>>101059895It's a neat idea but unfortunately humans can very easily conceptualize nothing and have even interacted with nothing:
1. 0 is a mathematical conceptualization of nothing on the numberline.
2. An empty set is a set with nothing in it.
3. A black hole is not exactly nothing, but it doesn't emit information and can only be observed from the effects it has on things around it.
4. A string can contain nothing (ex: "").
5. Humans have discovered that there is nothing between electrons and their nuclei.
6. The word nothing represents the concept of something nonexistant.
7. A vacuum is an area which contains nothing.
As you can see, nothing, while admittedly harder to conceptualize than a counting number, isn't a very difficult concept to conceptualize. And if nothing has a trait other than not containing something, then it is something, meaning Pattern Screamers aren't even nothing since they have the trait of hating existence.
And anyways, there are already things in the wiki which basically are Pattern Screamers, like fractals which exist in partial spacial dimensions or extra spacial dimensions, and I like those a lot more because they're actually difficult to conceptualize unlike nothing. And before you tear me apart and say that "it's not literally nothing, it's just a literary device", consider that nothing is already a heavily explored topic on the SCP wiki through things like Nobody or anti-memetics. I think we can both agree that scips/tales about anti-memetics are executed a lot better than scips/tales about Nobody because anti-memes aren't personified and are therefore more alien to the reader. The problem with your Pattern Screamers is that they have a (laughably) simple and shallow motivation. They aren't really an impending nothingness which assaults the reader's sense of identity, they're just a scary fuzzy thing that wants to smash stuff apart.
Sorry, but these "Pattern Screamers" just aren't that great.
