Sprouting from the digital petri dish of social networking, seapunk is a whimsical style that mashes together cartoonish aquatic themes, rave culture and a nostalgia for 90s net art. Other influences include 90s techno, dance and soul, old video games (Donkey Kong, Super Mario, etc.) liquid funk, aqua crunk, wonky, future garage, juke, footwork, big beat, dubstep, zombie rave, glambient, jungle, moombahton, dancehall, trap, chopped and screwed, goth, deep house, psychedelic music, Bounce, Glitch-hop, Ambient, IDM, Drum and Base, Hip-house, Post-trance and various forms of commercial hip-hop music. Alternative names and sound directions include: Raev, dream-tech, Aqua House, Logplume, Dripstep, Tropicult, Tropigoth, Laptopgaze, Gravy, Wave Wave, Wave Rave, sigil-delia, Post-media and so on. It also likes Twitter and pseudo-punk shit. Rich, Western, Meta, quasi-Pomo Meme-pop kids.
Conceptually, seapunk continues to exist in line with electroclash, witch house, and chillwave, partially appropriating and mutating its aesthetic tactics and meaning sets. It is an eclectic but cohesive meta-texture. Like LOLcats and pedobear, seapunk is an inside Web joke that feeds off its own ridiculousness. See also Slimepunk, Icepunk, In the chillwave family, In the witch house family, Newbreed, Witch House, Chillwave, Broken-clash, post-chillwave, vaporwave, glo-fi, eccojams, Dream Age. .
