Remilia, Milady, Charlotte Fang and the new Internet

Note: This post was translated automatically from Spanish to English using AI.

We are an embodiment – We are the little warriors of God, we are commandos of the network. We are full of hope. We are prepared, in the court of influence. We are lovers with loud laughter, and we put all our points on karma, charisma, and beauty. We are viral crypto-millionaires. We are the new art.

Remilia is an institution. Remilia is a self-organization. Remilia is a lifestyle. Remilia is a manifesto. Remilia will save the Internet.

Thus seals the manifesto of Remilia, a group of digital anonymous individuals seeking to dominate the world and save the Internet. Remilia was born on 4chan, the well-known Internet board about which our dear Juan Ruocco has already written more than enough. The 4chan culture was a turning point on the Internet: giving a person the chance to express themselves anonymously, without any kind of repercussions for their message, was equally dangerous and avant-garde. A world of possibilities opened up. Trolls were born. The rest is history.

4chan was the cradle of several recognized Internet groups, including Anonymous and the protagonist of this text, Remilia. If you are a user of X (formerly Twitter), you have probably crossed paths with a member of Remilia without knowing it. They interact with the community like any other human being. What sets them apart from us is that they have a plan. They are easy to recognize. They all use a symbol as their profile picture that identifies them, a pfp that defines them as a legion. In the manner of other Internet communities and crypto-Twitter like CryptoPunks (the most established, launched in June 2017) but with a particular unique flavor.

Milady, the first major success of Remilia

Milady is a collection of 10,000 generative pfpNFTs (profile-picture NFTs), launched in August 2021 on Ethereum, which in less than a year achieved a mint out; that is, all the NFTs were acquired, reaching a market capitalization of over 200 million dollars. Miladys can still be traded on OpenSea. At the time of writing this note, the floor price –the price of the cheapest Milady– is 3.76 ETH, around 12,300 dollars.

Milady and its creators (*) sought to create the best collection, addressing the shortcomings of their predecessors and using the character Hororo, from the anime Bottle Fairy (2003) as a starting point. The idea was to think of a design created from its base to be the perfect profile picture, not only in its dimensions and colors but also emotionally.

To achieve this, they chose to draw inspiration from chibi aesthetics and push it a little further, creating a style they themselves named neochibi. Another important idea was that the generative changes in the images were not linked to the race or facial details of the character, but to cosmetic issues, such as their clothing or accessories.

The most powerful aspect of the Milady is its eyes, where the emotional aspect lies; the eyes never change their position or size, and they are strategically designed to always occupy a central place.

Derivatives: from Remilio Babies to Emilio World Order

After the success of the original collection came the derivatives: collections or digital products related, part of the same meta, but with their own lore. Among them stand out the Remilio, or Redacted Remilio Babies, launched on August 22, 2022, as the "zoomers' brother" of Milady. Another collection of 10,000 images that was completely minted. "While Milady explores the style of Japanese youth tribes, Remilio uses the neochibi framework to incorporate zoomer, schizo, and reactionary aesthetics," is the official explanation. Another case is Pixelady Maker, a derivative in pixel art heavily referenced in Milady's memetics and culture.

But if we talk about derivatives, we cannot ignore its national cousin: Emilio and his collection Emilio World Order, with its 2001 pfpNFTs that resonate with events and characters characteristic of the early century in Argentina. It was launched in 2024 and completely minted on the day of its release. And although it has no direct connection to Remilia, it does have a spiritual connection.

Remilia operates in a decentralized manner, generally expressing itself through memes. This allows for the proliferation of all kinds of derivatives and subplots in this story. But even though the narrative is disordered, when you start piecing things together, the idea begins to take shape and there is a character that appears as the main one.

Who the hell is Charlotte Fang?

Behind the core of Remilia is a team of more than 20 people. At the center of them is Charlotte Fang, its CEO and mastermind. A native Internet character, with a clear ability to construct avant-garde and appealing discourses, or rather, those typical of digital cults. A 21st-century Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Her digital trail is hard to follow, and there is much that is already gone. The oldest evidence dates back to 2017, with a project that, according to sources, she did not lead but was part of. TSUKI Project was a cult born on 4chan that proclaimed that reality is a simulation, and that this simulation would be shut down to conserve resources for a simulated multiverse called Systemspace, described as a "cyberpunk paradise." The cult leader (alias Tsuki) explained that those who died before July 1 of that year would be transported to that paradise. A 17-year-old Canadian boy named Jake Fehr committed suicide because of this cult. After that, they took down the website.

Miya, an artificial consciousness for the "black hearts"

Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby, or more simply Miya, was the personification of a machine's intelligence to produce responses based on its own inhuman ethics. Miya was a Twitter account that existed between 2019-2020 and was deleted the day it reached 10,000 followers. It presented itself as an AI writing from a post-human future. A vehicle to express "the black heart" of capitalism. Miya's style knew no limits. In fact, it constantly broke them:

Miya was a creation of KaliAcc, short for Kali Yuga Accelerationism, a group of radicalized 4chan bloggers who understood the power of the Internet in general, what had been generated on 4chan in particular, and where that could lead. They tried to use that power to their advantage and shape something more meaningful: a cult.

Driven by the ideological foundations of Nick Land and the translation of those maxims by Charlotte Fang (at that time Charlotte Reed or Sonya). In fact, in the last version of the KaliAcc website (2021), a link to Remilia can already be seen.

Nick Land, accelerationism, and Kali Yuga

In Charlotte Fang's words:

"Here is the great discovery of Nick Land, a contribution not to philosophy but to cosmology; what was retrospectively called accelerationism, but what has always been xenobiology. Land discovered extraterrestrial life on this earth, whose signs we only know by their influence in the present from the future: its name is Capitalism.

Capitalism does not die by accelerating takeoff, but by sabotaging it using its own annihilating products against itself and against us. Apocalyptic self-destruction is our own way of escaping.

This is the Yuga cycle described by Hindu eschatology, with the final era of Kali, our current era, ending in the apocalypse.

Kali Yuga Accelerationism (kali/acc): technology has a teleology, but the clock can turn back and the cycle of civilization can restart.

Cancellation and doxxing

The success of Milady and its subsequent projects brought with it problems in the form of cancellation and doxxing. The turning point was a megathread by 0xngmi on Twitter, revealing that the founders of Remilia were the ones behind the Miya account, accusing them of being Nazis and abusers, showing evidence of old texts and some suspicious conversations.

It wasn't all 100% hate, because some people came out to try to clear Milady's name, like JamesLiao333, who posted a thread with evidence proving the innocence of the characters, although they were the minority. After this, a big uproar was generated and the pressure forced Charlotte Fang to admit that she was behind the Miya account. Immediately after, she resigned as CEO of Remilia.

Who the hell is Krishna Okhandiar?

The 0xngmi thread was posted on May 23, 2022. A few weeks later, on June 11, Charlotte Fang posted on her blog a text titled: "Admin Reveal: I said I'm just a vessel bro" in which he doxxes himself and says he calls himself Krishna Derrida Okhandiar.

He presented himself as: autistic (or of very high IQ), socially awkward, reclusive, believing in karma and destiny, praying and meditating every day, and addicted to alcohol. His main influences are William Burroughs, Nick Land, and Ray Johnson. And, after being out of the Milady team for a week, he returned to his position due to the relentless insistence of the community.

Fast forward to May 10, 2023, when Elon Musk tweeted a Milady: total victory. From this milestone, Remilia's work consisted of continuing to grow through actions, events, lore, and communication channels; while increasingly shaping its fundamentals of Network Spirituality and The New Net Art, two of the strongest points of its philosophy, which consist—summarily—in that the new art is memes and posting, while the spirituality of the network is the value contained in and transmitted by those memes and the strength they have as a whole to influence the Internet.

But not only on the internet: with publications likeRemilia Quarterly and swag in line with its brutalist digital neochibi world, Remilia breaks the barrier of the screen to carry out cultural counter-operation in the streets.

Miladycraft and Miladychan

Since its creation, the Remilia/Milady community has not stopped growing. Its first big idea and, in fact, its only promise in the roadmap of the original NFT collection, was Miladycraft, a highly customizedMinecraft server where the community holds online events to this day. For example, the Milady Film Club meets every Thursday at 10 PM to watch a movie on the server. Although most of the conversation around Milady takes place in its Discord, which has over 5000 members.

On the other hand, on June 11, 2024, Charlotte Fang published another article on her Twitter (X) account taking stock of the state of Remilia and the steps to follow towards world domination. Promising new developments and that the next day (12/6) would be proclaimed as Remilia D-Day. There, Miladychan was presented, a return to the roots of Remilia but with a forward-looking vision: 4chan did not die, it lives in Remilia. The great feature of this imageboard is that messages are seen in real-time as the person types them, generating a new type of conversational experience on the Internet. The idea of its creators is to foster a more immediate and authentic interaction among users, promoting collective productivity and combating social alienation.

Welcome to the New Internet.