#trans2020

Clothes

Oversized hoodies - black, white, or pastels

Mom jeans, straight-leg jeans, ripped jeans

Plaid pants, chain belts, O-ring belts

Crop tops with long sleeves

Vans, Converse, Air Force 1s

Platform boots like Demonias, Docs

Striped long sleeves under graphic tees

Beanies worn all the time!!!

Face masks for quarantine

Prints & Themes

Checkerboard

Flames

Skeleton hands

Anime graphics (Junji Ito, anime girls)

Butterfly motifs

Color palette:

Black, white, red

Sage green + dusty pink

Neon accents

Hair

Middle part

Split dye (black/white, neon/black)

E-girl bangs

Messy buns with face-framing strands

Colored underlayers

Makeup

Heavy blush across cheeks + nose

Thick eyeliner, slight wing

Fake freckles

Glossy lips

Dark brows (blocky, not laminated)

Occasional tiny heart or star under the eye

Online Presence (this is HUGE)

Tiktok (look into 2020 fashion trends and cosplay)

Instagram (low effort mirror selfies)

YouTube

Content habits

Sad edits

POVs

Traumacore

Over-sharing mental health

Anime clips + slowed songs

Captions

Lowercase only

Ellipses (…) or “lol”

Self-deprecating humor

“idk anymore”

Song lyrics as captions

Music taste

Lil Peep

Juice WRLD

XXXTENTACION

Billie Eilish (WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP era)

Doja Cat (pre-Planet Her)

Playboi Carti (Die Lit era)

$uicideboy$

Clairo

Girl in Red

Mother Mother

Arctic Monkeys

Chase Atlantic

(also here is my huge 2020 playlist)

Personality

Mannerisms:

Irony

“I hate everyone" and then "I care too much”

Slight nihilism

Saying “I’m tired” a lot

Humor that’s edgy, sad, dry...

Speech patterns

“that’s kinda cringe but ok”

“same tbh”

“I can’t do this anymore”

“it’s whatever”

“I miss 2020"

talk as if we are in the lock down

Interests

Gacha Life / Gacha edits

Minecraft YouTubers (Dream SMP era)

Anime edits

Subliminals

Tarot / manifestation TikTok

MBTI

Kin culture

Sad Discord servers

Wattpad trauma romances

Room

LED strip lights (especially badly placed)

Tapestries

Polaroids taped to the wall

Anime posters

Fake vines

Stuffed animals on the bed

Laptop covered in stickers

Things to avoid...

Clean girl / coquette aesthetics

2024 hyper-polished TikTok slang

Minimalism

Quiet luxury

Old-money vibes

Overly curated beige feeds

P.S. some 2020 slang to incorporate

simp

bet

say less

it be like that

deadass

no cap

cap

lowkey / highkey

facts

period

ok but—

bruh

bro

sis

idk man

I can’t—

I’m weak

I’m crying

that ain’t it

👁👄👁

this is my villain origin story

POV:

tell me why...

why is this kinda—

not me…

as you should

it’s giving

bestie

mutuals

soft block

hard block

ratio

cancelled

problematic

we need to talk about this

normalize

this ain’t sitting right with me

we don’t talk about that

nobody asked

you didn’t have to do that

HELLO??

EXCUSE ME??

WHY—

I—

PLS

BYE

STOP

1. dress the way that people dressed in 2020!! things such as alt makeup (if thats your thing), dyed fluffy hair, kandi, things like that :3 ive noticed that a lot of “ravelike” stuff made its way into lockdown culture, so maybe study up on that as well?

2. if you had school during this time like i had, maybe do some pretend (or even real if it’s available) online school such as zoom meetings or online classwork?