#scp-pl-kot-j

[dxl44]

i think a lot about the time someone uploaded a picture of their cat to the scp wiki as a joke article and the actual funniest part of the joke was how it became the most controversial thing on the wiki for a week

[scp-torment]

SCP-529: Josie the Half-Cat

SCP-529 is a small house cat (Felis catus) with grey tabby markings. Parts of the animal to the rear of the end of the ribcage appear to be missing. The body terminates sharply as if sliced in two.

SCP-PL-KOT-J: It's a social experiment (Context)

This has no description. It is a picture of a cat.

[scp-torment]

SCP-666-½-J: The Roaring Flames of Hell

SCP-666½-J is a crab-stuffed mushroom entrée produced by the internal Foundation catering service Containment Cuisine for the 45th annual Site-19 Foundation Formal. Roughly 42% of the 1,500 attendees consumed SCP-666½-J and were subsequently affected by its anomalous properties. SCP-666½-J's effects started to become apparent approximately one hour after the conclusion of the main course, at which time event goers began to complain of slight abdominal pain. By the second hour, many attendees were complaining of significant digestive distress and all restrooms in the immediate vicinity were filled to capacity with extended queues. By the third hour, medical, investigative, and plumbing personnel were being flown in from surrounding sites to aid in relief efforts.

SCP-PL-KOT-J: It's a social experiment

This has no description, it's just a picture of a cat.

[scp-torment]

SCP-5109: The One-Time Password

SCP-PL-KOT-J: It's a social experiment (Context)

[scp-torment]

Vote for all the Polish SCPs because our country is so fucked and it's the least you can give us

Are you guys alright between never being able to leave Słupsk or the no context cat picture that's technically from there

[dxl44]

Okay, so the KOT lore. I'll do my best to explain...

First off, if you've never been on the SCP Wiki itself before there's something to explain. Anyone can create an article, but an article's fate rests in the community through upvotes and downvotes. If an article's score goes too far into the negative, it gets deleted.

SCP-PL-KOT-J started out as an article on the Polish branch of the wiki. It was initially uploaded in this form - just...as a cat. And it was initially downvoted on the Polish branch for...well, just being a cat. All silliness without substance. A good laugh for a second, but not much more.

However, the article wasn't deleted. It was instead archived. The Polish branch uses an archive system, where an article with a deletion-worthy score can still stick around as an archived SCP outside of the main lists. Why would you do that? If another article relies on that article for its story and links back to it. And what article could have possibly been created about KOT...?

An article detailing the SCP-PL community's obsession with it.

Now, here's the kicker - you can still vote on archived articles. So because of this new article, people actually went back to KOT and UPVOTED it, bringing it out of the deletion range and free from archive jail.

That brings us to the English wiki's iteration of KOT. The English SCP Wiki hosts some translations of articles from other languages. What better to "translate" than a single image? SCP-PL-KOT-J, dubbed a "social experiment", hit the English wiki - and some people immediately knew what they were in for. Just look at the discussion forum for the page.

Note this author note in the discussion page. Will people downvote it to oblivion? Yeah, that seems likely given that unlike the Polish branch there's no other article accompanyi-

Yeah.

Needless to say, some were not happy. What followed was a bout of people debating the validity of the article. Some people were calling for it to be deleted without taking the votes into account. Others went as far as calling it an insult to the wiki. Some people shrugged it off - it was a joke article, who cares? It's not like there haven't been jokes like it before that were received well (see: SCP-____-J and "how do i delete articles"). But at the end of it all, despite a somewhat significant split in votes... KOT survived to this day.

Anyway, this was probably the most significant event to happen while I was an active lurker on-site outside of 7kon.

i think a lot about the time someone uploaded a picture of their cat to the scp wiki as a joke article and the actual funniest part of the joke was how it became the most controversial thing on the wiki for a week

[optimisticlucio]

Doing Internet Beurocracy to let people post international articles on the English site was all worth it for this article in particular.

i think a lot about the time someone uploaded a picture of their cat to the scp wiki as a joke article and the actual funniest part of the joke was how it became the most controversial thing on the wiki for a week

[abira-tome-blog]

Idk how to specifically reply to one set of tags but to those confused about the name:

SCP: mandatory opening prefix

-PL: Prefix denoting that this is a translation of a article from the Polish branch. This is mainly done to avoid confusing overlapping numbers, which obviously doesnt matter in ths case

-KOT: This would normally be the 3/4 digit scp number itself, but it has been replaced with what I can only assume is the polish word for Cat. This is because joke articles do whatever they want.

-J: Suffix denoting that the article is a Joke(tm) and shouldn't be listed with serious articles or taken seriously.

It did not at all occur to me when I first saw this post that to somebody only familiar with the classic SCP-XXXX format this name looks like actual gibberish.

i think a lot about the time someone uploaded a picture of their cat to the scp wiki as a joke article and the actual funniest part of the joke was how it became the most controversial thing on the wiki for a week

[afklancelot]

This aint even half of it. On the japanese branch of scp wiki, scp-pl-kot-j is rated at -114. It's the third most disliked article on the jp branch, as far as I can tell.

Also, side note: the second most disliked article on there, frog, is just a picture of a frog, in the same vein as the kot article.

i think a lot about the time someone uploaded a picture of their cat to the scp wiki as a joke article and the actual funniest part of the joke was how it became the most controversial thing on the wiki for a week

[scp--official]

And that’s a very anomalous cat, what’s it to you?

i think a lot about the time someone uploaded a picture of their cat to the scp wiki as a joke article and the actual funniest part of the joke was how it became the most controversial thing on the wiki for a week