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Apple's iMac G3, an example of the blobject-style design common in Y2K aesthetics. [1] Y2K is an Internet aesthetic based around products, styles, and fashion of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The name Y2K is derived from an abbreviation coined by programmer David Eddy for the year 2000 and its potential computer errors.
The suffix -core is internet slang used to refer to styles or trends. Originating from the hardcore punk genre, the term gained use to refer to niche internet aesthetics. The first such trend was normcore in 2013, a term coined by trend forecasting group K-HOLE to refer to a style of plain clothing.
The aesthetic gained popularity in 2019 after a post on 4chan depicting a liminal space called the Backrooms went viral. Since then, liminal space images have been posted across the internet, including on Reddit , Twitter , and TikTok .
Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature". [3] [4] Aesthetics studies natural and artificial sources of experiences and how people form a judgment about those sources of experience.
Cottagecore centres on traditional, rural, or pioneer aesthetics, through clothing, interior design, and crafts. Cottagecore is related to similar aesthetic movements such as grandmacore, goblincore, gnomecore, and fairycore. Some sources describe cottagecore as a subculture of Millennials and Generation Z.
[3] Many writers posed the question of if the aesthetic constitutes art, [1] [3] with Townsend commenting "the idea of corecore and what it can (or could) represent that has given rise to what some consider a genuine form of art by Gen-Z." [5] Ewens further questioned if the aesthetic is a "new frontier in amateur documentary making," and added ...
Y2K (internet aesthetic) - millenium-era internet aesthetic, art/graphic design movement, and fashion style that has made a massive resurgence in the 2020s. There are sources in The Guardian , Vogue , CNN , Forbes , Buzzfeed News , Dexerto , Creative Bloq , Clash Magazine , Cosmopolitan , Vice , Eurogamer.net