Through the precession of simulacra, we have arrived at a landscape of e-girls and sad boys, the aesthetic values of our time transposed onto the ecstatic communications of the hyperreal.
Through Baudrillardian analysis, Alex Mazey attempts to trace a genealogy of Sad Boy Aesthetics , charting its earliest occurrences to progenitors like Yung Lean and Bladee, before moving towards more connective and investigational readings of Lil Peep.