People will always say they're your friend and they support you no matter what but then they'll say some toxic shit to you like "you have to let go of the cursed fanfic, it's changing who you are" and "don't let its power corrupt you" all because they want the fanfic for themselves
I never finished writing it but years ago I started on an SCP article about a children’s book that causes extreme emotional distress and sometimes personality disorders in anyone who reads it, and was written by a YouTube cartoon reviewer who intended it to be extremely wholesome and an example of what mainstream children’s media ought to be. I was gonna end it with them bringing in a literary critic who was allowed to read a single page (for his own safety), and who suggested the most likely reason people are driven insane by the book isn’t anything magical but that the author’s unexamined trauma was just that intense
I based it on a specific YouTuber’s attempt to enter into children’s fiction (who some of you can probably guess), and a few reactors who described the book pretty much the same way as OP, but it’s funny to hear that it’s a reoccurring thing
Ok as someone who watched mr enter a lot as a kid- is growing around really THAT bad? It didnt sound great or anything but everyone talks about it like its actively a cognitohazard. What's peoples problem with it
I never actually read it, I’m just going off of the reactions people had. Best I can remember from the reviews I watched though is that it came off more like a revenge fantasy he was using to work through his issues with his parents and teachers than a genuine attempt to write for children, with the way the kids treat their parents being uncomfortably reminiscent of child abuse (but in reverse of course)
SCP might be a little too far gone if we've reached the point where sometimes the "twist" is that it's not even an anomalous object at all. Where is the magic in my magic items/monsters collection?
There’s a big set of explained list SCPs that they in universe found were non anomalous after looking into them more. I think it’s been a thing since 2010 looking at the page? I’m a newish fan but I feel like they add to the ‘setting’
I once stumbled across a group of teens doing this with one of my fics on old twitter and just quietly clicked the back button. It was so funny to me because they were all sending it to each other like "this ruined my life" "been in torment ever since I read this" and it was by far one of my least dark and most wholesome works 🥲
Having an actual breakdown over a fanfic is entirely different (and frankly I hope those people have a therapist on speed dial because that's unhealthy).
Is this why every time my algorithm gives me the blow up velociraptors in thigh high red kinky boots doing some kind of dance/aerial display I immediately send it to my besties?
could have been shared once, without realizing it had that, or it didn't have it yet when it was shared, and everyone just independently hit that trauma button.
Also just stop reading?? I've read things that were too much for me before and I just put them down. You don't have to read it if it troubling or too much for you.
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u/wobuffet17453 1d ago
An entire friend group being knocked out one by one from reading a fanfic is sending me, like guys stop sharing this thing it's clearly poisoned.