terrorwave en · NOUN
Etymology
From terror + -wave.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Vaporwave music and art with terrorist and militant themes.
Journalist Jake Hanrahan has described terrorwave as removing “the reality of the violence war brings” while revealing how “bored young men in the West desire a violent past they’ve no perception of.”
2023 May 4, Joshua Molloy, “Terrorwave: The Aesthetics of Violence and Terrorist Imagery in Militant Accelerationist Subcultures”, in Global Network on Extremism and Technology: