[2][1][3] Pitchfork described the genre as "subversive", "experimental", and typified by "wry lyrics and cheapo keyboards".
[2] John Robb wrote that the subgenre consisted of "lo-fi perfectly ‘badly’ recorded fast punk rock songs", featuring "garage melody with jitterbug jittery guitars and even sometimes cheapo synths" and oriented towards "cocking a snoop at punk’s sometimes seriousity instead embracing introvert nerds, alien noise fiends and manic goofy behaviour".
[3] Other Midwest bands adopting a similar approach included Uranium Club in Minneapolis, and Warm Bodies in Kansas City.
[8][1][5] The increased visibility of the egg punk scene was attributed to the distribution of rips of cassette tapes to YouTube by mononymous user Jimmy.
[5][3][9] The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 has been also suggested to have facilitated the adoption of egg punk as musicians had more time and fewer resources to create music, leading to greater openness to a DIY approach.