femcelcore
nounEtymology From femcel + -core.
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Neologism A melancholic aesthetic associated (often ironically) with the femcel movement.
- To me, the femcelcore content is reminiscent of the sad-girl Tumblr aesthetic from 2014 just rebranded.2022 November 18, Hannah Bentley, “Unpicking The 'Femcelcore' Trend”, in Her Campus:
- Similarly, the iteration of ‘femcelcore’ on TikTok that we analyse, unlike the ‘traditional’ femcel, appears to be sarcastic, ironic and funny, and the use of memes only underscores this affective orientation: ‘Femcels are screaming into the void, but laughing while they do so’ (Bergeron-Stokes, 2023).2024, Jacob Johanssen, Jilly Boyce Kay, “From femcels to 'femcelcore': Women’s involuntary celibacy and the rise of heteronihilism”, in European Journal of Cultural Studies:
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- At the intersection of femcelcore and heteropessimism is a hard kernel of defiance. The femcel is unapologetically toxic. She is not concerned with bettering herself.2024, Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn, “The return of the femcel”, in The Griffith Review: