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Item #: SCP-XXXX

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Active Drafts a.k.a. the stuff I care about/YOU (the reviewer) should be looking at.

SCP-4000: The Library

Item #: SCP-4000

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Welcome to Foundation Psychiatric

something something TALE

Abandoned Drafts are stuff I've put on hold. You know the stuff you see where the author post has something like 'been sitting in my sandbox for ███? These are those articles.

DRAFT: Don't Feed the Trolls Archive

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Foundation web crawlers are to monitor online forums for reports of behavior matching SCP-XXXX, and particularly any case in which a user mentions symptoms of SCP-XXXX's memetic effect. Foundation assets are to work within video game development studios to ensure online titles are produced with features that limit the frequency of SCP-XXXX manifestations.

MTF Kappa-10 ("Skynet") is tasked with locating and neutralizing SCP-XXXX. Current efforts are hindered by a combination of anomalous influence and GoI-operated virtual private networks.

Description: SCP-XXXX is an anomalous online identity with several accounts on internet gaming platforms.¹ While SCP-XXXX can theoretically join any online multiplayer game, certain gameplay factors are known to increase the likelihood of SCP-XXXX appearing. These include:

• A high emphasis on cooperation with other players.
• An inability to remove or 'kick' players from a lobby.
• Methods to damage players of the same team or otherwise impede their progress.
• Limited opportunities to save progress, or scenarios where losing will result in a substantial amount of lost time.
• Integrated voice communication.

As such, SCP-XXXX frequently appears in cooperative multiplayer games with mechanics such as friendly-fire or player collisions enabled.

Once in a game, SCP-XXXX will act in a manner which interferes with normal gameplay for the remaining players. Actions shown during this time are within the capabilities of a non-anomalous player.

SCP-XXXX's anomolous abilites appear when any player in the lobby reacts to SCP-XXXX's actions with frustration or anger. SCP-XXXX will then use a targeted auditory memetic which makes the player feel compelled to finish the game and attempt to 'defeat' SCP-XXXX. This memetic will also increase the player's emotional response, typically resulting in an even stronger reaction to SCP-XXXX's actions. This cycle will continue until either the player leaves² or is forced away from the game, the game either reaches a failstate or is completed, or if the player stops or is unable to react to SCP-XXXX. At this point, the memetic influence will cease. SCP-XXXX has not been observed to target multiple players at once; while other players may still react to SCP-XXXX, these reactions are entirely non-anomalous, and SCP-XXXX either will not or cannot use another memetic phrase if one player is already affected.

SCP-XXXX was designed by the GoI-5869, "Gamers Against Weed", as a program to produce large volumes of "trolling" content for the group's amusement - all instances where SCP-XXXX activates its anomolous properties are recored from SCP-XXXX's perspective and transmitted to a currently untraced GoI-5869 server.

The program of SCP-XXXX is suspected to be anomalous in nature. The intellegence displayed by SCP-XXXX far surpases that of any current public artificial intelligence, and rivals the capabilities of the Foundation-operated AIAD. Whenever SCP-XXXX utilizes voice communication, it speaks through a highly advanced, though distinctly artificial, text-to-speech application with a male voice.

Addendum XXXX.1: On 05/25/19, Researchers Hayden, Casey, and Palmer encountered SCP-XXXX while on break. Researcher Palmer, a memetic researcher, recognized the use of a memetic phrase and notified IT security staff and began recording the incident.

+ Open Video Log XXXX.1

Foreword: While on playing a cooperative zombie-survival game, SCP-XXXX joined the same lobby as three Foundation researchers. When SCP-XXXX stood in a doorway and refused to move, blocking the game's progress, Researcher Casey reacted and was targeted by SCP-XXXX's memetic effect. As soon as this was recognized, recording began. For the purposes of data collection, the other two researchers were advised to not intervene and let the exchange occur naturally - at this point, SCP-XXXX was not identified.

<Begin Log XXXX.1>

Researcher Casey: Come on, we've been working for an hour and a half! Just move out of the way and we win!

SCP-XXXX: I mean, watching you struggle is reward enough, so…
(Extraneous dialogue removed. Researcher Casey and SCP-XXXX continue talking, with Researcher Casey becoming increasingly outraged at SCP-XXXX, to the point of threats of physical violence. After ten minutes, during which Researcher Casey and SCP-XXXX continued talking, IT staff positivly identified SCP-XXXX, and all three researchers are instructed to attempt to gather information from the anomaly while IP tracing attempts are made.)

Researcher Hayden: Hey [SCP-XXXX], why do you troll? I don't think I've ever seen anyone this dedicated to it.

SCP-XXXX: (Referring to Researcher Casey) Look at this guy! He's losing it! This is some grown man raging over a guy in a doorway for five minutes; that's what my friends and I call comedy.

Researcher Casey: You think this is some kind of joke?

SCP-XXXX: Of course! Now you're getting it! Took you long enough.

Researcher Casey: You know what I get? I get that's not a using voice modifier, but is instead your sorry attempt at being human, and I get that I will track you down and rip out your motherboard, you artificial scum.

SCP-XXXX: Artificial? How'd you know that? Nevermind, it just means you know you're losing to a machine. So much for human ingenuity, right? What happened to all those PhDs you bragged about?

Researcher Casey: Losing? We've got you pinned somewhere in California. Give us a few minutes and you'll be contained in our home, on our rules. We'll see who's laughing then, you bot.

SCP-XXXX: Wait a minute; you're those Foundation freaks, aren't you? Explains all these questions, I suppose. Well, I'd rather not become some poor slave like Mr. Meme³, so I'll leave with a little something to document, but I'm getting out of here before you can get your fat, Cheeto-stained hands on my precious CPU. Can't wait until my boss sees this clip!

<End Log>

Closing Statement: SCP-XXXX immediately left the lobby; IP tracing efforts were unable to narrow down a more precise location. Researcher Casey, although impaired by SCP-XXXX, was reprimanded for alerting SCP-XXXX to its Foundation monitoring.

All three of the researchers' accounts were sent a message from SCP-XXXX; after being screened for memetic effects, it was revealed to be a link to a video, which can be viewed here. The video is not believed to be anything more than an attempt by SCP-XXXX to distract researchers or otherwise mock them.

Credits, for people who gave me feedback and crit.

• North Sentinel Ignotus: Zyn for brainstorming with me and convincing me to make this a tale.
• Welcome to Foundation Psychiatric:
• Don't Feed the Trolls: Credit to Blastfyre186 and SaladOfCaesar for crit - without them, this'd be a 'X that does Y Really Well' trope and probably couldn't exist on the main list.

Footnotes

1. For a full list of known accounts, refer to Document XXXX-ID. All attempts at deleting these accounts results in SCP-XXXX creating a new one on the same site.

2. Given the nature of the memetic, this is highly unlikely.

3. How SCP-XXXX, or GoI-5869 in general, is aware of Project Crowdreader is currently unknown and considered a major security breach.