The Heartbreaking Truth of Weirdcore

[@juno_moth]

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[@Weird-to-the-core]

AHHH, i'm so sad I'm just seeing this now but happy, this video was eVERYTHING

[@Your-pet-Rat]

I love weirdcore in every way in the “old one and new one” but I also love cottagecore also I find ur voice relaxing ( that sounds weird but I am not trying to be weird😭😭😭)

[@haoyuanjin8280]

I’m so high rn.,.

[@Therat757]

Since Weirdcore does center around nostalgia and feeling familiar, yellow for some reason sparks an old feeling of youth or feeling naïve. Maybe that’s why yellow and green are often times associated with it. This stark primary colors that you’ll see in almost every picture could be a nod to the simplicity of early childhood.

[@sterlinsilver]

I associate yellow and green with "I can't believe it's not butter"

[@Therat757]

@@sterlinsilver 😭

[@piwowe890]

yellow is my favourite colour

[@orenjinokawa]

green is my favorite color

[@kitsunedosfulminesaku8422]

Yellow and green.... FLOWEY UNDERTAIL!?

[@raylenelester7319]

“Ur childhood friends don’t exist anymore, they’re strangers now” I actually relate to that

[@sriracha_sauce]

but somehow, I still think of them as friends. when I refer to them, I still call them my friends. our friendship never ended.

[@Daelyah]

I have precisely one friend left that I was temporarily friends with, during our childhoods; we reconnected in high school, nearly distanced during our college years, and eventually reconnected again, but as a couple in our late 20s. We've both seen a lot, and we've had a lot of people abandon us for various reasons, but we've stuck together for the past few years and have shared a home for that long. Most of the rest of my life feels like a nightmare, but he's my biggest blessing, and I doubt I'll ever be truly worthy of his love and patience. Trying my best when possible to step up more, as I struggle to get my mess together; he's my best friend and beloved, and I gotta get better to help him out more.

[@NeyamRye]

Damn

[@Zombiebutterflies1]

A year ago, I found out that one of my high school friends(39yrs) had passed away the year before. The older I get, the more I think about mortality.

[@dolphinswilltakeover]

Well I actually still know many of my childhood friends.

[@Zero_is_sigma]

"Art is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comforted" The perfect quote to describe weirdcore.

[@BobbysAlt]

I am definitely the disturbed. I love weirdcore, I think it helps me process my trauma and emotions which I have trouble with.

[@TheGhostiestGhost]

I guess this is why I always found Weirdcore to be very comforting to me.

[@sarahkate]

Yess for real

[@R0tting..Va1erie]

"the weird is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comforted"

[@Edatersnightmare]

I slept to a sloth then i saw a man dressed up in black he told me to catch the flying eyes i asked him why her head turned into 📺 And then i woke up from my slumber like mike tyson punched me

[@thecalvinistkat]

This is incredibly interesting. This art movement seems to be the result of living in a fallen world, the product of mental illness and longing for something better. Thank you for making this; it was very informative! My prayers go out for anyone here in the comments section who is struggling.

[@DuckiDrawzzStuff]

Definitely have never thought of offing myself, noooooo But seriously, thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@WarthaLanghu-gn7nc]

This aesthetic makes me feel nice :) Thank you for typing this comment..It's nice to be Told this..Thank you so much...

[@pastelcharms7133]

Amen ❤️ 🙏

[@bexiexz]

yes yes

[@jujuoof174]

Yeah, best of lucks and love to all❤

[@orangepeel_the_great]

As someone who isn't from America a lot of the weird core images are not from my childhood. Suburbs didn't look like that for me, the houses I spent time in looked different etc. But somehow, it still conveys a sense of nostalgia and memories for me. And also just cool looking pictures hell yeah. And im not sure what causes those feelings, maybe it's the low quality or maybe it's that I've been taught by the internet to feel connect those types of images and sceneries with the past. I don't know? but tbh im not complaining it's still cool as hell and I love getting forced to feel by art.

[@FunnyName87]

Maybe you feel nostalgia because you’ve seen the places in movies or tv shows????

[@orangepeel_the_great]

@@FunnyName87 oooo thats interesting, im definitely gonna look into some shows and movies i watched as a kid. But I am a bit doubtful since i think it was mainly Dora the explorer in my native language and pixar movies?

[@midnight6994]

​@@orangepeel_the_greatMust be in the way how American culture in general is very globalized, globalization from our own childhoods being exposed to the internet and being familiar with these global concepts coming from a lot of media at the time. Also it could be how we perceive childhood now alongside the culture we all collectively experience.

[@FunnyName87]

@@orangepeel_the_great oh, ok I thought that because I’m Mexican and I grew up in an area with many modern houses . _. and for some reason the American suburbs give me nostalgia anyway…

[@orangepeel_the_great]

@@FunnyName87 that does make a lot of sense imo yeah

[@CastorCas]

Weirdcore (and Liminal Spaces) make me uncomfortable because I feel like I recognize it but it lost the comfort it had It makes me miss when I was a child and what life was like in the 2000s to 2010s My memory is trash. I seek out these " Aesthetics " despite the uncomfortable feelings is because in some form it is bringing me comfort Great video and art

[@tessaven4164]

"but it lost the comfort it had" but "in some form it is bringing me comfort". So which one is it? And if it's both, how it works?

[@CastorCas]

@tessaven4164 oh I just saw this It's just the comfort it gives is different now Old comfort is like watching a movie with family New Comfort is watching that same movie after a relative died It is comforting because it's something that you've shared, but now you can no longer share it together because their gone It's no longer the same comforting, because you just can't see it the same way Idk I am just bad at phrasing what I mean It's basically what people mean when they say nostalgia hurts

[@That1CoffeeAddict]

​@@CastorCas I fully understand what you mean, it's exactly how I feel

[@meeb_consumer]

I think that this is due to a longing for childhood, for innocence. It appeals to the subconscious. The world breaking at the seams and reality being torn apart is no longer horror, but escapist fantasy. "We need to go back. No matter the cost. WE NEED TO GO BACK."... This is the essence of weirdcore. It's also partially a Psychology Horror Comedy sort of thing I think. The vibe is so utterly intolerable you have to ignore it and focus on the fragments of nostalgia.

[@CookiesTheDove]

Based spore creatures pfp

[@maihaiki888]

*_"WE NEED TO GO BACK RIGGGGGHHHHHHT NOW, RIGHT NOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW"_*

[@cutedarkarts]

Yay weirdcore! One of my fave internet art/aesthetic movements, I love the surrealist nature of it, as someone who’s never really “fit in”. I really fell into weirdcore content as a coping mechanism for some of my past mental health struggles. It actually ended up with me creating a small set of characters in the general weirdcore/dreamcore style. The characters have ended up being my comfort OCs when I’m feeling down, and developed into visual depictions of my mental states/disorders. They’ve actually been helpful to me in therapeutic ways, using them to parse out why I’m feeling at that particular moment and how to deal with it.

[@Da_DelicaC]

Hello!!! As a fellow person who was also apart of weirdcore, Weirdcore really has such a comforting feel and vibe. I have made a bunch of characters as well! It helps me from the anxiety I'm going through.

[@juno_moth]

It's nice to hear that you found so much comfort in this aesthetic, so did I

[@WarthaLanghu-gn7nc]

​@@juno_mothsame Thx for the video..Helped me much to :)

[@XinyuJiang-h3o]

Agree this so much as an autistic person as well as a backrooms lover(which is partly inspired by weirdcore aesthetics!) I always consider this type of aesthetics to be portraying something neither here or there, the sense of loneliness and never belong. This is so relatable……

[@BobbysAlt]

I have too! Weirdcore helps me process my emotions and trauma, especially the music.

[@katiebacon1763]

I recently found an old digital camera my grampa gave me when i was little. it has photos and videos ranging from 1st grade to middle school. there's so much on there i had forgotten about. i spent hours going through it and uploading it to my computer and showing the stuff to my sister. I thought i had all of my old photos already, from my kiddie tablet. but this had so many more from things i no longer remembered, like the way our kitchen used to look before it got remodelled. I am not the same person i was when i took those videos. and that's what makes them so fascinating.

[@scardycat4462]

I find weirdcore to be offputting and scary, even more so with your explenation, but I am happy that people can find comfort in it and the past of theirs. Love the art, the lil goat is adorable.

[@juno_moth]

Thank you! I struggled with the goat so much

[@Gagik-starman]

I think, it's kind of cosmic horror, it's like to have the feeling of being on a false reality due to the nonsense of life. But the fear of unknown are more than a feartrigger due to the fear of misunderstanding of the outside. To resumed the photographic rendering mix with grain and saturated color created a detail paranoïa.

[@Dragonaiis]

for me, I dealt with some intense dissociative episodes. I felt like nothing was real and I thought I was insane. Weirdcore brought me a lot of comfort because it made me feel very seen. It made me feel like my experience wasn’t so isolating. But from an outsider perspective I can totally get why it would seem eerie!

[@SilvrRazorFeather]

@Dragonaiis I 100% feel that same way, when I was lost in early adulthood and couldn't get a grasp on reality due to overwork, unfamiliar responsibilities, and just the dread of trying to live a meaningful existence, I dissociated a lot and felt unreal. Discovering the unnerving yet comforting images that I'd later learn were part of the weird core movement helped ground me, a didn't feel so lost and alone in the world. I felt like other people were experiencing the same thing I was. I still love the aesthetic, and I'm glad people are keeping it going, even though I'm in a more consistently stable headspace now. I can admire it as art and use it to look back on what could have been one of the worst times of my life with more fondness.

[@Dragonaiis]

@@SilvrRazorFeather yes, I feel like dissociation is being talked about a bit more now? But I would say it’s a less talked about mental health symptom as compared to other things so I often felt isolated and alone in that feeling. For a while, I didn’t even know what it was! I thought it was an existential crisis. I’m glad to be a bit smarter and wiser about it now, and I’m interested to hear I’m not the only one who has experienced this! It’s such an intriguing and thought provoking form of art and deserves more recognition

[@CalypsoCheese]

As someone who who literally dwells in weirdcore dreamcore traumacore, THANKS FOR MAKING THIS U EXPLAIN THIS TYPA STUFF BETER THAN I DOOO 😭😭😭

[@Shark-nq5ug]

Another reason for why deer could show up is for the "deer in the headlights" motif. It's pretty darn freaky but also thought-provoking. They kinda just stand there, accepting their fate, staring at it in the eyes. Plus the images are just kinda unsettling, the backgrounds usually dark to contrast with the spotlighted deer. Idk a lot about weirdcore tho, someone else could look at this better i think.

[@juno_moth]

that so interesting, I haven't thought about that, thank you for your insight!

[@badcaseofstripes]

I agree and find this to be an accurate implication for the subconscious function of such images. Deer often freeze, that look they have can remind us of our own feelings of freezing in traumatic situations or when things become too much, like dissociation.

[@XinyuJiang-h3o]

Damn I thought about this too thank you for elaborating this!

[@mayhem_subs]

I think of it as being a reference to Appalachian folklore and the whole "not deer" thing

[@Shark-nq5ug]

@mayhem_subs Ooo i didn't really consider that :o I find that unlikely but it is interesting to consider :D

[@theclasscalico]

Personally, I prefer Weirdcore without text. I feel that the text actually takes away from that surreal, eerie feeling, rather than adding to it. Additionally, I don't think that it's constructive to try to determine a "real" version of an aesthetic. It comes off as gatekeeping and overly restrictive. Rather, I think that it's better to think of the different styles as subaesthetics of sorts which are equally a part of the whole aesthetic.

[@juno_moth]

absolutly, this is just my interpretation

[@alisonmercer5946]

Yeah i like so many different things and simply cant catergorise it to any particular core. I love the art shown here with the flower and girl at table

[@alisonmercer5946]

I really love it

[@thibault_wyn]

periodt. literally the 'no true Scotsman' fallacy

[@GhostCracker0]

Yeah I don’t really see the need to try and defrienciate the “real” and “fake” weirdcore.

[@Bonkezz]

11:45 the use of that omori song was just *chefs kiss*

[@K3nn1_0n_p4wz]

Frr it really pulled the whole moment together, tbh I felt like I was gonna tear up lmao

[@DiizzyLizzy]

That's why it sound so familiar

[@mokje_]

Frrr i was tearing up lmao

[@EbiTheAxolotl]

Was just about to comment something like that, yeah.

[@LillianGraceFullofficial]

Weirdcore art reminds me of other crisis era art. Like the art that was made at WW1, WW2 or right after 9/11.

[@juno_moth]

yeah, I think that during/right after a crisis people turn to surrealist art to help them cope with reality

[@Fierce_Z-ly5pz]

Let's not forget we were just in a pandemic some years ago... there's still a lot of trauma going on

[@TH3V0ID.]

0:36 these questions made me start to go “I don’t know”, repeatedly, and caused slight panic 😭

[@Sparkle8205]

weirdcore makes me cry- sob even, i guess its the nostalgia and wanting to go back. I dont remember a lot of my early memories and it feels like im just in a dream- an outside observer to those memories. Its what comforts me- weirdcore i mean- as well...

[@ChloeJohnson-o6d]

I agree with you

[@LemmyZStufX3]

I get comforted chills when I think of weirdcore, like when you get really warm and you get sudden chills...

[@amberglow9033]

I have been prone to dissociation for most of my life. I forget a lot of things, and I tell myself those things don't matter anymore. But if they don't matter, why did this video make me cry? Thank you for creating this.

[@BlueInk1287]

Weirdcore was oddly imo/experience was comforting in a way. Especially when I was struggling in the pandemic. I love how different it looked like from everything else at the time. It felt so comforting to see something familiar yet different from weird text, old photos, to the many lovely eyes...

[@berhonkusbardledoo]

The shadow people part is really interesting, I was never really scared of them online and found them comforting but when my first cat died I started hallucinating them and it was horrifying

[@NintendoTransformer]

Adulthood feels so empty and dull, while childhood was full of wonder and adventure. It really does sometimes feel like I’m stuck in a dream or nightmare reality, and my real “home” is back in my childhood. And as I get older, those precious childhood memories start to fade more and more, as if my soul itself is fading away. I feel like weird core represents a lot of that for me. Both weird core and nostalgia core hit home really hard for me.

[@phoenixdavida8987]

❤ Adults aren't given any freedom to make mistakes or be beginners. Things become repetitive and mundane. Depending on your beliefs, expectations and social standards adult life has an overwhelming tendency to be emotionally, mentally and creatively stifling. ❤ Hang in there, lovely human. You are a beautiful being in a very difficult place. Earth is a school realm. Learn from the journey. ❤ Love to you and your family.

[@melissande]

YES, I've been saying this for years! Weirdcore/Dreamcore is ABSOLUTELY an art movement. The main qualification for fine art is that it makes you *feel*, and Weirdcore absolutely does that

[@bealea1127]

I like weird core and gorecore. Mostly humanoid flowers with intestines or such. It gives me comfort. But with all this "ahh weird core scary" is making me a little bit overwhelmed...

[@bealea1127]

Also i really like your drawing.

[@ObjectSoda]

OHHHH so that's why i like using weirdcore to cope!!! I knew it meant something like that, it just felt so weirdly like me and filled in some things, even if it doesn't help me too much i always feel slightly better when i watch or look at some weirdcore things XD Thank you for covering weirdcore! I've been a fan of it for 2 years now and i loved to see this one be talked about :]

[@SolariaOlaria7736]

After the montage when you started playing the omori music I was like “wait is that omori” I think that game definitely has a lot of weirdcore es que elements

[@juno_moth]

absolutly, it shares a lot of themes with Wierdcore

[@bumbabees]

id say its more dream core for the better half of the game, but theres definitely _one_ part of it id say is pretty weird core...

[@CharliiTheLoser]

AHH I LOVE OMORI SO MUCH RAHHHH

[@Bagels_2]

Omori fans!!!

[@TF2shockwavefan]

I find weird core to be very interesting and I really like the images people make :)

[@Pastellera2video]

I really like the way weird core looks because it’s very offputting and very different, while my life is good enough to the point where I don’t relate to it on that deeper level, I can at least acknowledge that looks cool

[@cheyblake2475]

Yeah, I like weirdcore because it mysterious, surreal yet beautiful, Which is why I sometimes play Roblox games. Are Roblox weirdcore games accurate to weirdcore?

[@222liss]

10:25 The fact that the moment the "commercial voice" started speaking I sank in and closed my eyes, just listening, shows how highly emotion evoking it is. I imidiatly believed the voice, slowly getting sadder as it kept reminding me how the past is gone. Everything changes. I... I really fear my friends will leave me.

[@-Aspel-]

I feel as the eyes and the “newer” version of Weirdcore, can be more said as dreamcore. Though I do know there is a difference between the two, eyes, clouds, and all of those I associate more with dreamcore. But no matter, both of them bring me a strong sense of nostalgia, peace, and comfort.

[@Cupideya1314]

this made me appreciate and realize why weirdcore was so appealing to me. the nostalgia and the feeling of wanting to remember. that sense of familiarity and losing that familiarity from childhood to growing up. Great Video !

[@reallycreayivenamehere]

I've never really been super 'into' any aesthetics but I think this one is for me. Just this video was really comforting. Thank you!

[@juno_moth]

I'm so glad!

[@cookierat]

As somebody with ddd i really love weirdcore, and it actually made me realize i have the disorder when i found it. Whenever i want to “feel something” when im going though an episode i find weirdcore songs and images to be really comforting

[@toothfairy9242]

Weirdcore was my obsession back in 2020/2022 I’ve always liked weird things but the childhood nostalgia, questioning reality, dream-like imagery, connection to the backrooms and the longing for the idealistic past spoke to me deeply. I remember being very depressed back then, lost all my close friends, trying to get into high school while dealing with unstable mental health. I desperately wanted to be a 7 year old again and live in the late 2000s as a carefree child without the problems resulting from growing up. I didn’t knew who I was and everything about my reality just felt wrong and overwhelming. This „aesthetic” or, as you say, art movement was a major source of comfort and inspiration for me. It help me escape from the pain of my own traumas and process them in a healthy way, by making art. Weirdcore’s influence is still present in my artstyle and music taste but luckily, reality doesn’t seem as scary anymore. I’m happy to become an adult soon

[@iolite-sea]

really great video!! you've captured the exact reasons i love weirdcore but never been able to articulate. it's the melancholic nostalgia for fleeting moments and being unable to remember much else from your youth due to trauma. vague enough statements and imagery that many can project onto. also love the art and the addition of the cute lil goat, theyre some of my favorite animals 💜💙

[@juno_moth]

thank youuu, happy i could help you sort out your thoughts. And also... the goat was such a struggle to draw

[@ItsAllNunya]

I wish I could remember my life. I know I'll regret when that time comes. What little I've been shown of the empty patches is wicked unkind, and what I was allowed to know already warped. I like weirdcore. And things that sit alongside it. I think I'm too old to play with aesthetics now. But im glad there's others who know how to express themselves in ways I've been denied my whole life. It's comforting.

[@Abnormal_Girl]

Why is your voice so comforting 😅 I Like weirdcore and glitchcore music

[@A_Shrubbery1901]

i don't have a great memory, when i recall something it's usually a strange image it might be from a memory, or a dream, or a story, or something else entirely. all of my memories are linked to random objects or words. if you tell me about something that happened when i was younger i'm inclined to believe you, if you're bringing it up you where probably there so you probably know better than i do, don't you? sometimes i remember something that never happened, or at least something no one else remembered, i think those are dreams. it's not just old memories either, sometimes when i'm doing something i'll think about what i should do after i'm done but by the time i'm done i've forgotten wwhat i was going to do, but i usually remember what i was going to do if i look at what i just did. i think this is all normal, i think this is what people mean when they say the have a bad memory, right? tl/dr: ramblings about my memory brought on by the distorted images shown in this video and probably sleep deprivation or something idk... 8:01

[@xxgenericedgytitlexx2483]

Actually, this is Exactly how I feel. When i look through weirdcore images and stylizations its almost always used in the same vain as looking through old photo albums. Surrounded a haze of nostalgia that is almost dissociative in nature, having to look through these memories through a third perspective, but still managing to find comfort through in it. Idk maybe im just projecting but i have a lot of thoughts on the subject.

[@A_Shrubbery1901]

@@xxgenericedgytitlexx2483 you're either saying exactly what i was thinking or you saying that has altered my memory of writing this so that i think you're saying exactly what i was thinking

[@KitCabaret]

I watched your first video in this series and liked it a lot, so of course I clicked on this notification immediately, and can I just say.... *wow.* This was a step up in a way I was NOT prepared for, the way you actually took the time to create those video edits, to write something that conveys the exact feeling of the aesthetic?? What an incredible experience, I simply cannot wait to see what you do next ❤

[@juno_moth]

thank you so much, i'm glad you enjoyed this video

[@mccringleberrytha3rd]

For me as someone who enjoys surrealism, I found weird core to be a very fun product for its time. I really enjoyed the trend when it first started to grain traction. Just the amount of creativity that came with it. From both the comforting and horror side.

[@chocyflakes]

12:17 i just noticed the omori soundtrack. please help also, how does this not have more than 1M views or more than 100k? you explained weirdcore perfectly (also i love your voice) i love weirdcore so much and your explaination was more than i expected. it sucks how so many people overlook it and stuff overall this is one of my favorite videos thank you for making it huhuhuhu ^_^

[@Eeeg_yea]

ooo nostAlgic music in the first few secs of the vid (I love that ynfg) (Btw my favorite song is Nursery Room's ost it's so good made me cry)

[@LuxuriousLenay]

This aesthetic really does resonate with me for some reason. I just feel the incredible sense of nostalgia, especially as someone who grew up in the 2010s. I remember some of those images such as very distinct liminal spaces pictured in my mind from my childhood as a curious, bubbly child. I even seen some of those things whenever I had a deep, painful, extensional crisis while I was incredibly high once, and started greening out. I don't know what it was. It even felt like I had some flashbacks. It's like, I have some really deep unresolved trauma deep down.

[@cheyenneheidelberg6987]

Ever since I discovered the weirdcore aesthetic, I’ve loved it even though I didn’t know why. It always just scratched this itch deep inside me that I never knew I had. When I watched this video and listened to you explain what the overall meaning of it could be, I now know. Thank you.

[@thearlgrey]

For a very lomg time aesthetics like Weirdcore, dreamcore, and more controversially, trauma core, gave me an odd sense of comfort. Especially after I derealized heavily one time. I also understand some people don't like ''new weirdcore'' but imo weirdcore is a broader term that kind of involves all the aesthetics i mentioned. The overeddited characters or parts are also a part of weirdcore, I like them a lot. I dont get why people have to always difine something by ''new or old'' or ''fake or real'' because something ivolved, and it's not like people have changed what weirdcore is, they've broadened it.

[@lukabellerose3385]

I love your content ^^. I'd really like to see videos on the menhera aesthetic (which actually helped me through my trauma with medication) and a deep dive into the goth aesthetic and how it split into pastel goth, bubblegum, industrial, Victorian, cyber, emo, ect.

[@juno_moth]

Thanks for the idea!

[@ashter182]

I should not have watched this video alone at home with headphones on cuz when I have my headphones on I always start hearing thing that don't exist like the house in literally breathing, also my house has a lot of windows and it's dark outside so everywhere I look is just a black void of emptiness with does help, also my house in right next to my old primary school, this video reminded me that nobody remembers or recognises me there anymore (even my old teachers) it's like I never existed, and across the street is my old daycare which is now abandoned and a part of it burned down last week. I still love wierdcore but it always gives me the creeps

[@exuvie1]

Weirdcore has always been very comforting to me because the way i remember my childhood evokes the same uneasy and unnerving feelings that the aesthetic and images capture perfectly.

[@meretrix_4u]

i had to sit down and genuinely think about this, because holy fucking shit- instantly subscribed. your storytelling is so human and personal- but I'm not even sure if those are the right words to describe it. anyways, absolutely loved it 💝

[@juno_moth]

Thank you for such a thoughtfull comment! I'm really happy that my video resonated with you and I'm glad you'll stick around!

[@meretrix_4u]

@@juno_moth happy to be here!! ^^ ♥

[@Dioxazine_Stars]

(TW mental illness) I think I love weirdcore because it’s an escape. I’ve been severely struggling with my mental health since late 2019, part of which was passive suicidal ideation. I never attempted or even made a plan, I just daydreamed about and wished for death constantly. But it wasn’t necessary that I wanted to die, more so that I didn’t want to live. Didn’t want to exist. Existing meant never-ending all-nighters, failing assignments because my brain would not work, horrific things on the news every day, way more body pains than someone as young as me should have, crying in the dark in my room after a fight with my parents, being late to class because I couldn’t stop having anxiety attacks over the thought of people looking at me, feeling like I had zero control over a single aspect of my life. Constant misery and paranoia. What I wanted more than anything most days was to live life on spectator mode. Invisible, intangible, mute. Free to float wherever I wanted, no one able to perceive me or even know I existed in the first place. And I think weirdcore kind of offered that idea. The dreamy oasis of nonexistence. Nowhere, with no people and almost no things. Just me. But also no me. I wouldn’t exist either, I’d be nothing. Not a student or a daughter or a member of society or a person, just me. Nowadays even though I still struggle immensely, I’ve moved past that particular hurt, and as hopeless as things feel most of the time I know I’m really doing much better than I was back then. Barring the odd exceptionally awful day, I don’t feel the need for that nonexistence anymore, and when I do it’s much less consuming than it used to be. So now I just enjoy weirdcore for the visual appeal.

[@XinyuJiang-h3o]

Damn I feel exposed by this comment……I’m really happy that you get better now. Me and many weirdcore lovers feel the same, you are not alone, even when we usually think we are.

[@samucandoit]

If I'm being completely honest, the first time I saw weirdcore and dreamcore I was so uncomfortable that I wasn't even able to look at it, but then, something in me felt so curious about it at the same time, that's when I started actually diving deep into it. Now, I see myself going through images, musics and games of these aesthetics as a way to find comfort, I feel really embraced by it, and the community that has been builted around it just makes it better, even though it embraces a melancholic scenario, there is always something kind about it, that's why I love it. This video made me just as comfortable, and I'm really glad to find more people talking about it, the drawing at the background just made me more inspired to create things around it as an artist, so thank you for this, it means a lot. :) (Sorry about my english, I'm not native)

[@fatcat1399]

I love weird core. It just gives such an unexplainable feeling. How can something be eerie and comforting at the same time. Fully agree that’s it’s an art movement. Like a darker version of Dada or something.

[@smolmoru]

guess I just connected the dots why liminal spaces and some types of analogue horror aren't just something I feel drawn to, but why they don't scare me at all. tbf so far I am somewhat content with the knowledge that everytime I mentally grow and evolve my old self dies. yet there are leftover scars that still itch. there is something underneath from the long lost past that I haven't gotten out yet and I don't know how to cure the itch of something that's so far gone in the fog of the past that I can't see it anymore.

[@10yearoldlovesbunnies]

Unlike most people I find comfort in weirdcore

[@Garfield61979lasanga]

Idk if it's just the music along with you're voice, but the last few parts about losing you're childhood self brought me to tears. In the future, Im merely just a memory, I don't want to be forgotten, I don't want those little memories of my school, my dogs, my house, my friends, my neighborhood, everything.. I wish there was a way to go back to thst time where less matterd.

[@XavizGh0ztz]

i grew up with weirdcore quite a bit, it was a big BIG part of my childhood. the whole thing about it was so comforting to me

[@wonder.cheshire]

off topic: your voice is so sweet😢 I love it❤ I love weirdcore with my heart... I remember doing a painting with wierdcore themes for school a while back✨️

[@Life4Goblins]

Your voice is so calming i love it

[@souleymanemiousse7841]

I really like Weirdcore because firstly, absolutely feels like it's reading into my childhood, and second, it's just like it. Weird, creepy at times, mostly surreal.

[@-clover_on_pawz-]

I have a weird facanasion with glitchcore. It’s has a familiar comfort to it. Anxiety inducing, but also warm. That’s why I like it and hate it at the same time. Its effect has already changed us.

[@cheba7185]

love this, will be happy to hear about Dreamcore / Webcore / Vaporwave

[@Atlas.wings-]

8:00 (ish) when you were speaking about the eyes and such, the deer made me feel uneasy, but the cat made me feel comforted. Idek why though, but, just sharing that :)

[@dotdotdotdotdotdotdottod]

while most people where turned off by weird core for some reason for me it was very welcoming and made me feel at peace with the dark and gloomy and sometimes frightining nature of it...choosing to insted show all the bad bits rather then to shun them as it helped me cope with yhe idea that the world is just what it is. after all ignoring all the bad bits makes you easily fall traped into nestolgia and easily feel the need to constently supress the other emotions that come with life. im tired of that security blanet and would rather face my fears head on

[@XinyuJiang-h3o]

This is so true. The acknowledgement of fear and comfort is something that is really powerful, not just within ourselves and when we extend empathy to those marginalized by the “cheerful” masses. I admire weirdcore for this.

[@Lawrenceclown7391]

Your voice is very comforting I feel like I’m back when I was a little kid laying down in my bed having my mom telling me a story. Also this video is very awesome and cool:3

[@jujuoof174]

That’s a beautiful explanation, I finally, fully understand and am able to explain everything behind it. Thank you❤❤ Love the art by the way!

[@Ashfall-fi3ev]

The omori music in some places of this video is perfect. The context of the game fits this video rlly well, and the amount of effort put into this video is incredible. :)

[@juno_moth]

Thank you so much for the sweet comment! Glad you enjoyed the video

[@Ellempeh]

Wonderful video! I think you captured the essence of Weirdcore very well - both with the video essay and your artpiece! Thank you for making this. Now I understand a bit better why I feel so drawn to weirdcore images.

[@Magnetismosis]

Twee and weirdcore are two of my favorite aesthetics, twee because it connects the old with a sense of being young; being in a peaceful state and weirdcore because the only inherently scary about it is that your childhood is now abandoned. You left it behind, it’s gone now and desolate

[@CursedWithAGift]

6:43 but you didn’t have to cut me off 😫

[@ArtisticSam101]

Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing 😢

[@depressedlonelydoodles]

And I don't even need your love 😠

[@aurosy]

But you treat me like a stranger, and that feels so rough 😔

[@PsychedelicCharm]

Now you're just somebody that I used to know.

[@SamiTheAnxiousBean]

As someone that isn't a fan of Weirdcore Unlike many others who I've seen on this comment section, it's not because it desturbs me in any way it's because it does the exact opposite Weirdcore for me feels like it's "trying too hard" to be what it can't, its too streamlined, too predictable, too "generic" for lack of a better word, abstractness without actual meaning and Limitations within it's format the talk around Weirdcore is what puts me off of it, the way people talk about it, the platforms it's associated with bringing certain people into it who basically twist whatever they find (TikTok mainly, even people within Weirdcore hated it when TikTok found the aesthetic and "commercialized" it) Weirdcore at it's core, especially the "New Weirdcore" feels more like a characature or mockery of the serious topics it tries to potray then anything else, turning it into just "An aesthetic" that some people who try hard to artifically stand out adopt and further devolve and missuse, some even find comfort in it because that's how detached they are from what it's supposed to be It's literally the same stuff Analog horror, ARGs and most prominitely "Everywhere at the end of time" went through when the wider internet, especially spaces like TikTok got a hold of them people streamlined it, made the definitions more broad, ruined those definitions even, treat them more like a personality trait or simplified gotcha, then a type of medium etc. it's hard to explain my dislike for Weirdcore, its crystal clear until I actually try to put it to words

[@almogxchq5282]

I absolutely adore Weirdcore. I feel the community is so welcoming and comforting, and each video always feel like a hug

[@katt1996]

weird core scares me, but that's what i like about it; its like looking at a picture of a childhood nightmare.

[@NightTown_Ent.]

As someone who is definitely not old enough to remember as little of their childhood as they do, the weirdcore images relating to memories/not being able to remember have always been the ones that lingered in my mind long after I moved on from the photo. The idea they portray of feeling like you've forgotten something important; the memories you do have feeling indescribably wrong, like they're not your own, or like something you can't identify is missing. The strange mixture of comfort, longing, and unnerve that comes with that. The idea of a place which feels familier and nostalgic but that you have no memory of, where you struggle to tell if that place was actually once a comfort to you or not. The concept of wanting to go back to a safer, more comforting time but not being sure if there's anything to go back to. I guess I'm just rambling now, but I don't quite know how else to explain how this asthetic makes me feel. It's similar to how pictures of liminal spaces make me feel. Like I'm both out of place and right where I belong. It's comforting and unnerving and other stuff I can't identify. Its so weird. Which is a guess the point.

[@nosiidda501]

Weird and nostalgia-core has helped remember some things, good and bad! I'm thankful this art aesthetic is around and I'll probably cherish for as long as I live; I understand a lot of people won't remember their past and begin to forget in their 20's like you said, but for me... I began to remember a bunch of things last year, even the most painful and cringe-inducing kind. However, I'm glad I remembered those because now I can begin to accept them.

[@Bule_Boy_2D]

i hope you will cover trauma core next, i know a lot of people don't like it, but for me it helped me with my trauma, and made me feel less alone.

[@Random_Personax]

Thank you for making this video. For the longest time, I wasn't really sure why i was obsessed with weirdcore back in late 2020 till 2022. I always assumed I just liked the aesthetic but this video just makes everything a lot of sense to me. Back then, I was really attached to the past (still am today) and maybe due to that, when i first discovered weirdcore that was the reason why i became obsessed over it. I wanted to feel familiar with the past again. To go back to my childhood. Now I'm just rambling but again, thank you for making this video.

[@zennyblades]

This made me cry, everything that was that is now gone, my parents, my friends, my homes, it hurts that the memories are slipping away.

[@coreyinthedryer7368]

i think something we’re afraid of weird core is the aespect of forgetting something our need to remember scares us because it’s there; but it isn’t we want to open our minds and scrape out what it was but nothing seems to open up for you it feels like you lost a part of you as something shows you the mischaracterized version of what you felt and what you want memories are scary ngl

[@Kitykat-bugs]

my favorite quote, and one that heavily applies to weirdcore, "Art is meant to disturb the comforted and comfort the disturbed"

[@TBG1]

I've no clue why this was recommended to me and my pokemon/musical recommendations, but darn am I glad I clicked on it. This was very interesting to listen to!

[@jj_397]

I find great comfort in the weirdcore aesthetic because it speaks to the subconscious. It makes me feel like I know all and nothing at the same time. It really gets my brain working. What I love most is that there's nothing right or wrong to see in these images because everyone sees something different in them. It's like the picture is not about whats depicted on it, but rather about you and YOU specifically. That makes weirdcore so unique and cool

[@BobbysAlt]

I love the weirdcore aesthetic. I have lots of mental illnesses and weirdcore just helps me process my feelings and what im going through, especially the music. Its like comfort food for me when im depressed and struggling a lot.

[@UdoTeddybear]

wonderful video! Weirdcore is so dear to my heart! an aesthetic that i would actually get a lil upset when people didnt understand. while weirdcore to most, like mentioned in the video, is remembering and showcasing those loose threads of memory, i seem to have a different attachment to it. ive always dissociated for the majority of my life (wooo undiagnosed autism) and these pictures, that art, it brings me back to that distant feeling. It's oddly comforting, to see pictures that somehow capture that unexplainable feeling. I guess that's why i would get upset. When people insulted the aesthetic, it felt like it was insulting whatever these feelings were. Thankfully ive gotten into therapy and has been properly diagnosed! Still, that odd comfort is very much present when diving into this aesthtic.

[@sappypunz]

to me weirdcore and dreamcore both bring out a feeling that has followed me throughout my childhood: the feeling that nothing else exists beyond what you see. It can be a safe and comforting feeling as well as a trapping and utterly terrifying thought, and it all depends on the situation you were in. If it's a pleasant memory, it feels so simple and so safe, you don't think about anything in your life that can be better, because it's already the most perfect it can be. And if it's an unpleasant memory, you are overwhelmed with a fear that it's never going to get better, that this is your personal hell, and it's going to persist until the day that the universe collapses. Besides that it can also be somewhere in the middle, where you feel safe but at the same time trapped. I like reminiscing in those feelings when i see dreamcore or weirdcore posts, because they bring about that sense of familiarity.

[@julessparkles8556]

It always felt weird but very comforting to me, like i was given a memory of my very early childhood that I had forgotten.

[@wanderer_1018]

my favourite aesthetic ever

[@williambaldwin9487]

Instant subscribe. I love the explanation of the themes and vibes of the art style, and I love the image you drew throughout the duration of the video!

[@btwimIsis]

This is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. The quality of your essay tells that you made a very intricate research and you explore the psychologic depths of art like I've never seen (and I'm a psychologist lol). We need more videos like this, about other kinds of aesthetics, because they really are our contemporary art movements and I never thought of them that way. And your voice is sooo soft! I'm a fan ❤

[@ashisnotok7106]

Whenever I think of weirdcore i always think of the quote "art is ment to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed" i suffer from cptsd and childhood trauma which has caused my memories of childhood to be fractured/distorted(best way I can explain it) weirdcore (and traumacore) are comforting to me because they mirror my own distorted memories and make it feel like im not alone

[@ElizaGrumo]

when i saw weirdcore dor the first time, i was terrified. i actually had a nightmare about it, and i avoided it until i completely forgot it existed. the thought of being in a barren area with myself and with nothing to escape from scared me. but now when im here, its not as scary anymore. I like weirdcore because of how weird it is. while i dont understand the "nostalgic" or "comforting feeling" i will still love weirdcore and sometimes incorporate my feelings in it; in the most abstract way that even i forget what its supposed to mean which is perfect.

[@MoNoDuCkbyjunko]

This aesthetic really is that one quote “makes the comfort feel disturbed and the disturbed comforted” I feel so comfortable with weirdcore tho

[@TT-yl1wp]

Loved this video!! It made me think about how both weirdcore and Surrealism emerged out of rapidly changing historical moments. Honestly, people putting together images and text on their computer today is a lot like the artists who used the relatively new (or at least newly accessible) art forms of photography and photographic collage to create reality-bending images out of existing objects nearly a hundred years ago!

[@-crimsontail-]

weirdcore, I've found to be oddly comforting, like most people. I personally, cat sit there and look at those images for minutes on end without having a constant feeling of someone there. it gives you an unsettling and eerie feeling, yet also wanting you to watch and stay for more. it's a very good aesthetic and just- it brings back memories that were never there. 8:21 pov people living in Australia watching this-

[@Adeerwithnotlogic]

I get comfort from weirdcore possibly due to what might be psychosis :'-] I usually use elements of it in vent artwork to represent that, but also trauma

[@rbfloat]

This is such a great video describing weirdcore. I feel like it’s so hard to explain it but you did so well

[@juno_moth]

thank you, i'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@Medavelvan]

My earliest memories and dreams are still with me. Early in childhood I would often lay wide awake in the crib for hours during bedtime and especially during naptimes - I never wanted to take naps because I was having fun so I never fell asleep quickly- so to occupy myself I would spend quite a lot of time laying awake simply going through all of my dreams that I could remember. I did this regularly during every nap time and I found this also helped make it easier repeat or resume certain dreams I enjoyed the most when I finally did fall asleep. I don't have a perfect memory - I forget a lot of dreams and memories like normal but because I spent so much energy intentionally thinking about my dreams every day at naptime- a significant amount of my childhood dreams are fortified and preserved quite well to this day much more intact than other people seem to have. I dont know what age I was but certainly before language developed. I also preserved quite a few early childhood memories in the same way- I would think of real life memories and dreams pretty interchangeably. I stopped doing this so intensely after about 10 years old- I still cycle through my dreams and memories whenever I lay awake. I don't make as many good detailed recent memories or dreams now- only the most interesting dreams or best memories really get added to my internal memory chain, Your video made me think of this because some dreams were pretty weird core - but rather than being so because things were familiar, many early dreams I had were weird simply because I had no mental boundaries- I simply didn't know what dreams should look like, so I had some very interesting abstract dreams in the early years. Dreams are often weirdcore.

[@ihatemickiegee]

i struggle with DPDR but also was an internet kid in the early days and have a terrible nostalgia disease overall so maybe all of that combined is why i love this form of ‘art’ / aesthetic. good video thank you so much

[@tablescissors]

Wow. That was very impressive. Never realized it could be that deep,. I just feel comfortable where it is weird and was always a fan of Surrealism. Here is my vote for ‘Star Flesh’, also love your narration style and voice. A+