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.)

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 🤷🏻‍♀️

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 🤷🏻‍♀️