𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑹𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒔...

MiFella was never meant to be neat. It isn’t Milady’s heir or its clone. It’s the wreckage that crawled out after the fracture. A sibling that arrived too late, too broken, too loud to ignore.

It carried none of Milady’s fragile optimism. Instead it leaned fully into despair, grime and chaos. Making powerlessness the style, and hopelessness the point.

Piecing together the "history" of MiFella and trying to connect the dots within the undulating landscape of a scene that's still so nascent is tough. But part of my process as a collector is unravelling things. Where it began, how it spiralled, why it matters. While parsing through the muddled past of the Avant Gay scene on Solana, one thing I kept returning to:

𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑹𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒊𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂

𝑴𝒊𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝒂𝒔 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕

The launch of MiFella on Solana ignited a chain reaction.

Out of its smoke and pixel shards emerged:

👉🏾 Drifella (by @bis__cut), a psychedelic mutation built on MiFella’s lore, where its “soul” is injected into a Dratini and layered beyond belief (a milestone in traitmaxxing).
👉🏾 @tojibaceo, whose pixel-based nostalgia spirals into techno-folk surrealism.
👉🏾 @littleswagworld, Spiky DJ, Super Metal Mons and other collections that adopted MiFella’s post-ironic, transgressive DNA and pushed it further. MiFella was very much a detonation that split open the field, giving rise to what would retroactively be called the avant gay.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒚𝒕𝒉-𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈

More than just style, what made MiFella foundational was story.

👉🏾 Its description declared its relation to Milady with unnerving intimacy: a lover, a brother, a cuck.
👉🏾 The Drifella spinoff produced not only NFTs, but an entire 13-chapter fanfiction saga (Trader Fiction by @earl16o1) that reads like Hunter S. Thompson got stuck in a memecoin farm and found God.
👉🏾 Its traits referenced everything from Russian military regalia to noise bands like Whitehouse and Merzbow.
👉🏾 Its aesthetic was grainy, corrupted, stitched-together. An intentional refusal of clean lines or clean narratives.

MiFella invited interpretation, demanded lore, sparked obsession.

(Find Trader Fiction here. Well worth a read https://traderfiction.substack.com/?utm_source=byline&utm_content=writes)

𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒙𝒙𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝑪𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒅𝒆

MiFella helped birth one of the defining aesthetics of the Solana avant gay scene: traitmaxxing.

👉🏾 Overlays stacked to absurdity
👉🏾 Backgrounds clashing with foregrounds
👉🏾 Accidental symbolism
👉🏾 Excess as philosophy

This maximalist approach turned PFPs from clean avatar expressions into chaotic personality maps. The result was more than profile pics. It was a new form of memetic painting. Rather than NFTs as IP, gaming assets or community tokens... this was NFTs as noise, NFTs as lore machines, NFTs as broken mirrors.

𝑩𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒊𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂, 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑰𝒕

To say all roads lead to MiFella isn’t to say MiFella is the best, the first, or the most technically sophisticated. It’s to say: it changed something.

It created a rupture in the Milady pipeline and spilled its contents into Solana, where the materials recombined into new forms. These new forms (Tojiba’s altarpunk nostalgia, Little Swag World’s memefied eclectic persona, the grotesque-luxury of Spiky DJ) all still echo MiFella’s original scream.

The themes of schizoposting, subcultural badgewear, chaotic self-expression and resistance to neatness were all activated at scale by MiFella. Without it, the Solana avant gay scene might’ve stayed dormant... or worse, become tasteful.

MiFella is a mess. A middle finger. A heartbreak. A collage of references from places people don’t talk about at dinner.

But it’s also a beginning.

If Solana ever produces a “Movement”... an artistic uprising that stands the test of time... that gets studied in threads and gallery shows and AI-regurgitated retrospectives... (spoiler... It's happening...) MiFella will be the candle at the altar.

𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒊𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂.

𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑹𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒔...

MiFella was never meant to be neat. It isn’t Milady’s heir or its clone. It’s the wreckage that crawled out after the fracture. A sibling that arrived too late, too broken, too loud to ignore.

It carried none of Milady’s fragile optimism. Instead it leaned fully into despair, grime and chaos. Making powerlessness the style, and hopelessness the point.

Piecing together the "history" of MiFella and trying to connect the dots within the undulating landscape of a scene that's still so nascent is tough. But part of my process as a collector is unravelling things. Where it began, how it spiralled, why it matters. While parsing through the muddled past of the Avant Gay scene on Solana, one thing I kept returning to:

𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑹𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒊𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂

𝑴𝒊𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝒂𝒔 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕

The launch of MiFella on Solana ignited a chain reaction.

Out of its smoke and pixel shards emerged:

👉🏾 Drifella (by @bis__cut), a psychedelic mutation built on MiFella’s lore, where its “soul” is injected into a Dratini and layered beyond belief (a milestone in traitmaxxing).
👉🏾 @tojibaceo, whose pixel-based nostalgia spirals into techno-folk surrealism.
👉🏾 @littleswagworld, Spiky DJ, Super Metal Mons and other collections that adopted MiFella’s post-ironic, transgressive DNA and pushed it further. MiFella was very much a detonation that split open the field, giving rise to what would retroactively be called the avant gay.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒚𝒕𝒉-𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈

More than just style, what made MiFella foundational was story.

👉🏾 Its description declared its relation to Milady with unnerving intimacy: a lover, a brother, a cuck.
👉🏾 The Drifella spinoff produced not only NFTs, but an entire 13-chapter fanfiction saga (Trader Fiction by @earl16o1) that reads like Hunter S. Thompson got stuck in a memecoin farm and found God.
👉🏾 Its traits referenced everything from Russian military regalia to noise bands like Whitehouse and Merzbow.
👉🏾 Its aesthetic was grainy, corrupted, stitched-together. An intentional refusal of clean lines or clean narratives.

MiFella invited interpretation, demanded lore, sparked obsession.

(Find Trader Fiction here. Well worth a read https://traderfiction.substack.com/?utm_source=byline&utm_content=writes)

𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒙𝒙𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝑪𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒅𝒆

MiFella helped birth one of the defining aesthetics of the Solana avant gay scene: traitmaxxing.

👉🏾 Overlays stacked to absurdity
👉🏾 Backgrounds clashing with foregrounds
👉🏾 Accidental symbolism
👉🏾 Excess as philosophy

This maximalist approach turned PFPs from clean avatar expressions into chaotic personality maps. The result was more than profile pics. It was a new form of memetic painting. Rather than NFTs as IP, gaming assets or community tokens... this was NFTs as noise, NFTs as lore machines, NFTs as broken mirrors.

𝑩𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒊𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂, 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑰𝒕

To say all roads lead to MiFella isn’t to say MiFella is the best, the first, or the most technically sophisticated. It’s to say: it changed something.

It created a rupture in the Milady pipeline and spilled its contents into Solana, where the materials recombined into new forms. These new forms (Tojiba’s altarpunk nostalgia, Little Swag World’s memefied eclectic persona, the grotesque-luxury of Spiky DJ) all still echo MiFella’s original scream.

The themes of schizoposting, subcultural badgewear, chaotic self-expression and resistance to neatness were all activated at scale by MiFella. Without it, the Solana avant gay scene might’ve stayed dormant... or worse, become tasteful.

MiFella is a mess. A middle finger. A heartbreak. A collage of references from places people don’t talk about at dinner.

But it’s also a beginning.

If Solana ever produces a “Movement”... an artistic uprising that stands the test of time... that gets studied in threads and gallery shows and AI-regurgitated retrospectives... (spoiler... It's happening...) MiFella will be the candle at the altar.

𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒊𝑭𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂.