dark academia

Adobe Stock lists 12,399 illustrations for “dark academia” as of 2026-08-30. The other tracked catalogues read 3,084 on iStock and 6 on Shutterstock. That is a 2067× spread between the largest and smallest, so this phrase is stocked far more heavily on Adobe Stock than across the marketplaces evenly. For scale, that is below the median of 76,000 across the 4,009 phrases with a supply reading.

Adobe Stock flags 93% of its 12,399 illustrations for this phrase as AI-generated. That puts it in the most generated quarter of the 1,383 phrases where Adobe publishes the flag, which begins at 88%. The flag is Adobe's own declaration on the asset, not an inference of ours, and it covers Adobe's catalogue only.

In the week of 2026-08-09, Google Trends put “dark academia” at 55% of its own 12-month peak — mid-range for its own year. That index is rescaled per phrase, so every tracked phrase reaches 100 at its own busiest week; it says where this phrase sits in its own year, not how its search volume compares with another phrase's.

Sellers who publish for this phrase also tag their files “katabasis”, “peter fleming dark academia”, “dark academia books”, “dark academia aesthetic”, “dark academia movies”, “dark academia fashion”, and 34 more — harvested from the live listings rather than suggested, so they describe how the subject is actually being framed for buyers. The phrase sits in the education category.

The phrase is linked to Chronovisor on 2026-09-04, today. 7 further linked events are on the calendar within the tracked horizon.