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> We've analyzed the text that accompanies more than 800,000 vaporwave tracks, from 2010 to present day

Impossible. Hit Vibes killed vaporwave in 2013.

Edit: Nevertheless, critical support for even acknowledging the genre's political origins.

Why?! Because it was too good, or because it was too terrible?

SP had nothing to do with vaporwave. He was starting a music career, but his album was very good. This was a problem because vaporwave was political music in a post-political world; it was never supposed to exist. Vaporwave was an unlikely and fragile cultural phenomenon, dependent on the ephemeral presence thing. SP just kinda ruined that. Everything after was an imitation; hence why this article acknowledges the Marxism faded.

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