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Why is cyberpunk less popular than it used to be?
| Because we already live in a techno-dystopia.
| Or we realised that what it is going to be is nowhere near how it was envisioned to be in the 90s.
It was a dream turning a nightmare, to what we can tell so far. Unlike steampunk which clearly is a fantasy of high tech gear and pipe and steam, the electronic nature of reality today has made a lot of cyberpunk's ideas a reality, but in the worst way possible and not retaining anything from whatever niceties people saw back then.
It has all features of a monstrous Uncanny Valley.
| Back then ppl think cyberpunk as a vision of future (Like Star Trek),technology stuff here and there. Now that we know and currently experiencing the dystopia part of "cyberpunk", we don't love cyberpunk as we used to be. I still love the aesthetic part though.
| True
| i dunno, cyberpunk seems to be getting popular again
| >>153810
Not really. What you see is smartphone dependent zombies and googlewatch hipsters. But cyberpunk is not really going to get more footing than it used to in its prime time. Because very few enjoy the chaotic low life it depicts, dsspite the high tech. As tech will eventually get higher, noone will be dreaming of low life in chaos and sleeping in a shithole, however fancy their hologlasses will be.
| Hi tech is good, but low life is a no go i guess....
| Cyberpunk isn't about aesthetic, it's about a statement. The fact that we're actually moving into a corporatist dystopian future will only make cyberpunk fiction gain traction.
| >>154018
This attempt to see dystopias as a child of cyberpunk is very similar to religions pretending morals are their progeny. If one wants to get worked up so much on corporatism, then Marx's 'Capital' is the Dead Sea Scrolls of cyberpunk.
| >>154018
Moving? We've been here for awhile, if anything the cybernetic hell hole that Cyberpunk envisioned was more of a warning of an inevitability, than anything else...
| >>154580
The irony is that people expressively want more of it. Dreaming pixel visions and AI software inside souvenir haydolls, while carrying their smartphones everywhere all the time. Dislike reeality, want cyberpunk , scoff at vanilla scifi. There is not much to say.
| Is it less popular? I heard they just interviewd Gibson on NPR.
| >>154840 I wouldn't say that people expressly "want" anything. Convenience, maybe. But most people have absolutely no idea that something may be wrong, or what they are giving away for the convenienve they're getting. The mechanisms and consequences are too technical and boring for them to understand or care.
| >>154849
The Blade Runner movie come out only a few months ago. It is momentary ripples in the norm, not a trend.
>>154860 That is sadly true. But then again here you have posts like the above "I wouldn't want it any other way" or those with the "I dont mind I have done nothing wrong" mindset towards mass surveillance. I agree with the too technical. And with boring. And with difficult to understand.
| But the do not care is too much. Their lack of care is taking down the drainhole also those who do. And when they will one day will get burned in the ass from such lack of care, the ones who can help them will not really care either.
| I'd say the cyberpunk dystopia they imagined is almost there, we're like 10~20 years away from it, which isn't good, it's only gonna get worse. You'd be surprised the misery the average person is willing to submit themselves.
I think most people here are right, it's less popular, and we're probably the light resurgence before it dies completely.
After all, it's not fiction anymore when it becomes your daily life.
| I'm pretty sure it's coming back now. Has been a lot of good cyberpunk lately.
| >>154962 Cyberpunk will never die as long as there are people like us that know about it and can explain it to others who don't know anything about it.
| I believe cyberpunk will slowly become a way of life for some, rather thank the whole. Perhaps in areas where the populace has been graced with tech, but it still developing a stable community. TLDR; move to 3rd world country.
| In the sixties, many fictionists considered the world of the future an anti-utopia. After two world wars, people distrusted all changes and made the darkest predictions. On the basis of these moods, cyberpunk entered the culture, thoroughly saturated with skepticism, apathy and pessimism.
Cyberpunk proclaimed the principle of "high tech - low life" and linked all its rhetoric to the function that the more people have technology, the worse these people live.
| In the world of cyberpunk, power on the planet is divided between supercorporations, under the feet of which creep people who do not fit in the market.
In the 90's genre began to fade. Seeing the sale of new PCs, set-top boxes, thin TVs, rudiments of the Internet, people have become easier to treat technology. In this decade, Technopozitivism has blossomed, it's also a Y2K culture.
So the cyberpunk fell into the background.
| Many people realized that it is completely refuted by two or three books: on economics, on protectionism and monopolies and on the history of the origin of states. But I still love cyberpunk for its aesthetics and its tragedy.
| Better it remain niche anyway, you've seen what happens when the mainstream gets their hands on something. Like others have said, things like Black Mirror are making scifi dystopia popular, which is not quite the same as cyberpunk because of its difference in aesthetics.
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| It was really popular in the 90s and early 2000s but why has there been a decline in most things cyberpunk?