hopecore en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈhoʊpˌkoɹ/ (US)
Etymology
From hope + -core.
Meanings
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(neologism, qualifier:aesthetic, uncountable) An Internet aesthetic featuring joyful or motivational content, intended to inspire hope.
There are a few statements and quotes that crop up a lot in TikTok’s new ‘hopecore’ trend. […] For India Black, who posts a lot of hopecore content on the video app, the trend is TikTok’s name for videos dedicated to curating messages of optimism.
2024 February 19, Yolanthe Fawehinmi, “What is TikTok’s new ‘hopecore’ trend and is it exactly what we need right now?”, in The Independent:
- (Internet, broadly, humorous, uncountable) Pornography.