Subcultures
332 sites
https://www.svenknebel.de/posts
Sven Knebel's personal blog chronicles his demoscene contributions, including TIC-80 byte-sized programs submitted to events like Deadline and Lovebyte demoparty, complete with code, screenshots, and videos. The site also touches on IndieWeb tech experiments like micropub endpoints and occasional 'Today I Learned' posts, making it a fascinating window into the demoscene and indie web communities.
https://astracelestine.nekoweb.org/
Astra's personal corner of the indie web, built by a teenage girl who grew up online and shares her thoughts on mental health, trauma, and politics. The landing page features an iMac G3 aesthetic with autoplaying music and links to her webspace and a tropical rice bowl webring.
https://howsoonisnow.org/
How Soon Is Now? is a richly crafted old-web personal site by a self-described webmistress who fills it with shrines, scrapbooks, a medialog, writings, and a digital garden. Highlights include dedicated shrines to obscure games, Alice, and Devil May Cry, alongside playful interactive features like a cow name generator, a doodle canvas, and an embedded Minesweeper clone.
https://bonbonbunny.com/
BonBonBunny is a kawaii lifestyle blog covering Japanese fashion styles like Lolita, gyaru, mori girl, and fairy-kei, with guides to TaoBao brands, cute shopping resources, indie game development, and sewing projects. The creator combines j-fashion expertise with indie game dev updates and kawaii culture content, making it a cozy hub for fans of all things cute and Japanese-inspired.
https://3r15.neocities.org/
A minimalist personal page by 3r15 with two themed entry points labeled 'good side' and 'evil side,' hinting at a playful split-personality aesthetic. The site features a trans liberation message and has the feel of an early creative Neocities hub.
https://blackwings.neocities.org/
Black Wings Society is a mysterious online collective centered around Serial Experiments Lain, cyberpunk philosophy, transhumanism, and lainism, presenting itself as a quasi-cult community with roots dating back to 1996. Visitors will find a stylized retro-aesthetic space referencing Mebious, the Wired, and figures like fauux, with sections for enlightenment, revival, transcendence, and connection.
https://koyanthrope.neocities.org/
Koyanthrope's 'Coyote of Autumn Grove' is a personal site dedicated to therianthropy and nonhuman identity, where the creator explores their life as a coyote-identified individual through writings, resources, and archived stories. Equal parts personal journal and community library, the site offers reflections on alterhuman identity alongside links, webrings, and contributions from the broader alterhuman community.
https://holographic.neocities.org/
A sparkly personal corner of the web from a creator going by 'holographic', featuring sections about their life, favorite places via virtual road trips, and a decade's worth of music charts. The site has since moved to a new username (fairytrash), making this a glimpse of a colorful, psychedelic-gif-adorned web presence mid-transition.
https://howdareyoubekind.neocities.org/
A vibrant personal homepage by a queer, leftist creator who goes by 'how dare you be kind,' featuring a microblog, games, and a mix of fandoms including Gravity Falls, The Owl House, and Superstore. The site wears its values openly with buttons and gifs supporting abolition, free healthcare, masking, and LGBTQ+ identity alongside adopted Pokemon and a crossword puzzle.
https://engelical.neocities.org/
Amelia's personal site is a kawaii-aesthetic space centered on her love of vocalsynth, girly kei and lolita fashion, Sanrio characters, and her self-ship with Genshin Impact's Diluc Ragnvindr. The site features poetic lyric-style text, sections on sanrio and RPGmaker interests, and a dreamy personal introduction that will resonate with fans of J-fashion and anime-adjacent hobbies.