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vaporwave

synthwave
Synthwave (also called retrowave, or futuresynth) is an electronic music microgenre that is based predominantly on the music associated with the soundtracks of action, science fiction, and horror films of the 1970s and 1980s. Other influences are drawn from the decade's art and video games. Synthwave musicians often espouse nostalgia for 1980s culture and attempt to capture the era's atmosphere and celebrate it.
liminal space
Internet aesthetic capturing strange places
Frutiger Aero
graphic design style associated with the 2000s
dark academia
interest in a gloomy and sophisticated aesthetic
e-kid
youth subculture originating in the late-2010s
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cottagecore
alt=Photograph of Anne Hathaway's cottage, Stratford-upon-Avon.|thumb|Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)|Anne Hathaway's cottage in [[Stratford-upon-Avon exemplifies the traditional style cottagecore prioritises. The garden designed by Ellen Willmott contains many herbs and flowers mentioned in Shakespeare's plays.]]
Cottagecore is an internet aesthetic and subculture concerned with an idealised rural lifestyle. The aesthetic centres on traditional and vernacular architecture, clothing, interior design and crafts. Based primarily on the visual and material culture of rural Europe, cottagecore
Corporate Memphis
flat, geometric art style, widely used in Big Tech illustrations
bisexual lighting
the use of pink, purple, and blue lighting to represent bisexual characters
Y2K aesthetic
Internet aesthetic

Sovietwave
Sovietwave (also styled Soviet wave or Soviet-wave) is a subgenre of synthwave music and accompanying Internet aesthetic which originates from the former Soviet Union, primarily Russia. It is characterized by an emphasis on the technology and culture of the Soviet Union, such as the Soviet space program and retrofuturistic Soviet era architecture and art, and is an expression of nostalgia for the Soviet Union. Linguist Maria Engström described Sovietwave as the post-Soviet counterpart to vaporwave, evoking a similar nostalgic critique of the "contemporary collapse of futurity" and longing for
Normcore
Normcore is a unisex fashion trend characterized by unpretentious, average-looking clothing. Normcore fashion includes jeans, T-shirts, sweats, button-downs, and sneakers.
Internet aesthetic
visual art style
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seapunk
Seapunk is a subculture and internet aesthetic that originated on Tumblr in 2011. It is associated with an aquatic-themed style of fashion, 3D net art, iconography, and allusions to popular culture of the 1990s. The advent of seapunk also spawned its own electronic music microgenre, featuring elements of Southern hip hop and pop music and R&B music of the 1990s. Seapunk gained limited popularity as it spread through the Internet, although it was said to have developed a Chicago club scene.
Coquette aesthetic
fashion trend
Soft Girl
soft grunge
fashion trend and internet aesthetic
Utopian Scholastic
design aesthetic
Goblincore
thumb|Plants, animal bones and second-hand objects are all parts of the goblincore aesthetic.
VSCO girl
Generation Z subculture