#good flickr album btw.

[badnewswhatsleft]

hi patrick

[josephtrohman]

05.06.2009

[digitalmemoriez]

how do you even find all this stuff?? i've tried myself and it's genuinely really hard lmao i admire you for archiving stuff that otherwise might be lost

i just saw this ask !! honestly it does take work! my good friend @webdiggerxxx made a post abt how they find images, and my blog is inspired by theirs!! ill repeat some of their tips along with mine!! this mostly applies to flickr btw bc thats where i pull my images from.

set the date of your search term to only show photos up until a certain year! lets say i search for an image and i type in "dolls" i can set flickr to only pull up images before 2010. this helps me find a lot of good accounts and images that will feel truly nostalgic

keep looking!! go down rabbit holes!! if you find an image u like, check out their page, their likes, their albums, followers, and anything else u can! usually when i find a ton of photos i like it ends up being from the same person!! and its so fun and addictive too, i have spent hours looking through 80 pages of someones account and found gems. not only that it feels so personal and cool to learn about someones life through photos, and see it change over the years as they upload.

keep a list of search terms that you want to look up!! this was a tip from @webdiggerxxx and its super helpful!! i often can't think of what to search for, and if you write ideas down when you aren't trying to search it makes it easier

follow people!! even if someone stopped uploading in 2010, its still a good way to keep track of what accounts you like (so you can look later), and because flickr has a feature that brings up images of people you follow first when you type in a search term. so it can show u pictures u havnt seen before! very epic

if you find an image of something you like that you didnt know much about (like for me i learn about a lot of old tech i didnt know about), search that term to find other photos similar!

try to find what terms were used back in the day. for example, mallgoth is a relatively newer term, whereas they were referred to as spooky kids in the 90/2000s (there are better examples). but if you aren't finding images that you want when searching a term, try to figure out if it was called something else! we have so many aesthetics and "cores" of things that are new ways of referring to things happening in the 2000s.

i think thats all my tips 4 now, hope it helps!!