In December 2012, the music blog /mu/essentials, run by members of 4chan's music board, posted a graphic for "Essential Vaporwave" (shown below).
On December 7th, the music blog Dummy published an article about vaporwave, which described it as a satire of capitalism. On January 24th, 2013, the Tumblr blog "Vaporwave Album Covers" was launched, which highlights album art from notable vaporwave artists (shown below).
On March 4th, a vaporwave thread was submitted to the /mu/ (music) board on 4chan, where many users recommended their favorite vaporwave albums. On March 19th, the music blog Another County Heard published an article titled "The Verdict on Vaporwave," which noted how many Internet commenters had declared vaporwave to be "over." On December 27th, Vice published an article comparing vaporwave to seapunk, quoting several forum commenter descriptions of the genre as "chillwave for Marxists," "post-elevator music" and "corporate smooth jazz Windows 95 pop."
In January of 2015, ２８１４, the collaborative project of Hong Kong Express and t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者, released their second album 新しい日の誕生 (English: Birth of a New Day, shown above) on Dream Catalogue. Described as being one of the first vaporwave albums to use original instrumentation unlike other vaporwave albums, which use sampling of older songs, it has been well received by both critics and fans as well, with Tiny Mix Tapes giving it a 4/5, a RateYourMusic rating of 3.46/5, and Rolling Stone featuring ２８１４ on their "10 New Artists You Need to Know" list for November 2015.
