Psychonarrafunnistics & You: Abandoning the Notion of Funny vs. Unfunny

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+Psychonarrafunnistics and who?¹

— Eli Forkley, Director of DoMC

Before you react to any SCP-FUN-J-X instances, remember the golden rule of psychonarrafunnistics²:

THERE IS A WORLDLINE WHERE YOU WOULD FIND ANY JOKE FUNNY

— Excerpt from "Psychonarrafunnistics: Funniest Thing You Ever Heard"³, Foundation Academic⁴ Archives

Please consult the following AFC (Apparent Funny Class) to B⁵FC (Baseline⁶ Funny Class) conversion table to adjust your reactions to all SCP-FUN-J-X instances based on your baseline⁷ NBR values.

Narrativism	Believability	Reality	AFC	B8FC
<0.5	>0.9	<0.2	Neutral	Very Funny
<0.5	>0.31839	<0.2	Funny	Unfunny
<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	Funny	Unfunny
<0.1	<0.1	<0.1	Very Unfunny	Funny
=0.5	=0.5	=0.5	Unfunniest10	Very Funny
=0.5	=0.5	=0.5	Unfunny	Very Funny
=0.5	=0.5	=0.5	Funny	Very Funny
=0.5	=0.5	=0.5	Very Funny	Very Funny
=0.5	=0.5	=0.5	Funniest	Very Funny
>0.9	ANY	<0.7	Unfunny	Funniest
ANY	ANY	=0	Unfunny	Neutral

_{P.S. If you do not have access to NBR values of your canonical bundle send an email¹¹ to Sr. Researcher J. Anselm Harkness to request access to latest NBR approximations.}

— Maria Jones, Director of RAISA

Item#: FUN-J

Level6

Containment Class:

JOKE

Secondary Class:

{$secondary-class}

Disruption Class:

{$disruption-class}

Risk Class:

{$risk-class}

link to memo

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Special Containment Procedures: Interacting with SCP-FUN-J-ONE in a narrative, believable or real way is expressly¹² prohibited for all Foundation personnel, except for the members of the Ethics Committee.

Update 20██-██-█: A copy of SCP-FUN-J is to be attached to the end of SCP-FUN-J documentation.

Update 20██-██-██: A survey, SURVEY-FUN-J, designed to collect emprical data on the psychonarrafunnistic effects of "pure"¹³ jokeme exposure is to be provided to any personnel reading the SCP-FUN-J file. All personnel reading the documentation is required to fill and submit SURVEY-FUN-J. Failure will result in immediate and permanent demotion to D-Class.

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Description: SCP-FUN-J is a list of 30 jokes. These jokes are believed to have a one-to-one mapping to all possible jokemes.¹⁴ Experiencing some of these jokemes can cause was-that-it syndrome¹⁵, IDGI¹⁶ symptoms and PK-class events¹⁷. These symptoms are consistent with current psychonarrafunnistic¹⁸ models.

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Addendum 1 | Discovery Log: SCP-FUN-J was discovered when an author (SCP-FUN-J-AUTHOR), a character (SCP-FUN-J-CHARACTER) and an audience (SCP-FUN-J-AUDIENCE) walked into a bar and I (SCP-FUN-J-ONE) ordered a beer.¹⁹

Based on the discovery log, the following theories about SCP-FUN-J-ONE was developed, is still in development and will always be already developed by RCT-Δt:
- SCP-FUN-J-AUTHOR has descended through the narrative layers.²⁰
- SCP-FUN-J-CHARACTER is a narrativotemporal anomaly originating from a parallel narrative-space-time.²¹
- SCP-FUN-J-AUDIENCE is a reflection of a future noospheric continuum acting upon our fabula.²²
- SCP-FUN-J-ONE is an amalgamation of SCP-FUN-J-AUTHOR, SCP-FUN-J-CHARACTER and SCP-FUN-J-AUDIENCE formed by thaumotemporanarrativistic interactions between these entities.²³
- The purchase of alcholic substances has no relation to the anomaly.²⁴

— Arthur Joseph Blanchard Jr. #62, Leader of RCT-Δt Temporal Intelligence Community Applied Task Force L-100-A "Literally 100 Arthurs"

IT WAS JUST A JOKE, STOP ERUDITING ABOUT IT

— SCP-FUN-J-ONE, CEO²⁵ of Psychonarrafunnistics

Addendum 2 | SCP-FUN-J

1. -Psychonarrafunnistics & You: Abandoning the Notion of Funny vs. Unfunny

2. A hybrid research program focused on jokeme discovery and identification. Did you remember?

3. That title works on SO MANY LEVELS.

4. THIS IS FICTIONAL ACADEMY DONE BY FICTIONAL ACADEMICIANS

5. Anyway, when I say baseline, I should clarify: Baseline is an illusion.

6. The baseline of a character in a story is one, the baseline of our reality is one, the baseline of anywhere is one.

7. One is arbitrary.

8. The point is that the baseline of the story is equal to the characters'.

9. $1/\pi$

10. If you ever feel like a joke is unfunniest, enact protocol THINKER immediately to avoid known narrafunnistic hazards.

11. WHO IS SENDING EMAILS IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD AUTHOR 20██

12. CHOO CHOO!

13. Under the standard narrativistic model a jokeme is comprised of a meme/narreme paired with a signos/logos quanta. For more information look at this slide for hours. I did.

14. The real jokeme was the lau… *gunshot sounds*

15. Was it?

16. Did you get it?

17. Personalized K-class events. Common examples include regret induction, irreversible ontokinetic reframing and/or character development. You are having one right now.

18. DID YOU ALREADY FORGET THE MEANING OF MY REALLY NARRATIVELY IMPORTANT RELEVANT ACADEMIC JARGON? I am a teacher you know… I will not make you just remember it. I will make you UNDERSTAND it. The teachings will continue until ERUDITION improves.

19. I might have ordered two. Not sure.

20. This may look like a "narrative stack," but we avoid such terminology here. A "narrative stack" is erroneous.

21. Regardless, usage of this system to describe literal narrative reality is erroneous and obsolete, as there is no linear vector to/from other narrative planes.

22. Even the books you read from are not the narrative plane they represent. Their two-dimensional narrative quanta creates a three-dimensional holographic projection in another reality.

23. Indeed, you will find many personnel on Foundation territories espousing Pataphysics jargon as if the mere use of the lingo serves as an incantation to bring about further understanding.

24. This one is 100% funny. I would know. I joked it to be.

25. Chief Executive Officer

26. Yeah. Yeah. Everything must end.

27. It has to feel funny. It has to be funny.

28. Baseline is always the same to the character.

29. Our psychonarrafunnisticians will handle that.

30. -From SCP-FUN-J-ONE with love <3

We all had our fun with SCP-FUN-J! I personally enjoyed SCP-FUN-J-24 a lot. Funniest indeed.
SCP-FUN-J-ONE… The way you joke is impressive but SCP-FUN-J is reaching its limit. A few more jokes and this will become a surreal torture chamber instead of a joke. One might even call joking this much an unethical move.²⁶
— A Concerned Third Party, CEO of EC

Addendum 3 | SURVEY-FUN-J²⁷

Select the AFC that most accurately describes the initial reaction you had for each SCP-FUN-J-X instance. Do not attempt to calculate B²⁸FC values.²⁹ Make sure to select one AFC per SCP-FUN-J-X instance. Initial AFC selections were pseudorandomly generated to ensure that you complete the survey intentfully.

Addendum 4 | Hope you had SCP-FUN-J!³⁰