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The Scariest Book I've Read in Years | There Is No Antimemetics Division

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Be kind to yourself this year. Using Zocdoc is FREE - visit my sponsor https://zocdoc.com/quinnsideas to find and instantly book an appointment with a top-rated, in-network doctor today. 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: Thumbnail: https://www.instagram.com/p/DTA7WTWDsgm/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_fnhCYrsBrYAYL2KOyrNVuNItu2JZSchBFO3-ink14Q/edit?usp=sharing 🎵 Music: https://www.youtube.com/@JamezDahlMusic 📚 Get These Books! Affiliate link* https://amzn.to/4rfcxiy 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)

@lordchaos1111 2026-03-06

So, this “organization” does a lot of securing, containing, and protecting? A foundation, you might say.

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@ChrisLeeW00 2026-03-06

I asked for this at the library, but they told me there’s no record of it in their system…

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@erichherman2753 2026-03-06

Scp 3125 gets a whole book.

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@IshuShukla1 2026-03-06

There is no book titled "There Is No Antimemetics Division". This video was never uploaded. I never posted this comment.

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@igodreamer7096 2026-03-06

I wished Quinn made a video about There Is No Antimemetics Division. Too bad he never did it. What? What I'm talking about?

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@BobtheRedead 2026-03-07

"It makes your understanding intransmissible" is the most fascinating way I've ever heard Lovecraftian know-too-much madness described.

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@JaceDanielFilms 2026-03-07

Something creepy, when I saw this video I looked up the book, but found out I had apparently already looked it up before but I have no memory of it

199 4 replies
@QuinnsIdeas 2026-03-06

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@Truthckr 2026-03-09

Anyone who is a member of the SCP agency is very familiar with Cognito hazards and Antimemetics

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@SodiusMax 2026-03-09

Haven't read the book, but the SCP Wiki entries it was formed from are some of the wildest things I've read. My personal favorite moment is Marion (now Marie) assessing the situation and realizing that the only way to neutralize 3125 would be to pour hundreds of workers and enough money to bankrupt multiple countries into the needed device to stop it...which wasn't even the true problem. The real limitation was, inevitably, the people working on the project would deduce what the device is for no matter how compartmentalized the tasks, and that would cause 3125 to instakill everybody on the project. The analogy she used was trying to figure out how to build an Apollo rocketship without anyone figuring out we're trying to go to the moon.

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