“Man, this article’s perception REALLY shifted over time, huh.”[1]https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-77584/scp-113#post-5252117 SCP-113, also known as “The Gender Switcher”, is a work of containment fiction initially written in 2008 on 4chan’s /x/ board by pseudonymous user Robin Sure, and that currently exists on the SCP Wiki in a rewritten form.[2]https://archive.ph/QNbYp#selection-21479.0-21527.1441[3]https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-113 The anomaly is a piece of red jasper ..
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Cross-prompting, “anomaly placeholding”, or just “prompting” is a compositional technique wherein a future series slot is used in a work of containment fiction, prompting its eventual creation based on the context of the initial use. For example, if in a theoretical RPC-2830 article, a not-yet created “RPC-3042” is mentioned as being a sentient weather phenomenon, ..
Note: This article is about an article that no longer occupies the stated numerical designation (“non-viable”). The initial SCP-1926 (“Meet The Mewts”, “The Mewts”) was a containment fiction article posted to the SCP Foundation Wiki on March 28, 2013, about magical, animated children’s plush toys, called “Mewts”.[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20190129210348/https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1926 The article was well-received and enjoyed notoriety and ..
“The entries that were moved to the EditThis wiki were the original works of the users on /x/ and /b/. With the creation of the SCP Series wiki, the community began to post fewer and fewer threads on 4chan, instead writing directly to the wiki. As such, /x/ and /b/ ceased to be the primary ..
SCP-314 (“Motion-Seeking Blade”) is an early SCP article dating back to 4chan’s /x/ board.[1]https://archive.ph/jmVa6#selection-5257.34-5257.48 It was transferred to EditThis, and then WikiDot, where it currently resides, though in a heavily rewritten form.[2]http://web.archive.org/web/20080412092156/http://www.editthis.info/scp_wiki/SCP-314[3]http://scpclassic.wikidot.com/scp-314[4]https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-314 It initially was on an object whose shape changed rapidly, but that “rarely deviates from the appearence [sic] of a spherical series of ..
The Society for Containment Fiction (SCF) is a Discord server and loose social group that is largely considered an antagonist force in and to the containment fiction space. It acts as a hub for cross-community discussion, as well as the group’s related projects. The founder has described the community as “a group of people studying ..
SCP-529 is an early SCP posted to /x/ in thread # 446341, on January 19, 2008.[1]https://archive.ph/jmVa6[2]https://archive.ph/jmVa6#selection-8225.10-8225.23 It is arguably the most important early SCP from 4chan besides SCP-173. It was posted to the EditThis by an anonymous user a day after its creation on January 20, 2008. [3]http://web.archive.org/web/20080409210737/http://editthis.info/scp_wiki/SCP_Series[4]http://web.archive.org/web/20080410120644/http://www.editthis.info/scp_wiki/SCP-529[5]http://web.archive.org/web/20080422032211/http://www.editthis.info/scp_wiki/?title=SCP-529&action=history Its author is unknown. It has been ..
The initial SCP-519 was an early SCP posted to 4chan’s /x/ board that foreshadowed many traits for the genre of containment fiction. It was posted in thread #446184 on January 19, 2008.[1]https://archive.ph/aHUf5 As collection of SCPs didn’t begin until a later thread, SCP-519 was among many early entries that were not reposted in subsequent threads, and ..
SCP-256 is an early SCP from /x/ threads on 4chan which has survived to the present day on the WikiDot iteration of the SCP series.[1]https://archive.ph/QNbYp#selection-5605.94-5605.109[2]https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-256 It was first posted to thread #448755, and later given the title “Trapped in the Typewriter”. It is the first use of the well-known SCP Wiki shibboleth “Does the Black Moon ..
“Does The Black Moon Howl?” is a memetic catchphrase & community shibboleth both in-universe and out-of-universe at the SCP Wiki that is commonly associated with elevated ranks and security clearances. The phrase is seen in numerous SCPs, mostly as the signal initiation of a code or passphrase, to which authors vary the given answer.[1]https://archive.vn/z2Kfl The ..