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Drop shadows on boxes were a common TUI element in the Norton Commander days.

It's been a trend for years before AI... I remember the Balenciaga website being one of the first big names doing it in like... 2018?

Right, AI had to get it from somewhere.

Yeah brutalist is exactly right, that is basically what I prompted for. I didn't realize a bunch of other people were doing this. Actually the only inspiration I had for this was watching the movie (Brutalist) a few years back.

Even before AI, brutalist style is not that popular compared to flat, glassmorphism, skeuomorphism etc. Two popular website that use brutalist that I remember is Gumroad and Figma.