Indie sleaze nostalgia has revived Y2K’s “thinspo” community
thefader.comWhen Tumblr debuted in early 2007, I was a sophomore in high school that desperately wanted to run away to Williamsburg. It was the height of what’s now referred to as indie sleaze, where the alienated alt kids would reblog Cobrasnake’s blown-out party photos of glamorous, half-lucid It Girls.
Like the other alt-girl aspirants I knew, I practiced smudging my eyeliner and bought American Apparel bodysuits in preparation, because California was too warm for an oversized fur coat and no one dealt anything harder than oregano-cut weed.
And while we impatiently waited to finally turn 18, we sweated and starved to look like Sky Ferreira and Cory Kennedy, inspired to eat 800 calories and work out three hours every day at the behest of Tumblr’s pro-ana (pro-anorexia) blogs.
It was a fucked-up time that fucked-up our metabolisms, but none of us cared. We just thought about thigh gaps, ate rice cakes, and repeated Kate Moss’ infamous mantra in our heads: “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”.
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