Milady Maker NFT

About

Milady Maker is an NFT profile picture project that generatively creates an anime-girl style avatar in one of five styles with a random assortment of cosmetics to accompany her. The art-style is a Chibi adjacent, with the five fashion themes being taken from Tokyo's modern pop culture.

History

The Milady Maker NFT project had it's social media profiles launch on May 2021, during the beginning hype of Cryptocurrency in the mainstream, and it began to post about the upcoming project right away. According to Who.Is, the MiladyMaker website^[1] was officially launched on August 10th, 2021, with the earliest surviving Wayback Archive being August 15th, 2021, which already showed a few examples of the Milady^[2] art (shown below).

On September 6th, 2021, Milady had a project launch that was titled 'Milady, that B.I.T.C.H' which claimed to use AI to generate an anagram T-shirt using the capital letters B I T C H and fill in the rest of the word automatically. Shortly after the launch of Milady, that B.I.T.C.H, there was a controversy not too dissimilar to Bored Ape Yacht Club in that some of the cosmetics and mechanics present within the NFT seemed to include callbacks to Nazi Germany, which were also summarily waved off as part of the quirky nature of AI generated designs. The design in question came from the word 'Treblinka' being included in the T-shirts, which can be seen on a Milady^[3] that is currently for sale for 15 Ethereum, or roughly, $17,000 (shown below).

Developments

The NFT project for Milady Maker officially launched on March 13th, 2022, which is when the 10,000 generative Milady's were minted on the Blockchain. Ever since the minting, Milady's have been used as a meme component, using them as either meme pictures or reaction pictures, as seen in the example by the Twitter user @welfarekitty^[4] on May 30th, 2022, in which the Milady is used as part of a meme about needing Disney Princess (shown below).

Miya

Controversy began to mount and increase after the launch of Milady Maker, with suspicions of the CEO of Remilia, Charlotte Fang, admitting that they are a previously known 4chan ghoul known as Miya, who was part of a long-running campaign hating women online as part of a, as described by others, 'cult' of sorts. Documentation and reported evidence for this was posted to Twitter by the user Planet_Nerf^[5] on March 13th, 2022 (shown below).

The Milady Maker NFT project saw a sudden sharp decline following the outright confession from Charlotte Fang^[6] of being Miya (shown below). This confession started a downward trend in the project value, from late-May until mid-June, when it started to tank significantly, losing over two thousand dollars in floor price in a week.

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