Saint Pepsi (Skylar Spence)
Future funk producer who helped popularize the genre's ecstatic, disco-influenced approach to sampling 1980s and 1990s Japanese city pop, creating French house-inspired tracks alongside Macross 82-99 and Yung Bae. Later rebranded as Skylar Spence after legal issues with Pepsi trademark, moving toward more straightforward pop production while maintaining sample-based DNA. Represented future funk's more commercially viable face, the version of vaporwave's aesthetic that could exist without critical distance or political ambiguity. Released albums through major labels, toured as opener for established acts, proved that vaporwave's techniques could be sanitized for mainstream consumption. The progression from Saint Pepsi to Skylar Spence mirrored vaporwave's broader trajectory: from anonymous Internet phenomenon to recognizable artist with real name, from free Bandcamp downloads to proper releases, from ironic detachment to earnest pop music.