Weirdcore is a surrealist aesthetic centered around amateur or low-quality photography and/or visual images that have been constructed or edited to convey feelings of confusion, disorientation, dread, alienation, and nostalgia or anemoia.
Visually, it is strongly influenced by the general look and feel of images shared on an older internet, roughly a period spanning from around the late 90's to mid 2000's. Amateur editing, primitive digital graphics, lo-fi photography and image compression are some of the most common elements found in Weirdcore images.
Thematically, Weirdcore often conveys a feeling of dread, brought forth by its low quality imagery and a lack of context in regards to the location or the message being shown. This does not mean that Weirdcore is deeply rooted in horror, however, as the feeling of fear left on the viewer is merely a side effect of placing them in an unfamiliar setting or context. This is purely subjective however, and depends on the viewer, their own experiences and the content of an edit; while some people might find a Weirdcore image scary or ominous, others might feel nostalgia or even a feeling of comfort.
Currently, the exact origins of Weirdcore are unknown, but may go as far back as the early 2010s; It has recently been determined that the earliest Weirdcore edit with a confirmed date of creation was made in 2017, but there could be earlier examples out there that remain unknown.
The genre started to pick up popularity when a YouTuber by the name of DavidCrypt uploaded a video explaining the Weirdcore aesthetic. Whilst there are popular Weirdcore creators, it is often hard to find the most popular or the origins of the content and creators, as most current Weirdcore content is uploaded to Tumblr, which doesn't show follower counts.
Weirdcore elements tie into other aestheics, such as dreamcore, oddcore or traumacore, depending on the piece viewed.
For some people, weirdcore is a very specifc genre as described above, and others, weirdcore is anything one might find nostaligac as well as offputting.

My specific attachment and adoration for weirdcore is specifically that it makes me feel like I am home. There is a sense of saftey in it that is not present in my every day life at this time. It feels uncanny and otherworldy and I have constantly told my friends that I do not feel 'of this world'. I specifcally feel as if I, in a past life or as a reincarnation, am what I refer to as an 'eye angel' (or one could call them another take on what Christians describe as 'Thrones".
Weirdcore fills me with a sense of normality. It is a comfort and makes me feel less out of place in the world.
Music is Misplaced in Time (Stage 2) by The Caretaker, part of the 6hr experiance known as 'Everywhere at the End of Time."
it's time to go home.