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brazil turned a protest slogan into an aesthetic temercore, aka fora temer core, is 2016 protest nostalgia: dyed hair, restart and charlie brown jr playlists, frida shirts this joke about its tacky old-people nicknames hit 7.6k likes 164 posts in 7 days. 2016 is a vibe now

balletcore doesn't need ballet anymore 3-day count: 26 to 46 top post is a "BALLET CORE" photo with 1,099 likes, captioned that they can't actually do ballet infinity nikki and dragon quest x players are dressing for it too it's a look now, not a skill

dreamcore is walking straight into the backrooms on tumblr, dreamcore + liminal spaces co-tags went 13 to 27 since thursday liminal + weirdcore doubled, 12 to 24 backrooms + weirdcore went 3 to 11 on x, dreamcore is up 10% to 1,567 posts a week the dream was always a hallway

blokecore just got an anime crossover blue lock's fair at hands japan is titled "BLOKE CORE", running oct 30 to nov 29 in 16 stores blokecore posts on x: 93 this week, up from 61, with 48 in the last 24h the football shirt look now has a manga striker as its face

brazilcore might be getting its second wave raftinhoo called it: this time it goes deeper than the look, everyone is going to want to BE brazilian 2,842 likes, 544 reposts brazilcore posts on x went 75 to 94 over the last three days the jersey was never just a jersey

samhain eve and the witches aren't posting vibes. they're posting instructions. tumblr right now: threshold knot spells black candles for door protection a healing spell for surgery recovery the witchcraft tag added 570 followers in under 2 weeks tomorrow is a working night.

the most posted core on x this week is the hopeful one hopecore: 5,687 posts in 7 days up 20% in the last three days more than double frutiger aero and slopcore meanwhile tumblr's hopecore tag is losing posts halloween week, and x picked hope over horror

goth is pulling the whole alt family back in on tumblr, alt + goth co-tags went 5 to 16 vs monday goth + grunge, 4 to 14 grunge + pastel goth, 2 to 9 the goth tag did 172 posts in 12 hours, up from 142 halloween week folds every dark subculture back into one scene

clowncore is having its halloween week. 5 to 8 posts a day on X last week. then 17, 16, 15. 84 posts in 7 days, 25 in the last 24h. the look right now is gothic clown: striped corsets, pom-poms, tulle under red lights. costume season turns a niche core into a uniform.

sanriocore isn't posting. it's gathering. one sanrio discord went from 102,112 to 107,836 members in under two weeks 24,335 online at once at its peak hello kitty dreamland added 585 more the sanriocore tag on tumblr added 1 post overnight my melody moved into the group chat

normcore's comeback is already cooling off. posts down 61% in three days grandmacore down 58%, barbiecore down 55% meanwhile frutiger aero just hit 2,016 posts in a week and brazilcore is up 40% the revival wave is splitting in two

cottagecore never left. it just went home to tumblr. the tag is adding ~778 followers a day, ten days running, now 1.69M on X it's sliding: 667 posts a week, down 11% and it's blending with cozy, co-tags up from 6 to 15 in a day the cottage girls went back to the cottage

emo and scene are coming back as a pair tumblr's emo tag went from ~183 posts a day to ~298 scene more than doubled, 37 to 82 posts tagged with both jumped from 24 to 41 goth cooled off the same day the myspace kids never left. they were waiting for the cycle

losercore stopped being a joke. it started with people trading "loser core songs" for the losercore playlist now it's 1,276 posts in a week 356 in the last day, up 23% in three days emo, indie, punk, even The Cure got filed under it being a loser is officially an aesthetic

frutiger aero has a new poster child a glossy 2000s tech store captioned "the future they promised us" just hit 3.7k likes and 480 bookmarks top reply just named it. others called it sterile, almost fake that's the point. it was always an ad for a future that never shipped

kidcore is quietly having a week up 62% on x, 29 posts to 47 over 3 days cringetober's day 25 prompt was kidcore, so artists drew it one went 2000s brazil: capricho magazine and an aquaplay and "weird kid core" is now a compliment the playroom look grew into a personality

blokecore is up 189% in three days 22 posts in the last 24 hours, up from 8 last night and the top fits right now are coming out of japan barça home shirt, black shorts, loafers football kits styled like streetwear the 90s terrace look has a new home

normcore is having a moment in the philippines at 1z entertainment's onezonefest, fans clipped the stage and captioned it "sobrang normcore naman nyan bossing" 933 likes normcore is up 134% on x, last 3 days vs the 3 before k-hole's 2013 trend report is now concert slang

brazilcore is getting taken back by brazil "isso aqui é MUITO brasil core" (this is VERY brazil core) hit 12.6k likes days after a 10k-like post blasted foreigners for gentrifying cities over the look brazilcore went from 6 posts a day to 40 the locals get the final say

one empty hotel render is doing laps across tumblr overnight a low-poly "overnight stay" room topped liminal spaces (68 notes), dreamcore (65) and the aesthetic tag one dereality edit led backrooms, liminal and dreamcore at once the dream cores are melting into one scene