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Item #: XXXX

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Because a description of the containment procedures for SCP-XXXX-A constitutes a breach, they are to be excluded from all Foundation documentation. Currently, containment of SCP-XXXX-A is managed by an automated computer algorithm, responsible for the covert distribution of containment protocols encoded in instructions of mundane tasks to be unknowingly performed by staff. Addendum XXXX-a2, located at the bottom of this document, is to be checked daily to ensure the continued containment of SCP-XXXX. In the event of a containment breach, SCP-XXXX-A's containment algorithm is to be reintroduced to public communication networks to adjust its profile of SCP-XXXX-A if needed, and protocols used during Event XXXX-532 (see addenda) are to be repeated.

Additionally, SCP-XXXX-A is not to be referenced in written or verbal communication in any context not referencing its connection to SCP-XXXX, and it is not to be referred to or described with any noun or adjective outside of "SCP-XXXX-A" and descriptors of its relevance to the SCP-XXXX anomaly. These descriptive parameters exist to avert the risk of unintentionally constructing a subconscious profile of SCP-XXXX-A as an entity. This file is laced with several Foundation-engineered dormant amnestic cognitohazards that are triggered upon an affected subject's failure to stay within the specified verbal parameters when discussing and describing SCP-XXXX-A, causing a complete wipe of all memories acquired by the subject while the cognitohazards were present, before dispersing. The cognitohazards possess a weak area of effect, and will also affect the memories of additional subject located in close proximity, erasing their memory of the last five seconds, thus purging the hazardous description of SCP-XXXX-A. Digital-based mentions of SCP-XXXX-A that fail to uphold descriptive parameters will be intercepted and censored by SCP-XXXX-A's containment algorithm.

Any recollection of a description of SCP-XXXX-A, even if believed false, is to be immediately reported to medical staff to receive appropriate amnestic treatment, and the amnestic cognitohazards are to be tested for reliability.

Description: SCP-XXXX is an extremely powerful memetic phenomenon affecting human subjects that learn of the existence of an entity, designated SCP-XXXX-A, through either direct perception followed by cognizance of its presence, or, at minimum, partial descriptions provided by already affected subjects. SCP-XXXX is characterized by the irrational attribution of all undesirable/painful personal experiences, phenomena, and knowledge to [INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED] SCP-XXXX-A.

Once infected, subjects will begin to perceive SCP-XXXX-A to be directly responsible for all isolated negative incidents that occur after that point in time. SCP-XXXX-A will over time gradually occupy more and more of a subject's headspace until they become cognizant of its prevalence, leading to the twofold realization that SCP-XXXX-A is the root cause of all problems on a personal, societal, and/or existential level,¹ and that said problems are all directly connected through their shared origination from SCP-XXXX-A. This invariably results in a drastic shift in habits and daily behaviors. At this point subjects often begin to engage in political activism, journalism, and campaigning with a negative focus on SCP-XXXX-A, forming vectors through which SCP-XXXX spreads as public awareness of SCP-XXXX-A increases.

Both the escalation of symptoms and behavioral changes of affected subjects are believed to be a byproduct of human psychology interacting with the SCP-XXXX infohazard rather than the anomaly itself. Because of this, it is thought that non-anomalous social engineering, persuasion, intimidation, and other forms of behavioral manipulation can be used to modify how infection advances.

When SCP-XXXX becomes sufficiently widespread, it will begin to overtake the world's political landscape and culture. The eventual result is the collective identification of SCP-XXXX-A as [INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED], followed by the unanimous agreement to divert large quantities of global resources and manpower to neutralizing, combating, and/or resisting SCP-XXXX-A in some way. Infected societies are invariably restructured into totalitarian collectivist regimes wherein citizens collectively agree to sacrifice a significant degree of individuality and civil freedom for the sake of completing procedures that are perceived to assist in the "fight" against SCP-XXXX-A, resulting in drastic reductions in crime rates, international trade,² cultural developments, [INFOHAZARD EXPUNGED], and quality of life. An SCP-XXXX infection of this scale is to be considered an LK-Class Loss-of-Normalcy Scenario, and would necessitate a recreation of protocols used during Event XXXX-532 (see addenda).

It is noted that SCP-XXXX appears to trigger only upon the formation of a direct and descriptive understanding of SCP-XXXX-A as an entity in and of itself. A description of SCP-XXXX-A with regards to its connection to SCP-XXXX does not constitute an infohazard³ so long as additional descriptors are not included. Because of this property, individuals exposed to an incomplete form of the infohazard will accept false descriptors of SCP-XXXX-A and integrate them into their mental profile of the entity, so long as they do not contradict the subject's prior understanding.

Addendum XXXX-a1: Event XXXX-532
Event XXXX-532 refers to a span of time between the initial discovery of SCP-XXXX and the reversal of an LK-Class Loss-of-Normalcy Scenario caused by the object.

Members of the O5 Council had managed to avoid infection due to their prior reliance on computer-based communicational proxies, which were outfitted with advanced infohazard filtration systems. The Council modified these computer proxies to include an algorithm that would privately construct a profile of SCP-XXXX-A through its interactions with infected human society. O5 was then able to reverse SCP-XXXX's effects using a combination of temporal manipulation and modification of the noosphere⁴ via computer proxy.

The algorithm containing SCP-XXXX-A's profile was then modified to also construct containment procedures for SCP-XXXX-A, under the axiom that SCP-XXXX-A and its containment procedures are never be observed by humans. The containment algorithm, originally developed as a separate entity, was then metastasized and implemented into the central Foundation containment and communications network to prevent personnel from constructing a profile of it, where it would analyze information passed to and from staff members and encrypt containment protocols as various unrelated tasks and plant them in files describing said tasks.

Addendum XXXX-a2: Containment Status
This section of the SCP-XXXX object file is connected to SCP-XXXX-A's containment algorithm, and will automatically update in the event that SCP-XXXX-A breaches containment, the containment algorithm is compromised, or SCP-XXXX-based infohazards are detected in the Foundation communications network.

ANOMALY STATUS: CONTAINED

ALGORITHM STATUS: NO FAILURES DETECTED

NETWORK STATUS: NO INFOHAZARDS DETECTED

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Item #: XXXX

Object Class: Thaumiel

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be provided with a publicly accessible object file in the main Foundation database for the purpose of establishing in personnel the base knowledge level required for the implementation of Project 433-XXXX. Overseers are not to receive amnestics for the purpose of circumventing infohazards due to the unpredictable and sustained communication required to continue Project 433-XXXX procedures. Because the discovery of Project 433-XXXX by personnel outside O5 would have disastrous effects on the structure of the Foundation and the authority of the O5 Council, it is not to be described in any physical or digital documentation, as the whole of the Council has agreed to keep it committed to memory.

To avert infohazards, all Overseers are to read the statements contained in Addendum XXXX-433-01 no less than once each calendar week. Members of O5 are to be alerted if a fellow member fails to access this file, which exists only on O5-used Site-01 terminals, at the specified frequency.

Description: Redundant.

Addendum XXXX-433-01
The Council has deemed it pertinent to formulate a safe way to circumvent infohazards that its members may subconsciously acquire due to Project 433-XXXX. Because Council members are aware of the nature of these infohazards and therefore able to reject the formulative mental processes that would normally enable infection, they can interact with infohazardous material at a substantially reduced risk. However, O5 are still exposed in their subconscious associative processes.

For the purpose of protecting the members of O5 from hazardous information, the following statements have been encoded with enhancive countermemes intended to fully neutralize SCP-XXXX infection.

All members of the SCP Foundation Overseer Council are reminded that all descriptions of SCP-XXXX-A provided by Foundation department administrators in all forms of public and private communication are patently false.

All members of the SCP Foundation Overseer Council are reminded that the presence of significant contradictions in descriptions of SCP-XXXX-A provided by different Foundation department administrators is to be interpreted as reinforcement of the fact that they are falsehoods, and not as evidence that SCP-XXXX-A is a multifaceted anomaly.

All members of the SCP Foundation Overseer Council are reminded that the containment procedures within the main SCP-XXXX object file, the SCP-XXXX-A automated containment algorithm, and the primary SCP-XXXX anomaly, are not fabricated.

All members of the SCP Foundation Overseer Council are reminded that SCP-XXXX-A bears no relevant properties, anomalous or otherwise, outside of its status as the entity targeted by the SCP-XXXX memetic infohazard, as described in the primary SCP-XXXX documentation.

All members of the SCP Foundation Overseer Council are reminded that SCP-XXXX-A has no connections to any other SCP item.

All members of the SCP Foundation Overseer Council are reminded that the "Maksur" anomalous item classification does not exist, and any meaning attributed to it is fabricated.

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Addendum XXXX-433-02
In the event that members of the Council at some point reconsider Project 433-XXXX on ethical and/or practical grounds, the following data has been recorded as a reminder of the project's success.

Figure	Before Project 433-XXXX	After Project 433-XXXX
Annual personnel defection rate, averaged	230/yr	11/yr
Length of staff employment, averaged	15 yrs	86 yrs
Frequency of containment breach (Euclid class), averaged	1362/yr	82/yr
Frequency of containment breach (Keter class), averaged	7452/yr	253/yr
Time to secure objects (Euclid class) post-containment breach, averaged	19.6 hrs	3.5 hrs
Time to secure objects (Keter class) post-containment breach, averaged	36.5 hrs	7.1 hrs

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Item #: XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Currently, SCP-XXXX is contained by a large metastasized infohazard filtration unit (IFU-XXXX) that has been developed and installed in the Foundation communications network, connecting to every Foundation-approved terminal. IFU-XXXX has direct access to all forms of digital communication sent to and from terminals connected to the network, and will intercept and censor any descriptors of SCP-XXXX-B that are included alongside connections to SCP-XXXX-A, as would constitute a containment breach. IFU-XXXX is to be examined weekly by personnel that are unaware of the existence of SCP-XXXX-A. All personnel that interact with SCP-XXXX-B descriptors are to be amnesticized after completing protocols.

SCP-XXXX-A is contained in a standard humanoid containment cell, and is subject to the default containment protocols used for non-anomalous humanoids (for more information, contact Site Director Xavier).

Description: SCP-XXXX is a conceptual object possessing extremely powerful memetic properties that triggers upon the logical conflation of two constituent entities, designated SCP-XXXX-A and SCP-XXXX-B.

SCP-XXXX-A is a human male, age 31, 1.83 meters tall, weighing 86 kilograms. SCP-XXXX-A appears to be non-anomalous outside of its role as the passive constituent of the SCP-XXXX infohazard.

SCP-XXXX-B is an action of purposefully expunged description. It is unknown if SCP-XXXX-B refers to an isolated event or a habitual behavior⁵. SCP-XXXX-B is the active constituent of SCP-XXXX alongside SCP-XXXX-A. SCP-XXXX-B has no memetic or infohazardous effects if described in isolation, and will only trigger the SCP-XXXX anomaly when understood alongside SCP-XXXX-A.

SCP-XXXX constitutes a potent infohazard, characterized by the conflation of any undesirable/painful experiences, phenomena, or information with SCP-XXXX-A. More specifically, affected subjects will perceive negative experiences to directly originate from SCP-XXXX-B, for which SCP-XXXX-A is supposedly to blame. SCP-XXXX-A will over time gradually occupy more and more of a subject's headspace until they become cognizant of its prevalence, leading to the twofold realization that SCP-XXXX-B is the root cause of all problems on a personal, societal, and/or existential level,⁶ and that said problems are all directly connected through their shared origination from SCP-XXXX. This invariably results in a drastic shift in habits and daily behaviors. At this point subjects often begin to engage in political activism, journalism, and campaigning with a negative focus on SCP-XXXX-A in relation to SCP-XXXX-B, forming vectors through which SCP-XXXX spreads.

Addendum: Discovery
[DETAIL INITIAL OUTBREAK OF SCP-XXXX, HOW THE FOUNDATION ACQUIRED SCP-XXXX-A (sent MTF that didn't know about SCP-XXXX-B?), AND LOG OF THE MEME'S ESCALATION THAT ENSUED DUE TO SOCIETY'S INABILITY TO PERSECUTE SCP-XXXX-A SINCE HE HAD ALREADY BEEN ACQUIRED BY THE FOUNDATION (Last bit optional)]

Addendum: Associated documents

[APOCALYPTIC LOG-STYLE DIARY ENTRIES DETAILING SCP-XXXX-A'S DOWNWARD SPIRAL AS SCP-XXXX CONTINUES TO SPREAD]

Footnotes

1. This extent depends on individual temperament, though it has very little effect on resulting behaviors.

2. Trade operations relevant to anti-SCP-XXXX-A activity often account for more than 99% of all trade.

3. It is unknown how this was determined, as no records of tests performed on SCP-XXXX are known to exist. Personnel speculate that testing may have been performed during the initial SCP-XXXX outbreak, the data and records subsequently purged following its successful containment. However, this theory is contested, as no motive for testing the underlying mechanism of SCP-XXXX is known that would warrant the direct interaction with infected subjects and exposure to the accompanying hazards.

4. The sum total of all human knowledge, accessible as a separate and directly malleable metaphysical object. Due to the extreme prevalence of causal understandings and connections in human cognition, attempting to manipulate the noosphere without proper precaution may lead to severe unintended changes in the structure of human consciousness. In this case, the changes made to the noosphere during Event XXXX-532 posed a 62.3% chance of causing a fully separate K-Class scenario, according to projections.

5. The latter seems unlikely, as no recorded outbreaks of SCP-XXXX have been known to originate from Foundation personnel observing the entity.

6. This extent depends on individual temperament, though it has very little effect on resulting behaviors.