
The main inspirations for the aesthetic are Tadzio from the 1971 adaptation of Death in Venice, Leonardo DiCaprio and vintage boys clothes, especially sailor clothes and woodland themes and colours.


The trends and iconography of that time include saddle shoes, shiny red vintage cars, and diner milkshakes, which are some of the most common photo subjects in the aesthetic. The most prominent visuals are the ones associated with the film and cover art of the books: the heart-shaped sunglasses and red lollipop.ġ950s teenaged girl culture is a large influence on the community. Nymphet visuals focus heavily on adolescence and the gateway between childhood and adulthood. In addition, tags for lolita and nymphet showed no results, causing the community to go by many other names, such as coquette, doelette, nympet, loleeta, etc. Because some Nymphet bloggers had NSFW gifs and discussion, most users in the aesthetic had their blogs taken away by the administrators.


The culture diminished heavily during the Tumblr Purge in December 2018, which specifically happened because of the presence of child pornography on the site. Tumblr was the de facto website for this subculture to gather. These two albums being released at around the same time made the two artists' listeners aware of, and yearn for, this sort of persona. In the same year, Marina and the Diamonds released Electra Heart, which explores feminine archetypes, sexuality, teenage girlhood, and the carefree yet vulnerable personality type that those with nymphet aesthetics can relate to. She references Nabokov's prose, having sex with older men, visuals from the films, being sexually attractive at a young age, and having a party lifestyle. The work that arguably introduced young women to the archetype and aesthetic of Nymphet was Lana del Rey's album Born to Die (2012). Milkmaid braids, sailor collars, retro swimsuits, and the color palette are all clear connections between the modern nymphet community's fashion style and the film. The 1997 adaptation by Adrian Lyne provided inspiration for most, if not all, fashion points. On the film poster are the two most iconic symbols of the character to this day: heart-shaped sunglasses and a red lollipop. In 1962, Stanley Kubrick adapted the book for film. Savage's Lolita: Genealogy of a Cover Girl, an examination of book cover design, lists the common visuals that the designers use, the vast majority of which overlap with visuals that nymphet aesthetic bloggers reblog today. The book's status as a classic required different publishers to find new ways of conveying the premise of the novel. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov was published in 1955 to much controversy some publications demeaned it and the novel was banned in multiple countries.
