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Chunky Kong

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Hello folks,

I'm back after a long period of being absent, if that makes sense.

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
I don't know a lot about vaporwave but to me it feels like a utopia. I am building my knowledge on vaporwave music and subgenres by listening to all the videos on the Agora Road YouTube channel.

How did you find out about this place?
I'm not sure. I think I found out about here on >redditcostanzayeahrightsmirk after having searched for "vaporwave forum".

What do you do for fun?
I do music. Not vaporwave tho haha. Maybe in a couple of months you will able to find me... just saying ;)

Have a marvellous day folks ;)

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What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
I don't watch too many sitcoms, but Malcolm in the Middle might be my favorite.

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
Vaporwave is hauntological, it breaks down reality and asks us to revisit dreams of the past and obscure, now that we no longer have shared futures.

What subgenres are you most into?
Sovietwave, darksynth, and serbwave are favorites. Favorite vaporwave artists I've listened to include Windows 96, 2814, and Telepath.

How did you find out about this place?
I don't remember; I think I found this place as early as late 2017 when I was looking for old-school forums. It was rather small at the time, I later rediscovered this board in summer 2021 when I was looking into /x/ threads and occult knowledge.

What do you do for fun?
I quit social media (my phone and computer are literally incapable of signing into Big 5 websites) and I don't play video games much. I suppose I don't do much for fun but think and research topics of interest on the internet. I run some clubs at college and I program.

What do you want to contribute to Agora Road?
I don't know; I love this community from the lurking I've done and I think my time would be much better spent here then on the normie-sphere of Twitter, >redditcostanzayeahrightsmirk, and YouTube. I want to create a personal website that will function as a web-blog for deeper philosophical musings and nuggets of wisdom I've gathered. I've felt like I've reached the "end of the internet" for years now and it's refreshing to find a community that acknowledges it's sterility.
 
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boywifefailure

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Hey what's up, call me uhh idk actually, boywife or the name of any yugioh protag will be responded to by me

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
Well, this is kinda difficult. I don't watch TV, oops

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
I've loved vaporwave as an aesthetic for a long time, and sometimes i kinda like spacing out and pretending im somewhere i've never been

What subgenres are you most into?
Future funk, but also just some old classic stuff

How did you find out about this place?
the aesthetics wiki, oddly enough

What do you do for fun?
vidya, all the time. also listening to music, reading cringey fanfics, drawing, and sleeping
 
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Introduce yourself: here are some prompts:

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?

What does Vaporwave mean to you?

What subgenres are you most into?

How did you find out about this place?

What do you do for fun?

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?

I was never a fan of sitcoms. I guess Seinfeld, but again, it's a guess and I never got into it.

What does Vaporwave mean to you?

Effectively a era that I was too young to remember but which I think is based.

What subgenres are you most into?

Metal, electronic music (think Juno Reactor/Astral Projection)

How did you find out about this place?

Mister Metokur's YouTube wikia page.

What do you do for fun?

play video games
 
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Materia

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What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
Malcom in the middle except I'm dumb
What does Vaporwave mean to you?
I see it as a critique of culture feeling stuck in a lot of ways
What subgenres are you most into?
I don't really listen to vaporwave but I'm into dubstep, drum and bass, and techno
How did you find out about this place?
it was on the news
What do you do for fun?
team fortress 2, exercise, talk to people
 
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What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
Arrested Development

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
I actually discovered it through this forum. I've been listening to it a lot over the last few days. I've always bee a fan of kind of 80s New Wave stuff, and I really like the sound of vaporwave. I've been listening to Aesthetic FM while I've been working for the last week or so. If anyone has a favourite stream they want to recommend, I'm all ears.

What subgenres are you most into?
I don't know enough about them to pick one yet.

How did you find out about this place?
I was searching for stuff I was nostalgic for and randomly came across it.

What do you do for fun?
I enjoy retro games, Gamecube era and earlier, I like to fix old computers when I can get my hands on them, I like spending time in the woods just kind of walking around and picking berries and stuff, and I like to grow fruit and vegetables. I also spend a lot of time with my wife and children.
 
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[Tr4sh_Kun]

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What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
• I don't really watch that many sitcoms but I guess the one that describes my life the most is Malcolm In The Middle, I kinda relate to the feeling of getting in troubles for doing dumb stuff with my uncles

What does Vaporwave mean to you?

• It's mostly a way of relaxation, helps me to sleep or concentrate when i'm reading or doing some other stuff, I also feel some sort of nostalgia or melancholy for not experiencing the aesthetic is based on when it was trending, i always liked old 80's and 90's aesthetics when it comes to gaming consoles

What subgenres are you most into?

• I'm mostly into mallsoft, I find it relaxing

How did you find out about this place?

•On Mr Metokur's Wikitubia page, I didn't knew who was that guy, I didn't liked his streams nor his sense of humor, the page said he owns this page so i checked it just to see what was it about, lurked for a couple of days and decided to join just a few minutes ago

What do you do for fun?
• I often just play videogames until I get sleepy, I'm not at home during most of the day so I just wanna play something before going to bed
 
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What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
idk sitcoms are kinda poopy i dont watch poop

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
it used to mean nice n chill aesthetic stuff, lots of nice art and music and all but i think now too many normies adopted it and turned it into cringe!

What subgenres are you most into?
of vaporwave? idk i lost track LOL

How did you find out about this place?
my husband told me about it :COOMER:

What do you do for fun?
make art, listen to music, play garbage video games, chill w friends and shill hard for shit no one's ever heard of
im trying to put myself out there more with my art and constantly push my skills to the limit so my life is p much 90% drawing its so fun!
 
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What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?


Like many others I don't watch sitcoms... or much western tv at all.

What does Vaporwave mean to you?


Funny thing is, I didn't realize that this forum was about vaporwave until I saw this question. It just seemed like a chill place with a wide variety of topics being discussed. That being said, vaporwave has a lot of artistic merit and I like it for how it helps me relax and disconnect from everyday stress.

What subgenres are you most into?


I don't know of any subgenres. I do like synthwave, which I guess could count as a distant relative of vaporwave.

How did you find out about this place?


Through the Lainchan web ring. I want to add my own site to the ring one day, but I need to learn HTML first

What do you do for fun?


Well, my old faithful rx590 broke yesterday, so I guess I'm not gaming anymore. I like making silly projects with my arduinos and I love manga and anime. I also do yoga and I'm trying to get into meditation. Photography is also a big hobby of mine.
 
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What cancelled sitcom best describes your life? The Office.
What does Vaporwave mean to you? Nostalgic and interesting.
What subgenres are you most into? Mallsoft. It makes me feel nostalgic for a time when I wasn't even really alive, but somehow it's familiar. It reminds me of certain places I've been that haven't been renovated since the 70's or 80's.
How did you find out about this place? >redditcostanzayeahrightsmirk Conspiracy. Someone posted a link to a thread here about how a lot of the internet is fake or something like that.
What do you do for fun? I like to do creative things and spend time with my loved ones.
 
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What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
I'm not big into tv shows. The Office?
What does Vaporwave mean to you?
Nothing really, I just think it's pretty neat.
What subgenres are you most into?

Future Funk, acid jazz, whatever's on the radio.
How did you find out about this place?
there was a thread on afternoon.dynu, decided to check this place out
What do you do for fun?
Read, work out, hang out with friends. Used to do more, but school's consuming my life



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God damn, look at him go.
 
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What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
I'm not big into tv shows. The Office?
What does Vaporwave mean to you?
Nothing really, I just think it's pretty neat.
What subgenres are you most into?
Future Funk, acid jazz, whatever's on the radio.
How did you find out about this place?
there was a thread on afternoon.dynu, decided to check this place out
What do you do for fun?
Read, work out, hang out with friends. Used to do more, but school's consuming my life



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God damn, look at him go.
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What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?

I hate sitcoms i despise them i hate them

What does Vaporwave mean to you?

The desire to go back to a time I never lived, as well as relaxing music

What subgenres are you most into?

Synthwave primarily, with a bit of mallsoft and fashwave if it isn't cringe (most of it is tbh)

How did you find out about this place?

I think a >redditcostanzayeahrightsmirk thread, it's been a while

What do you do for fun?

Lift weights, play games, and send schizoid rants to my friends

I am just as boring as this makes me sound.
 
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Hi all! New Agora Road fan here.

I stumbled upon the site a few days ago from some unrelated web search. I was surprised to see the visual style since I was going down several "ancient web" rabbitholes at the time. And the actual posts on there were more intelligent than I was expecting compared to the drivel I'd been seeing on imageboards.

I try to stay positive whenever I can; my username is a reminder that no matter the state of the world around me, I can still be strong! My computer is my best friend. I love computers and I do many many things online with them. These are good things because they make me happy :)

I have some frames of vaporwave art that a friend gave me when they moved away to another country. I've put up a couple of them, but I've run out of sticky hooks, so the others are lying on a shelf collecting dust. Maybe I'll put up a couple more of them some day.

I'm interested in the small-internet gemini protocol https://gemini.circumlunar.space (it's not at all a cryptocurrency thing, if that's what you were thinking) and I think it's a really good counter to the "dead internet". No corporations care about gemini, and even if they did it would be almost impossible for them to monetise it. This leaves a really human layer of people writing words and it's beautiful to see. I have my own site, probably not gonna link it yet for opsec reasons lol. I've had many more meaningful human interactions with gemini users via email than basically anything on social media.

Okay, that's me! Hope to see you all around.
 
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What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
Does King of the Hill count? At times I feel as out of touch as Hank but as schizo as Dale.

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
That's a tough one. I started listening to vaporwave/future funk when it was a relatively new/emerging genre. At the time it was pretty neat, really scratched this nostalgic itch I didn't realize I had. I enjoy synths and funk so hearing it get re-interpreted in a modern context was pleasing, found a lot of good songs through it. But that feels like ages ago, and now I am nostalgic for that period when vaporwave was at it's "peak." Perhaps it's personal bias, but it felt like the general state of the world was optimistic then. But over the last few years everything has changed so dramatically with the virus accelerating clown world. It's essentially escapism for me, but at times it creates this lingering dread that a golden age I missed out on will never

What subgenres are you most into?
New wave, city pop, future funk, fusion, vaporwave, synth. Music is one of the few things I keep a relatively open mind to. Some favorite artists include Yellow Magic Orchestra, Machine Girl, and Saint Pepsi.

How did you find out about this place?
Neocities, specifically mimakrg's site, surprised I didn't find this earlier. I've been looking for a new forum for a while now, all the ones I used to frequent have been long gone. Not many sections of the Internet left like this. Discord has cannibalized these sorts of groups, and it's made seeking out niche information a pain in the ass. Doesn't help most servers are filled with children and sensitive types.

What do you do for fun?
Vidya, shitpost, hoard outdated electronics, and work on my website.
 
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