The subgenres of the academia aesthetic, like dark academia, light academia, and romantic academia, have gained popularity on platforms like Tumblr, TikTok, Pinterest, and Instagram. What makes ...

So, you just took a photo of yourself and now want it to give “main character’s dead wife in a flashback”? Well, you can, thanks to the film aesthetic. The film aesthetic used to dominate ...

Many expressions of dark academia on social media are, as Hilless puts it, “un-critical,” but dark academia-inspired media which has repurposed its defining imagery to reclaim a space with a ...

A guide to ‘dark academia,’ the TikTok-popular aesthetic with preppy style and an intellectual focus Scottie Andrew , CNN 6 minute read ...

The dark academia aesthetic is a subculture derived from the idealisation of knowledge, classical studies, and literature. The 19th and early 20th-century scholarly styles influence the outfit.