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Cassette Futurism

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This meme is a crossover of such niche and mostly non-overlapping interests that it never really found an audience lol

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thats fucking beautiful lmao

Yeah cassette futurism is an aesthetic subgenre of retrofuturism that imagines a SciFi future where the capabilities of technology are greater but its still has the construction and aesthetic of tech from the era of cassettes

So like the way theyre still using CRTs and magnetic tape media in Blade Runner but they can zoom and enhance, there are androids that mimic humans, and they have flying cars

Its SciFi but the technology that powers the future is frozen in time, like with steam punk, atom punk, and disel punk

There's a more active cassette futurism comm, I didn't realize this was a different one and is empty: !cassettefuturism@lemmy.world And its predecessor from before lemm.ee shut down !cassettefuturism@lemm.ee

They were created in the image of a reddit sub by the same name. Any would give some examples of what cassette futurism looks like- that being said I'm delighted I saw this lol. You could also share this on one of the Loops comms if you haven't already and would like to :)

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ohhhhh, I think I get it maybeeee. Would the tech in the Alien franchise movies kinda fit? Very cool aesthetic, wish I'd heard of it before!

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Alien is 100% an excellent example! Its one of my favorite examples of the aesthetic ☺️