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a more elaborate version of this lives at AestheticsWiki:

* https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Aesthetics_Wiki

* https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Aesthetics

While similar in spirit, CARI (the website linked in the post) is about aesthetics that can be found in consumer products. Aesthetics Wiki is broader, looser, and involved anything that people want to assign a name to. There are many things on Aesthetics Wiki that do not correspond to anything found in the consumer market.

I created https://aesort.com/ from this, with which one can create a personal ranking (takes some time though, since there are 836 aesthetics). It can be really fun/beautiful to put a list of one's top aesthetic names into Midjourney, and generate images of people, fashion, buildings, rooms etc.!

man I gotta say, I know this isn't your fault because you're just working with the material provided, but - it sucks that so much of the art subjects boil down to "cute/pretty/beautiful girl(s)"

it's like, what's cyberpunk look like? it looks like a hot girl with neon. what does nerdpunk look like? it looks like a nerdy girl playing on a computer. what's roleplay punk look like? it looks like a cute girl cosplaying as an elf.

it's hard for me to decide which styles really tickle my fancy, unless I get to see cute boys kitted out in it. endless variations of "quirky japanese girl uwu" gets old awfully fast.

I've prepared the site to be able to work with different example images for each aesthetic, but I haven't put in the full work of downloading these from the wiki for each one yet. That will hopefully increase the diversity of examples somewhat, although many aesthetics still need further contributions on the wiki itself, having only one example picture and no gallery.

The same issue occurs when generating images with Midjourney using a list of names of aesthetics, even without specifying a person, generated images usually result in a woman.

Very cool, thanks for making this

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