Perma2020/trans2020 transid tips
tips under the cut
Clothes
Oversized hoodies - black, white, or pastels
Mom jeans, straight-leg jeans, ripped jeans
Plaid pants, chain belts, O-ring belts
Crop tops with long sleeves
Vans, Converse, Air Force 1s
Platform boots like Demonias, Docs
Striped long sleeves under graphic tees
Beanies worn all the time!!!
Face masks for quarantine
Prints & Themes
Checkerboard
Flames
Skeleton hands
Anime graphics (Junji Ito, anime girls)
Butterfly motifs
Color palette:
Black, white, red
Sage green + dusty pink
Neon accents
Hair
Middle part
Split dye (black/white, neon/black)
E-girl bangs
Messy buns with face-framing strands
Colored underlayers
Makeup
Heavy blush across cheeks + nose
Thick eyeliner, slight wing
Fake freckles
Glossy lips
Dark brows (blocky, not laminated)
Occasional tiny heart or star under the eye
Online Presence (this is HUGE)
Tiktok (look into 2020 fashion trends and cosplay)
Instagram (low effort mirror selfies)
YouTube
Content habits
Sad edits
POVs
Traumacore
Over-sharing mental health
Anime clips + slowed songs
Captions
Lowercase only
Ellipses (…) or “lol”
Self-deprecating humor
“idk anymore”
Song lyrics as captions
Music taste
Lil Peep
Juice WRLD
XXXTENTACION
Billie Eilish (WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP era)
Doja Cat (pre-Planet Her)
Playboi Carti (Die Lit era)
$uicideboy$
Clairo
Girl in Red
Mother Mother
Arctic Monkeys
Chase Atlantic
(also here is my huge 2020 playlist)
Personality
Mannerisms:
Irony
“I hate everyone" and then "I care too much”
Slight nihilism
Saying “I’m tired” a lot
Humor that’s edgy, sad, dry...
Speech patterns
“that’s kinda cringe but ok”
“same tbh”
“I can’t do this anymore”
“it’s whatever”
“I miss 2020"
talk as if we are in the lock down
Interests
Gacha Life / Gacha edits
Minecraft YouTubers (Dream SMP era)
Anime edits
Subliminals
Tarot / manifestation TikTok
MBTI
Kin culture
Sad Discord servers
Wattpad trauma romances
Room
LED strip lights (especially badly placed)
Tapestries
Polaroids taped to the wall
Anime posters
Fake vines
Stuffed animals on the bed
Laptop covered in stickers
Things to avoid...
Clean girl / coquette aesthetics
2024 hyper-polished TikTok slang
Minimalism
Quiet luxury
Old-money vibes
Overly curated beige feeds
P.S. some 2020 slang to incorporate
simp
bet
say less
it be like that
deadass
no cap
cap
lowkey / highkey
facts
period
ok but—
bruh
bro
sis
idk man
I can’t—
I’m weak
I’m crying
that ain’t it
👁👄👁
this is my villain origin story
POV:
tell me why...
why is this kinda—
not me…
as you should
it’s giving
bestie
mutuals
soft block
hard block
ratio
cancelled
problematic
we need to talk about this
normalize
this ain’t sitting right with me
we don’t talk about that
nobody asked
you didn’t have to do that
HELLO??
EXCUSE ME??
WHY—
I—
PLS
BYE
STOP
IM SCREAMING











