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At first I thought the collapsible had an awfully silly name for it being in an article, and then I got to the bottom. Verrrrry clever, that. Good concept, too. Especially liked the joke by Smith - very in-line with the spirit of the show, and not overly dark.
Heh, the perfect reference to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air combined with SCP Foundation…
the collapsible was perfect.
The upside-down feature is quite interesting.
Upvote.
were you trying to do
*throws SCP-504*
HE HE HE
HAH
I wanted to hate this for being a shitty gimmick, but you made it interesting in its own right. I certainly wasn't expecting what happened in the 3D glasses test.
I mean, it's still just the first line of the Fresh Prince theme song made literal (and an SCP), but I suppose this is still good.
May I ask what the idea is behind the object falling through the frame, or should I try and read this again to figure it out?
if your reading this your gay
My backstory: There's no indication of this in the skip, but that object is an eldritch creature that was captured on film during an actual episode. It's very very tiny in the background of *some* episode of Fresh Prince, and caused no ill effects to all other copies of the episode it appeared in.
Due to how it perceives time and space, being captured on film caused it to be *captured* in that moment on this single copy. And it's weird as shit because it's struggling to get free. That 3d glasses thing? Closest it's gotten to freedom in a decade.
The theme song is, oddly enough, the only thing that stops it from escaping(acting as barriers at the start and end of each episode). Even though we can't hear them anymore (by design of the thing that wants out), they're still there.
Just imagine a future version of this article where the thing finally gets out and is kept contained in a room by the Fresh Prince theme song on loop forever.
Was a bit skeptical of this skip, but after reading your explanation I'm comfortable +1ing.
And if the whole world is crashing down… fall through space out of mind with me.
HOW
HOW DID YOU MAKE THE FRESH PRINCE INTO A SKIP
I… have no words.
Just take my upvote.
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I loathe this article. I loathe it because it uses a horribly annoying (with no payoff) gimmick that has to be countered by means too silly to capture, in my mind, as anything but a joke article. This is essentially a meme made as a skip. Further compounding this is that any potentially interesting lore or backstory of interesting anything you have is buried in shit that's a chore to read due to how you present it and by how convoluted it is to figure it out (I certainly did not get it until I read your comment).
And even when I did get it… so what? Why is it interesting? Why should I care? What is there to care for? There's zero emotional depth of any kind, and it literally reads like one part creepypasta (those "Lost Episodes" ones), one part meme, and one part gimmick combined to make this not worth it. If you wanted to bring out a story about an eldritch horror from some form of media trying to break free, why not… actually write that? Why go this route?
But what it boils down to as the most major of all complaints for me is the gimmick. This article would work just as well if you removed the upside-down gimmick, and even though I'd still downvote, you'd at least make it easier for your reader to care.
-1
Downvoted because SCP-1989 already exists and is better than this SCP, neutral-voted because the Will Smith joke made me laugh and there was thought put into it that made it at least somewhat different to 1989, although not enough for me to upvote.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Yeah, I was initially very confused about this, and I assumed that the crediting of the Foundation staff was an indication that someone had been screwing around with 1989.
I… feel like I was ready to upvote it based on the ending (explaining the reason for the collapsible text was rather amusing), but I feel like if this was written 1989-agnostic that I'm actually somehow less impressed, as I kept waiting for the tie-in to kick in. No-vote for now.
For the record this was not written with 1989 in mind. I sorta wish I'd known about it before hand, but I believe it's different *enough* to stand on its own (even if it is using some similar concepts).
Never seen a scip with upside down text like this before. Gotta love the collapsible caption.
+1
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