 Hey there, Site 42 staff, Dr. Theron Sherman here, and today we'll be reacting to episode 1 of There Is No Antimemetics Division, a miniseries created by and directed by Andrea Joshua Aznicar, and hosted on his YouTube channel of the same name. Now since I'm going to be reacting and commenting and pausing over this whole thing, make sure to head to his YouTube channel and watch the episode proper there first. And don't forget to subscribe and leave a comment saying that Dr. Sherman sent you. Don't worry, I'll wait. Preaching Sector 7G, eh, that's nothing to worry about. Good! You're back! Excellent work, Agent. Now, let's get on to the video. The SCP Foundation is a top-secret organization tasked with the containment of supernatural objects. Within the Foundation Apartments, the Antimemetics Division deals with anti-memes, which are essentially information black holes preventing any knowledge about them from being retained or communicated, although someone at the Foundation would argue that. There is no Antimemetics Division. Dun dun. Can I smoke? Oh, you... No, you can't smoke anywhere on Site 200. I've asked you that before, haven't I? Twice. In the last 15 minutes. Ah, we're forgetting things early, all right. It can come through now. Marion Wheeler. All right, that's where we're starting this story, excellent. Just like we like our site directors, incredibly handsome. So what's this about? Oh, I got some meeting invitation. No agenda or anything. I mean, I know if I've said it's jump, you jump, but... Most of our meetings start like this. It's okay. Here we go again. I was just about to say the same thing. Yes, nutrient brick. God, that's the worst day at the commissary, I tell you what. Hell of a first day. Alice de Grey. With an E. I don't trust this rhyming man. Paul, are you the site director? You seem a little on edge, young man. The figures? Show up on my first day and they drop an atom bomb on me. Turns out my whole life, I have been protected from dangerous knowledge, from the truth about what is really out there. Like the entire outside world is a childcare center. What they showed me in there, how could any of that be real? Supernatural, it is meant to be fiction and... You didn't answer my question. We all go through this in orientation. You didn't answer mine. Yeah? Yeah, I did. I'm Paul. I'm from... You used to speak four languages. One now and soon. Zero. I'm trusting the rhyming man less. But there's too much world for one human race to ever understand. There's too much human race we should bear down. Are we getting SCP-5000 up in here? Excuse me, just for a moment. Hey, there's an intruder. I think it might be a... What do you call it? An SCP. Darkhead. Hello? Intruder. SCP, secure, contain and protect the bad thing. There's one right over there. Dark, come on. Hey, hey, hey, hey. People, people, look at me. Look at me. Hey, hey guys, come on. First day and already getting anti-meamed. Man, oh man. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But yes. Harry and Wheeler. 49. Loving husband. Two boys. Full foundation credentials. Which we never issued. Including access to installations and rooms. Which don't exist. Or do they? It's not yet. That's before we get to your access control lists. Which I can only term as a gracious. Jesus spy. Let's get this over with. How you dullard. I'm your chief of anti-memetics. You don't have an anti-memetics division? They always say that. A telecontainment division? Ops A. Ops B. Personnel. D-Personnel. Two dozen others. But we don't have an anti-memetic division. Do we have an irony division? No? Alright. I'll have to check. We'll try this. Why do you think the anti-memetics division would show up in the listing? It's a division of the forgotten. There are SCPs that get into your mind and infect other minds. Contagious concepts that require containment like any physical threat. Secure. Contain. Protect. Right. Then, there are the other ones. Entities and phenomena that harvest and consume information. Particularly about themselves. Ideas that consume other ideas. That eat segments of reality. That was such a good acting moment. I'll talk about it later. Do you get it yet? There aren't any dangerous SCPs on this site. So either you're not dangerous or nobody knows you exist. You're either brand new or... You seem on edge. By the way, both these settings are shot so beautifully and they look so good. The colors. Ah, the framing. Also, scary James Marston is freaking me out. Spreading. Search anti-memetic tags. Here, SCP-4739. If you're reading this, you've already been isolated from the Foundation in large. Attempts to signal for help or futile. You are now inside 4739's gullet. You need to get to lab S41. Continue the research until you find a way to stop or kill Gray before he kills you. 4739, let's look that up when this is done. So, disgusting, decrepit, disorganized, a standard research lab. SCP-4739 is a power from the outside world by making it impossible to be perceived. The SCP log that you are currently listening to is created and maintained by victims of SCP-4739. Because it is only audible to victims of SCP-4739. It's in research and continue until you find a way to... Based on the research, nothing works. People have tried to engage with him physically and kill him using weapons. It doesn't work. They've tried feeding him memories to overload him. It doesn't work. They've tried sacrificing other people to save themselves. It doesn't work. So that's it. I'm fucked. We've all had to come to terms with that once in a while. Sometimes we make it out okay. The population is constantly eating itself. These are class double enestics. The weakest type, suitable for continual use. One pill per day. Tastes like strawberry. You do. You forgot to take a pill. And then you forgot all the information that the pills were helping you to retain. You forgot about me and my entire department. How many other anti-memes are there? Ten that I know of. Probably at least five more. Two in this room at this very moment. Don't bother looking. It's pointless. There's one right here. It's like a demanding pet that eats my memories instead of food. But I've learned to control it. Where's the other one? I remember that from the tale. You can't skip a dose of nestic. You can't forget to take a pill unless someone prevents you actively from taking it. Get back on track. As ever, the search for a stalemate continues. I'll let you know if we get any closer. Have we got a plan? A solid block of information has got to be something in here. Hell of a first day. Last chance, Paul. Last chance. An info weapon. Hell of a first day. You seem on edge, young man. It's been a hell of a first day. Oh, talk about a hard drive. It was chewing its way up the Antimimidics Division hierarchy. Congratulations on demonstrating a basic level of competency where dozens of others couldn't. I want to say it was dumb luck. I want to say I threw my phone and realized information hurt him. It was my first day and I got lucky as hell. I want to say those things, but none of them would be true, would they? This isn't my first day I've probably been working here for, what, ten years? Instinct and muscle memory are just deep forms of training. The ability to piece your life back together and all your past knowledge. That's what we drill into you. This isn't the first time you've seen me put myself back together, is it? And it ain't gotten old yet. Even going through basic amnestic treatment can give you a hell of a hangover. So what now? I need you to update everything you know about Gray and his predatory patterns. I need counter-measures for when it comes back. So it's not dead? Wait, I know this one. Ideas don't die. That was so sick. Ah, so cool. Let the credits run, let the caretists run. Give the people their props, give the people their props. Oh man. Alright, well that's running. Let me look up 4739. Ah, we love that creative commons at the end. We love it when all our creators keep things above board. Alright, so 4739 is not Alistair Gray. It's just spoiled milk, I promise, by Rock Teeth Moth Eyes, good author. January 18th, 2019. Specialized locker, 3.8 liter container of 2% milk. Expiration dated December 31st, 2018. Okay, so this is not the cannon. 4739, is it? Testing chamber, gunshot. What? What does it do? If you try to open it, it will react violently, inflicting harm upon the handler. Um, so... Okay, so the wiki's 4739 is not what we're dealing with here. But, if I go to Introductory Antimemetics, which is a tale on the wiki, by Quantum, then we get Junior Researcher Kim. We get all the hell of a first day, Alistair Gray with an E. Okay, so we're taking the, uh, lovely quotes here. Uh, very good, going down. Spoke four languages. One now, and soon zero. Woo, that's nasty. Good stuff. Excellent adaptation. Do-do-do-do, unlocking the terminal. I'm fucked. Excellent. Scrolls again, hard drives. Okay, so this is a very lovely and close to almost word-to-word version of this article. And of course, we gotta go to, yep, we need to talk about 55. Is the second tale that we're quoting here with Marion and 058. And, when I said wonderful acting choice earlier, it's because when Marion was standing with her back to the mirror, talking about Antimemes, she said, yes, we have multiple anomalies that handle X, Y, and Z, and the other ones. And when she said the other ones, she looked at the other guy knowingly. And so that was really funny. I knew that that's what they were going for, and that was a great little acting choice. Uh, whether that was her or Andrea directing that, most cool, most cool. This was gorgeous. I mean, it looked beautiful throughout the different color palettes for the A and the B plot. Both of them had a great tension, although, you know, it's a short and it's two stories in one, so it's two shorts in a short. And bouncing back and forth, the tension was able to keep going. The music and sound did a really good job of keeping that going, too. But the chase for Paul, the conversation where Marion's forgotten and she needs to convince 058 of what's going on. That was so good. I love to see it. I love to see good art in the SCP Foundation universe. I want to see more of it. So after this, we're going to go right into the next episode. Make sure that you're supporting Andrea over on his YouTube channel. Like, comment, share all that. Make sure that he gets the support needed to keep making more of this stuff. Thank you guys, Site 42 staff. This has been an amazing episode one. I'm very much looking forward to the rest and I'll see you all in the next video.