# Simpsonwave Simpsonwave is a video remix series that pairs clips from The Simpsons with vaporwave and chillwave music plus glitchy 80s and 90s visual filters. It started with a 2015 Vine loop of Bart Simpson set to HOME's 'Resonance' and grew into a full YouTube subgenre that defined vaporwave's peak crossover moment in early 2016. ## Origin On October 27, 2015, Viner Spicster posted a six-second loop from The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 20 'Bart on the Road' scored with HOME's chillwave track 'Resonance'[3][8]. The Vine racked up more than 21.9 million loops over the following months and was mirrored to YouTube by an account called E z e k that November[2]. YouTuber Hothi followed on December 3, 2015 with a longer edit titled 'ＢＡＲＴ ＯＮ ＴＨＥ ＲＯＡＤ' that pushed past 192,000 views inside six months[4]. The format got its name from Lucien Hughes, who on February 5, 2016 uploaded 'ＨＯＭＥＲＳＣＡＰＥ － １９９２ 美的' set to Macintosh Plus's 'ピコ' and began organizing follow-ups under a playlist he called 'ＳＩＭＰＳＯＮＷＡＶＥ'[5]. Hughes is generally treated as the person who codified the style, since Spicster's original was a one-off Vine rather than a series. - **Platform:** Vine (source clip) / YouTube (viral spread) - **Creator:** Lucien Hughes (coined the format name and playlist); earliest known edit by Viner Spicster - **Date:** 2015 ## Overview Simpsonwave is a video remix format built on a simple recipe: melancholy or surreal moments from early Simpsons episodes get slowed, chopped, or looped, then layered with vaporwave and chillwave tracks and washed in VHS scanlines, chromatic aberration, and pastel gradients[1]. The visual grammar leans on the same aesthetic cues as vaporwave album art, Windows 95 icons, faux-3D grids, palm silhouettes, full-width Japanese unicode text, and 4:3 tape distortion[3]. Most edits pull from Seasons 3 through 9 of The Simpsons, treating Bart, Lisa, and Homer less as comedy characters and more as suburban ghosts drifting through Springfield's empty roads and dusk skies. The mood is intentionally wistful rather than funny, which is what set Simpsonwave apart from earlier ironic Simpsons YouTube Poop content. Track choices lean on HOME's 'Resonance' and Macintosh Plus's 'ピコ' as sonic anchors[2][8]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Simpsonwave? Simpsonwave is a video remix format that combines clips from The Simpsons with vaporwave or chillwave music and 80s and 90s VHS-style visual effects[1]. ### Where did Simpsonwave come from? The first known edit was posted to Vine on October 27, 2015 by Spicster, using footage from 'Bart on the Road' set to HOME's 'Resonance'[3][8]. ### What does Simpsonwave mean? The name was coined by YouTuber Lucien Hughes, who in February 2016 grouped his Simpsons-based vaporwave edits into a playlist titled 'ＳＩＭＰＳＯＮＷＡＶＥ'[5]. ### How do you use Simpsonwave? Editors typically slow a nostalgic Simpsons scene, layer a vaporwave track like HOME's 'Resonance' or Macintosh Plus's 'ピコ', and add VHS grain, chromatic aberration, and full-width unicode titles, a workflow FrankJavCee walked through in his 2016 tutorial[6]. ### Is Simpsonwave still popular? Simpsonwave peaked in the spring and summer of 2016 alongside the wider vaporwave wave, and it is still treated as a defining vaporwave sub-format on YouTube[7]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_rC-495Z_A]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmWmvR_PwXA]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/simpsonwave]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL4br6HfgfY]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTfa-9aCTYg]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfVWjxQCfEA]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olXUTyk7FP4]() 8. [https://soundcloud.com/home-2001/resonance]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/simpsonwave Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library