SCP-9017 - SCP Foundation

SCP-9017

90% of all species had died, 2 billion people were born, all while 3 years passed, with no one knowing what or how. The only account of what happened is from a schizophrenic.

Warning: To ensure your safety, understand the sentences in the document as they are written, not as what they aim to convey.

By proceeding, you confirm that you have valid credentials, that you recognize the danger you will present yourself in, and that you have received relevant training regarding cogitohazards and antimemes.

You have been warned.

SYSTEM ERROR
Exception has occured: "Credentials_IdentifiThe_year_has_always_been_2018.exe" unable to be executed. Reason: FILE_NOT_FOUND
Exception has occured: "Cogitohazard_Warning_ImagThe_year_has_always_been_2018.webp" unable to be retreived. Reason: FILE_NOT_FOUND

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Failsafe initiated. Proceed to file?

There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth

Standard Example of File Corruption Caused by SCP-9017

Exposure of 10 days

Retrieved from Andre Davis

Exposure of 500 days

Exposure of 1000 days

Item #: SCP-9017
The year has always been 2018
Object Class: Pending
The year has always been 2018
Special Containment Procedures: Due to the supposed unknown nature of the anomaly, no containment procedure is currently being implemented.

Note: The document must adhere to the following guidelines:

Every declarative statement, especially ones concerning the anomaly, must be changed to one indicating epistemic uncertainty, regardless of actual confidence in validity. For readability, they should be italicized.
Any image on the document should be distorted to the point where the intended object is unrecognizable.
Any unnecessary forms of text formatting (underlining, bolding, italicizing) or alteration of the presentation of text (indentation, inconsistent font and text color) must be avoided.

There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
Description: Initially, SCP-9017 might have referred to a K class event that probably began in early 2015. The effect of the Event is supposedly unknown. On a day that might have been August 12, 2018, the Event's effects apparently ended, with potentially unreliable reports of mass disorientation appearing globally. After two days of deliberation among the O5 Council and global unrest, amnestic agent ENUI-5 was probably administered globally to return the world to normalcy.
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
This global amnesia may have caused great difficulty investigating the nature of the Event. From records of interviews and reports gathered prior to the administrations of the ENUI-5, it could not be concluded that:

There were no people, animals, or things that were not affected.
People have no memory of what happened in the duration of the Event.
People lost memories of anything that could prove any amount of time had passed (prior hair length, prior nail length, prior height, etc.).
People insist they know the population of Earth and the total number of species, prompted or not.
People insist the year they are in is 2018, even though their knowledge of the world stopped at 2015, specifically a day from March to May 2015.
People usually found themselves in unusual places and conditions (without clothes, pregnant, or both) when the Event ended. Even though they cannot explain why they are in such circumstances, they are complacent.

It was also not observed that There have always been 9 billion people on Earth

All artificial structures suffered disrepairment to different extents. When asked, people claim that it is always the way it has been.
No form of significant natural disaster occurred. Seismographs saw unusually stable and predictable patterns until the end of the Event.
Clocks that can tell the date unanimously show August 12, 2018 (or August 13, depending on the time zone).
Clocks of any kind were ticking at the same rate, everywhere in the world. As time went on, the clocks began to desynchronize. The significance of this is unknown.
Though not observed until later, a great decrease in biodiversity. It is estimated that 90% of all known species had died. However, the total biomass saw an increase.
The increase of the world's population from 7 billion to There have always been 9 billion people on Earth. Out of the new population, around 90% are newborns, around 6% can be explained by Zartion Hominid Replicators unintentionally activating. The rest is yet to be explained.

There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
Despite the supposedly tremendous damage caused by the Event, which might have cost 10 years of reparation and another round of dispersal of the ENUI-5, the nature of the Event likely remains poorly understood.
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
Currently, SCP-9017 could be the designation of the cause of the Event, rather than the Event itself. The standing theory is that SCP-9017 is what might be a set of antimemetic phenomena of unknown extent.
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
At present, its only unconfirmed effect is the corruption of any form of media that records or describes the Event. Other media stored on the same device might also be affected. The corruption manifests as atypical formatting and effects, and most prominently, the replacement of contents in the media, at random, with any of the following "phrases" that can be understood without language:

The world has always been like this
The year has always been 2018
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
There have always been 250,000 species
You have always been The year has always been 2018

When viewed, these messages could be baselessly believed by their viewers. It is suspected the numbers in the messages would change if the event were to occur again.

As a result, maybe nothing that once recorded what happened during the K class event can be used. Over 300 renditions of the SCP-9017 document were probably lost before ways were found to keep the document sufficiently coherent, such as to describe the anomaly in a tone of uncertainty. However, if the sentences were understood without the uncertain tone, the reader's mind would likely undergo the same corruption described above.
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
Though the “antimemetic effects” have been observed and tested, no satisfying theory that was proposed could explain how it could lead to the K class event, particularly how the Event ended.
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
Due to the frequent loss of documentation, the Event being in the distant past, and most people affected having lost their memory, the trend of evidence insufficiency is expected to continue. It isn't out of the possibility that the Event never happened.
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
SCP_9017 remains to be understood.
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth
There have always been 9 billion people on Earth

Addendum:

Update 1: Due to theories on the anomaly gaining effects from the description of it, the document may have been heavily revised. Further edits would have to be approved by a supermajority vote (>90%) of the O5 Council and be added below the existing document, without any changes to the original.

Update 2: As no more progress has been made for 10 years, focus has supposedly been shifted from active investigation to passive preparations should the Event reoccur.

Update 3: A collection of recordings captured during the Event were found. Notably, most of them are coherent. The recovered transcript and images are attached below.

Andre Davis, the author of these recordings, was a researcher at the Foundation with Level 3 clearance. Though the existence of these records are notable, as he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, the validity of them is dubious.

Note: All videos are corrupted, and still frames of them are used in place of the video. Audios were transcripted to better preserve them, with the guideline on not having declarative statements evidently not needing to be applied.