Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-7004 - Insane, Wailing, Feral.
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As a resident of Edmonton, I just want to state that the authors description of our town as a nightmare hellscape of lovecraftian buildings and monstrous beings is completely accurate
Which Edmonton?
How do you even survive there?
@@CaptainBardiel Edmonton Alberta I presume
@@Xxsnipedawg72xX I thought Edmonton, Queensland.
@@CaptainBardiel The Edmonton
* _SCP-7004 Petal instance bursts from stomach_ * SCP-7004 Petal: *_We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty..._*
Victim, who's looking at legally bought Xg-1 Starwing/Assault Gunboat: "But I don't have a car."
That lucky moment (since this SCP Series is luck)
NOOOOOOOOO!
1:16:20
Plot twist: A similar phrase really IS part of the memetic infohazard, and the Foundation uses robo calls about vehicle warranties in order to subtly train the populace to instinctively “tune out” dialogue of that nature.
The thought of having the ability to subconsciously remove any informational dangers with 99% effectiveness is so cool.
And your name is an actual memetic infohazard
Your name actually gave me a headache...
With the side affect of massive aneurysms.
What would be cooler is to be smart enough to wear Sound Cancelling Earphones that would block 100% of audible info-hazards.
@@Snapper314 noise-isolation
This one is kinda haunting because it implies that the primary memetic spreader of 7004 is just human empathy - the realization that these aren’t malicious monsters, but just desperate people looking for help, and opening your mind to that idea kind of lets them in. The horror is drawn from the innate compassion humans have for each other, even if it destroys us. Yet somehow, that doesn’t make the compassion not worth it, if there’s a chance that we can find a way to come together again. Even the “insane, wailing, feral” ones are sympathetic, because hey, it’s hard not to be when something that horrible happens to you. I want to join the site now just to write a tale about how the people of the other dimension got here
Which would mean the Sarkic mind twisting is functionally a way to corrupt or bypass empathy.
So I’m still confused… I thought it was hearing a certain phrase or words/sounds that starts the reaction. Is this not the case? Or is just listening to the any sound they make cause it?
@@ToozdaysChild I guess so, but I don't think it's specifically made to suppress empathy. Rather, mind twisting probably offers someone the ability to freely alter one or more aspect of ones brain. In this case the aspect of memory. Got infected with a meme? If it doesn't kill you instantly just remove it from your memories with your brain twisty powers. Also, am I the only one who thinks that mind twister sounds like an icecream brand?
@@majorgrubert5887 It spreads through understanding. Nothing they said is the trigger, just knowing what they are is enough. Which is fine, but you have people who legitimately would not give a shit and others who would be vengeful instead.
So the foundation bloomer at the control center knows that if he explains what’s happening to our “protagonists” they are doomed to that fate as well? Just knowing is the trigger?
Them: may we live in harmony and peace with one another. Me: DO IT LINA. PURGE THE UNCLEAN.
It's very, very, _VERY_ , very, rare that I am truly scared and terrified by an SCP anymore but this one did it. It was novel, yet classic.
Probably gonna be seeing some more horror based stuff for a bit. The wikis running an ABCs of horror for October, lot of high quality spooky stuff
Try 2718. Though not that scary, it might give you an existential crisis.
It FELT like finishing a goodness graciously horror novel by the end of it. Even better that the administrator of this channel read it.
@@neoniintention4536 this, and the End of Death stories give me so much dread. Can't win either way.
@@neoniintention4536 also 3125. The idea of a fifth dimensional being that can eliminate you completely from existence and memory if you even know about it terrifies the heck outta me.
Insane, wailing, and feral are all accurate descriptors for when I go one week without drowning in this kind of content
Its a necessity
I've never related more to a comment.
it is what keeps us sane in these dark times
Just about. But the ending of this document....hits so differently after remembering what happened just to get there
It just happens to fall on the end of my world week and it's soo satisfying come home and listen to this and 'thevolgan's (who usually drops his the day before).
I expected the O5 council to have better defenses against memetic and info hazards. They are the most important part of the SCP Foundation, after all; you'd think they'd be more protected. Instead, they went down pretty quickly.
They were just unlucky
Meh. I'd love to see SCP agents to be more dedicated to their purpose. In way too many SCPs they just... lack conviction. This one here is another example: I don't think I would be able to sympathize with invaders from another reality, who destroyed my species, just because some of them speak in a coherent manner. At the end of the day, they are not us. Them asking for help somehow does not make them innocent and worthy of saving in my eyes?
It's the level of efficacy of the infohazard. Understanding it is what gets you. It's hard to protect against something if comprehending what it is means you've already been infected.
Completely agree. If I were the agent at the end, I'd say sorry and then restart humanity at the time the council ordered. Sure, what happened to the other universe was tragic, but our Foundation should choose to help our universe first.
Since the Administrator of the other universe caused this he likely knew what memetic hazard to use in order to bring the council down
I'm surprised the Foundation doesn't have a select few individuals permanently stationed at Yellowstone, in case of an apocalypse.
I think there's a whole foundation site near yellowstone, used to store only safe anomalies, it just always gets taken out one way or another during every story. If I remember scp 2000 is constantly monitored for intruders and maintenance by said site who will send site maintenance workers and agents to go and fix whatever is happening.
They probably did. They are either dead or also outside the window Lena looked through.
The real question is what about clef. I thought anomalies didn't effect him, or is that just reality benders.
There’s a base stationed at 2000, but 7004 can kill everyone there with nothing but an SoS call. Maybe it’s a misplay for them to not just make it a single button “activate 2000 if you get this message” situation.
A lot of apollyon class SCPs lately... Are we sure that the foundationd didnt just get worse at containing ?
Maybe it's because he's picking Xkcon entries, which tend to be more grandiose in its narrative?
The X000s contests always have a lot of Big Time proposals. A lot of the ones recently covered were contest entries
Entropy is a bitch
Apollyons/non Safe-Euclid-Keter classes became the new fad a while back to make your SCP stand out as 'big' and 'important' in some way.
@@joshwenn989 I mean, yeah. In an environment where the success of your story is measure in upvotes and youtube videos about it, people are going to want their stories to really stand out.
If I understood this right, this SCP is about the inhabitants of another universe, a dying universe trying to escape into ours. This process was unintentionally killing people since these inhabitants are arriving through the bodies of their counterparts, and for those who don't have a counterpart, are also shoved out hence the multiple instances from one BLOSSOM event. If these inhabitants from the other dying universe are also humans, I wonder what happened... This is very spooky SCP indeed. If it were me, I'd honestly go into SCP-2000 and leave these invaders to their doom. In the world of the SCP Foundation, universes dying is commonplace... Unless I'm understanding this wrong and the end of SCP-7004 is the coexistence of these invaders and current Prime Universe humans. Then I suppose I would be alright with Navarra's decision.
I believe that is the case. The alt-world admin was also trying to reset the timeline, but to a further point where their timeline diverged from ours. He tried to stop Leena because she had orders to reset it to just before the blossom events happened. Leena ultimately decides to do what the admin wanted, which I presume allows the souls of those who crossed over from their timeline to stay in ours and be reborn along with local souls, as opposed to either being kicked out or even erased. That's my interpretation anyhow, it's a little vague at the end.
Honestly, the writing isn’t really good.
@@jbrown7063 True, I agree you can write a better SCP, 100%
@@0332288 So, would it be different for our universe somehow? Like people would get another minds in their brains or what would happen? This is really unclear.
@@mattaku9430 It's still just my interpretation since it's vague in the SCP, but I don't think so. I imagine it'd just expand the pool of reincarnating souls, maybe timeline counterparts of the same person will merge back into one. Effectively no one would be able to tell the difference in the reset timeline.
This would make an incredible movie, in my opinion. It would probably feel a lot like a zombie apocalypse movie, with the twist of the existence of sane entities. I think it would be tough to properly build the world of SCP within just this one standalone story but it might be doable.
I agree. It would be a really interesting take on the whole zombie apocalypse-type idea. Exactly.
“I am legend” original book, there are movies based on the book you can check out.
Or weirdly, you don't explain anything about the SCP universe in the movie. Then the general population would be more interested in this new world (SCP) and either look up KZhead videos or go to the website. Of course the movie would have to be done well. But if done correctly, giving none to little back ground would be better
@@sirgideonofnir6840 I'd say give the absolute minimum. Give the basic premise of the foundation, perhaps the role of the O5s, the bare minimum information
@@paragonca9736 what we forget is with movies, unlike books. We have environmental story telling. That could go a long way
Pain, wailing, and insanity. That’s what is being felt as they burst from within into this new yet familiar world. Most are feral and confused, lost as they try to comprehend what has become of them. But some remember and retain their minds as they attempt to rebuild what they lost and to keep what was already there intact. Sometimes you’re unlucky…but hope can be found even when it seems to grim and dark to be.
Unless you worship Slaanesh. Then you're just a sex toy.
Just about. But the ending though. The fact the vast majority of them were just terrified of their own situation makes you stop and think if the Apollyon Classification was done on impulse
Also Sept 15 1066 was during the Norman conquest of England, which I assume was the flashpoint that separated the different timelines.
@@cyberprime9355why would that do anything to change its classification
@@cyberprime9355classification is purely based on how hard it is to contain, nothing else. It would still be apollyon had they not been afraid too.
I can’t remember the last time I was so invested in a story, and two characters I barely knew. What a great story, props to the authors and you for bringing it to life so well.
Agreed! I was so emotionally invested in Lina and Cassandra, it really caught me off guard. The final scene with Cassandra was heart breaking, though so was the whole story in general.
This makes me want an audiobook SCP series...
@@Golden_Darkness I wasn't, mainly because of how unrealistic their emotions as MTF agents are. Its like the author said "they are women, therefore they must be completely empathetic to the blight of everything, even invaders from another universe" lmao
@@nom6758emotions make sense considering as far as they knew literally everyone was dead and on top of that they haven’t been actively doing anything mtf related for what is presumed to be quite a while
i had to go read the article midway and then go back to the video just to hear it, its just so good
I love that you're keeping the sound wave effect, makes it feel a lot more "Foundation"-y
I hate it. The foundation would have either an all audio recording or photos and video. They would never do something this annoying. An hour of audio waves? If you like that it’s probably autism.
@@mikeximenez5285 Chill out
@@chocolatebutter192 ok… if I have to
@@mikeximenez5285 my brother in christ calm yourself
@@mikeximenez5285 I dislike it too but like... quit being a dick? Christ, I'm even autistic and I prefer the slideshows-only approach. I can't imagine how autism would factor into this much at all, it could go either way.
"Massive buildings are stacked on top of one another. Constructed in seemingly illogical ways" Good ol' Edmonton, it was like that pre-apocalypse too! 😃
Insane, Wailing, Feral. This entire SCP makes it clear that the Foundation isn't necessarily evil, nor is it always good. Long term containment was always the longshot. Sometimes, it is just dumb luck of both good and bad stripes that makes the difference. Fickle as it is, when luck turns against you, don't be afraid to hold on to hope.
I'm so happy Ecronak is finally getting covered by TES! They write some of the best horror on the entire wiki, and are probably most known for SCP-6670 "Mama?".
Oh yeah I remember seeing that animated and man that one is fucked.
@@calamaty2007 His family-focused horror is out of this world. He recently released a new one.
If what you guys say is true, then I can't wait for TES to explore that other SCP.
I SECOND THAT NOTION
42th
I loved Cassandra and Lena, they were adorable together. It hurt me emotionally to hear them die.
What is your pfp dawg
@@noobslayerxxxbro what's urs
The whole video went through my head like an anime/animated movie it was so good that my brain automatically made a scene out of every second my god was it beautiful...
Right? I love listening to these videos while lying in bed at night. The power of the imagination is so damn strong.
First time I felt invested in some characters. RIP to my girl Cass, she deserved BETTER
I just read Mama by this author and then another one which I can’t remember the name but it’s about a father and a daughter and it’s so good. This author has some great, under rated work
Such an emotional roller-coaster this scp was , fear , despair , hope , struggle , understanding and acceptance. A steady climb with a massive fall. I would like to thank whoever wrote this , and you Exploring Series for making a tremendous job narrating it. I was moved
This reminds me of the greek myth I heard where we used to have two heads, 4 arms, and 4 legs. In the myth telling I heard Zeus became scared of humanity and thus split us in half and that's why we constantly search for a soul mate. This is like that mixed with a terrifying memetic hazard.
The Origin of Love
Man the month of hardship Lena went through seems kind of overlooked, in my opinion it had the potential for the biggest emotional impact where she went through all that for Cassandra and felt momentary joy when it was over, only for her to die right in front of her.
This did strike me as a different take on SCP 2000. It seems like they wanted the same outcome as SCP 5000 and that other one where the aliens were possessing humans to fight other human controlled aliens, but they didn't want to use the same method.
Aliens... God I wish I knew which one that one was... It wouldn't be the one with world governments becoming an SCP... Like Al Gore?
@@autobotCRSHR No 5000 is the one where the foundation finds that all humans are affected by an anomaly and try to kill everyone, and it's documented by a guy in a immortality suit, who in his last moments gets sent back in time.
@@thundergunner4284 wha-... No! I know that! Everyone and their mother wouldn't shut up about it here on this site or the scp wikidot... No, I was wondering about the "human controlled aliens" OP was talking about... I do thank you though... :)
@@autobotCRSHR Scp 2998 - Anomalous transmission, 2485 MHz
And both ended in the exact same way: Putting a round peg in a square hole
I’m at 35:40 right now on my first listen. I haven’t been this hooked on one of the stories in awhile. This is so good. Can’t wait to finish. I can picture this as some crazy awesome movie
Right?!?
I love the idea of infohazards. They play directly off of humanities greatest strength, and our greatest weakness; Our sense of curiosity.
Late reply but Curiosity and sympathy
When I realized this was an Apollyon-class anomaly that followed the story of two people in an apocalyptic world, I instantly thought of When Day Breaks. Though it felt like a spiritual successor to it, I really liked this one more. Their trek in the pickup gave me Girls Last Tour vibes, but the horror aspect of the premise made this that much better of a read. Yeah, after 10 minutes, I paused the video to read it myself. Probably my favorite SCP now
I love the combination of the changing background photos with the waveform in the foreground.
tbh I feel like a lot of authors of more recent SCPs have kind of forgotten what SCP-2000 is actually supposed to do according to the article, because I feel like this isn't the first one where it's implied to actually reset entire timelines rather than just replace people and civilization (I guess you could argue the whole Syncope Symphony backstory was already based on the idea that it could do more to completely replace an entire world, and that was written quite a while back, so I guess I can't even say authors of "recent" articles are the only ones to imply this, though). Usually in older articles when a full deus ex machina reset is needed, they do the "square peg in a round hole" trick with 055 and 579 (although personally I've never been a fan of storylines which lean entirely on that as a solution).
I'd say this is one of many reasons, why this entry should bу in Foundation Tales, and not an actual SCP.
Alternate universe alternate Scp 2000
Wow, an SCP-5000-esque, horror, monster-filled world with a friendship plot, BeT tHiS wOn’T mAkE mE cRy
An apocalypse scp huh? Sweet! And this is giving me some SCP 5000 vibes, which makes me excited since it's one of my most favorite scp's.
I love the deep narrative ones like that and "A voice behind me" I can't remember it's number. But the world ending, story rich ones, are just perfect.
*Why?*
@@DanielSan1776 why not, it’s a really good scp
@@thegamingguy8636 *whoosh*
If i had a nickel for every time the foundation had a memetic SCP related to human empathy, id have 2 nickels! To my european knowledge its not much, but still, two times is... *_kinda worrying._*
That was a darned auditory movie! Whoever wrote this scp deserves an award!
Compassion for someone who destroyed the world lies outside of my mission parameters. Lena could make the right decision, but she chose the worst of both worlds.
It was their fault how?
came for creepy apollyon scp, stayed for absolutely gripping story. i did not expect to be crying when i finished this video.
Next time someone upsets me, I'm going to call them a "double-crossing Sarkite"
reddit moment
...Uhhh...Earplugs? This is the only SCP I've ever seen that's Apollyon despite it not affecting deaf people or the hard of hearing or even anyone wearing noise cancelling headphones. You could also blast loud music or blow out your own eardrums. I assumed they would address it, they didn't. I enjoyed the story a lot though!
Seeing them is a vector of transmission as well. The greatest enemy to them would be Helen Keller.
Alternate Foundation tries to escape their own universe and fucks up in the process? Everyone else: *_Could you stop fucking shit up...FOR FIVE MINUTES?!!_*
Foundation: *bursts open through your abdomen as a Petal instance* "No."
Multiversal refugee crises. That's something that is rare, and yet still destructive and beyond words.
Just wanted to say these videos releasing always gives me something to look forward to.
You watch the exploring series? Holy shit, I've loved your channel for a long time. This feels like a crossover episode.
My internal dialogues relate to this SCP sooo much! This is why I love Sunday nights going into Monday mornings.
As a truck driver I can say with some authority that driving for 11 hours with a 30 min break is pretty standard in the industry. 14 hours is usually the mandatory cut off before you are required to stop and take a long rest. 11 hours with 2 hours rest would be like a casual day for most
For sprinters yeah
The O5 attempts to save one universe and fails so hard thay they destroy two. They get redeemed in the end because... good effort, I guess
I feel like this is a good example of some of my favorite aspects of SCP and some of my common gripes. It's a fantastic horror story relying on exploration logs that form more of a conventional narrative and providing enough details for the reader to understand the story rather than redacting so much that it ends up as just a mystery box. At the same time, I think the reliance on other aspects of the SCP universe kinda hurt the story. The big one is the reliance on SCP-2000 as a sort of mcguffin, but also ignoring it's actual function because the story demands it rather than inventing a more appropriate story device. Then the nitpick that it's kinda weird how fast the world falls apart. If we assume the memetic spreader is human empathy, I feel like there would be a lot of people that are ruthless enough to resist by simply being willing to sacrifice a parallel world of humans to save theirs. Hell, the whole "Incursion" thing in Marvel comics was basically this, Doctor Strange and Black Panther showing more conviction than the SCP Foundation. Plus the main characters kinda having "horror movie protag" syndrome. Those last two points might seem like really petty nitpicks, but there's a very similar article to this one with virtually the exact same premise and exploration log-based narrative, and I feel like that one handled the worldbuilding slightly better by not relying on SCP-2000 and not having the main character act like a horror movie character stereotype. All that dumb writing nitpicking aside, great video. Love to have essentially audiobook versions of SCP articles.
Part of it is that the spreader is feeling empathy for their situation, rather than any rationalization based on that empathy. Still, a lot of people probably should have survived it as written.
The danger and volatility of 7004's activation conditions are eerily similar to a concept SCP I had been drafting for a while now, and I'd never heard of this SCP before now. It's strange how multiple discovery can happen like that. Well, if I ever finish it or want to publish it, I might take some inspiration from the containment directions lol
It happens from time to time among writers, sometimes we independently have similar or even the same basic ideas. In my experience it's mainly superficial similarities, though: It's extremely unlikely for two writers to actually use those ides to tell the same _story._
@@RelativelyBest oh absolutely. If I ever finish that story it'll be nothing close to the overarching shape of 7004, but i always think its cool to see how small ideas can converge in different writers like that unexpectedly
"SCP-7004. Insane, wailing, feral." Ah, yes. Children.
Just gonna say this I love listening to SCP videos especially long stories like this because currently I’m working night shift 12 hours 5 PM to 5AM and it it it really really helps make the time pass
That’s… horrifying in ways I didn’t think possible. What a treat!
This could honestly just be adapted 1:1 to a movie. And it'd be a damn good one at that.
I really loved the whole narative and the twist at the end, but the "variant" of SCP-2000 irks me a little. The world reset switch is something that was done before, notably in SCP-5000 and I really think the author wanted to try something different. I think the best way to reconcile this for me is that the foundation decided to move the "square peg and round hole" to SCP-2000. But hey, we'll never know I guess. Again, the rest of the story was great, it's just a little factor I wish would have been done differently.
i wonder if SCP-2000 has the ability to unite SCP-055 and SCP-579, because to my knowledge, SCP-2000 is unable to actually reset everything to before the catastrophe occurred, and the only way to truly prevent everything from going badly in the first place is to unite 055 and 579. BUT HEY, THAT'S JUST A THEORY, AN SCP THEORY!
Insane? Wailing? Feral? That's not an SCP, that's my wife! Heyooo!!!
Glad to see the waveform coming back, gave a real vibe to 7676
With how many cognito hazards and viruses the foundation has, I’d love to see a story where they just combine them all to see what happens. Does it make sense? Would the foundation do it? No. Would the outcome be insane and probably cool? Yes
Sounds like new SCP 5000 lore just dropped
I think there's something sort of along those lines called skies made strange. It's a series of scps and tales that is really interesting and surreal.
Sounds like another prompt that fit Site 17 Admoniton Deepwell
@@saulgallagher5668 p⁰
Well, with the SCP-Universe having no canon and is a multiverse and all of that - I like to believe there's the Insano-Verse Foundation out there anywhere. Imagine it like the SCP-Foundation does all that crazy shit and concerned people - like M J & D or the Fifthists have to clean up the mess and be like: "Maaaan we know WE are crazy - but THAT goes too far. Really..." You even can have layers of lore going to the source why the Foundation in this universe went haywire
This was a fun one, Thanks for being one of the most entertaining things to listen to while doing stuff. I liked most of this SCP besides using SCP 2000 as a hand waved answer to everything that just instantly fixes things rather then just creating humans. It seems writers are starting to ignore the actual properties of SCP 2000.Due to the way it was used here it leads me to imagine that the SCP 7004 instances saw SCP 2000 being turned on and they were like well... better kill ourselves
I kinda suspect that the "petals" are instances of people from previous worlds that SCP 2000 wrote over. Maybe like a similar phenomenon to pattern screamers, where it's just entities fighting to still exist despite the foundation trying to delete them all in order to start over.
@@masondickerson9466 I kind of got that impression too. I agree with OP that I don't like 2000 being used as a "complete" reset, since it just produces humans, but I definitely think that your impression of them being previous iterations that got written over is right.
hello the exploring series! I don't know if you will ever see this comment but I want you to know that your videos are the only things that help my insomnia, it's not because they are boring at all I think the content is extremely interesting it's that your voice is just really pleasant to me, I hope you have a good day!
You know, I like this mix of old and new styles.
The actions of the Administrator are the most On Brand thing anyone at the Foundation has done, consequences and all.
I have to confess, I'm not a fan of how this one ended. Like at the end she decided that the people of the other earth deserved to live... at the cost of the lives of every person on our earth? And then the reset to the year 1066, why? Reset the population of the planet to the point where the universes diverged and it will then develop in its own unique way, ensuring the exact people of neither of the earths will be reborn. Like I feel like I'm missing something here.
I literally have read this 3 times! Still excited to listen to this! A great article!
Just what I needed after a long hard week and a very tiring/sad day. Thank you Mangg for another great video to keep us going ♥️
I am curious on what drove the insane to compulsively build the bizarre cities. The sane at the end just made a sort of refugee camp with clear purpose.
"You can't just have 99% memetic resistance" BRAIN TWISTING
If it comes down to this conclusion, that these are all people transported into the bodies of other people, giving serious ptsd to everyone, why do they build Lovecraftian cityscapes? How do they build Lovecraftian cityscapes, these mostly regular people? Oh, and... isn't everyone in this scenario bound to die? From having your feet stuck in Limbo for too long, from infection as the host body decays, from blood clots for being wedged like that, uhm... No one mentioned that that I can see.
Normally I don't like these story driven scps but this is one of the best.
I love these longer, Log-style SCP articles / stories. They make the universe so much more immersive. Fantastic reading as always, looking forward to the next upload!
this is my weekly justification for staying up until 3 in the morning
WOW. I've been loving anything scp for the last couple of years now. This was the first time an SCP gave me goose bumps AND made me actually cry. The beautiful writing, the unexpectetly human story and your incredibly immersive story telling, transformed this into, what is easily my favorite "horror" story of all time and my favorite scp by a long shot. Wild stuff. Thank you so much for this video and huge props to Ecronak for writing such instantly captivating characters!!!
Ayyyy! Nice with the waveform again, love it and love everything you do man. You make the starts of my graveyard shifts much easier every week.
I could be wrong, but isn't this the exact thing that happened to the pattern screamers? Their world was ending so they attempted to come to ours. Most lost their minds but a few were able to stay sane. They both are influenced by people knowing or comprehending them. Part of me wonders if these are connected in any way. Maybe the pattern screamers were another form of humanity just in a more vastly different universe? One completely incompatible with ours as the instances here seem to be only slightly incompatable
What if there was an apocalyptic, memetic SCP that rather than taking the world over by bursting out of a chest or transforming us into undead angels of death, it just entraps us into intense waves of euphoria, that even if people were saved, they'd go insane from withdrawal?
Hehe permanent ahegao virus
worldwide addiction-and-withdrawal scenarios are usually used in sci-fi novels for when the internet goes out or some kind of solar flare knocks out technology. it would be similar to those permanent loneliness scenarios, too. people going insane from having something taken away that was previously anomalous is just how drugs work, but i dont think its been done with scp. basically just hedonism cult goals.
Porn addicted zombies 😨
The survivors would just become drug addicts or nymphomaniacs trying to replicate the high
4 am here in Brazil, I was about to finally go to sleep and this video just drop. I see now how foolish I was thinking I was allowed to rest
I'd been hesitating on this one, figuring it was just another sarkicism scp or something similar. It was, but that ending really got me. Also gave me SCP 5000 and 7999 vibes. Overall well worth a listen.
i think this is the first time an scp story has genuinely gotten to me. i dont want to think about it, but i cant stop listening to the video
Partially through this video, I noticed how none of the entities were overtly _trying_ to hurt anybody. I then realized, the plot twists will be interesting.
I will forever stand that memetic/infohazard SCP's are the most dangerous Anomalies because how easily they spread.
Wow, great reading. A sad story about the end of the world that gets worse as it goes on. Thanks for this.
The only things I don't quite get is why it was a cognitohazard (I'm assuming that the trigger was realizing what the petal instances were, but it's still weird) and why they were constructing giant buildings.
It's an infohazard though. It's not what they are, it's that they are.
@Gurney Halleck Yes, I know. That doesn't explain why they only erupted out of people who understood what they were saying, nor the mountain-sized building.
@@RelativelyBest The infohazardous property was the realization that the entities were people, humans, rather than some sort of monster simply bursting out of chests. The majority go crazy due to the experience and move according to instinct and vague memories of their lives before the transferrence. They recall buildings, and so begin constructing without purpose to imitate those memories.
I’ve been waiting for this! Thank you mangg ❤️
1:09:54 [alternate dialogue] Life has many doors, Ed Boy.
thank you so much, you're my favorite channel by far. I love these longer readings, and I'm a big fan of these newer sound wave videos. it's hard for me to keep attention reading these on the site, and listening to them makes it infinitely easier to follow. the length keeps me occupied and gives me a good amount of decompression time after work. in short, I love everything about your channel. Thank you.
agreed. well said
Apocalypse? Flesh monsters? MTF? Sarkic? Braintwisting? Yes. I like this. edit: wtf this goes so hard its so much better than i thought itd be
i really like your audio bars, it makes the screen much more interesting to look at
Bro you're going to be at one million subscribers soon heck yeah! I found your channel years ago when you were around 200,000 subs. Best SCP channel on KZhead fr.
We're having a baby today and I'm so nervous. I've been listening to your Monday uploads for years now and listening to this morning's vid is helping me through the jitters. Thank you for the countless hours you've spent on making these quality readings and breakdowns. I absolutely appreciate it, especially on today
"insane, wailing, feral" is going to mean a lot more to you now
@@baguetteboing 🤣 I'm dying at that comment
I pray your baby is doing well!
Total number of SCPs I've read/listened to that end in a positive manner (relatively speaking): 2 This one and "My heart DEETZ for you"
Also, I want to add to my previous statement. The fact that this entire XK scenario started due a catastrophic misunderstanding regarding the anomaly is a heartbreaker. Yes, they unfortunately have the ability to reproduce their kind by way of infohazard. Yes, Billions were transmogrified into these creatures because of this sort of "Killswitch" phrase No, it was never intentional on the anomalies' part. No, they never wanted to conquer the world. If anything, it was purely bad luck as the anomalies most likely had no clue what they were saying was hurting people. It led to Xenophobia that overcome conversation. But this doesn't make the gut punch any less hurtful. This entire time, they were scared, confused and desperate for answers about their situation, wanted safety and security. After everything: The mutations The pandemonium The ramshackle structures The bizarre nature of the creatures They were essentially just as human as the rest of us and they were begging for help. All from a case of dumb luck and a catastrophic misunderstanding
Found the future BLOSSOM instance.
This scp is super cool. Thanks for covering it, mang 👍
Thank you for uploading these great videos.
The thumbnail is scarily cool.
Dude I look forward to your videos every week I wake up in the middle of the night to watch these asap
I watched this a while ago maybe a month. But I was drinking at the time and fell asleep after they were in the car and the hands scrapping and window spider webbing. But it kept playing after I fell asleep. Definitely worth the rewatch, good story and nice twist.
I wonder how the other SCPs reacted to this, especially 682.
Listened to this on a long car drive. Amazing storytelling, amazing voice. Kept me concentrated. Thank you :D
love that you’re testing the waters with the visualiser again, perhaps confine it to the bottom left portion, or reduce opacity, so the lovely visuals can still shine bright. a blend between the two would certainly help keep that immersion. speaking of blends between things, i certainly wouldn’t have given in to the recursive chestbutsters, ballsing up reality is what got them in the first place. if it’s an alternative timeline foundation, that means that the majority of them had counterparts in the prime (of this scp), so ship-of-theseusing the situation means that by resetting to before the incident in our timeline would mean everyone lives anyway.
This SCP was very realistic in my mind, I haven’t felt this way about a story in a while since you did the video on SCP 2273 and The Stars Do Not Wait For You. I really felt this story. That’s what makes it good.
I'm still going through series 7 on the wiki so I haven't gotten to series 8 yet. This was a real treat.
Exploring Series makes my mornings even better
Love, love, love, the new setup the Soundwave add a whole new level of depth
This what makes my Monday morning great. Thank you for reading to us sir.