Vaporwave. A rich aesthetic that has a lot to do with crashed computer screens, the old Windows XP screensaver and Japanese Kanji.
These words can say "tornado" or "storm" or "fixed".
For instance, this is Vaporwave text.
Vaporwave イーサ
The first part is the official font. The second part reads "Ether" in Hiragana.
There is also a common use of fucking Greek statue heads. Okay, that's just weird, but hey it works.
Vaporwave is also a genre of music. And believe it or not the music that artists produce under this genre is actually pretty good.
"So what kind of things do you like, Stacy?"
"Hmm, pizza, dogs, Vaporwave..."
"Vaporwave?"
"Yep. My bedroom is themed to Vaporwave. So is my desktop."
"Okay..."
a sick beat with an internet explorer voice. the beat is often hyphy or interesting and very layered with a slow voice over the top. lyrics often consist of the artist rapping about how good their lives are.
mortal - hey man what's vaporwave?
vaporwave lover - #sadboys #unknowndeath2002
mortal - what?
vaporwave lover - i ain't about that life
Capitalist criticism by and for extrovert computer nerds who grew up with Windows XP and find it pleasing to absorb cannabis and enjoy an occasional acid flashback.
Is a subgenre of electronic music born in 2008, "raised" in 2010, but also this subgenre have other subgenres (for example: EccoJams, VaporTrap, NoiseWave...). At the first time VaporWave, SinthWave and LoFi Beat were separated, but now (due people who mistake the aesthetics of these 3 genres) they all are on the under the name of VaporWave.
the most iconic vaporwave album is: Floral Shoppe (also its 2nd track "Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing" was an internet meme) by MACintosh Plus (aka Vektroid).
Josh: "takin bout music genres, what type of music do you like? i like RnB"
Karina: "i like VaporWave"
Josh: "what is that?"
Karina: "is hard to explain"