These people threat these archetypes as something they need to shave themselves into, and not a "performance" they can play from time to time just for fun. This is pretty much cosplay, and the thing is, cosplayers don't "act" 24/7. Loved the video btw❤
First of all, unfortunately I am convinced that today most young people (especially teenagers) feel the urgency to fully fit into these "aesthetics" to compensate for a lack of identity and sense of belonging caused by globalization, which is "mixing" cultures, making them homogeneous with each other and causing each people to lose their own identity. Secondly, for some time I have chosen to abandon all these "aesthetics", for these reasons: 1. Because I realized that the creation of each aesthetic (hippie, boho, romantic, witchcore, minimalist, dark academia, gothic, etc.) is the result of an unjust act of cultural appropriation: the most of existing aesthetic contains stylistic elements that have been "stolen" from other minor world cultures by Western culture, to then be decontextualized and mixed together (example: hippie/boho stole from gypsy culture), just to create yet another "style". 2. Because I understand that "adapting" to one of these aesthetics makes you completely lose contact and connection with the environment that surrounds us and the culture we belong to. 3. Because adopting these aesthetics "just for fun and appearance" does not tell you the whole story and meaning behind each of those stylistic elements contained within them. 4. Because each of these "aesthetics" (as you said in the video) dies almost immediately after being born, without even giving you time to adapt to its, being immediately replaced by the next one, destabilizing your sense of identity and belonging.
Agree with the 4th point aesthetics are really blown out of the proportion i remember when it was just a fun thing now people take it and make their whole identity out of it also with the in my this era that era thing but there is nothing wrong with mixing cultures i love when people use my culture it's only bad if you disrespect it
@@Th3Visitor Yes, but in fact I agree with you that there is nothing wrong with mixing cultures around the world, but the only problem is that "aesthetics" do not favor cultural EXCHANGE, but cultural APPROPRIATION, which is different. If you promote cultural exchange in a respectful manner, for the purpose of knowing them and learning from them, then it is fine, this in cultural exchange; but if it is done superficially, "stealing" cultural elements and mixing them superficially, ignoring their meanings, for pure "aesthetics", this is NOT cultural exchange, it's cultural appropriation.
I think the problem with aesthetics is that they’re not based in anything real… they’re hollow projections of a highly specified set of values based in consumerism… In my experience the more one clings to an aesthetic the less they really hold those values. So I think it’s the exact opposite of creating a self, it’s the consumption of an “other” that one wishes to be with no real connection to the cultural origins of that “other”
I have been thinking exactly what you're saying since the 1980s when I was in junior high. I am SO GLAD that someone is pointing this out on social media now! 👏👏👏
These people threat these archetypes as something they need to shave themselves into, and not a "performance" they can play from time to time just for fun.
This is pretty much cosplay, and the thing is, cosplayers don't "act" 24/7.
Loved the video btw❤
First of all, unfortunately I am convinced that today most young people (especially teenagers) feel the urgency to fully fit into these "aesthetics" to compensate for a lack of identity and sense of belonging caused by globalization, which is "mixing" cultures, making them homogeneous with each other and causing each people to lose their own identity.
Secondly, for some time I have chosen to abandon all these "aesthetics", for these reasons:
1. Because I realized that the creation of each aesthetic (hippie, boho, romantic, witchcore, minimalist, dark academia, gothic, etc.) is the result of an unjust act of cultural appropriation: the most of existing aesthetic contains stylistic elements that have been "stolen" from other minor world cultures by Western culture, to then be decontextualized and mixed together (example: hippie/boho stole from gypsy culture), just to create yet another "style".
2. Because I understand that "adapting" to one of these aesthetics makes you completely lose contact and connection with the environment that surrounds us and the culture we belong to.
3. Because adopting these aesthetics "just for fun and appearance" does not tell you the whole story and meaning behind each of those stylistic elements contained within them.
4. Because each of these "aesthetics" (as you said in the video) dies almost immediately after being born, without even giving you time to adapt to its, being immediately replaced by the next one, destabilizing your sense of identity and belonging.
Agree with the 4th point aesthetics are really blown out of the proportion i remember when it was just a fun thing now people take it and make their whole identity out of it also with the in my this era that era thing but there is nothing wrong with mixing cultures i love when people use my culture it's only bad if you disrespect it
@@Th3Visitor Yes, but in fact I agree with you that there is nothing wrong with mixing cultures around the world, but the only problem is that "aesthetics" do not favor cultural EXCHANGE, but cultural APPROPRIATION, which is different.
If you promote cultural exchange in a respectful manner, for the purpose of knowing them and learning from them, then it is fine, this in cultural exchange; but if it is done superficially, "stealing" cultural elements and mixing them superficially, ignoring their meanings, for pure "aesthetics", this is NOT cultural exchange, it's cultural appropriation.
I think the problem with aesthetics is that they’re not based in anything real… they’re hollow projections of a highly specified set of values based in consumerism…
In my experience the more one clings to an aesthetic the less they really hold those values.
So I think it’s the exact opposite of creating a self, it’s the consumption of an “other” that one wishes to be with no real connection to the cultural origins of that “other”
LITTTT!!!!
I have been thinking exactly what you're saying since the 1980s when I was in junior high. I am SO GLAD that someone is pointing this out on social media now! 👏👏👏