 I hate that I even have to make this video, but I feel like it's been a really long time coming because I see in comments on my videos, comments on other people's videos, and comments on SCP articles on the Wiki itself, people going, well, is this real? Or you think you're a real doctor with the foundation? How dare you? And I'm going to charitably assume that people are simply ignorant instead of stupid. No, I don't think that's true. I think I'm going to assume the latter. The point is the SCP Wiki is not real. And now we're going to talk about why it's silly to think that it is. So the SCP Wiki trades on the idea of realism. What makes a lot of the fiction on it work is that as part of our willing suspension and disbelief, we think of the stories as if they were real. So we look for the kinds of things we'd expect to see in a real scientific document, and we look for behaviors that we'd expect to see from real people. There's a few thousand failed articles on the site because the authors did nail the realism of the site properly. So when I talk about this, I totally get it. And I also understand that a lot of the SCP fan base are kids between 10 and 15. So that semblance of realism is enough to trick them into not just temporarily accepting that the SCP Wiki is a real thing, whilst they're reading, but also to embrace it outside of that. And part of that comes from just the average want of humanity to be special. That kid thinks they've stumbled on a conspiracy that they know a truth that no one else has, that the end of the world is real, and they're the only ones with a secret knowledge to stop it. And to be honest with you, that's not fully isolated to children. I've talked to full grown adults that thought the SCP Wiki was real. I'm looking at you, Carl, but I digress. Let's examine a few of the reasons why this makes absolutely no f***ing sense. But first of all, the content of the SCP Wiki is hosted on WikiDot. And if you think a shadowy, extra-governmental organization is posting their secret documents on a public WikiDot site, you are an idiot. Of course, you know, there's some concessions to be made here to the person that thinks the SCP Wiki is just a front to distract you from the truth. But if you really think about it, you would know about the SCP Foundation if it wasn't for the Wiki. So that's really the dumbest f***ing idea I've ever heard of. And frankly, if you were going to do all that, you probably wouldn't put it on a WikiDot site that is incredibly unreliable. You'd probably pick something expensive or good. Second, the SCP Wiki has a history. There's documented evidence of how it started. You can go to Japan and see the statue that SCP 173 was based on in an art gallery if you really wanted. And spoiler alert, it's got a wang now. There's archives of the original 4chan threads that started it all. And moreover, there's people who were around when the Wiki started that you can talk to and ask questions about what happened in the past. And before you go, yeah, but those people would totally lie because they're in on the conspiracy. I will repeat my advice to not be stupid. Stupid third. There's a bunch of authors, literally over a thousand of them. I'm one. I have a whole channel you're watching a video on right now devoted to talking about writing on the SCP Wiki. And I still get people leaving comments about how the SCP Wiki is real. And I need to stop pretending like it isn't. Every article in the site has an edit history. And you can see which users wrote what things. The whole thing is one of the largest creative endeavors ever ventured. No one ever talks about that. Oh, and finally, the Wiki only has the semblance of realism. It's not actually realistic. A real database would be mind numbingly boring because the people writing it aren't writing it to be entertaining. Plot twists happen in real life, but they're super rare. The average document would be a lot more clinically written than it currently is. And the average person would only barely understand what was being written down in the first place. Even I would probably have trouble with it. And even if we did understand it, it wouldn't be particularly interesting because again, actual realistic documents that describe things should be and are boring. One last thing. We, like me, people who go by the nickname Dr. Sumerian, are not actual staff members in some shadowy cabal. We're just a collection of imperfect authors creating fiction for you. Appreciate it for what it is because above all else, the SCP Foundation is not real. Or is it? No, obviously not. Have you listened to a goddamn thing I just said? Anyway, that's all. If you'd like to support the creation of more content like this, pledge on my Patreon, like these fine full count. 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