i miss 2011 tumblr and i wasn’t even on it

i don’t know what it is, but sometimes i feel like i missed something really important.

like i scroll through posts of grainy photos of girls with smeared eyeliner and quotes that say stuff like i was too young to be there, but i still kind of miss it.

2011 tumblr looked like it was sad and beautiful at the same time.

like everyone was just trying to be soft and broken in a cool way.

and yeah, maybe it was performative or fake-deep or whatever.

but it meant something to the people who were in it.

and now all we get are sponsored posts and “📍POV: you’re healing” reels.

i want glitchy gifs of broken hearts.

i want dashboard poetry written in lowercase with no punctuation.

i want those weird aesthetic moodboards where everything is either black, blood red, or neon pink.

i want someone to reblog a sad quote and tag it #same without explaining anything.

now everything’s too clean. too fast.

i want messy. i want sincere. i want sad kids posting 2am thoughts into the void without trying to be marketable.

i want to feel like i’m part of something again.