REPLAYED (HAUNTED) SPACE

Weirdcore

spectre is haunting the web—the spectre of liminal space. I first learned about it in a blog link posted on Twitter. The blog’s name, ‘sad vacation’; the blogger, ‘Melonpanda’. The post was a translation of an article on ‘weirdcore’ from an overseas webzine. According to the article-post, weirdcore is an online movement that uses amateur or low-quality photos and digital graphics to evoke certain emotions, such as disorientation, anxiety, alienation, and emptiness. Visually stimulated by images floating around the internet from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s, weirdcore reminds us of a lost time and memory like that of a spectre returned. Most people who have seen weirdcore work experience déjà-vu, thinking that they have a memory of seeing that