This is one of my articles, thanks to TES for covering it! It's certainly not my best work, but I'm still proud for getting something relatively ambitious out there. I hope you enjoy!
Very well done! I enjoyed the article a lot and can't wait to see what more you might bring in the future! Personally, I found the world building to be both fantastic and highly compelling while also leaving enough open to really build upon in the future. If you plan on working around concepts of this cannon, I would be really interested to know how well actually shutting Oracle down went... as I'd imagine it would be not great, to say the least. Given its main imperative was to maintain the goals of the foundation, I'd imagine it would have a serious issue with the foundation choosing to dissolve itself. Oracle very clearly showed us it has no issues with railroading parts of humanity into doing what it wants, and my assumption is it likely already predicted this outcome, planned for it, and hid the intentions to stop it as we would expect a super intelligent AI to do.
The thaumaturgic IT ritual reminded me of an old friend. He worked for IBM and then Unisys for forty years. He stayed up to date, even in retirement, and could handle anything from bleeding edge hardware to old punch card machines. It reminds me of him because he cosplayed as a wizard in his spare time. He had the full outfit, and a wonderful full white beard. At Christmas, he would do charity Santa Claus appearances. He was a good man and a good friend, we lost him last year. He would have gotten a laugh out of a story where they had to perform dark magic to debug a system.
alternatively, 999 was one of the few to survive the blight, making the blight happy and wanting to create happiness rather than destruction. The goo joined with it, and together they grew to encompass entire continents.
“Soul of the Mind, key to life’s ether. Soul of the Lost, withdrawn from its vessel. Let strength be granted so the world might be mended, so the world might be mended.”
I think it was trying to spare a few humans from the apocalypse by containing them in itself... poor thing was doing it's best to make people happy until the end.
You know it's bad when they some how float into the "lunar atmosphere". Implying the moon not only doesn't have gravity anymore. It now has an atmosphere. Jokes. I know its just shitty writing.
This man, is the most consistent and best sound SCP reader out here, I remember 5-6 years ago when he did these "small" 20 minute videos. This channel has seen such an immense growth in quality and following. Love that for him ❤️
I listened to my first scp here, or maybe it was TheVolgun, on scp 5000 anyways, and for some reason the original video that got me into this, I can't find it, it had more info and more openly talked about what they are fighting against, which was the Holy Sprit, now I'm not into Mandela effects, but I find it highly odd that I can't find it, nor others who made long form videos containing any even near similar narrative or info. I'll have to check out the original file myself and read it over to see if there's been a reality shift.
Sorry for sharing that, but since it is right up our alley, I couldn't resist. This is good stuff, I came around to this just to find out what my then step kids were into. Granted what they were watching was absolutely mind numbing, I went on to finding the wiki read the about section, cleared my watch and search history, typed scp, saw SCP-5000: Why, and said why not, this hooked my love for sci-fi, and really appreciated the teenage gamer cthulu after coming from HorrorBabble.
@@TheBearInTheChair nah man, you're goodz no worries. I remember that in rougher times I would use his video's as a marker for making through another week.
The whole "It's your duty to you and your loved ones to take yourselves out" thing and the moon reminds me of some RU-vid series where the moon was alive and against humanities existence (I think, it is an Eldritch Horror and therefore may not have known, but if I remember correctly the moon was upset someone was observing it).
Yes! And I like how they avoided the trope of the AI being evil. It literally only did what they asked, making their actions even more frightening. They didn't do these things before only because they didn't think of it.
@applepie explosion I saw a video on RU-vid on a different channel discussing the effectiveness of various movie AIs. AUTO from WALL-E ended up being the winner, because it wasn’t “evil” or “taking revenge on humanity.” It was literally just doing what it was programmed to do - and not being human, took it in directions that ended up being horrifying and detrimental to humanity.
@@HalfLight333 another really good example! The interesting horror that comes from AI villains like those is they're literally just our wants being fulfilled at any cost. Its a way to show how horrible some of your initial desires can be. Or show how little we thought out the things we ask for.
When things started off with the SCP database getting flooded with hundreds of junk entries every day, I was expecting some kind of meta commentary on how the wiki was better before it got so big. I suppose you could still see it that way if you want.
Does that mean the O5 Council needs to sit down and have a meeting on the current state of the wik- I mean Foundation and whether or not it need to continue?
I prefer not having the voice visualizer as it makes it harder for me to appreciate the art which is usually a good conduit to imagine the kind of tone and imagery of the SCP at hand. Regardless, good work, always happy to see you upload. :)
@@Grazzmazzium is that an argument for the visualizer? In my opinion, axe the visualizer. As the opening commentor said, it's in the way of the art that TES uses. This isn't a music video, I think the visualizer is dumb.
@@zapan9643 it's not for or against it I'm just baffled that some people literally just stare at the screen when the video is focused on the audio and the imaginary images that you produce in your own head
@@Grazzmazzium @Jonathan D I'm speaking for myself here. The art helps me visualize and as I'm not a native english speaker I sometimes watch the video with closed captions so I am able to understand what is being said a little better, especially true when I can't concentrate and when I'm watching the video for the first time. That's my opinion anyway. I think the visualizer or audiospectrogram or weth you call it works in music videos BUT if it has to stay, I say make it more subtle. (Wink wink, Mangg. I still love u even if I'm not for the visualizer
This tale sounds like a fusion of two scp 001 proposal but rather then ending like one it has a hopeful end with humanity surviving (to an extent) in the end.
I like the whole premise of "The Foundation sweeps the apocalypse under the rug via amnesticization and forced simulation of normalcy." but the idea of the anomaly itself could've been more fleshed out to make sense. I dunno, maybe like an anomalous mutation of the moon and the release of a virulent pathogen whose properties match the one of an infovore. It consumes information and releases more of itself into the host, which could be both a human and a computer.
Yeah, they mention at some point that the creation of ORACLE could have caused the Black Moon event, but they never really dig into how or the significance of that.
I like to take deep dives into stuff occasionally and that requires depth. I think you do too, seeing SCP and 40k as common interests. I really do appreciate these long form entries.
Local58 🤝 SCP-7070 Moon-related problems The black moon turned precious peanut butter SCP-999 into a dangerous monster. _I'll never forgive the black moon!_
Would say the same to blood moons and a woman named Moon Butterfly. Edit: Oh, and the Nixonverse's own moon with the Lunarians and that universe's fudging God.
I find it interesting how the higher the number gets, the more SCP objects just become SCP fanfiction. I mean, I'm a huge fan of The Exploring Series, so things like this are great for these fun, longform videos.
Funny, but in a weird way its always been fanfiction. Yes you dont need a world ending meta narrative pages long to make an scp... but... this isnt the point. The point is people enjoy the writing
Between an anomaly virus that could affect even people (like the prime minister who talked about the black moon), the foundation deciding that the best thing they have is to make an AI that connects and is powered by the knowledge of EVERYONE in the foundation, and said AI going pretty hardcore of trying to leave nothing but the foundation, halfway through I was pretty much expecting them to try turning it off and the article ending with "And now we all howl together" .... kind of glad I was wrong.
yessss. you are literally the only channel i have ever been excited regularly and actually await every upoad. like i dont care about youtube or media in generall, bur whenever the exploring series uploads on a monday im looking forwar to it for the entire week. thank you so much :)
This reminds me of SCP 001: a good boy. Also, this story could almost be the mirror image of 7004: Insane wailing and feral. It's was to imagine the administrator sending the victims of the Black Moon to another universe but having it corrupted by the Black Moon goo.
Can you please consider exploring SCP-1965? It’s about a ham radio and it’s dedicated to one of my instructors who is a ham radio god. I actually sent him the read and he enjoyed it.
I love that you're reading newer articles. I like that everyone is able to get a sense of how the wiki has evolved over the years. Compilation episodes about a certain type of skip are probably my favorite though, I'd love to have another one of those.
Been sick for two weeks straight and this is exactly what i needed ♥️ also i think i said this before but i love how much you pay attention to your fanbase and even if its something simple, like keeping the waveform, its really nice when you know youre being heard. Thank you for all your great work Mister Mangg!
so here's a nice story: saw this in my next up, was reminded of "Amarantine" by Enya, decided to search for it for a quick listen before coming back to this, didn't remove the "h", search autocomplete returned "amaranthine cover", clicked one heard a stunning chorus, decided to listen to the original song, now i'm a fan of the band amaranthe. serendipitous.
Mondays are really rough for me, and knowing I can put you on for my morning commute always uplifts me. I wish I could contribute more than a like & comment right now. Thank you for being out there.
i love these videos. one thing id like to see again is quotes at the end of the video that encapsulate the theme, or are directly linked to the article. it’s a very minor thing but i would like to see it again
LETS FUCKING GO NOT ONLY DO I WAKE UP FROM MY FIRST EVER DREAM IN A DREAM, BUT IN TIME FOR A NEW TES VID AAAAAAAND HE BROUGHT BACK THE VISUALISER, im so happy rn
Brilliant as always. As for the vocal visualisation, I liked the artwork but it's your choice ultimately so do what you wish. May I ask you a Q. as to something you may have worked on? It's the demo for "Go Home Annie" that's been out for a short while and the full game is TBC: Did you do the voice for the "Guy on The Intercom"? It sounds a great deal like you but it'd be fun to know. Take care & great job as always! I like to think that possibly the Super AI may have had more to do with this than is explored... Never can know at the near end of the world though 😉
Holy shit, even during a full on world ending scenario... the foundation still hides in the shadows, so we can *try* to live in the light... man that council standing up to the one took major testicular fortitude.... Respect!
I wonder if he's considered using the new AI art generators. I mean, there have to be a lot of SCPs where it would be really useful to be able to just ask the computer to provide you the art you need.
love falling asleep to these because i can do it with the same video for like a whole week bc i wont remember a damn word until i watch it during the day
That was really great. I do like the waveform but I also miss just having the pictures. I was expecting just the audio based SCP from a few weeks ago to have it and then it would go back to not having it. It seemed like it fit for that story. Anyways, either way I love these. They're always so great to listen to. This was a pretty interesting article. It had a lot of moral dilemmas and it's thought provoking.
I like hearing about Black Moon from time to time. I know it is something spreading all over scpwiki but i still didnt push myself to read all about it. I like hearing things in articles like that, conecting to each other. Not just like mentioning 173 but actualy KNOWING that the Black Moon Is something big. Its almost like the Scarlet King. Just love it
Love the new video format and really always in awe and appreciation of the way you break down and tell stories. One of the best channels on here by a mile.
Hey! I'm one of the authors of this article. The phrase originated in an old SCP written in 2008, which is still on the site as SCP-257-ARC. I tried commenting and leaving a link to it, but I think youtube deleted it - you'll be able to find it with a google though. Since then, the phrase, and the idea of the black moon, have been interpreted by many different authors in many different ways! Tanhony's second 001 proposal is an especially interesting article about it.
Won't you open the sky for me? Seriously feeling flavours of Stray here - sealed cities, environmental disaster, controlling computers, and a final struggle in the end to break free of that false salvation, that gilded captivity. Strive for a purpose, strive for a home.
TES with another great SCP reading . I've been watching the x files for the 1st time and its great and with my love of scp helps make it more enjoyable .
This reminds me a lot of 4156, although that article is a lot more personal and intimate. It's also much less conclusive- the foundation doesn't dissolve itself, it just ends the social reconstruction efforts. Still, it's an interesting quandary in both articles, and I'm glad to have heard about this one here!
I'm not sure about the way of going to create an SCP wiki. But I was listening to somebody taught the other day and something I thought would be pretty cool the SCP triple zero social media a cognitive and memetic hazard. Meant to calls chaos and destruction by spreading information that is partially true not true misinformation. Cuz it's some days feels like social media is an SCP
Sorry to bother but the audio sounds slightly underwater compared to your other videos. I don't know if its RU-vid compression or your mic, I just wanted to let you know. At 0:07 seconds is when it starts.
Hi TES! I read a few comments about the visualizer. IMHO It does take away from the artwork. That said I think if you played around with it and make the background the most important part and made the visualizer 40% or less opacity and a whte color, also cut it in half and have it along the top or bottom edge so its there but out of the way. For specials with voice acting or with a darker bloddy theme make it red or something. I do listen to the you in the background but I keep the video on the side to set more mood and ambiance. the visualizer takes that way a fair bit and the motion distracts from my main work or activity. Either way. LOVE your content and breakdowns of the Topic!
The Black Moon howls for something that we should define as a relief or anything good, you have the Black Moon based on how you raise the decency words in order to be considerate and kind towards humanity.
My headcanon for this is that the blight itself is a byproduct of what happens when SCP-447 got mixed with dead bodies. also, its hurts my heart that SCP-999 probably got into that everlasting scream state when it tried to save as many people as possible before getting infected with the blight, screaming because it feels guilty bcoz of what happened.
definitely enjoyed this outcome, the HAL 9000/Skynet route for AI in fiction has really started to feel phoned in. let the AI go nuts, sure, but blatant evil autonomy is a bit of a tired trope at this point.
42:23 My ears perked up and my brows furrowed upon hearing this sentence. Foreshadowing hath found us. 51:01 Well, that is certainly an interesting way of stating it. LoL 😬
This one takes so many hard right turns. Maintaining the veil is wholly irrelevant following this event and the continuous impact of the event, and yet it's somehow the cornerstone of Oracles objective. To see it decide on creating dystopian panic room cities with manipulated citizens was inevitable with that prompt in place to begin with. To then have the 05 meet-up and ascertain the obvious is a sort of whiplash, especially seeing how oracle had not predicted and anticipated it being shutoff by the council that established it, which it is magically connected to? This one is all over the place. Great atmosphere, though, and it would be fun to dive into the nuances of this world.
