Cottagecore and aesthetic subcultures
Subject in Society & Culture
Cottagecore and aesthetic subcultures has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including TED Radio Hour. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Adam AleksicLinguist and TikTok creator featured in part two of the series
In his TED Talk, Aleksic argued that algorithms push users into narrow aesthetic identities like cottagecore in order to sell them targeted commercial content.
“social media algorithms wants to make you identify with hyper compartmentalized labels, since they can then give you extremely specific commercialized content catering to that identity”
TED Radio Hour: How the creator economy is making you talk like the internet (Aug 21, 2026) · Listen from 38:42
Podcasts
- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
Episodes
How the creator economy is making you talk like the internetTED Radio Hour · Aug 21, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with linguist and creator Adam Aleksic about how social media algorithms shape slang, influencer speech, identity and politics.