"Hipster" as pejorative.

xxp most people i've seen riding unicycles are legitimate quirky weirdos who were in like circus club in high school and shit, not ncessarily hipsters?

does that make them more or less deserving of our scorn? tough call there...

tbqf i support folks riding unicycles

& I looked & frowned & lo, the hipster was me

Found out that Seattle has a bar called The Walrus and The Carpenter, which makes me wonder if the radio just plays the Decemberists over and over.

I was there last summer and have a distinct memory that they were playing Thin Lizzy iirc.

At least they said 'fortunately'

i find this p awful. and the lol thumbs up reactions to it on twitter. i mean the stuff you see attributed to "hipsters" these days. i guess a pop-up streetfood market is in the core of the stereotype (despite the fact that these events are just full of every type of young person from all over london) but i've seen people on that "we want plates" twitter bemoaning "hipsters" when actually all the wooden boards etc are more typical of a provincial pub. a few months back there was a photo going around twitter entitled "a hipster, on his own in a pub, knitting. new trend?" and it was just some bearded nordic-looking man in his 40s. like just a person doing something vaguely unusual. if this is who people who aren't hipsters are then they deserve their perpetual disgruntlement.

the mainstreaming of hipster culture memes is definitely a weird thing because if you call anyone out on it they call you a hipster. like, you can't say 'hipster-bashing is played out now', because that phrase in itself is an open goal.

never mind that nearly every other shop and restaurant in my commuter-belt hometown now describes itself as a boutique outlet and sports a twirly moustache on its shopfront.

http://www.scotns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ASA-Nev.jpg

is liking musicals really seen as particularly antithetical to hipsterism? (I guess weeping every time you see a musical isn't that hipsterish, but weeping every time you see a musical just seems an odd thing for anyone to do)

hipster today i think likes everything mainstream instead of the opposite

Freaky Trigger won the culture war

Where are the new mandarins?

lol at an ad for ads

Maybe the wrong thread for this, but wondering if anyone would like to weigh in on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nICH7QtFrU

This is a hipstery live comedy talent show that happens monthly at a theatre near where I live. Performing rabbits, kids impersonating Frank Sinatra etc. The person being interviewed is a very well-known person in the local community who is extremely marginalised and challenged. Harrassed and assaulted often. Arrested hundreds of times probably. Here (in my opinion) being patronised for being mentally ill. It's not the first time they've brought well-known people from the street on-stage for this and I find it disgusting.

The host was challenged about it on FB and said " I feel good about it though because I know that it was positive for her. She says that people have seen it on TV and approach her who wouldn't of before and are kinder to her because of it and that makes her feel more part of the community and less of an outsider. We are not solving mental illness, but it seems like this is a tiny tiny tiny step at least in the right direction."

Is he full of shit?

Mipster:

http://www.worldcrunch.com/mobile/#a:21178

Also, are we now reaching the phase where hipster (like Yuppie before it) isn't an insult as much as a warm joke?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/hipsters-broke-my-gaydar.html

oh dear

what. is. this. garbage.

Lesbians invented hipsters.

[...]

Lesbians were working on communal organic farms and freaking out about pesticides decades before the rest of the country.

[...]

Did plaid flannel come to mind? Work boots? Weirdly cut or especially shaggy hair? Maybe a bike?

[...]

If you’re a queer bristling at my generalizations of lesbians, tell me you don’t know any gays who look like what I’m describing. Look me in the eyes and tell me this, and if you can do it, I swear to you I will do something straight for a week: I’ll watch “The Bachelor” without irony, or wear Dockers, or buy a “Live, Laugh, Love” throw pillow and display it in my home.

this weirdo needs to go to west hollywood -- plenty of homosexuals that don't adhere to most of this

i saw someone wearing a knit hat on a day when the high was 100 F, which seemed like an odd choice, and when i told someone else about it, he replied that someone who would do that is obviously a terrible hipster and that normal sensible people like us would never do such a thing. i kind of frowned and said "i dunno, man" and didn't really try to argue the point, but now i want to know what this guy thinks a hipster is.

i got called a hipster the other day. was wearing a suit, toque.....they said "i like your hipster style'

I got myself a sort of obnoxious “edgy” haircut recently (buzzed on the sides with etched lines, faux-hawk on top, mullet in back), and I must say there’s something fun about sporting an annoying style like this. First, because I just felt like it. Second, because I’m realizing I really don’t care very much if some people think “douchebag hipster” or whatever. And third: my teenage kids think it’s “epic”. :-)

The fact is, I suspect I’m close enough to whatever many people think is a “hipster” that it’s not worth the effort to try to ensure I’m not mistaken for one.

Yeah ^

Steve Albini apparently had to relinquish his favored hipster haircut because it had been co-opted by alt-right.

i think some people dislike hipsters because they associate them with a certain lifestyle/way of thinking/gentrification - which can often be wrong.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-giving-tree-grows-in-brooklyn?fbclid=IwAR0EACpWbBNxJMnETavMz3mqFpLvY8l1V-CobcD330KWCSMnbGRaqDTPEkM

Seeing pieces like this published in 2020 is like finding one of those isolated Japanese island bunkers where the soldiers don't know the war is over.

anyone else see this thread in a serif font?

Yes

I am still in favor of a return to "hep cat" as an accolade.

seeing this in sans-serif, btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPzt3A4Se_U

mcsweeneys reading man bristles at unflattering depiction of hipsters as 'so passe'

ftr it was in my facebook feed, I do NOT reed McSweeneys!

That Blossom song (OK a Dave Frishberg song sung by Blossom) is one of the best things ever, do click that triangle

Speaking of McSweeney's, Dave Eggers Trump novel sounds like it's the worst thing to ever be written.

Did you post the McS link without reading it?

Seeing pieces like this published in 2020 is like finding one of those isolated Japanese island bunkers where the soldiers don't know the war is over.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, January 26, 2020 10:17 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

good. let's wind the culture back to 2010 -- a moment of crisis but also incipient hope -- and just do this shit over again, better this time.

Speaking of bunkers where the soldiers don't know the war is over, I give you: Brooklyn Taxidermy
https://www.brooklyntaxidermy.com/about

I still do not quite grasp how/when hipster went from scowling leather jackets to, like, recovering Christian summer camp or whatever

is it like how everybody got into The Band in 1969

One of my favourite internet writers is, or was, Greg Goebel, who had a website filled with little capsule summaries of things. Which appeals to me because I have a short attention span.

Many years ago I would have written "because I have a short..." and just left the sentence hanging. But I'm beyond that kind of cheap joke now. I have moved beyond that. And in any case there would be a risk that kids might scrawl "penis" at the end of the sentence thus mocking me.

He also published a lengthy piece on the JFK assassination, which was filled with interesting tiny little details that I was unaware of, because JFK was a baby boomer thing:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150316084755/http://vectorsite.net/twjfk.html

One thing that stood out is "the three tramps". They were three vagrants who were photographed being arrested just after the investigation, but there was no record of their identities. Some people believe that one of the tramps was E Howard Hunt, the Watergate mastermind. The idea was that they were far too well-dressed to be just tramps:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/The_Three_Tramps.jpg

The odd thing is that they really do look suave by modern standards. They have a certain sprezzatura. Of course in reality none of the men are actually real - they're just tricks of the light and reflections from the planet Venus. But baby boomers didn't have the internet, so they had to entertain themselves by obsessively fixating over tiny tiny details of things, which is why their conversations consist of describing trips to the shop.

Something something hipsters. They look like hipsters. There you go. Hipsters.

Are you alright

Anyway MSTs The Girl In Lovers Lane taught me that hoboes could be fancy lads

I give you: The Voidz

https://api.floodmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/julian-and-the-voidz-1-1920x1080.jpg

> Did that work? Looking at the page source it appears that Zemko tried to close an imaginary tag that hadn't been opened. My hunch is that the forum software has been upgraded over the years to trap HTML errors, so when I hit "submit post" this will still be in teeny-tiny letters.

But perhaps that's ironic. The teeny-tiny letters. Is that what hipsters want?

No, it did not work. We are stuck forevermore with tiny words. Tiny words that will fly underneath the radar of The Man. Tiny words, tiny truth - but truth.

Everything hipsters were into 15 years ago went mainstream. You can buy raw denim at Uniqlo. Target has vinyl records. Your corner store has craft beer. Right wing chuds dress like urban lesbians and graphic designers did in 2010. Everyone drinks fancy coffee now. They won. https://t.co/vi9ScF1cWL

— Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 (@maxdubler) February 26, 2025

Is that tweet 15 years old?

Skinny jeans, mesh trucker hats, and Pabst Blue Ribbon thankfully did not survive though...

Skinny jeans are the best!

goorin bros hats are mainstream

slim fit ftw