Chapter 86: Antimemes
Although the A-class was the most thoroughly amnesticized, Guan Li was not so mad as to actually delete all of their account information.
He only deleted the data of the people who had been infected by the meme.
It's similar to a rollback, but it's just a little bit less active.
And that newbie guided...... It's used to set the mood.
People who hurriedly checked their personal homepages and didn't find any problems breathed a sigh of relief.
After experiencing the poison of various language memes, I clicked on the forum again, and I only felt that the whole page was refreshing.
The text forcibly changed by the anomalous effect back to its original form, and so—
Some sentences that are not normal when typing immediately become particularly prominent.
"Look at what I'm doing? Haven't you ever seen a boring person who pretends, is infected with memes, and deliberately writes like this?"
"Uh...... You continue, you continue. ”
"The fifth meme? But the five characters of Chinese characters, after translation, we don't see five characters. ”
"Actually, I like 931 so much that I can write haiku. ”
"You can write now, too. ”
"I won't!"
SCP-931 - A rice bowl that turns the sentence describing it into a haiku rice bowl.
The mode of action is similar to CN-009-Known/Solve/Answer.
The Foundation removed anomalous memes that were inflicted on them to forcibly alter their behavior patterns and sentences.
But the ideological memes can't be removed for a while.
"I got used to not punctuating for a while, and I couldn't change it."
"It's so normal, it's a little unaccustomed...... I really want to get infected again......"
"It's normal, comrades, do you forget the pain when the scars are not healed? exclamation points, exclamation points, exclamation points, exclamation marks"
"Can't you play something else, do you have to do memes that hurt others and hurt yourself?"
"We seem to have found an 'antimemetic' before, does anyone know what it is?"
"Look at it!"
There are far fewer entries under the "Antimemes" tab than "Memes".
Most of them are projects of the CN division, and there are two EX and J, and there is only one single seedling in the main series.
SCP-055-[UNKNOWN]
"055? I've seen it! It doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary...... It's a thing that no one else knows what it is. ”
"But it's Keter-class. ”
"SCP-055 is a 'self-kept secret' or 'antimemetic', and information about SCP-055, such as its physical appearance, as well as its nature, behavior, and origin, is classified separately. - The word antimemetic appears directly in the description, but is it a self-keeping secret? Can any of the big guys do some reading comprehension?"
"Literally, memes are the essence of communication, the spread of information, so reverse this concept...... Truncated propagation? or reverse propagation?"
"How can information be reversed? The propagation of this thing is not a literal movement, it is a copy!"
"Think about how we got fished out of the ocean of memes. ”
"Class-A amnestics!"
"Delete the memory! Delete the remnants of the information and destroy the memetic infection process!"
"055 turned out to be a legacy entry...... Is it because of antimemes?"
"Don't just stare at 055, you can also look at the relevant CN files. ”
"I don't understand...... The archival mentions antimemetic properties, which are difficult to observe, and does that mean that there is no way to record them?"
"It is speculated that there is no way to transmit information, after all, the essence of memes is the continuation of information. ”
"It can be explained in this way, which is why it is such a vague and ambiguous description......"
"emmmmI was just searching for the keyword 'antimemetic' on the site and accidentally found something that felt very problematic. ”
"Say!"
"The Antimemetics Department hub page is ready to go live. Guan Li asked the system to open this prepared page to some members of the online group, and during the short time they searched for the term "antimemetic", "the relevant SCP objects were also uploaded, and the entrance was hidden. ”
This means that the Antimemetics Division's SCP files cannot be accessed through the normal Foundation repository channels, and can only be accessed by first finding the "Antimemetics Department Center Page" and then jumping through there.
At the same time, the "Antimemetics Department" page is not easy to turn through in the library like the regular department center page.
Only when searching for "antimemes" has a chance of crashing.
It's inconvenient, but it's antimemetic.
Because—
"The Foundation does not have an Antimemetics Division. Guan Li clearly remembers this sentence as much as he remembers this department that should not exist.
"Antimemes are a self-shielding concept;
Non-anomalous antimemes are real.
Think about some of the information you don't share with anyone else, like passwords, taboos, and black histories.
Think about some of the information that you would struggle to share even if you tried: complex formulas, boring text clips, dreams, and large chunks of random numbers......
But anomalous antimemes are a different story.
How do you contain an entity that you can't record or remember, how do you go and fight an enemy you can't reach, and who disguises yourself perfectly, without even knowing you're at war with it?
Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.
No, it's not your first day on the job. ”
— Antimemetics Department Center Page
Just as there is a Department of Memetics and Memetics and Informationhazard, the Foundation should theoretically have both antimemetics and an antimemetics department.
Theoretically, there were, and there used to be non-existent.
But antimemes are antimemes, how do you remember a sector that can't be remembered?
The answer is the opposite of amnestics: mnestics.
Based on the concept of memes, the Foundation has introduced the existence of the concept of antimemes.
In the same way, since there are memetic anomalies, there are also antimemetic anomalies.
The Foundation must contain the anomaly.
So they developed ways to strengthen their memories and force humans to remember things that weren't supposed to be remembered.
A new world has opened.
There is information everywhere in this world, and there are memes.
But beyond the meme, beyond the scope of what we "know" and "remember", there is more, a wider unknown.
- "Passive information black holes, active information predators, unmemorable worms lying on human skin like dust mites... Contagious bad news, self-enclosed secrets, live murders. ”
In 1976, a Ph.D. named Lyn Patrick Marness created the discipline of antimemetics and created the Foundation's Antimemetics Division.
He discovered more anomalies that year than the entire Foundation had discovered.
Then one day, he found that he had forgotten everything he had done before he had formed the Antimemetics Division, and even ignored his own forgetting.
This is not the first time.
"This is not the first antimemetics unit. Before 1976, there was another department. I was part of that department; Of course, I am also the only survivor of it. An antimemetic force has eaten and devoured the concept of the Antimemetic Ministry. I was a little lucky and survived. The others, whoever they were, and how many they had, all disappeared without a trace. ”
- Dr. Marness