The academia aesthetic is a visual style that has since spun off into various subgenres, the most popular being dark academia and light academia. Dark academia embraces formal clothing, dimly lit ...

From Instagram to TikTok, and thanks to fictional characters like "Euphoria"'s Lexi and shows like "Gossip Girl," the dark-academia aesthetic has ... yours with a dark-blue sweater and black ...

Many expressions of dark academia on social media are, as Hilless puts it, “un-critical,” but dark academia-inspired media which has repurposed its defining imagery to reclaim a space with a ...