Michael Dragovic

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Michael Dragovic
Michael Dragovic
Dragovic's profile picture as Scorched Earth Policy
Also known asScorched Earth Policy, Scearpo
OccupationChief of Staff and Director of Operations at Remilia Corporation; writer, editor
Known forYayo Corporation, $CULT, Miladycraft, Remilia Black Ops Division, CHINA!

Michael Dragovic, known online as Scorched Earth Policy or Scearpo (@Scearpo), is the Chief of Staff and Director of Operations of Remilia Corporation.[1][2] One of Remilia's earliest members and its longest-running employee, he has led Yayo Corporation since late 2021, led marketing for $CULT, co-founded the Miladycraft Minecraft server and heads Remilia's Black Ops Division. Across his time at Remilia, he has led and contributed creative direction to many of the company's projects. He has also edited and introduced several Remilia publications, and is known on X for his longposting.

Remilia

YAYO

Dragovic has led Yayo Corporation, the Remilia subsidiary behind the $YAYO token, YAYO NFT and YAYO Supplements, since late 2021; his X profile lists him as its "Warlord Commander".[3] As President of YAYO Corporation, he launched the YAYO NFT collection on the Canto blockchain on February 11, 2023, and drove it to mint out by mid-April, after which the collection was bridged to Ethereum.[4][5] In August 2023, YAYO launched a line of supplements, beginning with pine pollen, together with an affiliate sales program called the "Trapezoid Scheme"; Dragovic ran the supplements' sales team.[6]

$CULT

Dragovic led marketing for $CULT, the ecosystem token of the Remilia projects, from its presale through its launch. The presale opened on June 13, 2024, ran for a week and raised about $20 million, with no private sales or venture capital participation.[7] The token launched on December 9, 2024, with tokens allocated to community members through Remilia's "Beetlepoints" system, whose unveiling was marked by a guerrilla campaign of "Beetleposting" across X at enough volume to trend on the platform. Its fully diluted valuation passed $600 million on launch day.[7][8]

Miladycraft

In 2021, at Charlotte Fang's prompting, Dragovic and Onno Whitemoor wrote the "Milady World Minecraft Server White Paper", the founding document of Miladycraft, the Milady community's Minecraft server, which the two co-founded.[9][10] Released in November 2021, the white paper critiques Minecraft, modern gaming and wider society, and argues that socializing in a virtual world can feel as vivid as real life. Dragovic has described Minecraft as "the first truly open-world, open-possibility game ever created", whose existence "marks an extremely important moment in history".[9] The server began as Milady World, open only to Milady NFT holders, and grew into the heavily modded Miladycraft, which officially launched in April 2023 and hosts community events such as the Grand Remilia Ball.[9]

Black Ops Division

Dragovic leads Remilia's Black Ops Division and has handled much of the company's confidential internal operations. At Urbit Assembly Lisboa in October 2023, he and Lukas Computer gave a talk titled "The Art of Psyops", which told "the story of how Remilia Corporation emerged from a no-holds-barred groupchat"; Urbit promoted it with the line "Watch and learn from the Remilia Black Ops Division."[11] Remilia also sold a Black Ops Division patch through its store.[12]

Other projects

He led Kagami Academy, a pixel-art NFT collection released in January 2024 as part of the FRUiTS x REMiLiA collaboration at DIG SHIBUYA in Tokyo, with Fang as executive creative director.[13] As Chief of Staff, he has spoken for the company on RemiliaNET, describing its phased rollout and saying, "Our intention is to do as little moderation as possible in terms of content."[2]

Scorched Earth Policy

Dragovic has posted on X as Scorched Earth Policy since June 2020, and the account has more than 65,000 followers.[3] It is known for a distinctive longposting style: extended, often comic and deliberately provocative riffs and essays on culture, work and the internet.

His best-known post came on Thanksgiving 2023, when a video of millennials holding a Tom Hanks–themed "Hanksgiving" circulated widely. Quote-posting it, he wrote a long attack on millennial culture, arguing that "the flaccid asexual emptiness of millennial culture is the direct result of cohabitating male and female friendships". The post drew more than 13 million views, and Elon Musk replied to it the next day.[14][15]

In May 2024, he posted a longpost on artificial intelligence that opened: "Perhaps one of AI's greatest usecases is extinguishing the horde of useless parasites that incorrectly fashion the title 'Artist'", arguing that AI would sweep away mediocre content creators who claim to be artists.[16] Reflecting on the reach of such posts, he has remarked that "the most viral tweets come from an equal balance of hate sharing."[17]

Writing and editing

In June 2022, writing as Scearpo, he published "On Jade Posting" on Fang's Golden Light blog, an essay on Jadeposting, a style of ornate, Chinese-inflected posting that grew out of the Hot Pot group chat. The essay describes it as "ritualistic literary combat" and as "an imitation of sensory overload".[18]

Dragovic contributed to the first issue of Remilia Quarterly.[19] He wrote the translator's introduction to CHINA! (Remilia House, 2024), a collection of Chineseposting edited by Fang. The introduction places the practice in the context of China's growing influence on internet culture and describes a movement that "believes that anyone who wants to be, can be Chinese".[20]

With Whitemoor, he led the editorial process for The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby, published by Passage Press's Network Press imprint, and wrote its foreword.[21]

From March to June 2025, Dragovic wrote "Remilia Reviews", a series of columns for Human Events on film, internet culture and politics. Its pieces covered subjects including Paddington in Peru, A Minecraft Movie, Harmony Korine's Baby Invasion, Kanye West and Shiloh Hendrix, JD Vance and a requiem for 4chan.[22] In a March 2025 column on the wave of AI-generated Studio Ghibli-style images, he presented CHEESEWORLD memes as an earlier example of "multifactored citational art" made by iterating on AI outputs.[23]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Michael Dragovic". LinkedIn. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gladwin, Ryan S. (September 19, 2025). "Remilia Launching Milady Social Media Network to Serve '4chan Diaspora'". Decrypt. Retrieved November 11, 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Scorched Earth Policy (@Scearpo)". X. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  4. ↑ February 20, 2023. "YAYO Corporation Releases the Company's First-Ever NFT Project, YAYO NFT". PR Newswire. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  5. ↑ May 24, 2023. "YAYO Corporation Dominates Canto Chain and Announces Ethereum Bridge for YAYO NFTs". PR Newswire. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  6. ↑ August 21, 2023. "YAYO Corporation Unveils Supplement Line and Revolutionary Trapezoid Scheme". 24-7 Press Release. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 December 9, 2024. "Remilia Corporation launches massively anticipated CULT memecoin". GlobeNewswire. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  8. ↑ December 9, 2024. "Meme Coin Cult from Milady NFT Creators Goes Live with Valuation Soaring to $600 Million". Coinspeaker. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Gladwin, Ryan S. (August 4, 2024). "Miladycraft: The Grand Remilia Ball and 'Network Spirituality' in Minecraft". Decrypt. Retrieved November 11, 2026.
  10. ↑ September 2021. "Milady World Minecraft Server White Paper". Milady Maker. Retrieved November 11, 2026.
  11. ↑ December 8, 2023. "The Art of Psyops | Lukas Computer & Michael Dragovic | Remilia". YouTube (Urbit). Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  12. ↑ @Scearpo (October 30, 2023). "You can acquire a Remilia Black Ops Division patch here". X. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  13. ↑ "FRUiTS x REMiLiA". Scatter Blog. Retrieved November 11, 2026.
  14. ↑ @Scearpo (November 23, 2023). "The flaccid asexual emptiness of millennial culture is the direct result of cohabitating male and female friendships". X. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  15. ↑ @elonmusk (November 24, 2023). "@Scearpo SSRI's don't just zombify you, but also make your face swell? Yeeks.". X. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  16. ↑ @Scearpo (May 1, 2024). "Perhaps one of AI's greatest usecases is extinguishing the horde of useless parasites that incorrectly fashion the title 'Artist'". X. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  17. ↑ @Scearpo (November 24, 2023). "the most viral tweets come from an equal balance of hate sharing". X. Retrieved November 12, 2026.
  18. ↑ scearpo (June 20, 2022). "On Jade Posting". Golden Light. Retrieved November 11, 2026.
  19. ↑ "Remilia Quarterly, Vol. 1 (SS24)". Remilia House. Retrieved November 11, 2026.
  20. ↑ Fang, Charlotte (2024). CHINA!. Remilia House.
  21. ↑ Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby (2026). Charlotte Fang (ed.). The Exegesis of Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby (2016–2020). Network Press.
  22. ↑ "Michael Dragovic". Human Events. Retrieved November 11, 2026.
  23. ↑ Dragovic, Michael (March 28, 2025). "REMILIA REVIEWS: Studio Ghibli meme frenzy and the democratization of art". Human Events. Retrieved November 11, 2026.
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