Item #: SCP-10000
Object Class: Negligible
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-10000 is to be maintained by professional archivists and maintenance hands at Site-19. In accordance with Protocol Whisk Away Ignoramus, sixteen incinerators are to be kept active on-site.
Description: SCP-10000 is a wooden cabinet. The interior dimensions of the object appear to extend infinitely, expanding into an interior space broadly resembling an art museum. Contained within SCP-10000 are SCP-10000-1.
SCP-10000-1 are exact replicas of every work of art produced by humans on Earth. Instances include prose works, poetry, paintings, music,1 sculptures, abstract works, etc. When SCP-10000-1 are destroyed, their corresponding artworks cease to exist in reality.
Addendum 10000-1: The Foundation has taken upon itself to enact Protocol Whisk Away, which, as of the year 2027, is to inaugurate the 1045st piece of human artwork ever produced. However, due to the advancing production of art outpacing the Foundation's methods of recording their genesis, Protocol Whisk Away is at risk of being performed sooner than is permitted by the infallible, immutable deadline provided by [REDACTED].
As such, the Foundation has seen fit to implement Protocol Whisk Away Ignoramus, an initiative to comprehensively catalogue works that are unpopular with consumers and incinerate them, thereby creating sufficient shelf space and processing bandwidth for the orderly completion of the primary protocol. SCP-10000-1 considered eligible for incineration are evaluated against a battery of metrics including contemporary readership, citation frequency, presence in standardized curricula, social media engagement, streaming and box office performance where applicable, secondary market valuation, and projected cultural longevity over the next fifty years.
Works determined to fall below the established threshold are deemed far too obscure or unpopular with the global general audience to constitute a breach of the Veil should they be quietly removed from reality.
An abridged log of purged SCP-10000-1 can be viewed below:
Title: The A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin
Evaluation: Has received broadly positive critical reception in spite of its missing final installment. Very popular with consumers, who continue to engage with the franchise through rereads, fan communities, derivative television adaptations, and lively speculation regarding installments that may or may not eventually arrive. Merchandise sales remain robust. The franchise's gravitational pull on contemporary fantasy publishing is substantial enough that its removal would create immediately detectable absences in adjacent works.
Verdict: Preserved
Title: Star Wars: Episode 4 - A New Hope directed by George Lucas
Evaluation: Exceedingly popular, with a burgeoning consumer base that spans four generations and continued cross-media engagement despite oncoming negative reviews from critics regarding the broader franchise. Cultural penetration is functionally total within the relevant demographic territories. Removal would create cascading absences across film history, the science fiction genre, and a considerable portion of late-20th-century childhood memory.
Verdict: Preserved
Title The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Libertinage by Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
Evaluation: Extremely polarized engagement, with little lasting consciousness in the modern day outside of circles critiquing it. Print runs are limited and largely confined to academic publishers. Possesses considerable historical and philosophical significance, though that significance is understood primarily by specialists. General audience awareness of the work is essentially nil.
Verdict: Incinerated
RSR. ALICE FOSTER
Wait, wait, hold on. 120 Days is a very important historical work. It comes up in every serious discussion of the French Revolution's intellectual underpinnings. Sure, it isn't exactly Star Wars-level notable, but surely this would cause a pretty big disruption if it was incinerated? We're talking about a foundational text in transgressive literature.
DR. CORNELIUS GRAY
The 120 Days is, by our research, barely notable beyond a few contemporary study groups, and a small population of graduate students who profess admiration for it primarily as a credential signal. The cited "foundational" status is largely an internal feature of the disciplines that cite it. Unfortunately, as per the ineffable deadline, we must make way for more shelves in SCP-10000.
Title: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Evaluation: Same general profile as The 120 Days of Sodom, albeit more recent and with a comparatively gentler stylistic surface. Continues to appear on university syllabi but has seen sharply declining engagement among general readers over the past two decades, owing largely to shifting cultural attitudes toward the subject matter and a corresponding reluctance among casual readers to be seen carrying it on public transit. Print sales have plateaued. Translations into minor languages have been quietly discontinued.
Verdict: Incinerated
RSR. ALICE FOSTER
Hold on! This is even more important than 120 Days! I wrote a paper on this book in my sophomore year, and my professor helped me get it published in a real journal! It's on, like, every list of the most important 20th-century novels ever made. Wouldn't people miss this one? Wouldn't writers miss this one?
DR. CORNELIUS GRAY
The deadline stands, Rsr. Foster. Lists of important novels are compiled by people who write lists of important novels for a living, and their consensus does not generally reach the population we are tasked with not unsettling. Besides, human art is a pretty cutthroat space, and after contacting those extraterrestrials from the Triangulum Galaxy, we have a reputation to maintain.
RSR. ALICE FOSTER:
???? What?
Title: The Avengers franchise
Evaluation: Exceedingly popular with consumers across every measured demographic, with revenue figures that exceed the gross domestic product of several recognized nation-states. Cultural saturation is high enough that removal would produce immediately observable Veil breaches in the form of confused conversations, missing references in unrelated media, and a sudden and unaccountable surplus of unsold action figures.
Verdict: Preserved
RSR. ALICE FOSTER:
No surprises here, I guess.
Title: Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
Evaluation: Difficult to parse for general audiences, owing to a stream-of-consciousness structure that runs the bulk of its thousand-plus pages as a single sentence. Has received little to no contemporary attention beyond its initial publicity cycle. Goodreads engagement is statistically negligible. The number of confirmed completed readings worldwide is estimated in the low thousands.
Verdict: Incinerated
RSR. ALICE FOSTER
THIS IS MY FAVORITE BOOK!
DR. CORNELIUS GRAY
Congratulations on understanding it, Rsr. Foster. Few have. Unfortunately, it barely makes a wave in the pond. We need shelf space for Whisk Away.
RSR. ALICE FOSTER
But isn't SCP-10000 infinite?
RSR. ALICE FOSTER
Hello?
RSR. ALICE FOSTER
Dr. Gray, I asked you a question. The interior dimensions are infinite. It says so in the description. In fact, I helped write the description! Why are we incinerating anything at all if the cabinet is infinite?
Title: The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Evaluation: Although reasonably popular at its inception, its reach has drastically waned since the sixteenth century, leading it to become exceedingly unpopular with general audiences and considerably harder to comprehend in modern times. Survives in academic settings as a teaching text for graduate seminars on early modern allegory. Most extant copies are read in fragments by students who will not finish them.
Verdict: Incinerated
RSR. ALICE FOSTER
I'm not sure what we're doing anymore. This is taught at, like, Oxford. People have devoted entire academic careers to this poem. I guess it isn't Marvel, but really? We're using the Marvel bar?
RSR. ALICE FOSTER
Hello????? Please respond.
Title: The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
Evaluation: Hard to parse, and receives limited attention relative to its more famous companion works in the same continuity. General readership engagement drops off significantly within the first hundred pages. Sales figures, while not insignificant, are heavily weighted toward gift purchases rather than completed readings. The work survives largely as a reference document consulted by enthusiasts of the broader legendarium.
Verdict: Incinerated
RSR. ALICE FOSTER
Guys, what are we doing?
Title: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
Evaluation: Increasingly obscure, and the language is difficult to grapple with for modern general audiences. Surviving cultural footprint is largely sustained by secondary references in other media, which the responsible analysts have determined will collapse gracefully into the surrounding texture once the source is removed. Recent stage productions have struggled to fill seats outside of major metropolitan markets.
Verdict: Incinerated
RSR. ALICE FOSTER
Guys???
Title: DRawing of moMmy by Kaitlynn Foster
Evaluation: Unlikely to gain traction with general audiences. Of low technical quality. Limited distribution, single known instance, no projected cultural footprint.
Verdict: Incinerated