This thread is for content and discussion centered around the Nijiura maids.
The Nijiura maids are a tradition of net characters originating from the Nijiura boards of Futaba Channel, the oldest being born circa 2004.
Shaped by anyone willing to depict them, their personalities and designs are not codified under any central piece of media. Nijiura Maid content is scattered around the net in a similar way to Touhou; many of the accepted characterizations have no root in any source material and were produced memetically. Still, some have made efforts to categorize and order the maids. This is because autism is a universal constant.
https://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php/Nijiura_and_Futaba_Characters#The_Nijiura_Maids
There is no real metric for what it takes to make a Nijiura maid. Some may argue that Nijiura maids can only come from 2ch, probably because autism is a universal constant. Some patterns can be seen in the most well-established maids:
>name ends with an i
>uses the -san honorific
>name has some double meaning or wordplay which defines their character. Nemui-san (nemui: sleepy) is narcoleptic. Shitai-san is dead (shitai: corpse) and erotic (shitai: "I want to do it"). Medoi-san is the typical maid (meido: maid) and is easily annoyed (medoi: troublesome).