 Ahoy-Hoy and welcome to the channel. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today we are going to go over dank memes from the dank memes from dank dank memes from the dank site from site dank memes dank memes from dank memes from site 19 Why was that so hard? I'm like is that the name of the subreddit? I've said dank memes so many times it has lost all meaning that was fantastic I had to actually google it to be like wait did I screw this up in my head? No it is dank memes site 19 dank memes from dank site dank memes dank Yeah, okay moving on Me trying to write a 6k contest entry before the theme is announced get ready everyone He's about to do something stupid Not really The scp especially the You know I will call them xk contests xk into the world scenario contest But the xk contest have in recent years had such general and broad themes They might as well have no theme at all and they give a little bit of directions That's for people who have no direction But if you have an article idea you don't need to worry about the theme like taboo was Is a is a fairy tale scp With a theme that's supposed to be history It's interpreted so broadly just do whatever you want if you have another idea a really good idea Just try to include just enough Of the theme just tiny Smidgen and then make sure and draw attention to it in your out author post and you're fine I was talking to a member of staff just last night about it and I think I might have pissed him off because I had some critique about it But that's not the important part the important part is That they were saying that you know broader is better. They don't want to give any limitations I'm like the scp Is all about limitations and trust me the whole one of the things I've noticed and I won two or three contests um But one of the things I have uh learned And I think this is very important to know is that limitations actually like really help refine down Uh the quality of a piece and like the quality of whatever it is you're going to come up with period, so I think honestly more narrow is better, although for I I don't know that it would be better for them. I am annoyed that the xk contest is so broad But if it was narrower with as many entries as there are now It might be a lot there might be a lot of retread ground, but then maybe not I don't know The old time in the olden times it was like science fiction urban legends that kind of stuff the kind of stuff that you expect to see on an scp wiki Horror as a theme like a genre theme not nature I'm just saying that's that's my opinion on it, but my opinion is one of many opinions on it, so Moving on but but for the particular topic of this Write whatever you want to because the theme right now and for the last couple of contests of xk contests has basically been meaningless The foundation or something. I don't know. I have never read scp I you know, I feel like there could be a lot more done with the with Uh, the word the found with the word foundation if it wasn't for it. Is it the isek azimov series. I think it is um as like It's a nice war. It's a nice double meaning word, right the foundation of you know Of this or that or the other thing you can talk about it more than a double meaning um It's you know, it's you can be talking about a buildings foundation You can be talking about the foundation of an organization a movement and so on and so forth Or you could be talking about the scp foundation which You start to wonder why it's called a foundation. Is it gallivant? Was it gallivanting at some point as a A charitable foundation. I don't know What are the mario brothers views on redactions mario says redaction disrupt the flow of the article unless Thematically appropriate and rare. I always say unless appropriate and rare Even if they're appropriate sometimes they still disrupt the flow if they're constant And you're like, what does that mean? Well that Thematically appropriate Uh, basically means you need to have a very specific vision of what your article is going to be And decide early on whether or not that means it's going that like Does the redaction enhance your article because if it doesn't enhance your article, it's taking away period Because they're distracting to a lot of people not necessarily everyone but your job as an author Is to have a broad appeal like okay. That's not necessarily true. I want to be clear here because there's a lot of nuance to that statement To be the most successful author you can be you need to have a broad appeal There are plenty of people who make a living and there are plenty of people who don't make a living But enjoy writing to specific Audiences and that's fine, too But I always try to suggest to people to find the broadest audience of possible people And redactions for a lot of people redact the flow of an article period and So you you're making a trade-off one way the other and the real question becomes How much does it improve the article to include it if it doesn't improve the article at all? You're just getting the negatives out of it If it's an idea you lack cover that crap in black Fair enough luigi Also, I saw this and I wasn't sure how to respond I think my exact uh thought was uh, what is this? Uh, I don't even um All right, sure That reminds me I need to I have a a program now that or not a program But a service now that I can use to make pictures of like actual images into uh more cartoony things for the animated series i'm working on because that's how i'm going to do i'm going to take actual creative commons images And then cartoonify them and use them as background or foreground objects That's the plan anyway, and I think if you saw the last when I did, uh I thought the only one I really did Um, it works. I think it works really well to me at least So, um, I should do that with my face and put it on a t-shirt. I don't think a lot of people would get it but I think some people might Starts reading another article about a foundation made anomaly the anomaly backfires and becomes a threat me Yeah, uh Anomalies are backfire and become threats. What welcome to the world I guess You were a human that's born with superpowers. You're in the scp universe The goc are the ones that find you first. I don't actually think this is that big of a deal because um While the scp foundation and goc do contain and and or destroy a lot of anomalies I think there's probably many more that are loose in the world I think that's sort of the whole point of the series is like, okay Here's one we have in containment and in a lot of them tell stories of what had they did before they were in containment Or after they were in containment. They're after they escaped containment There's many many anomalies that are just out in the world and about Although you would want to keep your head down generally. So there is that Myth the highest honor for scp meme creators is featuring on scp on dr. Sumerians meme review the highest honor for scp meme creator And this is a fact is appearing on the front of google images when searching for scp memes. I think this is Uh, I think both of these things are probably not the highest honor. What is the highest honor? Do people enjoy your memes? If yes, you have succeeded at memory Uh, but I do I do I sometimes feel like people Treat featuring on this one of my videos as perhaps a little bit more significant than I really think it should be But whatever makes people happy Let them be happy That's why I look at it So I don't really like be like, hey, what's what's what's talking about? But uh, if people enjoy it, that's great I'm glad to bring some joy to people's lives the people who believe the myth or the fact to be honest with you If people enjoy it great, I'm glad that it makes them happy Uh, and I hope that it continues to make them happy to be honest with you Yeah, well the exact opposite here man There are a lot of spelling errors in this in the memes this time around sad dyslexia noises as somebody who, uh I don't have dyslexia, but I do have dysgraphia Uh, as somebody who has experienced these sorts of problems and and how Unavoidable they are like it's just It's the most frustrating thing ever it is frustrating especially when other people notice it and make a point of it Um, because you're trying your best. You didn't deliberately put you didn't deliberately do that wrong, you know Uh, for me, it's more like I didn't deliberately make this impossible to read when I was, you know riding with my hand I can type fine. So it's it's a particular kind of dysgraphia when I'm riding with a pencil, man Letters, I get I do the letters backwards. I can read perfectly fine though. That's the other half of it But all right letters backwards. I I have to sometimes just if I'm with a b or a d Sometimes I just have to lowercase ones. I just have to write them and then see if it looks right That's that's my sense and When I was in school writing anything was All it was physically taxing. That's true But it was also mentally taxing because there's nothing like writing a word and like It depended sometimes I could get into a flow and it would be all right ish. It would still be really messy but Sometimes I would get into it where I had to be like a like a five letter word and three of the letters I would screw up somehow just a little bit and then Man It's it's rough and I I hate that I mean, I don't consider that with people with spelling errors in their stuff Especially because they're in the fact you could do a lot of spell checking nightly Also, I don't necessarily I don't give myself an excuse on that unless I'm riding with a pencil because I can type fine. So that's nice Uh It's one of those things that I really wish I had been my school teachers had noticed when I was still in school Everybody just thought I was super smart and super lazy Cool bug facts the e in scp foundation stands for ethical treatment of d-class and anomalies But wait cool bug. There's no e in scp foundation This is about people trying to make an scp 6 000 article as like a novice author versus, you know, one of the more Uh, I'm not gonna say professional because most people don't get paid on the wiki. I almost no one does but Elite author is it feels wrong to say that but yeah, I honestly this is bullshit dj catches puts out great articles on a consistent basis and his his Stories are so well crafted. He is one of the best. I believe one of the best authors on the scp wiki. However People who are novice authors have created some of also the greatest works on the scp wiki Maybe a little less consistently, but it's still possible. So just write your article Anyway, thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed the video Scroll down and hit that subscribe button And then head on over to patreon.com forward slash d smear this chair is creaking. I need to stop that But head on over to patreon.com. Why don't you edit that stuff out? 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