 Ahoy Hoy! And often times when new people come to my channel they may say things like you don't know what you're talking about because you're just jealous you haven't written anything for the wiki yet or uh how much do you really know about this? How could I possibly be wrong about that? And I think the problem comes from the fact that a lot of people don't know who I am or you know what I've done in the past. So today because we have a huge influx of new subscribers recently we are going to talk about how you're probably wrong about me. So we're not gonna go too much further back or outside the realm of the SCP sphere uh like you don't need to know about me the person all that much other than to know that I'm from Alabama uh born raised lived most of my life and that I'm 34 years old now which puts me firmly in the millennial category so I get to say okay boomer and okay zoomer and um yeah I started writing for the SCP wiki in 2014 specifically because I have an author page yep that goes all the way back there the 14th of August in 2014 was the very first time I posted a successful article to the scp wiki I actually started on the wiki in 2012 but I didn't stick around I wrote one failed article and then disappeared off the site for two-ish years uh back in 2012 things were a little bit more hostile on the site and then in 2014 I came up with my very first successful article and since then I have written I believe the number is 118 articles for the scp wiki which puts me firmly in the nearly top five of most prolific authors on the site um I haven't written anything for a couple months now because I've been preoccupied with being sick and uh uh the channel and the few things that I have gone to try and post haven't I mean they haven't failed I posted a couple things I should say that but they didn't they didn't reach the levels that I was comfortable with like they were still in the single digits after a few hours and for me that's not successful enough so I uh took them back down and decided to rework them and then never reposted them um the thing is I started working for or working as scp staff back in I want to say 2015 sometime might have been even in 2016 but the important part is I did that for about two years roughly until the beginning of 2018 um and eventually rose to the position of moderator um I got overlooked for promotions on more than one occasion which slowed my progression through the ranks I really feel if I'd been promoted on time properly then I might have actually made it as an administrator but that never happened and honestly think I'm thankful for that because uh the uh the whole reason I left was well there's a whole there's a story in there well we'll do the staff stuff first and as with all of earth's problems it begins with max landis so max landis wrote an article for the scp wiki and then a couple years later a year later I don't remember when exactly the timeline was how long before he wrote the article but at some point it came out that he was an abusive allegedly an abusive uh asshole to his ex-girlfriends so uh I created a post on the o5 forums and my position as a moderator to ask is it something that we should be uh dealing with on the scp wiki because this none of this stuff happened on the site but it involves a wiki user uh somewhat publicly and well known wiki user and the the harassment team decided that uh just posting about it was breaching the uh secrecy or confidence of the people who publicly accused the guy of I don't I try not to worry about it so much but I ended up getting a censure for that just for bringing up the question of should we be dealing with this as a problem I think part of the problem was they wanted to deal with it privately on their own and by that I mean not deal with it at all but by making it public as I did it forced them to deal with it in fact someone told me that specifically but they uh they were only tangentially related to the actual case regardless I got a censure and suspended from staff for a month which I know it's the only thing they can do but staff is not a reward but I'm a volunteer so when you suspend from staff the only thing you're doing is showing me how much free time I could have and about two weeks in I realized just how much of my life was devoted to uh just bullshit staff tasks and decided no more and quit that left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths and uh I'm fine with that because as soon as I stopped I started doing this and like not just doing this like part-time but like full-time and uh it was an interesting time for me uh see my channel when it very first started like for at least yeah like half the I'm looking at the full charts right here from 2017 to uh 2019 yeah February 2019 which is about the time I quit staff um it was it was nothing you know the highest numbers I think I got were maybe a thousand views in a particular day in one day uh which is something you know I normally get in since right now I'm getting that many per hour so if that gives you kind of a perspective on uh on the rising levels of success but the channel has just done nothing but grow since then I mean slowly I mean I'm not having meteoric growth like uh you know confinement or I don't actually know what confinement was before you started doing confinement I think he was doing another anime thing so he might have been pretty big before that but uh or scp illustrated him again I'm not 100 sure but that kind of viral growth that you've you hear of with youtube success successful youtubers they go from zero to you know a hundred thousand and just a day or not a day but maybe a week yeah I never had that I'm I'm slowly growing it's a grind but uh enough about the channel oh well no let's let's talk one more thing right now I'm doing two videos a week I try to do uh the dank memes from site 19 review because people really enjoy that on every other Tuesday and then I do you're wrong about every Thursday and then the other Tuesday of I just do something that I enjoy thinking of maybe turning it into scp gaming I'm not 100% sure we'll figure it out but uh yeah as it stands right now that's the content you should expect from this channel um I I will try very I do try various uh types of videos out just to see how successful they are and if they are I'll be more of them if they're not you'll never see them again there's some stuff I've done in the past that was sort of successful for the time but as the channel has grown hasn't really grown with it like harsh critique harsh critique used to be a huge deal on the channel but it never got any bigger than it was and the expectations of the channel grew while the harsh critique stayed exactly the same in popularity so eventually that kind of all fell by the wayside too I do a lot of writing advice stuff um I stopped doing that because every video I did of writing advice was just like slowing down like this video here is probably not going to do super well but the fact that I've got so many new subscribers means it's probably a good time to do a video like this rather than another 173 video which we'll probably end up doing again at some point but uh that's enough about the channel let's just talk briefly about what I've done as an author on the scp wiki so I have started or helped found like for uh problem with so much writing is that you should eventually run out of like you can't tell for sure what you have and haven't done because as you're trying to remember it it's just so difficult but um I have written four at least seven cannons and been and had a like a major hand in roll in the founding of at least four okay so I personally like it directly in like not not in the helping sort of sense like somebody else was already doing it and I added to it but like directly founded uh straight on till morning which is a science fiction canon and um I guess this maybe that's my thing just creating genre fiction uh yeah science straight on till morning science fiction and um aces and eights which is a western canon both of them have uh both of them are basically setting cannons they're different kinds of cannons like uh some of them are just a collection of stories that are set in a normal foundation universe some of them are the foundation universe but something has been tweaked like broken masquerade where the masquerade is broken or setting cannons like mine which is just you create a setting and then you allow people to tell stories within that setting the highest rated article um let's let's still go start with tale the highest rated tale I've ever written is something called dr bright is no longer allowed to use temporal anomalies in order to travel back in time so we can kill Hitler and it's about dr bright utilizing temporal anomalies so we can travel back in time to kill Hitler I'm surprised that that is the most popular I mean I guess it's I'm not super surprised dr bright is a very popular um topic as it were my most popular oh and that one is rated at let me just take a look see here man 354 well I could reach 400 center later tales don't usually get that high anymore they they used to be pretty consistent especially the oldest stuff newer stuff doesn't usually get that high so that's nice um my most popular scp is uh 3213 which is affectionately titled fuck off carl uh at 609 currently which it's good it's going up a couple in the last couple of days because somebody did a comic on it on the scp reddit which was hilarious but I also have other stuff that's in the same range scp 2343 which is at 432 that's about uh my uh spiritual rewrite of god of 343 uh 2513 which I believe is the bridge that makes you hate carthage yes it is uh 2913 which is a sentient severed hand with a twist a couple of dash jays in here uh well the the anaconda that doesn't like flat things which uh you'll have to read that if you really want to know 245 again I mentioned that earlier that's a video game the Sumerian cactus proposal which is essentially just the broke god not not the broken god the broke god and let's see here one more no I think it was a yeah that was basically there's 2632 which is uh doing pretty well uh called no fury which is about an immortal uh western fella for the lack of a better way to put it but yeah so I've written and like I said I've written like literally over 100 like 118 articles for the scp wiki I'm just listing off the ones that are particularly popular uh there'll be a link to my author page in the description if you really want to click through and see how much I have on the wiki everything's ordered by uh rating uh no it's not ordered by ratings they're ordered by dates so the most recent's first uh but yeah that's my bona fides as an scp content creator uh I think as far as I know now I've seen a lot by the way I mean I'll mention this I've seen a lot of scp authors starting youtube channels recently and some of them are uh very very good some of them are you know not but uh I got a name names there yet uh what I'm hoping to see is that as they get their feet underneath them uh you know because it's easy to start a channel I want to make sure to see that these people are going to follow through before I promote them on my own uh social medias and or videos but at some point in the future you're probably going to see me start promoting a couple of these channels because uh when I first started on the scp or when I first started as an scp youtuber uh the only thing I had going for me was again I was an author I'd written about 70 or 80 articles at the time which I've written more since then um and the welcome I got from the scp youtuber community was amazing in fact my uh graphics packages were created by the vulgar because he is an amazing person uh the uh oh that that reminds me one other thing we could talk about the artwork of Dr. Sumerian the character uh the very first uh image of Dr. Sumerian that I had ever seen as fan art uh was uh something created by Perelka El uh and he created a rough sketch of the thing of the character and I wrote a tale called four stories told in order to mislead a sentient severed hand that just wanted to ask a goddamn personal question for once I have a not all my tales have long titles but a lot of them do and uh that story was after I saw uh the after I saw the artwork where he had burns which was not something that I had ever written the character to have I decided to create a tale utilizing the artwork as kind of a lead off and uh literally have you know two characters or a character talking to Sumerian trying to figure out how he got his burns uh so that's what that story is about and then uh I utilized it to in the first graphics packet or I should say folding utilize it in the first graphics package for the channel and I went a little bit further commissioned bung to do something for me a while back uh for the uh scp merchandise which you know just kind of stuff right here and I've been using the uh Dr. Sumerian here for my thumbnail recently but the yeah the character is burned on uh part of his face usually I try to try my my personal view is that it's like basically from here down on this side of his body so wait no I'm on the wrong side because this is left hand because I'm it's reversed but from here down on the left side of his body he is burned uh probably down to about his hip maybe and his that includes his hand and arm and everything and uh yeah so that's information if you're ever looking at the image of Dr. Sumerian you're wondering what that is I used to do videos not in person like this and every once in a while because I'm not feeling great these days uh I've been very tired very uh very fatigued I probably should go uh go to a doctor about it but I've been very fatigued very tired sometimes I just run out of time and uh yeah I do sometimes go back to doing voice only videos just for that reason alone but most of the time you're going to be seeing my uh my face which includes this very gray beard and very dark circles underneath my eyes which are just naturally there there's nothing that's been like that for since I was a child I think I've covered everything let me tell you about my child no no if you want to see more of my content scroll down hit the subscribe button if you haven't already you don't need to don't hit it again if you have already hit it then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos then head on over 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