The Spectre of Indie Sleaze

In mid-2021, a TikTok landed on my for-you-page that sent shivers cascading down my spine. A popular trend forecaster I’d been following for some time, Mandy Lee, announced there was an “obscene amount of evidence that the indie sleaze/Tumblr aesthetic” was coming back. I’ve seen a few mentions of “indie sleaze” of late. It seems that it […]