one thing i feel like a lot of people don’t quite get about studyblr is that sometimes people won’t follow you because the content you produce is not quite the aesthetic they like or sometimes people will follow you because they don’t care about the aesthetic they just want learning tips, etc etc, and that’s all completely valid.
i see posts sometimes that try to be very virtuous about the studyblr community- that talk about how it should primarily be for sharing learning tips, etc- but i respectfully disagree.
I think people should create and enjoy the content they enjoy and that serves them.
now maybe someone’s here for just learning tips and not aestheticism? totally fine. but if someone’s here just for aesthetics? that’s also valid! sometimes you know how to study, you don’t really need tips, but you want someone to nudge you and say, “hey, studying can be beautiful.”
#studyblr gets real is a great tag, but so is regular #studyblr.
to be honest? although i reblog learning-tips posts etc as well as aesthetic ones, i find just pretty photos far more inspiring. my issue with studying is not that i don’t know how or that my techniques don’t work, but that i’m often unmotivated.
and that’s why i use studyblr! of course i can find beauty in my own messy desktop, but that’s the point of this kind of media- to romanticize it for you. i don’t look at studyblr photos with the perspective that my workspace has to look like that for me to enjoy studying. i don’t think that sitting in the middle of a giant white duvet with a wooden ikea tray and coffee and strategically placed dried flowers is really how anyone studies.
i look at studyblr photos because they personify the feeling of successfully studying. many times the things that fill us with joy simply would not have the same effect through a photo if we just took a straight up photo with no arrangements whatsoever with bad lighting, no arranging, etc. although these photos that i see are not visually what my study spaces look like, they are what they feel like.
this is why movies have colour grading, why they have sound design, costume design, soundtracks, slow motion. it’s not to say that “this is exactly the way things are or should be.” time doesn’t literally slow down. sad songs don’t play when someone breaks up with you. it’s to convey the emotion of a moment through a single photo.