HIPSTER RUNOFF BLOG OF THE MOMENT

i really love this blog u should all get into it http://www.hipsterrunoff.com

haha

this is going to be an important thread - i can tell

looking forward to burt stanton's contribution

o man mee too - i bet u he doesnt like it

maybe...I like to think anti-hipsterism is a more defined cult than hipsterism but perhaps I'm wrong.

I want someone to start a blog which caricatures anti-hipsters and collects examples of anti-hipsterism from all over the web. it's the next logical step.

hipster runoff runoff

ya but hipster runoff isnt anti-hipster so much is he, hes like, what woody allen is to jews, this dude is to 00s hipsters

boy i hope this thread is as valuable as the one about 'stuff white people like'

tl;dr

hipster runoff already caricatures anti-hipsters and hipsters who of course are the same people but the great thing is it wraps them all in a warm loving embrace and its really funny an well executed

btw i think i found out abt this blog on the frankendance thread

anti-hipsters and hipsters who of course are the same people

ding

maybe I'm being unfair to hipster run off.

x-post thing is I don't think anti-hipsters and hipsters are the same people, there is a difference there but it isn't that one group is trying to be cool and the other is mad fucking real.

i mean theres no way to know absolutely everything abt hipsters like this guy carles does w/o being one - thats part of the joke - the awesome joke

So this guy is the American max r, right?

only anti-hipsters even know who the hipsters are/what they are. they are bonded by a shared frame of reference.

anti hipsters are the neurotic version of hipsters i think

http://1416andcounting.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/face_off.jpg

maybe ice cr?am, but people do end up knowing tons of stuff about things they despise.

I don't think, in whatever way we can use terms like "anti-hipsters" (probably not at all reliably) that they are always the same sort of people as hipsters.

EG I know some really outspoken anti-hipsters for whom clothes/fashion seems to be the big hatred point they tag to hipsters, who aren't actually into clothes/fashion themselves at all.

and he too is a really good writer - i read that whole long ass animal collective piece w/o ever even considering abandoning it - just sailed right through

nazis knew a lot about communism but that didn't make them communists.

I do like this debate though, and not to overegg things but I am incessantly thinking of this quote from Robert Musil in the context of this sort of post-internet trainwreck/debate.

"When looking at a set of ideas in action, it draws its supplies of additional troops and intellectual matériel not only from its own depots but also from those of its opponents"

omg u know what--maybe there is a disagreement abt hipsters vs. anti-hipsters--because no one can agree on what 'hipster' means!?!?!?!?

indie gone sexy

2003, its good to have you back

x-post max you've cracked it

basically 6 billion+ people just need to say out loud "oh fuck it everything's just bullshit intended to impress someone else" and that will trigger the endtimes...

i think anti-hipsterism is kind of crazy because like--who thought you could be resentful of the most resentful people on earth!

i think anti-hipsterism is kind of crazy because like--who thought you could be resentful of the most resentful people on earth!

― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:41 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dom passantino is a hipster?

actually now that i think about it "resentful about the most resentful people on earth" sort of describes the nazis

therefore--anti-hipsters = nazis

can't fault this logic bomb

actually now that i think about it "resentful about the most resentful people on earth" sort of describes the nazis

― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

jews are resentful...?

for whom clothes/fashion seems to be the big hatred point they tag to hipsters, who aren't actually into clothes/fashion themselves at all.

No, they DRESS like they're not into clothes, but it's a carefully studied pose. I'm not anti-hipster, I'm just anti-leggings.

:D

hipsters vs altBros?

come on

cum on

already?

I just read the Animal Collective post, I didn't find it that impressive, needs to self edit. Plus it's smartass in tone without actually being funny.

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/animal_collective-pic-by-adriano-fe.jpg

i lold

would like to hear a positive interpretation of it though, to actually see what others think the point is.

x-post the other thing is the notion of "internet music" is a good one but there are tons more acts whom it fits much more than Animal Collective. Strawperson #1 is a friend of mine who barely uses email, has no Facebook etc is a big AC fan...can't imagine her liking bloghouse or something...

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/animalc_2.jpg

so the point of hipsterunoff is that every single thing you say about it is part of the joke...great

wait so if hipsterism is a stream and this blog is the runoff of the stream, sort of the crystalization of hipsters, the silt of the hipsters is that right

or maybe its a sexy race who knows

in an ironical twist the site keeps crashing while im trying to link to awesome posts

in the bar i work at the other day this fairly normal looking guy wanted to watch the darts on television, a nearby group sneered "oh is this the new hipster new cross thing - watching darts ironically?" to peels of laughter. thing is they were playing fucking scrabble in the pub.

we are through the ironic looking glass here people

CORRECTION

in the bar i work at the other day this fairly normal looking guy wanted to watch the darts on television, a nearby group sneered "oh is this the new hipster new cross thing - watching darts ironically?" to peels peals of laughter. thing is they were playing fucking scrabble in the pub.

just as an FYI^^

yeah you could sorta see it as VERY hipster in the sense that it seems to be policing and deflating pretentions of hipsterism...thus critical reading for the evolution of hipsterism.

this is turning into a full fledged ilxor.com thread now - cool

the world has gone mad with hipsterism

you cant even kick an irony in the street anymore

been reading this for a while, it's adorable!

I also dispute the "he's a good writer" bit, that AC thing went on forever...and the irritating academic thesis tone is hard to take too.

I can't load it..."database error"?

lol laurel dont u get the joke???!?! "database error".... hipsters!>!?!?!?

the site's overrun with hipsters--how typical

lately i've appreciated the posts on how tv on the radio are not that good, also the indoor soccer shoes, i have a pair of those exact shoes in a box under my desk b/c keep meaning to exchange for the right size, but now i am not sure if they fit my personal brand

btw i cant believe this whole OMG IRONY meme is still going it even predates hipsters - people should just get over it - irony is just one of the beautiful rainbow ways of communicating

tho maybe in the 90s people were more concerned w/the ravages of sarcasm - which is in my understand sort of entry level irony

his first blog was funnier.

the irony thing is ridiculous...how does someone even like something "ironically"...

o o tipsy waht was his 1st blog

i "hate" irony

^^^ irony

^^^^ "irony"

NFL RUNOFF

miss u plaxico

This blog is not very funny. Sorry, people who think it is, but you're losers.

lol

it doesn't matter if it's funny or not - it is funny

i don't 'get' the blog, also it is hard to load.

it basically just a funny blog abt blogs n stuff

blogstuff

lol blogs, is that 2004 i see around the corner?

lately i've appreciated the posts on how tv on the radio are not that good, also the indoor soccer shoes,

Is it lj's blog?

this is a top notch blog u guys should get into it

"not hating" was my big 2009 ILX resolution dude

<3 u
miss u
h8 u

it's like an unfunny king boy pato side-project. who has the time to build a blog dedicated to imagining how other people no-one seems ever to have met like this or that bit of cultural ephemera?

Are you implying there are funny KBP side projects?

who has the time to build a blog dedicated to imagining how other people no-one seems ever to have met like this or that bit of cultural ephemera?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/contributor/2007/09/28/charlie_brooker_140x140.jpg

Hi dere.

fnarr

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/daftkid/283crossplatform-32.jpg

wow some of lix top comedy experts have weighed in and apparently this is an unfunny blog everyone ;)

his first blog was funnier.

― tipsy mothra, Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:14 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

10/10

no thats a 90s style joke sorry 7/10

suggest medal ice cr?m for his contributions to this thread

yeah that joke sucks. maybe british people who don't tip think it's funny though

he's graduated in the good art i think xp

http://www.britfilms.tv/images/news/ricky_gervais.jpg

lol all you muricans went to sleep

and now you're awake

at your jobs

;_;

btw the design of this blog is really great too - not in the entry level sort of understanding ie i like the way this looks - but in the deeper communicates what yr trying to say way

it's like an unfunny king boy pato side-project. who has the time to build a blog dedicated to imagining how other people no-one seems ever to have met like this or that bit of cultural ephemera?

― Simon Jartvik (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:26 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ this

this is an american blog

yah i think thats one of the main things here just fyi to britishes

i mean i have met these people and continue to meet them to this day

I think he's a good writer and a good bullshitter and a good photo captioner but i'm gonna end it right there.

woah idnt know this was your new bl>>>g i polluted it and aim doing it now. good night and good day

It's no IchLugeBullets, in all fairness.

the comments are quite sth

now that ive been forced to think seriously abt this blog by this thread which i started im saying of the things that really puts it over the top thats pretty unrelated to hipsters is his use of the malcolm gladwell/freakanomics/advertising style terminology like praise economy and personal brand cause how most people feel abt hipsters i feel abt that stuff

we're an AMERICAN BLOG

these blogs dont run

his use of the malcolm gladwell/freakanomics/advertising style terminology like praise economy and personal brand

i like this too. as i'm reading this blog though i kind of have to take a step back and be like what's wrong with just liking something and i understand that that's his point but after a while disregarding someone's individual experience gets pretty boring.

i think you know its a pretty focused blog in that it brings a wave of cynicism and u have to let it wash over you and then u find out where u r afterwards

btw the design of this blog is really great too - not in the entry level sort of understanding ie i like the way this looks - but in the deeper communicates what yr trying to say way

kinda agree and i do like the sidebar with the large range of images linking to specific pieces, feels quite magazine/jokes page

i thought it was meant to look horrible, in the same way it's horribly written?

u mad homie

and about horrible things/people. holistic harmony.

^^ yeah. who wants that? if you can't say anything nice, etc.

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/bloghouse.gif

i think the problem here is that u guys are all anti-hipsters

yah so why dont they love this blog its mysterious

they are suspicious that this blog is actually a big joke... on them

what woody allen is to jews, this dude is to 00s hipsters

― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, January 15, 2009 2:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

loling so hard

oh man wait til they find out abt life - its way worse than a blog homies

imagine a blog about life

just imagine

118 new answers

two dying internet supernovas colliding - will there be a bastard child

jesus the anco post goes on a bit

why so suspicious, british u are already in on the joke????

maybe this thread should have gone here to this thread:

ALL PURPOSE ROLLING HIPSTER THREAD 2008

which already mentions hipster runoff

sometimes one thread cannot contain 2 many truthbombs and (B) its 2009 max u need to think about wat that means
we're all dying on the internet kant we see the humour in that

max has no respect for the moment

@_@

POV and style are great. AnCo piece goes on too long, becomes horrible.

maybe its the hipster thread where i learned abt the hipsterrunoff not the frankendance thread could be

should we have a poll to decide?

yesss

pretty sure the first time i learned about HR: BotM was on popular indie rock discussion forum I Love Music but when i read it it was like i had always been reading it...

should we have a poll to decide?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 15 January 2009 16:22 (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^Runoff is a type of reservoir, right? Someone do the joke.

Plus Lost In the Funhouse in blog form

should we have a poll to decide?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 15 January 2009 16:22 (21 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^Runoff is a type of reservoir, right? Someone do the joke.

― CHAKI Musician (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:23 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its unclear to me what this has to do with SANDWICHES

i think only hipsters are left on this thread

word on that

im a yupster fyi get it straight

i think im more bomo or yupster or something i forget xpost

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/121006/it-wont-solve-the-problem.gif

I wanna take you back...
Indie guys with trucker hats....

trucker hats, giant white brick ipods, "skinny" jeans, the strokes. more innocent days. that's "early 2000s". what makes this the "late 2000s"?

well, burt_stanton, i would imagine that the years just following 2000 are early, and those getting towards 2010 late.

thats awesome we should try to bump all hipster related threads today - today is hipster day on ilx

I meant, what's stereotypical about now? Seems like everything's so fragmented, even compared to 2001. Weird.

ahah lol @ hipster day
this should go global !

skinny jeans on men

i'm not going to pretend i understand that.

xposts

the blogoglobe

I guss wayfarer sunglasses, super duper skinny jeans, lumberjack/hunting shirts, people listening to dance music again that is related to dance music and not post-punk. hippy dippy crap.

the skinny jeans thread started in 2006 : ilx was soooo behind the hype it hurts !

Skinny Jeans Mk. 1 in the early 2000s were like straight leg jeans ... shit was so baggy back then nobody knew the difference. Skinny jeans Mk. 2 got popular in what, 2004? I remember all my "scene" friends wearing beards and their sister's jeans back then ... when nobody even made "skinny jeans".

What do you think the new thing's gonna be? Back to baggy?

the juke/bmore/bloghouse frankenstein dance music they play at clubs

some pretty anti-hipster modding going on round here

Skinny Jeans Mk. 1 in the early 2000s were like straight leg jeans ... shit was so baggy back then nobody knew the difference. Skinny jeans Mk. 2 got popular in what, 2004? I remember all my "scene" friends wearing beards and their sister's jeans back then ... when nobody even made "skinny jeans".

What do you think the new thing's gonna be? Back to baggy?

― burt_stanton, Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ damn burt, you should pitch this somewhere.

If I could make a journalism career based on smarmy half-smiling bullshit, I would be in heaven.

i'm not going to pretend i understand that.

frontin like a hipster imo

Kriss Kross jeans.
about real skinny jeans, i'm pretty sure the strokes circa 2001 were wearing them already...

i thought this was really funny when i started reading it and then i kept reading and i started to hate culture/america/life/etc.

hipsterrunoff is a journey

really baffled by the strong anti-hipster sentiment i find on the internet/ ilx. if they're indeed that horrible, the offended should move to any number of mid-sized metropolitan areas where one can still enjoy most of the ammenities of the big cities (except decent public transit, of course! lol!), and you'd only have to contend with, like, 14 of these dudes.

important point, your contributions here would be appreciated ROLLING HIPSTER STUDIES 09

The only place I ever have to deal with hipsters is ILX.

kind of weak imo and i get butt-hurt about indie pretty easily btw ;) some good work here anyway though.

invite carles to 77

this blog seems like a thing that u would write, ice cr?m

waht if i was carles...

waht if i am my own street team...

Carles Puyol (born in 13 April 1978 in La Pobla de Segur, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish football defender who plays for Spanish La Liga club FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team.

street t?m

i bet carles lurks here
i hope he writes about 'the ILMs'

hay carles if youre lurkin here check out my blog THIS MY BLØG we should do some cross promotion sometime

Invite Carlos Puyol to 77 plz.

EG I know some really outspoken anti-hipsters for whom clothes/fashion seems to be the big hatred point they tag to hipsters, who aren't actually into clothes/fashion themselves at all.

― Local Garda, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:35 (2 hours ago)

I think both sides are actually into fashion, though - just different takes on it. Kaffiyehs/skinny jeans/wayfarers/v-necks/girls that dress like Rita from Arrested Development/headbands/whatever (I know I'm like 3 years behind) are totally trends, you can't really say they can't care about fashion. But one side kinda combs for weird unidentifiable stuff/jeans/whatever, and the other side really hates them for it.

what abt people who say "im more into style than fashion" theyre the worst right

i mean "timeless style" wtf is that even

they are the worst. i just hate everybody instead, unless they wear white t-shirts and relaxed fit blue jeans

i mean "timeless style" wtf is that even

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h54/DressLikeDakota/SG%20and%20HM/Timeless2005Guide.png

she is truly timeless, until she hits 18 and looks like an alien with a wig (hipster fashion of 2011?????)

Apparently this is "timeless style" for men:

http://men.style.com/slideshows/mens/standalone/gq/fashion/0908/jfk-jr/00025f.jpg

lol my moms (x-posts) she was always on about trendy vs. 'classic style' when my sister was coming up. pretty sure she was just tryna keep sis from blowing her meager school clothes budget on bullshit, tho

not looking where you are going and being run down by something fatal is timeless yah

it has been law ever since the woolly mammoth ffs

actually that guy killed himself by flying a plane

the animal collective post is really smart, actually

starting "George" magazine = timeless style

it's almost a shame that no one, ever, will actually bother to engage with it

I can think of much more apt bands for the "internet" label though

^ENGAGED!

whatever, i had this thread on mp3 like 2 or 3 months before it even got posted. i'm over it already.

the ground is the most fatal thing of all, jho many xps

You can't cut in line at Starbucks, chief, or you get yelled at. We've been over this. Take a deep breath, brocephus. That's it, just calm down for a sec. Wipe your eyes and reassess. OK, look around. Here you are at the back of the line, feeling a little humiliated. How many people do you count in front of you? Fifteen? Twenty? People like Starbucks, bro. Fact of life. And all these people deserve it just as much as you do. So you can't walk in and expect to go to the head of the line just because you're in a great mood after beating an elderly Asian woman to a seat on the subway. Be patient, bro. Count bald dudes or something. You'll have your pipin' hot joe in no time.

lol troo xp

Dane Cook excerpt? xp

So, you didn't get a seat on the subway. There's no reason to cry, little dude! Look around! You see all those beautiful people standing? You're one of them! Look how tall you seem next to those seated around you! Why don't you tuck your blanket into your bag now, OK? It's OK to have a security blanket, but let's pull it out only when we really need it, all right? There you go, bud! Just think, the next time you get a seat on the subway, it's gonna be awesome!

poll?

Is Anco as approachable as U2?
Is Anco as approachable as the Coldplay?
Is Anco as approachable as Radiohead?
Is Anco as approachable as the Arcade Fire?
Is Anco as approachable as Feist?
Is Anco more/less approachable for Joe Suburbia to consume than _________?

Not every one is able to say ‘OMG. they have the pop sensibilities of the Beach Boys’ because they probably don’t read+regurgitate music tidbits & opinions from the internet on a daily/weekly basis.

To appreciate this band 'properly' is to engage with its context, ie the internets. True, but only from one point of view, but then again, from w/in that point of view SO TRUE. Plus our ideas regarding things are just accumulations of other ideas about those things.

(On the internets) if you grow too fast, you will be discarded as inauthentic (The Black Kids). If you grow 2 slowly, no1 ever really identifies with ur brand and think that you are just a newsbit that has been around 2 long for no good reason. The internet is a difficult environment in which to grow because virality rates are difficult to control.

This seems obvious, but it also makes me sad for bands today. Their little lives are so hard and so precariously balanced. How to control virality rates?

vaccines!

It is important to remember that today’s ‘most connected’ music fans use the internet to judge what are the most relevant+progressive bands/brands. In the musicsphere, there are a few key tastemakers of different scales, and most of them have aligned to tell you that Animal Collective is relevant+progressive+transcendent. Keep in mind that the most relevant members of culture exist solely on the internet and can only value what is valued on the internet.

Lost in the funhouse part. Dude needs to get out once in a while. It's really not as confusing as he makes out.

I feel like Panda Bear’s “Person Pitch” is one of the most important catalysts for AnCo 2.0. It was Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox who really ‘created the cultural marketplace’ for Animal Collective as a band. His songs are more approachable for people without a conceptual appreciation of music. In addition, ‘Panda Bear’ helped us buy into the idea of The Animal Collective, as opposed to them just being ‘weird dudes who make weird music that I am apparently supposed to like.’ Panda Bear is the bro who made the Brand more authentic.

This is true, but overstated. PB record was just more focued, more pop, 'better'. Thus spoke to more folks.

Plus obvious and oversaid.

Trying to engage here.

I think most people who are ‘really into Animal Collective’ don’t really understand branding/would tell you that ‘they are not a brand–they are just passionate musicians making art.’ They have done something relatively impossible–making a brand that is ‘authentic’ and ‘transparent’ and ‘immune to hype’ and ‘invincible against negative criticism’ and ‘opening up new artistic spaces which leave critics unable to evaluate it with an existing set of standards.’

This does seem to be what they've done, if only WR2 diehard fans, but "relatively impossible" weirds me out, and it's only what big indie/alt bands have been doing for decades.

One of AnCo’s best gimmicks is operating for ‘art’s sake’ as well as they can. Instead of ‘creating excessive blurbably content’, they usually let the Music New Meme economy generate their own memes about what AnCo is up to.

2nd sentence is most OTM bit in the post.

I think the music reviews of Merriweather Post Pavvy will probably be ‘the last great music reviews’ of all time. In our current information economy, it takes less time to sample an album than it does to read a review with big words describing sound + references to bands that we don’t know + references to tidbits of information about the band that we don’t know.

1st sentence is the problem (at least 1/2 bullshit), 2nd is kinda insiteful. Why bother w middlemen?

We are hearing too much about these artists that were ‘cultivated on the internet’ in sources like magazines + weekly MTV shows. h8 living at a time when magazines are ‘going to the internet’ to report about ‘what’s happening’, so it feels like we are getting bombarded with too much praise for these Blogville AllStars. (just want magazines 2 be burned, yall). I think consumers find solace in the internet because they can block out this formulaic praise/writing/’journalism’ and just sample the music directly. It’s also just annoying 2 hear about artists that you have already aligned ur personal brand with 1.5 years ago–it’s kinda like ur mom ‘reminding u 2 file ur 1040EZ/clean your room for the 5th time.’

This is what being a hipster is all about. Bit about mom esp telling.

yow

huge lols @ Merriweather Post Pavvy

Fall Out Boy just announced a show at the 'Pavvy', btw, i'm thinking about going

see this blog has something for everyone even an alex

i dunno, Alex in NYC would probably give it a quick "PABLUM" and then move on

yah i mean to be fair there is some slight variation between the alexs of ilx

some dude's name is alex?

aka ilx user alex in baltimore

fyi

you are a treasure sir

;)

this blog is sub jeff k

http://i42.tinypic.com/30c6kav.gif

ice cr?m feeling his jaymc skills right now

i know stuff :)

this blog hsa a lot of pictures of hipster girls with terrible fake boobies -- i didn't even realize so many of these existed because it seems really not alt or ironic at all but maybe it IS?

theyre all from lastnightsparty.com if u want to talk abt one of the truly depressing places on the internet

yah good point, that place is a sad for sure -- but about the fakes, are they hipster do you think?

i'm pretty sure that fake boobs are a not hipster. at least i was, a second ago.

i'm pretty sure boobs are not hipster in general

does SWPL have an 'a-cups' entry? did diablo cody get a boob job? crucial data

what about larger sized hipster girls, there are tons of those and they have boobs so at least natural boobs are hipster boobs.

BOOOBS

yes but there has to be an appropriate boob-to-frilly-40s-clothes ratio to keep it in-bounds

i prefer, when hipstering, to wear plaid button downs instead of frilly 40s clothes, or striped t-shirt dresses from american apparel.

what do a suicide-girls boobs feel like?

i saw an episode of miami ink where one of those tattoo style girls had fakies and she was going on abt it - so i feel like some people at the hipster fringes maybe have them but its rare

do u think they are related to tattoos in a fashion, like xtreme body modification to express one's individuality

Plus 'Lost In the Funhouse' in blog form

I would so read this!

could someone give me the cliff notes of this thread?

guys dont u understand, THINGS arent hipster, ATTITUDES are hipster

like if u get fake boobs cuz u want to impress the dudes in justice = hipster fake boobs

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/108172_IMG_8123.jpg

I wish guys really dressed like this. The 'casual David Sylvian' look.

do u think they are related to tattoos in a fashion, like xtreme body modification to express one's individuality

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:52 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

like if u get fake boobs cuz u want to impress the dudes in justice = hipster fake boobs

― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:55 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i feel like both of these are legitimate and incisive takes on the hipster fakies phenomenon sweeping the altworld

TREND WATCH: hipster girls wearing comedy boobs

"that chick's rack was hilarious"

comedy c on lol ts

"i cannot turn my breasts into a heart"

i'm sorry but you guys are all lying if you can say you have never seen hilarious boobs

either that or your king boy pato

"search for the perfect alt breasts" is a good running gimmick

pretty sure king boy pato sees comical breasts every time he looks in the mirror w/out a shirt

^^^bang

the term you're looking for is "smash" or "would smash," country matters

really surprised ice craem hasnt been reading this site for longer than that

yah how come no one told me abt this - i rely on ilx for this sort of important info

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/ccscopy.jpg

this is quite funny i guess. fella needs to turn the babytalk down a notch, tho.

burt stanton's arrival on this thread = nabisco's on the "kramer says nigger" thread

erm... this is way original and different from VICE magazine how??

um in like 1mil ways hello

vice straddles a very fine line so that it can to appeal to 1) the poor souls who take it seriously and 2) the people who appreciate it on that "other level"

-to

I find this blog amusing and link to it from my blog.

as for wondering whether fake breasts are hipster, i think one of the major themes of the site is the spreading of the hipster aesthetic waaay outside of its original base. THAT is the difference between early-2000s and late 2000s. Its not just artsy kids with degrees from certain liberal arts schools. the "alt meme" has spread far and wide and now encompasses girls who didnt study women's studies at Oberlin and who have no problem with getting fake breasts to model on party picture websites. it sort of reminds me of alt 1.0 back in the early 90s when everyone in even my 5th grade class had doc martins and flannel. and this was in virginia and this was before the internet. given the increased speed and availability of communications technology now, i am sure there are actually shitloads of 13 year olds running around aping this shit. american apparel is everywhere.

not that i give a shit one way or the other. i am just mildly amused at how long this has been going on. did anyone think DFA would have the same kind of impact that SST or Dischord had?

otm

oh yeah, font sizes for the OBVIOUS ok.

pretty sure the majority of VICE readers are in on the joke too....

there is no vice joke fyi

i think one of the major themes of the site is the spreading of the hipster aesthetic waaay outside of its original base.

― Shh! It's NOT Me!

b-b-b-but that's been 90% of the discussion of what "coolness" and "hipsters" are about since, like, the 1950s! Early 90s may have been alt 1.0, but it was nu hipsterz 5.0, at least.

why do people still talk about old media and the internet like they're actually separate inflences on taste anymore?? when wa the last time that was true? it feels like a very long time ago to me....

don't forget flappers, ppl

xpost. sure. history repeats itself. but differently.

Don't forget people had Lincoln beards as far back as Lincoln.

i was in a cab w/a friend who has a lincoln beard and the driver wouldnt believe he wasnt muslim cause "only muslims wear those beards" btw cab driver was muslim

I wish guys really dressed like this. The 'casual David Sylvian' look.

I know a guy like this actually. really nice person. def has some hipster friends.

I think I have same shoes as the guy in the pic.

this thread got awesomer very quickly

Oh man he is nice and looks like Sylvian casual???????

I like nice people!

welp i'm sorry if some of you aspie virgin rubes but i digress

most hilarious boobs i saw was in huddersfield, they were small yet infinitely amusing

also: blog raise a chuckle or two but was overall disappointing, must try harder

You always gotta bring it back to yourself, don'cha?

http://www.volleychick.com/wpp/doncha800.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3472/3196429655_ed2471c20e.jpg?v=0

I think Carles is secretly conceptual bro David Byrne.

hro commenters biting this thread's titty discussion already, shit moves fast in th 2k9 ideasphere

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jacob
Posted January 16, 2009 at 9:53 pm | Permalink

the perfect alt breasts?
http://www.lastnightsparty.com/outrageousavn/slides/IMG_9969.html

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//////////Posted January 17th, 2009 at 6:25 am

@jacob, Are they real? Can perfect alt breasts be fake and yet “authentic”? Is “meaning” the new authenticity in 2k9?

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The truth about hipsterism is that hipsterism is about knowing (or thinking you know) more about ((semi-)popular) culture than other people (this is a synthetic truth, folks), so if you are anti-hipster, then you are more hipster than the targets of yr anti-ness, and if you are anti-anti-hipster, you are like some next-level hipster. The only way out of this spiral of insanity is to discard yr negativity for the energy of positive creation. Just remember, you are not a pop-culture critic in yr essential being; you are a creator of culture; you are the culture!

LICK A DICKCRYPT

hipster / antihipster: http://pastryornot.blogspot.com/

dudes that make shit make shit

hip = i know some shit about some dudes that make shit
anti-hip = u think u kno but u don't even really like that shit fuk u

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/8921/imageuploadimagelo9.jpg

^ dude makes shit

Those baby's jeans aren't even selvedge. Not a hipster.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/01/hipster-runoff-podcast.html

was he really in the recent NY plane crash, or is it some elaborate joke that i cannot be fucked trying to work out?

no, but do you ever notice that everytime you want to be like "fuck shepard fairy that's just some cheapass mspaint hi contrast stamperizer action shit i could do that" you see someone trying to rip his style and it looks like total shit?

xpost - not that elaborate, it's a joke about everyone feeling the need to comment on every world event in their facebook status update etc

no, it's a not-very-elaborate joke

xp

Are you implying there are funny KBP side projects?

OG Estie was usually funny. Moving to Sydney and living in HOMEBUSH is pretty lol, perhaps it’s ironic?

http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-02-04/music/hipster-runoff-explained-maybe/

things i don't like explained at great length

I think in the next few months, I will have my debut EP. I've been thinking about my "brand" from the blog, and what the "music" will mean. But I just think it will be a pretty funny "experiment" when it comes to "online marketing a new buzz band." It's also just going to be funny to "expose myself" to criticism since I am theoretically a news/criticism source. It makes me wish that Pitchfork would "start a band" and capture its site aesthetic in a musical format.

lol

This guy, A+

looking forward to burt stanton's contribution

― Local Garda, Thursday, January 15, 2009 2:23 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/afp8.jpg

I think the essence of the site boils down to him posting pictures of people in ridiculous attention-getting costumes and him stepping into that person to try and imagine their motivations. He doesn't come right out and make fun of these people - in fact he does the opposite - but it's his championing of a skewed sense of self-awareness that keeps me coming back much moreso than the generalized cultural commentary posts. It's a celebration of the absurdity of vanity (via the Myspace generation).

i support this web site

kinda reminds me of RIFF CENTRAL!

btw, I tried to inform you people about HRO forever ago

ilx wasnt ready for you burt, srybutru

i mean a blog isnt the blog of the moment until I inform people abt it, srybutru

omg - that drugged up kid! grade A lols

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/02/2553.html

looooooooool

hr is soooooo april 2009

x-post

real actual laughing out louds

Googleplexmguff Posted February 20, 2009 at 2:11 pm | Permalink

is hispter runnoff satire?

if you really want to learn about philosiphy and consumeristic ideas READ the book FIGHT CLUB

http://www.hipsterwave.com/

^ maybe this is just extremely next level

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/02/h4x0r3d-fuck-hipster-runoff-i-hacked-this-blog-readers-of-this-blog-are-idiot-lemmings.html

This is some next level shit. Some post claiming a hacker took over hipsterrunoff and posting a huge anti-hipster rant and then of course posting this:

http://chasness.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/hackers.jpg

I thought, 'oh, funny, awesome, good one hipsterrunoff!' and then i saw the comments were over 500 where the previous post had 40. Did it really get hacked? Maybe CRLS himself is the hacker!

OH MY GOD MAYBE YOU THINK?

if you really want to learn about philosiphy and consumeristic ideas READ the book FIGHT CLUB

― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:32 AM (2 days ago)

Hoos will you have my babies?

lol @ oscar recap

I thought it was runoff like runoff elections, and was going to be some elaborate ongoing series of polls or taking sides about hipster topics. It's dumber than that. It makes me feel old, and feel glad that I'm old, even though I'm not that old.

http://nyulocal.com/entertainment/2009/02/24/nyu-alum-and-writer-tao-lin-comments-on-conjecture-that-he-is-hipster-runoff/

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/02/tao_lin_is_maybe_probably_not.html

anon Says:
February 25th, 2009 at 12:19 am
It’s not hard to find out who Carles is and it’s not Tao Lin.
He hosts his mp3s on circlebar.org which is registered to a Carlos Perez.

Run circlebar.org through archive.org, view source on the page and paste the broken image urls in after typing in http://circlebar.org into your browser address bar - you can see photos of Carles and his friends.
Some examples:
http://circlebar.org/blackout/carles.png
http://circlebar.org/images/7/carles.png
http://circlebar.org/images/carles.jpg

There’s a girl called Mirell in some of those images, so I googled Mirell and came up with Carles’s old livejournal at http://suicideaddict.livejournal.com and the fact they went to Tulane.
His images on the LJ are under a Photobucket username carlesmatthew.
If you google Carlos Matthew Perez you come up with a list of grads from Tulane.

I’ve never met him in my life, I don’t know him personally and I don’t even live in America. All it took was a bit of archive.org, betterwhois.com, some google and a spare hour last September.

anon Says:
February 25th, 2009 at 4:32 am
OMG, Carles totally replaced the images of himself on circlebar.org with photos of Tao Lin. He’s so rad.

So here are some I prepared earlier:
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu327/carles1992/carles.jpg
http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/uu327/carles1992/cadrles.png

i luv finding out abt who carles is im totally into this

writing 20 paragraphs on the internet trying to out the guy behind an anonymous meta-blog is actually a sadder use of the internet than those two kids that lit a cat on fire and filmed it.

idk dude it's a fun mystery imo

the fun part about it is that it is a mystery

I can't wait for the mystery to be revealed: Carles is "some guy"

Like in the age of a supposedly democratized playing field like the internet, why is it so hard for people to believe this is just some clever person with some time on his hands and not some OMG AWESOME NYU WUNDERKIND.

I can't wait for the mystery to be revealed: Carles is "some dude"

whether or not carleseology is sad, it's way less sad than lighting a cat on fire. just mentioning that bummed me out

plus playing the game is always more fun than observing its progress

almost always. depends on if the game involves flaming cats

oh shit, i just lost

slander

I can't wait for the mystery to be revealed: Carles is "some dude"'s father

ill give u all the exclusive--carles is "me"

why aren't you that funny on ilx then?

Tao Lin is too much of a mush-brained pantywaist to be the HRO guy.

and don't assume he's worth knowing about. just keep forgetting.

Guys, this bullshit is just a re-hash of Real Ultimate Power with hipsters instead of ninjas.

truth bomb

add this to the list of "things other people care about that I feel deserve greater apathy"

okey dokey

carles the jackster

list of things other people care about that sarahel feels deserve greater apathy

• the real identity of carles
• ????

• profit

http://promo.freshdirect.com/RealMedia/ads/Creatives/OasDefault/lr_seafood_dept/lil_pro_lemons_dont_forget.jpg

list of things other people care about that sarahel feels deserve greater apathy

the real identity of carles

I am content with the level of caring shown by other people for lemons and cat hoarding.

whiney g. not doing a good job of keepin it pos in this thread

dude seems to be having a case of the thursdays imo

whats the $2.49 subway sandwich on thursdays? tuna?

TUNA AGAIN :/ :/ :/

trying to think of some kind of tuna/drowning joke

if any thread is too garbage juice to expect people to keep it positive on it's this one y'all

@hipsterrunoff your mother should have swallowed you.7:36 PM Feb 27th from web in reply to hipsterrunoff

^^^^ xzibit's twitter

we heard u like to blog so

why does beth ditto have no nipples?

YO DAWG WE HEARD U LIKE ROLLS OF MOUNTAINOUS FLESH SO WE PUT SOME ROLLS OF MOUNTAINOUS FLESH ON YOUR ROLLS OF MOUNTAINOUS FLESH SO YOU CAN BE REPULSED BY BETH DITTO'S NUDE BODY WHILE YOU'RE BEING REPULSED BY BETH DITTO'S NUDE BODY

http://nyulocal.com/entertainment/2009/02/24/nyu-alum-and-writer-tao-lin-comments-on-conjecture-that-he-is-hipster-runoff/

makes sense

lol @ the universe/america/culture/the 21st century/the internet/modernity

lol

h8 living in suburbia.
want something more.
want something more.
want something more.
want something more.
want something more.
want something more.
than this life that my parents have forced me into.

Sometimes I feel happy
when I make a good grade in AP English
and I know that I will eventually go to Columbia/NYU/Yale
but it sucks to be here
at a public high school
knowing that all of these ass holes
just want to go to a state university
attend business school
and get married

Wish that high schools had more than just ‘honors’ courses
because even dumb ppl are in honors courses just to raise their GPA
wish they talked 2 us
and found out about what we wanted 2 do
h8 standardized testing
and how it has limited my educational growth

If only they had some sort of class
that taught us how to blog
and taught us how to screen print on tshirts
and taught us how to start an eCommerce store
and taught us how to crochet
and taught us how to twitter
and taught us how to photoshop
and taught us how to make blog/tumblr layouts
and taught us how to make party fliers
and taught us about everything in between
like human2human interactions

I want to start an online site that isn’t a blog
since blogs are dead
but I want the site to be more ‘fun’ and ‘less linear’
and I want my fan base to be authentic
looking for something else out of their online life

But here I am
trapped in suburbia
a teen
Alone in my room

I attempt to make my space as meaningful as possible
this attic
full of records, picture books, and asbestos
The good times are killing me
The bad times are killing me
The asbestos may or may not be killing me

was quite surprised that googling "white blipster" only gives you two hits, both hipster runoff comments boxes.

Didn't know where to put this but http://memeparty.com is my new favourite website.

Also, the front page is a bit NSFW etc.

Carles has retired and been replaced by "Jeff"

Didn't know where to put this but http://memeparty.com is my new favourite website.

Maybe put it on one of the threads where people are cool with racism.

*checks to make sure this is ile*

ok!

http://memeparty.com/2081/nigger-logic/
http://memeparty.com/2261/double-nigger/
http://memeparty.com/2442/suspicious-indeed/
http://memeparty.com/tag/nigra/

ah, 4chan posters, great bunch of lads.

NSFW

o meme party wtf @ hairy goatse

that is so sad. poor carles. hope he's okay, not too upset. carles

1 day, Am Appy will be the official uniform provider of the NFL/poor people

jake the plummer to thread

missed u HRO

ok, i clicked on memeparty and saw one post and it crashed firefox, prob for the best. wtf.

hard to think that carles could just disappear. b strong bro. u r worth it

taco bell is not that good

Carles did disappear but has now just been resurrected for Easter. False alarm.

is carles jeff? hard to accept that

hope carles is okay

http://lookatthisfuckinghipster.tumblr.com/

do you guys think people like us sat around and made fun of hippies in the 60s? "NICE BEADS, ASSHOLE"

yes

uh, yes

do you guys think people like us sat around and made fun of hippies in the 60s? "NICE BEADS, ASSHOLE"

what everybody else said: obviously, yes, exactly

carles has "jumped" the "shark"

wow memeparty is next level

the hippies are "remembered" (yes, i know, by the baby boomers who run the media and this is all revisionist bullshit perpetrated by them, no doy stfu) for their protests that helped rally support for an unpopular war, their positive attitudes to sex and drugs, and some of the best rock records ever made...

are we going to miss out on our generations "moment" by siding against the hipsters?

whiney g weingarten

the defining aspect of being a hipster is making fun of hipsters

no I am going to type in this box

I was wondering what I'm gonna say when my future little whiney asks me "Daddy, were you a hipster?"

"Uh, well, I had a beard and a blog but not a scarf or a fixed gear, so..."

whiney g. weingarten

you are reviewing 1000 cds on twitter

"missing out on our generations moment" is also a defining aspect

anxiety about yr position vis-a-vis hipsters & ones generation is a+ hipsterdom

you are reviewing 1000 cds on twitter

and you follow me, you weiner

sheesh

anxiety about yr position vis-a-vis hipsters & ones generation is a+ stantondom

it's okay, it will be expected of you to retroactively identify yourself as a hipster to your kids

weiner!

the only people who cared as much about hippies as internet commenters do about "hipsters" were cops and veterans who thought drugs were gonna turn their town's younguns into rapists and manson family murderers

it's okay, it will be expected of you to retroactively identify yourself as a hipster to your kids

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:09 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Is this like when people who did acid once in the 60s are like "hell yeah i was a hippie"

what is "art"

the only to make your 2 years too late blog even worse is to have snarky one-liners that aren't ever funny and just amount to a total self pwn

"are we going to miss out on our generations "moment" by siding against the hipsters?"

what will ppl look back on with the hipsters?

what will ppl look back on with the hipsters?

HRO

maybe go to sold-out stadium concerts of the arcade fire (or the surviving members, anyway) with yr country club buddies?

animal collective

what is this generation's 'positively fourth street'?

what is "music"?

i'm over music. that shit's played out.

collectible girltalk memorabilia

the only real hipsters of our generation were the men conned by the "sexy swindler" the korean abdul jabbar

Maybe burt_stanton will be our generation's Tom Hayden. Then when he marries our generation's equivalent of Jane Fonda, we can laugh at his relationship anxiety ilx posts.

is this our generations jane fonda http://i40.tinypic.com/vzk1a1.jpg cause she is an american apparel model and a porn star

i almost picked a fight w/ my boyfriend over his usage of the word hipster last night but then i remembered that i love him

he made a bitchy comment about some dude being 10 lbs too fat to call himself a hipster and i responded that no one calls themself a hipster, that's the whole fucking point and then steam came out my ears

the part where he called me fat didn't bother you at all, though. thanks a lot.

well part of the exasperation was just about him talking cunty trash but still i am just done, completely done with this word to the point where i will simply walk away from a conversation if the word starts being used

^^hipster

^^predictable

what's exasperating to me is when ppl at school (many small town MNans) use 'hipster' as tho it is somehow novel

also i don't knew who that lady above, our generation's jane fonda, is

dunno, sorry to get all sincere-faced on the hro thread but the word is just a complete cipher, it has no referent, like synergy

More info on our Jane Fonda pls, this is important and vital.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080809160933AAJjyrc

http://www.adsavvy.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/xxxv.jpg?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

There's a way that you can SHOP words onto a PHOTO now?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I believe the ?!?!??!?!?!?!?! part is that this douche ever said those words out loud.

oh, then I rescind my zing

i had a really funny follow up about "How did they ever get ahold of Helvetica?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" too

question marks are mysterious sometimes

http://www.proudlyserving.com/images/oof.jpg

zing parade!

reading that statement on domestic violence it's almost as if i can SEE the cocaine residue in his words

he made a bitchy comment about some dude being 10 lbs too fat to call himself a hipster and i responded that no one calls themself a hipster, that's the whole fucking point and then steam came out my ears

Well now we know what kind of hipster Elmo is:

http://racked.com/uploads/2008_05_steampunk.jpg

i still cannot believe steempunk

haha ppl actually do that?

i just assumed it was a haha

no adam schefter is

is there a word for the kids who are not really steampunk, but more old timey punk? suspenders, dirty, waxed moustaches (sorry elmo), terrible old timey bands?

these kids have overrun certain parts of new orleans.

don't worry jordan the moustache is v tightly trimmed these days

i'm seeing more of them in mpls, too, now that you mention it

steempunk is dead now kids dress up like s.e.e.s memebers ime

seems like there's a clear bright line running from yr crusty tallbike dudes to these antique punks, from what i've seen. i mean, the guys i'm thinking of are def not dandies, they're wearing like little house on the prairie stuff

gunnysack hipster culture

these kids have overrun certain parts of new orleans.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, April 17, 2009 12:22 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o no this makes so much sense

when the levees of taste break

old timey carnival bowler hat douchebag punks are inescapable in my neighborhood (in new orleans). if i walk into a bar and see a band with an upright bass or an accordion or whatever i just turn around and leave.

these people sort of cross over with the gutter punks in that they don't bathe a whole lot and hang out at the coffee shop on the corner and eat vegan food.

also at the sleazy, dirty, 115-degree-at-all-times 24hr grocery store down the block this morning there was one of those like high school athletic team cooler things (with a little dispensing spout near the bottom) on the counter with "HOMEBREW KOMBUCHA" scrawled across it in sharpie.

i didn't buy any

yes yes exactly.

adam, what part of town are you living in these days? i'll be staying in marigny again next weekend which seemed like antique punk central.

i live in the marigny, a block from mimi's and right by feelings café.

xp Jordan: Now I know where ours went! We had a crew of these kids in Oakland/Berkeley. Haven't seen them in a while. They must have migrated to cheaper climes.

They tend to be into this:
http://www.yarddogsroadshow.com/

dude i am staying like three blocks from there

I may be mistaken, but wasn't there a small trend of old timey carnival bowler hat dudes back in the 60s that got overshadowed by the hippies?

http://www.observer.com/2009/media/st-martins-press-publish-book-based-blog-mocking-hipsters

un fucking believable

really? i dunno. pretty fucking believable if you ask me.

what a disaster for believability

lol @ the picture

Well, that didn’t take long. According to Publishers Weekly, the popular “Look At This Fucking Hipster” tumblr blog—a stream of photos of clownish hipsters accompanied by short, acerbic captions—is being turned into a large-print book by St. Martin’s Press.

what a disaster for small print

are there legal issues w/r/t to the subjects of the photos?

what a disaster for large print

haha

i can't imagine the legal precedent for taking an iphone photo of some random person and selling fifty-thousand books where you call them a retarded clown

un fucking imaginable

what a disaster for imagination

what a disaster for retarded clowns

UPDATE: A reader points out that Mr. Mande, in an interview with Gawker back in May, was asked abotu the possibility of a "Look At This Fucking Hipster" book. He said that, due to "all the legal issues involved" he didn't see a book happening. "Which is too bad," he added. "I bet a ton of people would have wanted a book full of content they can already get for free online. You know, like that best-selling IMDB book."

we should just go ahead and start posting tattoos on this thread

btw whiney did u send them this or http://www.observer.com/files/article/hipster.jpg

looking forward to ice cr?ms take on this

this is literally the only time i've ever wished burt_stanton was still here.

http://i43.tinypic.com/2dqlpi0.jpg

what a disaster for burt_stanton

this is literally the only time i've ever wished burt_stanton was still here.

his response would probably be a meltdown like this:

Billyburg, trucker cap, skinny jeans,The Strokes, PBR, Union Pool, Sparks, vegan, free-range tofu, "originally from Boston", Vassar, SVA, Pratt, Barnard, Oberlin, Sarah Lawrence, Greenpoint, Bushwick, and the "other" other hoods, X of the word "iron", art loft", X = the ,urg, ther hoothStrts (non-Western), booth" otcap, skinny jeans,The Strokes, PBR, Union Pookes, = the new Williamsburg (aka Billyburg), offensol, Sparks, dively incorrect usePirBR, Union Poarks, diveat shoes Billybs, X = the nrucker vegtofu Greenpoint, Bushwick, w L train, trust funds, track bikest use, plaid shol, Sp, "origand ew Williamsburg (aka sively incorrec of the worad n", "art loft", X = tneinally from Boston", Vassar, SVA, Pratt, Barnarde "other" Billyburg), offenotcaerp, skinny jeans,The an, "irofree-rnge , Oberlin, Sarah Lawrencehe new L train, trust funds, track bikes, plaid shirts (non-Western), boat shoes

-- burt_stanton, Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:33 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

xp typed from the prison that is his "disgusting ass partner"

what a disaster for burt_stanton

puke

wait what the fuck is "originally from Boston" supposed to mean

im gonna find burt_stanton and ask him

its a euphemism for "disgusting ass partner"

Is it reactionary/small to look at pictures of "hipsters" & giggle?

i don't know, but it seems like a waste of time.

good summary of this site: latfh.com

talk about missing the fucking point

what a disaster for the point!

what a disaster for that meme

what a disaster for your mom

I hope your mom is okay

http://www.mrhipster.com/

so is this just a regular boring "reviews of stuff" site with the word hipster added in randomly after the fact?

oh upon further investigation it's written by a middle aged guy who is not and never has been a hipster.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/08/does-n-e-1-know-what-is-happening-in-this-photograph.html

!!!

glad to see it hasn't improved at all

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol

u famous now son

http://www.iamcarles.com/ fyi

http://illwiththecomposition.blogspot.com/2009/08/ill-how-to-blogging-your-way-to.html

The logs creamed out of my ass hole, as if God had opened up a trendy frozen yogurt shop–no wiping necessary–a clean breakoff executed by my contracting anus.

dig the kanyegate commentary:

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/09/it-takes-a-socially-transcendent-moment-to-remind-us-what-makes-life-worth-living-kanye-west-is-a-valuable-member-of-society.html

wow, guy must've spent hours on that. good for him.

I disagree with Kanye West’s message (but wholeheartedly approve of his actions)–Beyonce’s video is nothing special. It seems like it is just African American women showing off their figures and ‘getting they dance on’ for the world.

carles = canks??

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/09/i-gotta-feeling-that-2nites-gonna-be-a-meme.html

I feel sad when my parents/aunt forward a viral video to you 2-56 weeks ‘after it was relevant’, and their sense of delight in the opportunity to share makes u feel ashamed of ur position on the front lines of modern internet culture. It makes me want to stop paying my youtube bill so that I won’t watch so much web junk.

otm :(

HR is stylistically kinda similar to Maddox

otm :(

srsly whenever hr is otm it's sorta :(

feel like this thred "died too soon" like Obama's "presidency".

where r ya'll?

watching another website die?

moment is passing fast iirc

just hasn't been the same since the 'shit my dad says' guy got a tv deal

rip it is not a tumblr

looool

i picked an awful time to rss this

the idolator ones were b+ but the reginald howard dark perspectives was a+ lols

:-)

Someone found who the person in the photo of "Becca" is and it's from a diabetes site.

Carles is essentially just leaving easter eggs for us to find.

carles in carge

http://digital.pastemagazine.com/publication/?i=26727&p=29

that timeline is all wrong

ws 2001 girl

wolf moon is so 2007

no its not its now

http://www.shermgrafik.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/katkeyboardtttttt-1.jpg

no wolf moon was very much 2007

bummed i never got that t-shirt tbh

no hope 4 u digital.pastemagazine.com

I think I missed out on the Fauxhemian.

lol i saw wolf moon and thought it was about this--

http://pitchfork.com/news/37286-animal-collectives-highly-anticipated-film-to-premiere-at-sundance-2010/

photostealing scandal!!!!

LOL

yeah thats awesome

not a huge fan of HRO but my hat's off to carles on this one

blog has gone next level recently, feel like its having a 2nd golden age tbh

o man http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/12/the-most-authenticrelevantsuccessful-artists-of-the-decade-the-best-albumsmp3ssongsartistsbandshumans-of-the-decade.html#more-4891

that was a great read

crashed firefox; had to restart comp

I'm not a big fan of having my copyrighted material jacked, and even less of a fan of having it altered, so I sent him a polite email asking him to remove them. What I got back was:
"Hey Bro, I think it is better for the scene if I leave the pix up. Let me know if you disagree."

^^ genius

He shall forever be remembered as ‘The Techno Aaron Neville.’

lolz

a bloggable set of boobs

epic

If I could be in any band, I might choose to be in Linkin Park. It seems like they are probably ‘the next radiohead’ (this may or may not be an insult to radiohead fans). It seems like they are conceptual, write approachable songs that may or may not be more awesome than we realize.

^^^lost my shit, also beginning to suspect once more that jho is carles

wow reads like ilx on loop loop loop

I agree he's had some great stuff lately but apart from a handful of funny lines that post is not worth the effort. There's not much to distinguish it from the tedious end-of-decade stuff he's trying to distance himself/us from. It's his old schtick (I wouldn't call it a "joke") over and over. Pretty poor.

beginning to suspect once more that jho is carles

i never stopped

was certain that 9/11 was gonna be #2 and that it was gonna be like "feel like this was when a lot of alts were still just entry-level and it took a "relevant event" to make them "face their mortality." Lots of bands like became more "politically aware" but also "just wanted to dance". Feel like Radio4 would have been more successful in the bloghouse era but instead they will be remembered as "not as relevant/catchy/political as !!!"

"save your city y'all
-Radio4""

carles where/whoever you are, you should have made a tier for hipster metal

tbf the audience he's lampooning doesnt listen to metal

crashed firefox; had to restart comp

ditto

well, just had to restart firefox.

crashed camino

chrome : still standing

ditto!

Dead topic I know but bear with me. Ok so this blog has been part of my regular reading and it's genuinely enjoyable. However, it seems every time it's brought up in online discussion people are always talking about as if it's genius next level satire/meta irony and generally carrying on as if every post is a mystery tied to a riddle wrapped around an enigma (I know I just butchered that). As someone who's been reading the blog for about a year (and the back archives) long enough to be familiar with it's lingo & gimmicks, it seems pretty obvious to me when Carles is 'taking the piss' so to speak and in satire mode. The rest of the time HROs output seems to be just Carles expressing what are pretty clearly his own opinions/views. albeit in an extremely affected way & thinly disguised so as not to appear so. Am I just not getting it? Could someone familiar with the blog & in on the genius maybe point out some counter examples?

kind of think that whether or not the stuff on the blog is 'really' what 'carles' thinks is besides the point..?

i'm more concerned that he did a post on that face-tattoo viral marketing dude, do you think carles is shilling for sunglass corporations omg?

"kind of think that whether or not the stuff on the blog is 'really' what 'carles' thinks is besides the point..?"

Yeah, something like this. Could you expand briefly?

In a way, we are all bloggers. In a way, we all deserve 2 be inside a relevant club. In a way, we are all already inside the most relevant club in the world: Life.

http://www.hroexegesis.com/

wgw namedropped on hro news at 11

the chili's mother's day thing on the front page right now is pretty hilarious

http://altreport.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/06/wavves-is-house-sitting-for-best-coast-buys-massive-amounts-of-weed.html

ice cr?m otm

http://www.hroexegesis.com/

― yadadada lou boyz, yadadada hand job (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, April 8, 2010 4:21 PM (1 month ago)

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1999770_1999761_1999732,00.html

Not sure if HIPSTER RUNOFF should be proud to be on this list. Seems to embody ’snark’, ‘kitties’, ‘politics’, ‘low-level meme’ and iPhone Apple blogs.

Is iDosing a real thing? Or is CRLS fucking w us?

Made me think of Brainwave music. One time I dled some of this stuff designed to put you into a lucid dream state if you play it while you're sleeping. I couldn't fall asleep because it consisted of cheesy rave synthesizer and some goofy fella saying "You are feeling completely relaxed" and all I could do was laugh.

it's just binaural beats. I've had a photosonix muse # for about ten years, hardly ever use it but it's kinda interesting. prior to that there was brion gysin's dream machine thing which I had the plans for but never actually used. neither of these methods involve any voiceover, which is + if you are trying to chill but - if you get lols from the voiceover dudes

I had a roommate that used these in his stereo and I could hear it clearly through the wall every time he listened to one of them. I never had a lucid dream though :(

you have to use headphones for binaural beats to do anything

i was at the new museum last week and they had a dream machine and it didnt work at all

light & sound machines though are kinda cool tho.

like tv

I made a dream machine and I concur that it does not work.
Still looks cool, though/

take no prisoners live by lou reed is a binaural recording.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzSRVgF501M

This totally works. It's a little scary.

It's a little like when you first start to feel that tab of acid coming on.

you have to use headphones for binaural beats to do anything

hahahaaaa well I feel like a bonehead but I suppose my ex roommie is an even bigger bonehead.

thought that youtube video was going to be one of those scare videos

lol trippy

First time I tried that video I was a little drunk at a party at a local coffee shop; we were standing at the back and looking out to the front entrance, which was nearly a hundred feet away or so. It is especially effective over long distances!

oh man Best Coast sound really annoying.

alt report is my only exposure to buzz culture - pretty sweet experience imo

I'm guessing it started out "ironic" or whatever, but I can't believe the whole "FIRST" comment culture has even infected HRO.

fucking a that youtube video is crazy

the best coast/hro beef is the highlight of my google reader every day

youtube hallucination engine is cool, but you can do more or less the same thing just by looking at the center of a spinning record for a minute or two. or even by staring at the ground in front of yr feet as you walk and then looking at a wall. first noticed this when i was 10 or so. then again, i am perhaps more inclined to stare vacantly than my peers...

I can't believe the whole "FIRST" comment culture has even infected HRO

i can

LMFAO @

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/photographs/hro/2e3d57d9.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/photographs/hro/1484cebf.jpg

outube hallucination engine is cool, but you can do more or less the same thing just by looking at the center of a spinning record for a minute or two. or even by staring at the ground in front of yr feet as you walk and then looking at a wall. first noticed this when i was 10 or so. then again, i am perhaps more inclined to stare vacantly than my peers...

― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:31 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

particularly when said record label is THIS!

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/B/BL/Black_Sabbath/Vol4/black-sabbath-vol4-44.jpg

RIP world

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/photographs/hro/3239ad9e.png

man there sure are a lot of hipster runoff stories which are just excuses to post pictures of breasts

yes it is kinda vice magazine really

no its bc theres so many alt sluts

also this is the internet

'think abt it'

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/daftkid/283crossplatform-32.jpg

yes it is kinda vice magazine really

― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:39 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

rmde

Just want to reenact a modern slave-owner relationship with Tracy Morgan
utilizing the modern white bro comedy aesthetic

http://grab.by/grabs/4d330b0c1e8f5ad0ab0abdc37799147f.png

Raking my damn eggs.

regretting my damn endoscopy

Re-losing my damn edge

noticeable absence of snarky post about am appy going bust

feel like carles is maybe just another 'corporate sell out'

RIP blogs

My question: was it used much in "the interim"?
about 6 hours ago via web
The "typing things" sarcastically "in brackets" was a big feature "of" mid-90s video game reviewing, and is now "back" with Hipster Runoff.
about 6 hours ago via web

@dompassantino:

1: 80s smash hits
2: popjustice

hro probably hasn't zinged american apparel yet because it will 'lose mad ad revenue' as a result

feel like zinging am appy is 'mad obvious'

it i type about am appy on my maccybook, i don't feel like "i'm keeping it real" wrt "my personal brand"

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/photographs/hro/11c7465f.jpg

http://altreport.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/08/the-harry-potter-girl-keeps-trying-to-be-alt-gets-a-little-boy-haircut-2-appeal-2-child-preds.html

well funny

"preds" is now in my everyday vocab.

The Royal Tenenbaums Family: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along on this Zany Road Trip called Life is a popular alt movie directed by alt director Wes Anderson. So many entry-level vibe out to that movie, thinking that their family is ‘tragically beautiful.’ Sorta just wish my family was filled with prodigies, and we sorta had to sort out our childhood issues during our mid-20s, bringing us closer together.

RIP

http://altreport.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/08/over.html

good riddance

1. might be a 'joke'
2. might just be shutting down the alt report
3. might be RIP http://www.hipsterrunoff.com

He's done it before, and then came back.

Or maybe this is the first casualty of the Death of Am Appy

goodnight, sweet prince

miss u

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2007/04/pour-one-out.jpg

rip, was my only source for 'relevant' info

probably'll be 'back' by tomorrow, unless carles is being 'serious'

http://altreport.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/08/hi-im-back.html

BACK IN BUSINESS

lollin @ the audio

cant believe im going to spend 37 minutes of my life listening to this whole thing

i can

when i look back on my life ill be glad i listened to the entire life story of the alt report robot

the alt robot broke up with his first girlfriend after she slept with win butler

why am i still listening to this

because you find it interesting