 Ahoy-hoy, I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today we are going to talk about, I would say, one of, if not the most controversial, SCPs on the SCP Wiki. SCP-2721, Lyris and Eli. Let's just open up the article really quickly. Here we go. Scroll up to the top. And first of all, we're going to talk, I have a squeaky chair. I really need to do something about it, if I'm going to be making YouTube videos, because I'm a professional. But, um, 2721 is about a pair of satellites orbiting on the far side of the moon permanently. Therefore, they're out of sight of the earth on any sort of regular basis. I'm just going to go over the basics of the SCP before I go into why it's controversial, or what has my intake on it will say. And that is that, again, it's these two satellites on the far side of the moon, they are tasked with cataloging and interacting with human culture, and then eventually destroying the earth through some sort of reality altering event. It's not really clear what's going on, but that is, it's pretty indicative that that's the basics of it. They're supposed to view the, one of the satellite's jobs is to basically catalog what's going on on earth, and the other one's job is to then destroy the earth. And these have gone to multiple planets and done this. What happens, however, is that the satellite that's meant to catalog and understand human culture comes across the webcomic Homestuck. And now I have to say, I personally have never read Homestuck, I'm not familiar with it very well as a webcomic, and this has really colored my original interpretations and dang, this thing squeaks hard. This has really seriously affected my interpretation of it, I think, especially early on. This was written, I actually don't know, but I'm gonna bet in 2016 sometime? It's hard to tell for sure, because the the page itself has been locked, so I can't check its history. But yeah, it was written sometime around 20, yeah, let's say that's correct. Sometime around 2016. But it wasn't until, I want to say, more recently, although it wasn't, it wasn't too long after it was posted, but more recently than it was posted. A collection of, let's just say, internet trolls and angry people decided they didn't like the article. My first reaction in this article was that I just didn't feel it, just it wasn't for me, it didn't seem like. I certainly respected what it was trying to do, but I mean, there's crossouts in black boxes and the containment procedures, these are two things that I hate, strike-throughs in black boxes, especially in the containment procedures, like my god. So that alone was enough to make me really dislike it. Actually, that's enough, that actually pushed me to a downvote originally. But also I didn't connect with it, because I don't know, I'm stuck at all. And to be honest with you, this is a very strong, this tells the story that this is telling is the story of like hundreds of thousands, probably millions of people in the world who deal with gender dysphoria and trans issues and as a cisgendered straight white male, it didn't really resonate with me in the same way. And at first, well, I should say didn't resonate with me that way then. In 2016, I knew I've known people in the LGBTQ plus community considered some to be friends, not friends, just acquaintances. But in general, I was a lot less familiar with, I should say, the struggles of people in that community. I mean, just recently, you could you could see this very recently when I did my video on pixelated harmony. And not only do I'm bad with pronouns, because I'm bad with names. It's just a quirk of my memory is that I'm really bad with numbers and names, things that don't attach aren't attached to a narrative, don't really click in my head, even for people I know really well. Um, I've forgotten my own name before, I've forgotten my family members names before so you can imagine how bad I am at remembering pronouns. And that's fine. To be honest with you, it's not fine to make the mistake, you have to correct yourself. But it's fine to be bad with pronouns, you just need to be more careful. And in my case, I started X, I'm trying to excise pronouns from my vocabulary entirely. So as to not hurt someone's feelings, it's the best way to put it. But recently, I discovered more important information and that's how important it is to get them right. It's not just that I'm bad with pronouns and I make those mistakes sometimes, but I am absolutely 100% must correct myself. And probably in this case of a video, like actually edit out the mistakes, it's a very important thing to do. It's not quite the level of a slur, but it's close and it's something I need to be more cognizant of. And I wasn't aware it was that big of a deal until like, was it February? I don't remember. Whenever I made that apology video for the pixelated harmony thing, because I got the pronouns wrong and I didn't realize how serious that was. And so viewing this SCP article from the lens of somebody who these are not my struggles, trying to be an ally, of course, but also it's just it doesn't resonate with me as a story. It allowed me to kind of ignore the point of the story, because the point of the story isn't just about people whose struggles these are. The core anomaly, the cataloger, the satellite that's trying to catalog Earth's history and knowledge and art and everything before it gets destroyed is the is a stand in for a trans person, period. And they're dealing with she, it's a fictional character, but still she is dealing with serious serious issues related to body dysmorphia, because she is actually a satellite and so on and so forth. But because I skimmed it, because basically I read it and was like, this is boring, and it didn't really internalize what was happening. I also missed the second half of it, the other satellite, who's a stand in for me, basically a guy or no, he go see and you can miss this very easily. Because when first described, the pronouns it are used. So you might think that he's also he it it's a stand in for it doesn't it doesn't exist on the same sort of level as the other satellite. It is just a destructive satellite trying to make sense of its friend, who is now wanting to go by a she pronoun and trying to understand these issues. And it's fucking me, you know, I'm trying to understand these issues and I don't always succeed. I'm not always the best ally I could be because of the things I don't know. But I'm trying. And it's exactly what this other satellite is doing. And I missed that the first time I read this article and I read it again today to make this video because it's Pride Month and I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to actually dive into this again and revisit some of the earlier controversies surrounding it. The truth to be told is that like I said, I completely missed the message of the second half of this, the other satellite who's just trying to understand their friend. Yeah, that's it. Thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video, by the way, let's, well, of course, no, no, the license information is on here. So I'm going to do the same thing I do for most of these. SCP 2721 by kinch the knife blade and dolphin slug chugger from the SCP Wiki Source. HTTPS. It could just be HTTP. Enjoyed the video, 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 decimarian. 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