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Simpsonwave

Simpsonwave

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About

Simpsonwave is a video remix series featuring clips from the American cartoon sitcom The Simpsons edited with vaporwave-style music and aesthetic visual effects.

Origin

On October 27th, 2015, Viner Spicster posted a clip from The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 20 "Bart on the Road" remixed with the song "Resonance" by chillwave artist HOME (shown below).[1] In the following eight months, the video gained over 21.9 million loops and was reuploaded to by YouTuber E z e k the following month.[5]



Spread

On December 3rd, YouTuber Hothi uploaded a video titled "ＢＡＲＴ ＯＮ ＴＨＥ ＲＯＡＤ", featuring a looped animation of Simpsons characters riding in a car with 80s-style visuals and the song "Resonance" playing in the background (shown below, left). Within six months, the video garnered upwards of 192,000 views. On February 5th, 2016, YouTuber Lucien Hughes uploaded a video titled "ＨＯＭＥＲＳＣＡＰＥ － １９９２ 美的", featuring a Simpsons clip along with the song "ピコ" by vaporwave artist Macintosh Plus (shown below, right).



During the following weeks, Hughes uploaded several additional videos to the channel under a playlist titled "ＳＩＭＰＳＯＮＷＡＶＥ",[4] including a video titled "ＳＵＮＤＡＹ ＳＣＨＯＯＬ" which accumulated upwards of 900,000 views in the following three months (shown below, left). On April 6th, the /r/simpsonwave subreddit was created, gaining over 470 subscribers in one month. On April 10th, YouTuber FrankJavCee uploaded a video titled "HOW TO ＳＩＭＰＳＯＮＷＡＶＥ" (shown below, right).



On May 26th, YouTuber This Exists uploaded a video titled "Is ＳＩＭＰＳＯＮＷＡＶＥ a joke?", detailing the history of the video series (shown below). In 48 hours, the video gathered more than 72,000 views.



Various Examples



Search Interest

External References

[1] The Simpsons Wiki – Bart on the Road

[2] Soundcloud – HOME – Resonance

[3] Reddit – /r/simpsonswave

[4] Youtube – ＳＩＭＰＳＯＮＷＡＶＥ

[5] YouTube – E z e k

Related Entries 12 total

Recent Videos 35 total

Recent Images 4 total


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This whole trend is incredible. The people who made Simpsonwave videos obviously wanted them to be ironically funny, since making a montage of scenarios from a show generally thought of as comedic and portraying the scenarios as artsy and dramatic using the already (situationally) ironic vaporwave theme sounds funny.
But because The Simpsons is already elementally dramatic – because almost all of its humor makes light of dramatic circumstances – removing the humor (by singling out and amplifying the dramatic parts) makes it genuinely dramatic, and along with that something vaporwave can be artistic (because of how much effort was put into making it look authentic), people unironically enjoy the videos as dramatic instead of funny, even while acknowledging that they're ironic in concept, regardless of what they were intended to be.
So to sum that up, a sometimes ironic meme was combined with a sometimes funny joke and applied to a dark-humor based show, and because of how they all compliment each other, its product becomes unironically dramatic and artistic, even though it's acknowledged as ironic. Memes are like onions.

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