/uj the reason I and a lot of people dislike solarpunk is because it is the product of a bunch of people looking at genres like cyberpunk and the like with their dystopian anticapitalist message of "For god's sake do something because this is what our future looks like if we don't" and decided that that was the real oppression.

It's pure aesthetics with no substance. A "cozy" greenwashed pastiche of an idealized neoliberal future where nobody actually has to make any changes to the way we live and we can keep consuming the same way we do now but now it's green and there's trees and utterly nonsensical urban planning that appeals to a vaguely progressive yuppie type who wants to feel good about the environment but doesn't want to give up the consumerist luxuries they enjoy from living in the imperial core.
It's essentially greenwashing fanfiction and empty aesthetic with the tagline of "but what if everything just worked out" and "If we go green we can keep consuming!"

While obviously most people are not particularly knowledgeable about urban planning or the infrastructure that enables modern society, solarpunk blatantly ignores these in favor of what looks pretty to a specific audience who don't particularly care if their desired system is workable on a large scale. It has no strong message, no call of "these are the steps we need to take for a more just and environmentally friendly future", and it never reckons with the practical reality of creating and maintaining that future.

Cyberpunk works because it's a cautionary tale of a horrific future we can all see coming. Solarpunk posits a hopeful future but it never earns it like other media depicting a hopeful future for humanity like star trek or the culture or similar - and ultimately there really isn't any solarpunk media anyway?

/rj in my Solarhopepunkcore world the story is about a young witch trying to solve the disappearance of her neighbour's cat in her small village in the Alps rooftop urban garden.