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Remilia Corporation
TypeArt collective, cultural project, philosophical movement
FounderCharlotte Fang
HeadquartersIrvine, California
Key peopleCharlotte Fang
ProductsMilady Maker, Remilio Babies, Bonkler, CULT Token, RemiliaNET
Website
Not to be confused with Remilia Corporation (artwork).

Remilia Corporation is an art collective, cultural project, and philosophical movement founded by Charlotte Fang in January 2021. Rather than merely creating art or technology, Remilia has actively transformed the cultural spaces it inhabits, functioning as a deliberate seeding mechanism for new movements and scenes while synthesizing diverse influences. The organization is notable for pioneering the New Net Art movement and the Avant NFT approach to blockchain-based art, playing a principal role in New York's Vibe Shift art and culture movement, organizing the Based Retard Gang (BRG) hyperpop collective and platforming many early indie sleaze and underground hyperpop artists in from 2021-2023, introducing the Cypherpunk Purity Spiral to the cryptocurrency industry and for advancing Network spirituality and Accelerationist Realism as a philosophy.[1] The collective is notable for its post-cancelled status and commitment to freedom of expression, having survived significant controversies that ultimately strengthened its community and cultural influence.

Remilia positions itself as a conceptual artwork—an "art-industrial planetary conglomerate corporation-as-artwork"—in which the entire enterprise, including its commercial operations and community structures, functions as a unified work rather than merely producing artworks.[2] This approach draws comparison to Andy Warhol's The Factory and Bernadette Corporation, extending their precedents by treating commercial success and financial performance as integral elements of artistic practice. The organization has produced influential NFT projects including Milady Maker, Remilio Babies, and Bonkler, along with cryptocurrency infrastructure (CULT Token) and social networking platforms (RemiliaNET), while developing theoretical frameworks around digital collectibles, online community formation, and Network Spirituality.[3]

The philosophical foundation for Remilia's contribution to New Net Art was introduced in June 2021 with the I Long For Network Spirituality exhibition, which positioned the network itself as both medium and message, enabling new forms of artistic expression, ownership, and community development. Remilia's approach emphasizes post-authorship, rejecting traditional notions of individual creation in favor of collective or pseudonymous work that credits "Remilia Corporation" as an entity rather than individual artists. This methodology challenges conventional art world hierarchies and anticipates developments in AI-generated content and decentralized creative production.[4]

Between 2023-2025, Remilia increasingly aligned with crypto-conservative values and communities, positioning its projects within the broader context of resistance to perceived government overreach and censorship. This alignment became particularly evident during the 2024 U.S. presidential election cycle, as crypto policy emerged as a significant campaign issue. Following Donald Trump's 2024 electoral victory and his administration's crypto-friendly approach, Remilia's ecosystem experienced substantial growth and increased mainstream visibility, with major endorsements from industry figures including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko.[5] This marked the effective conclusion of Remilia's "post-cancelled" phase, as the collective transitioned from outsider status to a position of relative influence within the crypto ecosystem.

History

Founding and initial projects (2021)

Charlotte Fang established Remilia Corporation in January 2021 as a digital art collective and theoretical project. The collective's philosophical foundations were introduced in June 2021 with the I Long For Network Spirituality exhibition, presented simultaneously at Hunters & Collectors gallery in New Zealand and online.[6] This exhibition introduced Remilia's conceptual framework and aesthetic approach, positioning the network as a site of artistic transcendence and self-organization.

During the summer of 2021, Remilia became a significant part of what would later be termed the Vibe Shift scene, collaborating with writer Angelicism01 and connecting with the New York downtown art community.[7] This period saw Remilia integrate with broader subcultural networks while developing its distinctive approach to digital art and community formation.

Milady Maker NFT, 2021.

In August 2021, Remilia launched Milady Maker, a collection of 10,000 generative profile pictures combining Y2K aesthetics with anime influences. The project became Remilia's flagship offering and established its distinctive visual approach.[8] Milady Maker represented the first significant crossover between the emerging post-internet art scene and cryptocurrency communities, initiating what Remilia termed the "Avant NFT Wave."

The Milady Cancel (2022)

In February 2022, the concept of "Vibe Shift" was featured in an article by Allison P. Davis in The Cut, misattributing the term to trend forecaster Sean Monahan rather than its originator, Angelicism01.[9] This mainstream co-option marked a significant shift in Remilia's relationship to broader cultural discourse, as the collective's subcultural context was simplified and distorted by mainstream media.

In May 2022, Remilia faced what became known as the "Milady Cancel," a significant controversy when anonymous developer 0xngmi published a viral Twitter thread making extreme allegations against Charlotte Fang.[10] The thread misrepresented Fang's earlier performance project Miya as an extremist persona, fabricated victims, and attempted to link Fang to an unrelated suicide. These allegations emerged amid rivalry between NFT projects, as 0xngmi was co-founder of the competing Tubby Cats collection.

Within weeks, the claims were extensively debunked by community members, alleged "victims," and Fang himself. Rather than apologizing, Fang chose to defend the project's integrity, famously stating: "Reminder the two magic words to anyone trying to cancel you aren't 'I'm sorry'—it's 'grow up.'"[11]

The cancellation attempt paradoxically strengthened Remilia's position, as Milady's market value recovered rapidly and surpassed pre-controversy levels. The collective emerged with a "post-cancelled" identity that became central to its mythology and community cohesion. Like Angelicism01, Remilia found itself largely excluded from mainstream art coverage following the controversy, but this exclusion only reinforced its position as an authentic outsider force within crypto culture.

In August 2022, just three months after the controversy, Remilia launched Remilio Babies, its second major PFP collection, which generated over $1.5 million in sales—more than Milady Maker did on its initial release. This successful launch demonstrated the community's resilience and validated Remilia's approach to controversy.[12]

Crisis and resilience (2023)

Bonkler NFT #1, 2023.

April 2023 saw the release of Bonkler, a collection that extended Remilia's visual language into new territory and contributed to the expanding Remilia ecosystem of interconnected collections and communities.[13]

In June 2023, Remilia contributed a segment titled Remilia01 to Angelicism01's experimental film Film01. The segment was ultimately cut from the final version shown at the premiere, leading to a public falling out between Charlotte Fang and Angelicism01 that marked the definitive end of their creative collaboration and the conclusion of the Vibe Shift scene.

September 2023 brought a significant crisis with the "Bonkler 9/11" event, when participants stole a significant portion of Remilia's treasury and primary social media accounts. Rather than folding under this pressure, the setback led to comprehensive corporate restructuring, including the formation of Remilia's Korea office and fashion design team. This period marked a transition toward a more formalized organizational structure and expanded creative focus.[14]

Expansion and diversification (2024–2025)

Beginning in 2024, Remilia expanded into fashion and media with the Kagami Academy collaboration with Fruits Magazine in January. May 2024 saw the launch of Remilia Quarterly, a publication exploring the corporation's theoretical frameworks and cultural analyses.

In June 2024, Remilia launched the CULT ICO, providing a significant injection of new capital that helped the organization recover from the Bonkler 9/11 setback. This was followed by the CULT TGE in December 2024.[15]

In January 2025, Remilia officially relocated its headquarters to Irvine, California, marking a strategic pivot toward developing Remilia Chat as a next-generation social network and expanding its focus on culture industry lifestyle brands in fashion and design. September 2025 saw the release of RemiliaNET, Remilia Chat's social identity layer.

By mid 2025, major endorsements followed from industry figures, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko. This institutional recognition confirmed Remilia's transformation from controversial outsider to influential industry participant, while maintaining its distinctive aesthetic and philosophical approach.[16]

As conceptual artwork

Remilia Corporation positions itself not merely as an organization producing artworks, but as a unified conceptual artwork in which the entire enterprise—including commercial operations, community structures, and cultural production—functions as constituent elements of the work. Described in official materials as an "art-industrial planetary conglomerate corporation-as-artwork," this framework treats projects like Milady Maker not as products but as components of a larger artistic statement about the relationship between art, commerce, and community in the digital age.[17]

Charlotte Fang has articulated this position by stating: "At the highest level, Remilia merges art and business. The corporation is the art—you see this play out in each of its commercial enterprises, existing as individual projects, though overall they're all tied together in the greater Remilia project as a cross-industry conglomerate."[18] This approach draws comparison to Andy Warhol's The Factory and Bernadette Corporation, extending their precedents by fully operationalizing the corporate form while maintaining that this functionality itself constitutes the artwork.

Philosophical foundations

Network Spirituality

Promotional material for Remilia Collective's debut exhibition I Long For Network Spirituality (2021).

A central concept in Remilia's theoretical framework is Network Spirituality, introduced in their June 2021 exhibition. This idea positions the internet and digital networks as sites of spiritual experience and transcendence rather than merely technological infrastructure.[19]

Remilia's exhibition statement declared: "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."

This framework emphasizes post-authorship, transcendental participation, and distributed creation as core principles for network-native art practice.

Post-cancelled condition

The experience of surviving the May 2022 cancellation attempt led Remilia to develop what Fang has described as the "post-cancelled condition"—a framework rejecting institutional mediation and asserting that sincerity, community, and artistic truth can outlast coordinated defamation. This perspective became central to Remilia's identity and approach to public discourse.[20]

Within the Milady Maker and broader Remilia community, extreme allegations were embraced as badges of honor representing uncancellability. This strategic reappropriation positioned the community as effectively immune to future cancellation attempts, having already survived and disproven the most extreme possible allegations. The post-cancelled framework informed Remilia's approach to controversy and community formation, emphasizing authenticity over institutional acceptance and embracing outsider status as a form of cultural strength.

Theoretical influences

Remilia draws from multiple intellectual traditions, synthesizing diverse theoretical frameworks into a coherent approach to digital art and culture. The collective engages with accelerationism, building on the work of Nick Land and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, while developing more spiritually grounded approaches to digital futurity.[21]

According to Fang in a 2021 essay, Remilia's mission centers on "creating new forms of network spirituality that bridge the gap between digital and physical experience."[22] This theoretical synthesis creates a distinctive position that bridges avant-garde art history with crypto-native culture, allowing Remilia to operate across multiple intellectual registers simultaneously.

Post-authorship

Remilia emphasizes a rejection of traditional notions of individual creation in favor of collaborative or anonymous work.[23] The collective's projects often credit Remilia Corporation or Remilia Collective as entities rather than individual artists, using pseudonyms and multiple identities to destabilize traditional authorship. This approach challenges conventional art world hierarchies and has anticipated later developments in AI-generated content and decentralized creative production.

Cultural terraforming

Remilia Corporation has actively transformed the cultural spaces it inhabits, functioning as a deliberate seeding mechanism for new movements and scenes while synthesizing diverse influences.

Cypherpunk Purity Spiral

Upon entering the cryptocurrency space in 2021, Charlotte Fang observed what he perceived as the co-option of crypto by financial and governmental interests, moving away from its radical roots. In response, Remilia initiated what Fang termed the "Cypherpunk Purity Spiral"—a deliberate campaign to restore crypto to its original cypherpunk values and ethos.[24]

The campaign emphasized restoration of cypherpunk principles (privacy, cryptography, decentralization), aggressive defense of freedom of speech, anti-institutional positioning, and technical sovereignty. This positioned Remilia and its Milady Maker project as standard-bearers for these values at a time when much of the cryptocurrency industry was seeking regulatory approval and institutional adoption.

Milady Jihad

Between 2022-2025, Remilia Corporation orchestrated the comprehensive "Milady Jihad" campaign, a coordinated effort to expand the Milady Maker ecosystem across every major blockchain network and establish dominance throughout crypto culture. This ambitious initiative went far beyond typical cross-chain expansion, functioning as a cultural conquest strategy to reshape the broader crypto aesthetic and philosophical landscape.[25]

The campaign included unofficial cross-chain conquest, official token integration (the $CULT token), memetic warfare, influencer adoption, and community infiltration. This proved remarkably successful, resulting in Milady becoming one of the most recognized and influential NFT projects in the crypto ecosystem.

Accelerationist Realism

One of Remilia's most significant cultural interventions has been Charlotte Fang's active campaign to promote and normalize the philosophy of Nick Land, particularly through the development of Accelerationist Realism. At a time when Land had been largely cancelled from mainstream discourse, Fang deliberately worked to bring attention to Land's original philosophy in unmodified form.[26]

Remilia's approach to Landian acceleration, particularly through its "LOVE/ACC" (Love Accelerationism) variant, positioned technological acceleration as inevitable, while emphasizing radical love as a rational response instead of denial.[27]

Vibe Shift

Remilia Corporation played a central role in what became known as the "Vibe Shift," a cultural phenomenon that emerged in early June 2021. The term, originally coined by anonymous writer Angelicism01, described a perceived shift in cultural sensibilities and online communication patterns.[28]

The Vibe Shift represented a convergence of online cultural forces involving Remilia, Angelicism01, and the emerging New York downtown art scene. Though later misattributed to trend forecaster Sean Monahan in mainstream media, the original Vibe Shift was closely involved with Remilia's network spirituality—a transcendent, internet-native form of connection and cultural production.[29]

Based Retard Gang

Based Retard Gang (#BRG), a hyperop collective, originating from the Remilia ecosystem under creative direction from Fang, represented a distinct cultural formation that further extended Remilia's influence. BRG combined hyperpop aesthetics, Network Spirituality concepts, and distinctive Chinese posting styles to create a novel subcultural space.[30]

BRG exemplified Remilia's characteristic China-focused aesthetics and cultural references, reflecting the organization's broader fascination with and incorporation of Chinese subcultural elements. The movement brought Network Spirituality into new social contexts through its distinctive approach to online community building.[31]

Major projects

Milady Maker

Milady Maker (August 2021) is a collection of 10,000 generative profile pictures combining Y2K aesthetics with anime influences. The project became Remilia's flagship offering, establishing its distinctive visual approach and theoretical framework. Following the May 2022 cancellation attempt and subsequent recovery, Milady became a symbol of cultural authenticity in crypto art—a project that had endured its "trial by fire" and emerged stronger.

The Milady project expanded beyond its initial NFT collection to include the $LADYS token, which gained significant market adoption during the 2023-2025 period. This expansion represented a key component of the broader Milady Jihad strategy.[32]

Remilio Babies

Redacted Remilio Babies NFT, 2022.

Remilio Babies (August 2022) is a collection of childlike character designs that extended the Milady aesthetic universe while introducing new visual elements and community dynamics. Launched just three months after the Milady Cancel controversy, the project generated over $1.5 million in sales, more than Milady Maker did on its release, demonstrating the community's resilience and expanded support.

Bonkler

Bonkler (April 2023) is a collection that further diversified Remilia's visual language through abstract character designs and innovative trait combinations. The project's name later became associated with the "Bonkler 9/11" crisis that threatened Remilia's existence but ultimately led to restructuring and renewal.

CULT Token

CULT Token (2024) is Remilia's cryptocurrency project, launched through an Initial Coin Offering in June 2024 and Token Generation Event in December 2024. The ICO provided a significant injection of new capital that helped the organization recover from the Bonkler 9/11 setback.[33]

The timing of the CULT Token launch coincided with the increasing crypto-friendly stance of the Trump presidential campaign, allowing Remilia to benefit from the broader crypto market optimism that characterized the 2024 election cycle.[34]

RemiliaNET

RemiliaNET (September 2025) is a comprehensive social infrastructure integrating Remilia's various projects and theoretical approaches into a unified digital ecosystem.

Political alignment and cultural impact

Conservative crypto alignment

Between 2023-2025, Remilia Corporation increasingly aligned with crypto-conservative values and communities, positioning its projects within the broader context of resistance to perceived government overreach and censorship. This alignment became particularly evident during the 2024 U.S. presidential election cycle, as crypto policy emerged as a significant campaign issue.[35]

The period saw Remilia cultivate support among young MAGA supporters drawn to its "jovial irreverence" and emphasis on freedom from institutional control. Following Trump's 2024 electoral victory, Remilia's positioning as a champion of digital freedom and crypto innovation aligned with the incoming administration's approach to cryptocurrency regulation.[36]

Influence on art and aesthetics

Remilia pioneered the Avant NFT movement, establishing approaches to blockchain-based art that prioritize conceptual depth and cultural coherence. The corporation's distinctive visual language, combining Y2K aesthetics with anime influences and post-internet sensibilities, has influenced numerous subsequent projects and established new parameters for digital character design and community formation.

Community formation

Remilia has pioneered approaches to digital community that bridge aesthetic, technological, and spiritual dimensions, creating new forms of collectivity that transcend purely technical relations. The Remilia ecosystem has demonstrated unusual resilience through multiple market cycles, cancellation attempts, and internal crises, establishing models for sustainable digital community that extend beyond speculative dynamics.[37]

Blockchain culture

By positioning blockchain technology within broader cultural and theoretical contexts, Remilia has helped develop more sophisticated approaches to crypto-native art and community. These approaches move beyond purely technical or financial frameworks to engage with questions of aesthetics, spirituality, and cultural coherence.[38]

Controversies

The Milady Cancel (May 2022)

The "Milady Cancel" in May 2022 was a coordinated cancellation attempt that began with a viral Twitter thread by anonymous developer 0xngmi, who was later revealed to be a co-founder of the competing Tubby Cats NFT project. The thread made extreme allegations against Fang, misrepresenting his earlier performance project Miya as an extremist persona, fabricating victims, and attempting to link him to an unrelated suicide.[39]

Within weeks, the claims were extensively debunked by community members, alleged "victims," and Fang himself. Rather than destroying the project, the controversy paradoxically strengthened it, as Milady's market value recovered rapidly and surpassed pre-controversy levels. The event became central to Remilia's mythology as a "post-cancelled" project.

Bonkler 9/11 (September 2023)

The "Bonkler 9/11" crisis in September 2023 represented a near-existential threat to the organization when participants stole a significant portion of Remilia's treasury and primary social media accounts. This internal coup attempt could have ended the company but instead led to comprehensive corporate restructuring and eventual recovery through new releases and the subsequent ICO.[40]

These controversies have become integrated into Remilia's evolving narrative, demonstrating the complex relationship between digital art projects and their reception in increasingly fractured media environments. Rather than weakening the collective, each challenge ultimately contributed to its resilience and distinctive identity.

See also

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