Best visual satire of RTS I’ve seen yet. I realize it’s a small rhetorical niche.
A wee bit NSFW
Convention demands that I not comment directly on the images posted in the Count to Ten Thousand thread, so I’m semi-cross-posting on this thread for a couple of reasons:
Firstly, so that I can entreat you all to just look at it.
Secondly (and more on topic for this thread), so that I might wonder aloud just wtf it is that I’ve stumbled upon as a result of my initially innocent image search.
I’ve clicked through, so to speak, and poked around a bit, and I’m still mostly bewildered. Seriously, what is this?
This:
The series of videos appear to be the kind of thing that would eventually make its way onto Coast to Coast AM. Like John Titor. And people would swear it’s real.
That being said, I too ask the question “what is this?!”
The SCP site is a wiki collecting creepypasta. Many of the stories take the form of scientific reports about a variety of strange, anomalous objects, which have been collected by the Foundation. The Foundation’s job is to secretly secure and contain these objects in order to protect humanity from their effects. (Hence SCP.) Items can be anything, including places, plants, animals, people, or things outside our normal reality… some are relatively benign, while others are so dangerous, they’re capable of destroying reality if uncontained. Most objects lie somewhere in between the two extremes, making the job of containment and testing an extremely dangerous one.
Most of the entries are some form of horror, but some are touching, or whimsical, or even full-on parody. If you prefer a more typical story format, there are plenty of Tales about SCP objects and the people affected by them. Though there is no official canon, so you’ll find articles contradicting each other sometimes. And if the Foundation isn’t to your liking, there are other rival groups portrayed on the site-- some seek to use the anomalous for their own ends, some seek to gain money and influence by selling them for profit, and other groups just want to be left alone.
It’s a rich and detailed storytelling universe, and I’ve spent a lot (probably too much) time reading there for years now. Though there’s also fanart, interactive entries, and audio/video adaptations… like the ones stumbled across on YouTube. (The readings by TheVolgun are particularly good. 
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Don’t worry, SCP Foundation personnel will be arriving soon to contain you the source of contamination.
I read some of this, and was pleased by the “thank you” for donating 4.6 billion cycles of neural computation. I didn’t realize that by reading I would be helping with the Foundation’s distributed processing.
Anything for a good cause.
I’ll bet that guy going on and on about the pointed stick is feeling pretty sheepish right about now. 
Thank you. 
I found the site from the video, and I thought it was some sort of game guide wiki at first, but there weren’t enough ads for that, and when I looked for “about” pages and the like, they were all in character (so to speak), so that didn’t help much. I could tell it was “a thing” of some sort, I just couldn’t quite figure out what kind of thing (and couldn’t be bothered at the time to bingleduck it and figure it out for myself).
I don’t think I’ve ever run across the term creepypasta before, but it fits. I’ve barely scratched the surface, but this seems like it might be one of those sites that make me think maybe the internet wasn’t an entirely shitty idea, after all. Hopefully, I won’t get sucked too far down the rabbit hole. 
Definitely a time sink.
Well that’s bucking the trend here.
Roger that, good buddy.
Just missing a few details, and it could be a cherubim…
Then Charles Wallace cried, “My dragons!”
They turned around, and they saw, there by the great rock—
wings, it seemed like hundreds of wings, spreading, folding, stretching—
and eyes
how many eyes can a drive of dragons have?
and small jets of flame