EPTHipster article by co-founder of Vice - Page 6
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diehilde
Germany1596 Posts
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Zeroes
United States1102 Posts
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Ganjamaster
Argentina475 Posts
On November 09 2010 09:13 IntoTheWow wrote: Ugh... Im going to sound dumb. But what's a hipster? Hipster comes from the word "hip" in the sense that they are "in" the current fashion trend, especially in regards to music. The more obscure the bands you listen to are, the higher "rank" of hipster you get. PS: Basically they are "chetos fashion" (Colorful nike shoes, skinny jeans, Felix T-shirts etc) here you can find them around Palermo Soho, peru beach etc. | ||
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LittLeD
Sweden7973 Posts
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Hikko
United States1126 Posts
Also, On November 09 2010 10:33 jinorazi wrote: i think people are over generalizing hipsters. just like how some asians dislike math and some black people dislike fried chicken, cool hipsters can exist. hipsters don't bother me, i live in san francisco. I live in the South and have lived in the South for my entire life. I have many friends who are black. The high school I attended was about 40% black. You are out of your mind. I have never met a black person who dislikes fried chicken. | ||
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Ganjamaster
Argentina475 Posts
On November 09 2010 22:21 Hikko wrote: I've never met a hipster that has a real job. Also, I live in the South and have lived in the South for my entire life. I have many friends who are black. The high school I attended was about 40% black. You are out of your mind. I have never met a black person who dislikes fried chicken. This is true, I have lived in Baltimore (63 % African American pop) for a very long time and the fried chicken joints were by far the most popular, followed very closely by the lake trout vendors. | ||
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Greg_J
China4409 Posts
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
Most people in general have to get over themselves. It's great that they like to have their fun. This sub-culture really reminds me of when I was back in High School, which was over ten years ago. Youth trying to find a group they click with, and now we have hipsters who are a mixture of these groups. The problem with this adolescence psyche is people start believing they're better than everyone else once they start identifying with a certain group, which is total nonsense. You could say the same thing about Team Liquid. :/ Technology isn't much better. Things like Twitter and Facebook have their uses, but I find many people I know taking it way too far and waste way too much time on it, but who am I to judge? I spend most of my time surfing Team Liquid when I'm not busy. If you aren't into the fab then just leave it alone. If you are, good for you. Just as long as you don't boast about being better than everyone else then we're peachy. | ||
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ohlala
Germany232 Posts
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lowercase
Canada1047 Posts
On November 09 2010 22:21 Hikko wrote: I've never met a hipster that has a real job. Also, I live in the South and have lived in the South for my entire life. I have many friends who are black. The high school I attended was about 40% black. You are out of your mind. I have never met a black person who dislikes fried chicken. I've never met anyone that dislikes fried chicken. | ||
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DROPPINBOMBS
United States312 Posts
On November 09 2010 09:13 IntoTheWow wrote: Ugh... Im going to sound dumb. But what's a hipster? I agree, I never really understood the phrase. | ||
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Farkinator
United States283 Posts
Hipsters are like any sub-culture. It's alright to stereotype them, (after all, a stereotype only becomes a stereotype because it's mainly true) but this doesn't stop some of them from being good people. I have several good friends of mine who I secretly despise for the death of music (ewwww dubstep) and the introduction of skateboarding culture (I have a troubled past with skateboarders; every single one I've met is a MONSTROUS prick). Basically, there's one thing to being ironic-I admire wit- and just simply being caught up with the "in" crowd. The hipsters I happen to consider my friends take their "culture" with a grain of salt. Constantly I hear them getting into sarcasm-fueled debates over which one of them is more "indie" (the best line being "Dude, I'm so indie I listen to bands that don't evene exist yet!"). However, what really gets my goat is people who say that we rag on hipsters because we're jealous of their coolness. It's an age-old argument that registers on the stupid-meter as a 4-chan argument (see y'all just jealous meme). Basically, I kind of abhor hipsterdom because of the sheer hypocrisy of it. They claim to be ironic and strikingly independent while there are legions of them, and most of them are just following the beacon of the truly original and independent figures. And plus, the idea of "cool" gets to people's head a lot, and they become arrogant pricks. It's not really their being a hipster, its more their being unable to cope with their popularity. | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
On November 09 2010 21:51 Snuggles wrote: There's a good variety of hipsters. Some bad some good. The bad ones are really really obnoxious and annoying, the good ones are a lot of fun to talk too. If anything, it's just the way the people handle it that gives off a good or bad vibe. Personally I don't have a problem with them, for the most part hipsters are really easy to get along with for me. if you take out the word hipster and replace it with human, it still works and we don't have to deal with hipsters | ||
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pfods
United States895 Posts
does that mean i broke the "only old people hate us because they don't understand us" formula? but in all seriousness, i dislike hipsters because they are like the kind of people that killed scenes like punk. it started out as a genuine "counter culture" style and attitude, and was soon commercialized and watered down and made generic. At this stage of the game, being a hipster is just par for the course. has nothing to do with them being inherently silly, it's just what they've become that i reject. | ||
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Lobotomist
United States1541 Posts
The author of the article suggests that hipsters get a bad reputation because older generations dislike them. I've found that older generations hardly know what a hipster is. No, hipsters have a shitty reputation because everyone their age hates them. Because of their attitude. It's not one certain thing that really makes you a hipster. Yes, you can drink PBR and have an ipod and shop at thrift stores and not be a hipster. It's the attitude that defines them. I feel they are just the hippies of our era This is the sort of thing that fuels my hate of hipsters. The hippies, while fun to mock now, at least had some notions of ethos. They had a point. Hipsters do not. All they have is a non-conformist attitude for the purpose of feeling superior. Unlike any other subculture, they haven't created anything new, just appropriated the styles of other subcultures, rendering their significance meaningless. | ||
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WinByDefault
Australia19 Posts
The guy who wrote this article seems like a massive wanker to me, I mean I'm pretty indifferent to hipsters, but this guy I hate. | ||
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bone577
Australia65 Posts
Also, the people most aware of hipsters are other hipsters, and the greatest source of hate for hipsters is from hipsters. Hipsters simply hate other hipsters. What could possibly be more infuriating to a pretentious wanker than another pretentious wanker being all pretentious and wankery towards them. As a pretentious wanker myself, I resent their insipid musical taste. My taste in music is more respectable because I don't listen to any vapid modern EDM or indie, I listen to classic electronic, Berlin school electronic (but not Kraftwerk because that is far too popular with hipsters) and acid because they have cultural significance in the world of electronic music and I have a refined musical pallet. Seriously though, they aren't as pretentious as they seem, most of them have incredibly derivative musical taste and are following whatever trends their non-commercial community radio station is broadcasting. They are harmless, and this is really just par for the course, older people will always complain about younger people, because young people are pretty stupid, this will continue throughout all of eternity. Now enjoy this clip: | ||
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The_Conclave
Australia122 Posts
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