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Simpsonwave
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English
Etymology
From en Simpson wave.
Noun
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A genre of user-created online music videos consisting of scenes from the American animated television series The Simpsons set to vaporwave music, with surreal visual distortion effects.
en Alfie Bown; Dan Bristow w:Tom Whyman Oh, They Have the Internet on Computers Now? Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production 2019 punctum books 212 https://books.google.com/books?id=xgSVEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA211&dq=%22hauntological%22+reynolds&hl=&cd=5&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22hauntological%22%20reynolds&f=false 978-1-950192-43-4 Vaporwave and its more developed form, Simpsonwave, are of course concerned with an entirely different set of tropes–but they are no less hauntological for it. Both are recognizably hauntological by virtue of the techniques they employ—VHS crackle, Windows start-up sounds, etc.
en eponyms
en The Simpsons