At their core, these aesthetics are ... runs the popular dark academia account, @stardustville, on Instagram, where she frequently posts screenshots of quotes from Tumblr. One reads, "'are you ...

The search term “dark academia aesthetic ... Secret History” form the aesthetic’s literary canon, texts from which its followers draw soundbites and quotes to foreground videos of dark ...

Taupe. Or, as DeRoche puts it in her now-viral TikTok videos, "sad beige." "Sad beige is when your aesthetic is marketed in such a way that it views childhood as a somber experience and that ...