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Do your eyes roll whenever you hear the word “core” attached to anything? Do you complain to anyone who will listen about how they’ll name a style after anything? Do you claim to have no style or that you just throw on whatever and go about your day? Have you considered that maybe…you’re normcore?? In this episode we’re rambling about what distinguishes someone who is “normcore” versus someone who is “normal”, what it means to pursue “no aesthetic” as an aesthetic, and what it means to pursue no aesthetic at all! Put on your most normcore outfit and listen along!

Learn more:

I'm Sorry, I Accidentally Invented Normcore - Ryan Estrada

Youth Mode - K Hole

So Now It's Cool to Just Be Normal - Bustle

Normcore: Fashion for Those Who Realize They're One in 7 Billion - The Cut

We’re entering our ~ hag era ~ ! AKA the perception that people (namely, women) evolve into hags when they enter their thirties. In this episode, we explore the anxiety and pressure that can come with this perception—particularly for those in their twenties (like us!) who are approaching this milestone. We end this episode on an uplifting note: delving into why getting older should be celebrated and seen as a blessing, rather than a source of fear or shame. Join us as we muse on aging and the value of every life stage!

We’ve talked about Instagram quite a bit on this podcast - one of our earliest episodes was us talking about our Instagram aesthetics and anxieties around using Instagram. I think it’s fair to say that Instagram plays an important role in our lives and we’ve started to re-examine and re-assess our relationship with it. In this episode we're discussing how our relationship with Instagram has changed over the years, the ways that Instagram tries to keep our attention and keep us on Instagram, and what we wish Instagram could be and what we wish our relationship with the social media platform could be like! 

Two ✨material gworls✨ who love their stuff get into their spending habits, our thoughts on the genre of online content that tells you what you NEED or DON’T NEED to buy, how we’re influenced by influencers, ads, and even those around us, and our relationship with money. 

Disclaimers: 

- This episode was recorded in early 2022, before the start of the global economic slowdown and mass layoffs of late-2022. Some of the topics mentioned do not take this extreme economic lifestyle-shifting event into consideration. 

- Isa here: I insinuated that most college odd jobs do not make significant money. This comment was ignorant, as many students, in fact, work jobs that pay enough to support themselves (and/or their families) throughout college. Also, I would like to take full accountability of my poor financial decisions! LA didn’t make me spend money, EYE made those poor money decisions myself.

Hello hello! Did you miss how awkward we are?? Well we are at our most awkward and rusty in this season 4 trailer/pre-season episode??? Just a little explainer on what we’ve been up to the last 8+ months and trying to get back into the swing of things for the new season. We'll be back again next week with a new episode! Until then, feel free to follow us on instagram @net.aesthetic and keep up with us! As always, thanks for listening!

I wish I (Lisa) could say that it took me so long to edit this episode because I implemented all of the advice in this episode and was too busy reading to edit. But really I was procrastinating on both and watching The Great Pottery Throwdown instead. Which isn’t to say that our advice is garbage and you should skip this one! If you used to love to read and/or want to read and, like us, are also struggling to build the habit - you’re not alone! Join us as we chat about our love for reading, our theories about why we stopped and why it’s so hard to get back into it, some strategies we’re trying out to build our joy of reading again, and a moment when I lacked scholastic integrity in the seventh grade. 😢

Explore more: 

Why You Stopped Reading - Answer in Progress 

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