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.

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Someone give this man enough money to not have to use Watchmojo clips in his videos. Triggering my PTSD man.

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

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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 RU-vid when it blew up... They didn't ask for it they were just having fun in their own way.

No mention of William Gibson? That AI aint clever enough 😂

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!

As soon as I saw this I wondered if you'd mention cyberdog and you did! I was in London in December and randomly happened upon it walking thru camden market. Stepped inside and wow..not my thing but it was impressive. Felt like stepping back in time to a late 90s/early 2000s cyberpunk movie! If you're in Camdentown it's definitely worth a look!

captions hesitate between cyber god and cyber golf...

Do one one bike life please

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 😅

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

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

Partly written by ai? What parts and can you be open and show the behind the scenes of the process of incorporating the ai writing

Being a teenager in the 90’s I read the novels and played the games, now I’m watching this on my phone and my friend just got a brain implant to help with his Parkinson’s. It’s also hella dystopian. I wanted more light up clothing, but I do live in a very cyberpunk world.

Absolutely killing it Jimmy. Love your work!

I count shows like Mr Robot as Cyberpunk, even though it takes place in our current time. It has a lot of the elements of cyberpunk

Three straight days of videos by Jimmy. This is gonna be a great week man

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

Say what you want about cybergoth/punk, the affiliated music is pure 🔥🔥🔥

*_Cybercringe._* _”This video was partially written by AI.”_ My man fully admitting he gone lazy. Gotta respect the hustle.

Fantastic overview. I learned a lot.

Loving the videos Jimmy! Could I recommend you do a video on the ‘Big Gat Gypsy’ craze of the early 2010s? It started with the wedding shows and ended with the Dale farm incident.

Jimmy pumping out the vids, I love it!

i really didn't expect this one to end on solarpunk but i love the art that's out there for it!

You kinda missed to define what Cyberpunk actually means. Which most people dont know. Cyberpunk goes hand in hand with endstage capitalism. Not a political statement, feel free to Google this term. We are currently in the beginning states of this era. Cyberpunk always takes place at the end of this era. When everything is basically f up already. Cyberpunk 2077 portrays this rather well despite all it's shortcomings. So I kinda fail to see why anyone wants to live in a Cyberpunk universe. It's a living nightmare. That is the whole point. It's not suppose to be pleasant for a vast majority of people.

Love cyberpunk. 100% That and medieval are my favourite. I wrote 2 cyberpunk novels. Self pub. A few grammar errors. Didn't do well. But loved writing them.

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i do enjoy optimism, but the main problem is that if we don't begin today to fight for that bright future, then we can only be pessimist about it. That's all i have to say.

Cyberpunk world is so grim because everything man-made is or eventually becomes faulty because for one mechanisms can't repair themselves, algorithms do only what they are told to or within the defined bonds and we can't comprehend intricate and necessary links between natural processes to make them error free. Not even with man-made AI. By circuitbending nature we could achieve max benefit but it slowly ruins natural cycles and all goes wrong once system encounters error that it can't mitigate in time or human developers have forgotten source code over decades. BTW the oposite to cyberpunk would be described in book "West of Eden" where instead of inanimate technology they had living organisms adjusted by means of deliberate mutation and used them as tools that being alive could heal on their own and could self adjust to local biom and be beneficial to it.

Loving the daily uploads

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

I've always said, we must move industry off earth and into space. Yes it would be costly and difficult, but the manufacturing scope would be greatly improved and we would be able to create more complex and intricate super materials and therefore even expand further outward and we could turn good old Terra Firma into a garden planet a veritable paradise.

Always nice when the giant drops 3 bangers in a row out of nowhere.

Any cyberpunk fans looking for cyberpunk music, some recommendations where to start Classic - Chrome, Kraftwerk before 1973, Throbbing Gristle, Tubeway Army, Einstrüzende Neubauten Golden age - Front 242, Die Krupps, Nine Inch Nails, Butthole Surfers, Atari Teenage Riot, KMFDM, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein, Psyclon 9, Gary Numan, Oomph!, Powerman 5000, Korn - Path of Totality album, Henzel und Gretyl, Berzerker, Wednesday 13 New - Igorrr, Poppy, Shining (Norway), Breathcontrol, Lord of The Lost, Horskh, Burst Synapse, Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop, Drumcorps, Whourkr, Mulk, Circus Maximus, Hardcore Anal Hydrogen, Melted Bodies, Squidpisser, Yves Tumor, Mikau, Gimpking, Blood Stain Child

Loving all the uploads.

I think one of the biggest cyberpunk influences, particularly in the uk,was 2000AD,Judge Dredd,Sinister Dexter...great stuff

Im a cybergoth cyberpunk and transhumanist gotta say well put together videos well represented especially the music scene in the goth and cybergoth / cyberpunk scene although some of the EBM Industrial is either war or anti war or inhumanity and horror show vibes with bands like suicide commando and funker vogt the nuances are deep and varied from band to band

Video idea; What about talking about urbex? The only problem I can think of is its potentially limited amount of content and the less than usual duration of the video that it can make, i believe you should give it a try tho Like if you agree

Oh Damn I was hoping for a vid on this

You should make a video about a subculture from the 1400s

Hg Wells and Jules Verne rose to prominence in the late 19th century not the 30s-50s

Smashed it 😀

I am glad that techwear was mentioned

We do live in the future though, like we got soldiers wearing VR helmets controlling kamikaze drones and shit. Not too long ago this was only possible in some sci-fi movie.

Cyberpunk and Cybergoths are different. Got ya. Cyberpunk is like Emo's in the future. Eh? Didn't Emo's evolve from Goths whereas Cyberpunk comes from, er, Punks? 🙃 To drill down further Cyberpunk was written (short story) in 1980 by a guy called: Bruce Bethke. Cybergoths are a subculture of Goth, heavily influenced by dance and rave who have incorporated elements of Goth, Raver, Rivethead, and Cyberpunk subcultures. Although I would consider the argument that Cyberpunk isn't actually a subculture of anything as it exists in art (movies, tv and writing) but I've never met anyone who states: "I'm a Cyberpunk!" gotta be someone somewhere though I suppose. I guess the closest thing we've got in reality to a Cyberpunk are the folks programming and hacking as part of the dark net? But I don't think their all yellow Mohicans, bright coloured clothes, got bits of metal sticking out of them and spend the night shooting up corporations. But, it must be said, Cybergoths are the coolest (in my opinion) looking party revellers! Cool vid though dude and very cool visuals!

Hello, friend, thanks for ending it off on such a positive note. It's 'solarpunk', however, not 'solopunk' (12:23) :-)

8:55 Thanks Jimmy, you just gave me an idea for my new haircut kk

bro you or your editor turned solarpunk into solopunk at 12:22 in the text xD

Love ur vids

i'm loving this sub-culture uploads

In the future, technology advances whilst morality declines. Sadly, it is happening today and will continue indeterminately.

I think we need more positive science fiction franchises where technology and science is not perceived as evil.

he leaves out timeplsitters as a cyberpunk game

can we get another rollerblading video? maybe an update on where your progression is now. i hope you stuck with it

Wow great content. Love to combine synthwave vibes with phonk roughness

Discovered you through your discussion with the strong independent woman, Destiny. Absolutely loving your stuff

Great vid! Pretty sure it is solarpunk though not solopunk as it focuses on clean energy like solar power.

My English literature got us to read Neuromancer by William Gibson during A Level, I wrote an essay contrasting it with Hamlet of all things.

Solarpunk seems super cool and something I’ll have to look into

I am from the year 2300 we can message back in time but cant yet travel back in time Hi👋

I member we played Cybrpunk RPG with books and dice, 1990 (Cyberpunk 2020). 12 year old snitchie :D good times.

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Just letting you know that the books and authors you mentioned are from the 1800s

I need to ask. Is you scheduling inspired by the sales pattern of Cream eggs?

The subculture of the future is "NPC girls". If you're familiar with this phenomenon you should DEFINITELY do a video on it. Lookup "Pinky Doll", she is a good place to start.

Ah yes that's some very good musics you got there.

When implants can operate the way our mobile phones do including Bluetooth & Wi-Fi functions; we can then say we're in the cyberpunk age. Controlling your TV remote & appliances by thought would be the ultimate.

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Cyberpunk Is Now

This is like Blade Runner in a nutshell. 😄

This makes me understand Keef in the Righteous Gemstones now, they were Cyber Goths. It was already one of my favorite parts, now I can laugh and understand it more.

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Jimmy can you do a video about solarpunk?

next video on solarpunk pls?

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Hey Jimmy! Very glad for all the content, it is great, but PLEASE do not burn yourself out!

Ain't South Korea kinda cyberpunk cuz of Samsung.

I love Cyberpunk culture, definitely need to get more clothes & really get myself immersed into it.

Great video, as usual.

you should make more videos on action sports and action sport heroes like you used to.

Man we’ve been eating good this week 😂😅

0:52 Hey she's not emo. She's cybergoth. Emo and goth is not the same thing. Though you can argue Cybergoth is an offshoot of the rivithead (industrial fans). Edit: I see you mentioned the last bit :D

For those afraid.. of Tech.. imagine a world.. humans armed with Squirt Guns.. your computer hates water and it fears it

Did you mean SOLARpunk, not Solopunk?

Brilliant video mate! No disrespect, but initially, I thought you were just another silly RU-vidr. I had no idea you were capable of much deeper, intelligent and philosophical prose. Kudos!

daily uploads are a slippy sloap, slowly your quality is gonna start dropping and dropping. please don't let this channel turn into a sunnyv2 content farm

Would love to see you do a video on metalheads

Awesome content.

A full video on cyberpunk without a mention of shadow run. That's disappointing.

One thing I am gonna call bull on is the Cyberpunk Genre spawning from those other genres specifically, though it's debatable. But it existed since around... the 60s if I'm correct but not necessarily called Cyberpunk, it's possible that the title just changed around as it is still Essentially Science Fiction, but it's more socially critical and philosophically enabled than it's counterparts through its own commentary. I would say modern America and I would also like to blame the UK for turning it into a joke and a trend rather than something to be approached seriously and with a thinking mind. Especially since the dynamics of what being "Punk" is in the modern sense compared to people's ideas.... it's a conversation alot of people will go out of their way to avoid. Basically the punk aspect of Cyberpunk that it is a more pessimistic and realistic approach to telling man not to go to far in trying to essentially transcend his own existence. It talks about the things we should not glorify or chase instead of enjoying life right here, right now, because change or no change man is one pathetic, evil, piece of crap. But the silver lining is always there, in some way, usually internally.