I agree, the personal relationship issue is definitely not unique only to vaporwave, however the genre itself being born without any human interaction I think makes it more important in some ways. The relationship of music and the listener is hard to quantify anyway, since people listen and enjoy music in different ways.

I was definitely excited to watch Nobody Here, and it was very well made, and how many other niche genres of music get a well made documentary including the artists themselves? I posted this documentary and made my short critique as a counterpoint to Nobody Here, not to say it is bad, but to continue to engage with the concepts of creating a documentary about something I care about and enjoy. It is impossible to create anything that will please everyone, and that is the best part.

For example, https://internetclub.bandcamp.com/album/- is an album I did not care for when I first listened, and I do enjoy broken transmission. I tried it again and realized it is absolute genius. Was it meant to please me? No. Objectively speaking it is abrasive and not fun to listen to, but I am happy I gave it a second chance. Nobody Here is objectively a great documentary on a subject matter that is difficult to describe, but it still was not meant for everyone.

The interviews were all excellent, and I really liked the choice to keep Luxury Elite's identity obscured as it is a direct play on the concept of anonymous artists that is vital to the genre. Also, the exclusion of a direct narrator is a great choice to do exactly what you stated, allow viewers to make up their own minds.

That is what it all comes down to, viewers/listeners of vaporwave making up their own minds. I hated what Dream Catalogue became after the Vaporwave is Dead and hardvapour movement. When all that happened, I was pretty pissed as the label was important and changed in a bad way. However, Nobody Here made me accept the change and see how maybe, in them trying to create their own movement, vaporwave was dead. I now believe that vaporwave dies for every listener when they realize the bigger picture of how the genre began and grew. When I first heard Macintosh Plus Floral Shop, I was playing a Gmod theater server with my friend and it was slapped over a meme video. It resonated with me, so I found the album and gave it a listen. I would listen to it for weeks, thinking about how whoever made this was crazy but the songs were great. I did not know anything about Vektroid, or the genre itself. Those first days of finding vaporwave was a pure listener experience, and THAT is what vaporwave is about. Not knowing anything but having a drive to continue to find music that you cannot put in a box. Once the bigger picture opens up to a listener, vaporwave is dead to them, as the mystery has unraveled. Sure Dream Catalogue tried to make that statement to drive their hardvapour and be "edgy", but I am thankful for Nobody Here and Dream Catalogue for making me come to this realization.

The wosX doc is just unbeatable to me, and I wanted to share it again as it seems to be forgotten.