"Hipster" as pejorative.

actually sounds like something an ironic racist hipster would do

oh god i can just picture it: hipster igloo parties

byo harpoon

picturing the soon-to-be-hated cocorosie album cover

if i were doing a linkbait listicle on hipster films im p sure id include a sofia coppola film and a michael cera film and not, like, 'fear and loathing in las vegas'

ya fear and loathing is more like the kind of movie that hipsters like before they "know better".

just like 'flavorwire' is the kind of website hipsters go to before they know better

hipsters dont use the internet fyi

they are over it

so Prince was right

frankly prince is a little behind

real hipsters havent used the internet since ca. 2006

I, for one, miss the internet

not that shitty ILX blog though

whatever else u r not a hipster

yup. that's a burn.

Deep down you know it's best for yourself but you
Hate the thought of her being with someone else
But you know that it's over
We know that it's through
Let it burn
Let it burn
Gotta let it burn

Spent some time thinking about WHAS today and think maybe HM was right

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l57d8po2IS1qz51hfo1_400.gif

XD

(I lied btw. Totally going to give it another shot. gif too good not to use)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5mLuPJ0S8Q

i hate comedy songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP2W0LqQwEE

song way more offensive than anything "hipsters" have ever been or done

i seriously have never met anyone who wears or has worn non-prescription spectacles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5dIzY7yvRA

Related question: has anyone (other than a certain ex of mine) sincerely referred to him/herself as a "hipster"? The word seems always to be applied to other people or things. ("I used to enjoy [X], but it's just not the same since hipsters took it up.")

God all these youtube videos are fucking shit.

xpost. No. See also "middlebrow". It's one of those terms that people only use about other people.

especially if they are those people themselves.

A phrase that gets used a lot around here but which I love and sums it up to me: the narcissism of small differences.

i'm pretty comfortable with the fact that I'm a hipster and most people on this site (especially deej) should learn to embrace it a little more

Which doesn't mean there aren't huge swaths of people i can derisively call hipsters

also in general can we cut all the side-stepping around the word "hipster" like it's some ugly "other." I'm so goddamn tired of everyone on ILX being like "I'm fat/old school/unfashionable/nerdy so I'm not a hipster." Jesus christ, we all post on a message board where people deconstruct the meaning of the word "balearic" and transcribe gucci mane lyrics and call Dirty Projectors "boring normal indie" and brag about the blues 78s they found at estate sales. Enough with the posturing already, ffs

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You appear to have "hipster" and "ridiculous music nerd" mixed up.

ned raggett is not a hipster

(would be a rad t-shirt)

I mean, unless we're calling the fat guy from the Camden Record & Tape Exchange a hipster these days, in which case we might as well include Comic Book Guy.

I thought hipsters were the people who like Dirty Projectors. Like me.

Some fatty who focuses his attention on Gong reissues and colored vinyl and knows who Japanther are is technically more of a "hipster" than a 19-year-old sitting in the parking lot of the gas station sniffing glue and listening to his one Pantera tape.

The point is that there's no ONE hipster. There's varying degrees. A kid in a hoodie who likes Neko Case and goes to Stereogum once a week is a LOW-LEVEL hipster. Someone in shuttershades and pink neon at a MSTRKRFT gig snorting coke of a car key is a HIGH LEVEL hipster

Pantera kid would derisively call record snob a hipster; Stereogum kid would derisively call MSTRKRFT kid a hipster

It's important to know your place on that scale.

yeah but then your previous example of the Gucci Mane hermeneuticist is nowhere in that continuum, so we have to have various qualitative groupings that are then internally distinguished quantitatively.

And now is the time to do it.

xp But that type of high-level hipster you describe I don't necessarily see as being geeky about music any more than he is about fashion and drugs and art and "the scene."

Merdeyeux, i think ILX Gucci Mane dork who posts about rap minituae all day and reads pitchfork and knows about the most recent dealings Animal Collective and Fuck Buttons is probably a hipster to someone, but continue to split hairs and play babe-in-the-woods, dogg

also, jaymc, the fashion and scene aspects are what make him more of a hipster, obv.

Gucci Mane hermeneuticist

oh man

My friend's dad is 50 years old and owns Animal Collective and Pantha Du Prince CDs and lives in a village with his kids in the middle of Scotland and has probably never set foot inside a club, what level of hipster does that make him?

The kind with disposable income?

I am all for the democracy of the hipster but I kinda thought it was supposed to mean something, besides just being a word that can be applied to anyone with any engagement with music by someone with either more or less engagement with music than they have.

Please, the term is "hermenaut":

http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/b1ea/books_bookshelf-1423.jpeg

Some fatty who focuses his attention on Gong reissues and colored vinyl and knows who Japanther are is technically more of a "hipster" than a 19-year-old sitting in the parking lot of the gas station sniffing glue and listening to his one Pantera tape.

OK but neither of those strawpeople have anything to do with the term as it is popularly deployed (ie alluding to shallowness or fashion-chasing) so why even try and work out the 'scale' in this way ffs

I dunno what Hermenaut is but that's certainly a diverse list of names.

(Hipster pluralism?)