In defence of hipsters (1 Viewer)

[therealjohnny]

Have we reached peak hipster? | Fashion | theguardian.com

"Hipsterism isn't a style, it's a uniform," says Simon Elder, who seems to know the local terrain well. "Venture into certain pubs in Hackney on a Friday night and it looks like an Allen Ginsberg convention – but without the poetry. No room for variation, no space for creativity, only a checklist of conformity ticked off by the virtual doorman in your head."

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Have we reached peak hipster? | Fashion | theguardian.com

"Hipsterism isn't a style, it's a uniform," says Simon Elder, who seems to know the local terrain well. "Venture into certain pubs in Hackney on a Friday night and it looks like an Allen Ginsberg convention – but without the poetry. No room for variation, no space for creativity, only a checklist of conformity ticked off by the virtual doorman in your head."

The Guardian must have a whole department dedicated to this subject and beards. I swear I’ve seen a variation on this article on there about 857 times already this year…

 

[therealjohnny]

They're even slagging their 'sister publication' the Salon for their hipsterism

 

[David Kronenbourg]

at least they're giving all those unpaid interns something to do

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Have we reached peak hipster? | Fashion | theguardian.com

"Hipsterism isn't a style, it's a uniform," says Simon Elder, who seems to know the local terrain well. "Venture into certain pubs in Hackney on a Friday night and it looks like an Allen Ginsberg convention – but without the poetry. No room for variation, no space for creativity, only a checklist of conformity ticked off by the virtual doorman in your head."

It was ever thus. Well it was thus 10 years ago.

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"It’s not that I don’t like the culturati hipsters, but the last time I was in an environment where people only wanted to be with people exactly like themselves was in a fucking mall in Minnesota, which is why I left there twenty years ago.”

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I’m waiting for the day The Guardian release an issue consisting solely of beard articles

 

[David Kronenbourg]

“Wait a minute, wait a minute, you’re telling me that there’s some hipsters in Brooklyn and Hackney?!”

*jumps out window*

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

All of this coverage just seems to smack of "These young people, they don't have a clue. Not like in my day."
Which is probably the most boring thing anyone can fucking say when talking about culture.
It was how reactionaries talked about the counterculture in the 60s because they all wore jeans.

Massively uninteresting. And only moreso with the endless repetition.

This thread itself is 6 years old.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Update: The most recent non-spam comment on this article from 2001 is on the 30th of June 2014

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[Lili Marlene]

All of this coverage just seems to smack of "These young people, they don't have a clue. Not like in my day."
Which is probably the most boring thing anyone can fucking say when talking about culture.
It was how reactionaries talked about the counterculture in the 60s because they all wore jeans.

Massively uninteresting. And only moreso with the endless repetition.

This thread itself is 6 years old.

Something about Hipsters is to the lifestyle section what "Vinyl is making a comeback" is to the music section.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

This happens about every four years also

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Roger Bennett on growing U.S. love for the other kind of football

You could probably find a Sports Illustrated from 30 years ago with the same thrust

 

[therealjohnny]

Why is this trend lasting so long? Why does it annoy people so much? You won't believe the answer

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

And because everything has to be a thing

Liking soccer is hipster

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/f...-popularity-in-new-york-creative-circles.html

 

[Lili Marlene]

And because everything has to be a thing

Liking soccer is hipster

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/f...-popularity-in-new-york-creative-circles.html

Nowadays, smart-set types are expected to be conversant in European soccer. “It’s like the way you expect somebody to know what’s happening in ‘True Detective,’

hahaha

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

hahaha

Totally a thing.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Totally a thing.

There's the ongoing thing in the UK* with Hurling being shown on Sky, any of this have a following yet among the hipster literati? Or is the whole Irish connection too confused over there?



*well, according to irish newspapers

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

And because everything has to be a thing

Liking soccer is hipster

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/f...-popularity-in-new-york-creative-circles.html

Call it football though and it's fine.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Call it football though and it's fine.

Plenty of lads I know in Ireland call it soccer.

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Probably the kind of people who go to "show's" but not gigs.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Probably the kind of people who go to "show's" but not gigs.

They're the kind that play GAA and call it 'football'. So soccer has to be soccer.

And what in Dio's name is wrong with calling something a 'show'?