The Evolution of the Tumblr Girl

[@Izzzyzzz]

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[@wuvumgywgy]

Izzzyzzz is her own type of tumblr girl

[@SpiteAnims]

The "smol bean" thing is too real

[@humanbeeing4780]

No.

[@lostcause1823]

@wonderland i would dislike but they way you self promo is pretty funny so i’ll let it go. plus the song isnt half bad.

[@wonderland.5]

@wonderland Ngl i thought this was gonna be some trash self promo but i was wrong

[@KwikTripCryptid]

The mustache aesthetic will always haunt me because I remember jokingly saying I liked it in front of my aunt and she took me seriously so she always bought me mustache themed stuff for like a year or two after that.

[@bowlergurl47]

Omg SAME for us... It was a situation.

[@katm8128]

That’s so sweet actually 🤣 I love your aunt

[@portxr]

my mom was the same way until like 2016

[@vglycorpse]

@Velvi omg yes what is this phenomenon?? 😂 when I was like 14-16 I said a few times that my favorite color was orange. My mom bought me so. Many. Orange things 😂 Orange clothes, orange room decor, orange phone cases, etc. Or she'd buy me something and excitedly go "and it's orange, your favorite!" I mean I appreciate it but omg lmaooo

[@leem.5246]

Oh my god this was my family with owls

[@fiaghost4759]

imagine if global pandemic happened back in the mustache era, and every other face mask would have those mustaches printed on it. now let's take a moment to be thankful that never happened

[@somethingwithbungalows]

Oh my- I’m.. glad..

[@biiianciii888]

this is a horrible realisation

[@ijustlikebees]

There's actually some face masks with mustaches on it

[@amy-leigh4962]

Or. And hear me out. "okay? Okay"

[@euuuughhhh7799]

@@amy-leigh4962 stoppppp 😂😭😭😭

[@gee159]

I think the “art hoe” aesthetic was another precursor to cottagecore. I remember desperately wanting a yellow kanken, Van Gogh socks, and one of those instant Polaroid cameras

[@Cecilia-wj8vw]

oh my lord this, i was an art hoe and now i dress cottagecore LOL

[@katyb6009]

oh my god i completely forgot about that aesthetic but i WORSHIPPED it back in 2016

[@schnasch165]

Still want that lol

[@Dokkiish]

Art hoe is great and still is my aesthetic tbh. c: If you watch the tumblr aesthetic video from Moderngurlz's channel, she explains it's an aesthetic started by black women who wanted to see more online aesthetics with poc rather than just white people. the "hoe" part is also a feminist reclamation of the word since it tends to be a derogatory term towards women.

[@lianafreeman8954]

i was a freshman in college in 2018….. i was literally the DEFINITION of an art hoe at the time skndfncnsn

[@yuma_thesassytenshi8225]

i feel like every year we have an weird object obsession 😭 like there was cactus, pineaple, lama ...

[@m00nl1ghtj3w3l]

Now it's frogs

[@safamohammed9620]

@@m00nl1ghtj3w3l and mushrooms

[@motelsinger]

@@safamohammed9620 even tho mushrooms are really not that great, i mean to me atleast

[@AliceSykesFromWalkerland]

I remember that time when everyone was obsessed with unicorns, mermaids then the poo emoji lol, weird times

[@safamohammed9620]

@@AliceSykesFromWalkerland omg I loved that era although I never loved the poo emoji

[@LilxPipi]

if i remember correctly, the mustache obsession happened around the same time as the owl obsession-- like just owl necklaces, owl earrings, owl plushies.

[@scum1151]

Pusheen was super big at that time too if I remember correctly

[@UnseenHuntress]

I still have an owl shirt and bag.

[@base4yrface]

@@scum1151 I miss pusheen so bad

[@akiramatoi4158]

@Maria Puchała were u purposely spelling "Unicorn" differently every single time? if so that was funny reading it.. if not . .. it was still funny.. lol 😂

[@Vizivirag]

I still have a lot of owl stuff. No one can stop me!

[@skybingus]

I distinctly remember being in a Claire’s in the 2010s with my best friend, and there was a whole rack of mustache items. I remember finding pink shutter shades that had a plastic mustache attached to a chain on either side that would dangle over your lip when you wore them. What a wild time lol

[@mup6526]

i had those glasses in elementary and i would wear them to school to be funny and let other kids try them on, but then a girl started a rumor that i'd sneeze into them and not clean it and then nobody wanted to try them on anymore

[@dippyfresh5130]

lmfao I know exactly which shades ur talking about! when I was younger my friend and I went to the mall and we took a pic of us wearing them while in claire’s

[@misseselise3864]

@@mup6526 i don’t think i’ve ever heard something so 2014 before

[@griffin1155]

i work retail and saw someone wearing those the other day. shook to my core

[@MxNEWCASTLE]

I saw a guy walking down the hall in the green version of those glasses early today lol 😂

[@abbyb010]

the grip that the indie grunge aesthetic had and STILL has on me. i can’t escape it.

[@Spoopyus]

same for me but with pastel goth

[@ZenitsuKunn]

100th like

[@Melian07]

I remember all of the trends in the video but except for the fangirl I have never really fit in any of these. In the early 2000's I became a fan of classic goth and metal music (a lot of it from the older times - 80's, 90's) and associated styles too (though it has always been more about the music than the looks for me) and that has stayed with me (and I've added more interests, like anime, and other kinds of favorite music, especially post rock and j-rock). I guess the indie grunge is what I can relate to the most as it takes inspiration from those older subcultures.

[@wearecoterminous]

Prove it name every American Eagle employee

[@yuyukit]

jee you brought me back some memories. i remember aimlessly walking around the school and the schoolyard after classes while listening to the neighborhood, arctic monkeys, the 1975 and placebo and acting so damn pretentious and mysterious in front of literally no one, because i was the only idiot that chose to hang out that way, especially since the weather was rather shitty when i was going for these walks💀recently west coast by the nbhd came up on my spotify shuffle and i swear, for a moment i felt the SMELL of that autumn cold schoolyard

[@billie1129]

i am also a proud member of the "used to want to be a pastel goth so bad when they were younger but also were literally a kid and could not afford it".

[@rottenbutterfly9675]

Same

[@Strawbiwi]

Samee

[@willowowen8115]

Feel this as a 2005 kid

[@jenniechan3587]

Yup 😭

[@harmoniass]

god, the mustache era really did feel like a fever dream. i remember being obsessed with them because my older sister *was* the tumblr girl, so naturally i copied her. i literally had a mustache themed birthday party when i was like.. seven i believe. absolutely wild

[@fallenaster]

My best friend in elementary school had the same exact party theme omg it was something else

[@5000chickens]

i can't believe I've gone to at least 3 mustache-themed within my life

[@TopsyTurvyLolz]

my own mother went through a mustache phase

[@FelineBlue]

my secondary school humanities teacher was absolutely obsessed with moustaches

[@lethargicAilurophile]

amazing

[@idontwannabeu8718]

I remember wanting to be a "Tumblr girl" so bad 😫, I would totally buy everything that had galaxies and would post a lot of TFOS context lol

[@sethappleton7628]

PFP checks out 👌

[@telomarketer2845]

@Is Swampus how are they a subhuman because of a teenage phase they had?

[@telomarketer2845]

@Is Swampus kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3rUp2Weg7Cgb7M

[@QtPieMarth]

@@telomarketer2845 truly the perfect response

[@Daria73925]

omg me too brooo😭😭😭

[@elokin300]

Shout out to a girl I knew in 4th grade who told me the one defining trait of a hipster was that they eat toenails

[@taurine5561]

Holy shit that's ludicrous

[@jamescanjuggle]

and shoutout to a girl i knew who insisted i call her Butter N*(yep thats what you think it is) outside an old irish sweet store fyi i never did cause that genuinely scared me, and made art class pretty awkward

[@fireflies362]

I’m sorry… WHAT?? 😂

[@kittygirl0872]

Gross

[@a-s-greig]

most based ten-year-old in existence

[@rosesinthegard3n]

one thing i am really happy about is that in recent years people have started shipping the i'm not like other girls girl and the girl she's comparing herself to - the pictures at the end of the fangirl section. they redraw the edits and draw them as aesthetically opposite girlfriends who are so supportive of each other and i fucking love it

[@katekat7804]

Its one of my favorite things honestly

[@Darling_Decay]

Yesss!!! They’re the best

[@anarchistsnufkin534]

there's a whole subreddit for it (r/gatekeepingyuri) and it's amazing

[@kristhedumbass6281]

I know!!! I save a lot of those redraws on Pinterest and they are so cute. I hate the “iM nOt LiKE oThER gIRls” mentality since it promotes the idea that femininity is bad and you can only be good if you’re a “quirky” and “edgy” and “oh so cool and tomboyish” kinda girl, which… what the fuck? The whole “I’m not like other girls” deal has a shitton of misogyny and it pits girls against each other.

[@galaxymew5138]

Oh my god, that's so cute!

[@tibicenlinnei4014]

You used a photo of me from when I was an anorexic heroin addict. I can't believe it circulated on Tumblr so hard. It had to have been pulled off my Myspace profile because I never got into Tumblr. Those were some of the darkest days of my life. I look back at those old photos and shudder. I'm not mad at you! I just have a weird moment when I see my photos resurface.

[@janellandrea]

Do you mind if i ask which photo? Hope you're better now!

[@jevilstail]

I was just thinking “I wonder how the people in these photos are doing”

[@EF-kk3vh]

God I’m glad you’re doing better now, I can imagine how weird it would be to see photos from that time :((

[@Ejisnwoais]

time stamp

[@tibicenlinnei4014]

@@Ejisnwoais I thought I said I didn't want to give any identity details. But I'm in the hipster chapter. I'm sorry for being vague but 1) I get upset at the thought of being "thinspo" when I was literally shooting up heroin and not eating. I have a heart condition now because of my mistakes. It's not fun and I've lost over 40 friends and family to overdose since I got clean. 2) I just don't want to be recognized. My cousin found me on a thinspo/ED site. That broke my heart. Knowing they were even looking at that and then saw me from 12+ years ago...yeah. i felt like shit.

[@nikkiwhite5148]

"thebootydiaries used to be a basic girl blog" hit me like a tire iron to the face

[@Naixatloz]

It's true, but she shouldn't say it.

[@bettievw]

None of us needed to hear that. Not after all we’ve been through…

[@homestuckhauntsme]

fr like i legit took physical damage from that line

[@hobog12777]

Can y'all explain

[@icyicinq]

When you mentioned the “not like other girls” I CRINGED SO HARD! I was super into that when I was young and always tried to differentiate myself from other girls. In the past year many artist in the art community started redrawing those iconic “not like other girls” drawing and making the girls be friends or girlfriends. I remember feeling really happy/sad when seeing those drawings because I wish I saw those when I was younger so that I wouldn’t be afraid to be girly growing up. I do occasionally try to stop myself from being girly and it’s been a real challenge because there’s time I wanna be girly, old habits die hard

[@Pakewl]

I mean, be girly if you want to though. There's nothing wrong with that.

[@spicytaker]

@@Pakewl thats what they’re saying

[@clairelafaille2095]

Omg I know right! Now people laugh at the “Im not like other girls” girls because sometimes they’re so over the top with their mentality, but it’s really just sad when you realize these girls and women are just dealing with internalized misogyny :(

[@fluffyjun1479]

I like to think that those artists redrawing the "not like other girls" memes as friends/girlfriends are actually persons who grew up seeing the original images but still managed to overlook the antagonism while building theirselves to adulthood, and aim for this wholesome, inclusive culture in the end. I too remember being a bit self conscious about "not being that girl who likes girly stuff" when I was 10-12. I'm glad I overcame this mentality and I'm glad kids nowadays can grow up with those new revisited memes. Hope you feel more okay with being girly in the future. Keep it up !

[@KalmoK]

Everyone did something stupid when young, I was anti-other-music-than-metal and dressed in black like some edgelord, and I felt pride if I found some new band before my friends because it made me feel unique... 😅

[@edenthearcane]

core memory unlocked omfgggg. on my last day of eighth grade, circa 2013, i was wearing my knee high converse with those split leg checkered hot topic jeans, my pierce the veil shirt, and a ton of those rubber bracelets. after the graduation speech me and my friends ran around like idiots shouting the lyrics to "na na na" by mcr and signed each others arms instead of the yearbooks. we drew mustaches on our index fingers and held them up over our lips so it looked like we "had mustaches". i remember the girl i had a crush on was wearing a tardis shirt, galaxy leggings, and had a mustache necklace. the next day, first day of summer, she invited me over and showed me tumblr for the first time on her living room desktop computer. then we kissed. for a few weeks we "dated" - as much as 13 year olds can date with no drivers license LMAO - until our parents found out. elise if you read this i hope you are having a great life

[@aromanticfranziskavonkarma]

Finally, someone else who recognizes how hard Danger Days fucked and still fucks to this day.

[@mistermist634]

Why can't you date without a drivers license? Fucking Americans, I swear

[@aromanticfranziskavonkarma]

@@mistermist634 You severely underestimate how awfully our cities are planned. Can't do shit without a car here, unfortunately.

[@charlieandhisantics9954]

@@aromanticfranziskavonkarma Unwalkable cities are a nightmare. I feel your pain.

[@feel4chestnuts]

Thats so cute

[@madamebin1914]

Always here for those tasty nostalgia shots while also directly calling out my teen self

[@Kinyann]

Same

[@thatkodochagirl]

Same

[@jfm14]

At least you were a teen-that's a built-in excuse as far as I'm concerned. I was a drunken, depressed student flunking out of uni going through this phase. 💫

[@caramel9154]

@wonderland dont spam pls

[@girlypop-563]

Tbh I was one of the "not like other girls" girl back when I was a teen. I was super obsessed with trying to make sure I seemed "different" than all the other "plastic girls". Not only was that so misogynistic and unethical but it also had a huge affect on my own happiness and mental well being. I remember I got into makeup and dressing up quite late but when I did get interested, I started hating myself for being like that and also forced myself to like things that were traditionally masculine. It wouldn't help that I was considered a "tomboy" for having short hair and no makeup. I felt like I had to stick with that that narrative against my will.

[@doid4354]

I had a similar mentality, I'll admit. I saw girls being feminine getting bullied for it left and right. I mean... I ended up also bullied for not fitting that stereotype, but for some reason I thought being feminine would end up worse for me. On the flip side, I also felt sad because dressing hypermasculine wasn't my thing either. Why did I have to choose between two rigid forms of self-expression? Well I choose neither. The way I look can be ambiguous and it makes people uncomfortable sometimes. And although it makes me feel like an outcast, I would much rather face the judgement than be boring.

[@girlypop-563]

@@doid4354 I think our experiences are likely from the misogyny we learned and are currently unlearning. And yes I agree, we don't have to fit a single type or the other. Contrary to popular belief instigated by media, I think most people have various sense of styles, aesthetics, beliefs etc. Not just one single way of being or a stereotype. Really sorry to hear you and those other girls got bullied. Nobody deserves to go through that.

[@6feet_under]

Tbh same, idk why and when I started to absorb the worst out of "tumblr mentality" (despite not actually using tumblr). I was your classic case of "not like the other girls" and "gatekeeping girlboss": stuck up, judgy, narrow-minded even though the one thing i openly branded myself as was "understanding" and "good listener". No wonder I was miserable af I was being passive aggressively toxic the whole time. Now that I grew out of tumblr and actually developed my personality pass trivial stuff I now have much easier time with communicating with people lol

[@cucumber7808]

I completely relate to that to. I saw that kind of stuff at a very young age and almost completely resented other girls for wearing pink and stuff. I bought “boys” toys and clothes for YEARS and then, while not ever even being in tumblr, almost completely followed every trend to a T! From elementary school I was saying I was not like other girls, wearing docs, wearing way too much flannel, SO MUCH MARKIPLIER MERCH… could I go on? Yes, but I must say: these experiences helped me realize how bad that mindset was and also helped me find an identity. Lol, I feel like a lot of closeted lesbians completely hid in their “I HATE GIRLS!!!1!1! I’m a TOMBOY!” Phase, as Me and a ton of others Had lol. But yeah, seeing all this come up again, makes me realize that all of that and while I was growing up, I wasn’t alone. Lol! Thanks

[@alexbeaujon9049]

Sameeee, but turns out that I was trans lmao

[@CheyenneLin]

a moment of silence for everyone who drew mustaches on their finger with sharpie

[@PigSpeakers]

And held it up to their face and said "I mustache you a question".

[@SusanForeman1963]

Or God forbid, got a tattoo of one.

[@sweetcaroline9596]

I wanted this as a tattoo so bad. I wasn’t old enough and my parents said no, but believe me it would’ve happened

[@kathradyne6801]

The only memory I have of this era was me and a bunch of friends with pink mustaches on our fingers doing wilford warfstache impressions. As much bad stuff came from those years, those were some fun memories.

[@PageShearling]

@@kathradyne6801 it is only acceptable as a warfstache mustache

[@raehobbs7291]

I remember that there was a tattoo parlour near my first apartment that was doing a one day only free (or something cheap idk) finger moustache tattoos and I was all “fuck yeah I’m gonna go” and then for some reason I decided to have a nap first and ended up missing out. For once procrastination saved my ass.

[@rebbi8548]

I was like 11 when the mustache thing was big, and I was really into painting on glasses, cups, plates, etc. So because my mom was always very supportive of my artsy side, we still have so many flowerpots/cups/plates on display with tons of mustaches on them. It’s kinda embarrassing, but I also don’t want to ask her to take them down lol

[@emsutherland-milbourn5905]

it’s all fun and games having supportive parents until you stop doing something and they continue

[@VampyrGrl]

plz never take them down

[@midnightdrifter193]

From late 2015 to mid 2017, I swear there was this distinct "Tumblr Girl" subculture that worshipped TOP, Melanie Martinez, and was _obsessed_ with Yuri on Ice and Voltron when they released. Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?? Vaporwave and commentary YTers like Pyrocynical were popular among that group too. My personal theory is that the subculture came from picking up the scraps left from older ones (like the ones in this video) and combining them into a single Fangirl Ultimate™.

[@lamibonxd]

yep! i was there too. very defined by twenty one pilots, panic, and FOB (also the “alt girls”: marina, melanie, halsey, and lana.) steven universe, sports anime, and gravity falls ruled my timeline LMAO. voltron later on after those shows ended. although i remember leafy and pyro being popular, i was very out of the loop and was still watching toy review channels from my mlp phase. and then after that i started watching commentary, leafy and idubbz were too edgy for little 12 yr old me😵‍💫

[@ijustlikebees]

....I still listen to marina lmao

[@theguy5579]

God, the emo trinity and leafyishere…

[@jessica23claire]

@@lamibonxd NOT LEAFY sdfghsasdfg (I did watch him tho)

[@finsta4979]

Yep

[@laurenl1088]

As someone who somehow missed being a tumblr girl, I’m excited to learn what could have been

[@EZOnTheEyes]

Wish I was a Tumblr girl, but alas I was a Tumblr egg 😔

[@scarcat2469]

It’s never too late!!!

[@jesst238]

Same tbh like I was 7 and wondering what everyone was up to

[@laurenl1088]

@@scarcat2469 is it my time to shine?? 😂

[@poxidog]

I missed tumbler, I had a ridiculously busy life and no time for internet lol I'm shocked how many of these trends I picked up though. My hair had colour, still does lol my school uniform was black with white shirt so in an effort pee off certain teachers I wore rainbow stripped knee high socks (couldn't dictate our underwear lol) and DMs because they were comfy and I was on my feet all day. Also I'm fat so high waisted everything, and I liked wearing skirts with interesting low hemlines best

[@charlottewilliams1707]

My mom was born in the 1960s, and was into the original grunge style. So when I developed what she called “a bohemian-grunge style,” she was a-ok with it. Heck, she was the one that introduced me to wearing combat boots with dresses 😅

[@Dlark17]

Commenting just to say: Izzy, you're not hallucinating. I definitely had a friend in college who got a mustache tattooed on her finger. It was definitely a widespread thing. 🤣

[@katiarepublic7057]

*I'm so sorry*

[@carous3lcos]

I was giving my friends stick and pokes a month ago and one of them joked that I should give him a moustache finger tattoo and I wanted to take my tattoo needle and gouge my eyes out

[@bootylicker32]

i really wanted one of these but luckily i was like 11 and couldnt get it

[@bethm5852]

I always wonder how people who got moustache tattoos feel about that decision now lol

[@pleuriglosse8198]

my math teacher has one of those 💀

[@TheGreenRaven303]

its so interesting to me how the evolution of emo kind of mirrored the evolution of sensitive beat poet to angry punk and brooding goth in the post-war era to the 80's. makes me curious to see how the subculture will branch off in the future

[@gagaluver83]

if I’m being honest I miss that era so much 😭 like yeah looking back it was cringy as FUCK but you know what? I was happy as fuck too. I was a carefree middle schooler who never took anything serious and was in my own little bubble completely unaware of the fucked up world we lived in and I miss that everyday of my life. Every time I watch videos like this I just get such an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia and sadness because I truly wish I could go back to this era. Fuck I know this may be the nostalgia talking and I know I got my rose colored glasses firmly on right now but things truly were/felt sooooooo much better back then. Life just felt like it was going way slower then it is now. I think one of the reason why this era has such a strong hold on me is because of the fact that back then I was so happy and didn’t suffer from mental illnesses and a chronic illness like I do now.

[@therealaintain]

this is true for every single era ever. millenials miss the 90s, gen x misses their childhood era, etc

[@gagaluver83]

@Bucket me too. Specially now with everything going on. I mean obviously I’m not saying that back then things were perfect cuz god knows they were really fucked up but because I was a kid I literally was completely separated from all of that stuff going on because i wasn’t capable of truly understanding any of it. Kinda wish that was me now tbh 😭 you know what they say “ignorance is bliss”

[@MCArt25]

Five years from now, we'll see video essays on the evolution of the TikTok Girl

[@heathersnumber1fan]

4 years go go!

[@lilllllllith]

wow this brings back so much nostalgia. i was kind of “tumblr famous” in middle and high school going from originally a hipster blog to grunge as i got older and my person style changed with my blog lol. totally miss the days of spending every waking minute reblogging stuff. thank you for this video

[@LilacTidalWave]

What was your @?

[@puppykitten1557]

Tumblr gets shit on a lot but honestly, when I was on the lowest of my life as a queer tween in a country where you could be killed for being queer, it introduced me to fandom culture where I met a lot of friends, learnt about mental health and self care and found other queer people and communities and really understood myself. It has it's flaws, but I think it's done so much more good than bad.

[@Soupfondue]

I’m not sure if I ever would have come out without the queer community on Tumblr! Hope you are safe now

[@puppykitten1557]

@@Soupfondue I still have homophobic relatives but I live in the US and have super supportive friends now so I'm in a much better space. I hope your coming out went well!

[@buttercupkat]

I'm not queer, but I do support you all! You're so valid

[@misseselise3864]

the thing is that most ppl acted like tumblr saved them when it didn’t

[@puppykitten1557]

@@misseselise3864 it did save a lot of people though - having a community is so intensely powerful

[@Taradoxxi]

Your internet history videos never fail to make me feel engulfed in a warm hug of nostalgia and then also immediately afterwards feel like I have dissolved into an old dusty skeleton. great job as usual

[@StonedHunter]

I find it funny that people tried to make a single type of tumblr person when back in the day most on the site acknowledged there were different sides and how we tended to leave each other alone except on occasion. "___ side of tumblr, please explain" was a common joke around at least the fandom side of tumblr when expertise from another side was needed.

[@almsivii]

LMAO, it's still that way dude. I'm only one one specific fandom side on tumblr so whenever I encounter another in the wild I'm just like. "Explain pls" 😭

[@victoriangm7774]

Does anyone remember that one image that was a split drawing of a girl and on one side she had ombre hair and hipster fashion and a Starbucks cup and fairy lights and vinyl records on her bedroom walls, and on the other side she had natural brown hair and a Tardis mug and pizza and fandom posters all over her bedroom walls? Because I feel like that image really encapsulates the "tumblr girl" era.

[@vshcvsh98]

You have a damned good memory bro. I pictured it exactly as you described it 😂

[@tsun4ami]

the indie grunge kid was EXACTLY what i wanted to be at the age of 12 but unfortunately was far too young for it and most of the stuff 'required' for the aesthetic was entirely american and unavailable in my country 😭

[@NadezdaBeka]

Omg same. If only I knew Aliexpress existed back then I would probably be able to pull ot off earlier and better. I was 13-14 and from a small town where these clothes weren't available. I did manage to dress like this in high school thanks to thrifting and visiting malls once a year, but not always because of the weird looks people give when someone's slightly different. It was such a timeless, cheap and flexible style, I love it.

[@qistina4909]

My situation was exactly like you 😭😭 i was so into the 2014 indie grunge era but with no money, ive only managed to convince my parents to buy the dystopian books and john green books it was so frustrating lmao

[@p0t.n00dle4]

I used to dress like that and I have never shopped at American apparel or any of the other staple shops. I had this one pair of ripped black skinny jeans, fishnets and all black leather converse lol

[@tina.3924]

same omg😭😭😭

[@casper3105]

here are couple honorable mentions: "the lubmerjack" or a simply a tomboy, a fit that consists of skinny jeans (preferably black), t-shirt, converse, or timberland shoes, beanie or cap and of course a red flannel The chunky Lolita shoes, usually warn by both grunge and pastel goths the "Y/N" usually collection of common tumblr girl and fangirl fits spikes and studs, a beloved item among the diy girls especially the spikey bra "Art hoe" and everything mustard yellow and the expensive fjallraven backpack Flower crowns, a la Lana del Rey The ombre hair and makeup, while it was mostly a "Instagram trend" I cannot tell you how often I'd see it in my dashboard around 2012-13 And lastly, the British tv series Skins, ah yes Euphorias Big sister, and a big and I mean just maaaasive influence on the Tumblr alternative fashion mainly the grunge scene and I am very surprised you didn't mention the show because the tumblr grunge fashion is literally collection of skins but mainly the character effy stonem inspired fashion. she was THE it girl of tumblr alternative scene

[@datchicray]

All accurate. I remember watching skins in 2012 because it was all over tumblr and all the girls I liked were into it.

[@johndoe4110]

I had no social media growing up but I did dress like a lumberjack

[@mo-ov8hz]

did anyone else constantly see aesthetic photos of men with flowers in their beards? it dominated my tumblr page for a solid few months

[@somethingwithbungalows]

@@mo-ov8hz I remember seeing those pics waaaay back on instagram around 2013 or so? Or maybe it was earlier.. or later?? I’m not sure, do you know?

[@Girly_Plop]

I haven’t even watched the video yet and I’m *shocked* she doesn’t mention skins

[@pumpkinpepsi]

You mentioned that you can pinpoint specific styles and subcultures back then, but you can't now - I don't know how old you are but im probably quite a bit older (35) and I started noticing in the early 00s that I could see what 80s styles were like, but I couldn't see what 90s were like, assuming they didnt have defining styles. A few years later, I could DEFINITELY pin point the 90s style because I was further removed from it. I remember in around 2012-2013, looking at this sort of tumblr stuff and seeing a 90s revival thing happening with certain aspects of fashion and thinking, I guess 00s didn't have any defining subcultures/styles. Obviously now we can see that's untrue; by around 2016 or so I could see OBVIOUS y2k / 00s trends. But once again I assumed the 2010s just didn't have them. As this video shows, that was not the case. So I almost promise you that in a few years, maybe 10 years, you'll have NO trouble pinpointing today's styles and trends.

[@pspspspspspspspspspspspspspss]

This gave a reality check for me still having the grunge style to this day, it became so my everyday style that every time someone asks about what my favorite style i say “it’s whatever I don’t have a specific thing

[@DecoraGarfoid]

@purple X no it's not

[@MuteLunacy]

i remember being so disappointed that my parents wouldn't let me dress scene as a kid and even used the classic "it's not a phase" line lmao well.... guess who's balancing classic emo/scene with gothic lolita now i'm grown. guess it really wasn't a phase.

[@galaxymew5138]

Lol I'm in high school and I've found myself wearing scene, it's pretty fun!

[@trianglemoebius]

TWhat if the real emo phase was the friends we made along the way?

[@tablescissors]

wow

[@xxstarrymistxx]

that's awesome omg

[@lianafreeman8954]

I started high school in 2014 and considered myself to be “pastel/soft grunge”- often flannels and leather jackets over (usually floral) skater dresses, paired with converse. I was super active on tumblr though and I went through a lot of style phases during my early teens, so this was a super nostalgic video for me since I’d tried out a lot of them at some point! Thanks for another fantastic video Izzy 💕

[@walkingonneedles]

that sounds like a nice aesthetic wowie

[@vglycorpse]

That sounds like a really cute fit honestly. I started high school 1 year later, and holy shit did pastel goth have a chokehold on me 😂 too bad my uber Christian parents didn't let me dress how I wanted, but maybe that saved me some embarrassment tbh 💀

[@prescallo6508]

Violet Harmon from AHS??

[@wessussy]

Oh my gosh, that pastel goth chibi art was so popular at my middle school lol everyone was tracing that style of art and sticking it on their lockers 😭

[@egg9206]

i love how you talk about these subcultures with so much empathy and affection. it’s very easy to look back on these things and cringe, but the way you frame it-young people dipping their toes into a new form of self-expression, learning what kinds of things they like, really changed my perspective on them. helps me not to cringe at myself for still enjoying some of these things today. thank you for always being so respectful of people and their interests!

[@ninamasson3866]

One style I remember vividly is the "art hoe" with bright yellow kanken backpack, polaroid cameras, "save the bees" and Van Gogh stickers, playing ukulele, being the mom friend, mom jeans, striped shirt, lots of pictures of sunflowers or cactus, kind of manic pixie dream girl but more healthy, doing art everywhere, just like small drawings or big paintings with sunsets and clouds... Does anyone else remember this ? :') PS : I swear you're doing a master's work at archiving all those small and big past content for the past decade. I love your videos so much and can't wait to see which obscure topics you chose next, you're always super documented and edit it in a way that's always fun to follow/learn about, it's just so nice to see these random memories pop up again, thank you for your work :)

[@literaIIyshy]

Yeah art hoe was a movement started by black women in response to the lack of diversity in the artsy spaces online.

[@literaIIyshy]

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[@Sophie_Pea]

Yesss I loved this. I remember Conan gray was the embodiment of the art hoe style for me back in 2017 when he was running his KZbin channel, I loved it sm. In a way it was a really good trend tbh because I actually learned a lot about art because of it, which is definitely a good thing to gain just from a random internet aesthetic

[@lautaroescarlon7501]

@@literaIIyshy Nah, not really. I started it.

[@ninamasson3866]

@@literaIIyshy the more you know !! In retrospect I can definitely see the afro-american influences in the aesthetic, but I had only ever seen white girls participating online. How infuriating to see another trend who won't have its creators credited but carried to mainstream appeal. Thanks for the educating video, I hope it'll garner more attention, since the aesthetic hasn't gone out of style and could have a resurgence in popularity.

[@syvir]

Being a person of colour and also a minor during those times, some of the spaces weren't very open or welcoming. So, despite having always admired some of them and wanting to dress and participate, I had been told/thought that I wasn't allowed to or wasn't supposed to. I'm rediscovering and embracing them now through adulthood though :)

[@MynahGtz]

Same, I only saw white girls doing this fashion trends and thinking it wouldn't look good on me if I try. But now I like pink so, little me WE DID IT

[@itssoulfr836]

my mom called my emo sibling whitewashed. also when i got older and wanted to dye my hair purple she said the same to me. it be ya own people mann...

[@milgy3616]

the art hoe movement was originally created specifically by and for “alt” poc to redefine blackness and challenge stereotypes but ofc it got snatched up by white tumblr… go figure

[@demitrinarrow]

Dude same. My family thought it was weird enough that a guy wanted to wear his hair straightened, so that's as far as I got. But now I'm wearing all the styles my pre-teen self would have loved.

[@solidcriminal9797]

True. The way people would just stop talking to me after they found out I'm a poc 💀

[@HalcyonSimx]

i deeply cherish the indie grunge era, especially the music. i definitely did NOT just buy a tennis skirt

[@yourlittlevenicebtch4258]

Can we please just bring it back? But with better representation

[@TheAkwarium]

"my 3 weed smoking girlfriends"

[@twinkharrylwt226]

I have never stopped wearing them.. but I have a little strph sister aged 11 and she came to a family gathering wearing a cute rennis skirt and a little grunge and it made me a little proud 😊

[@nostalgicinmybones]

i definitely admired the “twee” style when i was 12-14 and remember getting specific items the way you did pastel goth, but i absolutely embraced the indie grunge aesthetic entirely on accident from 15-18. 5sos wasn’t an indie band but a lot of fans liked the other music you mentioned, so i think the style of the fans overlapped and wormed it’s way into my brain lol

[@tidepodpadthai2633]

i'm still indie grunge lmao

[@drungarious]

Every time Izzy or anyone in the comments talks about "when they were a kid", and it's 10 years ago or less, I crumble every so slightly more into dust. (my 2010s aesthetic was "stressed out grad student")

[@GamingintheAM0801]

Tell me about it. Tumblr wasn't even a thing until I was a senior in high school.

[@MrRadar]

Same here. OTOH I like watching her stuff because it's like a window into an entirely different generational experience I missed out on.

[@Lexivor]

Izzy was a kid like 2 years ago.

[@JimiCanRead]

Same but also old people think it’s crazy that you weren’t even born when Denis Law scored at Old Trafford helping to relegate his former club

[@omgitzpaige2013]

so in between.. i was in my late teens/early twenties at the peak of tumblr culture but i was SOOOO into it despite being 20 and not 14

[@chloejones6240]

on the mustaches : I vividly remember watching a wedding reality tv show where a couple had a mustache themed wedding. I was in elementary school so I thought they were so cool but now I wonder if they’re embarrassed or still into it lol

[@byggrynsgroet]

idk but sounds like someone who would get a divorce later

[@crypticcorvid]

@@byggrynsgroet Do you think they went up to their spouse with divorce papers in hand like "I mustache you a question... 🥺📝"

[@byggrynsgroet]

@@crypticcorvid 🚪 theres the door. /s

[@csquared8215]

There are definitely fashion trends going on right now-it's just much harder to see trends when you're living through them. I think it's because at the end of the day, internet aesthetics are just that-online. The internet can make it seem like everyone has pastel hair or intense combovers, but in reality only like .5% of people actually looked like an iconic "trendy" tumblr kid. Most of us cherry pick the things we like and combine it in our own way.

[@DellVanity]

Any time Izzy says "warrants its own video" i'm always immediately like "yeah id watch it"

[@alicequeenofmadness9995]

Same

[@PupkinPumpkin]

Just saying when she says that, she will probably make that video. As of 2023 she has 100+ video ideas in her to-do list.

[@buttershy_]

oh my god THANK YOU for pointing out that the "not like other girls" thing was just young and often neurodivergent girls reacting to being bullied en masse. i'm sick of everyone demonising them, this is the first time i've seen someone bring it up without doing that.

[@evil_death_roll]

Turned out I wasn't like other girls after all. I'm a trans man 😂

[@starsiadraws]

I think most of the criticism towards the NLOG girls was that it promoted misogynistic ideas and demonized high femme women and girls, but you're right! A lot of the people involved in that subculture were genuinely just kids who felt out of place, often due to being neurodivergent.

[@joggenye8692]

@@evil_death_roll same!!

[@ShinySylviee]

While the hate did/does get out of hand, the "not like other girls" thing was still completely toxic and deserved to be called out.

[@maneater2066]

Preach that guy who said "It's not internalized misogyny, it's called being in middle school"

[@livk453]

when you dressed like a vintage hipster but your personality was both basic white girl and a fangirl combined, baby, I was INSUFFERABLE

[@isabellab.1875]

With the music taste of an indie grunge Tumblr girl! We were the cringiest possible combo, and we were happy for it LOL

[@beautyandtheoffbeats]

I was the complete opposite on tumblr, I was the baddie type blogger that would post occasional memes until I started smoking weed, then I became obsessed with this one girls stoner blog, I would reblog almost all her post I’m surprised she didn’t block me.

[@swampgoth]

I feel like the mustache trend was a product of the "xD random" humor vibe, like the mustaches were a bit after the random hay day but it had similar energy IMO. I do think they were more used by the preps and posh hipsters. And yes it always has and still does feel like a fever dream of a trend, even while it was happening

[@emmahansen7005]

Oh God I had a mustache necklace when I was younger Also, pastel goth is still an amazing aesthetic, nothing will ever convince me that the mix of creepy and cute, black and pastels isn't awesome

[@dasgrauel]

Menhera style is like that, but with mental health awareness involved.

[@PhoenixRoseYT]

I see some kids around irl wearing emo/alt clothes and I’m so proud of them. When I go out (which is never) I wear mostly random stuff from Hot Topic, mostly goth-lite.

[@j.2512]

Cringe and probably BPD

[@ian-tw5jb]

@@j.2512 or they just wanna wear what they want?

[@bethm5852]

@@j.2512 Why are you here dude?

[@megbyi]

@@j.2512 what are you supposed to wear then ☠☠

[@b3b3j4y]

lol, i was a 4chan art kid, but i remember looking through tumblr in 2009 like ":0 omg, imagine being one of these girls with flower crowns, they're lives are perfect. it's so aesthetic".. though, if you didnt know, 4chan also had an obsession with hipsters. on the music board, people would compile their charts of obscure albums and curate lists, and make fun of others if their list was too "mainstream"(lol there was nothing mainstream about any of the internet albums they talked about), if it was too 4chan music core, and then if it was too hipster. lol there really was no line, and you got made fun of for anything. it taught me how to listen to music and gave me tons of great albums, so i thank it for that, BUT tying music to your personality is fucking toxic. i used to think i was "bad" at "listening to music" lmao, and it took me a long time to realize that these are just depressed 16 year olds taking their rage out on everyone, not ultra elite hipsters with superior music taste.

[@cybunny25]

Oh man, I saw one of those obscure albums lists while browsing 4chan on the school computers once I couldn't actually listen to any of them though because rules, and our school computers didn't have speakers nor did I have headphones So I wrote down the link on a piece of paper for later and lost it before even listening to anything lmao

[@user-rc9yt5nb5z]

@@cybunny25 dont feel too bad thread would have likely gone by time you got home

[@UncleMarco]

GOD it was so awful that mindset had such a GRIP on me and how I saw media until I got out of high school

[@Amsayy]

shoutout to the old 4chan raids on Tumblr lol

[@Mitsaya]

4chan and the never-ending race to being into the most obscure media on the planet without being seen as too pretentious or the wrong kind of horny. Some say they're still doing the exact same thing to this very day.

[@waviyden]

2014/tumblr style is DEFINITELY becoming the next big trend on tik tok. it’s on the come up right now.

[@trinemadsen9010]

“Sea punk” is a thing i remember so vividly form tumblr, reminds me of pastel goth as well, but i havent met a lot of other people who remembers this part. Thought it was so fun.

[@feykingjulian]

omg yes i had forgotten all about seapunk, but i remember thinking it was cool too! it seemed to come up and then breeze past quickly though, at least from what i could see. kinda merged into the ~aesthetic~ aesthetic it looks like after googling it. yknow the cgi images with teal backgrounds and dolphins and palm trees and all that. (vaporwave? was that vaporwave?)

[@abominati0n]

oh shiiittt the “ahoy”before peoples usernames the anchors, daaaammnn memories unlocked

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

I was 90's goth, but I knew about pastel goth, even then. By the early 2000's, I was occasionally adding pink and soft blue to my corpse paint palette. And I never really met anyone else doing this, in some of the least interesting parts of PA. Some people were still scared of me, even in the 21st century. Others used me as a chance to teach their kids about tolerance. Or just to introduce themselves, because it gave them something to talk about. Which is why I'm watching the fashion trends of a website I've never used. Because despite all the grief us weirdos put up with, we won. The generations after us took up that torch and ran with it. Individual self-expression won. Not being able to tell a decade at a glance? That's magical. Let's not take it for granted. Whenever there's an advance, there's a backlash.

[@Gingerblossom6969ily]

Istg PA seems to be one of the worst places for self expression, don't get me wrong I love it here but we live in what feels like a small town secluded from the rest of the earth, nothing is happening here and progression is very slow. That's my view on it, anyway. Good on ya for staying true to yourself, we need more interesting and unique people in our slow moving lives anyway. I'd love to see more goths around here, they make me happy

[@FringeSpectre]

Any backlash could only have come from people who were jealous that you decided you were going to be the most attractive person around. The goth aesthetic, and especially its 'scene girl' derivative is by far the top tier fashion. Makes me fackin diamonds

[@lilymasters2863]

As one of the teens who took up these fashions in the 2010s, especially the 90s grunge aesthetic, I'm proud to have followed in your footsteps~ now I'm a 20something and still wearing old ripped jeans and too much black and flannel lol

[@chum5628]

@@Gingerblossom6969ily pa feels like it’s always out of the loop with the rest of society. especially in our small towns and the lack of any sort of expression via fashion.

[@viphersniper]

“A lot of kids into tumblr and fandom were neurodivergent” the signs of me having autism were there all along and it took me till adulthood to realize it 💀

[@danssaddimple9133]

lmaoo same

[@jamescanjuggle]

same 😂

[@payelizabethh2131]

@TheMaidofMiddleEarth i still use tumblr

[@autisticizzy6795]

Same. I'm autistic and adhd

[@dinopines9191]

@@autisticizzy6795 hey same I’m adhd and on the autism spectrum

[@jessiecurzio4779]

the mustache era definitely happened, and I agree, it feels like a fever dream at this point. I remember going to a mustache themed birthday party, which even at the time I thought was weird. What a time to be alive

[@chickensoupfordinner]

I'm still on Tumblr bc no other site scratches the fandom itch, and I have been there since 2009. It was cringe but also magic.

[@nicolec.5352]

Being there since 2011, and you’re absolutely right

[@MsGabrielaf6]

Same

[@momomomo__]

Got there in 2012 and at this point, it would take me more effort to leave the hellsite than it does to keep up with the shenanigans. It feels like most of the unhinged users have left to Twitter and all that's left is the reasonable people with brainrot, bit still capable of critical thinking (for the most part), so it's pretty chill. There's also nothing that gives me the dopamine hit that finishing a book and going on its tag gives me.

[@copeenthuisiast5453]

@@momomomo__ seems like tumblr girls are the equivalent of 4chan boys

[@momomomo__]

@@copeenthuisiast5453 I'm wishing you an eternity of Lego stepping for that comparison

[@user-fl4hn5cq7b]

This felt like someone reading my diary out loud to the class and I haven’t gotten over the embarrassment of having lived through this tumble era

[@GabyRak]

I was there for it all. Being a Tumblr girl was the epitome of adolescence… What a time to be alive

[@blvckspirit69]

I‘m still happy I got through so many changes as a teen, so i LIVED every single tumblr aesthetic

[@Sophie_Cleverly]

It feels so weird to see these things talked about as like Internet history when I feel like it was like last week 😅 I loved Tumblr, I was specifically a metalhead but with a side order of fandom geek. I was at university though so I always felt like the Mum or something. I was into slightly older bands and authors and shows and I never really understood the culture around Superwholock and stuff. Also I still wear all my galaxy clothes lol. I don't like to get rid of anything unless it's breaking, it seems like such a waste.

[@somedude172]

i still wear stuff i got from hot topic in 2012-2016, when i was in middle school/early highschool for the same reasons. ive even been repairing them because at this point, theyre sentimental lol. i did donate some band shirts in 2016 because i was embarrassed, but tbh i regret that so much now! idc about cringe anymore so im getting back into to those bands and can no longer afford to spend $20-30 on their merch :(

[@moshatce]

Why do i feel like metalheads was never got to point of popularity same as other cultures? is it just me🤔

[@k-leb4671]

I still occasionally wear shirts and shorts I got when I was 13...so 10 years ago. I am a dude though.

[@traderLeah]

I love and support a fellow anti-waste queen

[@venusasadyke]

THANK YOU i'm obsessed with the 2014 tumblr aesthetic rn and even started dressing like that again for nostalgia

[@-elliott-averagedragonenjo1812]

@@legitrooster why?

[@username-userr]

@@legitrooster ur cringe

[@bunnyfrosting1744]

Oh bread. The irony is beautiful

[@legitrooster]

@@username-userr tyler pfp spotted

[@corvid2910]

Thank you so much for humanizing the genres of users discussed. Sometimes people forget we were just teens and tweens messing around. Sure, it was cringey, but we were having fun. I really appreciated that touch.

[@bunny.boo531]

i dress in a mix of three styles: decora, kawaii, and pastel goth. it just depends on what i feel like wearing that day, although i mostly dress kawaii. it makes me so extremely happy. when i wear other things out i feel so uncomfortable and awkward, because its just not me. something my mother always says is "dont feel bad, you're beautiful." but the problem isnt beauty. i know i look good, i just dont feel good. i feel bare. i love my style and its how i express myself :)

[@elisabethstonaker7092]

Ok so full disclosure I’m literally 30, but I remember all of this so vividly. This was my life in college lol. I feel simultaneously called out, extremely old, and weirdly honored by the hipster info. Thank you for preserving the elder tumblr girls’ heritage lol

[@F66x]

Same!! I feel too old for some of the stuff on this channel sometimes but this one really came for my ass.

[@eggegg8181]

I’m the same age and I agree with you!

[@jessica23claire]

i'm 27 and i too have never felt more ancient

[@KandarianQueen]

I'm 29 and I really feel this. This was college for me and they were some of the best years of my life; it's super nostalgic seeing it again now. 🥲

[@bopeepaleep]

for real. got Tumblr soon after it started, in college at art school when everyone was using it as their portfolio / art blogs. stayed on it throughout twenties, and my sphere and peers on there were all of similar age. feel ancient now lol.

[@jude_illusion]

Here's a thing that happened to one of my friends. I was there. Basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. I think it had to do with a movie. Then this bus screeches up, stops next to us, and a bunch of people with “Down with Cis” shirts climbed out and started beating him up. I was punched and kicked a bit too, but I managed to avoid brutalization by going for their faces. After figuring out what’s happening, I started attacking them back, getting them off of him. He was quite injured but I called 911 and he made a full recovery at the hospital. I was fine, with only a cut on my arm that they patched up.

[@the_sky_is_blue_and_so_am_I]

WAIT WHAT!?

[@the_sky_is_blue_and_so_am_I]

As a transmasc that is unacceptable, I'm so sorry that happened to you. :(

[@thenperish1918]

PLEASE NOT THE DOWN WITH THE CIS BUS TUMBLR POST 😭😭😭😭😭💀

[@imnotabin]

and then everyone stood up and started applauding

[@the_sky_is_blue_and_so_am_I]

@ferret I'm sorry i made you feel old.

[@Chlocean]

I found out why I love Izzzy's videos so much-I am a trans woman, and had to kind of watch these trends happen in my background while I looked on longingly, and her videos allow me to get right in close with them, just in time to start seeing these styles resurface nostalgically. Thank you, now I get a second chance to try being cottage core and pastel goth and everything all on different days.

[@BedWords_]

yes!! me too

[@lautaroescarlon7501]

"I am a trans woman" is such a trans woman thing to say.

[@Tazdragon1]

Exactly!!!!

[@fearsomefiredragon522]

Trans guy here, I definitely feel you with watching trends and others wearing outfits and wishing you could jump right in and participate in movements like that. I wish there was more information about men's fashion, as I recently put myself in a position where I can freely express myself and I'm down to try a bunch of outfits and styles.

[@JamieDaggers]

Same here! I’m in my 30s so I feel silly liking these things, but I grew up with them and didn’t get to try it at all 😓

[@lunabibiane]

in my opinion after indie grunge came the "art hoe" aesthetic: the succulents, thrited oversized tshirts, mom jeans, the kanken backpack, van gogh paintings and the color yellow, vaguely inspired by 80s "vintage" look, the socks with little ruffles on them or the starry night ones, docs and vans obviously. basically conan grays old videos. that was the first "tumblr aesthetic" i was old enough to kinda participate in, good times i miss it :[

so strange to me as a 16 year old watching this now and getting heavy nostalgia I wasn't old enough to truly become apart of any of these styles, but I had my fair share of "fangirl" "melanie martinez" and "not like other girls" phases, even if I was 9 at the time

[@lokidoki1637]

im 16 too and i feel the same

[@brookenoel3346]

Where the hell were y’all’s parents 😭

[@lokidoki1637]

@@brookenoel3346 fighting

[@EdwardSnortin]

that is not shit you should be experiencing at 9 years old. your parents should never have let you have access to the internet unsupervised at that age

[@FigmentPigmentCrosserTosser]

@@EdwardSnortin started my "not like other girls/ Melanie Martinez" phase about the same age as they did. Let me tell you I got into that stuff way too early to comprehend what the topic in Melanie's song were, now when I listen back on her music I realize how inappropriate they were for a 9/10-year-old.

[@datchicray]

I’m very nostalgic for the emo/scene tumblr era of 2011/2012 however I think it’s important to point out how much it romanticized self harm and made it a trendy aesthetic. Self harm will always be linked to mental health but this era was particularly bad, to the point where I can tell someone’s my age by the amount of healed scars they have.

[@awts..7954]

that was also indie/grunge in tumblr

[@angelicscrewup]

As a young teen In the "newly revived" emo community, it's still here

[@awts..7954]

@@angelicscrewup really? i also still hang out there but how? (maybe it's because i probably hang out in safer platforms like pinterest and spacehey but wow)

[@dollhousefire.]

As someone who was in this scene and had a lot of friends irl who used tumblr, can confirm many of them had large amounts of scars because it was so romanticized at the time. Like it was a badge of honor. I was in middle school/ early high and it was a emotional time for us as teens. I struggle with depression and bipolar and I dont think that culture discouraged self harm as much as it shouldve..

[@itsyourmumsgf]

It's still very much a thing, I was friends with somebody very very into it, and she ended up influencing me into it and Im still struggling with anxiety and self harm. I don't think it will ever go away, and it's really sad because it stays with people forever and it's not talked about enough. By the time people realise it's wrong they've already gotten too old to be really listened to by the other younger members of the community, and so it's ignored and young teens continue to romanticise harmful behaviour and convince themselves that's it's okay and even desirable.

[@silent-hills]

Low key was obsessed with the pastel goth subculture when I was younger, and now I’m dressing in an alt/yami Kawaii/kawaii clothing everyday. Guess I didn’t really outgrow that lol

[@raeoddly]

I myself dress 2014 tumblr and I have to say I think it’ll make a comeback pretty soon. I was like 10 in 2014, 18 right now and the style just makes me nostalgic because it’s how little me always wanted to look. Dressing like this makes me happy because it’s kinda fulfilling my childhood dreams to look in the mirror and see someone that my younger self would die to look like

[@orioborous]

one thing i think these aesthetics really did right was (aside from the skinny jeans) focusing on pretty comfortable clothing. t-shirts, flannels, oversized sweaters, leggings, ugg boots are all INCREDIBLY comfortable, way moreso than things that are popular now (as a plus sized person, you couldn't get me to wear low-waisted jeans or baby tees at gunpoint). all these fashion subcultures were overwhelmingly skinny and white, but at least back then they were clothes i *could* wear as a chubby teen. i wonder if in 10 years we'll be looking back on tiktok fashion this way? i don't use that site but it's definitely the hub for alt-fashion teens the way tumblr was in the 2010's. (edit: funny enough, i wear fairy kei now, which was really big on tumblr in the 2010's! it's not as big now, but you're right-- it's the 2020s, time for all the 20-somethings to wear the fashion they always wanted but could never afford when they were teens)

[@catmerchant8699]

one thing tumblr did right was use the word aesthetic and not the terrible new word 'core'

[@shayla4007]

@@catmerchant8699 okay now ur getting reactionary lol

[@bethm5852]

@@catmerchant8699 People still say aesthetic, it’s used interchangeably with -core now

[@rattteeth5065]

In high school, I was so dialed in to tumblr that I tried to incorporate nearly EVERY tumblr aesthetic into my wardrobe. Goth, twee, grunge, boho, indie, you name it. I'm pretty sure I just ended up looking homeless, but I was sure I was thriving.

[@saff4997]

“Let me paint a picture” You absolutely don’t need to I know full well how I dressed and I still own some of it. 😭 I will say though I think fangirls on Tumblr were more self aware regarding other women who were different than given credit for. Also, one of the pieces of art you posted is actual wetfish corn that people misunderstood. EDIT: I dress more dark academia/light academia now, but occasionally have little trinkets here and there of things I like still. Not out and out a t-shirt of a show I watch with accessories of other things, but a little badge here and there or small earrings. I guess I will forever be a Fangirl ™️.

[@AxxLAfriku]

Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. Gets me frustrated. Just admit that you love the videos I make, my dear saf

[@skyeaurelliah9883]

wetfish corn? /gq

[@jaecityzen3415]

jyp pfp 😍😩😌🥳😮‍💨😜

[@biptari]

@@skyeaurelliah9883 i assume 'corn' is a substitute word for the naughty pictures but i'm not sure what wetfish mean

[@quartzbeathan7430]

@@biptari It's a substitute word for fetish (I can't think of nicer way to say that).

[@whatlikeitshardd]

words can't describe how it feels to watch a video essay about the best time of my life

[@botchboy4237]

These videos are very bittersweet for me, cause I love these nostalgic look backs at what was happening during my teenage years but it's also a reminder of how much time has passed. Felt like everyone was much more innocent in the early 2010's and unafraid to express themselves, and the as the decade went on we all became more self-aware for better or worse. But I'll always have a special place in my heart for the era where Adventure Time ruled supreme and I listened to Vampire Weekend past bedtime.

[@Isa.esthetics]

I wasn’t allowed to dress like a tumblr girl, but I recently bought a bunch of chokers and i am LIVING

[@Kris-wo4pj]

@@cat-le1hf just let it go. They're just nurturing their inner child.

[@worstusernameintheworld9871]

as someone who lived out my tumblr grunge phase that I never got to live, trust me, it's worth it

[@Naixatloz]

Back when I started using Tumblr, I was deep in the middle of a goth phase, and _boy_ did other goths hate pastel goths. "Noooo real goths shouldn't wear cute colorful things" sort of gatekeeping. Being goth was a big part of my identity back then, but I was also gaining an interest in pastel aesthetics, so I found it all very hurtful. My current style is informed heavily by the unicorn and "pastel blogger" trends from 2015-16-ish. I'd spend hours a day reblogging pictures of cute clothes and desserts.

[@gagastardust]

i remember they would get so mad about nu-goth also?? that was weird. i still barely understand what that means but i remember seeing those gatekeepers hated it lol

[@k-leb4671]

I'm sure those goths who hated pastel goths were themselves being hated by "real" goths who grew up in the 70s (or not if those people had respect and/or minded their own business as most good people do).

[@mollysministuff]

I was obsessed with Melanie Martinez in 2017 to 2018 (still listen to her sometimes) so my favorite aesthetic was pastel goth / grunge and even pastel gore. I made a bunch of jewelry and keychains based on those types of aesthetics.

[@EC-yw5hg]

It’s confusing bc people are saying goth is a music subculture, and has nothing to do with fashion. …But what do you immediately think of when someone says “goth”? I’m willing to bet your first thought is a) all black & b) morbid imagery.

[@lulusinner]

The gothgoth tag cos goth tag was 'overtaken by pastel'

[@anabsolutebuffoon]

When I was younger I used to be a “not like other girls” person and turns out I was right! I am not a girl.

[@boipoi_78]

same

[@marzipan__]

Same here lol

[@nownow4323]

same

[@anabsolutebuffoon]

I am collecting trans people in these replies

[@Parker_Lot]

Mee

[@revolutionofthekind]

I was 18 when I started using tumblr in 2010, and I had been a Mall goth in my younger teen, so rolling into tumblr and getting into the fashion, especially into the context of fandom, was super easy. I got super into Mori, pastel goth, gutter punk/indie grunge. I could never afford any of the looks, and being that I'm black it was hard to imagine myself looking good in those fashions because the most idealized looks were so white. It didnt help that I'm trans, and I battled for a long time to feel comfortable in feminine coded clothing because I didnt want to not be taken seriously as a trans man. Fast forward teen years and I'm a pastel goth stereotype and have no tits and a beard and it rules. Live your dreams kids

[@sunnyveranda5092]

hey sorry to be sappy on your post but I’m a trans guy and reading stories like this gives me a lot of hope /gen

[@lissabasma]

Oh, I forget that internet of that time was very racist

[@PossumPunx]

Hate to nitpick but gutterpunk and indie grunge are so different I’m questioning how they’re related other than being generally considered alt

[@Jixsurez]

In DC I've seen black people wearing lolita. And the clothing is like a mixture of styles from different countries. As a Hispanic person, I love lolita fashion because it reminds me of the dresses my mom would have me wear as a child. All in all, do whatever makes you happy.

[@pumpkinpepsi]

@@PossumPunx yes gutterpunk refers to street kids/train hoppers. I was one for most of the 2010s.

[@erinbeboberry]

i was DEEP in the tumblr indie grunge (lowkey still am lmao) but it's so weird to see how it's all come back! i'm 20 now and my sibling is 12 and dresses EXACTLY like i did back in 2013-2018. really fascinating but really really really weird!

[@gh0ulbunni817]

God, this brings back so much NOSTALGIA from the 2010s. I remember being on tumblr vaguely while writing what I thought would be the next big indie YA stories... When I was 11. My parents and I regularly had to drive to places like Portland due to my father's disabilities and poor health and eyesight, so reading those oh so famous books like the maze runner and hunger games tended to be my escape. Also I wanted to be one of those pastel goth girls so badly, I still do (my fashion style now pulls from pastel goth and hints of emo)... Maybe your next one can be about the rise of e-girls and alt tiktok during the 2020 pandemic?

[@blackmirrorprisoners]

obsessed with the idea that tumblr is a staple of the internet like tiktok is now because i joined it in 2010 to look at gifs of castiel and it's been with me through all of my phases, yet i've never been on the ~aesthetique~ side of tumblr. now i use it to look at gifs of dean winchester. that's real growth.

[@RhysezPieces]

It's wild hearing that teens actually had, like, styles. I knew subcultures existed cause they'd reference them in tv shows, but I was just so in my own little world. I went from reflective rainbow shirts and neon orange shorts as handmedowns to cereal and soda brand shirts from the boy's department to one singular hoodie that I've worn for 4 years now. What will I become next~?

[@lautaroescarlon7501]

Dead, sooner or later.

[@mcgfn]

@@lautaroescarlon7501 LOL

[@vagabondart9999]

Gender experiments and issues aside, I used to be the Tumblr pastel goth non-binary fandom fangirl. Over the years cuz of many things that part died out in me, but now as an adult I'm rediscovering a lot of things and getting back into my old hobbies and fashions I used to love. I had so many diy shirts, poorly sewn bat wings for my hair and shoes, painted a shirt with a drippy cross with wall paint cuz haha improvising. In general, I miss those days, but I'm majorly glad people are experimenting so much with styles these days, and trifting and everything, the diy stuff is also very relevant (?) and makes me happy. As well as learning a lot more tricks and diy's myself over TikTok and other platforms. All in all, I'm rlly happy that you made this video, it brings me so much nostalgia and happy memories, as Tumblr was the main website I managed to make my first proper friends over, some of who are one of the longest and closest friendships I have even today.

[@hereliesviktor1570]

as a person who has been on tumblr since the ripe ol' age of 8, i am so ecstatic that you've made this video.

[@bunnyfrosting1744]

Not trying to be mean but what would even be interesting to a kid on tumblr? I don’t remember NSFW content being as easy to hide back in the day

[@1nth3c1ty9]

@@bunnyfrosting1744 Not the original commenter but I got on Tumblr when I was 8 or 9. I started mine because of my sister and would reblog alot of fandom stuff (esp as I got older), "aesthetic" stuff, and memes/shitposts. I was also (unknowingly) mentally ill, didn't have friends, and grew up early so take that as you will lmao

[@saikodizzle1399]

@@1nth3c1ty9 It's kind of interesting that this is a commonality found in most Tumblr kids. I also went on Tumblr for the same reasons...no irl friends, being mentally ill, feeling ostrasized and eccentric to those in my life. Tumblr had a lot of people who understood the fandom obsession lifestyle like I did, very heavily egged on because of my autism. Tumblr was like a community that we all understood each other without needing to communicate. It was like a bunch of personal online journals with catchy username's and unnatural aesthetics.

[@1nth3c1ty9]

@@saikodizzle1399 Oh definitely. I think that, since Tumblr became so fandom and social justice heavy, weird, mentally ill, or marginalized kids kinda just gravitated towards it. The Tumblr University/Dashcon/social media wars really embody the community that people on Tumblr felt or belonged to. It had alot of good aspects, but god it was a toxic mess lol. It's been interesting to see how it's been mirrored on Tiktok

[@pineddew]

@@1nth3c1ty9 are you diagnosed?

[@Toxic.Mangaka]

I’ve always dressed alt, but I’m glad it’s making a comeback so things are more accessible all year round. rather than me having to visit a thrift, hot topic, or waiting until Halloween. I’m also pretty sure if I looked in my old room at my parents house I could find galaxy leggings, pastel skater dresses, fandom shirts, peterpan collars, studded belts, etc. I quite honestly incorporated quite a few of these into my own style for better or for worse depending on how you look at it.

[@OhWowThatsDumb]

This look is phenomenal

[@meep1401]

Oh my god I remember those little chibi girls!! I had the pop-punk/indie version as my profile picture for a while on tumblr back then, but I remember I saved literally every version I could find, from the pastel goth one to the fandom ones - I just really liked the design! Thank you for reminding me of those, it is honestly one of my favourite tumblr memories :]

[@helviqa303]

When i first moved europe from Russia as a kid, our school organised a sleep away trip. Since the mustache trend was so popular a lot of ppl drew them on their index fingers and soon the accompanying teachers had us put our indexes over our top lips regardless of whether we had them drawn on or not when traversing through busy areas to signify our presence. I literally never wanted to migrate back home so badly since that moment

[@isisortiz7776]

I'm a trans girl, and I was in high school in the tumblr era. I felt like an outcast at that time, and me and my friends (always girlfriends) used tumblr to communicate how we felt about life and love. The problem with me was that I wanted to wear cute clothes so bad, but being a boy in high school was awful, and wear "girl clothes" was impossible. I had to stay in the norm, and I still feel like I could have enjoyed much more if I knew what trans people were at that time.

[@_Daemon_Sultan_]

Well, you have the opportunity to look absolutely beautiful now!

[@its_uh_bella]

Every time I watch a video like this I unlock a memory from that time in my life. Glad to know im not the only girly with these kind of experiences. It can often be difficult to tangle with the childhood so many trans people are denied so it's important to hold onto those positive and euphoric memories.

[@Tea-gh8cu]

same but with boyish clothes, we used obligatory uniform shirt and pants/skirt, and I seriously didn't want to use a skirt, just pants like the boys but of course it was against the rules, in the end I didn't transition but now I'm free to never wear skirts

[@99Mateoo]

Same, I wasn’t on tumblr but the “I’m not like most girls” thing stuck out to me and it was only until I took a step back when the pandemic started that I realize that I wasn’t like most girls, because I wasn’t a girl. Turns out I’m just a trans guy who likes fem things, which is why I would REFUSE to wear dresses and only dress with t shirts and pants but wanted to keep dresses “just in case”

[@missflecha6084]

I was too young/ broke to embrace the 2014 grunge when it was starting, so by embracing it in my 20s I feel like i’m healing my inner child

[@jessica23claire]

meeeeeee, you're gonna have to pry my a-line skater skirt and my american apparel disco pants i found on depop out of my COLD DEAD HANDS

[@marz_mitzi]

try being that but nearing 30, you will feel too late to be anything anymore ;-; or thats how people tell me xD

[@SnowyDoe]

I always imagined the dripping slime as pastel blood lol. This was so cool and fun. The early 2010s still feel like yesterday to me, yet this made me feel nostalgic and reminded me of times I never really stopped to realize and appreciate had gone by.

[@aliceporter6239]

I was a teen during the peak tumblr girl years but unfortunately I didn’t get to transition into a girl until later so I missed out 😭

[@K_i_t_t_y84]

Hey! In my opinion it's YOUR TIME to be a tumblr girl NOW! ♥

[@jeannecaelum5167]

as the one says above me, you can be one anytime! This video really makes me want to also be a tumblr girl today, just go for it :D

[@cw2010]

The tumblrgirl time is now sis

[@sanana3803]

This is the opportunity to become the tumblr girl of your dreams!!

[@celestee2264]

Yeah, embrace your inner tumblr girl!