Exploring the SCP Foundation: Self-Replicating SCPs

[@Fine_Print_]

Really didn't think there were this many self replicating SCPs. Guess it makes sense that they just keep making more of them.

[@nathanielhubbard9863]

Amazing dad joke 10/10 would recommend

[@dorkydragon5055]

Heh

[@Altarill]

Booooo! BOOOOO!

[@アニメのゴミ]

Heh

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

The dad joke aside, I honestly would like to see more of these Self-Replicating SCP’s. There’s something interestingly fascinating about SCPs that can multiply in some fashion and form.

[@AspelShuyin]

You don't mention my favourite part of 3199: That the whole thing is a joke reference to the time Plato said that a man was "a featherless biped" so Diogenes, the chad that he is, threw a plucked chicken into the room and said "behold, a man!"

[@vanessaashford9203]

I also just realized 3199 could be considered the SCP universe's *really* disturbing take on yoshi. Now all we need is some reality bender who rode around on the back of one as a baby (somehow without getting internally liquefied or eaten). Honestly, just that fact alone should make said individual qualify as a Keter class anomaly.

[@amberharpoonminecraft4322]

@@vanessaashford9203 3199 must also be wearing shoes. this is undebatable.

[@redjirachi1]

Diogenes is so based they made an SCP off his jokes

[@Minotaur-ey2lg]

“I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he surprised?”

[@CarlMax001]

Oh my god that's why it's called humans, refuted. Not only is it a reference to Diogenes but also it's only 2 words. Genuinely genius

[@NicholasKratzer]

As cool as the Archon designation is, SCP 1661 should really be Thaumiel, since they contain the tentacle thing for the Foundation. Archon is usually used for something that would require breaking the Masquerade, killing all of humanity, or similar extreme things to truly contain it.

[@insertname9140]

I still think it fits since what archon means is something that can be contained but shouldn’t and I feel like that scp fits that description.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

@@insertname9140 I agree, especially since they leave them out in the wild since locking them up only caused the problem they’re preventing to get worse. But nowadays with secondary containment classes, it would definitely be Thaumiel as well as Archon

[@MoonlitRose101]

It's archon, but not the best example of it.

[@AspelShuyin]

The tentacle thing is the source of the drones. They're the same anomaly.

[@KirigayaKazutoBeater]

@Sabizos Not all archons are thaumiel though. Archons don't necessarily help contain other SCPs.

[@thesuperdoge2476]

That last SCP is the best Self-replicating SCP yet, the idea of reviving thousands of times just to die again in your own coffin is horrifying, not only that you also slowly evolving and losing yourself with each revival too

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Where did it say anything about losing yourself? Who’s to say she doesn’t retain her humanity psychologically?

[@andrewgutierrez4841]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 Given the changes to her neurology, her mind is likely also changing as well. At the very least, the experience(s) is traumatic enough to change a person all on their own.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

@@andrewgutierrez4841 Good point, being resurrected buried in a coffin over and over again would drive you insane.

[@21stcenturysquid]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 also it was noted her brain is developing a pronounced amygdala and shrinking other portions

[@grayfiresoul]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 Given the morphological and physiological changes to this extreme, whatever personality this being would have, would deviate far enough from a human one as to not be recognizable. There's only so far you can go before form begins to influence psychology altogether.

[@CarsonZXY]

You'd think an NK-class "grey goo" scenario can only be written so many ways and only tell so many stories, the Foundation finds your lack of faith disturbing.

[@TwilitbeingReboot]

Where... Where we... ...Where we droppin', boys?

[@nuclearfusion.2355]

Scp Dr: "Everything will be fine in a day!" "The subject was quickly incinerated." Oof

[@brianjensen5661]

Dick move, Doc. Dick move.

[@anonymousprime1738]

At some point I need to get on the patreon because this is literally the only channel I actually refresh my page until I get new uploads

[@motormac22]

Honestly same though it’s the only thing in my life that I specifically stay up and wait for

[@DanielSan1776]

Every 6-7 days *OH BOY! IT’S 3AM!!*

[@fireraider98]

Who has a krabby patty at 3 in the morning.

[@handlemonium]

Um, do you happen to like good storytelling? Cuz I can recommend another few channels to you.

[@PureheartFisher]

@@handlemonium pls do

[@jesseberg3271]

Sounds like SCP-871 could lead to an X-cake class end of the world scenario! _crickets chirping_ I'll just show myself out.

[@Martdogg3000]

I think you did good. 👍

[@Hugh_Amungus]

I'm mad I didn't think of that one earlier ffs

[@michaelandreipalon359]

You smart son of a murglak.

[@brianjensen5661]

Go on *GIT* !

[@TheMountainMan-wz8xf]

I thought it was funny.

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

16:00 To this day that image of 3199 is, personally, one of the creepiest things that came out of the wiki

[@o5-1-formerlycalvinlucien60]

most likely.

[@TheCrazyCapMaster]

@@o5-1-formerlycalvinlucien60 uuhhh I think we got a containment breach 🤣

[@TheActualMrLink]

It’s definitely up there.

[@huxleyleigh4856]

Agreeeed

[@NicholasKratzer]

Yeah, it strikes the balance between "enough detail to feel creepy" and "enough vagueness to let your imagination fill in the blanks". It's a hard line to walk, but that image nails it.

[@Sara3346]

Humanity Refuted is one of the few SCP's that really gets to me in a nasty way.

[@Sara3346]

@Sabizos I mean sure but platos man did not lay near indestructible eggs did he?

[@zap4th368]

@@Sara3346 I mean, (and I’m channeling Diogenes here) Technically nothing can be destroyed, only transformed or separated into parts.

[@Lunar994]

If cannibals see humans as food, and cake is slang for the buttocks, could SCP-871 potentially spawn a human posterior?

[@dorkydragon5055]

Cup a Joe shenanigans

[@ETB3341]

Use the cannibals banquet scp and find out.

[@JustAnAverageGuy5731]

What? 💀

[@iclickog7096]

That I could contain

[@Remembrance1776]

The Partygoers would like a word with you!!! 🎈 🎊 🎂

[@zachsin2411]

The keter version of SCP 173 just shows how even a relatively easy to contain anomaly can become a world ending scenario with just the minor change of being able to self replicate

[@zap4th368]

I mean, a grain of sand is a world ending scenario if it follows the cake logic. Exponentially growth is SCARY.

[@Hugh_Amungus]

SCP-2679 is horrific. It's like Edge of Tomorrow, but you're buried in a coffin and keep respawning until you escape

[@michaelandreipalon359]

And then there's probably the M A G G O T S

[@michaelandreipalon359]

That said, extremely unnerving that they're getting more inhuman for every "save scum".

[@brandon9172]

hugh mungus what

[@TwilitbeingReboot]

It's probably best to just never wish for anything if you live in the SCPverse.

[@laxmastiffgaming6351]

SCP 2009 was such an interesting take on the cordiceps fungus.

[@davidlauderdale7147]

The last SCP is so horrifically amazing. Really got my nerves up watching this late at night.

[@riverfoster7404]

Fun fact about the containment procedures for 871, it’s actually the sweetest gig a D class can get. The procedure is just to have them eat it, they can volunteer for additional sessions, and ones that are useful and do it regularly don’t get terminated monthly (takes place in the interpretation that all D class are killed after a month)

[@ZikedY]

The eventual health problems with having a lot of cake will be present, assuming the d-class lives long enough to get them

[@riverfoster7404]

@@ZikedY they do it in three person teams, and presumably they’re not having the same people do it every single day. A chunk of cake a couple times a week isn’t ideal for sure, but it’s a level of excess calories that can feasibly be managed

[@FelipeJaquez]

So thats what Nick Avocado is doing.

[@20firebird]

the alcubierre drive is a (theoretical, of course) faster-than-light engine, which would function by contracting the space in front of it and expanding the space behind it. i imagine the engine in SCP-2161 is a more abstract interpretation of the alcubierre drive - expanding _figurative_ space as it travels.

[@derekdrake8706]

Infinitely expanding graveyard. That's one thing I never understood about graveyards, do they dig up old graves or do they just keep getting bigger? Most people are like"Oooh. Graveyard so spooky!" and I'm like "Pffff, graveyard so inefficient."

[@ambustio9807]

Both, graves get forgotten by families, die off or move somwhere the grave stones are removed and new graves get made but bodies are left in the ground well what's left of them at least but graveystds buy more land also cremation is becoming more popular so that saves some space

[@TwilitbeingReboot]

I believe some graveyards are used more like a composter than a landfill, with the bones eventually being dug up and relocated to an ossuary to be packed in more tightly. Presumably places like the U.S. haven't needed to do this yet because land is still relatively cheap and abundant.

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

One of my favorites is a house that has,like, a bunch of clones of a guys dad. If I recall it was a very sad scp . Forgot the number though

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Not about a dad, but there's also SCP-4662, which is about a son.

[@Lunar994]

SCP-2080

[@FelipeJaquez]

Gary!

[@possumwithacowboyhat5140]

This must be genuinely one of the best channels on KZbin.

[@DanielSan1776]

He truly is.

[@raumerherr1057]

definitely one of my favorites

[@michealbishop9776]

Great video as always first thing that came to mind was SCP-1689 even something simple can be terrifying if on an infinite scale

[@ricardohoang8452]

It can be an XK SCP

[@warriorscholar41]

Penn Gillette of Penn and Teller once said, "if you take anything and add infinity to it, it becomes hell."

[@mouseblackcat5263]

POTATO!!!

[@SA-mo3hq]

A proud salute to all our comrades assigned to that most punishing containment detail: Cake Munching

[@brianjensen5661]

Their sacrifice will be honored in the coming empire.

[@FelipeJaquez]

Nick Avocado: "My time has come."

[@aby110]

Matilda moment

[@lavasharkandboygirl9716]

You know the scary part? Exponential self replication isn’t an anomaly, it’s part of our day-to-day life

[@camera2178]

ok but what about linear self replication

[@noahschneider400]

Love compilation videos like this. If one anomaly isn't your thing you just wait a few minutes. Besides, in my opinion self replicating anomalies are the bread and butter of SCP and include some of my favorites.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

I’m glad this evolved into more than just monsters

[@LordDoom10]

Those self replicating papers is probably the result of folding space. He shortens the distance between him and his destination, but has to put the missing space somewhere. So he puts it into his book. (Although I question the potential outcome of that space not being put back.)

[@averagedoc3633]

I just finished reading Starch and Cream, if you’re going to keep getting in my head like this, you gotta start paying rent

[@ovhek1]

I look forward to this every week. Keep it up and thanks!

[@RevenantMain1]

These are some of my favorite scp themes on the wiki. SCP-173 developing a self replicating anomalous trait is simple yet unbelievably horrifying and has a tonne of cool tales about that Canon on the wiki

[@jossefyoucef4977]

Big thanks to your series for getting me through commute to college, I've been binging it almost everyday for the first half of this year. Keep up the amazing work!

[@andreworders7305]

The injuries on the people in the coffins sound like they were trying to break out of the coffins before suffocating. They may have been buried alive or born there fully grown by anomalous means. Possibly the same person repeatedly reborn with their previous deformities from injury intact?

[@whackedoutcookie4393]

Man I haven't heard these songs in an ES video in a while. Reminds me of the first year I found this channel.

[@kingcrowbro2486]

"This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!"

[@ethantaylor9613]

Infinite replicating cakes if you don’t eat them every day was always my favorite.

[@cokeMONSTERps3]

Good collection. I've always loathed the human-chicken murder monster for being so absurdly try-hard. I'm pretty sure that's a common idea regarding it. I really enjoyed the replicating grave. That is some horrible, Horrible, horror. I think you missed the actual punctuation of the entry by saying "what will do when it goes against the Foundation?" When the actual horrorific question we're left with is what will its family do once it finally returns to them.

[@etherealtranslationtm]

These SCP's that come every Monday morning is like coffee for a week for me.

[@overlordtycon564]

T.E.S I always say "oooo new T.E.S" when i see a new upload . Love your work, you are the best to translating a scp/files/story and making it into a documentary style or you play the parts well. Thank you for the hard work and letting me listen to all these gems.

[@andreworders7305]

Nice to know the Foundation cared enough to relocate the actual graves.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

0:52: SCP-871 2:57: SCP-2009 8:52: SCP-1661 15:33: SCP-3199 25:44: SCP-2161 29:14: SCP-2679 You're welcome.

[@koroplays3200]

Cheers mate, love TES's videos but I've listened to 3199 so many times that it's just kinda boring now.

[@lowresqueso]

Love the grouping of many similarly themed SCPs format. Always fun to listen to

[@Fulgrim2]

Yay, the self replicating cake has arrived!

[@HCG]

The anomalous exhaust SCP is the type of SCP I wish there were more of. A simple, yet very intriguing idea that makes you wish there was more lore surrounding it.

[@thesarkicadvocate6072]

Let Them Eat Cake taken to a new level

[@PadecMaybeReal]

Damn i was playing the old videos as background noise and boom new video. Awesome.

[@MrJodrick]

Has anyone told you that you have the perfect voice for SCP content? You sound almost, unreal, but also calm and melancholic... I used to love the volgun but now your Def my favorite

[@Raunefault]

I'm all up in my feels today, your videos help break that up. Your videos are a welcomed joy. Been reading the wiki more and more, almost want to try my hand at writing something now. Let me add that to my list of things ADHD will have me start and finish in 6 years.

[@Blastertronus]

It was abut high time someone started talking about that cake!

[@eiden2616]

Really wish I could afford to donate to you guys. You are just awesome. Always got interesting content. Great voice and pacing too.

[@codykrepps7711]

I need to get on patreon. This is the best channel on KZbin, and the only one I look forward to every week.

[@am.i.coolyet40]

I love your videos, keep up the great work! Have you ever thought about making videos on the backrooms and the entities that reside in them?

[@homeishere2089]

I like the big videos of super complex and story driven scps, but i really do love these compilations of smaller ones.

[@MrMinecraftman56]

The best SCP channel I know, the best gets my bell ringin'. Lol

[@ArchonZach]

Imagine you're a D class you've been through hell and back one day the foundation is just like today you're gonna eat cake

[@theoneguyoverthere]

So hear me out: Put all instances of SCP 3199, hatched and unhatched, in the same location as 096. Best case scenario, problem solved, all 3199 instances gone without a trace. If for some reason 096 disposed of everything but the eggs, at least we potentially have an effective means of keeping the current 3199 population from further growth. If 096’s enraged state somehow doesn’t get triggered by the gaze of 3199 instances, well… since the creatures can liquify bones, maybe we can call it a 096 termination attempt.

[@saucevc8353]

There's no reason to go that far, resin does a perfectly good job of containing the eggs. The problem is that the SCP foundation doesn't have all the eggs, as there are still plenty of creatures living in the wild. All your solution would do is cause incredible destruction as the two SCP's battle it out, inevitably leading to a dual containment breach when someone else attracts 096's attention and the 3199 instances escape through the hole in the wall.

[@violetsapphire952]

Does anyone else feel like the sequence of changes described in SCP-2679 is going to culminate in Jeanette finally emerging from the ground as SCP-096?

[@dongsondoantran2233]

That... actually explains the behaviour of SCP 096, plus it's capabilities. Damn. Sucks to be Jeanette.

[@andreworders7305]

It’s nice that the drones are careful not to hurt humans and go out of there way to rescue them.

[@greenhowie]

Its like that bit in the Digimon movie when they think they've finally beaten the bad guy and it turns out no there's tons of them

[@KenshiImmortalWolf]

with the last one, the way it kept getting taller, hairless, with no genitals, albinism and longer fingers... the finished version would probably just be, the shy guy.

[@Kitsaplorax]

Sounds like a job for the unkillable reptile or a party on the dead earth.

[@Yotarnn]

Thank you for these uploads, I genuinely love your channel.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

It’s like the old saying, there’s power in numbers

[@nineflames2863]

Shouldn't 1661 be Thaumiel? It's an SCP that contains another anomaly after all.

[@adolfodef]

It is because of a "technicallity": There is no (currently) an independent SCP_designation file for ~whatever~ that indestructible creature. -> To be a Thaumiel, an SPC must be used (or expected to be used) to contain OTHER SCPs. Aditionally: Since the "core" of the flying sapient 1661´s instances are also "vital" parts of the indestructible creature (to the point that it feels necesary to retreat & hide), it could lead to complications if an O5 order to destroy this creature "by any means" is issued [ as it would potentially lead to the necesary destruction of a Thaumiel ]; something that requires unanimity in votes. -> By not granting them those implied "special Thaumiel rights", The Foundation is "reserving" their right to terminate them whenever is convenient (meanwhile using them "de facto" as Thaumiel_like, but without containment).

[@yahiryellow1]

It's no longer called thaumiel but hiemal

[@S0ulGh0st]

3199's looks gives me the creeps.The eggs resilience make it so much worse

[@Thespinneroftales]

I think it would be neat if you covered dream-based scps

[@vanish4549]

No way!!!! I just clicked to watch a video while trying to sleep and you upload love it.

[@biassicalabria3055]

Every monday morning is a blessing when you upload. Listen to every video On my way to work makes it a nice ride instead of a jarring one

[@LORD4GIVEME1991]

Smoked a fat one now time to for scp from my favorite scp historian/librarian

[@docrussian1806]

Fuck yeah late night scps vids are awesome

[@Imaproshaman7]

This was really good. Like most people I heard about the cake one, but the other ones are new to me. Pretty interesting That last one about the coffins though, it gives me vibes of that painting that sends you to that buried house. You try to dig out but the dirt you keep tunneling through always collapses and you suffocate to death. Throughout the dirt is corpses of your past selves, but you never remember that you died before. Either way at least the one told here has a potential for escape. But at what cost? You're not even you anymore. Pretty terrifying.

[@geoffreythomson5275]

Love the uploads dude :)

[@ВикторВикторов-щ5ю]

The art for 3199 makes me want to throw all of the instances into an Einstein-Rosen bridge, for them to exist and suffer eternally, but never arrive anywhere, nowhere.

[@Inferno144]

If I had a nickle for every time I found a Self-Replicating SCP, I'd have six nickles! Which isnt that much but its odd that it happened six times.

[@TheMountainMan-wz8xf]

Nice.

[@toooes]

02:00 Marie-Antoinette got a lot of flak but I think that her cake plan would have worked out

[@UGNAvalon]

It’d be hilarious if 1661 was related to, or the same entity as, the Bass Strait creature. “I want to see. Do you see? Ouch! Eek! Go away! My eyes! I don’t want to see! I don’t want to see! Leave me alone!”

[@alemon2367]

Finally we get to the cake

[@Sweet.peach21]

I already listened to this on Spotify but I have an extra hour before work so might as well rewatch

[@benparrish672]

Great video, per usual. I'm addicted to SCP's. Best thing to fall asleep to

[@ElijahRhyne]

So grateful to be here so early.

[@gustajuy5983]

How many bacteria does it take to change a lightbulb? 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048

[@FrustratedCucumber]

This is why I love Monday's

[@alexandermattox2552]

SCP 1440 is quite interesting and would probably be pretty fun to do a video on

[@magnusthereddidnithingwrong]

I’ve been voting for this one on Patreon for what feels like half a year. 😂

[@o5-1-formerlycalvinlucien60]

This is the earliest i've been for your videos. Also, i'm 15th (i think?)

[@karagongro-malog]

Silly idea I had listening to this. SCP-001 Gate Guardian was the original Foundation site. Mankind was the first self replicating organism it was supposed to contain.

[@NoahGooder]

funfact under the terms of 871 Subway sandwiches would be counted as cake sandwiches so a subway footlong would reproduce.

[@nikoclesceri2267]

871 only replicates what Society considers cake not what one court ruling in one country only done for tax reasons considers cake

[@danielpalecek4090]

if the cake was created in like year -1000, it would not have any scp foundation and it could get lost and then fill entire house and then would be 2 late to stop it.

[@Malconeous]

Holy fuck boys I can't handle all these SC3P0's I need a drink

[@Noname0039]

It's a good video. Hope to see your growth.

[@Ncryption]

Just in time for sleep thank you sir

[@justinsmith5870]

Scp i've previously heard covered but collectively an interesting theme all the same. How about one on anomalous buildings? Preferably in the sense of anomalous locations.

[@greencreeper9144]

Check out tatstopten's top scp buildings Though they're short, they compiled a lot and briefly described them

[@user-pr6ed3ri2k]

10:56 "THey" in subtitles

[@AkumaGaming22]

This man deserves more subscribers

[@PotooBurd]

This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌

[@burnsoles]

Love this stuff

[@HazzardousEco]

Was really hoping that SCP-1689 would be covered here; a dimension full of self replicating potatoes lol

[@shiva_hardly_sarcastic]

the way he says baumkuchen is really cute ngl

[@user-pr6ed3ri2k]

21:39 you could say it was chicken scratch lol

[@Lazarou101]

Anyone else think the last one sounds like an origin for The Shy Guy?

[@garrettreven5144]

"Archon" is so rare I thought it was a different SCP 😅

[@liboriovillalobos3308]

Can’t believe he just left out scp-173 like that!

[@brianjensen5661]

That was a tale.