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IPA
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3206 Posts
September 29 2010 18:45 GMT
#181
All the hipster hate is so ridiculous. Should we all be wearing douche-bag pre-faded Hollister or Abercrombie clothes? Should we all be listening to the ATROCIOUS music played on modern radio?

There is nothing wrong with fashion, there is nothing wrong with art, and there is nothing wrong with embracing a lifestyle steeped in both of these two things. People are offended by hipsters because there is something feminine about their dress and their bearing. It's a vaguely homophobic reaction.

We can all be different. It's ok dudes -- hipsters aren't trying to fuck you in the ass. Team Liquid is usually pretty open minded but a lot of these comments have been fairly pathetic.
Time held me green and dying though I sang in my chains like the sea.
NukeTheBunnys
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1004 Posts
September 29 2010 18:45 GMT
#182
My main gripe with hipsters is they drink crappy beer. I mean PBR, really? Its not keystone or genny light, but its damn close. I mean if you wanna get drunk and can only afford cheep beer thats one thing, but if you can spend $7 on organic crackers you can get some better beer.(or buy 99c crackers and then add taht to your beer budget)

The other thing that bothers me about some hipsters is the air of smug superiority that they project, but that is not a quality unique to hipsters, it is just a common one. On casual inspection tnkted does not seem to be a member of this group. Great you know about some bands I haven't heard of, that does not make you better then me(Hint: this runs both ways, I know about books and music you don't know either).

The last thing that aggravates me is again, not unique to hipsters, but found very commonly in that group. Misusing the word ironic. As I said, lots of people do it but because hipsters do it more frequently then most.
When you play the game of drones you win or you die.
DoctorHelvetica
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States15034 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-29 19:14:36
September 29 2010 19:13 GMT
#183
Hipster is the most meaningless word I can think of. If you listen to indie music you're a "hipster", if you like any sort of foreign film you're a "hipster", if you dress fashionably you're a "hipster".

It's ridiculous. People throw around this word at anything and everything and it's used so often it's almost completely lost its meaning. To me anyway. Maybe some people just genuinely like indie music, art, and fashion. That doesn't make them "hipster trash" or whatever.
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L
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada4732 Posts
September 29 2010 19:15 GMT
#184
On September 30 2010 04:13 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
Hipster is the most meaningless word I can think of. If you listen to indie music you're a "hipster", if you like any sort of foreign film you're a "hipster", if you dress fashionably you're a "hipster".

It's ridiculous. People throw around this word at anything and everything and it's used so often it's almost completely lost its meaning. To me anyway. Maybe some people just genuinely like indie music, art, and fashion. That doesn't make them "hipster trash" or whatever.

Dressing fashionably does not make you a hipster.

Paying 200$ for pants to look like you paid 10$ for pants makes you a hipster.
The number you have dialed is out of porkchops.
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
September 29 2010 19:16 GMT
#185
Not sure what this hipster term means exactly in detail, but if it is what I think, Swedish girls start being hipsters at like 13 year old.
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StorkHwaiting
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States3465 Posts
September 29 2010 19:19 GMT
#186
It's pretty simple. Hipsters = Music and Fashion pseudo-intellectuals. They were created by the US economic system where people made entirely too much money doing nothing special then gave it to their kids who now take it for granted.
buffkarpov
Profile Joined September 2010
6 Posts
September 29 2010 19:29 GMT
#187
On September 30 2010 03:45 IPA wrote:
All the hipster hate is so ridiculous. Should we all be wearing douche-bag pre-faded Hollister or Abercrombie clothes? Should we all be listening to the ATROCIOUS music played on modern radio?

There is nothing wrong with fashion, there is nothing wrong with art, and there is nothing wrong with embracing a lifestyle steeped in both of these two things. People are offended by hipsters because there is something feminine about their dress and their bearing. It's a vaguely homophobic reaction.

We can all be different. It's ok dudes -- hipsters aren't trying to fuck you in the ass. Team Liquid is usually pretty open minded but a lot of these comments have been fairly pathetic.

Listening to pop music makes you really hip tho
zZygote
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada898 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-29 19:33:16
September 29 2010 19:32 GMT
#188
The fallout of hipsterdom will actually surpass the casualties of the black death. Spending money with no motive or use is hipsterdom. Putting too much money into the economy and later becoming a mindless ATM hungry consumer. Its better for them to all die off the fad now, than become a worldwide catasprophe later on.
bjornkavist
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada1235 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-29 19:34:54
September 29 2010 19:33 GMT
#189
Lol I hate the obnoxious hipster culture of wearing non prescription glasses (Wtf why would do that), wearing, and having an artisticly elite behaviour, tho sometimes I myself can do that. I mean I like to go against the norm too, but you shouldn't be so stupid about it. Sometimes I'll believe something else for the sake of having a good arguement, not because I think it's cool.
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CuttyFlam
Profile Joined April 2010
Belgium523 Posts
September 29 2010 19:33 GMT
#190
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FoliuS
Profile Joined August 2010
United States34 Posts
September 29 2010 19:36 GMT
#191
"I have an iPhone, a Smart Car, big bug eye sunglasses, and I walk around all day laughing at people wearing clothes from walmart!" - Hipster A, B, C, D

Haters gunna Hate!

Honestly... seems like the OP is a little jealous because one of his friends is A, B, C, or D.

"TL are all hipsters, because we make the trends in the Starcraft Community!" HELL YEAH!
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JamesJohansen
Profile Joined September 2010
United States213 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-29 19:41:26
September 29 2010 19:38 GMT
#192
On September 29 2010 09:14 Slow Motion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 29 2010 09:07 Half wrote:
The U.S. has always had a huge socialite trash culture dating back a hundred years. Nothing really new imo.

Though I kinda like retro style stuff -_-.

Correction: the human race always had numerous trash cultural fads dating back thousands of years. And the older generation will call the new fads trash while comfortably participating in their trash fads that their grandparents called trash/the end of western civilization.

If western civilization ended every time people started dressing and acting weird, we'd all have harems of burqa covered women by now.


Funny you mention that....

Anyways, hipsters annoy me mostly because they seem to be associated with the acedemia/artsy bullshit and they kind of develop a superiority complex from it. Really is kind of pathetic considering their mostly a bunch of rich pricks who have life handed to them and don't really do much to contribute to society.
Mohdoo
Profile Joined August 2007
United States15743 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-29 19:43:45
September 29 2010 19:42 GMT
#193
On September 30 2010 03:45 IPA wrote:
All the hipster hate is so ridiculous. Should we all be wearing douche-bag pre-faded Hollister or Abercrombie clothes? Should we all be listening to the ATROCIOUS music played on modern radio?

There is nothing wrong with fashion, there is nothing wrong with art, and there is nothing wrong with embracing a lifestyle steeped in both of these two things. People are offended by hipsters because there is something feminine about their dress and their bearing. It's a vaguely homophobic reaction.

We can all be different. It's ok dudes -- hipsters aren't trying to fuck you in the ass. Team Liquid is usually pretty open minded but a lot of these comments have been fairly pathetic.


Everyone grows up at a different pace it seems. The reason that I personally group hipsters in the same group as 13 year old goths is that it is just people trying to fit into some sort of specific style/culture for the sake of, well, being a part of that style/culture. And that, to me, is weakness, no matter how you look at it.

And though I would agree that it is silly to try to push your negative views on someone, I don't think that's what people are doing here. Hipsters are just people taking too long to grow up. To criticize them for that is by no means inappropriate. We aren't busting into their house with a bag of good looking clothes, preaching that they need to abandon their raggedy plaid shirts, thick glasses they don't need, and ugly shoes.

Not to mention, there is a certain level of arrogance/snottiness that hipsters are known for. People that we can recognize as flawed and silly being arrogant is even more frustrating x_x Though I realize this is mainly satirical, I think it perfectly shows the type of arrogance hipsters are known for:
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And I really think THAT is what annoys people the most about hipsters. The snotty attitude about listening to "underground" music and wearing raggedy clothing since "We aren't concerned with materialistic image", when in fact, they are going out of their way to be a specific image.
StorkHwaiting
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States3465 Posts
September 29 2010 19:47 GMT
#194
On September 29 2010 09:33 choboPEon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 29 2010 09:24 caelym wrote:
On September 29 2010 09:19 choboPEon wrote:
How to tell there's a damn good chance you are a hipster: you feel it necessary to write an entire article about the "hipster phenomenon". Seriously, the majority of people who I see saying they hate hipsters are obnoxious people themselves, either matching the hipster stereotype exactly or are the type of people who can't go a day without making snickering remarks about generalized stereotypes.

IE people who get off on snark. My god, there are trends and people wear skinny jeans! So fucking what.

lol you mad?

it's amusing to poke fun at how counter-culture is becoming mass culture


It was amusing a few years ago, maybe for the first 3 million wink-and-jokes, but now it's a word which has virtually no meaning or purpose except to facilitate making snide remarks. It's dumb. There's a reason respected newspapers and other media outlets are actively trying to remove the use of the word hipster from their work. It's because it doesn't mean shit except that some snide remark is about to follow.

I admit I'm coming across as 'mad' but I live in Brooklyn, apparently the hipster capital of the universe, and I've been hearing these annoying jokes from every direction for years and years. Trust me, you don't know what it's like. If you had to hear the same people make the same tired jokes about the punching bag hipsters and think 'god damn I am clever', you'd go a little loopy too.

Just read this thread. The word has no specific meaning. Almost every post has a different definition and it's all vague and it all comes down to one thing: Young person I'd like to insult? Hipster.



Hey Chobo, which would you say is more hipster, Williamsburg or the LES? Coz I live in the LES and it's hard to imagine it getting any more hipster than this....
Floophead_III
Profile Joined September 2009
United States1832 Posts
September 29 2010 19:48 GMT
#195
On September 29 2010 09:10 Kennigit wrote:
Hipsters are the reason i think we need mandatory military service immediately after high school. That or labor camps.



Kennigit wins this thread.
Half man, half bear, half pig.
Filo
Profile Joined September 2010
United States54 Posts
September 29 2010 19:48 GMT
#196
This all sounds really overblown to me, isn't this basically the same thing as hippies? And as far as I know hippies never really did anything that bad. I mean a worldwide catastrophe? What are they gonna fuck up? Spending lots of their parents money... That's not going to ruin the world.

"These same girls, while being very socialized (all they do is party), don't seem like they actually have a purpose in their life." This quote kind of bothers me. Who are you to decide how someone should live their lives. I am some one spends a lot of time on video games, they are people who spend lots of time partying, but suddenly they have no purpose in life, because they do something different? I'm okay with people doing their own thing as long as it doesn't effect other people.
tnkted
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1359 Posts
September 29 2010 20:00 GMT
#197
it seems to me that the people everyone here seems to be hatin on is people who act superior to other people and are all pretentious and shit. specifically im lookin at you, JamesJohansen:
Anyways, hipsters annoy me mostly because they seem to be associated with the acedemia/artsy bullshit and they kind of develop a superiority complex from it. Really is kind of pathetic considering their mostly a bunch of rich pricks who have life handed to them and don't really do much to contribute to society.


You do realize that the last sentance there makes you look like you have a superiority complex concerning hipsters? it makes your entire arguement illogical.

ITT: pretentious people bitchin on hipsters for being pretentious
'I think "tnkted" may have justified this entire thread.' - Mjolnir
tnkted
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1359 Posts
September 29 2010 20:04 GMT
#198
and as to the comments on 7$ crackers: that was a joke. I did that once, i don't have the money to do it regularly. I do try to stick to a fairly vegetarian diet when i can, but that's really more for health reasons than because i want to save the animals or whatever. I do have friends that eat vegan specifically because they don't want to hurt animals, and i think thats very admirable. I would do it too if i had the willpower to stay away from bacon.

my point is that my friends, and people with similar interests to me (btw, NO hipster will admit to being a hipster because if you want to be a hipster, you are not a hipster by definition) are just like everyone else. there are nice people and arrogant people. Some 'hipsters' are pretentious fucks and some are actually fairly thoughtful dudes and gals that happen to care very deeply about their art or about peta or the gay rights movement or something. In fact, the people you call hipster are just like the people in this thread: some of them are legit dudes, some of them are confused, and some of them are arrogant and need to feel superior to people they think beneath them.
'I think "tnkted" may have justified this entire thread.' - Mjolnir
Rho_
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States971 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-29 20:23:42
September 29 2010 20:17 GMT
#199
So I'm a little late to this thread, but I have a hipster question. Why do they like fixie bikes? I ride my bike to work every day, and there is a hipster bike messanger business near where I live. Every messanger has a fixie bike, and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. There are lots of hills, and hills on a fixed gear bike are brutal.

Edit: Also, they all smoke like chimneys when they're not on their bikes. If I made my living riding a bike all day, I would not fucking smoke.
seppolevne
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada1681 Posts
September 29 2010 20:25 GMT
#200
Ha! Young people doing something stupid!

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