"Hipster" as pejorative.

the only things I've ever seen you post about is that you really like 90s lo-fi and think hipsters are shallow

― being a ringmaster's crul (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, September 15, 2010 3:29 AM (5 hours ago)

Totally.

Stoked someones actually been paying attention.

Not being sarcastic!

I hadn't noticed the 'hipsters are shallow' bit I gotta say

i think we should all pretend this thread is locked and in a few days someone with an actual girl problem thing to say about hipsters can come ask about it, and until then we can all go somewhere else

― max, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 9:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Barely anybody acknowledges what I say here so I only ever bother putting effort into a few subjects anymore. Was wondering if anyone noticed how often I just reword the same things over and over.

there's fuck all left to say about hipsters that wouldn't be better in the hro thread unless yr gonna link to every american regional newspaper's thought piece abt hipster fertilizer brands

all that's left is the charred wreckage a decade of this nonsense has left in the wider culture

i'll give you laid back, evan

there are ppl who won't even buy energy drinks unless they've got bits of mallarmé written on them

Haha, I acknowledge you! You're the Swirlies street-team! xxxp

nakhchivan otm - there's a lot to discuss although in these postpassantino days probably not inna What's the worst subculture? style

:D

im gonna start dropping some "super suggest bans" if this ssb thing keeps up

in the ilx justice system, the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups: the thread police who investigate crimes, and the board lawyers who prosecute the offenders.

these are their stories.

DUN DUN

objection ... DISMISSED!

lawl and order

why is everyone talking about Super Smash Brothers

hipster moustaches.

can i have harbl as my board lawyer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I&feature=player_embedded

OK was that a joke I'm missing or did you not know that like three days worth of posts to this thread were about that video?

i aint readin that shit

lol :D

effing hipsters

what is ssb?

save sebastian bach

there used to be a skid row sub-board on ilx, but it was deleted to make way for the aeon flux board

uk jocks who dress like uk hipsters did circa 2000

x-posts

what does it stand for

sports science bro

"sports science" is what guys who wanna work at a gym do at uni

is that a real thing people say

lol, no. i came up with the initial observation, then nakhchivan went all dick hebdige with it. (in a good way)

most ppl i know irl would understand what we were talking about tho.

birth of a meme

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/extreme-fear/201009/the-sad-science-hipsterism

Those seeking a more serious exposition of the hipster culture-space might wish to examine Hipster Runoff, an examination of alt-dom by a thoughtful and perspicacious insider.

actually quite funny:

http://yepwecan.co.uk/category/regulars/top-chumps/

duh

http://yepwecan.co.uk/category/regulars/top-chumps/

http://nymag.com/news/features/69129/

i am glad that for once someone is trying to define hipster instead of just writing about how bad 'hipsters' are and pretending that everyone can agree on what a hipster is

but the article is still pretty dumb

what do you think is dumb about it?

True countercultures may wax and wane in numbers, but a level of youth hostility to the American official compromise has been continuous since World War II. Over the past decade, hipsters have mixed with particular elements of anarchist, free, vegan, environmentalist, punk, and even anti-capitalist communities. One glimpses behind them the bike messengers, straight-edge skaters, Lesbian Avengers, freegans, enviro-anarchists, and interracial hip-hoppers who live as they please, with a spiritual middle finger always raised.

the phrase "interracial hip-hoppers" for one

writing out the lyrics to "My Girls" is two

fwiw I do agree with that article that "hipness" in terms of being the first to know about obscure cool things has pretty much come and gone. things don't "cross over" anymore b/c there isn't really an "underground" they're ever confined to in the first place; everything is pop, just not always popular pop.

Here, however, “blank parody” gave way to a reconstruction of past techniques more perfect than the originals, in an irony without sarcasm, bitterness, or critique. Reflexivity was used as a means to get back to sentimental emotion.

The hipster is a savant at picking up the tiny changes of rapidly cycling consumer distinction. [...] Hipsterdom at its darkest, however, is something like bohemia without the revolutionary core. Among hipsters, the skills of hanging-on—trend-spotting, cool-hunting, plus handicraft skills—become the heroic practice. The most active participants sell something—customized brand-name jeans, airbrushed skateboards, the most special whiskey, the most retro sunglasses—and the more passive just buy it.

One could say, exaggerating only slightly, that the hipster moment did not produce artists, but tattoo artists, who gained an entire generation’s arms, sternums, napes, ankles, and lower backs as their canvas. It did not produce photographers, but snapshot and party photographers: Last Night’s Party, Terry Richardson, the Cobra Snake. It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts. And hipsterism did not make an avant-garde; it made communities of early adopters.

Death of the hipster:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/holy_hipsters_flock_to_church_5CIUEYTsvqbkGgws0cV7YP?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME

maybe hipsters created a great literature and u just dont know how to read the signs.

yeah i'm sure tha
http://mhpbooks.com/media/image/medium/Shoplifting_TaoLin_2009-08-31-16-08-09.jpg

On Sunday evenings, a Hispanic Lutheran church on the gritty south side of Williamsburg transforms into a hipster religious revival with plenty of fashion but no irony.

Worshippers with full-sleeve tattoos, skinny jeans, stocking caps and square glasses pack the pews of Resurrection Presbyterian Church on South Fifth Street.

"The fellowship with everyone here is amazing," said Shaun Lee, 30, a skinny, scruffy East Village bartender who sports a skullcap and cargo jacket to service.

The congregation has grown fivefold since it started in 2005, with up to 150 people on Sundays.
PARTY HOST: Cool young people receive Communion at an artsy hipster church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
J.C. Rice
PARTY HOST: Cool young people receive Communion at an artsy hipster church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The aisles are full of artists, actors, fashion stylists and musicians.

Even the pastor, the Rev. Vito Aiuto -- trained at the Princeton Seminary -- is in a band, and has recorded music with indie hero Sufjan Stevens, an occasional congregant.

"I feel at home here," said Travis Johnson, 28, who rigs music equipment for Nine Inch Nails, My Bloody Valentine and other bands. Johnson discovered the church when he happened upon Aiuto's album in a Williamsburg record store.

Live jazz accompanies the collection, and church suppers include plenty of red wine, but the holy hipsters are serious about Christ. During services, parishioners raise their arms in prayer and confess that God saved them from "the power of the devil."

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/holy_hipsters_flock_to_church_5CIUEYTsvqbkGgws0cV7YP?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME#ixzz13NNepJkc

One could say, exaggerating only slightly, that the hipster moment did not produce artists, but tattoo artists, who gained an entire generation’s arms, sternums, napes, ankles, and lower backs as their canvas. It did not produce photographers, but snapshot and party photographers: Last Night’s Party, Terry Richardson, the Cobra Snake. It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts. And hipsterism did not make an avant-garde; it made communities of early adopters.

i was saying this in '99

whiney I didn't say that hipsterature (nu word?) would come in the form of books. these r stories that were never told, stories that must be pieced 2gether from mere traces: a "sent messages" folder, a tumblr post, graffiti.

well that's some nice trolling