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That’s a style of web design I’ve seen before - lots of colors, different font sizes, wall of text rants... something about it screams mental instability. See T
by jl6 9y ago
That’s a style of web design I’ve seen before - lots of colors, different font sizes, wall of text rants... something about it screams mental instability. See Time Cube for an extreme example.
- jrimbault 9y agoUniform black background under the piles of colors.
- dvh 9y agoLinux terminal with syntax highlighting?
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoback in the 90's it was extremely common to see lots of colors, especially on a black background.
- amelius 9y agoI like this style, and wish more people followed their own instincts when designing their blogs, rather than reverting to the standard corporate web-style we see so often these days.
- droidist2 9y agoTo be fair we were pretty crazy back then, this was before the medication boom. Thankfully we got treatment, now our moods are even and flat like our UI design.
- fermienrico 9y agoBasically, but this logic, any visual subculture is mentally instable. Anime, gothic, punk, hardcore, etc. In retrospect, you can say it screams mental instability but that's called confirmation bias.
- orf 9y agoNo, there is a certain distinct style that is different from those other subcultures you have listed. One that is definitely linked with mental instability. See timecube and "blacks for trump" as a reference.
- subpixel 9y agoI'm sorry to report that in my experience something like a 'schizophrenic aesthetic' does exist, at least in video. I worked for years in the film industry, in a position where people would send videos over-the-transom to try to get financing and publicity for their projects. Several of Ms. Aghdam's videos (i.e. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39ovcb https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x39ovcb) look alarmingly similar to some that I received from people who were clearly not well.
- noobermin 9y agoWalls of text rants exist all across the internet.
- JohnTClark 9y agoI think you should consider her age. She is 39 (old) so it is hard to keep up with the new trends in web design and movie making, plus she doesn't look very smart.
- CryoLogic 9y agoI don't know if it's in the spirit of HN discussion to judge someone's intelligence by their looks.
- maxerickson 9y agoDepends on if you are a descriptivist or a prescriptivist.
- JohnTClark 9y agoI am not trying to insult her but I saw that "style" of making youtube videos and web sites in other people most of them are above 30 and not to bright. I saw similar videos from one old man that likes to talk about demons and how to save our souls from satan and he makes this videos with demons and people in some kind of old graphics. ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4BTBMe_Um4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4BTBMe_Um4 he talks about how satan tempt us with womens. Or take this guy for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87nkJquHnAU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87nkJquHnAU They all think that what they do is nice and beautiful and nothing wrong with what they say or do. And I also remember hi5, they let you change color of your page and usually the people that were not that smart used a lot of ugly colors similar with these websites.
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- medecau 9y agoThe description almost fits the drudge report website.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoReminds me of MySpace to be honest, only legible.
- wu-ikkyu 9y agoDiagnosing mental illness based on someone's poor UI skills is dangerous pseudoscience.