't been a whole lot of updates on it but he raised about thirty thousand dollars and I understand that surgery went well it doesn't mean he's necessarily you don't cure cancer is it's always going to be in your life once it's in your life once but he's alive and he's living and that's something at least we had a couple of really major short films we had the SCP 096 short film which I did a review on this channel of and we had the SCP overlord short film which I also did a review of on this channel both high quality SCP films and I will say real quick there's probably going to be stuff and it's in the short film area that I'm probably going to be missing so it's possible that you know I didn't I didn't notice certain things that happened this year so if you if you have a comment as to what you think the most important or the most important to you thing that happened this year in the SCP community is leave it in the comments down below no problem be nice to see what everybody else saw as the most important things we also had a couple of what's the best way to put this with many images on the SCP wiki old legacy images for SCPs that should have been replaced a long time ago finally being replaced I could go over a huge list of those but I'm not going to bother with it but the SCP wiki's image replacement program has done a pretty good job there's only one major I think plagiarized image left on the wiki and that's SCP 173 and technically they got permission for the plagiarism after the fact so they consider that to be alright but other than that they're doing pretty good there's also obviously a little bit of drama back in May where a couple of SCP staff members were using their authorities and reputations in a will say skeezy way and kind of got called out for it and finally got dealt with properly the her anti-harassment team assures us even though everything is completely private and they will never share any of their disciplinary actions or reasonings assures us that everything is fine and everything will continue to be fine and that they will take care of these problems they will do a better job to take care of these problems in the future and as for the channel itself because this is important to me right it's a lot of stuff with the other SCP channels you've got oh shit sherm did his halloween charity stream a while back I've look at my analytics for this year take a look last 365 days perfect I've gained 30,000 subscribers this year I had four just over four million views and 344,000 watch hours how many days is that 344 100 divided by 24 14,000 let's divide that by 365 39 years of watch time on my YouTube channel my content has been watched for a total this year alone of 39 years that is a kind of amazing actually and yeah it's been a good year for me anyway not so good a year for everything on the outside and and in many ways not necessarily a great year for the SCP wiki a lot of shitty things have happened but 2021 is coming up and with any hope and I should say with any reasonable expectations in 2021 we hope to see better things happening you know what I noticed a little while back and we're done with the video or the actual update but I noticed this on Tuesday I think it was I lost 30 subscribers it was hilarious it was the day that I went in I was like very quickly really people's like please make sure to hit the subscribe button I lost 30 subscribers that day and I've noticed actually and this is something I looked up recently to understand kind of the wise of it especially since I took my break in October every when I upload a new video actually see a dip in subscriber growth rather than a growth I think it's probably older subscribers seeing the videos pop up and be like oh I don't like this guy anymore but that was that that's the most severe dip I've ever had in the entire area of my channel's history and having right at the end of the year when I was thinking everything was going great I hope I get another 30,000 next year it'd be nice to end 2021 getting a gold not gold a silver play button but who knows anyway thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video scroll down and hit the subscribe button but only but only if you're not already subscribed man I'm talking to you Carl I wonder if I should just stick to Carl every day every time I do that I try and think up a new name and like I can do it I've done it before maybe I should just consistently hammer home Carl I think that's a better idea yeah 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 and I'm gonna cover these people I'm gonna be very clear about these people because it's the end of the year and I'd like to thank these people very specifically my big patrons Dr. J redacted Synderiki and Morgan who have all pledged above the $40 level Synderiki and Dr. Jared acted at $100 each these are the people who honest to God without their support I would be very difficult for me to continue to make these this content I appreciate that kind of stuff more than I can really communicate properly so thank you very much you guys and thank you for letting me know that I'm not alone out here I will see you all again on Tuesday in 2021 oh man this has been a bit of a year