Comment by pjc50
8 months ago
SCP is the culmination of the epistolary novel, like Dracula, via the videogames convention of making "lore" (i.e. backstory and worldbuilding) unobtrusive and scattered through the game in audio logs and diary entries.
It places the reader in the role of detective, rebuilding the sequence of events from partial, scattered, obscured, and out of order viewpoints.
I'm not sure there even is any particular sequence of events to rebuild in the case of SCP. It's a universe as opposed to a story. There's no central plot to discover, and more than a few SCP sequences even have their own largely isolated plots.
If someone doesn't enjoy a fictional universe being elaborated on in a general sense with near zero plot and certainly no central "story" then I guess they will not enjoy the vast majority of SCP entries.