Just about wrapped up the website transformation, there’s still some pages that need updating but I’m honestly not going to worry about them for now cause they’re kinda obscure pages anyway lol. I wanted to change up the visual style for the site by actually giving it some kind of aesthetic to go off of rather than just saying early 90s internet cause it's what I was able to make within the time frame I had for the class I was making the site for initially. I went with a frutiger aero style for a few reasons, mostly because I just personally love the aesthetic as a whole, it reminds me of old nintendo ui like the Wii and Wii U and a bit of the ps3 and 360. I never personally owned a 360 but I did have a ps3 I would watch my dad play when I was young and some of my family friends had a ps3 that we would always play Minecraft and LBP on whenever we’d go over.
I know there's a lot of I guess disdain for frutiger aero online nowadays cause it’s been kinda beaten to death by nostalgia bait posts on like TikTok to the point where, like a lot of other stuff now, it’s just used to sell shitty products and take your money by feeding off nostalgia. I honestly get it, it’s frustrating and disheartening to see a massive part of childhood be entirely deconstructed and rebuilt into some kind of frankenstein husk of its former self and then have it be used to sell whatever dropshippers and whoever else thinks will sell.
Something I’ve been seeing a lot of is younger people who weren’t even alive or conscious during the time fruitier areo was actually being used by companies saying that they miss it and remember it or just kind of latching onto the trend. While it goes back to what I was talking about earlier with things just being stripped down for profits, I honestly don’t share the same resentment towards these trend hoppers that I see a lot of other people have. Obviously, I don’t like the aspect of pretending to know about it and pretending to be a part of something they were never a part of, but honestly, can you blame them for wanting to be a part of it? The look of things like the old xbox 360 dashboard and windows 7 ui has a much more inspiring feeling compared to whatever stage of corporate minimalism we're on now, looking at the kind of stuff that is advertised to people of that age these days, I really can’t blame them for wanting to attach themselves to literally anything else.
I think mostly, I just feel bad for these younger kids having to grow up without some of the stuff that I had growing up, now they’re shown AI generated slop or just boring uninspired corporate minimalism. Then whenever they attempt to break out of these circles and find something that they actually enjoy, they’re met with gatekeepers and people telling them that they’re basically not allowed to enjoy it because they weren’t there for its inspection or major phase of popularity. Which I just think is stupid, who cares if little Timmy wasn’t in the pit at the first nirvana concert, if they like the music let them listen to it, if they like the band merch let him wear it, they’re just trying to have fun the same way you had fun before them. This kind of behavior is only a problem when they start acting like they’re better than other people or have in-depth knowledge about the subject when they don’t and act like their word is gospel. This also goes for the gatekeepers as well, there’s no reason to treat new people coming into a fandom space like they're the plague or evil, if your fandom prides itself on being niche and undiscovered you’re lowkey weird and arrogant in my eyes.
But I digress, at the end of the day I feel like we’re all just trying to find stuff that we enjoy and makes us happy and I don;t think that should be punished or looked down upon, so long as it’s not hateful or hurting anyone obviously.
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