While I am not a psychologist, I am inclined to conclude this this would further a cathartic release of emotions and aid in healing. On instagram, it has a little over 15,000 tagged posts, many of which are crosstagged with weirdcore, oddcore, nostalgiacore, etc.Ĭontrasted with a pre-hashtag era, this trauma is now being organized and shared collectively. Traumacore specifically became a more widespread term in 2019 although it remains somewhat niche. Many tumblr blogs posting Traumacore content also post these other types of DIY aesthetics with a lot of crossover between sad music and sad pictures.Ī quick google search finds that “core” aesthetics in general are a recent development, spiking in popularity along with their musical counterparts in the late 2010’s. Purple and black hyper-contrast cryptids, robed figures, and abandoned houses mark a new interest in aestheticized horror while emo trap lyrics swapped a hyped self image for one of depression and loneliness. Witch house appropriated witch and magic imagery and infused it with rave culture and the eerie of the everyday. Both are alternative forms of music making that cropped up in the mid 2010’s (around the same time as a spike in people tagging content with the suffix “core”). Witch House (or witch wave) and emo rap (soundcloud rap) are an avenue for this kind of spooky vulnerable sensibility. But these once private realities were translated into shared aesthetics with the rise of internet blogs, accessible creative tools, and the DIY music scene which has absorbed and inspired ‘core” cultures. The texts in Traumacore were scribbled in journals of depressed 2000’s teens as releases of inner anguish. When there is no human present, the image is your space to inhabit. Navigating the text feels like an RPG, where you the viewer are the one having an encounter. Instead of these images showing childhood spaces as being safe and communal, they become oppressive and haunted. They represent an emotional interior with text often reading like intrusive thoughts, negative self-talk, or questions. Chiefly, that Traumacore depicts psychic and emotional space as opposed to specific people and situations, or in other words, it depicts the effects of trauma rather than the event. Physical space is prioritized as a means to emphasize several concepts. Humans are not often shown unless they are a silhouette or altered to be visually strange or hard to identify. The heavy use of physical space and childhood objects in Traumacore is important.
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