Special Containment Procedures: 10 instances of SCP-5083 affected material are to be kept at Storage Site-77. Affected material is to be contained in a 5 m x 5 m x 1,5 m cell inside an opaque, reinforced steel safe. Access to the safe requires approval by at least one member of O5 council.
A detachment of MTF η-10 ("See No Evil") is permanently assigned to monitor publishing companies for any apperance of SCP-5083, and destroy affected material immediately. Disinformation teams are to disseminate cover stories to explain the data loss.
Web-analysis bot KAPPA-60-EDU is to scan texts for SCP-5083, and remove, and replace the affected material with a safe copy.
Members of MTF Kappa-60 must undergo an IQ test before joining.
Affected individuals are to be detained in soundproof Euclid-Class humanoid containment chambers, and no interaction is to be made with them. No writing instruments are allowed inside the containment cells. Violation of this rule will result in immediate termination.
Testing with SCP-5083 is strictly forbidden, anyone found violating this rule will be terminated.
Description: SCP-5083 is a memetic anomaly affecting around ██,███% of educational texts. How SCP-5083 determines this is unknown. SCP-5083 appears █ to ███ minutes after "endpoint". The "endpoint" is when the author consciously decides that the work is completed.
Individuals with an IQ below 130, when exposed to material affected by SCP-5083, will permanently remember and immediately understand the contents in less than 3 seconds, without reading the full text. Amnestic treatment has been ineffective at removing the contents from the subjects' minds. Subjects usually express satisfaction and will gain an innate tendency to seek out material affected by SCP-5083.
Individuals with an IQ above 130, when exposed to material affected by SCP-5083, will suffer severe and irreversible psychological effects after perceiving SCP-5083-affected text:
- Stage I (10-90 min after exposure): Mild anxiety
- Stage II ( 2-5 days after exposure): Moderate anxiety, disorientation, mild ataxia
- Stage III (1-3 weeks after exposure): Severe anxiety, visual hallucinations, generally
described as meaningless ASCII characters
- Stage IV (3 months after exposure): Subject's vocalizations and writing become
cognitohazardous. Persons exposed to these will suffer the effects of SCP-5083, regardless of
their IQ.
- Stage V (6 months after exposure): Subjects become paralyzed. Death usually occurs
because of dehydration
SCP-5083 was discovered, when ███ teenagers and █ teachers from [REDACTED] University, ██████. Persons reported psychological issues, but dismissed it as






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