Changes: Mind Murder

Revision as of 22:51, 6 July 2021

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Mind Murder, also known as TFcore and Dark Glitchcore is an aesthetic heavily similar to Glitch. It 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 videogame 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. On March 31st, 2019, Desmarce uploaded the game MIND MURDER PLACE to Roblox. On September 19th. 2020, AussieBianca uploaded her first drawing to Deviantart, which is titled “Bianca Kitty”. Graceorwhatever, who has a big hand in creating the aesthetic joined Deviantart in March 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 Pico’s school turning into Carol from the Vs, Carol mod. The next day, Clone By Conversion created their tumblr, which they occasionally post aesthetic photos

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 to 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)
Mix and matched shoes/socks (e.g one red sock, one pink sock)
Shorts over leggings
Baggy clothes, sometimes torn
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.

Metallica (Fade To Black, Master Of Puppets, Welcome Home Sanitarium, For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Memory Remains, One, Spit Out The Bone)
Skillet (Monster)
Grey Daze (Sickness)
Mindless Self Indulgence
Get Scared (Sarcasm)
1-800-PAIN
Cavetown (Devil Town)
GRLwood (I’m Yer Dad)
Talkshow Boy
Còtiles (ENA remix)
Jazmin Bean (Hello Kitty, Yandere, Super Slaughter)
Black Dresses (NAUSEA)
TV Girl (Not Allowed)
WHOKILLEDDXIX( (Spy?)
Shinedown (Save Me)
Three Days Grace (Animal I Have Become
Korn (Blind, Freak On A Leash)
The Living Tombstone (It’s Been So Long, My Ordinary Life)
Maretu (Mind Brand)
Vocaloid (Hide And Seek
Jack Stauber (Oh Klahoma, Baby Hotline)
Nine Inch Nails (Closer, Terrible Lie, Hurt)
Penelope Scott (Rät)
Sohodolls (1724, Pleasures Of Soho, Prince Harry, Bang Bang Bang Bang, My Vampire, No Regrets)
Godsmack (Situation, Voodoo)
RetroSpecter (Chiller, Glitcher, Blammed, Expurgation)
Silver Mt. Zion (13 Angels Standing Guard ‘Round The Side Of Your Bed)
Sumo Cyco (Vertigo)
Mild High Club (Homage, Rollercoaster Baby)
Staind (So Far Away, Mudshovel, It’s Been Awhile)
Lemon Demon (Cabinet Man)
Stegosaurus Rex (Nowhere to Run)
Nero’s Day At Disneyland
Savant
Pixel Terror (Amnesia)
Mr.Kitty (Mother Mary)
CG5 (Discord)
REZZ

Playlists

MINDMURDER.FILE: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/mindmurder-file/pl.u-8aAVXDaFm12VeqW
MIND_MURDER.DMG: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dKj7pFuKHqUl8gVzVqERO?si=a5744231a9fa41c4

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, like the crying smiley face was drawn by Clone By Conversion herself.

Activities

Drawing
Vlogging
Playing video games
Animating
Posting on DeviantART
Playing the guitar

Media

Video Games

Friday Night Funkin'
Doki Doki Literature Club
Omori
Pico’s School

Web Animation

Homestar Runner
ENA
Satina
Spooky Month
Mostly anything from Newgrounds.

Resources

There aren’t many places to meet members of the Mind Murder aesthetic community, for it’s a pretty small community, but here are some for those who do.