/lit/ - Literature

>>19524863
Cyberpunk was mainstream in the early 90s and became ingrained as a cultural term that just meant the then aesthetic of science fiction. That was when the market was oversaturated with cyberpunk, and it died then. Three decades ago, not just one.
"Cyberpunk" is only mainstream now because zoomers have nothing but the leftovers of past mainstream culture and use it as a relatively meaningless term akin to vaporwave or synthwave, it just marks out a certain brand of retrofuturism.

>>18611957
It's a good aesthetic, because the genre has nothing else to offer.