How SCP Infected the Internet



Secure. Contain. Protect. Gaze into the unending abyss that is the SCP Foundation, and discover how the site took over the internet.
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Thumbnail Art Credit: Dmitrii Desiatov ā€“ https://www.artstation.com/artwork/34roJ

ā€“ Other Artists Featured ā€“
Alex Andreev ā€“ https://alexandreev.com/
Amamidori ā€“ https://www.deviantart.com/amamidori
Eduardo VadlĆ©s-Hevia ā€“ https://valdevia.art/
Dante-CG ā€“ https://www.deviantart.com/dante-cg

ā€“ Filmmakers Featured ā€“
ForlornFoundry ā€“ https://www.youtube.com/@ForlornFoundry
SCP Realised ā€“ https://www.youtube.com/@SCPRealised/videos
Klay Abele ā€“ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEOZkf4imaM
Evan Muir ā€“ https://www.youtube.com/@EvanRoyalty

0:00 SCP Explained
0:59 The Foundation Rises
4:26 The Infinite IKEA
8:44 Fear and Absurdity
10:37 Containment Breach
13:22 Out of Control
16:30 True Darkness
18:33 Canā€™t Be Contained

Iā€™d like to show you an abyss.

Locked within its depths are bewildering and uncanny abominations. The keepers of this abyss believe they are in controlā€¦ They are wrong. This abyss isā€¦ the universe of SCP, which began as a seemingly straightforward website where community-members create and classify abominations. Yet from the site, the franchise has grown so vast, influenced so many people, that trying to fathom its totality feels like gazing into an unending expanse.

So, for this entry into the archive, Iā€™ll explore not just the universe itself, but how SCP became one of the most gargantuan and uncontainable forces on the internet.

Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for ā€œfair useā€ for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary.

I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners.

Media Shown: SCP: Containment Breach, SCP:3008 The Infinite IKEA (ForlornFoundry), SCP-3000 The Unending Serpent (ForlornFoundry), SCP 096 Short Film, SCP Overlord, SCP Dollhouse, SCP: Fragmented Minds, SCP: Secret Files, SCP: Secret Laboratory, SCP: Confinement, SCP Infinite IKEA Game, The Cabin in the Woods, Control

ā™« Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio:
Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror, Alone in the Dark, Dusk, The Witching Hour, The Vanishing, Tenebrae, The Guardian

ā™« Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com):
Beauty Flow
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45 thoughts on “How SCP Infected the Internet”

  1. I think one of the reasons the SCP Foundation outlived many of it's contemporary creepypasta was the tonal difference, you can have an article about a murder monster, a cosmic God and a list of very gruesome ways to die next to an annoying robot who can't stand up, a blob of jello that causes happiness and the time a researcher met a talking cat from another universe.
    It adds to the diversity and makes the world feel more intriguing in some way.

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  2. Unfortunately, despite my love of the series, I honestly can't recommend anyone to watch the Confinement series or support its creator, Lord Bung, a few months ago they were involved in the Kwite scandal, accusing them of r*pe and grooming and then doubled down on their claims even after evidence came out which disproved all of their claims. It really sucks because the series is really enjoyable and Lord Bung is talented, but I just can't support someone who acts like that.

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  3. Rageful? No no no. The 'Remains of a Chair' are not fueled by rage, but fear and trauma. The jumble of remains that used to be a chair has rudimentary sentience, and that proto mind has been traumatized and mangled, and so it lashes out in fear

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  4. 1762 (Here Be Dragons) and 1281 (Harbinger) are two of my favorite SCP files, two of the sadder ones toošŸ˜¢. Right up there with ROUNDERHOUSEā€™s 001 (Memento Mori) itā€™s not all unfathomable horrors and giggles after all.

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  5. I discovered SCP through the Control game (after completing it and listening to reviews), however since I grew up on X-Files I guess it has always been with us, even before it officially existed. That's so perfectly SCP of SCP, don't you think?

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  6. Isnā€™t this just the more mature version of Monsters Vs. Aliens?

    Hear me out, so in the movie itā€™s essentially just a mass-scale containment center (creatively named "Area Fifty-something") for terrestrial biological anomalies (AKA, monsters), made for the purpose of defending earth from alien invasion. And the facility hides them in them from the public until needed most. The only difference with the SCP foundation, is that they are uncertain of the possible uses for these creatures, and only harbor them to hide them from the public and to study them. Pretty similar.

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  7. I was SO HAPPY when i found out SCP. It's such an amazing thing! I'am really confused about some stories etc. But i love the concept and the fact it exists is amazing
    Edit: i'am going to watch cabin in the woods! I need something weird right now and this seems like it!

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  8. Terminally online people do be having weird obsession with underground hipster-esque horror phenomenones. Slander dude, SCP, Lobotomy Corp, Creapy Pasta, Cry of Fear and countless other mind numbing basic horror stuff.

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  9. the SCP's rabbit hole is basically the same with Hololive's rabbit hole..
    sure at first your not interested, but "it always starts with one" then you get ever so curious you watch more and more to the point that you realize you are now a SIMP to the contents

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  10. What about an SCP that's a dinner table that's always covered with delicious and fresh food, and once you eat something you can't stop eating until you die. Then the table consumes youšŸ˜‚

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  11. Iā€™ll never forget SCP-2718 ā€œwhat comes afterā€. Never have I had a piece of media rock me to my core so completely in my life. I dont want to spoil it, but the concept it presents makes death monumentally more horrifying. Knowing what comes after is not very comforting.

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  12. I'm pretty sure 3008 is what inspired the Backrooms alongside liminal spaces in general.

    8:13 We need to clarify that the Foundation didn't put this chair in the wood chipper. The Global Occult Coalition did. The GOC is basically a similar group working to destroy all anomalies instead of contain them which, as we can see with 1609, leads to them no longer being thaumiel (read: helpful and friendly) and instead being euclid (read: hostile but containable).

    Ngl the oldest house sounds like the room of requirement.

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  13. Seriously? When you show at least ONE image that has been fully debunked as a Rotten corpse of a marine animal that that site claims to be something else? Talk about stupidity at it's finest. Most of the rest, if not ALL the rest were clearly works of art by people. I'm fine with that so long as you keep it REAL and not 'science fiction' bullshit. Decent video though. Thank you for sharing – and for once, it's not glitching by the 2 minute mark.

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