2014 Tumblr Girl vs Dark Academia
2014 Tumblr Girl / ダーク・アカデミア
2014 Tumblr Girl comes from Internet Aesthetics and Dark Academia from Subculture Style. One is style and the other aesthetic. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
2014 Tumblr Girl
A 2010s internet style in which Tumblr's music, fashion, and image quotation converged on black skinny jeans, band shirts, chokers, dark lipstick, direct flash, desaturated filters, and a continuous feed edited into a persona.
Dark Academia
Borrows the shadows of old scholarly rooms to build an obsession with knowledge and a secretive intimacy.
| 2014 Tumblr Girl | Dark Academia | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 2012–2016 | 2010s– / historical references |
| Family | Internet Aesthetics | Subculture Style |
| Kind | Style | Aesthetic |
| Cues | Black skinny jeans, band shirts, plaid, and chokers / Direct-flash night photography with coarse grain / Heavy eyeliner, dark lipstick, and apparently unstyled long hair / Lowercase captions, lyric fragments, and sequences of monochrome images | Old books / Deep browns and black / Classical serifs / Candlelight |
| Best used for | Reconstructing early-2010s internet culture through both dress and feed design · Giving a music editorial the intimacy and rough self-editing of nocturnal Tumblr imagery | Heavy immersion for books, education and stories · A little danger added to quiet intelligence |
| Type | Use a thin lowercase sans-serif and brief typewriter lyric fragments. | Classical serifs, small caps, footnotes |
| Composition | Run vertical images with little interruption, alternating flash portraits and night scenes. | Symmetries of title pages and bookplates |
| Material | Join black denim, cotton shirts, and silver jewelry to grain, low saturation, and blue-black shadow. | Dark brown, ink black, parchment, weak light |
| Caution | Do not define young women by one look or romanticize self-harm and eating disorders. Include Tumblr's reblog, music, and image-editing context. | Don't reproduce the illegible gloom or the exclusionary authority. Keep a modern doorway open. |