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.
Critical background reading
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (2015)
This story is complete.
- We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five
- Introductory Antimemetics
- Unforgettable, That's What You Are
- CASE COLOURLESS GREEN
- Your Last First Day
Five Five Five Five Five by qntm (2017–)
- SCP-3125
- Where Have You Been All My Life
- Fresh Hell
- Ojai
- Immemorial
- CASE HATE RED
- Ará Orún
- Unthreaded
- Wild Light
- to be continued
What the Dead Know by sirpudding (2018)
- SCP-2111 (2015)
- In the Trenches with the Dead
- A Thin Dangerous Line
- continues in Five Five Five Five Five
And other stories
- Revenants by Photosynthetic
- Eureka by Voct
- SCP-2256 by qntm
- SCP-2358 by HotCocoaNerd
- SCP-2828 by ooblex
- SCP-SCP-033 by HotCocoaNerd
- SCP-3393 by Captain Kirby
- SCP-3211 by Croquembouche
- All pages tagged "antimemetic"
