Hey! Here’s Pixie Venom: creature from North London, spawned out the digital culture swamp.

You’ll catch this one at big costume hardcore underground rave squat parties, dropping vocal expression on a beat like OBLIVION, or playing Halloween Racer (1999) for Gameboy Color™. Everything about Pixie screams alt from the start. Remember Sid from Toy Story 1? That’s nothing bruv. Mx Venom’s bedroom features a pair of Teletubbies: bodies hollowed, deconstructed and chained together in the form of a bicephalic backpack. It’s “cute”, perched comfortably alongside a few lewd anime figurines, opposite some tattooed baby-dolls and atop a pile of corrupted Nintendo merchandise.

But why?

Everything is an online subculture now; but even someone aged twenty today can remember when ‘the internet’ was weird. There were ‘internet people’, who didn’t care for the social trappings of high school; preferring instead to engage with the wide-area-network wild west. Pixie was in there somewhere, watching the cowboys.

“Well, I got my first laptop when I was seven. It was just this little pink like Samsung laptop and I would go on websites like 4chan and YouTube. I didn’t really use Tumblr and stuff like that, I just stuck to the stranger stuff. Deviant Art introduced me to a bunch of weird fetishes. 4chan showed me a bunch of hentai. And a lot of anime related stuff. That was all I would consume. Like, all day, every day, after school, at night, when everyone was asleep. I would like go on my laptop again. And just watch anime until 4am”.

Those old timey websites were surreal; any and all cultural materials could merge. Cutesey “chibi” childrens’ characters got to learn all about the tentacle monster. Hello Kitty would never be the same again.

“It was more entertaining, because I hated school and like, I hated everybody there. I just needed to go somewhere that made me feel accepted because at the same time, you put a bunch of rejects into a pot, then they’re not rejects anymore. They’re all the same”.

Devout users weren’t online to enhance their experience of real life. They were there to escape. The more departed from perceivable reality a piece of shared content was, the better.

Once the internet and its oddities became normalised, Pixie and other early adopters were already way ahead of the curve; possessing collections of international trinkets and demonic representations a LONG time before they were considered cool. Everybody wanna be like Pixie now: to be genuinely immersed and in love with alternative cultures; all the while representing this to the outside world, effortlessly.

“I don’t see any point in dressing down. It’s just like, if I could look like an anime character for the day, like why wouldn’t I? If you have the clothes, like you have to wear them. I don’t know what the point of just like looking boring every day is, you already have to live this boring plot. Dressing extravagant isn’t against the rules.”

It’s all kinda funny. In an attempt to leave reality behind, Pixie and people like them, spent years filling their developing brains with the wildest, most colourful media available, against the grain of their surroundings. Consequentially, almost by accident, what results is a Pixie with a nuanced and fine-tuned taste for personal styling, popping off online because the looks are just too sharp.

You can’t fake Pixie. Their long-term aversion to the norm can’t be bought or sold, only looked upon and appreciated. Take a look at these looks and follow them on Instagram for more @pixie.venom . Check out their latest cohesive release OBLIVION on Soundcloud, too!

Big thanks to Pixie Venom, @pixie.venom
Looks styled and modelled by Ellis Blake @pixie.venom
Images, words, video by Max Auberon