Hopepunk makes me weirdly angry because it's so self-infantilizing. It's too hopelessly inward-facing to be capable of making any interesting statements about the world. I mean, just look at this shit. It's people embracing individual indulgence because they can't feel their own political power:

The aesthetic of hopepunk can be seen as part of a broader cultural embrace of “softness,” wholesomeness, and gentleness. We see this in a growing emphasis on what might be thought of as an extreme, even aggressive form of self-care and wellness in response to stress created by bleak sociopolitical times. Embedded into this idea are trends like the high-end sleep industry; the popular home and lifestyle trend hygge, which emphasizes comfort and coziness; the rom-com resurgence; the ever-growing popularity of kawaii, or “cute” culture; “JOMO,” a.k.a. the joy of missing out; and the online shift away from cynicism to wholesome memes.

I'm actually quite interested in the invisible effects "weak forces" (as the theologian John Caputo would call them) can work outside the models of ideologies, but there's something about the entire mission statement of hopepunk that strikes me as avoidant rather than reconstructive.