I started my Instagram @uncannysfvalley in 2014, which includes collages created using only my iPhone and found images. These digital works are rooted in the classical net-art process of the online search, aggregation, and manipulation of “poor images,” a term coined by Hito Steyerl. To summarize Steyerl, poor images are popular images. Images that have imprinted upon them a material degradation in quality resulting from their infinite exchange through online image economies. These collages serve as an intervention into the online representation of women. @uncannysfvalley uses the aesthetics of surface material to subvert attachments of emotive representations of femme identity to frivolity, revealing a more thoughtful and sinister reality. As the predominant form of digital engagement users shifts from a Web 2 experience of corporate control and SNS platforms to the co-created supposed democratization of the Metaverse and Web 3, it is essential to remember where we are coming from. Web 3 comes with similar promise and hopes as preceding era’s of digital engagement, @uncannsfvalley asks us to remember. These works presented for Digital Awakening secure a place on the blockchain for the poor images utilized and remind the viewer that the oppressive constructs of AFK life emerge online, despite our best efforts and utopic imaginings.