Chicagoist: The Hipster Problem: Solved!

jamesj

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:49:04 -0600

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.

Spook

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:24:57 -0600

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

Flaco

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:53:13 -0600

for reals. Anyway I'm off to make a super hip hop. Tyree Cooper says hello.

hugo

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:11:50 -0600

hahaha - i love your blog, but I think it's pretty obvious. you guys, or at least some of y'all are definitely hipsters.

magooisim

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:38:29 -0600

i don't know any part of what you just wrote. am i in the clear?

Stealth

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:20:58 -0600

Now wait, I didn't say Andrew Bird himself was a hipster. I don't listen to him, but he very well may be.

Stealth

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:19:26 -0600

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

jmagic

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:54:14 -0600

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.

JHop

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:29:47 -0600

But, I'm chubby. I thought only the skinniest of the skinny could pull off "Hipster Chic".

Mucky Fingers

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:25:56 -0600

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.

mattz

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:59:45 -0600

Speaking of hipsters....I found this article to be worth a read. http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

vultureProtein

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:59:27 -0600

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.

mattz

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:59:15 -0600

Speaking of hipsters....I found this article to be worth a read. http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

Tankboy

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:50:47 -0600

Wait, Andrew Bird is a hipster? HOLY HELL!

xlprq

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:49:16 -0600

Seriously. Please let me buy jeans again.

Stealth

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:47:08 -0600

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

Stealth

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:45:28 -0600

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,

vultureProtein

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:14:56 -0600

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

jennaNL

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:11:24 -0600

Come on already. There's a freakin' book called the "Hipster Handbook" that's something like 8 years old.

Tankboy

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:00:00 -0600

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!

Tankboy

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:57:33 -0600

I think you're confusing hipsters with yuppies in American Apparel at Cans.

Sujal

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:54:22 -0600

A hipster would never pay that much for a PBR, $2.50 max.

JHop

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:54:17 -0600

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.

Thunderbelly

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:52:11 -0600

Seriously what is ekleptic? Someone who steals a whole variety of things?

vultureProtein

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:50:46 -0600

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.

ropesack

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:45:56 -0600

hahah he said ecleptic.

UTV

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:32:46 -0600

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

joe_laser

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:30:04 -0600

Im glad Lasers and Fast and Shit could be apart of your great epiphany last weekend.

Tankboy

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:29:54 -0600

BlueFairlane, you just blew my mind.

Lincoln Park Yuppie

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:25:08 -0600

No, some of us know who we are.

BlueFairlane

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:20:55 -0600

Nobody thinks they're a hipster. Does this therefore mean that everybody IS a hipster?