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SCP-173: the Foundation's first file

added30 August 2026

On 22 June 2007 an anonymous user posted a short text to 4chan in the form of a containment report: an object of concrete and rebar that cannot move while it is being looked at, and kills the instant you blink. The entry came with a photograph of Untitled 2004 by the Japanese artist Izumi Katō, used without asking. That single post grew into the SCP Foundation, a collaborative universe of thousands of documents written over years by thousands of people. The illustration was replaced in 2022: the artist had never given permission.

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