WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:03.200 Bang, Bang, Bang. 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:08.720 The woman wakes with a fright, her heart already  hammering. What was that noise? She sits up in   00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:14.680 bed and wipes the sleep out of her eyes, feeling  the woozy concoction of adrenaline and exhaustion. 00:00:14.680 --> 00:00:17.240 Bang, Bang, Bang. 00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:21.880 There it is again, the noise is coming  from downstairs somewhere. She goes and,   00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:27.280 with trembling hands, grabs the lamp from the  side of her bed. It's pretty heavy at the base,   00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:31.440 and she reckons worst comes to worst, she  could do a good bit of damage with it. 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:37.400 She tiptoes out onto the landing and hears the  thumping noise downstairs again. Sure enough, it's   00:00:37.400 --> 00:00:43.240 her front door. She hears muffled voices outside  squabbling with one another. She peers around down   00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:49.840 the staircase just in time to see whoever it is  outside hammering at her door again. The hinges   00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:55.240 are starting to break, the wood is starting  to bend. Surely, it can't hold out for much… 00:00:55.240 --> 00:01:00.040 The door splinters and crashes open, and a  crowd of hooded figures run into the house.   00:01:00.040 --> 00:01:03.400 There are so many of them that she doesn't  have a hope of trying to fight her way out   00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:08.800 of this. She rushes back to her bedroom and  looks around wildly for a place to hide. She   00:01:08.800 --> 00:01:12.600 can't go under the bed; there's no space,  and she doesn't have a proper wardrobe,   00:01:12.600 --> 00:01:16.840 just a clothes rail that she hangs  all her stuff on. More importantly,   00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:21.680 she doesn't have time to waste now. The  burglars are going to be in here any second. 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:25.680 She grabs all of the clothes off the clothes  rail and rushes over to the corner of the room.   00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:31.480 She curls up as small as she can in a ball and  throws the clothes all over herself. Hopefully,   00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:36.280 the robbers will think that she's just a  pile of dirty laundry and leave her alone. 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:41.120 You can hear voices now amid the crashing sounds  downstairs. It sounds like they're in her lounge,   00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:44.480 going through her Blu-ray collection.  Why on earth would they be wanting to   00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:47.840 look at her Blu-rays? Surely they  should just grab the TV and the   00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.600 consoles and run out the door?  That's where the real value is. 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:53.480 The voices are getting louder and louder,   00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:58.080 with real notes of frustration. It doesn't sound  like they're robbing the place; it sounds like   00:01:58.080 --> 00:02:03.080 they're looking for something. Like they've  come here searching for something specific. 00:02:03.080 --> 00:02:08.400 But what could they possibly be after? She's  not rich; if anything, she's pretty broke. 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:12.960 The door to her bedroom flies open, and a group  of people fills her room. This isn't just a   00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:17.320 smash-and-grab with a couple of individuals.  There must be well over a dozen people in her   00:02:17.320 --> 00:02:22.440 house right now. She holds her breath and  does her best to stay as still as possible. 00:02:22.440 --> 00:02:24.760 Peering out through the small gap in the clothes,   00:02:24.760 --> 00:02:28.280 she tries to make out who it  is that's ransacked her place. 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:33.440 And to her surprise, she realizes they're not  a group of thugs at all. They're teenagers,   00:02:33.440 --> 00:02:36.040 none of them look much older than 15. 00:02:36.040 --> 00:02:39.360 They're all dressed in hoodies and  trying their best to cover their faces,   00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:42.920 but it's obvious from how big  they are. They're just kids. 00:02:42.920 --> 00:02:47.040 The woman's fear subsides slightly. She  could easily take any of them in a fight,   00:02:47.040 --> 00:02:52.360 maybe not all of them at once, but she feels  a growing sense of confidence. More than that,   00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:57.880 she feels a growing sense of curiosity. What  could a bunch of teenagers want from her? 00:02:57.880 --> 00:03:02.320 The loudest one in the room has her phone out.  Its light spills onto her face, and the woman   00:03:02.320 --> 00:03:06.920 realizes she isn't even bothering to wear a  mask. She is talking to her camera, and as the   00:03:06.920 --> 00:03:11.880 woman glances at the screen, she sees messages  popping up from the chat feed at the bottom. 00:03:11.880 --> 00:03:14.960 Is she... livestreaming this? 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:18.680 As if she's heard her thoughts,  the girl proudly announces. 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:23.160 “That’s right, it’s your girl Loopy Hunter coming  in right now, we’re going out live on Twitch,   00:03:23.160 --> 00:03:27.880 YouTube, TikTok, and Insta. I’ve got my boy  Sparkles downstairs raiding the hard drive,   00:03:27.880 --> 00:03:29.680 but I’m up in the bedroom right  now looking for a laptop.” 00:03:30.880 --> 00:03:33.520 Hard drive? Laptop? What could any of   00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:38.200 these teenagers want from her  files? Then the penny drops. 00:03:38.200 --> 00:03:41.400 “We’re gonna find it today.  The lost episode. Season 3,   00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:46.160 episode 15, Ick Day. We’re writing  the next chapter in meme history!   00:03:46.160 --> 00:03:49.440 You better be screen recording because  we’re about to be arrested for this!” 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:50.000 * 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:54.320 The woman had been to her most recent Comic  Con about eight years ago. It had definitely   00:03:54.320 --> 00:03:58.080 been time to pack it in. The four days  that she was there, sitting at her booth   00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:03.800 with stacks of photos ready to sign, she'd  had a grand total of seven people come by. 00:04:03.800 --> 00:04:05.920 There's nothing more disheartening than watching   00:04:05.920 --> 00:04:09.960 your popularity steadily dwindle and  not really having an answer for it. 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:15.240 Loopy Lilly had been a flash in the pan. Everyone  in the team had known that, except the top execs.   00:04:15.240 --> 00:04:19.760 It just so happened to catch a zeitgeist, it aired  at just the right time on Saturday morning and   00:04:19.760 --> 00:04:23.800 featured the voice work of the young actress  who would go on to be a Disney Channel star. 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:27.760 The success of the show wasn't necessarily  based on the strength of its writing,   00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:31.560 but success was success, and the  woman had enjoyed it while it lasted. 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:36.960 She got to move to LA for the start of season 2  and wrote every episode up until the 3rd season,   00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:40.000 where they fired the original  staff to go in a “different   00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:44.400 direction”. Safe to say there would  be no further seasons for a reason. 00:04:44.400 --> 00:04:49.120 Still, she couldn't resent it too much; for  a few glorious years, she'd got to live her   00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:55.080 dream of being a successful writer in Hollywood.  Sadly for her, most of the money had dried up,   00:04:55.080 --> 00:04:58.120 but she just about managed to scrape  together enough for a modest house in   00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:02.640 the Midwest where she could live on her  own and take nice walks in the country. 00:05:02.640 --> 00:05:07.040 As far as she was concerned,  Loopy Lilly was long behind her. 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.280 That was at least until she became a meme. 00:05:10.280 --> 00:05:14.320 A generation of teenagers who had grown up  watching Loopy Lilly as five-year-olds all   00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:19.640 of a sudden now had internet access and  phones. Nostalgia bait was a huge thing,   00:05:19.640 --> 00:05:21.840 as the woman quickly discovered. 00:05:21.840 --> 00:05:24.920 If you could remember something that  was really niche from your childhood,   00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:29.160 something that you hadn't thought about in  years, it had a good chance of going viral.   00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:34.000 And Loopy Lily, being the very popular  but underwritten juggernaut that it was,   00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:38.560 had the perfect concoction of  forgetability and dated animation. 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:42.320 All of a sudden, Loopy Lily  was somehow cool again. 00:05:42.320 --> 00:05:45.920 The woman had to admit she didn't get it.  She put on a couple of old episodes out   00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:50.280 of curiosity but found that it was even  worse than she'd remembered. If anything,   00:05:50.280 --> 00:05:53.880 she was a bit embarrassed to  have had a hand in writing it. 00:05:53.880 --> 00:05:57.280 But all these teenagers online  were going nuts about it. And at   00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:01.600 the height of the meme was Season 3, Episode 15. 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:03.120 Ick Day. 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:07.200 Sitting at her computer, the woman really  doesn't get it. She has to watch a YouTube   00:06:07.200 --> 00:06:13.160 video explaining something called the Mandela  effect to understand what on earth is happening. 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:17.040 “Hey guys and welcome back to the channel,  don’t forget to like and subscribe. Now,   00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:22.040 let me ask you a question. What  color is the tip of Pikachu’s tail?” 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:24.840 The woman thinks for a second. Black. Pikachu’s   00:06:24.840 --> 00:06:28.520 got a tail that’s yellow at the base  and then black or brown at the tip. 00:06:28.520 --> 00:06:30.840 “You’re wrong. It’s yellow.” 00:06:30.840 --> 00:06:31.880 Huh? 00:06:31.880 --> 00:06:36.680 “Another question, what does Snow  White say to the mirror on her wall?” 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:40.880 Well, that’s an easy one. She can picture the  scene from the movie in her head now. "Mirror,   00:06:40.880 --> 00:06:43.760 mirror, on the wall, who’s  the fairest of them all?" 00:06:43.760 --> 00:06:47.720 “Well, I’m afraid you’re wrong again.  She actually says ‘Magic Mirror,   00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:49.960 on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?’.” 00:06:49.960 --> 00:06:54.680 The woman sits back in her chair and  crosses her arms. That's strange. 00:06:54.680 --> 00:07:00.240 “What you're experiencing there is a phenomenon  known as the Mandela effect. It's a kind of group   00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:04.960 misremembrance. For some reason, there are certain  events and moments in history that a large number   00:07:04.960 --> 00:07:09.960 of the population remember in a factually  incorrect way. The phenomenon gets its name   00:07:09.960 --> 00:07:14.960 from a study that found that a number of people  believe that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the   00:07:14.960 --> 00:07:20.240 1980s. Many of them could recount in fair detail  seeing his widow giving a speech on television   00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:26.480 and watching extensive news coverage about the  event, even though Mandela actually died in 2013. 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.840 “In fact, the reason you're probably watching this  video right now is that there seems to be a new   00:07:30.840 --> 00:07:37.880 Mandela effect taking the internet by storm. Ick  Day, episode 15 of Loopy Lilly’s third season.” 00:07:37.880 --> 00:07:42.280 The woman finishes the video and gets up  to go out for her usual walk. What kind of   00:07:42.280 --> 00:07:46.440 thing do all these teenagers remember about  the episode? She walks through the woods,   00:07:46.440 --> 00:07:51.360 scrolling through her phone, looking at Twitter  threads, subreddits, and YouTube comments. 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:55.760 Oh maaaaaan! I remember that episode. It was  really horrific, you see Lilly dragging her   00:07:55.760 --> 00:07:59.280 little lamb outside and beating it. They had  blood and everything. It really scarred me. 00:07:59.280 --> 00:08:05.160 S.3 E.15 was creepy af. I watched it when  it aired and it was all about her being   00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:09.920 sick in bed but it was this big metaphor  for mental health. She just steadily goes   00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:13.560 insane and starts threatening to  unalive her parents and stuff… 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:17.440 Ick Day’s just some creepypasta, guys.  It was a 4chan thing or something from   00:08:17.440 --> 00:08:20.680 a few years ago; no one actually believes that. 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.280 I definitely saw on the news that they’d banned  it from a worldwide release because it was giving   00:08:24.280 --> 00:08:29.280 people epileptic fits. My school even had  a letter go out to parents to warn them. 00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:34.080 The more the woman reads, the more she starts to  laugh. She has no idea where all these stories   00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:38.960 have come from, but they are all total nonsense.  She remembers that episode; it takes her a minute,   00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:43.240 but it's clear enough in her head now. She'd  written it, and the studio had animated most   00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:48.200 of it, but without warning, the executive  producers decided to cut it from the series.   00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:54.200 It hadn’t been very good, and they already had  enough episodes to fill the slot. That was it. 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.960 There were no broken bones, gruesome murder,  killer pathogens, or mental health metaphors.   00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:03.240 It was just a very normal Saturday morning  cartoon episode about a girl who is too sick   00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:08.080 to go to school. The whole reason they'd cut it  was because nothing interesting happened at all. 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:12.120 She laughs and puts her phone back in  her pocket, enjoying the fresh air. 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:15.880 When she gets back home later that evening,  she logs onto Twitter and shares a post   00:09:15.880 --> 00:09:20.080 about the episode. It's the most attention  the show has gotten in close to a decade,   00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.960 and she's surprised to see she's picked up  almost a thousand new followers out of thin air. 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:29.200 Good meme, everyone, making up fake stories  about the episode. It was never released,   00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:33.200 and trust me, I think you’d all  be very disappointed to learn why… 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:37.960 She grins to herself. That's a good post. She'll  get a few replies from people with more traffic,   00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:42.720 but she's also not giving any false promises.  She gets up to make dinner, and when she sits   00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:48.000 down at her computer again, her eyes go wider  than the dinner plate she's about to eat off of. 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:53.560 3,100 replies. She laughs and cracks  her knuckles, opening the first one. 00:09:53.560 --> 00:09:59.240 Exactly, thank you! I always said it was pulled  for being too violent, and now I have proof! 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:01.480 Okay, clearly, that person hadn’t read what she’d   00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:05.000 written at all. She ignores  it and goes on to the next. 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:11.880 @baconsforever @cash339 see? I wasn’t  making up that seizure. Defo happened 00:10:11.880 --> 00:10:16.320 What is going on? The woman looks back at her  original tweet to make sure that she hadn't   00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:22.600 left in some stupid typo or phrased anything  awkwardly. But no, it was clear as day. What was   00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:27.280 everyone doing? It's like they'd read something  totally different from what she'd written. 00:10:27.280 --> 00:10:30.760 She starts to go through and reply to  people, clarifying her original point   00:10:30.760 --> 00:10:35.280 and trying to make sure that she isn't being  misrepresented at all. But all the while,   00:10:35.280 --> 00:10:39.960 more and more tweets are flooding in replying  to her, with each person somehow confirming   00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:44.000 their own previously held beliefs. A few  of them even quote parts of her tweet that   00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:50.240 weren't originally there. Is she going crazy?  Has she lost command of the English language? 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:53.760 She goes across to Reddit and finds a  similar thing happening almost straight   00:10:53.760 --> 00:10:58.040 away. Someone shared a screenshot of her  tweet, and all the comments underneath   00:10:58.040 --> 00:11:02.680 are interpreting it in totally different  ways. Sighing, she makes a Reddit account   00:11:02.680 --> 00:11:06.680 so that she can start replying to all of  these people to clear up any confusion. 00:11:06.680 --> 00:11:11.520 Hours go by, and before she realizes  it, it's almost two in the morning. 00:11:11.520 --> 00:11:14.680 And she is absolutely furious. 00:11:14.680 --> 00:11:17.440 The more she tweets, posts comments, and replies,   00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:23.480 the more frustrated she feels. Nobody - nobody  - is listening to her. It's like an elaborate   00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:29.080 game of telephone where everything seems to fall  apart after just the second person in the line. 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:32.080 She reads one particularly  disconcerting comment... 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:35.240 We’re gonna find your address and come  and get the proof you’ve been promising,   00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:38.880 the hunt for the missing episode is almost over! 00:11:38.880 --> 00:11:41.880 Deciding that she's done with the  internet, potentially forever,   00:11:41.880 --> 00:11:45.860 if she can manage it, the woman logs  off and takes herself off to bed. 00:11:45.860 --> 00:11:46.400 * 00:11:46.400 --> 00:11:50.280 Hiding under the pile of clothes in the corner  of her room, the woman couldn't do anything but   00:11:50.280 --> 00:11:56.040 watch as the teenagers found her laptop and yanked  the screen open unceremoniously. It was password   00:11:56.040 --> 00:12:01.640 protected, and much to her relief, none of the  teenagers had any clue what the password could be. 00:12:01.640 --> 00:12:04.520 “Come on, hurry up. We need to  show the world once, and for all,   00:12:04.520 --> 00:12:08.080 that Loopy Lilly was really a ploy  to take down the Catholic Church.” 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:11.760 “Exactly! It predicted COVID years ago to a tee.” 00:12:11.760 --> 00:12:16.360 “I know, right? Can’t wait for the scene that  the KGB plays to torture their hostages.” 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:21.320 It’s like all of these kids are speaking different  languages to one another. Not one of them seems   00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:26.960 to remotely understand what the others are  saying, so obsessed with their own theories. 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:30.080 “Maybe she’s written the password down  somewhere. I’ll check through the notebooks,   00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:32.400 you check through the pockets of her clothes.” 00:12:32.400 --> 00:12:36.160 The woman's stomach sinks. What looks  like a 14-year-old boy starts to walk   00:12:36.160 --> 00:12:39.560 over to her hiding spot. There’s nothing for it. 00:12:39.560 --> 00:12:42.120 The woman leaps to her feet,  throwing the clothes off her,   00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:46.480 and what she hopes is an intimidating  display of power. In reality, a pair of   00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:50.880 her boxes gets stuck on the top of her head  and flap around awkwardly as she shouts. 00:12:50.880 --> 00:12:55.360 She tells the kids that the police are on their  way (that would have been a good idea) and that   00:12:55.360 --> 00:13:00.480 they need to get out of her house this instant.  For a second, they all stand in stone silence,   00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:05.560 then smiles break out across all of their  faces, and they rush over to her excitedly. 00:13:05.560 --> 00:13:07.400 “I knew it! I knew you’d pulled the episode   00:13:07.400 --> 00:13:10.480 yourself for fear that it would  overshadow the rest of the show!” 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:13.440 “It’s so great to hear it straight  from your mouth. Loopy Lilly was   00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:17.640 actually dead the whole time, and the  show was about a descent into hell.” 00:13:17.640 --> 00:13:21.160 What are these kids talking about?  She hadn't said a word about Loopy   00:13:21.160 --> 00:13:24.880 Lilly! She tries to repeat herself, to  tell them that the police are coming,   00:13:24.880 --> 00:13:30.120 and they need to leave this instant, but her  adoring fans only seem to grow more enamored   00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:33.880 with the stories that they're hearing from  her mouth. When she says a threat, their   00:13:33.880 --> 00:13:38.800 eyes light up with excitement as they hear her  revealing the most treasured secrets of the show. 00:13:38.800 --> 00:13:42.760 She tries to physically usher them out of  the house. She can't hit them, obviously,   00:13:42.760 --> 00:13:46.800 because they're kids, but she does her best  to push them and herd them toward the door,   00:13:46.800 --> 00:13:50.800 leading them out into the street. They  just crowd around her on the sidewalk,   00:13:50.800 --> 00:13:55.440 asking more and more questions, not  listening to a word she has to say. 00:13:55.440 --> 00:14:01.520 The woman can do nothing but stand there helpless.  Does anyone in the world understand her anymore? 00:14:01.520 --> 00:14:05.040 But then she catches glimpses of  their phone screens. Heart emojis   00:14:05.040 --> 00:14:10.080 flood the chats. 600k viewers on  one phone. A million on another. 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:13.120 The whole world is watching her. 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:17.640 And they’re all loving what she has to  say. Any time she talks, fresh waves of   00:14:17.640 --> 00:14:23.560 messages fill the chats, and a dozen voices  around her call out in surprise and joy. 00:14:23.560 --> 00:14:28.840 Before she can stop it, a smile spreads  across her face, and she opens her arms wide,   00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:33.620 beginning to tell the crowd the story  of Loopy Lilly right from the start. 00:14:33.620 --> 00:14:34.160 * 00:14:34.160 --> 00:14:38.680 Keter class SCPs are the ones that are  hardest to contain. Its members can range   00:14:38.680 --> 00:14:43.240 from problematic teleporters to veritable  world-destroying nightmare creatures. 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:49.720 SCP-5019 falls into the same classification  but hopefully poses virtually no threat to   00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:54.200 the existence of humanity. The reason why  it is in this class is that despite the   00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:59.920 Foundation's best efforts, it seems  virtually impossible to contain. 00:14:59.920 --> 00:15:03.440 Foundation web crawlers scour  the internet day in and day out,   00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.440 tracking any website or thread  that mentions the TV show Loopy   00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.720 Lily. Previous attempts have been made  to suppress any mention of the show,   00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:17.000 but this has proven ineffective. IP addresses  and those talking about the show are tracked,   00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:22.320 and agents are deployed to administer amnestics  to the users who make the initial reference. 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:26.920 This is one of the rare instances where the  Foundation's amnestics have proven totally   00:15:26.920 --> 00:15:31.680 ineffective. No matter the dosage or  strength, subjects will not forget   00:15:31.680 --> 00:15:38.280 about Loopy Lily. Specifically, they will  not forget Season 3, Episode 15, Ick Day. 00:15:38.280 --> 00:15:43.840 Dubbed ‘the lost episode’ by many, this episode  was never officially aired. There is no record   00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:49.200 of its broadcast in any country, and no copies  of the episode itself have ever been recovered. 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:53.640 And yet, a large proportion of this show's  target demographic recalls something about   00:15:53.640 --> 00:15:57.840 the episode. Recollections vary from  individual to individual, with the common   00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:03.920 traits being that the episode was censored,  destroyed, made up, or only broadcast once. 00:16:03.920 --> 00:16:09.160 Many individuals report quite extreme reasons for  the episode's status, citing excessive violence,   00:16:09.160 --> 00:16:13.240 explicit content, darkness, or other  disturbing elements. Other individuals   00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:18.560 believe that it doesn't exist at all and is part  of a wider conspiracy made up by trolls online,   00:16:18.560 --> 00:16:23.200 or is even connected to various  government-level conspiracy theories. 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:27.520 The truth is quite simple. Ick Day  was never released. It was written   00:16:27.520 --> 00:16:32.120 and mostly animated but was canceled prior  to release by the studio. The lead writer,   00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:36.960 Nichola Myers, referred to  here on out as POI 5019,   00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:41.560 has explained on numerous occasions the  unremarkable backstory of the episode. 00:16:41.560 --> 00:16:47.040 Those unaffected by SCP-5019 believe the  same. They have a recollection of Season 3,   00:16:47.040 --> 00:16:51.360 Episode 15, never making it to  air for unremarkable reasons. 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:57.560 And yet, those affected by SCP-5019 seem  unable to comprehend any attempts to explain   00:16:57.560 --> 00:17:01.240 this. Not only do they fail to understand  what the other person is telling them,   00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:04.960 they actively believe that the person  is reinforcing their own beliefs. 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:07.920 It appears that a large number  of people online who engage in   00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.480 discussions about the Lost Episode  believe that all of their peers are   00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:15.880 agreeing with their viewpoint, even when  they are explicitly stating the opposite. 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:19.120 As confusing as this is, the Foundation believes   00:17:19.120 --> 00:17:23.000 that this does not pose a significant  threat to the general population. 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:28.400 It does make you wonder, though, is there  really any truth to anything you see online? 00:17:29.520 --> 00:17:33.760 Check out the Dr. Bob Patreon and  become a junior researcher today!   00:17:33.760 --> 00:17:40.440 Now go and watch another entry from the  files of Dr. Bob, like SCP-1432 Doll DVD.