Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-7676 - The Grand Symphony of 1976
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'Only those who do the bare minimum in their education and born after 1976 are qualified' _My time has come_
Zoomer elimination thank God
Thought the same thing!
The video was posted 3 hours ago, but your comment is a day old? What is this black magic?
@@HCG members probably get access early? Idk
@@mango_raider4116 surely magick is more suspect, all things considered
I want to bring attention to the bit right after 42:05 . The sudden, dead-stop pause as the speaker realizes they're seriously infected is chilling. The moment is a kind of syncope to itself, a break in an ongoing note.
I realized the same! Chills!
One aspect you forgot to mention: there's hidden text in the shutdown sequence: the entity behind 7676 starts to question what's going on before noting that the person reading this text ISN'T Julia Locke but rather that you're "seeing through her eyes but you are not her" before offering to listen to the music. This seems to imply, alongside the "turn off your browser comment" that the entity of 7676 has in fact become aware of us, the reader, and is trying to get us to listen to the music for some reason.
I would like this, but its at 76 already...
Jokes on the entity, we’re immune to cognitohazards.
Dude just wants us to listen to its mixtape.
@@apollyonnoctis1291 the AI states it is "combustion or burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke" but it's probably "discarded matter; refuse" because they don't have ears to know what it sounds like
THIS is why I love this particular anomaly specifically and the SCP Foundation as a whole, it can get super meta and still feel creepy while doing it, whereas other media that breaks the 4th wall (e.g. Family Guy, Rick & Morty, etc.) seems to lose some of it's authenticity in the process. Almost like the things they do don't matter because they know they're below us by a narrative level, but the SCP Foundation always manages to make the things aware of us into a real, almost tangible threat
The class photo fading into focus over the waveform was a super nice touch. Looking forward to a video where Mangg reads an SCP while the Windows Media Player visuals are kicking off
It should be the logo that bounces around the screen. Just make sure to include at least one instance of it hitting the corner squarely so people don't lose their minds.
What class photo?
@@Distortion0 Uh-oh ...
It's right through that door over there.... Yes, the one that says blast furnace. Oh nah, it's been shut down since '22 Fires and screaming 05-.....oh... You thought I ment 1922. Nah bra, I ment 1100 hour sharp.
Some of those fall under cognitohazard criteria, caution is indicated....
The Class of 76 and its adjoining anomalies are some of my favorites so I'm glad to get this "culmination".
might even call it the magnum opus.
Yeah the syncope scps have always stuck with me. I can't really put it into words; I just get such a strange feeling from them.
The culmination being a giant failure to adhere to the contest rules of writing a narrative involving luck, then making a weak ass argument for it? I'm fairly sure they just wanted to enter it into the contest to be able to get to request the 7676 slot before anyone else. All in all, it was reminiscent of 7004. Where another end of the world scenario failed to have ANYTHING to do with the aspect of luck, and featured a female responsible for destroying their own perspective reality. So far, I think the official 7000 is actually one of the best if not for it actually has to deal with luck, and it's not stuck up it's own ass with pretentious drama. I mean, by now SCPs have devolved into narrative stories, with no sign of going back to the original formula. If I'm gonna be sitting here listening to an hour long light novel every time, I'd rather there be more levity in it than women killing their own non-canon SCP realities. 7676 is literally about the head researcher of 7676 crying about her situation, dooming her entire reality, and then 7676 proceeds to close and shit out the characters involved into the comment section. Including her, and signs of her lamenting her decision. It's quite frankly annoying that they didn't carpet bomb that school the second shit started to happen. And by carpet bomb, I mean utterly obliterate a 50 mile radius with it being ground zero. But they got what they wanted, the 7676 spot before anyone had a chance to write a decent 7676 entry.
Honestly I like the class of 76 because of the central theme of nostalgia around it, even if it's about a time period I never had any connections with. Is there any other SCPs which dealt with a similar thing?
Gesundheit
I like the audio spectrum, makes it feel more like i'm watching someone describe something through a tape or loose recording!
I agree it’s quite a nice touch
It's like an archived thing yas
or like it is advanced briefing of MTF
God the waveform looks so cool
@@bloogibloo9901 L
I'm not sure it maps to what frequencies would be coming from his voice. 'S' and similar sounds should spike in the highs more consistently. On second thought the middle is always lit, so your screen will have a line of pixels at high brightness for an hour with most others at 0%. Ah well, don't you guys just listen to these videos anyway?
@@barretprivateer8768 might be just an audio visualizer instead of a true waveform. Which is totally fine it still looks cool
@@one-cardpony460 yeah I wasn't really complaining about how it looked just wondering why it didn't look like spectrums I'm used to from voices and what was triggering it. The one thing I don't like about how it looks is that the middle line never turns off which may not be great for your screen with the length of these videos, but it's kinda off white and I think most people listen anyway.
@@barretprivateer8768 If using a visualizer lets TES make these reading videos faster and easier I'm all for it. I just listen to these anyway.
The bit of the On Mount Golgotha overture is such a nice touch. We finally have a taste of what it could sound like! So eerie, otherworldly.
This is one my absolute favorite scp collection and I'm so stoked you're covering it. Thank you for all your hard work.
WOAH, nice to see you here!
I've listened to this almost 4 times already. xD
Class of '76/Syncope Symphony has got to be one of my favourite canons/groups. Amazingly unnerving, definitely underrated.
Honestly, this was the SCP that made me finally "get" the whole Class of '76 storyline, in that I had previously never been particularly enthralled by it (I don't exactly know why, but somehow it just felt to me like it was trying to do something that other skips had already done better), but this one changed my mind and made me sort of re-evaluate what the whole thing was "about", so-to-speak. It evokes a lot of conflicting emotions, because usually when there's some horrific, eldritch, world-ending anomaly like this, it's either the result of some totally alien or nightmarish hostile entity, or it's somehow the result of human evil or failings (often on the part of the Foundation), but either way it usually feels pretty cut and dry that whatever the Foundation is trying to contain or prevent, it's something *really* bad, but here, while clearly horrible things are happening (and even worse things might happen) because of this anomaly and all the related ones, you kind of can't help but feel sorry for all of the...people (if you can indeed still call them that) caught up in it, and empathize on some level with what they're trying to do (because really, they've just all had their lives stolen from them, and they want to *somehow* get them back, no matter the cost), because it's not some incomprehensible horror from another dimension trying to destroy reality this time, it's just a bunch of kids who suffered a fate so horrible that it turned their very trauma and lost potential into some kind of memetic plague. Like I guess previously it had felt like a lot of Class of '76 articles were just a bunch of body horror and forced "weird for the sake of weird" without that much substance, but this one actually made me kind of view the whole canon (if you can call it that) differently.
I generally followed the Class of 76 because I liked the idea of a more country-ish, small mysteries that can occasionally feel somewhat lacking in the broader SCP universe. I'll admit the Class of 76 docs aren't the strongest on the site; that said, I've really liked the reveal in SCP 4833, that SCP 2000 was what lay behind it all. To me, this presented another dimension to 2000, giving more of a mystical presence to the giant cloning machine. The reveal also gave a sort-of satisfying answer to the 'why' of the Class of 76. If it ended there without fully explaining anything else, I honestly would have been ok with that.
Same, this was great
Just the opposite here. This is the one that gets me to avoid 76 SCPs. It's so filled easily preventable crap. AND they're all dead, so it's not canon by nature or 7676 is the last entry ever. This is why there is an SCP story section, to slop up trash like this and keep the slot open for something good.
@@CodeguruX that's the advantage of the malleable canon of scp, you can pretty much take and leave whatever you want and no one can say it isn't canon.
Did you hear the symphony?
Love the audio waveform style with the class photo slowly creeping in, Mangg.
Ikr! Truly innovative.
Oooh boy. This ones's good, real good. It feels like a combination of old and new SCP. The raw horror of old SCP with the story of the newer stuff. I'd say this one got the best of both worlds, and damn did it do a good job.
Thanks fam
Sounds like the truth being passed off as fictional, being born in 1970 it sounds like part of my generations curse
"we called them the best years of our lives because the rest were unbearable" i have never known emotional agony like this before
Personally I appreciate the art during the reading, but as a one off I think this is such a cool idea!
Agreed, Especially since these scps have a lot to do with sound.
God this SCP series as as SCP-y as it gets. Bizarre Bethesda-esque reality glitches that are both hilarious and horrific, inter dimensional leaking, unimaginable suffering and next to no actual answers for the several thousand questions, all revolving around something that seems so completely innocuous as a school marching band. Sexy stuff
Bethesda does not do Reality Glitches so much as they specialize in "Retconning" their shit, so no you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Get "Um actually'd"
@@BlackMoonHowls "Um actually" the horse swimming backwards in mid air and the dude with a full size train on his head would like to disagree with you
As much as I like the waveform, I’m feeling a rush of nostalgia for the old format.
Are you feeling nostalgia? Are you sure this past memory is your own past? Uh oh, I think you need to be isolated, you might be infected by SCP-7676.
Aw fuck, there goes another one
Class of '76 has always been one of my favorite parts of the SCP story. Its so simple but powerful for me. Maybe because I was a band nerd in high school, or just because my memory of my time in school is such a mix of emotions. But stepping away from the insane gods and universes of bigger scale SCP stories to more of the inexplicable weirdness of nostalgia is just fantastic on this one.
Personally, I prefer the art as it helps me visualize things better but the waveform is a very welcome change of pace! I have an idea where you should actually merge the two. Have the art but also have this waveform overlaying somewhere like in the corner. I think it'll make your videos just that touch cooler.
I agree. Sort of like one of those edm music videos.
Actually really like the waveform! Maybe in the future you can mix it in with pictures to fill dead space between audio logs? Or use the waveform for audio logs?
I agree. It would definitely go well with the logs.
Class of '76 has been a consistent and great source of lore for a long time 🤙🏻
As someone who listens to these as I try to sleep, I think the waveform is a welcome addition!
Saaame. Though sometimes the visualization artwork does help with the story if curated well.
"As someone who doesnt actually look at the video, I welcome the visual presented in the video." ????? Do people say shit just to say it?
The waveform visual really brings in that “official report” vibe
Seeing the article number and its title gave me such a sense of impending dread
The whole "Class of 76" series seems to ignore the fact that a significant portion of graduates of American high schools hated the experience and have no fond or nostalgic memories from the time period.
Well of course, that is real cause of the Story. A entire class had a great time in School, which is so abnormal it broke the Universe. Or even bigger Plot-twist: Shitty times at School are the result of the Foundation delibratly avoiding a event like that from ever happening again, with Amnestics being used to change pre-existing good memories to bad ones.
I think that’s really sort of the point. It’s about nostalgia, not reality or what they actually may have felt about the school during their time there. It’s about what they think about their child and teenage hoods now, when they’re adults. I think it’s really important to remember that this is specifically the “Class of ‘76” a year that many writers of the wiki hadn’t even been born yet. This isn’t about actual Highschool, or else it would just be about whatever you felt during school, it’s about grasping on to a rose tinted past as you age and go farther away from your youth. The people who graduated in 1976, while by no means geriatric, aren’t the exactly young anymore either.
@@zetanone7211 I get what you're saying, even so, I think the authors over estimate the ubiquity of people who develop rose colored glasses towards their teen age years. I know several septuagenarians who will absolutely agree that high school sucked. Again, I get your point, but don't think the Foundation would quickly run out of staff who didn't have those rose tinted glasses and therefore weren't susceptible.
Yeah, I'd have to say it's true in my experience. There were no real memorable moments in my high school run. Didn't get to stick my dick into any chick during a 4-year period of time when that was the only thing on my mind. I consider that more torture than any of the endless classes that were involved. GPA 3.91 at the end, and my dick was still dry. I consider that a wholehearted failure of an education.
You have to keep in mind the anomaly consists of people who were in their senior year of high school when the world ended and they got fucked up, and generally the people I knew (including myself) felt nostalgia about my highschool years as I was graduating, with that nostalgia shifting slightly as I got older to just generally being about when I was younger, not specifically about high school
I love the references to all the other 76 SCPs. This article is something I've been waiting years for. Hope people write more SCPs about the class of 76, or the Symphony soon.
I went to my old middle school a while back with friends to look around. Kinda trip since I’ve not been there since I left , yet my dreams always have me there. It made me uneasy like I wasn’t really awake.
The Class of '76 canon is one of the best ones in SCP lore imho. Very well fleshed out.
The change from the usual photos to waveform is a welcome one.
Always fun to see these videos in the morning for me. The Class of 76 and the Syncope Symphony are very intresting stories to me, so I can't wait to see what this Scip adds to it!
I listen to you with my screen down so I don't see the light. This waveform is cool and welcome. Thank you for all your amazing content. I have watched all of the SCP series and look forward to every episode on a Monday night
Check out KZhead Vanced. You can turn your screen off and play videos in the background
@@owenclarkmusic totally got it bro, just for this channel here :) thank you
@@owenclarkmusic wait, does this mean he still gets ad revenue if I use this app ? Because I truly want to support him. Not rip him off.
@@donttrustabroom you can whitelist channels that you want to allow ads on; Patreon is also a good option to support him directly
@@owenclarkmusic Nice! Thanks! I didn't know about this app, and being able to listen to videos such as this with the screen off is EXACTLY what I needed to save tons of battery and not have to block the screen light when I'm listening before sleep! The AdBlock & everything else is so cool too! Can't wait to try it out!
This would’ve been absolutely perfect if the song from the article itself was played at some point. Seems like a missed opportunity
I think it actually is partial sheet music from the on mount golgatha scp but idk if it would fit the school band aspect without multiple instruments, possibly needing editing for that. Edit just got to the end of the video so apparently there is one.
Where is the song played in the article?
the class of 76 series had always been very intriguing for me, and knowing more and more about the verse only further deepen my love for it
The cut off at 42:15 is exactly the kind of thing that's always going to bring me back to this series.
Something I really miss from your newer videos is the ending panel with an especially notable quote from the SCP article. When I play your videos as background noise for when I study, I used to always click back to see that. Nonetheless, great content as always.
Bruh The Class of 76 would make such a good one off horror movie. I hope if we ever get an SCP movie it's something like this and not just fan service to the pop culture scps like 682 or the peanut
One of my favorite proposals (as soon as i found out locke was doing a 76 7k proposal i was hooked on the mere idea of it)
the 76 skips are captivating to me, as a brit born 2 decades after, they always make me nostalgic for a time and place I've never experienced
He’s infected!
@@CC-xr7mo i was gonna say that lol
You do not recognize the bodies in the water. Do you?
I was born in 1996 so I have no idea why I'm so invested in articles involving the class of 76. But I'm down for a long ride down another memory warping scp article.
Bro is infected
"From Break to Ruin, the most beatiful Performance begins. The Performance does not End. And da Capo, And da Capo, al Fine" The Silent Orchestra, Lobotomy corperation P.S.: I also like the music slowly kicking in the second half.
I hope this waveform style stays. I’m usually watching these laying down or not looking at my screen (and today is no different) but looking over every once in a while to see it is a nice touch. Thanks again Mangg for another great week for videos!
The scp master has returned and has once again blessed up with his voice.
Gotta love the innovation and different ideas you be doing with your videos to keep it fresh
EVERYBODY says this, but man Class of 76 would make a great 2-3 season horror series. Maybe jumping between modern containment efforts and the events back in 76? Obviously, plenty of 4th wall breaks - pad commercial breaks with commercials from the 70s, intercut at random with the YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE BODIES IN THE WATER break, etc.
Ngl this is a cool idea
The reference to SCP-2316 gave me goosebumps. Amazing storytelling as always
Not gonna lie. The Wave form would be a kinda neat little detail for your channel. Maybe if you used art like you usually do and have a waveform line over it. Maybe some screen saver looking stuff.
This my way to a peaceful sleep KEEP UP THE HARD WORK 💯💯🤌🏼
Ah you neglected to mention something around the end, Major spoilers below, During the reality shutdown section there is actually some secret text that blends in with the background. I will recite what it said specifically here "What is this?" "What is happening?" "You're not Julia." "You're seeing through her eyes but you're not her." "These aren't her eyes reading this" "What do you think you will find here?" "Answers? "Then just listen." "Oh, how it will get inside you." "Music has a way of doing that" "We can listen together" "The concert is about to begin."
This new video style is a welcome change, really like the extra effort, it's great to just watch the waves and fade into the narrative. Great video as always. thank you for all your hard work.
Everything you do slaps, but the whole syncope symphony is my favorite. Thank you so much
Man, your voice is so relaxing, you just do what ya want for the background. You're awesome and any kind of lore vid ya put out, I'll listen to. This I'd damn near the only thing that puts me to sleep. Keep it up, you're easily my favorite channel
I listened to you narrate this SCP while riding a train back to my hometown. I loved the lore and the underlying uncanniness of this article, it was definitely getting to me near the end. I Definitely felt uneasy and unnerved while listening to it. Thank you so much for presenting these to everyone, it's truly great stuff!
Like I said in your SCP-7005 video you are spoiling us. A new 1hour SCP video in like a week is magic.
In SCP Terms "Maksur" usually means "we're in deep, deep doo-doo."
If the waveform style helps you produce your content faster or more efficiently, please feel free to continue. It looks great and tbh this format of video isn't something you just sit and watch anyway. TheDarkSomnium is an excellent example of good use of waveform in this space, there's nothing wrong with using that normally
Wow. This was amazing. Disturbing and enthralling. Like everything just kept getting worse. I honestly enjoy those sort of nihilist articles where it doesn't get better, or the ending is vague and leaves you wanting more. The first video covering the Class of 76 was really interesting with how disturbing it was. Everyone trapped in this time loop sort of thing. This is a really good follow up to that. The wave form is a really nice touch. I love looking forward to these videos.
This is interesting. A video about music, specifically a symphony, which has a very complex combination of sounds and tempos being represented with a wave length.
7676 huh? Oh lord, we’re going back to school!
Thank you :) you are by far my favorite KZhead channel and it's so worth it to support you on Patreon for this level of quality content, thank you
The sound wave is fine I don’t mind it especially since I listen to these while going to sleep. Love ur videos man keep up the good work 👍🏻
This was utterly fantastic - the class of 76 is one of my favorite scp topics, as it's just that perfect mixture of weird, unsettling, and existentially somber.
Hitting in solid with the uploads, also the waveform video is just as nice
When he mentioned the musical piece that involves blood. I actually got chills down my spine for once. I agree with the foundation that terminating every subject at that point was the right move
Their photo slowly coming into view from the darkness is creepy AF. I somewhat find it more unsettling than the usual format, although I think I still favor the latter. Great job, as always, and thank you.
thanks for the late night upload, helps with my insomnia!
the waveform is super cool dude, genuinely wouldn't mind if it was incorporated into the video structure. I love ur vids, keep it up!
I've never fully understood the Syncope Symphony and the Class Of 76 mythos. I've both read and listened to most of them, and I still don't fully understand what a concise summation of the anomaly, or adjoining anomalies, would be. It always seems like just a bunch of weird stuff.
We've had a great year, haven't we?
Based lore reference
I absolutely love all of your stories no matter what's in the background but I do like the visuals that you use
Love your work as always! Thank you!
TES Bring SCPs to life with your voice . thanks for the great work mate
This video was incredible. More ppl should do this omg. Your videos are awesome
I can definitely see the wavelength fitting in with analysis of SCP Files (as well as the channel's variety of different explored topics). Definitely use again as you see fit for future videos.
Very nice Thanks for the hard work as always
So I've heard there is a comic starting to come out based on HP Lovecraft works. I think it would be really cool for you to do a read through of some.
I think the waveform works well for your videos! Especially with the photo fading in. Something similar for future videos would be nice!
The waveform was a great choice. Also what a good video, thanks again!!!
The Waveform format and your narration makes this almost feel like a video from TheVolgun, another SCP KZhead. Very interesting change, and in line with the current topic.
I love your videos , I literally can’t sleep if I don’t watch you videos , never stop the grind
one of my fave scp topics!!! so cool and all the scps fit so well together
Yessssss I’ve been hoping you’d do this one!!
Amazing as always!
A different way to put it. And fitting for the SCP. Thank you for the upload
Waveform definitely is an awesome addition!!! I think Videos with it mixed between wave form and photos would be *chefs kiss*
Syncope symphony always gets my skin crawling. Love it
Yeeeeee!!!! I always been waiting for more stories about symphony syncopy, class of 76, or this thing a quiet madness made ..
Dude......... true sleep material, your a good un!!! thank you so much for all your hard work
I love many of your other "exploring scp" a vast majority. But this one was honestly one of the most lest enjoyable.
Nothing beats some good music in a cool Sunday night
I definitely like the sound wave graphic. Makes it feel very Foundationy.
I actually like the waveform. It makes it feel like volgun's channel where he frames the whole reading as a researcher briefing new staff. I think using that waveform over the traditional image show you do would be an excellent touch. Personally I would imagine it like audio logs left behind by the last surviving foundation member who was a low level researcher now reading through the entire database and summarizing the important stories for future iterations of the foundation so that they know how the past contained similar horrors to the ones they now face.
I believe her. She wasn't compromised. The fact that she remained aware of her identity is proof enough of that. No, it's worse than that. She was convinced.
I know the waveform/ audio visualizer thing was probably an added touch in relation to this specific SCP, but I think it would fit really well with any future readings you do, and from what I’ve seen in the comments, a lot of us would like to see it be used again
(Haven't seen vid) This GOI fascinates me and if the writer waited until this 7000 series to make the repetitive 7676 SCP of the class of 1976, it is a genius and well worth plan.
Fun fact: I started writing it years ago, intending to make it an 001, but never finished. Once 7000 came around I couldn’t miss the chance to use the number 7676
I love how many videos you make on a regular basis. God bless, King
Dude the waveform looks awesome keep it!
I love the '76 SCPs. (Isn't quiet thing a madness made a '76 file?)
(Yea it’s tied to Co76. I reference it in the file!)
I love the poem from it, creepy
It's the OG class of '76 file if I recall.
Thanks so much! I freaking love your videos and today I just listened to year of 76' again at dinner so this is awesome. I relisten to your scp Playlist all week. You could sell your list on audio book I'd buy it.
Oh my god I need to stop listening to these high because the subtle brown noise audio effects towards the end had me sitting in my garage on high alert until I realized it was background noise djajdhskajds. I personally love the waveform over the image! Very visually stimulating without being distracting. Great upload thank you!!
As soon as i saw the 76 i was like "Oooooh boy, this is gonna be a trip."