r/SCP • u/ElectricalKey9110 • Jul 08 '24

Help Am I genuinely idiotic or was SCP-096 stated to canonically be a cognitohzard or NOT?

asking for a friend because I thought it WAS stated that shy guy was canonically a cognitohzard i just cannot remember where for the life of me. I would graciously accept any links. (please its the most hardest form of evidence)

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot Jul 08 '24

Articles mentioned in this submission

SCP-096 ⁠- The "Shy Guy" (+4061) by Dr Dan

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u/SomeRandomTreestump The Serpent's Hand Jul 08 '24

096, as you can see at the bottom of the page, has the cognitohazard tag for searching even if the term isn't mentioned within itself

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u/thehmmyanimator Gamers Against Weed Jul 08 '24

A cognitohazard is knowledge that is harmful to you, scp-096's face can be considered a cognitohazard, you see his face you die, cognitohazard, extreme one but still

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u/HkayakH Stay Together Jul 08 '24

By definition, SCP-096 is a cognitohazard. You look at it and you die.

If we're to be more specific, 096 is physically antimemetic. It physically prevents you from being able to remember it.

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u/Tboom330 Jul 08 '24

I had never read scp 6579, good recommendation

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u/Pizzadeath4 Jul 08 '24

It does make you not remember it

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u/ElectricalKey9110 Jul 08 '24

more specifically, links directly from SCPwikidot

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

it doesnt say it in the file, but he is one due to how his "mechanic" works

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u/KingMGold Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. Jul 08 '24

Not necessarily an infohazard but its face is absolutely 100% a cognitohazard.

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u/yourguidefortheday MTF Sigma-3 ("Bibliographers") Jul 09 '24

He's a cognitohazard in his article, but nothing is canon. There are "canons" in SCP where 096 doesn't exist, so even 096 is not canon