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Item #: SCP-59Ϫ5
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: As of the 30th of September 2020, SCP-59Ϫ5 is considered uncontainable. Management of SCP-59Ϫ5 is the only remaining option. Foundation agents are to infiltrate the janitoral staff of the message board 4channel whereupon agents are to remove all instances of SCP-59Ϫ5 and issue a ban plea to the poster. If possible, bans are to be followed up in real life by MTF Rho-1 ("The Professors"), disgused as FBI agents, who are to track down the physical address of these posters and issue them Class C amnestics.
Addendum 19/11/2021: The deletion of the Question & Answer board, the former primary infection vector for SCP-59Ϫ5, has slightly impeded the spread of SCP-59Ϫ5, but it is not likely to last long. --Dr. Ryans
Description: SCP-59Ϫ5 is a cognitohazardous internet meme depicting a middle aged man with an open mouth symbolizing inauthentic excitement. Exposure to SCP-59Ϫ5 for a period longer than 10 minutes will result in the exposed individual becoming an instance of SCP-59Ϫ5-1. These instances will lose all forms of higher consciousness and will shortly begin spamming SCP-59Ϫ5 images, typically by quoting another poster as if to mock what the other poster is saying; however, SCP-59Ϫ5-1 instances have also been known to quote any stimulus provided to them seemingly at random (See: Document #Ϫ-1). Aside from a set of specific words[1], SCP-59Ϫ5-1 instances cannot communicate in English or any other language. They will occasionally engage in an activity called a "soi duel", something resembling a spectator sport which involves two or more SCP-59Ϫ5-1 instances quoting each other with SCP-59Ϫ5 variants until only one remains. These events seem to create more variants of SCP-59Ϫ5 and are therefore to be avoided at all costs.
[1] Examples include "cope", "seethe", "dilate". Lingustic investigation is ongoing.
