Hello! As the writer of this article, I would like to share my sincere gratitude for this video as it really is an honor. I wrote 4010 as a love letter to the community, trying to piece together as many parts of the universe as I could (and I realise today that I could have made a better job). I really had two ideas in mind when I was writing this, first was to explain why there is so many contradictions on the wiki and second, to make a story that would mirror the readers experiences. Madeleine is reading through the database just like any new member of the wiki would and that is what I wanted to capture. Thank you again, Explorer, you just made my day!
First things first: Your article is a really nice touch to the contradictions, that you can find in the wiki What do you mean by doing a better job? Changing something like the writing (how you formulate it) or changing the tone or story Just curious. Contradicting yourself in this article would be still canon ^^
@@meinuser1 Thank you! I wrote this SCP when I was still a bit new to the site and if I was to rewrite it now, I would definitely include more or change a few things to make it better. However, people seem to really like it anyway, so perhaps I will just leave it be.
So this is literally the SCP foundation going from real to not even a concept, to her becoming the literal creator of her old universe, eventually creating herself. That's crazy.
It's not just the history of the Foundation in-universe, but the history of the wiki itself. I especially liked the beginning of the story where Madeleine is exploring different SCPs much like how readers browse the wiki. Kudos to the writer, this whole thing is so meta it's amazing.
I agree! This whole thing in of itself is like a big metaphorical interpretation of people discovering SCP and becoming so drawn into its lore and mythology to the point you want to become part of the community and start writing your own SCPS
4010 is very badly written. Reminds me of bad Authors in General. The File states that something is like it is, without presenting the thing like the state states it is. Thats bad. The Female Researcher literally just makes up the "It needs to be undone because-because". There have been no bad Effects: The SCP's vanished and the world had been at peace, causing a nonsensical "It shouldne be like this!!"-Speech. Very badly made; sorry.
If the foundation truly wanted to hide the true 001, would it not make sense to have a whole page full of decoys, while the real 001 was just another number?
4010 is very badly written. Reminds me of bad Authors in General. The File states that something is like it is, without presenting the thing like the state states it is. Thats bad. The Female Researcher literally just makes up the "It needs to be undone because-because". Very badly made; sorry.
@@aaroncohen2700 If you read the replies in the pinned comment, it looks like they're a spamming a-hole hating on this entry and its author for whatever reason (a personal vendetta, perhaps?), and blocking anyone who tries to question their apparent grudge, or engage in dialogue. I wouldn't bother with them.
4010 is very badly written. Reminds me of bad Authors in General. The File states that something is like it is, without presenting the thing like the state states it is. Thats bad. The Female Researcher literally just makes up the "It needs to be undone because-because". There have been no bad Effects: The SCP's vanished and the world had been at peace, causing a nonsensical "It shouldne be like this!!"-Speech. Very badly made; sorry.
@@russiandoggo4336 It depends on how you see it, Madeleine’s reality is anomalous but to her it was how normal things are in that reality. She documented and learned of each and every SCP, became attached to it like us readers. We all have that innate desire to be in that reality than be in this reality, it’s an thrilling and interesting world to venture out compared to ours. It is our wildest dreams and nightmares to be there.
@@russiandoggo4336 That's a pretty reasonable point and holy crap it sent my think meat down a path I wasn't expecting. A lotta people get caught up in the magic, wonder, horror, and adventure of worlds where magic and the unexplainable exists, and I think that's fair, maybe even the whole point in some cases. However, very few worlds and universes take an honest look at what that would cause (Marvel is one of the rare exceptions, doing a good job of exploring this idea with the X-Men.) In our world, the possibility, however remote, exists for all people to be equal on all levels. Afterall, we all have the same basic equipment. Sure, some are taller, shorter, smarter, stronger, or faster, etc. but we're essentially the same creature, with the same needs and frailties. If you prick us, do we not bleed, and all that. But in many (most?) worlds where magic/the fantastical/anomalous exists, there is a (usually) minority section of the population which have a kind of power which lifts them into a state of being/grants them a power inherently unattainable by others. With a vast majority of the population unable to ever reach such a pinnacle (not because of some accident of birth or luck, but because they are fundamentally human) overtly or subtly, an immutable class structure is formed. By such a world's very nature, true equality, at least on the level of comparing individuals from each population, is utterly impossible. Coexistence? Sure, that's in the cards, but someone able to snap their fingers, creating an indestructible building in an instant, is going to outclass a construction crew every time. So, is normal reality as we know it a bad thing? No, I don't think so. Could it be improved by adding the magical? That, I think, depends on what values are, and should be, held highest. It's a very interesting question, to which I don't think I've given enough thought. However, I'm now far less confident the answer is "yes," than I was a few hours ago.
4010 is very badly written. Reminds me of bad Authors in General. The File states that something is like it is, without presenting the thing like the state states it is. Thats bad. The Female Researcher literally just makes up the "It needs to be undone because-because". There have been no bad Effects: The SCP's vanished and the world had been at peace, causing a nonsensical "It shouldne be like this!!"-Speech.
@@trashbag1146 Dude, i dont even have to state that I'm not a spam-bot, because more importantly: YOU ANSWERING TO SOMETHING YOU THINK IS NON-HUMAN IS TOTALLY SENSELESS! Dude! Dont you see the Massive Logic-Error in there? You reply to something that you believe has no Understanding and no Soul?? Wha-?
@@trashbag1146 Dude! Dont you see the Massive Logic-Error in there? You reply to something that you believe has no Understanding and no Soul?? Wha-? ???? ???? Do you need to hire an Editor for your next comment/s??
“she finds SCP 1609, the remains of a sentient chair that the GOC put through a wood chipper, whicch she finds to be...” Sad? shocking? “Hilarious.” Oh.
I mean it is hilarious. It's sad what happened to the chair but the irony it becomes a bloodthirsty murderous chair seeking vengeance on those who tried to kill it is what makes it hilarious. Serves those GOC bastards right.
Madeleine Sailer: I went into the SCP wiki to view alternate canons. To see all possible outcomes of the coming future. O5 Council: How many did you see? Madeleine: 14,000,605 O5 Council: How many were canon? Madeleine: None.
Its on the basic principle of physics, when you reduce something down enough, eventually it stops existing. Like the idea of taking all the energy out of an electron in order to observe it, you can't. You use energy to observe it, as detection is simply collisions. And then as soon as you observe it, it no longer exists as what you observed it. It has either gained more energy or turned into electromagnetic radiation.
This reminds me of SCP-3844. "I'm mourning the death of spectacles and miracles. I wish I could embrace science, but it takes away so much of what I enjoy about this world of ours. It appears I'm allergic to the stuff."
Its really cool to see how the scp's have become more abstract and conceptual than monster, as demonstrated by the extreme difficulty of finding relevant pictures. Its easy to find a picture of a statue that kills for not looking at it, as that is easily defineable. But anomalous timelines? Interdimensional data beings? The writing for this wiki has really become something to respect.
I don't think it is her specifically, so much as the metaphysical/memetical entity she became via sufficient knowledge of the SCP database. It is like a collapsing probability wave front, once the pattern has become established it creates ripples that align the rest of their universe with whatever the current timeline or canon is, collapsing all other existing contradictions kind of like probabilistic waves and particles exposed to a unifying magnetic field.
What an absolutely incredible article, just the perfect amount of meta and a perfect reflection of the SCP wiki itself and how weird it is to read it and immerse yourself in the world. I guess this proves just one more reason the foundation keeps everything so hush hush, even knowing too much can cause things to get spooky fast
this scp is like the stairway up through levels of reality. Madeline starts inside the scp universe and seems to transition to ours, or move her own universe one level down. either way she goes from final creation to first creator of her own world.
Your videos get uploaded just in time to distract me once the depression completely takes over keep up the good work man. Your content makes a difference…
@@zenderzagato8174 He likes to put as much referances to different SCPs as possible while not bad in it self his way of handling it is kinda fragile he tends to ignore what their own articles say and instead insert his own stuff into it for example in "the the demon lancelot" and " wrath" he talks about "Deavite Kings" despite the fact that SCP-140 saying that they were a theocratic matriarchy and he says SCP-3000 is the "brother of the serpent" overall his works are very hard to combine with other works by other authors into combined headcanon because he simply doesn't follow consistency
Scp is the fight between order of humanity brought about by science, research and the Foundation Vs Chaos of unknown and the anomalies Really good concept
These stupid relation between pataphysical and metaphysical narratives are bullshit. They cant bypass their own fiction lmao. Scp 2747 destroys them anyways.
@@papetogaming It all does appear to undermine the SCP universe. This stuff seems to be meant to keep things "grounded." Or, put another way, don't take it too seriously.
@@therevelistmovement4683 its a place for randoes/random people to create stories without logic that are actually obsecurely used in published series. Smh, remember when it was just a game.
The Level of Meta-Narration these SCP articles achieve is unbelievable. They made a truly Meta SCP that not only justifies the plot holes of the Universe, but also integrates them and used them as a narrative tool. This is one of the things that makes The SCP Universe truly unique.
So...this is actually what "ascending through layers of reality" (as referenced in a bunch of other SCPs) is like, right? She starts out in the "full-on" foundation reality, where all SCPs exist, and then "ascends" to layers where more and more of the SCPs and the foundation are fiction, until she arrives in our reality and literally kickstarts the SCP forums, thereby "recreating" the fiction she's from and being able to return (or at least change her own story so that a version of herself still exists).
This channel is the most thorough and intelligent dialogue on the SCP universe I have found on YT. Your approach is particularly engaging to those who love individually reading Sci-Fi in the short story form but also contemplate the greater worlds in which any tale is but a window. The experience here occurs at a level sometimes lost on other channels. This is not to say I do not hold the multitalented Lord Bung nor the character development, storytelling or amazing voice acting of the Volgun without respect. I am a patron of 4 different people working in the same vein. However, I appreciate the perspectives you suggest to the listener. One of the joys of the SCP genre is the flexibility of how events, characters and timeline can be integrated and understood. I walk away from each of your chapters wanting more of the conversation.
Madeleine Sailer: -Attempt to create a timeline of the universe -Gets to read all SCPs -Neutralizes all SCPs, GoIs, and the anomalous universe -Grips sanity by writing and starting the SCP wiki -Recreates the universe by making herself fictional -Destroyers herself and refuses to elaborate further
I fucking love how every scp that involve major reality shifts have 173 as an anchor/constant. Makes 173 feel more important and complex than it originally was. I just realized this SCP is literally that Family Guy episode where Stewie creates the universe but actually explained well.
From watching scp 3812 I understand that the true writer (the one in our reality) of scp 4010 wrote the 05 council member (a somewhat static concept in the scp universe) giving the job of writing scp 4010 to an OC (Madeline). Madeline wrote the timeline which caused her to jump in the layers of reality where things get progressively less anomalous until finally she is in a reality just below ours. In writing scp 173 she created a universe below hers and with that power she wrote the 05 council giving the job of writing scp 4010 to an OC. This cause a recursive cycle where the OC always ends in a reality below their writer by creating the scp universe and subsequently writing 4010. The OC does not always become scp 173 writer but the end goal of the OC is that they write 4010 or it is created.
This SCP is exactly what I've been thinking the entire time. Givign SCP a coherent timeline takes out all the magic of endless possibility and would make it pretty boring
While I get the meta aspect of the article, I'm confused by Researcher Madeleine's reaction. A world without anomalies would be ideal and fit the ultimate goal of the Foundation since it would mean that all anomalies have effectively been contained. And there is no evidence available to her, that would suggest that such a world can not move forward.
Thank you for your participation. Red pin on, ribbon banner. You finished the job, I bet you know the new one coming next. Time travel backwards is.not possible.
Bascially she reality shifts to...well, our reality. This can also be a metaphor on how the SCP universe slowly loses its whimsy as you learn of its fake nature and try to make sense of the impossible. Things are so magical when life is full of mystery, but you only end up disappointed when you learn of the truths. I love how the entry turns in in itself. Leaving more questions then answers; such as what invoked the 05 council to do this? Given...was this their plan from the beginning? Excellent entry.
I feel like the thing about the order and chaos, and the contrast between the 2 and how they interact could be a very nice - however unintentional - link to the laws of the Scarlet King.
The one seemingly glaring plot hole in this for me is that if she knows the option of her reality being controlled by a bunch of horror writer, how wld that not tie up her time line neatly? It literally gives a exact answer to why there wld be contradictory information
From the perspective of a reader (listener) of scp stories this would be a worst case scenario as it would remove the existence of the scp's but from the perspective of the people in the scp universe this would be a god send as they would be free from the horrors and perils of all the monsters and atrocities that could do horrible things to them in the scp universe
This SCP specifically brings up an interesting scenario that I never thought about, most researchers at the foundation; Don't know ANYTHING about most major SCPs. Like she didn't know about 176 but knew AWCY? Or about thaumaturgy at all? Do the researchers ONLY learn about the scp they're assigned too or did she just happen to be very low clearance level, and if she was why did the 05 choose her to do the timeline instead of one of the level 4 or Site Director?
It could be they wanted a lower-level researcher who would have fewer preconceived notions before entering the project. But it's as likely that yeah, not many researchers are well-read on the totality of the Foundation's knowledge. So often many clearance levels are described as "Level 4/2002" or "Level 1/173", it seems clearance depth and breadth are not innately linked.
Maybe the Multiverse decided she was like all of the other horror writers in our timeline since she was cataloging every SCP in her timeline. As such it slowly shifted her towards where it thought she belonged, writing creepy pasta SCP entries in our universe online. Maybe the multiverse is the true SCP 001. Slowly shifting everyone from timeline to timeline until it finds where it believes you belong. That is why you don’t remember preforming certain actions, saying certain things, and weather or not famous people/things are dead/names spelled differently. Most people won’t be shifted far, maybe just a few timelines over. Some people like this researcher however are moved to wildly different timelines and may be perceived as insane. Either way you are exactly where the multiverse thinks you should belong.
Your images are spot on smack dab in the middle cognito-hazardous-esque feel reminiscent of an ongoing occurrence of multiple anomalous temporal, spatial and reality shifts. It reminds me of alot of scps from that sentient Japanese grapefruit that popped into existence to scp 3999 and then to pattern screemers and maybe Pataphysics too.
I wouldn't say I have read extremely many SCP or many in detail, but this is my favorite SCP ever since I first discovered it. I'm in general not one for horror since I can have trouble telling reality from fiction when I get invested in something (Have gotten better about it but still) so much of the SCP Universes don't appeal to me. While I tend to be amused by the more hilarious parts of SCP and I'm always a sucker for Scifi and fantasy, my favorites tend to be meta, thought-provoking stuff and plot twist-y and intricate articles. This neatly falls into all three categories and I've been looking forward to you covering it so I can experience it yet again.
It's cool that, even near the end, 173 is still around. The original anomaly, a constant, even if just a creepy, painted statue, sticks around until the very concept of anomalies is no longer around. And then, the original art piece is what has Madeline restart the SCP-verse. The Statue, the Koitern, is always there, even when 343, 3812, all the 001's, and The Scarlet King and all of his children are gone.
eh back when 173 was made by Madeline, the board mostly focused on skin walker encounters/stories goatmen creepypasta and things that live on the edge of the campfire light, out innawoods. its not really much of a stretch to call it a cryptozoology forum really. source: me lurking /x/ ~2008
i mean, I'd say an above-average number of 4channers from that era onwards could be reasonably described as cryptids, so maybe it's a cryptozoology forum because it is a forum frequented by cryptids
Wait so she finishes the foundations main goal with her work. By causing the laws of the universe to reassert them selves and delete all the anomalies. Therefore keeping humanity safe from them... She then undose this all but one layer down by creating a SCP universe where the former SCP universe becomes their equivalent to us. The horror writers. She then creates them all again,
I’ve never been this early but if you’re reading this I love your videos soooo much both as background music to my life but also to enjoy the images that set the mood
I loved this SCP. I know i left some feedback on the last SCP episode but this was really well done on your part despite this SCP containing number of different anomalies, most well known but few thatvI didn't know and e.g. Your description if the "window SCP" was how I would like to have a unknown scp described. And you referencing a few SCP's atleast in this episode was done in extremely good taste and very tongue-in-cheek, as fans of the SCP horror flash fiction would love this article to be represented and i think you did an excelent job with this weeks SCP article. Bravo, Exploring Series boss man.
This is my new favourite SCP article. I think it manages to say many true and profound things about the SCP litterary universe, and about SCP writting, in a unique way.
first thanks to @utylike for writing such a comprehensive piece second being brought to the exploring series which has always did such a great job with the database. it people like yo that keep my love for this world alive and make it easier for others to get into the entries.
Hello!
As the writer of this article, I would like to share my sincere gratitude for this video as it really is an honor. I wrote 4010 as a love letter to the community, trying to piece together as many parts of the universe as I could (and I realise today that I could have made a better job). I really had two ideas in mind when I was writing this, first was to explain why there is so many contradictions on the wiki and second, to make a story that would mirror the readers experiences. Madeleine is reading through the database just like any new member of the wiki would and that is what I wanted to capture.
Thank you again, Explorer, you just made my day!
Is this a competition entry?
First things first: Your article is a really nice touch to the contradictions, that you can find in the wiki
What do you mean by doing a better job? Changing something like the writing (how you formulate it) or changing the tone or story
Just curious. Contradicting yourself in this article would be still canon ^^
❤️
@@Ice-rs9vu Yes it was for the SCP-4000 contest.
@@meinuser1 Thank you!
I wrote this SCP when I was still a bit new to the site and if I was to rewrite it now, I would definitely include more or change a few things to make it better. However, people seem to really like it anyway, so perhaps I will just leave it be.
So this is literally the SCP foundation going from real to not even a concept, to her becoming the literal creator of her old universe, eventually creating herself. That's crazy.
Because comics- i mean Because SCP
Because Trigger - I mean, SCP.
@@kintsuki99 *insert Worm reference here*
Mind blowing beyond itself!
@@l0sts0ul89 What was will be
O5 Council: aight gimme a quick rundown
Madeleine: aaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
aaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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aaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
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aaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
It's not just the history of the Foundation in-universe, but the history of the wiki itself. I especially liked the beginning of the story where Madeleine is exploring different SCPs much like how readers browse the wiki. Kudos to the writer, this whole thing is so meta it's amazing.
Yeah, this one was really creative, I enjoyed it. We're all a part of it and the doctor was too
Wait, how do I see your comment 2 days old?
@@MonbaBlast Because of a reality shift of course.
@@MonbaBlast wibbly wobbly, timey whimey...
I agree! This whole thing in of itself is like a big metaphorical interpretation of people discovering SCP and becoming so drawn into its lore and mythology to the point you want to become part of the community and start writing your own SCPS
The SCP universe lacks a consistent canon. However that lack of canon is a vital part of its canon.
Indeed
It's like the chaos that creates SCP universe is an SCP itself
@@Gavarel 001?👀😳
@@darth_shadow7924 no, the scp that is pyre chaos is another one
I cannot remember wich one it was though
Vital
05: Go short this mess out.
*Some time later*
05: We might have made a mistake…
*Some more time later*
05: Go sort this mess out.
Sam Howell (SCP-3812): *laughters* This sitcom is funny!
“fuck we don’t even exist anymore, dammit Madaline”
Note: sort*
4010 is very badly written.
Reminds me of bad Authors in General.
The File states that something is like it is,
without presenting the thing like the state states it is.
Thats bad.
The Female Researcher literally just makes up
the "It needs to be undone because-because".
There have been no bad Effects: The SCP's vanished
and the world had been at peace, causing a nonsensical
"It shouldne be like this!!"-Speech.
Very badly made; sorry.
This is the REAL scp-001 for me. By sifting through chaos and structuring it you destroy it, creating order. I like that idea alot
Careful, you’ll summon Jordan Peterson.
Shouldn't be. The real 001 is Swann's proposal by that logic.
If the foundation truly wanted to hide the true 001, would it not make sense to have a whole page full of decoys, while the real 001 was just another number?
@@redplanet2720they already did that. Its called SCP 001 " Atonement ", but its not another number. Where that scp destroys every scp to exist.
@@samhill2618 scp - 4927 the lobster god
Documenting timelines and histories? Kind of perfect how the next SCP is 4011 - History is written by the victors
The crazy coincidence right there!
Nice
Isn't that the one with the foundation site on mars??
@@ricardohoang8452 I think not
@@e.t.1947 correct :)
"Are We Cool Yet? No, you are not."
Sums up everything there needs to be known about them.
4010 is very badly written.
Reminds me of bad Authors in General.
The File states that something is like it is,
without presenting the thing like the state states it is.
Thats bad.
The Female Researcher literally just makes up
the "It needs to be undone because-because".
Very badly made; sorry.
@@loturzelrestaurant what does that have to do with “Are we cool yet?”?
@@aaroncohen2700 If you read the replies in the pinned comment, it looks like they're a spamming a-hole hating on this entry and its author for whatever reason (a personal vendetta, perhaps?), and blocking anyone who tries to question their apparent grudge, or engage in dialogue. I wouldn't bother with them.
@@badwulff Ok
Accurate.
"Can we have a timeline?"
"No, but here's an scp"
Thank you for that ugly snort.
05 - "You can completely sort out our timeline or go search for that needle we shot out in space in 1964"
Me - "When do I launch?"
4010 is very badly written.
Reminds me of bad Authors in General.
The File states that something is like it is,
without presenting the thing like the state states it is.
Thats bad.
The Female Researcher literally just makes up
the "It needs to be undone because-because".
There have been no bad Effects: The SCP's vanished
and the world had been at peace, causing a nonsensical
"It shouldne be like this!!"-Speech.
Very badly made; sorry.
@@loturzelrestaurant its subjective. chill out.
@@tooradical7556 It's the spamming bot that hates this SCP 🤣
SCP - 4010 - When you meta so hard you break reality, then unbreak it, then break it, then unbreak it...
Meta²
A "meta paradox", if you will.
@@Zack-xv2yc Is it really a paradox? Isn't it juts a time loop.
"...the universe runs on chaos and demands to remain broken."
ENTROPY
Man I had chills when she uploaded the photo and people "liked the post and begin creating their own SCPs" and "reminding her of the old days"
Creepy
*Eats her pasta
Is being stuck in normal reality even a bad thing?
@@russiandoggo4336
It depends on how you see it, Madeleine’s reality is anomalous but to her it was how normal things are in that reality. She documented and learned of each and every SCP, became attached to it like us readers.
We all have that innate desire to be in that reality than be in this reality, it’s an thrilling and interesting world to venture out compared to ours. It is our wildest dreams and nightmares to be there.
Same here, fellow member of The Council of J.
@@russiandoggo4336 That's a pretty reasonable point and holy crap it sent my think meat down a path I wasn't expecting. A lotta people get caught up in the magic, wonder, horror, and adventure of worlds where magic and the unexplainable exists, and I think that's fair, maybe even the whole point in some cases. However, very few worlds and universes take an honest look at what that would cause (Marvel is one of the rare exceptions, doing a good job of exploring this idea with the X-Men.) In our world, the possibility, however remote, exists for all people to be equal on all levels. Afterall, we all have the same basic equipment. Sure, some are taller, shorter, smarter, stronger, or faster, etc. but we're essentially the same creature, with the same needs and frailties. If you prick us, do we not bleed, and all that.
But in many (most?) worlds where magic/the fantastical/anomalous exists, there is a (usually) minority section of the population which have a kind of power which lifts them into a state of being/grants them a power inherently unattainable by others. With a vast majority of the population unable to ever reach such a pinnacle (not because of some accident of birth or luck, but because they are fundamentally human) overtly or subtly, an immutable class structure is formed. By such a world's very nature, true equality, at least on the level of comparing individuals from each population, is utterly impossible. Coexistence? Sure, that's in the cards, but someone able to snap their fingers, creating an indestructible building in an instant, is going to outclass a construction crew every time.
So, is normal reality as we know it a bad thing? No, I don't think so. Could it be improved by adding the magical? That, I think, depends on what values are, and should be, held highest. It's a very interesting question, to which I don't think I've given enough thought. However, I'm now far less confident the answer is "yes," than I was a few hours ago.
So she's basically the Tom Bombadil of the SCP universe in terms of knowledge of its world only with a tragic ending.
That's a really good way of putting it.
Dude... WTF ARE YOU I READ THAT BOOK 10 YEARS AGO AND I STILL DON'T KNOW
The moment Madeline found the image of 173, It brought a smile on face.
This was a good meta SCP.
This one is interesting. I like how everything unfolded as she progressed, then all came back together, starting over again. Really creative
@Scythian Lancer Ouroboros
4010 is very badly written.
Reminds me of bad Authors in General.
The File states that something is like it is,
without presenting the thing like the state states it is.
Thats bad.
The Female Researcher literally just makes up
the "It needs to be undone because-because".
There have been no bad Effects: The SCP's vanished
and the world had been at peace, causing a nonsensical
"It shouldne be like this!!"-Speech.
@@loturzelrestaurant I see a spamming bot
@@trashbag1146 Dude,
i dont even have to state that I'm not a spam-bot,
because more importantly: YOU ANSWERING TO SOMETHING YOU THINK IS NON-HUMAN IS TOTALLY SENSELESS!
Dude! Dont you see the Massive Logic-Error in there? You reply to something that you believe has no Understanding and no Soul??
Wha-?
@@trashbag1146
Dude! Dont you see the Massive Logic-Error in there? You reply to something that you believe has no Understanding and no Soul??
Wha-?
????
????
Do you need to hire an Editor for your next comment/s??
Gate Guardian: I am the real SCP-001
Broken God: No, I am the real SCP-001
SCP-4010/Madeleine Sailer: *Amateurs*
I'm alpharius
I'm Alpharius
Madeleine should've been the true SCP-001 lol
THE DATABASE: HAY HAY HAAAAY
@Scythian Lancer we are Alfraius.
There is no stopping us. You are Alfarius too. It's time to wake up. You know what to do.
The author of this SCP really did their homework!
Madelyn: erases all SCPs
Also Madelyn: "lemme just undo all that"
*Scarlet King erased out of existance*
Madelyn: Ummmm no
Madeleine: _CRTL + Z_
She really said let me bring everything we tried to remove right quick because it's no fun? She's a psychopath
“she finds SCP 1609, the remains of a sentient chair that the GOC put through a wood chipper, whicch she finds to be...”
Sad? shocking?
“Hilarious.”
Oh.
Imagine if she sees 1762 where the dragons went - and thought - damn bad writing.
I mean it is hilarious. It's sad what happened to the chair but the irony it becomes a bloodthirsty murderous chair seeking vengeance on those who tried to kill it is what makes it hilarious. Serves those GOC bastards right.
Madeleine Sailer: I went into the SCP wiki to view alternate canons. To see all possible outcomes of the coming future.
O5 Council: How many did you see?
Madeleine: 14,000,605
O5 Council: How many were canon?
Madeleine: None.
Dr. Bright: I think I saw this all in a movie. I forgot which one.
Good to see you're doing well, Mr. Mungus
😂
@@DaneGilly A Mungus
@@Qardo ...And what happened to *not* watching that film, Bright?
I LOVE how they referenced SCP-1548 "The Hateful Star", as well as it's eventual move to the Explained archive 😊.
It actually moved to the RPC wiki
*OH BOY! IT’S 3AM!!*
9am here.
Midnight here.
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2am yo
Its on the basic principle of physics, when you reduce something down enough, eventually it stops existing. Like the idea of taking all the energy out of an electron in order to observe it, you can't. You use energy to observe it, as detection is simply collisions. And then as soon as you observe it, it no longer exists as what you observed it. It has either gained more energy or turned into electromagnetic radiation.
TES: "She only sees one timeline left-"
Ad: BARE-NAKED GRANOLA
O-5:So you make that timeline yet?
Madeline: Yesn’t.
This reminds me of SCP-3844.
"I'm mourning the death of spectacles and miracles. I wish I could embrace science, but it takes away so much of what I enjoy about this world of ours. It appears I'm allergic to the stuff."
Fuck dragon scps
Makes me cry everytime
Its really cool to see how the scp's have become more abstract and conceptual than monster, as demonstrated by the extreme difficulty of finding relevant pictures. Its easy to find a picture of a statue that kills for not looking at it, as that is easily defineable. But anomalous timelines? Interdimensional data beings? The writing for this wiki has really become something to respect.
“Estimated time one year” damn that seems a little optimistic.
Pretty sure the last date we got was less than a year. But she also kinda destroyed time so who really knows.
So clef is a reality anchor
Is she a timeline anchor?
Welp Scranton is crying with his anchors
I think she is the anchor of all of reality. Realities anchor. Woah.
Wonder if clef also felt the reality shifts
I don't think it is her specifically, so much as the metaphysical/memetical entity she became via sufficient knowledge of the SCP database. It is like a collapsing probability wave front, once the pattern has become established it creates ripples that align the rest of their universe with whatever the current timeline or canon is, collapsing all other existing contradictions kind of like probabilistic waves and particles exposed to a unifying magnetic field.
I like how you turn the music from this upbeat, research music to a somber tones, as the magic of the universe is leaking out
So this SCP is basically a "meta paradox"??? My fuckn brain can't handle this, man.
That was perfect. Order and Chaos existing in a perfect proportional relationship.
fuck.... whoever wrote this SCP
is pure genius
What an absolutely incredible article, just the perfect amount of meta and a perfect reflection of the SCP wiki itself and how weird it is to read it and immerse yourself in the world. I guess this proves just one more reason the foundation keeps everything so hush hush, even knowing too much can cause things to get spooky fast
This was genuinely one of the most clever SCP's, holy shit. when she found a picture of 173 and posted it to a forum I was like OOOOOOOOOOOOH
this scp is like the stairway up through levels of reality. Madeline starts inside the scp universe and seems to transition to ours, or move her own universe one level down. either way she goes from final creation to first creator of her own world.
I like to think that the guy saying all of this stuff would make a great voice actor for the administrator
Your videos get uploaded just in time to distract me once the depression completely takes over keep up the good work man. Your content makes a difference…
While it's not embraced by all, Djkaktus does have a timeline which has a lot of important lore events in the SCP Cosmology.
Djkaktus is easily my favourite serious SCP author. However I am not a fan of him as a person.
@@XSpamDragonX what's not to like?
@@XSpamDragonX You are reffering to his role in the controversy right? Yeah he really should have stayed out of it
@@zenderzagato8174 He likes to put as much referances to different SCPs as possible while not bad in it self his way of handling it is kinda fragile he tends to ignore what their own articles say and instead insert his own stuff into it for example in "the the demon lancelot" and " wrath" he talks about "Deavite Kings" despite the fact that SCP-140 saying that they were a theocratic matriarchy and he says SCP-3000 is the "brother of the serpent" overall his works are very hard to combine with other works by other authors into combined headcanon because he simply doesn't follow consistency
@@dirckthedork-knight1201 wait, there was a new controversy? Really hoping it isn’t as dumb as the last one.
Scp is the fight between order of humanity brought about by science, research and the Foundation
Vs
Chaos of unknown and the anomalies
Really good concept
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in all your philosophies; Horatio"
After two years of SCPs on this channel, I can really appreciate the genius of this entry. This would be a great Twilight Zone episode . . . .
Like the episode where the astronauts are disappearing and no one remembers them.
I just want you to know you’re one of my favorite creators and I always look forward to your videos each week
This seems like an inborn, pataphysically-induced reversal to pataphysicality, itself.
These stupid relation between pataphysical and metaphysical narratives are bullshit. They cant bypass their own fiction lmao. Scp 2747 destroys them anyways.
@@papetogaming It all does appear to undermine the SCP universe. This stuff seems to be meant to keep things "grounded." Or, put another way, don't take it too seriously.
@@therevelistmovement4683 its a place for randoes/random people to create stories without logic that are actually obsecurely used in published series. Smh, remember when it was just a game.
Sounds like a bunch of commie gobbledygook
@@papetogamingSCP didnt start out as SCP:CB my guy
The Level of Meta-Narration these SCP articles achieve is unbelievable.
They made a truly Meta SCP that not only justifies the plot holes of the Universe, but also integrates them and used them as a narrative tool.
This is one of the things that makes The SCP Universe truly unique.
So...this is actually what "ascending through layers of reality" (as referenced in a bunch of other SCPs) is like, right?
She starts out in the "full-on" foundation reality, where all SCPs exist, and then "ascends" to layers where more and more of the SCPs and the foundation are fiction, until she arrives in our reality and literally kickstarts the SCP forums, thereby "recreating" the fiction she's from and being able to return (or at least change her own story so that a version of herself still exists).
This channel is the most thorough and intelligent dialogue on the SCP universe I have found on YT. Your approach is particularly engaging to those who love individually reading Sci-Fi in the short story form but also contemplate the greater worlds in which any tale is but a window. The experience here occurs at a level sometimes lost on other channels. This is not to say I do not hold the multitalented Lord Bung nor the character development, storytelling or amazing voice acting of the Volgun without respect. I am a patron of 4 different people working in the same vein. However, I appreciate the perspectives you suggest to the listener. One of the joys of the SCP genre is the flexibility of how events, characters and timeline can be integrated and understood. I walk away from each of your chapters wanting more of the conversation.
Madeleine Sailer:
-Attempt to create a timeline of the universe
-Gets to read all SCPs
-Neutralizes all SCPs, GoIs, and the anomalous universe
-Grips sanity by writing and starting the SCP wiki
-Recreates the universe by making herself fictional
-Destroyers herself and refuses to elaborate further
I fucking love how every scp that involve major reality shifts have 173 as an anchor/constant. Makes 173 feel more important and complex than it originally was.
I just realized this SCP is literally that Family Guy episode where Stewie creates the universe but actually explained well.
From watching scp 3812 I understand that the true writer (the one in our reality) of scp 4010 wrote the 05 council member (a somewhat static concept in the scp universe) giving the job of writing scp 4010 to an OC (Madeline). Madeline wrote the timeline which caused her to jump in the layers of reality where things get progressively less anomalous until finally she is in a reality just below ours. In writing scp 173 she created a universe below hers and with that power she wrote the 05 council giving the job of writing scp 4010 to an OC. This cause a recursive cycle where the OC always ends in a reality below their writer by creating the scp universe and subsequently writing 4010. The OC does not always become scp 173 writer but the end goal of the OC is that they write 4010 or it is created.
So basically they wrote a character that created itself in the story. Quite simple if you think of it.
This is really satisfying on a meta fictional level.
This SCP is exactly what I've been thinking the entire time. Givign SCP a coherent timeline takes out all the magic of endless possibility and would make it pretty boring
While I get the meta aspect of the article, I'm confused by Researcher Madeleine's reaction. A world without anomalies would be ideal and fit the ultimate goal of the Foundation since it would mean that all anomalies have effectively been contained.
And there is no evidence available to her, that would suggest that such a world can not move forward.
Thank you for your participation. Red pin on, ribbon banner. You finished the job, I bet you know the new one coming next. Time travel backwards is.not possible.
You should read SCP-4012, criminally underrated, trippy, well written, profound message etc.
Madeline: posts on 4chan
Everyone liked that
Bascially she reality shifts to...well, our reality.
This can also be a metaphor on how the SCP universe slowly loses its whimsy as you learn of its fake nature and try to make sense of the impossible. Things are so magical when life is full of mystery, but you only end up disappointed when you learn of the truths.
I love how the entry turns in in itself. Leaving more questions then answers; such as what invoked the 05 council to do this? Given...was this their plan from the beginning?
Excellent entry.
Did anyone else get intense shivers after listening to the end of it?
I feel like the thing about the order and chaos, and the contrast between the 2 and how they interact could be a very nice - however unintentional - link to the laws of the Scarlet King.
The one seemingly glaring plot hole in this for me is that if she knows the option of her reality being controlled by a bunch of horror writer, how wld that not tie up her time line neatly? It literally gives a exact answer to why there wld be contradictory information
She made the mistake of assuming that they were all collaborating to make sure the in-universe info was nea.
From the perspective of a reader (listener) of scp stories this would be a worst case scenario as it would remove the existence of the scp's but from the perspective of the people in the scp universe this would be a god send as they would be free from the horrors and perils of all the monsters and atrocities that could do horrible things to them in the scp universe
Them: so is there a Canon?
Me: Bwoy, you're steppin down a dark road n' you won' like what's waitin' for ye's down that road
OMG , this is my fav scp !!!! Thank you for covering this masterpiece
This SCP specifically brings up an interesting scenario that I never thought about, most researchers at the foundation; Don't know ANYTHING about most major SCPs. Like she didn't know about 176 but knew AWCY? Or about thaumaturgy at all? Do the researchers ONLY learn about the scp they're assigned too or did she just happen to be very low clearance level, and if she was why did the 05 choose her to do the timeline instead of one of the level 4 or Site Director?
It could be they wanted a lower-level researcher who would have fewer preconceived notions before entering the project. But it's as likely that yeah, not many researchers are well-read on the totality of the Foundation's knowledge. So often many clearance levels are described as "Level 4/2002" or "Level 1/173", it seems clearance depth and breadth are not innately linked.
Madelaine your the true hero of the SCP Foundation. Gave your life after creating a paradox to initiate the entire SCP universe. Well Done
Why wouldn't they make Cain make the timeline, since they already use his photographic memory to back up their database?
Because the 05 are not aware of the complexities of the task they commissioned Madeline to do
Cause that's not what the writer wanted.
They might have in another universe, but in this one they didn't.
Maybe the Multiverse decided she was like all of the other horror writers in our timeline since she was cataloging every SCP in her timeline. As such it slowly shifted her towards where it thought she belonged, writing creepy pasta SCP entries in our universe online.
Maybe the multiverse is the true SCP 001. Slowly shifting everyone from timeline to timeline until it finds where it believes you belong. That is why you don’t remember preforming certain actions, saying certain things, and weather or not famous people/things are dead/names spelled differently. Most people won’t be shifted far, maybe just a few timelines over. Some people like this researcher however are moved to wildly different timelines and may be perceived as insane. Either way you are exactly where the multiverse thinks you should belong.
And now a moment of silence for Madeline Saylor.... Thank you
Your images are spot on smack dab in the middle cognito-hazardous-esque feel reminiscent of an ongoing occurrence of multiple anomalous temporal, spatial and reality shifts. It reminds me of alot of scps from that sentient Japanese grapefruit that popped into existence to scp 3999 and then to pattern screemers and maybe Pataphysics too.
Timelines... how intriguing.
Edit: The universe runs on chaos... I'll ponder on this for the rest of my days.
Madeleine Sailer: I'm going to time-stamp the universe
The Universe: Uh-oh, messa disappearing....
I am so addicted to your content XwX, it's beyond exciting anytime you upload and the cherry on top is all of your H.P. Lovecraft audiobooks ~
I wouldn't say I have read extremely many SCP or many in detail, but this is my favorite SCP ever since I first discovered it. I'm in general not one for horror since I can have trouble telling reality from fiction when I get invested in something (Have gotten better about it but still) so much of the SCP Universes don't appeal to me. While I tend to be amused by the more hilarious parts of SCP and I'm always a sucker for Scifi and fantasy, my favorites tend to be meta, thought-provoking stuff and plot twist-y and intricate articles. This neatly falls into all three categories and I've been looking forward to you covering it so I can experience it yet again.
I like how she parallels how the wiki was formed.
It's cool that, even near the end, 173 is still around. The original anomaly, a constant, even if just a creepy, painted statue, sticks around until the very concept of anomalies is no longer around. And then, the original art piece is what has Madeline restart the SCP-verse. The Statue, the Koitern, is always there, even when 343, 3812, all the 001's, and The Scarlet King and all of his children are gone.
Will you be looking at Kaktus's 6k entry "The Demon Hector and the Dread Titania"?
PLSSS I NEED HIM TO THISS
@@littlehibiscus8973 Me too!
@@djhokasha7410 He's still working for Ogier too
@@ricardohoang8452 I bet the title is going to be "The Demon Ogier, and the Well of Despair", or something.
Kaktus is an actual genius
Is it a sheer amount of love effort and time that was put into writing this SCP must have been insane.
Now THIS is META.
"A cryptozoology forum" is a strange way of referring to 4chan's /x/ board.
eh back when 173 was made by Madeline, the board mostly focused on skin walker encounters/stories goatmen creepypasta and things that live on the edge of the campfire light, out innawoods. its not really much of a stretch to call it a cryptozoology forum really. source: me lurking /x/ ~2008
i mean, I'd say an above-average number of 4channers from that era onwards could be reasonably described as cryptids, so maybe it's a cryptozoology forum because it is a forum frequented by cryptids
Bro I remember when your channel was so small, and you were posting LOTR lore. So cool to come back and see how much you’ve grown
Wait so she finishes the foundations main goal with her work. By causing the laws of the universe to reassert them selves and delete all the anomalies. Therefore keeping humanity safe from them...
She then undose this all but one layer down by creating a SCP universe where the former SCP universe becomes their equivalent to us. The horror writers.
She then creates them all again,
Just listened to this on Spotify did not expect that twist at the end at all
I’ve never been this early but if you’re reading this I love your videos soooo much both as background music to my life but also to enjoy the images that set the mood
"I tried. And I succeeded." Gives me "We tried to create the world's most powerful Pokemon. And we succeeded." vibes. This was a fantastic article.
Each new iteration of Meta Foundation adds yet another layer of wack lore to the wiki. Love it
I loved this SCP.
I know i left some feedback on the last SCP episode but this was really well done on your part despite this SCP containing number of different anomalies, most well known but few thatvI didn't know and e.g. Your description if the "window SCP" was how I would like to have a unknown scp described.
And you referencing a few SCP's atleast in this episode was done in extremely good taste and very tongue-in-cheek, as fans of the SCP horror flash fiction would love this article to be represented and i think you did an excelent job with this weeks SCP article.
Bravo, Exploring Series boss man.
Man, I just read that article and you are putting it now. Unlucky timing, but I will watch it nonetheless because of your voice
Literally one of the best articles on the Wiki
*WE NEED TO SEE 4010 TAKE ON 3812 NOW*
This is my new favourite SCP article. I think it manages to say many true and profound things about the SCP litterary universe, and about SCP writting, in a unique way.
Dang, this basically turned into “Where the Anomalies Went”. Poor Dr Sailer... 😢
awesome that in whatever reality the scp foundation is there is always a administrator
Is it just me or does anyone else watch each new video twice in a row?
Truly a "we die in the darkness, so you can live in the light" moment o7
Thank you Madeline.
first thanks to @utylike for writing such a comprehensive piece second being brought to the exploring series which has always did such a great job with the database. it people like yo that keep my love for this world alive and make it easier for others to get into the entries.
This could be an 0001 proposal by itself.
"you wanna make a complete SCP timeline?"
*nods fearfully*
"you dont wanna make a complete SCP timeline"
*shakes head fearfully*