#WEIRDCORE

[hazyhhh]

[mother-2-is-home]

Y'all really need to sign this if you want to keep your freedom rights.

This is not going to help children, it's going to make issues like online gr**ming and extortion worse.

This will also silence lgbtq+ content, women's health and safety content, and legal SW. Please help keep the internet free and safe.

Sign this petition

Hey guys something fucking bad happened

KOSA/the kids online safety act has been reintroduced into legislature after it passed Senate last year and then got snubbed. It is not unlike the bill that just passed in the UK a few weeks ago. If you don't want what happened in the UK to happen here, now would be a good time to vocally oppose it.

Here is a petition that can be signed by Americans. Attached to the petition is an easy tool that allows you to call and leave messages for your representatives. I have already done so. You can also email your representatives by searching for their name, most have message submission boards as well. This thing died once, it can die again.

Please sign/share the petition and contact your representatives.

[allthatispeculiar]

[fehck]

[moechu]

Moechu presents... Weirdcore pngs! ~ do not credit me! this request is for @hwizou

[godlyyuty]

it’s like if a human had a jacket of multiple other people’s hair

[pngblog]

[moon-fence]

[tuckedinbugw]

Nothing like holding my love

[pc98-rom]

[churchofthemimic]

you're safe here. Mimic loves you.

[technological-existentialism]

[cybergrapeuk]

House flipping :(

This is an ArtFight attack of Toytoise by @polymerclay!

*ignore the typo in the character ID. It's 6618899 without the F!

[luckkparker]

Remembering in the digital age

I remember using the Internet Archive for the first time at the age of 13. I had become a certified weeaboo at this point in my life and was desperate for my own copies of Fruits magazine. The gaudy colours, mismatching of patterns, clunky accessories and superior sense of self conveyed by this street fashion documentation was earth shattering to me — how could people confidently dress so outrageously? Was I allowed to dress like this? With little access to money, and 7,820 kilometres of distance separating me from my potential as a fashion kid, I decided to go to the Internet Archive to source copies of these magazines. 

I would download these archived issues and print them at my local library — A4 stock standard paper had never been so valuable to me until this moment.

This wasn't just about downloading images. This was a formative act of cultural translation, of self-invention through the preservation of other people’s self-expression. It wasn’t about retro for retro’s sake; it was about seeing a possible future through the past, one I couldn’t find in my local surroundings. For artists like me (nostalgia artists who rely on digital archives as our material) the Internet Archive has never been simply a storage facility. 

It is a lifeline.

That’s why the current existential legal threat to the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine is terrifying. At a time when digital information is being deleted, rewritten, or quietly erased from the web, the idea that we could lose this open, publicly accessible repository of culture, knowledge, and memory is more than just unfortunate — it’s a kind of slow cultural lobotomy.

In many ways, nostalgia art isn’t about the past at all. Art that engages with feelings of nostalgia is about our relationship to memory, to access, to media decay and survival. When I work with screenshots, obsolete aesthetics, old LiveJournal entries, or jpegs from dead links, I’m not just mimicking an ‘vibe’. I’m asking: what did this mean to someone once? Who were they when they made this post? How does the shape of a MySpace profile page change our understanding of broadcasting, of self-presentation?

When media is erased, whether intentionally or through corporate obsolescence, it’s not just a loss of trivia or entertainment. 

It’s a severing of connections. 

We lose the texture of our collective memory. We lose the ability to understand how people felt, expressed, resisted, or dreamed in their own digital time. Knowledge becomes flattened to what’s commercially viable, or algorithmically favoured. And when that happens, our ability to communicate meaningfully across generations of internet use collapses.

As an artist working with digitally archived material, I rely on these fragments of history to challenge the present. To reimagine identity, expression, and narrative by returning to the discarded, the low-res, the cringe, the earnest. If the Internet Archive disappears or is dramatically limited, that material — and the potential for new readings and creations it offers — disappears with it.

It’s hard to talk about deliberate attempts by the Trump Administration to enact internet destruction without acknowledging the reality that the internet decays “naturally” all the time. The internet forgets all the time, and more importantly, it is made to forget. Websites rot. Domains shut down. Platforms delete unpopular opinions or copyright-infringing content without appeal. Without tools like the Wayback Machine, we’re left with an increasingly shallow internet, scrubbed of its context, cleaned of its character.

The erosion of digital archives isn’t just a problem for artists — it’s a problem for democracy, for history, and for education. 

-- Luckk

Internet Archive and 'The Wayback Machine' are Experiencing an Existential, Legal Threat.

Below is a link to a petition whose goal it is to save one of the most effective tools against digital censorship available to the public.

"At a time when digital information is being deleted, rewritten, and erased, preservation is more important than ever."

Signing this petition is FREE and takes less than 5 minutes.

Recently, user @we-are-astronomer was able to utilize Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to locate and preserve government articles DELETED from the NASA website by Trump Administration censors. For more information, their post can be found underneath the break.

If resources such as these are destroyed, we risk losing every digital article and file deleted under the Trump Administration's censorship. Without a method for restoring erased information, censorship proceeds unhindered. No body, no crime.

Collective action gets results. Do your part to protect public peace of mind.

[dxrkone]

kinda basic concept but i feel like this base image really fit