They’ve always been eager to tell me that the “punk” specifically signifies carryover from the steampunk aesthetic. (e: this was back on reddit.)
They act like this is a defense for why they are such bootlickers, but it seems to me it sounds like they’re telling on themselves.
Cyberpunks should have rioted when steampunk originally appropriated “punk” from cyberpunk in the 80s for aesthetic purposes. Instead we ended up with the world’s richest man fanboying over the biggest cyberpunk release in a decade, which marketed itself with the star power of a murderous-pig lover.
Is this the world we wanted?? We really gotta start stepping up!
Whatever you can say about cyberpunk, for a good chunk af time before becoming mainstream it does advocated for the leftist ideas. While steampunk was always just a bling over XIX century colonialism advocacy brought back from the anus of history to the forefront of internet.
They’ve always been eager to tell me that the “punk” specifically signifies carryover from the steampunk aesthetic. (e: this was back on reddit.)
They act like this is a defense for why they are such bootlickers, but it seems to me it sounds like they’re telling on themselves.
Cyberpunks should have rioted when steampunk originally appropriated “punk” from cyberpunk in the 80s for aesthetic purposes. Instead we ended up with the world’s richest man fanboying over the biggest cyberpunk release in a decade, which marketed itself with the star power of a murderous-pig lover.
Is this the world we wanted?? We really gotta start stepping up!
Whatever you can say about cyberpunk, for a good chunk af time before becoming mainstream it does advocated for the leftist ideas. While steampunk was always just a bling over XIX century colonialism advocacy brought back from the anus of history to the forefront of internet.