Chaos Is the Point: Why Gen Z's Love Affair With Ugly Websites Is the Most Honest Thing on the Internet
Sparkly cursors, tiled backgrounds, fonts that have no business being on the same page together — the design language of early 2000s personal homepages is back, and this time it's completely intentional. Gen Z didn't stumble into this aesthetic by accident. They chose it, and what that choice says about design culture right now is genuinely fascinating.