SCP-3812 │ A Voice Behind Me │ Keter │ PK Class Scenario SCP

[@pipatupapa]

when you ascend so hard that you are no longer affected by fiction

[@borttorbbq2556]

682 even authors intent is completely worthless to neutralize 682.

[@redboxgamingyt3452]

@@borttorbbq2556 Forgetting that SCP 2935 did successfully neutralize 682. Even when I brought this up I instantly got barraged by SCP Power Scalers saying "IT DOESN"T MATTER ANYMORE HES COMPLETELY IMMUNE TO IT NOW AND CAN ERASE THE CONCEPT OF DEATH" like bruh.

[@theodahviing]

@@redboxgamingyt3452 That's why I hate 682, it's so lame and makes everything else pointless whenever 682 encounters another scp

[@Nebukanezzer]

@@theodahviing that's literally the point. It's because way back in series 1, there were a lot of generic creatures that were hard to kill or had "rage states" or whatever, and it was written as a subversion, so there'd only need to be one.

[@yohangasmask5075]

Alternatively, when you ascend so hard that everything else, except for yourself, might as well be fiction

[@mr_erkki2917]

I love how the god-like being known as "B" just basically says to the foundation: "Yeah, umm.. I might have fucked up and created something more powerful than me. Dunno how to get rid of it. Good luck trying to fix that one."

[@Andaisdet]

In a way, they kinda remind me of D from So I’m A Spider So What

[@MrSailing101]

'B' is the IRL author of the article.

[@theoverseer393]

@@MrSailing101Ben, nice

[@Just.Braxton]

"but hey, you guys are smart, im sure you'll figure something out" everyone in the room with their heads in their hands lol

[@reddgambit2216]

I find wired satisfaction when an author does a self insert in a tasteful way

[@actualturtle2421]

3812 is really kind of heartbreaking. "I don't know what you did to me, but I'm pretty messed up, man. If you can figure something out here that would be great, because I really feel like I'm losing it. I'm scared too, man." Anybody who's dealt with mental illness can identify with that, and it really nails it down in such simple, human language. Hits me right in the chest every time.

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

It _is_ heartbreaking, isn’t it? It captures the raw FEELING of the endless battle between a mentally ill or even just neurodivergent person and their own psyche/perception of their world. My favorite part is that this SCP attempts to impart a hopeful message of transcending that dread and struggle in the end. It’s a beautiful refutation of the self-defeatism of most SCP articles dealing with apocalypses or omnicidal reality warpers, which unfortunately are every other new skip nowadays.

[@loulabelle5082]

I've always thought he just needs a friend.

[@HypeFox]

He just wants to be alone and no one wants to disturb him

[@Funkucunt]

​@@HypeFox😊

[@EDee20NINE]

I am 43 and only a few years ago did I really begin to understand my own autistic traits. I could relate anecdotes both good and bad in extremis as it's a different perspective, not purely negative. I'd say being utterly blind to the unwritten societal etiquette is still the worst. The story about the wormhole and the aliens just happy to meet a sapient race before they expire chokes the shit outta me, every single time like the first, something about the thought of never getting off earth and billions of people all struggling for nought...... Meet Me In The Stars, that's it,most powerful and simple story I've ever heard. Balling like a child without fail.

[@storm5ds68]

reality warpers can get super boring sometimes, especially if they're really meta, but I love how this one was done ngl

[@calvinlucien]

Djkaktus is the best SCP writer in my opinion.

[@Nile09]

I'm glad you didn't lie

[@nanno2990]

This one's so meta, it's pata

[@stevenhetzel6483]

Btw the first possibility the Dr mentioned in his report is akin to Cosmic Vacuum Decay, where reality's baseline energy actually sits on a hill and could roll down at any point.

[@qei431.]

Really? I think reality warpers are the most interesting 🤔

[@joshuasakal4134]

this SCP legitimately gave me an existential crisis, but in the best way possible. Hats off to the author, and, of course hats of to the Volgun for the always-mesmerizing reading.

[@genuinedickies99]

SCP 2718, the one where you dont leave your body when you die...oh.... that one did me in... i suggest missing that one for the faint of heart.

[@JimmyPizzaDelivery]

@@genuinedickies99 Oh yeah, it's a classic. An SCP that won't let you truly die, your consciousness will forever remain in the physical realm. So powerful that you can still feel your body, even when you are ash. Yeah, that'd suck lmao

[@griffin1095]

@@genuinedickies99 imo that one is pretty meh, was super ambitious but it kinda flopped for me for various reasons, one just being that it's not very well written.

[@Lunar994]

Djkaktus is the author

[@imallsoupedup]

3930 really stuck with me, and I still don't really know what it is

[@Iknowtoomuchable]

*Most type greens:* "Oh no, an SRA, I'm helpless!" *SCP-3812:* H E L I C O P T E R H E L I C O P T E R

[@yohangasmask5075]

If I could fav this comment multiple times I would XD

[@comradecameron3726]

I miss when I thought they were called Tygreens.

[@JwatersMMA]

The SRA be failing oooh shiet

[@Mophony]

My roflcopter go *SOI SOI SOI SOI SOI*

[@TheDigitizedSignPainter]

I'm loving this XD

[@jesseberg3271]

I love the bit where he says he thinks his author is upset with him.

[@pailhorsegaming6762]

Right? It’s underrated!

[@lightingthelatenight9942]

I wonder if some of the same sorta shit he tried on 3812 to kill him happened to and/or very near him (Ben) in his world and he was just shitting a brick lol

[@abydosianchulac2]

​@@lightingthelatenight9942 That portion of the SCP was drafted after Ben's life started resembling a Final Destination movie.

[@lightingthelatenight9942]

@@abydosianchulac2 checks out haha Michael Bay signature and all

[@protodroid]

I thought that was great too

[@ComicalRealm]

I usually don’t like it when SCPs are massively op, but this is unique

[@HoelessBeybladeNerd]

This comment is on literally every scp 3812 video

[@decxor4406]

@@HoelessBeybladeNerd ikr

[@tudoraragornofgreyscot8482]

@@HoelessBeybladeNerd it’s accurate though

[@czcrossman]

This was the “original” super OP skip.

[@reuben3077]

Op is an understatement Lolol this thing gives op a whole new meaning 😂🔥

[@tbdnameyea8070]

Kaktus ALWAYS makes the Foundation seem like an actual research institution in his work. It's one of the things I love most about Dj's work. "At the 2015 Foundation Summit on Existential Threats" stuff like this is amazing and I know I'm reading a Kaktus article when I hear stuff like that haha

[@HaydenHero]

The Kaktusverse is the best version of the foundation imo

[@DrDingsGaster]

One of the many reasons I love Kaktus

[@polarknight5376]

SCP articles are always best when they have a bit of needless bureaucratic nonsense and human incompetence. The Foundation is an organization built upon esoteric rules and guidelines.

[@honestscriberelaxation9542]

I love the idea that this entity wiped out an entire emotion from the human psyche. Makes you wonder if that's the reason behind all the existential upheaval in generations who came after that in that universe. Scary stuff!

[@ilewtf2234]

That has actually happened atleast once already.

[@griffin1095]

@@ilewtf2234 got a source or anything for that bruv?

[@ilewtf2234]

@@griffin1095 Yes i do.

[@rhynnal9051]

@@griffin1095 You don't remember the incident?

[@griffin1095]

@@rhynnal9051 i remember ur mum LMAO GOTTEM

[@Algrenion]

this one was an emotional rollercoaster to me, as someone whose experienced psychosis of a similar nature (where you believe you're living within a fictional narrative) i have a lot of sympathy for this particular SCP. Poor entity...

[@MichaelPallante]

About a year ago I tried to "exit" the narrative. Thank god I'm medicated now because that was legitimately what I thought. That I had figured out that this wasn't real and I was every bit as angry as this SCP was.

[@impishlyit9780]

@@MichaelPallante Honestly, I just don't really understand the difference. So what if it's a narrative? If it is, that means you must be written to realize that. What difference would it make if you tried to exit? Can a character in a book rip through the pages and attack you for what it went through? No, that would be ridiculous. And so, there is no point to exiting the narrative, only for trying to be a good character. Someone you would appreciate within that narrative if you were reading it.

[@PR0MAN01]

I love how the writer of the story has to write himself into the story as the writer and go "uh, yeah i made this thing too powerful, oops". Thats so awesome

[@kai8618]

He really said, "I was goofing around and ended up goofing too hard, my b."

[@calebeane6834]

This is probably THE most powerful fictional character ever, so much so that he realized he was in a fictional narrative and transcended that narrative.

[@phillemon7664]

SCP-001 Andrew Swann’e proposal begs to differ, where the entity literally transcends all narrative stacks as opposed to existing in an infinite amount of them

[@minuspi8372]

I mean other characters have done that. In The Elder Scrolls there's a thing called CHIM that basically involves characters realizing that they don't exist.

[@nexus6100]

@@phillemon7664 Andrew Swann's proposal is just us. Or rather the people that write the SCP articles. It doesn't exist above all narratives. It's just our reality. Anything above us would also be above that SCP-001 proposal. So 3812 would still be the strongest fictional character because it rises above all fiction, whatever fiction could be made, and secondly we are not fiction so we don't apply.

[@Matzkxmx]

@@minuspi8372 ohh all of Elder scrolls is inside one of the developers head.

[@monticulo9423]

Pretty sure Bugs Bunny has beaten his own writers. Same with deadpool, popeye, animal man and I think the Doom Patrol have as well. Characters beyond fiction itself aren't really a new thing.

[@Robocopnik]

I like how this one kind of embodies the way folks treat people with mental illness, sometimes, like they're this unknowable danger, when they're just folks who want to feel like things are okay.

[@ME-mv6wi]

Very good point

[@Doesitmatter_01]

Anything that doesn't fit into one's worldview is a threat by definition. If your worldview is narrow...

[@small_weiner6486]

This is what I'll say when I murder, rape and kill

[@Speed001]

@@Doesitmatter_01 *finite

[@mayoblaze9715]

It.... It deleted Mongolia from existence.

[@roundaboutcitizen]

scp writers are clinically insane and i love them all.

[@enthiegavoir5955]

This SCP is a pretty good case of "Seinfeld is unfunny" where it was such a fun meta SCP that told it's own story, but now every writer on the site seems to be trying to do the same thing of using the wiki as a framing device for overcomplicated stories that have nowhere near the same impact anymore.

[@MelodyofDarkness0001]

It's mostly due to how they're presented if you ask me, but that's what happens when you naturally set the bar so high.

[@xRawrC00kiex]

nowadays if an SCP doesn’t have some narrative surrounding it and it’s written like a Series 1 SCP, it unfortunately just gets ignored or downvoted into oblivion

[@MelodyofDarkness0001]

I'm working on my own unofficial canon with what I hope may prove to be a unifying 001 proposal, and Ben's are a huge inspiration.

[@drexel3987]

I would say Placeholder does a pretty good job though

[@daniel5730]

I don't like this one. Maybe I am a boomer, a series one andy, if you will. But all those overpowered objects and reality benders feels like author's attempts to leave a mark on a lore, to be remembered.

[@quantumblur_3145]

I love this one for lots of reasons. In addition to the obviously fantastic concept of a regular human being subjected to omniscience, it also ties a lot of the collaborative elements of newer SCP fiction together. It takes the "OUGH IT TAKES THE MAGIC AND MYSTERY OUT OF STUFF" MacGuffins like Hume levels and Scranton reality anchors, and uses them as springboards to explore their effects on the Foundation's influence.

[@THEREALSCRAPPY]

It actually depicts The SCP Foundation as a *scientific* organization, _trying_ to *scientifically **_explain_* the anomalous, instead of "Well, that weird thing somehow happened. Don't know how, doe".

[@DefensorsPacis]

This. Honestly, this entire thing is barely even science fiction. In essence, they're really just talking about higher dimensional beings; we believe that you need at least three dimensions for existence, but we're not sure about the upper limit. As they said, just as we can freely change the lives of two-dimensional objects, a four-dimensional being could exert total control over our reality. An infinitely dimensional being would have control of every possible reality. Personally, I'm all on board for the multiverse being real. As in, an infinite number of three-dimensional universes. I think that's far more likely than us just happening to exist in the only universe to ever exist, anyway. As far as higher dimensional beings, we can only ever speculate. Sometimes, reality is stranger than fiction. Here's to hoping it's just science fiction, though. I'd really rather not have higher dimensional beings destroying our reality.

[@THEREALSCRAPPY]

It's like *Quantum Physics* There may be multiple Universes, but we can only experience the Universe we're in

[@seanfussa3076]

@@DefensorsPacis We're not talking about dimensions though, we're talking about narrative here. The reality bender is on a higher plane of narrative. We are the highest level of reality, the foundation is a story from that reality. Sometimes the foundation depicts fictional stories from its own world, but they have little to no details. Sometimes those narratives from the foundation universe reference other stories, and those are some of the lowest levels of narrative. You could also argue that us actual humans are in a narrative as well. And maybe those higher planes that write our own narrative are in a narrative as well. So the reality bender here is from the foundation universe, but has the same level of power and control over said universe as the writers on the wiki do. It has nothing to do with dimensions

[@DefensorsPacis]

@@seanfussa3076 This has literally everything to do with dimensions, they just used some flowery writing in an SCP article. "The Narrative" is just another word for a dimension. It's a way to explain its content. Are you familiar with the concept of Laplace's Demon? The gist of it is that if a being had total knowledge of every aspect of our reality as it currently exists, they would also know everything that would ever happen. Again, in essence, they have simply "glimpsed the narrative." In this case, they have no control of it, merely an awareness of it. A higher dimensional being could control, and alter, aspects of our reality, changing the "narrative." It's just different terms that describe precisely the same thing. One small correction, though; we are not the highest level of reality, we are the lowest, which they even state in the article.

[@papakumabear]

Thank you so much for these readings. A moment of Feeling from me: I am disabled and reading text has become difficult because it's due to brain stuff. Your SCP readings have been amazing in helping me keep up with the SCP in general and you (and everyone who helps you) do such an amazing job with your performances, the images, and I appreciate all of you.

[@DPIConnor]

This story was amazing, the loop around back to the scp recognizing its creator was an author (implied not said) who somehow created an existence that superseded everything by superseding his own narrative given to him by his creator was fucking insane and I loved every second of this story. This is one of those stories that leaves me in an existential crisis but in the best way possible

[@Zer0GravtyDV]

Oh. My. God. This is absolutely brilliant. I so much love the way you've voiced 3812. Listening to the way he speaks during the interview feels so real, in the sense that I'm actually hearing a real interview with a real person afflicted by those conditions. And the conversation in the sea. The effects used to create the voice creates this atmosphere I can't quite describe. It gives me chills, but is calming in a way. It adds to the sound of the voice to create a deeper feeling of genuine emotion behind his words as he converses with the one wanting to destroy that narrative. I could honestly keep going on and on about my thoughts on this but I'll wrap this up by saying: well done. You've always done such an excellent job with these readings and it's always been an enjoyable experience listening to them. Well done. And well done to DJkaktus for another brilliant SCP. What an imagination you must have to be able to write such a vast array of stories and characters. To both of you, I look forward to what you create in the future.

[@Cipher00007]

yeah TheVolgun is an insanly underated Voice Actor

[@SCP--ft7up]

Hello! I love watching your videos! Could you do SCP-2747 sometime? It's sort of confusing for some people, and It's one of my favorites. I don't know if you'll see this, but if you do, I hope you know I love your vids!

[@atheist101]

Was going to like the post but it's at 69 so by law I cant

[@atheist101]

@Jon B oh god dammit. Well it got my like now, this is why we can't have nice things

[@cruze_the]

@@atheist101 literally nice

[@unholysaviour9533]

I too would like to see this SCP done

[@ThatTallGuy0]

A proper just thought you told him you love his kids

[@jyomi7506]

This is my favorite SCP. I know it may not be for everyone, but it somehow manages to explain the way I thought about how multiple realities could exist, in a way better and clearer explanation than I could. Loved this.

[@Cipher00007]

Why did that 11:13 "The Last option is that SCP-3812 cannot be measured in Humes, Because its doing something else" fill me with such dread?! Edit: Was not expecting that 4th wall break, Very well done.

[@boeufbourgeoisie]

And I think the thing it's doing can be likened to the difference between regular reality benders breaking and bending laws vs SCP-3812 writing them. SCP-3812 sets new reality baselines when it changes things, which is why what it does can't be measured

[@7thhokage87]

I love this channel so much. Thank you for everything you do for the SCP community

[@nibblrrr7124]

00:32 *Keter-Class Containment Proposal Brief* - 02:16 *Description* - 06:15 *Interview* - 08:34 *Memo from Dr. Yamamara* - 14:52 *Report* - 17:07 *Alteration Events* - 22:54 *██/██/████ Event* - 25:36 - 26:26🅱️ - 27:44 *"Supersession and the Echelon of Reality"* - 28:08▶️ - 32:14 *XK-Class Event* - 34:24▶️ - 42:04 - 00:00 Title screen 00:12 *Intro* 00:32 *Special Containment Procedures* 00:43 Keter-Class Containment Proposal Brief 02:16 *Description* 03:11 _Eigenmann-Vietor schizophrenia complex_ 04:39 _Containment_ 05:23 _Appearance_ 06:15 *Addendum 3812.1:* Interview 06:37 ▶️ [BEGIN LOG] 08:34 *Addendum 3812.2:* Memo from Dr. Yamamara regarding the 21/09/2015 report 08:51 ▶️ From the Office of Dr. Kari Yamamara 09:20 + _Humes & reality anchors_ 10:16 + _detection, first & second option_ 11:54 + _last option_ 13:19 + _"probably better for us"_ 14:14 + _the point_ 14:52 *Addendum 3812.3:* “Behavioural Instability and the Implication of Existential Threats” 15:12 ▶️ Excerpt, p.194: “PK-Class “All-In-One” Existential Pandaemonium Event” 15:41 + _overexposure of narrative_ 16:39 + _PK-Class "All-in-One" Existential Pandaemonium Scenario_ 17:07 *Addendum 3812.4:* Log of SCP-3812 Alteration Events 17:36 - 09/13/1997 _[American Southwest]_ 17:57 - 03/01/1998 _[Blythe, CA]_ 18:15 - 12/12/1999 _[island, CA]_ 18:50 - 02/16/2000 _[Hospital in █████████, ███████; SCP-239]_ 19:32 - 01/01/2002 _[Eastern Russia]_ 19:48 - 05/29/2004 _[Mongolia]_ 20:22 - 09/02/2004 _[screaming]_ 20:48 - 11/11/2006 _[Foundation servers]_ 21:16 - 02/28/2009 _[17 sites, Canadian Yukon; SCP-2719]_ 22:01 - ??/??/???? _[governments; SCP-2000]_ 22:54 *Addendum 3812.5:* ██/██/████ Event 23:21 - 1935 HRS _[wildlife]_ 23:33 - 1941 HRS _[sinkhole]_ 23:49 - 1950 HRS _[Rods from God]_ 24:30 - 2014 HRS _[incorporeal instances]_ 24:58 - 2019 HRS _[explosion]_ 25:16 - 2039 HRS _[gravitational anomaly]_ 25:36 _Additional anomalous phenomena_ 26:05 _Reappearence_ 26:26 🅱️ _Message on secure server_ 27:44 *Addendum 3812.6:* "Supersession and the Echelon of Reality" by Dr. Robert Scranton 28:08 ▶️ Excerpt 29:29 + _echelon_ 30:36 + _spiraling ever upwards_ 32:14 *Addendum 3812.7:* 12/20/2016 XK-Class “End of the World” Event 34:24 _Rant_ 34:47 + ▶️ 35:49 + _Ben_ 36:30 + _"Are you destroying the world?"_ 37:27 + _mountain & ant_ 39:42 + _"But it hurts so much."_ 41:23 + _"Do you think he’s listening right now?"_ 42:04 _Dramatic shift in reality_ 42:57 *Outro* 43:08 Credits & Patrons 44:36 End screen - _[Ed. note: For accessibility, some section titles have been shortened or altered, and additional subsection titles have been added, compared to the original article.]_

[@Trollfeeder1234]

Commenting for a bookmark:>

[@vvsPlatinum]

You only get one chance for a story like this. One chance to create a character with such a unique take on fiction, reality, and narratives. Whoever wrote this took that one chance and did it beautifully. When i first watched this months ago, I thought I understood what was happening, I didn’t. I’ve gotten deeper into the SCP universe and rewatching this now with a better understanding is mind boggling

[@HaydenHero]

djkaktus - every scp he writes is amazing

[@Chaos-bq6mc]

I love the idea of different realities being stacked on top of each other and one reality being the source of another. If every reality leads to some offshoot, I wonder what the first reality, the one at the top, is like. If it even exists at all.

[@yourcollegedebt8384]

As much as I don't like Rick and Morty's edgelord comedy, there was one bit that addressed this concept. In one episode, Rick's car battery stops working, and he reveals it's a micro universe. So they go inside it to figure out what's going on, to find another super-genius on the level of Rick that made his own micro-universe to power things. Only for that micro-universe to not be working, so they go inside that. More shenanigans happen, but the episode ends with Rick fighting and beating the first micro-universe's super-genius, returning to his reality, and continuing on with their day now that the micro-universe car battery is working again. At some point, Morty starts having an existential crisis about this, even asking if they are in their own micro-universe, asking what about, what about, to which Rick responds "What about the universe where Hitler cured cancer? The best answer is, don't think about it." Having an existential crisis like this can be a fascinating thing to think about, but focusing too much on it can completely demoralize a person and leave them unable to do anything. The best answer is, shrug and move on.

[@trashboat115]

​@@yourcollegedebt8384don't like rick n morty but u described most of an episode ☠️

[@ShadowMuppetX]

@@yourcollegedebt8384 I don't like most of Rick and Morty (and believe you me, I'm definitely enough of an edgelord that I should in theory be able to appreciate it), but Rick and Morty was at its best on the occasions that it did stuff like the one your described. (Unrelated, but the edgelord comedy wasn't my issue--I just found most of the episodes annoying for various reasons. The show's energy was wrong to me, which is why I think the few times it gets somewhat more "quiet" are when I can appreciate its ideas and dark humor)

[@redrix1787]

One of my favorites for how low-key depressing it is, great job as always volgun!

[@davethompson3326]

But it/they seem at the end to have found a highly positive non-destructive solution? My mind now keeps pulling me back to the conversation between Bowman and Hal after the ignition of Jupiter in Arthur C Clarke's 2010. Neither created the other, they came from quite different origins, yet somehow were becoming alike and following the same path.

[@DynaMyte-vh8bu]

If this SCP is legitimately as bad as it sounds I honestly think they should up this to a Apollyon containment level

[@thegentlexylophone]

I agree, but they're extremely hesitant to use anything outside of the standard classes. For good reason though. Having too many esoteric class entities can undo the structure of the narrative.

[@justsomelazybrit2707]

Apollyon doesn't just mean the object can end world, it means that it WILL end the world and theirs nothing the foundation can do to stop it. This particular SCP doesn't seem to have any interest in ending any worlds right now, so it doesn't need the apollyon classification.

[@comradecameron3726]

@@justsomelazybrit2707 but the definition of apollyon fits exactly what this scp does.

[@MelodyofDarkness0001]

@@comradecameron3726 Except it's only a possibility that 3812 could destroy the world, not a certainty.

[@MelodyofDarkness0001]

Nonono, gotta think Super Paper Mario fam... CNTRL+ALT=DELETE

[@Madashell1200]

What I like about this one is that against ultimate power and righteous anger 3812's own humanity won.

[@TTHBLOX_]

Okay okay okay.. i was listening to this while at work. And then at 18:26 you just straight up mentioned my EXACT BIRTHDAY... i got chills and started to sweat on my neck. Ive never felt as spooked as just now.. wtf

[@chrisenochs1189]

when he's speaking to himself towards the end, and he asks about us being free from restrictions, the "no" is chilling. It's mixed with pity, absolution, and vindication. He's done with us and knows that we will never even know that he existed.

[@aureaux]

I love the character development during the rant! It feels like an entire movie’s worth of plot in one conversation.

[@mochafurvie]

Ah shit i lost my glasses. Update : I found them strangely under the couch. Severity of alteration : Minimal

[@lightingthelatenight9942]

Lol unforeseen meme format

[@Onyx413]

The dumbest and funniest way to try to make yourself not look dumb

[@jadeitor_png]

I forgot how much I loved this one SCP! Really enjoyed your narration!

[@davidmcquoid9438]

Pattern Screamers are always some of the best stuff, and that final conversation was so well done!

[@country_gnomes8068]

the monologue of 3812 talking to itself hit so deeply close to home and i don't know why. it's so poetically beautiful and terrifying and just what i want to write like. gorgeous

[@Nobody-zl3kk]

This SCP is the monument to the idea of "there are no bad ideas, just awful execution" - OP af character? Check - Writer self insert? Check - Existencial near phylosophical talk? Check - Meta? Point two already did it lmao - Larger than life? Check And yet, it did all of the right.

[@Threepeater6447]

Op character≠ruin writing Self insert≠doesn't ruin writting also when Existencial and philosophical talk=that an scp thing Larger than life≠doesn't ruin writting. Like this is the most "doesn't make sense" statements

[@dan_asd]

@@Threepeater6447 Nah actually you see, every single mythological and religious writing since the dawn of humanity sucks because it has existential talk, op characters, and larger than life stuff going on, and everyone that enjoys those things is stupid, and i, the single bearer of truth in all of human history am right

[@mr.delete6066]

Glad to see this SCP finally got the Volgun video it deserved.

[@certainmisterbrick]

I can imagine a tale taking place where SCP 3812 due to its inner conflicts with itself, seperates into multiple entities, that all bicker about how reality should be written or unwritten, with The Foundation simply trying to keep up with it all. This anomaly is pretty genius.

[@yourcollegedebt8384]

Maybe it'd be something like Alien X from Ben 10, where eventually Ben has a conversation with the voices in the head of his version of Alien X, and he realizes "Wait, you guys just like arguing with each other about anything. That's really all you do. In that case, maybe you can just let me do my thing, and you can keep arguing on whatever you want?"

[@jinx17]

DJkaktus is objectively one of the best authors for SCPs, and there are few as is that really have reached that point. Definitely my personal favorite author on the site.

[@ManD0wn]

Here comes the power scaling arguments.

[@kagekun7689]

I love how you can just have a 5-minute conversation with himself while us on Earth and the Earth itself keeps flickering in and out of existence 🤣🤣🤣 like make up your mind this shit hurts

[@oj8868]

This is the most creative 4th wall break I've ever seen. Great work by the author!

[@billyjoe8185]

Yep, especially the man at the keyboard part. Genius writing

[@justyce_yt]

The amount of uncontained Euclid and Keter Class SCPs is... unfortunate and almost hilarious. It's also quite hilarious that the SCP Universe still exists with the amount of SCPs like this walking around uncontained.

[@zyvan3179]

The SCP universe isn't this one unified canon. Every SCP doesn't exactly exist in one world. Its fluid. Its not a standard fictional world its a large collaborative effort and the canon is what you'd like it to be. So really there aren't that many of those entities running around only as much as you think makes sense.

[@MrSailing101]

the scp universe literally is kept extant by the authors and readers, that is to say, us

[@gpt-jcommentbot4759]

@@zyvan3179 Yeah and also the fact that Keter Duty exists

[@IrvingIV]

Keter stuff is the sort of thing that is specifically difficult to contain, like that's basically the only defining characteristic of keter objects. A person who can walk through non-styrofoam walls would be keter class.

[@SaltyNard]

We don't always read SCP journals from 1 universe. There's a multiverse of sorts. There are desolate versions of Earth that were wiped out by SCPs before, loose remains of other SCP Foundations scattered around anomalous areas, etc. SCPs that can threaten more than 2 dimensions at a time are kinda Marvel-y to me, stakes get destroyed and things become jank to the point where no one knows what's going on anymore. This one is unique for sure but it also has an air of "It's so powerful it could kill us all with a cosmic fart!" which, in this case, yeah, I don't know how any SCP universe is still standing with this thing hovering in the middle of the bloody Pacific stoned out of his gourd.

[@popcornparker5390]

Love this one. You voice act it so well.

[@nistarok123]

The part about manipulating "narrative" and the example of "erasing empathy" really got me. Sounded to me like a metaphor for how establishment media manipulate the masses by achieving exactly that. Switching the narrative to their whim and dehumanizing enemy political groups, effectively ...erasing empathy of people towards them.

[@ultimaweapon991]

Ah yes, the Tucker Carlson/Stephen Crowder/Ben Shapiro/Tim Pool/Dave Rubin etc's of the world.

[@zaxscat5357]

@@ultimaweapon991 if that is what you think then you have fallen into the same trap that you claim them to be doing.

[@ultimaweapon991]

@@zaxscat5357 It's extremely self evident but do go off

[@theshambler6814]

@@ultimaweapon991 ah yes… debating pointless politics. How about our shifting reality gods don’t mix with our petty disputes in governance.

[@therefore_I_yam]

​@@zaxscat5357 If you think those people are anything more than shameless idiot grifters with failed creative backgrounds, then you too have been grifted

[@stevenpochatko945]

at around 42:10, right as the conversation was about to finish, a huge fucking crash of thunder came right outside my house lmao. A thunder storm literally just popped out of nowhere, I'm literally so shocked rn lol

[@jamesnorman9160]

Yes, it's an OP SCP, but it;s unique to the others due to the 4th wall breaking. Ben is just like 'Um, I may have made a mistake here..."

[@ruttsuco.804]

Ben: so I admit I might have gone a bit too far in a few places

[@Kyl0_ben]

Yeah, 3812 saying my name explicitly caught me so off guard on first viewing

[@bensomething4475]

@@Kyl0_ben bro

[@skynotaname2229]

Thanks so much for covering this article. I remember reading this ages ago, but I forgot the name of it and I kind of dismissed it as a wild fever dream. It's honestly one of my favorite short stories, not just as an SCP but all time. There's just so much amazing fantasy to unpack with it that I had to read it multiple times to really understand what's going on. The narration was excellent and the visuals were beautifully done.

[@cerebralcloud92]

You know, for however powerful these entities always become, there’s always a layer of reality separating them from our objective reality. If we want them to see “our” reality, it’s only an image WE want them to see, another layer below our own. We are the masters of fiction, we control all that we dream of. Objectively, at least.

[@dinocz3301]

Therefore, we are the 001 S Andrew Swann's Proposal

[@vincentshadetree]

13:35, this was an amazing idea, that this entity could do something as powerful as wiping an emotion from existence, something that we don't even know we lost if such was done

[@HaydenHero]

Crazy to think about. Would that emotion be rediscovered eventually, or is it totally erased, never to return?

[@vincentshadetree]

@@HaydenHero Exactly! Like imagine if humans at one time had a shared perception of danger like on a sixth sense level, and there's little remnants left of that emotion (like walking into a room after a fight)

[@elementallobsterx]

A reality warper becoming all powerful due to a mental illness is terrifying. Fire entry here, and good dub as always!

[@imagmahd7307]

The dopamine and serotonin I get when I see TheVolgun upload is unrivaled. Thank you for all of your hard work! You're the GOAT.

[@neroalexander4680]

This feels a lot like SCP 1915 " The Stars do not wait for you" but changed when they spoke to each other.

[@saxonharries9033]

I dont know how you do it but you out do yourself every single time. Absolutely fantastic again. Thankyou for another great story.

[@tulakhord6218]

Finally The Volgan does the most powerful SCP there is. And as far as fiction goes too.

[@ghoullyy]

Comment number 1000! Love the content. I listen to you at all times. In the background while gaming, going to sleep, while doing housework, etc. Your narration skills and playing the role of Dr. Miller are wonderful! Good stuff again!

[@VenikHue]

This went a lot deeper than I thought it would when I started listening

[@legoman-87]

SCP-3812 currently resides on the Washington Commanders football team of the NFL in Washington, D.C

[@yamatoclassmusashi8830]

SCP-3812 Is just what happens when you never stop T posing.

[@MelodyofDarkness0001]

Leave it to DJKaktus to think outside the metaliteral box. Great delivery! Gives me a few new ideas to try implementing

[@-tryingtofindashortname-7861]

The voice acting is amazing.

[@GoldenSkull360]

This is one scp I've wanted to see you do for awhile and you didn't disappoint, thanks for always going above and beyond your a legend.🙏🏽

[@DomovoiJr]

This is my favorite SCP, the one that really opened my eyes to the kinds of things this site can offer and the kind of opportunity it presents to writers. Thanks so much for doing it such justice. 😊

[@liamalcantara1485]

Something about how u read these stories is unique bro love the content !!!

[@smallgreenfrog]

This level of metacomentary and 4th wall breaking is so profound. I've often thought of the ethical implications of writing and creating stories. It sounds really weird and super idiotic when its put into words, but I believe than on some level fabricated characters and stories are just as real on some level as our own reality. In the same way that we can never be sure that we arent part of someone else's story, we should consider the possibility that the same is true of our own creations of literature and fantasy. It's something that has always terrified me on a very deep and existential level. Edit: not to mention that this as a narrative concept is insanely terrifying

[@IronCreeper1999]

The reading of that dialogue was absolutely sublime, impeccable work will be re-listening for certain

[@EldritchOv0719]

I love these sort of SCPs, reality benders in general can become...redundant, even boring st times just because of the simple fact that you can really only do so much with something that can literally destroy the world/universe, but this particular SCP shows that given the right story ad narrative a reality bender can become not just a world ender, but a human who is much more than it shoulder be. Well done to the author, and very well done on the video sir!

[@Phoenixashes245]

I think this was beautiful, from beginning to end. You have first this poor man who has been elevated to the status of higher being without his consent or foreknowledge or any kind of preparation, which makes him more and more desperate and makes him suffer more and more. And when he's finally had enough, when his trauma has reached critical mass, he lashes out (as many do, with trauma) and then he talks himself down. And shows compassion towards himself. And it saved the world. Compassion saved the world and it was beautiful. I also love how this is about the horror of being an author (and about the act of creation itself!). Lots of authors say something like "the characters got away from me/took on a life of their own", and how "the characters wrote the scene/ending themselves". It's really interesting to see that interpreted so literally- it also really reminds me of Frankenstein, only.... this seems like a slightly happier ending. I hope that 3812 is happier, wherever he is.

[@unusualusername8847]

I've always compared this SCP to the Archetype. Both can pass through reality and alter it but they differ in terms of limitation. One can see infinitely upwards the proverbial ladder of layering realities. The other can see only one rung at a time and doesn't know which to grab.

[@outrageousholidayoh-2178]

Archetype is the same type of SCP as Sam Howell isn’t it? It’s pataphysical just like Scp 3812 but less powerful to a incomprehensible point . because scp 3812 is superior to all pataphysical SCPs

[@elementallobsterx]

This reminds me of the Homesick Epilogues with talk around "narratives". I love the abstract and punk illustration of 3812 conversing with the "aleph null" (n+1) version of himself at the end.

[@matthewbrooks8512]

I don't know man, it may just be me but this seems like it would be a pretty good SCP 001

[@AfoteyAnnum]

Agreed

[@livootherworld5756]

Agree

[@Watermelon_Warlord]

I love this one. I read it a while ago, and was fascinated. Love the idea of someone creating something that ends up superseding the creator. Great narration!

[@VortexKiller2]

We do not fear the dark itself, we fear that of which lies within said darkness.

[@himwhoisnottobenamed5427]

“Would you minister to infinity?….Ask the infinite what it might produce, and the only answer possible? Anything. Any good. Any evil. Any god. Any devil.” -Leto II (God Emperor of Dune)

[@DariaM00re]

@Lou Charles Your profile pic is fear itself

[@VortexKiller2]

@@DariaM00re its wheelchair sonic

[@robertmaguire1067]

Pretty sure Steven Seagal came up with this 🤔

[@petulantpeterturbo]

That end is very interesting, a schizophrenic god convincing itself to not destroy everything.

[@DaVideoGameBeastr]

I'll admit I was quite worried to see how you would voice the famous conversation at the end because it is one of my favorite moments from any SCP entry. But you knocked it out of the park. Well done.

[@OpulenceSpacescifi]

This was the best SCP video i’ve ever had in my entire life. Also SCP-3812 is one of my favourite SCPS ever, because it’s The Most Powerful SCP In the world as well.

[@Sky-._]

MAN your voice and editing really brings so much to this one! I've read it and listened to Exploring's version (which I love!) more times than I can count but this is a whole other level.

[@mattrodriguez6130]

DJ Kaktus, always writing bangers

[@cobinbugni1652]

I love how this pushes the thought that the SCP foundation knows they’re just stories! It’s always been one of my favorite concepts about the SCP foundation.

[@PratzStrike]

Well... OK, so, within their reality, the reality the writers have created (the narrative of the writers), everything is as real to them as it is to us on the page. It's a concept that I've heard before elsewhere, that every writer, every poet, storyteller, novelist, movie director, and game designer not only creates a piece of art, but gives us a viewpoint upon which to look upon a wholly born nascent reality that may at some point create its own art and thus spawn its own realities that we may double back upon and view. The Foundation, in its reality, is real, but to us, it's words on a page, and hopefully it stays that way.

[@cobinbugni1652]

@@PratzStrike true dat my friend!

[@tobias5067]

Based on that ending I'm starting to think SCP-2000 is just that universe's narrator going "Oops the hairless apes wiped themselves again, let's reset the board a bit"

[@alexmorrison3442]

There's a few little things in this that I absolutley love. Like "The 2015 summit..." it just adds a good bit of world building that isn't needed, but it is great.

[@kreozello]

Though I am not a fan of high level explainings, *I am very surprised that such SCP could be written that good!* P.s. I am not a native English speaker and some of the meanings I had to learn about on my own. With enough perception you could feel that this story should take the place as one of the best ones, even compareable to the greatest books. The wordplay, the perception of author is above any expectations of mine. And only issue here is the 'lack' of information about the entity himself that are been doomed&blessed by it's very own existance. But that's just my point. This one is great anyways!

[@TurboJesus]

The is so much to unpack here it's unbelievable. Just, wow. The initial addendum from the interview where he mentions being above "him" who at some point was above "us" is crazy after you have the entire scope of things. This was a masterpiece.

[@neonsilver1936]

I'mma be a thousand percent real with you guys, this really feels like it should have been decommissioned, but it's a really well-written metaphysical/pataphysical scp that sort of solved itself (?), and so maybe we can just enjoy it and not bother with redacting it. I have a personal vendetta against any scp that references 239 or anything to do with that "family" of anomalies, but this was an interesting thought experiment, I guess.

[@venandisicarius]

What's up with 239 again?

[@neonsilver1936]

@@venandisicarius "SCP-239 is, put simply, a small, eight year old girl with the ability to alter reality to match her expectations. "If she can see it, she can change it." Her reality warping powers have been shown to be among the most powerful in the hyperverse of the SCP Foundation, and has been taught the "Ways" by SCP-343." The reason I dislike that scp is because I think it's weird and the connection to 343 makes me hate it even more.

[@jarroddavis5024]

I’ve listened to many of your videos. This one for sure is very good for many reasons. Probably my favorite story on an Scp. Many other good ones. Written very well, read very well. Overall concept, incredible.

[@purplehaze2358]

3812 is so exceptionally overpowered that I have to label it the most powerful thing in all of fiction. The capability to supposedly distort quite literally everything within every "narrative" is power I can't particularly attribute to any other force or character in a fictional piece of media.

[@user-vm7kv4yx8n]

still not enough to be the most powerful fictional thing, but it is certainly between the most powerful

[@starblast16]

There are gods, then there are beings like 3812. Something beyond godhood.

[@karmaJames07]

tell me who is more powerful than scp 3812.

[@renren225]

@@karmaJames07 there beings in comics and anime that have the same power. They transcend the story they are a part of and can manipulate the narrative at will.

[@nom6758]

@@renren225 You didnt watch the video then. The concept of SCP-3812 isnt that he supersedes the narrative he was written into, its about him superseding ALL narratives, above and below, to the point that he even supersedes himself. This specific concept is the first time its appeared in an actual story, as far as I can tell. It fundamentally is more powerful than any other "universe" you can think of by design.

[@_______somekinda__randomgu4043]

This is going to be another classic volgun video, the video you come back to often because it's just so well done. I read the article after watching this but it just can't hit the same without the voices

[@davethompson3326]

I guess the only entity capable of healing this could be itself, eventually. The attempts of the next level "creator?" to resolve the issue within it's own rules were fun.

[@lightingthelatenight9942]

Especially when he runs out of ideas and just tells them "yah I got nothin, i fucked up, my b"

[@davethompson3326]

@@lightingthelatenight9942 "Lots of luck, LOL"

[@quellavenix1262]

The voice acting is insane, that interpretation of SCP-3812's voice is insane

[@Zer0GravtyDV]

35:24 "I am unmaking the world. I am unmaking everything." "Why?" These two lines have so much impact in my mind, and I absolutely love hearing it. Gives me conniptions Edit: and the "goodbye" at the end. A sort of sorrow and pity can be felt behind that goodbye, spoken with the intensity of a farewell more so than a simple goodbye.

[@erdrick8670]

So basically the SCP equivalent of the kid in grade school going, "Yeah, well my power is infinity plus 1!" And then they're friend saying +2 and so on and so forth.

[@StopitNow-jp3uz]

This remember me the story if this lovecraftian character, randolph carter

[@josephschultz3301]

I'm an SCP fan for a variety of reasons. I love the nightmare fuel, I love the paranoia, but most of all, I love the SCPs that just... just make me sad. This one's a rollercoaster of emotion, goddamn.

[@firelow]

Annoying how Americentric some entries are. This one names almost every US state things happen in. But when something happens in another country they just name the country. "This happend in Florida, this happend in California, this happend in Russia" See what I mean? Makes no sense for an International Foundation to have a national preference and it kind of breaks the illusion

[@aceghost1074]

Totally get it and think overall you're right. The way I try to explain it in my head to try and explain this is that overall the united States is a collection of states overseeded by the federal government. That saying a "state" in the broad terms is by its definition its own... Idk not country but falls in a grey area. So looking at it from a worldly perspective it's like "well you wouldn't say this thing happened in the holy Roman empire, it happened in this city state which is its own thing, and is bound to the holy Roman empire." Russia on the other hand is uniformly just Russia. With an over seeing federal government. There are regions sure, but after the disbandment of the USSR they became a whole where as our history as a country is secular by nature. Overall I think you are right. That this is just an "ism" from an American centric point of view. But sometimes I try to make the jump to make the suspension of disbelief easier 😅

[@javiertorres3949]

nice work, my dude! :)

[@Chutneycat]

ayo I'm from New Zealand and I don't remember being removed from existence

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

Well B and his creation/copy/parallel-instance-thing did pretty much allow the narrative to be reset back before they started the process of uncreating everything. I like how they said goodbye to their own author too.

[@ernestthomas794]

This was truly beautiful, well done. I'd pay to see this concept on the big screen.

[@victuss1413]

the many tiers of existence that a being such as this would transcend remind me of string theory. the idea, that there are realities that are above others, that can affect those bellow. at the top, a tenth dimensional superstring. there's your architect =D

[@oliviawatts2605]

Holy shit, that final addendum was fucking heartwrenching and beautiful. Usually I avoid these huge op scps, and I will admit that I skipped this vid for a while, but god am I glad I came back to this and trusted the comments. This gave me existential dread in the best way possible. The author of this really has something special here.