/lit/ - Literature

>>15878028
I don't see why "realistic" has to be a prerequisite. Qualifiers like "steam", "cyber", and "burger" describe a certain aesthetic, while the "punk" is an implicit call to rebellion against this prevailing aesthetic and the conditions that make it possible. Burgerpunk is a fine name because it captures the image of a world overrun by speed, consumption, commercialization, and the degradations of a proletarianized service economy. McDonald's is the perfect symbol for this.

That's why I unironically think pic related's collected posts are an emblematic example of the burgerpunk genre. Sincere feelings bursting forth in an insincere medium, melancholy for a purity that may have never been there, repetition in a bleak desolate urbanized landscape, the desire to rebel and break free without any real sense of what that would look like.