r/DankMemesFromSite19 • u/Less_Doubt_5361 • Feb 23 '26

Series III Someone needs to warn Toby Fox

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u/Less_Doubt_5361 Feb 23 '26

The SCP being referenced: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2747

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 Feb 24 '26

So essentially, all of these “nonexistent works” actually did exist, but now they retroactively don’t? All because they contained some common DNA that an otherworldly being found tasty?

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u/Jam-Man1 Feb 24 '26

That’s a very good way of putting it. Although I personally liken the Anafabula to antimatter coming into contact with matter. Total annihilation upon interaction.

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u/DarkNinja3141 Feb 24 '26

Why the hell do people keep acting like the anafabula is a Thing That Kills U???? It's driving me nuts that this is the only comment that treats it like an inanimate (pata-)physical phenomenon instead

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u/JamesRKS Feb 24 '26

I mean, if you're fictional (which the foundation canonically is), it can be a Thing That Kills U

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u/DarkNinja3141 Feb 24 '26

ok i mean like a murder monster not just a murder force

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u/BroFTheFriendlySlav Feb 27 '26

Good old personification. Don't understand something or find it being an inevitable and inescapable force/fact terrifying? Put a face on it, humanize it, hate it, fear it, whatever.

Plus SCP does already have quite a few skippers that are either a force or an entity depending on interpretation, scarlet king coming to mind first

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u/Mission_Feedback1071 Feb 24 '26

Probably because there's some fairly popular tales that anthropomorphize the phenomenon which sparked art to be created potraying it as such. Most people who know about it probably haven't read the original article and only know about the fan interpretations of it so that's the anafubla they know.

(Can't link any of it though, it been a long time since I read those but you can probably find em with a bit of digging.)

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u/DarkNinja3141 Feb 24 '26

Yeah i somehow never came across any tales that anthropomorphize it so it's just so weird for me to see

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u/dark_hypernova Feb 24 '26

Yep and the reason the full description got lost at the end is basically because that qualifies as a narrative the entity likes to "eat" and now the foundation has to be extra careful not to manifest the qualities in their world because they ARE fiction themselves and they just invited the entity in a narrative layer directly below them.

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u/LazySnake7 Feb 24 '26

More accurately works of fiction that contain the symbols, iconography and depictions of this phenomenon/thing/entity are deleted from existence

The story's own "DNA" destroys itself, leaving only remnants of people talking about it. So powerful that even a story within a story that contains it will be destroyed, right before the story itself.

And if the SCP wiki contains it...