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 ...

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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 ...

Sydney Decker, for example, an 18-year-old theater student in the United States who runs the popular MyFairestTreasure, a Dark Academia-themed Instagram account, began posting about Dark Academia ...

Dark academia grew in popularity during the pandemic, when young people were romanticizing schooling while stuck at home. It has become a fashion statement and a lifestyle, with an emphasis on ...