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A fan theory argues cyberpsychosis — the chrome-induced madness at Cyberpunk: Edgerunners' core — isn't real in-universe, reframing the whole show's tragedy.

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  • Cyberpunk: Edgerunners builds its emotional stakes around cyberpsychosis, the idea that too many implants destroy a person's humanity.
  • A fan theory with 739K views challenges whether cyberpsychosis is a genuine condition or a constructed myth within the story's world.
  • If cyberpsychosis is fabricated or misunderstood in-universe, the corporate and social systems punishing augmented people take on a darker meaning.
  • The theory reframes David's fate not as an inevitable biological collapse but as a product of the world he was trapped in.