Object Record / FI-EPH-365
New Year, New Me
digital / GIF, 640×640, animated / animated loop / 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 (animated GIF). 1 source asset reference registered.
Identification notes
What is known
Found clip supplied for The Shadow Zone: an animated loop of about 5.2 seconds, seen here through a representative frame, under the caption "'Man it's a new year, new me'" and "Me on January 1st:". The footage is from professional wrestling: a wrestler in white-and-black face paint and a long dark coat speaks into a microphone at ringside while wrestlers in black "nWo" T-shirts stand behind him before a crowd. The joke is a dramatic change of persona. The event and footage source are unverified. 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 / GIF, 640×640, animated / animated loop / 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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