An SCP Foundation term that refers to anomalies that can change the very fundamental structures of logic and its axioms to the point that they will be (and have always been) considered a definite fact by all of consensus reality, as it reshapes itself in accordance with the new retroactively changed "law". This effect extends to mathematics, identifiers, chronology and even semantics, rendering communicating any information that is affected by a semiohazard extremely difficult.
For example;
- Changing your own "name" into another, more abstract personal identifier like PERSON, HUMAN or RESEARCHER. Subsequently, you yourself and every other person would only identify "you" using only the identifier that you are given/cursed. Nobody can ever identify or refer to you as any other name or identifier, no matter how trivial the conversation of information may be. Of course, changing your identifier afterward is fundamentally impossible.
- An instance of a semiohazardous man, whom can live for as long as he... well, he doesn't actually want to live, because he doesn't know what "living" really is, as he also doesn't know what "death" is either. After only just learning about the concept of death by a fellow researcher one day, he then swiftly and instantly dies on the spot.
- "Sally has 2 apples. Someone gave her another 2 apples. Now, Sally has 10 apples."
Confused? Well, you shouldn't be, because this situation is done entirely with Base-4, instead of Base-10.
For example;
- Changing your own "name" into another, more abstract personal identifier like PERSON, HUMAN or RESEARCHER. Subsequently, you yourself and every other person would only identify "you" using only the identifier that you are given/cursed. Nobody can ever identify or refer to you as any other name or identifier, no matter how trivial the conversation of information may be. Of course, changing your identifier afterward is fundamentally impossible.
- An instance of a semiohazardous man, whom can live for as long as he... well, he doesn't actually want to live, because he doesn't know what "living" really is, as he also doesn't know what "death" is either. After only just learning about the concept of death by a fellow researcher one day, he then swiftly and instantly dies on the spot.
- "Sally has 2 apples. Someone gave her another 2 apples. Now, Sally has 10 apples."
Confused? Well, you shouldn't be, because this situation is done entirely with Base-4, instead of Base-10.
"A particularly costly example of a semiohazard: 'the operations of 'YWTGTSYT' are perfectly legal,' one which has obligated the Foundation Legal Department to entirely redraft Texas' corporate laws. These things are perceived facts of baseline reality; they always have been, and always will be, apparently true. But they shouldn't, and we know they shouldn't. They aren't part of reality because reality says so, but because reality has been pulled inside-out by the perceptual nature of semantic equivalence.
Read on, knowing that you must accept what the universe says is true, even if it doesn't make sense; one plus one doesn't always equal two."
— Dr. Eli Forkley
Director of Miscommunications
from "SCP-INTEGER", aka "SCP-5242"
"A semiohazard, informally, is a fact of the universe that just shouldn't be true, but functionally is. They are inherently abstract and affect the way that we think and communicate about reality."
— Intro to Semiospherics
S. M. Katz, Esq. et al
Read on, knowing that you must accept what the universe says is true, even if it doesn't make sense; one plus one doesn't always equal two."
— Dr. Eli Forkley
Director of Miscommunications
from "SCP-INTEGER", aka "SCP-5242"
"A semiohazard, informally, is a fact of the universe that just shouldn't be true, but functionally is. They are inherently abstract and affect the way that we think and communicate about reality."
— Intro to Semiospherics
S. M. Katz, Esq. et al
by Zack-1 January 26, 2024
adj; "antimemetic"
A piece of information that is inherently self-censoring by its very nature (e.g.; passwords, secrets, classified information).
Though practically a useless term for our real world, within the SCP fandom and subsequently, the in-universe fiction of the SCP Foundation itself, it refers to anomalies that cannot be remembered (neither within short nor long-term memory) by anyone's mind even after it has already been perceived multiple times. This effect could also extend to the anomaly's appearances, recordings of it (of any kind), and even the effects and/or consequences within reality that the anomaly has caused, inadvertently or not.
A piece of information that is inherently self-censoring by its very nature (e.g.; passwords, secrets, classified information).
Though practically a useless term for our real world, within the SCP fandom and subsequently, the in-universe fiction of the SCP Foundation itself, it refers to anomalies that cannot be remembered (neither within short nor long-term memory) by anyone's mind even after it has already been perceived multiple times. This effect could also extend to the anomaly's appearances, recordings of it (of any kind), and even the effects and/or consequences within reality that the anomaly has caused, inadvertently or not.
-"The corpse in the middle of the sidewalk is left ignored, even after several hours laying there. Stabbed by an anomalous assassin with an antimemetic knife, no one would notice him now, even as his blood trickled down the concrete pavement, creating a small crimson puddle that would be disturbed and splattered by energetic kids running and playing about. Not even the flies would gather and feast on his gaping and ajarred stomach."
- "Don't look at it, Bob."
"Why...?"
"It's what the senior researchers called an antimeme. Real scary stuff."
"So what does it do?"
"It does... uh... wait, what is this, again?"
"That's what I'm asking you for!"
"Asking... what?"
"I asked... Uhm...uh... yeah, I can't remember."
"Huh... Wanna get something get something to eat?"
- "Don't look at it, Bob."
"Why...?"
"It's what the senior researchers called an antimeme. Real scary stuff."
"So what does it do?"
"It does... uh... wait, what is this, again?"
"That's what I'm asking you for!"
"Asking... what?"
"I asked... Uhm...uh... yeah, I can't remember."
"Huh... Wanna get something get something to eat?"
by Zack-1 January 26, 2024