Born too late to use dial up modem connection, born too early to use internet and discover social media, But born just in time to witness death of internet.
@ I got internet in 2010s real internet i got in 2014 i guess, even then I was hacking Wifi of neighbors who were using WPS default pin. I used that for years, then I got mobile and I recharged myself. I'm more of a facebook and Google+ kid.
I was in my young teenage years when Art Hoe was popular. It was the first aesthetic I ever fell in love with and I had zero clue it had black roots but as a nerdy black girly I think it makes sense I gravitated towards it. Some honorable mentions are peachristine, chubbyjo, urfatherfigure, chin the kid, eristheplanet, guvmanian, and even Conan Grey before he took off. I'll always look back on that time so fondly.
I also agree. I wanted a kanken backpack very badly then and I could never afford one. My entire wardrobe at the time was thrifted because the style was so accessible to be thrifted but I felt like I could never truly be one without a kanken
It's still very surreal to me to watch these recollections on styles and aesthetics that were so formative. The ones in this video are still pretty recent but it's still wild to imagine people not having been there when these movements were happening. I also have to wonder (as an "old" person) what style movements are happening right now that I'm completely missing from being on different corners of the internet
re: "I also have to wonder (as an "old" person) what style movements are happening right now that I'm completely missing from being on different corners of the internet" - I think it's different now because of the way recent social media has aestheticized pretty much everything in a very consumerist way, similar to how the video was talking about art hoe becoming elitist in how you had to do it. I think those of us who grew up as teenagers on tumblr during the golden age of these aesthetics experienced something kind of unique.
Reminds me of how I have a (private) playlist filled with early 2000s (emo) music videos that have bad quality uploads on youtube that I call "shit wifi core".
I feel like a lot of the dreamcore/webcore/digital weirdcore aesthetic latched onto ENA during the pandemic. It was a fandom but kind of became almost its own mini art movement, with ENAcore playlists getting hundreds of thousands of views. Graham Kartna, Metaroom, and Machine Girl got a huge boost in popularity because of their music being used. ENA herself has a certain appeal in how shes cute and visibly unstable, highly expressive, confused by her surroundings, and a girl with several male voice actors. Lots of fan artists and fan animators had their own ENAsonas and ENA OCs. It had a lot of little art references that nerds like me liked. She somewhat contributed to the mini rebrand of newgrounds for a little bit (because Joel G got his start there) before Friday Night Funkin did a huge kickstarter just to run with the money and everyone remembered what Pico's School is actually about. Right now the ENA team is working on a video game that keeps getting delayed and is going to come out in chapters because it keeps increasing in scope, but production is at least looking consistent enough that I think they're going to actually make a game. The show's themes of loneliness and exploration, everyone acting weird and unknowable all the time, and the vague air that ena is in some kind of danger she doesn't know about had something that really hit in the pandemic.
Weirdcore has gained a slow resurgence over on tikTok with along with the revival of the 2020 alt aesthetic. In times like these, we do feel nostalgia and look back fondly at what was a simpler time, even if we thought it was cringe, we were happier being ourselves and experimenting with our wardrobes (Also because of political unrest).
I would say that the argument that the ageplay roleplay stuff being used as an outlet for someone to deal with their own childhood SA trauma is entirely legit, that can absolutely be a healthy outlet for someone to help come to terms with things like that. That's not to say that the community in question was all squeaky clean or anything, I have some hazy recollections suggesting otherwise. I'd say that ideally, that subject matter should be discussed and have a community in spaces where minors are explicitly not welcomed and are actively excluded, something which Tumblr (or most social media networks, really), were ever particularly good at doing.
100% agree! I have found it to be very liberating and healing, but I did discover the “community”, more so the concept, as a minor. It’s not a problem in the sense that minors are being sexualized (they’re not, it’s about consent between adults), but that minors cannot participate in nuanced intimacy like that without doing unknowing harm. It really needs proper communication with the guidance of therapy to understand what’s going on and why it is beneficial/enjoyable.
Yet another great video! I'll always love everything liminal spaces-adjacent, and while I'm not a very nostalgic person in the sense of forgetting unpleasant stuff from my childhood, claiming that everything was better when I was little (or that everything was worse and kids these days have it easy) or going "OMG this is killing my childhood" when a remake/reboot of something that I liked as a kid/teen appears, I do get the nostalgia for simpler times and just, like, some cool items like glass necklaces with holo 3D eyes, glow-in-the-dark stuff, frames with moving sand, kaleidoscopes, or those flashlights with bunches of filaments that appeared to glow at the end when the flashlight was on. And some snacks, of course. As for Tumblr's decline, I'd say it was the Yahoo takeover and various bans. Who knows if we won't see some kind of a revival, what with various popular social media sites going down the drain lately.
It's funny, the whole art hoe style was massive in my hometown in Scandinavia, and we had a very thriving indie music scene. Never knew it actually originated from a specific movement, just saw them EVERYWHERE.
this made me realise that i actually somewhat participated in a lot of these aesthetics as a kid without realising omg... some of the images/artists used brought mack a lot of nostalgia i didnt remember i had LOL very cool video!!! ilove learning about aesthetics
For trauma/weirdcore and liminal spaces I also want to point out the song "six fourty seven" by instupendo being another common one, as it shows up in playlists of those themes and tends to have a somber liminal feeling in sound form
super looking forward to your next video! honestly as someone who became less frequent on tumblr after the corn ban, your first tumblr aesthetics video was so nostalgic, and this one felt familiar but distant. very curious what you have for us for the current tumblr aesthetics as someone who has returned to tumblr post 2020 :)
For kidcore brands, i'm surprised you didn't talk about Cool Shirtz. :O they make the iconic colour block blue, red yellow and green sweatshirt that says 'really cool shirtz inc' on it. Also some 70s and 80s fashion, esp kids fashion is/was pretty popular with kidcore. There's also a kpop offshoot of kidcore called hobicore, named after a meber of a kpop band. Off topic but man do i reallt miss Minga's kidcore era 😔 As soon as kidcore stopped being as popular, they really stopped making colourful clothes 😔😔 The other day, i was just thinking about my fashion taste and how much it has been shaped by tumblr aesthetics ep kidcore, nostalgiacore, art hoe and subcultures like scene and a bit of mall goth too :o
sweet a Randy Moon episode! I'm about to be 40 I was in the depth of Angelfire, Myspace, tumlr era. Hell, I used AIM and iiRC chats. I'm a Linux simp because back when I played games you had to do some small navigation and command coding to just shoot some demons or aliens. I miss those days. It was like learning a little coding with ever new game. Then when you start doing mods you learn real coding.
My favorite part about this sequel is that you kept things easily organized, and I was able to enjoy it more because of that. I wrote a comment earlier today which is a "correction" in the video, but I now realized that my English was a bit screwed when watching the video and it made me embarrassed. The sequel to Yume Nikki is not official, but still, it's worth mentioning.
While it lasted, I was a member of “gunblr”, a blogging aesthetic heavily downstream from 4chan’s /k/, including “badass” or cool-looking war and military photographs, guns, especially military surplus rifles, old propaganda posters, early FPSs and immersive sims like half-life and deus ex, Metal Gear, “old school tacticool” like 1980s SWAT and special forces and the TTRPG Delta Green. The music was typically either 80s, “Vietnam” classic rock, or synthwave Everyone from that scene either ended up gay or a fascist
It’s blowing me away that the backrooms started in 2019??? I thought it was WAYYY older like I thought I came across that post like 4-5 years before that???
I think that the Backrooms movie by A24 may end up being kind of dull. The backrooms stuff, to me, has often been so surface level and not terribly deep. Every youtube video about it repeats the same things, ad nauseam. I used to like it more, but watching the movie I Saw The TV Glow made me realize how few pieces of media actually use the whole liminal space aesthetic in a meaningful way. TV Glow was such a gut punch of a movie, and used lost media and liminal space motifs so well, everything else in the space just feels so lackluster in comparison. Hopefully I'm wrong though, and that A24 movie actually does something interesting with it!
ngl, Clairo is really good. I am a metal head and like things like deathgrips and 100 gecs. but Clairo is so chill and the old videos of jus her on her bed are dope af. I actually found a lot of music during that time. I still love kero kero and a few artist that are really good. Peep was already a favorite but blank banshee and most the vapor bands were really good. im about to have a flashback day of listening to all those bands lol
Me and my age cohort were at the CENTER of the art ho explosion and a lot of us still dress like that. I still have my kanken backpack, my Birkenstocks and my moleskine journals, but it was a fun aesthetic to participate in because it was so easy to thrift the most iconic pieces. I remember me and the few black girls at my high school adopting art ho aesthetics early on, and then when I eventually attended an HBCU in 2016 I met SO many girls with that aesthetic. I think the very diy/thrifted nature of the aesthetic being adopted more widely is actually really good, but it's also true that thin white girls adopting the style definitely accelerated the focus on brands and wealth. I like the idea of an aesthetic which prioritizes owning a few high quality items that you can use for a long time, and become worn and customized by the owner, mixed in with thrifted and handmade stuff.
I think a lot of these cores are meant for kids specifically 14 year olds to explore with their fashion, in these olden days (2020) it was all under the "alternative/indie" side of the internet, if you look at old tik toks you will see people calling cottagecore alternative, because in some ways it was? kinda wild how it all spirals out of control
Born too late to use dial up modem connection, born too early to use internet and discover social media, But born just in time to witness death of internet.
That doesn’t make sense.
What alternate universe are you from? I'm from the one where Yahoo bought Vine.
@ I got internet in 2010s real internet i got in 2014 i guess, even then I was hacking Wifi of neighbors who were using WPS default pin. I used that for years, then I got mobile and I recharged myself.
I'm more of a facebook and Google+ kid.
@xanaxity so you were born just in time to use the internet and discover social media.
@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit yep
I was in my young teenage years when Art Hoe was popular. It was the first aesthetic I ever fell in love with and I had zero clue it had black roots but as a nerdy black girly I think it makes sense I gravitated towards it. Some honorable mentions are peachristine, chubbyjo, urfatherfigure, chin the kid, eristheplanet, guvmanian, and even Conan Grey before he took off. I'll always look back on that time so fondly.
I also agree. I wanted a kanken backpack very badly then and I could never afford one. My entire wardrobe at the time was thrifted because the style was so accessible to be thrifted but I felt like I could never truly be one without a kanken
guvmanian omggg
“WE LOVE YOU RANDY MOON” we all say in unison
Those "traumacore" collages over Kittie or riotgrrl music is basically 2007 TH-cam.
I really appreciated the kitty in the video 🥺
Ngl I found it hard to focus on what she was saying cause of the gorgeous cat lol
Not me wondering "which kitty?" just as the fur ball shows up on the video lol
this is the sludge i crawled out of
It's still very surreal to me to watch these recollections on styles and aesthetics that were so formative. The ones in this video are still pretty recent but it's still wild to imagine people not having been there when these movements were happening. I also have to wonder (as an "old" person) what style movements are happening right now that I'm completely missing from being on different corners of the internet
re: "I also have to wonder (as an "old" person) what style movements are happening right now that I'm completely missing from being on different corners of the internet" - I think it's different now because of the way recent social media has aestheticized pretty much everything in a very consumerist way, similar to how the video was talking about art hoe becoming elitist in how you had to do it. I think those of us who grew up as teenagers on tumblr during the golden age of these aesthetics experienced something kind of unique.
Traumacore can definitely be defined as an art movement which is interesting to see how it developed
Bad Printer Aesthetic 💯💯💯
Printer core
printer? i hardly know 'er 😹
Reminds me of how I have a (private) playlist filled with early 2000s (emo) music videos that have bad quality uploads on youtube that I call "shit wifi core".
I feel like a lot of the dreamcore/webcore/digital weirdcore aesthetic latched onto ENA during the pandemic. It was a fandom but kind of became almost its own mini art movement, with ENAcore playlists getting hundreds of thousands of views. Graham Kartna, Metaroom, and Machine Girl got a huge boost in popularity because of their music being used. ENA herself has a certain appeal in how shes cute and visibly unstable, highly expressive, confused by her surroundings, and a girl with several male voice actors. Lots of fan artists and fan animators had their own ENAsonas and ENA OCs. It had a lot of little art references that nerds like me liked. She somewhat contributed to the mini rebrand of newgrounds for a little bit (because Joel G got his start there) before Friday Night Funkin did a huge kickstarter just to run with the money and everyone remembered what Pico's School is actually about. Right now the ENA team is working on a video game that keeps getting delayed and is going to come out in chapters because it keeps increasing in scope, but production is at least looking consistent enough that I think they're going to actually make a game.
The show's themes of loneliness and exploration, everyone acting weird and unknowable all the time, and the vague air that ena is in some kind of danger she doesn't know about had something that really hit in the pandemic.
"Personally, my interest in this aesthetic declined when I started going to therapy." Holy crap lol
obsessed w this tumblr aesthetics series !!!
I love your channel!
Weirdcore has gained a slow resurgence over on tikTok with along with the revival of the 2020 alt aesthetic. In times like these, we do feel nostalgia and look back fondly at what was a simpler time, even if we thought it was cringe, we were happier being ourselves and experimenting with our wardrobes (Also because of political unrest).
DREAM JELLY MENTION!!!!
I would say that the argument that the ageplay roleplay stuff being used as an outlet for someone to deal with their own childhood SA trauma is entirely legit, that can absolutely be a healthy outlet for someone to help come to terms with things like that.
That's not to say that the community in question was all squeaky clean or anything, I have some hazy recollections suggesting otherwise. I'd say that ideally, that subject matter should be discussed and have a community in spaces where minors are explicitly not welcomed and are actively excluded, something which Tumblr (or most social media networks, really), were ever particularly good at doing.
100% agree! I have found it to be very liberating and healing, but I did discover the “community”, more so the concept, as a minor. It’s not a problem in the sense that minors are being sexualized (they’re not, it’s about consent between adults), but that minors cannot participate in nuanced intimacy like that without doing unknowing harm. It really needs proper communication with the guidance of therapy to understand what’s going on and why it is beneficial/enjoyable.
The Traumacore artists list made me recoil .. I listen to almost all of these... T_T
*used to
Traumacore, Weirdcore, Dreamcore are so peakkkk :333
Same with kidcore :3333
DID SOMEONE SAY LIMINAL SPACES
JadenSalads in the comments section!?
Yet another great video! I'll always love everything liminal spaces-adjacent, and while I'm not a very nostalgic person in the sense of forgetting unpleasant stuff from my childhood, claiming that everything was better when I was little (or that everything was worse and kids these days have it easy) or going "OMG this is killing my childhood" when a remake/reboot of something that I liked as a kid/teen appears, I do get the nostalgia for simpler times and just, like, some cool items like glass necklaces with holo 3D eyes, glow-in-the-dark stuff, frames with moving sand, kaleidoscopes, or those flashlights with bunches of filaments that appeared to glow at the end when the flashlight was on. And some snacks, of course.
As for Tumblr's decline, I'd say it was the Yahoo takeover and various bans. Who knows if we won't see some kind of a revival, what with various popular social media sites going down the drain lately.
It's funny, the whole art hoe style was massive in my hometown in Scandinavia, and we had a very thriving indie music scene. Never knew it actually originated from a specific movement, just saw them EVERYWHERE.
the way your cat shows up and mimics you looking into the camera makes me so happy
Oh my god I've been WAITINGGGGG for this video
these videos have such a chill vibe. Thank you for all the nostalgia 💜
this made me realise that i actually somewhat participated in a lot of these aesthetics as a kid without realising omg... some of the images/artists used brought mack a lot of nostalgia i didnt remember i had LOL
very cool video!!! ilove learning about aesthetics
3:36 art hoe aesthetic still has my whole heart 🥰
Time always well spent watching your vids - Thx so much!
I personally blame weirdcore for turning me into a furry when I was like 15
I love these videos. I love lots of visuals like pictures videos etc. Keep/add more of those please! Love your content
New video before work, siiick
How is this comment 2 days ago but the video is 40 minutes ago😭😭
@danielfish5396 I became a Randy Stan( I'm just a channel member)
@ oooooo gotcha I was like 😦
This video actively prevented a coworker from speaking to me when they saw it on my phone, 10/10
How dare I discover this an hour late.
For trauma/weirdcore and liminal spaces I also want to point out the song "six fourty seven" by instupendo being another common one, as it shows up in playlists of those themes and tends to have a somber liminal feeling in sound form
I really love your commentary videos. Your cat's sudden appearance was the highlight of the video! ✨😍💗
Your void made direct eye contact with me at one moment and I felt better about life for a little bit. Thank you, small shape (kitty).
super looking forward to your next video! honestly as someone who became less frequent on tumblr after the corn ban, your first tumblr aesthetics video was so nostalgic, and this one felt familiar but distant. very curious what you have for us for the current tumblr aesthetics as someone who has returned to tumblr post 2020 :)
For kidcore brands, i'm surprised you didn't talk about Cool Shirtz. :O they make the iconic colour block blue, red yellow and green sweatshirt that says 'really cool shirtz inc' on it.
Also some 70s and 80s fashion, esp kids fashion is/was pretty popular with kidcore. There's also a kpop offshoot of kidcore called hobicore, named after a meber of a kpop band.
Off topic but man do i reallt miss Minga's kidcore era 😔
As soon as kidcore stopped being as popular, they really stopped making colourful clothes 😔😔
The other day, i was just thinking about my fashion taste and how much it has been shaped by tumblr aesthetics ep kidcore, nostalgiacore, art hoe and subcultures like scene and a bit of mall goth too :o
YAYY looking forward to the next video !!
Thank you Randy Moon
This is giving nymphet alumni in the best way
These were my teenage years 😭 defined my style forever
Nice vid. The cat is very cute btw
I have no idea why but the "YIPEEEE!!" from the cat absolutely killed me
Needed this today, thanks
oh my god one of the "traumacore" images i made when i was like 16 is in this video ........ 😭
So many good musicians mentioned in this video
As someone who started using Tumblr in 2014, what a world. Experienced so much, understood very little; what a time!
this is so cool!!!
Man i really love arthoe and kidcore. It's inspired a lot of my art
One of my favorite liminal art pieces is the „Playground“ Animation!
sweet a Randy Moon episode! I'm about to be 40 I was in the depth of Angelfire, Myspace, tumlr era. Hell, I used AIM and iiRC chats. I'm a Linux simp because back when I played games you had to do some small navigation and command coding to just shoot some demons or aliens. I miss those days. It was like learning a little coding with ever new game. Then when you start doing mods you learn real coding.
being called out: postponed
My favorite part about this sequel is that you kept things easily organized, and I was able to enjoy it more because of that.
I wrote a comment earlier today which is a "correction" in the video, but I now realized that my English was a bit screwed when watching the video and it made me embarrassed. The sequel to Yume Nikki is not official, but still, it's worth mentioning.
While it lasted, I was a member of “gunblr”, a blogging aesthetic heavily downstream from 4chan’s /k/, including “badass” or cool-looking war and military photographs, guns, especially military surplus rifles, old propaganda posters, early FPSs and immersive sims like half-life and deus ex, Metal Gear, “old school tacticool” like 1980s SWAT and special forces and the TTRPG Delta Green. The music was typically either 80s, “Vietnam” classic rock, or synthwave
Everyone from that scene either ended up gay or a fascist
It’s blowing me away that the backrooms started in 2019??? I thought it was WAYYY older like I thought I came across that post like 4-5 years before that???
CHLOE MORIONDO MENTIONED
25:24 and Lulaloopsey [:
lalaloopsy! :-)
i wear glasses and I'm assuming she does too. if we went just a little out our way we could actually swap glasses. and use each others bathrooms too.
I’ve been waiting. Now it’s here. Let’s see what she’s giving 🍿
I ACTUALLY FREAKED OUT WHEN YOU SAID BLACK DRESSES I LOVE BLACK DRESSESSS!!
Love your videos 🙌🙌
I think that the Backrooms movie by A24 may end up being kind of dull. The backrooms stuff, to me, has often been so surface level and not terribly deep. Every youtube video about it repeats the same things, ad nauseam. I used to like it more, but watching the movie I Saw The TV Glow made me realize how few pieces of media actually use the whole liminal space aesthetic in a meaningful way. TV Glow was such a gut punch of a movie, and used lost media and liminal space motifs so well, everything else in the space just feels so lackluster in comparison. Hopefully I'm wrong though, and that A24 movie actually does something interesting with it!
i was watching the video with anthems for a 17 years old girl in loop in the background, i feel watched
on the front lines! Good video
ngl, Clairo is really good. I am a metal head and like things like deathgrips and 100 gecs. but Clairo is so chill and the old videos of jus her on her bed are dope af. I actually found a lot of music during that time. I still love kero kero and a few artist that are really good. Peep was already a favorite but blank banshee and most the vapor bands were really good. im about to have a flashback day of listening to all those bands lol
Omg you look very cute this video!!!!! Your outfit is great
THE FIRST TRAUMACORE EDIT IS MINE FROM FIVE YEARS AGO HOLY SHIT AHAHAHAH
honestly making traumacore edits really helped when i was in one of the darkest times of my life and was too depressed to physically make art ❤️
Thank you blue eyed white dragon
YOUR CAT IS ADORABLE IM GOING TO DIE
The kitteh katteh needs their own vlog channel tbh
Yay new vid! Also how heavy is that mic? My arm would get so tired 😅
Me and my age cohort were at the CENTER of the art ho explosion and a lot of us still dress like that. I still have my kanken backpack, my Birkenstocks and my moleskine journals, but it was a fun aesthetic to participate in because it was so easy to thrift the most iconic pieces. I remember me and the few black girls at my high school adopting art ho aesthetics early on, and then when I eventually attended an HBCU in 2016 I met SO many girls with that aesthetic. I think the very diy/thrifted nature of the aesthetic being adopted more widely is actually really good, but it's also true that thin white girls adopting the style definitely accelerated the focus on brands and wealth. I like the idea of an aesthetic which prioritizes owning a few high quality items that you can use for a long time, and become worn and customized by the owner, mixed in with thrifted and handmade stuff.
thanks for looking at my soul
I love you randy moon
My show is OOON 😍
radiohead in rainbows mention 🔥 (i need help)
thought you were holding a stick of bologna in the thumbnail
aint no way we are here now...
Osquinn mentioned!
Omg the mic
Godly sub pull
Tfw 2016 was 20 years ago
yippie yay hooray congradulations whoopie
"Gen Zed" CANADIAN SPOTTED
they are canadian, it says so on their channel.
4:59 art hoe low key reminds me of 2020 indie kid
you should make a video about the tumblr/instagram "Qirly" aesthetic
This video had better not awaken anything in me
If you put core after anything it becomes a thing
Kidcore and they show a bunch of decora and fairy kei 😭😭
I think a lot of these cores are meant for kids specifically 14 year olds to explore with their fashion, in these olden days (2020) it was all under the "alternative/indie" side of the internet, if you look at old tik toks you will see people calling cottagecore alternative, because in some ways it was? kinda wild how it all spirals out of control
need dat lucki blackray spg positive substance usage
someday we will all wake up and find that our eyebrows are crazier than ever, a la the Weegee virus
I loved tumblr so much ;_;
not me listening to half the trauma core stuff (ik this is my 4th comment sorry babes)
Wisconsin
traumacore will always be the funniest looking shit to me I can’t believe real people made those images
Cat comment‼️ comment about cat right here ‼️
bruh everybody loves kero kero bonito huh
4:02 Noah Shnap like :)
12:05 i like kiddish things bc they’re cute or fun not in a freaky way 😭
kitty!
Musicians adored include Jack Stauber - everyone lol
Hi Randy Moon I am in love with you, that is all have a lovely week