#mallpunk

[lookninjas]

Pick a song from a bad description! You do not have to recognize any of the songs to vote (although tbh I feel like this is one of my most obvious ones -- there is an actual song title in one of the choices). Just go from the vibes. Pick whichever is funniest to you, or matches your current situation, or whatever makes a random bad song description appeal to you.

At the end of the week, I will take the poll results and use them to arrange the songs in a playlist, from the song with the lowest amount of votes to the song with the highest amount of votes. If you would like to hear the playlist, leave a comment or put it in the tags of your reblog, and I will tag you when the playlist goes up. And if you really can't wait to know what a song is, send me an ask and I will answer it.

And please reblog the poll! 'Cause this is as close as I can come to sending you guys a mixtape, so if you share it with your followers and they share it with their followers it's like we're all getting a mixtape, and that's fun. So let's keep the mixtapes moving.

[chipkat]

This round's doodle was a challenge to draw Jeff in the opposite of what he normally wears which is always like. Baggy Ass Hoodie and Skinny Jeans with Converse. So I guess he went from emo to mallpunk?? I think it's cute

[skinks]

how do you keep finding these incredibly niche and incredibly awesome aesthetics

omg WELL, I will try to be concise here!!

basically it started because I got really into vaporwave relatively early in its existence, I think I discovered it in around 2013. Now, something about there being an entire online named Artistic Movement with clear design principles was extremely cool to me, and 2013 is also the earliest I can find a use of the term “junglepunk” on my blog, because this is the term I was using as a personal placeholder for the type of stuff that I have since discovered is being called utopian scholastic. I figured, if there wasn’t a “vaporwave” equivalent for the art/media niche I remembered so vividly, I would just call it something of my own.

So, I came to this newer discovery because in the decade since getting into vaporwave I’ve followed just… so many aesthetic blogs. One of my absolute favourites is @newwavearch90 but I love going on an adventure down various tumblr rabbit holes of related blogs and posts. I also watch a lot of design history videos on youtube, as well as having an interest in lost media, old web stuff, analog horror ARGs, stuff like that. For example, this guy’s video about clip art is very interesting:

And so, a few months ago youtube recommended me THIS video and as soon as I saw the thumbnail I was like oh holy shit, I know exactly what style of design this is talking about. Anyone who used Windows XP would recognise this:

And once again, like the vaporwave discovery, the realisation that there are ongoing efforts being made to classify design movements of which I have vivid living memory was like… mindblowing to me. For some reason, lol. My appreciation for vaporwave has always been through a reflective filter of the media produced during that time, my response to it is really my response to the media, as opposed to having any real emotional connection to the actual time period and places the media is portraying.

And so after discovering Frutiger Aero I googled it, and came across the CARI (Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute) site. They work to catalogue and index this exact stuff, the aesthetics and reasoning behind all these different movements. It’s also co-founded by the same guy who runs @newwavearch90. Finding the actual names of the aesthetics I have the most emotional connection/nostalgia for has been less of a stroke of luck, but more because I’ve been snooping around the types of blogs and websites where I just happened to see certain posts tagged either Global Village Coffeehouse or Utopian Scholastic, then the giant lightbulb goes off. The relief of putting a name to a sound, an image, a feeling that was so important and exciting and comforting to you in the past, that has shaped so much of your taste and interests in the years since.

I think the base concept of “aesthetics” in general has gotten a bad rap in recent years. I know it can be grating to see teenagers try to categorise their whole identities into the easily consumed “aesthetic”, but we can’t ignore how much ageism and specifically misogyny is wrapped up in that assessment. Like, yes, where once there were just preps and goths it can be depressing to see teenagers (especially teen girls) ask themselves whether they are “old money east coast quiet luxury aesthetic girlies” or “mallpunk y2k whimsigoth aesthetic girlies” - but the problem isn’t in teens trying to find their identity, it’s that social media pushes the search for identity specifically through consumerism.

Teens liking aesthetics on tiktok just isn’t my concern. I’m far more interested in how art and design aesthetics relate to consumerism, to technological advances, to socio-political cultural context, to societal values. Why did these aesthetics arise at the time they did, and why were they popular, why did they fall out of the zeitgeist etc.

So yeah, to be not at all concise in any way; it’s because this stuff fascinates me and I love researching it 🥳

[millievfence]

Me: I wish the rationalist community wasn't so young, so I could convince them to do emo/mallpunk solstice. Boyfriend: I'm your age and I'm telling you that is not the reason it's not happening.

[heightsofmadness]

gay quebecois cat in a mall the size of three entire cities

in what appears to be an alternate late 90s based on a combination of vaporwave and mallpunk aesthetic

also I got caught up in under an hour so go check it out

Please read my webcomic about a gay cat in a mall

https://dolmistaska.com/

https://dolmistaska.com/

https://dolmistaska.com/

https://dolmistaska.com/

[labia-got-swagga]

it just gets more complicated once you add in emo, scene, and nu metal 😭😭😭 also reminder labels are dumb

[tofuttibreak]

[portablecity]

Big ol' painting dump. Watercolour in the little sketchbook, gouache in the big one.

[shiftythrifting]

Do you guys know what the brand or actual name of beet poot and friends is?

THE Beet Poot is made by Unique Pottery of the UK and are sorta knockoffs of Sylva C and Sadler’s pots from what I can tell.

[liquor]

[zim-destroyerdib]

@florpussy @mallpunk

we all know that purple can’t fool anyone

[lifeafterculture]

❤️ MY SUBURBAN TEENAGE HEART ❤️ #blink182 #blink182lifeforlife #kingsoftheweekend #lasvegas #thepalms #pearltheater #poppunk #mallpunk #punk #crappypunkrock #blink155 #concert #wherethefuckistom (at Pearl Concert Theater at the Palms)

[mybillboredpnx]

#punkrock #mallpunk #punk https://www.instagram.com/p/B5eltxTjAGm/?igshid=1ikoyxmljaofl

[intersexfairy]

you are not a gay man. make your own community so you can address your own issues, hating your bodies, having artificial puberties in your 20s, and fetishizing fictional intimacy between men. We share zero of the same struggles and we are not attracted to each other. We would both benefit from completely separate communities. Date and talk more to each other, u can be kins with anime and freak out about ace discourse and listen to all the shit mallpunk u want together, just leave us alone fujo

Imagine being so commited to being hateful that you send a long winded anonymous message to another guy just because his life experiences are different from yours, and you've fed into an ideology that villainizes people who just want to love and be loved.

I hope you have a good day, because you clearly weren't feeling too great when you sent this.

[thotfrnk]

16 for the unusual asks

16. if you had to get a tattoo right now, what would you get and where?

probs a star on my wrist 

//send me a number from this post

[elijahone]

INFINITE POLYHEAVEN 永遠の贅沢 PLAZA

WELCOME TO THE INFINITE POLYHEAVEN 永遠の贅沢 PLAZA

WE’VE GOT IT ALL HERE AT INFINITE POLYHEAVEN

COMPLEMENTARY NEON METAVALUE XE CARD CONTAINING UNLIMITED CONCEPT OF VALUE SO YOU CAN SHOP FOREVER

PROCEDURALLY GENERATED STORES SELLING MATHEMATICALLY LIMITLESS PRODUCTS, AN ETERNAL LOADING SCREEN OF MULTICOLORED SENSORY DELIGHTS

MANY PLACES TO SOCIALIZE AND LOITER, WALLS DRIPPING WITH SKY-BLUE DESKTOP LCDS AND VIVISECTED SYNTHVOMIT.WAV HEARTS

DISASSOCIATE WHILE STANDING IN A MALL FOUNTAIN, PINK GLOWING NEOWATER SEEPING INTO YOUR SNEAKERS, THE RIPPLES MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE YOUR OWN REFLECTION

MUSIC IS ALWAYS PLAYING, TO DROWN OUT YOUR THOUGHTS

IT IS ALWAYS AUGUST 28TH, 1995

NO EXITS

NEVER HAVE TO FEEL LIKE A PERSON AGAIN

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NEED MORE MEDIA TO FORGET YOU FEEL EMPTY? CHUG DOWN MORE OF THAT COLA-STICKY SWEET CONTENT HERE. ALWAYS A SLUT FOR CAPITALISIM? RELEASE YOUR CASH INTO THE VOID.