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vaporwave

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A retro-aesthetic art style referenced as an example of hauntology where the past represents dead hopes rather than inspiration for moving forward.

Mentions (8)
"Still fucks me up that Dasha dated the dude who invented vaporwave. You'd really think Oneohtrix Point Never could've done better than that"
Still fucks me up that Dasha dated the dude who invented vaporwave · CascadaLover70 · ↑293 · 2022-05-31
"It is perfect that vaporwave, a genre based on the vapid nature of nostalgia that sprung off in further underground offshoots as well as more latent themes in pop music, became it's own source of nostalgia."
I miss vaporwave so much · u/returnofthecoom · ↑221 · 2025-04-08
"i couldnt really explain to her the fact that i´ve been acting retarded on the internet since i was 10 and that i know exactly what aesthetic means because i was there listening to vaporwave when they invented it"
"2015-18, peak era of lil peep xxx and juice wrld, suburban high school and early 20s kids getting high on xanax, wearing zumiez thrasher shirts with checkered vans, mango juul pods, posting those vaporwave sad bart simpson edits."
can we talk about the xandemic for a second · u/icansuckthatforyou · ↑154 · 2025-03-26
"20 year turnaround is mad real, which means that all those styles which are now behind us - indie sleaze, early 2010s blog rap, Golf Wang-core, 2014 Tumblr, vaporwave tshirts, Mac Demarco-core, Soundcloud posers appropriating death/black metal logo aesthetics - are gonna come back within the next 5-"
DO NOT THROW OUT YOUR 2010s CLOTHES · u/Critical-Outcome-999 · ↑128 · 2025-03-27
"It's missing the institutional prestige aspect and like architecture, but my bias tells me it was more sincere, creative and most importantly influential than it's given credit for."
"Currently internet and art scenes seem to be dominated by detached and ironic representation of alienation and isolation, heavily self-referential and memetic neo-dada, retro hauntology where the past is not digged up for an inspiration for a way to move forward but a way to say that our hope and dr"
Why does optimism and energy seem to be dead from "popular" art scenes? · u/EyewitnessOfTheDeep · ↑110 · 2022-07-20
"It's missing the institutional prestige aspect and like architecture, but my bias tells me it was more sincere, creative and most importantly influential than it's given credit for."
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