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 ...

Vaporwave is more than just music – it’s a visual experience that taps into nostalgia, surrealism, and digital decay. In this video, I explore the visual aesthetic of Vaporwave, from neon ...

But giant companies weren't the only ones to appropriate the vaporwave aesthetic. Drake's video for "Hotline Bling," with its minimalist neon pastels and visual echoes of 80's lounge, ...

Sonically the aesthetic is dominated by gauzy reverb and a polished synthetic veneer, and visually it leans toward retrofuturistic imagery—luminous 3-D bubbles, for instance, or blocky skylines ...

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’s circulation as an internet meme adds an entirely new facet to the discussion, as the cultural clout of memes in the context of the arts has yet to be formally established. While it may be ...

Despite the vaporwave aesthetic, giant statue heads, and giant moons waiting to be eaten by demons, I came away from Skate Story feeling incredibly at peace. That’s that flow state Eng talked about.