 Hoi hoi and welcome to the video. I'm Dr. Sumerian, not a real doctor, and today we are going to go over the dankest meme from the dank memes from site 19 subreddit. Let's get started. So that concludes my colleague's research on pataphysics. You're saying we're fictional characters for a writing project of some kind? Did you not listen to a word he said? Hmm, makes sense. You know, this is a zeal meme, but there's a good question to be had here is like, okay, so if pataphysics exists in universe and they know that they're fictional characters, but to what level does the fiction go? Because there's fiction. And so now it's fiction inside of fiction, right? Because obviously they're not characters and they are characters in a writing project. But in a sense, the overarching writing project doesn't have to be ours, right? Or in this case, where people make memes about pataphysics, now you're adding a second or third layer to your pataphysical discussions to the point where it's starting to get impossible to determine what is and isn't real. Unlike pataphysics as a concept, I feel like it's overdone. I think a lot of people came to that conclusion after a time. I really do feel like it's overdone, though. Too much focus on the science of it has sort of rendered it less interesting to me. Now, that is to say, I've certainly written, speak to the audience as a fictional character articles before because this has given me the opportunity to do that as a concept that I didn't come up with this as a concept. This is what Gears' proposal that's like, everyone, there are, God is a horror writer. But I mean, again, I think there's too much of this on the SCP Wiki. And interestingly, it kind of has fallen by the wayside over time. So I'm sure other people have decided the same thing. But it is still an incredibly interesting concept. I think there's a lot of individual stories that can be told about it. Less as a sort of system or as part of an organizational trope with regards to the SCP Foundation. Me trying to look at images on SCP Wiki, when Wiki.decides to have a Wiki.moment, reaction underscore image.png, I have, this is a shoulder meme, by the way. I have so many articles on the SCP Wiki that require images or the first thing, but then there's audio files. There's one of mine, SCP 245, is a full on RPG maker video game you have to download. And every once in a while, I'll look in the comments and someone will be like, well, I can't download this game. It doesn't exist on the server. And I'm like, it does exist. It's just that Wiki. at the time that person was looking at it was having a Wiki. And at some point, maybe, you know, tomorrow or tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, but we're going to move the SCP Wiki to its own independent website when that actually happens. I have no idea because the SCP Wiki, the SCP Wiki has been about to move in a year or a month or a day to a new website for about 10 to 14 years. What is it 2023? I mean, 15 years. They've been talking about moving off ever since the very first post. So and it's just never fully come about because it's some volunteers. You're asking volunteers to come up with a sophisticated professional website during their off time, which can happen, but the problem is, is it takes so long that none of the people you have working on it get finished with it before they lose interest in the SCP Wiki and move on. The only way you're going to be able to keep their interest is by, you know, paying them. I personally believe that. I mean, eventually they'll get it right regardless, but if you want to get it in a timely manner, you probably need to pay someone. And they're never going to do that. So because there is no mechanism in the SCP Wiki to pick up money. But the other half of this is actually, if we're going to go less from the technical standpoint and more from like a fictional standpoint, we can go back to the previous meme where we're talking about pedophysics or in the SCP Wiki is actually a writing project and all the characters exist inside. What happens when the images in the SCP Wiki goes away? What happens then, Dave? It's an interesting thought. I mean, I should write something along those lines one of these days. Axolotl lover, hardest swallow pills, SCP 999 doesn't have eyes. Strictly speaking, I don't think that's true. So and you'll be like, yeah, it doesn't say it in the, yeah, it doesn't say it in the article. But the lack, it doesn't say in the article that SCP 999 doesn't have eyes. It simply doesn't say in the article that SCP 999 has eyes. It is possible that that detail was left out. It's unlikely. But there's certainly an interpretation where that's just left out because having eyes makes it far easier for you to identify with your friendly neighborhood blob. Or I'm sorry, your friendly neighborhood cuddle blob, I guess it's hard to. Gosh, I should title an article, not an article, but it's a tale that your friendly neighborhood cuddle blob and write about SCP 999. Oh, man. But yeah, no, I mean, it could have eyes. You don't know the world is about to end, but at least it's beautiful outside. SCP 001, the world's gun beautiful. SCP 001, one day break. So this meme is by Lily was taken. I would like to say that the world's gun beautiful is actually worse objectively. And you might be like, how is that entirely possible? Well, first of all, in the world's gun beautiful, the world will end. Period. Everyone will die. There will be no more tomorrows, no children born, no laughs made, no one will no one will enjoy anything ever again. The end of the world has happened. In when day breaks, while it is more visceral, there is an invasive sort of end of the world happening. It is happening not absolutely has happened or is, you know, going to happen and end. When day breaks exists, people are still alive. Their their lives are not great, but they're still there. And I feel like the world's gun beautiful. Personally, when I read it, I thought the world's gun beautiful was significantly worse than when day breaks. When they when the world, I think the world's gun beautiful came first, maybe. But regardless, when I read them, I remember thinking, why would anyone prefer this because at least when day breaks, you have a shot. I'd rather have a chance. Yeah, so I'm saying what if North Korea stopped existing today in the entire CP foundation? This is very broken masquerade. Although I do have to wonder how much they I have to wonder to myself like how much this would matter because I mean, this is a this is a YouTube short. So it's no more longer than a minute by the meme is by Mr. Muda himself, version three or v three specifically. But yeah, no, it's it's interesting that this video is only a minute long. So it can't be that much stuff that would go wrong. If I guess if North Korea stopped existing, it depends on how you define stop existing, does the physical location stop existing? So does South Korea now just have a coast on their northern border? If so, that would be probably catastrophic for a variety of reasons. But from South Korea. Or does it just stop existing as a political entity? I mean, I'm assuming this is probably more realistic. I'm going to guess. I don't I haven't watched the video. Let me guess this little YouTube shorts probably more realistic and more like, what if the regime of North Korea collapsed or could not could be the other thing? I don't know. But it very much depends. But the entire SCP foundation, having its problem of being like, Oh, no, the brass parade is broke. I mean, maybe I'm never really particularly like broken masquerades premise. I mean, let me split this way. I don't mind the broken masquerade as a concept. The premise that North Korea disappears and that's what triggers everything. It doesn't work for me because I feel like that's the best way to put this. The idea that a singular event could drive and I'm sure there is more detail in the actual article itself. But the idea that a singular event can drive the full on unveiling of the anomalous doesn't really work. Because you could totally sell it as a one off event. Something weird happened. Magic isn't real. Physics may need to adjust itself a little bit, but something there's a rule for it, right? If there's just a single singular event, and that's all you and that's all you have to worry about. In this case, that's the thing. There's one public singular event, then you can explain it away because there's a rule for that one thing that happened. But anyway, new researcher gets assigned to a poorly understood SCP. They perform the standard test. They notice something unusual about the SCP and try to investigate it. They end up dead. New researcher gets assigned to a poorly understood SCP. Pivot OB's meme. Oh, it's got the little bottom mark in the middle. Good for you. Yeah, the problem with the series one-ish style articles that do this is that it doesn't really work from a logical standpoint. I mean, okay. An individual story about researchers being thrown into a meat grinder works. But when there are 150 stories ostensibly set in the same-ish universe, there is no canon, so each individual article is its own. But a lot of them reference each other. You start to lose that sense of believability because eventually you're going to run out of experts and by experts, people who have gone to be educated in these particular fields. You're going to run out of researchers. We talk about D-Class. You're going to run out of D-Class too eventually. I mean, there's not an infinite number of people in the world who fulfill very, very narrow requirements that you need in order to do these things. And that's the problem. There's a lot of problems with the, not problem problem, because it's a problem in as much as the, oh gosh, what's the best way to put this? So the SCP Wiki as a collaborative fiction site allows for a lot of stories, a lot of different stories. Problematically though, because it's an amateur writing site, a lot of the stories aren't different. They're just the same because someone reads a story, likes it, and wants to write something like it, and so they write it, likes something like it, and so on and so forth. This is a little bit like the Gamers Against Weed Little Mistress problem. The Little Mistress being filled, being a list filled out and everything, was its own little gimmick, and everybody got addicted to the idea of trying to fill out the list. And then the Gamers Against Weed came out with their very first sort of a joke Little Mistress thing. And the satire was, isn't it ridiculous that, or at least to me, it felt like. I mean, I can't speak to what the author was intending, but to me the satire was that isn't it ridiculous that there's this list of things that people think that they have to fill out. And then over the next couple of years people filled that list out too. So the entirety of the satire was lost because people always want to get in, they want to be involved in a thing. And that comes from this too. You read a story, a well-written one, about a new researcher being assigned to a poorly understood SCP, dying, and then watching the SCP foundation run them through like a meat grinder. And there's good reflections on what that means for the SCP foundation, or what it means for society, that we're that callous, or that we find it entertaining. It's just a good say, well, a fictional story. Of course it's a fictional story, but I mean, on a second level, meta level, this isn't a story that I'm not naming anything particular. But let's say there's a good story about this. So someone reads it, and they're not as good a writer, and then they write one. And it's fine. It's not bad. It's upvote worthy for some people, and it's enough to stay on the site. And then somebody else reads that one, and then they want to write it again. And they're not a great writer. And it's not great. But somehow it stays on the site. And then someone reads that, and they're like, oh, this is interesting too. And it's so on and so forth. You get this degradation. And even when you don't get degradation, you get 150 very samey stories. I just, it's a whole, that is the problem with collaborative fiction in the amateur writing sphere. And there's really no solution to it, because these people are just writing to get better. But it's making the overall canon, even though there isn't, again, an overall canon, but there is a sense of like a general idea of a certain number of things that are definitely true. And this is one of them. The SCP foundation just throws people at problems. Anyway, I've gone into that way too long. This one is by Super Donut 725. Google Samir, my brain, Samir. Ian, Ian, Dr. Samarian, Dr. Cinnamon. Yeah, I was talking to somebody on Discord recently, and they were insisting that it was pronounced Camarian. That is a potential possible pronunciation, but it is not the accepted pronunciation of the word. And more importantly, people just love to call me Dr. Cinnamon for some reason. It's not a huge deal to me. I've just started to basically ignore it at this point. But I always like when people are trying to figure out how to pronounce my name, I say, think of the word Sumerian, like the Sumerian culture in the Mesopotamian, or along the Euphrates and the Tigris. And again, that might be a little bit too, it's like, to make it easier on you, think of this ancient culture and their name. No, but it's the only, it's the closest word I can come up with. But think of the Sumerians, and then just change the U into an I. And it's Sumerian. You're good. In fact, you could probably say Sumerian, and I probably would only barely notice the difference. It's that close of pronunciation. But yeah, that's the easy way to do it. Is this the last one? Of course it's the last one. Perfect. The last one is about me. That makes it the best one. Thank you very much for watching. Again, thank you Super Donut725 for making a meme about me. And thank you all for watching the videos. I know I've been a little inconsistent recently. It's being come, I've realized now that I've got everything settled. I feel really terrible all the time, but that's not really here or there. But now that I've got everything settled, it's, it's gotten really difficult to get back into a posting rhythm and I've got to do it. I've just got to go back to Tuesdays and Thursdays. So with any luck, we will have a video out next Tuesday. In fact, I promise you that unless some life changing circumstances happens, I'm putting a video out next Tuesday. I'm going to start saying that at the end of the video because I have a very strong opinion about like breaking your word. So maybe that'll do it. I promise you, Tuesday you will have a video for me. Not, not, not, not knowing this wishy washy stuff. 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