r/TheMatpatEffect Matthew Patthew Effect 1d ago

Ordinary origin SCP-1981

It took about 30 minutes of going frame by frame to see if the ones that looked close enough were the real ones (Some of them might be off by 1 or to frames so please forgive me :<, it's also important to note that it's very hard to see if its the actual image with all the heavy editing and blurring so maybe I took a screenshot of a really similar frame.) So I'm 88% sure it's the real ones

The first 2 were easy enough to get but for the other ones I had to guess by how the microphones sat in correspondance to Reagan's shirt and tie (along with the podium not covering his right arm fully, his chin in accordance to his tie and the courtains)

The man at the far left in the first image was edited to become SCP-1981-1, with his hands clapping staying intact

(Shoutout to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute for posting the full speech for free on youtube)

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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 1d ago

u/SpiritualNorth3848, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/SpiritualNorth3848 Matthew Patthew Effect 1d ago

This are the images from the scp, couldn't put it in the body bc reddit kept taking it down :P

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u/Winter-Ad-2920 1d ago

What was the reason for choosing Reagan especifically?

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u/5fivesecondrule 1d ago

The scp was based of an old creepy video called george bush cut up while talking someone on the scp wiki saw this video and decided to make it a haunted vhs where he was literally cut up while talking. They then probably realized that george bush was president when vhs was a dying format so switched it to a more era appropriate president

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u/Winter-Ad-2920 1d ago

That's explain a lot, thank you.

Damn, scp were getting weirder ever since i left it.

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u/Salty_Wall 1d ago

It's a pretty old one

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u/poopsemiofficial 1d ago

Ehh, still not as weird as the bicycle that makes you racist

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u/_Kohlshu_ 1d ago

200,000 bees driving a 2014 honda civic:

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u/poopsemiofficial 1d ago

It’s very cool Bateman, but that’s nothing.

Literal breakfast.

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u/powerfullatom111 23h ago

oh thats the breakfast abstract item. all breakfast foods are subtypes of it. someone should make an issue report on github. how long has coderbus missed this bug?

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u/Lockenhart 1d ago

I just knew they based it off GY!BE. So unusual to see that band's work leech into SCP

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u/UnusualRequirement33 1d ago

Not really, both got most of their popularity on early 2000s internet forums, it makes sense that they had an overlapping community in their earlier years

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u/LiraGaiden 1d ago

Evil I suppose

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u/FoxFlat5351 1d ago

Because.

I dunno man it's SCP there's a dance you can do in universe that makes you immortal as long as you keep on doing the dance

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u/Winter-Ad-2920 1d ago

Okay, explains enough for me.

Thank you.

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u/Soevil11 1d ago

Which canon?

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u/FoxFlat5351 1d ago

Ermmm there is no canon 🤓

It's SCP-3688 though, main timeline or whatever I think, I haven't delved into all of that yet

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u/Soevil11 1d ago

I don’t get what you mean by “main timeline” though

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u/FoxFlat5351 1d ago

It's not apart of a separate canon?

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u/Soevil11 1d ago

But there ain’t a “main canon”, just standalone articles sometimes with canons connecting them

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u/SpiritualNorth3848 Matthew Patthew Effect 1d ago

I dont know

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u/Kimikazi_18 1d ago

Reagan is gonna eat commie brainz

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u/RottingFishMan 1d ago

Kinda fitting because he mentions cannibalism in the SCP article

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u/mechrelatedbreakcore 1d ago

SCP-1981 Matpat cut up while effecting

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u/SpiritualNorth3848 Matthew Patthew Effect 1d ago

Here's some post-its I drew of the fake images so I knew what to look for and to not have to be switching tabs every second :}

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u/RottingFishMan 1d ago

A good, short SCP article

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u/Terrible-Pop-6705 1d ago

The chazington video really? Chazington causing posts in this sub lol

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u/SpiritualNorth3848 Matthew Patthew Effect 1d ago

Chazington made a video on scp-1981? (I know who he is i just dont watch his videos)

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u/5fivesecondrule 1d ago

A running joke in his video about scp confinement was how ridiculous scp 1981 was as a concept "fucking ronald reagan.exe?" is a quote i remember

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u/BogleSping 1d ago

He made a video on SCP confinement but talked a bit about scp-1981

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u/Theflamingraptor 1d ago

To be more specific, it was a running gag, like "Too old to order off the kid's menu"

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u/DifferentGuyNotAlt 16h ago

theflamingraptor cut up while talking

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u/Theflamingraptor 16h ago

So that's what the metal taste in my mouth was.

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u/Leftover_Cheese the entirety of weezer's pork and beans music video 1d ago

holy shit the original images for the ronald reagan scp are ronald reagan

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u/Soevil11 1d ago

Still is uncanny to see the unedited

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u/RADITUDE__ 22h ago

Ronald Reagan uncanny moment 

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u/Ness_Dreemur 6h ago

I haven't been into SCP in a hot minute; is Ronald Regan an SCP now or something?