I barely remember putting together the last redacted video.
Probably has something to do with amnestics, but I doubt we’ll ever know for sure.
Oh well! Nothing I can do about it now! If my brain is being slowly coagulated by
memetics and anti-memes, so be it. I’ll keep on bringing you the information and disinformation
you need to stay at the top of your game! Lots of SCP entries are heavily redacted or
even have info expunged thanks to all sorts of cognitohazards and memes.
And of course, while discussing SCP, memes don’t just mean funny internet pictures.
No sir, they become contagious, self-replicating or self-sustaining ideas.
Dawkins coined the term to refer to ideas that self-replicate and spread throughout
cultures, but it becomes a little more sinister and dangerous when anomalous properties are
introduced. Oh baby.
Today’s video has a lot to do with memes, especially ones that probably shouldn’t
be shared for the sake of safety. But we’ll throw safety out the window! There
are SCPs to discuss! Hello horror heads, and welcome back to the
scariest channel on YouTube: Top5ScaryVideos. I’m your horror host, Keegan Hughes, and
today we’re taking a look at the Top 5 Scariest Redacted SCP Monsters - Part 2!
Before we get started, make sure to give this video a big thumbs up, and subscribe for more
viral viciousness. Oh, and also take some notes about yourself
now, just in case you forget along the way. Always good to have a point of reference.
Perfect, let’s begin.
NUMBER FIVE: SCP-055 Ah, the original self-keeping secret. The
antimeme! All information about 055’s appearance,
nature, behaviour, and origins is self-classifying. Anyone can stroll into its containment chamber
and view it, even study it, taking notes if they so choose.
However, once they leave, all that information will leak out of their mind.
It’s not indescribable or invisible, it’s just impossible to learn or disseminate information
about it. Odd.
To this day, it’s unknown how the Foundation came to acquire it.
They don’t even know when it came into their custody, or who brought it in.
Gotta love it. Who needs to redact info when no info exists.
This presents a weird sort of paradox though; why do we know that it’s an antimeme?
Wouldn’t that information disappear as well? But somehow it is known that nothing is known.
Stay with me, I can see the steam pouring out of your ears.
Some clever researcher decided to experiment with the epistemological implications of an
SCP like this, and posited this question: what if we took notes about what it isn’t?
This lead to the folks down at the lab being able to remember what 055 is not, and then
repeatedly deduce its existence from this. Boy that’s a lot of creative problem-solving,
huh? It’s definitely scary and dangerous though,
with some hypotheses wondering if it might be something inserted at the site by another
party, with the purpose of observing or interfering with all sorts of things.
There’s no way to combat this, though, because nobody would remember what to do.
How do you fight something with effortless, perfect camouflage?
How do you fight when you don’t know you’re at war?
Oh antimemetics…
NUMBER FOUR: SCP-2521 Yeah, we’ve discussed this before.
It’s actually quite popular. So of course we all know [THAT IT IS AN ENTITY
THAT WANTS TO COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT ITSELF] and that [IT IS UNABLE TO PERCEIVE OR UNDERSTAND
PICTURES OR GRAPHICS]. One of the more interesting things [ABOUT
THIS SCP IS THE FACT THAT IT CAN SEEMINGLY TELEPORT AND WALK THROUGH SOLID OBJECTS] and
nobody’s been able to figure out [WHERE IT GOES AFTER IT GRABS SOMEONE OR SOMETHING].
Just make sure you never [TALK OUT LOUD ABOUT THIS GUY, LEST YOU GET BROUGHT BACK TO ITS
LAIR WHERE UNSPEAKABLE THINGS HAPPEN]. Just take a look at [THESE IMAGES THAT DETAIL
HOW TO APPROPRIATELY DEAL WITH 2521] and everything will be okay.
Just use what I just told you to keep yourself safe, alright?
NUMBER THREE: SCP-3211 Okay, I want everyone to go and check this
one out themselves. Click the link, follow the instructions, and
report back to me. I don’t know if it changes for each individual
person, or what. What I do know is that 3211 is a slow-acting
antimemetic anomaly. Once you start reading up on it, you can only
recall information about it for up to six minutes.
After those six minutes are up, it’ll put some false memories in your head, and you’ll
remember something not at all related to the SCP.
Soon after, you’ll believe it doesn’t exist.
So go read the article for six minutes, and let me know what the heck happens to you specifically.
I read about a pair of gloves that take anything put inside them, and puts it into the subject’s
mouth. You could push an entire broomstick through
someone’s chops if you were careful. Of course, after 6 minutes of exposure, you’d
forget all about it. But, then again, that’s not a real SCP.
It’s just a fake memory. Some other folks have described microwave
ovens, red cubes, the colour puce, and a DVD box set of FRIENDS, missing one disc.
I’m just really confused, okay?
NUMBER TWO: SCP-3939 This is another one that you need to experience
for yourself. Somehow a researcher was able to contain a
memetic anomaly within the entry document itself.
Once you get started, it reads like a choose-your-own-adventure story!
You go through the motions as a senior researcher trying to classify and contain a new anomaly
with very little prior knowledge. The senior researcher character was actually
embedded into the story itself to ensure that containment is maintained.
As such, he must remain redacted as an additional layer of protection from 3939.
Unfortunately, he is also considered to be terminated, as he can never leave the story
loop. The poor lad laid it all on the line to keep
the SCP containted. Thankfully so, too, as 3939 is an aggressive
meme able to move through any type of information-based medium.
It can pass from individual to individual through any communicative method, although
stories seem to be the most effective. It’s easier for the meme to move to new
folks if they’re engaged in the media itself, so narratives are perfect catalysts.
The researcher mentioned before found out that if he were to develop a story as an experimental
form of containment, the SCP could be limited. By inserting himself as a character in the
story, 3939 imprints onto him instead of the reader.
Then, when the story ends, it resets and de-imprints. Thus, perfect containment is achieved.
You could read through the story in every possible permutation, and it would remain
contained. Outstanding work, Mr. Researcher.
However, if the story is altered in certain ways, there is a possibility it might escape,
so let’s all be careful. SCPs exist on a wiki, after all…
NUMBER ONE: SCP-3125 This one is so redacted it requires a password
to access. Really! It’s hidden behind a keypad!
I won’t let you in on the secret code, sorry. But anyone with a little bit of determination
and research capability should be able to figure it out.
Just remember that fifthism is heavily connected to memetics.
Fives, huh? All information about 3125 is kept in a top
secred, lead-lined, telepathically-shielded room, and only one person is allowed in at
a time. Plus, upon exit, everyone enters an airlock
full of amnestic gas for three minutes., So no info is getting out.
This memetic monster could destroy the world if enough people visualized it.
3125 is an extremely large, highly aggressive anomalous metastasized meme complex.
It’s also a mouthful, don’t make me say that one again.
Somehow it made its way into our reality, even though it originated somewhere outside
of it. It’s adapted to much harsher circumstances
than the human mind, and we have no natural defences against it.
So it can possess us, and make us unable to entertain weaker, conventional ideas.
Any thought you’ve ever thought would be sublimated into whatever higher-order info
this meme has to offer. Then you’d devote your time to furthering
its spread. If this being were to ever fully make its
way into our reality, it would probably only take 12 hours for everyone to be totally dominated
by it. Humanity would cease to be, as ideas of civilization,
culture, society, community, and family would simply stop existing.
MK-class end of world scenario baby! Maybe we can stop it! You think.
Well, if anyone is able to assemble a mental picture of this thing’s true form, then
it will also be able to perceive the observer. It then kills them, and all mental bystanders.
This could be a research group, friends, or even family of the original observer.
The attack also removes all knowledge of it and its attack form the world.
Thanks to this defence mechanism, there’s pretty much no history of this thing.
We’ve got no idea how the containment was built, or how containment procedures were
established. Plus, through extrapolation, it’s been hypothesized
that memetics research would be much more highly developed if not for 3125.
All competent memetic research would discover it, and be killed.
Let’s just hope it takes its sweet time fully manifesting.
Goodness gracious. OUTRO
What do you think! Can you still think? Oh man, these things are top-secret for a
reason, eh? I can honestly say I lost brain cells thinking
in circles around some of these. Which one is your favourite?
Any other memetics or redacteds that we should discuss?
Make sure you let me know down in the comments! Speaking of comments, let’s have a quick
look at some of your more forgettable ones from TOP 5 SCARIEST SCP CREATURES THAT MANAGED
TO ESCAPE - PART 2: Curt Popejoy says “Keegan of the floating
head and hands” Oh man, I guess that’s what I get for wearing
a black turtleneck on a horror channel. The darkness consumes all!!!
Thomas Short asks “Are you a dad? Because that fresh chair joke is top-notch dad level”
I’m not a dad, at least I don’t think I am. Life can be unpredictable at times…
Quintessential says “Did you hear about the lawsuit in Russia? Against the SCP community?
Maybe do a video on it so people can help keep SCP going!”
I have heard! I talked about it a little in a recent video, and I’ll talk about it again
here! Someone is trying to illegitimately copyright and leverage SCP content for their
own personal gain! The SCP community is running a crowdfunding campaign to cover legal costs
to fight it! I’ll link the campaign in the description!
Quadarius Owens asks “Keegan are you an escaped SCP?”
Obviously I can’t answer that question. Watch your back…
Skyler Horton says “Love hearing SCPs encounters with other SCPs”
We love intertextuality! The more the merrier, I say!
And that’s all the time we have for today! Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you next
time!