On Could 10, American enterprise magnate Elon Musk tweeted a meme created utilizing imagery from the Milady nonfungible tokens (NFT) assortment. Shortly thereafter, the ground worth of Milady NFTs spiked from 3.8 Ether (ETH) to as excessive as 7.3 ETH earlier than falling to five.69 ETH apiece on the time of publication.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 10, 2023
Created in 2021 by digital arts collective Remilia, Milady is a group of 10,000 anime profile image NFTs “impressed by road type tribes.” Artist Charlotte Fang based the Remilia decentralized autonomous group (DAO) and helped design the collection.
The title “Milady” is a play on the expression “my girl,” which has traditionally been a well mannered type of tackle for noblewomen however has since taken satirical connotations about overzealous chivalry and “good guys” on web boards. 4 years earlier than the Milady NFT tweet, Elon Musk referenced the namesake while including “my defend is yours.”
In Could 2022, the ground worth of Milady NFTs fell by over 50% after allegations surfaced that its creator, Charlotte Fang, was concerned in varied fringe ideologies on the nameless imageboard website 4chan. Fang seems to have confirmed the authenticity of the alleged screenshots whereas stating, “trolling about it was juvenile, however in actuality I’ve by no means harmed a fly.” The NFT artist stepped down from the staff thereafter.
Regardless of controversies, Milady has remained fashionable throughout Net 3 communities. Along with being promoted by Elon Musk, Su Zhu, co-founder of bankrupt Singaporean hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, is an avid collector of Miladys and continuously shills the gathering to his followers. The gathering presently has 39,659 ETH in cumulative quantity traded on OpenSea.
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