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[Inlander]

I wear flannel, ironic t-shirts, tight jeans, expensive and impractical sneakers, black-rimmed glasses.

Check -

No, no, no, no, no.

[David_Dovey]

Oh Harry, I just know we're going to be best friends

[Inlander]

<---------- I am actually this smiley in real life.

[snalin]

I want to go live with the Ukrainian fighting women. Forever. Maybe I could be like... their massage guy?

I would like that a lot.

[Gurkburk]

Okay guys so I stopped reading this thread halfway through because none of you were saying anything of value but:

Ukranian Fighter Women. Living in the Carpathian Mountains. Fighting with medieval weapons. And then there's that one chick with Yulia Tymoshenko on her shirt wielding two sickles looking like the motherfucking fury of communism. Why isn't there a movie about these people already?!

[look out! Ninjas!]

Because the ultimate fighting film has already been made, silly. There'd be no point.

[Gurkburk]

I really don't see why that ninja would be dropping a WWII german sub-machine gun and a throwing star at the same time seeing how he would have to use both hands to shoot the gun either way.

[Inlander]

Maybe the star is velcroed to his sleeve.

[Gurkburk]

I doubt ninjas who use sneakiness as their number one weapon would want the velcro 'ritsch' sound whenever he's about to throw it. Then again he is using a gun as well...

[Hat]

On another note, does anybody here (except for myself) positively self-identify as a hipster?

Damn man you are the Richard Pryor of skinny white dudes. Take the power back, hipsta.

I was walking down the road the other day in a pair of lensless soviet carpet salesman pedophile glasses the other day that I had found at work and taken a shine to, when I realised some people would call me a hipster but I am ok with it because it is still better than "weirdo dirtbag"

[öde]

I'm probably not hip enough to be called a hipster.

[Inlander]

Anyway, we've been over this. The term "hipster" is passe.

[Allybee]

once my brother told me that the word "hipster" came from china, where people in opium dens would lie on their hips all day while they smoked and for a long time I believed this.

[Mnementh]

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization.  Perhaps it could also be labeled Hipster: The rise of a bland, meaningless, yet diverse global culture.

The article is pretty full of itself and condescending, but pretty accurate about hipster culture none-the-less.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

oh no, a specific style of dress and attitude is defining a decade! it's the end of the world! aaaaaaahhhhhh

[tania]

i jokingly call myself a hipster around my friends sometimes, but that is mainly in the hopes that this will cause them to see my internet t-shirts and generally ridiculous appearance and ludicrous music collection and furious opinions about everything as less irritating and more novel and endearing. hey guys, tania's not actually an alienating hateful bitch, she's just one of those weird hipster kids. ooohhh i see.

under other circumstances i would not identify as a hipster though. i just look weird and have opinions about stuff a lot.

[Emaline]

I am not cool at all, so I can't be a hipster. I'm totally lame. And not ironically.


My friend however disagrees. He says I'm a hipster. He is all vaguely goth*. Another one of my friends, who is goth, tells me that I am a goth kid, myself. I always thought of myself as more of a hippie or totally punk rock. Something like that. I'm not really sure, which is why I've always kinda considered myself just sort of an Emaline.



*I mean, if we're gonna be all classifying people and stuff.

[Tom]

No matter what I claim to be everyone is already like me.

[Gurkburk]

"I am an anthropomorphic cloud."

I'm not sure...

[Mnementh]

[MrBlu]

I wear flannel, ironic t-shirts, tight jeans, expensive and impractical sneakers, black-rimmed glasses.

Check -

No, no, no, no, no.

I don't know what flannel is, but I wear plaid shorts. Tight pants... NO. Expensive sneakers? I'm black, it's in my genes to be a sneaker freaker. Gross, glasses.

[MrBlu]

I lied. I'm a Lupe Fiasco wannabe. I want glasses.

[Chesire Cat]

Comic

I loled, fucking funny stuff

[est]

Anyway, we've been over this. The term "hipster" is passe.

Is this another case of people disliking something because it's gone mainstream?   

As I said earlier with the SYTYCD reference, what was in the past the hipster thing is basically what popular people are doing now that indie type biz has gone mainstream too.  What I see as the defining characteristic of the 80s-to-now hipsterdom (ie: not the original 40s hipster) is the appropriation of past styles/cliches to build a unique style via pastiche without much/any knowledge of or respect for the original article (or a feigned/transitory respect, where necessary).

I say it's mainstream now because it used to be all the indie/alt cool kids were doing this, now it's more like all the cool kids fullstop.  Could be due to the indie/alt subculture moving more toward the mainstream or it could be just a case of it reaching enough of a critical mass that the mainstream cool kids saw it done enough that it sunk through their thick skulls as something that was trendy enough to emulate.  All I know is that a while ago I'd go out and see hipster-type kids at indie/underground clubs and the dolled-up kids at mainstream techno/dance nights.  Nowdays the lines are more blurred, wherever I go.  This may also be due to indie things having greater mainstream crossover appeal these days, leading to more cross-pollenation of ideas between groups.  Here in Sydney if you put a bunch of electro dudes next to a bunch of indie rock dudes they'll probably either be the same dudes cut & pasted because both groups like both styles or at the very least they'll look pretty similar.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

the question we need to ask ourselves is this: does any of this really deserve this much thought?


honestly, i couldn't have even begun to tell you what a hipster was until about a year ago, and then only from this forum. maybe it's because i live in the woods, maybe it's because i actively ignore popular culture everything outside my zip code for the most part; i don't know, i'm not a doctor.

the point is don't be so caught up in what everyone else is doing or what people call you or what you're supposed to call other people. it's really not important. just do, wear, and listen to whatever you want and try to be as happy as possible.

[est]

SWM, I give things this much thought because I enjoy doing so, not because I think it matters at all.

[pwhodges]

I am not in any way like an indie rocker (or any other kind of rocker) let alone a hipster, but I still wear hoodies.  They're just this garment, you know.  I even go shopping occasionally in a mall where they are supposed to be banned.

[Ballard]

I do hope you've never been mistaken for a chav, Paul..

[pwhodges]

I'm lacking the key ingredient, fortunately.  (I did have that model of car once, but not the Burberry job.)

[StaedlerMars]

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization.  Perhaps it could also be labeled Hipster: The rise of a bland, meaningless, yet diverse global culture.

The article is pretty full of itself and condescending, but pretty accurate about hipster culture none-the-less.

I personally think that adbusters is probably one of the most conceited magazines out there. For some reason, them criticizing hipsters strikes me as ironic. For a magazine that puts so much emphasis on being against advertising, it does a have a lot of the qualities that it claims to disdain.

I like the idea, just not the execution.

[Gilead]

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization.  Perhaps it could also be labeled Hipster: The rise of a bland, meaningless, yet diverse global culture.

The article is pretty full of itself and condescending, but pretty accurate about hipster culture none-the-less.

Hey look a bad article by a bad website.

[michaelicious]

I'm lacking the key ingredient, fortunately.  (I did have that model of car once, but not the Burberry job.)

I thought the main thing to being a chav was putting a snooker ball into a gym sock and beating people?

[pwhodges]

I think that's a bit technical for most of them.

[StaedlerMars]

I thought it had more to do with the shaved patterns in the hair, on the side.

[Ballard]

Man the guy who founded AdBusters also decided he could write a book. He was wrong.

[MrBlu]

Oh, hey. Look what I found:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuyuMXCk0Es&feature=channel

Apparently "How To [insert verb here] Hipster" is the next big thing.

[michaelicious]

You will never be able to wash donk from your filthy filthy hands.

[Chesire Cat]

I just cant really tell if Donk is legit or some massive prank Vice is trying to pull on us.

[michaelicious]

The best part is that you actually watched the video. 

[Ballard]

That was.. mindblowing. I'm not quite sure how to react so I'll just second Tommy I guess.

[BrittanyMarie]

I refer to myself as a hipster sometimes, but kind of like a mix of how Tania and Dovey self reference with it. I'm joking, but it's pretty much true really. I guess I fit the stereotype based on the things I like to do, my political beliefs (in general), and the things I like to watch/read/listen.

I think of labels as handy tools and I don't understand why people don't like genres or grouping people together at all ever... sometimes it does make things easier. I mean, cerulean, indigo, sky, robin's egg... they're all different colors but they're all basically blue, right?

[Toba]

Fuck labels.  A good 15% of them leave gunk on that new thing you bought for months afterwards and the same information could be applied to the object without it sucking so much.

[Cire27]

It took me 15 minutes to figure out what the hell you were talking about.

[scarred]

Fold skinny jeans/ironic t-shirts/flannel into Flatrate wardrobe boxes

Plan on spending your free time grooming ironic facial hair

Man, they have me pegged. =\