If social media is telling us anything right now, it is that a portal has opened and it is taking us right back to the mid-2010s — specifically, the era dubbed ‘2014 Tumblr grunge’.

In short, I was trying to be the perfect 2014 Tumblr girl, emulating our collective soft-grunge idols like Effy Stonem from Skins and Aria Montgomery from Pretty Little Liars. While she fell out ...