"Hipster" as pejorative.

http://www.realtytrac.com/Content/news-and-opinion/top-20-zip-codes-for-flipping-to-hipsters-7980

saw this sweatshirt for sale in target the other day. can i just...

http://img2.targetimg2.com/wcsstore/TargetSAS//img/p/14/98/14983960_201311112003.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Not-Cool-Hipster-Elite-Their/dp/0804138532

Inevitable product of Fox News commentators having to live in NYC

There are four states of being in the cannabis society: cool, groovy, hip, and square, in that descending order.

http://nypost.com/2014/03/22/the-hipster-war-on-you-how-liberals-use-cool-as-a-weapon/

"Icons of cool like Robert Redford, Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse James and Yoko Ono get shredded in the book" - Mark Zuckerberg AND Yoko? What an iconoclast!!!

jesse james the kinda nazi-ish biker?

"Cool kids party it up at the Coachella Music Festival."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pca8wpUIzSg

^^^ predictably, use of the word "hipsters" marks the nadir of this terrible song. (don't worry, it happens in the first verse)

okay lmfao at this appalling cynicism:

How do the cool enslave you? By convincing you that:
- If you don't agree with them no one will like you.
- If you don't follow them you will miss out on life.
- If you don't listen to them you will die a lonely loser

How do you vanquish the cool and discover your own true self? Read this book.

it's like, yes, okay, when I was middle school I used to worry that I was literally retarded, and "a great conspiracy / Of books and people" had been constructed with the aim of making me *think* I was normal while everybody secretly laughed at the ape parading around in human clothing using the telepathic that I was also worried everyone but me possessed--fortunately I aged out of these fears before anybody gave me a book deal

Three cheers for hipsters, hip hip hooray!

Fast-forward to today, when, writes Gutfeld, "the Labor Department reports that only 47% of Americans have a full-time job. That’s because it’s hard to get full-time work as a maker of artisanal tricycles."

... and you wanna call *me* the hipster!

Now a few groovy artisanal types are sounding the alarm about vaccines

yes, it is the """"cool"""" hipster people doing this, they are doing it to be cool, like noted hipster jenny mccarthy

it's all the same though. anyone who objects to anything about the status quo is the same, no matter the content of their objections. they need to take a chill pill and get with the program. a chill vaccine even.

shoot me up

does obamacare cover the chill vaccine?

haha i was coming here to post about this book. looks like a scream!
http://brokelyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/greg-gutfeld-not-cool.jpg?width=156

i really love how the american right wing describes every cultural rift as a "war". so fun.

They like war

still #1

https://sites.google.com/a/beardleague.org/rva/home/CR%206342281613_91f1f1ae12_b-cropped.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/c0zahZt.png

http://i.imgur.com/iAJGOge.png http://i.imgur.com/KngLmWR.png

Probably fake but lmao

Someone riding a unicycle was run over by a bus in my neighbourhood yesterday. Feel slightly guilty that my first thought was "fucking hipster twat".

xp: that's real as fuck.

Is it real or fake? It sounds like it was written by someone who never actually interacted with "hipsters" but merely read about them online via a collection of image macros.

xxp most people i've seen riding unicycles are legitimate quirky weirdos who were in like circus club in high school and shit, not ncessarily hipsters?

does that make them more or less deserving of our scorn? tough call there...

tbqf i support folks riding unicycles

& I looked & frowned & lo, the hipster was me

Found out that Seattle has a bar called The Walrus and The Carpenter, which makes me wonder if the radio just plays the Decemberists over and over.

I was there last summer and have a distinct memory that they were playing Thin Lizzy iirc.

At least they said 'fortunately'

i find this p awful. and the lol thumbs up reactions to it on twitter. i mean the stuff you see attributed to "hipsters" these days. i guess a pop-up streetfood market is in the core of the stereotype (despite the fact that these events are just full of every type of young person from all over london) but i've seen people on that "we want plates" twitter bemoaning "hipsters" when actually all the wooden boards etc are more typical of a provincial pub. a few months back there was a photo going around twitter entitled "a hipster, on his own in a pub, knitting. new trend?" and it was just some bearded nordic-looking man in his 40s. like just a person doing something vaguely unusual. if this is who people who aren't hipsters are then they deserve their perpetual disgruntlement.

the mainstreaming of hipster culture memes is definitely a weird thing because if you call anyone out on it they call you a hipster. like, you can't say 'hipster-bashing is played out now', because that phrase in itself is an open goal.

never mind that nearly every other shop and restaurant in my commuter-belt hometown now describes itself as a boutique outlet and sports a twirly moustache on its shopfront.

http://www.scotns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ASA-Nev.jpg

is liking musicals really seen as particularly antithetical to hipsterism? (I guess weeping every time you see a musical isn't that hipsterish, but weeping every time you see a musical just seems an odd thing for anyone to do)

hipster today i think likes everything mainstream instead of the opposite

Freaky Trigger won the culture war

Where are the new mandarins?

lol at an ad for ads

Maybe the wrong thread for this, but wondering if anyone would like to weigh in on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nICH7QtFrU

This is a hipstery live comedy talent show that happens monthly at a theatre near where I live. Performing rabbits, kids impersonating Frank Sinatra etc. The person being interviewed is a very well-known person in the local community who is extremely marginalised and challenged. Harrassed and assaulted often. Arrested hundreds of times probably. Here (in my opinion) being patronised for being mentally ill. It's not the first time they've brought well-known people from the street on-stage for this and I find it disgusting.

The host was challenged about it on FB and said " I feel good about it though because I know that it was positive for her. She says that people have seen it on TV and approach her who wouldn't of before and are kinder to her because of it and that makes her feel more part of the community and less of an outsider. We are not solving mental illness, but it seems like this is a tiny tiny tiny step at least in the right direction."

Is he full of shit?

Mipster:

http://www.worldcrunch.com/mobile/#a:21178

Also, are we now reaching the phase where hipster (like Yuppie before it) isn't an insult as much as a warm joke?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/hipsters-broke-my-gaydar.html

oh dear

what. is. this. garbage.

Lesbians invented hipsters.

[...]

Lesbians were working on communal organic farms and freaking out about pesticides decades before the rest of the country.

[...]

Did plaid flannel come to mind? Work boots? Weirdly cut or especially shaggy hair? Maybe a bike?

[...]

If you’re a queer bristling at my generalizations of lesbians, tell me you don’t know any gays who look like what I’m describing. Look me in the eyes and tell me this, and if you can do it, I swear to you I will do something straight for a week: I’ll watch “The Bachelor” without irony, or wear Dockers, or buy a “Live, Laugh, Love” throw pillow and display it in my home.

this weirdo needs to go to west hollywood -- plenty of homosexuals that don't adhere to most of this

i saw someone wearing a knit hat on a day when the high was 100 F, which seemed like an odd choice, and when i told someone else about it, he replied that someone who would do that is obviously a terrible hipster and that normal sensible people like us would never do such a thing. i kind of frowned and said "i dunno, man" and didn't really try to argue the point, but now i want to know what this guy thinks a hipster is.

i got called a hipster the other day. was wearing a suit, toque.....they said "i like your hipster style'

I got myself a sort of obnoxious “edgy” haircut recently (buzzed on the sides with etched lines, faux-hawk on top, mullet in back), and I must say there’s something fun about sporting an annoying style like this. First, because I just felt like it. Second, because I’m realizing I really don’t care very much if some people think “douchebag hipster” or whatever. And third: my teenage kids think it’s “epic”. :-)

The fact is, I suspect I’m close enough to whatever many people think is a “hipster” that it’s not worth the effort to try to ensure I’m not mistaken for one.

Yeah ^

Steve Albini apparently had to relinquish his favored hipster haircut because it had been co-opted by alt-right.