We’ve previously established that cuteness is an aesthetic that is often associated with traits that communicate purity, wholesomeness, vulnerability, innocence, beauty, and generally warm, fuzzy feelings in the last article. Cuteness has also been seen to hold psychological and biological influence over behavior and cognition, and socially has been seen interwoven with gender and expressions of the self. 

This article will explore the particular employment of cuteness in dark subject matter. We will briefly discuss how and why these subjects attract or combine with a cute aesthetic and what this means socioculturally.