Chooms, I need to rant for a moment.
Call it gatekeeping, call it salty, call it "the guy is mad on the internet again" - I don't care. But someone has to speak up before the last brain cells in this scene get fried by RGB lighting and LinkedIn posts.
I've been hanging around in the grime of the cyberpunk subculture for years. And no, it was never that polished "Neon = cool"/r/cyberpunk nonsense.
It was a bunch of broken, creative, rebellious people who didn't want to fit into the system. Anti-corporate. Anti-bullshit. Anti-"please wear something normal."
It was a safe space. For queers. For outsiders. For people who fell through the cracks and thought: "Alright, I'll just build my own space."
It didn't matter who you were. As long as you were real.
A bit like a hackerspace that partied for three days and decided that reality was optional.
...yeah. Was.
Now?
Now the whole thing is completely messed up.
And no, this isn't some melodramatic "it was better back then" drivel. It's more like "who saw the corpse and why isn't anyone doing anything?"
Do you know what dealt the final blow?
Cyberpunk 2077 and the horde of idiots who completely ignored the message and just thought:
"Wow, neon. Wow, chrome. Wow, dystopian = sexy."
And bam - suddenly everything is "cyberpunk."
AI bros.
Crypto bros.
Startups selling you surveillance as a lifestyle.
Corporations literally building the dystopia cyberpunk always warned against - and getting praised for it.
Congratulations. You've taken the middle finger and turned it into a damn ad banner.
Cyberpunk was never an aesthetic.
Cyberpunk was an attack.
A dirty, loud, uncomfortable attack on power structures.
A "fuck you" with cables attached.
And now some marketing pissheads comes along and says:
"Our new product is super cyberpunk because AI✨"
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