What is up, my cranky crew? It's Ethan from CrankGameplays and today we are here in Emily Is A Way Too? Kind of? It was Emily Is A Way with a heart. If you remember long, long time ago we played Emily Is A Way, which was basically you're talking to somebody on AIM and you sort of have a relationship, but now it's on facenook.com. Advance your newsfeed by reacting to posts. Let's start doing that.  I can like it and Facebook will say nobody likes this. They didn't have reactions back then, they only had likes. Well, we'll like it. I can't believe this.  Students argue that eating meat should be illegal. I'm gonna skip this one.  Is this a private message? Oh, it's my aunt Karen, your political uncle. Oh, I didn't even read. And then a wine mom, perfect. I'm appalled. You have to cancel this account. There's too much profanity on it. It's upsetting me and Frank. I don't want it on our pages. Hell yeah, thank you so much, aunt Karen. You joined a Facebook facenook 12 years ago. Made you a little something to help remember all of it. Oh no, here we go. Back to 2008. August 29th, 2008. August 29th, 2012 is when I started the channel. Okay, username big boy daddy man 69, perfect. Very good. Wow, look at how good at typing I am. Okay, let's sign up facenook. Please choose your profile picture. Let's do this. Good, Ethan Nestor. Natick High School, single October 24th. Natick, Massachusetts. Ah, Massachusetts, that's actually close to Maine. Matt Gersky. I don't know, Matt Gersky? You made a profile, finally. I guess I know Matt Gersky. Matt is goodbye summer.  Let's say, let's say yo. Whoa, press random keys to type the message. I forgot how cool this game is.  What's good, Matt? Am I your first friend? Lucky me. Look at this. Look at this old school conversation. Can't believe you made a profile. I wanted a Facebook so bad when I was younger. Aimee's dying. Oh, that's so sad. That's what I've been saying. Does Aimee still exist at all? I'm assuming, I don't think it does. It doesn't because I remember you could go back and save all your old Aimee conversations, which I did not do because you know, cringe. That's what I've been saying. Well, thank God you joined because I need your opinion on a very important subject. What's up? The two E's, I'm sure. So I'm making a playlist for Kelly and we're arguing. And honestly, I just need you to agree with me. Let's see. You're gonna put me in the middle between you and Kelly? What if your music tastes as shit? Kelly Stroman. Yep, okay. I need your clear and biased opinion. YouTube is this song good. Are we about to get? Oh my God. It makes it the old YouTube layout. Is this an actual song? I think it is. Hold on. Oh yeah. It's this song. I forgot about that song. I forgot who this was by.  I never really liked that song. This is trash. It's bad. It's not good. It's not good. Yeah. The lyrics are so bad. You gotta know. You gotta know this to be true, Matt and Gerski. Then tune them out. Tune out the lyrics. The meaning of the song?  Yeah, at least she has good taste. Rip, yeah. True. What, time to get you more friends. Okay, I do agree. I gotta get all the cool friends. Wait, Emily, singer. Is that the Emily? That's a way? We gotta spruce up your profile. Okay. How do we do that? How do we do it? Your profile isn't that spruced.  Maybe you do, I don't know. You should write your first status. Write status, okay. Gonna write a status. Is new here but figuring it out. Has the best friends you could ever ask for?  Let's do that, it's new. Ethan is new here but it's figuring it out. Do I talk in the third person? Cause I definitely did when I was in middle school. Wow, I'm new here but I'm figuring it out. Hey, nice. Are those lyrics? Or you just made it up? I just made it up. I'm a poet, dude. I'm pretty deep. Pretty deep and cool. Yeah, I know. Listen, I know. Need some pictures, okay. Yeah, I do. I do need some cool pictures and I need to like some cool pages. I need some cool funny memes. Kelly sent me a friend request. Wow, you got a friend to Ethan. Got any photos of us? Wow, wow. You can always count on her to have photos. She always taking pictures. Plus I'm super photogenic. That's right. Ha, ha, ha. Okay. I was tagged in a photo. So many photos, summer of seven. Wow, that's me, that's me. I don't remember. I don't remember who. Check out that group photo from last summer. There must have been at my birthday party or something. I can't remember. I don't remember anything, Matt. From being honest with you. We were so crazy back then. Oh my God. It's crazy to see everyone together like that. Dude, crazy. 2008, love it. I was 11 in 2008. Just have another birthday. Have another birthday, baby. Let's make it happen, you know? Let's make it all happen. It's just the way things are now. Yeah, man. Emily and Evelyn are not talking to each other. Oh yeah, I don't, it's been such a long time. I don't really remember the story from back then on the Ames. Cause that was years ago that I played that game. And there was so many different routes that you could do. This used to be so simpler. Now there's all this drama.   I hate it. I love the sounds, the sounds of the keyboard and the sounds of the computer. It's been complicated social situations. Have you made your big important decision yet? Important decision? Which one? The college one? You're supposed to be thinking about it this whole time. Did you really forget? Refresh my memory. Refresh me, baby. Woof-wesh me. Whose end of summer party we go to tonight? Oh, Emily or Evelyn's. Oh man, I shouldn't have picked. I don't care you pick. Come on, let's be whatever. It's up to me, okay. I'm so ready to be decisive. I am so ready to be decisive. I've got a decision in my mind. Good, that makes one of us. All right. I'm choosing. I gotta go because Kelly will be here soon, but let me know what you choose. Can I get more info? Please? Just message Eva and Em. They'll be excited to see you on Facebook, finally. Okay. Be cool, okay. Say hi to Kelly. All right, bye-bye. Bye-bye, Matt. I believe in you. That's such a... See you later, dude-er. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Ooh, did I get a friend request? Wrote on your wall. He wrote on my wall. I almost forgot to post on your wall. PSA to anyone reading this. You should be friends with Ethan. They're way cooler than you think. No, really. Let's post back, dude. PSA to anyone who reads this. Run away from this profile. As fast as you can. We're friends and it's funny. Okay. Emily added me as a friend. I'm friends. We're friends.  Dude, right? Ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha. Pretty crazy. Hey you. Howdy. Yeah, let's hit him with a howdy. I love a good howdy. Is this real life? I thought you'd never join. I'm so unpredictable. I'm just so wacky and quirky and funny. We're talking about face nook now. I guess you can just delete my aim account. Right in the trash. Ha-ha. Ha-ha. I'm good. Yeah, things are all right. What do you think of face nook so far? Uh, it's pretty rad. It's pretty rad, dude. It's pretty rad, duder. I'm so tired. I was way too late last night. Me too.  You know, I don't get a care in the world. Okay. I still miss away messages, but I'll never get over it. I miss them too. Wow, different times, you know? Yay for Insomnia. Uh, what do you do today? I played some video games, dude. Played some Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4. What was out in 2008? I don't remember, really. Was uncharted in 2008? I think it might've been 2010, maybe 29. GTA 4? Oh, Spore Creature Creator?  We were definitely doing the Spore Creature Creator. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. What did you do last night? Just sat around. I swear the Creature Creator is going to be bigger than the game. It actually was. Pretty true. Oh, you were grounded? Bomber, dude. Evelyn got grounded? Probably because she's so wacky and crazy. Just a Mario Kart. Wanna drunk drive sometime?   I wanted to sneak out last night, but I had nowhere to go. We could've hang out, hunged out. I'm such a Nintendo kid, and I gotta play while I still can. Only a few days left of summer. Yeah. Man, all my Nintendo dogs are probably dead. Why didn't you say so? Do you ever sneak out? Oh, yeah, for sure. I never snuck out when I was a kid. Never. I just didn't have a need to because I didn't have a social life. You would hear by invited to get wrecked in Mario Kart. Let's write back. This is so actually happening. Nice, nice. Evelyn wrote on my wall. There's so much happening. Look at me. Look how popular I am. Oh no, everyone better back up. Ethan just joined, guess face snook is officially dead. Whoa, dude. You wanna war, Eva? Let's go. You can fight me IRL, dude. Okay, I'm creeping on your profile right now. Yeah, it's pretty okay. You know, just getting started. Was so uncalled for. I like your status. I think you're figuring it out. I do learn eventually. You know, I'm a slow learner, but I just go with the flood. You know, I'm stoked you joined. Yeah, okay. Let me guess. Matt did a whole help you with your profile thing. He sure did. I don't know who's party to go to.   He did it when I first signed up too. That kid's wild. But you know, he's my bestie. You were all alone with him when you joined. All your fault. Look at us. These conversations are too real. On red post. On red post. Posted one photo. Wow, summer days. Is this a phone? It looks like ice cream. I think it's ice cream. I'm not sure. Can I post on Emily's wall? I'm gonna poke Emily. Ah, poking people. I'm gonna poke everybody. I'm gonna poke Matt. I'm gonna poke Kelly. Why did they make poking a thing? Why did they do it? Honestly though, your profile is still pretty bare. I guess we'll have to creep on the old fashioned way. Um, by looking at my old aim buddy photo. At least you're aware. Just some sarcasm. Don't worry about it. Have you seen the ads? Ads on the side for that new movie, The Happening. Kind of was like really bad. The Happening was a real movie, wasn't it? I miss old M Night. It was an M Night movie, wasn't it? I can't remember if I saw that or not. By asking you questions, oh! So hey, do you like books? Honestly, I never read. Never do, sorry. I love to sign so much, but I'm a sucker for any and all horror movies. I love horror too. Dude, I love horror stuff. Have no time, books are so long I just get bored. I have no time. I'm a busy man, you know? Buying Dogecoin or whatever. What did people do in 2008? I need to be relatable. What am I doing in 2008? I'm busy doing something, but what am I busy doing?  Maybe PS3? When did the PS3 come out? Hold on, 2006? Was the PS3 really? So I was playing on PS3. I was probably playing, wait. Uncharted released it. 2007, Uncharted was out. That's probably all I was playing. I played that game so much. I beat it many a time. What's your favorite modern horror movie? Go. Out of these, I guess Final Destination. It's not really a horror movie though. It's kind of a comedy. Are we, I mean, kind of, right? Maybe you haven't found your niche yet. Probably right. Do you say niche or niche? Because people say it differently. I've always said niche. I need your help. I need your help, Em. It's my favorite movie, Full Stop. Favorite Death. What's your favorite death, huh? Which one was the gymnastics one? Was that Final Destination 3? I can't remember. Are you more into punk or hip hop? Which was the one where, doesn't it like get sucked through a pool filter or something? Punk rock. 2008 punk rock for sure. I listened to a lot of Green Day. What about music? Whoa! I love music. Hell yes, Ethan. I love punk too. I drew two hours to see Against Me Live this summer. Did you mosh, dude? Did you mosh in the pit? Did you throw some bows? I love electronic music, indie music. I'm bad at genres, examples. I don't really like it. Well, in 2008, no. Dubstep wasn't a thing yet. In 2008, was it? Maybe it was. I don't remember. I think that was more of a 2010 kind of thing. How can you stand still during their set list? I don't think I know Against Me, actually. What's do you like more? LCD sound system. The Killers? Pretty good, pretty good. I want to do more things. Whoa, got the new razor. Got the new razor, baby. I wanted a razor so bad. I wanted a razor so bad. So I remember randomly grabbing Death Cab's debut album of CD store like 2000. Oh, gee. I do like them. I love Death Cab for Huey, dude. I will follow you into the dark, dude. Have you seen their new album, Narrow Stairs? I think so. What the flack? I'm so sorry, everyone. I'm so sorry. What's your favorite? Let's do, I will possess your heart. Here, listen to this with me. Oh no, copyrighted music. I can't, Evelyn, I can't. I'm making content on YouTube. This is my jam. This is my jam. I can't open it. I can't open it. I love his voice. I just can't. I'm making YouTube content. Ooh, new unread posts. Cannot wait for Spooktower. Can I reply to it? Can I do anything? Hmm, hmm, huh. Ooh, it's all over nothing matters, party. Private event. Oh, we have to be invited. Aha. Do you catch a lot of concerts? Whenever I can. Whenever I can. Do you read a lot of music blogs? Not really. Not really, sorry. Have you ever crowd surfed? No, but I want to. Maybe someday, maybe someday. How do you usually find new music? Back then, the radio probably. The radio or friends. We are 100% crowd surfing at the show this year. Oh yeah, I trust you.  I do that to listen to music is like one of my favorite things to do, ha ha ha. Send me your spoils. Well, maybe don't because I'm making YouTube content. Yes, hit him with the XD. Hit him with the LOL XD.  You can't help but bop around and dance. I hear that. What's this? New unread posts. On my wall? Oh no. Spooked over, dude. Say how do my new little art, dude? Oh, I had one of those. Damn.  I'm so angry. Have you looked at your class schedule yet? Is something out already? Damn. What electives are you taking this year? Art for sure, dude. Pretty sure I signed up for art. They're online this year. Whoa, online? In the online zone? Whoa, I have math and math and math and math and math and electives and English. Free period. Lunch, science, history. Cool, this gives me no information. I see it. Me too, kinda. Same class, maybe. Maybe we'll be in the same class. Here's mine. Do we have any classes together? No, we do not. This is her schedule. We don't. Not seeing any. But technically I ran out of, you took them all. Wow, impressive. No, let me check. Oh, you're right. Not even free periods. We'll never see each other. Guess we can't cheat on tests together. So sad. Evelyn, do we have any classes together? I'm doing this independent illustration thing during free periods. Ooh. Can I see your schedule? How will I ever kiss any scholarships? Goodbye. Your future's ruined. Let's see. Do we have any things? Let's independent study. History. I don't think we do.  I think if you end up doing college thing, be down for art. They do have those. They have those art school things. My parents won't stop talking to me about college applications. Oh, flack them. What's their problem, dude? Parents are so lame. I'm so down to get away from this town. And leave me. So sad. Dude, this summer's never gonna end. All I want to know is something engineering. Have you thought about it at all? A little bit. Haven't started looking, though. Who said I'm not kidnapping you? LOL. Dude, big law. Where do you wanna go for school? Get far away. Anywhere that takes me. I wanna get far away from this town. What are you thinking for your major? Some kind of art. Something artsy. What if we ended up at the same college? Could be study buddies, dude. That's crazy. You know, that does make a lot of sense. I think it does, too. I'm an artsy guy, you know? We could be college party buddies. Yo, my mom just left. That face is devious. Damn.   I gotta go. Time flies when you're having fun. So many of these are things that I would have actually said. Time to set up for the party. Is this when we get the invite? It's gonna be dope. And you're pretty okay, you should come. A lot of people. I never invited you. Oh yeah, I totally forgot. Boozes en route as we speak. Sounds like bad decisions.  Let's do it, don't die. It's chill end of summer party thing. I would love if you showed up. Where is it? Oh man, what do I do? I don't know what to do. I'll invite you to the event page. I gotta do deuces. Peace. Okay. The Facebook event has all the info. I'm sorry, I gotta run. Cool. Later's. Go, go, go. Okay. Okay. We got invited to the party. Let's see, the summer is over. So let's party. Beer pong, dancing and good music. Sleep on the floor if you want. Let's get. Time 8 p.m. to question mark at my place. My mom is officially left. She won't be back till tomorrow night. Let's go. This is going to be crazy. Let's die. Huh. And in the morning, I'm making waffles. Nice. Let's enjoy the summer while we still can. Come over for a genuine barbecue. We got hot dogs, a bonfire and s'mores. Oh man. Oh man, s'mores and hot dogs. What do we do? What do we do? Hmm. You know what guys? I'm going to attend the party that I never would have attended in high school, okay? I never would have gone to a party like this. The party with beer pong, dancing and good music? We're going to do it. We're going to live out my childhood dream. You and me, beer pong dream team. Let's go. We're a beer pong dream team. I don't condone underage drinking. Thank you. Well, hit him with a maybe. Eek, eek, ma, ma. So you said maybe to Emily's and yes to Evelyn. Sounds like we're going to Eva's house party. Evelyn's party it is. Oh boy.  Sounds good. I love a good house party. Going to dance for sure. Let's get drunk. Plus, I like Evelyn more. I think I do like Evelyn more. I'm not sure though. Uh oh. Oh no. We're going to make people bad. The summer is over. My mom is officially, oh no. It's going to be bad. Uh, I know I can kind of do either side. Should me and Kelly pick you up or do you want to meet us there? Pick me up.   I have a bad feeling about this. Travis Moritz. Who's Travis? I'll be there. Sick. Should we add him as a friend? Send friend requests. I don't know who you are. Huh, work, school. And if she had to do it all over again, she wouldn't change anything for the world against me. Oh wait, that's the ban. Travis going to, do I know them? Uh oh. It's Evelyn's ex. Uh oh. Uh oh, Scatios. I just hope he doesn't ruin the vibe. Who broke up with who? Dude, we've got to have good vibes for the summer party? Evelyn did, the kids of Contool. Why would she even invite him? Yeah, weird. I don't know, it'll probably be fine. Hmm. Huh. Seen a bit, okay. Bye bye. Hmm. Hmm. Uh oh, log out. The end of this chapter. All right, baby. It is now safe to log out and end this chapter. I'mma log out and end this chapter, and I'mma log out and end this video. AIM is officially dead. You finally joined Facenote. And just in time for senior year, time to see what the hype is all about. Oh man, Evelyn is so hungover, but last night was so worth it. You're outside of your house, can you hear me beeping? Hey Ethan, you weren't planning on coming. Oh no. Oh, she did it on a wall post, dude? Damn. It's October, ready for a spooky movie? Or are you too scared? The years are getting shorter. You chose to attend Evelyn's End of Summer thing. Thankfully, there's only one party this Halloween, and it's at Matt's. Damn, autumn, 2008. Well, I'mma end it here. Thank you guys so much for watching. Hope you enjoyed. I will see you again in the world of Facenote. Press it, log out. Like the video before you log out. Okay, you can log out now.


Item Number SCP-781 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-781 is to be contained within a reinforced cell with a buffer zone at least 25 meters by 25 meters surrounding it. Subject cells should include a bed, bathroom, and limited forms of entertainment as approved. As soon as subject initiates sleep, usually at around 20 hundred hours, all personnel present in the main containment chamber should evacuate. All personnel are prohibited from interfering with any situation within SCP-781's chamber between 20 hundred and 0700 hours, despite any pleas for aid or attention from SCP-781. SCP-781 is to be interviewed each morning at 0700 hours by Dr. Glass. Any personnel seeing SCP-781 in their dreams are to report to Dr. Glass for documentation. SCP-781's remains should be collected and placed upon the middle of his containment chamber after any incident resulting in its death. Description SCP-781 appears to be a human male of Mediterranean descent approximately 8 years old as of 10. However, when he was first recovered in 97, he appeared to be approximately 8 years old. Autopsies performed on the subject have determined SCP-781 to be physiologically identical to average humans. The reasons for any anomalies surrounding SCP-781, including decreased rate of aging, are unknown. It is thought that while asleep, SCP-781 involuntarily manifests his own dream content into a physical form. The majority of these manifestations are hostile and highly dangerous. And on average, SCP-781 is killed three times per week. Testing using D-Class personnel shows that these manifestations specifically target SCP-781 over other potential victims. But, are capable of harming others should they attempt to interfere. It seems that though it is required that SCP-781 be asleep to create manifestations, it is not required that he continues sleeping for their continued existence. Thankfully, these manifestations are not wholly independent of their creator and always remain relatively close to SCP-781. Up to a range of about 9 meters. Manifestations that are even partly forced out of this range immediately disappear entirely. Manifestations seem to linger upwards of 5 minutes even after SCP-781's physical death. Lastly, and importantly, it is to be noted that SCP-781 seems capable of auto-resurrection. Though the subject does not exhibit resistance to injury or death beyond the limits of a normal human. 12 hours after SCP-781's physical death, any remains of its corpse disappear. Another 12 hours later, a fully healthy SCP-781 appears within 10 meters of the place of its previous death. Further notes. While SCP-781 seem to display no control over his own dream manifestations, testing has shown that he is capable of perceiving and manipulating the dreams of sleeping subjects in his vicinity. This ability was helpful in determining the source of SCP-781's manifestations. Document 781-1. Most of SCP-781's night time manifestations are hostile to SCP-781 and are quick to cause him harm. The majority of manifestations never repeat themselves but there have been cases where reoccurring manifestations have occurred. The following is a list of some of the manifestations seen more than once. Sewage bursting from the floor accompanied by a seemingly unending swarm of rats which quickly overwhelm SCP-781 and proceed to devour him alive. Leaving only bones and bits of flesh has been observed twice. A large woman holding a hose which seems to extend from the ground. She forcibly inserts into SCP-781's throat. The hose seems to expel a thick white liquid which the woman uses to drown SCP-781 has appeared twice. A largely humanoid figure about 4.57 meters or 15 feet tall made up of a transparent and highly acidic substance has appeared twice. Both times after interviews with personnel other than Dr. Glass tends to grapple SCP-781 in its arms until death due to major acid burns or suffocation. A large floating mass with several tendrils bearing sharp needle-like spines which forcibly drew SCP-781 into it. SCP-781 died two hours later from blood loss. Appeared three times in the space of a month but has not been seen since. An old woman with rotting flesh which attacks SCP-781 with her teeth and nails typically SCP-781 is able to fight back but almost always sustains heavy wounds which require it to be euthanized by personnel has appeared three times. A man wearing a surgical mask who straps SCP-781 to its bed and proceeds to slice abdomen open with a scalpel removing several organs has appeared three times each time after an autopsy was performed on SCP-781. A statue resembling data expunged is not observed physically harming SCP-781 but seems to cause the subject great distress and often SCP-781 has passed out from hyperventilation at the site of this particular manifestation. This particular manifestation has appeared four times now starting on the day SCP-781 was exposed to data expunged. Addendum 781-1 See Evaluation Log 781 for extended psychological evaluation and testing. Evaluation Log 781 Evaluation Note 781-1 This shows subject to be highly forgetful about personal events in general but even more so on those leading to his death. His memory repression was likely developed as a coping mechanism to deal with his frequent painful deaths. In an attempt to aid the development of his mental health security personnel on nightly detail are hereby ordered to defend SCP-781 from his manifestations if possible. It is my hope that perhaps with some treatment and reprieve from the nightly attacks SCP-781's dreams will not be manifested as hostile.  He has been regularly cheerful as of late has begun to request company and has become increasingly open with his thoughts. Furthermore SCP-781 expresses gratitude of the foundation's interference on his behalf. However the nightly attacks continue at the same intensity that no significant progress has been made with the subject's frequent memory lapses. Dr. Glass Evaluation Note 781-3 Previous questioning about SCP-781's origin has been fruitless but today the subject confided that he believes himself to be from where dreams come. The subject seems to believe there is a specific reason to his existence here outside the dream world and that it may be linked to his recurring attacks. Dr. Glass Evaluation Note 781-4 Under my command testing for possible uses of SCP-781 is ongoing it appears SCP-781 is not able to be used as a reusable source of human organs as all parts of SCP-781 disappear 12 hours after its death even if they have been preserved or made functional within a different body. Further research is necessary Dr. Glass Evaluation Note 781-5 On all trials it seems SCP-781 returns perfectly healthy despite mode of death. When exposed to mundane toxins SCP-781 is normal but as always returned perfectly healthy Proposals to use SCP-781 as a reusable D-class personnel or pending though 05 raised concerns of exposing an untrusted and potentially immortal subject to sensitive information. Having a single genetically identical subject who could later expound on his experiences would be a great asset to future research in the case of fatal disease. Dr. Glass Evaluation Note 781-6 Subject had to be terminated during the course of an interview by Dr. Glass Evaluation Note 781-6 During the interview attempting to question SCP-781 about some of the reoccurring manifestations observed At first subject merely stated that it didn't remember anything as usual but as Dr. Glass Evaluation Note 781-6 SCP-781 began to show signs of hostility eventually coming to sadistically describe the mental and physical tortures it wished to inflict upon the doctor After further pressing by Dr. Glass Evaluation Note 781-6 SCP-781 violently stabbed Dr. Glass Evaluation Note 781-6 before being quickly terminated by security agents As this outburst is the first sign of anger or hostility SCP-781 has shown perhaps prudent to refrain from questioning SCP-781 further about its nightmares Dr. Glass Evaluation Note 781-6 Addendum 781-2 When introduced to SCP-452's presence both SCP-781 and SCP-452 showed signs of agitation and distress and stated that spiders made him uneasy When SCP-452's web was introduced to SCP-781 before the purpose of stopping SCP-781's dreams testing had no unusual results until data expunged resulting in 12 personnel casualties Further testing between SCP-781 and SCP-452 are discontinued and SCP-781 should be kept for making physical contact with SCP-452's webs at all costs Addendum 781-3 Testing SCP-781 as its subject had highly unusual results After several tries SCP-781 was able to completely control the smoke's composition though it took him some time in considerable concentration Further testing of SCP-781 is prohibited As giving SCP-781 the ability to create anything he wants is, for obvious reasons, greatly discouraged Addendum 781-4 By orders of 05 as of 2000 personnel are no longer to interfere in SCP-781's nightly attacks. It has been determined that the personnel casualties and resource expenditure needed to protect SCP-781 can no longer be justified as continued interference has only caused the manifestations to become more dangerous and volatile and SCP-781's immortal nature has been fully proven in any case Addendum 781-6 SCP-781 has been highly successful in controlling SCP-122 It could be the foundation's advantage to use the controlled SCP-122 for data expunged


I think I can confidently say that at the end of my remarks, I will be with Ambassador Panoff not being a candidate to be a roving ambassador for President Trump. Because I think President Trump has got off rather likely in this panel because his deep unsuitability to be US president is lack of the qualities of essential leadership of being able to empathize with those in sy'n dechrau, iawn a gweithio'r cyflawnau a L-Vegers i'r wych. Mae'r cyflwyntio'r cyflwyntio i'r cyflwyntio i ddim yn ei gael i'r ffordd. Yn cael ei gweithio'r cyflwyntio, ac yn dweud o'r ffordd o'r cyflwyntio, mae'r ddaeth o'r ystyried yn ymdogfyn o'r gweld. A myfwyl yn ysgrifennu i'w ddim i weld ymwyl yn ymddangos i ddweud yw'r dyfodol, but not a candidate. A president of the United States who is quicsotic, unreliable, and fundamentally unsuited to the job of being president of the free world. And that's a real danger. You ask what's wrong with the anglosphere. I think America and Britain were the two countries that most embraced globalization and the competition and the boosts that globalization gave our economies with positive macro effects, Ond we were slow to realise that the beneficiaries of that were relatively few and those who did not benefit were very large. So that fed into our political systems. The second factor I think is that American Britain have prided themselves on a two party political system based on the first past the post electoral process that we have. You have two parties, you have a French system of dual election, you end up with four basic parties. But when you have two parties and there are new populist forces emerging, they will emerge through those parties. And so the populist took over the US Republican party, almost took over the Democratic party in the US, have effectively taken over the British Labour Party. And to David Cameron's eternal shame and damnation, he adopted the populist policies in the British Conservative party and granted the referendum on the European Union. So that's why I think the Anglosphere has gone astray and the basic defensive mechanisms have not come into play. So anyway, we are where we are. Brexit is going to be a painful negotiation which will probably end up with an agreement, but it won't be very satisfactory. Juan was talking about the EU-Canada agreement as being very advanced. Well it's not as advanced as membership of the single market because it doesn't cover trade and services. But I think the UK will end up with something rather similar to the Canada agreement with the European Union. And there will be a period where our growth, instead of being greater than that of our G7 counterparts, will be lower than that of our G7 counterparts. It's possible it might come to a grinding halt if the present British government collapses, which is entirely possible. But it will take a change of government, I think, in order to change the course of this tragedy. Meanwhile on the wider stage we have, as I say, an unreliable and quixotic US president at a time when we have the strongest leader of China in modern history. And I think the Chinese see the Trump administration as a huge opportunity for them to accelerate the displacement of US power in the world. I think we will see the reaction of America's allies around the world, as Uber has said, of being one of having to look more to our own resources and to our own capacities to defend ourselves. Because that American security blanket is now conditional. It used to be unconditional. America's willingness to engage and resolve problems in the world, as we heard from the cuttery foreign minister yesterday, has just gone away. And so countries and regions are going to have to solve their own problems without America's help. And this is a great opportunity for China to step in, where China is now, in many ways, replacing America as the supporter, unupholder of public goods, like action against climate change, like free trade. And the United States has become a bit of a liability on some of these issues, which I'm deeply... I feel bad about. And I also feel bad that the United Kingdom quite often would step into America's place on these issues, is no longer able to do so because of our own political situation. I'm very glad that we have what are usually called grown-ups around President Trump to contain the damage that the president might do in the world. But I'm never very happy seconding diplomatic and political policy to generals. I have great admiration for generals on the battlefield, but less respect for them in terms of developing a diplomatic and political strategy. Because I think what we will find is that the generals around President Trump will see military solutions to problems which might otherwise be dealt with through political and diplomatic means. I think the chances of a conflict over North Korea are now considerably greater than before. And I know, Mr Roy, you're a great supporter of many aspects of the Trump administration. But I think the impact on South Korea could be quite devastating if the generals around President Trump end up going down the path and taking the president down the path of a military confrontation with North Korea. So that is one thing that we have to be aware of. What we're seeing in the Middle East is an encouragement to local leaders, Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia is a classic example, someone with a good vision for his country. But one without any experience or without the checks and balances within his own system to take wise decisions about how to achieve that vision. And we've seen in Yemen, we've seen in the conflict with Qatar, we've seen with the visionary but unrealistic goals that Mohammed bin Salman has said that the ability of the United States to shape and channel a very important ally will be greater. It's not just in the political and security fields either. I think we will see America being pushed back as the dominant power in the global economic system. The first thing we're likely to see is attempts by China and Russia and other countries to be able to clear trade deals without going through the dollar system. I think we will see an alternative clearing system for international transactions which don't involve the United States and which will depend upon yuan as the driving currency. And I think that will be a fundamental weakening of America's control and authority over the global economic system. And as we're seeing in Saudi Arabia with the discussion about the IPO of Aramco is looking a bit difficult for the Saudis to float this in London or New York. So we could well see this being replaced with a state sale to a Chinese entity. And the Chinese will seek in return I believe a stream of energy supply oil supplies priced in yuan rather than priced in dollars in order to create an alternative pricing mechanism for global commodities starting with the most important of all namely oil. So we will see challenges led by the Chinese but supported by others in the global system to push back American dominance in the world and they are likely to be successful. And we will see action by America's allies to look to their own resources and their own capabilities with some unwelcome and dangerous results as America's leadership role in the world gradually is replaced by a nationalist America first agenda.


Today, we are here to listen to Justin Neely talk about test tracking the design process. Justin is passionate about WordPress and helping people build a powerful online presence. Along with that, he gets the opportunity to lead a small team that go daddy every day, help aspiring entrepreneurs and web pros make their own way each and every day. By day he works as supervisor, by night he's designing websites and possibly fighting crime. The jury is still up. Welcome Justin Neely. We got through it. A little bit of a tech issue there, but we made it. Hello everybody, my name is Justin Neely as she said. Today I'll be talking about fast tracking your design process. A bit about me before I really jump in. If you guys get really awkward photos of me while I'm talking, after Justin Neely make fun of me, I love it. I'm a dad, a beautiful little girl basically there in the little image.  I'm a good daddy employee. I run a small sales team at GoDaddy. We do hosting support with a lot to do with WordPress. That's really where I got my start with WordPress. I'm a side hustler as well. I've had quite a bit of side hustles from anything from like helping startups to designing sites or almost a coffee shop once. That was not the thing for me. But it all went back to WordPress. Again WordPress enthusiasts for over seven years, but I didn't really experience the in real life IRL WordPress experience until earlier this year. I got to help out at WordCamp Phoenix. I was, as the belief organizer said, a booth babe helping out at the GoDaddy booth. I got to experience just how awesome this community is and how helpful everyone is. Just the support was overwhelming. It didn't matter what you did or who you're from. We're all here for the right reasons. That's just to help each other. Shameless blog and WordCamp Phoenix organizer. Our WordCamp is in February. So if you guys want to come visit a state that's super hot right in the wintertime, it's freezing in room for me. So how I WordPress. So like I said, a little bit in Phoenix, Arizona here. So I get about a week of nice weather and then it's super hot. But in that week I'd love to kind of just hang out in my hammock. Best WordPress sites. And if I'm not there, I'm at a local coffee shop. Or at this bar right across the street. It has great Wi-Fi, even better beer. If you guys know any great craft beer places, hit me up after. I want to check them out. So let's jump in. So what designing a website, right? The entire process can take forever.  So you've got to have the initial consultation. You've got to get the material from them. The entire space to start to finish takes way too long, right? Especially just the design to get back and forth. But it doesn't have to. It doesn't have to take as long as it does, right? There are things that we do over and over and over that we shouldn't eliminate. We shouldn't kind of basically get a head start. And that's what this talk is about. Hopefully fast-tracking that design process, as the title says. And give you those countless hours back to go to Tahiti, or have your vacations, spend time with the band there, whatever that looks like. So I'd really like to kind of gauge the experience in the room. So it's going to be a little hand-raising, bear with me here. So if you've created more than 10 websites, raise your hand. Basically the order is awesome. How about 20? Still a lot. That's fantastic. 30? Over 15? All right. Super tender. I love it. So we all know how long that process takes. And some take even longer than they should. So I'm a big statistics guy. I have a podcast that I ran in the back. And I was always coming up with statistics. Everybody would make fun of me because that's just what I did. So some stats. How long does it take to create the WordPress site? This is from, first three are from WP Shell. So a dead, simple blog, basically no customization. It's two hours of work. You're not really doing much into it, right? Informational site, home, about, contact, maybe a blog. And a barely, lightly customized thing is eight hours. A simple e-commerce site is 20 hours. And then from WordPress.com it can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks to create a website. That's a long time. So as I look at, just trying to be more efficient so I can handle more clients or just get more free time, right? Because I'm a side buster. I have a full-time job plus I'm designing websites.  I don't want it. So I looked at it and tried to figure out what do I do every time? On every site, no matter what. And what I found is I'm setting up probably the same plugins, themes, and WordPress settings on almost every bill. And then I'm setting up my own page framework. So not so much like the actual client listizations, but just getting the overall flow of how I want the page to look. I did that over and over and over. And as a designer, I pretty much have the same style, right? If you do some of the same things over and over and over. So based on that question I asked you guys earlier, raise your hand if you've done more than 10 sites, 20, 30, and 50. If you built more than 10 sites, that's roughly 25 to 60 hours where you're doing the exact same thing, right? And that sounds ludicrous to me. Like when I do the math, if I had 25 to 60 hours right now, I can do so much, probably most of it will be sleeping. But the bad news is that time flies, right? The good news is that you're a pilot. I love this book. And we have the power to control our time and what we do with it. So I want to tell you all about a story. So when I was a first-time newbie designer about six months or a year and somewhere in that great mix, I wanted to really impress my clients. I was all gumball. I wanted to do everything from scratch. Literally everything. I wouldn't mess with the theme CSS and to create my own child themes and even mess with more CSS. I'm trying to make my own plugins while I did all that and it was a colossal mess. So I want to tell you about a time where it didn't work out for me, right? So I had a client. I'm going to call him Frank in this example here to hide his identity. But I had a client named Frank and he was a friend of a friend. He was a startup business consultant and he's been preaching to his clients. You have to have a powerful website present, right? To kind of wow your customers, but he didn't have one. It's like the toddler shoes. Kids have their shoes. So he talked to me and was like, hey, I really need a website. I need to basically back up what I'm talking about. So I'm like, great, let's absolutely do it. So he goes through the consultation and figure out what he wants.  He wants a couple little courses. He can add to it in a membership site. So when he has his clients, he can go through up there. So I go, cool. Go ahead and do it. I go, let's go ahead and make this happen. So I go start going to work, right? I went out, still that new designer. I went out and found this brand new theme that had this, what I thought at the time would be this cool, like, visual builder. That was automatically graded in. I found some new membership plugins that I had to work with before because I thought they were super cool looking and I started to work. And what I found is that theme was awful. It was just atrocious. Like, the builder inside of it wasn't, it didn't flow. I had to click and drag things over and over and over. I had to do different browsers. I had to wipe my plugins. I had to restart. Then it was just chaos for a week. And I had, I told him by a week I would have something. So I showed him what that something was and he was like, what is this? Like, you're right. I get it, right? Like, it's been a struggle when I'm going to make this happen. I'm going to get it done. So I keep going. Another five days go by. I've sort of got the homepage going, sort of the contact. The courses aren't working that well. I should have messed with the CSS to make it presentable and work with the theme. And it just wasn't working. Right? And I was literally looking like this guy, just hand to the head, just like, I don't know what to do. Right? I was at a point where I thought to myself, maybe I just stick with my full-time job. Maybe this isn't for me because I am failing hard. So then I talked to him like, hey, I really don't have much yet to show you, but give me another day or two and I'll have something. I'll have something that I will be proud to show you. Right? That it's my work at that point.  I've already spent a week and a half of my time and I really don't have much to show for it. I don't have much to say that, hey, at least I got you something. So then I remember I had a client about three or four months back that was kind of similar. It was in a start-up business consultant, but it was a consultant of some sort. I already knew the theme that they were using. I knew the plugins. So what did I do? I stole for myself. Right? It's a little puppy there. I stole my own design, so I cloned it, threw it over, and then customized it to Frank's liking. Everything he was trying to do. I had the membership set up. The course is, I had his face on the homepage look beautiful, right? And I presented it to him. And that process took me probably four or five hours to do and redesign and make. After a week and a half of headache, and he was so happy. And I was like, yes! I made it! At a point where I thought I was about to quit, but I decided to steal it for myself and try something new and do what I already knew. So my whole experience was the start of something magical, right? And that's exactly what I'm basically teaching you all to do, to hopefully skip through that and essentially steal from yourself. And the way you do that is you create a template library. So as a designer, you build a variety of different sites over 50 for a lot of you. So you create your own template library. All your plugins that are already set up that you pretty much use on every single build, right? We all have our security plugins we use. We all have our optimization plugins we use. You go and set up basically the same settings for most of every time. And then same thing with your theme, right? You set up your template to have the couple themes that you use. The settings are already set. And the pages as well, set up just the frameworks. Not necessarily the customizations, but the frameworks of the page. So you have your big hero image and you're called to action and contact what happened. And then as I was creating this talk, I was trying to find other examples of people that already do this and do this incredibly well. And it's not so much web designers that are doing it. It's theme developers, right? If you ever look at a theme demo site, they've already created that template library. So that's what I'm going to teach you to kind of create that same model. So we're going to look at two different models, that two methods of madness. So the first being a beta. Beta is one of the most popular themes but what they do is they have their basically, they have a hub website as their demo page and a ton of example or home page versions. Like on this they have 19 different home page versions. And it's not for them, it's for people that get that theme and they can start from it and build on to it from there. Same thing with you all. Create your hub website, create a couple different versions of your home page however you guys typically do it, right? And then when you have a new client you edit from there. So beta has all sorts of different versions of their website that people can use. You guys see the same thing, have a couple different versions of your website that you can use and start from and skip all that remedial stuff that you do every time, right? So that's the first one. Have a hub and then multiple versions of your page. The second way is vtheme. So vtheme instead of having just one site of different pages, they have a ton of different websites with different versions of that site, right? So with just their, looking at their demo page they have their default theme, they've got range, renovate, tailor, cakes, there's burger, which I'm super hungry lunch is right after this. School, coffee, agency and cars. They have different versions of their site tailored to different potential clients that want that theme. So you do the same thing. So if you have a site that you do for restaurants and have a couple different restaurant type sites and maybe you do some car sales on type sites or what have you what have that looks like. So if I had a restaurant client I would just spin up my that's the burger site or whatever page that I create as my template and then I'll edit it from there. Allow me to save that time to use to go find more clients or just relax. So to break your template library there's a lot of different ways to do this. I'm going to show you guys how to do a C pinup but I'll give a couple shout outs to other ways. Some pros and cons as well. So if you're all using backup plugins such as Uptraft this one's a pretty popular backup plugin you can create your website, your template site and just create it as a backup. So when you spin up a new site you just restore that backup and then build on from there. The downside with this is that your plugins and themes don't stay updated. So that's something to keep an eye on just because if you haven't messed that in a while you have to update like 12 plugins and themes things can break. So I wouldn't recommend this one but if by all means use what you like best. There's multi site management tools such as MUDev that you can create basically backups and spin up and clone. There's ManageWP or GoDaddy Pros, ProSites template builder that kind of does the same exact thing. Again I'm going to be showing you Cpanel. It's pretty universal to a variety of hosting companies that almost anyone can use. So inside of Cpanel there is this section called InstallChop. It's your home for installing applications and what not. So we're going to go ahead and just install a new WordPress build.  What I recommend is having an example site. Like my would be like olddocnealy.pro of my actual site. So I'd make my example site or my template site however you want to do it using a password back up to the whole 9 yard and then go into this. But with creating your template library so my recommendation unless your sites are vastly different, usually you make them up. Usually the one site with a variety of different pages you can kind of just delete the extra pages and customize from there. It's going to make your lives a lot easier. And then as you grow and expand you can do what I typically do. So I'll have my example site that has my variety of pages my home pages, my contact about my plugins are already set up so on and so forth. Then I'll clone that site and create an e-commerce version of it. I'll set up the WooCommerce, have my demo products customize the pages to look like an e-commerce site and I'll take that and clone it again to a new membership site. If you have different types of versions that might require more functionality you do this. These sites would be lives and then you can make your updates of your plugins and what not in real time. So you don't have to go potentially break a new build and that's going to cause even more headache. And so on and so forth. So any other potential genres of site you can do is just keep cloning your template. So how do you use this in the wild? And now you don't want to do it from scratch. You want to use one of your templates. So we're going to talk about Lisa. A fictitious client but for my example here. So Lisa needs a new website. She's a health nut. She just got certified to be a personal nutritionist. Thank you. So she's going to be a nutritionist.  So we go through the whole consultation case. So I'm getting the material. I go to work. I'm going to use Installatron to clone my template to her site. So inside of Installatron you can go ahead and click that little arrow with the two splitting arrows. That's going to take an exact replica of that site and do the heavy lifting of the searcher in place. So it's going to replace the URLs with your new ones so you don't have to go and do that. It makes your life super easy. So if you're hosting the website for your client, you would just choose their domain name and then build it from there. But if you're doing a staging type site, choose your template domain and then put it into a new format. And then you go through whatever settings you want to do or just let the manager do sales and then click clone. It'll spin up. It takes probably 30 seconds to a minute to actually clone the site over and you have your new build. All your plugins, artist setup, you don't have to do there other than maybe a couple tweaks depending on what you use. Your themes are there. You have one to three themes that you've already set up. So you can really go and pick which ones works best for you. And then you're going to kind of clean up and customize this. So you're going to have extra pages that you're not going to want to use. So go ahead and delete those extra pages that you're not going to use. Delete any other themes that you're not going to use because you don't want that excess blow. And then delete any plugins you may not need on this build, right? I'll end up with this plugin list for an example. I have A3 lazy load just for optimization. There's a lot of optimization stuff that I use. Atoptimize Elementor and Elementor Pro just because it's super easy to hand off to a client. Let them make their edits from there. Manage WP worker so I can back up into my second stuff. Smush, again, optimization. Security, security, some mouthful. Just for my securities preferences. I have load, craft, and clear fly. Helps get rid of some of the excess that I don't really need on a WordPress build. And then Yoast for SEO. Then my themes. I'll go ahead and switch up my theme. Ending on which one that I would use. Again, pages. You're going to delete extra pages and then customize it from there. So I'll take a just generic hookset template that I've had built in my library from a while ago. And she gave me her color scheme. She gave me her images that she wants to use and some of the tests on it. I didn't spend a whole lot of time really customizing this for a fictitious client. So for example, they're going to look pretty similar. So I go ahead and I spin up, throw an image in the back. I increase the header space of the bed so it shows more of her. I'll add the little content that she's given me and add some images in text. Now with this what you don't want to do is just literally copy, cookie cutter every website because then all your sites will look the same. That's not what this is for, just to help get you to that head start. So you can go and customize it to that client's need. Add extra stuff. You want to add extra stuff like go wild, but at least save those hours. And then you just migrate the website to your client. So use a tool that you're familiar with. If you like backup plugins like web draft, use backup plugins. Use installtron. There's sort of a migration path doesn't always work the best. You know old school, if you really want to have an FTP in MySQL and do search replaces, please. I wouldn't recommend it because that's just a ton of time. Multisite management tools or our pro sites can help manage it over as well. So with this, right when I really started to do this I almost felt like I was cheating my clients because I was charging the same amount but it's taking me a lot less time. And that's a valid feeling to have especially when you're using your own type of library. And I don't want you to feel that way. I want to tell you about a story that somebody really told me that really hit home. So we have this small business owner he needs a logo. So he goes around, search around, finds this logo designer and he goes to the office talks to her and goes great I want this logo as my business he has all the information.  We have 500 bucks and I'll make it happen as quickly as possible. So he goes great that sounds pretty good. Here's the 500 bucks what could I have this by? So she goes one second she sits down takes about 15 minutes and creates a beautifully stunning logo. Don't get me wrong but she created 15 minutes.  He's like you can spend 15 minutes for my 500 bucks why would I pay you that? And she goes you didn't pay for that 15 minutes of work you pay for this. She goes opens up her closet door now pours out hundreds and hundreds of artwork and paintings and logos and everything that she's done to get to that point where she can make you a damn good logo in 15 minutes. That's what you're paying for. Same thing with this your clients are paying for your experience just because you get it done a lot quicker they're probably going to be happier they don't have to wait as long. That's what I really want you to take away with don't feel like you're cheating your clients because you are using your own template that you created that's your experience you're still going to customize to them that website's still going to be beautiful at the end of the day and they're going to get it done a lot quicker then you can focus on building up the brand or whatever other service you have with that extra time or go on a trip to GED So that's the that's the essence of my talk. We'll do a little Q&A in case questions at the end. But there's really four levels of takeaways that I want you to have from this talk. So level one walking away saying that wasn't a complete waste of time that's my bare minimum, right? Level two, try this at least once see if it works for you if it does that will take you to level three and use this with all your builds save that time, expedite your process and become more efficient with your websites and then level four is the one I really want you all to do is to teach someone else that's the power of WordPress that's the power of the community that we're in we're all here to help each other support each other and teach each other so if this works for you go ahead and teach someone else or anything you've learned from today that really touched you teach someone else, help them out see if you can brighten their day with a couple of little pro tips or even go on as a huge training course for all I care do something to help each other out at Justin Neely, talk to me on Twitter I'll be at the GoDaddy booth if you guys have any intimate questions or just want to talk but that's all I have for you we'll do some Q&A in case anybody has questions no questions usually use commercial games so I've been pretty reliant on Aveda, Hestia and then baby for some customers yeah are you posting a lot of your clients on your website? yes so I mess around with multi-cycle forks, one of my side hustles was essentially my customers would pay for a temple that would spin up and then they built it there so yes I have tried that I like just having everything pretty separate but I love multi-cycle any other questions? do you find all your sites start looking the same using this methodology? they did at first it took me a little bit to really make them my own I was trying to speak quick with it then you start to kind of get your basic framework and then you'll add your different sections and I try to look at my past like three or four designs to make sure it does look unique and it does look towards their brand so yes it's absolutely a thing especially just getting started with it it takes a little bit of time to make it your own but then you're good from there yeah all over that's why I was going to do the beef theme method with the multiple versions of the page but I keep my templates that one was a really old one but most of my actual templates are super generic that I can then spin off to whatever they need to do yeah yes I actually prefer that I don't like to host my clients websites she basically asked if I migrate the sites over to my client or if I keep it in house I'll use like our GoDaddy Pro tools to help that migration or use whatever works best for you yes yes and I almost do do maintenance services on top of it but I'd rather have everything in there control I don't want to own their stuff I think it's theirs cool again thank you all so much for attending this session I really appreciate it