[mr-ron]

Every time I move away from VW and the sounds start to sound stale, some random genre offshoot pulls me back in with full force and takes over my brain completely.

Lately its the whole broken transmission / signalwave genre:

https://intertelecom.bandcamp.com/

https://ct57.bandcamp.com/

Once you start getting into the different genres of Vaporwave, you start wondering are you still in Vaporwave? Where does VW end and the subgenres start?

[throwaway2046]

"Vaporwave" is the umbrella genre that covers many (often overlapping) subgenres, one of them being Broken Transmission which you mentioned.

Here's a list of vaporwave subgenres with example albums: http://i.imgur.com/XE8fzLr.jpg

There have been a few new subgenres since that list was published in 2014(?), most notably hardvapour [sic] and metrosong.

[mr-ron]

That image is where I got my start in this, years ago. My question is along the lines of getting further and further away from VW through these genres. Until Im listening to a totally non-ironic, very pretty piano medley with some white noise in the background. Is that still VW I wonder