At what age does fucking Look-At-Me syndrome stop?????
Posted: January 23, 2012 Filed under: Main 62 Comments »A diehipster.com reader who unfortunately was recently invited to a birthday gathering at a hipster hotspot called The Alligator Lounge in Nieuw Breukelen was nice enough to snap a couple of good pictures of two attention-starved oxygen wasters. Just look at these two. What are they about 40 if not more ? Especially the second guy. When do these look-at-me mother fuckers just give up? Fingerless gloves? A homeless looking sweater that’s probably $300 dollars? Of course – itchy wool hat indoors. And the first guy – balding with that headband and probably weekend after weekend living out a scene from Studio 54 even though he was probably 2 years old and in Okachobee, South Dakota when that club was popular. How do they themselves or anyone that comes near them take them seriously? Fucking Halloween everyday for these rent-raising Caleb’s.
So here is his e-mail and the pictures.
Went to a friend’s birthday gathering at The Alligator Lounge on Metropolitan ave near the BQE the other night. I hadn’t been to the “cool” part of Brooklyn in a while. My friend thought I brought my camera for his birthday, but I knew i’d be bringing it for the hipsters.
Thought you might like these two:
1) The guy we dubbed “Disco Ball Man”. He paced up and down the bar all night, pretending to get better reception for phone calls by the exit. I think he just wanted to strut his stuff in his bling’ed out attire.
2) Wannabe homeless dude. This bar had a pizza oven (free personal pie with every drink) right next to the pool table. They also had the heat on blast. I was in just a button-down shirt, with my short hair and clean shaven face, and I was hot as balls in there. This guy was draped in wool with long hair and a beard. Not to mention he was moving around to shoot pool. I was sweating from just looking at him.
Well lets go to Yelp. Most of the reviews were Hipsteriffic but I did find this gem:
“Yea, no. Didn’t like the pretentious vibe here. Sorry that my bf and I weren’t decked out in urban outfitters crap.
The drinks were whatever. And as 300 people have already mentioned, there’s “free” pizza. The real price is I have to put up with a pizza guy with a nasty attitude and then expects a tip from me. A blah bartender and a lame clientele. No thanks, I’d rather go elsewhere and pay for pizza.”
If the question is at what age does “fucking look at me syndrome” stop, for me it was maybe, 22-23 years old. I’m 34.
Yeah, that’s when it ended for me too. I’m 27 BTW…sadly in the same age group as most hipsters but whatever. I’m trying to make my fucking generation look good unlike these assclowns.
I honestly think the rise of the whole “look at me” epidemic really has alot to do with 1)media culture 2)helicopter parenting 3)the internet and social media. Most hipsters grew up in the suburbs and probably watched an insane amount of TV. That’s where the love of pop culture comes from. We’ve already discussed “Helicopter Parenting” in depth on here. But, honestly, the internet has been the largest inhibitor of the hipster virus. I think about sites like the Sartorialist, lookbooks, hipster runoff (fuck you Carles), hypebeast, and all of that stuff. People who think they have unique looks that get photographed by “cool hunters” (eww) to share with their culturally clueless brethren so they can reproduce those looks and sell them to Urban Outfitters where the same demographics can get their “look” sold back to them. So called “indie bands’ that never even released an album before but get signed to major labels and become industry darlings just because they have that “look”…which inspires other try hards and never do wells to do the same things with less than stellar results. And it all just gets lost in that feedback look.
And someone made a comment yesterday about how hipsters eventually just trivialize and bastardize the word “artist”. Basically, they think that because they like art and music, they can be artists and musicians. It doesn’t matter if they never had any formal training in art or wasted 5+ years in college or 2+ in some privvy art school or never had any musical experience…just BECAUSE they’re INTO it they automatically think they can do it. It’s not that easy. In the end, they make sub-par to horrible musical talents, thinking they could be the next Thurston Moore or Kim Deal or Richard Hell (because their egos are already in that mindstate that they’re some great talent whereas they haven’t proven themselves yet)
but don’t even have half of the talent and have less than a 1/4th of the personality.
The key to the hipster idealogy about art, music, and culture…is that it’s never about anyone other than THEM. They’ll co-opt and exploit anything that someone else told them was cool until mainstream america finds out about it. Then, they’ll drop em like a bad habit and go to the next thing…for the same process to happen again and again.
It’s all about the culture of me…facebook, twitter, tumblr, myspace (where it probably all started), flickr, instagram, all that crap. All it is is a self-serving exercise that just promotes them and NEVER the greater art/music/fashion/culture that revolves around many different types of people. It’s all about trying to impress other self-serving ME monsters all over the world that they have style/poise/good tastes in art, etc.
But what’s funny to me is when people tell them the truth…that their art and music is trash, that they don’t contribute anything to the area they inhabit, and that their just not that special. The mental gymnastics Hipsters will come up with in response to this is funny. They’ll tell you that “you just don’t get it”, “you’re uncultured”, or they’ll just straight up call you a hater. That’s a kneejerk response that comes from those comments…because it straight up lets them know that other people can see through them and their act. It hurts them because they’ve been raised to believe that they’re special and are unique when in actuality there are MILLIONS of people like them all over the world.
Take back our generation people, because if we fuck up en masse, they’re might not be any hope for the future.
You’re forgetting AOL profiles. That’s where it really started for people. It starts with just an “interesting” AOL profile, then of course your buddy icon, then a myspace, a xanga/livejournal, a facebook, a twitter, and of course eventually a fucking blog. Most normal people just do the bare minmum.. AOL profile, myspace, facebook. Some sign up on twitter or maybe have one of those online journals for whatever reason, and the really self-centered ones of course always end up having a fucking blog.
As for when my “look at me phase” ended.. probably before elementary school. The only energy I focused towards other people throughout school until I finally stopped giving a fuck at around 18 was competition with kids who I couldn’t stand.
Im assuming all you guys are single.
That’s why you’re complaining so much.
All these faggots are dominating the scene and you can’t get laid.
You would never see these assholes if you were happy at home with a girl. But, as I know too well, women in Manhattan are FUCKING INSANE. Furthermore, marrying one is a very bad idea.
Eh. I’m in a relationship right now. I really don’t consider my musings on here as complaining more than it is an interesting dialogue on cultural happenings.
I live in Pittsburgh though…the scene here is dominated by BROS….beer swlling, sports watching, loud and in your face bros. Hipsters are usually relegated to certain neighborhoods here that have some sort of “appeal”.
I don’t know though If I had to choose between hipsters or bros…both groups have some cool people in them but most of them I wanna punch in the face.
this is why youre around hipsters: http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lctpjaVg8P1qfpcjzo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1327454977&Signature=Jh7cBQfUCsO1BasRVJOgi7f7u%2Fs%3D
because women like Hipsters. Especially emotionally immature women who think they are the center of the entire fucking universe. Hipster men appear as though they have none of the negatives women associate with the opposite sex: 1) not rational or critical 2) flamboyant 3) not judgmental 4) not concerned with money and career 5) will do absolutely anything for some pussy 6) don’t want kids, housewife, or the woman to do much of anything but LOOK GOOD (which is all hipster women are capable of). Basically anyone who acts this way is looking to be homeless and starving to death within a year, and herein lies the rub: all the hipsters are from rich families- it’s all a stupid act they put on before they become responsible members of society.
and you, readers of this blog: are the losers in the equation, because the women are not interested in you. You are most likely not rich judging by your pragmatism and general demeanor. But you hang around these girls and inflate their ego and make them feel special and they promptly suck these faggots dicks simply because they will probably make more money in 1 year in their future jobs than you will make in 10 years.
Did I mention these assholes are also pretending to be criticizing this inequality down at Rigatoni Park? They have some great ideas about meditating and Palestinians or some shit.
You’re all losers. I don’t mean that in some derogatory manner. You really lost. Their parents secured the financial means in our society and you didn’t get shit. They pretend to be their own opposition while people like you stand with your mouths hanging open thinking: wow this must be the revolution. They’ve got you convinced their kids are a million times smarter than you because they went to an elitist school you could never afford. You are far more fucked than so called ‘minority groups’ because you will spend your whole fucking life beneath a flourescent light in a beige jail cell paying into a tax system that doesn’t give you FUCKING ANYTHING. Welcome to America 2.0 bitches. You didn’t even notice theres a dick up your ass because it’s so numb. you can’t feel a thing. They know you wont do shit, because you don’t even know who else is in your boat. They’ve got you tricked into thinking your in the same boat as them, their kids main occupation is taking everything and anything that looks ‘real’ or is produced by someone like you, taking and bastardizing it, ironizing it, parodizing it, and turning every god damn thing you do, say, or wear into their entertainment. Pretty soon you don’t even know what you actually desire, because now some asshole turned it into a little game theyre going to play with their little hipster whore (who might well be your sister).
and it’s pretty fucking damn simple why hipster women are hot.
they don’t fucking do anything all day long. they sleep until 12 every day. They eat organic and occasionally make their way to the yoga studio to attain the ‘yoga butt’. Yes indeed, the TARP money her fathers bank received was well spent indeed.
are you pissed off now? should I keep going?
hipster women are hot?
Seriously. I don’t know about you but I don’t find girls who didn’t even have that great of bodies to begin with and let them get as out of shape as possible to be hot. There are some that look a certain way enough to make you want to use them but that’s about it.
I like a woman who actually takes care of herself and has her shit together.
Not sure what drug you’re currently ingesting, but I suggest laying off it.
I’m a woman. I work in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint area. I see these idiots all the time around my job. As a born and bred Brooklynite I am not in the least bit attracted to any one of them. I have no respect for a guy I can walk all over, nor do I want someone who looks like I could kick their ass with my hand tied behind my back. Maybe because I’ve been taking kickboxing for years, but a guy with no muscle tone whatsoever does nothing for me.
As for financial means, I have been supporting myself for years and never expect a guy to take care of me. Pretty soon I’ll be making more than the parents of these pretentious fucks.
Oh and not all of the hipsters are from rich families. I work with a few and one of them is filing bankruptcy. I’m pretty sure his family would be covering his bills if they were so rich.
I just started taking kickboxing classes…love it!
I’d criticize you, but there’s something morally wrong about hating on schizophrenics.
If you seriously believe any of this then you’re a fucking idiot.
Their way of life is not self-sustainable, and the whole reason they’re “protesting” is because they see so many working class kids going to college every year and catching up with them. Unless you’re Old Money to the point where you’ve got a trust fund, then wealth and privilege only lasts a generation unless you do something to keep it going.
They’re not in control here. They never have been and they never will be. We’re not impressed by them. We can see right through them. If anything, it’s they who are forcing us to see through every thing we have ever been led to believe or just accepted without questioning it.
Oh and yeah, hipster chicks are not even remotely hot once they turn hipster and any single one of us could easily get them to bend over like the soft little whores that they are if we so much as looked their way. You really think any female would honestly want some bitch-ass, average bodied, just ridiculous looking schmuck over some dude who’s actually got a man’s body and actually is a man? Not a chance in hell.
Oh, and by the way.. the reason that I read and comment on this blog is because of everything but the singles scene. It’s because you can’t even turn on the fucking TV without them being there. I can’t even watch commercials anymore. I can’t even read some of my favorite publications or websites anymore. Especially though, it’s because of Occupy Philly. That pushed me over the edge.
Ah yes, who doesn’t want to bone an American Apparel employee/model?
Lol. I’m married, I have money. I own. I have several lucrative investments.and I’m part of your “minority” group insult. I have one gripe. Can you please operate your hipster functions off the L train between 8am-11am. Thank you in advance.
What’s wrong with being single? Being single doesn’t mean you can’t get a girl. For some of us, it means we don’t want one. Honestly, no offense but I couldn’t handle a relationship with the chick needing to know every fucking thing and me having to share my feelings and all of that shit. That’s just not who I am.
I’m fine with just having fun while I’m young.
You know what happens when you ASSume right?
I’m not single and I laugh at them more than I complain about them.
And considering I live with my boyfriend, I get laid whenever I pretty much want to. Which lucky for him, is fairly often.
I see these assholes because I work in the middle of hipster central. If I didn’t love my job so much, I would work elsewhere.
Haha, “The Guy” is absolutely right. The sexual marketplace governs all. You are either winning or losing. Don’t be a chump.
Hipsters are lame but if they’re getting action and you’re not you’re just a frustrated chump with a whiny blog. Complain all you want but that’s what you are. One hand on the mouse and the other on your junk.
Only you know for sure which side of the equation you’re on so there’s no sense in posing. Instead of the keyboard jockeying go out and learn some game. The more you get laid, the less you care about crap like this. The great news is you can always turn your sex life around.
Only a schmuck who wasn’t being affected by these pieces of shit would ever say that.
It’s one thing to gentrify and raise rents in a city like Philly where the entire metro lost so many people since 1950 and there’s plenty of room because of it, but to do it in a place like Brooklyn that is a lot more full and a lot more crowded, with plenty of people who have nowhere else to go.. is not okay.
Not just that.. but they are ruining every single part of our society.
In Germany “Hipster” stands for women underpants.
New York – Brooklyn,
Berlin – Neukölln/Kreuzberg.
Same shit here. Daddys money makes this adolescent druggy shit possible. They’ll eat themselves someday, with not even a fart of history. But leave unpayable rents for fucking bad flats.
(DOn’t follow my link, it’s wrong… this is me and my band http://www.rupertskitchen.de
Kreuzberg is worse than Brooklyn. It’s Brooklyn without rich daddies. All the idiots there are on Deutsch unemployment. They slither from bar to bar claiming they are ‘artists’ or ‘sound engineers’ if anyone starts to get really critical. LOSERS. get a fucking life. Heroin wastoid capital of central Europe.
LOL. Once again the self-contradicting polemic of anti-hipsters show that they are just as “shallow” (if not more poorly educated) than the quintessential Brooklyn hipsters that they hate. The mere fact that you characterized their life then told them to “get a fucking life” just shows that you, like the self-effacing, chauvinistic, and extremely pedestrian LADY J, are talking out of your ass. A note of reference: Hallmark greeting cards aren’t always the best sources for philosophy.
And before you go into some rant about the philosophical difference between life and existence (which you probably got out of a community college that doesn’t even have a proper working bathroom,) the mere fact that these hipsters are doing what they are doing despite the inconveniences of their lifestyles show that they want it. And the mere fact that they want what they are doing, AMONG OTHER THINGS, already qualifies it as a life.
If I am to hazard a guess, I would think that a lot of you are simply jealous of the fact that these hipsters can “act like children” while you people need to grow up, get jobs and be boring. It’s understandable as to why you people feel bitter enough to sustain some tacky hate-blog filled with homophobia, sexism and aggrandized notions of your AVERAGE LIVES. But guess what, bitching about it won’t give you inner piece since it won’t change the fact that they ways by which you live most like have flaws as well–once worth noting; once that can’t be solved by some foolish blog post littered with hasty generalizations symptomatic of a weak mind.
To simplify: being angry about being losers won’t change the fact that if you’re a loser, you’re still a loser.Live with it.
Thanks for the feeble attempt of trying to describe me, I won’t even bother going into the numerous ways of how you are way off the mark. However I wouldn’t expect less from someone who is clearly so disillusioned as to not get the point of this entire site. However thanks for giving me the chance to laugh about your description. You clearly think spouting some collegiate words gives you some shred of intelligence.
If we have “average lives”, then please feel free to clue us in as to what is considered otherwise. If riding along Bedford Ave on a unicycle in dayglo and sequins, or scrounging by freelancing, or overpaying for groceries is considered an amazing life, I think I’ll pass. I’m not jealous in the least of some chick who needs mommy and daddy to pay the rent at age 30. I pay my own bills, and every item in my house was paid with my own cash. My life is anything but boring.
I find it laughable that you think we are jealous because you can “act like children”. Anyone can act like a child. There’s nothing novel about it. There’s no secret in the fact the 20s are when you are supposed to be partying and finding yourself. However when you hit 30 and up, there’s nothing cute about having no direction in life and living with 6 roommates and not being able to support yourself. Any woman worth a shit would turn down a guy in that position.
Feel free to try to psychoanalyze me some more. I need more comedy to fill my work day. Pedestrian….you used that word like it was some kind of insult. Yup I walk, probably a lot more than you.
Lol
In actuality, you’re jealous of the fact that we are something you could never be, no matter how much you try to pretend. We’re real. We’re men and women, because as you said before.. we actually have to grow up where we come from. See, that’s the funny thing, too. You think you’re not boring but in reality you’re the most boring people on this planet, and you live the most average lives. You brag about shit like fucking parties as if that’s something special. You know what’s special? Actually doing something meaningful, something you will never do. You do and say so many things because you’re generic and can’t ever change that because it would require you to actually think for yourself and be your own person and drop the delusions you cling to so tightly.
Go read the Thesaurus some more and come back with some more less than impressive retorts. While you’re at it.. use the dictionary portion and LEARN HOW TO FUCKING SPELL. You have no excuse not to, you spoiled piece of shit.
To simplify: Trying so hard to come across as everything you could never be won’t change the fact that you can’t ever be those things, but it will amuse the fuck out of those of us who actually are.
The above was directed at Regnum or whatever the fuck his/her name is.
Oh yeah, as for the “poorly educated” bullshit you hipsters love to throw at us all the time….as if some degree from RISD is worth a shit, I’m obtaining my masters in a field that is growing and I already have experience in. You know, that degree that can’t be obtained from a community college. So take that and stick it in your mocha latte flavored, cruelty free tempeh burger.
P.S. Tempeh bacon tastes like fucking cardboard.
I never eat vegetarian/vegan stuff created by white folks. Never seems to work out. (Except for BOCA, that’s okay…) I stick to stuff by the Chinese. They had a couple thousand years to work on it.
This is so true. I follow the same rule. Chinese, Indian, Korean, Cuban, Middle Eastern etc. have some delicious vegetarian dishes. Course they have been cooking those dishes for generations to sustain life, and not for attention or a sense of superiority. White hipster vegetarian food on the other hand consists of inedible things like gluten patties and tofurkeys.
I actually have respect for someone who lives with their parents and plugs away at a thankless but necessary job or tries to improve themselves at community college.
Why would I respect some delusional “artist” living in a premium gentrified loft on their parent’s dime (instead of sucking it up and saving money by not leaving the nest) while they dick around cramming mediocrity into creativity and buying overpriced soy milk at an overpriced specialty shop because they’re to scared to set foot inside that shop in Chinatown where they ship in fresh bottles of soy milk HOT from the factory and sold for less than half of what the specialty store costs?
My mother taught at a community college. Her students were grounded hard workers. Some went on to “real” colleges and now have real jobs and raise real families.
PS: I have a life and a job. It pisses me off watching a bunch of egoists having nothing better to do with their lives than prance around my workplace in their underwear.
I was wondering how long it would take to come to the “you’re just jealous” part…
I give it about fifteen minutes before Regnum responds with “Well, my Mom thinks I’m cool.”
Lmao. If you’re gonna try to sound smart, at least proof read your reply, dumbass. At least 3 spelling/grammar errors. Loser.
Lol
“They’ll eat themselves someday, with not even a fart of history.”
LOL. Your self contradiction is worthy of a hipster’s snobbish remark.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/history
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/history
The mere fact that you pathetic, possibility poorly educated people are talking about them vehemently in a blog with your sweeping generalizations and your attempts at provincial comedy already leaves them with a history.
Owned.
The word you’re looking for is POSSIBLY.
And no.. somebody getting checked through the glass in a hockey game is getting owned. We said that shit way before you fucking nerds ever did.
Also, using more complex words than necessary does nothing but make it clear how much you’re overcompensating for being an average-intelligenced fucking loser.
You hipsters look like Where’s Waldo by the way, shithead.
You just made me spit out my drink with that Waldo comment. I can’t stop laughing.
“Also, using more complex words than necessary does nothing but make it clear how much you’re overcompensating for being an average-intelligenced fucking loser.”
Amen brother. You can always spot the folks who are “educated beyond their intelligent” (most hipsters and sadly also a lot of english majors) when they wantlessly use more or bigger words than they need to to get their points accoss.
Makes me wonder where these hipsters grew up that they’ve never heard the old adages “make every word speak” or “less is more”. Or my new personal favorite (because I wrote it): ‘Want Only Reason, Direct Sentiment’.
And I grew up and live in a flyover state, where they all presumably come from…
Exactly. It’s like hipsters are the evolution of the douchebag.. the ultimate douchebags. I like that too.. WORDS, sums it up quite nicely.
@ Lady J, thanks. I’m not sure if I came up with that one or not but probably not. The one thing these little shits are good for though is target practice for coming up with new ways to insult people.
Of course you’re right. It’s just this phenomen with an ocean between.Of course I’m wearing leather pants. Partly ironically, isn’t it ? (not really, f*ck y**rse*f and save your money.) And believe me, I’m to old to let a daily hipster beating being fantasy. Not Ironic.
BTW: Try Google Translator.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte (History)
The guy in the first pic reminds me of a habit I hate involving cellphones and cellphone culture.
There are always has to be that man (or woman) that makes a big deal about having an Iphone 4s64g or whatever and they always have to call people (or pretend to call people) to make themselves look important. And they always have to make sure that EVERYONE notices them!
Newsflash bro: It’s not 1987 and you’re not some Wall Street wiz kid flopping around when having a cellphone was a big deal. Damn near everyone has a cellphone these days! I got a LG Optimus S (android phone) and it was free with my plan. Do you see me bragging about it to people? No. Do you hear me talking up a storm about it and how anybody else who doesn’t have one is crap? No. Technology is not mutually exclusive by any means anymore.
Probably would be the same type of person to pull out the cellphone to avoid talking to people…or even worse, pulls it out to show everyone up/avoid people to make calls and the phone isn’t even ON!
what does it mean when someone exposes their genitals to the group?
Twinkle this, douchebags.
Wait, this is REAL? I dont see the IFC logo in the end
He forgot the hand gesture for ‘jerkoff’.
I stumbled into that fucktard bar one Saturday when I was fucked up and on my way home. It was before three in the afternoon and I was the only person in there so I couldn’t get a real sense of the douchebaggery going on in there at night, but it certainly had all the symptoms of a touchhole establishment. Plus the free pizza was worth what I paid for it. All dough light sauce and cheese. I like how all these aashats think they’re artists and creatives, yet don’t seem to realize that there are only a very small percentage of people who can actually back that up with any talent. My measure of it is, do you support yourself with your art without parental handouts or doing ANY other job? If no is the answer, then you are NOT an artist, you are a hobbyist.
I have no hate for this but it is funny and hipsters do like making fun of themselves- “look at me!- so all you haters gonna h8. Fine, rather than be surronded by thuggish working class peoplesz I rather hang with gentrifying fools on private welfare.
In order to have “haters” you have to earn them. These little shits haven’t.
how about a middle ground — responsible professional cultured Catholic people who care about their families… streetwise AND book-smart… just saying…
I love how they all love to classify anyone who is working class as a thug, as if we’re uncivilized and never went to school or learned how to even use utensils.
And yet they claim to be diverse and for equal rights.
The only way to continue their delusions is by trying to paint everybody who actually is the things they wish they could be as being lesser than them in whatever way.
The funny thing is that the majority of intelligent people I have met in my life have been from the working class. Maybe it’s because they’re not so busy pretending to be something they could never be.. unlike certain flannel wearing motherfuckers.
And adding some more fuel to the fire:
http://www.regretsy.com/2012/01/23/etsy-featured-seller-sartoria/
I swear, there are two absolutes about hipster culture. The first is that they feel compelled to go on and on and ON about their influences and their creative visions, no matter how trite, banal, or derivative. The second is that if anybody dares knock the tiara off the little snowflake’s head, then that’s being “hateful”.
heh heh…great site…
http://www.regretsy.com/2012/01/19/garbajje/
From the looks of her place, that “artiste” should be on an episode of Hoarders Buried Alive. Look at that mess. That place must be crawling with bugs, mice, vermin. Not to mention the smell. Those dreads must stink like hell, too. She says she likes fermenting stuff, I hope she wasn’t fermenting any yeast infections with that hideous vagina lamp, uggghhh. Please, somebody put her in rehab.
That bastard on the bottom really does look homeless… Hahaha
Tell me he doesn’t look a bit like Viggo Mortensen in The Road. I bet that’s the exact look he was going for too.
Lmao. That’s a good flick, but depressing as fuk.
#2 is where your “Spare Change” goes.
As for “Look At Me” – it ended for me at 15 when I ditched the parachute pants and just wore t-shirts and jeans or sweats everywhere.