We’re all familiar with Hope Punk storytelling – a genre that unabashedly puts kindness, positivity, and empathy front and center. It makes sense. In a world that’s growing more dystopian with each passing bleak day, we’re all starving for a warm plate of optimism with a side of compassion. At a primal level, it just makes us happy. But there’s another way to get your serotonin blast on. May I present a “new” genre for our desperate times: Dope Punk – storytelling with a banana peel-slipping silly side that leans hard into the goofy, dopey, ditzy, and utterly ridonkulous with zero apology. Because sometimes…like right now…you just need to laugh.