i like vaporwave
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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I like the music, wish I didn't use Japanese to seem "mysterious"
Isn't it more supposed to be evocative of the time period of the bubble years?
What am I looking at? Is this a genre that's just popular in East Asia, or is something else going on?
Probably some vaporwave derivative with westerners using Japan as an aesthetic
These are all made by 20 year old pasty white guys
Some of these I get it, others I think just use Japanese because they like it or whatever. That being said, I like desert sand feels warm at night, and of all the ones I listened, the best is probably modest by default, which is leftist. Here's a pretty good one: modest by default - the curse of colonialism series
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This is endemic to basically all of V A P O R W A V E not just this one nich subgenre. Pick a smooth jazz song, slow it down, add some reverb and give it a new title in Chinese.
I know, but I can't screenshot every vaporwave subgenre, there are too many