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Full face respirators are based, surgical masks are cringe.

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Sure punk is dead, but the aesthetics and attitudes are still around and influencing contemporary culture. But that's beside the point. Near future sci-fi has always been informed by contemporary trends, and when the present catches awkwardly up to the future, those speculations fall into the realm of retrofuturism while sci-fi gets pushed farther out. I happen to be interested in retrofuturism, so the cyberpunk aesthetics of the 80s and 90s are of particular relevance to me. Obviously not everyone shares such niche interests, but none the less it remains part of the canon.

While I agree that hip-hop held a strong connection with cyberpunk at one point, they diverged quite early on, and thus it seems pretty silly to assert such a 1:1 parallel. Hip-hop is about as related as acid techno, jungle, ebm, electro-industrial, and industrial rock. Setting aside the latter three's self-referential fixation with cyberpunk, they all share underground origins, innovation through repurposing technology, and association with antisocial and criminal elements. All cornerstone tropes of cyberpunk.
Similarly, while hip-hop has been a huge shaping force in contemporary culture, so have Disney princesses. Clearly though, we are not living in a fairytale. To say we are living in a cyberpunk reality is just as silly. By many metrics the world is not much more dystopic now than in the 1970s, or the 1930s or 1850s for that matter. We just have iPhones held together with tape now that we can use to complain about it. Cyberpunk, like fairytales, is a fictional setting based on the real world. It is a lense we can look at the world through, but remains just beyond reach.