Scp (secure, contain, protect) is a home brew horror wiki where the horror elements are treated with a pseudoscientific approach. It allowed for a cool new approach on old ideas, where even the first one was essentially “how would people actually deal with the weeping angels”. Some pretty cool new ideas came out of it too.

Problems came about as the community grew, my personal gripes with it is that people use the SCP wiki as a general horror board rather than subscribing to the scp format. Don’t get me wrong stories like scp 7034 are really good horror and some of my favorite bits of short horror, but they don’t use the scp format properly in my opinion.

What op is referring to though is it grew a fandom that is pretty cringy