This time the NEET Spotlight is on a 22 year old female NEET artist from Asheville, North Carolina. She’s active on Twitter, but you can also visit her recently created Instagram and Youtube channel. However, the meat of her content is on her separate Instagram for her artwork.

NEETpride: What do you mean by NEET?

alice.anomaly: For me being a NEET isn’t a choice. It’s like an instinctual aversion to society. I think money and the way we socialize is unnatural. It goes against my grain to institutionalize myself. If I turn mainstream or commercialized I’d be giving up control.

Can you walk me through a typical day?

Sure! I will say- I change my schedule often. I do this to keep my mind on the fritz. My schedule as of late has been this:

In the early hours of my day I start with a simple calisthenics exercise. I then go for a drive and then hike somewhere random in the mountains, usually off the Blue Ridge Parkway. I like to climb trees and make campfires. I think it is important to find time to connect with and appreciate nature every day. This is also a wonderful way to listen to music- In the car I mean. After I finish up outside I log on…I plug myself into the future forum landscape. The good old internet. Despite my aversion to my fellow man I really crave social contact and validation, so I like to play games online. MMOs and such. If I don’t feel like gaming I watch movies or read. Sometimes I just get high and listen to music really closely. I play instruments as well. I am driven by creative expression, in every moment. I also like to learn languages. I am learning Russian right now. It is a way to flex the mind, to always gain knowledge. Every day I try to do something that I wouldn’t usually do. There are totally days where I just game all day or act like a bum though, don’t get me wrong. This is just the rough schedule that I try to follow. If I don’t have at least a little bit of self-imposed rigidity who knows what could happen?

Can you speak a bit about your past experience in school or slavery?

I have done a wonderful job of avoiding having to wageslave for a while now, but I will tell you about when I dropped out of college. I was going to Warren Wilson college over in Asheville for an art degree. If you don’t know about WW, it’s something called a “work school”. Sounds lovely right? They had this falsely alluring trap of advertising that said you could work off some of your tuition if you became a slave to the school, for the facilities they needed workers for. I worked in admissions. Having that on top of a normal class schedule combined with other factors in my life actually drove me insane! I’m not kidding. I ended up in the mental hospital for 2 weeks because of what was deemed a “psychotic break”. I just chimped out, I couldn’t handle being told what to do with every second of my day. It made me trip. I’ll never go back to college. I was only being given connections anyways.

Is anyone demanding that you get a job now?

No one expects me to step up. I get looked at as a poor cute thing. It’s not like with men: “You gotta slave!”

Do you consider housewives as NEETS?

I think housewives do count as NEETs. I don’t have any beef with them. It can be a very NPC or woke move.

Would you say rather than get pestered about finding a job, do you get pestered about having kids? Is it, like, equivalent do you think?

Oh yeah. The few guys I’ve found who go for NEETgirls are into the tradwife, they want to “save” me. That’s a very prevalent theme.

What’s your current living situation?

I live with my mom. There’s pressure, but no cut-off date. I put it on a 2 on a scale of 1 to 10. I have had trouble with her before and I had to live in my car before, but she’s fine now.

So you’ve been homeless before?

I slept in truck stops or Walmarts or on the Blue Ridge Parkway in my car and no one would bother me. It was a lot more comfortable than I expected. The best part was the truck stops. The first night I stopped at truck stop and she told me where to shower, looking out for her fellow homeless NEET. Occasionally cops would make me move along, but as long as I kept moving it wasn’t a problem.

Do you think there is a distinction between being a NEET and being homeless?

I feel like NEET isn’t a choice for people intrinsically while being homeless isn’t a choice for people extrinsically.

Have you tried making an onlyfans account or something like that?

I’ve seen a lot of people who say it’s morally wrong, but I have some respect for people who have to do what they have to do. For me personally I would never make an onlyfans account. If it was between living in my car or making an onlyfans accounts, I’d choose living in my car. Maybe it’s just because my priorities are weird. I prefer it that way. Maybe if I was having a mental breakdown or something? I have associates that I could call who’d give me money or let me stay with them.

How is dating as a female NEET different?

There’s potential for dating as a female NEET, but every fuckin’ dude that I’ve met are fucking simple beans. I don’t go on tinder or anything like that. If someone wants to date me they have to walk up to me in public and start a dialogue. I can’t fuck with the way that it’s done today. It doesn’t work for me.

Why do you think there aren’t more NEETgf X NEETbf pairings? It seems logistically possible, but I always see a female wagecuck X kept man or male wagecuck X housewife.

It’s probably different for each case, but for me it’s a lack of connection opportunities. Johnny Alphaseed and you are only two people who even know the word NEET in my life.

Does it bother you that most NEET communities are super male-dominated and even anti-women? For instance, on the NEETpride discord server we voted against allowing women to even post there. For the record, I voted against it. But it was an overwhelming majority.

To be honest with you, I would have voted against it too. But I’m a weird, female-hating enigma. It’s just hard to start a dialogue with other females. There’s no common sense, intelligence, or straightforwardness. With guys there’s no mind-games. I don’t know, maybe let there be women in the chat but they have to earn it somehow.

Well, you could always pretend to be a boy. Would that really bother you?

No and I’ve done that before. If I’m on voicechat people are gonna say this is either a prepubescent boy or a girl, and I’m gonna tell them every time I’m 11 years old, leave me alone.

So you still consider NEET counterculture? Someone was arguing with me the other day that being a NEET is already mainstream.

I think you’re very very lucky with how submerged in the esoteric you are if you consider NEET mainstream.

Have you expressed NEETpride to other people? How did they react?

I expressed it to my sister, who is a technically a NEET right now because she is about to go to college. She thinks it’s just an embellishment of an unruly lifestyle. It’s not something to be proud of.

Like what they were saying about gays like 30 years ago…

Right! There’s this weird, like, resistance that occurs when you try to tell people that you’re proud about it. They get angry. They get defensive. It’s more present in boomers than gen Z, but there are definitely plenty of zoomers who think like boomers.

What is the origin of that? Why isn’t it obvious to more people that the weekends are the good part of the week?

I’ll tell ya right now, it’s because if they admitted that then their suffering would be for nothing. They can’t come to terms with the fact that they’re wasting their time. Like spoiler alert: you’re gonna fucking die. Every one of us.

Exactly! So you’re not depressed or anything, right? I see so many NEETs who just want to whine about their “predicament” and it really irritates me.

They get depressed because they don’t fill their time, they don’t do stuff, they don’t have hobbies, they just sit around and veg out. You need to either lead your own life or stop being a NEET because it’s not for you if you’re just gonna sit around and get depressed about it. You’ve gotta take initiative in your life. But I tell ya, I have struggled in my life with depression and with bipolar disorder-

But did being a NEET help you or hurt you?

I don’t have to take medicine as a NEET. The only time I ever had to be medicated was when I had to be subjected to the horrors of society, the horrors of capitalism.

Do you consider yourself anti-capitalism?

Yeah, very much so. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

But Capitalism is what enables us to live off the system to begin with! Instead of the hammer and sickle (symbols of work) it’s the hotdog and gun: I’m gonna eat this hotdog and I’ll shoot you if you try to make me do something I don’t want to do. Don’t get me wrong, we’re certainly late-stage Capitalism. This shit is falling apart. I don’t have any better ideas than UBI, that’s for sure.

I think in the next 5-10 years we’re gonna see some serious action. Whether it will be positive or negative change, I don’t know. There’s a big storm brewin’ truly.

I think at this point, even boomers can see the writing on the wall. Anyway, wrapping up, are there any projects you are working on?

I have some stuff in the works right now but it’s all very secret and very private. Not going public with it yet, but I have some of my art up on instagram. You can see that at instagram.com/fimarts

Is there any message that you want to get out to all NEETs?

Always stay occupied, do not let yourself get bored. Have pride in everything you do, even if other people are telling you to be ashamed of yourself.