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You Can't Run From Me (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2) - YouTube

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A fan theory argues cyberpsychosis — the violent mental breakdown from too many implants — isn't real in Cyberpunk's world, raising the question: who benefits from that story?

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Theory Briefing

  • A YouTube fan theory with 730K views claims cyberpsychosis, the central tragedy of Edgerunners, is a fabricated or misrepresented condition.
  • If cyberpsychosis is a myth, the corporations selling cybernetic implants may be using it to control or scapegoat augmented people.
  • The theory reframes the show's core arc — a teenager pushed to violent breakdown by over-augmentation — as a story about systemic manipulation, not individual weakness.