 Ahoy-hoi and welcome to the channel. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today we're going to talk about some great memes from the r slash dank memes from site 19 subreddit. But first, we need to talk about me and a collection of other SCP creators have come together to help form an SCP store, for lack of a better way to put it. And I'll just list off the other creators. Forlorn Foundry guys, they do a lot of live action work, SCP Illustrated. A lot of you guys have actually come from his channel, so you probably know who that is. But he does artwork and readings and original stories. The Sherm, the SCP lord of tiktok as far as I know, and also has a YouTube channel. Toad King Studios who creates a variety of merchandise is part of a part of a podcast. Is it SCP fam radio? And Mr. Clay, who has created a number of SCP related videos and is a very good VFX and CG artist. I'm reading a little bit off of a thing over here. But we've started up a store with SCP stuff. All of us together. You can find all of our stuff in the same place. I will say when we do the stores now opened up, we're going to try and bring in more creators over time. If you scroll down, you'll still see my Teespring ads, because those are actually able to be put underneath the video. But there'll be a link in the description of every video now, where you can go to the SCP store. It's literally scpstore.org. And check out all of our products all in the same place. So, that's that. Now, on to the memes. I will say this meme is inaccurate to SCP lore, I sleep. There are cannons in which this meme makes sense. Real shit. SCP memes are part of their own individual canon ascended. This one's by underscore shoulder underscore. I believe I have three memes by him and then two or three memes by another guy. A lot of memes in these videos are going to be shoulder memes, but that's because shoulder posts a lot of memes to the subreddit. That's how it goes. This reflects very heavily on a concept that I play with a lot, or not play with, but talk about a lot. And that is that something that a lot of people will tell you when we're talking about SCP content is that there is no canon. And I used to say that a lot too because it sounds nice. But I think, despite the fact that everyone says it, and then it sounds really nice and it's an easy thing to get out there, a more accurate version of that is there are infinite cannons. And what the third part of this meme actually says is completely true. Every article exists in its own individual canon. And if it decides it wants to reference outside articles, then cool. It's canon includes those articles. I have an article up on the wiki right now. I believe it's SCP 2987, which is integrated into four different cannons and could conceivably be integrated into a couple of others that I haven't bothered actually connecting it to. And you'd be like, how's that possible? And these some of these cannons are mutually contradictory. But where this article is concerned, it could exist in this story or in this story and still have those stories not change at all. Basically, it's the best way to put it. So it can exist in those cannons, even if those cannons can exist together. And that's true of every SCP article, by the way, even if it references another article, doesn't make that other articles, information less valid, or if something happens, say, let's say you read an SCP article, and in that article, something happens to SCP 173. That does not mean that the baseline canon of SCP 173's article has changed. It hasn't. That means that the article you read includes SCP 173 in its own storytelling. When you read an SCP and you have absolutely no idea what the hell was going on in the article, to the discussion page, I get this sometimes even myself. There was an article drafted somebody was pitching to me a while back, which was essentially, I guess, a Super Mario 64 meme turned into an SCP. And it was one of those things where it's like, when you're reading, it's gonna happen in real life, too. Whenever you have someone read something that you created, and they're just like hovering over you waiting, like, what did you think? And it's like, they don't want to give away the twist. But also, if you don't pick up on the twist, then the article doesn't make any sense to you. And that's exactly what happened with me with this article, because I had never played Super Mario Bros. 64 and the stairway thing that they were trying to get across completely went over my head. And like, sometimes they get a describe for me personally, if if an article doesn't stand on its own, and I can't understand what's going on, and it doesn't matter if there's a reference, I'm not getting I will generally they're neutral or downvote it. That's just how it is. Nab tab was taken created this one. Series one author is writing some of the greatest articles on the site only to go permanently and active, some of the most popular articles on the site. Let's hold the word greatest for the few of them that are actually a quality, not saying that this is an accurate and that some of the greatest articles on the site aren't in series one. I think that that's fair. But not most of them. Most of them are just very, very highly rated and very popular. There's a difference. And to be fair, there's nothing wrong with that. I always say there's nothing wrong with that because I always have to make the distinction. I feel like most people should know that already, that just because something isn't great, and is popular, doesn't mean that it doesn't have a value of some kind. It's just not the kind of value that I would like to attribute to the word greatest. That's all I'm saying. Series seven authors writing the strangest article you've ever read. Yeah, I guess that's accurate. Let's. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair. This is another nab tab was taken article or a meme, by the way. I don't know if it's the strange because I've read a lot articles in the way, not as many as some people. I am not as well read as I think most people would expect from somebody who does this kind of content on YouTube for a living. But I've read quite a lot of SCP articles and written quite a lot of SCP articles. And there's some strange stuff out there in the earlier series in the later series. It's all over the place. Is there maybe more of a? Yeah, yeah, I think it's because of the short form trend that got picked up more recently that's actually led to more strangeness. Because you can get away with it and that sort of thing, like if you're going to create a long article, you can create something a little bit more normal ish, it's still an anomaly, but normal ish, build a character, build a couple of characters if you're going short story length, and and build some sort of a scenario where everything comes together towards an end point. Whereas if you want to write something really really short, you got two real options, you can go super weird or super funny. There's I'm not saying that there aren't ways to develop characters in a 400 to or less word article or let's say 750 or word less article. But it's very, very difficult to build any real connections between yourself and the reader. There's also very difficult to build tension properly for a story. So you really only have, as I said, two options. And that's weird or funny. Both of those can be accomplished in less than 750 words in a way that creates a competent article. And that short form trend has then led to people writing more weird stuff because that's the stuff that lands and works. It's sort of evolving on its own. People don't even realize that's what they're doing. You know, they're trying to write, I see them ever all the time, even sometimes from established authors, people trying to write character pieces in less than 300 words. And it's just it doesn't do it doesn't work. I wrote a I mean, the last tail I wrote, which is almost exactly this exact has almost exactly this problem is it's like 400 ish words, I think maybe below 450, I think it might actually be closer to 400. Regardless, it's like 400 ish words. And it tries to build a connection between both the audience and the viewer and build tension at the same time. And it doesn't succeed on all counts. Is it good? I think so. Is it as good as I think it can be for the word count it has? Absolutely. Would it be better if it was longer? I don't know. It's that's the thing with these sorts of things. Everyone is its own concoction. But it doesn't definitely doesn't build that strength, a strong bond between the audience and the piece. And it definitely doesn't build enough tension, I think, to build to any sort of real breakpoint. And in real dramatic works, you want to build tension and break points multiple times, build up up up and up break, and then up up up up further, you elevate and then break and then up up up and up and elevate even further from the first two times. You can't even build one level of elevated tension in, you know, 500 words. So that's just my opinion on that sort of stuff. I'm getting a little bit further away from it. But I do think the short form thing is the reason why we have strange articles. Let's put that way. Is that the last one? I think no, there's one more. From wiser than you three? Yeah, wiser than you three. Same student 10 minute time lapse. Yeah, trying to read. So I actually gave myself actually tried to read inevitable. I read the core article. Well, probably maybe the core article, I don't actually I didn't get far enough into it to know if that probably shifted and changed, I would bet it does. And then I read the first tale that was part of it. Or I started to read the first tale that was part of it. And I just got bored. Don't think bored me. And I know it must have must not abort everybody because it was very popular article, but it's a little bit like, I don't know. I don't want to be that guy. I know I'm I tend to be overly critical of SCP content on the wiki sometimes. And I try to dial that back. But when it comes to some of the more popular new articles by people who I know and respect, and I respect their writing ability. I'm not saying that they're okay. I'm not saying they're bad. Right? inevitable is not bad. But it is a little boring. And it's very long. And when you have very long articles that are also a little boring. You start to lose interest in reading the rest of it. The pacing just doesn't hit properly for me. And and this is like, it's not just with this kind of stuff. I'm talking about popular articles that I just don't like. Why? Or the one about the fairies. 5000. Yeah, it's 5000. I think it's a 5000 or 4000. Either way, 4000 5000 are just they're just not my favorites, not by a long shot. And if we're looking at the none, the ones that were in the contest with them, but they're the ones that won. So they must be, they must have some level of quality to them. And they are pretty good. They're all right. I mean, in offensive, middle of the ground. That's the worst thing you get. That's the worst compliment you can give to somebody is that it's not bad. It's not good. It's right there in the middle. But when it comes to winning a contest, getting a lot of views, in offensive and in the middle is exactly what you want. If you inspire strong emotions in a smaller group of people, you failed at a contest entry period, you want to have something that's in the middle, slow and steady wins the race. You don't want to offend too many people with it because you every offended person is a person that's not voting on it. And then these contest voting is important. It's a better article with less people viewing it is always going to lose to an inoffensive, but all right article. And that's just how the contests work. And I like to think that's and again, I like to think that's the reason why I don't like most of the contest winners or even some of the higher placing contest entries like inevitable, but that also feels dismissive because I haven't, for example, okay, so if the for why or the fairy one, what's it called? Oh, man. It's funny part is there's a meme about the title of that one's taboo taboo. So me not being able to remember the exact name and calling it something different every single time is hilarious. And on point. But inevitable I didn't finish. So maybe it is great. Maybe it gets better. But the early pacing was for me terrible. So I didn't finish it. It was just okay. Yeah. That's it. Thank you very much for I believe that's the last meme. Yep. And thank you very much for watching. Make sure you go check out the scp store at scp store.org. Make sure I got that right. Yes, I did. And then hit the subscribe button. That's very important. 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 like everybody here on the screen already has, including sin jeriki who has pledged $100 and MC cashmill who has pledged at $50 everyone who has pledged this month. Don't worry, your names will be in the first video I start doing at the beginning of next month. 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