I’m probably just out of the loop, but what the hell is up with slapping “Punk” after some random word and trying to pass it off as a thing?
I know cyberpunk, I know steampunk, I know solarpunk, and those I can accept as “more than an aesthetic”, tho steampunk is mostly an aesthetic… but then you have for example frostpunk (a game I know nothing about), cypherpunk, silkpunk, etc. (I don’t really know how to find other bastardizations for examples, but I know I’ve come across other random nouns followed by “punk” and I find it super weird and confusing)
Is it just capitalizing on the cyberpunk/steampunk fad for naming, or do these other “punk” things actually have a legitimate claim of being punk? Is all this ___punk watering down the meaning or am I old man yells at cloud meme here?
yeah folkpunk, magapunk, its getting wierd. Also whats with putting gay before everything. gay magapunk porn and etc.
Asking us is so questionpunk.
Nice, very metapunk.
Thispunk.
Those are sci-fi genres generally describing a dystopic future strongly leaned to a particular technology and is mainly related to it’s esthetic.
Atompunk is a future society based in nuclear technology. Steam, diesel are other known alternatives.
Punk indicates rebellion against the status quo as part of the theme. If that isn’t part of it, then IMO it has no place in the name.
What if i’m rebelling against the status quo of rebelling against the status quo?
You’re a conservative
