An analysis of what happened to Vaporwave—the music that captured the Internet with an obsession of '80s and '90s consumer culture.

In January 2012 vaporwave was in its infancy. Some of its major players, such as LA/NYC label Beer on the Rug and Portland producer Vektroid, had been putting out experimental music for a year or ...

Emerging in the early 2010s, vaporwave as a subgenre of electronic music, visual art style, internet meme, and aesthetic can be characterized by its retro-futuristic sounds and imagery. Inspired ...

Many people feel sad on Valentine’s Day for a great number of reasons. Is it legitimate sadness or is it normalized, commercial sadness? We’re all witnessing the slow rise of Vaporwave and ...

The Aesthetics Wiki is organized by suffix: “Wave” has 17 main pages; “Goth” has 14; “Core” has 125. There are also 27 pages dedicated to the various subgenres of “academia,” which ...

Several Instagram pages and YouTube channels are devoted to making sad cartoon edits, ... Back then, the videos all had the same lo-fi aesthetic recycled from the Vaporwave scene.

Today, Evan Hemsley—an L.A.-based musician and video game programmer—debuts vapor.fm, a 24/7 site devoted to all things vaporwave. Hemsley says he was drawn into the world of vaporwave after a ...

Born on the internet almost 10 years ago as a sarcastic joke about the fetishization of the 1980s, vaporwave survived until 2020 as an aesthetic niche merging electronic music and digital art.

Vaporwave Simulator Brings its 1990s Aesthetic to 2018 Indie Games. By Marcus Estrada. Published Jan 2, 2018. Your changes have been saved. Email is sent.