The SiIvaGunner team has approved of the use of episode one of The SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis in SCP-3922, and adapted the sequence for their Grand Finale of the April Fools' Day 2023 event. On the other side, author daveyoufool expressed his approval towards the animation in turn.
In the tale The Young Man, which is one possible backstory for SCP-106, the protagonist's name is Lawrence (which can be long-hand for Larry).note The article was originally influenced by a user finding the picture at the end of the article, and another user's short two-paragraph story based around the picture, which used the name "Corporal Lawrence" as a gag. The original author then expanded the short story into a full one, retaining the name Lawrence.
An SCP-811 fan had the fanon that 811 likes turtles. A few weeks later, SCP-811's article had an update on the requests section in which she requested a turtle in a hazmat suit for non-dietary purposes.
"L O N G C O R G" is a common Fan Nickname for SCP-2952, a very long Corgi used as an international subway system for tiny anomalous creatures. In SCP-3301, a Dr. Wondertainment board game (very loosely speaking) based around the Foundation's universe as a whole, SCP-2952 is referred to by the "L O N G C O R G" moniker as part of the naming scheme for cards that reference SCPs to avoid disclosing the actual existence of said SCPs to non-authorized personnel.
Youtuber and noted SCP Foundation Fan TheVolgun has done voice work as SCP-049, including voicing them in SCP – Containment Breach. When SCP-049 got rewritten, TheVolgun was brought in to record audio logs of 049, making him the canonical voice of the SCP.
Also originating from SCP – Containment Breach, Mobile Task Force Epsilon-11 ("Nine Tailed Fox") has been made canon in the Foundation as an internal security force.
As explained in this essay, the original author of SCP-3333 allowed the article to be reverted to its pre-rewrite state, after the rewritten version was almost universally panned for drastic changes in the contents of the SCP and its narrative.
Voct's appointment as curator of the second volume for SCP-3922's extended logs would eventually become a clear-cut effort to cull repetitive "the TMI shows up and fixes everything" or "Dr. Naismith won't allow this because it's too powerful" entries in response to increasingly negative on-site feedback over this issue, declaring their intent as such in a forum post.
Awesome, Dear Boy: The authors that wrote SCP-6500— the longest work on the site, at over 90,000 words— did a sort of Post-Script Season where they expanded on it massively, and admitted that they did so just because the original work was so enjoyable to write.
Based on a Dream: According to the author's comments, SCP-5045 is based a mix of dream-related topics; they're based on the sort of skips that the author would occasionally read in their dreams, they're based on a nightmare they had as a child where they got lost in a chain-link maze, and the core idea of SCP-5045 in particular came to them when they were half-asleep.
The publication of SCP-5167 directly correlates with an upswing in edits on Pthonus's page in Wikipedia.
Creative Differences: The reason the rival site RPC Authority exists. The exact details were and remain complicated and contentious, involving political views, general community values and site management practices.
Dr. Bright, the author, has tried to distance himself from Dr. Bright, the character, by changing his username to TheDuckman, apparently in part due to the infamous list detailed below in the Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things entry. Later, Bright the Author changed their username to AdminBright.
When writing SCP-2317, the author DrClef created the object class Apollyon, to designate an SCP that was completely uncontainable, and the most we could do was delay it. A case of Follow the Leader ensued, and several other articles adopted the class, causing it to lose impact. In response, Clef changed the class.
Similarly, the Archon class, created for I.H. Pickman's 001 Proposal, was meant to denote an anomaly which is such a fundamental part of the universe or society that containing it would cause more harm than good. Ihp, the author, stated that if it weren't for the formatting of the proposal (which is more tale-like than an SCP), they probably would change it to Thaumiel.
The writer of SCP-3333 claimed to be rather unsatisfied with it in retrospect, citing a clumsily-described monster, dialogue issues, and the first two logs featuring rather idiotic actions on the part of the Foundation (though they remained proud of some things about it). This contributed to the decision to allow another writer to rewrite chunks of the article, including radically altering the nature of the monster itself. However, they were surprised to find that the reception to the rewrite was largely negative, and decided to revert it to the original.
SCP-173's image is this for the site. Not because they hate the look of it, but because the art is not original. It was originally known as Untitled 2004, a statue by Japanese artist Izumi Kato who only learned about the association with his art and SCP-173 much later. He wasn't particularly happy about the situation, but allowed the art to stay on the site because he understood how iconic it was at that point. However, its continued presence became extremely uncomfortable for the mods, especially with people increasingly profiting off of Untitled 2004's look. Eventually, they just decided to rip off the Band-Aid and leave the page imageless, allowing users to come up with their own interpretations. read more about it here.
After getting banned, senior member Fishmonger asked the site to remove all of the articles, stories, and materials he had ever written for the site. Barring his reputation for rude behavior, some site members theorized that Fishmonger was afraid potential employers would stumble across the site. He and his works are still referenced the History of the Universe essays and in SCP-5356, a mausoleum affected by a pataphysical anomaly that causes non-functional remnants of any deleted or rewritten SCP to appear in its chambers if they are referenced elsewhere on the website.
Project Crossover is held in contempt by the wiki's userbase due to its premise as unadulterated Fan Fiction being inherently anathema to the site's CC-BY-SA license. The project is effectively iced with a push to prune or delete it entirely, and finally had most of its pages purged in 2023.
The site has grown less fond of the -ARC system (where SCPs that would normally be deleted get preserved due to staff choice or being referenced in other articles) over the years, and has made them increasingly difficult to search for to reflect this. Like Project Crossover, there are pending motions to get rid of the system and its contents entirely.
djkaktus has stated on at least one occasion that writing SCP-3812 has since gnawed at him to the point of considering deletion, due to its rather large Misaimed Fandom of offsite readers gawking at Sam Howell's ascension above all fiction and reality and using it in Hypothetical Fight Debates despite this not being the point of the article.
Similarly, Dr. Cat's rendition of SCP-4231 is universally hated by on-site readers and authors for making the bizarre decision to distill the Montauk House into a regular "haunted house" story for kids, completely trivializing the article's themes of Domestic Abuse, sexual assault, and the stigma of male victims.
Over 1000 articles had any current or future translation on the Spanish branch disavowed in August 2022, due to concerns over homophobic dogwhistling being involved in an updated policy for translated works on the branch.Specifically...The policy prevents the website logo from being altered in site themes unless it is relevant to the article, like Site-43's logo or that of a Group of Interest. It just so happens that the only reason this would not be the case is to include a pride flag.
When the NFT TCG MetaZoo announced an SCP Foundation expansion, and the response from both the community, and staff, was heavily negative; a member of the SCP Foundation's licensing team posted on Twitter, calling the person running the MetaZoo account 'idiots' for '[hiding] people showing concern about the license' and saying 'Hope you ran this by your legal team first'. MetaZoo does have a licensing page for the product releasing those particular cards under Creative Comments, but it was only put up after the Licensing Team contacted them. It ended up being moot, as the company went under in early 2024.
SCP Explained's video on SCP-2085 infuriated its author Djoric to the point of writing an entire article where the actual Black Rabbit Company insults its entire script, specifically calling out the video's implicit advocacy for the BRC's mistreatment and erasure of Hana's suicidal tendencies.
Several authors of the Wiki (namely rumetzen, A Random Day, Captain Kirby & NatVoltaic) have created, along with non-SCP writers such as notorious niche personality GeorgeHemingto1/noactuallyitspoptart/Mulla Gjorki, the online zine YONQ, where they post experimental pieces of writing.
Author Kate McTiriss later was hired by What Pumpkin and worked on many Homestuck-related projects (most notably Homestuck: Beyond Canon and Vriska's route for Pesterquest).
SCP-8000 is dedicated to the author's mother, who died in December of 2023.
The tale Crying Over Coffee is dedicated to the author's uncle at he top of the page. A comment from the author's account claims that it's based on the struggles they had with caring for their uncle.
Milestone Celebration: Ever since Series 2, the site has held contests for which SCP will take the next 1000 spot known as KCONs (K as in "thousand"), with runner-ups usually becoming the first wave of that series' skips.
The contest theme, appropriately enough for the fourth series (3000s), was Horror (winner: Anantashesha - a giant Moray Eel that eats people to generate the main ingredient in Foundation amnestics, but has heavy tolls on the memories and personal identities of those involved with it).
The 4000 contest's theme was history, and also officially began about a month after the site's 10th anniversary (winner: Taboo - a refugee ground for The Fair Folk that survived the Foundation's massacre against them).
The theme of the 5000 contest was mystery (winner: Why? - the O5 Council declares their intent to exterminate mankind, and nobody knows why).
The 6000 contest had nature as its theme. (winner: The Serpent, The Moose, and the Wanderer's Library - a massive portal in the Amazon rainforest that continues to grow until it encompasses the entire world).
For the 7000 contest, the theme was luck. (winner: The Loser — probability itself is suddenly flipped on its head; unlikely events become likely and vice versa).
The 8000 contest had fantasy as the theme. (winner: A strange, serpentine and seal-like creature intervenes a man's life, giving him the epiphany to appreciate himself and what he has).
What essentially amounts to an entire canon's worth of tales and SCPs, collectively referred to as "Wanderlust", were deleted after the author, called Fishmonger, was banned from the site. They weren't deleted because they were banned, mind you — they were deleted after they threatened legal action. You can read more about it here.
Following the June 2018 Pride Month controversy, the author Von Pincier left the website and deleted everything he wrote for it, including the old SCP-1548: The Hateful Star. Video Killed the Radio Star was written to explain its disappearance: it tried to turn back, only for its anomalous speed to cause it to collapse into a black hole in a strange case of Explosive Overclocking.
Newbie Boom: A few noted by Colbert Bump above - and the community has learned to dread whenever Containment Breach gets a new update or Let's Play, as it often brings in some terrible prospect writers.
Novelization First: Bury The Survivors, the sequel to SCP-5243, was first released as a paid physical novel before being published on the wiki itself. This also makes the story the first Foundation work to first release in a medium completely removed from the website while still being considered official content.
Parody Retcon: Occasionally an SCP that isn't doing well in the main list will be converted into a -J article. SCP-1622-J is one example.
Reality Subtext: SCP-5740, an article about dado giving donuts to cops that make them shit out live, full-sized pigs, was posted in June 2020, about a month after the protests over the killing of George Floyd by police officers.
The author Metaphysician was permanently banned from the wiki after staff found out that he extensively plagiarized from Sethian literature amongst other things. But after a new investigation and new elements came into light, it has been concluded by SCP Staff that the initial punishment was way too harsh and unfair and, as such, Staff unbanned Metaphysician in October 2021 and offered a public apology to him, as well as announcing that they were working on a rewrite of their plagiarism policy.
Similarly, the author Communism_will_win (formerly known as Scantron) was permanently banned from the wiki after they made an insulting comment regarding SCP-4911, an article based the September 11th terrorist attacks, calling it "blatant 9/11-sploitation". Communism_will_win was already on thin ice for almost a decade of poor behavior, and this was simply the last straw. SCP-4911 has since been taken down and replaced, as the original author was 'sick of dealing with it'.
In May 2020, authors GabrielJade (original author of SCP-049) and Eskobar (creator of Alexyva University) were disgraced after it had been discovered that in mid-2018, they sexually and emotionally abused a then-underage user, who left the community due to their actions. This also led to the site raising their age limit from 15 to 18, despite the former user objecting to this.
In August 2021, AdminBright (the same author as the one who made the list) was given a 6 month ban, which was later escalated in May 2022 to a permanent ban after it had been discovered that AdminBright had sexually harassed multiple underage users. The Things You Are Not Allowed to Do page associated with the author avatar was removed in March 2023 out of concerns that the page was drawing attention to AdminBright off-site.
Early 2022 saw the permanent banning of a former admin and the most prolific user on the site, "pixelatedharmony", after she attempted to pull down or else rewrite all of her works (which represented about 2% of all content on the site at the time) and when staff refused to honor this request and talk her out of her spiral, she attempted to dox several staff members. Several of her works have since been rewritten, or are now attributed to 'anonymous'.
Rule 34 – Creator Reactions: Yes, they know that people make porn of the things they write, and are somewhat amused by it, especially considering a large part of the fanart in this category is itself based off of images borrowed under the Creative Commons License.
The original version of SCP-1926 was identified as infringing intellectual property two years after the article was posted and gained over 200 upvotes. The article had to be temporarily removed, its author banned, and was re-uploaded after edits to remove all licensing problems. Although in early 2020, the article was officially removed due to said infringement.
SCP-173's original picture was not released under Creative Commons license, and was nearly removed. Thankfully, the sculpture's creator, Izumi Kato, granted the SCP Foundation community permission to use the picture for noncommercial purposes. In 2022, the wiki staff made the decision to remove the image in order to keep the CC-BY-SA license consistent throughout the article, as the sculpture does not fall under the same license.
As a whole, due to operating under a Creative Commons license, they have to be very careful with images and image sources; several articles have gotten images nuked from them due to improper attribution/lack of permission from the original creator. SCP-111 was almost a victim of this, but it was thankfully resolved, and the usual policy now is to credit the person who created the image in the caption.
As noted above under Missing Episode, the creator of the "Wanderlust" canon had their work pulled from the site after threatening legal action demanding its removal following their banning.
Shrug of God: When asked about what exactly the [DATA EXPUNGED] and Noodle Incidents are, most authors decline to give a straight answer and encourage the reader to fill in the gaps for themselves.
Technology Marches On: The premise of SCP-1004, a computer program that generates any pornographic scene the user types in, sounded more fantastical when it was written, but within 15 years, primitive versions of the same concept existed in real life in the form of deepfakes and AI-generated images and video.
SCP-1465 was originally intended as a rewrite of SCP-105, which had dipped severely in the ratings at the time the former was written, to the point where it was in danger of deletion. It was rejected for being 'too different' from the original article.
There was an attempt to create a Global Occult Coalition Spin-Off, but lack of interest and strict canon lead to the little content created just being folded into the main site.
Staff had plans to create a new site called Project: Foundation that would have been separate from the Wikidot hosting site, which is notorious for problematic web code. However, plans fell through and they are still stuck on Wikidot... until March 2018, when the project was revived again. As of this writing, they are still stuck on Wikidot.
The Office for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts was originally the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, full-stop. Due to the site not wanting to have a real-life organization affiliated with anomalies, it was changed to its current form.
The SCP-3000 entry "I Am at the Center of Everything That Happens to Me," now SCP-3999, was originally not a 3000 entry at all. The author intended to create many other different SCPs with Talloran at the center of them, but always went back on them because of the inanity of said ideas. When Talloran murders the author in a dream, he instead combined his struggle with his focus on Talloran to create the current Mind Screw we see now.note There is heavy symbolism in the article. SCP-3999 as an entity is the author, Talloran is himself as a character the author kept coming back to, and the entire article represents the writing process.
S.D. Locke's proposal for SCP-001 was originally an entry for the SCP-3000 contest. Despite being well-received, the author removed it from the contest because she wanted to touch it up a bit more.
SCP-309-J was supposed to be a joke SCP cataloguing Peter Griffin. But people found the author's mistake funny, and now it has over 1000 upvotes as of February 2022.
The author of SCP-6013 originally wanted to incorporate audio effects like heartbeats and underwater sounds and even a Soonsaran mantra, reflecting how the POV character is succumbing to Raya's Mind Rape. This didn't make it in because the author hit the limit for how much code they could add into the article.
The infamous Things Dr. Bright Is Not Allowed To Do At The Foundation got locked for edits several times because of people constantly adding references to rape, pedophilia and other subject material that were, as one person put it, "Creepy in the wrong way". It seems to have been locked down for good on February 7th, 2014 by Bright himself and was later purged completely following Bright's permanent ban for sexually harassing other users, being redirected to an apology from the staff and a section on recognizing and dealing with abuse.
The extended test logs for SCP-914 used to be free to edit until excess popularity and the resulting deluge of entries ignoring several ground rules for 914's mechanisms forced new contributions to be vetted on the sandbox before being added to the log.
SCP-6500 received a massive expansion in the midst of the SCP-6000 contest, causing the rules for the subsequent SCP-7000 contest to be altered so that this sort of thing couldn't happen again, and edits of that scale were only allowed during the first week of posting.
There exists a page on TV Tropes about the short-lived children's TV show Bobble the Clown.
Some page images for SCP articles are non-photoshopped images of completely-different mundane objects, people, and animals. There are some with particularly notable disconnects between reality and what the article says the photo is:
SCP-1471-A is infamously portrayed by a fursuit.
SCP-2030-1 was revealed in 2023 to be author PeppersGhost cosplaying as Roark "Rocky" Rickaby.
SCP-3512 is the roof of a turtle's mouth, not a brain full of paranormal keratin nubs munching away at it.
SCP-6659 originally had a diagram of the machine's readouts as a page image; the picture is actually from the Large Hadron Collider.
The logo of the SCP Foundation, designed by far2, was based on a free asset from Adobe Illustrator CS3, found under the "Mad Science" asset library, which in turn was based on the electrostatic discharge warning symbol. Said free asset has made several appearances on TV shows as prints on props, including Sesame Street, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Hank Zipzer, all of which predate the Wiki's founding.
Commercial use of SCP Foundation contents is a "tricky" endeavor, as the site is released under a copyleft license (CC BY-SA), meaning that any commercial SCP Foundation derivative work is de facto free content.
during a Q&A stream for the series.
