and a cartoon hamburger. It’s sometimes difficult to tell if aesthetics like Health Goth or Soft Grunge are examples of Tumblr self-parody, but in the end, it doesn’t really matter.

The sheer multitude of academia sub-aesthetics exemplifies how there is an aesthetic for everyone. In Tumblr’s 2021 Year in Review, dark academia was the second-most popular aesthetic on the ...

Cottagecore was a natural fit for a pandemic year. The subculture is all about pretending to live an idyllic life in the woods, and in 2020 was embraced as a sweet attempt to make the best of a ...

Many of today’s trending aesthetics—like the coquette and e-girl looks—have roots in this Tumblr era. If a certain style caught your eye, you could follow aesthetic blogs and look up ...

a grid of cartoons or photos from which you cast roles for yourself and your friends. And if you’re at all familiar with Tumblr, you’re familiar with its total straight-faced ...

Ask anyone who was a very online teenager in the early 2010s and that’s how they’ll describe the thing they’re longing for: the aesthetic of Tumblr, where a high-contrast black-and-white ...

The return of the 2014 Tumblr girl’s style comes in tandem with the renewed appreciation for the indie sleazecore aesthetic, which became prominent in the early 2000s (think American Apparel ads).

Take TikTokker Kirstin McCarlie, who frequently puts together outfits of this aesthetic, alluding to the Tumblr girl trope. "I think younger millennials and older Gen-Z are nostalgic about Tumblr ...

In this op-ed, Alyssa Goldberg explores how the 2014 Tumblr aesthetic resurgence could impact body image. “2014 Tumblr” is back, or so say the trends on TikTok. When videos began appearing on ...

Kylie Jenner has pastel pink hair. There’s no doubt about it: 2014 Tumblr is back. The once-pervasive aesthetics of the influential blogging site have made their way back to some of the ...