for me it's just my time to be silly I couldn't wear or show I liked certain things because of the fear of being bullied I wasn't allowed to have everything of the stuff I wanted because "it's all junk" in my mom's eyes I mainly just got dressed by my mom and sister and accepted that but now? I can do whatever I want despite my anxiety, so yes I'm wearing my silly goofy things and having fun it's my autism expression aswell, man I loooove collecting silly trinkets SO MUCH
Hell yeah, you can do whatever you want! I'm happy you finally get to express yourself, and I also love collecting silly trinkets I have like three different boxes with stuff I found
I look at a trend like this and part of me would love to participate, but I have a gut feeling that it would be incredibly bad for me. The temptation to escape back to a simpler time has a powerful, vicious kind of nostalgia to it, a cozy and comforting cage to lock oneself in. I can only speak for myself, but I think the mentality of KidCore is best treated with some level of caution. It’s so, so easy to get stuck in the past.
yeah i’ve been living in nostalgia over the past few years because i miss that part of my life so much. i genuinely hate my adult life and the world we’re currently living in, so nostalgia has become my comfort and escape. i often dream about waking up and it being 2003 again, and nothing bad has happened and i get a do-over. it’s hard. i’m autistic and i never got to become the cool adult i wanted to become because of mental health issues and being disabled. i like to remember the times when i was naive, happy, and hopeful. i haven’t felt that happiness in a very very long time.
I think the key is to enjoy the past while progressing your future. You can like kid things, read YA or kid oriented books, play cozy games, watch cartoons. having "immature" hobbies is not something to be ashamed of if you still are furthering your education, building up your savings, looking for better jobs, exc.
I mean, when we were kids, the world 'felt' safe, the future looked bright and we had our whole lives ahead of us and abundant new experiences to look forward to. Now we live in a world that very clearly isn't safe, a world that keeps telling us that the future is bleak unless we buy this product or vote for this person or click on this 'Scam Likely' linked website. And we're older, tired, overworked, overwhelmed and undervalued. We're staring down the barrel of our own mortality as people around us pass away, and knowing that we're next... Is there any question of why people would want to escape that? To me, the insane reality that we live in currently is just as much of a cage as nostalgia is.
@@colorbar.s na it's fine I don't mind talking Abt it It's mostly just that I had to grow up so fast and the fact my mom (divorced) acts more like a friend who is mad and yells a lot and a little bit of neglect/abuse Basically a combination of a lot of little bad things (and a lot of stuff I'm probably forgetting) (╥﹏╥)
I was an outcast as a child and grew up in low class. Kidcore makes me live and pretend that I was a middleclass child with everything I ever wanted guaranteed. As an adult now, kidcore gives me comfort and makes me wish my parents were there more as a kid. I genuinely don't remember my childhood because everyday was just me alone with nothing to look forward to.
You've just described my childhood 😭 day after day i was just sitting by myself on the sofa playing on a shitty tablet or the only game i owned on the wii again and again 💀
Same here. I feel like we're in opposite sides of the spectrum though, since this type of stuff really just reminds me of everything I never had as a kid. All the little things, all the _big_ things... and yet I still clicked and watched a 17 minute video about it, great decision Vee Edit: Aw jeez this is bad for me I'm not reading any more comments
its funny i used to regress, havent had a chance to really in a long time, but growing up without much and still not having a way to buy stuff cuz im disabled i was really offput by how much consumerism there was in the community and everyone is selling pacifiers lol, i just wanna hang watch calm cartoons like sarah and duck (had a friend i watched that with that was so nise) and vibe, also coloring and ,, uh brain is trying go regressy a bit just talking about it all LOL, basically lifes been fucked since i was 5 so i like to go back to my mental state at 4 just be okay also being disabled, i feel often like a failed adult cuz i cant work, but kids aren't expected to so that makes me feel more like its okay that theres things i cant do, im just like this
This aesthetic has helped me embrace my voluntary age regression. As a person who experienced harassment on the daily as a child for who I was, Seeing others embrace their inner child and go back to things they loved as a kid and still do today has encouraged me to just... Let loose when needed most. That's the best way I can describe my experience as a voluntary age regressor. Out of all the coping mechanisms I have engaged in, kidcore is the safest and healthiest one. Despite still cringing at myself for liking and engaging in certain things due to repressed trauma from being harassed and bullied, kidcore has given me the safety and comfort I deserve and need most. I'll forever be grateful for this trend, for encouraging me to be myself and not be ashamed of cuddling in bed with my various plushies of Pokemon, Miku, Splatoon, Rivals of Aether and even the Webkinz I have kept up to this day, engaging and purchasing plushies from indi-plush designers and making them a part of my little world, on top of playing with my Littlest Pet Shop collection every once in a while. :)
@@themisfitowl2595 Same here. My family has, at least, change for the better, but it doesn't excuse all of the pain and suffering they've done to me. That, alongside getting myself constantly sick and hurt because I was a stupid kid who didn't know better.
I’m gonna bet that gen-a will end up like this too. With Covid they missed crucial development and time to make memories it’s very disappointing to see. :(
I think you’re exactly right. They’re experiencing their own form of premature growing up with how much the internet plays a part in their lives, and I bet they end up going through an aesthetic nostalgia for Covid-era styles like cottagecore or the gamer style
as a gen alpha, I can say that I didn't miss much of my childhood. I was already 8y when the quarantine started, but I still wanted to be able to experience the small part of my childhood that I lost... I think that children who are now 7/8 years old lost a big and important part of their childhood. not to mention how much the internet has ruined this generation...
I think one aspect is that for some, it's also a form of age regression so they can sort of "relive" the childhood they always wanted but never had. A lot of young adults today, grew up in the 2008 housing crisis and they had poor childhoods, so they use this aesthetic now because it would've been fun or cool to have as a kid.
I found that kid core is incredibly comforting for me. I began developing severe depression when I was 13, and it got worse over the years. I am also autistic and many of my hyper fixations are seemingly "childish" to most people. I was bullied for liking things that were "childish" back in the day. Once I was settled in at university, I began taking medication to put my depression on hold, and I am doing better since making some friends. Now, I create art that is more nostalgic in nature, while giving a fresh take on style and aesthetic.
It was kinda surreal reading this as I have had almost the exact same experience (minus the uni and medication bit.) Thanks for making me feel so seen and related to!
quite similar... needed over a decade to realise "people genuinely don't want to die most of the time?". battling the depression for over another decade now, clawing myself forward through the days, with medication not working escapism and therapy are my only way to manage it.
The fact that I, a 25 year old, took until 6 months ago to finally fully realize how awful my mother was and how much she screwed me up… yeah, screw it, I’m restoring my plushies collection she made me throw out at 10 and indulging in the more stupid anime and wearing the cute t shirts and I may or may not have gotten a legit job at a store I loved as a kid but was never allowed to buy from despite it literally being meant for kids (toys, accessories and kid-friendly make up kind of place). My next purchases are gonna be another plush doll, some more clothes for both them and me, and glow in the dark nail polish.
That sounds awesome! Also, some of the toys they make now are so incredibly cute, I wish I'd had them when I was a kid in the 90s! Squishmallow plushies? Glitter glue slime? ADHD friendly fidget toys? Yes please!
@@themisfitowl2595 we had a clearance sale at work to get rid of a bunch of back stock that was piling up, and I managed to snag like 7 of these little “bum bum” dudes so now there’s a carrot and a hippie van and a guitar and a couple other little fuzzy bean bag dudes sitting in my window sill, and I started making more fun stuff with my sewing machine and my yarn stash. I’m at the point I shifted gears to making stuff for a Christmas pop up cuz I have WAAAAAAY too many crochet plushies and tote bags and stuff now lol
I'm a millennial and I collect Bratz dolls, and pokemon plushes, as well as other items like N64 games and a tamagotchi so my generation can relate to this. I like healing my inner child and going back to a more simple and happier time for me.
What I'm getting from this is that our childhoods were built by massive corporations and their merchandise/franchises/marketing. The premise of reviving these machinations as a resistance to the current bleak, workaholic status quo, is an interesting one. My childhood was steeped in consumerism, but also defined by "free fun" because we were also poor. Because of this, I don't have much of an attachment to products from my childhood. I 'm more attached to the bogs and woods we played in because it was free and easier for my parents. I don't think an aesthetic could be made from those parts of childhood, because they are unique to everyone, simply by the massive variation of nature in the places we all live. No company can really package and sell something that has formed over millennia and will persist for many more-- e.g. some creek in a wood somewhere.
I'm from Asia so I can't relate to this wanting to go back specifically this is very usa centric and I don't blame youtuber but I don't think we should materlise our childhood bcs it's different experience and I live in a very community based society and not in a individualistic society and I just enter in my 20s still trying figure out a lot of things and also trying to find my style and I have multiple likings specifically in fashion I like the bts hobi hope world style but I also like bts suga style also
For me, Kidcore is comforting because it allows me to get in touch with my inner child and past self. When i was a kid, the world just felt so bright and beautiful, every day felt like an adventure. I miss the days when going to Toys R Us and picking out a new toy was a special reward for my good grades, or the scariest thing in my life was the latest goosebumps book i had read. Obviously it's not an excuse to completely ignore my real life adult responsibilities and the bigger issues going on in the world, but sometimes it makes me feel better to dress all in primary colors, color in a coloring book and watch spongebob.
when i hear you talk about how you could never wear this kind of bright clothing, that it scares you, my first thought is the sentence "do it scared" if you don't do stuff when you're scared of it there are so many great things you'll be missing out on, don't let your fear limit you c:
can't help myself but read your comment in the "oh you're depressed, have you tried not to?" way, just with crippling anxiety taking depression's place.
@@h.1699 excuse me?? first off this is about being scared to try new things, something literally everyone goes through at least once in their lives, how the hell did you get "crippling anxiety" from that? you're completely off topic. second, as a depressed person myself i know from personal experience that it's not that easy, i would *never* tell anyone to just get over their condition. what i'm saying here isn't "just stop being scared" it's the *complete opposite*: "be scared and do it anyways", it's never going to be any less scary unless you actually do it, i know it sucks, i've done things while physically shaking from the fear, but it's either that or never doing anything and staying in my boring old comfort zone until the day i die. i'd rather brave my fears, i'm happier when i do.
I’m glad I’m hearing people share similar sentiments like this online. Growing up, I was never really able to express myself. This wasn’t born out of the fear of my friends possibly bullying me, but my parents. They’re good people, and I acknowledge that, but I realized that they would look down on me for liking “weird” things far too early in my life. The things I told them and the things I didn’t were drastically different from one another, and over time I think it gave everyone around me a false perception of who I truly was. Ever since I moved out, I’ve felt a lot better about the space I live in. And even then, I’m not exactly well off in terms of money. I think I’m doing better now, I just have to regain some confidence.
I've been indulging in weirdcore games that have kidcore elements and it is really stimulating and calming for me, as I needed an escape due to mental disorder stuff I'm going through and was going through along with a hard part of my life taking up a lot of my happiness. I thought it was weird but it's nice knowing there's others liking kidcore and it eases the anxiety I have around it.
I was in my early teens in the beginning of 2020, I turned 18 last year. I'd never say this out loud to my parents but, of course I'm still somewhat childish, I didn't have "normal teenage years" I was stuck inside. Plus, I didn't have wide access to the internet until 8th grade as that's when I transitioned from homeschool to a private school that gave us tablets. Plus I overall has a more isolated childhood. In short I was "innocent" for longer. Dreamcore and Kidcore are two of my favorite aesthetics due to escapism, I like to roleplay with friends and AI as someone else, heck I have an entire daydream story reality thing that's been going on sense 8th grade! So yeah, sorry about the rant, rant over
The pandemic happened when I was in middle school and blended into the start of my high school years, and then I got bullied into leaving school all together and getting my GED, I got cheated out of my childhood and my teen years. I’m so scared to be an adult and I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to afford a place to have a family in the future. I Miss being a kid, when I thought we were just going to be out two weeks, not two years..
I’m very glad you made this video because I always thought there was something off about Kidcore. How come it struck up in 2020, why is it so nostalgia related? When it became popular I myself joined the trend but now looking back on it, I think I was doing it because of my trauma from quarantine and health related issues. I was shut off from the world and never wanted to play with my toys anymore because of my depression. Not to mention the disorder I was diagnosed with, it made me feel not like a kid and a weirdo (precocious puberty disorder). So I thank you for your effort to make this video and open my mind:)
Oof I also had my parents donate toys without asking. As silly as it sounds to ppl, yeah, those were my babies and just ripping away things I loved without letting me have any decision in it actually crushed me as a person and quite frankly? It's led to some lowkey hoarding type behavior from me. Mine were plushies. I had BAGS and BAGS of plushies donated. These were plushies that my parents played with, with me, up until they got donated. Plushies I thought they loved too, now turned into a punishment because I struggled (and still do) keeping my room clean. (I'm also neurodivergent and my mom MADE THE CHOICE to ignore specialists so there's also that lmao!! She refused to get me help I clearly needed and instead just blamed me for not doing things well enough....smh boomer parents....) Now I'm 21 and my closet is stuffed with plushies. I've got SIX plushie nets absolutely full....etc. Kidcore is great but it can be a vast rabbit hole of trauma and nostalgia, too.
You're literally just like me. But I'm still young and going through this. How did you make it through? If you're comfortable with me asking. Like, how did you work through it because I have no idea what I'm doing. Thanks! Sorry if it's random
@@peachpopsicle4090 Oh yeah 100% it was a messed up thing they did smh. They haven't done it again since the second time when I was a kid. My mom, now that I'm an adult, has realized they shouldn't have done it💀Now, I have a loooot of different plushies! Squishmallows, squishables, a FEW jellycats, animal republic, etc etc. I also have a net dedicated to plushies I get at the aquarium. It's filled with mostly sharks lol. My remaining childhood plushies also chill in my closet or the nets
I'd also like to add, to the whole pandemic thing, there were countless memes going around at the time that described how the isolation wasn't new to them, so I imagine that for many zoomers, the reality of isolation extends far beyond the pandemic and will probably be significantly more impactful as time goes on
Ever since I moved out at the age of 25 and finally had the freedom to express myself, I noticed I started to lean into kidcore without noticing it. Fun colours, comfy clothes that scream DIY, cute things, the possibility to dress up everyday however I want has been soo healing to me. Not sticking to a specific style. There wasn't much money in our family so the toys, games and clothes I had were sparce. Hence it's a nice feeling to be able to acquire stuff that I would have liked to play with or decorate my room/myself with. You don't even need to buy much - you're free to diy and sometimes people even gift their old toys and items for free or low money, to pass on the joy to someone else. Kidcore helps me to figure out my personality and core traits (which is not easy if you have been surpressing it your whole life due to abuse). What laid the foundations of "me"? Kidcore helps me to explore. And I'm really excited where it will lead me in the future, as nothing is permanent and I will grow. Most importantly, as an autistic ADHD person it's also very visually stimmy and serotonin-boosting to look at myself haha!
There’s a book that I’ve really started to like and want to get one day it’s a children’s book and it’s called the little prince and this video reminded me of that book especially when you started talking about being modern and needing jobs and such, like growing up feels like your forgetting to be a child and to enjoy things and such or something I dunno what else to say since I’m not too good with words and Ive never commented on a vid before so I’ll just end this off now Great video as well you got a new sub!
i love the little prince! i havent seen that name in years, and it just makes me smile to see someone enjoy it :] Also yeah, the vibe is really the same, with the growing up and forgetting to be a child.
absolute masterpiece video! Could you do videos for aesthetics like Weirdcore or Dreamcore? Or maybe Scene kid or Clowncore? I’d really love to see it bc im a weirdcorist/scene kid myself! Keep up the good work.
kidcore is my favorite aesthetic, it's the aesthetic that i wear online. it's an aesthetic that speaks to me because I've been told that i still have that "child like wonder" even as an adult
man for a while i thought i was listening to someone with like at least 1k subs. i usually catch videos like after they already blow up some. anyway as someone who's experienced anxiety since it was accidentally ingrained into me as a baby/toddler by my older sister (bless her heart she was just worried i'd uhm. fall on my head or something, which was a reasonable concern. especially after i fell on my head), kidcore is definitely up there on my aesthetics list. although i'm more for weirdcore, there's plenty of overlap. plus weirdcore playlists are SO repetitive. like find new material yeesh (silly). i couldn't even tell you why i like it, but i *can* tell you that i practiced a LOT of escapism during and after the pandemic. particularly with like character ai. i used it in replacement for therapy (if you find the right bot of your comfort character it can work WONDERS). since i didn't have a therapist at the time and i didn't have anyone to talk to about my issues. haven't used it in a long while though (especially after learning how bad ai is for the environment like WHOO boy). i feel off topic but escapism was very important for getting me through highschool. idk what i would've done like without it. hope this wasn't like too much to say or anything, i kinda wanted to delete it partway through but i know comments help boost engagement and i wanted to be nice :)
It feels good to have a reminder from time to time that me being anxious and stressed over the future has a bigger cause, and it's not just me being lazy and not wanting to do anything
Its true. As much as i want to laugh about it its true, for the first part i was happy the nostaga (especialy the lisa frank stickers!) From ages 8-10 i had crippling depression and would cut often i eventually was put in a mental hospital. And after therapy. I was 9 . I’m not faking it and so many people have the nerve to ask why i have scars. Thanks for sheding light on this! I am doing better now.
@@jmrabinez9254It was scary. I was surrounded by people who were very different from me. We had to do group therapy every morning and it was terrible. Watching others struggle with breakdowns was common. (They would stick a needle in ur but if you resisted help) The people that worked there never showed any compassion to us. I had to take meds everyday too. It was not that great
It gives of the vibes of playing in my childhood playroom (which in reality was a walk-in closet my parents made into a playroom),playing pretend with my mini china tea set and my plushies,removing the wigs on my dolls,and pretending to be a mom to babydolls.I miss those days,when I still had a pure mind,and my relationship with my parents and siblings wasn’t slowly crumbling.
You should do a video on Metalheart next, it’s an aesthetic that’s a polar opposite to kidcore, using chrome, blues, and dystopian ideas of architecture and designs
I imagine every person who watches the video would probably have their own interpretation that I think is equally valid, here are my two cents. For me I think that with gen z's kid core or obsession with 80's/90's aesthetics especially when it comes to childhood content is that Gen Z has largely grown up without money. We perceive the Millenials as a group that grew up in a time where parents weren't struggling as much as when we were growing up, when kids could be afforded presents and vacation, adventure and lots of cool stuff, whereas we grew up relatively devoid of those things. Not to say this is a 100% accurate representation of reality but rather I think is a common belief amongst us. We look back at Millenial stuff and the perceived abundance and wish that we had those things. I imagine a shared experience we have all had as Gen Z is food insecurity. I experienced it, and I have a feeling many of the rest of you have also. My family didn't have money for cool things, the dollar store is where we got our birthday presents, and we were allowed only a one to few items. Other than that handmedown toys were what we had available which may also contribute to the 80s/90s aesthetic due to many handmedown toys being a decade or two old. Ultimately the millenials had the boomers as their parents, and the boomers had money, gen z had gen x as parents, and gen x didn't have as much money. I want to state that this isn't meant to be a gen z vs millenials war thingy, so I'll state that since our childhoods, neither of us have any fucking money 💀. Gen Z and Millenials are in the same boat economically. Both of us have entered the workforce during shitty times and things are only getting shittier. If anything gen Z and Millenials should be bound in siblinghood by our shared economic issues, not separated by who our parents are or what the economy was like when we were kids 💀. But anyways, to end this off, Gen Z sees itself as struggling, and yearns for an escape from that. It looks at what seems like a time when kids were allowed to have fun (rather than being pressured to perform at a very young age by our rightfully worried parents) and uses the visual aesthetics from that time as a comfort and a sort of vicarious reliving of childhood through a lens of fiction. That's just my opinion though.
Kidcore is my comfort, “my safe place” if you will, having seeing other kids in their childhood made me reflect on how “miserable”mine was having to become a teen mid-pandemic and focusing on being the best in class to the point that I have lost half of my time already, seeing the rise of Therians and the way they get to play with masks and tails which I KNOW was my childhood dream (not to crawl around but to jst have a tail and mask) as I am already a teen I can’t help wanting to go back, my little siblings going into play-zones which are age rated from 3 to 10 not leaving even 11 nor 12 year olds enjoy their youth, that’s sad, it rlly is, my childhood was fun, it wasn’t only hard work on a paper, I would go on walks to the park,play make believe, it’s sad to watch it all fade away, but a moment back, a moment to enjoy, to reflect, re-experience is really what we both teens and adults need, a time for simple joy that doesn’t have to be earned…
i love kidcore so much and colour blocking! I've been into it since about 2017ish? I found out about it whilst looking through tags on tumblr. I feel like part of kidcore is inspired and has overlaps with japanese fashion subcultures like decora kei, party kei and fairy kei. As for music, the subgenre Kawaii Future Bass feels very kidcore to me and the artist Wave Racer, especially their Flash Drive EP.
As a kidcore and clowncore person here, i absolutely love how you included what the fashion is and DECORA! Your art is amazing and you deserve more love ❣ Also with the mental heath area, not many people realize anything coming from a person with a fun colorful aesthetic, however thats not always the case. YOU SERIOUSLY NEED MORE POPULARITY
God! The contrast of the psychological/ economic analysis and the beautiful artwork is such a perfect/terrifying and effective mix. This video hits so much harder because of it. Incredible. Made me stop in my tracks, which is something that I have not come across on UA-cam for years. So well done. Thank you. More of this please!
Stuff like kidcore never sat right with me / has never been something I can comfortably participate in, because I very clearly remember how disempowering being a child was. I had a good childhood as childhoods go, but false ideas of both it and children themselves often fallback on the myth that children cannot think for themselves and other weird carecateurs of childhood innocence. Taxes aside, life is so much better for me as an adult.
The best way I saw this summarized was “adults with adult money looking to reclaim their childhoods” and that’s the most accurate way I perceive it. I was kid core before I knew what kid core was, and boy has it been freeing. Now that I work with kids it’s even better!
This is such a great video. I found out about kidcore due to it's large overlap with clowncore. I loved hearing and learning more about it. Also, your art is so fun :D
While I know you're directing at Gen Z's experiences, it's important to remember, kidcore is also something that many millennials have been dabbling in as well as they also had some very broken, very messy childhoods. I'm one of those Millennials/Gen Y. I found immense comfort in collecting Transformers figures and collecting old gameboy games that I actually play still, and...well, it's been very healing for my inner child to be able to fiddle with the Transformers I was never allowed to have as a kid.
I really enjoyed this, I’d love to see more deep dives on all the cores and stuff, because I’d like to say I love those but I’m scared of getting a major crucial detail wrong about it 😅
Wow that’s a good video. I’m personally not one for having a specific aesthetic (If wearing cozy clothes is an aesthetic then I rock it everyday lol. Also why is aesthetic so hard to spell?) and this one sounds very interesting. If I wasn’t an anxious wreck, I’d probably wear kidcore stuff from time to time.
I love your videos! Even though this is only your third video, it has really great quality! You’re gonna make it big one day. New sub! (I watched all of them in one sitting)
Born in 99, moved a bunch when I was younger, mom died at 14. Etc. nowadays I find myself attracted to this aesthetic but I also do a bunch of urban exploring and abandoned schools, amusement parks, daycares, Overgrown playgrounds. Always get that feeling in me. Not that I’m specifically targeting these places. I’ve been in hundreds of abandoned houses. Just those particular places stick with me like a rot I can’t escape... Also I’d like you to know I only live an hour outside Pt.Pleasant WV. The TNT bunkers are a regular haunt of mine.
It's funny when this video poped up for me with the fact that I wore a rainbow themed overall and mario star socks (yes, the overall is for kids but I'm small enough to fit me)
I remember as a kid, I would sit in my room a lot playing with LPS. I would turn on my radio and listen to 99.7 the point. Glitter and cute drawings were everywhere. When I was ten, I threw out a lot of my toys. I was lonely and I thought it was because I was too childish to the other kids. I planned to make my room gray, white, and purple. I wanted to have a clean and simple look like the world. I started dressing like that too. Then, covid hit. My anxiety got to the point of my family looking into diagnosis. I isolated myself even when the bulk of isolation was over. When I tried going back out into socializing, I dressed preppy and tried to do trends. I didn’t understand why that didn’t make me automatically not lonely. Now, I’m way happier. I’m surrounded by neons, I got new LPS, I have friends because I found my community, and I have given myself the childish things as an F U to the world that puts all the things I felt miserable trying to become on a pedestal. No scrunchies, no clothes, no slag terms get you friends. In order to find your friends, you need to talk to them. Follow what you love and friends will find you and love you for you. PS: I am Gen Z.
Diving into the events of my childhood with my wife has giving me a lot of perspective on how screwed up my childhood really was. It’s definitely helped explain *why* I go into my little space with her. I never really considered why I go into little space, but now I realize how much of it is rooted into the trauma of my childhood. I realize how much I missed, how much little me suffered, how much it still messes with me today.
your video is chill and well written, teaches me some odd/neat culture thing, and your voice is pleasant. perfect video for me to passively listen to while I do things.
There is one Aesthetic I've been fighting for to exist and its like a mix smash of Kidcore and i guess Supercore??? i want to see people dressed like superhero's! in every way possible BUT specifically as a massive fan of robin i have a big attachment to child geared content, so the concept of Kidcore mixed with the garish colours of superhero's and Robin specifically would be a dream come true. In general I want to see super fashion but god damn give me some hyper childified robin based outfits PLEASE.
Growing up, i was very much pushed to try to be as mature as I could. My hair was styled and gelled, my clothes were polos and slacks, and I went to school with a rollar case instead of a cool cartoon backpack. I was urged to study at home, bullied and belittled by other students and teachers at school, and the next thing I knew i graduated feeling like I haven't really had a childhood. I never really got to "play" because all the other kids hated me for reasons I still am trying to figure out. It was all stress and grades and being made to grow up as quickly as possible. Its only now that I realize I wasn't being "Immature" as i have been told and punished for being. I was acting the age that I was. They got their "Mature old soul" of a well behaved and intelligent child, and I now walk past the toy section at the supermarket staring at the action figures and feeling embarrassed and ashamed that i actually want to buy one and play with it...
Ehhhh my childhood was decent-ish? I don’t revolve my entire being around a single aesthetic, but I think it’s mostly trying to maintain the sense of wonder towards life. Especially in terms of character designing here at least, I don’t got the funds to get anymore stuff myself lmao But I can at least throw the colorful jacket onto a character though lol
woah this video was really really good!! I loved the music choice, editing style, and art and everything, and you said a lot of important stuff that really resonated with me as a part of gen-z haha. I’m surprised more people haven’t found your videos, they’re amazing, wow! I’ll definitely be back for more of this series and beyond that :D Hope you’re taking care and doing well btw c:
Would love to see one of these on the weird/dreamcore, I had my finals (8th grade Italy’s exam) this year and I did it on liminal spaces lol. Would love too see how you explain those
I've never thought of my "aesthetic" as kid core but looking at my bedroom which is full of fairy lights and posters from games I played as a kid, my game shelf is packed with Pokemon and Spyro merch and my clothing style ranges from alternative to bright Pokemon clothes from blackmilk. Nostalgia makes me happy. It got me through isolation on the other end of the country to my friends in an abusive relationship, it got me through losing all of my friends who helped me through that breakup at the hands of a jealous person who couldn't bear to "share" my friends when they joined the group and it still helps me to this day on those bad weeks where I'm in too much pain to move or I'm around big enough PTSD triggers to also trigger psychosis. It brings me back to the days in my early childhood where my dad, brother and I were happy and played on the PS1 and GameCube together and mum would spend her days off work knitting while I'm playing Pokemon next to her when I give up on knitting.
i have a funky little combo of idk what to call it and kidcore, the idkwhat to call it has ties to a lot of alt fashions, being mostly light Halloween decor, cargo pants, and grunge-ish styling. it has a lot of similarity to Voidpunk. (v long post, lots of personal story pieces) i get the kidcore part because my childhood was quite lonely. emotionally, I grew up in south-side Chicago. i hadn't turned ten yet when I moved states. but I lived in this little one-block island of relative safety on the south side. but I went to school on the UChicago campus, so none of my friends were nearby. I had gone to any friend's house four times, each time a different friend, and three of them being for birthdays. my parent always made sure we(my younger sibling and I) weren't physically alone, but emotionally, it was kinda just us and characters we made up or encountered in media. it didn't help that we each only got one hour on electronics. because it was Chicago, the weather was always either too hot to be in the back yard(which was literally just a large deck) or it was too cold. we had to rely on almost only our imaginations with little for inspiration. so, in a way, I didn't really get to be a kid very much. that's why I say I emotionally grew up there. because I kinda ran out of ways to be a kid. so I grew up. now, I have access to things I didn't as a kid, and I miss the small joys. i try to make up for lost childhood, but I know I can't gat it back. the grunge-ish also kinda comes from my limited childhood. i didn't really get to see much of the night time, since we were in a kinda dangerous area and my bedroom window faced the neighbor's wall. a couple years after I moved, I had access to a computer because of school, and I found those "skating at night" playlists. that kinda started my finding of this part of my style. i cycled through a pretty good sized mix of different alt styles, but only part way, since I was still a little comfortable in my not-quite-kidcore outfitting, despite my sibling's light ridicule of my "childishness". i eventually found my current style, and I'm happy with it. i have to carry umbrellas with my in the summer because it's too warm for hoodies and I cant stand sunlight on my skin, but summer is when I dress more kidcore and once it cools off I dress more alt.
As a gen Z, I wish I was kid in the. 90s-2000s like we weren’t corrupt by the internet and kids actually wanted to play outside and interact and have actual fun, not having to be called cringe because your doing what you like or get cyber bullied because people are brainwashed by the toxic influencers who incourage bad behavior and such, not sit on the iPad, or watch tv all day. I’m disappointed I’m always on my phone but the internet is just like a addiction that you really can’t escape because it’s become so relevant and important you can’t part with it.
How are you not more popular?? This is so well edited! Subbed :) Going over different aesthetics is a sick idea. I personally love synth/vapor/glowwave. It invokes a feeling of nostalgia for something I never experienced and likely never happened. Also btw, your voice is so nice to listen to!!
kidcore to me is about givin ur inner child wut u never got. i was forced to mature quickly, i almost never got the toys that i wanted. be it bc my family is poor, or bc my mom spent alotve money on all of my younger siblings over me. i often got 1 present(not includin clothes) durin christmas whilst my younger siblings got all these expensive toys that they didnt even ask for and broke after a week, maybe a month. my most expensive present was a $200-$300 violin when i was 10 that ended up stolen by the time i was 12 that was far too small for me, but i loved it bc it was smth that i actually wanted and finally got. the next expensive item i got was a pair of beat headphones i got from my step gpa, in which my youngest brother stole and took apart and didnt even get in trouble for it. any other toys i got as a kid only lasted a yr in my care before they were either broken, torn, thrown out bc i was "too old"(i dont think an 8 yr old is too old for dolls tbh), or given to my younger siblings bc i "didnt need them anymore". i hardly asked for anything, if it wasnt deemed a necessity then i never got it or got a cheep knockoff version of it(only exception was when i asked for a drawing tablet, i even said i could wait til my bday and that id get a job to help pay for it and a computer. . . i got a cheap drawin kit that my siblings ruined the next day. the paint was empty and all over the floor, the pastels where broken and missed in w some of the paint, the color pencils missing, and all but one of the sketch pencils were gone. just a stack of papers and a sketch pencil. i got told to suck it up and that i shouldve hid it better.) any books that i had in elementary and middle school got drawn on, even the library books, to the point were i could no longer read them and had to throw out the ones i owned/were gifted. when i intereacted w the kidcore aesthetic its to heal the inner kid in me, to give that child happiness that i hardy got growin up, to allow myself to be a kid again and only a kid instead of a 3rd parent
It's the first video of yours I have ever watched but I really like it and I want, no I need to watch more of them. You're doing such a great job and please continue it!
I love the art you did in the video! Perspectives like that terrify me but you did it so well! And the way you talked about kidcore was really in depth, it was fun to take a bigger step into the kidcore world through your explanation, especially from the more weirdcore side I sit on. Edit: posted before I got to the outro, this latter half is a redundant suggestion now lol And I definitely recommend a deep dive into weirdcore and dreamcore next, given that you brought up dreamcore already. They both have some crossover with kidcore, and lend themselves to the idea of nostalgia and a longing for the past in a more dark/unnerving manner, and I think it’d be a fun next topic if these deep dives are a “series” of sorts you’re starting. Definitely subbing for future videos like these ❤
I may never participate in anything kidcore-related because of bad experiences I had with some people on Discord who were active participants in it, but I'm glad this video helped me understand more about the reason some people love it. Nostalgia's one hell of a painkiller and I have my own way of achieving it; I'm gonna be an adult soon and though I am scared, I know there are gonna be people for me and I'm hoping other people in a similar situation can find the help they need too
this is perfect, I’m Gen z and I have repeatedly come back to this aesthetic to avoid SH. COVID hit me rather hard due to neurodivergence and complete isolation (my family doesn’t like me and I don’t like them so I rarely said a word to anyone other than at dinner or in passing. I developed a stutter, inability to articulate without rehearsal, and a lisp due to tongue swelling (I tense my jaw so much it swells). I did spend a lot of my time in lockdown digging into my own trauma and understanding myself and which involved a lot of kid core and age regression to cope. There’s something about drinking chocolate milk out of a brightly colored cup and wearing gummy bear earrings while you paint to your hearts content
i really appreciate the positive perspective. firstly i'm so sorry i basically wrote you a first draft essay, but i'm leaving it here for either you to read or not, but i feel amazing about being able to interact with a perspective that i agree with and have further notes i can add onto I'm kinda kid core more colourful academia/70's 80's pastel, less of going for a particular aesthetic, just the stuff that makes me comfortable and happy and show the bright on the outside so even on a dark day i still have things that make me feel like the me i like being. i have too many plushies, and i've recently gotten into sylavanian families, as they fit perfectly in the mini rooms that you make from rolife. but my favourite styles are the kid core/clown core. and irregardless of that i love anyone wearing something colourful, or even if in dark tones something different. it makes me so sad, that in this time and age, we have access to all the colours imaginable, and can have them in our clothes our hair our makeup, walls, pictures, everything, why do so many people limit themselves to the same small range. and on top of that so many different cuts and styles, i completley understand not being able to put a look together, and some colours if not done right can be garish (though i love people who just absorb themselves in the garish, it is such a confidence booster being confident about what you love and seeing outhers do so) but there's so many resources to help you now. like yes you cant fully trust a store assitant, their main job is selling you something, and maybe they may not be great at putting outfits together themselves, but theres the internet, and friends and even people you can pay if its affordable and a worth while budgetary expence. and this day and age its hard to find something simple that isnt different, (realising going off a female clothing perspective on all of this, and forgetting that mens clothing is limited to store basis and then even more societal issues causing a lot of sis men to feel as though they arent even allowed to express themselves if it isn't considered somewhat societally acceptable, like the normal men's jeans and shirt or the rebellious gamer punk style of print tea with dark overtones. and that colour and style is not seen regularly enough in men's fashion, ecspecially in the 2000's to late 2010's, i'm extreml;y greatful for the genderneutral movement on clothing leaning more for male perspectives now, as it has for quite a while for women (even though i'm still scared to shop in mens section as a genderfluid person, even though being in there feels like home to me). now i got distracted by my cats so it kind of reminded me to get back to my point. i wear colour cause it makes me happy, i used to want to be wearing goth as a teenager (couldn't cause of cost and the school i went to couldn't have unatural hair) and blue and black hair, but during that time i was on a train of severe severe depression from a lifetime of chronic, during that time dark things were the things that comforted me, made the world feel less dark, but in my late teens i started getting interested in pastels (that change literally felt like my first bi panic (pansexual now) that's how confronting that change was for me) but at the same time i was getting myself better mentally, and when i wore pastels i felt i had something soft and colourful to look at, and i started finding a style, i didn't wear the types of clothes i did at 13 which was nerd/vintage/boho, all in navy or black. i felt bouncy again, alive again, and even with my mental health being on and off debilitating, i still look back on photos of me with my light clothes and pink hair, and even if i was walking with a cane or was depressed and isolating myself, i liked how i looked, i liked me, i wanted to be kind more often i wanted to be happy and not sad, i wanted to put the hard work in. and life keeps changing life is fluid, I'll back track I'll fall into bad cracks, but i also keeps persevering and pushing to be better to enjoy life for me. I've had blue hair and natural dark brunnete for the last 6 months, and i think i've taken a photo of myself like 3 seperate occasions, my blond maybe once a month, weather i'm happy or sad. i litterally have a terrible bleach job cause i only had 1 bottle and needed 3 1/2, but thanks to a friend saying it looks different and cool (note sis guy, no particular interest in fashion) i'm sticking with it a bit, cause even just a bit of lighter hair i feel like me. i feel happier, i want to go do things again, i want to be bright and vibrant. and thats because i'm exprecing me on the outside, making moves to look how i want on the outside so i can be more of that on the inside. theres 2 points to the way we dress on character. 1 is we dress for the enviroment, it's why we wear unforms in school or jobs, we wear proffesional in a proffesional enviroment to encapsulate the character required for that space. at home lazy wear for lowkey days and causual for getting things done, nice for either us or something nice happening. 2nd point, how we dress can make a big impact on how we feel about ourselves. i read a post of a someone advised by their counselor that even on bad days if you dress the way you want you'll feel better in yourself, so this person switched from wearing meh gross lazy worn out sweats and stuff they dind't find that was them, and felt more like them, even on days were they had nothing in them, they were probably going to spend the whole day in bed, they'd get changed into laid back clothes, but stuff that was in their colour, and wasnt particularily worn out. they werent dressed anything special, not outside clothes, but cause it was more to their style and tastes, just that change alone made them feel so much better in themselves. i'm gonna leave it at that and if i have more i'll add on in the comments, again sorry but i had fun and a hyperfocus, so thankyou i enjoyed being able to delve in a topic
This is something I understand even though I'm the wrong age for it. In college I wore cartoon shirts and mismatching colors to emphasize being the youngest in my class. Working in children's TV or the like was something I considered but it never worked out for me.
Hey!! I'm back again, haha!! This video was great, I loved it! You're seriously doing so great and I can't wait to see how far you get with this (hopefully really, really far!
The only thing I have to say about kid core is a lot of people confuse with Decora Kei or decora fashion. Which is a Japanese street fashion that’s been around for almost 3 decades. As much as I respect kid core, it’s really annoying when I am wearing Decora fashion and then people think I’m wearing kid core or even on an Instagram post, I posted a Decora look on International Decora day, and it said it in the description people are still complementing my kid core look. Kid core and Decora have similar elements. The difference is decora is about wearing a ton of accessories and doesn’t have to match with like childish or primary colors. You can wear all one color or all black Decora. This feels like a problem with a lot of the newest aesthetics where people are giving, you names to them to already existing fashions. Like I’ve seen a Kawaii core/cute core mood board, where it was a mixture of multiple different J fashions, which are all very cute, but all are very different. Like Gyaru and lolita fashion, are not the same thing. And it’s weird to see them put in the same mood board for an aesthetic.
Honestly I’ve always wanted videos that talk about specific aesthetics to mention specific clothing brands or ethical shops that sell the specific types of pieces that scream the aesthetic. Most of the time I can’t ever find localized areas to find things from the aesthetics I’m interested in…but I guess I’m a poor internet fashion sleuth
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for me it's just my time to be silly
I couldn't wear or show I liked certain things because of the fear of being bullied
I wasn't allowed to have everything of the stuff I wanted because "it's all junk" in my mom's eyes
I mainly just got dressed by my mom and sister and accepted that
but now? I can do whatever I want despite my anxiety, so yes I'm wearing my silly goofy things and having fun
it's my autism expression aswell, man I loooove collecting silly trinkets SO MUCH
Hell yeah, you can do whatever you want! I'm happy you finally get to express yourself, and I also love collecting silly trinkets I have like three different boxes with stuff I found
My said the exact same thing! “Why do you want more junk?”
I look at a trend like this and part of me would love to participate, but I have a gut feeling that it would be incredibly bad for me. The temptation to escape back to a simpler time has a powerful, vicious kind of nostalgia to it, a cozy and comforting cage to lock oneself in. I can only speak for myself, but I think the mentality of KidCore is best treated with some level of caution. It’s so, so easy to get stuck in the past.
Nick, you here
What are you doing here???
I love your fnaf vids btw :D
It's weird seeing my beloved creators on random videos like these lol
yeah i’ve been living in nostalgia over the past few years because i miss that part of my life so much. i genuinely hate my adult life and the world we’re currently living in, so nostalgia has become my comfort and escape. i often dream about waking up and it being 2003 again, and nothing bad has happened and i get a do-over. it’s hard. i’m autistic and i never got to become the cool adult i wanted to become because of mental health issues and being disabled. i like to remember the times when i was naive, happy, and hopeful. i haven’t felt that happiness in a very very long time.
I think the key is to enjoy the past while progressing your future. You can like kid things, read YA or kid oriented books, play cozy games, watch cartoons.
having "immature" hobbies is not something to be ashamed of if you still are furthering your education, building up your savings, looking for better jobs, exc.
I mean, when we were kids, the world 'felt' safe, the future looked bright and we had our whole lives ahead of us and abundant new experiences to look forward to.
Now we live in a world that very clearly isn't safe, a world that keeps telling us that the future is bleak unless we buy this product or vote for this person or click on this 'Scam Likely' linked website. And we're older, tired, overworked, overwhelmed and undervalued. We're staring down the barrel of our own mortality as people around us pass away, and knowing that we're next...
Is there any question of why people would want to escape that? To me, the insane reality that we live in currently is just as much of a cage as nostalgia is.
The more and more I actually TALK to people the more I learn how horrible my childhood was
and each revelation is more devastating than the last
Oh, do you mind sharing what happened?
@@fern35678 you and i are completely strangers to this person bro your curiosity doesn’t need to be satisfied
My childhood was terrifying. It's so much worse growing up disabled during late 90's and 2000's compared to now
@@colorbar.s I want to comfort them, okay? It’s not like I’m trying to start a fight over it.
@@colorbar.s na it's fine I don't mind talking Abt it
It's mostly just that I had to grow up so fast and the fact my mom (divorced) acts more like a friend who is mad and yells a lot and a little bit of neglect/abuse
Basically a combination of a lot of little bad things (and a lot of stuff I'm probably forgetting)
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I was an outcast as a child and grew up in low class. Kidcore makes me live and pretend that I was a middleclass child with everything I ever wanted guaranteed. As an adult now, kidcore gives me comfort and makes me wish my parents were there more as a kid. I genuinely don't remember my childhood because everyday was just me alone with nothing to look forward to.
You've just described my childhood 😭 day after day i was just sitting by myself on the sofa playing on a shitty tablet or the only game i owned on the wii again and again 💀
@@wondertyzipp8260 same :')
Same here. I feel like we're in opposite sides of the spectrum though, since this type of stuff really just reminds me of everything I never had as a kid. All the little things, all the _big_ things... and yet I still clicked and watched a 17 minute video about it, great decision Vee
Edit: Aw jeez this is bad for me I'm not reading any more comments
Bitch you didn't call all of us like that
@@wondertyzipp8260 Damn... Were lots of kids-from-my-generation lifes depressing? What? :'(
I would not be surprised at all if the increased awareness of voluntary and involuntary age regression runs parallel to the rise in this aesthetic.
That's an interesting thought, I personally didn't think about that, but it seems obvious now
its funny i used to regress, havent had a chance to really in a long time, but growing up without much and still not having a way to buy stuff cuz im disabled i was really offput by how much consumerism there was in the community and everyone is selling pacifiers lol, i just wanna hang watch calm cartoons like sarah and duck (had a friend i watched that with that was so nise) and vibe, also coloring and ,, uh brain is trying go regressy a bit just talking about it all LOL, basically lifes been fucked since i was 5 so i like to go back to my mental state at 4 just be okay
also being disabled, i feel often like a failed adult cuz i cant work, but kids aren't expected to so that makes me feel more like its okay that theres things i cant do, im just like this
This aesthetic has helped me embrace my voluntary age regression. As a person who experienced harassment on the daily as a child for who I was, Seeing others embrace their inner child and go back to things they loved as a kid and still do today has encouraged me to just... Let loose when needed most. That's the best way I can describe my experience as a voluntary age regressor. Out of all the coping mechanisms I have engaged in, kidcore is the safest and healthiest one.
Despite still cringing at myself for liking and engaging in certain things due to repressed trauma from being harassed and bullied, kidcore has given me the safety and comfort I deserve and need most. I'll forever be grateful for this trend, for encouraging me to be myself and not be ashamed of cuddling in bed with my various plushies of Pokemon, Miku, Splatoon, Rivals of Aether and even the Webkinz I have kept up to this day, engaging and purchasing plushies from indi-plush designers and making them a part of my little world, on top of playing with my Littlest Pet Shop collection every once in a while. :)
The internet and extended family f'ed up my childhood
Same here, except it wasn’t my extended family
I hope you’re doing better now compared to back then though
same!!!
I didn't need extended family!
My actual family f'ed up my childhood. That and having undiagnosed ADHD. The internet is my respite from the insanity this world tries to press on me.
@@themisfitowl2595 Same here. My family has, at least, change for the better, but it doesn't excuse all of the pain and suffering they've done to me. That, alongside getting myself constantly sick and hurt because I was a stupid kid who didn't know better.
I’m gonna bet that gen-a will end up like this too. With Covid they missed crucial development and time to make memories it’s very disappointing to see. :(
I’m a late gen z and I’m sorta ending up like this. Except I get made fun of for being “stuck in 2020” 😭
I think you’re exactly right. They’re experiencing their own form of premature growing up with how much the internet plays a part in their lives, and I bet they end up going through an aesthetic nostalgia for Covid-era styles like cottagecore or the gamer style
I really love kidcore. It just scratches an itch in my brain that craves neon eye bleed fashion and nostalgia
❤ I so agree!!!
As Gen Z, we were feeling like we missed out our teen years
Gen alpha is going to missed out their childhood experience…
as a gen a: canon
I missed out playing with my friends bc of covid, jumping on the trampolines (idk if i spelled that right) and stuff lolz
as a gen alpha, I can say that I didn't miss much of my childhood. I was already 8y when the quarantine started, but I still wanted to be able to experience the small part of my childhood that I lost... I think that children who are now 7/8 years old lost a big and important part of their childhood. not to mention how much the internet has ruined this generation...
@@ChaoticCrystalcavern how old are u?
@@atheriancalled.blueberrymuffin 10 rn covid started at 8 for me too
@@ChaoticCrystalcavern wait, what year were you born? i'm 12, how are u 10?
I think one aspect is that for some, it's also a form of age regression so they can sort of "relive" the childhood they always wanted but never had. A lot of young adults today, grew up in the 2008 housing crisis and they had poor childhoods, so they use this aesthetic now because it would've been fun or cool to have as a kid.
I have no problem with people indulging in this aesthetic as long as they're not infantilizing themselves
I found that kid core is incredibly comforting for me. I began developing severe depression when I was 13, and it got worse over the years. I am also autistic and many of my hyper fixations are seemingly "childish" to most people. I was bullied for liking things that were "childish" back in the day. Once I was settled in at university, I began taking medication to put my depression on hold, and I am doing better since making some friends. Now, I create art that is more nostalgic in nature, while giving a fresh take on style and aesthetic.
It was kinda surreal reading this as I have had almost the exact same experience (minus the uni and medication bit.) Thanks for making me feel so seen and related to!
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quite similar... needed over a decade to realise "people genuinely don't want to die most of the time?". battling the depression for over another decade now, clawing myself forward through the days, with medication not working escapism and therapy are my only way to manage it.
The fact that I, a 25 year old, took until 6 months ago to finally fully realize how awful my mother was and how much she screwed me up… yeah, screw it, I’m restoring my plushies collection she made me throw out at 10 and indulging in the more stupid anime and wearing the cute t shirts and I may or may not have gotten a legit job at a store I loved as a kid but was never allowed to buy from despite it literally being meant for kids (toys, accessories and kid-friendly make up kind of place).
My next purchases are gonna be another plush doll, some more clothes for both them and me, and glow in the dark nail polish.
That sounds awesome!
Also, some of the toys they make now are so incredibly cute, I wish I'd had them when I was a kid in the 90s! Squishmallow plushies? Glitter glue slime? ADHD friendly fidget toys? Yes please!
@@themisfitowl2595 we had a clearance sale at work to get rid of a bunch of back stock that was piling up, and I managed to snag like 7 of these little “bum bum” dudes so now there’s a carrot and a hippie van and a guitar and a couple other little fuzzy bean bag dudes sitting in my window sill, and I started making more fun stuff with my sewing machine and my yarn stash.
I’m at the point I shifted gears to making stuff for a Christmas pop up cuz I have WAAAAAAY too many crochet plushies and tote bags and stuff now lol
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my life is a mothman reference
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@ABoxOfCartonJuice it's a bot probably
@@ABoxOfCartonJuice what did they say?
I'm a millennial and I collect Bratz dolls, and pokemon plushes, as well as other items like N64 games and a tamagotchi so my generation can relate to this.
I like healing my inner child and going back to a more simple and happier time for me.
Same. Only instead of N64 it's PS1 and Gameboy/Gameboy Color/Gameboy Advance games.
What I'm getting from this is that our childhoods were built by massive corporations and their merchandise/franchises/marketing. The premise of reviving these machinations as a resistance to the current bleak, workaholic status quo, is an interesting one. My childhood was steeped in consumerism, but also defined by "free fun" because we were also poor. Because of this, I don't have much of an attachment to products from my childhood. I 'm more attached to the bogs and woods we played in because it was free and easier for my parents. I don't think an aesthetic could be made from those parts of childhood, because they are unique to everyone, simply by the massive variation of nature in the places we all live. No company can really package and sell something that has formed over millennia and will persist for many more-- e.g. some creek in a wood somewhere.
I'm from Asia so I can't relate to this wanting to go back specifically this is very usa centric and I don't blame youtuber but I don't think we should materlise our childhood bcs it's different experience and I live in a very community based society and not in a individualistic society and I just enter in my 20s still trying figure out a lot of things and also trying to find my style and I have multiple likings specifically in fashion I like the bts hobi hope world style but I also like bts suga style also
For me, Kidcore is comforting because it allows me to get in touch with my inner child and past self. When i was a kid, the world just felt so bright and beautiful, every day felt like an adventure. I miss the days when going to Toys R Us and picking out a new toy was a special reward for my good grades, or the scariest thing in my life was the latest goosebumps book i had read. Obviously it's not an excuse to completely ignore my real life adult responsibilities and the bigger issues going on in the world, but sometimes it makes me feel better to dress all in primary colors, color in a coloring book and watch spongebob.
when i hear you talk about how you could never wear this kind of bright clothing, that it scares you, my first thought is the sentence "do it scared" if you don't do stuff when you're scared of it there are so many great things you'll be missing out on, don't let your fear limit you c:
can't help myself but read your comment in the "oh you're depressed, have you tried not to?" way, just with crippling anxiety taking depression's place.
@@h.1699 excuse me?? first off this is about being scared to try new things, something literally everyone goes through at least once in their lives, how the hell did you get "crippling anxiety" from that? you're completely off topic.
second, as a depressed person myself i know from personal experience that it's not that easy, i would *never* tell anyone to just get over their condition. what i'm saying here isn't "just stop being scared" it's the *complete opposite*: "be scared and do it anyways", it's never going to be any less scary unless you actually do it, i know it sucks, i've done things while physically shaking from the fear, but it's either that or never doing anything and staying in my boring old comfort zone until the day i die. i'd rather brave my fears, i'm happier when i do.
I’m glad I’m hearing people share similar sentiments like this online. Growing up, I was never really able to express myself. This wasn’t born out of the fear of my friends possibly bullying me, but my parents. They’re good people, and I acknowledge that, but I realized that they would look down on me for liking “weird” things far too early in my life. The things I told them and the things I didn’t were drastically different from one another, and over time I think it gave everyone around me a false perception of who I truly was.
Ever since I moved out, I’ve felt a lot better about the space I live in. And even then, I’m not exactly well off in terms of money. I think I’m doing better now, I just have to regain some confidence.
Absolutely unrelated but your voice is a perfect mix of relaxing and ear-catching.
Thank you, that's very nice of you to say
hey what's the flag on the right of ur pfp ? /genq
@@LuNa_097 It's the lesbian flag :) The one on the left is genderfluid
@@Faceless_cyote ohh it's usually a different shade so I didn't recognise it, thx for answering
@@LuNa_097yeah there are multiple interpretations of the lesbian flag!
I've been indulging in weirdcore games that have kidcore elements and it is really stimulating and calming for me, as I needed an escape due to mental disorder stuff I'm going through and was going through along with a hard part of my life taking up a lot of my happiness. I thought it was weird but it's nice knowing there's others liking kidcore and it eases the anxiety I have around it.
I want to hear about these weirdcore games.
@@wolfeproctersame, please share, OP!
I was in my early teens in the beginning of 2020, I turned 18 last year. I'd never say this out loud to my parents but, of course I'm still somewhat childish, I didn't have "normal teenage years" I was stuck inside. Plus, I didn't have wide access to the internet until 8th grade as that's when I transitioned from homeschool to a private school that gave us tablets. Plus I overall has a more isolated childhood. In short I was "innocent" for longer. Dreamcore and Kidcore are two of my favorite aesthetics due to escapism, I like to roleplay with friends and AI as someone else, heck I have an entire daydream story reality thing that's been going on sense 8th grade! So yeah, sorry about the rant, rant over
Roleplay is so fun! I love roleplaying as the characters i create
The pandemic happened when I was in middle school and blended into the start of my high school years, and then I got bullied into leaving school all together and getting my GED, I got cheated out of my childhood and my teen years. I’m so scared to be an adult and I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to afford a place to have a family in the future. I Miss being a kid, when I thought we were just going to be out two weeks, not two years..
Have you ever tried therapy, mate?
GET. THIS. PERSON. MORE. SUBS.
I’m very glad you made this video because I always thought there was something off about Kidcore. How come it struck up in 2020, why is it so nostalgia related? When it became popular I myself joined the trend but now looking back on it, I think I was doing it because of my trauma from quarantine and health related issues. I was shut off from the world and never wanted to play with my toys anymore because of my depression. Not to mention the disorder I was diagnosed with, it made me feel not like a kid and a weirdo (precocious puberty disorder). So I thank you for your effort to make this video and open my mind:)
Oof I also had my parents donate toys without asking. As silly as it sounds to ppl, yeah, those were my babies and just ripping away things I loved without letting me have any decision in it actually crushed me as a person and quite frankly? It's led to some lowkey hoarding type behavior from me. Mine were plushies. I had BAGS and BAGS of plushies donated. These were plushies that my parents played with, with me, up until they got donated. Plushies I thought they loved too, now turned into a punishment because I struggled (and still do) keeping my room clean. (I'm also neurodivergent and my mom MADE THE CHOICE to ignore specialists so there's also that lmao!! She refused to get me help I clearly needed and instead just blamed me for not doing things well enough....smh boomer parents....) Now I'm 21 and my closet is stuffed with plushies. I've got SIX plushie nets absolutely full....etc. Kidcore is great but it can be a vast rabbit hole of trauma and nostalgia, too.
You're literally just like me. But I'm still young and going through this. How did you make it through? If you're comfortable with me asking. Like, how did you work through it because I have no idea what I'm doing. Thanks! Sorry if it's random
Yeah... And, you know? As an autistic man myself, I say: F&$# YOUR MOM!!!
Ew, no offense, but your parents don't sound all that great. What kind of plushies do you have?
@@peachpopsicle4090 Oh yeah 100% it was a messed up thing they did smh. They haven't done it again since the second time when I was a kid. My mom, now that I'm an adult, has realized they shouldn't have done it💀Now, I have a loooot of different plushies! Squishmallows, squishables, a FEW jellycats, animal republic, etc etc. I also have a net dedicated to plushies I get at the aquarium. It's filled with mostly sharks lol. My remaining childhood plushies also chill in my closet or the nets
I'd also like to add, to the whole pandemic thing, there were countless memes going around at the time that described how the isolation wasn't new to them, so I imagine that for many zoomers, the reality of isolation extends far beyond the pandemic and will probably be significantly more impactful as time goes on
Ever since I moved out at the age of 25 and finally had the freedom to express myself, I noticed I started to lean into kidcore without noticing it.
Fun colours, comfy clothes that scream DIY, cute things, the possibility to dress up everyday however I want has been soo healing to me. Not sticking to a specific style.
There wasn't much money in our family so the toys, games and clothes I had were sparce. Hence it's a nice feeling to be able to acquire stuff that I would have liked to play with or decorate my room/myself with. You don't even need to buy much - you're free to diy and sometimes people even gift their old toys and items for free or low money, to pass on the joy to someone else.
Kidcore helps me to figure out my personality and core traits (which is not easy if you have been surpressing it your whole life due to abuse). What laid the foundations of "me"? Kidcore helps me to explore. And I'm really excited where it will lead me in the future, as nothing is permanent and I will grow.
Most importantly, as an autistic ADHD person it's also very visually stimmy and serotonin-boosting to look at myself haha!
There’s a book that I’ve really started to like and want to get one day
it’s a children’s book and it’s called the little prince and this video reminded me of that book especially when you started talking about being modern and needing jobs and such, like growing up feels like your forgetting to be a child and to enjoy things and such or something
I dunno what else to say since I’m not too good with words and Ive never commented on a vid before so I’ll just end this off now
Great video as well you got a new sub!
i love the little prince! i havent seen that name in years, and it just makes me smile to see someone enjoy it :] Also yeah, the vibe is really the same, with the growing up and forgetting to be a child.
absolute masterpiece video! Could you do videos for aesthetics like Weirdcore or Dreamcore? Or maybe Scene kid or Clowncore? I’d really love to see it bc im a weirdcorist/scene kid myself! Keep up the good work.
Thank you! I already have a mostly edited video on Wierdcore! it will peobably be out next month :D
hello fellow Weirdcorist!
@@goobertime2119 heya!
kidcore is my favorite aesthetic, it's the aesthetic that i wear online. it's an aesthetic that speaks to me because I've been told that i still have that "child like wonder" even as an adult
Hold on…that music 0:01 My Sims from the DS?
I think it is, I definitely remember that track from there
Ahh i forgot that game! Such a nice throwback
man for a while i thought i was listening to someone with like at least 1k subs. i usually catch videos like after they already blow up some.
anyway as someone who's experienced anxiety since it was accidentally ingrained into me as a baby/toddler by my older sister (bless her heart she was just worried i'd uhm. fall on my head or something, which was a reasonable concern. especially after i fell on my head), kidcore is definitely up there on my aesthetics list. although i'm more for weirdcore, there's plenty of overlap. plus weirdcore playlists are SO repetitive. like find new material yeesh (silly). i couldn't even tell you why i like it, but i *can* tell you that i practiced a LOT of escapism during and after the pandemic. particularly with like character ai. i used it in replacement for therapy (if you find the right bot of your comfort character it can work WONDERS). since i didn't have a therapist at the time and i didn't have anyone to talk to about my issues. haven't used it in a long while though (especially after learning how bad ai is for the environment like WHOO boy). i feel off topic but escapism was very important for getting me through highschool. idk what i would've done like without it.
hope this wasn't like too much to say or anything, i kinda wanted to delete it partway through but i know comments help boost engagement and i wanted to be nice :)
It feels good to have a reminder from time to time that me being anxious and stressed over the future has a bigger cause, and it's not just me being lazy and not wanting to do anything
Its true. As much as i want to laugh about it its true, for the first part i was happy the nostaga (especialy the lisa frank stickers!)
From ages 8-10 i had crippling depression and would cut often i eventually was put in a mental hospital. And after therapy. I was 9 . I’m not faking it and so many people have the nerve to ask why i have scars. Thanks for sheding light on this! I am doing better now.
Sorry if I'm being invasive, but... How was the experience of being in a mental hospital, mate?
@@jmrabinez9254It was scary. I was surrounded by people who were very different from me.
We had to do group therapy every morning and it was terrible. Watching others struggle with breakdowns was common. (They would stick a needle in ur but if you resisted help) The people that worked there never showed any compassion to us. I had to take meds everyday too. It was not that great
It gives of the vibes of playing in my childhood playroom (which in reality was a walk-in closet my parents made into a playroom),playing pretend with my mini china tea set and my plushies,removing the wigs on my dolls,and pretending to be a mom to babydolls.I miss those days,when I still had a pure mind,and my relationship with my parents and siblings wasn’t slowly crumbling.
You should do a video on Metalheart next, it’s an aesthetic that’s a polar opposite to kidcore, using chrome, blues, and dystopian ideas of architecture and designs
I'll check it out!
If i defined my youngest childhood memories in an aesthetic it would probably be grunge
I’ve been into the kidcore aesthetic to help heal my inner child and cope with my childhood trauma
Kidcore is my autistic self feeling free - no parents forcing me to be "normal".
I imagine every person who watches the video would probably have their own interpretation that I think is equally valid, here are my two cents. For me I think that with gen z's kid core or obsession with 80's/90's aesthetics especially when it comes to childhood content is that Gen Z has largely grown up without money. We perceive the Millenials as a group that grew up in a time where parents weren't struggling as much as when we were growing up, when kids could be afforded presents and vacation, adventure and lots of cool stuff, whereas we grew up relatively devoid of those things. Not to say this is a 100% accurate representation of reality but rather I think is a common belief amongst us. We look back at Millenial stuff and the perceived abundance and wish that we had those things. I imagine a shared experience we have all had as Gen Z is food insecurity. I experienced it, and I have a feeling many of the rest of you have also. My family didn't have money for cool things, the dollar store is where we got our birthday presents, and we were allowed only a one to few items. Other than that handmedown toys were what we had available which may also contribute to the 80s/90s aesthetic due to many handmedown toys being a decade or two old. Ultimately the millenials had the boomers as their parents, and the boomers had money, gen z had gen x as parents, and gen x didn't have as much money. I want to state that this isn't meant to be a gen z vs millenials war thingy, so I'll state that since our childhoods, neither of us have any fucking money 💀. Gen Z and Millenials are in the same boat economically. Both of us have entered the workforce during shitty times and things are only getting shittier. If anything gen Z and Millenials should be bound in siblinghood by our shared economic issues, not separated by who our parents are or what the economy was like when we were kids 💀. But anyways, to end this off, Gen Z sees itself as struggling, and yearns for an escape from that. It looks at what seems like a time when kids were allowed to have fun (rather than being pressured to perform at a very young age by our rightfully worried parents) and uses the visual aesthetics from that time as a comfort and a sort of vicarious reliving of childhood through a lens of fiction. That's just my opinion though.
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not unwavering heart!
that song brings back so many memories
great art btw!
Kidcore is my comfort, “my safe place” if you will, having seeing other kids in their childhood made me reflect on how “miserable”mine was having to become a teen mid-pandemic and focusing on being the best in class to the point that I have lost half of my time already, seeing the rise of Therians and the way they get to play with masks and tails which I KNOW was my childhood dream (not to crawl around but to jst have a tail and mask) as I am already a teen I can’t help wanting to go back, my little siblings going into play-zones which are age rated from 3 to 10 not leaving even 11 nor 12 year olds enjoy their youth, that’s sad, it rlly is, my childhood was fun, it wasn’t only hard work on a paper, I would go on walks to the park,play make believe, it’s sad to watch it all fade away, but a moment back, a moment to enjoy, to reflect, re-experience is really what we both teens and adults need, a time for simple joy that doesn’t have to be earned…
4:41 HOLY GUACAMOLE IS THAT THE SAILOR CAT SOUNDTRACK??!!1!1 :O
MAN AS SOON AS I HEARD THE MYSIMS MUSIC I SUBBED!! you're so underrated!
i love kidcore so much and colour blocking! I've been into it since about 2017ish? I found out about it whilst looking through tags on tumblr. I feel like part of kidcore is inspired and has overlaps with japanese fashion subcultures like decora kei, party kei and fairy kei. As for music, the subgenre Kawaii Future Bass feels very kidcore to me and the artist Wave Racer, especially their Flash Drive EP.
As a kidcore and clowncore person here, i absolutely love how you included what the fashion is and DECORA! Your art is amazing and you deserve more love ❣
Also with the mental heath area, not many people realize anything coming from a person with a fun colorful aesthetic, however thats not always the case.
YOU SERIOUSLY NEED MORE POPULARITY
thank you! It was very important to me to represent the community well, so I'm really happy you enjoyed the video ^^
7:24 14 year old hear and I LOVE JACK STAUBUR AND LEMON DEMON!!! they aren't really label'd as kidcord i'd say but the music is so cool
When i was 14 (maybe 13-15?) i also loved lemon demon 😂 perhaps its some kind of 14 year old affliction?
God! The contrast of the psychological/ economic analysis and the beautiful artwork is such a perfect/terrifying and effective mix. This video hits so much harder because of it. Incredible. Made me stop in my tracks, which is something that I have not come across on UA-cam for years. So well done. Thank you. More of this please!
thank you for your sweet comment, I am so glad you were moved by my work
Stuff like kidcore never sat right with me / has never been something I can comfortably participate in, because I very clearly remember how disempowering being a child was. I had a good childhood as childhoods go, but false ideas of both it and children themselves often fallback on the myth that children cannot think for themselves and other weird carecateurs of childhood innocence. Taxes aside, life is so much better for me as an adult.
I really like this idea for a series. I never knew the history that could be behind an aesthetic, it's really interesting to learn about.
Remember that the childlike wonder of back then was us discovering the world and new things. You can't buy nostalgia unfortunately.
The best way I saw this summarized was “adults with adult money looking to reclaim their childhoods” and that’s the most accurate way I perceive it. I was kid core before I knew what kid core was, and boy has it been freeing. Now that I work with kids it’s even better!
This is such a great video. I found out about kidcore due to it's large overlap with clowncore. I loved hearing and learning more about it. Also, your art is so fun :D
Thank you! Clowncore is very interesting to me, it seems like a lot fo fun
THE MYSIMS MUSIC OMG
I was forced to grow up fast, with my parents having two different religious beliefs. I was stressed 247
While I know you're directing at Gen Z's experiences, it's important to remember, kidcore is also something that many millennials have been dabbling in as well as they also had some very broken, very messy childhoods. I'm one of those Millennials/Gen Y. I found immense comfort in collecting Transformers figures and collecting old gameboy games that I actually play still, and...well, it's been very healing for my inner child to be able to fiddle with the Transformers I was never allowed to have as a kid.
I really enjoyed this, I’d love to see more deep dives on all the cores and stuff, because I’d like to say I love those but I’m scared of getting a major crucial detail wrong about it 😅
Wow that’s a good video. I’m personally not one for having a specific aesthetic (If wearing cozy clothes is an aesthetic then I rock it everyday lol. Also why is aesthetic so hard to spell?) and this one sounds very interesting. If I wasn’t an anxious wreck, I’d probably wear kidcore stuff from time to time.
Also I subscribed
I was born in 06 and so I will be 18 next month and I love kid core because it helps me escape childhood trauma….
I was also born 06!!
This is the first video of yours I’ve seen, and I instantly subscribed!
I hope you get more recognition!!! Your art is incredible.
Thank you so much for the sweet comment, I hope you enjoy my future videos!
That mysims music at the start felt like a mental gut punch
5:53 the struggles with perspective are so real
(Also this channel is super underrated !!)
I love your videos! Even though this is only your third video, it has really great quality! You’re gonna make it big one day. New sub! (I watched all of them in one sitting)
thank you, it makes me happy to create stuff people actually like
Born in 99, moved a bunch when I was younger, mom died at 14. Etc. nowadays I find myself attracted to this aesthetic but I also do a bunch of urban exploring and abandoned schools, amusement parks, daycares, Overgrown playgrounds. Always get that feeling in me. Not that I’m specifically targeting these places. I’ve been in hundreds of abandoned houses. Just those particular places stick with me like a rot I can’t escape...
Also I’d like you to know I only live an hour outside Pt.Pleasant WV. The TNT bunkers are a regular haunt of mine.
It's funny when this video poped up for me with the fact that I wore a rainbow themed overall and mario star socks (yes, the overall is for kids but I'm small enough to fit me)
I remember as a kid, I would sit in my room a lot playing with LPS. I would turn on my radio and listen to 99.7 the point. Glitter and cute drawings were everywhere.
When I was ten, I threw out a lot of my toys. I was lonely and I thought it was because I was too childish to the other kids. I planned to make my room gray, white, and purple. I wanted to have a clean and simple look like the world. I started dressing like that too.
Then, covid hit. My anxiety got to the point of my family looking into diagnosis. I isolated myself even when the bulk of isolation was over.
When I tried going back out into socializing, I dressed preppy and tried to do trends. I didn’t understand why that didn’t make me automatically not lonely.
Now, I’m way happier. I’m surrounded by neons, I got new LPS, I have friends because I found my community, and I have given myself the childish things as an F U to the world that puts all the things I felt miserable trying to become on a pedestal.
No scrunchies, no clothes, no slag terms get you friends. In order to find your friends, you need to talk to them. Follow what you love and friends will find you and love you for you.
PS: I am Gen Z.
Diving into the events of my childhood with my wife has giving me a lot of perspective on how screwed up my childhood really was. It’s definitely helped explain *why* I go into my little space with her. I never really considered why I go into little space, but now I realize how much of it is rooted into the trauma of my childhood. I realize how much I missed, how much little me suffered, how much it still messes with me today.
I’ve never been more surprised of a view count, you deserve so much more views and likes!
Just started the video, but I immediately love it simply for the fact that you’re using music from My Sims!! Love that game so much
your video is chill and well written, teaches me some odd/neat culture thing, and your voice is pleasant. perfect video for me to passively listen to while I do things.
I thought the room was going to be a mental hospital room lol
There is one Aesthetic I've been fighting for to exist and its like a mix smash of Kidcore and i guess Supercore??? i want to see people dressed like superhero's! in every way possible BUT specifically as a massive fan of robin i have a big attachment to child geared content, so the concept of Kidcore mixed with the garish colours of superhero's and Robin specifically would be a dream come true. In general I want to see super fashion but god damn give me some hyper childified robin based outfits PLEASE.
Growing up, i was very much pushed to try to be as mature as I could. My hair was styled and gelled, my clothes were polos and slacks, and I went to school with a rollar case instead of a cool cartoon backpack.
I was urged to study at home, bullied and belittled by other students and teachers at school, and the next thing I knew i graduated feeling like I haven't really had a childhood. I never really got to "play" because all the other kids hated me for reasons I still am trying to figure out. It was all stress and grades and being made to grow up as quickly as possible.
Its only now that I realize I wasn't being "Immature" as i have been told and punished for being. I was acting the age that I was. They got their "Mature old soul" of a well behaved and intelligent child, and I now walk past the toy section at the supermarket staring at the action figures and feeling embarrassed and ashamed that i actually want to buy one and play with it...
RAHHH!!!!! YOU DESERVE SO MUCH MORE RECOGNITION FOR YOUR ART ❤❤❤❤❤
thank youuuuuu!
Ehhhh my childhood was decent-ish?
I don’t revolve my entire being around a single aesthetic, but I think it’s mostly trying to maintain the sense of wonder towards life.
Especially in terms of character designing here at least, I don’t got the funds to get anymore stuff myself lmao
But I can at least throw the colorful jacket onto a character though lol
woah this video was really really good!! I loved the music choice, editing style, and art and everything, and you said a lot of important stuff that really resonated with me as a part of gen-z haha. I’m surprised more people haven’t found your videos, they’re amazing, wow! I’ll definitely be back for more of this series and beyond that :D Hope you’re taking care and doing well btw c:
thank you so much for your sweet comment!
Would love to see one of these on the weird/dreamcore, I had my finals (8th grade Italy’s exam) this year and I did it on liminal spaces lol.
Would love too see how you explain those
A video on wierdcore will be out next month^^
I've never thought of my "aesthetic" as kid core but looking at my bedroom which is full of fairy lights and posters from games I played as a kid, my game shelf is packed with Pokemon and Spyro merch and my clothing style ranges from alternative to bright Pokemon clothes from blackmilk.
Nostalgia makes me happy. It got me through isolation on the other end of the country to my friends in an abusive relationship, it got me through losing all of my friends who helped me through that breakup at the hands of a jealous person who couldn't bear to "share" my friends when they joined the group and it still helps me to this day on those bad weeks where I'm in too much pain to move or I'm around big enough PTSD triggers to also trigger psychosis. It brings me back to the days in my early childhood where my dad, brother and I were happy and played on the PS1 and GameCube together and mum would spend her days off work knitting while I'm playing Pokemon next to her when I give up on knitting.
i have a funky little combo of idk what to call it and kidcore, the idkwhat to call it has ties to a lot of alt fashions, being mostly light Halloween decor, cargo pants, and grunge-ish styling. it has a lot of similarity to Voidpunk. (v long post, lots of personal story pieces)
i get the kidcore part because my childhood was quite lonely. emotionally, I grew up in south-side Chicago. i hadn't turned ten yet when I moved states. but I lived in this little one-block island of relative safety on the south side. but I went to school on the UChicago campus, so none of my friends were nearby. I had gone to any friend's house four times, each time a different friend, and three of them being for birthdays. my parent always made sure we(my younger sibling and I) weren't physically alone, but emotionally, it was kinda just us and characters we made up or encountered in media. it didn't help that we each only got one hour on electronics. because it was Chicago, the weather was always either too hot to be in the back yard(which was literally just a large deck) or it was too cold. we had to rely on almost only our imaginations with little for inspiration. so, in a way, I didn't really get to be a kid very much. that's why I say I emotionally grew up there. because I kinda ran out of ways to be a kid. so I grew up. now, I have access to things I didn't as a kid, and I miss the small joys. i try to make up for lost childhood, but I know I can't gat it back.
the grunge-ish also kinda comes from my limited childhood. i didn't really get to see much of the night time, since we were in a kinda dangerous area and my bedroom window faced the neighbor's wall. a couple years after I moved, I had access to a computer because of school, and I found those "skating at night" playlists. that kinda started my finding of this part of my style. i cycled through a pretty good sized mix of different alt styles, but only part way, since I was still a little comfortable in my not-quite-kidcore outfitting, despite my sibling's light ridicule of my "childishness". i eventually found my current style, and I'm happy with it. i have to carry umbrellas with my in the summer because it's too warm for hoodies and I cant stand sunlight on my skin, but summer is when I dress more kidcore and once it cools off I dress more alt.
As a gen Z, I wish I was kid in the. 90s-2000s like we weren’t corrupt by the internet and kids actually wanted to play outside and interact and have actual fun, not having to be called cringe because your doing what you like or get cyber bullied because people are brainwashed by the toxic influencers who incourage bad behavior and such, not sit on the iPad, or watch tv all day. I’m disappointed I’m always on my phone but the internet is just like a addiction that you really can’t escape because it’s become so relevant and important you can’t part with it.
Aesthetics are so interesting to me and your art style is incredible
How are you not more popular?? This is so well edited! Subbed :)
Going over different aesthetics is a sick idea. I personally love synth/vapor/glowwave. It invokes a feeling of nostalgia for something I never experienced and likely never happened. Also btw, your voice is so nice to listen to!!
thank you! And i'll check them out ^^
I completely adore the art you made through the video ❤ Its sad aesthetic, which probably the least obvious thing about it.
THAT MYSIMS SOUNDTRACK BROUGHT ME BACK-
wonderfully made! so thoughtful, such a calming voice
kidcore to me is about givin ur inner child wut u never got. i was forced to mature quickly, i almost never got the toys that i wanted. be it bc my family is poor, or bc my mom spent alotve money on all of my younger siblings over me. i often got 1 present(not includin clothes) durin christmas whilst my younger siblings got all these expensive toys that they didnt even ask for and broke after a week, maybe a month. my most expensive present was a $200-$300 violin when i was 10 that ended up stolen by the time i was 12 that was far too small for me, but i loved it bc it was smth that i actually wanted and finally got. the next expensive item i got was a pair of beat headphones i got from my step gpa, in which my youngest brother stole and took apart and didnt even get in trouble for it. any other toys i got as a kid only lasted a yr in my care before they were either broken, torn, thrown out bc i was "too old"(i dont think an 8 yr old is too old for dolls tbh), or given to my younger siblings bc i "didnt need them anymore". i hardly asked for anything, if it wasnt deemed a necessity then i never got it or got a cheep knockoff version of it(only exception was when i asked for a drawing tablet, i even said i could wait til my bday and that id get a job to help pay for it and a computer. . . i got a cheap drawin kit that my siblings ruined the next day. the paint was empty and all over the floor, the pastels where broken and missed in w some of the paint, the color pencils missing, and all but one of the sketch pencils were gone. just a stack of papers and a sketch pencil. i got told to suck it up and that i shouldve hid it better.) any books that i had in elementary and middle school got drawn on, even the library books, to the point were i could no longer read them and had to throw out the ones i owned/were gifted. when i intereacted w the kidcore aesthetic its to heal the inner kid in me, to give that child happiness that i hardy got growin up, to allow myself to be a kid again and only a kid instead of a 3rd parent
It's the first video of yours I have ever watched but I really like it and I want, no I need to watch more of them. You're doing such a great job and please continue it!
also sorry for the mistakes, I'm not a native speaker
When I was 5 My dad watched a documentary about moth man with me I got traumatized couldn’t sleep alone or go anywhere alone anymore 😭
I love the art you did in the video! Perspectives like that terrify me but you did it so well! And the way you talked about kidcore was really in depth, it was fun to take a bigger step into the kidcore world through your explanation, especially from the more weirdcore side I sit on.
Edit: posted before I got to the outro, this latter half is a redundant suggestion now lol
And I definitely recommend a deep dive into weirdcore and dreamcore next, given that you brought up dreamcore already. They both have some crossover with kidcore, and lend themselves to the idea of nostalgia and a longing for the past in a more dark/unnerving manner, and I think it’d be a fun next topic if these deep dives are a “series” of sorts you’re starting. Definitely subbing for future videos like these ❤
I may never participate in anything kidcore-related because of bad experiences I had with some people on Discord who were active participants in it, but I'm glad this video helped me understand more about the reason some people love it. Nostalgia's one hell of a painkiller and I have my own way of achieving it; I'm gonna be an adult soon and though I am scared, I know there are gonna be people for me and I'm hoping other people in a similar situation can find the help they need too
this is perfect, I’m Gen z and I have repeatedly come back to this aesthetic to avoid SH. COVID hit me rather hard due to neurodivergence and complete isolation (my family doesn’t like me and I don’t like them so I rarely said a word to anyone other than at dinner or in passing. I developed a stutter, inability to articulate without rehearsal, and a lisp due to tongue swelling (I tense my jaw so much it swells). I did spend a lot of my time in lockdown digging into my own trauma and understanding myself and which involved a lot of kid core and age regression to cope. There’s something about drinking chocolate milk out of a brightly colored cup and wearing gummy bear earrings while you paint to your hearts content
i really appreciate the positive perspective.
firstly i'm so sorry i basically wrote you a first draft essay, but i'm leaving it here for either you to read or not, but i feel amazing about being able to interact with a perspective that i agree with and have further notes i can add onto
I'm kinda kid core more colourful academia/70's 80's pastel, less of going for a particular aesthetic, just the stuff that makes me comfortable and happy and show the bright on the outside so even on a dark day i still have things that make me feel like the me i like being. i have too many plushies, and i've recently gotten into sylavanian families, as they fit perfectly in the mini rooms that you make from rolife. but my favourite styles are the kid core/clown core. and irregardless of that i love anyone wearing something colourful, or even if in dark tones something different. it makes me so sad, that in this time and age, we have access to all the colours imaginable, and can have them in our clothes our hair our makeup, walls, pictures, everything, why do so many people limit themselves to the same small range. and on top of that so many different cuts and styles, i completley understand not being able to put a look together, and some colours if not done right can be garish (though i love people who just absorb themselves in the garish, it is such a confidence booster being confident about what you love and seeing outhers do so) but there's so many resources to help you now. like yes you cant fully trust a store assitant, their main job is selling you something, and maybe they may not be great at putting outfits together themselves, but theres the internet, and friends and even people you can pay if its affordable and a worth while budgetary expence. and this day and age its hard to find something simple that isnt different, (realising going off a female clothing perspective on all of this, and forgetting that mens clothing is limited to store basis and then even more societal issues causing a lot of sis men to feel as though they arent even allowed to express themselves if it isn't considered somewhat societally acceptable, like the normal men's jeans and shirt or the rebellious gamer punk style of print tea with dark overtones. and that colour and style is not seen regularly enough in men's fashion, ecspecially in the 2000's to late 2010's, i'm extreml;y greatful for the genderneutral movement on clothing leaning more for male perspectives now, as it has for quite a while for women (even though i'm still scared to shop in mens section as a genderfluid person, even though being in there feels like home to me). now i got distracted by my cats so it kind of reminded me to get back to my point. i wear colour cause it makes me happy, i used to want to be wearing goth as a teenager (couldn't cause of cost and the school i went to couldn't have unatural hair) and blue and black hair, but during that time i was on a train of severe severe depression from a lifetime of chronic, during that time dark things were the things that comforted me, made the world feel less dark, but in my late teens i started getting interested in pastels (that change literally felt like my first bi panic (pansexual now) that's how confronting that change was for me) but at the same time i was getting myself better mentally, and when i wore pastels i felt i had something soft and colourful to look at, and i started finding a style, i didn't wear the types of clothes i did at 13 which was nerd/vintage/boho, all in navy or black. i felt bouncy again, alive again, and even with my mental health being on and off debilitating, i still look back on photos of me with my light clothes and pink hair, and even if i was walking with a cane or was depressed and isolating myself, i liked how i looked, i liked me, i wanted to be kind more often i wanted to be happy and not sad, i wanted to put the hard work in. and life keeps changing life is fluid, I'll back track I'll fall into bad cracks, but i also keeps persevering and pushing to be better to enjoy life for me. I've had blue hair and natural dark brunnete for the last 6 months, and i think i've taken a photo of myself like 3 seperate occasions, my blond maybe once a month, weather i'm happy or sad. i litterally have a terrible bleach job cause i only had 1 bottle and needed 3 1/2, but thanks to a friend saying it looks different and cool (note sis guy, no particular interest in fashion) i'm sticking with it a bit, cause even just a bit of lighter hair i feel like me. i feel happier, i want to go do things again, i want to be bright and vibrant. and thats because i'm exprecing me on the outside, making moves to look how i want on the outside so i can be more of that on the inside. theres 2 points to the way we dress on character. 1 is we dress for the enviroment, it's why we wear unforms in school or jobs, we wear proffesional in a proffesional enviroment to encapsulate the character required for that space. at home lazy wear for lowkey days and causual for getting things done, nice for either us or something nice happening. 2nd point, how we dress can make a big impact on how we feel about ourselves. i read a post of a someone advised by their counselor that even on bad days if you dress the way you want you'll feel better in yourself, so this person switched from wearing meh gross lazy worn out sweats and stuff they dind't find that was them, and felt more like them, even on days were they had nothing in them, they were probably going to spend the whole day in bed, they'd get changed into laid back clothes, but stuff that was in their colour, and wasnt particularily worn out. they werent dressed anything special, not outside clothes, but cause it was more to their style and tastes, just that change alone made them feel so much better in themselves.
i'm gonna leave it at that and if i have more i'll add on in the comments, again sorry but i had fun and a hyperfocus, so thankyou i enjoyed being able to delve in a topic
This is something I understand even though I'm the wrong age for it. In college I wore cartoon shirts and mismatching colors to emphasize being the youngest in my class. Working in children's TV or the like was something I considered but it never worked out for me.
Hey!! I'm back again, haha!! This video was great, I loved it! You're seriously doing so great and I can't wait to see how far you get with this (hopefully really, really far!
Hi Gilly, I'm always so happy to see your comments! Thank you for being so supportive and I'm also excited about the future
@@juno_moth I'm always happy to see your videos!! I can't wait to see how far you go xx
Listen, i dont know who you are or how you randomly showed up this suddenly, but im here for it.
lmao thanks
The only thing I have to say about kid core is a lot of people confuse with Decora Kei or decora fashion. Which is a Japanese street fashion that’s been around for almost 3 decades. As much as I respect kid core, it’s really annoying when I am wearing Decora fashion and then people think I’m wearing kid core or even on an Instagram post, I posted a Decora look on International Decora day, and it said it in the description people are still complementing my kid core look. Kid core and Decora have similar elements. The difference is decora is about wearing a ton of accessories and doesn’t have to match with like childish or primary colors. You can wear all one color or all black Decora. This feels like a problem with a lot of the newest aesthetics where people are giving, you names to them to already existing fashions. Like I’ve seen a Kawaii core/cute core mood board, where it was a mixture of multiple different J fashions, which are all very cute, but all are very different. Like Gyaru and lolita fashion, are not the same thing. And it’s weird to see them put in the same mood board for an aesthetic.
Honestly I’ve always wanted videos that talk about specific aesthetics to mention specific clothing brands or ethical shops that sell the specific types of pieces that scream the aesthetic. Most of the time I can’t ever find localized areas to find things from the aesthetics I’m interested in…but I guess I’m a poor internet fashion sleuth
your voice is so calming
This is a very interesting video! Also your draw is ✨beautifull✨
Hope the channel keeps growing, even if it doesn’t I’m in!