>>6677285>Vaporwave is supposed to be a collage of things that you wouldn't typically see put together, to make an image that looks perfect.That's not what Vaporwave is at all, though. It does overlap a little with collage art, but that's only an incidental part of it. It's supposed to be about emulating the 80s/90s corporate culture aesthetic, as a low-key jab at shallow consumerism.
Other than that, you're more or less correct. People are latching onto a few of the superficial characteristics of Vaporwave (pink and teal, Japanese characters, Classical art, product placement, glitch art), and sticking them into other places without understanding the purpose they served in the first place. It's like seeing that airplanes have a jet engine, so you stick a jet engine on your car and go "this is a plane now."
