I Thought I Wanted Love

digital / JPEG, 1029×1029 / meme / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio

The object before the record.

FI-EPH-262 — I Thought I Wanted Love
FI-EPH-262 / I Thought I Wanted Love / 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 sparkling, flame-backed collage meme of two chihuahuas. One gazes wide-eyed under a starry blue glow; the other wears a black balaclava before a wall of fire, with a knife blade rising in the foreground. The text reads "I THOUGHT I WANTED LOVE BUT IT TURNS OUT, I WANT TO ABOLISH THE POLICE," the last line in large yellow capitals. The slogan is the meme's, reproduced as found and not endorsed. 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 / JPEG, 1029×1029 / meme / 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-262-chihuahua-abolish-the-police.jpeg Open local asset