Object Record / FI-EPH-180
People Who Watched Evangelion Growing Up
digital / WebP, 1224×1536 / meme / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio
Primary evidence
The object before the record.
Narrative record
Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.
Provenance
Custody record
Logged 2026-09-26 / quantity 1 digital image. 1 source asset reference registered.
Identification notes
What is known
Found image supplied for The Shadow Zone: a three-row comparison meme. "People who watched serial experiments lain growing up" shows a man hunched close at a computer in a retail store; "People who watched Berserk growing up" shows an older woman in a bedroom holding a huge sword; and "Meanwhile People who watched Evangelion growing up" shows two teenage boys in a school hallway holding hands. The photos are long-circulating internet images. A reposting account's watermark runs down the right edge. Maker, origin, and date are not recorded. The exif scrub reported no location metadata to strip.
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 / WebP, 1224×1536 / meme / 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 / 1 reference
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-180-lain-berserk-evangelion-growing-up.webpOpen local asset