- bio usage
- Added to bios by aesthetic accounts, moody photographers, or introspective creators to signal a mysterious, soft, or melancholic persona.
- story usage
- Layered over landscape or moody city photos to enhance atmosphere, or used in mental health awareness stories about brain fog and anxiety.
- aesthetic usage
- Core component of dark academia, cottagecore morning mist, liminal space aesthetics, and lo-fi visual branding.