oh hey, another one of mine! this was written for my good friend HarryBlank's On Guard 43 canon and intended to be an exploration of the horrors of WWI -- I find it often gets overshadowed by WW2 but the Great War was always striking to me in how utterly pointless all of it was, ego and arrogance and runaway nationalism causing a massive conflict over almost nothing at all. That's always stuck by me and was kind of what I wanted to communicate here. I hope it worked for at least someone.
I liked it alot and found you did a good job of making both sides of the argument at the end look human, to Blank it was the evil of the nazis and all that entails, but to Candles they were just more Germans starting another war. Alot of stories about the beginning of ww2 gloss over just how war weary and damaged the world was after the Great War.
Terrific story you wove, but as to Blank's point at the end: I thought the genocidal aspect with the Holocaust didn't reach Allied awareness until almost the end of the war?
@@abydosianchulac2 That's true but I'd say that's hardly common knowledge. And to a kid who grew up believing in heroes and villains instead of understanding the humans behind those concepts, I doubt it was something that factored in much to his reasoning in the moment.
Every time I hear about the WW1 or WW2 or any other war I remember this quote from M.A.S.H. Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell? Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe. Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
Exact quote I was thinking of. As a veteran of the war on terror that quote hits real damn hard. Guess fallout is right with its "war...war never changes."
The most interesting philosophical thing is when you try to consider who benefits from the war. Especially smaller ones like the GWOT that weren't as casualty heavy. The answer the comes first to mind are the corporations that sell weapons and munitions. Then you realize that the politicians benefit too... then somewhat uncomfortably, you start to realize that _you_ benefit too. That oil? That's going toward the market to keep your gas prices down, to keep your cost of living down. That land being seized? That's to take in some extra funds and grow the economic prosperity of the country, something you benefit directly from.
@@Isometrix116 "The most interesting philosophical thing is when you try to consider who benefits from the war." I agree, but not necessarily for your paragraph of reasons. First, out of the way, the manufacturers of equipment benefit through government contracts. Secondly, politicians strictly benefitting is a childish trope that's shown since WWI, where junior ranks dying by the tens of thousands were literally referred to as "wastage". Politics are adversarial, and while you know you're doing the right thing (by your pov), it can come back to bite you. Quick example while on the topic of WWI: Churchill's reputation after Gallipoli...did _he_ specifically benefit form _that_ ? No. His career wasn't ruined, but was damaged for quite a while afterward. And then, from my own experience in the GWOT era, you'll see that anything with a full bird on it or higher is more politician than traditional commander. How do I know? Look at the formations they are traditionally supposed to lead; companies and battalions were the order of the day in Iraq, and in some case in Iraq and many in Afghanistan, platoons were getting the job done. Next, we come to the juicy parts. We do indeed benefit. Technology is somewhat driven by conflict, and while continuous war with constant disastrous setbacks is the ruin of any nation after long, the "GWOT wars", small in intensity but long in duration, proves a fighting force. And doctrine. Our largest adversaries haven't cycled so many into actual war in over a generation, or did but suffered (or are suffering) staggering losses. And if you've served for a decade or longer in the heyday of said slow burning, low intensity conflagrations, you've been hardened in many ways that haven't been seen for possibly centuries. And no, I'm not uncomfortable knowing my society and its citizens are living well as a result of this conflict; after all, why tf would we be fighting it otherwise?? Name any other country that would prosecute a war as fully, while also doing what it can ( while STILL making mistakes) to minimalize civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure, and rebuilding what it does damage, in modern times. The patently untrue things, at least concerning GWOT, is the "war for oil"....and _definitely_ the "seized land" bit. We never took Iraqi land and just to rent it commercially like it was a resort. And take a look on the EIA website; you'll see that from the time of the invasion in '03, until the end of '18, the US received _less_ oil than pre invasion. So that has been a lie, as well. And again, to suggest Iraqi (and certainly Afghanistan) had "valuable land" is preposterous.
That and the fact that he actually "retells" the stories rather than just reading the wiki entries verbatim, has made this channel my favorite channel for SCP content.
Him and the volgun because he actually uses blender to make the 3D models and some of the videos he uses. They're the only two I watch and of the two exploring series is my favorite, even his audiobook readings of lovecraft are fantastic.
I absolutely love the fact that their abilities factor so little into the story. When you throw people into a meatgrinder, they get ground up no matter their individuality or exceptionality. People don't win wars, they ether die or survive and still lose too much
Just a minor history nitpick, the treaty of versailles wasn’t signed until mid 1919. What you (or the article) are referring to, would be the 1918 Armistice.
Uh, yeah: at Waterloo under Nelson? That line didn't get you? Nelson died before Waterloo. Either the OG writer wasn't so good with history or there is some unreliable narrator thing going on.
The part that stuck out to me the most about this was Lansky. He was only mentioned for about a paragraph. A child thrown into the meat grinder and the only one out of the 5 to not survive the war. His lungs were shredded by poison gas and died drowning in his own blood. The imagry was so simple and so effective.
the fact that he was a Jewish kid, killed by poison gas, and his death was then used as an excuse for McCandel to refuse to care about the Nazis who would kill millions of Jewish kids the same way, is an exceptional irony
So much of Canadian pop history likes to look back on WWI (and the Boer war as well) as the moment we proved ourselves on the international stage, earned a reputation as fearless and competent soldiers, proved that we were just as strong as our rowdier neighbors to the south. These narratives tend to overplay our actual contributions and downplay the costs, as all such histories do, especially in regards to poor, rural communities in places like Atlantic Canada. They tell drastically different stories about the wars in Newfoundland than they do in Ottawa.
As an Australian, we see similar things here. Lots of talk about "sacrifice" and "duty," because it's more polite than the truth of "we offered up our children as a blood sacrifice to earn the favour of the British empire."
God, I love SCPs like this. The ones where the anomalous aren't the point of the article at all, but the horror comes from something genuinely real and not only has happened, but continues to happen every day. Kudos, author. You've written an amazing article here.
War.... War never changes.... This was a somber one. Forces you to dwell about things best not dewlt upon. Made my gut clinch and remember my dads stories from Vietnam. He was just a bright eyed boy too.
What an amazing story. Even in the end, I couldn't tell who had the right stance, and I really enjoys stories that have conflicting views with valid points.
That may be what heroes do, but you get one chance at being a hero, and if you don't become one, you break. There's no trite "living long enough to see yourself become the villain" or whatever. You survive long enough to be broken by the next atrocity you try to prevent. Eventually you get tired. Heroes get tired, and they're only heroic in retrospect. They're heroic in the moment they had and the moment that was talked about. That moment is eternal if someone writes it down. But the hero goes home and has to live with themselves and all the frailty of the human mind. I think they all bled enough the first time. Other people picked things up when they couldn't. That's just how it goes. It's never pretty when idealism comes up against cold reality but there's only one outcome there; the idealist is going to cease to exist as they are, in one way or another.
Reminds me of my grandfather. He went to war as a young man, to help a neighboring country stave off an invasion. He went there, filled with pride and will to fight, and he did. Earned medal after medal for his bravery. But after he came home, he hated war. Nightmares haunted him for the rest of his life, and those medals? One day he couldn't stand looking at them on the wall, so he tore them down.
This is a great video as always *but* as a European viewer (especially a French one) I do have to say that describing WW1 as having caused "little changes" is a very american perspective and does dismiss a lot of things. Sure it didn't end by dropping 2 nuclear bombs but it still had a MASSIVE impact on the world. To name a few things: -Shell shock as a term for what would be later defined as PTSD was coined during the war to describe the trauma of the solider that came back from the trenches -this was a pivotal moment for women's right, as the fact that women went to work in factories to assist the war effort helped to cement their place as equal to men -countless borders were changed and entire nations appeared after WW1: the Russian empire crumbled and led to the creation of Poland, the Baltics, Finland, Ukraine etc. The end of the Austrian-Hungary empire led to the creation of Austria, Czechia, Yougoslavia. In general, most big Empires of Europe died with the war -Culturally, WW1 is often considered the most brutal of the two in Europe because the fights lasted a lot longer than in WW2. The horrible struggle of the people in the trenches really made a lasting impact in the common memory. Heck WW2 would not have happened without WW1 because of the resentment among the German people over the harsh terms of the Versailles treaty -the end of WW1 also lead to the league of nation, which, while it failed to prevent WW2, would later evolve into the UN So yeah, I do not intend to be mean spirited in this criticism, and I understand the script calls for more succint hooks in the introduction, but saying "little changed" is much too reductive
I would say that it isn't an American perspective, assuming that Canadian history curriculum is comparable to American. We were taught all of these things, excepting the European cultural standpoint on which war was more excruciating. I think you have it right though. WW1 was uniquely horrific in a way that I imagine is impossible to replicate. The world learned too much about war on a global scale to ever make *all* the same decisions and mistakes
that tank ad the end was hard to look at in that nice painted representation. i remember part of this one and it make you think about who's eye you are looking through when you see these images. when you have a very different experience of life than other people before you we must always take time to trust in the believe that knowing about difficult times in the past it gives us the strength to remember why we must work so hard to make sure the world is a better place for more people to live in.
This reminds me of a character I came up with who was a Canadian WW1 soldier who through German experimentation after being captured, became an unkillable soldier. His abilities were kind of similar to the zombies from overlord, besides the super strength and could heal rapidly. He was a trench raider who would be sent into the gas because it couldn't kill him.
When I was studying for my end of statutory education exams ( a mixture of CSE's and O'Levels, which gives my age away) I was put into Modern World History, a subject I came to loathe almost as much as I did the teacher teaching it. Of course, it being the 1980's, both World War One and Two being recent, were taught. We spent a very long time looking at its causes, the events leading up to the outbreak of the war, and everything that followed. Up until that time, we learned, the British people at least had a romantic notion of warfare... and the horrors of places like Ypres, Verdun and the Somme eventually taught them the truth. The way many of the wounded were treated was appalling, many branded as cowards and deserters when they refused to go back to the trenches. It took people a very long time to understand that these unfortunate men were suffering from what they then called 'Shell-shock': what we today would call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I don't know how many of these poor men were shot for refusing to go back to the front lines. Even back in Britain, you weren't safe from the scorn and criticism of your neighbours if you didn't volunteer to join up. Unless you had an obvious condition that made you unfit for service, , you were likely to be shunned as a coward, and would be sent white feathers in the post,. I can't recall now exactly what those feathers meant, but 'Chicken' springs to mind. It has been more than a hundred years since World War One started and ended, and I guess its appropriate that there should be an SCP about it. War is dreadful, not only for the men fighting it, but for everyone, and WWI showed us exactly what modern warfare is. .. something to be avoided at all cost. There are going to be times when, for whatever reason, war will become necessary, but it must not be glorified, or chosen as an immediate solution to various issues. There's a saying - "Those who are ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it." World Wars I anbd II, and their accompanying atrocities, must never be forgotten... otherwise, we'll end up doing them all over again.
This hits different for me as a German and European in general. I live within the still visible scars of both wars every day, and I can perfectly understand both sides, also having read "Im Westen nichts Neues".
Yaknow, i remember reading a comic with superheroes wearing white with a red maple leaf on them. I googled the fab 5 but all that came up was DC comic's robin and his compatriots... But there was Captain Canuck, who fit the description i remember... Theres supposed to be more, i definitely remember, it was the first superhero comic ever given to me and it stuck. Anyone else remember similar?
@@FNTM2k3 thats the one! Thanks, i tracked down the comic too. Sadly its too expensive for me to even think of buying now, so ill have to stick with the foggy memories of 6-7 (ish) year old me. I definitely remember the cover art, seeing it now. It was 2002 i believe. The comic is Alpha Flight #1 from 1980-something. My grandma gave it to me on my birthday, a few months late, but she probably pulled it off a shelf in her house as my dad was into comics and must've been his at one point. Anyway, awesome to narrow it down sucks that the same comic is worth its weight in gold now.
DC Comics does actually have a "Fab Five" - although it's a nickname and not an actual team name. That team would be the original Teen Titans: Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Speedy, and Aqualad
@@11679MRT I remember that roster. They were supposed to be the one for a Teen Titans show set in the DC Animated Universe that never came to fruition.
Please never stop making these. When you started making 40k videos, which I enjoyed almost as much as your SCP videos, i noticed you seemed a bit confused or maybe bored and unsure what to make videos about, and i noticed afterwards your SCP videos were coming out less frequently and were getting less views. I think if you continue producing videos on a consistent basis the views will go up exponentially. People love your SCP videos. I never watch TV, instead I listen to videos like yours. People will continue writing articles for the SCP universe so you have a lot to work with! I also noticed standalone videos tend to get more views. Anyways, i dont know you at all but really enjoy your videos. Please dont stop!
7:40 “At Waterloo, under Nelson”? Alternate history where Nelson, a naval officer, survived Trafalgar in 1805 and also transferred to the Army to command ground troops in 1815?
That "its easy for you to say sitting in that chair" kinda rings hollow to me, considering this is an SCP researcher. He has probably seen shit, that rivals and surpasses Pashendale, Somme and Gallipoli.
Him complaining that the WW1 vet didn’t want to fight in WW2 rings hollow considering he works for SCP which has access to stuff that could make the holocaust never happen or cure all cancer forever amongst other things
I wonder if McCandel would've still thrown that "[a]wfully easy to say from that chair" line at Blank if he knew he was talking to someone who'd personally helped stop literal apocalypses?
Just to be a nit picker, i feel I should point out that while one digit is altered away from 1918, it’s actually 7000 numbers from 1918… you know, because the 8 occupies the 1000’s place and such… I know I know, I’m an asshat.
The problem is that Dr. Blank is an accurate representation of what a lot of adults think these days. They’re the same types of people that sent thousands to die for a couple feet of soil. They want all their problems in the world solved by stronger men and criticize when those men break under the impossible odds set against them.
Little change after the first world war? Are you serious? There wasn't a bigger repainting of the nations map with wildly inventing new nations (Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia) as after WW1.
Little changed other than empires falling and monarchies ending and maps being redrawn and old power balances tipping over and new ideologies taking over the world. Y'know, just minute things.
That researcher got a much needed rude awakening when he realized heroes were just people, and some of the people who idolized them were selfish and naïve. Grew up (supposedly), but still expects the knight in shining armor to come save him from all of the evil he perceives need vanquishing?
40:13 oof, this part randomly reminds on how the Flash got murked in that one terrible injustice movie. Horrible execution mind you. But yeah, realistically, this might've how it actually could've went down.
This one was good but I think the scientist getting mad at the end was ridiculous in its own way. Like dude works for the organization that has solutions for many of the world’s problems but locks them up because they’re anomalies and he isn’t doing anything about it himself.
Another great narration by TES. I've been following this channel for years and I must say, he's really the best at narrating SCP articles. However, I HATE these types of SCPs. I'm here for the anomalous, the super natural, the fantasy aspect, not some f*cking war stories SCP articles really need to look back at the early days like SCP 079, the hateful sun, Sarkisism, all the super natural stories and not making fantasy into a documentary of a real event
Depends on the canon- the author has actually commented on this video that the article is intended to fit into On Guard 43. The RCMP might not be able to impede the ENTIRE Foundation, but the Foundation usually has lots of other priorities to deal with. 682 makes 6 escape attempts in a week, there's a murder Santa kidnapping children, a self-help book is turning people into reality benders... Someone in the budget department looked at all of this and said "nah, we're not going to war with the RCMP over a handful of self-containing anomalous humanoids."
The thing is, when looking at the horrors of the First World War, one can easily as the question: what's the difference between the horrors experienced by the soldiers of WWI and the horrors inflicted on innocent people of WWII? What difference is it really whether the people you feed into the meat grinder are wearing soldiers' uniforms or stars of David? In both wars, innocents were brutally and needlessly murdered. Is there really any difference whether the poison gas was released in a closed chamber or on the battlefield? I can totally get where he's coming from. You have to remember: every military man was once a civilian; it's only compulsion that puts him in the uniform.
That depends massively on the military, a military volunteer is very different from your neighbour that got taken away by armed police. That is not condoning chemical warfare or industrial genocide. Both are really fucked up.
My only beef with this story is its reliance on the myth of WW1, as related by politicians years after the war to justify their own incompetence, rather than the reality. Which is not to say the Western Front was anything but horrific but the reasons for, and the nature of, that horror bears little resemblance to the lies repeated since the late 1920s.
Hi everyone so in the past months ive been interested in the SCP lore and fandom so like can someone tell me where to start learning the basic lore and how to join the fandom or sth??
It's funny that people are saying that Blank has experienced the horrors of war. Have people forgotten what Blank has been through with some of the alt universes? Even if Blank does not remember, he has experienced things as bad as WWI. sm
That war was so fucked. Send every single man who can fight to the front and none come back because everybody wound up suffocating in their own lungs because they caught a dose of chlorine. I think if people could appreciate the scale that war was waged on, how much more brutal it was than the second，that thing didn't end in any sort of conventional victory, it ended because there was nobody left alive to fight. Both sides sent ten year old boys to the front at the end.
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oh hey, another one of mine! this was written for my good friend HarryBlank's On Guard 43 canon and intended to be an exploration of the horrors of WWI -- I find it often gets overshadowed by WW2 but the Great War was always striking to me in how utterly pointless all of it was, ego and arrogance and runaway nationalism causing a massive conflict over almost nothing at all. That's always stuck by me and was kind of what I wanted to communicate here. I hope it worked for at least someone.
Indeed, it’s good to see coverage for it rather than another ww2 story
I liked it alot and found you did a good job of making both sides of the argument at the end look human, to Blank it was the evil of the nazis and all that entails, but to Candles they were just more Germans starting another war. Alot of stories about the beginning of ww2 gloss over just how war weary and damaged the world was after the Great War.
It was so good! Thanks for writing it!
Terrific story you wove, but as to Blank's point at the end: I thought the genocidal aspect with the Holocaust didn't reach Allied awareness until almost the end of the war?
@@abydosianchulac2 That's true but I'd say that's hardly common knowledge. And to a kid who grew up believing in heroes and villains instead of understanding the humans behind those concepts, I doubt it was something that factored in much to his reasoning in the moment.
Every time I hear about the WW1 or WW2 or any other war I remember this quote from M.A.S.H.
Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
Exact quote I was thinking of. As a veteran of the war on terror that quote hits real damn hard. Guess fallout is right with its "war...war never changes."
M.A.S.H. had some extreme depth and terrible momentts. Very good show.
The most interesting philosophical thing is when you try to consider who benefits from the war. Especially smaller ones like the GWOT that weren't as casualty heavy.
The answer the comes first to mind are the corporations that sell weapons and munitions. Then you realize that the politicians benefit too... then somewhat uncomfortably, you start to realize that _you_ benefit too. That oil? That's going toward the market to keep your gas prices down, to keep your cost of living down. That land being seized? That's to take in some extra funds and grow the economic prosperity of the country, something you benefit directly from.
@@golgotha7780I’d agree if Solid Snake hadn’t clearly told me that war… has changed.
@@Isometrix116 "The most interesting philosophical thing is when you try to consider who benefits from the war."
I agree, but not necessarily for your paragraph of reasons. First, out of the way, the manufacturers of equipment benefit through government contracts.
Secondly, politicians strictly benefitting is a childish trope that's shown since WWI, where junior ranks dying by the tens of thousands were literally referred to as "wastage". Politics are adversarial, and while you know you're doing the right thing (by your pov), it can come back to bite you. Quick example while on the topic of WWI: Churchill's reputation after Gallipoli...did _he_ specifically benefit form _that_ ? No. His career wasn't ruined, but was damaged for quite a while afterward.
And then, from my own experience in the GWOT era, you'll see that anything with a full bird on it or higher is more politician than traditional commander. How do I know? Look at the formations they are traditionally supposed to lead; companies and battalions were the order of the day in Iraq, and in some case in Iraq and many in Afghanistan, platoons were getting the job done.
Next, we come to the juicy parts. We do indeed benefit. Technology is somewhat driven by conflict, and while continuous war with constant disastrous setbacks is the ruin of any nation after long, the "GWOT wars", small in intensity but long in duration, proves a fighting force. And doctrine. Our largest adversaries haven't cycled so many into actual war in over a generation, or did but suffered (or are suffering) staggering losses. And if you've served for a decade or longer in the heyday of said slow burning, low intensity conflagrations, you've been hardened in many ways that haven't been seen for possibly centuries.
And no, I'm not uncomfortable knowing my society and its citizens are living well as a result of this conflict; after all, why tf would we be fighting it otherwise?? Name any other country that would prosecute a war as fully, while also doing what it can ( while STILL making mistakes) to minimalize civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure, and rebuilding what it does damage, in modern times.
The patently untrue things, at least concerning GWOT, is the "war for oil"....and _definitely_ the "seized land" bit. We never took Iraqi land and just to rent it commercially like it was a resort. And take a look on the EIA website; you'll see that from the time of the invasion in '03, until the end of '18, the US received _less_ oil than pre invasion. So that has been a lie, as well. And again, to suggest Iraqi (and certainly Afghanistan) had "valuable land" is preposterous.
You have gotten so good at inflecting and emoting in these.
I concur.
That and the fact that he actually "retells" the stories rather than just reading the wiki entries verbatim, has made this channel my favorite channel for SCP content.
Him and the volgun because he actually uses blender to make the 3D models and some of the videos he uses. They're the only two I watch and of the two exploring series is my favorite, even his audiobook readings of lovecraft are fantastic.
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I absolutely love the fact that their abilities factor so little into the story. When you throw people into a meatgrinder, they get ground up no matter their individuality or exceptionality. People don't win wars, they ether die or survive and still lose too much
Just a minor history nitpick, the treaty of versailles wasn’t signed until mid 1919. What you (or the article) are referring to, would be the 1918 Armistice.
It's a different universe in my mind
Uh, yeah: at Waterloo under Nelson? That line didn't get you? Nelson died before Waterloo. Either the OG writer wasn't so good with history or there is some unreliable narrator thing going on.
@@Seldonlair you are absolutely right, completely overheard that one 😅
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ruining the fun for all of us
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@@SeldonlairI would honestly just chalk it up to this fictional reality not being entirely in line with our own
Im beginning to think Rounderhouse is an amazing writer behind some of the best stories lately and should be encouraged to keep writing
only beginning???? he’s dominated the game for years at this point
@@The_loathsome_Dung_Eater1 nah it might get a little edgy sometimes, but a lot of his works have very good writing and also quotable
@@moonlightsunshine7111 His redtape series is really good!
Better late than never
Sheesh, almost 10K SCPs.. we’re getting old boys.
We've come a long way from neck breaking statues and tickle monsters, haven't we?
We,ve had a great year, haven't we?
Can u boys tell me what this is? Are they images? Shots from a movie? Does he break down the image and give a history lesson?
“ Kaiser? Brouhaha? Canadian hubris? Flying canoe?” You sob….I’m in.
This scp is phenomenal. The exploration of how the war was ultimately fought for nothing is great.
To be fair, all wars are useless waste of life and resources over small minded people's hubris for stuff that actually do not matter.
Like almost every war in the last 300 years, it was fought for the elites.
The part that stuck out to me the most about this was Lansky. He was only mentioned for about a paragraph. A child thrown into the meat grinder and the only one out of the 5 to not survive the war. His lungs were shredded by poison gas and died drowning in his own blood. The imagry was so simple and so effective.
the fact that he was a Jewish kid, killed by poison gas, and his death was then used as an excuse for McCandel to refuse to care about the Nazis who would kill millions of Jewish kids the same way, is an exceptional irony
"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others"
"Four legs good! Two legs better!"
@@scmontgomery This means zero legs are superior.
@@LordHypertronUniversum Why not just anomalously have negative legs? Even better!
So much of Canadian pop history likes to look back on WWI (and the Boer war as well) as the moment we proved ourselves on the international stage, earned a reputation as fearless and competent soldiers, proved that we were just as strong as our rowdier neighbors to the south. These narratives tend to overplay our actual contributions and downplay the costs, as all such histories do, especially in regards to poor, rural communities in places like Atlantic Canada. They tell drastically different stories about the wars in Newfoundland than they do in Ottawa.
As an Australian, we see similar things here.
Lots of talk about "sacrifice" and "duty," because it's more polite than the truth of "we offered up our children as a blood sacrifice to earn the favour of the British empire."
God, I love SCPs like this. The ones where the anomalous aren't the point of the article at all, but the horror comes from something genuinely real and not only has happened, but continues to happen every day. Kudos, author. You've written an amazing article here.
Obligatory “oh boy it’s 3am” goodnight everyone.
12:30 btw
"Who watches an Exploring Series video at 3 AM?!"
@@HazzardousEco me.
@@MoiraWillenov Guess you missed what I was referencing...
@@HazzardousEco nope.
War.... War never changes....
This was a somber one. Forces you to dwell about things best not dewlt upon. Made my gut clinch and remember my dads stories from Vietnam. He was just a bright eyed boy too.
"Glad he kept his Sabatons." Okay, given the lyrics I've been posting, I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh at that line.
Your comment stood out to me immediately 😂. This video came out in a perfect time for me, for more than one reason
What an amazing story. Even in the end, I couldn't tell who had the right stance, and I really enjoys stories that have conflicting views with valid points.
That may be what heroes do, but you get one chance at being a hero, and if you don't become one, you break. There's no trite "living long enough to see yourself become the villain" or whatever. You survive long enough to be broken by the next atrocity you try to prevent. Eventually you get tired. Heroes get tired, and they're only heroic in retrospect. They're heroic in the moment they had and the moment that was talked about. That moment is eternal if someone writes it down. But the hero goes home and has to live with themselves and all the frailty of the human mind. I think they all bled enough the first time. Other people picked things up when they couldn't. That's just how it goes. It's never pretty when idealism comes up against cold reality but there's only one outcome there; the idealist is going to cease to exist as they are, in one way or another.
Reminds me of my grandfather. He went to war as a young man, to help a neighboring country stave off an invasion. He went there, filled with pride and will to fight, and he did. Earned medal after medal for his bravery. But after he came home, he hated war. Nightmares haunted him for the rest of his life, and those medals? One day he couldn't stand looking at them on the wall, so he tore them down.
This is a great video as always *but* as a European viewer (especially a French one) I do have to say that describing WW1 as having caused "little changes" is a very american perspective and does dismiss a lot of things. Sure it didn't end by dropping 2 nuclear bombs but it still had a MASSIVE impact on the world. To name a few things:
-Shell shock as a term for what would be later defined as PTSD was coined during the war to describe the trauma of the solider that came back from the trenches
-this was a pivotal moment for women's right, as the fact that women went to work in factories to assist the war effort helped to cement their place as equal to men
-countless borders were changed and entire nations appeared after WW1: the Russian empire crumbled and led to the creation of Poland, the Baltics, Finland, Ukraine etc.
The end of the Austrian-Hungary empire led to the creation of Austria, Czechia, Yougoslavia. In general, most big Empires of Europe died with the war
-Culturally, WW1 is often considered the most brutal of the two in Europe because the fights lasted a lot longer than in WW2. The horrible struggle of the people in the trenches really made a lasting impact in the common memory. Heck WW2 would not have happened without WW1 because of the resentment among the German people over the harsh terms of the Versailles treaty
-the end of WW1 also lead to the league of nation, which, while it failed to prevent WW2, would later evolve into the UN
So yeah, I do not intend to be mean spirited in this criticism, and I understand the script calls for more succint hooks in the introduction, but saying "little changed" is much too reductive
Good point well made, and one i'm quite in agreement with.
I would say that it isn't an American perspective, assuming that Canadian history curriculum is comparable to American. We were taught all of these things, excepting the European cultural standpoint on which war was more excruciating. I think you have it right though. WW1 was uniquely horrific in a way that I imagine is impossible to replicate. The world learned too much about war on a global scale to ever make *all* the same decisions and mistakes
Having a sick and awful night and this is a real pick me up
I'm still waiting for an OCP where a new agent accidentally goes to an ICP concert and calls down an orbital strike.
that tank ad the end was hard to look at in that nice painted representation. i remember part of this one and it make you think about who's eye you are looking through when you see these images. when you have a very different experience of life than other people before you we must always take time to trust in the believe that knowing about difficult times in the past it gives us the strength to remember why we must work so hard to make sure the world is a better place for more people to live in.
Oh I read this one whole reading through the articles tagged with superheries. Great choice for a video.
I’ve been so interested in hearing more WW1/WW2 era SCP lore. Especially with all the talk in-universe around what went down at the Somme.
This reminds me of a character I came up with who was a Canadian WW1 soldier who through German experimentation after being captured, became an unkillable soldier. His abilities were kind of similar to the zombies from overlord, besides the super strength and could heal rapidly. He was a trench raider who would be sent into the gas because it couldn't kill him.
Omg, that sneaky quote at 37:51 absolutely destroyed me 😀
From what?
@@brandthacker8913 Well, it is a quote of Trump that "quoted" Robert E. Lee in one of his speeches.
Alternate Title: What if Captain America fought in WW1 and got PTSD?
@TheExploringSeries, love your stuff; minor correction though. War isn't hell; the people in hell deserve to be there.
That is all, keep it up!
When I was studying for my end of statutory education exams ( a mixture of CSE's and O'Levels, which gives my age away) I was put into Modern World History, a subject I came to loathe almost as much as I did the teacher teaching it. Of course, it being the 1980's, both World War One and Two being recent, were taught. We spent a very long time looking at its causes, the events leading up to the outbreak of the war, and everything that followed.
Up until that time, we learned, the British people at least had a romantic notion of warfare... and the horrors of places like Ypres, Verdun and the Somme eventually taught them the truth. The way many of the wounded were treated was appalling, many branded as cowards and deserters when they refused to go back to the trenches. It took people a very long time to understand that these unfortunate men were suffering from what they then called 'Shell-shock': what we today would call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I don't know how many of these poor men were shot for refusing to go back to the front lines. Even back in Britain, you weren't safe from the scorn and criticism of your neighbours if you didn't volunteer to join up. Unless you had an obvious condition that made you unfit for service, , you were likely to be shunned as a coward, and would be sent white feathers in the post,. I can't recall now exactly what those feathers meant, but 'Chicken' springs to mind.
It has been more than a hundred years since World War One started and ended, and I guess its appropriate that there should be an SCP about it. War is dreadful, not only for the men fighting it, but for everyone, and WWI showed us exactly what modern warfare is. .. something to be avoided at all cost. There are going to be times when, for whatever reason, war will become necessary, but it must not be glorified, or chosen as an immediate solution to various issues. There's a saying - "Those who are ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it." World Wars I anbd II, and their accompanying atrocities, must never be forgotten... otherwise, we'll end up doing them all over again.
Very poignant, thought provoking and outstanding!
This hits different for me as a German and European in general. I live within the still visible scars of both wars every day, and I can perfectly understand both sides, also having read "Im Westen nichts Neues".
Thank you for the perfect birthday gift to start my day off (at 36 minutes past midnight)
Cheers mang
Happy birthday!
There's nothing better than waking up and cooking breakfast listening to a new SCP thanks brother 💪🤠🍻
Anyone else wonder if these lads ever ran into a certain Corporal Lawrence during their time in the trenches?
This hit hard. Well done, TES❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
This war shaped both CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. CS Lewis talked about falling asleep marching and waking up and still marching.
Yaknow, i remember reading a comic with superheroes wearing white with a red maple leaf on them. I googled the fab 5 but all that came up was DC comic's robin and his compatriots... But there was Captain Canuck, who fit the description i remember... Theres supposed to be more, i definitely remember, it was the first superhero comic ever given to me and it stuck.
Anyone else remember similar?
Marvel has a Canadian team, I think they’re called Alpha Flight.
@@FNTM2k3 Yep! And I think their leader wears a maple-leaf themed outfit as well. Guardian and Vindicator are two of his aliases.
@@FNTM2k3 thats the one! Thanks, i tracked down the comic too. Sadly its too expensive for me to even think of buying now, so ill have to stick with the foggy memories of 6-7 (ish) year old me.
I definitely remember the cover art, seeing it now. It was 2002 i believe. The comic is Alpha Flight #1 from 1980-something. My grandma gave it to me on my birthday, a few months late, but she probably pulled it off a shelf in her house as my dad was into comics and must've been his at one point.
Anyway, awesome to narrow it down sucks that the same comic is worth its weight in gold now.
The Death Korps would have loved WWI
Well, considering that’s absolutely what the death korps of krieg is based on, yeah I’d say you’re probably right about that…
Their uniforms are literally a mish-mash of German and French WW1 uniforms.
So happy to hear a reference to the chase gallerie, the flying canoe in a scp!
The author transformed the heroes into mundane soldiers to elevate the soldiers to heroes. Brilliant!
DC Comics does actually have a "Fab Five" - although it's a nickname and not an actual team name. That team would be the original Teen Titans: Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Speedy, and Aqualad
@@11679MRT I remember that roster. They were supposed to be the one for a Teen Titans show set in the DC Animated Universe that never came to fruition.
"Military historians write their dissertations with one hand..."
Heh.
Missed opportunity for “war. War never changes “
man i havent heard that voice in a while, glad to see youre still going
Please never stop making these. When you started making 40k videos, which I enjoyed almost as much as your SCP videos, i noticed you seemed a bit confused or maybe bored and unsure what to make videos about, and i noticed afterwards your SCP videos were coming out less frequently and were getting less views. I think if you continue producing videos on a consistent basis the views will go up exponentially. People love your SCP videos. I never watch TV, instead I listen to videos like yours. People will continue writing articles for the SCP universe so you have a lot to work with! I also noticed standalone videos tend to get more views. Anyways, i dont know you at all but really enjoy your videos. Please dont stop!
7:40 “At Waterloo, under Nelson”? Alternate history where Nelson, a naval officer, survived Trafalgar in 1805 and also transferred to the Army to command ground troops in 1815?
Would love to see one of these for "Grave Encounters". Both the first and the sequel!
Always great to listen to chill me out
We need another 1000 video, more of the lore and mentions in other SCPs
You got your wish!
so good! another banger
Very interesting one, think you’ll do one on SCP 8190? It’s another one in the admonition series, slowly reading it and it’s rather interesting
That "its easy for you to say sitting in that chair" kinda rings hollow to me, considering this is an SCP researcher. He has probably seen shit, that rivals and surpasses Pashendale, Somme and Gallipoli.
Him complaining that the WW1 vet didn’t want to fight in WW2 rings hollow considering he works for SCP which has access to stuff that could make the holocaust never happen or cure all cancer forever amongst other things
I was thinking that myself. The average SCP researcher has seen some absolutely HORRIFIC stuff and still comes to work.
@@gummyboots Yeah but a regular researcher can’t make those decisions. All he can do is his best.
The annual reset alone is enough PTSD for one lifetime.
Im literally laying down for sleep. I praise you, and I hope my youtube red pays you well
I wonder if McCandel would've still thrown that "[a]wfully easy to say from that chair" line at Blank if he knew he was talking to someone who'd personally helped stop literal apocalypses?
Best narrator on TH-cam.
Ahh, this one was a banger!!🎉
Maybe it's from the Death's End Hub, it just looks like a separate object?
It was actually written for the 'On Guard 43' canon!
I like how the SCP number is one number away from 1918
that was a deliberate choice! unfortunately 8914 was already taken otherwise i would've gone with that
@@ROUNDERHOUSE I always look forward to your works!
The year the world found out Canada calls war crimes fair play.
Just to be a nit picker, i feel I should point out that while one digit is altered away from 1918, it’s actually 7000 numbers from 1918… you know, because the 8 occupies the 1000’s place and such… I know I know, I’m an asshat.
@ROUNDERHOUSE still an appropriate choice and well done btw
You're one of 3 TH-camrs who can get my shorts to shrink every time I see your notification
The problem is that Dr. Blank is an accurate representation of what a lot of adults think these days. They’re the same types of people that sent thousands to die for a couple feet of soil. They want all their problems in the world solved by stronger men and criticize when those men break under the impossible odds set against them.
“Why?”
“I don’t know.”
I was a 68W during OEF. The why in this story hurt because I asked and still ask the same damn thing.
I love that the second in my recommended is
SCP 4216 Contain the Bismarck
Good choice, Mangg. Well told.
SCP videos really make my day but damn do I want some more Warhammer 40k.
That was so good
For a moment, I forgot that I was listening to an SPC story.
God i loved this so much
Holy crap the thumbnail
Cue "The War was in Color."
The Emu War wasn’t too bad.
That was a great one.
The this was a damn good article surprised me
Between this, Conscript and replaying The Bunker, WW1 keeps popping up for me
Reminds me of scp 4007
The Unit 731 iteration?
The horrors of war are never learnt by the leaders
Little change after the first world war? Are you serious? There wasn't a bigger repainting of the nations map with wildly inventing new nations (Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia) as after WW1.
Little changed other than empires falling and monarchies ending and maps being redrawn and old power balances tipping over and new ideologies taking over the world. Y'know, just minute things.
NEW VIDD WOOOOOOOO
That researcher got a much needed rude awakening when he realized heroes were just people, and some of the people who idolized them were selfish and naïve. Grew up (supposedly), but still expects the knight in shining armor to come save him from all of the evil he perceives need vanquishing?
40:13 oof, this part randomly reminds on how the Flash got murked in that one terrible injustice movie.
Horrible execution mind you. But yeah, realistically, this might've how it actually could've went down.
This one was good but I think the scientist getting mad at the end was ridiculous in its own way. Like dude works for the organization that has solutions for many of the world’s problems but locks them up because they’re anomalies and he isn’t doing anything about it himself.
Never meet your heroes.
Another great narration by TES. I've been following this channel for years and I must say, he's really the best at narrating SCP articles.
However, I HATE these types of SCPs. I'm here for the anomalous, the super natural, the fantasy aspect, not some f*cking war stories
SCP articles really need to look back at the early days like SCP 079, the hateful sun, Sarkisism, all the super natural stories and not making fantasy into a documentary of a real event
Yeah I don't understand this at all, what is Scp community is doing
Great Story 😢
Wish I could like this one twice
Oh boy, 2am!
Hard to imagine the RCMP is any kind of impediment to the Foundation securing anomalies.
Depends on the canon- the author has actually commented on this video that the article is intended to fit into On Guard 43.
The RCMP might not be able to impede the ENTIRE Foundation, but the Foundation usually has lots of other priorities to deal with. 682 makes 6 escape attempts in a week, there's a murder Santa kidnapping children, a self-help book is turning people into reality benders...
Someone in the budget department looked at all of this and said "nah, we're not going to war with the RCMP over a handful of self-containing anomalous humanoids."
Only the Dead see the end of a war .
The thing is, when looking at the horrors of the First World War, one can easily as the question: what's the difference between the horrors experienced by the soldiers of WWI and the horrors inflicted on innocent people of WWII? What difference is it really whether the people you feed into the meat grinder are wearing soldiers' uniforms or stars of David? In both wars, innocents were brutally and needlessly murdered. Is there really any difference whether the poison gas was released in a closed chamber or on the battlefield? I can totally get where he's coming from. You have to remember: every military man was once a civilian; it's only compulsion that puts him in the uniform.
That depends massively on the military, a military volunteer is very different from your neighbour that got taken away by armed police.
That is not condoning chemical warfare or industrial genocide. Both are really fucked up.
My only beef with this story is its reliance on the myth of WW1, as related by politicians years after the war to justify their own incompetence, rather than the reality. Which is not to say the Western Front was anything but horrific but the reasons for, and the nature of, that horror bears little resemblance to the lies repeated since the late 1920s.
8918 already?
Hi everyone so in the past months ive been interested in the SCP lore and fandom so like can someone tell me where to start learning the basic lore and how to join the fandom or sth??
Google the SCP wiki and just start reading. Don’t go through the stories chronologically, just click randomly or use the top ratings list.
3 am already, hot dog!
It's funny that people are saying that Blank has experienced the horrors of war. Have people forgotten what Blank has been through with some of the alt universes? Even if Blank does not remember, he has experienced things as bad as WWI. sm
Based McCandle
That war was so fucked. Send every single man who can fight to the front and none come back because everybody wound up suffocating in their own lungs because they caught a dose of chlorine.
I think if people could appreciate the scale that war was waged on, how much more brutal it was than the second，that thing didn't end in any sort of conventional victory, it ended because there was nobody left alive to fight. Both sides sent ten year old boys to the front at the end.
Yay it's a SCP
War is NOT hell. You suppose to go to hell only if you sin but war doers not care who it hits. Most casualties of wars are just innocent bystanders.
Oh boy; it's 3am!!