2014 Tumblr Girl
2014 Tumblr Girl / 2012–2016 / Style / Internet Aesthetics
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.
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
Dictionary entry
- 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
- Type
- Use a thin lowercase sans-serif and brief typewriter lyric fragments.
- Composition
- Run vertical images with little interruption, alternating flash portraits and night scenes.
- Material
- Join black denim, cotton shirts, and silver jewelry to grain, low saturation, and blue-black shadow.
- 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.
- Further study
- Tumblr dashboards and reblog culture / soft grunge, Arctic Monkeys and Lana Del Rey fandom / 2014 revival on TikTok
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- Indie Sleaze (インディー・スリーズ)Shared effects: Rebellion / Nostalgia.Compare 2014 Tumblr Girl and Indie Sleaze
- Dark Academia (ダーク・アカデミア)Shared effects: Nostalgia.Compare 2014 Tumblr Girl and Dark Academia
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