annoying things about hipsterdom. A list:
- Denying what you are: If somebody calls you a hipster and you angrily deny it; you’re probably a hipster.
- Following trends while pretending to be a trendsetter: Are you consistantly cool and fashionably dressed? Well, trendsetters take risks, make mistakes and often look goofy; it’s part of the deal. If you don’t take the risk of being uncool, you are not a trendsetter.
- High school is over: 15 year-old hipsters notwithstanding, the Coolness Hierachy of hipsterdom is basically High School 2.0 — enough already! I thought you were rebelling against status-obsessed drones who are now working their way up the real power hierarchy.
- Smoking cigarettes is not rebellion: You’re a good little Democrat-Hipster, aren’t you? Then why do you smoke cigarettes? Profits from tobacco fund the right-wing hate machine you claim to oppose. Smoking Parliaments does not make you cool. If you want to be (somewhat) rebellious, smoke weed.
- Claiming to be so open minded, yet only listening to hipster-appoved music:Indie rock is full of great tunes and good bands, but there are tons of bands out there playing excellent music who don’t get love from hipsters because they don’t have skinny jeans, ironic trucker hats or bed-hed haircuts.
- Atheism-chic: As any hipster knows, atheism is “in”. But haven’t you noticed that hardcore atheists are just as annoying as fundamentalist Christians? Most Christians, while misguided, are nice people who respect others’ beliefs. Atheists should remember to do the same.
- Conflicting values: You can’t be both an environmentalist and a shopaholic. You can’t jump into the indie side of consumer culture and think that insulates you from the repercussions of materialism and consumption culture. Not driving an SUV does not make you green. Your fancy, designer shoes were probably made by orphan children in the Phillipines and then shipped over here at great expense to the environment… but not your conscience apparently.
- Loyalty means nothing, only fashion: Hipsters will often hide their love of uncool things, or cloak their love in a vaccinating veil of irony. This only causes more self-loathing and hypocrisy. There’s a whole generation of hipsters out there who love — truly love — AC/DC but would never, ever admit it, except through irony.
- Conformity kills: Okay, so let me get this straight… you’re rebelling against the conformist mainstream in the same manner as everyone else — by joining a subgroup that is undeniably mainstream in your age group. Congrats on being both a hypocrite and a conformist in one fell swoop.
Hipster (contemporary subculture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture) - Cached
Hipster is a slang term that first appeared in the 1940s,
Oh my gosh, hating hipsters is sooooooooo mainstream,
But i hated them before hating them was mainstream,
except you are one...
ReplyDeleteto be a hipster is to be so self obsessed that you require a label, in fact the rejection of mainstream simply because of it being mainstream is not hipster, but an ill fated attempt to prove your own aloof status from the general masses. a natural example of 'hipstering' would be to use a open circulatory system instead of a closed one, simply because everyone else is using them. the fact that your life would be shortened and in general pretty shit doesn't matter.
ReplyDeletea modern example would perhaps be wanting a Polaroid camera as your fully functioning high quality slr digital camera sits gathering dust.