Introduce yourself!

[GhostBox]

A single sentence on a post on a random thread in /x/

Was it about the Dead Internet Theory?

my guilty pleasure is LoL.

You must have nerves of steel!

 

[d3vN3xv5]

Was it about the Dead Internet Theory?

Yep, thats the one. Figured i'd check it out. Totally my jam.

You must have nerves of steel!

Yea it's like when there is noooothing to do I'll hop on League and turn my brain off.

 

[ArsMoriendi]

Hello Agora Road! I understand this forum is mostly Americans (Y/N?) so forgive my Brit turns of phrase here.

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
Seinfeld. Specifically, I live in the uncomfortable no man's land between George and Kramer. Plus, bonus points for nights spent age 12 watching repeats of it on trips to America - good times.

What does vaporware mean to you?
Something about how we have grown able to sniff out 'aesthetics', those very particular nuances about how things used to look, and used to be. It's almost like every era has a sort of spirit, or essence or something like that, that transcends any individual thing that comes from that time and lives in the back of our minds. This is what vaporware is all about, not just going back to the past to relive it, but to bring back a feeling that we all know but can't really explain.

What subgenres are you most into?
Now, I'm going to make it plain I am no vaporware expert - I'm here as much as an escapee from the >reddit cesspool as a listener of the music. Hence, I'm not quite sure of each micro genre tag it's possible to use on Bandcamp. I know what I like though. My favourite styles are Mallsoft (or really anything relating to the smooth muzak they play in shopping centres, airport terminals, or hotel lobbies - I spent so much time as a kid in those plush empty spaces, and they are still the most nostalgic places for me) and - well, I'm not sure what you would call it - stuff like PrismCorp's Home™ and ClearSkies™, that MIDI sound that used to soundtrack corporate training tapes and Nintendo DS games (Jamie Oliver for Nintendo was underrated, btw).

How did you find out about this place?
Well, obviously the Dead Internet Theory thread, which is really the only way at this point, because this site never shows up unless you specifically search for it. I like it that way - never change! Anyway, I looked around and liked the feel of the place, and since I had been on a binge of older websites like on the Archive I figured you were the closest in spirit to what the internet used to be, so I joined. Things seem cool and bot-less over here.

What do you do for fun?
Well, I'm a student, and I work a little, so... I don't have a whole lot of fun apart from the usual: movies, books, music. But when I do get involved with a hobby of some-description, I use my mega-autism to focus really hard on it until it stops being fun. I would say the main nerd thing I do is photography - but that's (sort of) part of what I study. I've been singing/growling/squeaking into a mic for a while, but never performed. My main thing is to clean out the now-oppressive quantity of tat I have accumulated in a few short years, which in my case is harder that quitting meth whilst learning to speak Arabic. I have also seen every episode of The Last of the Summer Wine more than once - thank you Granny and Papa.

 

[NoHoTradWaif]

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
Million Dollar Extreme. Literally me fr. If not that, Children's Hospital.
What does Vaporwave mean to you?
It means chill vibes and soothing sounds, evoking the liminality of a mall or waiting room from the late 20th century—the time period itself being a liminal space betwixt postmodernity we find ourselves in and the modernity of that bygone romanticized age.
What subgenres are you most into?
Mallsoft when I am studying or reading, found footage type stuff like Eccodroid when I am feeling sad and want to dance and thrash alone in my room, and classic Macintosh Plus Floral Shoppe shit when I really wanna scare the hoes at the house party.
How did you find out about this place?
Some youtube video about LHOHQ I think..
What do you do for fun?
Smoke Weed, Read shit, develop one-way crushes with my best friends that inevitably ruin my chances at any platonic bond.

 

[Rams969]

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?

Glad to be here
1. What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
The sitcoms I know and liked have been suffering a worst fate than being cancelled, instead the problem I have is with shows that have been going on for too long and just become boring and souless because the original scrip writer either don't give a shit or they left the series long ago.
2. What does Vaporwave mean to you?
I'm a zoomer so obviously I never lived the time Vaporwave tries to homage or imitate, but for some reason it gives me nostalgic for a time and world before everything became crazy and stupid. Makes feel that the internet had soul before the same 5 social medias took control of the people and information.
3. What subgenres are you most into?
I recognize that I'm not really into vaporwave music beyond the aesthetic, the only subgenre quite like it that I kinda know about is dungeon synth, but I'm willing to learn more.
4. How did you find out about this place?
Trought /x/ in 4chan, some guys were calling this place interesting, other guys were calling you faggots, worth a check.
5. What do you do for fun?
I'm really into tabletop gaming so I paint minis, play roleplaying and war games and I also research topics about history in the internet, usually ancient and medieval history.

 

[ihwnb]

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?

Hello frens. I like vaporwave because its the only music which can put me in a positive mindset to handle my days. Imagining myself in a time of limitless tech possibility and personal freedom is a perfcet escape from the consistent political noise from other humans.
I'm most into late-night lofi and signalwave tbh. Anything to prolong the isolation.
I'm here from /x/.

 

[SirMichaelVintage]

Greetings, I'm Mike and according to myself I am "very vintage."

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
Seinfeld is a good one, because just like the show nothing interesting happens.

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
I didn't really get much into it, it was pretty popular in 2016 when I was still a young lad but right now I still see it as slowed down 80s synth music with analog overtones. I guess now its evolved to either artists making their own nostalgia-bait tracks or doing a better job at masking what song they altered to get the shopping mall effect going but either way its much the same.

What sub-genres are you most into?
I don't know what this means, sub-genres of vaporwave? Because if so I haven't involved myself in it long enough to know they even existed.
That's explained in the next prompt, don't nail me to a cross.

How did you find out about this place?
An album that I thought would be good for a cheesy 80's parody video had a link to this website in the description, and it looked like an interesting place to get into forum culture. Very Cool!
It's only that I write this introduction do I realize this is a vaporwave den, so forgive me for not being in the know.

What do you do for fun?
Vidya gaming, also video production but what's out there right now isn't discussion worthy.

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Any criticisms can be directed towards the 2nd story window facing south at 493 Halsey St. in Brooklyn, New York. No Psyop stuff going on there at all.

 

[Drifloon]

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
I don't watch television.
What does Vaporwave mean to you?
It's a nice aesthetic.
What subgenres are you most into?
I don't know many.
How did you find out about this place?
I was at my father's house for a few days. I was using my phone to browse 4chan, and I don't have an adblock on it. I saw an ad for a SomaSpice video and tapped on it. I read his YouTube about page, I enjoy reading the about page of even random commenters I find on YT, and found the site through there.
What do you do for fun?
Play video games, I guess.

 

[Haujaf]

Hello from the other side of earth. I am Haujaf. I like to read

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
None in mind
What does Vaporwave mean to you?
Cool and dreamy in thoughts
What subgenres are you most into?
Got into breakcore recently. It's really nice to listen to
How did you find out about this place?
4chan and >reddit
What do you do for fun?
I don't think many nowadays would find reading is a fun thing to do
but other than that I also do play games but not that much :>

 

[Abolbo]

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
Im not too familiar with old sitcoms, but if bending the rules is permissable, i'll say "Always Sunny"

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
Really neat flash-in-the-pan subgenre, feels like a xerox of the 1990's

What subgenres are you most into?
Im into everything for the most part, but old punk ('76-'79) and Early Hyperpop are consistent favorites

How did you find out about this place?
/x/, sadly

What do you do for fun?
I spend a lot of time outside cooking food and whatnot, i also enjoy writing and making music. Generally im willing to try anything, i honestly enjoy most things


Thanks for having me everybody, this is the kind of forum i've been trying to find for years. Can't wait to get to know some of you

 

[flowerpowerimacg3]

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
bojack horseman without the fame and shit

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
nostalgic and cool, but i prefer coolpunk

What subgenres are you most into?
nu-metal, hyperpop, and pop punk are my top 3

How did you find out about this place?
someone on neocities, sadly don't remember who.

What do you do for fun?
work on my site, play pc games, build lego, cook

 

[scroll]

greetings denizens
What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
The Truman Show
What does Vaporwave mean to you?
a premonition trapped in time
everything is a wave
a wave is a frequency over time
hence the vapor, hence the wave
What subgenres are you most into?
meh I like city pop and synthwave, I think vaporwave is a more specific concept than the latter though
How did you find out about this place?
mention on /x/
What do you do for fun?
attempt things way out of my depth and get 80% of the way there out of pure spite

 

[HammerKoopa]

Pleased to have landed here

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
None with real actors in mind, but if it counts. China IL

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
A window. A momentary glimpse into another reality. So close yet so far away. A world where all the promises of a golden era made before my real time came to happened. Listening to the music with your eyes closed, or loosing yourself in visual works, obtaining an escape from the mundane reality even if momentarily, and allowing oneself to be lost in the conceptual, the bizarre, the surreal, the beautiful.

The beautiful paradox of Vaporwave, a future that already happened and a past that never came. The internet born genre that can be as much serious in its artistic value as it can be the world's greatest shitpost.

Vaporwave means, to me, beauty, art and escape.

What subgenres are you most into?
Future Funk and Faux Utopian are what i return to the most.

How did you find out about this place?
Was brought to my attention by a friend that we share albums on the regular with

What do you do for fun?
I really enjoy drawing, programming has become something i try to improve upon. As well as dwelling in retro gaming. All in the hopes of bringing it all together as an indie game developer in the future. I also love to cook and bake.

 

[Xmariokiler]

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
Well I don't really watch tv but I can give shitty manhua title

"Evolution Begins With a Big Tree"​

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
I think that's vaporaon would be like the best pokemon to put your dick in it's like got very water slimy skin and It;s my first time hearing about this genre of music I guess
What subgenres are you most into?
OP MC sword fights supernatural
How did you find out about this place?
BigBthefluffyredneck video
What do you do for fun?
gaming tf2 or pokemmo rn listening to music pretending I know how to fight with swords meaby running

 

[larkinslittlepet]

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?

as a guy who only really watches shows from the uk, i would have to say my life is an amalgamation of peep show and the young ones. a strange combination tot say the least

What does Vaporwave mean to you?

to me, vapourwave inspires a strange kind of anomia. i always have this nostalgia for a completely unknown time, a time i myself cannot recognise but i know exists somewhere out there in the ether. i would say vapourwave for me represents the pre-Y2K internet, a space i never experienced but a space my own life is full of reminders of. i see it as a time of optimism, this strange quasi-frutiger aero type world of optimism.

What subgenres are you most into?

with regard to general subgenres, i absolutely love the history of 'real emo' and skramz. i really like post-punk, especially stuff from the 70s and 80s. i like liquid dnb and JAZZ!!!!!!

How did you find out about this place?

a single line on a random youtube video about 'the entire internet anomalies file', i have always been looking for a forum to consistently interact with and this does seem like the perfect one!

What do you do for fun?

it sounds incredibly predictable but i really enjoy reading and listening to music i would say i am a budding shortwave radio hobbyist, i enjoy searching for bugs in the forests near my home - whenever i spend a prolonged time at home that is. i like playing video games, perhaps a little too much. i like reading about the occult and anything to do with esotericism, i really enjoy writing poetry or just journaling my thoughts.

 

[Njordr]

What canceled sitcom best describes your life?
King of the Hill, love the show and think that it's a lifestyle to aspire to

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
Music to break the silence

What subgenres are you most into?
Literature, all kinds fiction and non fiction, sci Fi, post apocalypse, all eras of time etc. Music, mostly 90's and grunge. Machinery lube gears and valves work on them a lot.

How did you find out about this place?
/x/ and /lit/

What do you do for fun?
Read, work, I play video games. Recently got into Reenacting specifically Vietnam era.

 

[SomaSpice]

What cancelled sitcom best describes your life?
I don't watch television.
What does Vaporwave mean to you?
It's a nice aesthetic.
What subgenres are you most into?
I don't know many.
How did you find out about this place?
I was at my father's house for a few days. I was using my phone to browse 4chan, and I don't have an adblock on it. I saw an ad for a SomaSpice video and tapped on it. I read his YouTube about page, I enjoy reading the about page of even random commenters I find on YT, and found the site through there.
What do you do for fun?
Play video games, I guess.

Ooo you're the first guy I bring here. The only other person who's work has brought people here is Rig with his game, Disillusion.

Welcome to the road, hope you enjoy your stay. Just remember, containment chat is containment chat for a reason.

 

[bnuungus]

Just remember, containment chat is containment chat for a reason.

No one seems to hang out on the chill chat anymore I find myself solely going to containment because that's the only place people consistently chat

 

[alix]

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 don't really watch much sitcoms tbh, but I love The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. South Park and old Simpsons are two of my favourite comedies.

What does Vaporwave mean to you?
An unique and nostalgic internet phenomenon that has made me feel emotions I had never felt on the Internet before, a relic of the past.

All kinds of vaporwave and synthwave, especially ambient (I love Aphex Twin, but I don't know if he's that much vaporwave). Apart from that 80s-90s post-punk and new wave are some of my favourites, along with rock.

How did you find out about this place?
Investigating weird theories and rabbit holes in reddit.

Browse internet, videogames, anime and manga, music, read and more.

 

[housepoopr]

Hello, I go by housepoopr. I've lurked off an on for sometime. I did try a long time ago to sign up, but never got emails back from the automated system. Unixes be like that from time to time.

Why did I sign up? Honestly, I really like how freely people speak about controversial topics here. It's refreshing after decades of stifling censorship ala >reddit or overly inflammatory experiences, like >reddit, and to a less personal extent, 4chan. I just want to talk about about controversial topics with people that don't default to labels and prefabricated sloganeer-think. My personal rule is that if the argument can't survive the why questions a five year old might ask, it's probably not a solid ideology. I think there is something just so disingenuous about online political discourse, it really does feel like we are talking at one another and not to one another, as if we are talking to pre-programmed bots.

What does Vaporwave mean to you? I like the music, but most of the time I have trouble remembering artists. It's one of those vibe deals. I'm a high functioning autistic person, and not like tiktok kids, papers and all. I sort of love the aesthetic, but I don't go out of my way for it. I wish I had an artistic bone in my body, but I am the personality type of Logician. I've always worked IT and Software dev, although I'm ex-mil and a hobby farmer. Logicians are predictably awful at artistic endeavors, so I just admire the artistry and vibe to the music because I need stim music.

What subgenres are you most into? It's hard to classify ambient music that makes you want to cry or has an existential crisis embedded. Hammock, Clem Leek. A good song that sort of encapsulates this genre is Clem Leek's Patience is a Virtue. I consider the first thing I heard like this to be Bryan Eno's an Ending. Beyond that I like Metal, and Christian Hymnals, particularly those that glorify God the Father, the Almighty, Jehovah God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit with due reverence and solemn dignity. (I revere God. I would be cold in my grave without him.)

How did you find out about this place? Dead Internet Theory.

What do you do for fun? Hobby Farming on a few acres in God's glorious land. A little bit of League of Legends. I go shooting for target practice.