The Forgotten World of Seapunk 

Not now babe, a youtuber made a video on a topic I never even heard of.

Witch House is alive and still ripping out bangers, my favorite genre.

I can never tell if these micro genres you talk about are real. It's like seeing a TV show from another timeline.

FINALLY! someone talking about seapunk. I was SO INTO IT back in the day. ahh it takes me back.. thanks for covering this!

Aw hell yeah dawg, I was THERE for this shit, I made a bitch ass Tumblr for this shit lol idc what anyone says THIS was the OG vaporwave and ultrademon was the heavy hitter.

Or Spunk to his mates.

i started a new seapunk board on pinterest a couple weeks ago after remembering how much i love this aesthetic, so excited to watch this refresher !

Seapunk, pirate metal's belligerent cousin, great vid Mads !

They thought seapunk was vaporware? I guess that's technically accurate, it never delivered

I was a fixie riding hipster-ass-hipster when the Seapunk album came out, really good stuff

I was today years old when I learned I have been seeing seapunk art and listened to seapunk music without even knowing for a long time

These types of videos are great for introducing people to new niche things they might like. Thank you for making this.

Omg i forgot about seapunk on tumblr i loved this aesthetic and had hair at one point 🤣😭 green yellow blue bangs omfg thanks for the memories 🎉

Seapunk also had several punk bands that re did old sea shanty songs, and don't forget the Sea Foam slushie from Sonic that had the right aesthetic color. Sea u down at Asbury Park at the Shore!

Certainly more info than what FrankJavCee managed to cramp into his old seapunk tutorial video

I remember picking up ultrademon from the train station to a gig in Lawrance Kansas. I remember them telling me about how steampunk was more an aesthetic than a genre. This era of electronic music was awesome.

I caught the tail end of seapunk as it was morphing into vaporwave and remember thinking it was wild that people could find early 90s aesthetics appealing, I'm feeling exactly the same way about younger gen z's love of frutiger aero now

Seapunk was and still is such a fun era; I remember it like it was yesterday, scrolling on tumblr in 2013 i think, being totally in love with the weird art

i miss all the seapunk sticker and art apps. they had some really cool mashup vibes.

This is absurd. Everyone knows that you can't use electronic instruments in or around water. I do think I may have spotted a seapunk once, though. I could see his/her liberty spikes sticking up out of the water. Seriously, graymods, you are doing the Lord's work, man.

I have no horse in this race, but Shan deserves some recognition for establishing seapunk's flash in the pan. Either way, some of the (as far as I could find) only-one-song-ever-made-bands's pop songs that came out of this scene are incredibly good. This was a great summer lol.

Glad to finally see a video on this topic, some interesting artists spawned from this era!

calling Donna Haraway a crackpot is crazy btw, you should read the cyborg manifesto again

Primary writer for the Aesthetics Wiki article on Seapunk here; fantastic video. And yeah, when I was writing that article, research for it was a PAIN IN THE ASS because so much of it has been lost to time. But from that research, I have discovered that Ultrademon is still releasing music as not only Ultrademon, but also as Lilium Kobayashi (has even released an album as recently as 2022). Ultrademon has also since come out as trans. It also reminds me that 2010s hipsters and their tendency to gatekeep to shit makes research for these sorts of things EXTREMELY hard for the sake of documentation.

Not forgotten for some of us

FINALLY SOMEONE REMEMBEREDSSS YESSS

you should do a video on witchhouse! i think it was the root of a lot of these internet genres (seapunk, vaporwave, anyone else remember slimepunk?)

Love this channel. Got that underground/alt-platform vibe.

Great video on Seapunk. I came in with surface level knowledge on it and left understanding a whole lot more on the genre. I look forward to your future videos!

Ecco the Dolphin on SEGA Genesis

always loved seapunk since 2014, seapunk oldhead here. nice to see an indepth video on it thats longer than 10 mins! awesome!

My ideal seapunk experience is playing one of my weird ps1 dolphin games while listening to RePorpoised Phantasies surrounded by lego aquazone

Ah, Seapunk... Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time... A long time...

This was my dream as a young teen. I kind of forgot but watching this video made me remember how much i loved seapunk. I dont remember how i discovered it but when i did i was enamoured. I needed to find more music, more visuals. Hell i even made some myself (with my very poor kid art skills at the time lol). I wanted to dress the part so bad. And while ive moved on from it i can still see how it influenced my current styles and likes. Mainly in terms of music

Seapunk goes hard

This video is amazing I remember that time so well💯

I was super online and into music at the time, but still managed to completely miss out on Seapunk. Sad!

Truth to be told, I don't know what Seapunk is. Thank you for informing me about this.

I LOVE YOU, THANK U FOR UPLOADING THIS

No fucking way. I've been trying to tell people about this for years oh my god. I've been waiting for this video for so long Edit: as a long time seapunk, vaporwave, and witch house enjoyer pretty much everything in this video was spot on EXCEPT I do think seapunk music had it's own identity. A lot of ultrademon and other artists songs frequently featured dripping water sounds, splashing sounds, dolphin sounds, and used either nightcore or chopped and screwed type vocals. I still listen to seapunk on sound cloud to this day ngl ^^;

Love this channel! I WOULD def wanna see a video made on pastel goth!!

I don’t know yall. I think we should bring Seapunk back.

With the power of my Mouse-Triton & my SeaBoard- *Let it be written:* _My first born Daughter will be named _*_Lisa Frank,_*_ & Seapunk will be her domain to be recycled & reinvigorated as her own._

I'm not sure how I missed these wave fads when they came out. I only learned about Vaporwave after playing Hypnospace Outlaw.

We making it out of the Liminal Space with this one!

Hey, how about a video about the band Chrome? I think it would be interesting as you’d be the first to make one and they totally fit your channel, they were the OG cyberpunk music, before Sonic Youth or even Brian Eno. They even had the aesthetics figured out.

"sea punk" sounds like one of the fake music genre's from Hypnospace Outlaw

Got to experience a seapunk set by a DJ in Detroit in '11 at a Movement after party. Nice to see this. Seablaze I think was the dude, I think??

Dawg im rly sad i didnt know abt this. I was pastel goth when this was popular and had my hair died half peppermint green and blue gray. I had a fucking holographic seal phonecase. I had a mermaid aesthetic phase just 2 yrs before that too. I could have pulled some sick shit. Im not rly that vibe at all anymore so if i tried itd be rly forced and i wouldnt have fun, but ill def keep it in mind.

the cyborg manifesto is extremely good...

I've been "plugged" into the internet since 97' and I have no idea what this is enjoyed the video regardless. I'm old now and trying to figure out how to make videos is crazy tough for me haha good job man

Seapunk Revival 2031, calling it now. Btw ultrademon goes by she/her now

Haven’t heard of Seapunk in many years

So Seapunk was basically B-52s and Aqua aestetic? But set to electronic music.

One second in, they're into water sports, leaving bye.

Seaman and seashells on the sea shore.

WAKE UP, NEW GRAYMADS VIDEO Y'ALL

tumblrs that got me into the vibe were teenwitchfanclub, Molly soda, leopoldasbeach, top8 and her party at 285 Kent of the same name (who is pictured at 23:08)and some music u forgot to mention was unicorn kid, girl unit, le1f's song soda and Justin bieber love me like u do slowed and reverbed. lol

Awesome video, takes me back to that classic frankjavcee seapunk video but much more informative though I will say Ultrademon transitioned and goes by she/her now

I just listened to the Silent Generation episode on Seapunk and then found this. This is the closest to Seapunk being popular again in years! It just needs to go viral on TikTok

Check out Drexciya, especially Sea Quake and its album. I'd say it could be proto-sea although it was made in a time before those labels as it had its own story

im getting so old….. i remember this like it was yesterday

This was very useful for new music to listen to thanks 👍💯😎😉🙃🌚

Hello 2011... 🥲

Holy shit you’re the guy who made that msi video I watch every Tuesday

Big shout out to Julian / Lil Internet

i was always into the seapunk visuals, but hated the music. then i discovered vaporwave, and it was like someone fixed seapunk for me. 2:13 vaporwave is 90's, synthwave is 80's.

Whenever someone reminds me that fucking nobody has read the Sprawl trilogy these days, I can feel the world around me fade to the color of a television turned to a dead channel.

I'm a simple man. I seapunk I click like dolphin 🐬 😌

15:06 oh god mac tonight oh god oh fuck

holy shit seapunk reminds me SO MUCH of Splatoon campaign music. it probably took a lot of influence from seapunk which is awesome i love splatoon :]

we're bringing this back.

I never forgot babbbyyyyyt

now u gotta do an episode on Witchaus

What's the song at 4:50?

That new Ultrademon album Aethi is so good

MOM, I’LL BE EATING DINNER LATER, THE NEW GRAYMADS VIDEO IS OUT!

To me it's not dead but it did get swallowed.

this is still my fav aesthetic of all time idc

Why are people who are neither core nor punk so eager to stick it to _whatever just pops up in their mind? Did nothing else occur to them in 50 years?

when are you doing the WITCH HOUSE video? you mentioned pictureplane, hes the godfather of witchouse, before the russians adopted it and made it sick

Machine Girl made RePorpoised Phantasies in 2020. Oops all bangers

Seapunk isn't dead.

This looks like some Regular Show stuff.

you should check out digital-hardcore

New aesthetic just dropped

Drain it out the sync

17:23 sounds like something on hyperdub

Awh 🖤 Rivetheads. I feel seen! 😂😂😂

as far as i can tell, the visual aesthetic is a weird intersect of vaporwave and y2k with an emphasis on ocean themes. never thought of the music for it

BRING BACK SEAPUNK

Sick Intro.

Dreampunk video?

Sea punk ❤❤ my fave 😊

This guys voice talkin like a lullaby

Not smile dk 😂😂😂

HOLY SHIT. THE ROLLING GIRLS SPOTTED??? IM SO HAPPY?

As a follower of the sea punk aesthetic I can tell you that my positioning is only half right. Submission makes no sense in my own eyes. Given that to me, it can only truly be leading or being neutral. To follow others makes no sense to me, given my own mind. I hope this pleases your heart and you find good memories with your new lovers, peace!

reddit? what about Digg?

So, this is where splatoon came from.