We’re seeing less circle/skater skirts and more tennis skirts.” Grunge—whether it’s called the Tumblr girl aesthetic or indie sleazecore—is timeless. Though I’m no longer a teenager ...

It’s sometimes difficult to tell if aesthetics like Health Goth or Soft Grunge are examples of Tumblr self-parody, but in the end, it doesn’t really matter. People are genuinely choosing to ...

They were just making pale blogs," an emblem of the washed-out, soft-grunge aesthetic popular on the ... You could do a lot with the Tumblr themes back then, they gave me so much control with ...

This story includes themes of self-harm ... becoming fodder for an easily mimicked and coherent aesthetic on Tumblr known as “soft grunge.” Often filtered through pastel colors, soft grunge ...

Ask anyone who was a very online teenager in the early 2010s and that’s how they’ll describe the thing they’re longing for: the aesthetic of Tumblr, where a high-contrast black-and-white ...