Webrings

NAME: TORI / BYTE
PRONOUNS: THEY / THEM
DOB: DECEMBER 23
(AGE 20)
ORIENTATIONS: /
BI-NB+
OCCUPATIONS: HOBBYIST ARTIST + GAMER + ARCHIVIST

Hello! My name's Byte (or Tori, which-ever goes), and I'm a black American artist who's heavily inspired by the neo-y2k and frutiger movement of the 2020s and visionary art! My works combine all sorts of internet culture with rebellious themes, 90s-2000s nostalgia, Japanese influences, mysticism, and futurism. I'm also autistic.

I was first invested in web design around 2018 thanks to Carrd (the site I used as building blocks until July 2024). However, I wasn't interested in HTML-CSS coding because some aspects feel overwhelming and complicated, so I tend to collect graphics for future purposes from various sites, from the reblogs of Tumblr to the rabbit holes of Neocities. But my perspective changed when I was introduced to sheezy.art from Twitter back in March 2024. I know it's a successor to the original SheezyArt.com, as well as a great alternative to the ever-infamous DeviantArt. Currently, I'm still teaching myself how to code, but I'm slowly improving and learning.

Aside from web design and drawing, I enjoy graphic design, collecting and listening to music, learning about obscure things such as lost media, and reading wikis!

INTERESTS / INSPIRATIONS!!
IN GENERAL: Collecting and archiving (whether it'd be media or just web graphics), 80s-2000s culture, lost/obscure media, marine life (primarily deep sea)
GAMES: MapleStory (unfortunately), Roblox (also unfortunately), the SHMUP game genre, Skullgirls, Psychonauts, Yume Nikki, Slime Rancher, Sonic the Hedgehog, Splatoon, Sky:COTL
SHOWS/MOVIES: Eddsworld, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, PPG (1998), Serial Experiments Lain, Bunny Maloney, Lupin III, Kaiba (2008), OK KO, Evangelion, Steven Universe, Rock & Rule (1983), old foreign (mainly Soviet) cartoons
MUSIC: Susumu Hirasawa (P-Model / 核P-Model), DJ Sharpnel, Nihonkokumin/日本國民, Cycheouts, Takao Yamashita (beauty:beast + NEVEN), Insane Clown Posse, NANORAY, Operation Ivy, Hakke Shoukai, Macross 82-99, Louie Zong, Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, Golemm, Disko Warp, Mohican Sandbag, Allkore, Zovi
LITERATURE: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Problem Sleuth, Design Plex, Cells at Work!, Homestuck (artistically), Codex Seraphinianus, 1984, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451
AESTHETICS: Frutiger aero + metro, webcore, Y2K/cybercore, xpiritualism, psychedelia, gyaru, 2000s scene, goth, punk, vaporwave, steampunk, dieselpunk
ARTISTIC INSPOS: Kikita Katsue (Fantasm Core Graphics + PHASH:MA), Itsuo Ito + Miho Sadogawa (Furi Furi Company), null500 (Nihonkokumin/日本國民), Polyhex, Kentaro Mori (moriken / FUTUREEXPRESS), Nendo Graphixxx, Gosha Dole / Radio Gosha, Hideyuki Takenami, Yuji Uekawa, Susumu Matsushita, Hideyuki Tanaka, 2shiroinu (Gekidan Inu Curry), Alex Ahad