Thinking Gives Me Stress, So I Stopped Doing That

digital / JPEG, 800×560 / screenshot / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio

The object before the record.

FI-EPH-433 — Thinking Gives Me Stress, So I Stopped Doing That
FI-EPH-433 / Thinking Gives Me Stress, So I Stopped Doing That / 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 subtitled frame from the original Dragon Ball anime showing the young monk Krillin, bald with six forehead dots and an orange gi, grinning broadly with half-closed eyes against a seaside sky. The burned-in subtitle reads "Thinking gives me stress, so I stopped doing that." Whether the line is an actual translation from the episode or a fan-made subtitle is unverified. 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, 800×560 / screenshot / 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-433-krillin-thinking-gives-me-stress.jpeg Open local asset