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The Scariest Book I've Read in YEARS! #existentialism #booktok #scp #antimemetics

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Today we’re talking about one of the most unsettling science fiction books I’ve read in a long time, There Is No Antimemetics Division by Sam Hughes. This story explores the terrifying concept of antimemes, ideas that actively erase themselves from human memory. If you perceive them, you forget them. If you try to study them, the knowledge disappears. And yet, humanity is already at war with entities that operate this way. In this world, there exists a secret department dedicated to fighting threats that literally cannot be remembered. Agents investigate creatures, patterns, and conceptual entities that vanish from awareness the moment you stop looking at them. The result is a deeply unsettling kind of horror, where the greatest danger isn’t what you can see, but what you can’t even remember exists. 👽 Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ideasoficeandfire or PAYPAL - https://paypal.me/QuinnsIdeas?locale.x=en_US 🎨 Art: 🎵 Music: https://www.youtube.com/@JamezDahlMusic 📚 Get These Books! Affiliate link* https://amzn.to/3AQ0aSs Quinn's Discord: https://discord.gg/uGx4WsjVCZ FOLLOW QUINN ON TWITTER: Twitter: https://twitter.com/IDEASOFICE_FIRE I NOW HAVE A SUBREDDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/IdeasofIceandFire/ Quinn's New Graphic Novel: https://www.quinnhoward.net/theliebehindthestar Buy Quinn's Comic Books: https://www.quinnhoward.net/shop Quinn's Website: https://www.quinnhoward.net Like me on Facebook!: https://www.facebook.com/IOIAF 🎥 Mentioned Videos 🎬 Other Playlist Three-Body Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUfIzEhovpQJ2ENiNvJoOD2A H.P. Lovecraft Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUcMoc_ZljrDbgrRi3x_CLYD Hyperion Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUfgKLf-CBr5VCC2xM0qX8Xh Dune Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUdsgN_vFaZmfjc6bXxPqajV Foundation Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRXGGVBzHLUeQMsBkZJ72aIIG8nR-No6J Feel free to leave a comment like and subscribe! Thanks For Watching!

Top Comments (10)

@himwiththehair8118 2026-03-08

Man you should totally consider recording audiobooks, you've got such a great voice for it. Not even kidding.

387 14 replies
@Corinthid 2026-03-07

This video froze after “what if there was something” and I thought it was a really funny joke about cosmic horror

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@scottperry7311 2026-03-08

"If you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you". Nietzsche.

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@wintermute1 2026-03-07

I'm listening to that book on Audible now and it's everything Quinn says

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@Al_Prazolamb 2026-03-10

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent".

100 3 replies
@albertstebbins7590 2026-03-07

Have you seen the Yellow Sign. Let me tell you about fair Carcosa.

99 5 replies
@FLMan8647 2026-03-08

Power doesn't just corrupt, it kills. Power kills for power's sake. The corruption it spreads is its fuel, and it uses death to keep its secrets.

38 2 replies
@0vernight711 2026-03-08

Feels like this should be in black and white like the old twilight zones.

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@robertharper6481 2026-03-09

It's a riff on the Philip K Dick's 'A scanner darkly'...

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@iremembersleep3083 2026-03-09

This is a neat take on a psychological phenomena known as existential despair, existential crisis, nihilistic depression or in extreme cases a psychotic break. Mostly about percieving too much about society and the world to the point that your psyche experiences a profound detachment from the recognition of life's inherent absurdity and absence of inherent meaning. Camus and the absurd, Nietzche and the abyss, and in a clinical sense profound nihilism and major depressive disorder. You essentially 'check out' from everything as an unconscious effort of self preservation, but in the process lose a lot of your ability to find meaning in anything and form or maintain a connection with those around yourself. To an extent you simply cease to be. This can actually be consciously triggered through Jung's damgerous 'shadow work' of looking deep into yourself and having a negarive end result. There's a reason so many philosophers go at least a little bit mad.

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