Crikeycore

UGH this reminds me of bluey s2 e3 so bad… imagine growing up Australian and having fairy bread and pass the parcel at birthday parties 😩 its so crikeycore

Perhaps "crikeycore" is an extension of Australiana nostalgia, where people on social media, especially on TikTok and Reddit, would reminisce about growing up in the land down under.

While Aussiecore (as distinct from Crikeycore) is kind of a thing on TikTok, it's mostly people being intentionally ocker, tongue-in-cheek cooking demonstrations for Nescafé and Vegemite toast and descriptions of uniquely Australian phenomena like the smell your Kmart blow heater emits the first time you turn it on for the year. Aussiecore is an Australian-on-Australian in-joke, while Crikeycore is something that's being projected on to us, not by us.

Japan has wabi-sabi, the concept of finding beauty and serenity in simplicity and imperfection and we have crikeycore, which looks like Steve Irwin drinking a glass of Milo in Bunnings while high fiving Bluey.

All the overseas Bluey fans are fascinated by Australian culture. We take it for granted, but they love the crikeycore.

i want to live out my crikeycore dreams

Happy to volunteer being a lore checker when it comes to the crikeycore stuff too, not that it's fundamental.

When I did a crikeycore themed birthday party inspired by this tumblr post