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With enough age, I've found that popularity has little to do with my enjoyment of a particular song or artist.

I still have it as my main coding music. Along with Wii Shop/lo-fi Nintendo. Still bops.

Mallsoft - or martsoft?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallsoft

Some of my favorites are the purile humor of FrankJavCee and the Simpsonwave excellence of DANKMUS.

RIP FrankJavCee

i mean, it still is, it's just that the window of nostalgia shifted so "vaporwave" has mutated into various strains of Y2K [0] and "windows 7" feeling music [1]

[0] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX9D5dmCM8Lo3

[1] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47t3ywNfFeeqSj6gJDjvgF

Reminds me of a mix between Wii and Gran Turismo 3/4

Yep, vaporwave is very millennial-centric, with song samples rooted in '80s and '90s pop, with an intentional pre-Internet feel. Things that millennials would have fading, but extremely resonant, nostalgic memories about.

The younger generation caught on to vaporwave's appealing use of slowed and reverbed samples, and created their their own spin on it now with "Frutiger Aero", which is 2000s vaporwave with a graphical/audio aesthetic that brings to mind Windows XP/Vista, Nintendo DS/Wii, Neopets, Flash games and early Youtube but cuts off before the iPhone age.