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AmidDonald Trumps mercurial ascent into presidency, internet fans have created a puzzling musical movement, "Trumpwave."

According to knowyourmeme, the originating movement is called fashwave. It takes elements of glitchy, internet-spawned electronic musicvaporwave and synthwave, mostlyand adds references to Trump via '80s yuppy-inspired artwork.

BuzzFeed's Reggie Ugwu wrote about fashwave as:

Now, Trump branding is leading the musical releases.

Andrew Anglin, from white supremacist website Daily Stormer, called itthe official soundtrack of the alt-right. (The alt-right is a loosely organized white supremacist online movement.)

The forms of music associated with previous White Nationalist movements, various forms of rock music, are pretty dated, explains Anglin. In the end, the solution to this problem had been staring me in the face all along. The Whitest music ever: Synthwave.

Its become a serious issue among vaporwave artists, to the point that an emergency summit was called last year to mitigate the scenes creeping fascism.

The banality of the comments in these videos alone is mortifying. But luckily the music sucks.

H/T Thump

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'Trumpwave' emerges as the alt-right's meme-heavy soundtrack - The Daily Dot