one thing i feel like a lot of people donāt quite get about studyblr is that sometimes people wonāt follow you because the content you produce is not quite the aesthetic they like orĀ sometimes people will follow you because they donāt care about the aesthetic they just want learning tips, etc etc, and thatās all completely valid.Ā
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.Ā
now maybe someoneās here for just learning tips and not aestheticism? totally fine. but if someoneās here just for aesthetics? thatās also valid! sometimes you know how to study, you donāt really need tips, but you want someone to nudge you and say,Ā āhey, studying can be beautiful.āĀ
#studyblr gets real is a great tag, but so is regular #studyblr.Ā
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 donāt know how or that my techniques donāt work, but that iām often unmotivated.
and thatās why i use studyblr! of course i can find beauty in my own messy desktop, but thatās the point of this kind of media- to romanticize it for you. i donāt look at studyblr photos with the perspective that my workspace has to look like that for me to enjoy studying. i donāt 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.Ā
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.Ā
this is why movies have colour grading, why they have sound design, costume design, soundtracks, slow motion. itās not to say thatĀ āthis is exactly the way things are or should be.ā time doesnāt literally slow down. sad songs donāt play when someone breaks up with you. itās to convey the emotion of a moment through a single photo.