Ok, so I've been editing for like 5 fucking years, and I noticed there's been a shift in the eras.

When I first came to the graphic design field in like 2015, there were also a lot of beginners joining along with me. I mainly focused on anime, so the first era I ever encountered was

THE BOOMER ERA

There was a lot of noobity going around. I worshiped covers that looked like over- contrast and over blending hurled all over it–and you did too.

ANY cover that looked like it had some airbrush erase, a weird dark edited background with compasses on it or whatever, and a psd slap was basically the golden era. If you could blend, you could edit. And I spent half of my time trying to learn how to blend I didn't focus on the fact that the blending I was learning was yikes.

Photoshop designers were gods. Mobile designers only used Pixlr, Picsart and Phonto, and were regarded as the trash of the bunch.

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THE KPOP ERA

  . Kpop themed covers took off, same-colour-syndrome came into play, and it was the era of STROKE, DROP SHADOW, DOTTED LINES, AND RANDOM PNG SCRIBBLES.

Backgrounds did not matter. All that mattered was getting that face claim to have as many doodles around them as possible, then finding the right monochrome or duochrome psd to finish it off.

Also, your gallery must be overflowing with useless pngs to add to your cover to make it look like it had substance :")

Btw mobile editors still didn't have rights :)

  at this time Pixellab became a thing and the mobile designers were going crazy with bevel bc they thought they finally had a photoshop ability lmaooo 😂😂😭😭 clownery

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THE PSD ERA

Some say it overlapped with the kpop era, others say it didn't.

This was one of my most unfavourite eras, bc it led me to my soul crushing quest to get photoshop (only to ditch it a month later)

If you didn't have a psd, your cover was trash. Bonus points if the psd makes some places look unnecessarily red at some parts of the model's face :)

Mobile designers started finding different ways to do psds bc of our inferiority complex : ) which led to pads (bc fuck tampons)

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THE FANTASTIC ERA

Woah, wtf, why are we suddenly manipulating? What's with all the flower borders and random moons? Why is fantasy the only thing we know all of a sudden?

Why are there so many random circular highlights??????

So EVERY background is either in the woods, castle, or near a weird moon sky. Got it.

Ah yes, I think onederstruck had to do with this with her awesome covers and trend setting. People ditched bland overly saturated covers and went for unnecessary blurry highlights at some places, bright colours, and face smudging.

Too bad the face smudge was...hella extra :")

Mobile designers began to learn about the wonders of ibispaintx, but there were a lot of unwilling fools still unready to accept it's superiority–staying loyal to the lesser piCsArT

The fuck picsart gon do? Pop art? 😂🗿

(Lmao jk)

(Not)

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The blush Era

Oh my god

t h e    b  l  u  s  h

Hands down the most embarrassing era for any designer bc we all wanted to make our characters look like they were fucking ill.

And the freckles too–oh my god

When i tell you

I made a character look like they had the chicken pox 😭

BRO I FORGOT PEOPLE KEPT PUTTING UGLY ASS WHITE STROKES ON HAIR LMAO AND I WAS ONE OF THEM 🤡🤡

Mobile designers finally gained rep, but the rep was usually "oMg a mObILe dEsIgNuR iS acTuALLy tAlEhnTed????? iMpoSSiBLE"

The fucking highlight era

I'm so fucking done with this era

Stop it already.

I blame y'all kpoppies 😭 making your model look like they's a doll that got dipped in some pussy juice I'm–

STOP USING WHITE STROKES ON THAT FACE

THOSE HIGHLIGHTS ARE ENOUGH! ENOUGH!

And why are y'all adding shadows to that cheekbone like ya trying to make a jafar? 😭 Enough

Makeup tutorials will say the same thing. CONTOUR ACCORDING TO FACE SHAPE.

Photoshop designers said fuck this shit I'm out and moved to deviantart and actual jobs

Mobile designers run this bitch now.

But we're saturating this smut app with highlights

So we won, but at what cost? 😭😭

I wanted to die making this lol

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Did i miss an era? A trend? A style? Comment here so i can roast it

Btw yes i dislike kpoppie highlights. Come at me