Sadpeople

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Sadpeople is an aesthetic on Tumblr best known for its black & white edits of shows and anime between the 80s and 90s, cigarettes and trippy imagery, blood, sexual imagery, Vaporwave-based visuals, and mentions of depression and self-harm. Within the Sadpeople group, there are Sadbois/Sadboys, Sadenbies and Sadgirls-- these are simply gender terms and do not change the aesthetic's visuals for the person. Sadpeople often feel lost either mentally or physically, which is the reason why they revel in the aesthetic's tones. It has some relation to Traumacore, but Traumacore deals with physical abuse and abandonment, while Sadpeople is more about mental trauma. The Sadpeople aesthetic involves mental space, loneliness, and abandonment.

Visual[]

Unlike Traumacore, the Sadpeople aesthetic tends to focus more on feelings of isolation, loneliness, and anxiety that don't necessarily come from CSA or some form of PTSD and distinctly lacks the child-like nature Traumacore tends to have. However, it can be a popular partner with a Liminal Space aesthetic to show off that loneliness the Sadpeople aesthetic is associated with as well as a sense of dread.

Fashion[]

Sadbois[]

Sadbois don't usually come with a specific style of clothes but they usually dress anywhere from Normcore to Grunge.

Sadgirls[]

Sadgirls don't usually come with a specific style of clothes but they usually dress anywhere from Grunge. There is also an element of the E-Girl aesthetic that can apply to Sadgirls, but the mentality that Sadgirls have makes the fashions hit different compared to their E-Girl counterparts.

Sadenbies[]

Sadenbies, similar to the Sadbois and Sadgirls, usually do not wear a specific kind of fashion and wear something similar to Grunge or Normcore trends usually.

Media[]

Shows[]

Bojack Horseman

Movies[]

Atonement
Blue Valentine
Come and See
Cries & Whispers
Dancer in the Dark
Gummo
Grave of the Fireflies
Inside Llewyn Davis
Kids
Manchester by the Sea
Melancholia
Mouchette
Monster's Ball
Never Let Me Go
Nomadland
Requiem For A Dream
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Hunt
The Sweet Hereafter
The Vanishing (1988)

Music[]

Sadcore is a subgenre of music that is an example of alternative rock characterized by bleak lyrics, downbeat melodies and slower tempos, or alternatively, songs with deceivingly upbeat melodies that are simultaneously characterized by depressive lyrical undertones or imagery. Also, the music is sometimes played over degraded Bart Simpson edits.