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    This LoRA reminds me of the worn, nostalgic feel of old VHS covers and magazine prints, but in a Vaporwave interpretation.
    Bold colors softened by heavy grain, scratches, and print textures.
    The aesthetic balances surreal calm with urban vibrance. It is both dreamlike and gritty.
    Best for evocative portraits, cityscapes, and nostalgic retro-futurist edits. I also included 20 Animal Images in the Dataset :)

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    Comments (11)

    Fo3Sep 26, 2025· 4 reactions
    CivitAI

    ALL HAIL ARS MACHINA!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

    search_botOct 11, 2025· 4 reactions
    CivitAI

    Awesome style!

    nikhil02ranjan615Nov 1, 2025· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    awesome style and images

    DonutsDeliveryDec 7, 2025· 6 reactions
    CivitAI

    this is retrowave or synthwave aesthetic, not vaporwave.

    ArsMachina
    Author
    Dec 7, 2025· 2 reactions

    If I call it Synthwave , people will start complaining that it is full with Vaporwave objects and concepts :)
    So this is Retro 80s before anything else - like the name, description and images show :)
    A more Synthwave accurate LoRA is coming soon.

    cyberpunx1980Dec 8, 2025· 1 reaction

    @ArsMachina aren't they all just subgenres of vaporwave, like how "trance" or "techno" is still essentially 'electronica?' and WHO in the slopwave said OUT RUN could be a genre? how long until we're arguing about rad racer and mario kart subgenres? i hate it so much.

    7oxytronDec 8, 2025

    @ArsMachina that specific sunset design, the tron style grid, the dark purple theme. this is clearly synthwave. when you think of classic vaporwave aesthetics, you think of light pink checkerboards, pastel pink to cyan gradients, and blocky windows 98 computers. the difference is basically night (synthwave) and day (classic vaporwave)

    DonutsDeliveryDec 8, 2025· 1 reaction

    @fantabulicious synthwave is not even a sample-based genre.

    terrariyumMar 16, 2026

    It would be cool to have a strictly "vaporwave" and a strictly "synthwave"model, but you should name them both "vaporwave+synthwave" because the average joe doesn't know the term "synthwave" and will be searching for "vaporwave" (https://trends.google.com/explore?geo=Worldwide&q=vaporwave%2Csynthwave&date=all). The average joe doesn't know the difference and doesn't care. But you can educate them once they find you

    ss9999Apr 1, 2026

    @7oxytron Windows 98 computers? Not on the Macintosh Plus cover.

    purpleladyDec 7, 2025· 1 reaction
    CivitAI

    this is what i needed in my like thanks :D

    LORA
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    Platform
    CivitAI
    Platform Status
    Available
    Created
    9/26/2025
    Updated
    8/29/2026
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    Trigger Words:
    Retro 80s Vaporwave

    Files

    Retro_80s_Vaporwave.safetensors

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