#kawaii culture

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[anti-kawaii-daily]

hii!! can you talk a bit more about anti-kawaii? is it about being the opposite of kawaii or being kawaii but not in a mainstream way?

Sure thing!

In Japan starting in the 1970s, there was a cultural phenomenon called "kawaisa" (or 可愛さ in the original kanji), and it quickly became a staple of Japanese pop culture (and to a lesser extent other East and Southeast Asian countries as well). Kawaisa essentially turned Japan from the warrior and power based culture that was present in the country up until the end of World War II (which led to many theorists jokingly or not speculating that the reason this cultural shift occurred was due to Japan losing the war) into a country that places cuteness above all else in mainstream culture.

Since languages and terms evolve over time, eventually kawaisa became known as "kawaii", the most well known term for cuteness there. Kawaii culture is taken very seriously there, with things such as packaging on products and industrial products having elements of cuteness.

These construction barriers are a great example of kawaisa/kawaii in even the oddest places.

However, with time people began to get a bit fed up with mainstream kawaii due to essentially feeling like it's either A, promoting consumerism; B, used as a way to dismiss and discard "non cute" societal things such as illness (physical and mental), nonstandard and nonconventional standards of beauty, etc. ; or C, folks just got tired of it.

Enter the Superflat movement and anti-kawaii...

The Superflat Pop movement essentially criticized the consumeristic elements of kawaii culture, and soon enough it began to grow into what is now known as "anti-kawaii". This movement essentially allowed people to view the whole idea of cuteness in a much wider spectrum that before (even Erokawaii, which while on the kawaii spectrum, essentially allowed women to not feel like their sexual liberation makes them less cute or desirable by society, thus making it a bit of a middle ground between kawaii and anti-kawaii in my opinion).

If you are interested in learning more about kawaii culture in general I suggest checking these links out.

Sorry for the long answer bud, hopefully it's accurate.

[squ1shsqu4sh]

Yet another strawberry fit, bcs I honestly can't get enough :333 I couldn't take good pictures bcs it was late unfortunately but some of them were oki!!! Anyway, I'm watching an 8 hour fnaf fangame vid rn and it's so good, I'd usually put it on while I work but it's super entertaining (っ˘ω˘ς ) I LOVE FNAF!!!!

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[fluffydreamland]

this one's less detailed but it was still pretty fun to do

[deathtaffy]

I'm dipping my toes into the world of youtube. Starting with this little, experimental tutorial video. I hope to make more in the near future. Please give it a watch if you can. :)

[nickysfacts]

Lolita fashion is as empowering for women as it is adorable!💝

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[rubydolly]

I love Sanrio and more specifically Kuromi too much

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[hearteater101]

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[abbinurmel]

Listen I frankly don't care how yall relax or decompress and if you're among those people who regress or like kid stuff purely for aesthetic then fine, whatever long as you're still able to live a functional happy safe life-

But.

I really gotta ask. Where does this "happy vacant minded pure innocent haha no thoughts mind" association with being a kid or reliving childhood play even come from?

Cos frankly alla yall never have been or been around kids. At all.

"Lookee mee teehee Imma just a kyoot widdle goil with my immaculately decorated and absolutely clean hair and clean #aesthetic pink room and expensive adorable imported Japanese cosplays and designer stuffed animals and Instagram selfie influencer makeup, i just sit all day in bed surrounded by neat fwuffy pillows and flowers and organized building blocks in my sweet cute heavenly paradise where nothing bad ever happens uwu"

Meanwhile ACTUAL childhood, regardless of gender be like-

"MOMMMMM BILLY'S BLEEDING COS HE CALLED ME A PIECE OF SHIT SO I BIT HIM"

"I GOT ICE CREAM ON MY DRESS"

"DADDY DADDY WATCH ME KICK DIRT AT YOU HAHAH"

"EEEEEEEEEEEUGGHHHHRARAAAAAAA"

"FUCK YOU! NO FUCK YOU! DROP DEAD STUPID POOP HEAD"

"WAAAAAAH AUUUGHHH GHHHHHHHNNNN BUT I WANNA EAT MCDONALLLLDS"

"I will now take Barbie atop the great fire mountain, where she will make a living sacrifice of Pinkie Pie to the bloodthirsty ancient gods, so they may be appeased and no longer send deadly plagues to wipe out LegoLand."

"LEAVE ME ALONE STAY OUTTA MY ROOM IDIOTS AGGHH I HATE YOUUUU"

"MOMMEE THERE'S GUM IN MY HAIR"

"It's 9PM and I am in bed and I just heard a funny buzzing noise come from the house somewhere. The whole world literally wants to kill me in my sleep now. My bed will have nothing but my skeleton left in it by tomorrow....👀"

"I got pushed down in the mud at the playground because I told my friends I liked the color purple."

"I saw a dead earthworm on the ground and I cried cos I knew existential despair til I was red in the face and then got sent to the principle's office."

"Billy threw up so I just stood there and laughed until Billy threw some of his throw up at me"

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[girlytips]

My friend Yuka Cinnamon over at Showa Girly Culture Research Institute published a book on 80s girly culture and it surprisingly made it into the news.