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I love weirdcore in every way in the “old one and new one” but I also love cottagecore also I find ur voice relaxing ( that sounds weird but I am not trying to be weird😭😭😭)
Since Weirdcore does center around nostalgia and feeling familiar, yellow for some reason sparks an old feeling of youth or feeling naïve. Maybe that’s why yellow and green are often times associated with it. This stark primary colors that you’ll see in almost every picture could be a nod to the simplicity of early childhood.
I have precisely one friend left that I was temporarily friends with, during our childhoods; we reconnected in high school, nearly distanced during our college years, and eventually reconnected again, but as a couple in our late 20s. We've both seen a lot, and we've had a lot of people abandon us for various reasons, but we've stuck together for the past few years and have shared a home for that long. Most of the rest of my life feels like a nightmare, but he's my biggest blessing, and I doubt I'll ever be truly worthy of his love and patience. Trying my best when possible to step up more, as I struggle to get my mess together; he's my best friend and beloved, and I gotta get better to help him out more.
I slept to a sloth then i saw a man dressed up in black he told me to catch the flying eyes i asked him why her head turned into 📺 And then i woke up from my slumber like mike tyson punched me
This is incredibly interesting. This art movement seems to be the result of living in a fallen world, the product of mental illness and longing for something better. Thank you for making this; it was very informative! My prayers go out for anyone here in the comments section who is struggling.
As someone who isn't from America a lot of the weird core images are not from my childhood. Suburbs didn't look like that for me, the houses I spent time in looked different etc. But somehow, it still conveys a sense of nostalgia and memories for me. And also just cool looking pictures hell yeah. And im not sure what causes those feelings, maybe it's the low quality or maybe it's that I've been taught by the internet to feel connect those types of images and sceneries with the past. I don't know? but tbh im not complaining it's still cool as hell and I love getting forced to feel by art.
@@FunnyName87 oooo thats interesting, im definitely gonna look into some shows and movies i watched as a kid. But I am a bit doubtful since i think it was mainly Dora the explorer in my native language and pixar movies?
@@orangepeel_the_greatMust be in the way how American culture in general is very globalized, globalization from our own childhoods being exposed to the internet and being familiar with these global concepts coming from a lot of media at the time. Also it could be how we perceive childhood now alongside the culture we all collectively experience.
@@orangepeel_the_great oh, ok I thought that because I’m Mexican and I grew up in an area with many modern houses . _. and for some reason the American suburbs give me nostalgia anyway…
Yay weirdcore! One of my fave internet art/aesthetic movements, I love the surrealist nature of it, as someone who’s never really “fit in”. I really fell into weirdcore content as a coping mechanism for some of my past mental health struggles. It actually ended up with me creating a small set of characters in the general weirdcore/dreamcore style. The characters have ended up being my comfort OCs when I’m feeling down, and developed into visual depictions of my mental states/disorders. They’ve actually been helpful to me in therapeutic ways, using them to parse out why I’m feeling at that particular moment and how to deal with it.
Hello!!! As a fellow person who was also apart of weirdcore, Weirdcore really has such a comforting feel and vibe. I have made a bunch of characters as well! It helps me from the anxiety I'm going through.
Agree this so much as an autistic person as well as a backrooms lover(which is partly inspired by weirdcore aesthetics!) I always consider this type of aesthetics to be portraying something neither here or there, the sense of loneliness and never belong. This is so relatable……
I think that this is due to a longing for childhood, for innocence. It appeals to the subconscious. The world breaking at the seams and reality being torn apart is no longer horror, but escapist fantasy. "We need to go back. No matter the cost. WE NEED TO GO BACK."... This is the essence of weirdcore. It's also partially a Psychology Horror Comedy sort of thing I think. The vibe is so utterly intolerable you have to ignore it and focus on the fragments of nostalgia.
Personally, I prefer Weirdcore without text. I feel that the text actually takes away from that surreal, eerie feeling, rather than adding to it. Additionally, I don't think that it's constructive to try to determine a "real" version of an aesthetic. It comes off as gatekeeping and overly restrictive. Rather, I think that it's better to think of the different styles as subaesthetics of sorts which are equally a part of the whole aesthetic.
Yeah i like so many different things and simply cant catergorise it to any particular core. I love the art shown here with the flower and girl at table
I find weirdcore to be offputting and scary, even more so with your explenation, but I am happy that people can find comfort in it and the past of theirs. Love the art, the lil goat is adorable.
I think, it's kind of cosmic horror, it's like to have the feeling of being on a false reality due to the nonsense of life. But the fear of unknown are more than a feartrigger due to the fear of misunderstanding of the outside. To resumed the photographic rendering mix with grain and saturated color created a detail paranoïa.
for me, I dealt with some intense dissociative episodes. I felt like nothing was real and I thought I was insane. Weirdcore brought me a lot of comfort because it made me feel very seen. It made me feel like my experience wasn’t so isolating. But from an outsider perspective I can totally get why it would seem eerie!
@Dragonaiis I 100% feel that same way, when I was lost in early adulthood and couldn't get a grasp on reality due to overwork, unfamiliar responsibilities, and just the dread of trying to live a meaningful existence, I dissociated a lot and felt unreal. Discovering the unnerving yet comforting images that I'd later learn were part of the weird core movement helped ground me, a didn't feel so lost and alone in the world. I felt like other people were experiencing the same thing I was. I still love the aesthetic, and I'm glad people are keeping it going, even though I'm in a more consistently stable headspace now. I can admire it as art and use it to look back on what could have been one of the worst times of my life with more fondness.
@@SilvrRazorFeather yes, I feel like dissociation is being talked about a bit more now? But I would say it’s a less talked about mental health symptom as compared to other things so I often felt isolated and alone in that feeling. For a while, I didn’t even know what it was! I thought it was an existential crisis. I’m glad to be a bit smarter and wiser about it now, and I’m interested to hear I’m not the only one who has experienced this! It’s such an intriguing and thought provoking form of art and deserves more recognition
Weirdcore (and Liminal Spaces) make me uncomfortable because I feel like I recognize it but it lost the comfort it had It makes me miss when I was a child and what life was like in the 2000s to 2010s My memory is trash. I seek out these " Aesthetics " despite the uncomfortable feelings is because in some form it is bringing me comfort Great video and art
@tessaven4164 oh I just saw this It's just the comfort it gives is different now Old comfort is like watching a movie with family New Comfort is watching that same movie after a relative died It is comforting because it's something that you've shared, but now you can no longer share it together because their gone It's no longer the same comforting, because you just can't see it the same way Idk I am just bad at phrasing what I mean It's basically what people mean when they say nostalgia hurts
Another reason for why deer could show up is for the "deer in the headlights" motif. It's pretty darn freaky but also thought-provoking. They kinda just stand there, accepting their fate, staring at it in the eyes. Plus the images are just kinda unsettling, the backgrounds usually dark to contrast with the spotlighted deer. Idk a lot about weirdcore tho, someone else could look at this better i think.
I agree and find this to be an accurate implication for the subconscious function of such images. Deer often freeze, that look they have can remind us of our own feelings of freezing in traumatic situations or when things become too much, like dissociation.
I recently found an old digital camera my grampa gave me when i was little. it has photos and videos ranging from 1st grade to middle school. there's so much on there i had forgotten about. i spent hours going through it and uploading it to my computer and showing the stuff to my sister. I thought i had all of my old photos already, from my kiddie tablet. but this had so many more from things i no longer remembered, like the way our kitchen used to look before it got remodelled. I am not the same person i was when i took those videos. and that's what makes them so fascinating.
weirdcore makes me cry- sob even, i guess its the nostalgia and wanting to go back. I dont remember a lot of my early memories and it feels like im just in a dream- an outside observer to those memories. Its what comforts me- weirdcore i mean- as well...
The shadow people part is really interesting, I was never really scared of them online and found them comforting but when my first cat died I started hallucinating them and it was horrifying
Adulthood feels so empty and dull, while childhood was full of wonder and adventure. It really does sometimes feel like I’m stuck in a dream or nightmare reality, and my real “home” is back in my childhood. And as I get older, those precious childhood memories start to fade more and more, as if my soul itself is fading away. I feel like weird core represents a lot of that for me. Both weird core and nostalgia core hit home really hard for me.
❤ Adults aren't given any freedom to make mistakes or be beginners. Things become repetitive and mundane. Depending on your beliefs, expectations and social standards adult life has an overwhelming tendency to be emotionally, mentally and creatively stifling. ❤ Hang in there, lovely human. You are a beautiful being in a very difficult place. Earth is a school realm. Learn from the journey. ❤ Love to you and your family.
Weirdcore was oddly imo/experience was comforting in a way. Especially when I was struggling in the pandemic. I love how different it looked like from everything else at the time. It felt so comforting to see something familiar yet different from weird text, old photos, to the many lovely eyes...
YES, I've been saying this for years! Weirdcore/Dreamcore is ABSOLUTELY an art movement. The main qualification for fine art is that it makes you *feel*, and Weirdcore absolutely does that
I have been prone to dissociation for most of my life. I forget a lot of things, and I tell myself those things don't matter anymore. But if they don't matter, why did this video make me cry? Thank you for creating this.
I like weird core and gorecore. Mostly humanoid flowers with intestines or such. It gives me comfort. But with all this "ahh weird core scary" is making me a little bit overwhelmed...
After the montage when you started playing the omori music I was like “wait is that omori” I think that game definitely has a lot of weirdcore es que elements
OHHHH so that's why i like using weirdcore to cope!!! I knew it meant something like that, it just felt so weirdly like me and filled in some things, even if it doesn't help me too much i always feel slightly better when i watch or look at some weirdcore things XD Thank you for covering weirdcore! I've been a fan of it for 2 years now and i loved to see this one be talked about :]
I really like the way weird core looks because it’s very offputting and very different, while my life is good enough to the point where I don’t relate to it on that deeper level, I can at least acknowledge that looks cool
Yeah, I like weirdcore because it mysterious, surreal yet beautiful, Which is why I sometimes play Roblox games. Are Roblox weirdcore games accurate to weirdcore?
I feel as the eyes and the “newer” version of Weirdcore, can be more said as dreamcore. Though I do know there is a difference between the two, eyes, clouds, and all of those I associate more with dreamcore. But no matter, both of them bring me a strong sense of nostalgia, peace, and comfort.
As somebody with ddd i really love weirdcore, and it actually made me realize i have the disorder when i found it. Whenever i want to “feel something” when im going though an episode i find weirdcore songs and images to be really comforting
this made me appreciate and realize why weirdcore was so appealing to me. the nostalgia and the feeling of wanting to remember. that sense of familiarity and losing that familiarity from childhood to growing up. Great Video !
really great video!! you've captured the exact reasons i love weirdcore but never been able to articulate. it's the melancholic nostalgia for fleeting moments and being unable to remember much else from your youth due to trauma. vague enough statements and imagery that many can project onto. also love the art and the addition of the cute lil goat, theyre some of my favorite animals 💜💙
Weirdcore has always conveyed an intense feeling of LOVE to me. It may be mangled, or feel like a breath of wind, or an old memory, but weirdcore feels so surrounded by love. At least, that's my feelings on it. Love for yourself, love for the simple things, for your old memories, a bittersweet goodbye, or a tired reunion. It reminds me that these inexplicable feelings are widespread, and it feels like a dreamy sort of link to humanity after you've pulled back alllll the layers, and I think it's really beautiful.
10:25 The fact that the moment the "commercial voice" started speaking I sank in and closed my eyes, just listening, shows how highly emotion evoking it is. I imidiatly believed the voice, slowly getting sadder as it kept reminding me how the past is gone. Everything changes. I... I really fear my friends will leave me.
Weirdcore was my obsession back in 2020/2022 I’ve always liked weird things but the childhood nostalgia, questioning reality, dream-like imagery, connection to the backrooms and the longing for the idealistic past spoke to me deeply. I remember being very depressed back then, lost all my close friends, trying to get into high school while dealing with unstable mental health. I desperately wanted to be a 7 year old again and live in the late 2000s as a carefree child without the problems resulting from growing up. I didn’t knew who I was and everything about my reality just felt wrong and overwhelming. This „aesthetic” or, as you say, art movement was a major source of comfort and inspiration for me. It help me escape from the pain of my own traumas and process them in a healthy way, by making art. Weirdcore’s influence is still present in my artstyle and music taste but luckily, reality doesn’t seem as scary anymore. I’m happy to become an adult soon
I wish I could remember my life. I know I'll regret when that time comes. What little I've been shown of the empty patches is wicked unkind, and what I was allowed to know already warped. I like weirdcore. And things that sit alongside it. I think I'm too old to play with aesthetics now. But im glad there's others who know how to express themselves in ways I've been denied my whole life. It's comforting.
Weirdcore is probably the one aesthetic that I feel completely at home in. As someone who has autism and age regression, it helps me feel like the way that I think and feel is normal for once. It makes me feel a sense of nostalgia and liberation that I can not explain. Most of my life people have always had a problem understanding how my mentality works but I feel that weirdcore along with this video itself sum it up pretty well. Weirdcore helps me feel a sense of nostalgia that I can actually swallow because most of the themes are meant to be unnerving but also welcoming in a way. It helps me understand my trauma in a way where I can sit with it instead of having to adapt to the norm or how people expect me to feel. It helps me feel free to express my emotions without anyone forcing me for once, and I’m glad that it exists cause it reminds me that I’m not the only one who thinks or feels like this most of the time. Thank you for making this informative video and I hope it helps people really understand why this became an aesthetic or a sense of escapism for some people like myself.
I watched your first video in this series and liked it a lot, so of course I clicked on this notification immediately, and can I just say.... *wow.* This was a step up in a way I was NOT prepared for, the way you actually took the time to create those video edits, to write something that conveys the exact feeling of the aesthetic?? What an incredible experience, I simply cannot wait to see what you do next ❤
Weirdcore has always been very comforting to me because the way i remember my childhood evokes the same uneasy and unnerving feelings that the aesthetic and images capture perfectly.
I love your content ^^. I'd really like to see videos on the menhera aesthetic (which actually helped me through my trauma with medication) and a deep dive into the goth aesthetic and how it split into pastel goth, bubblegum, industrial, Victorian, cyber, emo, ect.
Ever since I discovered the weirdcore aesthetic, I’ve loved it even though I didn’t know why. It always just scratched this itch deep inside me that I never knew I had. When I watched this video and listened to you explain what the overall meaning of it could be, I now know. Thank you.
I love your choice of music for this video. I've been using that ambient music playlist for years to study and do homework, or just lay on the floor in the dark and stare up at the ceiling, disconnecting from the world. Made this video feel more personal.
This aesthetic really does resonate with me for some reason. I just feel the incredible sense of nostalgia, especially as someone who grew up in the 2010s. I remember some of those images such as very distinct liminal spaces pictured in my mind from my childhood as a curious, bubbly child. I even seen some of those things whenever I had a deep, painful, extensional crisis while I was incredibly high once, and started greening out. I don't know what it was. It even felt like I had some flashbacks. It's like, I have some really deep unresolved trauma deep down.
I feel that the commercialized ocs with the object heads represent people you used to know but are replaced with objects or creatures. I also have had many dreams where people's heads have been replaced with objects and all sorts of things. :D
12:17 i just noticed the omori soundtrack. please help also, how does this not have more than 1M views or more than 100k? you explained weirdcore perfectly (also i love your voice) i love weirdcore so much and your explaination was more than i expected. it sucks how so many people overlook it and stuff overall this is one of my favorite videos thank you for making it huhuhuhu ^_^
Idk if it's just the music along with you're voice, but the last few parts about losing you're childhood self brought me to tears. In the future, Im merely just a memory, I don't want to be forgotten, I don't want those little memories of my school, my dogs, my house, my friends, my neighborhood, everything.. I wish there was a way to go back to thst time where less matterd.
I’d love if you did Traumacore next, it’s a big subject that people talk about whether it’s “good” or “bad” but it has a interesting story and part of it really resonates with me. Also I absolutely loved this video and you got a new sub :3
@@juno_moth yipeee that sounds so fun… back in 2022 I wrote a doc with so much information about Traumacore so it definitely has a special place in my heart
8:00 (ish) when you were speaking about the eyes and such, the deer made me feel uneasy, but the cat made me feel comforted. Idek why though, but, just sharing that :)
If I'm being completely honest, the first time I saw weirdcore and dreamcore I was so uncomfortable that I wasn't even able to look at it, but then, something in me felt so curious about it at the same time, that's when I started actually diving deep into it. Now, I see myself going through images, musics and games of these aesthetics as a way to find comfort, I feel really embraced by it, and the community that has been builted around it just makes it better, even though it embraces a melancholic scenario, there is always something kind about it, that's why I love it. This video made me just as comfortable, and I'm really glad to find more people talking about it, the drawing at the background just made me more inspired to create things around it as an artist, so thank you for this, it means a lot. :) (Sorry about my english, I'm not native)
Your voice is very comforting I feel like I’m back when I was a little kid laying down in my bed having my mom telling me a story. Also this video is very awesome and cool:3
“Where are we?” Earth apparently. “Have you been here before?” In a past life, yes “Where is the exit?” there may not be any exit at all. We’re all trapped “Why are you here” I don’t know.. “Don’t you remember?” I only remember a past life
As someone who experienced childhood during the pandemic, i always resonated with weirdcore, i always try to go back to my earlier childhood due to how overwhelming the present at the time for me, but my earlier childhood was more blurry and vague that yet weirdcore gave me comfort at the time, like a children’s book with creepy drawings, weirdcore and especially dreamcore gave me the comfort that times are hard while also giving me a sense of comfort of a past i never had
This is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. The quality of your essay tells that you made a very intricate research and you explore the psychologic depths of art like I've never seen (and I'm a psychologist lol). We need more videos like this, about other kinds of aesthetics, because they really are our contemporary art movements and I never thought of them that way. And your voice is sooo soft! I'm a fan ❤
weirdcore strikes a chord in me because my memory has never been very good, not even when i was a kid or teen. a lot of factors made me forget a lot of my childhood, and weirdcore captures the feeling of trying to grasp those memories that slip me by. it's similar to when you know that there is a word that you want to use in a sentence but just can't remember it for the life of you. but that's what my whole life has felt like. i'm genuinely never sure if my childhood memories were real or from dreams, because i have told people stories from being a kid only to realize the memory was actually from a very vivid dream. i have a lot of those (weirdcore reminds me of those dreams that i knew were dreams, too). my family, who were in these stories, can't always fact check me because we all have poor memory in this way. they don't know either. i remember how i felt about things more than what happened or who was there. i didn't remember events, i remembered what i learned from them. sometimes that lesson i remember unlocks memories of the details, but more often than not it feels like my brain cherry picks what information i need to retain. i've always struggled with eye contact so i'm not the best at remembering faces, and the shadow people represent that feeling for me pretty well. i remember the clothes people were wearing more than their hair because i was looking down more often than not. weirdcore captures all of that and makes me nostalgic for a time i'd never ever want to return to. also, it's a bit silly to me sometimes. putting unfitting text on an image is funny to me. and i love things that are both funny and unsettling. not all weirdcore images are funny, but sometimes i try to look at it from an outsiders perspective and then it looks really funny. anyway. nowadays i'm doing much better mentally and that has made my memory and information retention better. i'm still learning how to live, and i've got a long way to go. i can accept that there are holes in my memory, and that details of the past will pass me by. it doesn't scare me anymore, and i have weirdcore in part to thank for that
guess I just connected the dots why liminal spaces and some types of analogue horror aren't just something I feel drawn to, but why they don't scare me at all. tbf so far I am somewhat content with the knowledge that everytime I mentally grow and evolve my old self dies. yet there are leftover scars that still itch. there is something underneath from the long lost past that I haven't gotten out yet and I don't know how to cure the itch of something that's so far gone in the fog of the past that I can't see it anymore.
The omori music in some places of this video is perfect. The context of the game fits this video rlly well, and the amount of effort put into this video is incredible. :)
Thank you for making this video. For the longest time, I wasn't really sure why i was obsessed with weirdcore back in late 2020 till 2022. I always assumed I just liked the aesthetic but this video just makes everything a lot of sense to me. Back then, I was really attached to the past (still am today) and maybe due to that, when i first discovered weirdcore that was the reason why i became obsessed over it. I wanted to feel familiar with the past again. To go back to my childhood. Now I'm just rambling but again, thank you for making this video.
off topic: your voice is so sweet😢 I love it❤ I love weirdcore with my heart... I remember doing a painting with wierdcore themes for school a while back✨️
i use weirdcore and dreamcore as a way to relax. I always grew up lonely, i have friends but i dont have someone who i have seen face to face in years. I didnt have friends most of 2024 at my school and i found weirdcore as a home to me. A home to a weird messed up town but a home. I love early 2000s late 90s aesthetic but i never grew up having a outside life. I didnt like going outside and im autistic. Weirdcore makes me feel comforting and like im loved even if its wrong. It feels lukewarm and i have had a dream very weirdcore adjacent which ill go into now . In this dream i was in somewhere i knew was heaven. It was blurry white clouds, the sky was a color i cant understand, just grey or blue. I forgot. There was a seesaw and a swing and i remember seeing a circle headed thing that felt like a angel, and there was a hill but with a hole underneath. Does anyone know what this dream is? The swings were green and blue and rhe seesaw was yellow and red. It was very yellow and old like. What even was this dream? I also had a shorter one. My aunt appeared for a second or a lady who looked like my year 3 teacher and my aunt. She was standing there but there was a house and I was on a ladder behind the house and it had railing, but I fell and I remember the houses yard was so deep and so green it looked like a void. I also vaguely know the snail emoji was somehow linked to the heaven dream!
Wow. That was very impressive. Never realized it could be that deep,. I just feel comfortable where it is weird and was always a fan of Surrealism. Here is my vote for ‘Star Flesh’, also love your narration style and voice. A+
wonderful video! Weirdcore is so dear to my heart! an aesthetic that i would actually get a lil upset when people didnt understand. while weirdcore to most, like mentioned in the video, is remembering and showcasing those loose threads of memory, i seem to have a different attachment to it. ive always dissociated for the majority of my life (wooo undiagnosed autism) and these pictures, that art, it brings me back to that distant feeling. It's oddly comforting, to see pictures that somehow capture that unexplainable feeling. I guess that's why i would get upset. When people insulted the aesthetic, it felt like it was insulting whatever these feelings were. Thankfully ive gotten into therapy and has been properly diagnosed! Still, that odd comfort is very much present when diving into this aesthtic.
Wonderful video! I think you captured the essence of Weirdcore very well - both with the video essay and your artpiece! Thank you for making this. Now I understand a bit better why I feel so drawn to weirdcore images.
Weird and nostalgia-core has helped remember some things, good and bad! I'm thankful this art aesthetic is around and I'll probably cherish for as long as I live; I understand a lot of people won't remember their past and begin to forget in their 20's like you said, but for me... I began to remember a bunch of things last year, even the most painful and cringe-inducing kind. However, I'm glad I remembered those because now I can begin to accept them.
I find great comfort in the weirdcore aesthetic because it speaks to the subconscious. It makes me feel like I know all and nothing at the same time. It really gets my brain working. What I love most is that there's nothing right or wrong to see in these images because everyone sees something different in them. It's like the picture is not about whats depicted on it, but rather about you and YOU specifically. That makes weirdcore so unique and cool
This is phenomenal. Your voice, the delivery of the narration, the script, the pacing, the art, everything! Your video is so mesmerizing and the emotions you evoke give me this weird sense of comfort and anxiety, like I know I'm safe but also that in the future I will be rotting like all living things do that came before me. Understanding the passage of time is definitely a form of horror indeed. It's so scary that memories make a huge chunk of who we are and that it is not infallible, our memories will fade and we will forget things years from now and sometimes the things we remember have been altered again and again from us trying to recall it that it becomes unrecognizable in itself. It's wild.
i had to sit down and genuinely think about this, because holy fucking shit- instantly subscribed. your storytelling is so human and personal- but I'm not even sure if those are the right words to describe it. anyways, absolutely loved it 💝
Loved this video!! It made me think about how both weirdcore and Surrealism emerged out of rapidly changing historical moments. Honestly, people putting together images and text on their computer today is a lot like the artists who used the relatively new (or at least newly accessible) art forms of photography and photographic collage to create reality-bending images out of existing objects nearly a hundred years ago!
Instant subscribe. I love the explanation of the themes and vibes of the art style, and I love the image you drew throughout the duration of the video!
weirdcore has always been my favorite aesthetic. it always feels so nostalgic and oddly relatable. reminds me of a childhood I never got to experience, yet I still feel was there.
I love the weirdcore aesthetic. I have lots of mental illnesses and weirdcore just helps me process my feelings and what im going through, especially the music. Its like comfort food for me when im depressed and struggling a lot.
I love weird core. It just gives such an unexplainable feeling. How can something be eerie and comforting at the same time. Fully agree that’s it’s an art movement. Like a darker version of Dada or something.
I’ve always loved weirdcore, the images and games that use them feel so much like wandering around and finding something that’s clinging to still be remembered. I just want to say thank you for giving me the words to express my love of this genre and what it means to me, as someone who has had a lot of trouble remembering her past and wants to no matter how uncomfortable it makes me.
I should not have watched this video alone at home with headphones on cuz when I have my headphones on I always start hearing thing that don't exist like the house in literally breathing, also my house has a lot of windows and it's dark outside so everywhere I look is just a black void of emptiness with does help, also my house in right next to my old primary school, this video reminded me that nobody remembers or recognises me there anymore (even my old teachers) it's like I never existed, and across the street is my old daycare which is now abandoned and a part of it burned down last week. I still love wierdcore but it always gives me the creeps
“and the small moments I do remember I wish I didn’t.” I have a hard time with the idea of ‘forgive and forget’ because if I forget what someone does then they could hurt me again. Humans are a collection of personal experiences and knowledge. A part of that is my parents slip up occasionally, yelling or crying or refusing to listen, because they are human too, but if I forget then history can repeat, so I cling to those memories. Weirdcore is what I feel happens to when I let go, when my dad says ‘when do I do this’ but I’ve forgotten the exact event. The knowledge that this has happened but it’s to foggy to recall. The fear of losing the memories that made me like this in the first place.
As someone who is definitely not old enough to remember as little of their childhood as they do, the weirdcore images relating to memories/not being able to remember have always been the ones that lingered in my mind long after I moved on from the photo. The idea they portray of feeling like you've forgotten something important; the memories you do have feeling indescribably wrong, like they're not your own, or like something you can't identify is missing. The strange mixture of comfort, longing, and unnerve that comes with that. The idea of a place which feels familier and nostalgic but that you have no memory of, where you struggle to tell if that place was actually once a comfort to you or not. The concept of wanting to go back to a safer, more comforting time but not being sure if there's anything to go back to. I guess I'm just rambling now, but I don't quite know how else to explain how this asthetic makes me feel. It's similar to how pictures of liminal spaces make me feel. Like I'm both out of place and right where I belong. It's comforting and unnerving and other stuff I can't identify. Its so weird. Which is a guess the point.
I usually never comment on TH-cam videos, but something pushed me to do an exception for this channel in particular. I always was drawn to weirdcore, nostalgiacore dramcore (and more), as I always feel like I'm being tormented by shadows from my past: whether I'm sleeping or doing my regular chores; I feel like I'm nothing but a shade of my past self, barely recognizable or relevant even for myself, and now I constantly feel like more pieces of me keep going missing. Weirdcore, dreamcore, and even liminal spaces, are like an interdimensional tunnel: capable of bringing back those strange emotions, long forgotten memories or familiar yet simple words that I never recalled hearing, but that somehow I wish I could have heard them sooner; while also transporting me into, maybe, one of my past lives. I was looking for a channel that could cover all this and explain it more in depth, but gave up on my research a few years ago unsuccessfully... But yesterday curiosity brought me back here on TH-cam, and I randomly stumbled upon this channel. All I can say is.. I didn't expect it. The few videos I watched were a fun, soothing trip that to me, explained a lot of the origins of those strange feelings I keep getting at random points of my life. I thought explaining it with only words was not possible, yet you did it. I know this video wasn't dedicated to me specifically, but I still feel like thanking you for covering this. I really appreciated it, I really did. I don't know if you'll ever read this comment, or if anyone at all will ever do... But I loved all the effort you put into these videos, and honestly, I look forward for more and hope you can cover more of these. Apologies if my english wasn't perfect, but I hope you could still get the message... Really big fan of your art style by the way. Keep up the great work
@Gl1ch_6677 speaking to someone about my feelings was never my thing. I really don't want to drag anyone into my problems, I know people have better things to do than listen to me, so it's better if I elaborate things for myself and maybe find a solution on my own. If that was an offer, I am deeply grateful to you for even thinking about it. Really mate, thank you.
@@Gl1ch_6677 don't know why my first reply disappeared (or maybe it's hidden to me for some reason), but I'll write it again for you. Talking to someone about my feelings was never my thing. Not only I HATE seeking attention, but I also don't ever want to drag someone down with my problems, so I try to elaborate things for what they appear to be, and maybe find a solution on my own. People have better stuff to do than talk to me anyway, and that's totally. If that was an offer, I really appreciate your kindness, even though we're strangers, I really do. Thank you, and I hope the best for you, mate.
to me weirdcore and dreamcore both bring out a feeling that has followed me throughout my childhood: the feeling that nothing else exists beyond what you see. It can be a safe and comforting feeling as well as a trapping and utterly terrifying thought, and it all depends on the situation you were in. If it's a pleasant memory, it feels so simple and so safe, you don't think about anything in your life that can be better, because it's already the most perfect it can be. And if it's an unpleasant memory, you are overwhelmed with a fear that it's never going to get better, that this is your personal hell, and it's going to persist until the day that the universe collapses. Besides that it can also be somewhere in the middle, where you feel safe but at the same time trapped. I like reminiscing in those feelings when i see dreamcore or weirdcore posts, because they bring about that sense of familiarity.
I always liked Weirdcore and Dreamcore. I wasn’t entirely sure why, nor did I fully understand it. This video helped me finally understand it, and why I found it comforting! Thank you.
i don't have a great memory, when i recall something it's usually a strange image it might be from a memory, or a dream, or a story, or something else entirely. all of my memories are linked to random objects or words. if you tell me about something that happened when i was younger i'm inclined to believe you, if you're bringing it up you where probably there so you probably know better than i do, don't you? sometimes i remember something that never happened, or at least something no one else remembered, i think those are dreams. it's not just old memories either, sometimes when i'm doing something i'll think about what i should do after i'm done but by the time i'm done i've forgotten wwhat i was going to do, but i usually remember what i was going to do if i look at what i just did. i think this is all normal, i think this is what people mean when they say the have a bad memory, right? tl/dr: ramblings about my memory brought on by the distorted images shown in this video and probably sleep deprivation or something idk... 8:01
Actually, this is Exactly how I feel. When i look through weirdcore images and stylizations its almost always used in the same vain as looking through old photo albums. Surrounded a haze of nostalgia that is almost dissociative in nature, having to look through these memories through a third perspective, but still managing to find comfort through in it. Idk maybe im just projecting but i have a lot of thoughts on the subject.
@@xxgenericedgytitlexx2483 you're either saying exactly what i was thinking or you saying that has altered my memory of writing this so that i think you're saying exactly what i was thinking
I get comfort from weirdcore possibly due to what might be psychosis :'-] I usually use elements of it in vent artwork to represent that, but also trauma
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AHHH, i'm so sad I'm just seeing this now but happy, this video was eVERYTHING
I love weirdcore in every way in the “old one and new one” but I also love cottagecore also I find ur voice relaxing ( that sounds weird but I am not trying to be weird😭😭😭)
I’m so high rn.,.
Can you do kidcore? :3
Since Weirdcore does center around nostalgia and feeling familiar, yellow for some reason sparks an old feeling of youth or feeling naïve. Maybe that’s why yellow and green are often times associated with it. This stark primary colors that you’ll see in almost every picture could be a nod to the simplicity of early childhood.
I associate yellow and green with "I can't believe it's not butter"
@@sterlinsilver 😭
yellow is my favourite colour
green is my favorite color
Yellow and green.... FLOWEY UNDERTAIL!?
“Ur childhood friends don’t exist anymore, they’re strangers now”
I actually relate to that
but somehow, I still think of them as friends. when I refer to them, I still call them my friends. our friendship never ended.
I have precisely one friend left that I was temporarily friends with, during our childhoods; we reconnected in high school, nearly distanced during our college years, and eventually reconnected again, but as a couple in our late 20s. We've both seen a lot, and we've had a lot of people abandon us for various reasons, but we've stuck together for the past few years and have shared a home for that long. Most of the rest of my life feels like a nightmare, but he's my biggest blessing, and I doubt I'll ever be truly worthy of his love and patience. Trying my best when possible to step up more, as I struggle to get my mess together; he's my best friend and beloved, and I gotta get better to help him out more.
Damn
A year ago, I found out that one of my high school friends(39yrs) had passed away the year before. The older I get, the more I think about mortality.
Well I actually still know many of my childhood friends.
"Art is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comforted" The perfect quote to describe weirdcore.
I am definitely the disturbed. I love weirdcore, I think it helps me process my trauma and emotions which I have trouble with.
I love that quote, I find it very true
@@BobbysAlt YOUR SO REAL FOR THAT
I guess this is why I always found Weirdcore to be very comforting to me.
Yess for real
"the weird is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comforted"
I slept to a sloth then i saw a man dressed up in black he told me to catch the flying eyes i asked him why her head turned into 📺
And then i woke up from my slumber like mike tyson punched me
Yes.
This is incredibly interesting. This art movement seems to be the result of living in a fallen world, the product of mental illness and longing for something better. Thank you for making this; it was very informative! My prayers go out for anyone here in the comments section who is struggling.
Definitely have never thought of offing myself, noooooo
But seriously, thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤
This aesthetic makes me feel nice :)
Thank you for typing this comment..It's nice to be Told this..Thank you so much...
Amen ❤️ 🙏
yes yes
Yeah, best of lucks and love to all❤
As someone who isn't from America a lot of the weird core images are not from my childhood. Suburbs didn't look like that for me, the houses I spent time in looked different etc. But somehow, it still conveys a sense of nostalgia and memories for me. And also just cool looking pictures hell yeah. And im not sure what causes those feelings, maybe it's the low quality or maybe it's that I've been taught by the internet to feel connect those types of images and sceneries with the past. I don't know? but tbh im not complaining it's still cool as hell and I love getting forced to feel by art.
Maybe you feel nostalgia because you’ve seen the places in movies or tv shows????
@@FunnyName87 oooo thats interesting, im definitely gonna look into some shows and movies i watched as a kid. But I am a bit doubtful since i think it was mainly Dora the explorer in my native language and pixar movies?
@@orangepeel_the_greatMust be in the way how American culture in general is very globalized, globalization from our own childhoods being exposed to the internet and being familiar with these global concepts coming from a lot of media at the time.
Also it could be how we perceive childhood now alongside the culture we all collectively experience.
@@orangepeel_the_great oh, ok I thought that because I’m Mexican and I grew up in an area with many modern houses . _. and for some reason the American suburbs give me nostalgia anyway…
@@FunnyName87 that does make a lot of sense imo yeah
Yay weirdcore! One of my fave internet art/aesthetic movements, I love the surrealist nature of it, as someone who’s never really “fit in”.
I really fell into weirdcore content as a coping mechanism for some of my past mental health struggles. It actually ended up with me creating a small set of characters in the general weirdcore/dreamcore style. The characters have ended up being my comfort OCs when I’m feeling down, and developed into visual depictions of my mental states/disorders. They’ve actually been helpful to me in therapeutic ways, using them to parse out why I’m feeling at that particular moment and how to deal with it.
Hello!!! As a fellow person who was also apart of weirdcore, Weirdcore really has such a comforting feel and vibe. I have made a bunch of characters as well! It helps me from the anxiety I'm going through.
It's nice to hear that you found so much comfort in this aesthetic, so did I
@@juno_mothsame Thx for the video..Helped me much to :)
Agree this so much as an autistic person as well as a backrooms lover(which is partly inspired by weirdcore aesthetics!) I always consider this type of aesthetics to be portraying something neither here or there, the sense of loneliness and never belong. This is so relatable……
I have too! Weirdcore helps me process my emotions and trauma, especially the music.
I think that this is due to a longing for childhood, for innocence. It appeals to the subconscious. The world breaking at the seams and reality being torn apart is no longer horror, but escapist fantasy. "We need to go back. No matter the cost. WE NEED TO GO BACK."... This is the essence of weirdcore.
It's also partially a Psychology Horror Comedy sort of thing I think. The vibe is so utterly intolerable you have to ignore it and focus on the fragments of nostalgia.
Based spore creatures pfp
*_"WE NEED TO GO BACK RIGGGGGHHHHHHT NOW, RIGHT NOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW"_*
Personally, I prefer Weirdcore without text. I feel that the text actually takes away from that surreal, eerie feeling, rather than adding to it.
Additionally, I don't think that it's constructive to try to determine a "real" version of an aesthetic. It comes off as gatekeeping and overly restrictive. Rather, I think that it's better to think of the different styles as subaesthetics of sorts which are equally a part of the whole aesthetic.
absolutly, this is just my interpretation
Yeah i like so many different things and simply cant catergorise it to any particular core. I love the art shown here with the flower and girl at table
I really love it
periodt. literally the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy
Yeah I don’t really see the need to try and defrienciate the “real” and “fake” weirdcore.
I find weirdcore to be offputting and scary, even more so with your explenation, but I am happy that people can find comfort in it and the past of theirs. Love the art, the lil goat is adorable.
Thank you! I struggled with the goat so much
I think, it's kind of cosmic horror, it's like to have the feeling of being on a false reality due to the nonsense of life. But the fear of unknown are more than a feartrigger due to the fear of misunderstanding of the outside.
To resumed the photographic rendering mix with grain and saturated color created a detail paranoïa.
for me, I dealt with some intense dissociative episodes. I felt like nothing was real and I thought I was insane. Weirdcore brought me a lot of comfort because it made me feel very seen. It made me feel like my experience wasn’t so isolating. But from an outsider perspective I can totally get why it would seem eerie!
@Dragonaiis I 100% feel that same way, when I was lost in early adulthood and couldn't get a grasp on reality due to overwork, unfamiliar responsibilities, and just the dread of trying to live a meaningful existence, I dissociated a lot and felt unreal. Discovering the unnerving yet comforting images that I'd later learn were part of the weird core movement helped ground me, a didn't feel so lost and alone in the world. I felt like other people were experiencing the same thing I was.
I still love the aesthetic, and I'm glad people are keeping it going, even though I'm in a more consistently stable headspace now. I can admire it as art and use it to look back on what could have been one of the worst times of my life with more fondness.
@@SilvrRazorFeather yes, I feel like dissociation is being talked about a bit more now? But I would say it’s a less talked about mental health symptom as compared to other things so I often felt isolated and alone in that feeling. For a while, I didn’t even know what it was! I thought it was an existential crisis. I’m glad to be a bit smarter and wiser about it now, and I’m interested to hear I’m not the only one who has experienced this! It’s such an intriguing and thought provoking form of art and deserves more recognition
As someone who who literally dwells in weirdcore dreamcore traumacore, THANKS FOR MAKING THIS U EXPLAIN THIS TYPA STUFF BETER THAN I DOOO 😭😭😭
Weirdcore (and Liminal Spaces) make me uncomfortable because I feel like I recognize it but it lost the comfort it had
It makes me miss when I was a child and what life was like in the 2000s to 2010s
My memory is trash.
I seek out these " Aesthetics " despite the uncomfortable feelings is because in some form it is bringing me comfort
Great video and art
"but it lost the comfort it had" but "in some form it is bringing me comfort". So which one is it? And if it's both, how it works?
@tessaven4164 oh I just saw this
It's just the comfort it gives is different now
Old comfort is like watching a movie with family
New Comfort is watching that same movie after a relative died
It is comforting because it's something that you've shared, but now you can no longer share it together because their gone
It's no longer the same comforting, because you just can't see it the same way
Idk I am just bad at phrasing what I mean
It's basically what people mean when they say nostalgia hurts
@@CastorCas I fully understand what you mean, it's exactly how I feel
Another reason for why deer could show up is for the "deer in the headlights" motif. It's pretty darn freaky but also thought-provoking. They kinda just stand there, accepting their fate, staring at it in the eyes. Plus the images are just kinda unsettling, the backgrounds usually dark to contrast with the spotlighted deer. Idk a lot about weirdcore tho, someone else could look at this better i think.
that so interesting, I haven't thought about that, thank you for your insight!
I agree and find this to be an accurate implication for the subconscious function of such images. Deer often freeze, that look they have can remind us of our own feelings of freezing in traumatic situations or when things become too much, like dissociation.
Damn I thought about this too thank you for elaborating this!
I think of it as being a reference to Appalachian folklore and the whole "not deer" thing
@mayhem_subs Ooo i didn't really consider that :o I find that unlikely but it is interesting to consider :D
I recently found an old digital camera my grampa gave me when i was little. it has photos and videos ranging from 1st grade to middle school. there's so much on there i had forgotten about. i spent hours going through it and uploading it to my computer and showing the stuff to my sister. I thought i had all of my old photos already, from my kiddie tablet. but this had so many more from things i no longer remembered, like the way our kitchen used to look before it got remodelled. I am not the same person i was when i took those videos. and that's what makes them so fascinating.
Weirdcore art reminds me of other crisis era art. Like the art that was made at WW1, WW2 or right after 9/11.
yeah, I think that during/right after a crisis people turn to surrealist art to help them cope with reality
Let's not forget we were just in a pandemic some years ago... there's still a lot of trauma going on
11:45 the use of that omori song was just *chefs kiss*
Frr it really pulled the whole moment together, tbh I felt like I was gonna tear up lmao
That's why it sound so familiar
Frrr i was tearing up lmao
Was just about to comment something like that, yeah.
yeeees, warbled 'By Your Side.' is such a dreamcore/weirdcore song
weirdcore makes me cry- sob even, i guess its the nostalgia and wanting to go back. I dont remember a lot of my early memories and it feels like im just in a dream- an outside observer to those memories. Its what comforts me- weirdcore i mean- as well...
I agree with you
The shadow people part is really interesting, I was never really scared of them online and found them comforting but when my first cat died I started hallucinating them and it was horrifying
Adulthood feels so empty and dull, while childhood was full of wonder and adventure. It really does sometimes feel like I’m stuck in a dream or nightmare reality, and my real “home” is back in my childhood. And as I get older, those precious childhood memories start to fade more and more, as if my soul itself is fading away.
I feel like weird core represents a lot of that for me. Both weird core and nostalgia core hit home really hard for me.
❤ Adults aren't given any freedom to make mistakes or be beginners. Things become repetitive and mundane. Depending on your beliefs, expectations and social standards adult life has an overwhelming tendency to be emotionally, mentally and creatively stifling. ❤ Hang in there, lovely human. You are a beautiful being in a very difficult place. Earth is a school realm. Learn from the journey. ❤ Love to you and your family.
Weirdcore was oddly imo/experience was comforting in a way. Especially when I was struggling in the pandemic. I love how different it looked like from everything else at the time. It felt so comforting to see something familiar yet different from weird text, old photos, to the many lovely eyes...
I get comforted chills when I think of weirdcore, like when you get really warm and you get sudden chills...
0:36 these questions made me start to go “I don’t know”, repeatedly, and caused slight panic 😭
YES, I've been saying this for years! Weirdcore/Dreamcore is ABSOLUTELY an art movement. The main qualification for fine art is that it makes you *feel*, and Weirdcore absolutely does that
I have been prone to dissociation for most of my life. I forget a lot of things, and I tell myself those things don't matter anymore.
But if they don't matter, why did this video make me cry?
Thank you for creating this.
I like weird core and gorecore. Mostly humanoid flowers with intestines or such. It gives me comfort. But with all this "ahh weird core scary" is making me a little bit overwhelmed...
Also i really like your drawing.
After the montage when you started playing the omori music I was like “wait is that omori” I think that game definitely has a lot of weirdcore es que elements
absolutly, it shares a lot of themes with Wierdcore
id say its more dream core for the better half of the game, but theres definitely _one_ part of it id say is pretty weird core...
AHH I LOVE OMORI SO MUCH RAHHHH
Omori fans!!!
OHHHH so that's why i like using weirdcore to cope!!! I knew it meant something like that, it just felt so weirdly like me and filled in some things, even if it doesn't help me too much i always feel slightly better when i watch or look at some weirdcore things XD
Thank you for covering weirdcore! I've been a fan of it for 2 years now and i loved to see this one be talked about :]
I really like the way weird core looks because it’s very offputting and very different, while my life is good enough to the point where I don’t relate to it on that deeper level, I can at least acknowledge that looks cool
Yeah, I like weirdcore because it mysterious, surreal yet beautiful, Which is why I sometimes play Roblox games. Are Roblox weirdcore games accurate to weirdcore?
I find weird core to be very interesting and I really like the images people make :)
I feel as the eyes and the “newer” version of Weirdcore, can be more said as dreamcore. Though I do know there is a difference between the two, eyes, clouds, and all of those I associate more with dreamcore. But no matter, both of them bring me a strong sense of nostalgia, peace, and comfort.
As somebody with ddd i really love weirdcore, and it actually made me realize i have the disorder when i found it. Whenever i want to “feel something” when im going though an episode i find weirdcore songs and images to be really comforting
this made me appreciate and realize why weirdcore was so appealing to me. the nostalgia and the feeling of wanting to remember. that sense of familiarity and losing that familiarity from childhood to growing up. Great Video !
I've never really been super 'into' any aesthetics but I think this one is for me. Just this video was really comforting. Thank you!
I'm so glad!
really great video!! you've captured the exact reasons i love weirdcore but never been able to articulate. it's the melancholic nostalgia for fleeting moments and being unable to remember much else from your youth due to trauma. vague enough statements and imagery that many can project onto.
also love the art and the addition of the cute lil goat, theyre some of my favorite animals 💜💙
thank youuu, happy i could help you sort out your thoughts. And also... the goat was such a struggle to draw
Weirdcore has always conveyed an intense feeling of LOVE to me. It may be mangled, or feel like a breath of wind, or an old memory, but weirdcore feels so surrounded by love. At least, that's my feelings on it. Love for yourself, love for the simple things, for your old memories, a bittersweet goodbye, or a tired reunion. It reminds me that these inexplicable feelings are widespread, and it feels like a dreamy sort of link to humanity after you've pulled back alllll the layers, and I think it's really beautiful.
10:25 The fact that the moment the "commercial voice" started speaking I sank in and closed my eyes, just listening, shows how highly emotion evoking it is. I imidiatly believed the voice, slowly getting sadder as it kept reminding me how the past is gone. Everything changes. I... I really fear my friends will leave me.
Weirdcore was my obsession back in 2020/2022
I’ve always liked weird things but the childhood nostalgia, questioning reality, dream-like imagery, connection to the backrooms and the longing for the idealistic past spoke to me deeply. I remember being very depressed back then, lost all my close friends, trying to get into high school while dealing with unstable mental health. I desperately wanted to be a 7 year old again and live in the late 2000s as a carefree child without the problems resulting from growing up. I didn’t knew who I was and everything about my reality just felt wrong and overwhelming. This „aesthetic” or, as you say, art movement was a major source of comfort and inspiration for me. It help me escape from the pain of my own traumas and process them in a healthy way, by making art. Weirdcore’s influence is still present in my artstyle and music taste but luckily, reality doesn’t seem as scary anymore. I’m happy to become an adult soon
I wish I could remember my life. I know I'll regret when that time comes. What little I've been shown of the empty patches is wicked unkind, and what I was allowed to know already warped. I like weirdcore. And things that sit alongside it. I think I'm too old to play with aesthetics now. But im glad there's others who know how to express themselves in ways I've been denied my whole life. It's comforting.
Weirdcore is probably the one aesthetic that I feel completely at home in. As someone who has autism and age regression, it helps me feel like the way that I think and feel is normal for once. It makes me feel a sense of nostalgia and liberation that I can not explain. Most of my life people have always had a problem understanding how my mentality works but I feel that weirdcore along with this video itself sum it up pretty well. Weirdcore helps me feel a sense of nostalgia that I can actually swallow because most of the themes are meant to be unnerving but also welcoming in a way. It helps me understand my trauma in a way where I can sit with it instead of having to adapt to the norm or how people expect me to feel. It helps me feel free to express my emotions without anyone forcing me for once, and I’m glad that it exists cause it reminds me that I’m not the only one who thinks or feels like this most of the time. Thank you for making this informative video and I hope it helps people really understand why this became an aesthetic or a sense of escapism for some people like myself.
I watched your first video in this series and liked it a lot, so of course I clicked on this notification immediately, and can I just say.... *wow.* This was a step up in a way I was NOT prepared for, the way you actually took the time to create those video edits, to write something that conveys the exact feeling of the aesthetic?? What an incredible experience, I simply cannot wait to see what you do next ❤
thank you so much, i'm glad you enjoyed this video
Weirdcore has always been very comforting to me because the way i remember my childhood evokes the same uneasy and unnerving feelings that the aesthetic and images capture perfectly.
Why is your voice so comforting 😅
I Like weirdcore and glitchcore music
I love your content ^^. I'd really like to see videos on the menhera aesthetic (which actually helped me through my trauma with medication) and a deep dive into the goth aesthetic and how it split into pastel goth, bubblegum, industrial, Victorian, cyber, emo, ect.
Thanks for the idea!
weird core scares me, but that's what i like about it; its like looking at a picture of a childhood nightmare.
Samee
Ever since I discovered the weirdcore aesthetic, I’ve loved it even though I didn’t know why. It always just scratched this itch deep inside me that I never knew I had. When I watched this video and listened to you explain what the overall meaning of it could be, I now know. Thank you.
I love your choice of music for this video. I've been using that ambient music playlist for years to study and do homework, or just lay on the floor in the dark and stare up at the ceiling, disconnecting from the world. Made this video feel more personal.
i grew up with weirdcore quite a bit, it was a big BIG part of my childhood. the whole thing about it was so comforting to me
This aesthetic really does resonate with me for some reason. I just feel the incredible sense of nostalgia, especially as someone who grew up in the 2010s. I remember some of those images such as very distinct liminal spaces pictured in my mind from my childhood as a curious, bubbly child. I even seen some of those things whenever I had a deep, painful, extensional crisis while I was incredibly high once, and started greening out. I don't know what it was. It even felt like I had some flashbacks. It's like, I have some really deep unresolved trauma deep down.
I feel that the commercialized ocs with the object heads represent people you used to know but are replaced with objects or creatures.
I also have had many dreams where people's heads have been replaced with objects and all sorts of things. :D
ooo nostAlgic music in the first few secs of the vid (I love that ynfg)
(Btw my favorite song is Nursery Room's ost it's so good made me cry)
12:17 i just noticed the omori soundtrack. please help
also, how does this not have more than 1M views or more than 100k? you explained weirdcore perfectly (also i love your voice)
i love weirdcore so much and your explaination was more than i expected. it sucks how so many people overlook it and stuff
overall this is one of my favorite videos thank you for making it huhuhuhu ^_^
Idk if it's just the music along with you're voice, but the last few parts about losing you're childhood self brought me to tears. In the future, Im merely just a memory, I don't want to be forgotten, I don't want those little memories of my school, my dogs, my house, my friends, my neighborhood, everything.. I wish there was a way to go back to thst time where less matterd.
I’d love if you did Traumacore next, it’s a big subject that people talk about whether it’s “good” or “bad” but it has a interesting story and part of it really resonates with me. Also I absolutely loved this video and you got a new sub :3
I have a traumacore scriupt ready to go. thank you for subscribing
@@juno_moth yipeee that sounds so fun… back in 2022 I wrote a doc with so much information about Traumacore so it definitely has a special place in my heart
8:00 (ish) when you were speaking about the eyes and such, the deer made me feel uneasy, but the cat made me feel comforted. Idek why though, but, just sharing that :)
If I'm being completely honest, the first time I saw weirdcore and dreamcore I was so uncomfortable that I wasn't even able to look at it, but then, something in me felt so curious about it at the same time, that's when I started actually diving deep into it. Now, I see myself going through images, musics and games of these aesthetics as a way to find comfort, I feel really embraced by it, and the community that has been builted around it just makes it better, even though it embraces a melancholic scenario, there is always something kind about it, that's why I love it. This video made me just as comfortable, and I'm really glad to find more people talking about it, the drawing at the background just made me more inspired to create things around it as an artist, so thank you for this, it means a lot. :)
(Sorry about my english, I'm not native)
Your voice is very comforting I feel like I’m back when I was a little kid laying down in my bed having my mom telling me a story.
Also this video is very awesome and cool:3
“Where are we?” Earth apparently.
“Have you been here before?” In a past life, yes
“Where is the exit?” there may not be any exit at all. We’re all trapped
“Why are you here” I don’t know..
“Don’t you remember?” I only remember a past life
but this is too soothing and smooth, ur so angelic and im vibin with dat
my favorite quote, and one that heavily applies to weirdcore, "Art is meant to disturb the comforted and comfort the disturbed"
As someone who experienced childhood during the pandemic, i always resonated with weirdcore, i always try to go back to my earlier childhood due to how overwhelming the present at the time for me, but my earlier childhood was more blurry and vague that yet weirdcore gave me comfort at the time, like a children’s book with creepy drawings, weirdcore and especially dreamcore gave me the comfort that times are hard while also giving me a sense of comfort of a past i never had
This is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. The quality of your essay tells that you made a very intricate research and you explore the psychologic depths of art like I've never seen (and I'm a psychologist lol). We need more videos like this, about other kinds of aesthetics, because they really are our contemporary art movements and I never thought of them that way. And your voice is sooo soft! I'm a fan ❤
weirdcore strikes a chord in me because my memory has never been very good, not even when i was a kid or teen. a lot of factors made me forget a lot of my childhood, and weirdcore captures the feeling of trying to grasp those memories that slip me by. it's similar to when you know that there is a word that you want to use in a sentence but just can't remember it for the life of you. but that's what my whole life has felt like.
i'm genuinely never sure if my childhood memories were real or from dreams, because i have told people stories from being a kid only to realize the memory was actually from a very vivid dream. i have a lot of those (weirdcore reminds me of those dreams that i knew were dreams, too). my family, who were in these stories, can't always fact check me because we all have poor memory in this way. they don't know either.
i remember how i felt about things more than what happened or who was there. i didn't remember events, i remembered what i learned from them. sometimes that lesson i remember unlocks memories of the details, but more often than not it feels like my brain cherry picks what information i need to retain.
i've always struggled with eye contact so i'm not the best at remembering faces, and the shadow people represent that feeling for me pretty well. i remember the clothes people were wearing more than their hair because i was looking down more often than not.
weirdcore captures all of that and makes me nostalgic for a time i'd never ever want to return to. also, it's a bit silly to me sometimes. putting unfitting text on an image is funny to me. and i love things that are both funny and unsettling. not all weirdcore images are funny, but sometimes i try to look at it from an outsiders perspective and then it looks really funny.
anyway. nowadays i'm doing much better mentally and that has made my memory and information retention better. i'm still learning how to live, and i've got a long way to go.
i can accept that there are holes in my memory, and that details of the past will pass me by. it doesn't scare me anymore, and i have weirdcore in part to thank for that
guess I just connected the dots why liminal spaces and some types of analogue horror aren't just something I feel drawn to, but why they don't scare me at all.
tbf so far I am somewhat content with the knowledge that everytime I mentally grow and evolve my old self dies. yet there are leftover scars that still itch. there is something underneath from the long lost past that I haven't gotten out yet and I don't know how to cure the itch of something that's so far gone in the fog of the past that I can't see it anymore.
The omori music in some places of this video is perfect. The context of the game fits this video rlly well, and the amount of effort put into this video is incredible. :)
Thank you so much for the sweet comment! Glad you enjoyed the video
love this, will be happy to hear about Dreamcore / Webcore / Vaporwave
Thank you for making this video. For the longest time, I wasn't really sure why i was obsessed with weirdcore back in late 2020 till 2022. I always assumed I just liked the aesthetic but this video just makes everything a lot of sense to me. Back then, I was really attached to the past (still am today) and maybe due to that, when i first discovered weirdcore that was the reason why i became obsessed over it. I wanted to feel familiar with the past again. To go back to my childhood. Now I'm just rambling but again, thank you for making this video.
off topic: your voice is so sweet😢
I love it❤
I love weirdcore with my heart... I remember doing a painting with wierdcore themes for school a while back✨️
Your voice is so calming i love it
i use weirdcore and dreamcore as a way to relax. I always grew up lonely, i have friends but i dont have someone who i have seen face to face in years. I didnt have friends most of 2024 at my school and i found weirdcore as a home to me. A home to a weird messed up town but a home. I love early 2000s late 90s aesthetic but i never grew up having a outside life. I didnt like going outside and im autistic. Weirdcore makes me feel comforting and like im loved even if its wrong. It feels lukewarm and i have had a dream very weirdcore adjacent which ill go into now .
In this dream i was in somewhere i knew was heaven. It was blurry white clouds, the sky was a color i cant understand, just grey or blue. I forgot. There was a seesaw and a swing and i remember seeing a circle headed thing that felt like a angel, and there was a hill but with a hole underneath. Does anyone know what this dream is? The swings were green and blue and rhe seesaw was yellow and red. It was very yellow and old like. What even was this dream?
I also had a shorter one. My aunt appeared for a second or a lady who looked like my year 3 teacher and my aunt. She was standing there but there was a house and I was on a ladder behind the house and it had railing, but I fell and I remember the houses yard was so deep and so green it looked like a void.
I also vaguely know the snail emoji was somehow linked to the heaven dream!
Wow. That was very impressive. Never realized it could be that deep,. I just feel comfortable where it is weird and was always a fan of Surrealism. Here is my vote for ‘Star Flesh’, also love your narration style and voice. A+
wonderful video! Weirdcore is so dear to my heart! an aesthetic that i would actually get a lil upset when people didnt understand. while weirdcore to most, like mentioned in the video, is remembering and showcasing those loose threads of memory, i seem to have a different attachment to it. ive always dissociated for the majority of my life (wooo undiagnosed autism) and these pictures, that art, it brings me back to that distant feeling. It's oddly comforting, to see pictures that somehow capture that unexplainable feeling. I guess that's why i would get upset. When people insulted the aesthetic, it felt like it was insulting whatever these feelings were. Thankfully ive gotten into therapy and has been properly diagnosed! Still, that odd comfort is very much present when diving into this aesthtic.
Wonderful video! I think you captured the essence of Weirdcore very well - both with the video essay and your artpiece!
Thank you for making this.
Now I understand a bit better why I feel so drawn to weirdcore images.
Weird and nostalgia-core has helped remember some things, good and bad! I'm thankful this art aesthetic is around and I'll probably cherish for as long as I live; I understand a lot of people won't remember their past and begin to forget in their 20's like you said, but for me... I began to remember a bunch of things last year, even the most painful and cringe-inducing kind. However, I'm glad I remembered those because now I can begin to accept them.
I find great comfort in the weirdcore aesthetic because it speaks to the subconscious. It makes me feel like I know all and nothing at the same time. It really gets my brain working. What I love most is that there's nothing right or wrong to see in these images because everyone sees something different in them. It's like the picture is not about whats depicted on it, but rather about you and YOU specifically. That makes weirdcore so unique and cool
This is phenomenal. Your voice, the delivery of the narration, the script, the pacing, the art, everything! Your video is so mesmerizing and the emotions you evoke give me this weird sense of comfort and anxiety, like I know I'm safe but also that in the future I will be rotting like all living things do that came before me. Understanding the passage of time is definitely a form of horror indeed.
It's so scary that memories make a huge chunk of who we are and that it is not infallible, our memories will fade and we will forget things years from now and sometimes the things we remember have been altered again and again from us trying to recall it that it becomes unrecognizable in itself. It's wild.
i had to sit down and genuinely think about this, because holy fucking shit-
instantly subscribed. your storytelling is so human and personal- but I'm not even sure if those are the right words to describe it. anyways, absolutely loved it 💝
Thank you for such a thoughtfull comment! I'm really happy that my video resonated with you and I'm glad you'll stick around!
@@juno_moth happy to be here!! ^^ ♥
Loved this video!!
It made me think about how both weirdcore and Surrealism emerged out of rapidly changing historical moments. Honestly, people putting together images and text on their computer today is a lot like the artists who used the relatively new (or at least newly accessible) art forms of photography and photographic collage to create reality-bending images out of existing objects nearly a hundred years ago!
I always felt a sense of comfort for weirdcore its always familiar in a way and I love it and the faint sense of dread in it
I absolutely adore Weirdcore. I feel the community is so welcoming and comforting, and each video always feel like a hug
i love the way you presented weirdcore!! :)
maybe the denpa aesthetic next???
i love denpa (esspecially denpa visual novels) i'll see if i can make a video out of it, thank you for your suggestion
Instant subscribe. I love the explanation of the themes and vibes of the art style, and I love the image you drew throughout the duration of the video!
weirdcore has always been my favorite aesthetic. it always feels so nostalgic and oddly relatable. reminds me of a childhood I never got to experience, yet I still feel was there.
That’s a beautiful explanation, I finally, fully understand and am able to explain everything behind it. Thank you❤❤
Love the art by the way!
This is such a great video describing weirdcore. I feel like it’s so hard to explain it but you did so well
thank you, i'm glad you enjoyed it!
I love the weirdcore aesthetic. I have lots of mental illnesses and weirdcore just helps me process my feelings and what im going through, especially the music. Its like comfort food for me when im depressed and struggling a lot.
6:43 but you didn’t have to cut me off 😫
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing 😢
And I don't even need your love 😠
But you treat me like a stranger, and that feels so rough 😔
Now you're just somebody that I used to know.
I love weird core. It just gives such an unexplainable feeling. How can something be eerie and comforting at the same time. Fully agree that’s it’s an art movement. Like a darker version of Dada or something.
I’ve always loved weirdcore, the images and games that use them feel so much like wandering around and finding something that’s clinging to still be remembered. I just want to say thank you for giving me the words to express my love of this genre and what it means to me, as someone who has had a lot of trouble remembering her past and wants to no matter how uncomfortable it makes me.
I should not have watched this video alone at home with headphones on cuz when I have my headphones on I always start hearing thing that don't exist like the house in literally breathing, also my house has a lot of windows and it's dark outside so everywhere I look is just a black void of emptiness with does help, also my house in right next to my old primary school, this video reminded me that nobody remembers or recognises me there anymore (even my old teachers) it's like I never existed, and across the street is my old daycare which is now abandoned and a part of it burned down last week. I still love wierdcore but it always gives me the creeps
“and the small moments I do remember I wish I didn’t.” I have a hard time with the idea of ‘forgive and forget’ because if I forget what someone does then they could hurt me again. Humans are a collection of personal experiences and knowledge. A part of that is my parents slip up occasionally, yelling or crying or refusing to listen, because they are human too, but if I forget then history can repeat, so I cling to those memories. Weirdcore is what I feel happens to when I let go, when my dad says ‘when do I do this’ but I’ve forgotten the exact event. The knowledge that this has happened but it’s to foggy to recall. The fear of losing the memories that made me like this in the first place.
As someone who is definitely not old enough to remember as little of their childhood as they do, the weirdcore images relating to memories/not being able to remember have always been the ones that lingered in my mind long after I moved on from the photo.
The idea they portray of feeling like you've forgotten something important; the memories you do have feeling indescribably wrong, like they're not your own, or like something you can't identify is missing. The strange mixture of comfort, longing, and unnerve that comes with that.
The idea of a place which feels familier and nostalgic but that you have no memory of, where you struggle to tell if that place was actually once a comfort to you or not.
The concept of wanting to go back to a safer, more comforting time but not being sure if there's anything to go back to.
I guess I'm just rambling now, but I don't quite know how else to explain how this asthetic makes me feel. It's similar to how pictures of liminal spaces make me feel. Like I'm both out of place and right where I belong. It's comforting and unnerving and other stuff I can't identify. Its so weird. Which is a guess the point.
I usually never comment on TH-cam videos, but something pushed me to do an exception for this channel in particular. I always was drawn to weirdcore, nostalgiacore dramcore (and more), as I always feel like I'm being tormented by shadows from my past: whether I'm sleeping or doing my regular chores; I feel like I'm nothing but a shade of my past self, barely recognizable or relevant even for myself, and now I constantly feel like more pieces of me keep going missing. Weirdcore, dreamcore, and even liminal spaces, are like an interdimensional tunnel: capable of bringing back those strange emotions, long forgotten memories or familiar yet simple words that I never recalled hearing, but that somehow I wish I could have heard them sooner; while also transporting me into, maybe, one of my past lives. I was looking for a channel that could cover all this and explain it more in depth, but gave up on my research a few years ago unsuccessfully... But yesterday curiosity brought me back here on TH-cam, and I randomly stumbled upon this channel. All I can say is.. I didn't expect it. The few videos I watched were a fun, soothing trip that to me, explained a lot of the origins of those strange feelings I keep getting at random points of my life. I thought explaining it with only words was not possible, yet you did it. I know this video wasn't dedicated to me specifically, but I still feel like thanking you for covering this. I really appreciated it, I really did. I don't know if you'll ever read this comment, or if anyone at all will ever do... But I loved all the effort you put into these videos, and honestly, I look forward for more and hope you can cover more of these. Apologies if my english wasn't perfect, but I hope you could still get the message... Really big fan of your art style by the way. Keep up the great work
Do you need someone to talk to?
@Gl1ch_6677 speaking to someone about my feelings was never my thing. I really don't want to drag anyone into my problems, I know people have better things to do than listen to me, so it's better if I elaborate things for myself and maybe find a solution on my own. If that was an offer, I am deeply grateful to you for even thinking about it. Really mate, thank you.
@@Gl1ch_6677 don't know why my first reply disappeared (or maybe it's hidden to me for some reason), but I'll write it again for you. Talking to someone about my feelings was never my thing. Not only I HATE seeking attention, but I also don't ever want to drag someone down with my problems, so I try to elaborate things for what they appear to be, and maybe find a solution on my own. People have better stuff to do than talk to me anyway, and that's totally. If that was an offer, I really appreciate your kindness, even though we're strangers, I really do. Thank you, and I hope the best for you, mate.
to me weirdcore and dreamcore both bring out a feeling that has followed me throughout my childhood: the feeling that nothing else exists beyond what you see. It can be a safe and comforting feeling as well as a trapping and utterly terrifying thought, and it all depends on the situation you were in. If it's a pleasant memory, it feels so simple and so safe, you don't think about anything in your life that can be better, because it's already the most perfect it can be. And if it's an unpleasant memory, you are overwhelmed with a fear that it's never going to get better, that this is your personal hell, and it's going to persist until the day that the universe collapses. Besides that it can also be somewhere in the middle, where you feel safe but at the same time trapped. I like reminiscing in those feelings when i see dreamcore or weirdcore posts, because they bring about that sense of familiarity.
I always liked Weirdcore and Dreamcore. I wasn’t entirely sure why, nor did I fully understand it. This video helped me finally understand it, and why I found it comforting! Thank you.
i don't have a great memory, when i recall something it's usually a strange image it might be from a memory, or a dream, or a story, or something else entirely. all of my memories are linked to random objects or words. if you tell me about something that happened when i was younger i'm inclined to believe you, if you're bringing it up you where probably there so you probably know better than i do, don't you? sometimes i remember something that never happened, or at least something no one else remembered, i think those are dreams. it's not just old memories either, sometimes when i'm doing something i'll think about what i should do after i'm done but by the time i'm done i've forgotten wwhat i was going to do, but i usually remember what i was going to do if i look at what i just did.
i think this is all normal, i think this is what people mean when they say the have a bad memory, right?
tl/dr: ramblings about my memory brought on by the distorted images shown in this video and probably sleep deprivation or something idk... 8:01
Actually, this is Exactly how I feel. When i look through weirdcore images and stylizations its almost always used in the same vain as looking through old photo albums. Surrounded a haze of nostalgia that is almost dissociative in nature, having to look through these memories through a third perspective, but still managing to find comfort through in it. Idk maybe im just projecting but i have a lot of thoughts on the subject.
@@xxgenericedgytitlexx2483 you're either saying exactly what i was thinking or you saying that has altered my memory of writing this so that i think you're saying exactly what i was thinking
You described the nostalgia and melancholy of something that is long gone. Really good video❤
I get comfort from weirdcore possibly due to what might be psychosis :'-]
I usually use elements of it in vent artwork to represent that, but also trauma
It always felt weird but very comforting to me, like i was given a memory of my very early childhood that I had forgotten.
this is such a beautiful explanation, your voice and the way you talk is so oddly comforting