It must be so confusing being a bird. You've got these long gangly aliens building inconceivably large portable and indestructible nests, and travelling insane distances - clearly the work of a superior lifeform.
And then they just dump this toxic stuff all over the place, killing all your friends. At first you must think "well, maybe this is beneficial in the longrun and the deaths were unavoidable".... but when it keeps happening and the effects get worse each time, you really begin to question their motives.
And that's why seagulls stealing food out of people's hands is based.
Do you ever wonder what the generation before ours was like? Like from the stories my dad tells, he was basically a cult leader of a bunch of teens in the street and would walk around barefoot preaching pop store politics, getting into traffic accidents and giving the police the run around, all consequence free. And then he grew up and became a functioning member of society.
Same with my grandparents generation. Kids would fall into wells, murder each other, lose limbs, be subject to all kinds of normalised abuse, and then just.... grow up and become functioning members society. Neurotic, abusive, horrible people in some cases.... but functioning members of society
Why them and not us? I'd say it's because deep down everyone is a lunatic but if you have a job and a semi-permanent home, it normalizes you to some degree. You have a purpose and role in soceity, even if it's a bullshit job. It's a daily grind that synchronizes you to the schedules and goals of others and it's stable enough that even someone with severe mental issues can follow.
Our generation does not seem to have the luxury of stable jobs and housing. So we're nuts, but fewer and fewer of us have less means to normalize our neuroses under the guise of having a daily ritual, so our neuroses become our main defining features and this gets reported on a lot.
A few documents indicated that SCP-184 could be brought into a home and allowed to affect the dwelling for 50 pounds sterling per half hour. These documents were unconfirmed by residents.
