The Nijiura Maids are net characters created on japanese imageboard Futaba Channel's Nijiura boards. Each maid's name is a pun, reflecting their personality. As Nijura maids were created on an anonymous board - they do not have any sort of author origins, being preserved as a cultural phenomena and adopted by various artistic personalities and subcultures, amidst which maidcore subgenre would be the most recognizeable.