Meimei
Meimei, also known as Kiki on YWOT, was a talented artist who was active throughout 2022.
Their reception within the community is mixed, as they were an active lurker in Sleepycat before its shutdown, and was possibly a member of the Manhatingzone.
Art
Meimei is known for creating some of the most high quality art in all of OWOT, being rivaled only by Kkb and some of the Manhatingzone's anonymous artists.
She primarily uses traditional ASCII characters for her art, though the occasional unicode would be thrown in and she once created an SLC piece for Christmas 2022.
/computer.yes
An interactive OS world where users can also leave the computer to explore their bedroom.
/computer.yes was updated throughout 2022 and was even made WOTD at one point. Much of its paths have been left unfinished due to burnout.
YWOT Art
*See /ASCII_Art_Archive
As Kiki, Meimei owns three worlds.
- /~kiki./: Main world.
- /~kiki./archive: A world where Kiki/Meimei archives her art.
- /~kiki./stairway: An open world project featuring a deep sewer and a towering spiral stairway, along with a variety of towns and flora to either side of the world. The world is mostly unfinished due to burnout.
She also has a Deviant Art page where all her YWOT art is posted.
Related Users
Sleepycat Users
Meimei was an active member of the Sleepycat chatroom before its closure, and would occasionally visit its predecessor Wokecat.
Her reputation on the now defunct message board is mostly obscure, but she was once described as "the only one considered lawful good by sleepycatters;" though it must be said that this is by no means a high bar given the type of person who'd frequent that website. YWOT user Yosicat recounts her being really friendly when he talked to her and even giving him member on one of her worlds.
D9eoead, another Sleepycat user and a former friend of Meimei, reported that "Sleepycat corrupted her" and that "when she first joined she was super nice." He also adds "She’s really good at art but….. she used it to make… questionable things….." According to him, Meimei once posted a drawing of "shitting dicknipples" into Sleepycat, of which no screenshot is (thankfully) known to exist.
Though not a member of the chatroom himself, Lime.owot remembers her being active at the same time as Polonez. He describs how Meimei espoused transphobic views during this time that made him feel "unreasonably betrayed."
The MHZ
"mhz is the best world ever!" - Meimei in OWOT Chat
"They have a dark horse ASCII artist that's pretty prolific in there, ask yourself the difficult question, who that might be."
"I may be overdosing on copium here, but the man killer art had to be just vandalism right? (It's none of my business either way, it's hilarious to think my favorite artists have their Jekyll & Hyde shitposter personality)."
- Unknown
Meimei is suspected to be a (former) member of the Manhatingzone since she supports much of their views, shares some of their humor and has publicly praised them in the past. If this is the case then she would have been one of the only MHZers with an identity outside the Hivemind; a true anomaly within an otherwise anonymous community.
Meimei was reportedly kicked out of the Hivemind for unknown reasons. It is unclear what role they played within the MHZ prior to being expelled, assuming that they were a MHZer at all and not just a fangirl. Currently, the only traces of them that remain in the OWOT /mhz world are a few drawings at X:444 Y:444.
Meimei became active on YWOT in early 2022, coinciding with a brief surge in MHZ activity.
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On YWOT
AndreiXYZ
The sworn enemy of the Manhatingzone.
It is unknown if Andrei is aware of Meimei's ties to the MHZ — if any exists at all — but he has nevertheless shown admiration for her art style.
For Christmas of 2023 he made a custom Center Console for /main in the style of one of Meimei's drawings from /computer.yes.
On one occasion he pondered the idea of traveling back in time and showing Meimei's art to YWOT users from the early 2010s.
Trivia
- Meimei was a cat enthusiast and would frequently post photos of her cat in Global Chat.
- "Meimei" means little sister in Chinese.