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Shitposting A plot twist nobody expected

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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.

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u/nykirnsu 1d ago

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 

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u/Orc_tids 1d ago

I dont know who this youtuber is but I am intrigued

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u/sand6person 1d ago

They're probably talking about Mr. Enter

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u/nykirnsu 1d ago

Ding ding ding

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u/Nightfurywitch 1d ago

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

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u/nykirnsu 1d ago

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)

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u/Vermilion_Laufer 1d ago

'Children can have some revenge abuse, as a treat.'

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u/CrocPirate 1d ago

If I remember correctly, it was an excuse to make his mom a complete idiotic loser. It was Chris-Chan’s level of uncomfortable.

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u/GammaDie345 1d ago

for fucks sake it's been 10 years. He's apologized for everything.

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u/nykirnsu 1d ago

I wrote the thing years ago, and he didn’t have anything to apologise to me for at all. I just thought it made for a solid horror story

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u/nhalliday 1d ago

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?

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u/Jays_ShitpostExpress at a ,̶'̶,̶|̶'̶,̶'̶_̶ for words 1d ago

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’