Allison Harvard From The ‘Creepy Chan’ Meme Joins The NFT Craze With Series Of Crypto-Collectibles

Way back in the late 2000s, Creepy Chan was seemingly all over the internet, from 4chan to DeviantArt and more. Depicting unsettling images of a girl with large eyes and peculiar interests like a fascination with blood, the meme featured a fashion model named Allison Harvard who went by several nicknames including Tussin Chan, Cute Chan, Allicat and Queen of /x/ (4chan’s paranormal board).

While these images of Harvard have been long since gone from our screens, their impact on internet culture was notable, with the entry alone topping over a million views since it was added back in 2009. Harvard has been mostly tight-lipped about her experience becoming a meme since then, but alongside the recent wave of meme-oriented NFTs, Harvard has announced that she’ll be auctioning off a slew of the old iconic photos in the form of crypto collectibles.

“I wanted to start with my Creepy Chan NFT because that’s where my online story begins,” Harvard told us. “I owe so much to this image and I can’t believe it’s 16 years old!! Creepy Chan is an ancient internet relic, and I am excited to personally authenticate it.”

Kicking things off by auctioning the most well-known picture from Creepy Chan, the first auction will be held starting today and dropped at 1 p.m. PST on Foundation. About the starting price, Harvard said, “[It] will be .666 ETH.”

Meme NFTs have been setting record numbers since February, such as the Nyan Cat NFT that sold for nearly $600,000, so we asked Harvard how she first heard about the crypto art craze to get a little context on what prompted her to sell her own.

“I have been into crypto for a few years and started seeing more and more artists posting about NFTs the past few months,” she said. “I wanted to learn more, so I started to immerse myself. It was a little overwhelming at first, but now it’s all I can think about. We are entering a beautiful, new art renaissance and I am happy to be a part of it. It feels like everything I have done in the past between my art, modeling and original internet presence has led to this.”

While Harvard said she’s unsure of exactly how much it’ll ultimately go for when the auction ends tomorrow, she hopes that Creepy Chan will “finally rest in that big, beautiful Blockchain in the sky.”

“The internet has always been there for me,” Harvard told us. “As a young girl growing up in Texas trying to figure myself out, I enjoyed taking spooky self-portraits to anonymously upload on MySpace. These photos were later turned into the famous meme known as Creepy Chan and I became an unwitting queen of 4chan. As most things go with the internet, I never had a say with how these photos were used once it took off, but they served as a good introduction to online culture and played a pivotal role in where I am today as an artist. They also served as a blueprint to many internet girls of today. I am so excited about this new movement because I can finally stake my claim on my image, authenticated by me. And to have a direct avenue to my fans and the community for my art. I have been putting my work online for years and now it feels like it finally has a home. I love that there is literally something for everybody and the possibilities are endless.”

Additional Creepy Chan NFTs are slated to drop over the next few weeks, according to Harvard, who added that she’s been collaborating with artist Alexa Meade to create NFTs that look like “whimsical living paintings.”

If you’re interested in checking out the first Creepy Chan NFT, as well as future releases coming up over the remainder of April, check out Harvard’s page on Foundation to stay caught up on the latest from her crypto collection.