Xian was an early containment fiction author who wrote several lasting contributions to SCP Series 1, including SCP-002 and SCP-003. While there is no explicit record of Xian writing/publishing SCP-002 on EditThis archives, records show that SCP-002 and SCP-003 were written by the same anonymous author on /x/.[1]https://archive.ph/QNbYp#selection-7983.0-7983.63 Works SCP-003 (“Biological Motherboard”) SCP-003 is Xian’s ..
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“What makes this win is how different each one is from the last. The Holders series, while creepy for the first few you read, eventually becomes so formulaic that all its scary potential is gone. Working on my own SCP now.”[1]https://archive.ph/QNbYp#selection-16533.10-16533.242 Thread #448755 is a thread on 4chan’s /x/, started on January 20, 2008. It ..
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, ..
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 ..
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 ..
/x/ is the “Paranormal” board on 4chan, an anonymous image and text-sharing website. It is notable in the context of Containment Fiction for being the spawning point for the SCP Wiki, RPC Authority, and Backrooms/Tech Support communities. Although Channer culture is not a predominant part of these communities and they all quickly left the platform ..