ROLLING HIPSTER STUDIES 09

i guess we just did

the stuff that was popular in Williamsburg in 2006 I'm starting to see around suburban NJ. some of my co-workers keep talking about hipster this, hipster that. I think we can safely say the hipster is now officially over.

― Spectrum, Friday, April 12, 2013 10:43 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not to be captain obvious here, but this is true every year. The Williamsburg hipsters are just wearing some nu shit, ya heard? And they live in Bed Stuy now.

only took 4 years, not too bad

guess we won't have hipsters to kick around any more then

i heard you sold your turntables and bought two computer monitors and a trading platform

hipsterism died with Thatcher :(

some of my co-workers keep talking about hipster this, hipster that, where hipster at

I think when we got into this we knew it wouldn't last forever. Guess it's time to pack up the fixed gear... if that's even a hipster thing these days. Thank god I don't know any of this shit anymore.

Neon Indian piled onto a fixie, hipstering everything in sight.

skateboards, i've almost made them respectable

guys I just saw chuck schumer longboarding down metropolitan avenue eating a banh mi, it's OVER

*a kickball plaintively deflates in the background*

when your creeping up on retirement age coworker buys something "trendy" at Target and jokes that they are "kind of a hipster now"

last week a student told me he thought i was a hipster. then he asked me if it was an offensive term. then i had to explain to the whole class the difference between hipsters and yuppies. i couldn't tell if he was pulling my leg or what, but it was educational enough and related to our conversation.

yuppies is a term not used enough these days

hipster/yuppie is an age difference, not a class difference

i was trying to describe a co-worker to someone last week when the word "yuppie" came out of my mouth and i was like "damn, otm."

it's a cultural difference

there's a "young professionals" group (ugh ugh) around town that I would definitely say is composed of yuppies. a few may be hipsters, but they're definitely not the core group

i was explaining TO THE CLASS
my class
was not talking about a class difference!

in 2013 there's def gonna be a lot of overlap because yuppies do care abt what's hip

yuppies -> defined by employment, age, location

hipsters -> defined by interests, appearance, and affectations

imo

please elaborate, though, LL!

gr80 also otm

idk, maybe it's more of a NYC/SF phenomenon where you have so many people working in the media/"creative" industries, but there's an enormous overlap here

xp lol lechera sorry

i was only trying to indicate that no one in my class knew the difference between a hipster and a yuppie AT ALL, not just what that means in 2013

you guys are something else!

like when I lived in and commuted from Williamsburg the train was packed wall-to-wall every morning with people you would think by their looks were artists or in bands, except their clothes were a little too crisp and new, and they were all obviously commuting to real jobs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1mSJpOBXFU

i didn't even realize there was an overlap between yuppies and hipsters. isn't part of the stereotype that hipsters have fake jobs or no jobs?

I guess what I'm saying is that for a long time there have been an inordinate amount of people here who are basically yuppies but look like hipsters, or alternatively, will officially be yuppies in a few years once they pop out a baby.

this ain't no one night stand
it's a real occasion

i feel a lot more conflicted about being a yuppie than i ever did about being a hipster

I feel you.

I used to play in two different bands. Now I have two different strollers.

i get it, squeezin' out puppies = you're now a yuppie

Can a person really go from being a hipster to being a norm? I think that would be difficult if not impossible ... it must be a new form that can accomodate the previous identity. Destroying already-built affectations risks complete ego failure that would send the individual into a severe crisis. I think "yupster" could safely transition someone from hipster to yuppie, but it sounds like a brand of dog toy. Which I think is fitting because yupsters are really dog toys for the man to chew up and vomit all over.

from being a hipster to being a norm

"a norm"

you realize most hippies turned into the suburban assholes who voted for Reagan, right?

just about anyone can transition to a norm given the right employment/income opportunity imo

xpost

being a norm is cool

hipsters are out, but weird norms are in

stealth weirds

pretty sure most hipsters are on the norm continuum

from being a hipster to being a norm

"a norm"

you realize most hippies turned into the suburban assholes who voted for Reagan, right?

― I, rrational (mh), Friday, 12 April 2013 16:11 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this requires interesting values of both 'most' and 'hippies' i think

true!

I'm working remotely in a coffee shop in Chicago's Wicker Park that has a full-sized model of the Delorean from Back to the Future in it. Is there anything you would like to know from the field?

i was there last week, that place is for 'cool nerds' not 'hipsters'

Whenever artsy friends compare themselves to norms I have to rmde and try to restrain myself from telling them what a load of ego-feeding crap that is, and how they really aren't any better than the norms. That you talk about painting or experimental music or Deep Thoughts and somehow that makes you better than if you were talking about football or American Idol? The point of being an artist is that you are somehow keyed into some underlying, non-superficial Truth to the universe, and as soon as you start blowing smoke up your butt about how being an artist makes you better then you are being the worst kind of superficial, judgmental, materialist asshole you purport to be better than.

It's a lower-level version of social mis-judgement quite a bit like a politician who says "I am tired of all the partisan politics of the other party".

xxxxxxxxp I'm having a hard time believing you couldn't see my use of "norm" was tongue in cheek.

lol carl
please describe one person of your choice

i was there last week, that place is for 'cool nerds' not 'hipsters'

― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Friday, April 12, 2013 4:19 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's a fine distinction.

The person in my direct line of sight actually looks like our own darraghmac but bigger and is too old and health looking to be a hipster which is maybe proving thomp's point.

haaaaa i was just having a convo w/ lagoon abt the term "norm"

me: has ilx had a discussion yet abt the use of "norm" or "normie" as a pejorative
lagoon: ha no but i tihnk we can break ilx for once and all if we work on this

http://www.davidstuff.com/humor/normp.jpg