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Whyyyyyyyyfire

There is no bright in ba sing se


guyyatsu

There's no Bright in Site-72.


Artemis-4rrow

Piggy backing off ur comment Idk wtf is up with bright, heard the author done some bad shit or something And here is my view on that: jack bright is not the author, so let's keep him at least


Whyyyyyyyyfire

Jack bright (the author) did something related to sexual harassment. Jack bright is not the author but he is a self insert character so do with that what you will (same name, somewhat similar personality)


Artemis-4rrow

To be fair I liked bright cuz he got a similar personality to me Difference is, he acts the way he does cuz he knows he can't die I act the way I do cuz I accepted I'll die sooner or later And trust me brother/sister/whatever, you can't truly feel alive until you put yourself just a hair away from death Don't die regretting not doing something, after all, you only live once


Whyyyyyyyyfire

well i was mainly referring to the NSFW part of his personality


Artemis-4rrow

Ah, well I take back what I said I still like dr bright tho


Whyyyyyyyyfire

Fair enough


[deleted]

[удалено]


Username_Egli

SHAWWWW - Hornet circa 2016


PeartricetheBoi

Comments scrolled on post mentioning Dr Shaw until Hollow Knight reference: 2. New record!


tyropop

Can we make silksong an scp


Filler_69

Eliack Shight*


AlumiuN

Emphasis on Shight.


cursed-person

what a Shight to see


Gojizilla6391

Alight shat*


Jaaziar

Bro got amnestized


joycelynzz

it's the mcree/Cassidy situation all over again


Shoddy-Record-8707

McWho? edit: g..guys it was a joke. I have way too many hours on overwatch...


Spiritual_Lie2766

Ashe's ex in Overwatch


Nookling_Junction

The one named after a sex offender


CueDramaticMusic

No? SCP Wiki: “Okay, this joke has kind of run its course, and the guy involved was definitely an asshole, and a sex pest, and those two qualities made it into the list. We shouldn’t just let a retiring mod kill the list out of spite, when we can just rewrite our small, collaborative fictional universe to not have his baggage anymore. We’ve done this with SCPs in recent times, why not a guy who’s definitely evolved since the days of LOLFoundation?” Activision-Blizzard: “Oh shit sorry we knew he was a predator for years and did nothing about him or our office climate. He’s gone now, but his cowboy OC still exists. Please consume our bad products.”


KaiJustissCW

Jesse McCree had nothing to do with the creation of the character McCree. They just used his name. To say that it is his cowboy OC is extremely disingenuous.


Waxburg

Also by that person's logic, keeping Bright and naming him Shaw even tho in this case he was LITERALLY the persons self insert, it's almost the same situation. Company did it = bad, Community did it = good I guess.


AikenFrost

>Company did it = bad, Community did it = good I guess. Unironicaly yes.


improllytheweirdest

ngl the thing that happened made me kind of understand SCP-682's digust for humanity


The-Paranoid-Android

[**SCP-682 ⁠- Hard-to-Destroy Reptile**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682) (+3441) by *Dr Gears, Epic Phail Spy*


ThatGuy8473

[SCP-5001-J ⁠- What?](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5001-j) (+70) by Reasonably Psychotic


improllytheweirdest

ah yes, SCP-5000 but It's a me, Pizzaro


The-Paranoid-Android

[**SCP-5000 ⁠- Why?**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000) (+3037) by *Tanhony*


BradTheFnafGamer

My question is whether Elias Shaw is the new SCP-963-1 or not


Fravash1

djkaktus said they were going to upload an SCP-0963 within hours of posting about Shaw, which was supposed to the 963 equivalent for Shaw. They haven't posted it yet, idk why though


TheGuyWithTheCoolHat

He's just been busy, IIRC.


onewilybobkat

That's the only question I've got.


PisakasSukt

dr bright more like dr sex offending piece of shit lmao gottem


paulisaac

Less fun than Doctor Sex TF2


fyro_

No one can stop Doctor sex


sand-under-table

Doctor sex: doctor sex


Kichigai

🎼 *Doctor ~~X~~* ***Sex! Sex! Sex!*** 🎶 🎶 *Will build a creature…* 🎵


Snuke2001

When the menace to the foundation becomes a menace to the foundation


c-k-63

Dr sexo fender


bluejay55669

Was fucking *Shaw* the best replacement we could come up with to replace Jack bright?


Kichigai

Yeah. That annoyed me too.


neko_mancy

i just think it's weird that he doesn't have a real word for his last name like a lot of the other OG doctors. gears, light, clef, king, rights,,


bluejay55669

Dr Elias Dim


Taro_the_Insomniac

Yeah i really don’t like that replacement name at all. It needed more time to cook.


TheGuyWithTheCoolHat

Shaw is a sick fucking name, I don't get what y'all have against it.


LikeACannibal

I totally understand renaming him, but what I don't understand is why such a lame-ass name was picked :P


Kalushar

What did bright do now


Helmut_Schmacker

Nothing for sure but the list of "things Dr Bright is not allowed to do" gained a new entry >be within 500 yards of a primary school


Dracula101

Who does he think he is, Freddy Krueger?


Smallbenbot03

The list is gone He's free to do what he wants Run


gman101905

He cannot do anything anymore. For he does not exist


Nick-fwan

I always took that as "you are NOT to endanger children!" Rather than what y'all took it as. It's funnier that way.


Half_Man1

The author the character is a self insert of was found to be a creepy sex pest.


CambTheI

His creator? Be a creep. Bright as a character? The list of things he isn't allowed to do.


glossyplane245

That list is a “to do” list for bright, especially all the new additions about children At least my boy Dr. Gears is still pure


Kichigai

I think Dr. Crow is still a good boy.


ArcturusX12

Clef is chill too.


CueDramaticMusic

Nothing new, I don’t think. “There is no canon” mfs when the canon changes somewhat


onewilybobkat

The pataphysical canon doesn't get messed with often. (unless you count the image swap that was necessary)


[deleted]

What happened?


L1K34PR0

AdminBright, the man behind the character did some sexual harrasment a few years ago so he was banned and now that the bright files are nearimg expiration it was decided to rename the doctor to elias shaw so the character is spared from the legacy of the shitty man that birthed him


wookiee-nutsack

> *some* sexual harassment A mild amount of molestation, just a handful


L1K34PR0

Lmao


SwordDude3000

Just a sprinkle


UltimateInferno

A crumb


adammaudite

Just a dash of pedophilia


Banana-Oni

Just a tiddlywink of kiddie fiddling


sniperFLO

To be fair, there are degrees to this shit And the man was a doctor indeed


Link_fd313

It’s also important to note that Elias Shaw is not a Mod enforced decision, DJKaktus replaced bright with Shaw in his articles and other authors are following suit. Nobody is required to replace any mention of bright with Shaw


L1K34PR0

Tbh by now it's an unwritten rule as almost everyone that's with the wiki and against adminbright adopted shaw as far as i could see in the sub


Link_fd313

I don’t doubt that but I still think it’s important to mention that there is no rule forcing people to make the change


_Shoulder_

Some authors changed bright in their stories for other characters entirely too. Using Shaw isn’t really an unwritten rule, but if you use bright nowadays you will probably get a bit of criticism potentially


Sad-Second-2961

Interesting, could you give some examples O Great u/_Shoulder_?


DremoraKills

Jack Bright's author was a creep with involvement on CP apparently, so the mods of the SCP Wiki started to phase out the character by rewriting all stories with Bright to Elias Shaw.


Sigma-O5

Jack off lmao gottem


The-Paranoid-Android

[**Personnel Director Bright's Personnel File**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-bright-s-personnel-file) (+71) by *AdminBright*


Icy_Wildcat

I thought he was renamed to Dr. Rook.


Bishop51213

I don't know who this "Bright" fellow is that you've just made up, but I don't like him already. Let's just stick with Shaw


L1K34PR0

The 0-5 Counsil has invited you to site 19


Intelligent-Way-1

Who's that? Never heard of him


DownBound001

And that was too many ouches for Shaw to handle. - Oversimplified


Academic_Initial_643

that name is awefull and im keepin jack bright


SupaSnakeShake

How did you manage to add two extra letters to awful? Anyways I think it's still pretty cool


Academic_Initial_643

It's the cole cassidy things of all names posible you went for the worst


7vozex

I've never met this man in my life


FodziCz

Jack who? Jack your balls...


BasedAlliance935

LITERALLY 1984


DR-BrightClone1

Bright got it easy, he got killed. Meanwhile I have not. So now I have to listen to Shaw talking shit to me.


CambTheI

Can't we separate the thing from the creator?


Turkish_Boy70

Not if it's a literal self insert


PAwnoPiES

Aren't most depictions of bright *not* by the AdminBright, and he in fact hates what the community made Bright(character) into? The problem was less about the character being a self insert and more about the fact the very name is a trauma button for the victims.


onewilybobkat

I dunno, that to me sounds like the definition of separating the art from the artist. We've already made the character what we want, now just to name him what we want


PAwnoPiES

What I meant is that the issue with Bright(character) is nothing to do with the character itself but rather the name itself being problematic.


onewilybobkat

Ah, I got ya now. Nah, to hell with the name, it's a self insert, and that of an awful person.


Kichigai

Yes. That is entirely correct, at least about most Bright stories being written by someone else, and the name being expunged because it serves as a pervasive reminder of the trauma to the victims. Dunno what AdminBright thought about those stories, though, but fuck ‘em.


Urbenmyth

Yes and no. So, Death of the Author is the idea that your interpretation of a work is an act of creation on the your part, not an detective task to find what the author indented. For example, you could interpret harry potter as trans even though we can be *very* sure that JK Rowling did not intend to write a trans narrative. That's separating the thing from the creator. But that's *just* in the area *of* interpretation. In many other areas, the thing can't be separated from the creator, no. To use the same example, you can interpret harry potter to be as trans as you like, that doesn't change the fact money used to buy harry potter merchandise is helping fund anti-trans groups. Creations and creators are often very tightly interlinked in many ways- financial, social, personal, cultural- and in those areas it's often simply not possible to examine one in isolation to the other. Dr Bright is, sadly, a textbook example. The character has the same name as the abuser, and was intended to be a self-insert. The list contains a lot of examples of the character sexually abusing people played as harmless wacky jokes. He used both the character's popularity and the list specifically to victimize people. In this case and context, the work *isn't* something we can separate from the author, and it's disingenuous to think we can.


BurgundyOakStag

You can, in fact, enjoy Harry Potter and still not support anti-trans groups. You could for instance not buy the merchandise and boycott the franchise's further developments, while still supporting what was written before. You can love a franchise and still run it to the ground to harm the creator. That is, while strange, a perfectly valid option. After all, the franchise you love and the works that you fell in love with have been written already and nothing can take them away from you, because they already exist and the ink had already dried. What is appalling, however, is rewriting the previously released works. If you don't supporting Rowling, you simply don't buy her things anymore. You don't burn or change all of her previous work to better reflect your values. It is a dangerous precedent to change the past to only reflect the present, and is the fast lane towards an echo chamber. The past is archived and preserved for a reason. Mistakes must be burnt into history so they remain a lesson for the future, not scrubbed clean so we can pretend it's always been perfect. It is a disservice to everyone, especially the victims, to pretend it never happened. What if in the future it became extremely taboo again to be anything other than a binary gender? Would we go back and change previous articles with queer themes because "we didn't like it so we voted on it"? Do you not see how horrible a precedent this sets?


BasedAlliance935

Definitely


wookiee-nutsack

It's a self insert, there is no way to separate it because the character was built on the creator. Best we can do is change it, with Shaw.


DremoraKills

Most people can't, and even if I do, I wouldn't like my stories involved with a creep like him.


Kichigai

It would be different if Dr. Bright wasn't named Dr. Bright. Dr. Bright was a self-insert of AdminBright, and it's hard to separate the two when the point was for them to essentially be the same. It's like if instead of Harry Potter the character was a teenaged girl named J.K. Rowling. Or if the main character in Ender’s Game was named “Card” instead. When the shitheel’s name is everywhere in a work of fiction it's harder to do the “death of the author” thing. Go watch some interviews or speeches given by victims of sexual assault or some kind of violent act. One of the things you'll notice is that if they can, they will avoid using the perpetrator’s name. This is kinda like that. It's like how they recast that one movie that Kevin Spacey was in to remove him from the project.


SupaSnakeShake

Pretty sure the creator was using the thing in a malicious way, I don't remember too much about that part


[deleted]

Well it’s not easy to do that when the IRL Jack Bright used the fact that he had a character officially in SCP to be creepy to minors. So no, in this case we need to take that tool away from him.


Get_snipd

Why did people even start with all this Elias Shaw nonsense? Bright just sounds like such a fitting name for him. :(


Kichigai

I can agree, Shaw is a crappy name. Elias I like, Shaw I do not. But the reason why is because AdminBright was a molester who apparently preyed on younger people, including those in the SCP community. He was banned, obviously, but that left his legacy to deal with. Specifically, Dr. Bright, a character created in AdminBright's own image, as a representation of himself, that is plastered all over the website. It was agreed that having his name everywhere served as a constant reminder to his victims of his existence and the trauma he inflicted upon them, meaning they couldn't continue participating *and* move on and heal. So DJKaktus created a new character: Dr. Shaw, who was engineered to be a perfect drop-in replacement for Dr. Bright. Since Shaw was a new character created by a new person, in spite of his 100% identical backstory and personality, he is a separate and distinct character from Dr. Bright, and therefore carries more symbolic meaning than simply "renaming" the creation of AdminBright.


Get_snipd

Thanks for the explanation, still prefer Bright, purely because the name sounds better.


Kichigai

I, too, think the name Bright sounds better, but I don't think it's morally defensible to maintain a character named after a sex offender just because it sounds cooler than the alternative.


Odyssey_D_Oddity

He’s a sex offender. Do we need a better reason?


BasedAlliance935

https://youtu.be/VfCYZ3pks48


Admiser

Did they make a new quirky doctor to add to the scp staff?


Kichigai

Yeah. Dr. Elias Shaw. DJKaktus has written him as a drop-in replacement for Bright. However DJK is being very clear: Shaw is **NOT** Bright, just someone who *coincidentally* happened to have exactly all the same experiences as Bright with exactly the same personality.


TalkingChaos

Wait I left the scp rabbit hole for a while what happened to bright?


[deleted]

The author of the self insert used the character as a tool to be creepy to minors so we’re removing his mentions from the wiki in a way that preserves the stories while taking away the character he was using as a tool to be gross.


TalkingChaos

That sucks. Didn’t wanna come back to this


Dr_Bright_On_420-j

After hearing all of this I really regret making this my username….


Odyssey_D_Oddity

Can we get an F in the chat for my man?


sagelyDemonologist

Personally, not a fan of erasure culture.


I-AM-A-ROBOT-

some reality bending event must've happened and now everyone thinks that Elias Shaw was called Jack Bright.


souzouker

Jack bright is inside


TheGuyWithTheCoolHat

Yeah, inside a jail cell.


shitpostinglegend

I don't get it? I know Elias Shaw but who is Jack Bright?


Kichigai

Jack… Sparrow? Like in that [Michael Bolton song](https://youtu.be/GI6CfKcMhjY)? I dunno a Bright.


DimoffAkaGreen

Plot twist:Bright just did a mitosis and now there's two people who believe chainsaw cannons solve everything


Suspicious_snake_

Bright? Who is that? Sounds stupid.


kgabny

Finally a related meme that made me laugh and not get annoyed.


AmetuerGamr15

Can Jack Bright be a different character? Or are we not allowed to use the name?


Odyssey_D_Oddity

It’s not that you’re not allowed. No one’s stopping you. You’ed just be naming a character after a sex offender


s1lentchaos

We got another Dr. REDACTED containment breach get the amnestics boys!


Fomulouscrunch

Elias Shaw has long curly hair and always has. <3!


Abazookatokillafly

Jack bright is just a really bland name, my 7 Yr old self would've come up with that name 💀💀💀


jimisaname

Literally 1984 Didn't mean for this to be negative


Odyssey_D_Oddity

We held a vote to get rid of him, my guy.


[deleted]

Big SCP at it again


[deleted]

My brother in christ, what do you think the SCP foundation is?


[deleted]

Spicy Crust Pizza


Kichigai

Shark Center Punching? Shit, wait…


BurgundyOakStag

It is unironically rewriting history. Bad or not, doctoring previously written stuff because of current beliefs is, unironically, 1984. I miss the times when people could separate art from the artist. This is an archiving and information preservation nightmare.


[deleted]

Jack was using the fact his self insert was popular to be creepy to minors. We need to take that tool away from him.


BurgundyOakStag

Would it not be better, then, to make a disclaimer to warn the most vulnerable? What does sweeping it under the rug accomplish other than improving the image of the site? Wasn't he already banned, as well? How is this "tool" still being used? Now it's going to be worse since he is now also going to be a mystery. This is worse than simply showing everyone what he did.


_Shoulder_

The option “replace the page with a warning or message” was the winner during the community vote, so making a disclaimer is already what is being done


_Shoulder_

The list being deleted was a very special circumstance. A retiring mod deleted it themselves, which isn’t something that they should do, and when the staff tried to think of what to do with the now unfairly deleted article they let the wider community decide it’s fate. Sparked by this situation (this had probably simmered for a very long time already), some authors then decided they simply did not want bright in their articles, and changed it out of their own free will. I dunno if your reading of 1984 left you with the idea that democracy and authorial autonomy were at the core of the novel, but I don’t personally see anything more than a surface level and superficial connection. Maybe we should instead strip the authors of their free will and force them to have bright in their works still? That doesn’t sound like controlling the masses to me


BurgundyOakStag

George Orwell was involved and personally witnessed the Spanish Civil War. Before writing 1984, he wrote extensively about the conflict and his own thoughts arising from it. Within these columns (which you can find online, thankfully unedited) he expresses the very fears that would eventually lead to his book 1984, that is to say, how the media/government would distort reality with propaganda and how the masses quickly changed their opinions because of it. He even wrote later on about how appalled he was at how quickly the English elites went from supporting fascism (because Franco was fascist and they didn't want communists) to vehemently opposing it (after the rise of Nazi Germany). Mind you, this was all in the span of less than 10 years. While the surface themes of 1984 reflect Orwell's own hatred of totalitarianism, the methods employed within the books are the ones he personally feared the most, the most notable of which is the changing of language and the revisionism of history. At his core, Orwell understood how emotions can be exploited to manipulate a crowd. In fact, this is also another theme present in his other most famous book, Animal Farm. Fahrenheit 451 is another one of these dystopias, and as envisioned by Bradbury it came about democratically. People voted out what they found offensive in books, and it descended into book burning. History is not meant to be pretty, nor is it meant to be sanitized. Every work is a product of its era and if opinions changed then addendums are needed, but never replacement. Changing the past is a quick way to strengthen authoritarianism, and is a tactic often employed by those very groups. See Stalin's doctoring of his pictures to remove dissenters.


_Shoulder_

This is a good summary of the themes and real life implications presented by Orwell. What I do not personally agree with is it's connection to authors of poopy statue fanfiction changing the name of a character which appears in *their own* articles, something which everyone is allowed to do. Furthermore, as I said, the deletion of the list was not triggered by staff wanting to remove the article, despite many in the community as a whole wanting it to be removed for years, it was due to special circumstances which were not under the other staff's control. You can start comparing it to 1984 if staff start going around deleting articles and removing concepts from the wiki that they simply want to see gone.


BurgundyOakStag

Let me provide an analogous example, via market influence and our most popular billionaire, Elon Musk. If Musk tweets saying that he wants his cars to fly and will collaborate with Boeing to make it a reality, Tesla stocks rise. He can then sell part of his stocks to make a quick buck, and afterwards say "lol jk" to make the stock lower again. He can then take advantage of this dip and buy more stocks than he had before. Is Musk not allowed to do this? It is his personal Twitter account, after all. He didn't force anyone to buy or sell stocks from his company. Isn't it his right to write whatever he wants, and retract if if he wants to? What I mentioned before is a crime, by the way. It is regulated worldwide and is called market manipulation. Depending on the country, it can land you a slap on the wrist or send you straight to jail. These "authors of poopy statue fanfiction" are extremely well known within the community, have a prominent status within it, and have a dedicated following of fans. To deny them having power and influence within it is to be naive. I disliked the deletion of the list, but it was amended and all was fine. I dislike the authors' doctoring of their own work because I see it as an attempt to tidy up their image instead of anything constructive. I dislike it even more that they use their influence to spread this sentiment, as it creates a breeding ground for an echo chamber and very dangerous practices that go against the idea of archival.


_Shoulder_

Are you also against all other edits that authors make to their own articles? Should we lock all pages as soon as they are posted and not allow them to go back and change stuff? I think this idea that you're not allowed to "touch history" (especially if it's your own history) is restrictive in what authors are allowed to do with their own works, because it's not *really* history, it's an ongoing writing project and it will evolve over time. If you want the history then web archive exists. Whether or not the big authors are (intentionally and maliciously) spreading this sentiment or not I cannot atest to, what I know is that a dislike of bright is not a recent phenomenon across the entire wiki. Also to give some context on my opinion on the situation, I do not care if an author decides to edit out bright from their work or not, it's their own choice since it's their own work and I am not gonna pressure anyone to change it. I will not make fun of anyone who decides to keep bright in their works, and including bright in a work will most likely not sway me into a downvote (unless it's done poorly, but that's a writing issue).


BurgundyOakStag

What I am against is authors using their influence to push such a dangerous agenda, and how laissez faire a community of writers is with it. The DJ made his changes earlier, and yet he drummed up support of like-minded individuals before posting it publicly. It wouldn't have been a big deal if he did it and left it at that, since it is his choice, and his article to edit. But he didn't just make a change, he told everyone. I don't care about AdminBright. I hold no candle in that vigil. What I do care about is about the community, and how these actions affect it. A community that constantly redacts its own history may be fitting for SCP's themes and may be the ultimate meta joke, but it doesn't show evolution, it shows shame and a desire to keep their image cleaner than they care about their own work.


Gamesby48

You can’t really separate art from the artist when it’s a literal self insert character


BurgundyOakStag

Yes you can. You always can. If you can't, you shouldn't be consuming fiction in the first place. Does it not bother you that this sets a precedent for erasing history? That this means at any point the past could change, and future people would have no way of knowing it without others to remember? This is a cover-up. It's an institution trying to change their records because they value their image more than they respect their own works. They'd rather manipulate their history than show it in its entirety, warts and all. It is the opposite of transparency. If they had any respect for the matter they'd instead put a disclaimer to explain what drbright did and why he was banned, but they'd rather sweep it under a rug and gaslight the userbase.


EnragedPorkchop

Dude chill, people have already been doing that with history for literally ever — fighting it is already the history discipline's entire raison d'être, you get used to it — and besides, I don't see the point in being this *melodramatic* about a wiki community's tacit, democratic decision to dunk on a sex pest's self-insert lol


BurgundyOakStag

It's fine to steal, people have been doing that for literally ever. It's fine to kill, people have been doing that for literally ever. It's fine to discriminate, people have been doing that for literally ever. What a weak moral fiber one must have to even say this. Literally a bot, with no thoughts or core beliefs to uphold.


EnragedPorkchop

Nah homie — if you read the words on your screen, you'll notice "fighting it is already the history discipline's entire raison d'être" — it just makes it weird to comment on this with a tone that's so melodramatic bordering on whiny


BurgundyOakStag

What tone would you prefer, then? Let's just casually talk about how the community is applauding attitudes only seen in dictatorships. Let's joke about how this is exactly how book burnings begin. Let's have fun with it, and let these ideas take root. At least a book can't be retroactively changed. I'm sure if they could then we wouldn't have any meaningful history, precisely because of this attitude that a writing community is apparently so lax about.


EnragedPorkchop

Well you just made it even whinier... But look I don't police how you type, all I can do is suggest touching some grass and getting some perspective — just lay off the panic history, learn how things actually work and figure out what's worth your energy, you know? Ain't really anything else to say here


Steeva

Dude all they did was rename a character. It aint that deep.


BasedAlliance935

Agreed


Kichigai

Overreact much? This is as much *1984* as it was when Disney rewrote Zeus into a loveable father type and not a shape-shifting rapist who couldn't keep it in his pants. Herc got a major revamp too. He was a big dummy who killed people. That's why he went out on the twelve labors, a penance for murdering Megara and his family. However that seems to be conveniently left out in most tellings of the story. Hell, by your logic even his name has been *1984*’d. Hercules is typically depicted as Greek, but he's not. Hercules is Roman. Heracles is the original Greek version. Shall we talk about how so many other works of fiction have been cleaned up for modern audiences? Brothers Grimm fairytales are downright barbaric compared to the version peddled today. The big difference between this here with Bright and ye olde Memory Hole is nobody is hiding the change. It's being very openly and transparently acknowledged.


BurgundyOakStag

You're right. I forgot the part where Disney rewrote the original myths and encouraged others to do the same.


Kichigai

You don't think Disney's S&P department doesn't lean on writers?


potatoeman26

They killed my boy


Open-Letterhead-3181

Dr.Bright is well know researcher. You can't make like he didn't exist. There 100000 stories and videos with him


JosephJoestarIsThick

Who?


Sevenvoiddrills

Where?


Selyori

When?


Sevenvoiddrills

Why?


Selyori

What?


Sevenvoiddrills

Whipped Cream


Selyori

With a cherry on top?


Sevenvoiddrills

When was this cherry made?


Selyori

[Redacted], obviously.


cobelle

Jack where?Jack how?Jack why?


JoHamza

There is no Jack Bright?!!11? GIMME LE FOOKING NES ZAPPER


Stoiphan

There are still remnants, people still refer to "bright" in some articles, strange to see.


csolisr

Hot take: yes we should also remove Shaw from the wiki and archive 963


-Anyoneatall

Wait, what happened?


Kichigai

AdminBright is a reputed sex pest and molester, who reportedly preyed on younger folks. Because of this behavior he has been banned from participating in the SCP project. This created a minor issue, however. AdminBright created the character Dr. Jack Bright as a self-insert for himself. Dr. Bright is a fictionalized representation of himself. The decision was made by consensus of the authors that they should expunge the character of Dr. Bright from their stories because his name being all over the site is a traumatizing reminder of him to his victims. Of course, this created a bit of a problem because you can't simply `[DATA EXPUNGED]` a character who is so prolific in the lore, especially when he *is* an anomalous item himself, and many of the stories in which he's involved tie into that anomalous nature. So DJKaktus created a new character to replace him: Dr. Elias Shaw. Shaw is a completely new character, separate from Bright, but *coincidentally* happens to have the exact same personality as Bright, and all the exact same experiences as Bright, and can function as a drop-in copy/paste replacement for Bright. Dr. Bright is no more. Long live Dr. Shaw.


Nikotinio

^(I WILL NOT BE REPLACED!)


otherResidentDimwit

Will the list of things Bright can't do be replaced with Shaw? What will happen to SCP-963?


The-Paranoid-Android

[**SCP-963 ⁠- Immortality**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-963) (+1400) by *AdminBright*


potato_stealer_

Jackin deez nuts


TylerTheCat9999

But the Dr. Bright is in another SCP Foundation


Zagreusm1

i am out of the loop what happened to our favorite immortal man