Milady Cancel

The Milady Cancel controversy dominated crypto Twitter in May 2022, leading to temporary market panic before widespread debunking.

Milady Cancel refers to the May 2022 controversy surrounding Charlotte Fang, founder and CEO of Remilia Corporation, and the NFT collection Milady Maker. The event began with a viral Twitter thread by anonymous developer 0xngmi, which 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.

The allegations, which emerged amid rivalry between NFT projects, caused a temporary crash in Milady's market value and widespread calls for Fang's removal. Within weeks, the claims were extensively debunked by community members, alleged "victims," and Fang himself, and the controversy came to be widely regarded as a failed smear campaign orchestrated by rivals with undisclosed financial interests.

Today, the Milady Cancel is remembered as a turning point in the history of Remilia, marking both its lowest public moment and the foundation of its long-term resilience. The incident became central to Remilia's mythology as a "postcancelled" project and demonstrated the community's capacity to resist institutional and social pressure.

Background

Remilia Corporation is a digital art collective and company founded by Charlotte Fang, known for pioneering the New Net Art movement. The group's mascot and most successful project, Milady Maker, rose from outsider status to become one of the top three NFT projects by market capitalization, distinguished from other "blue-chip" NFTs by its achievement without institutional venture capital or private investment.

By early 2022, Milady had developed a cult following and significant cultural influence within crypto-native spaces. Fang, already a controversial figure due to his defense of free speech in art and his study of transgressive subcultures through the performance project Miya, was a lightning rod for criticism from rivals and detractors. The project's success without traditional backing and its avant-garde positioning made it a target for competitors seeking to undermine its legitimacy.

The controversy emerged during a period of rivalry between NFT projects, with Tubby Cats—a competing collection co-founded by 0xngmi—struggling to gain traction in Milady's shadow.

The viral thread

On May 23, 2022, 0xngmi published a Twitter thread alleging that Fang had secretly operated an extremist account, abused collaborators, and was connected to a suicide. The post included edited screenshots and unverified claims drawn from internal materials later traced to the "Cancel Dossier" circulated by former Remilia members Wretched Worm and Soph.

The thread was based on selectively edited screenshots, misrepresented conversations, and unverified claims. It provided no substantive evidence for its allegations and mischaracterized Fang's public performance art project Miya—a documented exploration of online subcultures—as proof of genuine extremist belief.

Despite these evidentiary problems, the thread went viral and was amplified by various figures in the crypto and art world. Mainstream crypto media outlets reported the allegations without independent verification, leading to panic selling and a sharp decline in Milady's market price.

The controversy generated immediate calls for Fang to resign and for the broader crypto community to reject Remilia entirely.

Debunking and community response

The backlash prompted rapid community investigation. Within days, individuals named as "victims" publicly denied any wrongdoing and demanded removal from the thread. Women listed as part of the supposed abuse network each issued statements defending Fang and criticizing the misrepresentation of their images and experiences.

Archived materials and chat logs contradicted 0xngmi's narrative, revealing selective edits, falsified timestamps, and fabricated associations—including the invented claim linking Fang to a suicide. Investigators also documented 0xngmi's undisclosed financial conflict: as co-founder of Tubby Cats, a competing NFT project, he stood to gain from Milady's collapse. When confronted, he denied involvement before being proven listed on Tubby Cats' official team page.

Community member James Liao published a comprehensive debunking thread on May 27, 2022, systematically addressing every claim and presenting evidence that undermined the accusers' credibility. The thread was widely distributed and his follow-up on May 28 noted that Milady's floor price had doubled within 24 hours of the rebuttal.

In the days following, even initial amplifiers—including several NFT influencers and 0xngmi's own co-founder—issued public apologies for spreading the allegations without verification. 0xngmi himself blocked critics, ignored requests from those misrepresented in his thread, and never responded to the evidence presented against him.

The full documentation of the event and its refutation was later compiled by the community into miladytruth.org in November 2022 for archival and educational purposes.

Fang's response

Shortly after 0xngmi's thread went viral, Fang issued a statement confirming that he was the creator of Miya but rejecting its mischaracterization. He described the work as a performance art study of subcultural extremity, consistent with prior documentation and his published essay, "Cancel Miya to Me or I'll Fucking Kill You."

To de-escalate the situation, Fang announced he would step back from Twitter to focus on running Remilia as CEO—this was widely misreported as an admission of guilt and resignation. While offline, Remilia members and Milady holders organized defense efforts and documentation drives to expose the falsity of the allegations.

On June 12, 2022, Fang returned with the essay "Admin Reveal" on Mirror. He revealed he had been receiving blackmail threats of de-anonymization and harm against himself and his family but chose to reveal his own identity voluntarily rather than abandon the community.

Fang's essay called out the individuals behind the smear—naming 0xngmi, Worm, Soph, and several crypto influencers—and publicly invited them to defend their claims in an open Twitter Space. None accepted. His defiant stance was celebrated across the Milady community, inspiring the viral "I LOVE YOU CHARLOTTE FANG" campaign and the "FBI Hat" solidarity meme, where holders displayed the same hat worn by Fang's Milady avatar.

Aftermath and backfire

Market and community recovery

Following Fang's return, Milady's market value recovered rapidly, surpassing pre-controversy levels by late May. Owner count and trading volume increased, demonstrating community consolidation rather than attrition. The rebound became symbolic proof of the community's resilience and refusal to yield to social pressure.

The controversy catalyzed the emergence of a militant subculture of "postcancelled" supporters who viewed the episode as a collective trial overcome through loyalty and truth. The "Cancelversary" is now celebrated annually within the Milady community.

Collapse of the allegations

All claims made in the 0xngmi thread were ultimately discredited:

• Each alleged "victim" denied the story publicly
• No corroborating evidence was ever produced
• The supposed suicide connection was proven fabricated
• Conflicts of interest and coordinated involvement of rival projects were documented in full

0xngmi quietly withdrew from the NFT space later in 2022, later admitting the thread had "cost him friends and opportunities," though he never formally apologized. Co-conspirators Wretched Worm and Sophia Vanderbilt—authors of the underlying Cancel Dossier—were widely condemned after the falsity of their claims was exposed, and their subsequent projects lost traction.

Institutional and cultural vindication

Remilia's recovery was swift and decisive. In August 2022, just three months after the controversy, the collective successfully launched Redacted Remilio Babies which generated over $1.5 million in sales, more than Milady Maker did on its release.

By 2023, Milady had won NFT of the Year from Binance, and major endorsements followed in 2024 and 2025 from industry figures, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko.

The reversal established Milady as a symbol of cultural authenticity in crypto art—a project that had endured its "trial by fire" and emerged stronger.

Legacy

The Milady Cancel became central to Remilia's mythos as the moment it proved "uncancellable." Fang described the event as the empirical validation of the postcancelled condition—a framework rejecting institutional mediation and asserting that sincerity, community, and artistic truth can outlast coordinated defamation.

Within art discourse, the event is often referenced as an early case of an online collective surviving cancellation through network cohesion rather than institutional protection.

Each year, May 23 is commemorated as the Cancelversary, marking not the beginning of the attack but its failure.

Ongoing misinformation

Despite widespread refutation, many early media articles reporting the allegations remain online and are still cited by later publications without acknowledging their discrediting. This has led to a persistent information imbalance in secondary coverage—an issue Remilia members continue to document and correct through community archives such as miladytruth.org.

See also

• Remilia Corporation
• Charlotte Fang
• Milady Maker
• Post-Authorship
• Network Spirituality

External links

• miladytruth.org