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@shel For one thing, in the USA at least it's impossible to even be far right without taking cues from left counterculture. The side-shaves I think are a coincidence, queer influence is probably about subverting gender signaling by mixing short and long hair. The right is probably trying to evoke "fashy" buzzcuts in a fresh way, and without being too obvious.

The vaporwave/synthwave thing is a synthesis both of nostalgia for a "better" past and a kind of yearning for a future that we never got. The left is enjoying the nostalgia and aesthetic, and the chillout vibe, the right is digging the retro-futurism.

I'm having a hard time putting into words what is attractive about vaporwave from a right perspective, but a "sadness and loss of a future deprived" might be close. Synthwave evokes a happier time and takes musical and artistic themes further while sidestepping African-American pop and hip-hop influence on late-eighties/early 90s. People on the left miss this I think because they just see it as "different music" while the right sees it as restoring a hegemonic influence of the 80s.

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