REMILIA
remilia is an art collective, a culture and a way of posting. this is the cheat code: what it is, what it made, what it believes and how to move through it. every quote has its source.
intro
1. what remilia is
remilia corporation is a pseudonymous art collective founded in january 2021. it calls itself an institution, a lifestyle brand, an artist's colony, a record label and a manifesto, all at once.
"Remilia is an institution. Remilia, is a self-organization. Remilia is a lifestyle brand. Remilia, is a master-planned community. Remilia is an investment fund. Remilia is an artist's colony. Remilia is a crowdfunded video game. Remilia is an autonomous smart contract. Remilia is an independent record label. Remilia is a community center for the digital village. Remilia is a manifesto. Remilia will save the internet."
remilia.org, about us (accessed november 2026)
the founder and ceo is charlotte fang, a pseudonym. the manifesto introduces the crew like this:
"Remilia Collective is a fellowship of pseudonymous net art extremists, a virtual tribe functionally organized like a cyberyakuza, a groupchat-as-studio-collective modeled as if CCRU met the Factory…"
what remilia believes in: a new net art manifesto, april 2022
the stated corporate mission is saving the internet. the vehicle is remilianet, a platform inspired by the original vision of the internet from the 70s, according to remilia.org.
"Remilia is going to save the internet."
post on x, october 2026
quick facts
| remilia |
|---|
| founded | january 2021 |
| founder | charlotte fang (pseudonymous) |
| debut show | "i long for network spirituality", june 2021 |
| flagship | milady maker, august 2021 |
| manifesto | april 2022 |
| headquarters | irvine, california (since january 2025, per the remilia wiki) |
| mission | saving the internet |
timeline
- january 2021: remilia is founded.
- june 2021: the debut show, "i long for network spirituality", opens at a gallery in new zealand and online.
- august 25, 2021: milady maker mints on ethereum.
- november 5, 2021: milady rave 1 in brooklyn. police shut it down after about an hour.
- april 19, 2022: milady maker mints out.
- april 20, 2022: the new net art manifesto goes up.
- august 11, 2022: redacted remilio babies mint.
- april 2023: bonkler is released.
- may 2024: remilia quarterly launches.
- december 2024: the cult token launches.
- january 2025: vitalik buterin puts a milady on his profile.
- september 2025: remilianet launches.
sources: remilia wiki: remilia corporation, remilia wiki: timeline, manifesto, april 20 2022, what is milady?, decrypt (accessed november 2026), unchained, january 2025, decrypt, september 2025
the middle
2. milady maker and the family
milady maker is the flagship. 10,000 generative profile pictures on ethereum, minted from august 25, 2021. the remilia wiki says it took about eight months to mint out, finishing on april 19, 2022.
"Milady is an aesthetic, a lifestyle and a community."
miladymaker.net (accessed november 2026)
each milady comes from one of five tokyo street style tribes: lolita, harajuku, gyaru, hypebeast and prep. each also gets a drip score and a grade, so rarity is about how good the outfit looks, not only how rare the traits are.
"Milady’s were designed to be great profile pictures from the start, with a higher vertical ratio so that a square crop will be a perfect zoom to convey emotional expressiveness, while still retaining the space to show off full accessories and the scoring overlay."
milady maker: notes on the design process, august 2021
the family
| collection | supply | launched | what it is |
|---|
| milady maker | 10,000 | aug 2021 | the flagship, by remilia |
| redacted remilio babies | 10,000 | aug 2022 | the "zoomer little brother" to milady |
| pixelady maker | 10,000 | sep 2022 | pixel art spin-off by another collective, oekaki connect |
| radbro | 5,000 | feb 2023 | a "brother community" with its own webring |
| bonkler | n/a | 2023 | experimental on-chain art and auction project |
"Redacted Remilio Babies: Companion collection to Milady Maker, as the canonical zoomer little brother to Milady."
miladymaker.net (accessed november 2026)
"Radbro was the redacted word in Remilio."
radbro webring (accessed november 2026)
the open license
the collections are copylefted under the viral public license. per the remilia wiki, it waives all rights to the work and requires every remix to use the same license.
"As a copylefted brand, Milady supports a thriving ecosystem of derivative projects from its fan community."
miladymaker.net (accessed november 2026)
that open door is why the family keeps growing.
the token
in december 2024 the milady cult coin (cult) launched on ethereum as the official token, after many unofficial ones. decrypt reports that the presale was trolled by the team and community themselves, with "don't worry about it" as the answer to every question.
sources: remilia wiki: milady maker, remilia wiki: remilio babies, remilia wiki: pixelady maker, remilia wiki: radbro, remilia wiki: bonkler, remilia wiki: viral public license, miladymaker.net (accessed november 2026), what is milady?, decrypt (accessed november 2026)
3. new net art
the manifesto is the core text. it lists five beliefs. everything else in the culture comes from these.
- post-authorship: art comes from the network, so claiming it is hubris.
- posting is the new art: posting is performance, playful and egoless.
- abundance mentality: karma is real, so give first.
- the whitepill: love and optimism over bitterness.
- network spirituality: the network has its own spirituality. see section 4.
post-authorship
"Art comes from beyond the self, comes from the network, or God. Claiming it is hubris."
what remilia believes in: a new net art manifesto, april 2022
posting is the new art
"True posting is egoless & performative, it embraces contradiction and playfulness with one's persona; it twists language & coins neologisms with casual deftness, we give ourselves over to the network & let it run through us."
what remilia believes in: a new net art manifesto, april 2022
"A new performative-literary art happening every day, 999MPH on the information highway, we post hard & neverstop: lucid, carefree, delirious POSTING is wickedly funny yet deeply insightful—jokes come from the beyond always containing the seed of truth: the only meaningful theory."
what remilia believes in: a new net art manifesto, april 2022
the whitepill
"We believe in the whitepill, in love & optimism; we're giddy, fun-loving, forgiving with a clear conscience that knows if you love the world & everything in it, you will be loved in return."
what remilia believes in: a new net art manifesto, april 2022
the endnote
"Dissolution of consensus is praxis, a rhizome is an infinite rabbithole, God lights the path & guards the back of the righteous, order is fractal, karma is fate, love is power, everything is real, and interns wrote this post."
what remilia believes in: a new net art manifesto, april 2022
more on the movement in the net art book.
sources: the manifesto, remilia wiki: new net art
4. the aesthetic and the culture
neochibi
neochibi is remilia's own word for its look: a post-anime take on japanese chibi, made on purpose to look childlike and a little amateur. the remilia wiki calls the key style lefthand, art that looks drawn with your non-dominant hand or a mouse. wobbly lines, uneven faces, early internet energy.
the remilia wiki says milady drew on takashi murakami's chibi squishy and fruits magazine. decrypt adds that the huge glossy eyes are believed to be inspired by hororo from the anime bottle fairy.
milady as a lifestyle
"We're live laugh lovers, and we put all our points into karma, charm and beauty."
remilia.org, about us (accessed november 2026)
"We believe in beauty, virtue & truth in all things—we stand against spiritual and aesthetic ugliness—and hold standards of living that respects our health, respects our spirit & respects our friends."
what remilia believes in: a new net art manifesto, april 2022
it goes past the picture. holders get warehouse raves, a modded minecraft server and animated stream avatars.
"Holder meetups in the form of warehouse raves put on in major cities like NYC, London, Tokyo in collaboration with their local underground scenes."
miladymaker.net (accessed november 2026)
"On top of this, there is a Milady Minecraft game server—called Miladycraft—which acts as a social hub for its community members as well as a thoughtful art piece on the state of modern gaming and society."
what is milady?, decrypt (accessed november 2026)
there is also a magazine, remilia quarterly, a record label and a merch store that opened in september 2022, all per the remilia wiki and decrypt.
where it comes from
remilia says it grew out of imageboard culture. decrypt describes the milady crowd as famous for its humor.
"Remilia has been very much a product of the diaspora of chan culture"
decrypt, september 2025
"Known for its edgy humor, layers of irony, and cult-like mentality, the Milady community has defied many attempts to decipher what on earth is going on in its self-referential world."
what is milady?, decrypt (accessed november 2026)
(the first quote is from remilia's chief of staff, speaking to decrypt.)
the cypherpunk angle
"…milady is a purity spiral onto cypherpunk values…"
post on x, january 2025
"Milady isn't an NFT. Milady is an open-source weapon forged from fire and blood, born out of necessity as a forcing function for cypherpunk values on the entire wayward crypto industry."
post on x, november 2026
"The milady is a pfp that stands for a right to free posting, a right to free art, a right to have fun online; putting it on gives you immunity to the regime’s social censures."
post on x, january 2025
the vitalik pfp
in january 2025 vitalik buterin set a milady as his profile picture on x and farcaster. unchained reported blockchain data suggesting a wallet of his bought it on january 18.
"Posters on X have hailed the Miladys collection as representative of the “cypherpunk ethos,” and interpreted the move by Buterin as a sign that he’s moving into “wartime mode”…"
unchained, january 2025
heads up
milady is polarizing. read the primary sources and decide for yourself.
"Milady is confusing, controversial, and bizarre—but it’s not something you can ignore."
what is milady?, decrypt (accessed november 2026)
sources: remilia wiki: neochibi, remilia wiki: milady maker, remilia wiki: milady raves, remilia wiki: miladycraft, remilia wiki: timeline, what is milady?, decrypt (accessed november 2026), decrypt, september 2025, unchained, january 2025, miladymaker.net (accessed november 2026)
5. dynasty mindset and building forever
charlotte fang's dynasty mindset essay says to think in a thousand years, not five. the same idea is in the let's build book. the x bio says it in three words: "Remilia One Thousand Forever".
"People are rarely asked where they will be in twenty years, one hundred years, or one thousand years. Is five years really your timeframe?"
dynasty mindset, september 2023
"Habits are like a river bed that guides the direction of fate as it flows through an individual. It doesn't nudge in any direction, except deeper, and deeper."
dynasty mindset, september 2023
"Virtue is also a self-manifesting external signal to the network: by being virtuous, others know you will succeed, and will support you, while you naturally curate out the non-virtuous. Your network ascends together, exponentially. Virtue always finds friends."
gold and glory in times of thought-chaos, march 2023
"Luck is a stat that you can farm, and you can get bonus multipliers to max out rewards when Lady Luck does hit."
gold and glory in times of thought-chaos, march 2023
the ark
"Garbage time is rapidly running out; the antediluvian internet will be remembered fondly on the next one. Remilia is building the ark—hang in there."
post on x, october 2026
"…we're not actually building a social network, but a new internet…"
post on x, october 2026
sources: dynasty mindset, gold and glory, x profile
6. how to milady
the cheat code list. none of this needs money.
- start with the pfp. you do not have to buy one. decrypt: "just change your profile picture". unchained says holders often encourage others to copy a milady pfp.
- post like it is art. egoless, playful, every day. post hard and never stop.
- credit the network. post-authorship. make it, share it, let it spread.
- remix freely. the license is copyleft. anything you make from it stays open too.
- start from abundance. give first. no gatekeeping, no scarcity games.
- go outside. raves and meetups are part of the culture.
- join the village. miladymaker.net lists milady village, a curated discord. miladycraft is token-gated to holders, per the remilia wiki.
- read the canon. the manifesto, gold and glory, dynasty mindset, "things desired: an egoless online", "network spirituality: collected commentaries" and remilia quarterly.
- think long. a thousand years, not five.
- holding is optional. an nft opens some doors. the culture is free.
glossary
- neochibi: remilia's childlike, post-anime art style.
- drip: the score and grade each milady gets for how good its outfit looks.
- post-authorship: nobody owns the work. the network made it.
- whitepill: love and optimism over bitterness.
- network spirituality: the spirituality of the network itself.
- copyleft: free to remix, as long as the remix stays free too.
- avant nft: remilia's term for nft projects where the market and the community are the art.
- corposlop: vitalik's word for soulless, trend-following sameness.
not financial advice. only use money you can fully lose.
sources: miladymaker.net (accessed november 2026), what is milady?, decrypt (accessed november 2026), unchained, january 2025, remilia.org, about us (accessed november 2026), remilia wiki: avant nft, remilia wiki: miladycraft, remilia wiki: neochibi
7. why it matters for bubblegum
i didn't make bubblegum from remilia. but the ideas fit. she is net art. she lives on ethereum. she is an open character.
that is the same spirit as post-authorship and copyleft: the meme belongs to everyone. and i want her to last the way the dynasty mindset says. a 1000 and forever project.
i won't be here forever. she can be.
post hard and never stop.
the ending
8. network spirituality
the phrase comes from the debut show, "i long for network spirituality", in june 2021. the manifesto turned it into a belief.
"Network spirituality is the futurist embrace of experiential hyperreality found in the web's accelerated networks, a lens in which to efficiently (& safely) engage lucid virtuality, and the internalization of its new cultural modes and mores."
what remilia believes in: a new net art manifesto, april 2022
"…broadly refers to the cultural connections embedded through internet memes and references—encouraging the embrace of the digital self."
what is milady?, decrypt (accessed november 2026)
"Though the esoteric school also furthers a lainist occultism around persona-egregores, positing the development of genuine spiritual entities spontaneously self-organized as hyperreal entities in the catalyzed collective consciousness,veritable deities: network angels & demons."
what remilia believes in: a new net art manifesto, april 2022
the remilia wiki sums it up as treating online participation as a genuine spiritual practice, not a simulation.
"network spirituality doesn’t describe a religion you might subscribe to, but the expressed spirituality of the network one can simply be cognizant of—basic cybernetic truths, like that information wants to be free…"
post on x, november 2026
sources: remilia wiki: network spirituality, the manifesto, what is milady?, decrypt (accessed november 2026)
9. spiritual poverty vs abundance
"spiritual poverty" is charlotte fang's name for the scarcity mindset. abundance is the answer: act like there is enough, and give first.
charlotte fang
"Karma is real at every level; all presumptions are manifested, you receive the world what you give to it. We escape the spiritual poverty of scarcity by embracing a mindset of abundance regardless of real means, knowing wealth of all types will follow."
what remilia believes in: a new net art manifesto, april 2022
"You must escape the spiritual poverty of scarcity by embracing a mindset of abundance regardless of real means, knowing wealth of all types will follow."
gold and glory in times of thought-chaos, march 2023
"Instead of resolving the problems in their life preventing them from the success they feel they're owed, they try to externalize the blame, because they're weak and it takes courage to blame yourself, rather than coping. In this way, they're not simply materially poor, but spiritually."
gold and glory in times of thought-chaos, march 2023
"Securing and maintaining wealth is not complicated. It’s a matter of the soul. You need to be clear in yourself."
gold and glory in times of thought-chaos, march 2023
"Cryptocurrency has achieved anarchocapitalism by force, and all the wealth that comes from that. But it’s not about money, it’s resistance against the state."
gold and glory in times of thought-chaos, march 2023
vitalik
vitalik buterin is not remilia. these are his own words. the thread through all of them is money-first culture.
"A common criticism of the "web3" space as it exists today is how money-oriented everything is. People celebrate the ownership, and outright waste, of large amounts of wealth, and this limits the appeal and the long-term sustainability of the culture that emerges around these items. … a lot of underexplored opportunity in trying to go beyond financialization. Making more items in the crypto space "soulbound" can be one path toward an alternative, where NFTs can represent much more of who you are and not just what you can afford. … If we can, this opens a much wider door to blockchains being at the center of ecosystems that are collaborative and fun, and not just about money."
soulbound, january 2022
"But when transaction fees go to over $100, as they have during the peak of the bull markets, there is exactly one audience that remains willing to play - and in fact, because coin prices are going up and they're getting richer, becomes even more willing to play: degen gamblers. Degen gamblers can be okay in moderate doses, and I have talked to plenty of people at events who were motivated to join crypto for the money but stayed for the ideals. But when they are the largest group using the chain on a large scale, this adjusts the public perception and the crypto space's internal culture, and leads to many of the other negatives that we have seen play out over the last few years."
make ethereum cypherpunk again, december 2023
"These two things: the growing awareness that unchecked centralization and over-financialization cannot be what "crypto is about", and the key technologies mentioned above that are finally coming to fruition, together present us with an opportunity to take things in a different direction."
make ethereum cypherpunk again, december 2023
"There is a unique halfway-house mix of valuing incentives, but also not getting consumed by them. … There are plenty of people whose first introduction to the crypto space is the desire to get rich, but who then get acquainted with the ecosystem and become avid believers in the quest to build a more open and decentralized world."
make ethereum cypherpunk again, december 2023
"If a blockchain becomes publicly understood as being "the casino chain" and nothing else, it becomes hard to get non-casino applications onboard. Even non-mercenary core protocol developers and researchers become more difficult to attract. Culture matters, because culture is at least partially upstream of almost everything else."
layer 2s as cultural extensions of ethereum, may 2024
"I think of the "degen" parts of the crypto space in the same way. I have zero enthusiasm for coins named after totalitarian political movements, scams, rugpulls or anything that feels exciting in month N but leaves everyone upset in month N+1. At the same time, I value people's desire to have fun, and I would rather the crypto space somehow swim with this current rather than against it. … At the least, more good memecoins than bad ones, ideally those that support public goods instead of just enriching insiders and creators. But also ideally, making games rather than coins, and making projects that people enjoy participating in."
what else could memecoins be?, march 2024
"money is zero sum, but fun can be positive sum."
what else could memecoins be?, march 2024
"Corposlop is soulless: trend-following homogeneity that is both evil and lame"
farcaster post, january 2026
"It also means doing things because you believe in them, and declaring independence from the homogenizing and soul-sucking concept of "the meta"."
farcaster post, january 2026
"It may damage their market cap, but man must live for something higher than market caps."
farcaster post, january 2026
"Financial tools that help users grow their wealth, and do not encourage 50x leverage or sports betting or taking out a loan to pay for a burrito"
farcaster post, january 2026
"Be sovereign. Reject corposlop. Believe in somETHing."
farcaster post, january 2026
"Web3 today centers around expressing transferable, financialized assets, rather than encoding social relationships of trust. … With such augmented sociality, web3 can eschew today’s hyper-financialization in favor of a more transformative, pluralist future of increasing returns across social distance."
decentralized society: finding web3’s soul, may 2022 (with puja ohlhaver and e. glen weyl)
