Through it, I discovered music, television and movies. This theme was about more than just the aesthetic. In just nine photos paired with an Arctic Monkeys song, I was fully transported back.Īs I rifled through my Tumblr’s archives, I started to understand why this was such an influential time in my life. Almost every photo looked like it had been run through VSCO with the pale, faded T1 filter.įor a couple of years, I’ve seen the occasional reference to soft grunge Tumblr. My Tumblr archives for the later months of 2013 suddenly saw an influx in angsty quotes from TV shows like Freaks and Geeks and Skins. Maybe it coincided with the time I finally got sick of wearing chestnut Ugg boots and yoga pants to school. It’s hard to tell exactly where my tropical theme ended and my rosy aesthetic began. Then, there was the “rosy blog,” which featured anything pink or luxurious - think smoothies, designer watches, flowers. First I had a “tropical” theme, which was basically variations of the phrase “good vibes,” pictures of cut-up exotic fruits and girls in bikinis with mermaid-like hair. I didn’t start out as a soft grunge blogger. In the early 2010s, it was alive on Tumblr - just a little softer and with more pictures of cigarettes and overcast weather. Whoever said grunge was dead after the demise of the early ‘90s rock genre was sorely mistaken. sskeptical, baby, that’s me! ♬ 505 – Arctic Monkeys u probably followed me on tumblr in 2014. In the montage - set to “505” by the Arctic Monkeys, of course - influencer Orion Carloto let viewers know that all of these images came from her Tumblr in u recognize any of these photos, congratulations…. I haven’t been on Tumblr since I forgot my password (and the email needed to retrieve it), but in a recent scrolling session on TikTok, I found a slideshow of images that jolted me back to the height of my blogging days. It’s the same logic people on Instagram use when they put the same filter on all of their photos. But as I became a seasoned Tumblr user, I started to notice the value of having a cohesive feed. For me, I usually reblogged the photos I found aesthetically pleasing.īut what made something aesthetically pleasing? For my first few years on the website, I just shared things I found funny or cool, with no regard to theme. It was a great way to express yourself through a time of hormonal turmoil and major insecurities - you could post videos, music, text posts or photos to your blog.
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