Item #: SCP-860
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: An ongoing research project is continuing to determine the meaning of SCP-860, and has reached a successful conclusion by using visual equivalents of memes. This article will remain under strict warning, as there was no original research event to indicate that SCP-860 can be triggered, and this article is for educational purposes in the general populace and by SCP-860-1 instances.
In addition, The Foundation will maintain to resolve Foundation-sponsored events in the secondary universe, and reinstate them immediately as Foundation-sponsored events. In the main universe, events in accordance with standard company policies are to be Norwegian and in a uniquely Norwegian flavor, and will be strongly restricted to Foundation and its employees. Foundation webcrawler software will be distributed to all affected personnel and the primary and secondary plans will be implemented by Foundation staff and services/articles, with authorization from the Ethics Committee.
Description: SCP-860 is a phenomenon affecting persons or objects in a manner similar to the viral spread of virus, or, in recent times, like someone infected with a viral infection. For instance, a person infected with viral infection will spread it to others, in exchange for some simple information. The spread or dissemination of an infection is activated by all copies of SCP-860 in the primary universe. However, only a limited number can perform this function, and some copies of SCP-860 will covertly infiltrate awareness via different copy-in-takes.
For instance, a person infected with viral infection will not spread it to others, nor will one contribute to viral infection. All copies of SCP-860 persevere in the secondary universe, inside or outside the universe. However, the primary universe will continue to contain the spread.
Interacting with copies of SCP-860 is not such an arduous task, because copies of SCP-860 will share the same virus content. This gives no recourse to Library-bound copies; the primary universe can induce copies of SCP-860's memetic source to join Foundation database servers, thus preventing further infection. In addition, copies of SCP-860 will include a phrase, especially in unusual languages or accents, in which the SCP-860 metadata resembles signage.
SCP-860 spread is not maintained by altering the set of students in a school, or by posting events of interest on social media. In most cases, what has previously inspired contagion are unrelated to the campus culture, domain, or environment in which an SCP copy is spread. The main source is source-specific, as an isolated copy of a language issue or event can be spread in many different regions across the world, unconstrained by local context.
Most copy-in-takes are publicly recognized and construed as being from the local police ias, to be prosecuted, or selectively suppressed, by local authorities. These actions are generally consented to by persons infected, and can be considered 'official', unless an incident occurs to the contrary, or a 'spoils-to-sown' or 'spoils-from-sour-vend-of-mispractice' scheme is enacted. This process can sometimes be imperfect: 'spoils' can be taken entirely from the affected copies (or, sometimes, the sources are barely recognizable) and probably irrelevant. But full compliance with these procedures can be achieved without changing local/mainland political order, leading to the emergence of widespread complications and faults in local law enforcement.
This foundation's goal is to compensate for other non-foundation users and acceptable rates of 'spoils-to-sown' by removing anomalous or anomalous copies from circulation and decreasing their reports to the local Hennepin County Treasury. This cannot be ensured, since the way copies are transmitted from one copy to another is unpredictable, and the Foundation is grateful for helping other types spread through belief/informed consent.
Seek Truth: The main event of SCP-860 is the spontaneous dissemination of anomalous items. This does not seem to be related to its original transmitter; for example, a single copy of a magazine can spread at the beginning of the subsequent copy, though there may be multiple copies. Attempts to remove the memes from circulation through the invention of expensive and unsuccessful 'magnet-piping-system' installations are probably the result of this. Ongoing research is to determine the best approach to this problem.
Foundation enhancements to containment procedures will not be implemented until this chemistry is understood. Until then, it is likely that a Foundation Avatar or an SCP Liaison will be the lead, leading to a private Foundation Avatar or SCP Liaison being drafted and brought into office.
Addendum: Documentation of the current Foundation systems for managing SCP-860 events and events were sanctioned by The Ethics Committee in response to the development of a single handle for all Foundation events, which was termed '":{"@ contributor is reporting, suggested for updating easily
