stuff white people like

a guy at work put me on to modest mouse the other day

they're album artists

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-people-like/

The REAL ‘Stuff White People Like’

^proven by science^

For instance, it turns out that all kinds of people list sushi as one of their favorite foods. But Asians are the only group who also list sashimi; it's a racial outlier. Similarly, as we shall see, black people are 20 times more likely than everyone else to mention soul food, whereas no foods are distinct for white people, unless you count diet coke.

loooooooool

Stuff White People on OK Cupid Like

the weirdest thing about those lists to me was that apparently the only middle eastern girls who use ok cupid are hipsters:

scarves
cat power
new wave
the unbearable lightness of being
baudelaire
impromptu
i love nature
exhibit
buddhism
quirky
sensitive
brooklyn

and most crucially

M.F.A.

do jews = middle eastern?

just sayin

israelis might? but the male list has no brooklyn cat power mfa signifiers

rat-fucking

is that a drew friedman cover?

sure looks like it

"White people, always voting for John Kerry the latte liberal!!!"

― deej, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:40 (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_v7QrIW0zY

i will find this meaningful and touching when
1) you get better music
2) you don't tape the fucking thing with the intention of showing it off on youtube
3) you are on less of a broadway power trip

what is a broadway power trip?

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070314003722/muppet/images/1/18/Msnoodle.jpg

highly theatrical, egotistical, OTT, smug, people manipulating

"my feelings for you are best explained by making these fifteen beardos kick step ball change"

http://godandcountrytheatre.com/

http://thekinspiracy.tumblr.com/

holy shit. The predictability is blowing my mind. Are these people copying each other or do they each think they've had an original idea or is it some combination of both? Does this aesthetic have a name? I've seen it before, have been mildly repulsed by it and dismissive of it, but I don't know how to categorize it for my own smug identity politics.

I knew a guy who was/is locally famous for making latte art and he was the only person I met with easily diagnosable narcissistic personality disorder.

something something starbucks something something steve jobs

kinvolk amirite

Had never heard of kinfolk mag before finding that site but wow

What’s your favorite time of day to drink tea?
Funny, one of the original drafts for our website began with this tagline: All Day We Drink Tea. So yes, I drink tea when I feel like drinking tea, regardless of the time of day. While I usually have my tea and food separately, I’ve also been experimenting with food and cocktails prepared with tea. For example, dashi with a bit of roasted oolong added at the very end accentuates its smoky notes. As of late, I’ve been obsessing over tea-based cocktails. My latest after work drink is my take on an Old Fashioned, made with bourbon, maple syrup, yuzu, bitters and a 20-year aged oolong tea. It’s really delicious.

ngl, thought the grapefruit one was latte art at first and was reluctantly impressed. But now pretty sure its just two halves of a grapefruit

The flags are a slightly menacing touch.

Most of these people seem to be pro or semi-pro photographers virtually pitching for work.

Kinfolk is very twee but aesthetically less objectionable than a lot of hipster stuff. They all seem to lead lovely lives of neatly arranged rustic tranquility but I wouldn't want to hear their music or read their novels.

what makes "hipster stuff" more objectionable?

Kinfolk is definitely hipster stuff as well. I tend to find their aesthetic brighter, prettier and less busy than a lot of similar magazines, though there's obviously a huge overlap with the terrible people in the artisan / Innocent Smoothies threads.

kinfolk is not hipster stuff. The aesthetic isn't hipster.

o man this thread

kinfolk aethetic is special snowflake, not hipster

Hipster is a fairly malleable term but the urban-rustic, ecologically-minded, artisan-spoon-whittling thing that defines how most people where I live think of hipsterism is entirely in line with Kinfolk's shtick.

http://i.imgur.com/OA1zBCW.jpg?1

i'm getting a total connecticut vibe from this stuff

hipster = engaged semi-desperately w/ pop culture, trying to stay ahead of it to maintain a position from which one can sneer at those less aware. therefore, it's constantly in flux. "urban-rustic, ecologically-minded, artisan-spoon-whittling" may for a moment seem hip, thus of interest to hipsters, but this too shall pass. hipster, in general, must be hostile, cynical, suspicious, and hungry to exclude/secede. anything that scans as complacent, domestic, conformist, comfortable, or middle class will eventually become the object of hipster contempt. e.g., the kinspiracy is hipster, kinfolk is just an urban and supposedly sophisticated spin on aspirational lifestyle bullshit.

if we go back to the theory posited by myself and my fellow Phd in Hipster Studies, Mr. Weingarten, that there are circles of hipsterdom, with the center being truly "hipster" and the outer circles having some overlap and proximity, this kinfolk stuff is in one of the outer circles ... understandably associated with hipster culture by someone quite unfamiliar with it, but to hipster scholars, laughably far from it.

I maintain that this is a natural evolution of hipsterism that only those close to the ground will truly recognise as such. It doesn't surprise me that those in the ivory towers of academia are taking a while to catch up.

hipster studies don't have ivory towers

I maintain that this is a natural evolution of hipsterism that only those close to the ground will truly recognise as such.

http://www.cesar.com/live-the-life/meet-the-breeds/images/breed-gallery/breeds/pomeranian/pomeranian-height.jpg

is that a pom silhouette?!!!

are poms hipsters?

they are not, but they are my favorite type of dog

there are circles of hipsterdom, with the center being truly "hipster" and the outer circles having some overlap and proximity, this kinfolk stuff is in one of the outer circles ... understandably associated with hipster culture by someone quite unfamiliar with it, but to hipster scholars, laughably far from it.

― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Sunday, February 1, 2015 2:50 PM (44 minutes ago)

this, ftr, is real-deal hipster shit. must proceed from assumption that when most people talk about "hipsters", all they're doing is making clear how far behind the curve they've fallen.

no offense, ms. hell. i tip my invisible and unwashed hat.

kinfolk is another way of saying "you're not our kind, dear." but in a hipper, more portlandia sort-of way.

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/04/27/fashion/27KINFOLK1/27KINFOLK1-master675.jpg

seriously, look at these fucks

looks like there is a serious storm front moving in in that pic

wow they look so horrible

http://trivandrum.click.in/pomeranian-puppies-for-sale-aryan-kennel-9555944924-c57-v5577696

lol

kinspiracy tumblr would have been better without the "white people" bit, just pandering to future denizens of a deeper circle of hell than that represented by the audience for "Kinfolk" itself.

(Surely this has been covered right? That they can't do this "white people" thing again without revealing their essentialist notions of other races? That other races aren't just "naturally creative," as their dopey little joke about making white people feel creative implies? That this is "natural rhythm" territory? That people in other races are just as good at being bourgeois and boring, and shouldn't have to endure a complex about it built around it being "acting white"?)

everybody in all those photos are white
i mean i dunno about who's wearing the boots but it seems like a safe bet