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, was accused ...

Soundware maven Bvker says that its ‘80s-inspired packs are among the most popular on its roster, so it’s put together a special vaporwave drum kit, known as Aesthetic, that you can download for free.

Years later, his psychedelic soundscapes and encyclopedic ability to layer obscure ‘80s commercial samples lined up perfectly with vaporwave’s aesthetic on the genre classic Nu .

In TV shows such as Stranger Things and GLOW, the cult genre vaporwave ... and a shared aesthetic of squiggly stabs, percussion rattles and bass slaps proliferated in '80s pop production.

The imagery is drawn from the TV aesthetic of this era ... glitch art and ’80s-’90s nostalgia. In 2018, Nike released a Vaporwave collection. Meta’s Oculus Quest 2 and Horizon Workrooms ...

Among the artists included in that movement , Yves Tanguy (1900-1955) is certainly the painter whose work most influenced the aesthetic of the group and indirectly affected vaporwave art.

but “digital” by ’80s standards was more like a calculator display. Elsner’s system retains the vaporwave caricature aesthetic leveraging the modern, crisp resolution of a Ford Explorer ...