Exploring the SCP Foundation: The Department of Abnormalities

[@TheDitz42]

DOA: oh hey u guys are back early Astronaut: moon's haunted DOA: what? Astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted.

[@edmardisla8492]

Nice memetic agent profile pic.

[@ExirahxEximiris]

Always has been

[@ModernDayAfro]

Basically

[@daas8638]

how are you gonna un-haunt the moon with a pistol lol

[@edmardisla8492]

@@daas8638 We don't know, it's how the original "meme" ( -I think it's real- ) goes.

[@MaidEnthusiast]

"Is this an alternate version of the foundation?" *Yesn't*

[@the18thangell63]

I am like 69 ;D

[@zetanone7211]

“It used to not be”

[@Piledriver2006]

I think so. I think whatever happened destroyed their world and whatever was left anomalously appeared in the SCP universe

[@izzdin6228]

@@senatorarmstrong6886 you forgot to bring your horni jail bat Dr.

[@TheBodiesInTheWaterBeckons]

@@senatorarmstrong6886 y e s

[@arenzale]

"The russians tried a different approach. Necromancy" *what*

[@rhysfortune2092]

The Russians used necromancy to land on the moon. Honestly, I don't get how you people don't understand these things.

[@edmardisla8492]

@@rhysfortune2092 lol

[@duo496]

Oh those Russians

[@deaglex3242]

just another day in russia

[@edmardisla8492]

@CONald Chump Yes.

[@imnotnoi4815]

Fun fact: there is one thing reality benders can’t do. And that is make the scp canon easy to comprehend

[@anarchyandempires5452]

Strange as it sounds this is actually canonical, I can't remember the story but I remember in one that was pretty popular for a little while the foundation it's in contact with a friendly reality bender, an astonishingly powerful one at that and one of the o-5s asks him if he can help him understand the truth of the foundation, if he can help him restore the Lost knowledge. "...... Straight up fuck you, just because I'm a God doesn't mean I can just snap my fingers and unravel such fucking mess."

[@gio2]

@@anarchyandempires5452 LOL

[@IsaacClodfelter]

Even if a reality bender did that it would become an untenable, arguably exponentially growing, paradox and annihilate itself from existence. I say there would be a coin toss for whether the person asking to understand would be erased or all scp cannon and the concept of comprehension.

[@thepre-primordials1883]

It's pretty simple to understand actually if you think of narratives as planes and understand the scpverse is full of layered narratives with multiple of which have alternate timelines and multiverses and some narratives are just 1 multiverse some are omniversal some go beyond Relatively simple at least

[@thomasolympia3731]

There is no canon.

[@jeshegames]

"In SCP canon is fluid." *Reality can be whatever I want it to be.*

[@TheDandyMann]

Well technically all of the writers are reality benders

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

@@TheDandyMann That is both so very true and funny in a sense

[@Gloomdrake]

@@TheDandyMann and the readers are even stronger reality benders, since we can just decide the reality the writers crafted doesn't matter

[@thegrimmarcher202]

It's more like a barel of spageti

[@gremlinfifty2308]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 Its also canon in one of the SCP-001 proposals

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

Broke: They faked the moon landing by filming it on a TV set Woke: They faked the moon landing by landing on an anomalous asteroid

[@CadolfWasHere]

ultra woke: they faked the moon landing inside the hollow moon, thats why you cant see stars

[@Gloomdrake]

It was a sound stage on Mars

[@baconboi4482]

Based: They faked the moon landing by using stop motion figures

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

I honestly never would’ve expected the moon landing being faked in the SCP Universe

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 There's a first time for everything

[@thehumanconsensus]

"Don't worry, this hasn't even begun to get weird yet." Sums up most SCP stories pretty well

[@ghk9207]

Mais j je

[@ghk9207]

Mais is the only only best option in this area that can

[@ghk9207]

Mais is 0 de temps à la baraque je ne suis donc je

[@ghk9207]

Mais is a good place and is is is very good because I have 85419768592 to get to know the other two things and it was the only way to make a happy birthday for the best I had to be in love and the way that was when you came in in my mind that I had a great day for the juju jujutsu Ujjain bubble

[@ghk9207]

Mais is the is of of many ways in the life that

[@michaeltalpas]

I kind of like the idea that, before the current, near inhuman SCP Foundation, there was a more normal, human group of people, trying to maintain the natural order. And as the SCP Foundation becomes less human, they struggle to contain the anomalous, because they are becoming the anomalous. I really like that. Creates a lot of tension in the story.

[@MichaelLight96]

You sir, have a brain I'd love to pick ha ha

[@brunopereira6789]

Honestly at this point scp-001 should be the SCP Foundation

[@michaeltalpas]

@@brunopereira6789 That is one of the 001 proposals. The Exploring Series has it up as The Ouroboros Cycle. It's a pretty good one.

[@danielyarsky6128]

That proposal makes the administrator Scp-001, not the Foundation

[@michaeltalpas]

@@danielyarsky6128 the Administrator is the SCP-Foundation.

[@BLK_MN]

Here’s how deep this can go: The Foundation was probably founded around 1900s. Precursors for various countries existed beforehand but they all pretty much merged. BUT The world has definitely “ended” at least twice, based on SCP 2000. It could be much more than that, potentially thousands of world-ending events. On top of that, various anomalies can revert or change the past, or see the future, so multiple timelines can exist at the same time, if you can wrap your head around that. Finally (for the sake of brevity) some anomalies just change reality completely, so the Foundation could “have” been around for millions years, across multiple planets, but a reality shift made it so only the last 200 years actually “happened”. So the Foundation could be reliving the same cycle over and over for who knows how long. In short: How long has the Foundation been around? Yes.

[@GethIng001]

These ideas you outlined and a convoluted version of "the multiverse of multiverse" ideas that I have that keep resurfacing when I encounter an SPC concept or article I like and want to try and incorporate in my headcanon. "IF" I ever get the nerve to write for the website/wiki, I would love to explore with a "new" department of the Foundation dedicated to mapping out the convoluted tangle of Times lines and try and work out relations with seemingly other versions of themselves in different worlds. A goal of mine (again "IF" I post it on the site at all) would set for a story that has the same kind of gravitas I feel when I read the "Ethics Committee Orientation" story. The mand thrust of the "Main" opening story is going to an entity like 3003-2 state, "If you are truly the thing that survival everything, then you have some work to do, including against yourself." I could go on and on in trying to describe how I would want to structure the "Core Histories" of the Foundation, but I will let that sit in my head or note for later use.

[@chestercheetahisinyourwall4041]

Yes, there was a an SCP-001 called "project palisade", which was about how the world already ended and somehow came back, probably through SCP-2000. but no, we don't know if the SCP-001's are real or were just made up, plus the 05 council are the only people who remember the old earth, so if they are real then the 05 council would know, but they don't.

[@mariaj.bayarri8024]

This is actually a bit possible, organizations like the ASCI existed before the foundation until they all merged into the scp foundation/ uiu so it will be possible that there was some sort of research station dedicated to exploring anomalies around the early 1900’s that ended up experiencing a total containment breach ( probably because the termination thing with the general didn’t go too well ) eventually as explained on Syncope Symphony scp 2000 usually causes a glitch in reality and that might be what duplicated some of the entities found here but with a bit different versions, maybe scp 2000 was activated by someone working at the department.

[@mackenziebeeney3764]

Things keep trying to write the foundation out of history, but history dictates that the foundation exists/existed, so weirdness happens like SCP-2000 being a very foundation type of facility despite its age, and it’s multiple origin stories. I’m partial to the one where the Administrator visits the gate of Eden and is told “prepare” and makes the modern foundation.

[@Hyperversum3]

@@GethIng001 The core of this topic is quite simple, at its hearth. The Foundation can't have a cohesive history even without world ending scenarios for the simple reason of different people having a different take on what the setting of the Foundation is/should be. To make an example with something I like 5001 "Sacrosant" to be the literal incarnations of the Broken God and Yaldaboath, but many don't like such an idea or even don't like to think that the BG and Yaldaboath are literal beings existing on the material plane, for whatever reason. Similarly, I really like the 3 Moon Initiative with Corbenic, it's something that really appeals to me my sense of "weird" fantasy/sci-fi that makes for the best SCP articles, but many won't like the idea of death leading to a fantasy world of immortal humans and many horrible things that may not kill you but definitely can turn you mad. To discuss a canon is definitely pointless, some articles are just good to be read and ignored afterwards.

[@AlteredNova04]

So the Department of Abnormalities is basically just an in-universe justification for writing more retro style SCP articles, from back when every SCP didn't need a narrative and/or detailed origin, recovery and testing logs. I like it.

[@nathanlehman9415]

It's kind of ironic, at least to me, as the initial departure from the retro style was part of the reason for the schism.

[@jtohgaming]

​@@nathanlehman9415what schism

[@nathanlehman9415]

@jtohgaming the wiki split in half, partially due to political disagreements, but also because a large body of members wanted more classic scp articles, where the foundation had comparativly less resorces and control over entities. They went on to found the RPC wiki.

[@phanngockhanhchi2971]

@@nathanlehman9415 would you mind elaborate more on this RPC wiki? I searched it up but would like to hear more from an experienced wiki member of the scp wiki. I have been fan of the scp fandom for a long time but have never heard strife about politics inside the fandom

[@KhailSOLO]

@@phanngockhanhchi2971I want the tea, too. Lmao. I stopped around the Nature and Luck scps, cause they were just getting bloated for bloat’s sake or getting too self important.

[@Between_Scylla_and_Kharybdis]

"Now it starts to get weird" Me: oh come on, how can this possibly get any weirder than it already is?! "... L. Ron Hubbard..." Me: oh... yeah, that'll do it...

[@gorchek]

And the best part? Most of that part is true. Look up Babalon Working on Wikipedia for the short version.

[@gentlemanvaultboy8671]

L. Ron stole Jack Parson's money, yacht, and wife and sailed off while Jack watched so Jack did a magic ritual and tried to sink the yacht and then a sudden storm forced L. Ron to dock. All of this is true.

[@vaclav4435]

@@gentlemanvaultboy8671 Just to make this insane story even more insane, Parsons initially believed Hubbard's story, but after a few days he started getting antsy so he telegrammed his old mentor Aleister Crowley for advice, who promptly told Parsons that Hubbard was taking him for a ride.

[@michaelbulu4079]

Parsons was quite the character, I'm glad he wound up in an SCP file somehow

[@mammon_is_god]

It's all real

[@danieljames1868]

"How did you power your ship?" "Oh, y'know, native american souls harvested from the trail of tears" "... that's horrible." "Look, man, you gotta fight the commies, I dunno what to tell ya here."

[@the5thmemelord256]

"Yup. Better Dead Than Red." *Crams Native American Soul Into Fuel Tank*

[@bowlingpin3092]

Meanwhile in the USSR... "Ivan, comrade! Let us build rocket-" "Let me stop you right there, comrade. We will use Necromancy to reach da moon!"

[@joshuabruce9599]

​@@the5thmemelord256 "For God's sake! Stop howling and performing Ghost Dances in mah damn fuel tank! We're going to the moon and y'all are gonna help by letting us burn y'all to a crisp and shit you out the back of this, here, rocket!"

[@astalidiot8559]

@@joshuabruce9599 "That Rain God ain't here to save you now, we using your soul to help me find L. Ron Hubbard's Moon Nymph abortion." - Neil Armstrong

[@Ryo7_7]

😂

[@thor7af3]

It took me a few minutes to register that the warehouse has *7* floors - an important recurring number throughout the SCP database, particularly concerning The Scarlet King, SCP 231 and 2317. The Foundation might have VERY good reasons to keep the 7th level completely sealed.

[@azarinevil]

Just have to wonder what entry DJKaktus is planning to fill the blank in with.. 7000 proposal perhaps?

[@zadotterazo690]

7 is the most common randomly picked number to humans followed by 3

[@ultimateweeabootrash]

@@azarinevil 6666 Says that there's a person down there, who might be Adam El Asem.

[@zetanone7211]

Also the anafabula

[@sosomadman]

7 has always been an ominous number, 7 deadly sins, the constellation the 7 sisters, can't think of any more atm

[@maxh7085]

An interesting detail about SCP-4099 is that the keycode used to unlocking the facility is 1730, which is the item number for what happened to site-13.

[@seth3325]

The DOA's site-13 o_O

[@azarinevil]

That is what I love about the vague nature of SCP, it lets other authors build off any ideas you give them. This little detail plays off the law of thermodynamics "nothing is destroyed, merely transferred or transformed". Makes even more sense in a world with indestructible entities and objects.

[@actualturtle2421]

Did djkaktus do 1730 too?

[@tadadoterson6147]

Oh god

[@nomletparti2622]

I feel like it's more likely a reference to 173 being the original SCP, but it would've been weird if the code was 0173.

[@HyperNova0]

As is dictated in foundation protocol “Whenever you find a glowing red button in a creepy abandoned facility you must press it”.

[@Xel963]

No we don't push all buttons, there is the one button, that one button we never will push.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

@@Xel963 True. Sometimes there’s some buttons that are just not meant to be pushed, and ironically enough it’s often the big red button

[@michaelandreipalon359]

"So they do."

[@Sinfilled66]

Typical MTF IQ on display lol

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

The foundation being such an enigma is why they’re so interesting. There’s so many possible layers to their history. It would be frightening working for them not knowing their past

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Exactly! Plus it would be frightening to work for them in general what with all the creepy and deadly things they keep locked up

[@chaoz7370]

What's more interesting than an organization with an interesting backstory? An organization that doesn't even know their own past.

[@catwithshades7577]

You could even say that they are purposefully making their history confusing, for canon reasons.

[@water3354]

Yo, wtf is your channel, just make a Twitter lmao

[@rickwrites2612]

​​@@undeadprinceofchaos3731t would be frightening to work for them at all, considering they can kill you, wipe your mind or experiment on you at any time for any reason. They know where your family is. There are plenty of scps and stories about this including one where a superior is amnesticized in a coup and tricked into thinking she has to apply for her job like it's new over and over and is really living drugged in some cubicle or something. Every other article threatens to "terminate" people and they dont mean fire you after signing an NDA. Considering how armed many employees are esp the Mobile Task Force ones, youd have more strikes and collective bargaining, at least people trying to organise a union. That's the main thing I find unbelievable about SCP. Nobody would ever choose to work for them, because of such things, unless they had some kind of magically enforced labor contract. The D-class explanation of death penalty inmates ruins suspension of disbelief. Some of the most important SCP orgs are the ones in functioning democracies in the developed world. Almost none of which even have a death penalty. Many do not even have LWOP. The EU, Turkey, Japan, Canada and Mexico all do not have death penalty. Russia barely does because they haven't used it in over a decade. In terms of advanced democracies its pretty much limited to the US, India, S. Korea. The US is the only one of the 3 with a serious population on death row (2,500). In very Authoritarian countries you get more people executed but then they are generally executed pretty quickly as compared to US which has alot of built in opporyunities for legal appeals specifically for that sentence. The upshot is that in most places where you'll have a very organized functional and respected SCP, there just isn't a decent population of death penalty inmates that you'd be willing to set free if they got survived SCP experimentation. OK then, make it apply to long term 10+ year inmates in order to lower sentence ie ec the time off worth of ec experiment being proportional to the risk of death...I mean that could maybe work in US or S. Korea (you could also see them letting the poor or homeless do it for lottery) but again, in most democracies there simply *wouldn't* be a legal way for D class to exist.So now you're talking about the SCP having an extrajudicial paramilitary type institution in those countries. It's hard to accept as even the CIA who attempted a few measly tiny experiments on Americans in the mid 20th century couldn't get away with it for long. And that was like on a handful of ppl. Maybe this has been done, but I'd really appreciate a article or story etc that actually creates a mechanism for dealing with this. Assuming the main SCP verse is in our timeline/dimension etc. Like when you read a SF/F fiction the author does worldbuilding that convinces you to accept ideas like D class, or it's a whole different world altogether so you'll accept something odd as being part of it. I realize there is no set Canon but is there ANY canon that tries to explain the labor and d class issues? it seems like everyone just takes it for granted and handwaves it in.

[@Neon-ws8er]

“Each floor contains a number of cubic cells” Oh so it’s like an -anomalous- _abnormal_ prison or something? “All but one of these cells are occupied by a single humanoid sculpture-“ oh no “- made of painted concrete” _oh no_ “Inside of the glass tower, the foundation found a viewing room containing a single human skeleton with a broken neck” *OH NO*

[@zeke7076]

An army of Peanuts

[@Neon-ws8er]

@@zeke7076 they aren’t all the same tho So there’d be a variety of nuts Like a 173 Trail mix

[@nicholaspeters9919]

@@Neon-ws8er Then what are the pretzels, M&Ms, and raisins?

[@Neon-ws8er]

@@nicholaspeters9919 Oh. They’re just *[REDACTED]*

[@brotherhoodofsteelsoldier1356]

@@Neon-ws8er What did I tell you about telling people about what goes on in the Foundation!?! Report to my office immediately!- Doctor [REDACTED]

[@enthiegavoir5955]

"Alright gents, what's in here?" "Oh, just one of Wondertainment's creatures, a painting that's burned down a number of houses in the UK, Apollyn's crown, and Lucifer's sword" "Eh, just leave it, that junk'll be fine on it's own"

[@ebonbonb652]

“...performed a series of rituals that summoned an elemental spirit, which they tried to have a child with...” One of the weirdest things I’ve heard in a while...

[@nocarrotjuststick3375]

Yet 100% true

[@TFM95]

History is often stranger than fiction...

[@azarinevil]

Until you realize that it was Clef, and that kid is an early SCP. When it comes to Clef, this hardly comes off as the weirdest thing on his resume. 😂

[@RelativelyBest]

I could sort of see Ron L Hubbard attempting to conceive a child with a moon spirit, at least if he was on a lot of drugs at the time. Him apparently being an apprentice of goddamned Aleister Crowley, that I did not expect.

[@Annihilation_Studios]

Just a normal Saturday smh

[@TheApollo90]

I literally waited to go to bed in anticipation for this video.

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

Same.

[@seanforlong]

This is a mood man

[@MrBark1969]

It just works.

[@mjnicholas787]

I always sleep better on sundays because of this

[@leesigalaxy]

It’s me

[@thegreatjohnjohnson4016]

MTF: “hey you see that big red button” MTF: “yeah” MTF: “let’s press it” *dies

[@JimmyNails27]

Like that Ren and Stimpy bit.

[@CodeguruX]

Commander of MTF: "Good job, men. We're done here. Now pick up some of those vague and misleading notes and let's barely make it out alive. Do NOT pick all of them up, and burn the ones that make sense."

[@athrowaway3487]

Every MTF mission ever

[@thegreatjohnjohnson4016]

@@athrowaway3487 pretty much

[@calamaty2007]

@@JimmyNails27 O5 Command: You fool that is the history eraser button

[@nick32145]

Seeing all the control imagery makes me really wish you would do exploring control, please!

[@ethanwagner]

Best comment I've seen in a lil

[@StarryInkArt]

Yes!!! I love Control! I wish it has more recognition 😪 It would also be a good short series.🥺🤞🏻💖

[@kenneljohnson771]

Yesss

[@jongyon7192p]

Exploring Control: Alan Wake

[@Cilpro]

This!!

[@Purgetorial]

For those wondering, at 2:56 in room two labeled “Montezuma's Face”, the ornate chest is a reference to SCP-902

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

The Final Countdown? Never suspected it to be referring to that SCP

[@Pusher97]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 *kazoo intensifies*

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!

[@OverseerXIII]

Yes. The clicking sound.

[@apollyon6855]

that is why the sound of clicks is barely heard, to avoid its effects

[@chrismanaloe3507]

"We used the spirits of dead native americans from the trail of tears to fuel our moon rocket" What? "The rage makes them better fuel"

[@nicholaspeters9919]

Understood. As you were…

[@anasb.8647]

yeah XD, they tried using orgies first but they needed more power, i'm seriously not even kidding XD, just the "risqué" part he mentioned man...scp is weeeeeird

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@anasb.8647 >hey tried using orgies first but they needed more power HERESY DETECTED, THEY KNOW ABOUT SLANEESH THEY KNOW TOO MUCH

[@phanngockhanhchi2971]

that sounds so warhammer

[@petehill7280]

21:26 An interesting thing is that this whole 'Moonchild' thing is in reference to a novel which Crowley himself wrote IRL-- about a group of magicians trying to create a Christ-like figure called the Moonchild who would bring about the dawning of a new age.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Really? That sounds interesting, makes me think of a fantasy RPG. What’s the name of the novel?

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

Interasting

[@petehill7280]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 Moonchild.

[@the5thmemelord256]

And how did that work out for the magicians?

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@petehill7280 How did this story end? With him succeeding or it massively backfiring? What does 'new age' even mean? Everyone is psychic?

[@PeanutCalledYou]

Department of Abnormalities: *Foundation of The Foundation*

[@edmardisla8492]

The Founding Fathers, you could say?

[@Argonak1]

Bricks.

[@ss-oy3lq]

I started reading Department of Abnormalities SCPs yesterday, found myself too lazy to read through them all myself and wanted a video on those from you, and here you go :)

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

What luck! It was perfect timing at its finest

[@emilybarclay8831]

Clearly you are showing precognitive abilities. Some friendly men in black suits will be at your place of residence shortly

[@flameknightplayz2939]

Isn't it a bit *abnormal*

[@averagealoneredditor]

We have a Stage 1 Type Green on our hands here...

[@skyking4557]

@@averagealoneredditor He is still in Infant stage,kill him before growing to 3 or 4 Stage

[@danthewoodman8558]

The Department of Abnormalities for no reason: Ight, Imma head out.

[@TTHBLOX_]

They knew

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

SCP Foundation: Who are you? Department of Abnormalities: I am you, but a prequel

[@Sarthak1710]

How is your comment two days old? Video got uploaded rn

[@speedercat154]

@@Sarthak1710 youtube is broke

[@kairu_aname]

@@Sarthak1710 Either early access, or as other guy said, KZbin broke

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

@@Sarthak1710 I have the power of *[REDACTED]* and anime on my side

[@GrayFell]

@@Sarthak1710 SCP 2003, probably. Time travel is neat.

[@TwinIonEngines]

"His spirit was attached to the nose of the rocket" Okay sure.. thats not -so- bad I guess... "They needed more souls, so they went to the Trail of Tears" OH....

[@scumptvoid3140]

There’s a game called Lobotomy Corporation heavily inspired by the SCP wiki (I promise this is relevant to this video, just keep reading). To cut the chase short-also, minor spoiler warning for the game’s lore-these entities are extracted from the mind, specifically the minds of people put into stasis called “Dreamers”, and often manifest in forms based off fairy-tales, traumas, or other related stuff (this exact part of the lore isn’t relevant to the actual theory, but it’s something worth mentioning). These entities are called Abnormalities, and, as expected from something extracted from human minds, often have other entities similar to the original, though a bit off either thematically or functionally. The “relatives” of these base Abnormalities are called Aberrations. With this in mind, I theorize the Department of Abnormalities was originally a branch that held “aberrations” (or, in this case, “abnormalities”) of base anomalies. While I’m still uncertain why exactly the O5 would be so secretive over it, it’s possible (and this part of the theory’s a bit of a stretch) this was an intentional project that had to go defunct for pretty obvious ethical concerns. Sorry this theory can’t be more extensive or detailed, since this was written from a very brief realization I had while re-reading some of the pages here.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

"The SCP department of abnormalities." Ah yes, the department of redundancy department.

[@Melvinshermen]

Aka the strange one

[@travisoliver6741]

Fun fact. In SCP-8190, the Department of Redundancy Department is called the "Foundation of the Foundation." Considering the Department of Abnormalities is the Foundation's precursor, this is a funny little coincidence.

[@michaelbulu4079]

These videos give me the feeling that DJ Kaktus both deserves to direct a movie, and would be an amazing DM to play with

[@Sluggadome_Rotunda_Bernardson]

I wouldn’t want him directing a movie, he’s like the hideo Kojima of scp writers (in a good way)

[@patrikcath1025]

"What is that department for?" "Abnormal things" *"Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down"*

[@toasttmax]

Really enjoyed this one, especially the moon. Spoiler, the stuff about Crowley, Hubbard and the Moon Child all based on historical fact. They got up to things...

[@anasb.8647]

what historical facts..? you can't just say that shit and not explain, what "facts"??

[@cesarvictoriano8072]

Weird sex things...

[@FizzyLptnYoshi]

Halfway through the vid, "Don't worry, this hasn't even begun to get weird yet."

[@FoxHat]

Well he wasn't wrong it got a lot weirder

[@FizzyLptnYoshi]

@@FoxHat it did all right

[@thorshammer7883]

I love the worldbuilding that DJKaktus puts in his SCP canon and I like the idea of Humanity being once a powerful race that were above even the high hyperversal cosmic eating and tyrant elder gods themselves and ruled the entirety of existence. You don't see arthurs doing that kind of narrative much in fictional works.

[@NicsNacs]

Nice use of Control artwork, that sector is definitely fitting for the video. :)

[@thedukeofchutney468]

I swear the Kaktusverse is the best part of the already great SCP lore.

[@alexhampton5659]

Love the use of all the Control concept art. Pretty cool the devs spoke openly about the inspiration they got from SCP whenever they speak about their game

[@liufi69]

DOA - the older brother of SCP foundation.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

The Foundation- The DOA’s prodigy

[@Pusher97]

And the UIU - The cousin that’s a little slow.

[@viperprecision6001]

@@Pusher97 whats UIU?

[@Pusher97]

@@viperprecision6001 The FBI’s Unusual Incidents Unit.

[@emilybarclay8831]

@@Pusher97 the UIU was dropped on their head as a baby but they’ve got gusto

[@diogene_s8032]

Yesterday I started searching for information on the DoA because I wanted to draw something, and today you do a video on it. Coincidences are wild.

[@Monte_Carlo451]

I was reading simplified scp about DoA yesterday and here we are listening to TES about it lol

[@Makkovar]

Currently afraid of opening the fridge for fear of finding a placard reading "Department of Abnormalities"

[@nicholaspeters9919]

You can’t live in fear, you need the milk for the Cocoa Puffs…

[@jacksondesorcy1851]

Judging by their name, the SCP Foundation used to overall collect and contain anything anomalous and non-anomalous for no reason.

[@LetsTalkAboutPrepping]

CONTAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!

[@anasb.8647]

they still do...

[@maqvy]

which kinda explain why Ötzi is being kept at 3790 despite being not anomalous

[@dylandortch590]

First watch: to tame the insomnia Second watch: to actually hear the content

[@kierafurneaux3172]

Their voice is massively soothing

[@pendelschabe]

Literally just woke up from a nap. I specifically put this video on to have something interesting to listen to while I fell asleep.

[@nerdiconium1365]

There's a tale called "To Never Again See the Light of Day" where the leaders of MC&D hand off Mr. Silent to the Department, and it's implied that said mister is very important, possibly related to how in the tale about Mr. Redd, the little misters are like a horcrux for Wondertainment, as he took the form of the overseer who became Mr. Collector. Also, the person who signs off on the trade is Adam Bright, and given that within the Kaktusverse he gave Calvin the Spear of the Non-believer, I think he was one of the bigger players back in the day.

[@DarkDragon5551669]

If I remember correctly, Mr.Silent is the price for Wondertainment to be rid of the rust from the Factory, so may be he is in a similar or even worse state than Mr.Scary

[@luisk6007]

These scp videos are the cure to my insomnia. It's not that they're boring. IDK how to explain it well, but pretty much it helps me get my mind off things when anxiety won't let me sleep.

[@yemutherinnit3043]

Same

[@WindCarrier570]

Never stop what you’re doing

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

In the past, it was thought that things outside of the norm were better off being locked up and a mystery, but over time it became clear that knowing the nature of these abnormalities was essential for the future. But it seems the past can somehow find its way into the present

[@sethleoric2598]

It would be cool to have a video about every alternate version of the Foundation

[@Shythalia]

Yeah, but most of them we don't really have a lot of info about. Like the ones from SCP-1437.

[@serPomiz]

Most foundation have a costant baseline, then some goes batshit crazy. Take the reality where thot decided to reincarnate every human into sapient and talkative birds, the one sire-13 originate from, the different languages wiki, or the Salachian Punching Centre...

[@thebighurt2495]

@@serPomiz Fun Fact: The SPC SUCCESSFULLY CONTAINED 682.

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

12:09 hot take: the scratches were caused by Appolyon trying to get his crown back, but his crown is what gives him his power so he was stopped by a damn door.

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

Pretty neat. Control imagery is very relatable. I'll give you a like out of 10.

[@Markovian_]

This is my favorite scp. I really love it. I’m probably gonna listen to this on repeat while I work. Thanks a ton for this. Just like SCP Illustrated and Dr. Cimmerian, I will never stop listening to you all.

[@WilliamAmbervein]

I feel like that first article is some of his favorites and some unused ideas. As for the department, I kinda like the idea that at some point the SCP Foundation wasn't exclusively about anomalies. But reality got rewritten meaning these things got worse or out of control and either members of the O5 council remember how things used to be, or they think the SCP Foundation has always been about getting anomalies. Maybe there could be a story about how 002 actually was a different department of the SCP Foundation trying to deal with it before the department of abnormalities were notified, and that's why it's so different from all the other entries.

[@TheColdZephyr]

SCP 5832 is also connected to the DoA, and is one of the most unsettling SCPs I know of. It's sort of connected to 231-7, but is in a way even darker.

[@crimestick6648]

*...don't worry, this hasn't even begun to get weird yet...* Me: *pauses to make a martini*

[@kairu_aname]

"Behold. CORN! "

[@ZoddSd]

Dropping a like to fight the scp animated scourge.

[@Gerwhal]

Scourge how? This channel reads out stories just they same as they do, but they put visuals to it. Wouldn't call it a scourge

[@revachol945]

Its against the scp illustrated channels who make it more childish

[@ZoddSd]

@@Gerwhal It's not faithful to the original SCP stories , the animation is mostly kid friendly and reused, they shorten it to cater to YT algorithm and most agreggious sin is that they do a story on a subject as soon one of the big SCP channels announce it or do it. They are just playing dirty my man..

[@comatose1818]

@@Gerwhal they are a scourge, SCP 96's document has easily 30 minutes plus of content, these animation channels shorten it to a mere 10 minutes, while channels like theVolgun, SCP Illustrated, Dr Cimmerian, Eastsideshow SCP and The Exploring series get shafted.

[@iskipwork2214]

@@Gerwhal a lot of them are also owned by big companies of animators

[@JesseMcCullough]

"Remember that world where Siegel did the thing? Me neither, Calvin. Let's keep it that way, shall we? Very good."

[@thebighurt2495]

"Remember that world where Clef killed the entire Foundation senior staff solo? Me neither. Let's keep it that way."

[@navarog378]

"The rocket engine was powered by native amaricans' souls..." Ah, obviously it was.

[@ghost_nunya]

united states history go brrrrrr

[@athrowaway3487]

*TO SHOW YOU THE POWER OF FLEX BULLET, I SAWED THESE NATIVES IN HALF*

[@BurningSands_FGC]

This is the first time a vid of yours has been recommended and I didn’t have to search for you! Thank fuck

[@kyleplatter8954]

Ditto, and I was about to go to bed too

[@ScarletMomiji]

Why not subscribe lol. Even if he sets the uploads consistently the same time every week, I gotta be subbed to the man so I see it immediately while at work :)

[@BurningSands_FGC]

@@ScarletMomijii am subbed to him but I barely get the notification lmfao, this is the first time I got a notification for him lol

[@ScarletMomiji]

@@BurningSands_FGC Quite odd. But I guess I'm used to seeing it in the mobile subscription tab all the time after I get back from lunch

[@starwarsnerd100]

@@BurningSands_FGC KZbin is weird, you basically gotta subscribe twice. Hit the bell, then hit it again and pick the option that shows you all notifications.

[@5001Fergies]

Being a fan of scp’s back in the early days, and then not really thinking about them again until like a year ago when i suddenly fell into the rabbit hole again but this time into an entirely different foundation than i knew feels like being an employee of the department of abnormalities and falling into an anomoly that sent me forwards in time to the modern foundation

[@TheUnluckyEverydude]

I've been playing a lot of Control recently, so I'm loving the visuals this time around.

[@TalkingRaven_]

I can clearly imagine an article from the Department of Abnormalities titled "Our last containment", probably something so dangerous that everyone within the department has to be terminated immediately to maintain secrecy of a certain abnormality.

[@glutineclassico]

I'm reminded of this one creepypasta I heard a while ago. I think it was called the "Schrodinger Project". It basically had a monster that could only exist if someone knew about it.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

My head canon is the department was the begining but they reached a point where they realized they realized to properly do their job they needed to have existed before had been created. Thus they anomalously made themselves retroactively appear. The possible different iterations that could occur explain why we seem to have no clear canon and why there seem to be multiple precursor organizations that have a direct connection. The event that made them retroactively become a thing didn't make just one possibility, but many. And they all shift and come into contact with each other at different points. This is why the O-5 doesn't want anything to be known about the department. Unraveling what was done could reveal too much. About the Foundation and how you could defeat them. Keeping the secret of the department is just too fundamental despite the unintended consequences it may have.

[@stephenantonsson_II]

I like that most of the imagery is from Control, since the FBC and the SCP Foundation are quite similar, and with the Department of Abnormalities being near identical to the FBC, what with the panopticon and the London warehouse containment cell design.

[@nicholaspeters9919]

I find it kinda funny that the FBC is pretty much the Foundation getting mashed with that FBI division and given a more consistent timeline. It remains to be seen wether I’d rather deal with the 05s or the Board just yet.

[@Hyperversum3]

Control is explicitely inspired by the SCP Foundation, they said so without any denying it.

[@stephenantonsson_II]

@@Hyperversum3 it’s possible this one is based on control. Fan made content of fan made content.

[@dusting1851]

i always love when i see that this playlist is updated. fills me with joy.

[@paragonofhonor9952]

So, what we learned is: Moon's Haunted. Ikora Rey: What? Me: *Cocks Sidearm* Moon's haunted. *Blast Off*

[@natzo89]

36:15 So they found the Cabin in the Woods facility. We have come full circle.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Can't wait for the connections with some of Disney Channel's cartoons, Mortal Kombat, Marvel, DC, and many more Multiversal places.

[@toaster9922]

*”don’t worry, this hasn’t even begun to get weird yet.”*

[@toaster317]

brother?

[@toaster9922]

@@toaster317 BROTHER!

[@robeastv]

Really happy to see the Oldest House...

[@nicholaspeters9919]

“Yeah, but I’d really wish it would let me out of this bathroom on the next shift.” -The New Guy

[@kyran1681]

Holy shit the thumbnail is from the Hartman fight, I was literally just playing that exact part, less than three minutes ago. Scariest cutscene in the entire game

[@gustajuy5983]

Department of Abnormalities: The Boomer Foundation

[@jaymevosburgh3660]

@@Noobscodee I thought amnestics were used, and they rarely murder innocent civilians? Perhaps i am wrong. (D-Class don't matter as they are no longer considered a "innocent civilian") *edit* I listened to the whole video, should have done so before responding to your comment, I might have been able to get your joke if I had :)

[@heinrichze-france4089]

It's more of a silent era Foundation

[@notrod5341]

Father i cannot click the database

[@sasadw95]

Hey man i really love how you don't just read from wiki but also give us your own thoughts and opinions on things it makes your content 100% better and more enjoyable

[@userwashere]

"The department of abnormalities" Oh you mean Lobotomy corporation? Last thing I heard it got destroyed and turned into Library.

[@sleepy_boi7552]

bruh literally when i heard the name "department of abnormalities" lobotomy corporation is all that i could think also i heard some hobos in blue broke in there uninvited, dunno if they lived or died inside there

[@Hugh_Amungus]

So you're telling me that the Foundation is just *Department of Abnormalities 2: Electric Boogaloo*

[@snowblind9290]

A call back to the old mystique of the SCP foundation. What I love is all the imagery. The technology as it is described, used by the Department of Abnormalities has this old, rustic look to it.; it's not shiny and chrome with holograms and minimalist elements but the feats they accomplish contrast really well with that. So you end up having this mysterious but incredibly powerful organisation the might even eclipse the power of the modern SCP foundation.

[@a33a331n]

The “cosmic moon entity” huh? Sounds like Issac Clark got back to earth in time after Dead Space 3 then. Nice job 👍🏻

[@ant0n-yt]

Easily one of my favourite cannons since it really inspires a whole new perspective by answering so few questions, but also giving a lot of answers.

[@gc6096]

5:17 actually there's 3 the third one might be a still living mammoth that caused everything around it to freeze. It's unknown if it's the only one capable to do it or the species as a whole. The mammoth died because it was an imperfected clone. Also might be the mammoth hide mentioned in Wrath.

[@joenap17]

The ticking clock mentioned as part of "Montezuma's Face" is probably a reference to the Mayan Calendar, which featured a countdown to the purported end of the world.

[@dasdeke]

This was a fascinating insight into DoA vs the Foundation. The DoA seemed better equipped and more knowledgeable verse the foundation. I'd be curious to know what happened to the DoA. EDIT: I also just looked up 5832, I can see why you won't cover that.

[@Hugh_Amungus]

I'd bet 3125 wiped them from existence

[@isa-ql1nr]

why?

[@skullray]

I also looked it up. I think I’m done with the internet today

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

@@Hugh_Amungus or it could’ve been 4008, after all they had one inside of one of 3790’s chambers

[@MrTigracho]

5832? I feel like this is a good representation of "Curiosity killed the cat"

[@djglitch2190]

The SCP foundation in a nut shell: "Let's see how far down this rabbit hole goes."

[@KatelynCate]

36:13 Best Foundation protocol, no contest.

[@squeethemog213]

This is honestly one of my newest favorite scps. Thanks for covering it dude :)

[@nono9543]

I thought it was going to be The Department of Motor Vehicles and I panicked.

[@jamesarmstrongiv8279]

The true anomoly

[@nicholaspeters9919]

SCP 666-J

[@sylviafloof5674]

I heard the word "cactus-verse" and immidiately had a ton more interest. (Not that it wasn't interesting already)

[@quedogs5117]

Lowkey these videos help me sleep at night, (I rewatch them to get all the content tho I love them)

[@jayyydizzzle]

I do the exact same. You ever keep the autoplay on and wake up to the ouroboros cycle compilation video. Swear that's happened a few times

[@michaelwood307]

Bro saaaame

[@craigray7519]

Same here

[@Akimana45]

Dude same. I listen to them as I fall asleep. Also help me dream about crazy shit

[@Heartandthehead]

Ditto.

[@jaydenliberty9536]

38:19 since he was uncomfortable explaining it and I just looked it up, I’ll provide the one possible good thing that comes from such a horrible combination: This means that not only is it canon in this universe that SCP-999’s mother is no longer being subjected to torture to prevent his birth, and that the “horrible procedure we can’t even describe” is a cover-up to hide 999 from the Scarlet King, this means that it has been so for CENTURIES AT LEAST, so this person has been living an idyllic dream life for hundreds of years, which is what she deserves and more (and also implies that the actual “horrible procedure” wasn’t even that bad, it’s literally exaggerated to the point of horror just to hide that it’s no longer happening)

[@Fulgrim2]

Isn’t this the entire SCP Foundation per say?

[@jacobtietjen2099]

God I love the Department. It’s so unexplored and esoteric, but it’s perfect for what it is.

[@lavenstellar1451]

Honestly I think my body has a mind of its own at this time of night. It's that time of course.

[@YuriRamosBragaFerreira]

Dude you have to do a series about the World of Darkness. I would Love to see your take on the lore.

[@danielrowe5674]

Love your stuff man, makes my overnight job a little more bearable, wishing you the best in these troubling times

[@red_menace1829]

Hey exploring series! Just wanted to say I will forever love your scp narratives, I saw you posting on scp illustrated about how most of this work doesn't get seen by the masses, but I just wanna say ive truly appreciated them and your voice has become synonymous with it all :(

[@nkartizan890]

Department of abnormalities be like: Oh that's just lucifers sword Oh that's just the crown of appoleon Oh that's just a cosmic entity now stuck in the moon no need for thanking us 😂😂 And now they like: Oh now you bitches take care of it peace out ✌🏽

[@sebastianacevedo9444]

Pretty much yeah.

[@Bojbop]

Hey man i saw your comment on scp illustrated's video and want to say please keep doing these. They're pretty much my favorite thing to listen to at work and the videos are all really good. Don't let the clickbait animated scp channels get you down.

[@axonaxonaxon]

5832 was absolutley heartbreaking once it clicked what mifepristone was. I dont blame you for not including that one, jesus christ.

[@leahcole8672]

Sorrow is just an elaborate loss joke and I just realized it right now

[@tbrazy2509]

No other moment in my day do I get more excited than when I see you posted a new SCP video🙏🙏

[@VintageRubyFilms]

23:50 Literally the most flawless logic I've ever heard.