Hipsters -- a disturbing look at US culture - Page 10

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.

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.

On September 29 2010 09:14 Slow Motion wrote:

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.

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.

On September 29 2010 09:33 choboPEon wrote:


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.

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.

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.