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CRT Vaporwave

8357°
CRT Vaporwave
Created by
HackAfterDark
on Civitai
by HackAfterDark - CRT Vaporwave - This is a specialized style LoRA trained to inject authentic analog decay, retro CRT monitor physics, RGB chromatic aberration, and vintage broadcast interference into your generations.
Creator notes
An Analog CRT & Retro Cyberpunk Aesthetic LoRA This is a specialized style LoRA trained to inject authentic analog decay, retro CRT monitor physics, RGB chromatic aberration, and vintage broadcast interference into your generations. Unlike clean digital render models, this checkpoint transforms crisp digital assets into gritty, atmospheric photographs of physical CRT displays and analog media. Suggested Krea 2 Turbo Settings Model strength: 0.1-1.0 Samplers/schedulers: - dpm_2_ancestral / ddim_uniform (or sgm_uniform) - exp_heun_2_x0 / ddim_uniform - euler / beta57 (or beta) Also note that you can push the model strength to 1.25 as well. I think beyond that gets a little too distorted, but try a variety of LoRA strength values! You can really dial things in to taste. 📺 What It Does Best - Integrated Hardware Decay: Adds authentic horizontal scanline tearing, phosphor glow bleed, and rolling electromagnetic interference. - Color Fringing: Generates organic neon cyan and magenta RGB ghosting and chromatic aberration. - Text & UI Fidelity: When dialed to the sweet spot (0.6–0.8 strength), it preserves complex typography and UI elements while wrapping them in raw retro atmosphere. While Krea 2 base model does understand the elements of this style, the effects it applies look a bit "pasted on top" in a fake way. This LoRA integrates those effects into the image. Krea 2 by itself also doesn't do a good job with the glow or haze from an old CRT screen, it's often missing. This LoRA corrects the overly digital, sterile, and bright look from the base model. 💡 Advanced Tip: Negative Strength (-1.0) Want a completely different look? Try setting the LoRA weight to a negative value like -1.0. Instead of adding analog CRT decay, inverting the weight acts as an "anti-CRT" filter that strips away the style bias. It forces the base model to pivot toward hyper-detailed, clean chrome/glass material textures and sharper structural geometry while keeping the chaotic glitch borders intact.
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828 downloads · 148 likes on Civitai
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Updated Oct 22, 2026
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Heat score since 13 Aug 2026
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CRT Vaporwave: Heat score since 13 Aug 20267,000°7,380°7,760°8,140°8,520°14 Aug27 Aug11 Sep24 Sep9 Oct22 Oct8,357°ModelTrends.ai
7,000°
Floor
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+891°
Civitai downloads
828 downloads of this exact version on Civitai. Downloads are the heaviest ingredient and are counted on a log scale: ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so a model with a million downloads is not a thousand times hotter than one with a thousand. The six download sources share that one term, split between them in proportion to their counts.
+326°
Likes
148 likes and thumbs up across the sources. A like weighs half a download, on the same log scale.
+40°
Adoption rate
About 2 downloads a day, measured between two readings of the sources, never guessed from a lifetime average. Speed weighs a quarter of the download term, so a fresh surge shows without letting a one-day spike outrank years of use.
+100°
Family boost
+100° because this is a LoRA of a family this site is nudging forward right now. It is a bounded nudge inside the score and is listed here openly; it can never hide a model or outweigh a thousandfold difference in downloads.
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    Start at the floor.
    Why 7,000° and not zero: the scale runs from 0° to 9,999°, and the part below 7,000° is reserved for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so the lists stay complete and never outrank a model with data. 7,000° is where measured data begins. A model with real data but almost no downloads sits here; everything that follows is measurement, and the room above the floor holds ten tenfold steps in downloads at 300° each. The floor is the same for every model, so it decides nothing; the degrees above it do.
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    Add the downloads.
    828 download-equivalents in all, from Civitai downloads. Ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so size matters but never runs away with the score.
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    7,891°
    running total
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    Add the likes.
    148 likes and thumbs up, at half the weight of a download.
    +326°
    8,217°
    running total
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    Add the adoption rate.
    About 2 downloads a day right now, measured between two readings, at a quarter of the weight.
    +40°
    8,257°
    running total
  5. 5
    Family boost.
    An open, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now.
    +100°
    8,357°
    running total
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    The heat score.
    Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.
    8,357°
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Heat score
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Floor
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Download-equivalents
Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
Log scale
Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
Likes
Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
Adoption rate
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Measured and estimated
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Seeder
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AI Horde
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Full model (checkpoint)
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Age
Degrees taken off for how long ago the family's weights came out: 150° a year, up to 750°. It keeps old downloads that had years to pile up from freezing the top of the list.
Family boost
A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
Stand-in score
A stable number below the floor given to a model no source reports on yet, so lists stay complete. It never ranks above a model with data.
New! (grace period)
A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
Trend
How a model's growth over a period compares with the typical model's growth over the same period. Faster than typical reads as a rise, slower as a fall.
Typical model
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How this model's popularity has moved against the rest of the catalog: its growth in downloads, likes and usage over each period, measured against the typical model's growth over the same period, with its heat score at the time. Above the typical growth reads as a rise, below it as a fall. The past is reconstructed from today's totals, the model's first day and its measured download speed where two readings exist; a model that did not exist at the start of a period shows n/a.
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crtvaporwave, A 1980s sci-fi film poster aesthetic. POV shot from directly behind an astronaut floating in deep, saturated space, looking toward the main subject. The astronaut's white EVA spacesuit is rendered in a clean, hand-painted illustrative style, heavily stylized with magenta and deep blue shadows. Directly ahead is a spectacular cosmic event: a supermassive black hole dominating the center-left, surrounded by a swirling, intense accretion disk composed of glowing neon cyan, electric purple, and incandescent orange material. A luminous visible stream of matter is being violently pulled from a nearby massive blue star into the black hole's halo. The lighting is dominated by high-contrast, dramatic chiaroscuro (chiaroscuro lighting). The composition features heavy 1980s-era analog film grain, VHS tracking lines, glitch effects, and CRT scan lines. The palette is strictly retrowave/synthwave: deep cosmic blacks, electric blues, hot pinks, neon purples, and incandescent yellows. Below the image, in the lower third, is a stylized title in retro, chrome, 3D block lettering that reads: "THE COSMIC VOID." Additional text at the very bottom in a simple sans-serif font reads: "A RETRO-FUTURE ODYSSEY. SUMMER 1983." The entire image has the appearance of a physical, slightly faded paper poster with natural texture. Digital art, 1980s poster, highly stylized.
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Portrait of a young woman with sleek wet look hair in soft pastel lavender and cyan tones, her face softly illuminated by the warm amber glow of a bulky curved CRT monitor positioned just out of frame, the screen casting horizontal scanline shadows across her cheekbones and collarbone, she wears reflective chrome sunglasses that mirror a vaporwave sunset grid stretching into infinity with palm tree silhouettes, behind her a wall of vintage computer equipment blinks with soft pink and teal LEDs, heavy analog VHS tracking distortion and chromatic aberration bleeding along the edges of her silhouette, the background dissolves into a soft gradient of sunset orange fading into deep electric purple, film grain texture throughout, shallow depth of field keeping her face razor sharp while the retro tech behind her falls into creamy bokeh, mood of wistful nostalgia for a digital paradise that existed only in late night television static, warm and cool color temperature contrast across her features. crtvaporwave <lora:crt_vaporwave_krea2:1.0> <lora:Purple_Graphics_KR2:0.7>
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A high-precision technical engineering wireframe blueprint rendered as a dense, multi-tiered structural schematic of a glowing translucent blue flower with delicate semi-transparent petals, composed entirely of fine, hand-plotted analog vector line work exhibiting subtle edge-bleeding, beam jitter, and variable weight—its internal mechanics exposed through cross-hatched white wireframe webbing and intricate shading that preserves the exact silhouette and anatomy of the flower while replacing smooth surfaces with layered structural framing; the luminous golden core radiates intense localized glow with chromatic aberration and aggressive bloom, surrounded by scattered glowing particles that appear as digital artifacts scattering from over-driven CRT tube decay; all rendered on a dark CRT monitor screen against a pure, lightless black void background with heavy analog grain and noise, confined to isolated warning indicators and thruster-like energy feeds; surrounding the schematic is a dense technical UI overlay featuring clean white block-font headers, bracketed diagnostic text blocks, coordinate grids, and a high-contrast system stats waveform in the lower corner; every wireframe edge bleeds light, fringes with color distortion, and scatters like a dying CRT monitor, eliminating any sterile digital precision and enforcing severe multi-channel chromatic aberration, harsh bloom, and analog hardware decay, maintaining dramatic contrast with deep uncrushed shadows and no foreground or background distractions, evoking a surreal, magical realism aesthetic reimagined as an analog engineering blueprint.
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crtvaporwave illustration image, poster, digital art Graphic novel illustration. Delicate and fine ink lines. Precise line work. Vivid colors. High contrast. Deep shadows. Dramatic cinematic shot composition. Anamorphic lens effect. A close portrait of a young woman. Silver-white hair falls over red round sunglasses. A black leather jacket with silver studs. Warm light on the hair and the cheek. Dark background with small orange sparks. **Camera angle:** Slightly low three-quarter from her left, camera at chin height looking up. Crop from mid-chest to the top of the hair. The face is centered. No tilt. **Composition:** The sunglasses sit in the middle of the face. Hair is a bright messy halo across the top and over the lenses. The jacket collar and a studded strap fill the lower third. Gold-orange light comes from upper left. **Placement:** - Face: center, chin slightly down. - Sunglasses: covering the eyes. - Hair: across the forehead and both sides. - Jacket: lower third, collar up. **Pose:** Still. Head turned a little toward the camera. Shoulders square. No hands. **Facial expression:** Eyes hidden. Mouth closed, lips together. No smile. The look is still. **Look:** Warm medium skin. Messy silver-white hair, mid-length, windblown, strands over the glasses. Round thin-metal sunglasses with dark red lenses. Full glossy brown-pink lips. Black leather jacket, high collar, silver snap studs on a strap at the throat. Color palette of silver hair, red glass, black leather, and warm gold light. Low three-quarter camera looking up at her face.
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A cool male action character with vibrant blue hair stands in a dynamic, powerful pose within a retro-futuristic digital anime scene, his skin glowing with ultra-detailed, shimmering colorful effects that pulse with energy, rendered in high-resolution digital art with a nostalgic CRT television aesthetic — visible as soft fuzz and subtle glitch distortions across the frame, evoking the look of an old video game or VHS broadcast, all framed in a cinematic composition that emphasizes motion and intensity while preserving the character’s heroic stance and vivid color palette. <lora:crt_vaporwave_krea2:1.0> <lora:ZaeY_UltraQuality_Krea2:0.8>
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