Content warning: This article contains mentions of eating disorders and substance abuse. There has been a recent resurgence of the Tumblr girl aesthetic on TikTok. While this brought back many ...

Cottagecore is an aesthetic that idealizes elements of a pastoral life like growing plants, raising animals, or baking bread. While the trend picked up online in January, it started spiking on Tumblr ...

Credit: tiktok / @hailiebarberr, @helen.ros3, @kmcrli. In 2014, I was 16 and my Tumblr was four years old. There were thousands of posts: reblogged vintage photographs of Paris in the '70s, of window ...

Frilly scraps of lace embroidered with the words "Heaven Sent." Esoteric photos shot with a digital camera. Side-by-side comparisons of a ballerina’s beautiful pink slippers and their battered feet.

If you were chronically online in the 2010s, you knew that all the cool kids congregated on Tumblr. Besides being the go-to spot for fandoms and memes, the blogging platform was also a space for ...

The archetypal Tumblr aesthetic is difficult to describe, but it’s like the combination of a clumsy graphic collage made out of a Windows 98 screensaver, photos of Greek statuaries, and a cartoon ...

The moody days of early 2010s Tumblr reblogging are immortalised by memories of Arctic Monkeys’ album covers, scrappy handwritten poems, American Apparel tennis skirts, and the more-than-occasional ...

Apple's latest software update lets your imagination go wild, but making a digital space your own goes way back. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's ...

At the beginning of October this year, a tweet went viral. Following a common trope on social media, it claimed "i want to live in this era" and attached a disposable camera photo of a young white ...

HAVE YOU BEEN noticing suspiciously grainy photos popping up on your Instagram feed as of late? Or perhaps you’ve seen the Teenage Dirtbag trend sweeping TikTok? Or suddenly clicked that everyone is ...

There’s a moment in Season 3 of You, when “fem-gen major” Theo serenades Love (played by Victoria Pedretti) Lloyd Dobler-style. Where this bedimpled youth obtained a boombox is a question for another ...