Netflix's Eden (2021) short animated series was a really good example of true "Solarpunk" as you described in this video. There's a seemingly futuristic utopia, and yet the main character challenges the status quo and goes through great risk to unravel the dark secrets of the world.
Damn, dude, don't shut up. I've seen vides 4x longer than this that *still* can't get it right or explain what the hell 'punk' is in a way that's meaningful, and here you did it ... 12 minutes give or take. I've loved the cyberpunk genre since I was a teenager, and this perfectly encapsulates both my love of and my issue with the genre. It's all spec fiction, and so much of what makes it great is the stories and what they say. But a lot of people just see the monowire filaments and the implants and go "Wow, what a cool future!" The change in what it means to be human, what it means to be alive, what it means to be able or disabled, the difference between the impacts this world has on the highest of the high class and the lowest of the low, that's what cyberpunk is about.
I think Solarpunk is still very good as a "Punk" genre, as it is based in the context of our current world. It is rebellious to our own world, albeit a utopian one. If there was no climate crisis I would otherwise completely agree with you.
Cyberpunk 2077 twisted the meaning of the term in the mainstream consciousness, to the point that people are referring to any old sci-fi setting as "cyberpunk." Take FF14: Dawntrail as an example; TV Tropes actually labelled Solution 9 as "cyberpunk" purely because of post-modern fashion--forgetting how it doesn't blend clashing themes for juxtaposition. It doesn't even have any "punk" aesthetics, and looks very much like the Citadel's Presidium. Funny thing is that Solution 9's setting _does_ have the elements to become cyberpunk, but the story is decidedly opposed to that by how it portrays the inhabitants.
Solarpunk and Sandalpunk are still definitely punk; while it's true that they don't follow the "the world is collapsing slowly or quickly" through the narratives, they embody a rebellious spirit through questioning of the status quo. For solarpunk: "How do we manage the future of our species with the consumption of our planet?" and for Sandalpunk: "How does society function within the myths and religions of different cultures? Do we step beyond them; embody them to rebel; or fall in to rigid societal values and exploit?"
It's when you try to make the day of a rusty old detective holding a revolver.
Netflix's Eden (2021) short animated series was a really good example of true "Solarpunk" as you described in this video. There's a seemingly futuristic utopia, and yet the main character challenges the status quo and goes through great risk to unravel the dark secrets of the world.
It also contains aspects of Scrappunk
punk styles are always super neat looking, i love quite a few of them
Damn, dude, don't shut up. I've seen vides 4x longer than this that *still* can't get it right or explain what the hell 'punk' is in a way that's meaningful, and here you did it ... 12 minutes give or take.
I've loved the cyberpunk genre since I was a teenager, and this perfectly encapsulates both my love of and my issue with the genre. It's all spec fiction, and so much of what makes it great is the stories and what they say. But a lot of people just see the monowire filaments and the implants and go "Wow, what a cool future!" The change in what it means to be human, what it means to be alive, what it means to be able or disabled, the difference between the impacts this world has on the highest of the high class and the lowest of the low, that's what cyberpunk is about.
you may have created the hell punk
I think Solarpunk is still very good as a "Punk" genre, as it is based in the context of our current world. It is rebellious to our own world, albeit a utopian one.
If there was no climate crisis I would otherwise completely agree with you.
I can't wait for the Punk punk genre
Cyberpunk 2077 twisted the meaning of the term in the mainstream consciousness, to the point that people are referring to any old sci-fi setting as "cyberpunk." Take FF14: Dawntrail as an example; TV Tropes actually labelled Solution 9 as "cyberpunk" purely because of post-modern fashion--forgetting how it doesn't blend clashing themes for juxtaposition. It doesn't even have any "punk" aesthetics, and looks very much like the Citadel's Presidium. Funny thing is that Solution 9's setting _does_ have the elements to become cyberpunk, but the story is decidedly opposed to that by how it portrays the inhabitants.
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Solarpunk and Sandalpunk are still definitely punk; while it's true that they don't follow the "the world is collapsing slowly or quickly" through the narratives, they embody a rebellious spirit through questioning of the status quo. For solarpunk: "How do we manage the future of our species with the consumption of our planet?" and for Sandalpunk: "How does society function within the myths and religions of different cultures? Do we step beyond them; embody them to rebel; or fall in to rigid societal values and exploit?"
*Ready or not, 23 megabytes theme plays*
Me: I'm locked in.
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Punk is supposed to be a rebellious look on society idk 🤷🏽♂️