help, i've realized i'm a Yindie (or am i a yupster?)

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think i'm getting too old to be a tripster.

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 7 January 2006 10:35 (eighteen years ago) link

What's a Yindie?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 7 January 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.indianajones.com/young/explore/update/f20040106/img/20040106_cardbg.jpg

― Yawn (Wintermute), Saturday, 7 January 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Me too! I live somewhere "upscale" apparently.

"yupster" is better I think.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 7 January 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

what are these things?

― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Saturday, 7 January 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

from an L.A. Weekly article:

Merriam-Webster’s 2004 word of the year was “blog”; the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2005 word of the year was “podcast”; and in October the L.A. Times featured a front-page story about our own Mark “the Cobrasnake” Hunter. Yup, for some reason a weird subspecies of hipster has lately become the subject of ubiquitous media fascination. We call them “indie yuppies” — Yindies for short. They are well employed, or endowed with trust funds. They think chic gizmos (like digital cameras and iPods) go best with indie rock. And while their tastes are a little more stylish than the mainstream, they’re also sort of bland, boring and interchangeable. (Think: Urban Outfitters, Death Cab for Cutie, KCRW.)

― gear (gear), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i've been using the word yupster to describe my demographic (with a sense of humor, of course), for a year, maybe more. i'm such a trendsetter.

― colette (a2lette), Saturday, 7 January 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

i still can't believe that the word of the year for 2005 is podcast.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

it actually makes me kind of angry that they couldn't think of anything better.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

ARE YOU A TRIPSTER?!?!?! OMG WTF LOL

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Yea, not that many people actually use podcasts.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

They are well employed, or endowed with trust funds. They think chic gizmos (like digital cameras and iPods) go best with indie rock. And while their tastes are a little more stylish than the mainstream, they’re also sort of bland, boring and interchangeable.

Wait, how do they differ from your standard-issue hipster?

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Saturday, 7 January 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm too poor to be these things now. yay

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

you should shop at thrift stores and complete the circle

― gear (gear), Saturday, 7 January 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i have always thought of these people as "alterna-yups"

― anna graham, Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:45 (eighteen years ago) link

http://webzoom.freewebs.com/deadairradio/Jesus%20!!!.jpg

― Dada, Sunday, 8 January 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Yupsters hit Singapore.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 5 February 2006 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, how do they differ from your standard-issue hipster?

-- Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (wooderso...), January 7th, 2006.

that's my question, too! i thought that this "yindie" thing was just an NYC thing.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 5 February 2006 08:42 (eighteen years ago) link

i was about to post what eisbar just posted.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Sunday, 5 February 2006 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I classify (24, good job, go to occasional indie concerts) but I lack the indie fashion sense. So I think I get a pass.

― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Can't remember if this got linked elsewhere: Up With Grups - He owns eleven pairs of sneakers, hasn’t worn anything but jeans in a year, and won’t shut up about the latest Death Cab for Cutie CD. But he is no kid. He is among the ascendant breed of grown-up who has redefined adulthood as we once knew it and killed off the generation gap.

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 09:29 (thirteen years ago) link

bro you're crazy as hell if you think grups somehow escaped ILX's notice

― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 09:31 (thirteen years ago) link

I thought so... just deleting off old bookmarks here

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 09:36 (thirteen years ago) link

"He owns eleven pairs of sneakers, hasn't worn anything but jeans in a year, and won't shut up about the latest Death Cab For Cutie CD. But he is no kid. He is among the ascendant breed of grown-up w

― buzza, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link

i do wish he'd shut up about that death cab for cutie cd

― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 10:06 (thirteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

http://diehipster.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/the-park-slope-beardo/

― buzza, Thursday, 8 September 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link

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