That's not garish.

This is garish: https://yvettesbridalformal.p1r8.net/

This is genius tbh a work of art

Is this another example of we did it because we could, but didn't ask whether we should?

This CSS is specific to the article. Not the same across the site.

I quite like it, really fitting for the topic too

Ngl, I had a split second of "oh damn did I just pick up a url hijacker somewhere?" Especially with awkward gifs at the bottom.

90s Geocities sites never looked that clean.

> It's like somebody set out to do what the 90s Geocities couldn't, using modern tech.

This style is basically a sort of nostalgiacore and that's exactly what it's trying to do. It's heavily influenced by Web 1.0 and the time-smear of 1990s-2000s early Web culture.

Probably a matter of taste. I like it, it’s clean.