Comment by TacticalCoder
6 hours ago
Love your pelicans, as always. And that one is... Wow.
I noticed the "Synthwave" aesthetic, which is enjoying quite some success since quite some time now, has found its way into AI models (even when it's not in the user's query). It's not the first time I see the sun at sunset with color bands etc. in AI-generated pictures. Don't know why it's now taking on in AI too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthwave
Hence the comments here about the 90s, Sonny Crockett's white Ferrari Testarossa in Miami, etc.
To be honest as a kid from the 80s and a teenager from the 90s who grew up with that aesthetic in posters, on VHS tape covers, magazine covers, etc. I do love that style and I love that it made a comeback and that that comeback somehow stayed.
Sythwave vibe hype hit a cultural high point with the release of Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon in 2013.
So it's as relevant and baked-in to today as actual 80s synth-culture was in 2000.
"Look around to look around."
At the keynote today, Sundar Pichai asked Gemini to clone the Dino Game, and it added a synthwave-esque aesthetic.