People complaining about Trump covering up child abuse in the past when he's openly abusing children right now. Wouldn't be out of character for Trump to literally let his pedo friends have their way with immigrant children.
Cyberpunk if we're taking about a feudalist future of weak governments and powerful companies. That's not a universe you can overcome by simply being a trivia machine.
I'm telling you now, it is not a significant minority. The same amount of people that will wake up from this will have always had a chance to wake up for one reason or another. Conspiratorial mindset is not philosophical, but personal; people do not escape based on any evidence. They escape because of personal changes like in their friend groups or careers, not because of news stories. Stop thinking of this as based on facts or ideology, but based on identity. Stop thinking facts will win a war of emotion.
Honestly, you can do better than Ready Player One. The characters sucked and win by being the most annoying type of media fans. The movie managed to improve on the dogshit characters a bit, but the obsession with pop culture references is even more disgusting in it.
I've been more in this camp for most of my life. I have no solutions, the only thing that worked for me was HRT.