These range from impossible-to-remember (non-spherical) objects, a gun that turns targets into anti-memetically cloaked worms, multiple extinct once-great civilizations, predatory ideo-complices that prey on Foundation researchers’ memories and erase them from cognition, and the malicious, omnipresent SCP-3125. There Is No Antimemetics Division – written by self-published author Sam “qntm” Hughes from 2008 to 2020 – tackles the idea of the inverse: concepts, objects, and entities that censor themselves through memory loss, data corruption, and other anomalous means. The terms “cognitohazard” and “memetic kill agent” are forever etched into common Foundation narratives. In the context of the SCP Foundation – a 15-year-old community-driven writing project about a clandestine non-governmental organization dedicated to Securing, Containing, and Protecting objects deemed anomalous to baseline reality, now nearly 7,000 objects strong – these ideas may spread, benefit, corrupt, maim, or kill simply by existing in a human mind. Memes and memetics refers to the concept of ideas behaving like genes, how cultural information transfers throughout society and, in so doing, mutates.
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