Something huge is coming.

Today is the day that Beetle Game begins.

https://twitter.com/CharlotteFang77/status/1546253875614826496?s=20&t=WgJwEacvmZl2Co7zT3_09w

Little is publicly known about Beetle Game just yet, but the promise is undeniable, and eagle-eyed readers of both the TL and (especially) the Milady Village Discord channel will have been able to put together a coherent picture of Beetle Game.

I won’t lie, the hype is real and I am currently under its spell. But, like all of Remilia’s projects, there is far more here than meets the eye.

The Milady community was born and cultivated through an appeal to cuteness and love with intellectual heft. The generative pfps were painstakingly and very successfully crafted to evoke in the viewer a melange of emotions related to safety and belonging. To name a few:

• Nostalgia

• Cuteness

• Sincerity

• Peacefulness

• Coolness

• Expressiveness

• Community

The characteristics of a community formed in this way reflect the values espoused at its founding and through its development. The whitepilled lovemaxxing that infuses Milady is both an end in itself and a critical countermeasure to the oppressive irony and cynicism characteristic in IRL and IRL-over-the-internet spaces.

But, unfortunately, that world is still out there. The system we are subjected to is vicious, and not everyone finds the whitepill, or accepts it when it is offered to them. The more common reaction these days to discovering a community of beautiful and intelligent people Having Fun Online is a devolution into further jealousy and spite. These twisted souls seek to destroy that which threatens their conception of happiness, the world, and the value of misery.

As Milady and Remilia’s ascendancy continues unabated, the inevitability of more frequent and more intense opps needs to be dealt with. I want to be clear: I’m not talking about the occasional weak cancel attempt, a rehash of Miya fearmongering. The battles that lie ahead will be more sophisticated, better funded, and less obvious.

All communities require a means of self-defense, and many different approaches to cultural organization for that purpose have been explored.

I would argue that, to date, Milady’s militant cultural organization has taken the form of a dedicated Warrior class with a voluntary militia system. We have a small and highly-skilled collection of professional fighters, led by Generalissimo Charlotte Fang, turning away the constant low-level attacks against us. And in times of war, a subset of Miladys who do not generally engage in TL warfare will rise to meet the threat.

To state the obvious, this has been a shockingly effective strategy. We defeated extremely serious, targeted allegations, lost very few (any?) core Milady accounts to the Cancellation, and, if floor price is any indication, achieved the nigh-unthinkable: a full refutation and exoneration on Twitter court.

And yet, the Cancellation did lay bare a significant hole in Milady’s defenses: an underdeveloped martial spirit.

This is, as mentioned at the beginning of this essay, to be fully expected given the nature of Milady’s cultural values. And yet the sad reality of the world we are surpassing demands its consideration. Enter: BEETLE GAME.

One of the most fascinating and interesting TL events during the Cancel was the war between #clemgang and #lizzygang. It was brief and fun. But it came at an important time, and it enabled otherwise lovepilled accts to instruct Miladys on the right way to interact with Opps on the TL.

https://twitter.com/plsnobullywaaa/status/1529555937350008832?s=20&t=6bX11qC4CclsPkJPIh-pVA

The problem with Miladys like — frankly — me, is that we are so invested in the whitepill/lovepill double dose that we struggle with even the most basic language of conflict. Learning how to operate my acct in the middle of the Cancel was a challenge, and I failed on many occasions. (I still fail here.)

Imagine a new Milady, entering the culture, right-click saved two weeks ago, beginning to make friends with other new Miladys, and then out of nowhere finding themselves hit with an assault orchestrated by actors far more sophisticated than a couple of coked-up tubbycat cryptodweebs? Perhaps a bank? A government? If you think these suggestions are far-fetched, I sympathize, but you aren’t paying attention.

Now, imagine a Milady community infused with BEETLEMANIA. Think of the ways Miladys will talk about their beetles in relation to other Miladys’ beetles. Think about the conflict. Think about the trash-talk, the put-up-or-shut-up, the let’s-settle-this-in-the-Beyblade-bowl-let-er-rip. Beetle Game is a dojo, a space in which to learn from those more experienced in the ways of conflict.

With Beetle Game, Miladys won’t have to worry about desecrating or otherwise undermining in some way our signature whitepill. We can insult each other, we can backstab, we can make secret deals, we can call out others’ duplicity, we can practice all of these otherwise-unnatural behaviours within the frame of a game, and in so doing, develop real skills for sniffing out and turning away all manner of entryists, clout-chasers, and blackpilled world-burners.

Don’t get me wrong, Beetle Game is going to be lit. It’s the first non-cringe cryptogaming experience and there will be so many trashy fast-follows your head will spin. It will reinvigorate the space. It is a beautiful transfer of wealth to the faithful, an egalitarian giveaway within the constraints of technology (per-wallet, not per-milady), and with Sprite on the track, you know the beetles themselves will be beautiful.

But they will be something else too, amid the wealth and fun and beauty. They will be practice.

Something huge is coming.

Today is the day that Beetle Game begins.

https://twitter.com/CharlotteFang77/status/1546253875614826496?s=20&t=WgJwEacvmZl2Co7zT3_09w

Little is publicly known about Beetle Game just yet, but the promise is undeniable, and eagle-eyed readers of both the TL and (especially) the Milady Village Discord channel will have been able to put together a coherent picture of Beetle Game.

I won’t lie, the hype is real and I am currently under its spell. But, like all of Remilia’s projects, there is far more here than meets the eye.

The Milady community was born and cultivated through an appeal to cuteness and love with intellectual heft. The generative pfps were painstakingly and very successfully crafted to evoke in the viewer a melange of emotions related to safety and belonging. To name a few:

• Nostalgia

• Cuteness

• Sincerity

• Peacefulness

• Coolness

• Expressiveness

• Community

The characteristics of a community formed in this way reflect the values espoused at its founding and through its development. The whitepilled lovemaxxing that infuses Milady is both an end in itself and a critical countermeasure to the oppressive irony and cynicism characteristic in IRL and IRL-over-the-internet spaces.

But, unfortunately, that world is still out there. The system we are subjected to is vicious, and not everyone finds the whitepill, or accepts it when it is offered to them. The more common reaction these days to discovering a community of beautiful and intelligent people Having Fun Online is a devolution into further jealousy and spite. These twisted souls seek to destroy that which threatens their conception of happiness, the world, and the value of misery.

As Milady and Remilia’s ascendancy continues unabated, the inevitability of more frequent and more intense opps needs to be dealt with. I want to be clear: I’m not talking about the occasional weak cancel attempt, a rehash of Miya fearmongering. The battles that lie ahead will be more sophisticated, better funded, and less obvious.

All communities require a means of self-defense, and many different approaches to cultural organization for that purpose have been explored.

I would argue that, to date, Milady’s militant cultural organization has taken the form of a dedicated Warrior class with a voluntary militia system. We have a small and highly-skilled collection of professional fighters, led by Generalissimo Charlotte Fang, turning away the constant low-level attacks against us. And in times of war, a subset of Miladys who do not generally engage in TL warfare will rise to meet the threat.

To state the obvious, this has been a shockingly effective strategy. We defeated extremely serious, targeted allegations, lost very few (any?) core Milady accounts to the Cancellation, and, if floor price is any indication, achieved the nigh-unthinkable: a full refutation and exoneration on Twitter court.

And yet, the Cancellation did lay bare a significant hole in Milady’s defenses: an underdeveloped martial spirit.

This is, as mentioned at the beginning of this essay, to be fully expected given the nature of Milady’s cultural values. And yet the sad reality of the world we are surpassing demands its consideration. Enter: BEETLE GAME.

One of the most fascinating and interesting TL events during the Cancel was the war between #clemgang and #lizzygang. It was brief and fun. But it came at an important time, and it enabled otherwise lovepilled accts to instruct Miladys on the right way to interact with Opps on the TL.

https://twitter.com/plsnobullywaaa/status/1529555937350008832?s=20&t=6bX11qC4CclsPkJPIh-pVA

The problem with Miladys like — frankly — me, is that we are so invested in the whitepill/lovepill double dose that we struggle with even the most basic language of conflict. Learning how to operate my acct in the middle of the Cancel was a challenge, and I failed on many occasions. (I still fail here.)

Imagine a new Milady, entering the culture, right-click saved two weeks ago, beginning to make friends with other new Miladys, and then out of nowhere finding themselves hit with an assault orchestrated by actors far more sophisticated than a couple of coked-up tubbycat cryptodweebs? Perhaps a bank? A government? If you think these suggestions are far-fetched, I sympathize, but you aren’t paying attention.

Now, imagine a Milady community infused with BEETLEMANIA. Think of the ways Miladys will talk about their beetles in relation to other Miladys’ beetles. Think about the conflict. Think about the trash-talk, the put-up-or-shut-up, the let’s-settle-this-in-the-Beyblade-bowl-let-er-rip. Beetle Game is a dojo, a space in which to learn from those more experienced in the ways of conflict.

With Beetle Game, Miladys won’t have to worry about desecrating or otherwise undermining in some way our signature whitepill. We can insult each other, we can backstab, we can make secret deals, we can call out others’ duplicity, we can practice all of these otherwise-unnatural behaviours within the frame of a game, and in so doing, develop real skills for sniffing out and turning away all manner of entryists, clout-chasers, and blackpilled world-burners.

Don’t get me wrong, Beetle Game is going to be lit. It’s the first non-cringe cryptogaming experience and there will be so many trashy fast-follows your head will spin. It will reinvigorate the space. It is a beautiful transfer of wealth to the faithful, an egalitarian giveaway within the constraints of technology (per-wallet, not per-milady), and with Sprite on the track, you know the beetles themselves will be beautiful.

But they will be something else too, amid the wealth and fun and beauty. They will be practice.