Thank you all SO much for the support on my first longform video! I am already looking at some ways to improve, and I’ll be filming my next video this coming week. Expect to see videos of this quality & length 2-3 times a month for now (may increase with time too but for now its only me working on this!) 🩵✨

hearing kids on tiktok were calling kawaii a slur makes me feel like im sitting in a rocking chair in a care home

as an alt kawaii girlie for at least 14 years, it pains me to see younger girls suffering to get that perfect kawaii wardrobe in like 2 weeks with no money or experience. Take your time and learn that there is no expiration date to have fun with with your personal style! Don't compare yourself to people twice your age! Dont be too hard on yourself!

Heyya! Someone who live in Ghana speaking. I can confirm, SO MANY clothes wash up on beaches, to the point where I had to stop surfing! You do not realise the sheer amount of trash that washes up on shores here. It hurts me talking about this because it's gotten so much worse as of recent.

What I never understood about "fast-fashion" is the fact that people throw their clothes away? Maybe it's because I come from a poorer family, but we have never ever thrown clothes into the trash. If something rips or breaks we sew it back together or use the material for something else. If we've outgrown something it becomes a hand me down or gets donated and if we don't like the style of something anymore but it still fits us we keep it and wear incase we ever wanna wear that style again. I don't really think that the problem with fast fashion is how it's produced (unless it's made in unethical situations but that's a different topic entirely) but how people treat their belongings.

rly hyped for this video cuz  i never see anyone talk about the late 2022–2023 tiktok cutecore era AT ALL anymore. it’s like everyone just forgot all about it. remember people like maylolla,  meloclaws, and awlilla(she’s still active but no longer “cutecore”)?? 🎀

The biggest problem with these aesthetics are the giant amount of plastic trinkets and clothes that people accumulate, that they will probably keep for two years or less, get tired of it, disposate of it and buy other plastic trinkets and that's just too much unjustified waste for the planet.
Especially clothes like you said already in the video...

A lot of this reminds me of the creepy cute and, to a lesser extend, pastel goth from the early 2010s.

Honestly I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it just so happened to be the black cosplayer that received all that hate and harassment about “cultural appropriation” and “kawaii is a slur.” Considering there are thousands of white cosplayers who dress up as Japanese characters yet don’t get that type of hate I doubt most of her harassers were doing it in good faith.

Being a black girl into alt fashion is so draining 😔 the amount of people that shame you is absurd like its just a preference in how i like to dress

27:26 "You shouldn't fit clothing, clothing should fit *you*." I'm not sure where I heard/saw this quote, but I think it's relevant to this topic.

I LOVE cutecore I've loved it since 2019 but back then I didn't know what to call it. Its true theres people that are mean, racist, fatphobic, etc. I've experienced a couple of these and it sucks because I love the fashion and aesthetic and I've met a lot of great people but also a lot of toxic people which sucks because now some people think everyone who uses the aesthetic are toxic. I've been told by someone that  I can't be a cutecore girl before because I'm black so "my skin color wouldn't fit the style" and because I'm not skinny. It didn't affect me much but I know that could really hurt someone. I wish it was just a nice non-toxic community but sadly thats not how it is. I hope it gets better though. :c



(sorry if this isn't written very well I'm very sleepy rn >_<)

hi, im in the cutecore community myself, and im a decently ok sized account in the scene (almost 30k followers) yadda yadda
i am so grateful that you talked about this, since even though having silly rooms on the internet is awesome, this space is still extremely dangerous
the cutecore community is mostly filled with 12-16 year olds from what i've seen from my fanbase, and ive seen soooo many kids use pro-loli media as their profile pictures. either that or like cropped NSFW CGs of Aoi Mukou or clearly sexual imagery of Super Sonico
On top of this, and what you mentioned about the 'irl-loli', the weird tapestries, and just a lot of cutecores being pro loli- because of this community a lot of kids are unknowingly endangering themselves
in fact, a lot of these little kids try to dm me a lot, which I am an adult, so I ignore the DMs. But basically my point with this comment is this community is SO dangerous for kids to be in and im glad you talked about it
thank u for reading my yapfest that probably doesnt make sense . stay safe kids

This style has been around long before 2020 put the name cutecore to it. It's a japanese fashion called Yami Kawaii that has origins in harajuku. Menhera is another similar one. Both developed sometime in the 2010s, possibly late late 2000s if I recall correctly

I'm in my 30s and I'm glad I don't have to be a young person now. Having a micro label for everything and not being able to just like something is exhausting. Cutecore being labeled as some new style is irritating because it absolutely tries to erase things that have existed for a long time. It's white people wanting to make their own version that they see as the definitive one along with all the usual overt racism. The overconsumption and need to constantly re-label also makes me sick.

I used to love this style so much!! Was this style for a good 3 years now! The community is.. somewhat okay, but it is very difficult being a black alternative girl. It could be problematic at times especially when you don’t fit eastern beauty standards. The overconsumption of items is also very toxic due to people pushing the need to wear certain brands like mezzo piano and mother garden, especially influencing an unhealthy lifestyle of over-consumerism. Over-consumerism It isn’t necessarily a bad thing depending on the person, but it’s bad for many others that enjoy the style. Collecting media and building wardrobes seriously take time. It took me 3 YEARS to FINALLY get the strawberry crocs or atleast one rare piece. I really wish the cutecore community could encourage that more, especially when there’s a younger audience !!  Tysm for making a video abt the style!! ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ )

ppl ARE adding scream for my icecream to cutecore edits 😭

I really really loved the Kawaii and alt videos trending in 2020. I am dissapointed that for many, it was just a phase... and they overconsumed and threw away. I am still using all the kawaii items I bought. I don't want it to be a phase 😢 it helped me so much being confident in buying alt clothing, being myself and helped me through Covid

33:43 "hey im a 14 year old girl that enjoys anime and wears cute clothes and doesnt like to go outside!" YEAH. MAN! as someone who WAS involved in edgy, hypersexual, anime adjacent culture when they were 11 to 15 (back in the good old 2000s), its honestly crazy to see the rise/resurfacing?? of this culture and these spaces online, and see them affecting more children nowadays. i always felt so alone in my experience of consuming lolicon WHEN I WAS THE AGE OF THE GIRLS DEPICTED IN IT, and not seeing anything wrong with it because i was young and naive... oh and """dating""" someone 6 years older than me 🙄 i still support children having freedom to use the Internet and freedom of self expression, and im glad that i found some of the things i did through being in those communities, but overall the kids who are going to be MOST affected by damaging content are going to be the ones who are already likely to be experiencing abuse, neglect, isolation, bullying, depression, etc in their real lives.

I’ve always called my style Kawaii instead of cutecore, I remember people used to tell me that cutecore was for white people such as myself while kawaii was for Asian people 😭