Femur Breaker

About

Femur Breaker refers to a torture machine in the SCP – Containment Breach video game used to lure SCP-106 into its containment chamber. In the SCP community, the device has often been referenced in memes due to its grotesquely violent nature and notorious sound effects.

Origin

On April 8th, 2010, prominent SCP Foundation^[1] community member DrGears submitted an entry describing a new Keter class SCP, filed as SCP-106. The original entry described the object as an elderly humanoid in a state of advanced decomposition, who was able to corrupt any material it touched and enter a pocket dimension, utilizing this ability to pass through solid matter. The SCP-106 would "hunt and attack based on desire", often trapping his victims in his pocket dimension, and was extremely difficult to contain.

The described recall protocol for the event of SCP-106 escape involves injuring a human "within the 10-25 years of age" via "the breakage of a long bone, such as the femur, or the severing of a major tendon, such as the Achilles Tendon."

On April 14th, 2012, version 0.1 of SCP – Containment Breach survival horror video game developed by Joonas "Regalis" Rickkonen was released.^[2] The game introduced a torture machine named Femur Breaker which the player needed to utilize in order to contain SCP-106 (SCP-106 recall protocol and gameplay video shown below).

Is anyone out there? Hello? Please let me go. Let me go! I just want to leave… Please!…
[screams, heavy breathing]
WHY???

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On July 25th, 2013, YouTube user GuitarFish458 posted a video titled "SCP Containment Breach Femur Breaker Sounds" which received over 916,800 views in six years (shown below).^[3]

With the growth of the SCP Foundation and SCP – Containment Breach fandom in the following years, femur breaker gained popularity in memes, particularly in the /r/DankMemesFromSite19 subreddit and SCP-related pages on other websites (examples shown below, left and center).^[4] Additionally, the Femur Breaker sound effects also achieved meme recognition; for example, on October 11th, 2019, Instagram user nitro.if used the sound effect for a Cursed Emojis meme which received over 270,000 views (shown below, right).^[5]

Moreover, the Femur Breaker sound effects have been used in remixes by artists on YouTube, Soundcloud and other platforms.

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