Hipster - The dead end of western civilization.

i don't wear tight pants, or flannel, i wear baggy stuff, but i like electro/house music/techno

i don't go around saying i'm scene though

and i just hate when people listen to one 3oh!3 song and think they know electro music

pisses me off
 
liking electro, house or techno doesnt make you a hipster. and scene kids are very very different than hipsters.

and yeah, that pisses me off too. alot of kids at my school are like that.
 
haha everyone listens to Don't Trust Me, goes around claiming that they know everything about electro because they can quote the hellen keller line, or the boyfriends got beef line
 
READ: Christopher Walken's take on hipsters - link includes imageshttp://www.newsgroper.com/christopher-walken/2007/11/27/hipsters-lack-butts-ethos
I grew up in New York City, and I used to run around Brooklyn quite a bit as a youth, but it has been a while since I actually took a walk around Williamsburg and said words to people and listened to their words in return. I endeavored to do so last weekend, and found out that my old stomping grounds have become a festering dung heap of irony.I challenge you to examine the following syllogism and dispute its inevitable conclusion:Premise 1:
Hipsters look disgusting. It appears to me that they dress in a manner intended to obscure those few remnants of sexuality that haven’t fallen casualty to their inactive lifestyle and lax hygiene.Premise 2:
Hipsters have these funny flat bumbums. Those hindquarters are useless. I know about their silly little bottoms because a few of these ninnies auditioned their extended backs for the role of my gentelmanly rump in my new film. Nice try douchebags, maybe another year’s worth of PBRs will help you fill out.Hipsters have babydicks. Sorry gang, excuse my language. Let me rephrase: Hipsters have ironic genitalia.Premise 4:
Hipsters are not providers. Every time a hipster breathes, America’s GDP pees a little. However, hipsters’ counter-establishment vitriol remains fully subsidized by their well-established parents, who don’t know what else to offer their preternaturally hip offspring than a credit card and the occasional “Nice t-shirt…I like how it has words and colors.”Premise 5:
Inexplicably, it seems that hipsters manage to get laid. Fairly often, actually. During my evening out in Williamsburg, I saw not less than three cute little riot grrls walking home, each with her own filthy pet hipster, hand dug deep into his flat-bottom pocket, conveying a clear intention to accept an imminent deposit of hipseed. Gross.Conclusion:
Despite all of their selective disadvantages, hipsters manage to procreate fairly efficiently. Accordingly, it seems that hipsters buck the tenets of Darwinism and constitute the missing link of Intelligent Design doctrine. However, if we accept the corollary that man is created in the image of God, we must also accept the meta-conclusion that Jesus was a hipster fuck who spent most of this time cruising Nazareth dive bars, bumming cigarettes and running PBR tabs on the Holy Father’s Mastercard.Fuck you, hipster Jesus. Get a job.
 
But the moment a trend, band, sound, style or feeling gains too much exposure, it is suddenly looked upon with disdain. Hipsters cannot afford to maintain any cultural loyalties or affiliations for fear they will lose relevance.
 
wow that article generated some heat around here. J.D. and kornn101 responses are solid. everyone trying to defend themselves, why bother?
 
its funny that the people trying to defend hipster style are claiming to be fashionable, when in fact most of the things hipsters wear are already well on their way out the door.
 
uh they already were out the door. hipster just recycles old fashion trends, then sucks its entire life blood out and leaves its empty deflated carcass.
 
i couldn't agree more. I'm from denver and before the band 303 alot of people at my school would throw up the hand signal and just be stoked that we live in colorado and its a bomb place to be. Now every virgin girl goes to a 3oh!3 concert and tells all her friends how badass she is and what good music they make.... the guys have no musical talent and just have some goofy interesting lyrics

also i didn't know it was hipster but i love flannel shirts, god damn they are comfy
 
cuz i have every right do wear what i want to. and im not a douchebag and im not from Williamsburg or Brooklyn metropolitan areas. and i hate PBR. (sorry skiers)

i have one question to all of you though, you do realize that not every hip kid is a douchebag? like what about the people that started this before it got ridiculously over popularized? that agian, arent douchebags.

there are d-bags in every group of people that give em a bad name. we have gapers, posers and claimers. hipsters have Williamsburg and Brooklyn.
 
because it's out of style.

being hip is being everything that everyone else isn't (or it was). now that people have caught on, almost nobody is really hip anymore, and hipsters are the longstanding end of hip, because they became just another group of people with similar "taste" in the arts and clothing.

 
God Damn, people that get DSLR's and leave them on automatic 24/7 and bring them around to parties piss me off. It's a stupid use for the camera.

I ride a fixie. I fancy myself legit because it used to be a $10, 1970's French 10 speed sitting in a Value village, and I "fixed" it for under $100. I didn't spend my parent's money on a store-bought one. And I rode over 1000km's on it during the summer.

If I get called a hipster for riding it, I get pretty peeved.

Also, what are "FAKE SUNGLASSES"? Are they "knockoff" raybans? because who gives a fuck who they're made by? If they block sun, they're sunglasses. If they look good, then awesome!
 
Well said, my thoughts exactly. I think North America has lacked of a cultural identity for the youth to adhere to since the 1980's, after the hippies, coke and disco, anarchy in the UK, raves, etc.

Hipsterdom is just the next wave of youth culture, and a revival of these ideas at the same time. There are a ton of hipsters at my university. They all read, listen to music, and have more general culture than the average person (hipsters usually aren't from poor backgrounds mind you).

Like any other trend, people (read: highschoolers) will adhere to it because it "looks cool" or whatnot. Nothing new here, it's been this way for a long time. As long as you have the critical thinking (and not the pretentiousness like many do) to go along with it, I would rather see people join an indie/hipster lifestyle rather than a top-40 loving, mainstream tv-influenced kind of culture.
 
i love pbr
i wear tight pants
over half of my clothes are from thrift stores
i have a dirty scuzzy beard
i have a dslr
i have a vintage fixie

I may look like a hipster, but I give a fuck. The amount of apathy that surrounds me is retarded. Ask a group of 19-23yr olds what they want to do, and you'll get a "i don't know" at least 40% of the time. Apathy is my biggest beef with my generation. Giving a fuck is what gets things done

 
i will fully admit that i dress like a hipster. tight pants, blank black tshirts shit like that and i do really like some indie shit like super 8mm and crap like that. but i don't indentify with them at all. people call me indie or emo because of the way i dress when i identify so much more with punk and even hippie culture.

but i seriously can't stand the "me" attitude.

i listen to alot of punk. actually all i listen to is punk and the thing i love about it is the idea of standing up and making a difference, and saying "no this isn't right we need to change it". really any kind of music that is intelligent and political is great.and this is why i can't stand hipster/emo culture.

there was a video on youtube a while ago which i couldnt actually find just now but it was a BBC report on riots in mexico between metal/punk kids and emo kids. they interviewed a tonne of people and what came out of it was that the punk and metal kids were basically angry that so many people were being so selfish and so self defecating when there are so many worse problems in the world.

instead of standing up for something with their music they just bitch and fucking moan about their own problems.

lame.

 
haha I think this hipster thing is really funny. Anyone else notice the irony.

your soooooo anti-mainstream that you wear everything thats not mainstream: big flannel shirts, skinny jeans, thrift store clothes, truck stop clothes, fake plastic sunglasses, you ride ten speed bikes, smoke ciggaretes, and listen to music I've never heard of.

But because theres so many of you doing this, it has become mainstream!

And it gets better...

Now, its become so popular, that theres people claiming ([wh@t]) that they've been doing this all along: they just happen to wear all the same clothes that are hipster, but nooo, they aren't hipster, they are just doing what they want to do. Which, let me remind you, IS EXACTLY WHAT THE AUTHOR STATED YOU WOULD BE LIKE IN THE ARTICLE: denying that your actually a hipster.
 
Im not afraid to say im a hipster~ Today my old friend came down from collegeand came to my house and she wanted to know what im into these days~ Shes like oh you listen to (insert hardcore band here) and im like nah, im into all that hipster music~ My friends make fun of me cause I listen to beep boop bop music when their all into Unearth and that jazz
 
Printed graphic tees and fixies. lol I always laugh when someone comes up to me and asks if I've heard of Justice or Sneaky Sound System and how they're the newest thing since Daft Punk.

Funny though, whenever I see someone wearing tight pants, I always think to myself:

If I ever wore pants like that, how would I kick someone in the head?
 
- i wear american apparel

- i DJ and produce, in fact i just made a mashup of the game verses in hate it or love it to a boys noize track

- i wear high top pumas

- i like my levis 511s

sweet, now im labeled as a hipster...
 
HAHAHAH i have my only camera , my fathers A-1 1971ish baller shit he sold all of his possessions to own, sitting on top of my lame ass balsa wood book shelf i took from some other random hipsters "throwing out all my shit cuz im moving" party and i fucking love that camera, its the best camera ive ever shot with, PROPS to old school canons, props to pseudo hipster (while still respecting yourself, your country, your friends, and your...) lifestyle, because as long as u love what u are, it dont matter what people label you...had a few pbrs tonite at the daily show live taping of the inauguration /CLAIM so peace love and happiness to all, GOODNIGHT
 
in the do's and dont's sections of vice about a year and a half ago they had a quote under a picture that read:
"you know when you say fucking hipsters, you really just implying that those kids are hip and you want to fuck them".

 
Yikes!

I have both!

Like i said earlier, the irony of Adbusters publishing an article like that is halarious, they encompass the exact attitude that article is singling out. I can only laugh at both sides of the argument.
 
i am a hipster. my bike has one speed. i dont smoke cigarettes, i burn trees. i have been doing this for as long as i have been a deadhead. and that has been for as long as my parents have told me to listen to Bobby D. long ass time.

you didnt read all my posts. I AM 100% HIPSTER. i am as against this apathy as you are. YOU just hate the fashion and the d-bags who trend whored all this shit. you need to calm down, read every post i have made thoroughly and try again.
 
those kids are the whores of this movement. death to the faux hipster! I AM A HIPPIE! HIPPIE KILL YOU!

also, spandex is woven into jeans to make them bendable these days. to answer your question.
 
i hang out around a lot of hipsters and that article is dead on. I go to somewhat of a party school and since there are so many fratty bro-ish types, a pretty substantial hipster counter-culture has formed.
the hipster appearance only annoys me when someone is ridiculously unkempt looking. i.e. they essentially look like a hobo, except their clothes are a bit nicer. but its just clothes, who cares. its the person underneath that counts.
hipsters tend to be a lot nicer than the frat-boy types. since changing the scene I hang out in, not a single hipster has ever said one cross word to me. previously I used to get in fights or confrontations pretty frequently, and I am not an asshole. they also play cool music at their parties, dance a lot, and are more interesting to talk to. the girls have cool cameras and will take neat-looking pictures of you.
yeah theres the stupid stuff, like shitty bands, massive trend-whoring, and horrendous facial hair but whatever.
 
hahahahahah im laughing my ass off. such a good find, but i think he meant it, which makes it so much better.
 
I wouldn't call myself a hipster. But then again hipsters don't call themselves hipsters...

I wear tight pants, have some vintage clothes, AA up the ass, wear scarves, a DSLR, a lomography fisheye, polaroid, and have a collection of shoes.

I didn't want to be a popped-collar, hi-fiving douchebag, and i didn't want to be a straight g, cause i'm not. (although i listen to a fuckload of rap and still wear tall ts on the hill)

But wearing baggy shit got boring.

I'm tall, skinny, and if you want to, like many have, you would call me a hipster. (but i DO still bathe)

I just generally find that hipsters are more interesting than those who jump on the mainstream AE hollister flo-rida dick. I HATE those fucking kids. I'm SO sick of them after being at university for the past 5 months.

I probably should have gone to art school.

p.s. Hipster girls are fucking awesome.
 
I got cut short there.

This article is so dumb. I completely understand what he's saying, but first of all, ADBUSTERS, like people have pointed out before, is one of the epitome's of hipster media.

The only reason this article got made was that this is the only truly interesting style lately. Is he trying to say that the kids wearing american eagle, visors and trackpants aren't equally as retarted? Or Hoodrats for that matter?

He didn't do the article on anything but hipster because he was probably scared of being beaten at any other type of party.

Hipsters are harmless. Sure, some of them might like the smell of their own shit a little too much, but they're better than the movement of gang-obsessed assholes who fight anything that's different.

My guess is that this guy is a hipster anyways. He IS writing for adbusters.

And by the way, who the fuck cares? It's just a style...
 
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