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fashwave

fashwave noun: vaporwave music and art with fascist themes.

Noun

fashwave (uncountable)

  1. Vaporwave music and art with fascist themes.
    • “The Jew-owned Buzzfeed^([sic]) blog has done an article about how fashwave has become the musical soundtrack of the alt-right,” the piece said.2016 December 14, Michael Hann, quoting Reggie Ugwu, “'Fashwave': synth music co-opted by the far right”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2018
    • In fashwave, as in all fascist art (yes, that’s what the “fash” part stands for), the far right’s insecurities and apocalyptic death wish are chiefly on display.2018 January 13, Jack Smith IV, “This is fashwave, the suicidal retro-futurist art of the alt-right”, in Mic, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2019

Origin of fashwave

Blend of fascist + vaporwave, equivalent to fash + -wave. Compare synthwave, darkwave, new wave.

Questions about fashwave

What does fashwave mean?
Fashwave means vaporwave music and art with fascist themes.
What part of speech is fashwave?
Fashwave is a noun.

Words near fashwave in the dictionary

  1. Fashoda complex
  2. Fashoda syndrome
  3. fashos
  4. fashous
  5. fashun
  6. fashwave
  7. fashy
  8. fashying
  9. fasibitikite
  10. fasicle
  11. fasidotril

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