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Minimalism is an outdated corpse of 2010s web design, fuck you

Now, some of you will wonder "yoooo Giygas/Giegue/chuuunnn/fuckface, stop preaching to the choir, you're only saying this because you know everyone agrees," which I mean...yeah, maybe, but nobody seems to mention the why of it.

You guys wanna know WHY minimalism exists? SIMPLE, late 2000s, piece of shit smartphones, primarily the ones by apple. They had tiny screens compared to now, very small resolutions. They had the classic, delicious gradients for quite a while, much like their predecessors with their even tinier screens (nokia, all sony ericssons, etcetera), but due to their smaller screens, visibility was considered lacking.Β 

Now ignoring how making everything stale and sterile for the sake of shitty screen limitations is straight out of a dystopian novel, YEAH that technically makes sense. Make things more visible, sure....SO WHY THE FUCK ARE WE STILL DOING IT?!

Phone screens literally have INSANE resolutions now. My fucking redmi from like almost half a decade ago is better than my LAPTOP in terms of pixels. Visibility could not be any less of an issue. But oh no we better keep this lifeless slop intact, let's just keep everything lifeless and sterile. LET'S DOUBLE DOWN ON CORPORATE MEMPHIS TOO, the worst fucking artstyle known to man.

Like we as in the global culture of planet earth have remained stagnant for an unfathomable amount of years. We make superficial evolutions in terms of dickriding about AI, but down to the basic human spirit, corporations have realized they don't need to change. Humans are creative, yeah, but corporations are merely made up of people. Pseudophilosophy aside, the more there are in a hive, the easier it is to distance oneself from the individual desire to create and evolve.

In other words, nobody likes this shit, but nobody HATES it enough for it to be an "issue," so nothing changes. It persists with no reason, it was done due to limitations, but now that they're gone nobody has fucking bothered to evolve graphic design. It's just sad.

Give me my fucking gradients back, dickheads. Honestly nah don't even give me the old shit, just make something new, literally anything. Maybe then people would not be thirsting for frutiger aero...which YEAH, they thirst for it, not only because it looks like clear, beautiful water, BUT BECAUSE IT WAS SOMETHING?! Like something tangible? Nobody is gonna remember this flat shit.


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rev

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You're 100% right. Smartphones are the reason why software design and literally everything else design is so disgustingly mediocre, so sterile and boring it's offensive . That's why I always hated them and that's why I don't own one and hopefully never will.


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πŸ€olgaπŸŒΈπŸ‡

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!!BASED!!


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loaffym.p3

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You're so real, everything now is so lame and plastic,they just took ALL the customization,the fun and the colors and identity of the Internet


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xX_Ronnie_Xx

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Time to sit into my box of shame since I don't understand websites that much.... But the thing is, if we mention low-end smartphone browsers (well they were modern for their time), today's """"minimalist"""" websites won't even load on them anymore! HTML color palettes might have neon-piss-color included, but I'll still consider *that* more minimalist regarding RAM usage


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mattzievox

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people in general js dont care to be creative nowadays. they dont mak their own art and if they do, they often stick to a comfort zone and dont expand. this is what corp minimalism is: corp comfort zone

thats why we have [[5,000,000]] extensions that customize websites and such

thankfully, people who really do care about customization flock to sites like this. or tumblr!


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Yeah it's why I'm mostly whining rather than longing: the good shit is here, the rest of the world can stagnate all it wants if we can stagnate the COOLER way.

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XxlyricmakesmesickxX

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minimalism is so lamesauce >:(


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kiko!

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in general, we are losing creativity in everyday life and corporations. remember who companies did fun and engaging commercials and web pages? yeah, now its ai search engines everywhere.


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Love searching for shit and having google's stupid ai going "AHEM X TOPIC IS AN OPINION" like yeah dipshit, I know.

...search for some more pressing matters like, I dunno, the sociopolitical state of the world right now, and HMMM, the bot seems to never quite generate a response.

(it's worse than worthless)

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