“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 ..
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“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 ..
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 ..
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 ..