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At last week's Life During Wartime dance party at Hideout we made a shocking discovery: HIPSTERS DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE HIPSTERS! Seriously. Which we admit frightens us a bit, because we don't think we're hipsters but now ... well, how can we know?!
Luckily Hollywood Holt and Million $ Mano are here to break it down for us.
There, now we don't care if you think we're hipsters.
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Nobody thinks they're a hipster. Does this therefore mean that everybody IS a hipster?
No, some of us know who we are.
BlueFairlane, you just blew my mind.
Im glad Lasers and Fast and Shit could be apart of your great epiphany last weekend.
Yup. And it was when I saw Katerine and her friend go slack-jawed when I called them hipsters that I realized hipsters never think they're a hipster!
I think the main tests are
a) If you think Pitchfork is too mainstream
b) If you see no problem paying $5 for a PBR tall boy
c) If people have a burning, unexplainable desire to punch you in the head
A hipster would never pay that much for a PBR, $2.50 max.
I think you're confusing hipsters with yuppies in American Apparel at Cans.
He was speaking of a subspecies of both the hipster and the yuppy which is the yupster. There was a great NYT's article on it last year. I have found the urban dictionary definition for the uninitiated:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yupster
hahah he said ecleptic.
If you're reading this, you are probably NOT a hipster.
Who cares who's a hipster and who isn't? I think if you're looking around the room wondering who's a hipster... you might be one yourself. Kinda like gay-dar, only homosexuals and closet homosexuals need and utilize it, because they NEED to know.
I just want the world to stop construction of skinny jeans.
If you're reading this, you are probably NOT a hipster.
Why? What do hipsters read? I mean, for crying out loud, there's an Andrew Bird posting currently at the top of Chicagoist! Hipster's don't read this?
LOL
Wait, Andrew Bird is a hipster? HOLY HELL!
Now wait, I didn't say Andrew Bird himself was a hipster. I don't listen to him, but he very well may be.
Seriously. Please let me buy jeans again.
I want you to be able to buy jeans again too.
Unfortunately, the popular jeans of today only fit Eunuchs and women with the bodies of Eunuchs.
Seriously what is ekleptic? Someone who steals a whole variety of things?
So, wait. I AM a hipster because I'm black, poor, and wear studded belts, listen to both Wu Tang AND Elvis Costello ?
I'm still confused.
Come on already. There's a freakin' book called the "Hipster Handbook" that's something like 8 years old.
So, wait. I AM a hipster because I'm black, poor, and wear studded belts, listen to both Wu Tang AND Elvis Costello ?
Yes. And welcome to the club. well, minus the studded belt, which I gave up a long time ago,
But, I'm chubby. I thought only the skinniest of the skinny could pull off "Hipster Chic".
Speaking of hipsters....I found this article to be worth a read.
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
Speaking of hipsters....I found this article to be worth a read.
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
Wow, that's a very ... interesting article. Seriously. Not sure what to make of it but the guy makes a good case.
Meanwhile, I'm sure most of you have seen this...
Bingo
Hipsters know very well that they are hipsters. They only deny it out of the resentment stemming from the fact that they've now been identified and branded.
if you don't know if you're a hipster or not, you're probably a hipster. and if you're a hipster, then you probably make fun of Altbros ... and if you make fun of Altbros, then you're no friend of blipsters. And if you hate blipsters, then you definitely don't like Azans. And if you don't like them ... you definitely don't like the blog www.hipsterrunoff.com. so, go throw on some American Appy yalls and srlsy stop taking yourself so srsly ... laters.
i don't know any part of what you just wrote. am i in the clear?
hahaha - i love your blog, but I think it's pretty obvious. you guys, or at least some of y'all are definitely hipsters.
for reals.
Anyway I'm off to make a super hip hop.
Tyree Cooper says hello.
Why is every body ignoring the 500 pound elephant in the room? Which is Tank Boy pretending that he is not a hipster. Are we really gonna let him get away with this? fess up Tank Boy, your confession will be chicken soap for your skinny jean soul
Stealth Man,
Perhaps you're an Emo? You and your "studded belts" Or perhaps you just miss Cindy Lauper, Boy George and Menudo
I agree that the whole hipster fad is pretty ridiculous, and it's something that I witness regularly and am occasionally made a part of due to its prevalence among young social scenes and the fact that I attend college at Wesleyan University. A part of me is no doubt a hipster-hater or at least highly critical of the subculture. But at the same time, what's the point of being so judgmental and concerned with what some other stupid kids are doing? And just to let you guys all know, because I know at least some care, I do rock the skinny jeans. It seems like for some of you that's a problem in and of itself. I just don't see how something as trivial as a pair of pants could elicit such hostility.