"The vaporwave era of inspiration thus generally ends in 2001, after the dot-com bubble burst and 9/11. The intact twin towers appear on many vaporwave album covers, including Floral Shoppe, as a symbol of the era."

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"I used to live close to a fairly large mall that was periodically empty, and I’d often sit on a bench under one of the staircases that overlooked most of the mall and just take everything in under the glow of purple neon with lo-fi smooth jazz and gaudy disco playing over beaten speakers…it gave off an uneasy comfort; outwardly projecting an aura of leisure and ease, but with the feeling of something sinister lurking in the background from the sterility and consumerism."


— Disconscious, creator of vaporwave album Hologram Plaza

In 2015, MTV unveiled a major re-branding. Vaporwave art (glitchy collages of palm trees, mall aesthetics, ‘90s computer graphics) and vaporwave music had replaced punk in its transitions and shorts: MTV had co-opted vaporwave overnight. The Viacom executives had decided it was this that would surely reach those millennials. In the greatest of ironies, Vaporwave itself was sublimated by the corporation. Vaporwave, which had been subject to accusations of death as early as 2013, now finally seemed exhausted. But its ideas continue, in one form or another. On December 11, 2015 (exactly 4 years after the release of Floral Shoppe), the artist Sandtimer’s released a tongue in cheek eulogy to vaporwave, in the form of an album called Vaporwave is Dead. Sandtimer’s online declaration promised that new genres would carry on Vaporwave’s legacy:

"On the fourth anniversary of the birth of vaporwave, we are delighted to inform you that vaporwave is, at last, dead.

Welcome to the new era."

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🚨BREAKING🚨

According to a mysterious document published by DeepSeek titled "Terms and Conditions", DeepSeek does the following when you visit their website

- Record your IP address
- Record your user-agent
- Record your input into DeepSeek
- Stores it in their servers

Worst of all: they're headquartered in CHINA. This means the data is in CHINA. A company, who resides in China, is choosing to store their data in their own country (CHINA) as opposed to the United States of America (NOT-CHINA)