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Item #: SCP-5010
An instance of SCP-5010
(cognitohazardous signatures removed).
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Foundation webcrawlers are to monitor all forms of social media, especially college-based online communities, for digital images matching SCP-5010’s cognitohazardous signatures. These images are to be neutralized via standard DD-203 online media removal protocol.
Any subjects exposed to SCP-5010 for one week or less are to be prescribed daily doses of Class-C amnestics by Foundation doctors planted at local hospitals. Subjects with longer exposure times are to be admitted to psychiatric hospitals for palliative care, with a cover story released to families as death by sudden brain aneurysm.
Description: SCP-5010 designates a family of cognitohazardous social media images that, when “liked” by a human being, grants a variety of short-term cognitive and emotional improvements, including:
- Improved working, episodic, and long-term memory
- Heightened focus and attentional control
- Increased wakefulness; reduced need for sleep
- Faster reaction time
- Euphoria and hypomania
Regular exposure to the post (viewing the picture again after having liked it at least once), causes rapid anatomical changes to the viewer’s hippocampus, resulting in dramatic, long-term improvement in cognitive function, memory in particular. Notably, while exposure dramatically increases working memory capacity, it, conversely, erodes the viewer’s ability to forget new information.
Subjects having encountered the post at least three (3) times experienced heightened sensory sensitivity; for example, the ability to correctly read a conventional eye exam from fifty (50) meters away and perceive a ~10dB sound (e.g. a pin drop) from the same distance.
Subjects consistently viewing the post for a period of approximately one (1) week are granted a photographic/eidetic memory, and soon after undergo seizure and brain death due to extreme sensory overload.
Instances of SCP-5010 manifest exclusively as anonymously-posted image macros on college meme groups, with captions enticing users to “like” the image in order to gain its beneficial cognitive effects (See Addendum 5010-C for examples). The danger of SCP-5010 lies in the consistent popularity of these posts, and their exponential spread through numerous social media platforms. Just one instance of SCP-5010 in a reasonably large online community is sufficient to cause large-scale outbreaks of its cognitohazardous effects (See Addendum 5010-B: 19/12/2018 Outbreak).
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