Icepunk

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Icepunk, also known as Coldrave, is described as a microgenre that shares similarities with Steampunk, but set in an ice age environment. The term is attributed to rapper Drrty Pharms, who, in a 2013 interview, characterized Icepunk as more of a meme than a genre. Drrty Pharms stated that he released what he considers the first Icepunk song in October 2011, aiming to evoke the feeling of being cold and numb. The development of Icepunk is presented as a reaction to the Seapunk aesthetic, with early online groups forming around the concept.^[1] It has sometimes been described as a "forced meme."^[2]

As he described it in an interview for the blog of the clothing label Mishka NYC back in 2013:

"Icepunk, like seapunk, is more of a meme than it is a genre. I released the first ever icepunk song in October of 2011, entitled ◮◮◮Ice◮Queen◮◮◮. I wanted to mimic the numb, uncomfortable feeling of being cold….After the creation of seapunk, [Facebook groups] were flooded with posts proclaiming the death of witch house, posts antagonizing the seapunks and people claiming to have created the next meme genre. Most of the members of these groups felt excluded by seapunk, as best expressed by that image macro of a dolphin with the caption “you can’t sit with us”. I took it upon myself to become the messiah for those left behind by seapunk, creating my own Facebook group called i¢spunk, which featured a lengthy, ‘troll-statement’ explaining how icepunk was going to be the next big thing..." ― Drrty Pharms

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Icepunk art evokes a cold, wintery vibe, utilizing lots of blues, cyans, purples, whites, and other monochromatic colors, but other than that shares a lot in common with seapunk.

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In many ways, Icepunk music is very similar to seapunk in terms of content, but the music evokes more of a wintery vibe, like you're stranded in the middle of a blizzard and you're drunk and high as hell, and it tends to have more of an early-to-mid 90's R&B vibe compared to the more house influences of seapunk.