Weirdcore
ウィアードコア / 2010s–2020s / Aesthetic / Internet Aesthetics
Layers low-res images, unrelated text and warped symbols until reality's connections feel slightly broken.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Low resolution
- Mismatched text
- Eyes and faces
- Compression noise
Best used for
- Short videos or announcements meant to make familiar images feel broken
- Building a visual language for work spoken from inside net culture
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Text unrelated to the image, in coarse monospace or default system fonts
- Composition
- Break the center and scatter repeats so they cannot be counted
- Material
- Low resolution photos, repeatedly compressed noise, fluorescent glow
- Caution
- Stacking effects until the underlying image is unreadable removes the anchor the wrongness depends on, and what remains is just a dirty picture.
- Further study
- imageboard culture / surreal web edits / derealization imagery
Related entries
- Dreamcore (ドリームコア)Same Internet Aesthetics lineage.Compare Weirdcore and Dreamcore
- Glitch (グリッチ)Shared effects: Rebellion.Compare Weirdcore and Glitch
Often confused with
More from Internet Aesthetics
Continue through styles in the same Internet Aesthetics family, prioritised by shared effects.
- Liminal Space (リミナル・スペース)Shared effects: Nostalgia / Rebellion.
- Seapunk (シーパンク)Shared effects: Play / Rebellion.
- Flash Era Web Animation (Flash黄金期のウェブ)Shared effects: Play / Nostalgia.
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