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noun
A fashion and visual art style, characterized by aquatic themes and colours, rave culture, and the digital aesthetic of the 1990s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: aesthetic
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noun
A fashion and visual art style, characterized by aquatic themes and colours, rave culture, and the digital aesthetic of the 1990s.
A follower of the seapunk style.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, neologism
Qualifier: aesthetic
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History
From sea + -punk; compare earlier cyberpunk, steampunk. Coined by Brooklyn-based DJ Lil Internet, who tweeted about a surreal dream he had in June 2011 ("Seapunk leather jacket with barnacles where the studs used to be"), and later popularized as a Twitter hashtag.
