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Is vaping cyberpunk?
| *poorer
| ...I think so.
| I never thought about it this way but yeah...yeah they are
| No. Not unless it's a weird cyberpunk drug. If people in cyberpunk fiction want nicotine they just use cigarettes.
| >>376127
I'm sorry, I didn't know you spoke for the entire genre and everything its allowed to do.
| kinda sorta? i can see it being very cyberpunk if a corp advertised them as being 100% healthy (when in reality they're bad, if not worse, than cigs)
isn't that what happens in irl
| plus you shoot clouds of smoke out of your mouth with add to the fogginess of the environment you are in
| which*
| no it's cancer
| >>376584 >>376833 >>1d87f6 here. I'm not trying to say that vaping is forbidden in cyberpunk, but OP asked if vaping *is* cyberpunk, and it's not. Most cyberpunk media was made before vaping was a thing, but you can still see tons of characters using cigarettes is all I mean.
| No, unless being a fuccboi is considered cyberpunk
| If you mean cyberpunk a e s t h e t i c, then it is from the perspective of being an electronic device, which depending on the model may have LED's that make it glow, which uses advanced (miniaturized fog machine) technology to do what is an otherwise mundane action but in an electronic way.
If you mean cyberpunk from a thematic standpoint... er, debatable. If you could argue it as yet another example of advanced technology ultimately being used to oppress people, then sure.
| I guess you could also go the direction of, "Here's an expensive (although rapidly becoming more affordable) way to do something that is usually pretty simple/easy/cheaper." Consider also if vaping ends up replacing cigarettes, but remains more expensive than cigarettes. This would cause a class discrepancy as suddenly something that used to be affordable/usable by more than one social group would become yet another exclusive of the rich, or at least, people who can afford the
| new prices. That possibility- of technology serving the rich and powerful, at the expense of the common man, is itself c y b e r p u n k.
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| It is kinda the definition of "high tech low life." Smoking is something usually done in pooree parts of towns/cities, but the technology and style of vapes is fairly fancy. Even cheap gas station ecigs are cyberish.
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