That fact that myriad musical microgenres exist almost solely on the Internet is old news. For me what makes seapunk more interesting than the rest is that it reflects how communities function on Tumblr and in similar spaces. IRL it wouldn’t just be difficult to pull together a community of people with a shared interest in techno-utopian philosophies, turquoise hair dye, and rap beats from songs about dealing cocaine—it’d be almost impossible to create the circumstances under which those elements would’ve cohered into a package. But in a churning remix engine like Tumblr, bizarre collisions like that happen all the time.
Music, is dumb.
