Topic summary
Internet aesthetics
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Internet aesthetic.
2010s
At this time, several internet aesthetics began to emerge online, with the most prominent and influential from this period being Vaporwave. Derived from the term vaporware, Vaporwave was an internet music microgenre, aesthetic, and subculture that originally grew out of hypnagogic pop and chillwave in the late 2000s to early 2010s. The visual aesthetic was defined by retro-style imagery and early internet iconography, 1990s Web design, glitch art, and cyberpunk tropes, as well as anime, Greco-Roman statues, VHS degradation, and 3D-rendered objects. These aesthetics would also influence wider online culture, with internet rapperYung Lean taking influence from vaporwave aesthetics. The vaporwave era would prove to be a pivotal influence to later internet aesthetics, with many of its traits such as early internet nostalgia becoming a key inspiration in the late 2010s to early 2020s, as seen with the revival of the Y2K aesthetic and Frutiger Aero.