Explaining an obscure internet aestheticfrom @fakeplasticbrands

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Covering Obscure Aesthetics Part three What you're seeing behind me is what you might call schizo posting or schizo collages. It's a digital art tier built on extreme visual overload, saturation and multiplicity. Instead of cleanly curating or blending things better, you embrace pure chaos. No textures and references alongside cut out imagery to the point of complete visual breakdown. What we get is a stacking of visual data that emulates the disorienting experience of being on the internet. With almost all of these aesthetics there's a really interesting historical lineage to where this artform comes from. We can see seeds of this in Dadaism and early photo montages dating all the way back to the 1920s. And it runs all the way through post internet tier, then into memeutations like deep frying and more recently core core aesthetics. Artists like Parker Aitoh pioneered this art form, but more recently we see artists like David Dee and a cohort of unknown artists pushing this digital tradition of cut and paste into very hyper maximalist territory. And whilst it predates AI, this movement appears to be generating a counter movement to perfectly generated AI imagery. Where AI wants to synthesize everything into a smooth coherent whole, schizo collages do the exact opposite, leaning into raw difference and clashing contrasts. Quite often, we see schizo collages dealing with culturally relevant movements, often touching on themes like brainwashing, mass surveillance, media oversaturation rank conspiracy. Other themes that are frequently present in this is body horror, old web worse aesthetics and increasingly also using obsolete tech as a reference to the nostalgic past of the things we've lost.