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GMK CYL Orange Alert opens at Divinikey, the second Alert-series set to reach group buy this year
GMK CYL Orange Alert opened August 14 and runs through September 14, 2026, hosted by Divinikey with KBDfans, UniKeys, and Keebz N Cables running alongside — an orange-beige-gray Cherry-profile doubleshot set with Katakana accent legends and an estimated February 2027 ship.
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News
GMK Just Beachy's group buy opens August 18 across five vendors on five regions
GMK Just Beachy opens for orders August 18, 2026 at five vendors spanning five regions at once — Keebz N Cables, Divinikey, Prototypist, KBDfans, and Unikeys — capping an eight-week climb on thock's Trends Tracker that hasn't logged a single down week.
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Trends
GMK CYL TA Neo's group buy is closed — here's what a November 2026 ship estimate actually means
GMK CYL TA Neo closed its group buy July 17, 2026 after a June 19 open, and the thock trends tracker has logged two straight weeks of cooling attention since. That's not a warning sign — it's what every closed keycap buy looks like while it waits on production.
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Ideas
Mixing keycap profiles on one board: what actually works
Mixing profiles reads as a deliberate design choice or a rookie mistake depending entirely on where the swap lands. A handful of zones tolerate it well. The alpha block almost never does.
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Trends
GMK CYL OG Extensions climbed eight interest-check weeks, then opened a group buy of its own
An interest check posted on Geekhack pulled ahead of both open GMK CYL group buys on the thock trends tracker — eight straight weekly reads without a single flat week — before opening a group buy of its own that has kept climbing since.
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News
GMK CYL Masterpiece R2 closed at KBDfans, finishing the Katakana argument R1 started
Energieschleuder's six-year-later return to Japanese craftsmanship aesthetics climbed the thock tracker all window, scoring 46 in W26 before the buy closed June 26.
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News
GMK CYL Pandemonium: the eclipse-themed keycap set that closed on a plateau
DeltaKeyCo's Berserk eclipse group buy climbed the tracker from its June 1 open, posting a score of 33 in W26 with a flat direction — a mid-window plateau it held through its July 1 close.
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News
GMK CYL Ramune is the pastel pivot the CYL catalog needed
GMK CYL Ramune opened on 2026-05-15 across ten regional vendors simultaneously — the broadest multi-vendor launch in the CYL sub-line's history. The pastel dual-blue and pink colorway is a deliberate break from the darker European-influenced palettes that have defined CYL since its first runs.
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GMK CYL Selene closed at KBDfans with the sub-line's first material-first colorway
GMK CYL Selene ran 2026-05-15 through 2026-06-19 at KBDfans with a special-effects glitter-reflect colorway in purple and teal over a silver-grey base. Designed by whysoda and inspired by the Greek Titaness of the Moon, the buy closed with Q1-Q2 2027 fulfillment ahead.
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Trends
DCS Olivetti and the quiet rebellion against Cherry orthodoxy
A March group buy closed strong, and eight weeks of steady tracker movement later, DCS Olivetti is the clearest sign that experienced builders are ready to argue about profile again.
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News
GMK CYL Prussian Alert closed at KBDfans, capping the loudest GeekHack IC in the CYL sub-line's recent run
GMK CYL Prussian Alert ran at KBDfans from 2026-05-15 through 2026-06-12 with a Bauhaus-leaning red-on-cream palette. The order window followed the loudest GMK CYL interest-check thread on GeekHack the sub-line had seen before an open.
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GMK CYL Ishtar R2 closed at KBDfans with a second-and-likely-last shot at the lapis Mesopotamia palette
GMK CYL Ishtar R2 ran 2026-04-17 through 2026-05-10 at KBDfans. The editorial event is not the open — it is the close. A second round on a Cherry-profile doubleshot ABS set is the second-and-likely-last shot at MSRP before the aftermarket takes over the palette.
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Guides
Keycap profiles, compared: Cherry, OEM, SA, and MT3
Most beginners agonize over switches for weeks, then drop any keycap set on top and discover the keycap was doing half the work all along. Profile shapes the sound, the typing angle, and the way a board reads on a desk — and the four profiles below cover almost every set on the market.
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News
GMK CYL GREG returns for round 2 at KBDfans
Round 2 of GMK CYL GREG opened at KBDfans on 2026-05-01 and ran through 2026-05-29. The four-week window sits on the longer end for GMK CYL R2s, and the round-2 cadence itself is becoming the more interesting story as sets prove out in R1 and accumulate latent demand.
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GMK CYL King of the Seas opened at KBDfans in two colorways at once
MiKeyDigit's nautical doubleshot ABS set opened at KBDfans on 2026-04-28 and ran through 2026-05-31. The rarer angle is the two-colorway split — The Sovereign in deep ocean blues and The Mutation in electric pink, sold concurrently inside the same buy rather than staggered as separate runs.
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