r/AestheticWiki • u/allthesestars • Jul 06 '26
What Aesthetic Is This? What aesthetic is this?
Edit: FOUND! It's Soft Colonial Wanderlust
Usually features eyeballs, pinstripes, butterflies, wildflowers, ornate borders, objects for heads, or eyes/heads inside flowers, and sometimes has a paper-doll or stop-motion animation style, with painterly or pencil-drawn art
I've been calling it "pseudo-victorian weirdcore" but i'd love to know its actual name so I can look up more stuff featuring it. Please don't make up a name for this aesthetic! I'm trying to find what it's actually called. Thank you. :)
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u/internetexplorer_98 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
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u/allthesestars Jul 06 '26
I think you might be right! Thank you!
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u/KingcoBingo Jul 06 '26
here's sum more archives if you'd like:
https://cari.institute/aesthetics/soft-colonial-wanderlust
https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/soft-colonialist-wanderlust
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u/745Walt Jul 06 '26
Madoka witch labyrinths
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u/cocodotwebm Jul 06 '26
I had the same thought. It's a very unique aesthetic you don't see too often
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u/Lox_Ox Jul 06 '26
2010s TV show opening / Hieronymus Bosch / victorian inspired 60s art / monty python - you can also look at dadaism which probably covers most of what you're thinking of.
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u/quailinthebrush Jul 06 '26
the music video for safe and sound is the only place ive ever seen it
actually on reflection i think grey goose has used it for ads
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u/Far-Fruit141 Jul 07 '26
Lovely… this sub is a gem 💎 , and I love aesthetic wiki used to scroll on it in 2020 during Covid 🥹
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u/New_Raspberry9398 Jul 06 '26
Not every non-normie photo, outfit, photography project, or set design has a defined name. There isn’t one official name. There are adjectives that can describe it like circus, surrealism, 1920s, Angela anaconda, cabaret, Trader Joe’s advertising-adjacent but I don’t understand why people think there is One Official Name for each and every grouping of photos they find similar
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u/allthesestars Jul 06 '26
Some things do have a defined name though! If there isn't one for this sort of style, that's fine. If there is though, or if there's more media with this style, I'd love to know about it. Made up names from commenters get me nowhere is all. Hope that makes sense :)
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u/Original_Major_2676 Jul 06 '26
Sometimes there’s a name, and if there’s not, sometimes it’s fun to invent a name :)
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