Well, one tends to see many more mohawk-and-studded-jacket punks crawl the streets than cyberpunk or steampunk enthusiasts. That punk went mainstream long ago,

Well, one tends to see many more mohawk-and-studded-jacket punks crawl the streets than cyberpunk or steampunk enthusiasts. That punk went mainstream long ago, everyone is sorta aware what that raggedy-arse looking fellow is about. Examples of persons adopting a cyber- or steampunk identity do exist, however, in eye-catching forms as well. They just do not get appropriately identified as such, because mainstream culture has not explicitly acknowledged those punks. Worse, the mainstream has appropriated and exploited the aesthetics of both, and thus the cyberpunk gets misidentified as some anime hackerman and the steampunk is maybe going to a costume party somewhere? It is thus not possible to externally identify as any kind of otherpunk: general social acknowledgement of aesthetically alternative lifestyles is generally not there at all. What follows is ridicule and exclusion.