The SCP Foundation is a massive collaborative fiction project that began on 4chan’s /x/ board in 2007 with the entry for SCP-173. It revolves around a secret organization responsible for capturing and studying entities that violate natural law. In the world of internet memes, the SCP Foundation is known for its distinct aesthetic of bureaucratic horror, often featuring heavy redaction, clinical terminology, and containment breach scenarios. Memes frequently play on the absurdity of the Foundation's cold logic, the lethality of specific creatures like SCP-096, or the chaotic behavior of recurring characters. The template is widely used to label terrifying or unexplainable real-world situations as new anomalies that require immediate containment by the Foundation's Task Forces.