 Ahoy hoy and welcome to the channel, I'm Dr. Smerian, not a real doctor. And today we're going to talk about dank memes from, dank memes from site 19 subreddit. So let's start with, the foundation are the good guys who are trying to exterminate the human race in SCP-5000, me. Just because you're correct doesn't mean, I don't even think that that's true, doesn't mean you're right. You're trying to exterminate the human race is wrong. You can create some sort of fictional justification for it, though SCP-5000 doesn't. It lets you assume there's some sort of fictional justification for it, but you don't know that. There's some background that kind of gives you an indication of why they're doing it. At the end, there is no justification for the elimination of the human race, at least not one that I, as a human, can understand to be morally correct, period. Of course there are people out there who think this way, who think that all humanity is evil and must be destroyed or whatever. There are people that think that, those people are wrong. Most safe SCPs are more interesting than Keter or Apolly on ones, he's out of line, but he's right. Okay, I get where this is coming from, interestingly enough, this hot take, lukewarm take, but it's not a bad thing to say. I think, though, the reason why a lot of safe SCPs, maybe not actually, because there's different reasons why someone might say this. The one reason that I can think of that's a little problematic, and the problem is not the right word, not correct, wrong. The wrong reason to think this is because safe SCPs oftentimes can be simple and have no narrative attached to them, therefore people who dislike narrative based SCPs oftentimes like those better because a Keter or Apollyon, not always, but a Keter or Apollyon usually has some baggage attached to it, some story that's already there. And a lot of people like SCPs, not me, I may have to make this clear because this is the point I'm making here, and just because I don't, doesn't mean other people who do are wrong, it's opinion, I'm not fact. But some people dislike SCPs with any sort of narrative at all, they like to take the item and just in their mind do imagination stuff, like these are the people who show up in chats, if you involve yourself in the SCP chats, and ask questions about their favorite pet SCPs over and over and over again. Hey, what would happen if you put SCP 096 up against SCP 049? Hey, do you think SCP 049's mask is actually part of it, or do you think maybe the SCP Foundation is wrong and it's an actual mask on top of a bird beak, and so on and so forth. And that's fine, it's just not the enjoyable part for me. Now that isn't necessarily what this person is saying, though it is a thing that someone who thinks that way would say, often if they read enough SCPs, because again, there are plenty of Keter and Apollyon that are pretty simple, well maybe not Apollyon, but plenty of Keter SCPs that are very simple that way. But as you start to get further along into the SCP lore and get further on in the numbers, you'll find more and more safe SCPs that are a little simpler, a little less involved, a little bit more, just this is the anomaly and isn't it interesting, and Keter's which are 5,000 to 20,000 words long with extra addendums and all this other stuff. And I don't know that any one of them is superior, but it does depend on what you come to the SCP Foundation for, and not everyone's the same. First time visitor. Look, I've been around the internet, okay, whatever it is, I'll understand. There's nothing about this, I understand. I think this stems strongly from the problem that a lot of people get into, which is they'll, what's the word I'm looking for here? When they want to introduce somebody to the SCP Foundation, they don't think what SCP would be good to introduce them with, not everyone does this, I always have to make that caveat because some people are, you know, think when they do this. They don't think often about which SCP would be best to introduce them with, something simple with a hint of narrative or a very simple narrative that ties up for the end of the article, something with a nice twist in it that gives people an idea that, oh, this is real fiction. No, they have a favorite that they have developed over however long they've been on the site after they got introduced somehow in a way that attracted them to the SCP Wiki and then they kept reading and kept reading and kept reading and then one day they found their favorite, right? But at that point they had a long, strong, rooted understanding of the SCP Foundation, the Wiki, probably most of the GOIs, if not understanding of them, at least a cursory knowledge of them enough to accept when they show up in an article. And so now they've got a favorite, but it's, it involves understanding to a level that a new person might not have. And they don't go, hey, let's introduce them to something that works, let's introduce them to my favorite because that's what you want to share. And then people read it and they're like, I don't get this. There are different kinds of SCPs. There are SCPs for entry-level readers and there are SCPs for advanced readers and there's room for both on the website. The thing is, this is important, you might think that SCPs for advanced readers would find trouble getting traction, but everybody who takes the time to register for the website generally understands the SCP to a point. So advanced reader SCPs, and that's the only terminology I can use for it, a lot of them exist. They're not going to get downvoted because everybody who can vote understands them. And this is the disconnect between on and off, quote-unquote, on and off site people. Bees in our universe, bees in the SCP universe, I mean, yeah, I guess. See, the thing is, I get the inclination at some point. I remember when I was in school, sometimes we would go outside and we would play outside, you know, depending on how old we were, actually that's not true. I think when I was in junior high, yeah, we still went outside for breaks and played and stuff like that, but what we ended up doing oftentimes involved interactions with nature and one time, well not one time, a lot of times there would be bees or yellow jackets or hornets and so on and so forth. I think the hornets and yellow jackets probably spoiled people because bees are not particularly aggressive. If you leave bees alone, they'll leave you alone. And in fact, it can be quite difficult sometimes to get a bee to sting you. Hornets and wasps on the other hand are assholes, and the confusion between them I think causes people a lot of problems. They just see a buzzing, stinging insect and they freak out, but there are people out there with fear of bees. Even if it's not full on phobia levels, although some people have that too, there are people with a straight up fear of bees and so some of those people wrote for the SCP wiki and they wrote some stories that were well received. You write what you know and that's what happened to bees in the SCP universe. Because the word tiring to governments of the world trying to establish peaceful diplomatic relations with an alien civilization, the SCP Foundation after establishing peaceful diplomatic relations with communist spiders, scurrying crusaders, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right or if it's even spelled correctly because of all the other spelling errors, but it may be that word. Christian animals in a bunch of parallel universes, it's showtime. One of my absolute favorite SCPs on the SCP wiki and an example of how you can use implied narrative in a story without actually telling the reader what exactly happened is the one where the SCP Foundation makes contact with an alternate Earth essentially. And this alternate Earth has got a whole different technological advancement level. They have much better physics than us and much worse biology science than us. So they don't understand necessarily germ theory all that well, but they can make particle accelerators. I don't know how realistic that is in the grand scheme of things, but hmm. So the SCP Foundation makes contact with them over a long period of time and they learn a lot about how they have like a world government and it's a hegemonic sort of world government where they don't necessarily conquer people, they just culturally absorb them over time. And the SCP Foundation doesn't really make too much of a note of that, I mean there is some references to it, but you can see where the SCP Foundation would be seriously worried in getting in a diplomatic or even any sort of exchange of peoples and cultures with a group like that that's highly advanced in physics, which is already dangerous, but also whose conquering of other peoples comes from, as I said, a hegemonic imperialism sort of thing. So at some point a flu epidemic breaks out in the other world and there are very, very subtle hints that it could be because of mishandling on the side of the Foundation and that's the funny part. So the subtle hints don't hint at what I actually ended up deciding on. I'm telling this story like it, but it is similar to this and it reminded me of it. I could do, maybe I should do videos where I just summarize SCPs like this, but they make a very subtle hint that it's the SCP Foundation's fault, that they screwed up and accidentally through handling of the cable, see there's just a, it's a hole about this side so it's not big enough for people to go through, but there's a cable that they use to communicate. And during, there's a note before it happens that there's some maintenance done on the cable and replacements are done. It's been a while since I read it, so I could be getting some of these details wrong, but meh. It's the, the Journal of Justice, good enough. What happens is they get this flu epidemic and it is serious to the point where like these people may end up being completely wiped out. So the SCP Foundation in their grand, what's the word I'm looking for here, altruism, which is not something the SCP Foundation is necessarily well known for, decide to send over a vaccine and this is, this is, wow, this is topical for our current time, time and events. They send over a vaccine and everything goes great for a while. They vaccinate their entire population and the flu epidemic stops. And then a little time passes and they realize they have been sterilized completely, not completely. I think there's like very, very small, very small population growth. It's something that's not immediately apparent to them, but then, you know, give it a few months. They managed to get the, that's the thing about their world government. They managed to get the flu vaccine to everybody in just, you know, a few months and then a few months passes and they're like, wait, why aren't we having any new births? And they get really pissed off and they attack us eventually, like the governments eventually break down and eventually they start trying to attack us and destroy us. But I always like the base and it's not really fully hinted at in the article itself, but I mean, I should say it is hinted at, but it's not explicitly said. Where they actually were such a threat that the SCP foundation decided that they needed to be dealt with or a scientist just decided on his own that they needed to be dealt with and they sent the flu epidemic over and then they sent the vaccine over and then they decided, hey, let's just eliminate them once and for all. And that is the SCP foundation when they do first contact. See, a lot of people talk about their successful ones where they don't have to kill everybody, but if the SCP foundation, see, the anomaly isn't the other world. The other anomaly was the portal. They have to secure, contain, protect the portal, but the people on the other side, SCP foundation don't give a fuck about them. Same thing with these. The reason why a lot of these is because the anomaly is the thing that they're making peaceful diplomatic contacts with. But that ain't the SCP foundation's only thing. These guys are assholes. After that really long aside about an SCP and first contact, this probably ran a little bit long, but 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 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. I'll let you know. Patreon backing right now is super helpful. Regardless of what you think about it, and I'm not going to denigrate the animation channels. I think they do a pretty good job, but. 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