Found this the other day. I think it’s neat

That's incorrect though. These subgenres all tend to take place in the future, they are simply inspired by the periods where certain technologies were prebalent. That's literally the "punk" aspect of it. Did you think there were 1870s punks?

And the time periods are wrong for half this stuff. Steam Power was a think I'm the 1700s, why does this graphic decide 1860 is the start point? What is Raygun Gothic even? The gothic period predates this selected time frame. "Pulp fiction" would be used to describe the sci fi of the 1910s and 20s as well, and tons of non-sci fi stuff. It makes no sense why it's listen next to occult and film noir. "Atom punk" describes every piece of cold war era media. And people still make cassette futurism films today with shit like stranger things, summer of 84, the strangers 2, etc etc.

Plus, Steampunk and Cyberpunk are the only real ones, the rest are random unconnected terms that someone tried to string together to convince people who don't know any better that there is some correlation between them when infact it's a bunch of stuff that someone pull out of their rear end.

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