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Vaporwave is a visual aesthetic tied to a music genre of the same name. Vaporwave is strongly associated with 1990s pop culture, cyberpunk, and retro-futurism. Vaporwave will often feature imagery of 1990s web design and technology, as well as products and fashions of the 90s. Pastel colours, and to a lesser extent, neon colours, are characteristic of Vaporwave aesthetics. While Vaporwave revolves around 90s nostalgia, it often uses humour, irony, and surrealism in its appreciation of the decade.

Not to be confused with: Synthwave

Vaporwave Elements

• Vaporwave will almost always feature bright pastel colour palettes, particularly pink, blue and yellow. Checkerboard patterns, "Glitch" distortions, grainy overlays, and Chromatic aberration are commonly used in Vaporwave aesthetics.

• Common visuals in Vaporwave include:
• Windows 95 logo, Windows 95 interface
• 90s era Web Design
• 1990s technology, ie computers, Game Boys, Playstations etc
• (Gratuitous) Japanese text
• VHS overlays, scanlines, static distortion
• 3d art, Pixel art, and animated art
• 1980s and 1990s anime characters
• Classical Roman statues and pillars
• Palm trees and fake plants
• Beaches, tropical locations
• Products such as Fiji water and Arizona Iced Tea

• Vaporwave images are often collages consisting of the above items

See Also

• 1990s
• Synthwave
• Cyberpunk