If you are reading this article that is a good thing with the fact that it was published even with lowercase, the title of the article supports my article a lot; it centers on opinions and looks. Having the title of a movie, show, article, book, and mass media in lowercase appears more casual. It helps with reading the article because it looks like a text message from your friend and you always read those. Lowercase gives an aesthetic vibe to me. It says, “I am trying to get this message across the internet and to you without being professional and not listening to the censorship society”. It actually makes it more important for a teen like me to read that article than a professional capital, punctuated article, it just gives a vibe of “Hey, I’m important, read me.”

This article has not even started yet and I’m already most likely going to change a lot of things, just in this paragraph alone, it’s not the newspapers’ fault, it’s just the formatting needs to be professional. What is Aesthetic, where is Aesthetic, who is Aes— Okay, I was just about to bore you with these questions that try to make an article “interesting”. I put that in quotes because usually the rest of the article is really boring and you hope and hope it will get better but it just stays at a bottom level like this line_____: yes, stable but yet again, boring.

This article is not going to be like that, maybe I should start off with this type of sentence. Webster’s Dictionary defines aesthetic as ——Okay, no, we can’t do that either, because that is really basic and we are not basic. We are unique, so let me start off my way.

Aesthetic is basically a living style today but it was introduced to us (mostly teenagers) back in 2019. For my friends and I, it was about how things looked and how their placement might have taken so little time, and yet it was very pleasing to look at. When you go to an over-the-top fancy restaurant, you know that everything will be perfect: every table, every dish, every waiter or waitress will be perfectly uniformed and perfectly taught about taking orders. When you go to a restaurant that is not seen fancy and see a place or thing that is extra beautiful (or just out of place), sometimes you don't expect it. But in a trice, you love it. Even though it doesn’t belong, you still love it.

It's aesthetically pleasing because you didn’t expect that and you don’t see that daily. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Introduced into the philosophical lexicon during the Eighteenth Century, the term ‘aesthetic’ has come to be used to designate, among other things, a kind of object, a kind of judgment, a kind of attitude, a kind of experience, and a kind of value.” As said in the topic sentence of “The Concept of the Aesthetic'', aesthetic can be anything, it's not specific to one thing.

It can be how to set up your book (for me). It can be how you set up your locker, bathroom, office, or dorm. It can be how you eat your food, people you like, things you like. You may like books with hardcover binding and usually dark color (again, for me).

Aesthetic from the modern sense is commonly attributed to Alexander Baumgarten in 1735. My aesthetic is defined by my persona. Just because Baumgarten discovered the modern sense of aesthetics does not mean that he is the one who invented your style and your aesthetic.

My aesthetic is very much dark academia. The main social media app for these aesthetic wallpapers, photos, etc. is on Pinterest, which is the most common app for aesthetics. The app is literally for pinning your interests. If you install Pinterest and search up aesthetic, you will find a variety of results. 

Aesthetic can be defined by past relationships or past situations. If you have always wanted to attend Oxford University (again, for me) and live in England, study a lot or read (again, for me), your aesthetic would be dark academia. Dark academia is a much stronger and horrific story behind the situation. I don't mean that something really horrible happened to me, I’m just saying that the situations that happened in the past kind of amalgamated and created a dark academia aesthetic.

You should try different aesthetics and see which one defines your persona. It is not someone you are trying to be but something that you want to do or wish was like. Do your research.