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Vaporwave AI image prompts

An internet-born visual style that fuses glitch art, classical Roman busts, retro 1980s–90s computer graphics, and Japanese text into a nostalgic, ironic dreamscape of dead consumer futures. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the Vaporwave vocabulary.

Original specimen in the vaporwave aesthetic

Copy-ready prompts

Midjourney
a poster in the Vaporwave style, vaporwave, roman bust, pink cyan gradient, retro 3d grid, japanese text, glitch art, windows 95 nostalgia, neon sunset, glitch, gradient, retro-3d, collage, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A poster in the Vaporwave style. Emphasize vaporwave, roman bust, pink cyan gradient, retro 3d grid, japanese text, glitch art, windows 95 nostalgia, neon sunset. The mood is glitch, gradient, retro-3d, collage. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a poster in the Vaporwave style, vaporwave, roman bust, pink cyan gradient, retro 3d grid, japanese text, glitch art, windows 95 nostalgia, neon sunset, glitch, gradient, retro-3d, collage, highly detailed, sharp focus
Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed

Vaporwave keyword vocabulary

Tap a keyword to collect it in the Designdeas prompt builder, then mix in your own subject.

Prompts for related styles

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