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Re:Sell your startup for half a billion and get nothing (2021) by cwillu on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @03:26AM (#39600724)
It's a Doctor Who reference to the episode “Blink”, which introduces a villain race of statues that can move, but only when unobserved.

Incoherent snippets of dialogue seen on a DVD turns out to be half of a conversation being had with a specific viewer in the future, a transcript of which goes back in time.

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Re:Sell your startup for half a billion and get nothing (2021) by sneak on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:13AM (#39601929)
Did SCP-173 rip off this premise?

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173

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Re:Sell your startup for half a billion and get nothing (2021) by cwillu on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @08:14AM (#39602896)
The SCP page itself was created on 2008-07-25, while the episode aired on 2007-06-09, so it looks like the BBC was more like a year prior.
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Re:Sell your startup for half a billion and get nothing (2021) by rsynnott on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:41AM (#39602126)
I think it's a pretty old idea (things which you can't look at, or which can't look at you, are certainly _very_ old mythological ideas), but... maybe? SCP showed up at about the same time as the first weeping angels Dr Who episodes.
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