To even have a chance, to even survive for a while like Marion Wheeler has, you’d have to develop strategies that look nothing like how a normal organization. How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war? Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams…īut anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets.

It’s the story of the Foundation’s researchers, led by Marion Wheeler, who deal with antimemes, described as:Īn antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.Īntimemes are real. The Antimemetics Division is unambiguously a story about fridge horror, the feeling that comes as the full, terrible implications of an idea slowly rolls over you after you’ve finished reading. In-universe, the Foundation has a rating scheme for potential apocalypses that routinely has to be re-normalized to accommodate even worse ways the human race could end.

The universe is unambiguously dark though “canon” is a vague and uncertain concept for a shared wiki of stories edited by hundreds of pseudonymous writers, it’s generally accepted that this is the universe where the human race does not win, where “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” would be a unreasonably happy ending.

The overall conceit of the site is that it’s the shared incident records and stories of the SCP Foundation, a secret quasi-governmental group that attempts to Secure anomalous artifacts and monsters, Contain their impact on human society, and Protect…well, it’s ambiguous whether they’re protecting us from the anomalies, or the anomalies from us. (I mean this sincerely: if you’re someone who has bad dreams, don’t particularly read this website, especially not near bedtime.)

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In real life, the SCP Foundation Wiki is a shared fictional universe for creepypasta, the modern Web equivalent of scary stories around the campfire - stories intended to creep you out, or mess with you, or just cause you to think about how screwed up the world is. I’ve been struck, recently, by the wrap-up of an amazing, long-running series of short stories in the shared fictional sandbox called the SCP Foundation, called “ There is no Antimemetics Division.

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