So, I've heard from both the SCP fandom and the Creepypasta fandom, and I want to start a discussion.
More of you may be familiar with the Creepypasta group because of its popularity, so I will start with that. The Creepypasta group is notorious for it's scary stories you read late at night, but has no Canon story to go off of, besides the origin stories for the individuals. The SCP group is very similar in style, being that it is composed mainly of stories, but has much more of a timeline to it than Creepypasta's style. However, the SCP foundation Canon actually has multiple different timelines on the wiki, and the moderators specifically said that no one timeline is the true Canon, and that they can all be considered Canon to different people. This brings me to my actual question. Would it be better for a group or fandom to have no real Canon story line, or to have many seperated timelines and none of them confirmed to be the actual Canon? How would it affect possible fanfiction? Could it potentially harm the fandom?