Do you think cyberpunk can be rural Yea Forums?

as someone who grew up in the rural midwest this hits way too close to home

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>...Putting the finishing touches on my Manifesto, which fuses elements of Ruralpunk, Fiberpunk and Dieselpunk...

Sinful buttons.

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it's pretty similar across most of rural America, the only real differences are that here in NorCal our dead industry is the lumber industry instead of manufacturing and occasionally entire town burn to the ground since no one manages the forests anymore.

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Looper

>low life
>high tech
Surely there are plenty of hicks in Alabama with an ipad

Farmer cant grow shit because his John Deere tractor has chinese malware and gets sued by Monsanto for seed copyright infringement

Pic related

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Just wait until data centers fill up the landscape, bringing with them a lot of energetic infrastructure, waste, heat waves, Indian information workers and stuff.

Oklahoma is a good example of this in real life. OKC is a bastion of modernity. Its big, everything is new, its beautiful in that modern aesthetic, huge shops, vast casinos, hipster bars, business was booming, everything one could need. I'm from Texas, so we have 5 cities this big, it was no big deal. The rest of the state was abysmal and sad. Everything seemed to be trapped in the 80's. The roads were poor, the houses were falling apart, the only new things the little towns each had was a walmart and a applebees. The rest of the town centers were abandoned. Theaters closed. Bars with the lights on but no one home. Dark streets abound.

isnt Marysville comfy

>Farmer cant grow shit because his John Deere tractor has chinese malware and gets sued by Monsanto for seed copyright infringement
i don't come to these threads to laugh but this one got me, well done. i would honestly like to see a movie that began on this kind of note

>redneck gives nootropics to its chickens
>chickens become post-chickens, form a libertarian utopian commune
>the Algorithm realize post-chickens are tastier, spreads the revolution

One of the defining economic movements of America today is the way that rural communities have eroded and stagnated as the cities have consumed more and more of the nation's capital. It's more than possible to write cyberpunk with that sort of outlook, so long as your worldview isn't entirely ignorant.

an injured veteran with an opiate addiction, a foreman at a dilapidated factory in Jersey, betrays his hometown by selling IP to china which results in his (probably already doomed) factory being shuttered

a group of stunted youths in Arizona spends their late nights using CNG generators to start up ancient arcade machines in an abandoned gas station they've named Arcadia, and while they busy themselves with drama over who's fucking and who's fighting, they lose focus on the one kid among them who's got a good chance of making it somewhere else, and he overdoses that night.

A group of wealthy landowners in California's central valley funds a batch of (leftist, green, or fascist, take your pick) dissidents in a plot to blow up an under-construction aqueduct heading towards Los Angeles, a brush fire starts that burns for the next two months as hit-and-run attacks with old, long-since-banned AR-15s drop the prison inmates fighting the blaze, which begins to symbolize the fires that burned Sodom. The National Guard is sent in, but in a disastrous rout a large group is caught between the shooters and the blaze, and the main character (one of the naive dissidents) watches them burn in horror before the group's planned assault on the landowners' farms. He doesn't dissent against his comrades and they hang the old ranchers who paid them. He tries to sell the rest of them out in the resulting trial but he's executed by firing squad.

you should read Dr. Adder, there's a section where the post-farmers in rural america farm horrifying roid-injected chickens with monster dicks within like the first 15 pages

i feel ya
my current town is basically a ghost town, where you can see only elderly people on the streets
the culture of my region is fading away, and probably itll soon just die out

This kind of situation is more likely than you may think. A couple months ago I helped out an old farmer and friend of the family with IT problems on his new smart-tractor.

>tfw lived in a ghost town in the mountains where old rednecks did meth and squatted
>lived from weed grow to weed grow on the road, on the outskirts of half abandoned rural villages
>lived in small towns basically for the remainder of my life
>still turned out a cyberpunk fag

This is giving me all sorts of feels,you guys should write this shit down

I've seen it. I know a mountain hippy that lives in a shack he built from scrap metal where he uses solar panels for his electricity needs and also uses a rifle his great-grandpappy made to feed himself (alongside what he grows of course). He treks into the library about twice a month to check orders on his etsy where he sells all kinds of weird shit he makes by hand. His profit is used almost exclusively for gasoline, his phone bill, and property taxes. He's a cool dude.

based concept

sounds like it has a lot of potential for storytelling, is there any Yea Forums that kind of fits into this sub-genre?

Illinois?

not Yea Forums but the anime Dennou Coil fits what you're looking for pretty well

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Close, but no cigar

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I thought Children of Men had some visual inspo for this.

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its like this everywhere. I live in a town pretty close to NYC and everything your saying applies here too. Small towns are dead.

>One of the defining economic movements of America today is the way that rural communities have eroded and stagnated as the cities have consumed more and more of the nation's capital.

while true but its also worth noting that cities also produce the vast majority of capital as well. rural areas produce relatively little.

BUT, rural areas do produce everything that materially matters, food, raw resources, etc. Its just that in the simulacra we live in now abstract financial instruments and advertising from cities are worth 10 or 20x more than any amount of produce, meat, minerals, etc that any one area could realistically produce

I'd read the fucc out of that

while stocks and soft currency are people jerking themselves off over mutual hallucination i'm not sure that's the explanation for the disparity. there are other explanations for why resources flow from rural to urban areas besides rural areas buying imaginary things.

rich people in cities own places that actually make resources or they own something tangible (even if not physical) rural people trade for. for instance they own utilities, and factories that can combine materials in ways rural people are incapable of, and intellectual property. money for advertisement is spent because they think more money (which is immediately convertible into real resources) will flow the other way. that's why they can obtain more resources than rural people, not just because rural people are trading their shit away for stocks.

meanwhile poor city people turn food and entertainment into things like box movement for your widget factory or restaurant service. maybe their individual production isn't very valuable but they're still providing something real that works its way up the food chain until people with real resources start sending them down in exchange.

bump because I like this concept

what happens when someone from the city or another more traditional cyberpunk setting enters these areas?

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You niggas should visit more small towns. It feels like you are mystifying rural areas as if they were much different than the cities.

I'm from a rural area, and the disparity between the two would increase massively in a cyberpunk setting. You could even just take a look a small towns and villages during the industrial revolution, the digital revolution is no different in that regard.

But the digital revolution is revolutionary in large part because of its decentralized nature.
In fact, I’d say rural areas are even more engaged in the cybersphere. The slow county life provides the time and lack of other opportunities needed to push someone onto the internet, while cities provide many of the opportunities available online only to a lesser degree and monetized.
The future is trailer parks run on crypto currency, LED projectors creating massively decentralized theatre networks, FPS colabs between ISIS and the Aryan Broherhood, and fully automated meth labs.
The past is the city, wallowing in its limitations after the full digitalization of its benefits.

Nice pic :)

Rant by Chuck Palahniuk has rural cyberpunk.

>Anne of Green Gables, published 2019.

>Huckleberry Finn

envisioning h/acc (heartland accelerationism)
Outside-kindled thoughtforms with corn threshers for appendages

>grow up as teen in midwest
>the only thing to do is hang out at Walmart or go to the tiny movie theater
we had a drive in that was open during the summer though

yet you post on a laotian hentai board
interesting

You should keep bees if you aren't already

Would that episode of Love, Death, and Robots (Suits) fall under this? Or would that be higher sci-fi/galactic?

pretty sure Count Zero had a lot of rural settings, and a good portion of Snow crash is set in Alaska.
I think Gibson's spook country is rural as well

Kansas?

>grow up as a teen in the northwest
>only thing to do is have passionate religious interfaith dialogues with ISIS recruiters through Xbox-live, pirate movies online to print as DVDs and sell to technologically inept boomers, and fix up old hardware from the dump in order to run massive DDoS attacks as part of a small scale one man extortion ring
Use your imagination user

I'm actually writing something with a similar theme. I won't give away the specifics, but maybe I will post it here when it is finished.