Is this the Subculture of the Future?

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I think the brilliant "Synthwave" scene on YT has definitely flourished a Cyberpunk scene. Musicians like Perturbator, Timecop 1983, and things like the Drive movie soundtrack have created a sort of Imaginary , fantasized aesthetic, image of what people want the 80s to have been like. Its like the brilliant soundtrack to an imaginary past, with future visions mixed together.

I once saw an argument that people find cyberpunk so appealing because "we have dystopia, but not the neon". We don't have the tech of a cyber-dystopia, but we have a harsh divide between rich and poor. In South Korea we have Samsung, which could be considered one of the first so called "Mega-Corps" with small children wanting to work in Samsung. Here in Croatia, you got the police that don't give a shit, and a very corrupt government that you can end up with a hefty ticket if you critisize them.

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Would have been good to mention Cyberpunk 2077 was based on the RPG Cyberpunk 2020. The setting of Night City, Johnny Silverhand were all from the game.

Why I like Cyberpunk is because it's sci-fi's pessimistic response to corporate culture. Something which 2077 touches on really well imo It removes itself from the campy nature of a future like Star Trek's and puts the viewer into a dark and gritty future which seems grounded in a realism that we're yet to truly see, but are already in the midst of.

There is also the entire Vaporwave/Synthwave/Retrowave/Neonwave aesthetic ... Nether Cyberpunk ( 1988 ), nor any of the other art styles ending in "punk", have gained much traction in popular culture for very long before being forgotten about.

Cyberpunk is just taking today's reality and taking all of it to bigger extremes with technology.

Always amazed by the way Jimmy can define something that's so obscure.

You must not live somewhere shitty enough sprinkled with shiny things. It makes cyberpunks make sense quickly also look at the rampant explosion of tech

Love what your channel has turned into and it’s great to see a few quick releases from you

I love Retrofuturism and mainly the retro aesthetics and the post-apocalyptic and, as Jimmy says, the high tech low life story aspect of the late 70s to late 80s which is for the most part all Cyberpunk but I struggle with the fact that people tend to just call Cyberpunk anything that is retrofuturistic. Like for example the Fallout series which is a great example of Atompunk, or the Bioshock series of which 1 and 2 are mainly Biopunk and the Infinite game is mainly Dieselpunk with some hints of Steampunk, and well Cyberpunk 2077 should be an easy guess. And even though there are a handful of derived aspects of Cyberpunk that can exist in other retrofuturistic settings or even outside them they are not all-encompassing and only target small aspects of the Retrofuturism, e.g Biopunk is synthetic life forms and Biotech (like cyborgs and technology that enhances/cures life forms in many different ways), Tech-noir is just a Noir story in a cyberpunk setting or Nanopunk which is just Nano technology so in reality it should be a sub-genre of the Boipunk sub-genre; so they don't tend to be separate from Cyberpunk itself but they can be. So I do understand that it's not hard at all to be confused with a bunch of it. And I know it's just nerd talk to most people but saying Fallout is Cyberpunk is no different than saying Metallica is Classic Rock or saying that Skrillex is Techno, there are different music genres for a reason. I don't know if by coincidence or not but just like cyberpunk the term Retrofuturism which encapsulates all forms of these kind of sci-fi representations was also coined in 1983 (allegedly). Great video as always Jimmy, you actually did a great job for this one and the recall to the Cybergoths was a good bit of nostalgic fun, I sadly was one of those that took time out of his day to mock that infamous group of German Cybergoths "dancing" under a bridge on YouTube when it blew up... They didn't ask for it they were just having fun in their own way.

My guy going HAM with the uploads at the moment. Big up for the hard work!

Do one one bike life please

My favourite cyberpunk comic is Transmetropolitan, it's like cyberpunk meets Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The main character Spider Jerusalem is crazy.

Great work once more, Jimmy! I've no idea how you manage to pump out videos of this quality one after the other but it's rly great work. Cheers!

Absolutely killing it Jimmy. Love your work!

Great video as always, Jimmy!!! I'm going to play devil's advocate on a couple of points. 1. AI and Cybernetics... The evidence is pretty damning that the former has come nowhere close to passing The Turing Test, and isn't likely to, thus won't be taking over the planet anytime soon. In regards to human beings and machines merging: That's been happening for centuries in some capacity. Using eyewear to correct our vision and mechanical pacemakers are two examples 2. We're bombarded with headlines constantly regarding the growing gap between the haves and the have nots. Fact is though, more people across the planet enjoy lives which are firmly middle class than at anytime in history. Technology in no small part has made this possible

Cyberpunk also had strong roots in the counter-cultural art scene of the 1980s and 1990s as well. Ugh, the poetry readings!

I used to know a few people that were all about cybergoth clothing and music but as soon as there wasnt a rave to go to their clothing was just regular vanilla "alternative" type stuff, i think even they realise you cant exactly pop out for groceries dressed like that 😅