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vaporwave

online musical genre and visual aesthetic
Thing art_genre Q15733887
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Summary

vaporwave is an art genre[1]. vaporwave ranks in the top 10% of art genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,067 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: internet meme[3], music genre[4]
  • Named after: vaporware[5], new wave[6]
  • Subclass of: popular music[7]
  • Commons category: Vaporwave[8]
  • Country of origin: United States[9]
  • Inception: 2009[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Vaporwave[11]
  • Inspired by: culture of Japan[12], elevator music[13], milieu[14], consumerism[15]
  • Described at URL: https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/vaporwave-genres-list[16]
  • Native label: Vaporwave[17]
  • Different from: vaporware[18], synthwave[19]
  • Hashtag: vaporwave[20]
  • Stylized name: ＶＡＰＯＲＷＡＶＥ[21]

Why It Matters

vaporwave has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] vaporwave is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Rate Your Music. rateyourmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · BorkedBot bot · 2026-08-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Country of origin → United States
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