Uhhhhh...huh? There's still people doing Utopian Virtual (proper term) out there. How is this "universally no longer recognized"?
Frankly, I don't think there needs to be a list of defined pigeonholes for vaporwave. For one thing, music is much more interesting when it DEFINES ITSELF...because it has to be some damn interesting stuff for that to happen. And thus far, that's been where vaporwave is at. Trying to "chop, cut, and chunk" vaporwave is a bad idea, especially since vaporwave's actual scene (both real world and online) would ALSO probably get chopped, cut, and chunked.
How is this bad? Well, I've seen how bad this can be from experience...in the rave scene, as it transitioned from being just a thing to a thing with lots of money associated with it. It ALSO had stylistic splits galore by around 1994...but instead of trying to get everyone to come together over this awesome body of music, the music press, scenesters, etc all tried to wrestle their little chunk away from the whole. And this divided PEOPLE in the scene; you had those who got convinced that they couldn't stomach jungle, you had others who insisted on shoving "diva house" up everyones' orifices, and on and on.
This nonsense started up c. 1995 here in the US scene, as I recall. And the result was a degree of scene fragmentation that was...ah, very _prickly_ and not at all fun. And this factored into what happened next, which was the music industry cooption along about 1998. You can actually SEE the change happen if you can access the full run of MTV's "AMP", which started as a glorious peek into the electronic music of the day, and even indulged in actual VIDEO mixing in its initial form. But when the industry planted its oversized ass on top of techno in order to "claim" it as theirs, the character of "AMP" changed abruptly. Like night and day, in fact. And a couple of months later, it had run off its audience and got cancelled.
A scene that functions on division, pigeonholing, and elitism will die. We've got plenty of examples. Why would we want to do the same thing to vaporwave?