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xpat
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 Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:10 am Post subject: Hipsters |
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Here is a breakdown on hipsters. You know, the people who will tell you, "I don't give in to mainstream." As they drink their latte at Starbucks and surf the web on their Apple computers.
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| Hipsters ignore rules because they think it will make them look like they don't care. There is no end result, just a continuous cycle of mediocre indie rock and scruffy looking dudes. By basing their actions on avoiding the mainstream, they are in fact guided by the mainstream. |
Spot any Korean hipsters? |
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cwflaneur
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:16 am Post subject: Re: Hipsters |
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| xpat wrote: |
Here is a breakdown on hipsters. You know, the people who will tell you, "I don't give in to mainstream." As they drink their latte at Starbucks and surf the web on their Apple computers.
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| Hipsters ignore rules because they think it will make them look like they don't care. There is no end result, just a continuous cycle of mediocre indie rock and scruffy looking dudes. By basing their actions on avoiding the mainstream, they are in fact guided by the mainstream. |
Spot any Korean hipsters? |
Not very good. Really lame, in fact. For some quality hipster-bashing with some insight, here's an actual article: http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:21 am Post subject: |
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Real hipsters don't drink Starbucks. They drink coffee from a little hole-in-the-wall import coffee shop with no room for seating. They may use apple computers, but they were using them WAY before they were mainstream.  |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| Real hipsters live as hermits in the world's deepest wastes, subsisting on nothing but irony, affectations of apathy, and a kind of mystic, internalized form of blogging to an audience of themselves. |
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happiness
Joined: 04 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:34 am Post subject: |
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im in starbucks on an apple computer! im a hipster?!? thank god!, i thought i was just an old fart.
and hey, i speak english in a land of non-english speakers! thats elite!
RAWK! |
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Perceptioncheck
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:02 am Post subject: |
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How original.
The hipster-haters are far worse than the hipsters, IMO. |
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isisaredead
Joined: 18 May 2010
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:57 am Post subject: |
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How original.
The hipster-haters are far worse than the hipsters, IMO. |
exactly.
yes, let's all make fun of a youth subculture. that'll show 'em!
i have no great love for hipsters or their culture, but honestly, i'm an adult. i don't feel the need to ridicule or look down on a subculture just to make myself feel better. |
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sallymonster
Joined: 06 Feb 2010
Location: Seattle area
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| Real hipsters don't drink Starbucks. They drink coffee from a little hole-in-the-wall import coffee shop with no room for seating. They may use apple computers, but they were using them WAY before they were mainstream. |
I don't know about other cities, but in Portland (where I'm from), there is no faster way to lose one's hipster cred than by drinking Starbucks coffee. If you want to be a hipster in Portland, you'd better start drinking Stumptown coffee. |
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DIsbell
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:12 am Post subject: |
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From the adbusters article, McInnes contradicts the author and nails it:
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| "I've always found that word ["hipster"] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and are bored, and they're just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable," he says. "I'm dubious of these hypotheses because they always smell of an agenda." |
Anyhow, the same criticisms leveled against hipsters have been leveled against punks (they're all just wearing a different uniform) and hip-hoppers/b-boys (very brand oriented, seek cred above most things). I'd say a major difference in the more widespread criticism of hipsters, though, has to do with traditional views of masculinity/machismo- hipster guys aren't really known for moshing, starting fights, vandalism, or trying to take any sort of alpha-male attitude. This touches on what McInnes mentions about "chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid": the hipster kind of folk really enrage a lot of dopey bores for getting laid and enjoying things. And that's not even to say that hipster-haters aren't getting laid at all, just that the idea of a very loosely identifiable subculture of people who you view as less manly getting laid and having fun still lights a fire under certain disgruntled asses. Sort of the same thing happened with the term "emo" a few years back- heaven forbid those skinny, eyeshadow wearing, mopey teens and earlytwentysomethings were doing something that made them feel comfortable, got them involved in a likeminded social group, had them creating something, and even got them laid.
Before emo it had been goth, then probably grunger (or whatever the term was for the Nirvana years of flannel and ripped jeans), and before that New Wavers. |
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Joe Boxer
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
Location: Bundang, South Korea
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pegasus64128
Joined: 20 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:19 am Post subject: |
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I for one, irk at all these web casts and vlogs of people with the time and capability to make money, but prefer to just advertise their daily hipness/or lack thereof. Clearly, they had more time than money to purchase elaborate tattoos. |
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goat
Joined: 23 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:59 am Post subject: |
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| isisaredead wrote: |
| Perceptioncheck wrote: |
How original.
The hipster-haters are far worse than the hipsters, IMO. |
exactly.
yes, let's all make fun of a youth subculture. that'll show 'em!
i have no great love for hipsters or their culture, but honestly, i'm an adult. i don't feel the need to ridicule or look down on a subculture just to make myself feel better. |
i agree!
it's like some of the other posters who ridicule or look down on others for buying expensive purses, just to make themselves feel better. now we wouldn't want that would we?
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Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:26 am Post subject: |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hipsters would be a lot better if it wasn't for the fact that 90% of the music they listen to causes people of color's ears to explode.
Back home at the store, country was tolerated. Hipster bands were banned. |
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isisaredead
Joined: 18 May 2010
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| goat wrote: |
| isisaredead wrote: |
| Perceptioncheck wrote: |
How original.
The hipster-haters are far worse than the hipsters, IMO. |
exactly.
yes, let's all make fun of a youth subculture. that'll show 'em!
i have no great love for hipsters or their culture, but honestly, i'm an adult. i don't feel the need to ridicule or look down on a subculture just to make myself feel better. |
i agree!
it's like some of the other posters who ridicule or look down on others for buying expensive purses, just to make themselves feel better. now we wouldn't want that would we?
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yes, because that was exactly the same argument.
i hate this forum. |
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