Trailer Park Princess combines elements of Americana , eroticism, poverty, horror , and femininity to create a feeling of nostalgia, unease, and deviancy. It incorporates many elements of Camp and Kitsch; it is a total subversion of what is deemed to be good taste in contemporary American society, as it openly celebrates identities that are shamed in American society: the poor, drag queens, sex workers and the kink scene, and rural "uncultured" communities. The users who post this content tend to come from an upbringing that is of this "aesthetic," and the elements are personal and looked upon with fondness, rather than as a means of shock value and antagonization.

Additionally, the community contains many Nymphets and has strong overlap with the Morute community. Like many other pre-suffix aesthetics , the aesthetic is highly individualized and bloggers would typically combine or emphasize more on different aesthetics.

Since the 1960s, American film director John Waters has created many films, such as Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble, which contain similar campy and distinctly American visuals and motifs to what became the 'trailer park princess' aesthetic. Divine, a drag queen, actor, and close friend of Waters', was often the lead actor in his films. It is believed that Waters' films, and films that were later inspired by them, were a large influence on the aesthetic.

On sites like Tumblr and Pinterest, people commonly repost screencaps from these films, although the films are often grittier, gorier, and more sexually explicit than what is generally associated with the aesthetic.

Because of their campiness and the way that they often juxtapose conventionally attractive women with disgusting or horrific scenarios, horror and exploitation films, particularly from the 1970s and 80s, are often associated with the trailer park princess aesthetic. Before the aesthetic became what it is today, and was named, screencaps from these kinds of films were popular on blogging platform Tumblr, and often appeared on fashion blogs, particularly in association with earlier related aesthetics such as nymphet and morute . Many of them would post these screencaps purely for outfit and hair inspiration, and intentionally left out the darker scenes from their posts.

There are two subgenres of horror and exploitation films which are particularly popular within the aesthetic: "slasher" and "hixploitation." Slasher films, which became greatly popular in the 1980s, often focused on a murderer who wreaks havoc on a group of people, often teenagers, or an entire school or city, with the horror coming from gratuitous, bloody murder scenes, and creative methods of executing them. Examples of slasher films include Halloween, Friday the 13th, Scream, and IT, although many on Tumblr intentionally seek out more obscure films to post.

Hixploitation is a type of exploitation film which exaggerates stereotypes of impoverished people, particularly from Appalachia and the southeastern United States, in comedic, horrific, or disturbing ways. It often portrays them as being inbred and unintelligent, which, while offensive and inaccurate to reality, often appeals to people from these communities nonetheless due to their visuals, in spite of the 'messages' of these films. Additionally, these people and their lives are so infrequently shown in fictional media, some have a mindset to sort of 'take what they can get' in regards to them.

While The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is perhaps the most famous hixploitation film, ones which are not explicitly horror films, such as Gummo, are more heavily posted and idolized by them. Notably, Nicole Dollanganger, who is a large influence on the trailer park princess aesthetic, is a fan of Gummo, and has referenced the film in her music. In addition, Gummo doubly belongs to the exploitation subgenre "teensploitation," which also seems to be popular within the community, with films like Welcome to the Dollhouse and Kids.

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Lana Del Rey's work often features trailer park imagery, themes, and aesthetics, particularly during her Lizzy Grant era. Del Rey lived in a trailer park in North Bergen, New Jersey at the time.

Throughout her discography, Dollanganger has made several songs which reference trailer life and common trailer park princess motifs such as motels and diners, "White Trashing" and "American Tradition" being the most well-known of these.

Ginger Bronson is a Tumblr user who has written several poems and rap songs about her experiences briefly living in Alabama, where she did hard drugs and lived with an older man in a trailer for a brief period of time. She is considered controversial, however, because she comes from an upper middle class background, and much of the poems and songs she writes are not from personal experience, and rely on negative stereotypes of people in poverty.

Alpojones is a Tumblr user who posts content related to mannequins, dolls, and vintage imagery. They often photograph images of their own mannequin.

Vintage pin-ups and other sexual material, particularly Playboy magazines, are frequently associated with the aesthetic, as they are all at once trashy, campy , and hyperfeminine. Many of the women featured in these magazines, known as "playboy bunnies," gained an almost celebrity status, and are considered icons for their personal styles and personalities, and not just their bodies, which leads them to being idolized in coquettes and nymphets and other niche online communities, in spite of the way that many of them were secretly suffering and dealing with trauma and drug issues beneath the surface.

Texan model, actress, and former stripper Anna Nicole Smith is very often idolized and romanticized within the trailer park princess aesthetic, due in part to her controversial marriage to petroleum tycoon J Howard Marshall when she was 27, and he was 89, after they met at a strip club.

Despite their 62 year age gap, and how wealthy Marshall was, Smith maintained until her death in 2007 that she had married him out of love and not money.

The name "Trailer Park Princess" was created for this wiki. Prior to this, the community was mostly untagged on Tumblr, and posts that were found were tagged with Lizzy Grant, trailer park, dollette, nymphet, coquette, etc.

The aesthetic has received criticism online for romanticizing poverty and looking poor for the "aesthetic", it has also received criticism for being an inaccurate portrayal of trailer park life, as well as potentially romanticizing drugs and sex work. Additionally, many of the aesthetic's central figures, such as Lana Del Rey, did not grow up in poverty.