The minute Rihanna jacked some aquamarine imagery from seapunk for her performance on Saturday Night Live in the fall of 2012 it was pretty clear that the electronic URL microscene wouldn't be the same thing it was when it broke on Tumblr the previous year. That hasn't stopped me from counting "seapunks" at festivals* and it also hasn't stopped the scene's originators from moving on.…
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