# Very Internet Poster #2: sources cited

By [elle](https://paragraph.com/@riotgoools) · 2023-05-21

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I've been enjoying Sprite's Bonkler breakdowns and Pixelady's wiki entries so I thought I’d do a little guided tour of this Very Internet Poster.

I drew from memories of my battle station as a young VIP & injected anachronisms to make something nostalgic but present. A pixelated mirror to an alternate irl. There's a VIP edit of the infamous Milady meme and a goool drawing citing Sailor Moon (ref VIP Sailor Mercury visor.)

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On top of the computer there's a Bonkler Gunpla or Bionicle, a little Totoro figurine, and the once ubiquitous Logitech Quickcam. I had a Quickcam but never really used it. I think I broke it. Now I put black tape over my webcams 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Next to the computer is a Rei Ayanami fumo doll. NGE is my favorite anime and i always laugh whenever I see weird Rei fumo gifs around the internet. Of course, there is a Rei hairstyle in the VIP collection.

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The positioning and expression of the girl in front is supposed to evoke the disaster girl meme. I always felt that meme is a cousin of the trollin' rage comics face. Many of the different expressions in VIP are deconstructed from memes and rage comics.

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If disaster girl is in front, something bad has to be happening behind, so it's the blue screen of death (BSOD). Remembering all the malware I accidentally downloaded while exploring weird sites when I was little and making my computers progressively more unusable over time.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/b499f9f686adc156eab6eecae99ca0588b800ff841e1eb8cdc76969504d5d078.png)

The overlay is inspired by NGE type design but also "Chinese Instagram" (Xiaohongshu pill watermark) network spirituality that Charlotte Fang & Milady village is into. Internet speak like ilysm and henlo – henlo coming from the surreal internet that i'm a fan of.

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I hope you enjoyed this! I usually like to let people discover the details on their own (or not) and draw their own associations because mystery is more fun so I don't know if I'll do this all the time 🤷🏻‍♀️

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*Originally published on [elle](https://paragraph.com/@riotgoools/very-internet-poster-2-sources-cited)*