These post are officially no longer allowed on this sub going forward so if you post these aesthetics it will be removed.
Y2K aesthetic doesn’t mean 2000s aesthetics it primarily focuses on cybercore and some of the overlap aesthetics surrounding cybercore which include.
Metalheart Chromecore The Matrix Effect Webcore Curly Girly Gen X Soft Club Vectorheart and many more
Some aesthetics of the mid 90s - early 00s are allowed as long as they fit this era like for example Mall Goth or Nu Metal.
Once again look at this post before posting, because I’m having it pinned so that way you’ll know the distinctions.
Please look up the aesthetic distinctions on aesthetic wiki go to the search bar and type Y2K it then has all the subcategories laid out.
I welcome this new rule change! Our sub has grown a lot the past year! We could certainly do without more Frutiger family posts (even pre-2009 ones) and post-grunge maximalism ones!
I'll update the sub description and rules to reflect this rule change soon!
Roger. Also just love learning all the terms for these different styles!
Me too! And I'm the head mod hahah.
Is there a repository somewhere of all of these aesthetics?
https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Frutiger_Metro
I can get lost in this wiki for hours
Here's one: https://cari.institute/aesthetics
It's run by the ppl who coined stuff like Y2K, McBling, Frutiger Aero, etc
See u/AllArtisPaulBlart and u/KingcoBingo's comments :)!
Was just about to post the same haha!
Bless. It was getting so bad!
coolbeans
FINALLY
eventually i wonder if there will be a sub or group that is meant for most of the consumer aesthetics form the late 90s to early 2010s, since a lot of people will clump them all together. "is this frutiger aero?" and the things people say like that are literal decades apart, even though they don't feel the part. r/nostalgia wont count because any time period is allowed there. i would if CARI has noticed this clumping and generalizing of time periods.
Thank goodness
Good mod.
May be helpful to recommend other subs that people can go to for those things. I have some in mind but idk if that's allowed.
It was so bad I didn’t even know that was the actual theme of this sub….
Thank God. I understand a lot of ppl don't know the difference but ffs take 5 minutes to learn!
Is it just me or does Gen Z come up with all these micro-name categories? Back in the day we didn’t call them anything, except for Emo and maybe McBling later.
In my experience, the McBling aesthetic was also called the 'bimbo' look or aesthetic hahah.
A lot of them come from niche groups. https://cari.institute/aesthetics I'm pretty sure they started out as a FB group of nerds just like us. The labels are also bigger now because they're used as search tools.
Evan from CARI here -- just chiming in that while some of these design style categorizations & names do come from the Gen Z members of our group, I've been contributing & naming some of them since the beginning, along with other millennial-aged CARI members. It does help that I was around for a fair number of them the first time around, being born in 1990. There is some precedent for design styles and art movements being categorized/named retrospectively, like how 'Art Deco' was coined & popularized in the mid 1960s.
That’s a good example with Art Deco. While it is ideal to have someone who was around at the time, there’s something to be said about historians still being experts about an era even if they weren’t alive at the time. Like experts of ancient Egypt as an extreme example
yeah, weird obsession for categorizing every little thing but when your born and raised online 🤷🏻♂️ not shocked lol 😂
Shout-out /r/postgrungemaximalism
🫶🏻
Good
To be honest I can understand why sometimes people might get confused with Superflat Pop and Y2K especially with the artstyles since they overlap, I honestly don’t know why people keep mixing up aesthetics it’s annoying.
Do UNIX Workstations from Sun Microsystems, HP, and Silicon Graphics fall under this rule now? I was about to cover said workstation lines from the turn of the century in separate gallery posts.
Idk if it’s y2k or not, but I do know r/vintagecgi is a great place for that aesthetic.
It's hardware case design that i was asking about, roughly 1999-2003. Roughly looking like:
Oh yea we've looked into these! I have them under 'Cyber/Gen-X Corporate' or just 'Cyber Corporate'
Thank God for this new rule, lol, it was frustrating to come on this sub and half of the stuff not even being appropriate
i suggest people of these aesethics to go to r/2kaesthetic !!
THANK FUCK
I feel like the one where people are dressed in 2000s fashion that kinda looks like it branches from McBling should go here. I don’t know the word, but it’s not McBling and people will call it “Y2K” anyway…. Ugh, I wish I knew the word…
You might be thinking of skater punk fashion or Nu Metal.
Nah, I’m thinking about how the MyScene dolls would be dressed… have you seen those??? That’s the 2000s fashion I’m taking about. I know we can see some of the early versions in the late 90s of those styles, I think. I’m talking halter tops, kitten heeled boots, mini skirts… that kind of stuff. When I think of Y2K, I think of platform, chunky sneakers, baggy sports pants, etc.
That’s curly girly (it has elements of late 60s/early 70s flower power etc.)
I thought that was an art style. I’m talking about their actual clothes, clothes that actual women and girls wore around that time too.
never been here what the fuck does any of this mean
surely Metalheart Chromecore The Matrix Effect Webcore Curly Girly Gen X Soft Club Vectorheart is straight made up
no
hows the reddit nft grind goin for ya
pays da bills
ain’t no WAY bro
starving artist can't be looking no gift horse in the mouth 😔
feel that akh
Metalheart, Chromecore, The Matrix Effect, Webcore, Curly Girly, Gen X Soft Club, Vectorheart 🖕
was the middle finger necessary. is curly girly that close to your heart
yes and yes
whatever jiggles your jelly dude
je t’aime (platonic)
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