Object Record / FI-EPH-014
Ibuprofen Together
digital / GIF 89a, 400×400, animated / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio
Narrative record
Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.
Provenance
Custody record
Logged 2026-09-05 / quantity 1 digital image (animated GIF + extracted still). 2 source asset references registered.
Identification notes
What is known
Found-image meme supplied for The Shadow Zone: an animated loop of a well-dressed anime figure extending an open hand toward the viewer, under a burned-in caption reading "lets take ibuprofen together." The source frame is anime; the specific work, authorship, and captioning history are unverified. Two files are kept deliberately. The GIF is the supplied source and is preserved unaltered; the JPEG is its first frame, extracted so the item also qualifies for the Shadow Zone photo rotations, which match JPEG filenames only and would otherwise skip an animated accession entirely.
Restoration relevance
Why it remains connected
accessioned / catalogued curio. Disposition: archive. The object remains associated with The Shadow Zone.
Uncertainty notes
What remains unresolved
digital / GIF 89a, 400×400, animated / origin unverified. accessioned / catalogued curio. Terms marked unknown, provisional, pending, or unverified remain part of the record until evidence resolves them.
Relationships
Keep the object connected.
Related objects
Parent system
The Shadow Zone
A holding zone for surreal found media and uncanny artifacts that surface around the archive — images with no clear origin, kept as evidence of the culture that accretes on forgotten machines.
Associated dossier / FI-PROJ-010 / open
Field logs / dossiers
Archive routes
Source Assets / 2 references
Raw archive paths are retained for provenance and maintenance. They are not the primary object presentation.
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assets/ephemera/shadow-zone/fi-eph-014-ibuprofen.gifOpen local asset -
assets/ephemera/shadow-zone/fi-eph-014-ibuprofen-still.jpegOpen local asset