Antimemetics Division Hub

How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war?

Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.

No, this is not your first day.

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.

Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams…

But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war?

Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.

No, this is not your first day.

Suggested reading order is from top to bottom.

Critical background reading

SCP-055 by qntm (first half) and CptBellman (Addendum A onwards)

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

This story is complete.

Interlude

Read this before Five Five Five Five Five.

SCP-2256 by qntm

Five Five Five Five Five by qntm

This story is a direct sequel to There Is No Antimemetics Division. This story is complete.

What the Dead Know by sirpudding

This is a side story mostly taking place during and after There Is No Antimemetics Division.

SCP-2111
In the Trenches with the Dead
A Thin Dangerous Line
continues in Five Five Five Five Five

For your reference

All by qntm.

Precursor work

These articles aren't specifically part of the main Antimemetics Division storyline above, but they influenced its development in various ways.

SCP-033 by Mulciber. SCP-3125 has a close connection to this number.
Revenants by Photosynthetic. Like There Is No Antimemetics Division, this uses SCP-055 as a launching point, but takes it in a different direction.
SCP-1425 by Silberescher. This was a massive influence on the writing of Unforgettable, That's What You Are, Ojai, and all of it really.
SCP-2828 by ooblex. One of the earliest antimemetic SCPs outside of SCP-055, later referenced in CASE COLOURLESS GREEN.
SCP-2358 by HotCocoaNerd. Introduces the Counterconceptual Division, later referenced several times in What the Dead Know.

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