i dress decora kei and EVERYTIME i step out of the house i get comments like "ur like if 2020 was a person". I will never forgive 2020 for the bastardization of harajuku fashions💔💔
I'm not decora, but I am scene. Similarly, I will never forgive TikTok for making scenecore a thing. Because of the fact that scenecore was created, so many people mix up the scene subculture and scenecore to this day.
I unintentionally filmed the last ever normal day before lockdown. I was having fun with one of my friends, going shopping and having her over with my family for sushi. We sang show tunes and laughed. We didn't know yet how bad everything was about to get. It is one of my proudest videos.
Like, it's crazy to me how I was just living life normally (Mainly, chilling at the library on a regular basis). Then, all of a sudden, the entire world shut down.
@@lisaqqq it's on my channel and called "i unintentionally recorded the last ever normal day" it had a different title originally but then years later I changed it to that.
as a 32 yo millennial the alt styles are such a throwback to my time as a teen because i still remember how emo, scene, visual kei, decora kei, lolita and other fashion trends and subcultures got really popular when i was 12/13 even deep tik tok reminds me so much of how we tried to be sO raNdOM rawr XD and quirky and different
the sad thing is is that Penelope had such unique music with amazing lyrics and she got bullied off the internet just because of the 2020 gentrification of it UGHHHH I LOVE HER 🥲
this era of the internet was honestly great. id do anything to go back, even though i wasn’t too active on the ‘alt’ side at the time, unfortunately. i do remember seeing a lot of weirdcore, which was probably my favourite aesthetic because i found it strangely comforting. great video as always:)
ive become so nostalgic for 2020/quarantine, theres no other time or place i think of more. in the last few months ive found myself playing omori, listening to msi and penelope scott, watching lain, and making perlers and kandi. i dont know what it was about quarantine, but it was enchanting (even though thats a terrible thing to say). i have this theory that i was so happy during quarantinw because ive always been the "weird kid" and had anxiety my whole life so when suddenly out of now where everyone was anxious about the state of the world and everyone was embracing being weird as no stranger could judge them for it, i felt like i fit in for once and wasnt an outcast
This video made me feel some... interesting feelings. I HATED 2020, and seeing anything related to the aesthetics of 2020 now makes me involuntarily flinch (dreamcore and weirdcore are the only 2020 aesthetics that don't make me flinch). This video was fantastic, don't get me wrong. It just makes me feel a bitter kind of nostalgia. Even though I wasn't on TikTok in 2020 (I still am not), I cannot deny that the influence TikTok had on myself and the culture surrounding me was HUGE. I loved the indie aesthetic in 2020 (I still have two paintings I painted in 2020 that feature cow print, rainbows, and smiley faces as design elements), and even enjoyed the aesthetics present on alt TikTok (plus the music featured there). My interest in the fashion featured on alt TikTok eventually made me become interested in actual subcultures, specifically the scene subculture (which I am still a part of to this day). I am sad that the fashion featured in so many alt TikTok aesthetics came from fast fashion places, because clothing worn by those in actual alternative subcultures is often thrifted or DIY-ed (I know most of the clothes in my closet certainly are). P.S. I will NEVER forgive TikTok for making scenecore a thing. So many people misunderstand the scene subculture because of the fact that scenecore exists. I am somebody who is extremely passionate about the history of the scene subculture, and every time somebody mixes up scene and scenecore I d.e a little inside.
For me, 2020 was the year I really got into fandom culture. Also as someone who wanted to dress in the egirl style, yes it's really just wanting to be attractive.
The nostalgia is WIIILD! I did go through most of the alt tik tok phases, mostly indie kid, e-kid, soft kid and goblin core and I remember how fun it used to be back then. Everyone had their own style and it was all just so colourful and different 😭 and i remember how we all used to worship Cavetown who was my favourite artist at the time
i’m so glad u went through the different aesthetics/trends. anytime i see someone make a video on 2020 fashion it’s always something i wasn’t familiar with
now that 2020 is having a comeback, i hope this type of fashion returns. it's been a bit sad seeing people just be clean girl only because it's trendy. 2020 alt fashion was how i got into alt fashion
on tiktok currently people are trying to turn 2025 into a 2020 alt revival, and while it's entirely possible it doesnt turn into anything, i really want it to
my fav 2020 aesthetic HAS to be e-kid/animecore cuz i LOVE all those colorful alt cringe but free things. part of why 2024 was so great is because i saw a lot of judgement in my school life and the side of tiktok i was on dissapear. i played danganronpa/watched jjk daily, i didn't judge, i cosplayed (overaccessorized ofc) and i had a blast. though tiktok is getting banned where i live, i hope to continue this absolute dream i live in next year
honestly I still love animecore/kidcore 😭💗 finally at 18 I’ve been able to turn my room into my weird colorful little cave and I love it, even though all of my friends call me a hoarder for having a plushie wall💔💔💔 bring back being different
@@iovanskaberenicedelgadillo1701 the plushies are so real omg i have akito and kokichi plushies and i OBSESS over them i show them to all of my family and even blog them!
This makes me really sad that this is nostalgic for people. Maybe it’s bc it’s such a sad time for so many people, but man I feel old as well watching this. I tend to get nostalgic for 2014-2017 era, so I’m most likely bias, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to develop nostalgia for it personally.
@ oh, I totally understand why they’re nostalgic because it’s a formative time of life, but it just makes me sad bc of what was going on during that time.
I get nostalgic for the 2020 era, due to the fact I was 12 and would spend all my time on TikTok. It sucked what was going on around 2020, though. The pandemic didn't really affect much, because I was still in school, and still doing what I was always doing, nothing really changed much in my town. I was pretty lucky tbh.
I think the thing that I love the most about 2020/2021 TikTok trends, was how much of a renaissance it was. A lot of things that were popular then were things that were popular are around before. The sort of e-kid look bears a lot of similarities to 90s mall goth styles, especially when you compare it to emo, scene, and visual kei in terms of its sort of "watered down" version, and how they were sort of blocked out from a lot of more "traditional" alt spaces very similar to how mall goth was. In a very similar way to how e-girls/boys were a very watered down version of grunge and, once again, emo. They were even complete with their own music genres like how grunge was separate from punk, and nu metal from goth and other metal genres! And weirdcore was just a modern take on surrealism! It bore so many similarities to the artworks of Salvador Dali, and had the same general vibe to it of "Hey, there's this huge world altering thing happening, let's represent that in a way that makes you thing about what's happening, while also representing just how disorienting it is." The whole deal of dreamcore and the processing of childhood memories and especially trauma via light imagery and fictional childhood characters was a thing on Tumblr long before TikTok picked it up. The whole of that era of TikTok was a resurgence of things that were popular long ago, and now coming back with it's own current-day twist to it, and it was so amazing to see, and just as amazing to look back on. It really is this awesome look into style cycles and similar such things. Even animecore was reminiscent of old Tumblr anime fandoms and their general tomfoolery. But I don't think anything will beat the Haikyuu fandom and whatever it was they were doing. What. What even was that. I was part of it and I'm not sure. The Oikawa plush . . . he was so abused . . .
DUDE i used to love weirdcore and dreamcore :OO im so glad u mentioned it!! i remember watching weirdcore art tiktok compilations and it actually helped me a lot !! :3 also ur really pretty :D
2020 is when fandom culture really became popular. It wasn’t just anime but other fandoms like harry potter, miraculous ladybug, atla, minecraft and more
Amazing vid! I cannot wait for the deep dive of the the whole decade of 2020. I feel like this decade so far has SO many trendy and non trendy aesthetics that pop up/beloved by many. Respecting and embracing all these new aesthetics popping up
i remember in 2020-2022 i had a kawaii anime soft-girl phase and oh god was this video so nostalgic for me! i was obsessed with pc setups and kawaii hauls with the sakura cat paw starbucks cup and cat paw cushions. now with my own blend of downtown girl jumino core hei sei retro aesthetics, i can safely say that 2020-2021 really helped me discover my style :3
i have really really fuzzy memories from 2020 because of something that happened near the end of the year which made a lot of my memories kinda gone but seeing the 2020 alt tiktok fashion art music stuff brings such a sense of comfort to me
i remember that year 2020 covid 19 pandemic era is such a craziest me rn i do watching tiktok videos attend online classes and stay at home with my family for me this is crazy i have no words
omg i was a cutecore girl on alt tiktok in 2020 and now i really like frutiger aero !! im kinda in this weird nintendo ds toadette 2009 cotton candy frutiger aqua windows xp virtual princess thing and idk what to call it
Ngl, 2020-2021 was both the happiest and darkest time of my life 😭 2020 made me discover Cosplay and alt fashion and also made me discover things abt myself, this was also the time where i started to have social anxiety and depression. Despite the anxiety and depression. I got to discover myself >:D
2020 aesthetic reminds me of the scene and other alternative fashions when I was a teen in the early to mid 2000s. I'm in my 30s now and sporting a "clean girl" fashion but in 2020, it felt like my younger years were peeking in.
i wish i was older during this era 💔 i was in fourth grade and didn’t have access to tiktok, this video was great to keep me up to date on everything that happened in 2020. i wish i could bring back this time where everyone was cringe and somewhat creative and alternative
It's incredibly interesting to me how during the time we were in lockdown people felt their most free in fashion and expressing interests. When we didn't have a lot of peer pressure to conform to what our peers saw as acceptable we were able to express interests completely openly with ought fear of judgment. As much as I hated the isolation and fear of a deadly virus I will forever be grateful to be able to express myself with my art and fashion. Even now I try to take that freedom with me throughout life and despite maybe being considered "cringe" or "weird" by an outsiders view because expression is true joy.
yknow what sometimes it’s nice to look back at the past, and although a couple years ago i would’ve cringed, it’s nice to realise how the opportunities can help develop a person :)
Srry but am I crazy but is everyone talking about 2020 now that it’s 2025? Like, I’ve seen at least 15 vids being like, “2025? Silly, it’s 2020!” And I am HERE FOR IT💚
as a person who was in deep tiktok (and alt tiktok btw),i can agree that it didnt make any sence AT ALL but for me,it was really funny lol i still suprisingly like the weirdcore/dreamcore aesthetic
My bday was the day right before everything was shut down (march 12th) so like no one came to my party and I was so lonelyyyy. That year was terrible for me, I had no friends. Everyday was the same of waking up and sitting around. I was one of the few people that actually did do my homework. I was passing my classes, but in the end, it didn’t matter because they passed everyone anyways, regardless of the situation. And my uncle died 2022 due to organ failure + covid + a mixture of other things. So personally, I hated the pandemic. I am so jealous of the ppl who flourished during the pandemic, I yearned for that 😢
i'm so sorry but I LOVE ANYTHIGN INTERNET 2020 like the fashion and music. Although i'm goth now, i still enjoy listening into the music, cosplaying to 2020 audios and watching them
bro 2020 alt tiktok was fuckinf awesome imo. cringe to the highest degree, so cringe i get third degree burns whenever i think of it. but we had so much fun. i dressed "e-girl" and then "e-kid" after, and i genuinely liked it. i loved how it looked and it was just another fun phase. i stopped dressing "e-girl" because it slowly became more and more sexualized and it cut the phase shorter than i wish it had. the phase didnt get to fizzle out, it just started putting mr in danger of being sexualized and i had to stop. i DO think there was alot of problematic gentrification/glorifying mental illness and general disorders. like autism, tourettes, DID, depression, SH. it was definitely a trend to be mentally disordered in one way or another. it also turned trans/queer stuff on its side and created one million new stereotypes (that were ONLY present on alt tiktok, but the stereotypes spread to how trans/queer and even emo/punk/goth/scene people are perceived in general). the use of neopronouns were not understood in the slightest (it was used to feel more in line with a certain aesthetic, which is cool and fun if neopronouns wernt an actual separate and different thing) and now no one is taken seriously and neopronouns are just cringe 2020 alttok. but all the cosplays, minecraft, roblox, bunny hats, big eyeliner, insane nose contouring, insane blush, fluffy hair, silly hand movrments, monster energy guns, saturated colors and pop tabs were honestly incredibly fun. weve lost the ability to just be cringe. ive only recently realized that im not being myself because in scared ill be cringe. but im slowly working on letting myself be cringe, making shit with monster cans, using excessive blush, wearing my cringe stereotypical band shirts and embracing just. being cringe. because EVERYTHING is cringe nowadays. the word cringe is cringe. every single genre of human is cringe except for the chill, uncaring boring ones. granted, im turning more "emo" and not 2020 alt. but theyre both cringe in the same way
“Are you coming to the tree?” is a phrase in the Hunger Games books that means are you coming to the place where people get hanged who defy the government
I love how some ppl wanna bring it back again to feel better about 2025 (as someone who found out late about it bc 2020 wasn't the time I discovered about it, it was like a year later and I always found it interesting) I ended up becoming alt myself bc the inspiration of it and the strange fashion
proud to be a 19y.o e"kid" (My fashion aesthetic is in between indie/scenecore, 2020alt and cuteg0re) (I enjoy anime, I'm a cosplayer, I make kandi, I have a bunny hat I'm wearing nearly every single day, my favorite drink is Monster Energy, I'm queer and I use neopronouns)(And tbh I've never been happier)
When it comes to fashion and aesthetic I loved 2020 so much and I still wear them but I kinda mix aesthetics or wear a different type of fashion everyday cause I love so many different types of clothing and I can’t just stick with one. I’m the type of person who loves wearing e-girl and goblin core clothing, but also love old money so my style is kinda weird and random and everyday I’m wearing something different but tbh I like it!!! :D Also 2020 vibes are coming back and I’m SO happy about it 🥹❤️
It’s strange to look back at 2020, it’s really bittersweet, on one side it was terrifying, but it made me who I am, alt Tik tok made me discover my style
My name is Arson, and I have worm on a strings + LED stip lights decorations in my room even in 2025 XD I get told a lot that I'm a 2020 time capsule but I just genuinely like those things :3
Its so funny when people say the 2020's are bland and have no true identity like other decades....must be nice to not be chronically online. i wanted to be an e-kid soooo bad in 2020/2021. 😭 im old enough to buy my own clothes and the 2020 alt fashion still makes its way into my current fashion Also i only vaguely remember the last day of school before lockdown. However, one memory i do have is buying a nintendo switch and animal crossing at walmart days before quarantine, and some woman talking abt how the school's were shutting down soon. The reality of covid set in at that moment. It's like the most 2020 thing to happen to me.
7:03 MOTHER MOTHER MENTIONED!! i was close to being one of these kids but thankfully wasn't, anyways i love mother mother still to this day their music is so goodddddddd HHEHUA
Apparently I didn't get the memo that all of this is "over" and that we need to "bring it back" lol, this is all still me. I still get the same kinds of videos on my fyp, still dress like this and still like anime, and also most of this stuff is way older than 2020 anyway Edit: Weirdcore and dreamcore weren't created by TikTok ;-; And you switched them around
I hated the pandemic but miss playing Minecraft and online friends and among us and all the aesthetics. Kinda makes me sad that it’s already dry been 5 years
hearing you say march 13, 2020 jumpscare me because that’s my birthday and i vividly remember having to cancel my plans. i was also still in elementary school and i was so confused
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2021 alt/cosplay tiktok is actually the platform where i first discovered alt fashion. people call it cringe today but it was a gateway for many.
Agree, me too!
It was RUclips, Pinterest and aesthetic fandom webpages where I discovered alt fashion
And fashion style lists
SO TRUE SAME I WAS IN SEVENTH GRADE
definitely agree :’))
@planetmars2193I WAS IN 6TH AAAH
Deeptok was my shit when I was 11 and going through a “haha I’m so weird no one gets me” phase
Same lol i thought i was so special and edgy
I'm so glad the 2020 anime pfps are back on tiktok😭😭
SAME!, I feel like 2020 is coming back..
SAME LETS BRING IT BACK
Sameee, because now it just feels like the renaissance all over again, and experiencing all over again just feels so nostalgic to many of us.
@@lisaqqq YESSS
real 😭
I loved 2020 truly the era where it was normal for people to express them self and be cringe, we were cringe but happy
Absolutely agree I truly miss those times where everyone didn’t try to be cool or nonchalant
u can still be ‘cringe’. ignore the basic ppl hating. cringe culture is dead and cringe, spread the wordd =^_^=
@@trans_shapiro YOOOO another Benny Sharpie pfp‼️‼️‼️
Condition yourself to getting hate and then you’ll eventually not care anymore
Dog it’s been 4 years
i dress decora kei and EVERYTIME i step out of the house i get comments like "ur like if 2020 was a person". I will never forgive 2020 for the bastardization of harajuku fashions💔💔
I love decora fashion sm but 2020 version is uh interesting!
@@lisaqqq we do NOT claim them
I'm not decora, but I am scene. Similarly, I will never forgive TikTok for making scenecore a thing. Because of the fact that scenecore was created, so many people mix up the scene subculture and scenecore to this day.
me cause i still dress 2020 alt lmaoo
Aren’t you kinda gentrifying it though ??
I unintentionally filmed the last ever normal day before lockdown. I was having fun with one of my friends, going shopping and having her over with my family for sushi. We sang show tunes and laughed. We didn't know yet how bad everything was about to get. It is one of my proudest videos.
Omg dude u have to post it its such an artifact!!
Like, it's crazy to me how I was just living life normally (Mainly, chilling at the library on a regular basis). Then, all of a sudden, the entire world shut down.
@@lisaqqq it's on my channel and called "i unintentionally recorded the last ever normal day" it had a different title originally but then years later I changed it to that.
i’m unintentionally trying to bring 2020 fashion and makeup back like it’s so fun to just explore and get creative and i’m so glad i watched this
Yes as you should!!!
as a 32 yo millennial the alt styles are such a throwback to my time as a teen because i still remember how emo, scene, visual kei, decora kei, lolita and other fashion trends and subcultures got really popular when i was 12/13
even deep tik tok reminds me so much of how we tried to be sO raNdOM rawr XD and quirky and different
Yesss thank you for sharing this!
tbh 2020 alt music is kinda fire, i love penelope scott and mother mother 😭
the sad thing is is that Penelope had such unique music with amazing lyrics and she got bullied off the internet just because of the 2020 gentrification of it UGHHHH I LOVE HER 🥲
same i cant believe ppl made me think its cringe i still listen to them💔
@@sunsets_and_wine5665 Bro what? Penelope Scott didn't get bullied of the internet, she creates music to this day
2020, 21, maybe 22 is the reason I have a large amount of “cringe” music taste.
Truee I listened to mother mother since 2018 and was surprised when they suddenly blew up 2020 and now they’re cringe apparently like huh💀
this era of the internet was honestly great. id do anything to go back, even though i wasn’t too active on the ‘alt’ side at the time, unfortunately. i do remember seeing a lot of weirdcore, which was probably my favourite aesthetic because i found it strangely comforting. great video as always:)
Thank you! I agree with you 2020 tiktok was peak❤
@lisaqqq very real. for me, it’s very difficult to beat in terms of how much i miss it
ive become so nostalgic for 2020/quarantine, theres no other time or place i think of more. in the last few months ive found myself playing omori, listening to msi and penelope scott, watching lain, and making perlers and kandi. i dont know what it was about quarantine, but it was enchanting (even though thats a terrible thing to say). i have this theory that i was so happy during quarantinw because ive always been the "weird kid" and had anxiety my whole life so when suddenly out of now where everyone was anxious about the state of the world and everyone was embracing being weird as no stranger could judge them for it, i felt like i fit in for once and wasnt an outcast
SAME OMG Thank you so much for your comment! You put it so well into words!!! I feel the same
This video made me feel some... interesting feelings. I HATED 2020, and seeing anything related to the aesthetics of 2020 now makes me involuntarily flinch (dreamcore and weirdcore are the only 2020 aesthetics that don't make me flinch). This video was fantastic, don't get me wrong. It just makes me feel a bitter kind of nostalgia. Even though I wasn't on TikTok in 2020 (I still am not), I cannot deny that the influence TikTok had on myself and the culture surrounding me was HUGE. I loved the indie aesthetic in 2020 (I still have two paintings I painted in 2020 that feature cow print, rainbows, and smiley faces as design elements), and even enjoyed the aesthetics present on alt TikTok (plus the music featured there). My interest in the fashion featured on alt TikTok eventually made me become interested in actual subcultures, specifically the scene subculture (which I am still a part of to this day). I am sad that the fashion featured in so many alt TikTok aesthetics came from fast fashion places, because clothing worn by those in actual alternative subcultures is often thrifted or DIY-ed (I know most of the clothes in my closet certainly are).
P.S.
I will NEVER forgive TikTok for making scenecore a thing. So many people misunderstand the scene subculture because of the fact that scenecore exists. I am somebody who is extremely passionate about the history of the scene subculture, and every time somebody mixes up scene and scenecore I d.e a little inside.
Thank you for such elaborate comment I absolutely agree with your takes on fast fashion and scenecore!❤
For me, 2020 was the year I really got into fandom culture. Also as someone who wanted to dress in the egirl style, yes it's really just wanting to be attractive.
I guess I consumed fashion doll content and I got obsessed with Kawaii fashion
The nostalgia is WIIILD! I did go through most of the alt tik tok phases, mostly indie kid, e-kid, soft kid and goblin core and I remember how fun it used to be back then. Everyone had their own style and it was all just so colourful and different 😭 and i remember how we all used to worship Cavetown who was my favourite artist at the time
RIGHTTT
i’m so glad u went through the different aesthetics/trends. anytime i see someone make a video on 2020 fashion it’s always something i wasn’t familiar with
Thank you for watching❤
It was a gateway into a lot of people finding their style
Absolutely myself included
SKZ PLUSHIE SPOTTED!! Also I remeber everyone who were/liked weirdcore listened to Jack Stauber, and amazing video as always❤
Why wasn't I there all the time if I listened to all Jack stauber songs(he is very inspiring)
I love my wolfchan plushie!! Omg yes Jack Stauber how could I forget to mention my king
now that 2020 is having a comeback, i hope this type of fashion returns. it's been a bit sad seeing people just be clean girl only because it's trendy. 2020 alt fashion was how i got into alt fashion
SAME!!!
on tiktok currently people are trying to turn 2025 into a 2020 alt revival, and while it's entirely possible it doesnt turn into anything, i really want it to
2025 the new 2020 bc i said so!
my fav 2020 aesthetic HAS to be e-kid/animecore cuz i LOVE all those colorful alt cringe but free things. part of why 2024 was so great is because i saw a lot of judgement in my school life and the side of tiktok i was on dissapear. i played danganronpa/watched jjk daily, i didn't judge, i cosplayed (overaccessorized ofc) and i had a blast. though tiktok is getting banned where i live, i hope to continue this absolute dream i live in next year
As you should!❤
honestly I still love animecore/kidcore 😭💗 finally at 18 I’ve been able to turn my room into my weird colorful little cave and I love it, even though all of my friends call me a hoarder for having a plushie wall💔💔💔 bring back being different
@@iovanskaberenicedelgadillo1701 the plushies are so real omg i have akito and kokichi plushies and i OBSESS over them i show them to all of my family and even blog them!
It's about to be 5 years ago
Nooooo…. Ur kidding
i am not ready for this
This makes me really sad that this is nostalgic for people. Maybe it’s bc it’s such a sad time for so many people, but man I feel old as well watching this. I tend to get nostalgic for 2014-2017 era, so I’m most likely bias, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to develop nostalgia for it personally.
A lot of gen Z were going thru puberty at that time and being teenagers for the first time so maybe thats why it is so influential and nostalgic
@ oh, I totally understand why they’re nostalgic because it’s a formative time of life, but it just makes me sad bc of what was going on during that time.
I get nostalgic for the 2020 era, due to the fact I was 12 and would spend all my time on TikTok.
It sucked what was going on around 2020, though.
The pandemic didn't really affect much, because I was still in school, and still doing what I was always doing, nothing really changed much in my town. I was pretty lucky tbh.
I think the thing that I love the most about 2020/2021 TikTok trends, was how much of a renaissance it was. A lot of things that were popular then were things that were popular are around before. The sort of e-kid look bears a lot of similarities to 90s mall goth styles, especially when you compare it to emo, scene, and visual kei in terms of its sort of "watered down" version, and how they were sort of blocked out from a lot of more "traditional" alt spaces very similar to how mall goth was. In a very similar way to how e-girls/boys were a very watered down version of grunge and, once again, emo. They were even complete with their own music genres like how grunge was separate from punk, and nu metal from goth and other metal genres!
And weirdcore was just a modern take on surrealism! It bore so many similarities to the artworks of Salvador Dali, and had the same general vibe to it of "Hey, there's this huge world altering thing happening, let's represent that in a way that makes you thing about what's happening, while also representing just how disorienting it is."
The whole deal of dreamcore and the processing of childhood memories and especially trauma via light imagery and fictional childhood characters was a thing on Tumblr long before TikTok picked it up. The whole of that era of TikTok was a resurgence of things that were popular long ago, and now coming back with it's own current-day twist to it, and it was so amazing to see, and just as amazing to look back on. It really is this awesome look into style cycles and similar such things. Even animecore was reminiscent of old Tumblr anime fandoms and their general tomfoolery.
But I don't think anything will beat the Haikyuu fandom and whatever it was they were doing. What. What even was that. I was part of it and I'm not sure. The Oikawa plush . . . he was so abused . . .
Omg I love your comment thank you for sharing ur opinion! Not the Oikawa plush…😭😭
Dark Academia was also a pretty famous style in fall/winter of 2020, when Harry Potter was getting trendy again on TikTok
Omg you are right!!! But it was there before 2020
DUDE i used to love weirdcore and dreamcore :OO im so glad u mentioned it!! i remember watching weirdcore art tiktok compilations and it actually helped me a lot !! :3 also ur really pretty :D
I SHAMELESSLY UNIRONICALLY LOVE 2020 AESTHETIC
the i loved indie kid and kid core the bright colors and drinks that overstimulate you 😂
i’m so nostalgic for this era 😭 i still have a strawberry cow hoodie and mushroom earrings i wore during the pandemic lol
OMG IM JEALOUSSS
That clip of 2020 Benji haunts him 😭
2020 is when fandom culture really became popular. It wasn’t just anime but other fandoms like harry potter, miraculous ladybug, atla, minecraft and more
Yes!! Ur right!
Amazing vid! I cannot wait for the deep dive of the the whole decade of 2020. I feel like this decade so far has SO many trendy and non trendy aesthetics that pop up/beloved by many. Respecting and embracing all these new aesthetics popping up
THANK YOU! I might get to making a deep dive into 2020 in general, not just fashions soon!
this era forever has a special place in my heart
I’m so glad people want this back this year honestly 😭🙏
Same!!! People put up 2020 anime pfps again
@ I made one of jinx from arcane :3
Samee I be spam posting whisperer on Pinterest about bringing it back since weeks and look like it worked!!!
Very good rewind on 2020 fashion! I got lots of nostalgia from it! Very underrated video!
Thank you so much your comment means SO MUCH ❤❤❤
i remember in 2020-2022 i had a kawaii anime soft-girl phase and oh god was this video so nostalgic for me! i was obsessed with pc setups and kawaii hauls with the sakura cat paw starbucks cup and cat paw cushions. now with my own blend of downtown girl jumino core hei sei retro aesthetics, i can safely say that 2020-2021 really helped me discover my style :3
Love your comment thank you sm for sharing!
@@lisaqqqI related to everything in this comment except around 2023, I got more into the coquette aesthetic and still am.
i have really really fuzzy memories from 2020 because of something that happened near the end of the year which made a lot of my memories kinda gone but seeing the 2020 alt tiktok fashion art music stuff brings such a sense of comfort to me
I remember kidcore more being a 2018 tumblr thing, but it was popular in 2020-2021
I love learning about 2020 because i never used tiktok, but my friends did and told me about things they see, it confused me a lot!😭❤️
You just had to be there 😭😭
I’m so stuck in 2020 and I love it
Sameeee
i remember that year 2020 covid 19 pandemic era is such a craziest me rn i do watching tiktok videos attend online classes and stay at home with my family for me this is crazy i have no words
liminal spaces and frutiger aero are my kinda aesthetics. I definitely fall under weird core too
omg i was a cutecore girl on alt tiktok in 2020 and now i really like frutiger aero !! im kinda in this weird nintendo ds toadette 2009 cotton candy frutiger aqua windows xp virtual princess thing and idk what to call it
@@seedIy that sounds cool I gotta see how this aesthetic would look like
@ RIGHT i need it to come to life i just have to figure it out… maybe i can make my own guys
Weirdcore was my SH!T in quarantine bro. Also quarantine kickstarted my caffeine addiction 😔
Same😭😭
MINE TOO HELP
As someone who loves 2020, I have been obsessed with weirdcore ever since it has been popular!
NEW VIDEO DROPPED YAYY (i adore the gir fit sm
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Ngl, 2020-2021 was both the happiest and darkest time of my life 😭 2020 made me discover Cosplay and alt fashion and also made me discover things abt myself, this was also the time where i started to have social anxiety and depression. Despite the anxiety and depression. I got to discover myself >:D
SAME
As a 'basic' teen I had an indie phase and refuse to talk about it. Everything you say is so true helpp
2020 aesthetic reminds me of the scene and other alternative fashions when I was a teen in the early to mid 2000s. I'm in my 30s now and sporting a "clean girl" fashion but in 2020, it felt like my younger years were peeking in.
i wish i was older during this era 💔
i was in fourth grade and didn’t have access to tiktok, this video was great to keep me up to date on everything that happened in 2020. i wish i could bring back this time where everyone was cringe and somewhat creative and alternative
Some of these tiktok aesthetics were being cooked on instagram moodboard aesthetic accounts, pinterest and polyvore since 2017
I DESPERATELY NEED THE HIPPIE STYLE BACK
OMG YES
It's incredibly interesting to me how during the time we were in lockdown people felt their most free in fashion and expressing interests. When we didn't have a lot of peer pressure to conform to what our peers saw as acceptable we were able to express interests completely openly with ought fear of judgment. As much as I hated the isolation and fear of a deadly virus I will forever be grateful to be able to express myself with my art and fashion. Even now I try to take that freedom with me throughout life and despite maybe being considered "cringe" or "weird" by an outsiders view because expression is true joy.
AAAA LOVE THE GIRR HODDIEEEE :DD
Thank uuu!!!💚💚💚
JAZMIN BEANNNN!!! ANYWAYS IM SO HAPPY 2020 TIKTOK IS COMING BACK I MISSED IT SM😭
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@ omgggg heyyy
yknow what sometimes it’s nice to look back at the past, and although a couple years ago i would’ve cringed, it’s nice to realise how the opportunities can help develop a person :)
Absolutely!!
Srry but am I crazy but is everyone talking about 2020 now that it’s 2025? Like, I’ve seen at least 15 vids being like, “2025? Silly, it’s 2020!” And I am HERE FOR IT💚
SAME
as a person who was in deep tiktok (and alt tiktok btw),i can agree that it didnt make any sence AT ALL but for me,it was really funny lol i still suprisingly like the weirdcore/dreamcore aesthetic
Yesss me too!!
My bday was the day right before everything was shut down (march 12th) so like no one came to my party and I was so lonelyyyy. That year was terrible for me, I had no friends. Everyday was the same of waking up and sitting around. I was one of the few people that actually did do my homework. I was passing my classes, but in the end, it didn’t matter because they passed everyone anyways, regardless of the situation. And my uncle died 2022 due to organ failure + covid + a mixture of other things. So personally, I hated the pandemic. I am so jealous of the ppl who flourished during the pandemic, I yearned for that 😢
Mine was march 30th 😭😭 I understand u bro
i'm so sorry but I LOVE ANYTHIGN INTERNET 2020 like the fashion and music. Although i'm goth now, i still enjoy listening into the music, cosplaying to 2020 audios and watching them
Sameeee!!!
bro 2020 alt tiktok was fuckinf awesome imo. cringe to the highest degree, so cringe i get third degree burns whenever i think of it. but we had so much fun.
i dressed "e-girl" and then "e-kid" after, and i genuinely liked it. i loved how it looked and it was just another fun phase. i stopped dressing "e-girl" because it slowly became more and more sexualized and it cut the phase shorter than i wish it had. the phase didnt get to fizzle out, it just started putting mr in danger of being sexualized and i had to stop.
i DO think there was alot of problematic gentrification/glorifying mental illness and general disorders. like autism, tourettes, DID, depression, SH. it was definitely a trend to be mentally disordered in one way or another. it also turned trans/queer stuff on its side and created one million new stereotypes (that were ONLY present on alt tiktok, but the stereotypes spread to how trans/queer and even emo/punk/goth/scene people are perceived in general). the use of neopronouns were not understood in the slightest (it was used to feel more in line with a certain aesthetic, which is cool and fun if neopronouns wernt an actual separate and different thing) and now no one is taken seriously and neopronouns are just cringe 2020 alttok.
but all the cosplays, minecraft, roblox, bunny hats, big eyeliner, insane nose contouring, insane blush, fluffy hair, silly hand movrments, monster energy guns, saturated colors and pop tabs were honestly incredibly fun. weve lost the ability to just be cringe. ive only recently realized that im not being myself because in scared ill be cringe. but im slowly working on letting myself be cringe, making shit with monster cans, using excessive blush, wearing my cringe stereotypical band shirts and embracing just. being cringe. because EVERYTHING is cringe nowadays. the word cringe is cringe. every single genre of human is cringe except for the chill, uncaring boring ones.
granted, im turning more "emo" and not 2020 alt. but theyre both cringe in the same way
Thank you for this comment!!!❤
i luv this vid ! it made me tear up, great writing !
Aw thank you so much!❤
“Are you coming to the tree?” is a phrase in the Hunger Games books that means are you coming to the place where people get hanged who defy the government
I love how some ppl wanna bring it back again to feel better about 2025 (as someone who found out late about it bc 2020 wasn't the time I discovered about it, it was like a year later and I always found it interesting) I ended up becoming alt myself bc the inspiration of it and the strange fashion
Yes I love how we are bringing back 2020! Make being weird and cringe cool again
Omggg ur stunning 😭‼️❤️
Awww stawp thank youuuu❤❤
YOOO A NEW VIDEO LETTTSSSS GOOOOOO
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this awakens ancient feelings
Lmao😭😭
proud to be a 19y.o e"kid"
(My fashion aesthetic is in between indie/scenecore, 2020alt and cuteg0re)
(I enjoy anime, I'm a cosplayer, I make kandi, I have a bunny hat I'm wearing nearly every single day, my favorite drink is Monster Energy, I'm queer and I use neopronouns)(And tbh I've never been happier)
Ur like the coolest person to me
When it comes to fashion and aesthetic I loved 2020 so much and I still wear them but I kinda mix aesthetics or wear a different type of fashion everyday cause I love so many different types of clothing and I can’t just stick with one. I’m the type of person who loves wearing e-girl and goblin core clothing, but also love old money so my style is kinda weird and random and everyday I’m wearing something different but tbh I like it!!! :D Also 2020 vibes are coming back and I’m SO happy about it 🥹❤️
As someone who is still goblinore who listens to Cavetown this made me happy :)
I am glad you liked it!!❤ Thank yu for watching!!!
YAY A NEW VIDEO!!
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It’s strange to look back at 2020, it’s really bittersweet, on one side it was terrifying, but it made me who I am, alt Tik tok made me discover my style
Samee!
Honestly, 2020 was yesterday. But your Aesthetic brings me waayyy back lol PS Deep Tiktok is just the 2020 Skibidy toilet.
My tiktok for you page has become like 2020-2021 alt tiktok and I love it
IM JEALOUSSS
Not me watching this to see what to buy before going to the mall
My name is Arson, and I have worm on a strings + LED stip lights decorations in my room even in 2025 XD I get told a lot that I'm a 2020 time capsule but I just genuinely like those things :3
This is amazing omg! I would love to see ur room. I need to buy led lights too!
Omg how only 64 likes and 209 views your literally one of my FAVOURITE RUclipsrs ever I love watching your videos so much❤❤❤❤
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING ME!!!❤❤❤
I loved alt style from 2020, and it's how I found my style
Same!
Its so funny when people say the 2020's are bland and have no true identity like other decades....must be nice to not be chronically online. i wanted to be an e-kid soooo bad in 2020/2021. 😭 im old enough to buy my own clothes and the 2020 alt fashion still makes its way into my current fashion
Also i only vaguely remember the last day of school before lockdown. However, one memory i do have is buying a nintendo switch and animal crossing at walmart days before quarantine, and some woman talking abt how the school's were shutting down soon. The reality of covid set in at that moment. It's like the most 2020 thing to happen to me.
HOW DARE RUclips KEEP THIS FROM ME FOR 11 SECONDS
Ur still very early hi❤❤
I'm still goblincore, I desperately hope it comes back in style so it's not so embarassing still wearing 2020 fashion lol
I hope so too
My aesthetic is, fairy grunge, goblin core and fairy academia
im jealousss
i love ur makeup sm
THANK YOU!❤
i forgot all about the ‘decora’ cosplay era omfg
let me tell u...2020 alt fashion, trends, and pfps are so back on tiktok rn
YES
YESS
YES I JUST NOTICED! My video is like a prophecy
I manifested it
@@lisaqqqREAL
14:34 I got flashbacks to my annoying little sister being obsessed with this aesthetic and always saying “save the turtles” as a joke.
Love the wolfchan in the background!! Are you a stay?
7:03 MOTHER MOTHER MENTIONED!! i was close to being one of these kids but thankfully wasn't, anyways i love mother mother still to this day their music is so goodddddddd HHEHUA
I LOVE MOTHER MOTHER
@@lisaqqq AAA YOURE SO COOL
Man I was 24 when lockdown hit and this is both fascinating and making me feel old.
Lol😭
6:48 same 😭 my parents wouldn’t let me get any e-kid clothes because they didn’t like the style and I was too young at the time (tbf I was 10-11 then)
Same I was 10 back then too
this is unrelated but i love ur room >.< also the silly gir plushie
Thank you sm!!! yess i looove gir💚💚
Apparently I didn't get the memo that all of this is "over" and that we need to "bring it back" lol, this is all still me. I still get the same kinds of videos on my fyp, still dress like this and still like anime, and also most of this stuff is way older than 2020 anyway
Edit: Weirdcore and dreamcore weren't created by TikTok ;-; And you switched them around
It wasn’t created on tiktok but it was most popular during 2020 deep tiktok!
I miss the time before lockdown man, like 2019 was a great year for me but 2020 produced weirdcore so in terms of aesthetics that was good
I hated the pandemic but miss playing Minecraft and online friends and among us and all the aesthetics. Kinda makes me sad that it’s already dry been 5 years
Same :(
this is so cool to remember year 2020 me and my sister dalgona coffee i really miss those days
This is crazy we are making this content already
I cant wait to start the trend of 2020 nostalgia😈😈
Kidcore and Indie Kid are adorable 🎉
hearing you say march 13, 2020 jumpscare me because that’s my birthday and i vividly remember having to cancel my plans. i was also still in elementary school and i was so confused
17:05 I remember hearing it was called deep tiktok because it was supposed to be the videos you reached after scrolling “deep” into the algorithm
1:52 sadly, getting ready to celebrate by birthday the very next day 😂
Omg😭😭😭
Callin me out W the granny sweater and Cavetown😭😭
I looooved cavetown