With how crazy most social media is, the only thing I use often is tumblr. I do follow the main lolita tag and occasionally see people post coordinates, though more often I see art of characters in lolita outfits. I'm not entirely sure how active the whole community is because I tend to interact more with the smaller fandoms.
Other platforms have come and gone for me, but I've always stuck with tumblr. Regardless of the waxing and waning active user base, I just enjoy still having a chronological timeline, a customizable blog and a solid tag system. If I want to find something I posted in 2015, I can go back through my archive and find it. Anything on Twitter over 2 months old is lost to the ether.
I also think the lessening prevalence of lolita fashion at conventions is partially because of it's boom on places like Tiktok and IG during the pandemic, which in turn created their own spaces that didn't specifically need a convention to somewhat lean on.
when i started out, i wanted to be a classic lolita. then it shifted to old school. now my wardrobe is a blue abomination of "swassic" (honestly mostly sweet) cat prints. 🙏🏻
To be honest the only times I use lace monster is when describing dresses that brands release which overdo it with the lace rather than for people's coordinates because, like the article said, the latter is just mean
I think conventions are getting more and more curated towards broad marketability. The local cons at least, even before the pandemic, were focusing on either getting into the anime/manga industry or on the current top five or six franchises. With fashion communities growing largely online now as well, especially on TikTok, it's harder to build local communities to host panels and booths, especially when communities are either mostly high school age or get into drama easily that fractures them.
my fave example when i show people gothic lolita is the skirt i have from undead magpie! it's called cemetery-go-round and it's gorgeous, plus a very good example of some gothic themes :)
Not really about the Video, but a happy slice of my live: I moved into a big city, almost a year ago. Now I found the connection to the local lolita community and went to my first meet. Everyone was super nice and supportive! They even helped me decide wich coord to wear, keeping in mind that it was an extremely hot day. The host of the event lend me ankle cuffs to pop up my socks, which didn't have lace.
I got really into lolita during quarantine and I've been trying to resurrect our local comm. I fronted the money for us to have a vendor's booth at Animethon so we could do a bit of a closet clean and the response was amazing! I'm already planning more lolita/fashion content for next year!
I'm finally starting to reach out to the local Lolita community in my area, but I'm still so self-conscious about it and how I look in it. Also doesn't help that I haven't told my family about it and I can't drive without them. I did show a coord to my Discord friends and learned that one of them is into Ouji. He's even making his own pants!
I'm a avid Tumblr user and I've started to finally wear Lolita. I know there's some Lolitas there still!!! I'm mostly browsing the gothic Lolita tag but I see a bunch of Lolitas posting their photos. And also some art too. Tumblr has been my main website for 6 years and I just don't really wish to move anywhere else. There's are very specific community interactions I don't see anywhere else.
I've been using tumblr again (I have 3 blogs- one of them being a lolita blog!) While tumblr isn't as active as it once was, there is still activity (including in the lolita spaces)
i don't follow any lolita tags but tumblr in general is having something of a revival rn, so it might be worth checking out! I'd follow you if you made a new blog :D
On tumblr there are mostly some blogs that regularly post their own coords (only 10 ish) and then there are blogs that post stock photos/other peoples instagram photos.
(Incoming Squee Moment) LOR, I LOVE your outfit this video! Especially! Those colors are my favorite and that wig is SO COOL. Okay, don't feel bad that you forgot about Part 2! It happens!
0:58 I watched the first Video, and also forgot that you wanted to do another one😅. I was pleasantly surprised, that you made it tho! I like the concept of you looking into lolita representation and clearing up misinformation. Wiki how is often quite wonky so I thought it's going to be funny. Instead both videos end up wholesome showing the author really cares about sharing information on lolita fashion ^^. That's really nice! The nuances and tips you shared are enriching and I enjoyed the video :>!
I feel like tumblr is being slowly but surely revitalized, some of the lolita and alt fashion people I used to follow seem to still post and a lot of people are migrating back.
A lot of the Lolita community are also members of the disability community. Conventions are less accessible because they no longer maintain covid safety measures. Most of the immunocompromised folks i know caught it in 2023, including a friend last month. 100% it's because all rhe community prevention measures that protected them in 2020-2022 are gone but they still have to, you know, shop for groceries. While less people are hospitalized, it's still very contagious and boy do there always seem to be new strains to catch. That's my two cent theory on partial lolita decline anyway.
Thank you Lor! I had to pack up what I have so far of a wardrobe and put it in storage while I deal with life for a while. I haven't been watching lolita content either because everything was making me sad. But this was great to help me think about the pieces I have and what I hope to do with them in the future!
my everyday wardrobe is a mess of many styles but most often I wear neutral colors but interestingly in lolita I'm most interested in sweet althought it's been a struggle my whole lolita journey to just get some basic pieces that go with most things bc I also really like gothic and classic and many other substiles :"D
It's funny i think I've given up on determining whether my main substyle is technically classic or sweet because like, my main color schemes are jewel tones and browns, with tea sets, cherries, and ornate wallpaper as fave motifs, and I really only use an A-line petti since i favor that shape on my body. However i also have bunnies in Halloween costumes and kittens in boba tea on dresses so 😂 Almost all of my jewelry is definitely more classic, with gold chains and pearls with glass beads and cameos, though i also love to do the motif-heavy thing you see most in sweet! So i give up I'm bi-substyle i guess 🤣
I forgot my apologies 🙈it’s been added to the description now. I’ll try to also link it in this comment but TH-cam is sometimes weird with links in comments
There are DEFINITELY still lolitas on tumblr! I'm not super active on the lolita side of tumblr but it definitely exists. Maybe I should post more coords there, lol Also, I totally get being really specifically drawn to a style initally - starting out I was really attatched to bittersweet, but now I've branched into a sort of dual sweet/goth wardrobe
I tried actively posting lolita on tumblr for a while but it feels like most of your notes end up being sissy/ddlg kink blogs, even if you put warning against them on your blog/posts - I'm not anti-kink, but I'm very particularly about my boundaries and it got to a point where I was PMing these people like "CAN YOU READ???" and I just gave it up as a bad job, it just ended up feeling gross. I am still active on my personal/fandom blog, though.
in my opinion tumblr is pretty active with egl fashion so personaly its worth it also on there you can choose what you wanna see which content you want!
Lmao I was waiting on the video but I know a few of your videos have been removed in the past so I was wondering if I just missed it when it was up. Also I am on Tumblr but mostly just reblogging, there are quite a few active lolitas still, just not as many as there used to be.
As an avid Tumblr user, I can confirm it is still the hot mess it used to be, just far less financially stable, so you have to deal with ads and weird layout changes that users are constantly trying to veto. However, on occasion, Lolita fashion does still end up on my for-you page, usually posted by brands, but for the most part tumblr is still a niche little unit - we just really don't want the Twitter users to come back...
The link for my area's comm goes to a FB group that appears to be hidden/private. I highly approve of that for safety's sake, but it also makes it a bit tricky to contact the group. Other than reaching out to someone who uses the group's hashtag on IG, which I haven't been brave enough to try yet, I'm not sure how to go about it.
On the tumblr tangent, I am not entirely sure since I am not allowed to use it, but my mother does, and she follows 20 dollar lolita on there which is fairly popular so i wouldnt say its dead
I often use the word brolita to myself. what was written there stinks of transphobia when they say cis man i am brolita am trans man. I agree with you if someone says ask for criticism then you can say your part without being mean as you say. but if people haven't said anything, don't give criticism if someone didn't ask for it.
Lor i have a question!! I recently got into lolita fashion but im still learning a lot so i was wondering, is it ok to mix brands when making a coord? Like mixing stuff from ap and btssb for example- love your vids btw
Lolitas are still on Tumblr!!! We're not as active, but not completely dead. Most people are posting specifically for blogging. Since you're an influencer, it might not be worth going back to. Don't expect a lot of growth.
Idk if TH-cam is still weird about links but I’ll try here too docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1evXegSoFbfEXn8o0joeA-KFvolNKPKllgvaYqNgvOiw/htmlview
Tumblr Lolita fashion is not dead! Myself, Raine dragon, Fannie Rosie, and a bunch of other folks still use it regularly! Yes, there's some gross stuff still on Tumblr, but just use that block button!!!
Lor can you make a "AI draws lolita and Lor judges accuracy" video? With different prompts like gothic/sweet lolita coord, OTT sweet lolita + theme. Etc. As long as it doesn't get demonetized for skimpy or Nabokov stuff...
I'm still on Tumblr and still occasionally post pictures of myself in the fashion, but much like instagram, there were definitely issues with the keywords in the past. You can still search "lolita fashion" and find correctly tagged posts, although the occasionally other post slips through. A lot of the blogs I followed are unfortunately dead or less active nowadays. I also started a pillowfort group a few years ago as well, but lost steam when it wasn't very active (other people moderate now.) Some of the best lolita tumblrs I follow are the Innocent World tumblr (which usually reblogs posts from other users and then provides sources for the items used) and cheapieclassic, who handmakes really beautiful loita dresses. cryptkasper also stills posts sometimes.
I've been on tumblr since i was 14, but i'm definitely not leaving anytime soon since I witnessed so much Tumblr Lore in my time that I still reference to this day. However, as much as I would love to make a lolita sideblog, there are still nonconsenting people who would still use coord shots for weird fetish rps 🫠 like i saw someone literally named shrekthesissy reblog someone's coord basically @ing themselves and saying how much they love the dress 😭
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I wish everyone would stop telling everyone we're dead. (by we I mean tumblr) There is absolutely still an active lolita community on tumblr.
Sometimes I still hear the Lolita’s of tumbler’s voices
With how crazy most social media is, the only thing I use often is tumblr. I do follow the main lolita tag and occasionally see people post coordinates, though more often I see art of characters in lolita outfits. I'm not entirely sure how active the whole community is because I tend to interact more with the smaller fandoms.
Other platforms have come and gone for me, but I've always stuck with tumblr. Regardless of the waxing and waning active user base, I just enjoy still having a chronological timeline, a customizable blog and a solid tag system. If I want to find something I posted in 2015, I can go back through my archive and find it. Anything on Twitter over 2 months old is lost to the ether.
I also think the lessening prevalence of lolita fashion at conventions is partially because of it's boom on places like Tiktok and IG during the pandemic, which in turn created their own spaces that didn't specifically need a convention to somewhat lean on.
when i started out, i wanted to be a classic lolita. then it shifted to old school. now my wardrobe is a blue abomination of "swassic" (honestly mostly sweet) cat prints. 🙏🏻
WAIT OMG I POSTED THIS BEFORE THERE WAS FOOTAGE OF QUEEN CAT PORTRAITS JSK IN BLUE 💙 I NEED HER
Swassic!! Thats such a good word I'll use that more thank you
Lor, that wig looks so good on you 🥺🩷
Thanks so much! I have a lot of fun in it
I agree!
To be honest the only times I use lace monster is when describing dresses that brands release which overdo it with the lace rather than for people's coordinates because, like the article said, the latter is just mean
I think conventions are getting more and more curated towards broad marketability. The local cons at least, even before the pandemic, were focusing on either getting into the anime/manga industry or on the current top five or six franchises. With fashion communities growing largely online now as well, especially on TikTok, it's harder to build local communities to host panels and booths, especially when communities are either mostly high school age or get into drama easily that fractures them.
Things have changed a lot in the past 3 years. Tumblr still has an active community. People still post coords and blogs on there.
my fave example when i show people gothic lolita is the skirt i have from undead magpie! it's called cemetery-go-round and it's gorgeous, plus a very good example of some gothic themes :)
It's an amazing print! I wasn't aware of that brand so thank you for introducing me :)
Not really about the Video, but a happy slice of my live:
I moved into a big city, almost a year ago. Now I found the connection to the local lolita community and went to my first meet. Everyone was super nice and supportive! They even helped me decide wich coord to wear, keeping in mind that it was an extremely hot day.
The host of the event lend me ankle cuffs to pop up my socks, which didn't have lace.
I got really into lolita during quarantine and I've been trying to resurrect our local comm. I fronted the money for us to have a vendor's booth at Animethon so we could do a bit of a closet clean and the response was amazing! I'm already planning more lolita/fashion content for next year!
I would love to see a video about the English GLB mistranslations! That sounds super interesting :D
I'm finally starting to reach out to the local Lolita community in my area, but I'm still so self-conscious about it and how I look in it. Also doesn't help that I haven't told my family about it and I can't drive without them. I did show a coord to my Discord friends and learned that one of them is into Ouji. He's even making his own pants!
As someone who’s very active on tumblr and follows the lolita fashion tags, yup the community is very alive and well!
I actually rewatched thw wikihow video and was like "i wish lor would make q part 2"
That’s wild! Apparently TH-cam recommends it a lot! That’s how a couple of nonlolita friends have seen it 😂
I’m not super active in the lolita community but I actually actively get lolita content on my tumblr dashboard, so I would assume it’s still going!
there def is a still active community on tumblr!! was literally scrolling through my feed while watching this lol!
Oh I think you once said you'd make more videos on different types of headwear and I really likee that idea haha
I'm a avid Tumblr user and I've started to finally wear Lolita. I know there's some Lolitas there still!!! I'm mostly browsing the gothic Lolita tag but I see a bunch of Lolitas posting their photos. And also some art too.
Tumblr has been my main website for 6 years and I just don't really wish to move anywhere else. There's are very specific community interactions I don't see anywhere else.
I've been using tumblr again (I have 3 blogs- one of them being a lolita blog!) While tumblr isn't as active as it once was, there is still activity (including in the lolita spaces)
lolita tumblr is still alive!!! they recently introduced a community feature and theirs a private lolita tumblr group! rainedragons even on it :3
i don't follow any lolita tags but tumblr in general is having something of a revival rn, so it might be worth checking out! I'd follow you if you made a new blog :D
Halloween arcade! I love that print (probably my most worn actually) and your coord with it is super cute.
On tumblr there are mostly some blogs that regularly post their own coords (only 10 ish) and then there are blogs that post stock photos/other peoples instagram photos.
the jsk and blouse is just so dang cute!
I can report there are still lolitas on tumblr. The tag runs pretty slow though. Going back to tumblr might be a good idea for a video.
I did try to find the continuation some weeks ago and i'm happy it is now here
(Incoming Squee Moment) LOR, I LOVE your outfit this video! Especially! Those colors are my favorite and that wig is SO COOL. Okay, don't feel bad that you forgot about Part 2! It happens!
0:58 I watched the first Video, and also forgot that you wanted to do another one😅.
I was pleasantly surprised, that you made it tho!
I like the concept of you looking into lolita representation and clearing up misinformation.
Wiki how is often quite wonky so I thought it's going to be funny. Instead both videos end up wholesome showing the author really cares about sharing information on lolita fashion ^^. That's really nice!
The nuances and tips you shared are enriching and I enjoyed the video :>!
Omg Lor I absolutely love your wig in this video! It’s so cute
I feel like tumblr is being slowly but surely revitalized, some of the lolita and alt fashion people I used to follow seem to still post and a lot of people are migrating back.
I have the jsk you are wearing but omg did you just give me a brand new love for it with that wig
I like the idea that you sat there and really thought "which ice-cream is which style"
I recently started a blog on tumblr for lolita fashion! I wouldn't say tumblr is really dead
A lot of the Lolita community are also members of the disability community. Conventions are less accessible because they no longer maintain covid safety measures. Most of the immunocompromised folks i know caught it in 2023, including a friend last month. 100% it's because all rhe community prevention measures that protected them in 2020-2022 are gone but they still have to, you know, shop for groceries. While less people are hospitalized, it's still very contagious and boy do there always seem to be new strains to catch. That's my two cent theory on partial lolita decline anyway.
YASSSS a Lolita beginner video!! 🦄
Thank you Lor! I had to pack up what I have so far of a wardrobe and put it in storage while I deal with life for a while. I haven't been watching lolita content either because everything was making me sad. But this was great to help me think about the pieces I have and what I hope to do with them in the future!
my everyday wardrobe is a mess of many styles but most often I wear neutral colors but interestingly in lolita I'm most interested in sweet althought it's been a struggle my whole lolita journey to just get some basic pieces that go with most things bc I also really like gothic and classic and many other substiles :"D
I have that dress as an op! Love it so much
It's funny i think I've given up on determining whether my main substyle is technically classic or sweet because like, my main color schemes are jewel tones and browns, with tea sets, cherries, and ornate wallpaper as fave motifs, and I really only use an A-line petti since i favor that shape on my body. However i also have bunnies in Halloween costumes and kittens in boba tea on dresses so 😂
Almost all of my jewelry is definitely more classic, with gold chains and pearls with glass beads and cameos, though i also love to do the motif-heavy thing you see most in sweet!
So i give up I'm bi-substyle i guess 🤣
I watched that video! I did forget there was going to be a part 2
Where is the big document for the local communities?? mentioned @14:43 ?
I forgot my apologies 🙈it’s been added to the description now. I’ll try to also link it in this comment but TH-cam is sometimes weird with links in comments
Here it is docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1evXegSoFbfEXn8o0joeA-KFvolNKPKllgvaYqNgvOiw/htmlview
There are DEFINITELY still lolitas on tumblr! I'm not super active on the lolita side of tumblr but it definitely exists. Maybe I should post more coords there, lol
Also, I totally get being really specifically drawn to a style initally - starting out I was really attatched to bittersweet, but now I've branched into a sort of dual sweet/goth wardrobe
I tried actively posting lolita on tumblr for a while but it feels like most of your notes end up being sissy/ddlg kink blogs, even if you put warning against them on your blog/posts - I'm not anti-kink, but I'm very particularly about my boundaries and it got to a point where I was PMing these people like "CAN YOU READ???" and I just gave it up as a bad job, it just ended up feeling gross. I am still active on my personal/fandom blog, though.
in my opinion tumblr is pretty active with egl fashion so personaly its worth it also on there you can choose what you wanna see which content you want!
Lmao I was waiting on the video but I know a few of your videos have been removed in the past so I was wondering if I just missed it when it was up. Also I am on Tumblr but mostly just reblogging, there are quite a few active lolitas still, just not as many as there used to be.
As an avid Tumblr user, I can confirm it is still the hot mess it used to be, just far less financially stable, so you have to deal with ads and weird layout changes that users are constantly trying to veto. However, on occasion, Lolita fashion does still end up on my for-you page, usually posted by brands, but for the most part tumblr is still a niche little unit - we just really don't want the Twitter users to come back...
The link for my area's comm goes to a FB group that appears to be hidden/private. I highly approve of that for safety's sake, but it also makes it a bit tricky to contact the group. Other than reaching out to someone who uses the group's hashtag on IG, which I haven't been brave enough to try yet, I'm not sure how to go about it.
Love the vid!
I kind of thought "Lor must be busy, and if she hasn't made it, its just not her priority rn, and it might happen later"
“Let me know if you want specific content” 👀 (me just happy and grateful just about any content from aloe)
I appreciate having you here 💖
On the tumblr tangent, I am not entirely sure since I am not allowed to use it, but my mother does, and she follows 20 dollar lolita on there which is fairly popular so i wouldnt say its dead
LOL im so glad this finally came but yeah my memory is not anywhere near that good i definitely forgot XD
Deerstalker THE VIOLIN!
I have a lolita tumblr blog. It's not really active because the general "fandom" there are gems we are small but mighty
I often use the word brolita to myself. what was written there stinks of transphobia when they say cis man i am brolita am trans man.
I agree with you if someone says ask for criticism then you can say your part without being mean as you say. but if people haven't said anything, don't give criticism if someone didn't ask for it.
I vaguely remember watching the first video, but don't worry I forgot there was supposed to be a follow up too. Probably the adhd in my case. /lh
as a sweet clown, I also wish clowns were a more common theme in lolita lol
If I ever delved into lolita I'd probably go into classic or gothic because I like muted, dark colors. 😊
Lor i have a question!! I recently got into lolita fashion but im still learning a lot so i was wondering, is it ok to mix brands when making a coord? Like mixing stuff from ap and btssb for example- love your vids btw
Lolitas are still on Tumblr!!! We're not as active, but not completely dead.
Most people are posting specifically for blogging. Since you're an influencer, it might not be worth going back to. Don't expect a lot of growth.
did i miss the doc that was supported to be linked in the dis to find local people?
I forgot it 🙈but it has been updated to the description now 🎉
Idk if TH-cam is still weird about links but I’ll try here too docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1evXegSoFbfEXn8o0joeA-KFvolNKPKllgvaYqNgvOiw/htmlview
Tumblr Lolita fashion is not dead! Myself, Raine dragon, Fannie Rosie, and a bunch of other folks still use it regularly! Yes, there's some gross stuff still on Tumblr, but just use that block button!!!
ROFL I totally forgot about that too!
I still use tumblr but I use instagram now for the fashion
Darn it! Now I gotta go buy icecream...
"Lolita Is an Accepting Subculture "
If you dealing with the toxic community one , Then this one might hard to relate
There are 100% lolitas on tumblr still
Tumblr still has lolita content (although not much blogging... more of an IG sort of feel).
Lor can you make a "AI draws lolita and Lor judges accuracy" video? With different prompts like gothic/sweet lolita coord, OTT sweet lolita + theme. Etc. As long as it doesn't get demonetized for skimpy or Nabokov stuff...
omg first yayayay
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Ita is still used very widely as an insult.
i wanna see a tumblr video from u
Yes there are still lolita on tumblr! The community is small and the search function sucks so baddddddd so you have to be creative to find people.
I'm still on Tumblr and still occasionally post pictures of myself in the fashion, but much like instagram, there were definitely issues with the keywords in the past. You can still search "lolita fashion" and find correctly tagged posts, although the occasionally other post slips through. A lot of the blogs I followed are unfortunately dead or less active nowadays. I also started a pillowfort group a few years ago as well, but lost steam when it wasn't very active (other people moderate now.)
Some of the best lolita tumblrs I follow are the Innocent World tumblr (which usually reblogs posts from other users and then provides sources for the items used) and cheapieclassic, who handmakes really beautiful loita dresses. cryptkasper also stills posts sometimes.
I have a lolita side blog on tumblr (green-frills), and the community is still there. It is not as active as before, but it is definitely there!
I've been on tumblr since i was 14, but i'm definitely not leaving anytime soon since I witnessed so much Tumblr Lore in my time that I still reference to this day. However, as much as I would love to make a lolita sideblog, there are still nonconsenting people who would still use coord shots for weird fetish rps 🫠 like i saw someone literally named shrekthesissy reblog someone's coord basically @ing themselves and saying how much they love the dress 😭