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This rant took me a while to make, but here it finally is in all its glory. A rant I've needed to make as I've made some observations of the world around me quite recently, but here it is for once and for all:
You see it everywhere you go. It's like a soul sucking parasite that follows you around as you try to run from it. Article after article, building after building, logo after logo, website after website. Hell, even the people you see walking down the street have all become victims of such ghastly horror. You know something has gone horribly wrong with our world as you see everyone and everything around you literally becoming duller and duller to the point where everything starts looking nearly the exact same with each passing day.
I'm talking of course, about minimalism.
There is no other design trend that I've seen that makes me irrationally angry and sickens me down to my very core upon seeing it than minimalism. Yet it's everywhere and continues to prosper and spread anyways. It is so painfully boring that it almost depresses me. I don't see the appeal of living in a home that looks like a padded cell, nor do I see the appeal of trying to look like a carbon copy of everyone else. I also don't see the appeal of weaponizing playful ornamentation as someone with a very sharp eye for details nor do I see the appeal of demonizing the accumulation of the little treasures and knick knacks we collect over the years (and just of being a collector in general). I HATE, HATE, HATE that word and all words relating to it.
I hate to make this analogy, but honestly, I do think it's quite fair to compare minimalism to stage 4 (metastatic) cancer and to say that minimalism is in essence, a cancer on our society that won't stop metastasizing to every single thing it can get its dirty little hands on. It's ruined EVERYTHING at this point, even things like fashion. It is killing creativity as I speak and is the reason why creativity is dying in our world right now.
It's ubiquitous, homogenous, classist, and it ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SUCKS!!! It sucks the life and charm out of everything and yet it remains so widely accepted and adopted by our society, and for no good reason, either. Big megacorporations are scamming the populace by selling the most cheaply produced products at ridiculously marked up prices to consumers and calling it a "style" or whatever so that people won't dare to question the quality of what they're purchasing, which perhaps explains why it remains so prevalent right now in the year 2025.
Everyone complains about being "overstimulated" by older designs that weren't so fucking bland and soulless, but yet, I honestly feel UNDERSTIMULATED by modern, minimalistic designs and I hope I'm not the only one who feels this painfully underwhelmed by it. My brain craves "loudness" and lots of details, and this is all reflected by my lifestyle and how I choose to present myself in this world we live in. It's how I've always been. No, I DON'T want to look "understated" or "clean", I want to look the exact OPPOSITE. Give me things that are loud, proud, bold, and wild like my soul, not things that are boring, bland, and depressing to look at or think about. I don't want to live in a cold, sterile, white padded cell, nor do I want something that took zero creative effort to make.
I think it's also worth mentioning that minimalism is slowly but surely ruining local cultures and whitewashing them into this homogenous bullshit. Seriously, take a look at this article which explains the origins of the minimalist movement and its ties to white supremacy: https://title-mag.com/how-minimalism-and-white-supremacist-ideology-are-connected/. I always knew that minimalism was terrible and disgusting, but this especially solidifies my pure, burning HATRED of the movement.
FUCK Marie Kondo, the big megacorps, and everyone else who shills for this horrible movement. I support maximalism, creativity, and the celebration and expression of individuality, not this ultra conformist minimalism bullshit.
Also, here are some other articles I'd suggest reading:
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kadavera (under construction)
I also wanna add that interestingly enough, the descent into minimalism has been a slow, gradual process for centuries. even the good old times we're nostalgic for are comparatively more minimalist than the likes of the victorian era and before.
and why is that?
I think minimalism represents our deviation from nature and all things natural, and even spiritual some might say. Earth is not minimalist, was never meant to be. Cold, sharp, gray designs are a symbol of human dominance taking over this world, it is "soulless" for this very reason. Urbanisation of any kind eventually leads to a minimalist world, the clean-cut, flat roads we've paved ourselves were made from the destruction of nature's twisting, bumpy, gnarly, and varied land. In the perfectly "modern" world, we'll have almost gotten rid of nature completely.
There were days where human innovation used to be much more in harmony with nature, even by the decade. And deep down, we're not meant to live in a cold world like that, we NEED color, texture, and to be able to experience different things.
Minimalism on a scale like this does mental harm, it's already got to a point where we feel this depressing shift in our bones.
I can only hope people become aware enough and it dies out like any other trend.