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"Like yes we have mesh tops and visible thongs and the whole 'indie sleaze revival' or whatever. But it feels too strategic, everyone's trying to look hot for the algorithm not hot in the tragic, cigarette-burned, Miu Miu Fall 2006 kind of way."
"Their 'content' basically introduced me to the whole indie sleaze/early 2000s thing and made me want to be cool and ironic. For me, it was a first real burst of what art and culture looked like in the real world."
"I wasn't old enough to experience it but it seemed really sticky and sweaty? like I was watching skins and everyone seems so musty and sticky idk how to explain it. Same with indie sleaze, sticky and sweaty."
"Alt rock, indie sleaze culture, hipster-ism pushed popular non conformity more than pop cultures of today, but the varied identities fell within the binary."
"20 year turnaround is mad real, which means that all those styles which are now behind us - indie sleaze, early 2010s blog rap, Golf Wang-core, 2014 Tumblr, vaporwave tshirts, Mac Demarco-core, Soundcloud posers appropriating death/black metal logo aesthetics - are gonna come back within the next 5-"
"the fact that we're already recycling culture from barely 15 years ago (indie sleaze revival) what's the cultural event horizon and how far away is it"
"Despite it being current year, I often still find myself daydreaming about indie sleaze and soft grunge subcultures, to the extent that they even existed. I want to be an American Apparel model. I miss when Grimes and Sky Ferreira were still cool."
"It wasn't one coherent movement, but it was all vaguely associated with terms like "dimes square", "vibe shift", "y2k", "indie sleaze", etc."