 The word safe means protected from or not exposed to danger or risk or not likely to be harmed or lost unless you're on the SCP wiki in which case it means not likely to escape containment. Today let's talk about how you're probably wrong about object classes. The image you're looking at right now contains 25 separate object classes and it's not entirely comprehensive. It was compiled by Antizar of Quers and it is actually useful since it's a flowchart. You start here and you know you can move throughout the flowchart to find out if your object would fit into an esoteric class. The answer is no your object probably doesn't fit into an esoteric class. In fact I'll make a point right now there is no good reason to use an esoteric class unless you absolutely have to and I say this as someone who personally has done it more than once but uh and we're gonna go through the object classes that aren't esoteric in just a second but just to make a point esoteric means anything that isn't safe, euclid, keter, uh, thomial, explained, neutralized. We'll get this out of the way early on. The word keter as used by the SCP foundation I'm pronouncing it keter because that's how I've always pronounced it and that's how most English language speakers have begun to pronounce it and therefore it becomes valid as a pronunciation because people pronounce it that way. If enough people pronounce something one way it becomes a valid possible pronunciation for it which is how language works but the actual word is Hebrew and it's supposed to be pronounced keter so if someone does say keter they are not wrong and really have a better claim to being right than I do but I'm not here to tell you about how you're not wrong. See the real issue with object classes in a more general sense is that they don't at least the core ones don't really communicate a whole lot of information to an audience. In object classes at least the core basic object classes are generally about the difficulty of containment. In fact they're mostly about containment. The original four or the original three safe euclid and keter are only about containment. Thomial is still about containment though it's about it in a different way and obviously neutralized or explained or decommissioned which decommissioned is still esoteric but it's a little bit more common I think than most but decommissioned is sort of a in a way a roundabout way still about containment. See a lot of site based authors or even just well read readers will look at object classes and you know when a new person comes along they'll be like is it safe how dangerous is it and they'll go it's not about danger it's about containment which to me personally betrays a little bit of lack of self-awareness because think about it if your base object classes are safe euclid and keter what reasonable person wouldn't think that safe means safe and you act in all smug and superior about it isn't going to change the fact that this classification system is just bad safe doesn't mean what it actually means euclid is you know what does euclid mean whenever anyone see your sword euclid the only thing they think about is euclidean geometry or non or for the scp wiki non euclidean geometry even though they use it often in a way that doesn't make any sense and keter just means crown which interestingly enough probably means that keter was supposed to be the top level right it's the crown it's the highest level of i mean in cabala keter is the crown at the top of the separathe of the tree of life so it's like it's funny because now they're like super keter no keter is the top it is support at least it's supposed to be it's not anymore because there are other people want to throw in s like people want to throw in an esoteric class that's essentially super keter and be like ha now i'm important because my scp that i wrote is much much harder to contain than anything else and to be completely and totally honest with you keter is the only word that actually has any sort of deeper meaning to it euclid is named after a person safe as a very basic word whereas keter at least in cabala is supposed to be like the most hidden of things and completely incomprehensible to man which you know it sort of fits in with the scp foundation's usage of the word but the idea of each of these object classes they they have a particular purpose so we're going to go over this particular purposes really quickly because it's not too difficult to understand safe again isn't about the danger of the object it's about how easy it is to contain if you have a magic wand it doesn't matter if that magic if you point that magic wand at a person if a but a person has to pick it up first a person has to be holding it then point it at another person and speak a word that only you know and it shoots nuclear fire out of the other end it doesn't matter that it just created thermonuclear detonation and destroyed the surrounding six square kilometers if you can put it in a box and absolutely nothing will happen it doesn't matter how dangerous it is as a weapon it's safe now if people find out about that object and come in and try and steal it there can be it or often come in and try to steal it there could be an argument made to raise it to euclid because there is more requirements to try and keep it in containment but the object itself without anyone knowing about it would just be safe and that moves us into euclid now euclid is generally the baseline for any humanoid entity because living things require extra levels of attention you have to feed them you have to care for them you have psychological care and all these other things and if they have an ability you have to make sure that they don't willingly activate it if it's a willingly activated thing and if it's not willingly activated you have to basically keep their emotional health in check that kind of thing so if it's alive and it's anomalous it's almost certainly euclid there are maybe a few cases where you could argue that it's safe but almost certainly at least yes you'd say not euclid exclusively at least euclid and keter is reserved for objects that are nearly impossible to contain now this could be very very difficult to contain like requires a very a set of very specific containment procedures or regardless of what you do say you could put it in a box and that's the only real way to keep it in containment it still sometimes activates or it still sometimes does the anomalous thing and can use that ability to get out of containment so that's it basically each of these three object classes covers the basics either it's you can put it in a box and nothing happens or you put it in a box and you have to care for it a little bit or you put it in a box and you constantly have to pay attention to it and care for it or else it'll escape those are the three object classes safe euclid and keter now there's a fourth object classes used i'd say probably more than any other esoteric classes and it's technically not esoteric it's one of the standard object classes because it's just become so common and that one is thomial now thomial isn't necessarily about how easy or difficult it is to contain it but rather about how it is used for containment of other anomalies it has to be itself anomalous and also be useful and used to contain other anomalies and that's it and to be honest with you i think thomial gets a little overused like people are like treat it as though it's super keter remember everyone keter is the top when it comes to difficulty of containment there isn't anything more difficult to contain than keter saying something is super keter or an object class that is more difficult to contain than keter would be like saying something can be very perfect it's a binary thing it either is or it isn't it can't be very perfect that's not a real possibility and there are two other object classes which are used a little bit let's say not often but probably more often than any of the other esoteric classes and that is explained and neutralized and both of those are very simple explained is exactly what that says on the 10 it is an object that is no longer considered anomalous you know 100 years ago a highly radioactive substance would be considered a probably a keter scp object it would be considered anomalous we wouldn't understand how it works or what it is but today it's perfectly understood through science so it's explained this is just an idea to allow for some history of the foundation to be shown to the reader because essentially what you're doing is you're saying stuff like those old objects existed and this is what the foundation was like back then anytime you see an explained scp it's usually i should say anytime but it's usually an effort to go into the history of the scp foundation now neutralized is completely different neutralized is an scp object that is no longer anomalous because the scp foundation or someone else it's usually the scp foundation but sometimes it's other people have actually either eliminated it or removed its anomaly now the best example of that is if you had a reality warper that was an scp object and you just killed them somehow you shot them in the head let's say you put them in a room with a bunch of scranton reality anchors and you killed them that would be a neutralized anomaly anyway that said thank you for watching if you 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