Is it a faux pas to give vaporwave artists a few bucks through their bandcamp...

Is it a faux pas to give vaporwave artists a few bucks through their bandcamp? I told a guy on Soundcloud I'd dropped him a five through his bandcamp and he told me im an idiot and blocked me. I figure it's like buying my favorite artists a beer

Who is this memewave artist you speak of

normally it's not wrong

They have to prove they are some sort anti consumerists I guess.

Vaporwave is a meme scene of tumblr style sarcasm regarding capitalism. It's also stupidly simple with proper sampling, so if they were to make money off it most of the money should go to the sampled artist. Also since vaporwave is native to the Internet and is primarily in mp3 format most of the people in the scene see no reason to pay for digital/intangible media so downloading is the main means of distribution while actual purchases are a trap to exploit those ignorant of the scene.
TL;DR
>don't pay vaporwave artists because vaporwave, no matter how entertaining or enjoyable is bullshit.

Who's the artist?

>sarcasm regarding capitalism
but what if i paid them ironically? wouldn't that be proper form? it's not really capitalism, guys, it's ironic

Note how I mentioned that it's tumblr style sarcasm.
They don't work with multiple levels of irony like we do.
Still you aren't in the wrong so much as you are a victim of being generous to people who don't appreciate it.

what about all those artists selling cassette tapes of their albums

>paying for music