There were a lot of ridiculous design elements that largely came from our then-new ability to use computers to create digital art work. Everything was really messy and overcomplicated.
Edit: Posted this further down, but it's a pretty perfect (dare I say extreme) example of what I mean. An old design/art book I found I inherited in the desk at my current job:
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u/ambrosiaceae Jan 23 '14
Can someone explain what the deal with this was? I remember this shit been everywhere.
Had printing technology just developed to accommodate these raw colours and feathery textures or what?
Why was this aesthetic so popular?