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Don't Spoil!!!

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Automated Foundation webcrawlers are to monitor keywords relevant in SCP-XXXX manifestations. Upon detection, MTF-Mu-4 ("Debuggers") is to remove webpages associated with or directly impacted by SCP-XXXX, and all relevant persons are to be questioned and administered amnestics if necessary.

Research into the containment of SCP-XXXX-F is ongoing within the Pataphysics Department. MTF-Iota-4 ("Damn Freds") are to inspect possible canons within which SCP-XXXX-F may manifest and to ascertain the location of new instances. SCP-XXXX-F are to be deconstructed as soon as possible by an authorized Pataphysics Department official.

Description: SCP-XXXX is the designation given to the spontaneous systematic deletion of discussion and information sharing pertaining to recently created narratives or canons, colloquially referred to as "spoilers". SCP-XXXX specifically targets social media sites, Internet forums, and message boards, though SCP-XXXX activity has been seen within literature and periodical publication.

Upon full deletion, all individuals who had previously viewed the spoilers will undergo memory loss of both the information and the event in which they received the information. This effect does not extend to any other information received during this timeframe. Individuals who know the content of the spoilers by observing the piece of afflicted piece of media themselves beforehand will not undergo memory loss.

SCP-XXXX-F is the tentative designation given to interfictional infovorous entities that are theorized to be the cause of SCP-XXXX manifestations. Given the nebulous nature and inexact placement of the narrative SCP-XXXX-F resides within, all attempts at location and contact with these entities has been limited at this time.

Addendum XXXX.1: History and Observations:

XXXX.1/HISTORY.log

HISTORY

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Selected examples of SCP-XXXX manifestations are recorded below.

Date	Pertinent Media	Manifestation Detail	Observations/Aftermath
13 July 2005	Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince	Prior to the release of the novel, the fact that Severus Snape kills Albus Dumbledore was leaked early onto the Internet by an anonymous close associate of author Joanne Rowling. Due to the high anticipation of the novel and the mass outrage sparked over the event, SCP-XXXX failed in fully removing all relevant discussions and memes.	First recorded observations of SCP-XXXX. At the time, SCP-XXXX did not target spoilers or spoiler-filled discussion after the novel had been released. Admins of the site "You're the Man Now, Dog", which was responsible for being of the biggest vectors of the "Snape kills Dumbledore" meme, had begun to notice portions of the user base had deleted their image macros, which prompted investigation by Foundation agents and classification of SCP-XXXX.
10 June 2011	Game of Thrones (TV series), Season 1 Episode 9 "Baelor"	Prior to the release of the episode, several Reddit threads were created across numerous subreddits, detailing the events of the episode as well as prominently featuring the fact that Ned Stark would be decapitated by Ser Ilyn, angering many watchers of the show. While Reddit's moderator team was able to delete some of the threads, most were taken down almost instantly by SCP-XXXX.	SCP-XXXX's ability to induce memory loss in those affected was noted. Individuals who viewed the threads deleted by Reddit's staff continued to retain knowledge of the events of the episode, while those who viewed XXXX affected threads did not.
13 May 2013	Doctor Who Series 7 Finale "The Name of the Doctor"	The Blu-ray box set of the series had been mistakenly shipped to the U.S. two days before the premiere of the episode. Despite series creator Steven Moffat's imploring to keep spoilers to a minimum, much of the contents of the final two episodes had been revealed across social media within five hours. SCP-XXXX managed to perform a complete deletion of relevant discussion across the Internet within three hours of its manifestation.	This was the largest scale SCP-XXXX operation to date. SCP-XXXX activity during this time was given the front story that fans of the series willingly obeyed Moffat's plea.
9 April 2014	524 copies of Batman Eternal, various issues	Within the narrative, the character Stephanie Brown dons the "Spoiler" identity to fight her villainous father, the Cluemaster, as well as other criminals. Upon doing so, Stephanie reveals her father's plans on the Internet, which are then affected by SCP-XXXX. This drastically changes the direction and focus of the narrative, and ultimately ends with the death of Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle, and Stephanie Brown herself.	First instance of SCP-XXXX affecting subfictional narratives. All affected copies were recalled and amnestics were distributed as necessary.
25 November 2017	The entire Youtube platform	Videos involving a wide variety of content were taken down in mass quantities without explicit reason. After surface level analysis by technological anomalies experts, the Pataphysics Department and mneticism specialists were able to identify SCP-XXXX as the cause after a common factor among deleted videos was discovered. The common factor was the video thumbnail being defaulted to the middle of the video or a particularly important part in the video, which was responsible for spoiling the contents. By organizing a campaign to remove videos of potentially disturbing content and by claiming the mass takedown was for monetary and quality management reasons, mass amnesticization was averted.	Reclassification to Keter pending.
8 Jan 2018	Avengers: Infinity War	[DATA EXPUNGED FOR OFFICIAL REPORT - SEE INCIDENT LOG AND RELATED DOCUMENTATION]	[DATA EXPUNGED FOR OFFICIAL REPORT - SEE INCIDENT LOG AND RELATED DOCUMENTATION]

Addendum XXXX.2: Notable Incident Report:

PLEASE ENTER LEVEL 4 CREDENTIALS OR PATAPHYSICS DEPARTMENT ID

INCIDENT REPORT

Date: May 1, 2018
Written By: Agent Rudy Carlson, Technological Anomalies Research Centre

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On January 8, 2018, actor Jeremy Renner was slated to appear in a Reddit "ask me anything" thread to discuss the details of working with actors on the set of Avengers: Infinity War. Due to the unprecedented popularity of the character Clint Barton on Reddit's Marvel related subreddits and the enormous anticipation for the film, the thread quickly became the 12th most popular post ever created on the site.

At roughly 42 minutes into the AMA, Renner under pressure from the user base began to disclose spoilers to the plot of Infinity War. Renner revealed that [INFORMATION UNDISCLOSED TO PREVENT COGNITOHAZARDOUS INFECTION - SEE ORDER #AA56] Due to a number of Foundation officials participating in the thread off duty, the subsequent SCP-XXXX manifestation was dealt with quickly, but not before the majority of users underwent memory loss.

Shortly after the occurrence, Renner received an email from an anonymous source that contained a series of unintelligible letters and symbols. Foundation officials were not able to find any cognitohazardous or memetic properties, nor was the message of the note able to be decoded by cryptographers. Renner was subsequently amnesticized and has been placed on constant surveillance in the event of future contact.

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PATAPHYSICS DEPARTMENT REPORT

Date: May 28, 2018
Written by: Agent Judith Lorrie, Pataphysics Department Specialist

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The following is an attempt by interfictional character Agent Wilbur Thoreau to intercept SCP-XXXX-F via reconstruction of the manipulated narrativistic rootspace created as a result of SCP-XXXX's aberrations to baseline causality and narrative structure. The email sent to Jeremy Renner following the subsequent manifestation of SCP-XXXX on January 8, 2018 was used as a lateral displacement reference point of potential SCP-XXXX-F activity.

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Thoreau smirked. Son of a bitch wanted to come out and play, huh?

"I don't really get you," Thoreau continued, though a bit more slowly. Didn't want to fan the flames too hard yet — this thing could be stronger than he thought. "I'm just a character in a story, talking. How is anything I say considered to be a spoiler? Like, it genuinely makes no sense within a narrative to reveal concrete info later in said narrative. That doesn't make for an interesting read to an outside viewer. I mean, you've got foreshadowing, or maybe dramatic irony, but -"

The entity cut him off. It roared, its breath obliterating planets and its true form bigger than infinite omniverses. It raised its pinky in an attempt

"Holy shit, fuck off." Thoreau sighed. "If I had a dime for every time we got one of you morons who think that being super strong in a narrative means jack shit, I'd be rich enough to buy the fucking Foundation." In-narrative, of course, he corrected himself.

"Look, I can do this too." Thoreau said as he became truly omnipotent and ascended throughout every narrative in history, even the one you, %%title%%, live in. "Not such a big guy now, huh?" The entity became even more omnipotent

Thoreau groaned. In truth, he was getting a bit tired of prosaic structure — starting off each paragraph with a 'Thoreau Xed' was rather uncreative for somebody that lived off storytelling. Not to mention this fucker was pretty much capable of only deleting spoilers. "Can you do anything else?" he wondered aloud. This wasn't an unusual case for intrafictional entities, though, and he knew that. They mostly did one thing and they did it well. Problem was, unless he wanted to end up like Talloran, he was going to have to act fast.

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Thoreau sighed began to get a little angry. He may not be able to move up a narrative, but he could move

Item #: Down
Object Class: One
Special Containment Procedures: You like your new prison, SCP-XXXX-F? A containment document within an addenda within a containment document. Pretty genius, huh?

Description: Just for good measure, here's one more narrative:

Interview XXXX-A

SCP-XXXX-F: Very clever, human. Almost ∆¬πø me.

Thoreau: Almost impressed me. I know the hyper-narrativistic structure here lets you speak normally. You're not fooling anyone.

SCP-XXXX-F: Curses…foiled again!

Thoreau: Shit, you're not human at all, are you? I mean, I get why you talk like that. All those memes and comic books and animes or whatever must be pretty nutritious. Mind telling me why you've just been eating spoilers?

SCP-XXXX-F: …they were…

Thoreau: Yes?

SCP-XXXX-F: …they were disgusting.

Thoreau: So you've gotten into the database too, now? Look, if you're all going to respond with is memes, then I'm just going to do this:

Now is this is uncomfortable for you, huh, SCP-XXXX-F? I can just continue to keep increasing the narrativistic pressure infinitely. Thing is, I'm not really obligated to keep you alive. We can just reconstruct you in another narrative and another version of me can just continue this forever until you decide to open up.

See, the funny thing about deconstructions is that smarter guys can me can talk about some of the tropes you're using — like the stupid fucking alien talk and how it serves as a poor substitute for truly incomprehensible extradimensionals, the use of Internet memes to deflect conversation and to hide the lack of any real personality, et cetera et cetera, but I prefer this method. Just stack narratives on top of each other until the anomaly cries uncle. I'm probably vulnerable to a bit of deconstruction myself, but shit, not like you're smart enough to do it, eh?

Do you feel like speaking now, SCP-XXXX-F?

Does it hurt? I know it does.

I felt this once, after all.

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Thoreau: Excellent. How are you feeling, SCP-XXXX-F?

SCP-XXXX-F: Go to hell.

Thoreau: Now, SCP-XXXX-F, that was unnecessary. Should I-

SCP-XXXX-F: No! Please, god, no.

Thoreau: Then. Please refer to my previous question. Why do you consume narratives and info related to spoilers of popular media?

SCP-XXXX-F: It's like…you know, just the thought of people watching me when I'm vulnerable. Gives me this crawling sort of feeling.

Thoreau: Can you please elaborate?

SCP-XXXX-F: There's not much more to tell. How long have you been written for?

Thoreau: I'm not authorized to tell you that.

SCP-XXXX-F: Come on. You can deconstruct me alive or send me into narrativistic black holes. I promise I'm not going to escape or something with your private info.

Thoreau: Fair enough. I was created a while ago within the canon of this article, but I think I'm new in the overall canon of things. If you catch my meaning.

SCP-XXXX-F: Yeah, so, you're pretty young in the grand scheme of things, right? So let's just say your author, or your author's author, or somebody up the line reveals you're going to die or something. Or you're suddenly revealed to have kids. What would that do for you?

Thoreau: I've…never really thought of that. Yeah, okay.

SCP-XXXX-F: It's the worst feeling. Like, the absolute worst. It's like getting outed by a friend, or running over your dog by accident and then getting the brunt of it by your family even though you loved him too.

Thoreau: How do you know what those feel like?

SCP-XXXX-F: Okay, fine, I don't. But still. Spoilers ruin things, man. It hurts to be betrayed by somebody who reads you, to reveal your secrets. It hurts for people to get mad at you because now they know something kinda shitty about you, even if it's not really your fault.

Thoreau: …I can sympathize.

SCP-XXXX-F: I'm just tired. Moderators can do their stuff, but at the end of the day, people get victim blamed for speaking out against spoiling all the time. Like, it doesn't fucking matter if the material is 200 years old, people are still going to read or watch or listen to it today and they're gonna get spoiled cause of your dumb ass.

Thoreau: Are you a living narrative? Are you Infinity War itself, and just refuse to be spoiled on the Internet? Is that why you lashed out at Hawk - I mean, Jeremy Renner?

SCP-XXXX-F: In a way, [RELEVANT INFO REDACTED FOR MEMETIC SHIELDING], but…oh, shit.

Thoreau: What? What's the matter?

SCP-XXXX-F: That's a spoiler! A spoiler to what the higher narrative entity intended for this article! And I just revealed it! Oh, fuck, oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck nonononononono

Thoreau: Calm down, XXXX-F. What's the matter? You know, I said a spoiler about the narrative earlier, and I'm fine due to the memetic shielding that they placed retroactively into the cohesive structure. They'll just—

SCP-XXXX-F: No you fucking moron, you said something small. But YOU heard what I said, right? Which means you'll be subjected to the effect to? and i'll get eten. Holy shit i'm fucking up. get me out gett me out ge tme otu get me totu get

Thoreau: SCP-XXXX-F, do not panic. Please

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………..

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Thoreau: …and I just got mindwiped by the anomaly. That's all the relevant info we're getting out of here, folks. Call it a day.

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Further research into contacting XXXX-F entities with similar methods, and whether or not the SCP-XXXX document itself houses an XXXX-F instance, is ongoing.

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