Mind Murder

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Mind Murder, also known as TFcore and Dark Glitchcore, is an aesthetic that mainly features video game characters, cartoon characters, or web animation characters, often accompanied by glitchy visuals and either binary code or a random quote. It was named after the ROBLOX game Mind Murder Place.

Visuals[]

Mind Murder visuals usually have a cartoon or video game character (e.g. The Boyfriend from Friday Night Funkin' or the animation YouTuber Shgurr) accompanied by trippy visuals and a quote. Some examples of Mind Murder quotes are “It's about the worst thing I can imagine... losing who you are like that, all the while being twisted into a damned monster.", “I don't know who I am. I am always living as someone else for my assignments. I don't remember what my face looks like ... or even what my personality was like. My face, memories, personality, beliefs, emotions, and soul ... I left them all behind. I have no ... 'self'. I am no one. I am nothing but an endless abyss.", and “I don't know. I'm losing it. It's losing me. It's going away.”.

Symbolism[]

Guns and knives, similar to DarkErrorcore are represented as if one is trying to protect themself from their fate.
Hypnotic swirls and glitchy effects represent one slowly forgetting who they are, like in Bianca’s image which depicts a person turning into a different person. In it, the trippy effects and hypnotic spiral represent her losing herself.
Censored out faces, similar to empty photo frames in DarkErrorCore represent you not being able to recognize yourself anymore.
Neon colors represent an acid trip, according to Bianca, “Sometimes, when MC occurs in a TF, it feels trippy. Like your brain is slipping away from you.” she says.
Melting backgrounds represent acid trips as said above.

History[]

Although transformation art and trippy art has been around for a very long time, this aesthetic only started recently for its time. On March 31st, 2019, Desmarce uploaded the game MIND MURDER PLACE to Roblox. On September 19th. 2020, AussieBianca uploaded her first drawing to art sharing platform DeviantArt, which is titled “Bianca Kitty”. Graceorwhatever, who has a big hand in creating the aesthetic, joined DeviantArt in March of 2021. 2 months later on May 21st, 2021, Bianca uploaded the very first example of Mind Murder, which is a non-glitchy, psychedelic, trippy, picture of Cassandra from the Newgrounds game Pico's School turning into Carol from the Friday Night Funkin' mod titled Vs. Carol. The next day, Clone By Conversion created their Tumblr, in which they occasionally posted aesthetic photos; however, their blog has ended.

Fashion[]

Mind Murder fashion is mainly based off of mixing random clothes together. It usually consists of:

Partially dyed hair (e.g one side naturally brown, one side dark purple)
Torn clothing that fades into a different color (e.g Black ripped jean shorts that fade to blue ripped jean shorts, a dingy T-shirt that’s one side light turquoise, one side dark blue)
Mismatched shoes/socks (e.g. one red sock, one pink sock)
Shorts over leggings
Baggy clothes, sometimes torn up
Dripping makeup, or multicolored makeup

Music[]

Mind Murder aesthetic music, similar to DarkErrorcore, is meant to sound glitchy and invoke fear and anxiety. Whether it’s rock or electronic music, Mind Murder music still invokes the sense of anxiety and sadness. Heavy, angsty sounds with disturbing lyrics are often the type of music in this aesthetic. Electronic elements can also be implemented into the heavier part of this aesthetic.

Metallica
RetroSpecter (Chiller, Glitcher, Expurgation)
Lemon Demon
Stabbing Westward
1-800-PAIN
Mindless Self Indulgence
Jack Stauber
Nine Inch Nails
The Living Tombstone
Staind (It’s Been Awhile, Mudshovel)
Godsmack
Disturbed
Nine Lashes (Never Back Down)
Three Days Grace
Chevelle
Evanescence (Sweet Sacrifice, Going Under)
Blood on the Dance Floor (80% of the songs from their All the Rage album)
Pantera
Kyuss (Green Machine)
The Les Dillinger
Marilyn Manson
Rob Zombie
Korn
Or30 (Funked Up, Cartoon Cat)
Saliva (Always, Click Click Boom, Ladies and Gentlemen)
Breaking Benjamin
Seether
MELL (Red Fraction)
Talkshow Boy
Maretu (Mind Brand, SIU)
twenty one pilots (Heathens, Chlorine, no chances)
Butthole Surfers (Pepper)
Alice In Chains (Dirt)
Live (Lakini's Juice)
REZZ
Foster the People (Pumped Up Kicks)
Five Finger Death Punch
Sneaker Pimps (6 Underground)
Nero's Day at Disneyland
Jazmin Bean (Super Slaughter, Hello Kitty)
Soft Cell (Tainted Love)
A Perfect Circle (Judith)
Any Given Sin (Forgiven)
DECO*27 (Ghost Rule)
Slipknot
The Pretty Reckless (Only Love Can Save Me Now)
TOOPOOR (Crazy Girls)
Sodikken
Static X (Push It)
MoldyGH
The Doors
GHOST-P

Soundtracks[]

Repo! The Genetic Opera (Zydrate Anatomy)
Call of Duty: Zombies (The One, 115, Beauty Of Annihilation, Lullaby of A Deadman)
Undertale
Dave and Bambi OST

Controversy[]

Many people think Mind Murder is aestheticizing a fetish due to the use of TF art in the community, some of it even being slightly NSFW. Artists also don’t like their art being stolen. As a result, some Mind Murder artists, like AussieBianca have used their own art for the aesthetic, for example, the crying smiley face was drawn by Clone By Conversion herself.