Object Record / FI-EPH-311
Now I Work at the Metaverse Chipotle
digital / JPEG, 640×787 / meme / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio
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-caption meme. The top shows a hand holding a vape pen with a cartridge, captioned "I should have never" and "smoked the digital spliff." Below, a crude 3D render of a burrito-bar counter shows an avatar in a striped shirt and a bearded video-game-style character in a tracksuit and cap, captioned "now I work at the metaverse chipotle." A meme-account watermark is on the image. It mocks corporate metaverse ambitions. 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 / JPEG, 640×787 / 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-311-metaverse-chipotle.jpegOpen local asset