I’m crazy, not stupid (I’m autistic, actually, but still, not dumb).
I don’t know if I’ll ever tell anyone how massively complex it was for me to rebuild Neuerotica after temporarily shutting her down for a year, redesigning her, tearing her down, then rebuilding her. It’s exhausting just thinking about it. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say it nearly killed me. For the better part of a year, I endured anxiety, mania, hallucinations, and one day, I cried for no reason for an entire day. So there is no way, after all that, I’m going to fuck up everything by publishing articles with pornographic (or pseudo-pornographic) pics of children.
When I was eight or nine years old, a friend called me from downstairs, so I hopped out of the bath and onto my bedroom windowsill, then proceeded to jump up and down in all my naked glory. My friend stared at me in shock while his sister laughed herself to tears. I don’t know if it’s an autistic trait, but I’ve always been that way, and people’s reaction is what makes it pleasurable for me. It’s why Neuerotica and (by extension) our memes feature “highly inappropriate” nude and semi-nude images of (mostly) young people. In my article on artist Pedro Bell in Chapter Five, I explained why and how he used nudity, sex, and humor in his album-cover artwork as a vehicle for anti-imperialist propaganda. I’ve borrowed his formula; our characters just look younger. This is how we’ll build an audience for our artists, while spreading a little socialist propaganda.
If you’re a manga and/or anime fan, you’re already familiar with the debate about whether or not cartoons and drawings of “people” are people who are real enough to be concerned about. You could say that someone in an illustration is a certain age, but that would be a lie. Even in the context of a story, it’s still a lie, because the character doesn’t exist. For the most part, I chose to use AI-generated images, most of which feature individuals who appear to be under 18 or not much older, because images of the person being quoted or just an ordinary image or a pattern aren’t enough to attract attention. What will attract attention is an image of a young white girl posed seductively above a quote by Frederick Douglass or by one of the targets of our satire.
If you’ve seen any of our memes floating around social media, you might understand better. Just know that when you see an image of a semi-clothed or unclothed individual on Neuerotica (or in our memes), and they appear to be under the age of eighteen, they’re either AI (or other type of art medium) or they are (as real people), in fact, over eighteen years of age, but happen to look younger than they actually are. If you think the latter is an impossibility, have a look at the photo below.
This is former Colombian porn actress Lupe Fuentes, who was known by her stage name Little Lupe. She looks like she’s twelve or thirteen in this promotional photograph, but at the time, she was nineteen. I’m not going to get into the controversy of her previous career (she’s a DJ now), but suffice it to say, there are adult women and men who resemble kids (there was an episode of Law & Order: SVU about the subject, in fact). The condition can be caused by certain genetic factors, such as Williams Syndrome. On the cable channel TLC in 2021, there was a story about 22-year-old Shauna Rae. Despite her age, Shauna looked eight years old. There are women like her who become nude models and/or porn actresses due to the demand from men who derive pleasure from sexual performances by women who look younger than eighteen.
background image by StarlyssSkye
I always thought it was ridiculous (and I still do) when adult videos open with a disclaimer to protect themselves from any legal action, but I get it. The other concern the public has about these AI-generated images and animated pornography is that they believe that it will somehow influence people (mostly men, I would assume) to SA children. But these claims rest on belief, not on any actual study or evidence. I’m no historian, but child SA has been (quite possibly) happening from the dawn of humankind, when neither AI nor cartoons existed.
Obviously, there are bigger concerns than an artificially manufactured image of children who don’t exist. Anyone who finds themselves critical of the images we use and how we use them should save their time and energy for the well-being of real kids. Satire has always been an effective form of protest and a means of raising awareness. People will be shocked by our particular brand of satire, but it’s not being done for shock value. Within less than a year, our country has entered the first phase of becoming a fascist country. You would think that would be shocking enough to wake more people to this nightmare scenario, but unfortunately, it isn’t. There is a saying that “desperate times call for desperate measures,” and that is where we find ourselves, not only in this country, but in the world. I’m utilizing the artificial to highlight the real.
I have zero intentions of exploiting anyone, not adults, and certainly not children. If there’s any “questionable” art or photographs in our satire (here or in our memes), I have “receipts”, as they say. We intend to ensure that any materials we receive from our subjects (and eventually publish) are legal, so anyone who objects to our visual content can find some other tree to bark under.
Meme Samples
Observe! Here are a few memes I’ve made in 2025. There’s no way that I can prevent someone from gooning to these images (why would I?), but I think that it should be evident that’s not what I make them for.
