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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?

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[–] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I mean I get that it’s used that way, but that doesn’t address what I want to know - are these “more than aesthetic”, or is it watering down what punk means by being applied too broadly?

I tend to think it’s the latter, because while the three I called out specifically are an aesthetic, they are also “alternative present/future” in a rebellious and/or politicized sort of way. They are sort of “what if?” Or “this would be good/bad/interesting”.

I don’t think the others really have that quality, but I’m not deeply involved with anything that would really help sort it out. So here I am :)

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Only cyberpunk and SolarPunk are punk.

The others follow the suffix, like a watergategate. They’re inspired by what Cyberpunk did and use the name as a reflection of the similarities in being a style.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ugh and then CDPR used a genre as a name for their game, tarnishing it.

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nah Cyberpunk the TTRPG is from 88, it came out 6 years after the word was first coined. Hardly tarnishing it.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Hadn't heard of that! I doubt many others have either.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It was a thing back in the day. Its just that the day was 30 odd years ago.

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yup, poplar use makes them just a naming convention now.