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This is something that applies especially, if not exclusively, to releases that are sometimes referred to as "proto-vaporwave" or the like. Releases such as Oneohtrix Point Never's Replica, Vektroid's Neo Cali, or James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual have a tendency to be grouped with vaporwave for sharing specific aesthetics and being released around the time of the scene's origin point. For the sake of consistency and respecting the visions of artists before the scene's primary existence, these releases will not be covered on vaporwave.wiki as a vaporwave release. This is done both out of respect for creator identification both inside and outside of the scene, and to better define the genre.

As quite possibly the most elastic netmusic genre to date, vaporwave can be difficult to define. However, it is worth understanding the nuances of genres outside of vaporwave so that releases on the wrong side of the fringe are not picked up mistakenly. If an artist has music that is stylistically closer to another genre than vaporwave and has had little to no interaction with the vaporwave scene, it's safe to say the music isn't vaporwave. To specify, plunderphonics is not vaporwave. Seapunk is not vaporwave. Lo-fi is not vaporwave. Synthwave, retrowave, outrun or whichever term best covers it is not vaporwave. Vaporwave can explore these concepts on a by-album basis, and vaporwave, can have sections akin to these genres, but they are not concrete parts of the genre as a whole in that way. Think of this as the relationship of a rectangle and square, essentially.

===Not All Vaporwave Can Be Properly Documented===