SIMPSONWAVE
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AESTHETIC
posted by clockworkjoe at 12:10 AM on December 3, 2016 [4 favorites]


Is SIMPSONWAVE a joke by the wonderful Canadian YouTube channel This Exists. I've not watched this episode yet, but it has been on my too watch list for a while as I work my way through their backlog.
posted by Canageek at 12:28 AM on December 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


All these waves and no water.
posted by spitbull at 1:15 AM on December 3, 2016


There's something really oddly enjoying about Simpsonwave to me, and it is entirely based on the fact that I was a sheltered kid and I missed out on the majority of the Simpsons because my mom didn't like the show and wouldn't let me watch.

It's always felt odd to be so out of the loop in this huge cultural milestone that is the Simpsons, and for some reason, the fractured remixes of the Simpson universe in these videos is nothing but appealing to me.

Also, strangely reminds me of early YouTube and the heavy early prevalance of AMVs (Anime Music Videos).
posted by deadaluspark at 2:01 AM on December 3, 2016


Also, obligatory: FrankJavCee's "How To Simpsonwave"
posted by deadaluspark at 2:02 AM on December 3, 2016 [2 favorites]


I've looped CRISIS surely hundreds of times in the past few months. God but it's primo pink-tinged melancholy. From HOME's Odyssey album.
posted by ocular shenanigans at 2:49 AM on December 3, 2016 [2 favorites]


* obligatory Grandpa Simpson "I-used-to-be-with-it" comment *
posted by spoobnooble II: electric bugaboo at 4:53 AM on December 3, 2016 [4 favorites]


posted by Existential Dread

EPONYSTERICAL
posted by chavenet at 6:11 AM on December 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


This makes me feel like I'm drinking a WHITE WINE SPRITZER SPRITZER SPRITZER SPRITZER...
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 6:57 AM on December 3, 2016 [4 favorites]


If anyone is interested, the music playing in Sunday School is (during the intro) MACINTOSH PLUS - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー, and (during the rest of the video) Blank Banshee - Teen Pregnancy.

Also I've watched that video like 500 times and I only just noticed the Simpsons-style bust in the background... genius.

(I know vaporwave is kinda old meme at this point but it's had a place in my heart since Sunset Corp/Oneohtrix Point Never's End Of Life Entertainment Scenario #1 so thanks for posting this)
posted by en forme de poire at 9:09 AM on December 3, 2016 [2 favorites]


If I still did drugs I'd probably really enjoy sitting on the couch and losing myself in this for an hour.

(Vaporwave in general is designed for I N D I C A lovers, as far as I can tell.)
posted by kozad at 9:10 AM on December 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


I am all about V A P O R W A V E right now, thanks for sharing.
posted by sibboleth at 10:29 AM on December 3, 2016 [2 favorites]


Somehow seeing the Simpsons, chock full of 90s cultural detritus, mashed up with chillout vaporwave music has given me hope for America's future this morning.
posted by Joe Chip at 12:56 PM on December 3, 2016 [2 favorites]


RTFA-ing now and apparently by the time I first hear of vaporwave it's already been pronounced dead!
posted by Joe Chip at 1:20 PM on December 3, 2016 [2 favorites]


An observation: The faux-VHS effects serve an important purpose in preventing copyright bots from taking down videos they recognize. A good-quality clip from the Simpsons will be removed immediately, so alteration is necessary.
posted by solarion at 5:52 PM on December 3, 2016 [4 favorites]


S I M P S O N W A V E

I spent a week in a vaporwave haze when I was packing up my life back at the end of May, early June. I'd been seeing vaporwave GIFs for a couple years, but I hadn't listened to the music until then, and it was perfect for packing up all my old AOL CDs, Windows recovery disks in translucent rainbow colors, and all the other detritus of 14 years in apartments. It's also all soooo cheap on Bandcamp now.

I grew up watching The Simpsons as a family ritual, and I've been collecting a ton of #pingame pins that in some way revolve around it, so the combination is pretty deeply pleasing.

Now please enjoy my favorite vaporwave song of the moment.
posted by limeonaire at 6:55 PM on December 3, 2016 [2 favorites]


Too right solarion. Thing is, they'd be crazy to take this down, I've been contemplating buying a box set of the Simpsons all day thanks to this.

The owners of Seinfeld have successfully stopped Seinfeld from being digested into modern culture in the same way by being super aggressive about takedown requests. The only Seinfeld videos on YouTube are people recording a TV playing Seinfeld with a camera, at a weird angle, and with muffled sound. It'd be the perfect show to share small clips of.
posted by Joe Chip at 6:55 PM on December 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


The Seinfeld2000 weird Twitter account is about the closest thing there is to Seinfeld vaporwave.
posted by limeonaire at 6:58 PM on December 3, 2016 [1 favorite]


alteration is necessary

A couple of visuals that grabbed my attention, beyond all the static and color morphing:

Homer backing up the sinks and causing them to overflow with tv static

Young Bart against a backdrop of static while a vocal sample repeats "just a little mistake"
posted by Existential Dread at 7:13 PM on December 3, 2016


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