The World According to Stereotype

digital / PNG, 1357×628 / map / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio

The object before the record.

FI-EPH-096 — The World According to Stereotype
FI-EPH-096 / The World According to Stereotype / source photograph 01

Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.

Custody record

Logged 2026-09-26 / quantity 1 digital image. 1 source asset reference registered.

What is known

Found image supplied for The Shadow Zone: a crude MS Paint-style world map with each region recolored and relabeled by insulting stereotype, among them "Drunks and Nothing," "Jesus and Meth," "Lawlessness," "Bjork," "The Wastelands," "Cheap Shit and Oppression," "Tech Support," "Hobbits," "Arkansas with a Beach," and "Stupid Penguins" pointing off the south edge. Several labels are derogatory toward particular regions, peoples, and a religion. The labels are reproduced as found; they are not endorsed, and it is admitted as a curio, not as a source. Maker, origin, and date are not recorded. The exif scrub reported no location metadata to strip.

Why it remains connected

accessioned / catalogued curio. Disposition: archive. The object remains associated with The Shadow Zone.

What remains unresolved

digital / PNG, 1357×628 / map / origin unverified. accessioned / catalogued curio. Terms marked unknown, provisional, pending, or unverified remain part of the record until evidence resolves them.

Keep the object connected.

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

Source Assets / 1 reference

Raw archive paths are retained for provenance and maintenance. They are not the primary object presentation.

  1. assets/ephemera/shadow-zone/fi-eph-096-stereotype-world-map.png Open local asset