RCA-991

Registry #: RCA-991

Containment Difficulty Classification: Low

Threat Classification: Medium

Containment Protocols: RCA-991 is to be removed from the public Internet regularly by Organization web crawlers. It is only allowed to be viewed by these with a Beta-level or higher security clearance.

Description: RCA-991 is an internet meme image and memetic hazard captioned “Obama Chungus”. The image itself consists of former US President Barack Obama’s head on the body of Big Chungus.

Viewing the image causes a sudden outburst of loud laughter in the subject. In some cases, this outburst has caused death by laughter.

The memetic effect only occurs in .jpeg/.jpg format. If the image is converted to .png, .gif, .webp, or any other format, then the effect does not occur, and the converted image is non-anomalous.

The image was first detected on the “ptkfgs.███” forums on ██/██/201█, as part of the Organization’s regular scan for memetic hazard images.