Vaporwave
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Sep 19, 2026
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That's exactly what it is.
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And this brings up a specific, fascinating Internet subculture that the text uses as a prime case study of this digital nostalgia, Vaporwave.
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Vaporwave is perhaps the most perfect example of how the passage of time and cultural distance can turn the absolute mundane trash of society into profound art.
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For those who might not have tumbled down this specific internet rabbit hole in the 2010s, let me paint a picture of Vaporway.
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Please do.
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And Amaraz's analysis of why this works is brilliant.
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What's the theory?
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Vaporwave isn't actually about the future.
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Here we've got a wild Captain Brovados on Reddit.
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Once a Brovados reaches maturity, it engages an amazing ritual known as making mashups, resulting in Nickelback mixed with Mario Bros and Vaporwave.
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Crikey, we've got a big one.
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We've just caught a 220-pound degenerate weeb from its habitat known as the bedroom.
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You are actively seeking out that exact artificial tape hiss and vinyl crackle to self-soothe.
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And that hunger for texture brings us directly to Vaporwave.
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Faperwave is so important here.
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It is the missing link that explains why this music resonated so deeply with a specific generation.
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That sonic distortion perfectly captured the feeling of mourning a future that was promised but never delivered.
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Wow.
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The soft reverb, the urban mellowness, and the excessive romanticism of the Japanese tracks provided the ideal raw material for the artificial nostalgia that Vaporwave demanded.
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Which leads to this incredible cultural inversion.
SteveHOST
Yeah.
DaveHOST
I will also compare it a bit to Vaporwave.
DaveHOST
I kind of felt like it had kind of the slowed down pop music vibe.
DaveHOST
None of the chopping and screwing, though, but I just kind of felt like...
Trev AllenHOST
Chris is, I mean, Chris is Jeff's local coach.
Jeff BusqueHOST
Yeah, I was going to say, you might need to just listen to some straight up Synthwave or Vaporwave.
Jeff BusqueHOST
I remember when we had Dreamkid on and somebody commented on it and was like, Synthwave makes my anxiety go away.
Chris ChavezHOST
Yeah.
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Matthew O'BrienHOST
Vaporwave stuff on my CRT.
Matthew O'BrienHOST
Yeah, I
Alex CarterGUEST
play stuff like that.
KateHOST
But yeah, it looks like they got emotional.
KateHOST
It's very Vaporwave.
EmilyHOST
Yeah.
KateHOST
Yeah.
BirkHOST
I think we both started about six years ago in 2020.
BirkHOST
It's very funny because they're very similar circumstances of like, I was talking to my friends and we thought it'd be cool to do a Vaporwave podcast, except for their friends are like Lux Elite and Dan Mason, like mesh and stuff.
BirkHOST
And my friend is like the other guy I know in my friend circle who thinks Vaporwave is a real genre.
BirkHOST
And it's like...
BirkHOST
So, you know, humble, humble, but familiar beginnings.
BirkHOST
That's why I thought it's funny.
BirkHOST
I'm going first.
BirkHOST
I remember seeing it pop up and I was like, oh, another Vaporwave podcast.
NickHOST
Especially the album run of like Imaginary Buffalo through Bleed Worship Bleed, in that range.
NickHOST
Like, with the Vaporwave album and all that, like it just kinda had that vibe.
NickHOST
Like, like a collective vibe of that era of songs that you were writing.
NickHOST
I would give the, uh, the songwriting I would give an eight.
Paul FordHOST
And so kind of, you know-
Rich ZiadeHOST
Well, describe what vaporwave is.
Paul FordHOST
Vaporwave is, uh-
Rich ZiadeHOST
It's a genre of electronic music.
Paul FordHOST
Yeah, it-
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Paul FordHOST
So now I can be like, "Hey, you got all the instruments in the world, so pick the ones that are right for the genre." Now, this is where LLMs are really good.
Paul FordHOST
I don't have to sit there and map them.
Paul FordHOST
Because it knows that, you know, Tango has some piano and bass, and it knows that Vaporwave has a lot of reverb.
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