#retropals

[burningshellenberger]

russian simpsons flash games are intense

[randomhoohaas]

[tygerbug]

[taxi-davis]

ＨＡＬＬＯＷＥＥＮ ＶＡＰＯＲＷＡＶＥ~ 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙏𝙤 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙏𝙤 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙁𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙬𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙉𝙪-𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤 [Retropical Records]

[michaelmathewsart]

“Miracle Healing"

[Relics series)

by michael mathews

mixed media & collage on cradled panel

11x14 x 0.75 inches

2023

www.michaelmathewsart.com

[zeeph-containment-zone]

VAPORWAVE/SYNTHWAVE LISTENERS:

I need you all to be aware that there seems to be a massive uptick in AI generated "music" clogging up youtube. As someone who's starting to get into writing their own vaporwave music and has wanted to write vaporwave for the past decade, this really upsets me for a lot of reasons!!!!

So I'm gonna show you how to spot these AI generated mixes::

WHILE WRITING THIS BLOGPOST I LEARNED MANY OF THESE SAME IDENTIFIERS APPLY TO WEIRDCORE / AMBIENT MIXES AS WELL!!!!

1) No Tracklist

Many of the AI generated mixes have no tracklists attached to them whatsoever. In my personal opinion, this is one of the biggest red flags. Some uploaders have added "track lists" but the names of the songs are pretty nonsensical even by vaporwave standards (example: "Helicopter Fly") and have no artist credited.

2) Suspiciously Long Uploads

If you're anything like me, you probably have noticed all videos on youtube search if you type "vaporwave mix" into the search bar are 3 or more fucking hours long.

I know there's some lengthy older mixes out there (example: Aisle 420, which has become a group listening background music staple whenever my friends and I play minecraft together!) but if it's fairly new and has a really obnoxious timestamp attached to it, be wary!

3) Extremely Specific Naming Scheme

Going to crossreference back to the images in number 2, one of the many things ALL these AI channels have in common is that they title all their mixes " Ｓｏｍｅｔｈｉｎｇ Ｉｎ Ｗｉ��ｅ Ｔｅｘｔ ［ ＹＥＡＲ ］" Again, this is something older mixes have done before. But there's a very noticable difference between genuine mixes that incorporate a year into the title and these, especially when you look at the upload dates and how the naming scheme is extremely similar across all the channels that exhibit these patterns and AI usage.

4) Year in the Thumbnail Image

Much like Number 3, but specifcally in regards to the thumbnail image. There'll be a four digit number plastered in big text across the thumbnail. I have no idea why they all do this.

5) AI Generated Captions

Not just very likely AI generated, but also copypasta'd across every channel that's like this. Examples will speak better than explaining in text can.

Some things to note here are a weird fixation on copyright, and the phrase "Reposting This Content In Any Form is Strictly Prohibited!" being a shared factor.

6) AI Generated Visuals

This one is pretty easy to spot unless you're running youtube in a tab in the background.

7) Extremely "Samey" Sounding

So if you're like me and let youtube autoplay run while you're working, one of these may have decided to come on without you actually clicking on it. From what I've listened to when this happens, a lot of the music sounds very empty and "samey." As if you're listening to the same song for 10 minutes but it's actually all different songs. There's not much substance to any of the actual songs and also a very clear distinct lack of sampling. I don't want to include lack of sampling as it's own point, because it's entirely possible to compose music in-genre without sampling at all. However, none of these channels use samples. Not a single one, out of any of their several dozen three hour uploads.

8) Very Short Intervals Between Uploads

One of the things that made me start thinking "holy shit, are all these new playlists that're popping up AI generated?" was the upload dates. These channels will seeminly push out a new mix every couple of days, sometimes even every day.

Bro, you are NOT writing that much over that period of time.

9) Sometimes, They'll Just Admit It

youtube has also thankfully started flagging some of them with the tiny little disclaimer in the caption, which imo isn't enough seeing as they paste a whole AI generated novel in the caption half the time but at least it's something.

Channels I Can 100% Confirm Are AI:

•Retropical Records

-alts: Eternal Past (Weirdcore/Ambient) Nebula Breeze (Jazz?) and Dunes of Time (??? I can't be assed to click on any of those videos to find out, not gonna lie.)

•Utopic.Dreamer

•Luminescence

•Music Farm

•dream.surfer

•devs.fm

• FOR WEIRDCORE LISTENERS: aurora.heaven

-likely run by whoever's running utopic and dream surfer

Thank you so much for reading this through to the end. It's such a shame to see this genre go down this path and I hope we as creators can do something to offset it.

May your journey into the eternal mall be pleasant and AI-Free <3

[stochastique-blog]

sharing something like this...

Gear-Head angels with Kay and Rachel at Gear-Head Get Together in Maple Lake, Mn #modelsofinstagram #pinup #retropics #vintagetruck #eyelove808 #gearheadgettogether #ghgt https://www.instagram.com/p/CSnWMOiLXRS/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sealedintime]

Captured by Bert Hardy in Birmingham, 1951. #RetroPics

[neocatharsis]

wayv 6th mini album 'frequency' consists of total 6 tracks:

• frequency (kor and chn vers): old school hip hop dance

• high five (kor): retrop pop and old hip hop

• twist (kor): medium tempo dance

• filty rich (eng): retro mood r&b dance

• call me (eng): medium tempo r&b

© wayizhuo

[burningshellenberger]

The Lost Vikings (1993, Silicon & Synapse, now Blizzard Entertainment)

[randomhoohaas]

Alex going jester mode for three minutes

[hauntedtoybox]

nostalgic plushies retrops bunny ron-chan by san ei

[ewzzy]

[taxi-davis]

Tube Time by Retropical Records

[morkitten]

A month or two ago I saw Arino from Game Center CX play an adventure/horror game on the Sega CD named Yumemi Yakata no Monogatari. You ever hear of it or play it?

Mansion of Hidden Souls! I've heard of it, I know the RetroPals like the game/series, seems to be a short weird janky FMV adventure thriller game with some charm to it. I think you play as a butterfly in it?