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Y2K

Also called Cybercore, Y2K aesthetic

The turn-of-the-millennium look of chrome, bubble shapes, lens flare, translucent plastic and a future that arrived as a screensaver.

Near it

VaporwaveAquaMemphis

Frutiger AeroMaximalism

What it is made of

materialchrome and translucent coloured plastic
typesquarish techno faces, often stretched
lightlens flare, starbursts, hard specular highlights

Where it came from

Roughly 1997 to 2004 as lived, and revived as a named aesthetic from the late 2010s. The name is retrospective.