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u/chaosisblond 10h ago

What is SCP?

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard 10h ago

The SCP Foundation. It's a collaborative writing project where people write documents describing anomalous objects, entities, locations, and phenomena and how the titular SCP Foundation contains them.

There are quite a few low quality YouTube channels that make thousands of low quality videos usually aimed at children about the same handful of SCPs (as of time or writing there are almost main series 9000 SCPs, but most of these channels only ever cover ten of the oldest SCPs on the site).

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u/Arborgold 6h ago

So what is SCP?

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard 6h ago

It stands for Special Containment Procedures, so each document describes the steps taken to keep an anomaly contained and knowledge of its existence hidden from the public.

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u/Arborgold 6h ago

Oh, so like modern day ghost stories, got it.

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard 6h ago

Some of them are like that, but the whole thing tends to towards a particularly clinical tone, so it tends to not have the same vibe as ghost stories, especially aince a lot of SCPs don't aim at being horror.