The Cyberpunk Dystopia Has Reached Production

Description

A heavily edited Captain Barbossa close-up from Pirates of the Caribbean is placed against a blue, neon-lit futuristic city skyline. He wears glowing purple augmented-reality-style glasses and an enormous dark hat traced by a cyan light ring, while bold white text says, “YOU BEST START BELIEVING IN CYBERPUNK DYSTOPIAS” and “YOU'RE IN ONE.” A tiny file icon near the upper center is labeled “New Text Document.” The meme repurposes Barbossa’s warning about ghost stories to argue that surveillance, corporate technology, wearable displays, and other once-fictional cyberpunk conditions have already become ordinary life.