I did like the book, it's not a 10/10, but it's fun and I like weird fiction. I think both SCP and the Remedy Connected Universe are delightfully mysterious.

I hadn't watched that short yet, just did. I see what you mean, but it was relatively true to the first chapter of the book. It's really hard to do this genre justice in video form I think. Partly due to budget, but partly because what you didn't like about it is a perfect description of the entire SCP universe: a giant, very serious conspiracy theory that fans swear is completely true and "THEY" don't want you to know about it...while obviously being a absurd work of fiction. It's like 80s horror, you have to embrace the campiness to enjoy it.

The notion of an anti-meme is interesting to think about too. Not really in a supernatural sense, but in a sociological/anthropological one. Are there things in this world that people have trouble wrapping their head around, things we can't seem to pin down and understand and assign an easy-to-proliferate name to, but nonetheless hurt us?