I started this site in 2007 under a different format and under www.diehipster.com. It went offline from about September 2009 to mid- December 2009. This is a place to laugh at transplanted, annoying, ironic, out of place, piece of shit, pseudo creative and intellectual hipsters. You clueless wanna-be urban fucks aren’t fooling any of us real New Yorkers. You’ve accomplished nothing over the last decade but displaced hard working families, old time residents, and newly arrived immigrants who do not seek attention like you cocksuckers. Rents have doubled and tripled because of your desire to be some kind of urban pioneer. What a joke. Hipsters do not create anything new. They just recycle fashion and trends from the past three or four decades. You’re using Brooklyn as an extension of your fucking liberal arts college campuses. I hope every last one of you read this site then look in the mirror and say ” Shit the guy is right, I really am a stupid out of place fuck”.
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I am very happy to have found your hipster blog. Keep up the good work!!
Williamsburg = Wienersburg.
Wienersburg…Tee Hee!
Williamsbourgeois.
Who gives a fuck about hipsters? What a fuckin waste of time!
So, start kicking rocks and GET THE FUCK OUTTAHERE!
Fuck you! I live in Copenhagen and it’s the fucking same discourse over here – shure it all started in New York like the rest of every fucking global cultural phenomenon. Get your head out of your ass and look again. How come you know the right way to live in Brooklyn? Aren’t newcomers welcome? To live life their way? Check the book of history one more time and find the chapter on who and what ideas that build New York.
It’s so easy to get sick of this discourse about hipsters and relativist postmodernism – like your way of living is so much more authentic than theirs? I don’t think so. ‘Hipster’ has became this word you can say when someone and/or something doesn’t seem authentic and you can put yourself in position where you seem oh so fucken true. Well, all I can say to this site and all your posts: Your life is so fucking short, that it’s over before anyone has solved a tiny percentage of the climate issues the citizens in the US causes every day. The Carbon Footprint from a citizen in the US was in 2008 annual 17520 kg.
I can’t believe this site. Are you guys afraid of wearing colorful clothes? Is that it? Are you afraid of art? What’s a hipster anyway? Was Picasso a hipster? Was Lincoln? Are you afarid that you’re a hipster yourself? Is the term ‘hipster’ your obstacle of doing what you really want? Because you feel they took your interest – if that be music, litterature, film, photography, food, painting, drawing, fashion or whatever – for hostage? To bad for you. Live an angry, Carbon pollutive life.
thank. you. these guys are probably a bunch of ‘Italian Americans’ whose lives aren’t complete without berating and belittling any life form that doesn’t have a greasy blowout and wear ed hardy tees or works a non traditional schedule. grow up you stupid fucking guidos, you are doing absolutely NOTHING to advance society.
And working at Powell’s or Reading Frenzy one day per week is, I take it? And for “works a non traditional schedule,” the operative word is WORK, not “masturbating like a caged ape in public because the ‘Mercury’ did a blog post about your freeform juggling act.”
If you were to make a straw man of the kind of people who write hate mail on this site, I don’t think you could beat these three. They’re like a little case study.
First we’ve got John, responding to a post that’s nearly two years old.
We’ve got Celeste, who wrote a long rant about… something irrelevant (global warming?) but it’s hard to tell what exactly, because she’s rambling on at random like an angry 4 year old. She covers all the standard Ed and Stevie-approved hipster defenses – everyone’s a hipster, no such things as hipsters, you’re afraid of hipsters, comparing hipsters to original immigrants to NYC – from the FAQ page. And it’s written in Stevie’s patented tearful, pseudo-eloquent, vegan-kid-at-school-who’s-just-been-offered-a-Big-Mac style.
Then “Jake from PDX” comes along, backing up Celeste’s post with a “thank you” (anyone who wants to use multiple sock puppets to defend hipsters, step this way for the demonstration) but doesn’t say anything relating to either the site or Celeste’s irrelevant rambling. Instead, he goes on a different (but equally irrelevant) rant about “guidos”, made up of equal parts barely concealed racism and barely concealed bitter envy of guys with muscle tone.
I’m glad they posted near the top of the “About” page, because with any luck, we can direct people here to see a classic example of how NOT to defend hipsters on here.
go away you fake hipster bastards without italian americans nyc food would suck and food in america would be bland as hell!! At least my people contributed real culture to the city food the new york dialect film and not to mention mayor guiliani who cleaned up this city and got the crime down only so you hipster fakers could move into former crack infested war zones. Have respect for the people who actually lived in this city when it was the big bad apple a crime ridden war zone you can learn from us!!
I live in Melbourne ,Australia and the Italians taught us about food and coffee to the extent that Starbucks had to shut down all their stores because people tried it and decided it was enormous cups of really bad coffee.Hipsters are here in a big way trying to “educate” us about shit that old european guys have been doing for decades.A man who works shift work in a factory and likes to relax by having chickens or growing vegetables for his family doesn’t call himself a “farmer”, but a hipster who doesn’t do anything scratch but around in a plot has the audacity to call themselves farmers.
Way to go Anthony. My father was a hard working Italian immigrant who contributed to society. My mother was 3rd gen and touched in the head, but thats a different story. Italians along with alot of other immigrants came here and built this city to what it is today. They lived in crowded tenements and survived TB, killer flus along with other various types of diseases to make a better life for their families. These midwestern trust fund babies come here and make better lives for the landlords while displacing every hard working New Yorker out here. Yeah williamsburg and bushwick were nasty areas, but nasty areas with places you could afford to live. with people who bust their asses to pay rent and provide for their families, not 40 year old babies with look at my syndrome.
People are more than welcome to come and live however they please, but hipsters won’t stand for that. They want to move in and change everything “don’t sell ice cream in the park I don’t want to say no to my child” In the meantime they let their kids run wild all over the place that includes restaurants where servers are walking by with trays of hot food because they want to let their child “express themselves”.
Furthermore if you think every Italian American is represented by Jersey Shore you are sadly mistaken. take a fucking shower and wash that greasy smelly hair!!!!
jake: besides your ignorant slur of italians (clearly you are not a new yorker), i passionately hate what is conveniently labelled ‘hipster.’ i also went to antioch college and would probably vote socialist if i could, and i almost never eat meat. i hate racism, sexism and homophobia. i work a non traditional schedule. i like art and creativity. but i also passionately hate hipsters and all in all i think nyc would be a lot better off without them as well as the general influx to nyc of spoiled, rich bourgeois youth who aren’t hipsters. i used to date an artist from the northwest who also didn’t like hipsters, so i know what an artist is as opposed to a hipster and i am not making gross, cartoonsih generalizations as you are. nyc was much better off when the majority of newcomers were working families of normal people from real places, not the transplant by-products of suburban post-industrial wealth and accumulation who are completely detached from the mundane necessities of life that grounded people in some level of normalcy and realness.
No. Newcomers are not welcome. We are full up at the moment. Please buy a plane ticket to somewhere else. Oh, that’s right, you don’t take planes because they pollute. So, please ride your bicycle off a cliff.
Amen.
You’re back!
Hoorah!
You sure do have a LOT of focus on these hipsters huh? Maybe you’re just looking to fit in? It’s gonna be alright buddy, just breathe, just breathe. My guess is you’ve never hit anyone in your life. Are there any other generalized groups that you “hate?” I’m not sure if “hate” is the correct word for your situation, it seems like you actually kinda like all these people your spending time and energy “blogging” about. Which by the way is a fairly hipster thing to do. Keep up the good work, we see right through you too.
It’s funny how “blogging” suddenly became a “hipster thing to do”–just like “music,” “art,” “fashion,” and “Brooklyn” are also now supposedly “hipster things” according to the yupsters.
Me personally, I always though that those things had been around before hipster-yuppie inbreds came onto the scene, and the yupsters just claim they are the true pioneers. But hey, what do I know–I’m jus’ a dumb townie from Brooklyn.
Hey Comfortable,
You sound a bit like you feel attacked. Guilty of all the truths that DieHipster has to say? I think so. In the meantime, I hope you follow this blog religiously and realize how absolutely moronic these hipsters are.
Hey comfortable,
What meds are you on? The reason why he writes the blog is so he doesn’t have to hit every putz that is annoying the heck out of him and other people who have to work for a living. For my part, fortunately, I don’t need to or want to venture into lala loser land, and stay south of the border in real Brooklyn, hence, no anger issues, just laughs.
“Comfortable”, you are an idiot. This guy is right about hipsters. They are useless, stupid and disgusting. I don’t necessarily agree with the beating of hipsters ( one blow and they might die) – but someone has to put it like it is out there.
Oh, and blogging is not exactly the “hipster thing to do” – Hipsters lack brain and common sense, they are not artists, innovators or even real human beings- therefore they can’t really claim blogging or anything else for that matter. They are just fake beings searching for acceptance and attention and rebel against an imaginary figure and by doing that they created a lot of damage.
Did I mention you are a moron?
true-& as with most morons they just “annex” wallpaper to their life-style/peppermint-chai-dogmatic-loosers.
they are everywhere-gated in or out is persective-
we could wall the gate in for good-nothing hotile….just bein’ so useless n all-they waste more useless guards/oh-ye….do pls die/by all means-
You are probably a skinny-pant wearing piece of shit hipster, who says this from the safety of his macbook keyboard.
yep-Finnegan’s Wake neo urban stansi spandex cake eater…..
“safety of his macbook..”-bowaha-ha-ha/good-n!
these leggin-headed tiger-balmers just need understand they bought another consumer demographic sucker puch-regurgitated crystal gazer leftovers
Hipster is the new white trash!
Quentin here should help us arrange an experiment:
How’s about we have 5000 real-ass Brooklyn tenement and PJ-raised mothafuckas pack up their shit and move to the cul-de-sac where he spent the first 19 years of his life playing with imaginary friends and hiding from the lacrosse team?
How happy would those lacrosse team dudes or anyone else in Smallville be if there was suddenly a bunch of wildstyle “street art” on every overpass… reggaeton, merengue, and/or hiphop blasting all times of day from every car and window, and a bunch of FOGs (fresh off da Greyhound) talking shit about how the Cracker Barrel don’t carry Bluntvilles, Cobra, 211, or even a damn Dutch Master?
You think it would be a welcome “live and let live, diversity is beautiful” situation if there was suddenly some dreads smelling up Main Street with oils n incense and whatnot and telling your ‘rents about how they on that Babylon shit?
Fuck hispters. These fucksticks are the same here in Chicago. However, once I did see a hipster (riding his vintage bike, of course) get hit by a car in a trendy-hipster-cocksucker part of town. It was hilarious. His retro, artfag glasses and flannel shirt were ruined.
Unfortunately, these pieces of dog manure are branching out of the city and heading upstate as well. Come to Cold Spring in the summer where these douchebags abound. GO AWAY…YOU ARE NOT WANTED HERE!
Hey Comfortable! Listen up, douche. If anyone were trying to fit in with this vermin known as hipsters, they would not have a website called DIEHIPSTER. He would simply live on a steady diet of organic pumpkin seeds and PBR, shop in dirty thrift stores, listen to whatever lame ass band his friend is listening to, act like a pretentious snob, smell, dress like a short-bus rider, ride a witch’s bike, wear a scarf in the summer, read books he doesn’t understand, quote books he doesn’t understand, have a thick, queer mustache, wear ironic t-shirts, be dirty, have no real clue about urban living, etc, etc, etc. And as for “seeing right through” the antihipsters, I don’t think that is possible because we eat and do not look like walking x rays, like you pale, weakling hipsters.
The writer of this blog has a tiny penis and smokes cock.
You wish you had the balls to grow a beard and wear tight pants you fucking fairy, closet-hipster piece of shit.
Go blow your suburban allowance on a $12 organic grilled cheese, you fucking bearded bumpkin.
OH, do I sense a narcissistic injury there – hipster and proud? that is ok, call your mommy and she wil kiss it and make it alright, you irresponsible oxygen wasting hipster loser! hahaha, I should join the cause of smacking you hipsters back into reality!
HAHA again, saying this from the safety of your high-rent apartment, behind a locked door. Whats youre address, phone number, and name? lets see who is talking then…
…someone make me that shirt.
These twats are why i started hating little 5 in Atlanta. I can’t ride trough there without some lumberjack gone jihad looking motherfucker on a road bike grabbing on to my side view mirrors. Don’t worry arting starvist, you’ll get to Psycho Sisters to buy those $60 pre-sharted in pants you’ve had your eye on soon enough. The only reason i haven’t run one into the nearest pizza cafe is the reality that otherwise I’ll never be able to get rid of all my old vinyls that nobody has heard of.
ahhh. all in good fun, go diehipster.
*through
ma bad. i must have been too busy thinking of how long it would take the atlantic department of sanitation to clean up all the shards of horn-rims and mac books after such a massacre.
Heh. I haven’t been to L5P in years but I’m not surprised it’s overrun with hipsters.
Long live Kerry Thornley!
Another like-minded person. Welcome to WordPress!
http://lifeinmotion.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/why-i-hate-hipsters/
Somebody, anybody, cover the endless parade of hipsters along Lenox Avenue. Hilarious!
ill take you up on that.
what? they are here? where? wtf are they doing in harlem?
They’re up in Inwwod now also
Ace Hotel on 29th Street – tables filled with openmouthed yupsters on MacBooks ALL DAY LONG slurping coffee through their filthy stubble. I spotted one inbred bespectacled trendnerd with a fucking ascot. NYC is overloaded with spoiled whitebred shits and even with the economy in the toilet these cultureless nasal puppets still can blog all day while somehow living in the one of the most expensive areas of the world.
Elegant. Hilarious. Accurate. The blog comment trifecta.
this fucking blog is 5 pages deep. fucking weak right there. diehipster what happened to you during the months of december when you first started this bullshit vomit.
did your hipster boyfriend break up with you because you couldnt take him home to meet the parents in virginia ?
did you lose your job because you are a useless son of a bitch that just blogs all day ?
did you just discover blogging because you ran out of room in your notepad ?
these are the questions that are currently mulling around my head.
FUCKERS! EAT A DICK !
8======D ~~~~~ DIEHIPSTER FACE!
Hi, I am the troll of the site. I also go by dork and jerome and trey and anonymous. Im really lonely and unstable because I’m having a hard time coping with my homosexuality and transgender aspirations. Also, its hard to pick up guys when you have leprosy. The cool people on the diehipster site let me hang out…like a hipster mascot. Welcome! It is really a great place to sit back and laugh.
This is probably the best site ever made. Please keep it up!
Our city has lost it’s identity. The unwritten rules and traditions are dead. The New York accent is fading. Now if I want to go have some lunch without having to wait 25 minutes because some turdburgler “discovered” and blogged about a 70 year old neighborhood staple that we’ve been going to all our life, I go to Canarsie, Staten Island or the Bronx.. Those places seem to be kryptonite to the hipster/yupster. I wish I could say the same for Harlem. It won’t be long before I see little Megan and Tyler wearing their pink Harlem Industries hoodies at sleepaway camp.
Uugh.. Damn Sex and the City and Friends to hell .. Damn them all to hell!
Well said, Gumsoles . ‘Sex In The City’ ought to be renamed ‘Skanks In The City’ .
Damn that yuppie show along with other evil, yuppie trash shows like ‘Desperate Housewives’, and all the melodramatic , sordid yuppie trash shows on that channel called “Lifetime” .
And damn that goofy show called ‘Bridezillas’ as well (I have a relative who sometimes watches the Wedding Channel, and so I have overheard the culturally entropic trash promoted by that show oozing in a deluge of noise from her t.v. set) .
Anyone who has ever intentionally starred in a goofy , throw- a- fit- for-the- public show like ‘Bridezilllas’ should repent in sackcloth and cold ashes . The people who like that show as some mealy mouthed “guilty pleasure” ought to repent also .
The subculture of people who are in that show or act about their wedding the way people in that show act : ‘The Bridezillas’ are just as insidious a subculture as hipsters . They ought to be denounced along with the hipsters .
Of course the accepting , opinion-respecting, postmodernist pipsqueaks (aka sellout thinkers), who defend opinions and lifestyles that are crass (such as the opinions and lifestyle of the hipster movement) , are likely (somewhere and somewhen) to defend the opinions and lifestyle of the Bridezilla cretins and philistines .
One anticipates that they will come along with the usual pipsqueak relativist tolerance and acceptance shtick of statements which go something like: “Oh , let the people have their guilty pleasure, and not hassle them about it with judgemental statements” or “to each his / or her own ” yada blah blah .
Piss on their guilty pleasure …with the the right culture jamming which does not sellout to some namby pamby tendency to respect so-called “points of view” …that former guilty pleasure could have the guilt turned up to where its no longer a pleasure .
Piss on people watching some sordid show on television and when you ask them why they are watching it , reply “because there is nothing else on” …being unwilling to make even an attempt at justification , let alone giving a legitimate justification .
The pipsqueak apologists (like the people who defend the hipster subculture) will use the word ‘bigot’ to lambast people, who are one-sided *against* such crass , murky subcultures and pop culture phenomenon .(One-sidedness is good by the way , I do *not* use that term as a perjorative one ) .
The problem is that the term ‘bigot’ is at other times used to refer to a racist person, who is racist against racial or ethnic minorities . *Instead* of such a person who is racist against ethnic and racial minorities a ‘bigot’, they ought to be called a ‘racist’, so to avoid the potential for any equivocation of terms .
With that distinction of terms established , let it be noted that being a NON-racist bigot ( a bigot against goofy subcultures and pop culture phenomenon…and NOT against racial and ethnic minorities) is not a bad way to be .
NON-racist bigotry / bigotry which is *NOT* in any way racist, nor ethnocentric, against racial or ethnic monorities (though it does *not* accept the cultural relativism en vogue with many anthropologists either ) …the ‘bigotry’ which does *not* disparage minority races , but disparages instead trendy pop culture and its subcultures is a darn good tendency !
After all , such goofy, trendy subcultures are *not* a racial group unto themselves, at least not yet .
I feel your pain. I try to be grateful that we once knew that NY that is now long gone.
I only wish I wasn’t so wasted back then so I could remember more!
you are so right nyc is losing its identity!! I still speak brooklynese and feel that out side of bay ridge and staten island you cant hear the dialect spoken as much anymore!! also there are no more real old school italian neighborhoods left even in brooklyn. I sense a piece of history and culture is being lost!! soon half of nyc will be like living in the midwest. Btw manhattan has already turned into an over priced shopping mall!!
Brooklyn born & raised, lived in Astoria for a bit, and now came back to Bensonhurst specifically. I now find my accent coming back in full force. Which is funny because I grew up in Starrett without any accent at all. Yet for some reason being in an Italian hood has me saying shit like “STFU and get outta hea” with full Brooklyn accent. Thankfully, it only comes out when I get pissed. LOL
keep it up dickwads! keep the hate going, its good for your health !
Here’s the thing,
What sucks is, I honestly enjoy a good PBR, and I love vintage clothing. I’m a filmmaker. (Which makes me an artist) But by no means do I condone or have any love for hipsterdom, hipsters, etc.
I like these things not because they are cool or “hip” or the “please look at me” factor but because I grew up a POOR ethnic kid from Oakland CA.
I drink PBR because it’s what my father (a construction worker) drank after work. I wear old clothes because I could never afford anything new or with popular labels. So I had no choice but to wear clothes from 2nd hand stores and thrift stores.
Yes over the years, I’ve learned and grown to love my unique sense of style. But again, it’s taken a good 20years to get over feeling like the poor kid in class.
You so called “vintage loving” hipsters weren’t around when it wasn’t cool to be wearing a grand pa looking sweaters when everyone else had Tommy Hill jackets. NO you came in when it was cool and OK to do this. You never had to go through the emotional scarring of how cruel kids can be in the school yard just because you’re not wearing or sporting the latest, latest.
Hipsters have RUINED so much of what I’ve known and loved for so long.
I’m an adult now and relatively successful but I’m proud of my minimum wage roots.
I live in an ethnic neighborhood in Los Angeles now but travel to NYC pretty frequently. What sickens me (being a person of color) is the fact that NY Chinatown is starting to look more like an Urban outfitters ad. It was like an invasion of dirty unshowered kids in skinny jeans. And here in LA hard working Mexican families who’ve lived here for years. Are being pushed out because the landlords are getting hip to the hipsters and the money that comes with them.
With that said I think about the ONLY good thing (but still needs a balance) is the fact that when hipsters do move in, the crime rate drops a bit lower. Which if you’ve lived in the hood forever, you welcome with open arms. But if it’s at the expense of a neighborhood losing its soul… I sometimes have to think that one over.
Thank you for this site. You speak volumes to how I feel about the age of the hipster.
Thanks for listening,
P.L.
Sounds like you should check into a psychiatric clinic and get some time on the couch, there “Parker”.
Haha yah been there.
Thanks for the advice.
You just sound a little frazzled.
I don’t know what Josh’s problem is. Anyway, the weirdest thing about wearing “thrift store sweaters” in a non-ironic way is that hipsters can sense it and don’t like it. They don’t even respect you for being an “OG” or anything.
Parker Louis can’t lose??
I remember last time you posted the exact same thing.
I’m calling shananigans…
Your first sentence makes you totally a hipster.
you put it so gently and spoke from the heart. I am deeply saddened by what has happened to this city and the people who worked so hard to make some it’s neighborhoods safe for themselves and their children. It seems as if we are victims of our own success, as we made it so great, that we are being forced out by people half our age who are paying ridiculous rents and who, quite frankly, could give a rat’s ass. I take solace in the fact that karma does indeed have great aim!
I can’t help but identify. Growing up in a smalltown in the Midwest and accidentally representing everything people identify as a modern-day hipster.
From the cheap PBR to the weather-conscious flannel, I can’t help but live the things sites like this have vowed to hate.
Gentrification is a valid point against trust-funded move-ins, but it’s the way of neighborhoods to change and evolve over time.
I can’t help but find this site incredibly xenophobic, considering I am one of the detested “transplants” living in the Bronx.
Can’t I be part of this city too?
Of course you can be a part of any city. You need to remember a few things though:
First of all, there’s no such thing as an accidental hipster. Nobody intends to be a hipster, and it doesn’t just “happen” to somebody. One has to meet certain criteria in order to be labeled a hipster, criteria that nobody wants to meet. There’s nothing wrong with PBR or flannel in the winter. There’s something wrong with thinking drinking PBR makes you “gritty” though or with wearing flannel when it’s above 40 degrees out.
You don’t get to talk about gentrification, at all. Only people who actually grew up or lived there pre-gentrification do. You’re being disrespectful.
You are a transplant, whether you like it or not. So what?
Anyway, I can understand the appeal of a big East Coast city, I really can. You need to remember though that you’re not living in Manhattan. It’s not “that” NYC. The boroughs outside of Manhattan are like their own cities and have been doing their own thing for years and years and years. Don’t price people out of their neighborhoods by paying inflated rents, don’t think it’s your playground, don’t think you’re bringing culture to anybody or anything else. Be a good neighbor, be a part of the neighborhood instead of thinking you own it.
The fact is that the East Coast is not the Midwest. We don’t care what you wear, what music you listen to, really about anything except you respecting us and not infringing on our rights or inconveniencing us. Allow me to give you a less common example of what not to do anywhere on the East Coast: I was in Ocean City, New Jersey a few years back (a place where Philly area people go in the summer, we call all of Southern NJ “the shore”) and I saw this girl running along the beach (early-mid 20s probably) and she was wearing an arm band. I figured she had an injury or something and paid it no mind. Then I see her come running back the other way, no arm-band. Turns out she has a tattoo on her arm and I guess felt she needed to cover it up. That is non-East Coast behavior.
We don’t care how you look, if you have tattoos it’s no big thing, don’t really care about anything. We all know plenty of people with tattoos or maybe have some ourselves. Just be a good neighbor and a good citizen of whatever city you’re trying to move to. Keep whatever place you live in in good condition and don’t move into a family area and then blast music or have parties or shit like that. Accept others without being snarky or any of that bullshit. Really just get over yourselves and your non-East Coast baggage and do you. You’ll find that if you don’t fuck with anybody (and that includes pricing out hard-working families or constantly doing shit for attention), nobody fucks with or cares about you.
Just know your place really. You have to earn being called a member of wherever you want to live because most people there either grew up there and went through the schools or moved there pre-gentrification.
Well. I am a native Manhattanite. What, we exist? Yes.
It is not just hipsters who are destroying NYC and it is not just Brooklyn. My old neighborhood, Yorkville, has been totally transformed. Ever since I was a little kid, packs of ex-frat finance world jocks went bar hopping and yelling at the top of their lungs in my old neighborhood. This was a working-class (and str8 poor) enclave with tons of new immigrants from the Middle East and Latin America and a history of Germans, Irish, Hungarians (still there when I grew up). I’m 31 and I grew up with one of the kids from the Sopranos and Macaulay Culkin (hate him if you want but he was a nice kid from a big Irish family). The Hungarian meat market just lost its lease after being there for decades and decades.
To be honest, I am not sure I think hipsters who wear wool hats are worse than jocks who go bar hopping in button-up shirts (7 in a pack all in the same outfit) in 40 degree fucking weather. The evil parasitic sociopath Wall Streeters who have clogged my old neighborhood are nasty, misogynistic, impolite and only care about money.
They have caused the demise of Mitchell Lama housing and it is a kind of class genocide.
I really think I prefer the hipsters because at least many of them really mean well. Sure, a whole lot of them are obnoxious fucktards. But they’re not as bad as the people who have destroyed Manhattan. I recently overheard a conversation between two finance guys in my mother’s elevator (of course, I’m not there, only THEY exist) about women’s bodies. It was so blatantly misogynistic I reeled. As they walked out, I said, “There goes the neighborhood.” They chuckled, not seeming to understand. The people who remained in Yorkville from that time (and from what I understand, Stuyvesant Town, etc) are genuinely community-minded people. At least the hipsters in Bushwick with the community garden and chicken initiative that provide free eggs to the Hispanic residents of the neighborhood (yes, they really do). Sure, if you talk to those hipsters you might not connect with them. But at least they give a fuck. Career-driven, non-hipster Yuppies like the ones who have destroyed Yorkville have ABSOLUTELY NO, AND I MEAN NO, CONCEPT OF COMMUNITY. AT. ALL. THEY DO NOT WANT TO SEE THE PEOPLE AROUND THEM WHO THEY ARE DISPLACING. At least the hipsters try, as smarmy as their attempts may be.
The way the finance and other yuppie professionals in terms of neighborliness is a kind of inhuman brain damaged soulless robotic autopilot. They were like this when I was growing up and they are like this now. They only care about themselves. The most tragic thing for me is the way Ruppert Park, between 91st and 92nd Streets on Second Avenue, has changed. Because the Youngish White Professional Man (and by proxy, his Youngish Asian Female Arm Candy Breeder) need a sanitized playground for their precious gifted elite Muppet, the park has been stripped of the shrubs and trees that used to be CRAWLING with unattended lower-income children. Kids are not playing in that park anymore. We used to use every inch of that park for unstructure, unsupervised, freeform, joyous, serious, hardcore, normal PLAY. Now it is a bunch of African-American nannies watching children so white they are radioactive (and don’t forget, so many half-Asian children you would think you are in some very upscale neighborhood in Tashkent).
Anyway… I will continue reading this blog. Glad to have found it. (PS @diehipster…I am a woman and I have one of the stereotypical male hipster names you consistently use. It is also a Hasidic female name. My middle name is a white trash name.)
Long rant, but I feel I am in the company of those who understand. God bless.
nice earnest post. old yorkville is largely gone and things do change. yes, at least the hipsters aren’t violent aggressive finance industry frat boys and a lot of them ‘mean well.’ i can tell we share much of the same sentiment since you mention mitchell-lama. i grew up in the amalgamated-park reservoir houses in the bronx where it all started– quality housing for working new york families built by labor– and the chipping away of mitchell-lama was like a knife in my heart. what happened to peter cooper-stuyvesant town was a disgusting victory for rich parasites and should never have happened. let’s not forget the ‘new yorkers’ who voted to go free market (all of the cooperatives on grand street) and those who voted it down to remain limited equity (penn south).
P.L.- very true…Los Angeles has been infested by this “trend”…it won’t last forever. L.A. digests its trends on a three year maximum basis…trust us, it won’t last forever. There IS a shelf life to this.
I hear you, Parker. I’m the exact same way. That’s what pisses me off the most is these kids didn’t earn any of the things they claim. They claim to be from “South Philly” or “Brooklyn” yet they didn’t grow up there let alone go through the schools. They claim to be “quirky, unique, different” yet they didn’t go through what kids who are like that go through, especially kids in old-school areas. What is possibly worse than that though is they make everything fit into boxes or be typical of some label. Now liking sci-fi or playing video games or reading various books or liking certain movies or music is considered “hipster” or “nerdy”, when it used to just be something that interested you. When I was in high school, less than a decade ago, kids with glasses were finally starting to fit in and same with kids who were smart and didn’t embrace the “underachiever and proud” bullshit. Then these bastards come along and set all of that back decades by bringing back the labels and all of the bullshit associated with them.
Fuck them.
Good post. I have a similar take on it. I frankly resent how what were unavoidable realities, for me, have been turned into an unattainably expensive “lifestyle choice”. For fuck’s sake, leave me something.
Hey Parker, cry me a river buddy, huh? way too long! no one asked nor cares! and there is way too much hate here people. we all know hipsters suck and they have ruined the lives of everyone around them, but they also have feelings. bearded dumb feelings. and they will eventually die a horrible death. god willing. and thankfully. horribly. heads up fuckers!
Sorry, that was my first time ever leaving a comment or blog. Don’t know the rules or etiquette yet. My apologies friend.
Sometimes trolls post comments to fuck with the regular posters.
Maybe you were mistaken for troll.
No rules Parker, but no one “enjoys” a PBR. i dont give a shit how cold it is. and i accept your unnecessary apology. speaking of parker, sucks about peter losing his job, huh?
Im so glad I found you again! This shit on here is piss your pants fucking funny lololol, brightens my day. keeep it up
I hale from the Bronx and I’m so glad dipsters havent penetrated the walls of the BX. I swear the first time i hear some dick from Ohio say ” ya I’m from the Bronx” when someone asks him where he’s from, that poor bastard is gonna get cracked in the face and thrown on the 1 train going south.
they’ve made inroads in the south bronx for a while now
May god bless all you anti-hipsters.
May the streets of williamsburg run with the std infected blood of our enemies.
May their rhythmless souls suffer torment in the hell we send them to.
May their memory be a footnote of disdain, and ridicule for generations and civilizations to come.
The time has come for our ugly, intolerant rhetoric to step into the 21st century. Our disgusting, dehumanizing slurs simply must reflect the terrifying new global society we now live in.
Face facts, Opposum, hipsters are the biggest dicks ever to infest this city. Everybody hates you. Hipsters even hate each other.
You deserve every word of it. If you really have a problem with it, just go back to wherever you came from and stop pretending to be Brooklynite/New Yorker.
I’ve found my home. Thank you.
I love love love this site. I’m a lifelong Chicagoan (and I mean CITY not suburbs) and hate seeing all this stuff happening in our neighborhoods. I’m actually really ready to move to the ‘burbs now that I’m turning 40 cause I really think they’ve taken over. The last straw was when I saw a guy skipping down the street (some weird workout type thing, but seriously, it looked like he was skipping) in my Ukrainian Village ‘hood. 15 years ago he would have gotten his ass kicked….
Who cares what a city is growing to look like (“Urban Outfitters Ad”). There are trends and they will come and go and takes years to do so. If you’re so goddamn angry about the ‘hypsterization’ of Brooklyn, why don’t you shut up and go elsewhere? Oh, because you grew up there and YOU’RE the one with the right to be there? I think it’s hysterical when people make fun of hipsters, but everyone here seems to put SO much energy into it. I don’t live in Brooklyn, or any other part of New York, but I do live in a hipster infested Southern city. I can’t imagine how “bad” it is there that you have to whine and bitch extravagantly, but okay. I hope you put this much energy into your REAL job. Leave if you’re so goddamn unhappy. Throughout history there have always been waves of one type of people flooding New York. And this wave is hipsters. You’re just going to have to get over it. You sound like you need a prescription of Valium, Zanex, or Zoloft or something, you just need to chill the fuck out. You live in one of the most densely populated cities in the world, if this bothers you so much, sounds like it’s time for you to leave.
I’m sure there will be an influx of bitchy messages after this, but I’m not going to bother to check the “notify me of replies” box. Just wanted to add my two sense.
Sounds like this one got her period
I haven’t heard this much impotent whining from irrelevant and humorless nonentities since the last time Pearl Jam went on tour. Not being able to tell the difference between “sense” and “cents”…well, that’s just gravy.
You’re right, we DO put this much energy and EFFORT into our real jobs….and we make money.
haha, perhaps the hipster minidick did not do the job so she has to whine about how she is amazed at why people put energy into writing about hispters! imagine when things g physical – like actual assault – especially when an idiot hipster tells people that they have to leave their homes and neighborhoods to accommodate the vermin that are the hipsters. really? i never felt like punching someone but this tramp kinda makes me want to.
I can empathize , Claudia .
That “lady” reports being from a southern city …..
I wonder if she might be of the particular subculture (a subculture that has been around for a long, long time) in the American south , which I have christened ‘frumpies’ . They are a weird subculture of upscale, dilettantish, social- climbing sorts of people, who have a parsimonious, frumpy demeanor/personality.. .
They tend to come from middle class to wealthy backgrounds …have a venal , consumerist outlook (and concurrent with that…a tendency towards vapid conservative affiliations). They tend to have a spectrum of demeanors which run the gamut *from* the sort of look and sound that woman on CNN: who has the crime entertainment talk show …. *to* that of some frumpy, mint- julep drinking , defender- of- the- plantation- system, whose shtick is culled from the era shown in the movie ‘Gone- With- The- Wind ‘.
Often though they tend to be enamored of political conservatism , the frumpies yours truly has seen seem to be more fond of contemporary pop culture, than some other sub-types of conservatives –like , say, older conservatives in the North . That’s not even counterintuitive , insamuch as conservatism is a vapid ideology, one which is enamored of what is lucrative .
Conservatism tends to marginalize (or, in worse cases, even dislike and reject) that which is romantic / quaint / *not* trendy and lucrative , and support what is economically competitive , so, since
MTV- era kitsch (like what the hipsters promote) is lucrative in selling to its “demographic” …hence , it is not suprising that frumpy conservatives might partially defend and support the hipsters (regardless of the umbrage they might *occasionally* take with them for supporting causes that such conservatives mistake for genuine liberal activism …i.e. the NEO-liberal / limosine leftist sort of diluted activism which the NEO-liberal faction of hipsters might go for) .
The frumpy subculture is quite goofy in its uppitty, chintzy, hoity-toity demeanor .
The attempts of the frumpy subculture at cerebral sorts of content tend to be quite mainstream and perfunctory …though a frumpy might be, say, well versed in the history of the British royal family ( a number of them are enamored of British royalty !) …and, also, *sometimes* somewhat more esoteric and ostensibly deeper fields of study …they are seldom willing to go beyond a respectibly mediocre , perfunctory, status quo approach to intellectual matters and seek after more trenchant insights . They are trite and dilettante like …they LACK the single-mindedness , which thorough intellectualism demands ….
Such frumpies (as a subculture) are …NOT the same as rednecks of the older, more authentic sort .
(As an aside, yours truly is quite fond of old style rednecks , in the main, provided they are *not* of the militantly racist nor surly variety) .
Frumpies are the sort of people who are eager… as the popular expression goes…to “put their town on the map” .
It wouldn’t be suprising ..since the frumpy subculture is likely to have its subvariants and cultural mutations over the generations, that there might be some newer generation , pop culture saavy frumpies who unfortunately empathize with the hipsters …liking that they are economically saavy (in the entertainment driven economic paradigm , which has emerged in the current weird era) .
Frumpies are a trendy bunch . They tend to be enamored of the next latest thing, provided it is *not* something that goes against consumerist/conservative sensibilities . They tend to be quite taken with the Dr.Phil sort of pop psychology …self- help movement propaganda , which is all so popular in the current age …the sort of crap where people bandy about misleading new-speak terms like “enabler”…. and other similar verbal sludge …
A new era frumpy might be a quite likely to , say , be the sort of conservative whom would have liked the hideous and insipid pop music with a twang *disguised* as country, IF the Dixie Chicks had not done the typical
NEO-liberal, trendy thing and, hence, bashed George W. Bush, during one of their lousy concerts in England .
Funny how , there are good reasons not to like the music of the Dixie Chicks (i.e. it is banal kitsch and that sucks ) and *not* because Bush deserves any more reverence than the equally bourgeous , banal , irrelevant NEO-liberals who want to make him the whipping boy …and how, (to wit), the silly Dixie Chicks had the temerity to criticize “the fearless leader” !
Beware of frumpies ….
it’s two cents, dipshit
you people sure have a lotta hate in your hearts. try love, it works miracles
We prefer working on preventing a whole new generation of hipsters. Mandatory spaying and neutering: Weed-Eaters for the boys and Roto-Rooters for the girls, and anybody who bitches about it doesn’t get anaesthesia. Get in line and shut up.
I read something great recently–it said that hate can be good, if what you hate deserves to be hated. So I take your statement as a compliment.
After a run in with the typical out of place hipster during St.Pattys day. I can say now that these fuckers are in the wrong place at the wrong time. and war has been declared.
Die you cock suckers DIE!!
Sweet website you have here. Hipsters are starting to show up here in Montana seem to prefer begging for money downtown rather than getting a job. Recently I was home visiting family in Philly and NYC and I went to a party in Brooklyn with some old friends. Six hipsters showed up without being invited and started to harass people. They all had tights pants with sequins, so I began to make fun of them. People at the party were getting nervous because they had chains that they began to swing around. I then proceeded to kick the shit out of all six of them. Not one of the skinny shits could do a thing about it. Best fun in New York that I’ve had in years.
uhm . . .
You came to a party in Brooklyn and beat-up “hipsters” in ‘tights pants with sequins’ – yes, hipsters wear tight pants – but with sequins? This sounds like another type of crowd . . . and they began to swing around chains? Chains? ahem . . . Keybelt chains that might hurt you?
And, again, you were afraid of them?
To the point where you ‘proceeded to kick the shit out of all six of them’ . . . ?
You are in Brooklyn, not Montana.
ok, so you were afraid of them.. And what were you afraid of, exactly?
That the sequined people might hurt you?
Oh, poor pussy!
Please, stay far, far away from the scary sequined-pants wearers of Brooklyn –
Man that you are! Poor, poor pussy-cat
Poor Megan….
Did your performance art immitation get any better?
I think you should spend less time pulling biological grit outta your stank cooch and learn how to give HEAD. Yeah, who knows if you suck off enough plastic surgeons out there, you might actually get one of them to fix your HIDEOUS BEAK.
Damn what a fucking schnoz you got bitch…..
Fellatio is the sort of adolescent, lurid trash , which the sex positive hipster crowd would likely *already* go for anyway …so its not like that such an exhortation to that person (be she a performance artist or not) …would be falling on deaf ears ….
You wouldn’t have a hard time persuading a hipster to take up that practice…if something is sexy and kinky …then if the puerile, sex chasing hipsters aren’t allready into it …chances are they soon will be …
Me and my friends stumbled upon your site and we love it! Hipsters can get so increasingly annoying and act so pretentious and smoke their Camel Lights and American-fuck-ever. I hate it, a lot of them end up dropping out of college do nothing with their lives. Trust me i see it ALL the time.
i can now say that i have found a home amongst like minded Indivisuals who have the same outllook on the shit-stream that is hitting all urban areas in the country. fuck these pseudo-faggots. i say that because these assholes are faggier than legit gay dudes. let these assholes know how really detested they are in new york and abroad.
I can’t believe I JUST stumbled onto this website! I found your link up on Brokelyn… I wrote a couple of articles for them over the last year or so and was met with criticism with respect to anything I had to say that was anti-hipster. I was told it’s “been done”. Well, to that I say it hasn’t been done ENOUGH!
Anyway, I look forward to reading this blog as often as possible. I’m an almost 32 year old single woman – born and raised in BK (Gravesend/Coney) and currently living in Dyker Heights. I am regularly hating the fact that it’s one of the only decent BK neighborhoods I can afford on my own (without 5 roommates ala hipster-bk) due to the hipster influx. I won’t lie and say that I am not interested in many of the things that the hipster folks are (art and the likes) associated with and have sort of taken ownership of. That’s another thing I can bitch on and on about for hours… Anyway, I’d love to be able to participate in Artistic Brooklyn.. I just wish all the hipsters would stay home so I could do so
Thanks for putting this together and tellin it how it is.. Real NY…
You’ve got a new regular reader!
Real NYC is all in your head.
Actually, “real NYC” is the place that existed before you arrived, Hipstopher Columbus.
I would just prefer if you could make fun of hipsters without having to call them cocksitters or telling them to smoke dicks. As someone who sits on cocks and smokes dicks and is proud of it, I take offense to my sexual behavior being equated with these type of hipster vermin.
As the person who coined the cocksitter phrase as it applies to Joshes, let me say that it has nothing to do with YOUR sexuality..that’s what YOU’ve read into it.
And as a cocksitter yourself, you know how *that* feels… and that they LOOK JUST LIKE they’ve sat on a huge cock, or for that matter any large object or are having an enema….go back and look at that pic of Matt Gross if you don’t believe me…..
Cocksitting as I use it has nothing to do with man on man love…but everything to do with their hideous facial expression. Last time I check the Gays don’t have an exclusive on sucking cock or having things rammed up their asses….Sure, some Josh cocksitters could be gay…but also could be straight and like getting pegged by Megan or whatever….
So relax….take a deep breath and let your muscles go limp………..
as someone who is totally against both homophobia and hipsters, i hear you. there’s a lot to be about the relation between hipsterdom, a changing nyc, and homosexuality, probably enough for a separate blog.
You all are very negative. It’s too bad all the haters can’t put there energy into something useful. Have a nice day
Funny: I thought we were.
You know as a local New Yorker that was born and raised here, I really didn’t know what a “Hipster” was before he started to talk about them and how they truly are infesting this great city. I have read the comments posted, and I agree entirely on some of them. This Epidemic has spread to places that I thought was going to be untouched because it was so far away from Williamsburg, where the Collective Hive is. I have taken the (M) train almost my entire life and I would just like to say that it has changed. It was fine when they got off at Marcy Ave or Lorimer St. But then slowly but surely I notice them getting off on Myrtle Ave, so I was thinking, ok so maybe Williamsburg is full. When they started getting off at Knickerbocker and Myrtle-Wyckoff Ave, that really got me thinking. I hope they never invade Queens, because they are Brooklyn based. But as one of my fellow anti-hipster friend said, “I can see them ironically living in queens, and then ironically splintering into a subculture of Queens hipsters.” I really hope that never happens. They look at other people (Non-hipsters) as if they are better than them, I see it in their eyes. Scoping out people in the train, and thinking to themselves, “I’m so much more trendy and hip than you” while sipping their expensive java. One gear bikes, Ironic Tee’s and Used Strand Books are invading the (M) train subway line! I have aluminum baseball bats, metal rods, 2X4′s in my basement, ready for some Hipster beatings if necessary. For those who are brave enough, join me in ridding this nonsense out of our city. Go back to Wisconsin or whatever, and stay the hell out of Queens!
Have you seen this in the Voice? You’ll love it! A hipster break-up text…
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/05/the_most_epic_h_1.php
OH PLEASE FUCKING GOD NO!!!!!
NOT ANOTHER FUCKING HIPSTER PHENOMENON FROM A FUCKING LOSER WHO ISN’T GETTING LAID AND POSTS PICS OF CHICKS HE WISH HE WAS GETTING HIS FUCKING ONE INCH DICK INTO (if he’s even that big).
SORRY FOR THE ALL CAPS BUT I WANT TO GOUGE MY FUCKING EYES OUT AFTER SEEING THAT FUCKING UGLY FUCKING SITE!!!!
If you were in Germany you’d be trasklated as “THE hipster” -check that shit out.
WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT GERMANY…? THE SITE IS IN ENGLISH SO DIE MOTHERFUCKING HIPSTER DIE!!!!!!!!
This site sucks and I wish I could never look at it again but I just can’t seem to pass up one more opportunity to remind all of you hater douchebags that my progeny will probably enslave yours in the coming years and hopefully inflict great pain and suffering on them. Dudes, lighten up, get laid, stop being so homo.
Pot and the fucking kettle.
How do you determine who is a newly arrived immigrant and who is a wanna-be transplant? Please give me a definition for real New Yorker. NYC has been and always will be a city of transplants and immigrants. Be they from Warsaw or Seattle, you were born in New York, so fucking what. I was born in Texas, you want to try and make me go back motherfucker. Your blog sucks dick.
Wow. You really must feel this way, coming all the way from Plano or Round Rock. I mean, if your “blog sucks dick” comment were just projecting what you plan to do for the rest of the day, you’d just have said “your blog sucks out pimentos shoved up a Chihuahua’s ass.”
@Texas Triffid Ranch
You’re not making any sense. Why don’t you address my questions rather than get all homophobic on me. But I guess that’s just the douche bag way.
Dude that picture of you and that busted old hippie chick on the elephant is hilarious. You look like an old bloated stevie ray vaughn wanna-be. I can see why you are so full of hate now. Have fun in North Dallas with your bug eating plants and your wiccan wife loser.
And that’s got to drive you absolutely fucking insane, doesn’t it, Stevie? I have to ask: have you managed to go through every Internet cafe in Toronto to post all day, or are you stealing computers from friends just to get on here and whimper?
Anthony, Stevie, Trey, Native…Jerome….here’s another one that got her period today……See those hormones do work after all…..
Again with the knee jerk homophobic, misogynist comments. Dude I asked questions, do you have answers or just hatred?
Why should anyone have answers when you’re not interested in getting them? This is all about you having a pissing match in the dark. Debating anything with you is like debating a young-earth creationist: any response is just met with more idiotic ad hominem “rebuttals”, and you claim victory when everyone else gets tired of your little game and leaves you to play with yourself.
Isn’t that what you do?
It is not about transplants; but the kind of transplant. Kind of like how Southerners felt when the carpetbaggers came–total disdain for interlopers who didn’t understand or respect the locals and their culture. Hipsters are lemming, copycat, vapid insipid, bored, boring insipid, insidious, interlopers. Hipster carpetbaggers who will leave NYC when the parental money runs out or it is no longer “deck”. Southern culture is still going strong, let’s hope Brooklyn can survive. (This has nothing to do with race!)
From wikipedia:
In United States history, “carpetbaggers” was a negative term Southerners gave to opportunistic Northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877. They often formed alliances with freed slaves and scalawags (southern whites who were Republicans). Together they are said to have politically manipulated and controlled former Confederate states for varying periods for their own financial and power gains. In sum, carpetbaggers were seen as insidious Northern outsiders with questionable objectives meddling in local politics, buying up plantations at fire-sale prices, taking advantage of poor Southerners and pushing their alien Northern ways on Southern politics. Carpetbagger is not to be confused with copperhead, which is a term given to a person from the North who sympathized with the Southern claim of right to Secession.
Gigi…girl are you sure you’re all there????
im sorry, maybe you should leave the room cuz im fittin to go off on this shit you wrote….damn……
what the fuck (and i’ll try to keep it in lowercase for ya, cuz you seem like such a nice girl) kinda mentally retarded pitiful analogy is this fucking stoopid ass bullshit…you have burped up here….?
really? you equate hipsters to ***carpetbaggers*** then use wikipedia as your reference?……..thats some dumb ass shit …..
hahhahahahhahahahahahhahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
do you really believe colby, sandy, stevie, matt gross, kid akimbo and all the other inbred retards who can barely get up before 2pm everyday…
1. who walk around brooklyn with permanent lobotomized shit-eating grins….colby wears diapers for fucksake..go back to his picture you can see the fucking drool running down his chin!
2. who are so unoriginal, unintelligent and flatworm like…
3. who are so infantalized they are still supported by their parents….
4. who are some of the most obvious cocksitting mother fuckers….
***these*** fuckfaces are capable of exploting us brooklynites????? really????????
do you honestly think that they collude with i dunno….say the hasids or other minority groups (and girl im being kind here..and not going into *that* too closely) to gain economic or political power over us??????
and prey tell just what kinda exploitation do you think is going on…lerve to hear *that*…..
also, please tell me you’re not even in brooklyn…please…cuz it would surely break my evil little heart to think a brooklynite would be so out of touch that she would consider her home to be analogous to the south (on any level whatsoever, including the reconstruction era)…..good god woman….wtf…?????
ok, bad really bad analogy. It was a total stretch and you enlightened me.
sorry.
I am not in Brooklyn your heart is safe. I am in another borough.
Agro not directed at you, personally…Im just naturally an agro kinda person.
I take medication for it…:)
“How do you determine who is a newly arrived immigrant and who is a wanna-be transplant?”
It ain’t too fuckin’ hard there, buddy. Not many Greenpoint Pollacks or Sunset Park Chinamen walking around with BMX baby strollers and $12 cups of mud coffee, having nasally conversations about how great they are because they read books and watch movies that no real people care about. But of course you are probably a yupster inbred yourself, which is why you have so much trouble figuring out what one is.
The difference, Anthony, is hipsters flock to these cities for the wrong reasons compared to other immigrants… as well as they don’t contribute anything positive/new to these areas. Other immigrants haven’t/don’t jack prices of apartments and indirectly run other immigrants out.
No hipsters where I live, given I’m 30 minutes outside of Pittsburgh. Fucking boring here in Walmart-land. Probably why so many hipsters head to the city, but they can do that -without- ruining the city and tainting its culture… but alas they they do.
I live on the south side of the burg and am a hardly working director that mooches off of his girl, and wakes up from a pbr induced stupor at noon and drinks overpriced imported coffee….
but I grew up in jersey city, and would beat the living crap outta you if you look at me sideways you fucking Gumba…
am i a hipster??
PS i dont know if you know this but the cops in my hood call them marshmallows, cuz they(we) are white and soft…
PSS i LOVE this site, keep up the great work, it brightens my day
I thought you’re from Canarsie? No wait, Bushwick? Williamsburg? Grew up in Jersey City? Hold on, I thought you are “as authentic bklyn as it comes”.
Damn, Bill!
Why so much hate? Hipsters may be annoying and fun to laugh at, but they’re far better people than the extremely bitter folks here.
If “real” New Yorkers are like the people commenting on this blog I’m really glad I don’t live anywhere near you fools.
“Hipsters may be annoying and fun to laugh at, but they’re far better people than the extremely bitter folks here.”
Says a hipster himself.
Why don’t you go back to Pennsyltucky, shack up with your sister and get to work on producing the next generation of ‘hipsters.’ After all, that’s how you were all brought into this world.
Thanks for proving my point dumbass.
http://diehipster.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/the-ultimate-lonely-247-internet-using-hipster-troll-exposed/
TOM POSTED :Why so much hate?
RESPONSE : Simple , Tom . The hipster phenomenon epitomizes the relativist /postmodernist ideology of ambivalent / duplictious thinking …”conflicted” thinking that , hence, seeks a mushy middle ground …sellout thinking . The namby pamby ideology that seeks balance …balance *instead of* integrity .
From an epistemological standpoint and , concurrently, from an axiological standpoint , such ambivalent , incongruous thinking: the sort of thinking that tolerates ambiguity/ embraces internal contradictions in thought , equivocates …the hipster ideology which supports that goofy MTV era sort of thinking called ‘lateral thinking’ …is …..*ANTICLIMATIC* , and , hence treats all thought and life as an on again/ off again charade !
The necessary cultural outgrowth of such an evil , mediocre world and life view is kitsch and spectacle .
Why should the hipsters mind if they are hated (or even harshly treated) since, according to the postmodernist ironical stance, they take nothing is worth showing maximal opposition to …according to postmodern ANTI-philosophy (which is the ideology of hipsters) and, hence, wouldn’t that also apply to the opposition to the cultural berating of them ?
The annoying factor about relativism in this current era is that there is often a type of relativism that is an adamant sort of relativism . Such relativism has infiltrated (and inwardly betrayed) progressive and countercultural causes .
There is a cautionary tale (a satire) which I have posted on that which is titled : ‘Pomo Kid And The Misadventure In Time’ .
If someone is going to be a relativist (one who allege that there is merely opinion and perspectives rather than any ultimate truths or values ..or that… in the case of more minimal versions of relativism…there are ALLEGEDLY few ultimate truths rather than none …and both the maximal and minimal versions of relativism are unacceptable) ….then they should at the least have the decency to cultivate the sort of relativism that has a tenor of apathy , *instead* of the sort of relativism that is adamant in an ironic sort of way . (A pyrrohnism of one who meta -doubts even that he actually doubts, would be yet even more preferrable to any sort of relativism….)
For ambivalence is far worse than apathy . It is sell-out thinking …which ultimately is far worse than selling out in action .
When a person who appears to be of a progressive / humanitarian affiliation …espouses that adamant, ironical relativism …which is far worse than the less bad apathetic version of a relativist who just is always placid , feeble and never seems to protest any state of affairs , when they , were to say to someone else who advocates some monsterous , crass, wrong opinion , say, like white supremacist skinhead who wants to genocide whole races cause he doesn’t like the colour of their skin …and says to the white supremacist some namby-pamby , MTV era statement like unto the following , “well Mr. white supremacist I respect your opinion, but I don’t agree” or “well that perspective of wanting racist genocide is right for you , but its not right to me …from my perspective” , or “um kay, I’m not trying to be judgemental , but maybe you could see that there is another side” or any similar namby-pamby tripe …that adamant relativist by respecting the crass opinion of the white supremacist (or any that is on the wrong side of any issue) is *mentally betraying* what they themselves profess to believe .
The relativist NEO-liberal who says they support ending say a bad proclivity (like white supremacist racism), AND YET who , then , goes and affirms some namby pamby way of thinking, like respecting the opinion of the white supremacist who supports genocide, even if the relativist himself (or herself) disagrees with it (and I’m *not* referring to respecting the legal perogative of someone to express a wrong opinion like that without being arrested for doing so…which is a *separate context* from respecting the opinion itself) *mentally betrays* the cause of racial justice by respecting the opinion of the racist (or the opinion supported by people on the nonracist side of the issue) , even if they disagree with such a racist opinion, and even if the external actions of the person seem very good (like getting a million petitions signed against some racially unjust action et al) .
For if one does not wish to betray the cause one is working for …if one is to be fully loyal to it …then one should *not* hesitate to affirm a metanarrative that such a cause one is working for be it ending racial injustice, getting rid of sweatshop labor, animal rights, organic farming ect ., is *ultimately* right period …NOT “right to us” but “not right to them” …NOT “true to me or true to us” but “not true to them” or any of that MTV era, squishy talk…but absolutely and ultimately right period .
To take a proposition which one supports and to tacitly deny its ultimacy …deny its absoluteness by respecting an opposite proposition, is to be disloyal *in thought* to the proposition one supports … (and by that I do *not* mean respecting sincerity …*rather than* the opposite belief itself… in the case of someone, if they affirm a proposition that is opposite to the proposition oneself affirms , due to them having an earnest misconception, *instead of* disingenuousness and murky bravado…for that sort of respect is a different context, as well ) .
Absolute metanarratives are damn good. Truth is NOT a language game …and if Richard Rorty told you it was …then guess what? …he told you wrong !
The most pernicious factor that makes the hipster subculture deserving of vehement,
NON-violent hatred …I certainly do *not* wish those creeps any vindictive bodily harm …is not predicated on how they have bed hair , or that their girls dress like boys and their boyfriends sound like girls …Instead , it is that they support that adamant relativist / postmodernist /ambivalent thinking aka sellout thinking…indicted in the paragraphs shown above !
i can get behind this. a nice logical argument. point taken.
p.s. I hope you get sued for libel.
Tom, tom……..
Before you talk shit you better recognize, son….
People on this site got skillz…..they’re smart….
Now go home, grow a dick and look up the LEGAL definition of defamation before you embarrass yourself futher….
PREFACE TO THE NOTE: Here is a story I wrote as a cautionary tale against postmodernism: the ideology which pervades the hipsters (and many of the yuppie circles as well) . I added some new names of bands that I have recently gathered are bands which are in favor with the hipsters to make the story all the more of a satire of hipster thinking .
NOTE : The following is a fictitious (though it is an appropro portrayal of relativist/postmodernist thinking) story which depicts a young man (age 24) who supports postmodernist/relativist ideology .In the story, he sent back in time from circa 2007 A.D. to 1855 Oneida, New York (by a University sociology department) to engage in discussion with an abolitionist orator. The young man is called in the story : Pomo kid …’pomo’ being an abbreviation for postmodernist . He is sent back into time with a special hidden video and audio device designed to record sound and image of the discussion that he will have with Benjamin Obadiah Whittaker –an abolitionist and former slave, who is scheduled on that June evening to give a speech on the evils of slavery, at the Shaker meeting house, during a meeting hosted by the Oneida abolitionist society .
The exchange between Pomo Kid and the abolitionist leader is a cautionary tale presented in a format similar to a one-act play, designed to reveal the incongruity and general murkiness of postmodernist/relativist thinking (the ideology embraced by hipsters) . Keep in mind , O reader , that the ideology supported by Pomo Kid is completely *wrong* .
PREFACE Pomo kid has gotten in the time machine and the controls have been set for June 25, 1855 . Since the machine is the first of its kind and time travel with it expected to be slow, when going on what the scientists back at the lab call it’s “maiden voyage” , Pomo Kid has taken some magazines: the UTNE reader (bought for him by his limosine- liberal parents who read it themselves ) and Relevant Magazine .
Pomo Kid –having a short attention span fostered by years of chronic MTV watching –has also taken a specially made CD player and some CDs to keep him amused. When he gets to 1855 Oneida , New York he discovers that miraculously the CD players and CD’s work –though he has a hard time getting them to work while riding in the time machine. The CD ‘s he has taken are as follows : Jewel’s Greatest Hits, a CD by the musical band ‘Toad The Wet Sprocket’, a CD by ‘The Strokes’, The Dawson’s Creek t.v. show soundtrack, a CD from the band Barenaked Ladies, and ‘Rumors’, by Fleetwood Mac (A CD that he borrowed from his parents) , ‘Modest Mouse’ , and a CD from a singer named Dan Hasletine .
The time machine soon arrives in a dairy cattle field, in 1855 Oneida,New York . He steps out of the time machine with his CD head set over his ears –and hidden minature camera recording device cocked and disguised as one of his piercings . As he steps out on to the farm field of Ezra Howell Drummond –no person sees the machine land, nor him emerge. The dairy cows give him monentary glances of dull suprise and then return to to crunching and grazing down the vast green verdure . He looks at a minature digital map device and proceeds to walk to the Shaker meeting house to hear the speech by Benjamin Obadiah Whittaker .
He arrives on time and sits down . Some of the abolitionists and interested town folks noticed Pomo Kid as he arrives and are somewhat baffled by his odd appearance –as his clothes , hairstyle and general demeanor do not look period, but do not approach him . They are more interested in the speech by Mr. Benjamin Whittaker . Benjamin Whittaker presents a cogent and eloquent indictment of the evils of chattel slavery in the antebellum south. He especially highlights the treatment of slave women by slavemasters, overseers, and their cronies and acquaintances who, from time to time, rape the slave women on the plantations .
Pomo kid allows his CD headspeakers to droop a little so he can hear the speech —and gives a skimming of the main elements . As the speech draws to its close, Pomo kid hears the anti-slavery orator sum up the directive set before good citizens everywhere in the states, in a way that does NOT mince words .
‘ And so good citizens of Oneida , we can send forth the clear message …both to posterity , to others who have shared and will share the North American continent, and to all nations and every town and village abroad , that we will no longer accept, nor even partially accept, a wicked commerce of bodies and souls that treats marriage and kinship as makeshift gambits in some sordid game , where transgression of the convenants between man and women is done with impunity . We will stand with the men , women, and children who long to have the stability accorded to man and wife by civilized society. We make no caveat to the forces of darkness and depravity that would settle for anything less! ‘
There is a roar of applause and even a few Amens from the audience .
Soon the speech is then over, and there is time for handshakes and entreties from the audience .
Pomo Kid then approaches the abolitionist orator .
POMO KID : “Hey Mr.Whiitaker , dude . I, like, enjoyed your speech . I can see that feel quite passionate about racial oppression and all , but there’s some stuff I’d like to discuss with you . I know that slavery is a bad scene and it’s kinda bogus how slaves are treated , but you gotta learn to respect the opinion of those who want to rape their slave women and sell their kids to other plantations too, and look at it from their perspective some too . You are, like, so judgemental, so preachy , dogmatic …so one-sided towards the opinions of those who want to rape slave women, beat them some, and sell their children downriver . It’s like you want to preach instead of discussing…you preach. You got to learn to look at it from other perspectives. What you are doing is the us versus them approach towards people who oppress and exploit slaves . The us versus them approach isn’t good . It’s fanatical to take the us versus them approach . The us versus them way is, like, so yesterday . Everything is connected . It’s all connected. Really the slaveowner and the oppressed slaves are really part of the same thing . Making distinctions is so passe /so yesterday . It’s all one . It’s all how you look at it .
You know there’s many sides to every issue. Stuff like slavery is not all black and white, there are shades of grey. It’s not totally bad being oppressed as a slave . You got to look at it from other points of view . Learn to accept that problems are part of life…a growing experience . You know, getting raped and being sold away from your family just goes to show that life is give and take . If nobody ever got raped or exploited then you wouldn’t have give and take …and so you wouldn’t have reality ; it would be all idealistic . We can’t have stuff being idealistic all the time. Life is supposed to be a mixture of things . People are a mixture of things.
It’s all the duality of man .
In the time period I come from, we study deconstructionism and post-structuralism at my college, and I’ve been getting into Michel Foucault , and Lyotard, and Richard Rorty. They teach us not to totalize . What your are doing is totalizing …making people out to be villans if they don’t agree with rigid moral constructs . It’s all just language games –the divisions of beliefs that people have . There aren’t any absolute truths …or if there are, there aren’t very many…or we can’t be sure what they are .
You got to learn something Mr.Whittaker: don’t be so single-minded ….’
(Pomo kid pauses for an extended period of time and fiddles with his CD player and changes the Jewel CD for a Dawson’s Creek CD . He turns it down slighly so he can somewhat hear Mr . Benjamin Whittaker speak .)
Benjamin Whittaker stares at Pomo Kid with a look of utter credulity and disgust at the weirdly pusillanimous , and convoluted statements that have poured forth from the young man’s mouth . He then speaks
BENJAMIN WHITTAKER SPEAKS : ‘Young man, I scarcely know where to begin to disabuse you of the false , and weirdly ludicrous statements you have put forth here. You claim I must respect the vile opinions of those who support the exploitation and tyrrany which oppresses persons of African descent–and , moreover, exploits women whose virginity has been taken from them by force! What on earth have such opinions done to merit such respect, or to even almost halfway earn such respect .? Young man I can scarcely help wondering if you have fallen in with revelling hooligans in Manhattan, which smoke opium in houses of ill repute and, that such riotous living has altered your febrile brain to such an extent that you find it a habit to talk nonsense . Young man, I do not know where you are from —
(Pomo Kid then interrupts Mr. Whittaker in mid sentence . Pomo kid is, after all, a postmodernist of the MTV generation and considers being fair and waiting till someone is finished talking to be passe and old fashioned communication practice, which he wants nothing to do with . Pomo kid favors a more edgy , open ended approach .)
POMO KID SPEAKS : (Decides to start out with circular thinking ) .’ Dude, the idea that it’s wrong to rape slave women , or brutally beat and exploit slaves and sell their children away from them …that’s wrong to us , but not to the people who support exploiting and raping slaves… Doing that’s right to them . Morals and truth are relative and subjective. What’s true to you may not be true to them . It’s all just different perspectives. If you go and say that its absolutely wrong for people to exploit and rape their slaves, instead of saying that it’s wrong to us, then …you’re like Hitler. Now you probably aren’t familiar with who Hitler is …but in the 20 Century there’s gonna be this guy called Hitler, who takes over and takes away peoples’ rights. And if you say that some belief is totally wrong and another belief is totally right then you’re like Hitler . Just like these holocaust survivors, that the nazis put into concentration camps and came out being all bitter, and one sided and preachy, and say what Hitler and the nazis did was wrong, and don’t respect the nazi point of view a little—well they’re like Hitler too ! Just like a person who always stops a bully from bullying people and won’t look at it from a bully point of view a little…well that makes that kind of one-sided person who is against bullying, a bully too, and just as bad as the real bully .
Also, just by saying that some belief or practice is wrong— just by verbally calling that belief wrong, you violate their right to free expression to say that opposite belief…even without any physical violence against them …without a single shot being fired .
You got to understand also that if somebody says that some belief isn’t absolute , then that right there prooves that it isn’t . Take the proposition that says that 2+2=4 . Well, as long as somebody disagrees with the idea that 2+2=4, then that automatically shows that the idea that 2+2=4 isn’t absolute, otherwise every person would have to say they agreed with 2+2 being = 4, otherwise it’s not absolute .
In the time period of history that I come from (which is the late 20 th and early 21 Centuries ), there’s this show called ‘The Real World’ . Now since television hasn’t been invented yet in 1855, you probably aren’t familar with that word. Television in the time I come from is a lot like what plays are on stages in the time you’re in . Television is kind of like a play —only more fun . So, in the time I come from, there is a show called ‘The Real World’ …and people on that show sometimes have different beliefs and so they can come together and get real and talk about the issues that bother them . The show teaches people to come out of their comfort zone (Pomo Kid runs through memory banks to come up with more newspeak words and phrases and finds some) and therefore they can have an impactive, impactful affect on each others lives, and give each other feedback about what they think. Now the people who are being raped , beaten , or exploited by masters and overseers down on those slave plantations, they got to stop being so one-sided and look at from another perspective, and come out of their comfort zone and stop portraying rape and exploitation as something totally bad. They can then get together with the slave owners and overseers and tell them about the way they feel, and then, get the slave owners and overseers to come out of their comfort zone too , and maybe tone down the rape and exploitation a little . That way you don’t have an us versus them .
Some people would say that what I’m saying doesn’t make much sense …that it’s inconsistent, ambivalent thinking (which is another way of saying sell- out thinking ), but I don’t call it selling out . I call it “looking at it from another perspective” . And about the people who say that postmodernism (like I’ve been trying to get you to support), doesn’t make much sense, well it doesn’t have to make sense. Making sense is so passe …so yesterday . Distinctions are just so passe . I don’t bother with rigid distinctions. I ‘ve gotten into a sort of thinking called lateral thinking …that doen’t get all hung up on distinctions . Lateral thinking doesn’t have to always make sense.
You Mr. Whittaker are a linear thinker …that consistent thinking is so out of style….so outmoded .Lateral thinking, that postmodernists (such as me) go for doesn’t bother with having to make sense …it tolerates ambiguity . You, Mr. Whittaker, are so rigidly consistent /so single-minded …a fanatical ideologue that goes to extremes of consistent thinking. You aren’t conflicted about anything !!!!
In the time period I came from, there was a singer called Moby—who used to be so dogmatic and one-sided about the animal rights cause, but lately he learned not to be so judgemental towards opinions of people who don’t support animal rights . He respects the outlook of the people who are against animal rights now –even though he’s for animal rights .The same flexibility applies to any social cause. After all, a professor I had once in a classroom, quoted the quote, “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds” .I’ve learned that selling out is not so bad . ‘
(Pomo kid having temporarily dropped the Dawson’s Creek soundtrack picks it up and puts in the Toad The Wet Sprocket CD . He changes CDs about as quickly as a chain smoker replaces cigarettes)
BENJAMIN WHITTAKER : (Still flabbergasted, begins to speak) ‘Without consistency of thought human affairs descend into meaninglessness….’
POMO KID SPEAKS : ‘Not if you think they have meaning for you . You know, by the way, in 1855, the people who exploit and rape slaves are doing what was thought right at the time. We shouldn’t be so chauvanistic as to try to harshly criticize people who own slaves by the morality of later periods. If you say that people who exploit slaves are doing something totally wrong, then you’re just as bad as they are . Morality is different from one period to another …some people say that people in different periods might call different actions moral …and it not be a case of inherently different morals …but that’s all the same anyway …since I don’t bother with hair-splitting distinctions like that .’
(Pomo Kid’s CD jams and stops playing temporarily. He pauses from speaking and, in so doing, ejects that CD and puts in the machine a CD of music by musician Dan Hasletine) .
BENJAMIN WHITTAKER SPEAKS : ‘How are you so sure that people who exploit slaves are unaware that what they are doing is fully wrong ?’ (The good abolitionist has managed to put aside being shocked by the weirdly insipid statements presented by Pomo Kid long enough to get the composure to ask him that question .)
POMO KID REPLIES : Well, if they thought it was wrong to exploit and mistreat slaves then they wouldn’t do it .
BENJAMIN WHITTAKER SPEAKS : ‘So let me get this straight, young man…you allege that the mere willingness of somebody to do some act is in of itself some ad hoc proof that, in every such case, they must be sincere in doing so.? Where do you arrive at such a facile conclusion ?’
(Pomo kid, who does not know a specific response to the question that can save face for how facile the previous statement he has just put forth has been…then searches his memory banks for the word he likes to bandy about whenever somebody presents an argument that is elaborate , doesn’t have postmodern cliches, and one which , moreover, he doesn’t want to slow down and bother to analyze . He finds that word …. the word “pseudo-intellectual” , which he uses to lambast elaborate arguments from people who refuse to sell out and entertain his lazy mind . )
POMO KID SPEAKS :’ Dude, I realy don’t have time for pseudo-intellectual questions and statements like you have been making. Mellow out, Dude . You are so single-minded . You just need to get laid .’
(Pomo Kid pauses and then speaks again )
POMO KID SPEAKS :’ You want to know something ? If you judge a belief or lifestyle that somebody supports …that’s the same as judging them, because an alternative-singer I like said so, in an interview I read in Spin magazine . He later said the same stuff about that on a VH-1 documentary . He said that the beliefs a person supports are the person themself —so by judging the belief your judging the person . Beliefs are people .’ (Pomo Kid gets oddly quiet all of a sudden )
BENJAMIN WHITTAKER THEN ASKS : ‘So to take such preposterously silly statement to its conclusion , do you then allege that if someone no longer believes the beliefs they once supported …they are no longer themselves .?’
POMO KID ASKS : ‘Yes .’
Why not say that ?’
BENJAMIN WHITTAKER SPEAKS :’ Well, young man, I hope that you will reconsider those murky notions you have given a voice to . Slavery is quite ugly and the others here know that .’
(Pomo Kid then takes out the Hasletine CD, and puts in a CD of Rumors by Fleetwood Mac in his CD player and adjusts the headset .) .
POMO KID SPEAKS : (Takes on the weirdly petulant snippness that young postmodernists sometimes adopt) ‘You know what, dude, you just don’t understand . I’m starting to think that it’s just a waste of time explaining this to you …since you have a closed mind. I can see you have a closed mind, because you keep having to take everything apart and you keep insisting on consistent distinctions . That’s very anal retentive of you, Mr. Whittaker . That’s also a power play on your part . It shows that you have control issues and will not look at anything a different way . You just don’t understand. You got all that deductive reasoning …but that’s a defense mechanism . Since you refuse to come out of your comfort zone and become conflicted about anything, there’s probably no point in having a discussion .You just don’t understand …all you want to do is be a true believer and stereotype the lifestyle of other people . So, like WHATEVER , dude …that’s not my problem !’
(Pomo Kid then speaks again )
‘You probably don’t think I identify with oppressed people but I do . My girlfriend and life partner Jasmine and me have gone to a lot of take back the night rallies . We’ve protested date rape on campus , though we respect the opinion of those who like date rape, since date rape is wrong to us , but not to the rapist . I’ve known oppression and been a victim of oppression myself . The year before last I went to go stay with my aunt Veronica, because my parents were using their house as a meditation center for married couples, and me being kind of high maintence …we figured I’d get in the way and so I went to go live with Veronica . But my aunt is an old school Mennonite –and so she’s like real rigid , dogmatic , and puritanical and so she wouldn’t let me and Jasmine’s ex boyfriend (he’s a real kewl guy who pierced my belly button when we went to Woodstock 94), and her ex boyfiriend ‘s cat all get together and have group sex games together in her house . She’s real dogmatic against sex (if you ask me she has some real issues if she’s against group sex games) . Sex is, like, my identity . Also I understand oppression because people sometimes look at me funny because I have a lot of piercings …so I know what it’s like to be oppressed too . ‘
BENJAMIN WHITTAKER SPOKE : ‘Young man, I pity someone with such a murky , ridiculous attitude as you have . If you excuse me, now myself and the other people here are going to march to the town hall where we will make the protest of slavery public … ‘ (He then turns away and walks toward the others who have gathered at the far door of the Shaker meeting house ) .
POMO KID SPEAKS (Runs up ahead to meet up with them): ‘ So you guys are going to a protest down town. Kewl ! For shizzle …that’s the shiznic ! I’ve been to protests with my girlfriend and our boyfriends …we’ve been to take back the night …and we’ve been to rallies at Lillith Fair too, so I know the routine . I once met Michael Stipe at a protest !’
(Mr. Whitakker and the other abolitionists have begun already begun to file out signs en hand . They cast backwards glances of disgust and perplexity at Pomo Kid ) .
Pomo Kid then runs out after them , “Let’s do it . End oppression now. Oppression is f–ked up . The people united will never be defeated …the people united will never be defeated ! The people united will never be defeated ! ‘
(He, upon hearing the onset of a track on the CD playing the Fleetwood Mac song ,’ Don’t stop thinking about tommorrow’, then begins to sing in unision to the song —as if it were a marching chant …As he runs out into the starlit roads of 1855 Oneida, New York, he soon finds he wishes he had a latte to round out the day) .
HOLY SHIT. I think I love you.
This is hilarious. I’m from the South, so I have to listen to all the hipsters down here talk about how wonderful New York is and how they can’t wait to move up there when they graduate. I kind of wish they’d hurry up and move already. Sorry to dump them on you, Yanks.
It’s okay. I think we’re all working for a perfect little hipster reservation, where they can live their lives in peace and harmony. It’s going to be about 200 miles due east of Long Island.
The MTA just helped out the hipster scum, the M line is now going to midtown…ughhh. These guys have no jobs, why even give them a subway line? So they can buy a latte in the West Village instead of their organic cafe in So. Williamsburg and Bushwick?
I’ve never seen a hipster go to midtown in my life. I’ve never seen a hipster in midtown. WTF!?!
Here is a list of places in NYC where hipsters have never been:Manhattan above 14th street, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn below Prospect Park…. That is all…
Please do not think I’m joking. I say this with ALL seriousness.
What … is … a … Hipster?
Is it different for different people? It’s not a new word, is it being used in a new way? Can somebody please just lay me down a simple definition or example???
You should email that question to Steve Lam
Now I have TWO questions … What’s a Hipster and Who’s Steve Lam?
There are pages and pages of months worth of posts that will clearly answer your question about the vermin we despise. Please explore….
The posts are what have created the question for me in the first place!
I’m beginning to think you all have simply appropriated the word “Hipster” to mean “lame” or “poser” much in the same way our moronic and misguided youth have come to use the term “gay”.
What’s being specified here in these posts (and elsewhere on the net) as “Hipster” seems both disparate and contradictory. I’m wondering if there is even a proper definition at all. Or perhaps it’s just a random insult levied again people who seem to fall towards the trendy segment of the populace.
Is there something specific about modern-day Hipsters which distinguishes them from the simple lame trendy posers which have existed throughout all time? Is this really a new breed of somethings?
Sorry Mighty
I re-approiated GAY back from the homosexuals and misguided youts….
Here’s what it means now:
Also is that retarded asshole in that little pic by your name YOU???
Stop with your bullshit already…and talk to Steve Lam….
The fact that you even knew where to find that video should be grounds for sterilization.
Too bad…
PLUS I GOT FERTILE BALLS…..been fucking since 6 years of age!!!
HAHAHAHahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Btw…you look G-G-G-..Gay Gay Gay…well you know the rest…..
Plus you must have something wrong with you…(well its kinda obvious from your clown-ass mug shot) if you are genetically threatened by Youtube….
On the other hand…I might recommend sterilization (unless you’re a homo) for you…cuz YOU LOOK LIKe you’re fucking drooling….
DURHHHHHHHHH
Does your Mommy know you’re using the computer?
G-g-g-GAy, GAY gay…..
La, la, la, la, la, la, la…….
Still haven’t found Steve Lam…..????
No, but I’d really like to! Is he hiding out somewhere near Waldo, cuz I’m actually pretty good at finding him!
Josh Killing aside, I’d still love a clear and proper definition of what’s/who’s being called a “Hipster”. Anyone?
i’ll bet you would
I know you are just trying to be witty, but walk down Bedford ave at any time in the afternoon. All the people that look the same are hipsters. It will most likely be all of them.
Plaid shirts, tight jeans, beard, Kate Gosselin style hair cut for boys and girls, overt tattoos, lack of job etc… There are minimal yet predictable variations which I don’t feel like describing.
But please, go on pretending its not obvious.
StrongPunch, are you talking to me? If so, my question for you is … what? I don’t know what a “Hipster” is. I don’t know what Bedford is either. Don’t mistake my lack of knowledge for pretending. I genuinely don’t know what this term is supposed to mean.
My best guess thus far from all of the conflicting and vague descriptions I’ve read here and elsewhere online is “trendy” and/or “poser”. I can tell that most of the people who use the term do so as an insult. In fact, I haven’t heard anyone use it in praise. So, it’s obviously some sort of put down, but of who?
The ppl you described above sound like early 90s Grunge crossed with a bit of modern day Scenester. Is that what “Hipster” is? Modern-day Emo Grunge? Is it a particular race of people? Maybe it’s a geographic thing, like are “Hipsters” only in NYC? Can you link me a pic of a “Hipster”? Maybe that would help.
https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html?page=134
You might want to check out the rest of this website (diehipster, not adbusters) as well instead of asking us to do all the work for you.
Hipsters are scenesters, cool chasers, etc. Since you’re in the Bay Area, think of the white people who hang out or live in the Mission, the bars in the Tenderloin, the people who work at Amoeba or Green Apple, that sort of thing. Then read some of the entries here and especially the comments about why we hate these people who claim to be so individual and cool, yet are so conformist and status-obsessed that they are walking caricatures. M’kay?
In the year 2010 I understand that “the Internet” contains a wealth of information about a variety of things. You might want to start with http://www.google.com
Since when is asking for a simple definition asking someone to do “all the work for me”? I’m trying to find out what everyone here is b!tching about. I didn’t realize that this was an assignment/project/riddle that I was supposed to complete all by myself.
Again, it’s the reading that got me into this mess. There is so much conflicting and flaming babble on this site and others that it’s nearly impossible to reach a conclusion as to who or what any of you are talking about. And unfortunately for your local illustration, I don’t spend any time in The City and therefore have no idea who these white people are or what a Green Apple is.
I’m just gonna settle on the conclusion that it’s basic haterade from people who think they’re too cool to be different yet just different enough to somehow qualify as cool. They use this imaginary social segment they created called “Hipsters” to feel better about their own fashion choices and social circles in the same way a chubby girl keeps a fat girl nearby to keep just one step ahead on the public perception scale. And, since there’s no clear cut definition of what a “Hipster” is, they just call out anyone wearing something trendy whenever they need a quick pick-me-up for the ol’ ego. It seems then, that since they’ve decided to crown themselves the rightful judges of what’s “cool” and “conformist”and spend their time denouncing those who don’t fit their standards of in or out, the “Hipsters” are really the fine people posting to this blog and others like it.
So, I guess the real question I should have been asking is, does the DieHipster community prefer to be referred to as the pot or the kettle?
Really? From someone with just dabble of clown-red hair on his head….
I knew this dude had an agenda…..
YOU ARE G-g-g-gay gay gay…la la la la la la…….
That’s why no one is responding you dickface.
Yeah, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and gave a reasonable answer. Turns out he’s just a tiny man with a large ego and a gaggle of hags looking for a fight.
Yeah and see you try to have reasonable conversation and he has no intention of listening to you. That’s why I said he should just talk to Stevie….they’d get along perfectly.
Oh btw, “mighty” your shit is weak….Steve Lam does a much better job than you could ever hope to…See, I was serious when I told you to check that guy out….your little bullshit composition is trifling compared to the bullshit Stevie lays down…
Hahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Your stupid ass post didn’t even raise a fart outta me…..HAHAHAHhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I stand corrected. I guess that stench is just coming from your mouth then. Touché lil troll, touché.
Wrong again…it came from you post.
Plus, TROLL???? Hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Guess you didn’t get *that* memo either…..I’ve liberated that word too….now it means this:
Ask not for whom the bell trolls, it trolls for thee, MightyWipes.
Hi Diehipster & folks. I just wanted express my love for this site, and all you stand for. As you know from some of my fellow Philadelphians, Philly has seen a massive influx of hipster in recent years…especially my neighborhood in South Philly. We’re near Passyunk & Dickinson, and its gotten out of hand….drives me nuts!! Keep up the good work.
THanks for the encouragement, man….I’ve heard its pretty nauseating out there…my sympathies….
RESIST THE SHITHEELS….
No problem! I’m doing my best. S. Philly has turned into a Hipster-Mecca.
Hey SPHF, I stopped by a place called Johnny Brenda’s last week while in Philly while I waited for a friend of mine who lived nearby. She was running late and I had some time to kill. I got there around 6pm on a Friday and the place was packed with “System Of A Down” bearded, ass-faced, scrawny doofuses all wearing flannel shirts and those stupid fucking glasses. Some iPod “DJ” was playing shitty music and I immediately wanted to burn the place to the ground a la Great White. Every fucking mongoloid in the place looked exactly the same and engaged in annoying nasal shit talk. I went to the bar to order a drink and the goitre-necked tattooed skank behind the bar looked up at me confused as she continued to text on her iPhone. I then screamed at her to “get me a fucking drink” and shot a look of extreme rage at all the punkass fakes at the bar who looked into their drinks. I sucked down my shot of bourbon and then shit and pissed all over the bathroom’s walls and floor before I left. I feel for you – Philly’s fucking polluted now with this vermin too.
Ah, Johnny Brenda’s.. one of many Hipster Holes in Philly.
The mental image you describe is accurate, disturbing, and amusing..all at once! My personal pain is the POPE(Pub on Passyunk East). That bar, compounded with the Hipster coffee place(B2), has turned that corner into a frickin Hip-Magnet. It’s like one of those light’s that attracts bugs. And I don’t really have an issue with the bar itself, it’s the clientele. I can’t even keep my windows open. Three times in recent weeks these shitheels have woken my kids at closing time, when their loud, drunk, pointless selves come sashaying down the sidewalk. Grr
OH NO YOU DID NOT JUST CALL YO SELF SUPERFLY!!!! I will rip the weave right out your janky lil head! You need to go back to worshipping Chuck Norris’ beard or some such nonsense, cuz youz a million miles from Superfly. Ya dig?!
Still G-G-G-…gay gay gay…la la la l al al allalalalallalaaa
Plus “MightyWipes”??????
HAHAHAHAHHAhahhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Is you a gangsta’? Come on man; Quit frontin’.
I’d like to know how you found this site and can’t figure out what a hipster is on your own. You started something that you cant finish. You can’t bait the folks here; they will always win.
Don’t worry. I wouldn’t think you are a hipster–just a run-of-the-mill lil’ geek.
Is this back-flipping fruitcake Kid Akimbo’s love midget?
Actually, this little bitch changed up his picture. At first he had one of himself and he’s a fucking turd floating ponce who shaved off mosta his fucking hair, leaving only a dab, a lil poof of it on top which he then dyed Bozo red…..and you think this asshole stopped ther? NOPE…..he’s put a big as bone piece throught his nose and was wearing fucking pink shorts with the ass cut out…..
yep…this one hangs out on the other side of the glory hole…..
Kid Akimbo flanked by Steve Lame and Mighty Wipes…
FUN BOYS!!!!!
Hahhahahahhaaaa
That one on the right….its Mighty Wipes!!!!!!!!
Waitaminutewaitaminute….So MightWipes takes 2 whole fucking days to shit out that lame response, and then tries to act GANGSTAAAA!!!!??
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/54/152189238_b018592212.jpg
muahahahaaaha what a fucking garden tool.
@ Gigi … I figured it out. I know what “Hipsters” are now! They’re the kids who stole your style, encroached on your turf (i.e. the place by the bike rack out in front of the 7/11) and took your Slurpees, Beanie Caps and eyeliner. You should challenge them jerx to a flannel battle or something. Don’t stand for that crap. DIE HIPSTERS!
And don’t worry, I’m not trying to challenge your position of supremacy. You’re obviously the master baiter around these parts. I’d never dream of trying to take that from you.
And try not to worry too much about the Josh Killer. He’s safely and firmly attached himself to my left nut. You can tell by how closely he hangs on every word I say here. He plain loves me! But who can blame the hipster hating ball barnacle? Swingin from my sack beats his typical routine of chillin in G-ma’s basement trolling Chatroulette any day!
Bill … no, just no.
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“I figured it out. I know what “Hipsters” are now! They’re the kids who stole your style, encroached on your turf (i.e. the place by the bike rack out in front of the 7/11) and took your Slurpees, Beanie Caps and eyeliner”
Well aren’t you clever! Figured it out all by yourself, did you? And the result is: FAIL
“Stole your style”? More like garbage picked it and even that you managed to screw up and overpay for. Good going there, genius.
7/11 is a middle American phenomena, an artifact of white suburbia, that only came to NYC in the early ’80′s. Never was a part of our culture. But typical transplant logic: You can never understand us, you can NEVER really be “authentic and urban”, so you try to remake us in your own image. The hallmark of the dull, the uninspired, the unimaginative pedantic poseur.
That statement is probably more reminiscent of you own teenage years than what you imagine to be our problem with your kind. This is called projection.
“And don’t worry, I’m not trying to challenge your position of supremacy. You’re obviously the master baiter around these parts. I’d never dream of trying to take that from you.”
“master baiter??!!” How swift of you! Well, perhaps I just gave you too much credit. Overall, your posts don’t show much more than a mediocre intellect desperately trying to appear incisive and witty or to use your definition of it- *ironic*. EPIC FAIL!
That’s the type of droll pun a 12 year old (or boorish adult) would find hysterically funny. Didn’t raise much more than a pained groan here.
Of course you couldn’t ascend to any position of supremacy. Given your apparent resources, it’s impossible for you to do so.
In return I would suggest a modest proposal to deal with hipsterdom.
ME:
Mighty Wipes:
Mighty Wipes:
Dude looks and sounds like his balls haven’t even dropped yet. You need to stop worrying about ‘what is a hipster’ and start worrying about yourself bro.
Worry about why you got a dab of bozo-red hair on your head……You got problems, son…
NO WIT, not even a dim wit….
Ahh, you’ve found your way to the FUNKMODE! You see, being a nut jockey does have it’s advantages! While I have to say, I’m still concerned about the other YouTube videos with which you seem to be familiar but at least your trolling occasionally brings you to the better parts of the interwebs.
Since we’ve obviously made a Love Connection, you might as well follow us on FB (facebook.com/FUNKMODE) and FUNKMODE.com. That way, you’re never far away from this face which you’ve come to adore!
That video was from our tour last year of Southeast Asia. Fun stuff! Here’s a better video of our adventures and performances —->
Grave Digger, you lost me at “Digger”. Here’s your dime back. Buy a sense of humor.
Welcome to the crew, Josh Killer! If you got skillz, I’m sure we can fit you in somewheres.
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs437.snc3/25131_1202949288589_1674313396_415570_2281575_n.jpg
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs079.snc3/14637_1104618430379_1674313396_220747_6288561_n.jpg
LOL! I am so glad I’m not you.
And *that* is supposed to impress???
WEAK…..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Plus look at those frilly ass pics he has posted here…..
AS IF BITCH
Hahahahhahahahahhahahahaahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
From the looks of it, you could use some of my wizzzdom, for reals:
1. Get rid of all the ugly-ass fag hagg kinda bitches you got…..what???? They trannies…oh..my bad!!!!!!
2. Trannies = not hot…..
3. fix your goofy-ass hair do what are you Donnie Wahlberg n shit??????
4. How does it feel to be moded by a bloated Bulgarian Queena tweeka:
Thats rite bitch, AZIZ…….
Hahhahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Did it BETTER….And, this is from like 9 years ago….
Awww bummer, Joshicide, you came weak this time. You actually had me smiling for a while on some of your earlier insanity. You were at least gettin’ silly points. You can do better than that. I’m settin’ you up, all you have to do is knock em down!
I mean, c’mon, that’s what this whole site is about, right? Pickin’ on ppl you think are beneath you? You should be slam dunkin’ this ish! This is WHAT YOU DO!
Here, go grab your aluminum, I’ll softball you one more round,
or how bout this …
C’mon, live up to your name, IKJ! Another sad showing and that ugly Hungarian Judge is gonna kick you to the curb. Let’s see that killer instinct. Do this like you do the Hipsters!
See you soon!
HOw sad….you’ve run out of bullshit to spew now all you can do post your fugly bitches up here and immitate ME….
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Come back when your bitches finish their sex changes….
You can hate on me all you want (“dab of bozo-red hair” was actually pretty good) but you lose all credibility when you try to pretend like you wouldn’t be a drooling, stuttering mess if one of those girls even looked in your direction. Now who’s “g-g-g-ga-gay-gay”?
Hilarious! Well, at least you got me back to laughing again.
And besides, you and I both know there’s no way I could ever “immitate” you. I’m much too literate.
Yeah Mighty Wipes, its hard when you come back so weak….
I know Aziz fucked up your flow….
Hahhahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I hadn’t watched that vid yet until just now … HAHAHAHA!!! Seriously, where are you finding this stuff?!?!?! Unintentional comedy FTW!!!!!!!!
Incidentally, Aziz is the sound a hot chick makes when she tries to stifle an accidental fart. True story.
“C’mon, live up to your name, IKJ! Another sad showing and that ugly Hungarian Judge is gonna kick you to the curb.”
I’m not replying anymore cuz you hurted my feelings…:(
Plus you live the satanic lifestyle.
Umm, yeah, sorry about that. Sometimes when I don’t get enough sugar, I throw tantrums. It’s not pretty.
Sugar makes everything better. Here …
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My cakes are coming out lumpy. I’m no baker. Try these, I had no hand in their creation.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=228954&l=c0f0424651&id=1674313396
You guys have barely any facebook friends. Good work!
Yeah, that’s the thing about the IN crowd. They don’t let just anyone IN. If they did, they’d be you.
On another note …
Barely any friends? What is this MySpace? What else don’t you like? The lack of animated sparklies and a rotating pic block of our favorite American Idols?
By the way, are you still rockin your Friendster account? What’s your Bebo name? You know, so I can be sure to avoid you in the hallways before 3rd period.
So much funny here! I think I might buy property!
Are you here trolling for dates or something? Do you have fantasies of being ass-raped on the Brooklyn Bridge? Perhaps you’ve watch “Cruising” too many times. I’m really not sure what the point is of all the garbage you’ve been spewing. All I know is that you have nothing to add to the conversation here yet you seem to wait all day for someone to post on here and then try to rile them up.
Booo-ring! Go back to the Glee chatroom.
Heh! You got me, I hate hipsters so I’m a tough guy Italian bully that stuffs nerds into lockers!
Judging by your lack of facebook “friends” (I DID IT AGAIN!), half of which were probably your mom using different email addresses, it looks like you guys are putting a lot of work into whatever you do and its not panning out.
Keep coming back, you make yourself easy to ridicule!
Speaking of Facebook, MightyWipes is so desirous of attention that anyone can post on his wall posts, in case any of you feel like making up some fake profiles and polluting his page with crap just like he does here.
I’m just sayin.
Speaking of Facebook, I could be wrong but it looks like anyone can post on his wall posts, in case any of you feel like making up some fake profiles and polluting his page with crap just like he does here.
I’m just sayin.
Whoops, sorry for the double post.
Well, to be quite honest, I came here looking for a simple answer to the question, “What is a Hipster” because I had come to realize that whatever they were, they seemed to be making a certain segment of the population really, ridiculously angry for some unexplained reason. I was very curious to know just who or what could be bringing out such high levels of unmitigated rage from the otherwise generally aloof and apathetic populace.
What I found while searching for what should have been straightforward definition, was FAR more interesting than the response I first sought. I realized that the “Hipster Haters” were actually a powder keg of anger management patients, sent into an absolute hissy fit at the slightest human interaction. “No wonder they hate these ‘Hipsters’”, I thought, “they hate everything! They’re just angry little raccoons attacking everything with a pulse!”
And sure enough, predictable little angermongers that you are, I couldn’t get through two posts without being accosted by a gaggle of you and mocked for asking a simple question. From that point, it just became quality entertainment. Honestly, this is some of the best forum banter I’ve seen in months. Rarely are people just so blindly angry that it makes them absolutely puerile and obtuse. It’s pure hilarity. I don’t know whether the Hipsters are actually worth laughing at but the people who laugh at the Hipsters are straight COMEDY GOLD!
So I’d provide a retort for the taunts, tit for tat, and just sit back and enjoy the show. So far, it’s been great. Highly enjoyable! And it’s also funny to see what people will try to insult about you when your whole life’s out there on display. Not one to shy from haterade, I’m game to have a go-round if a little vitriol is hurled my way. It’s all in good fun.
But I think it might have run its course. I’m still without my definition and IKJ was the only one to really make me LOL. Without him fueling the feud, the rest of you lack the viagra to actually make it worthwhile. It looks like it may be time for me to fade into the sunset and close the door on my little 11 day vaycay through the DieHipster community. So I bid you all adieu and wish you all the best in your acrimonious abhorrence of all things.
Peace out angry lil homies!
- Mighty
Notice how not once does Mighty acknowledge any of the ACTUAL problems that hipsters cause that make us angry and that have been mentioned on here hundreds of times in posts and comments. Notice how he reduntantly says we are angry and how it’s laughable to him yet fails to justify the childish and moronic things hipsters do?
It’s safe to say he is embarrassed to the core with all of shit we’ve said about hipsters because he is exactly what we are talking about.
Hey Mighty, this link will tell you the general consensus about hipster out there. It’s been nice watching your 3rd grade style of arguing.
http://diehipster.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/google-doesnt-lie/
He’s not interested in winning the discussion. All he’s interested in is getting in the last word. Give him that, and like his getting a “Best of Show” medal at the Special Olympics, he’ll limp off, drooling in glee.
Yup, he sure got us!
I love it when hipsters maintain they are toying with you when backed into a corner by logic.
It’s true, arguing isn’t my strong suit. I dropped out after second grade rhetoric. My banter’s on a first grade par. Fortunately, I made it to APwnage.
And it’s not that I don’t understand your whining, I just can’t relate. Coming from Hip Hop, we think everyone outside the minority culture (i.e. white people) is uncool. Listening to you all go on about Hipsters is like watching that adorable but humorous thing that happens when a toddler passes another toddler and calls it a “baby”. Y’all vanilla gorillas are so much alike it’s like you can’t tell where one uncool ends and the other begins. All I see is one nerd pointing out the nerdiness of another and I’m like, “so one of you has a pocket protector laughing at the other with tape on his glasses. Well, TOU-FUNKIN-CHÉ!”
But on a more serious note, thanks for the link DieHipster. That’s EXACTLY the kind of information that got me asking this question in the first place. I started hearing it so often, I had to know what the cracker clan was complaining about. I think I kind of get it now but I still think it’s hilarious. You can’t fight what you are. If you weren’t born a trendsetter, there’s not much you can do about it. You either imitate or get out of the way. The Hipsters chose to imitate while the rest of you got out of the way and you’re hating on them for it. The truth is, you’re both still outside the cool kids party looking in, so you might as well just learn to get along.
Peace out again you crazy lil homies! (ferreallyrealz this time) – Mighty
There is nothing hip-hop about you.
How many POC are in his little dance troupe?? He’s a white boty.
Hahahahhahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I just caught the “hip hop” thing now. He’s telling this to dudes who actually watched people break dance to the Fat Boys on cardboard on the street corners in the early ’80s. Dudes who heard “36 Chambers” right when it came out and who were wearing ‘hip hop clothes’ before there even was such a thing as a hip hop clothing brand. But he’s the one that’s “hip hop”.. lmao. Whatever bro.
“The truth is, you’re both still outside the cool kids party looking in.”
lmao.. you’re dreaming, kid. You couldn’t stand next to me at the club. Matter fact, you couldn’t even get into my kind of club. But like they say, a man’s gotta have his illusions. Later, Treasure Troll.
Wow-what a pathetic little blog this is! So much anger and hate!You and the idiots who praise you must really be jealous of people who are more intelligent, creative and progressive than you are. I may be wrong, but you are probably Republican, and a tea party fan as well based on your description of your background as being a “real” New Yorker…lol. What is a “real” New Yorker anyway? Some stupid uneducated blue collar hip hop loving dork? You and people like you bring down the quality of life here for everyone else who chooses to come here for the intelligent, creative and progressive culture that exists here. New York is a city of transplants. Get used to it-hopefully you and the stupid “hard working, real” people like you will be transplanted on out of here soon…
You and your sheltered, suburban, nasal-voiced transplant cousins are about as “creative and progressive” as the Taliban. You’re nothing but a bunch of follow-the-leader lemmings, which is why you came to Brooklyn in the first place.
You’re also about as “intelligent” as the hayseeds you left behind back in the trailer park in Pennsyltucky. That’s why inbreds like you are consistently getting outwitted here in the comments section by normal Brooklynites like me.
And finally, NYC was never, until now, a city full of “transplants.” On the contrary, it was a city full of hardworking immigrants, natives, and people from other parts of the country here to bust their ass to make stuff happen. Now it’s become a cesspool full of nothing but pampered idle brats like you. But that’s alright. Because at the end of the day, the only ones benefiting from it are all the native “blue collar” landlords, like me. So keep trucking in that suburban remittance money, Taylor. And tell your hillbilly parents I said “Thanks.”
So where’s the proof that you are more “creative” or “intelligent” than anyone else here?
Where does a person who is compelled to follow a strict set of guidelines that govern everything from they wear, where they live, the types of food they eat and the brands of aclohol they drink get the idea that this is evidence of higher intelligence, individuality and/or creativity?
Your servile behavior and sensitivity to criticism shows your own insecurities and mental neuropathy very clearly. Don’t confuse disgust at your pathos and cricitisms of your painfully obvious flaws, lack of intelligence and creativity as jealousy.
Face it. Nobody likes an obnoxious braggart especially if they can’t back up their big talk with proof.
You’re all nothing more than pathetic sheep who move here to escape the fact that back home, you were all complete failures. Vainly attempting to reinvent yourselves in a new city amongst other omegas desperately trying to be “cool” and failing miserably in the process. Then squealing like little stuck pigs when you’re call out on your bullshit. Is it any wonder why nobody likes you?
And that tired old meme about New York being being a city of transplants. Ignorant nonsense from buffoons who know nothing about this city and it’s history being mindlessly parroted by other buffoons.
“Teapartiers and Republicans”? Really?
I’m laughing at your “superior intellect”.
Wanna bet what this ‘superior’ human being by the name of “Jay” looks like in real life?
http://animalshow.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/will.jpg
LOL! Honestly, I’ve met inbred bovines that looked far less dumb and acted far less stupid than that stupid inbred yuppie/hipster piece of shit. Thing needs to be put out of it’s misery. With NAPALM.
What a bunch of asshole hater losers this site is full of! You and your loser friends are just angry because you are thankfully being displaced. I have news for you morons; I have been here for over 15 years and am not from the sticks. I do not even fit the profile you seem to think that a hipster looks like. I am not even a “hipster” as per your narrow, stupid definition of what you think a hipster is. LOL at that stupid photo! You people are absolute idiots! I’ll bet a photo of one of you will look like all the asshole backward baseball cap and gold chain wearing plebs that never seem to go away, no matter how much I wish they would.
You’re right-I AM superior to both of you. Your brains combined don’t even equal one person. And you hatred is absolutely sad. I feel sorry for both of you. I’ll bet its all just one pathetic asshole using different pseudonyms (look it up) that is doing all the commentry on this sad little site! Oh and you’re a landlord?? Really? Probably because blueclollar mommy and daddy left you a property to rent…
Stevie off her hormones again……..
Yeah, yeah, yeah Stevie, you gots smarts real good just cause you say so. BUT YOU CAN’T PROVE IT, CAN YOU, YOU CRETINOUS GEEK! In fact, you just prove how DUMB you really are with your poorly written, embarrassingly sycophantic, hipster ass kissing posts. You can’t take me on in a debate or support any of your assertions. Not too hard to see why. It’s a common tautology that original thinking is not the strong suit of the servile ovine follower.
And you just keep comming to this “sad little site” (that you read like a hawk every single day I might add), posting your nonsense and getting your ass handed to you by a bunch of plebes.
You can’t handle this and you’re losing it.
I can read it in your posts.
You’re about to cry, aren’t you!
HAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Just keep on getting unhinged, throwing your little hissy fits and I will keep on laughing at your *superior intellect* and exposing you as the shabby fraud you really are!
Here you go dumbass-the last paragraph no doubt describes you to a T (party);
http://tiny.cc/1a4sv
C’mon Stevie….what happend? you finally fucked your pink stuffed kitty kat to death?
Why is it you always come on here when you get your period? Do we really have to have that discussion about keeping up with your fucking hormone schedule ever fucking month???? JJEEEEEZZZ…..
So apparently Steve Lame’s allowance must not be cutting it these days. According to his Twitter account, he’s had to take some gutter entry-level help desk job at a local government office in Toronto. At 30 years old.
http://twitter.com/notstevelam
Hey Steve, how does it feel to know that your arch-nemesis makes about three times as much as you do, in a job that’s about ten times more interesting? That’s alright though. Because just remember, as you’re sitting there surfing the net through yet another dead-end workday–it’s “good enough for government work.” LOL
Gravedigger,
Gosh, aren’t you the cleverest blue collar pleb I’ve ever encountered! Ooooh such a verbal beating!! You and the other pea brains on this site have no life, and spend your time masturbating over your clever replies and perceived put-downs!
Wooow….you don’t even know what a hipster is! Your misplaced notion of what these people are all about is hilariously stupid. You can’t even get my name right you ignorant cheeseburger eating working class turd!! You are angry because you are irrelevent, you are being displaced, you can’t afford to live in Brooklyn anymore, and you repesent the lowest form of human life. I suppose I would be angry as well if I were you. But I’m not!
So much for my “losing it” on your stupid, vapid little site. Your fantasy that you can somehow defeat me in a debate is a pathetic joke. Let me turn the tables on you-why don’t YOU prove your assetions-that blue collar dorks are more intelligent than your average hipster, that you can write better than my “poorly written” prose, that you have handed my head to me with your weak debating skills-all of which is a joke I assure you. Losing this debate? Any intelligent person who reads this will know the truth-that you are so blinded by your misplaced anger that you delude yourself into believing that you are superior to the hipster, and yet you can’t even realize that the “hipster” only exists in your tiny little mind. The “hipster” community is as diverse as any other, it is only your lack of understanding that causes you to see them as all the same. You pick out cetain traits and them apply them to all-this is what stupid, biggoted uneducated assholes like you do best…..
*nasal nasal nasal nasal*
Take your pseudo-intellectual squawking somewhere more appropriate, you inbred suburban yokel. Like one of your Park Slope or Williamsburg hipster-yuppie gentrification watering holes where everyone looks like they just walked off of a fucking mutant assembly line. No “biggots” there now, no sir-ee!
The fact that you toss around the term “working class” as some sort of insult is so hilarious to me. It just cements my hatred for you subhumans. As if holding an ordinary job for a living is something people should be ashamed of. And the funny thing is, for you pampered suburban hayseeds, regular work IS something to be scoffed and sneered at, in favor of some ridiculous lie of supporting yourself through your bullshit uninspired forgettable “art.” That’s why you’ll be living off of your parents until the day you die. Just like the worthless parasites that you are. All I can say is that it’s a tragedy that abortions weren’t more common out there in the ‘burbs during the time you all were conceived.
Yes loser, you’ve lost the debate by default.
That last rant looks like it was written by an asperger-addled retard. Forget the grammar, you can’t even form a coherent sentence you dumb asshole! Total rambling contradictory nonsense. Some intellectual elite you are!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
OK
YOU made the claim that you and by extension hipsters are more creative and intelligent than anyone else, I made no claim myself and only questioned yours. The burden of proof is on you dickhead.
YOU can either back up these statements with proof or back off. Or rather in your case slink away like the boring cowardly little troll that you are.
So far all I’ve seen from you is the same vapid, elitist (and a bit racist) nonsense of “I’m just better than you!” You are not simply deluded but absolutely demented. You’re not even bright enough to keep your arguments straight. Observe:
“the “hipster” only exists in your tiny little mind.”
So you deny that hipsters exist? There isn’t a virtual colony of people in Williamsburg and in other cities who live by rigid codes of dress and behavior? Is that your ridiculous way of excusing yourself and of backing down from a real debate? If not, then hipsterdom must be some kind of low-rent secret society for special ed kids so initiates can’t admit it’s existence. FAIL!
“The “hipster” community is as diverse as any other”
So, stupid, first you claim there’s no such thing as hipsters then defend their diversity? Hey dumbass, you just contradicted yourself. FAIL AGAIN!
There is no diversity among those people. They’d be ostracised from hipsterdom, judged and found “uncool” if they had an original thought, read a non-approved book, listen to non-indie music or wore other than “cool” clothes.
Read your own hipster blogs, it’s all right there. Look at the pictures, they all look the same. It’s been posted on this site many a time.
No independence, no originality, no balls. People like that (and you as well) are just not that smart.
Quad erat demonstradum.
You are no match for me. I bitch slap you up and down this site every time. Bow down before me, I RULE you!THE WORKING CLASS RULES YOU! NOW CRY ME A RIVER, BITCH! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Ah, a bit long-winded but you give me soooo much material to work with and to beat you over the head with.
You are just an amazing dope. It’s getting tiresome bludgeoning you silly, though.
Hey Steve, next time let the rabbit type your posts since it’s alot brighter than you are.
… (grabbing extra large bowl of popcorn as show starts to get good)
Yuppie/Toilet/Gravedigger/loser/whatever,
I am still convinced you are one and the same pleb loser, jacking off over your percieved debating skills, which are in fact close to nonexistant.
You want “proof” that the hipster community (I never said it didn’t exist you stupid fuck, I said your pre-conceived notion of it doesn’t exist-man you really are a dumb working class plebecite!) exists?
How about the fact the Williamsburgh is recognized worldwide as an epicenter of creativity, including music, art, poetry, etc. What the fuck is your tired old working class neighborhood recognized for? Likley nothing, at least not until it becomes colonized by hipsters, and plebs like you have to move out, lmao!!!!
What’s the matter, are my sentences too long and complicated for the two of you assholes to comprehend?? Grammer errors?? Where? Rambling contradictory nonsense because you struggle to follow along?
You didn’t even understand my point, so you think it is contradictory. The “hipster” (note the quotations, assholes) community IS diverse. Maybe you should go to the corner of North 6th and Bedford, grab a seat, and people watch. The only thing most of these people have in common is that they are young and creative. They do NOT dress all the same. Sure, there are SOME similarities, but not to the extent that you imagine. That is why I said the “hipster” exists in your tiny little minds, you dumb plebs, because you base your whole notion of who these people are on a few common denominators. (oh sorry…is that sentence too long and rambling for you to understand??).
In a way, it is similar to the hippie phenomenon of the 60′s. Yeah-the long hair and beards where pretty prevelant, but there was lots of diversity as well. In fact, both communities are a hell of a lot more diverse than your boring working class community, where assholes wear baseball caps sideways, along with wife beater shirts and gold chains….lol…see I can do it too, but I know that not everyone in your community dresses like that. Are you still with me or is this too long and complicated for you??
You want proof that “hipsters” are smarter and more creative than you??
For starters, here is a list of venues that feature quality music in Williamsburgh:
http://tiny.cc/lgjj2
Now-how many places are there in YOUR neighborhood to go and see quality live music?? Answer; One old disco for aging blue collar morons probably.
Here is a list of great bands that hail from (or were formed in) Williamsburgh:
Vampire Weekend
Yeah Yeah Yeah’s
MGMT
Dirty Projectors
We Are Scientists
The Rapture
Firey Furnaces
The Bravery
Interpol
stellastar
Yeasayer
Ambulance LTD
I could go on and on-look at all of the creativity and great music on display here! Just like, in the 60′s during the hippie era, San Fransisco produced so many great bands/art/you name it, and working class plebs like you hated them too.
So….what kind of music has YOUR working class pleb neighborhood produced?? Probably some lame ass Eminem wannabe (who would want that??), or some lame heavy metal band, or more likely a bunch of loser blue collar assholes who play “Livin on a Prayer” at weddings, that’s who.
Let’s see-what else…culture..here is a list of art and clothing boutiques in williamsburgh:
http://tiny.cc/r0agc
Look at all the places where you can buy interesting things, and sample interesting cuisine from all over the world. That is why tourists come from all over the world to visit Williamsburg-look at the variety of options. All created by the so-called “lazy hipsters” you hate so much.
So…what options do we have in your lame-ass working class neighborhood?? McDonald’s, Chinese Takeout, Pizza, Dunkin Donuts, and countless bodegas selling shitty products to shitty people like you. I know which one I prefer!!
Let’s see….art…here is a map of art galleries in Williamsburg:
http://tiny.cc/gua9k
Wow…look at all that art….created by….”hipsters” lol.
So….what kind of art do we find in your lame-ass working class neighborhood?? Graffiti-that’s about it.
Boy, I sure can’t wait till “hipsters” colonize your neighborhood, so it can become a destination that people actually want to visit, eh?
I’ll bet you couldn’t even make it this far-ooh ooh his sentences are too long…my attention span is too short….I don’t understand his grammer…..lol you stupid working class peons. There’s your proof. What’ve you got?? NOTHING ASSHOLES!!! THIS IS WHY YOU ARE SO ANGRY!!
You have just proved you know nothing about NYC. Please stay in Williamsburg.
I would debate you, but I am going out to have fun in parts of NY you probably have no idea even exist.
Ta, ta!
PLEASE tell me you are 25 or younger. This level of ignorance in anyone older than his early twenties is just too heartbreaking to believe.
Wow Jay. You just made…. quite possibly…. the largest fool out of your self as humanly possible. The bands and hipster related things you mentioned will be about as popular as Britney Spears’ tampon in 20 years, fuck…even 3 years and that’s not saying much about Britney Spears either, another pathetic act. Nothing lasts anymore and hipsters have certainly made sure of that. You stupid, typical fuckster. I hope a train runs over you first thing in the morning, you know, about 2:00 pm.
Look, Colby. The list of great artists, authors, musicians, politicians, scientists, businesspeople and cultural icons who were born and raised or otherwise associated with PRE-YUPSTERFIED, PRE-GENTRIFIED Brooklyn is so enormous, so staggering, that I’m not even going to bother to try to post it here. All I can say is that you (assuming that you are real and not someone playing a joke) are so hermetically isolated in your little gentrified playpen of “Williamsburgh”/Carroll Gardens/Shit Slope that you truly have no fucking idea of anything that goes one outside of yupster Brooklyn.
Unfortunately for you, the fact that non-yupster Brooklyn punches above its weight in just about every arena of society is beyond argument. You can find non-yupster Brooklynites in great disproportion in the highest reaches of practically any profession or pastime that exists in this country, setting trends and exercising influence. And it’s no wonder–we’re some of the most crafty, stubborn, intelligent and resourceful motherfuckers you will ever meet. Probably because most of us didn’t grow up in some pampered white-picket-fence suburban bubble where everything was handed to us on a silver platter by our doting parents, like the sort of upbringing that all you inbreds had.
And as for yupster Brooklyn, on the other hand? Well let’s see–yupster Brooklyn’s sphere of influence extends about as far as.. yupster Brooklyn! OK, well maybe Portland too (I’ll be generous). But either way, you are nothing but a bunch of two-dimensional pieces of dirt with no character, no authenticity, and no real creativity–yeah you heard me–NO CREATIVITY. So don’t get mad at us for having the balls to give it to you straight. Here in non-yupster Brooklyn we just call them like we see them. Inbred.
Jay-
Kindly do the Earth a favor and light yourself, and whatever little demon spawn you brought into this world, on fire.
Sincerely,
Killer of Yuppie/Hipster Garbage.
You just listed 12 bands that suck, in a genre that sucks.
Indie = worst, most sexless genre ever.
I’d take Eminem, Bon Jovi or heavy metal over hipster “music” any day of the week, and so would anyone else with working genitals.
HEY MIGHTY
HEY STEVE
HEY JAY
WHATEVER THE FUCK YOUR NAME IS
GO AND JUMP IN FRONT OF A MOVING TRAIN TOMORROW MORNING YOU TRANSPLANT PIECE OF SHIT
YOU FUCKING TRANSPLANT PIECES OF SHIT DO NOT KNOW HOW TO HANDLE YOURSELVES IN STREET SITUATIONS
Oh no, don’t mistake me for that dude. I’m way funnier and far less angry. And I don’t know jack @#$# about NYC.
I already retired from the DH.com banterbrawling. I’m just here now for the entertainment. (continues eating popcorn while wondering what a “Vampire Weekend” must consist of)
p.s. only Kelsey does “grammer”.
No, your not *that* funny man…thats why we broke up.
But maybe compared to *that* asshole….well, Id reconsider….you’re def. funnier that the pseudo sienfeld 2010 cast. But don’t let it go to yer little bald head.
LOL!!! All of you people are completely stupid!!! I know all about all of the neighborhoods in this town and have lived here for a long time. I stand by eveything I said about Williamsburgh however, except for the spelling mistake on “grammar” (not perfect-but certainly close compared to all of you cretins). Eminem and Bon Jovi is right-for you tasteless morons! Let’s throw in Iron Maiden and 50 Cent too! Oh and Slipnot and my alltime favorite Limp Bizkit…lol
Lets see..StrongPunch (ooh how macho) you would debate me if you had the intelligence to do so but you don’t!
trailofdisgrace (I’m sure that is an apt description of you)..I just gave you an accurate description of the creativity in Williamsburg and YOU think it’s ignorant?? You need to back up a comment like that, but you CAN’T!
diehipster….you don’t know jack shit about indie music or anything else for that matter.
Toiletdigger….I will give you credit for posting a reasonably coherent response this time, but I think you need to back up your claim with some concrete proof, as I have done.
killer…does not even deserve a response
jack….see diehipster
theNewUrban….can’t debate, so you have to post videos of gratuitous violence, how typical. That’s what you plebs do for fun unfortunately, but I bet you’re a pussy anyhow…I’m so INTIMIDATED!!!
mighty….I actually thought you were smarter than these idiots, but now I’m not so sure….Vampire Weekend had gold records in the US and Australia-platinum in the UK-were nominated for a Grammy award-and you don’t know who the fuck they are???
Man-I’ve been having fun ragging on you plebs, but you’re not even smart enough to get what I’m saying…this is depressing….so many morons out there..wow.
This guy’s a waste of time. He’s a fucking moron (just like all the rest of the pasty masses).
Hey Johnboy I mean Jay–have fun on your gentrified Brooklyn playdate, because while you’re skipping around “Williamsburgh” like an overgrown Peter Pan blowing your parents’ retirement fund, regular Brooklyn guys like me are sitting back coming up with new ways to make money. So don’t go pissing away Cletus and Betty Lou’s 401k too quickly now. There’s an outside chance that I’ll be your landlord 5-10 years down the road. And by that time I’ll be ready for a Ferrari. Hell, I might even let you look at it when I swing by the rathole building to pick up my gentrification rent from you.
For the custom license plate, I was thinking something along the lines of “THANXYUPS.” What do you think?
Sorry JOsh,
But you sound like you were just shat outta your mother’s asshole yesterday..and she forgot to flush you down.
Maybe you should go work for these people….that’s more your speed:
Being a retarded mother fucker, you have no idea whatsoever about anything. Every last piece of “evidence” you posted proves only that you have no taste and that you are most certainly quite retarded. I am quite amazed you manage to type whole quasi coherent sentences considering all the childish, regressed retarded shit you surround yourself with.
Which, of course is typical of the shitheel turd-dumplings that come here and try way toooooo hard. IF you knew anything about music at all you’d realize that every last band you listed is A BAD immitation of another band. It can’t even stand on its own and must constantly refer to somebody else’s work. That’s not indie…that’s dependie…
Which sort of typifies all you weak-minded shitheels.
The same can be said for that bullshit going down in WB and Bushwick that you retards call “art” …..Its just some lame-ass pasty mongoloided extra-chromasome having turd eater immitating Annie Sprinkle or Chris Burden or someother shit like that….B O R I N G…Plus none of that is relevant today…we have a completely different society. All they can do is immitate it like a retarded monkey. IT is clear you lack the capacity to understand that shit and mode yourself by listing *that* as evidence of real culture.
Its actually quite pathetic that you people have no brains or talent or creativity to come up with something as earth-shattering as YOU THINK you are…..Its like we lost an entire generation because you are all worthless, talentless, genetically challenged and cling to post-modernist thought because you haven’t the capacity to come up with anything better. LOOK BITCH THATS YOUR FUCKING JOB…TO CREATE AND TAKE US FURTHER…YOU HAVE FAILED.
And you Josh/Stevie are too brain-damaged to even see that. What the fuck is wrong with you that you can’t get that simple concept????? You sound just like a full blown pin-headed dirt eater over here….
But, you people are the first at something: YOU HAVE TAKEN US BACKWARD. YOU ARE LIVING PROOF THAT OUR SPECIES IS DEGENERATING GENETICALLY. YOU ARE A LIVING ADVERTISMENT WARNING AGAINST THE GENETIC PERRILS OF INCEST. YOU ARE CERTAINLY A RETARDED PoPEYEDED EGG-SALAD BRAIND TURD BURGLAR WITH A CAVED IN HEAD.
THIS IS YOU:
THIS IS A TYPICAL GIG IN WB:
Yep, that’s what WB will be famous for…THE GREAT LEAP BACKWARD.
YOur post proves it.
Plus:
Here, they’re playing your song:
“THIS IS A TYPICAL GIG IN WB”
hahahahahAHAHahahahahahaahahahhaahhaahahhahaaha!!!!
About six years ago a punk band I used to like in high school played at “North Six” in Williamsburg, so I went over to watch them. Mind you, this was back before I really had any idea of what the fuck Williamsburg was turning into. Even still, I remember looking around at the yupster audience at that show and the disjointed way they were dancing and thinking to myself “These people look like they’re fucking retarded.” Fast-forward six years later, who would’ve guessed that what I was witnessing was the beginning of the Great Yupster Invasion.
You think I was lying?
This is just what those pasty retarded mother fuckers look like. All Down sydromed n shit trying to flow! Hahahahahahhaa
ITs quite true….retard keepers ARE hired to stop them from swallowing their tongues.
Sorry to disappoint there, Jayness.
Is “Vampire Weekend” white ppl music? I honestly don’t know the first thing abt white ppl music. I know other stuff like that Stevie Wonder has 22 Grammys and Quincy Jones 79 nominations.
Hey IKJ, there are far worse things that could go to my bald little head … http://www.onlinebarbershop.co.uk/Woodys_headwax_pomade.shtm
It’s like “write your own joke” on that one.
See…. not that funny. Just take a compliment and stfu.
Damn.
If you can’t find the funny in “Woody’s Head Wax”, you might need to consult your physician.
I just realized “Jayness” rhymes with “Gayness”. Damn you, IKJ.
Oh great, another white boy (well you LOOK white anwyay) who thinks he’s black and worships shitty hip hop culture….how nice. Indie rock rules and hip hop (most of it except some underground hip hop) sucks big time. I do like Stevie Wonder though. And Reggae, and blues, and old time soul, etc…even Janelle Monae….but most hip hop is just horrible crap…how embarassing that you’ve made devotion to it your life’s work….lol…..nice dancing though I guess….maybe you should crawl out of your cultural ghetto and investigate “white ppl” music, the best of which these days is called indie rock….you and especially the other plebs lurking on this horrible blog need to do some research…
Good thing you’ve got your ugly women to protect you, Johnboy!
How does dressing like the biggest nerd in school, getting a haircut at the age of 30 that looks like your mother did it, using the worst production values you possibly can even when you have access to good quality production, going out of your way to sing tunelessly in a fake accent, giving your songs no rhythm section at all apart from some very plodding drumming that sounds like a three year old banging pots and pans, playing your instruments in the most bored and unenthusiastic way possible, and writing whiny bully-magnet lyrics that just translate as “I can’t get laid and I’m proud of it”, make for a good genre of rock music?
Indie SUCKS, and it has ruined modern rock. You just resent people who listened to hip-hop, heavy metal and mainstream rock at school because they had hot girlfriends and you didn’t.
Shame on you for thinking that anything the indie “rock” scene has produced holds up to the best reggae and blues music.
We prefer the term “Blatino” (Black father, Puerto Rican Mother). My cultural heritage turns out to be pretty much the exact combination of folks that started Hip Hop way back in ’73 in your Bronx backyard (my NYC knowledge ends there).
And yeah, every day I’m aware that the state of Hip Hop looks ugly right now buuuut I was raised on Jazz, Funk and Soul in my house and that eventually morphed into Hip Hop so that’s what I fell in love with. That said, I couldn’t agree with you more that the majority of rap (I hesitate to say “Hip Hop” because I don’t believe the crap out there reps for real Hip Hop) bites big donkey @$#& these days. Basically, I take it as I have to work extra hard to find stuff that doesn’t suck. It’s still out there and NYC still holds high bragging rights. Besides the obvious old school cats like Melle Mel, Run DMC and Rakim, today in NY Wu-Tang still represents, Busta, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and lesser knowns like Aesop Rock and MIMS. My personal faves are my local Bay Area cats but, of course, everyone loves their hometown.
I’m not entirely anti-white music. The real truth is just that I don’t get much exposure to it without really going after it. Hip Hop’s my job now so any time I’m listening to or working with music, that’s what it is. Every once in a while though a friend, student, or fan will recommend something that I end up feelin and it will creep into my rotation. I got really into Rage Against the Machine when they were still together (not much of a stretch from Hip Hop, I know) but again, I’m kind of in a Hip Hop/R&B bubble so I haven’t really heard much else.
But like I said, I’m totally down for recommendations. Anything but country. That ain’t never gonna happen.
Mighty,
I could make many recommendations to you regarding indie rock, starting with the local Willimsburgh list I posted above-all quality bands making quality music. Of course you would never know that if you listed to the morons who chime in on this stupid blog, like JACKass above here, who seems to equate music with getting laid in high school-an unbelievably stupid dismisal of the best of what rock music has had to offer in the last 30 years.
As anyone with any musical knowledge will tell you, since the punk movement, alternative/indie/modern rock, whatever you want to call it, has produced the best music of the genre hands down. Stupid jock/thug morons who dated stupid bitches with big hair and too much makeup in high school never knew and will never know anything about it. But they got laid…lol…as if indie kids don’t…well they come in all stripes and I can assure you that indie kids got laid in high school too, and some thugs didn’t.
Anyway-that had zero to do with assessing good music, except for my point that it takes a certain intelligence and cultural awareness to do so, and the working class plebs lurking on this stupid blog just don’t have it. They are just projecting their missplaced anger at being pushed out of “their” neighborhoods in sad and ingnorant ways.
Having said that, there IS good “mainstream” rock and metal out there, though most of it was made back in the good old days of classic rock. I don’t think there really is such a thing as “mainstream” rock anymore, and most metal (though not all, as with hip hop) being made now is just testosterone fueled crap-perfect for these idiots here.
If you are interested in more recommendations, and not only for indie rock, but also of great old school funk and soul being made by white ppl (and blacks too) I would be happy to make them, but not here in this hateful and intellectually challenged environment. I have had fun ragging on these mental midgets, but don’t want to come here anymore-I won’t change anything and it’s too depressing. But since you are the only person I have encountered here who seems to have an open mind, I’ll make an exception in your case. Why you come to this stupid blog yourself is your own business I guess.
“If you are interested in more recommendations, and not only for indie rock, but also of great old school funk and soul being made by white ppl (and blacks too) I would be happy to make them”
Hahahahahhahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Did your parents have any children that lived?????
Anybody following this retarded Josh’s music pics will find themselves listening to a toilet flushing.
” I can assure you that indie kids got laid in high school too…”
Yep they sure did….
1. they were dry humpedded by their grandpa every night.
2. They were fucked by the family dog.
3. THey had illigetimate children by their brothers.
4. They were married to their uncle.
5. They became their own fathers.
6. They had forbidden sex with their sister-mothers.
“except for my point that it takes a certain intelligence and cultural awareness to do so..”
Which you don’t possess.
“best of what rock music has had to offer in the last 30 years”??????
Nope…They immitate EVERY band from the last 30 years. THEY MAKE NOTHING NEW. THey have no original creative concepts. Why listen to them pretend to be a great band? Why not just listen to the real thing?
I don’t live in NYC, but I have to agree that hipsters suck. it sounds as if a truly horrific existence has been thrust upon those of you in Brooklyn.
To be fair though, a lot of people suck. In fact, almost everyone in the USA is an unoriginal asshat. Most people just like things because they don’t know any better though, i.e. they are the stupid monkeys of our race that haven’t quite fully evolved and these unsuspecting poop flingers get tricked into liking “trends” that really suck.
Hipsters are the slightly more evolved counter-culture monkeys among us. They are obviously much worse than the regular monkeys that don’t know any better, of course, because in the hipsters’ self-aware attempt to be different from them, they all ironically conform to the same assinine trend.
This site is awesome, keep up the good work!
Typical stupid response by IKJ. Look at the lowest common denominator humor-typical of a moron.
I have news for you asshole-ALL rock bands started out imitating others. The Stones started out as blues copyists, brazenly ripping off the blues masters. Then, they ripped off the Beatles of all people during the ’66-’67 period. Finally they morphed into their own style after that. The same can be said for many other bands of this period-The Animals, etc. Even the Beatles started out covering theer heroes. They just sounded more original because it was filtered through their British sensibilities.
So tell me then, you fucking moron-what is original?? You want to debate me on music and I will crush you. In fact I will crush you on almost any subject because it is obvious you are an idiot. That is why you and the other idiots on this site are so angry at the hipsters. They are better than you-smarter, more culturally aware, you name it. So go study some music history before you flaunt your asshole on the internet.
You people here are like Cromagnon Man, and the hipsters are the new human, ready to replace your working class assholes as a species-better than you in every respect. They eat in organic cafes because they know more than you about food and nutrition. They promote art and creativity instead of hatred and stupidity. Go into any Dunkin Donuts or McDonald’s, and you can see your own kind-stupid working class plebs chowing down on unhealthy food cause you don’t know any better. Then go to any hip coffee shop, or even Starbucks, and you will see healthy (or at least healthier) items on the menu, and the crowd in there will be noticably more refined and the atmosphere condusive to intelligent conversation. It’s an easy choice to make, and people are making it, and that is why you dumbass motherfuckers are getting shunted aside. Get the fuck out of the way and let the hipster pass-and say “excuse me sir” next time-he is your superior after all….lmao!!!!
“So tell me then, you fucking moron-what is original?? You want to debate me on music and I will crush you…”
How is it possible to debate a turd?
Flush…………………………………………….
Here is Jay on American Idol….
(he got rejected)
“So tell me then, you fucking moron-what is original?? You want to debate me on music and I will crush you…”
And those shitty bands you listed is your starting point for a debate on music? Hahahahahahahahaha!
“Dude, indie music is the best music today!”
hahahahaahahhahaha – What are you, fucking 11-years-old?
If you locked this inbred in a room and piped in Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” or Stevie Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life” through loudspeakers, he would probably melt like the Wicked Witch of the West. Either that or his deformed head would explode. True inspired creativity is so repugnant to these mutants. They run from anything that reminds them of just how vapid and suburban they are.
“I could go on and on-look at all of the creativity and great music on display here!”
His uninspired range in musical genres that he cheers on runs slim and soulless. All those bands he listed “from Williamsbugh” are all exactly the same. They amount to one annoyingly nasal-voiced playlist to some suburban 7-11 parking lot.
“They are better than you-smarter, more culturally aware, you name it.”
Transplanted ass-eaters grossly overpaying for a shitty apartment in some lemming fortified neighborhood solely to be seen and act like a bratty child with other pretentious suburban cornballs, who all listen to exactly the same music, dress identically ridiculous, and pour themselves into all the same mainstream trends.
Yeah, these are some real geniuses and culture-rich people here. What a fucking joke. Hahahaha
“If you are interested in more recommendations, and not only for indie rock, but also of great old school funk and soul being made by white ppl (and blacks too)”
Hahahahahaha!!!!! Really??? Blacks too?? I didn’t know blacks made funk and soul. Thanks for the music education there! Wow, you really do know your shit about indie music AND black music!
Worthless schmuck.
My playlist:
Jay/Josh/Stevie’s playlist: MEGAN getting down
Dan Deacon’s new video.
Hahahhahahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Notice the Domino’s Pizza patch on his shirt….Somehow I knew that was Dan Deacon’s day job.
Here’s a new one by the Dirty Projectors…wow…rilli kewel:
“Then go to any hip coffee shop, or even Starbucks, and you will see healthy (or at least healthier) items on the menu, and the crowd in there will be noticably more refined and the atmosphere condusive to intelligent conversation.”
For a bunch of our “superiors” with such a carefully-planned diets, why do you all look like such complete shit? A bunch of pale, ugly, pasty, unhealthy, knock-kneed, dirty fucks, and doughy females with tattoos of plants and insects on their fat cellulited biceps. The average yupster male looks like he’s ready to keel over at any minute. And I can’t even remember the last time I saw a yupster female who looked like she shampooed her hair. And why do some many of you smell like cat piss and cigarette butts? You probably have to swat flies away from your smelly suburban asses while walking down the street.
Sorry to break it to you Johnboy, but walking into the average gentrified-Brooklyn “hip coffee shop” (lol) is like walking into a scene from “Deliverance.” You all make the kids I used to make fun of in grade school look like Brad and Angelina. Just pack up the U-Haul and go back to Eagle River Run Drive already; hasn’t the novelty worn off yet?
Jay, I know you don’t actually think you are right. Everything you just said has been exposed as childish attention seeking behavior on this site a billion times and you know it. You just like trying to get us mad. It’s simple, hipsters will just never be real New Yorkers and that kills you. But hey thanks for worshipping my site “indie boy”. Now go spin that vinyl that Mommy bought you for your 26th birthday, Hayden.
Good music recommendations, ParkSlope=YuppieToilet!
You just moved up like 10 notches in the credibility department in this here thread. Good, good stuff!
Huh? So now you are the arbiter of good music??? PUHLEEEEEZE.
I thought you were gone. Why do you keep coming back?
I think you’re cute
diehipster,
I don’t think I’m right, I KNOW it. Everything I have said is true-you just can’t look in the mirror and admit what you really are. Everyday when I wake up and look in the mirror I am thankful I’m not a baseball cap/gold chain/motherfucking XXL wearing working class pleb like you. “Real” New Yorker?? Not anymore you hasbeen (never were actually lol).
Childish attention seeking behavior?? I offer intellingent arguments, and all “your” people can come up with are video postings of retarded people in defense! Who is childish here? If I were you I would be absolutely ashamed of the way people make fun of the disabled on here!
btw I said I like Stevie Wonder and I also like Marivn Gaye. Anybody know which Stevie Wonder album starts off with the song “Too High”? Anybody? Probably not…
You are absolutely correct about one thing….I have had fun making you dickheads mad…I really have-it’s so easy and the responses are so stupid and predictable it makes me laugh! Dumb motherfuckers….lol. But I don’t worship your site-I did have fun though….I’m outtie…see you later assholes!
“btw I said I like Stevie Wonder and I also like Marivn Gaye.”
Sure you do, Josh. You like anything as long as you think it’ll make you sound cool by saying it. Now answer a question for me: how on earth do you hayseeds maintain erections while fucking those disgusting unshaven farmhand-looking female versions of yourself I always see you walking around gentrified Brooklyn with? I mean, it’s just unbelievable to me that any male could manage to stick his dick in one of those. Especially taking into account that the vast majority of you Joshes are closet cases anyway.
“If I were you I would be absolutely ashamed of the way people make fun of the disabled on here!”
Hey, you yupsters brought it upon themselves. Once you disabled people decided to invade my hometown, all niceties went out the window.
“I offer intellingent arguments, and all “your” people can come up with are video postings of retarded people in defense! Who is childish here? If I were you I would be absolutely ashamed of the way people make fun of the disabled on here!”
That should tell you something there JOSH…YOU ARE A FUCKING RETARD. Your feelings are hurt cuz nobody is dumb enough to take your bait? Well too fucking bad bitch.
As I said before, how is it possible to debate a human turd? Every last thing you post sounds like regressed retarded drool. All we have to do is keep on baiting YOU and you totally out yourself as a betwetting mongoloid mother fucker.
What you should be ashamed of is your shitty taste in music. I’d bet $11111,0000,00,0000007777999999999.000 of dollars that you like to lick the bathroom floor at the Greyhound Bus Station.
Intelligent arguments????? NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
You can barely keep your head up without swallowing your tongue. What? nobody in your shithole BFE town said anything to you about being a retard before you left for NYC to teach us about MUSIC?…Its cuz they were probably related to you by some sick, sick, sick Deliverance shit they ALL do out there and didn’t wanna hurt your little retard feelings….but lets get one thing clear:
YOU ARE MOST DEFINITELY RETARDED. YOU ARE MOST CERTAINLY 100% AN EGG-SALAD BRAINED POP-EYEDED MENTALLY CHALLENGED GLASS SORTING WINDOW LICKER WITH A CAVED IN HEAD AND HIDEOUSLY DAMAGED DNA.
You don’t know shit about music. You don’t know shit about anything except when you get your diaper changed.
You have obviously fallen for all that bullshit propaganda they use on the feeblest of the retards.
btw, I found your dad:
and your pop-eyeded mama:
The hideous and disgusting fusion of your parents DNA
has rendered you powerless against advertising campaigns naturally you believe any bullshit you read on the internet.
But Im not surprised since you can’t THINK.
GOOD GOD WHEN WILL IT END? WHEN WILL THEY EXTERMINATE ALL YOU FUCKING GENETIC DEFECTIVES OR AT LEAST STAPLE YOUR BALLS TOGETHER SO YOU CANNOT FURTHER CONTAMINATE THE HUMAN GENE POOL.
“Anybody know which Stevie Wonder album starts off with the song “Too High”? Anybody? Probably not…”
Hahahahahahah! THAT’S your music stumper for us?You’re a fucking moron. Your arrogant ignorance is embarrassing.
Plus, what kind of moron from the retardosphere tries to “stump” people with a question like that on the internet?
http://tinyurl.com/24pxdrl
Exactly – I’m sure that’s where he looked before he posted. He also thinks “Too High” must be some obscure SW song that only he knows about. This guy sounds like a child who’s just learning his first chords on his Strat. He actually thinks he can outsmart the people on this site. All these fakes try, but fail, because their limited minds believe that we are a bunch of “knuckle-dragging guidos”, when in reality there are a lot of educated, professional, multi-cultured, street smart, and life-experienced supporters of what this site stands for.
You would think there’s gotta be good music in every genre. If so, how about a link to a music video from a good indie song?
Here’s one from The Rapture:
Since when do you play the banjo?
I DON’T.
THATS A RETARD.
Here’s me in case you missed my last show…:
Do I really need to school you again?
Plus, you should reconsider trying to use MY LINES….it doesn’t suit you and makes you look kinda retarded….on top of the hair-do.
You b a black dude?! Shut your @$$!!!
How’d you get your music to be so colorful when your world is so black and white?
My fave rendition:
MIGHTY POSTED : You b a black dude?! Shut your @$$!!!
How’d you get your music to be so colorful when your world is so black and white?
RESPONSE : The above statement is fallacy of equivocation …That’s NOT suprising …since equivocating / lateral thinking, hipster- defending postmodernists are prone to equivocating .
Perhaps you and that other cretin (who goes by the screen name of Jay) , could sell your I-pods or dip into trust funds long enough to get the tuition to take a course in logic …and disabuse yourself of fallacies .
MIGHTY POSTED :How’d you get your music to be so colorful when your world is so black and white?
RESPONSE : The statement shown above is a vintage case of the fallacy of equivocation . Mighty, how do you expect people who thoroughly care about logic , to not laugh you out of the proverbial court when you resort to equivocation ….resort to that adolescent, goofy, MTV Generation sort of thinking called lateral thinking ?
That guy who calls himself by the screen name of Jay is laughable enough: to claim that Starbucks is a place to meet refined people and deep conversation ???!!!!
What a pathetic four -flusher ! If he were a run of the mill corporate shill, one who had stock in Starbucks… even that would be LESS mendacious than some MTV generation, trendy- postmodernist FAKE progressive , who is an apologist for the industrial corporate entertainment paradigm because he likes the mystique of FAKE counterculture, which some *rich yuppie corporation* like Starbucks attracts !
Yours truly must object to referring to hipster apologists as retards or retarded , since people who have that neurological handicap are far superior to the mendacious, dilettante creeps (like the hipster apologists) .
The hipster apologists might have more of a sort of cognitive agility (perhaps score high on those ballyhooed and overrated “I.Q.” tests ) but the cognitive agility they have is largely cosmetic …
The hipster apologists are skilled finding cute forms of mystification , four flushing , and making disingenous claims look plausible to those who make a quick glance appraisal .
The hipster apologists may have cognitive agility but they quite *lack* cognitive persipacity …
The “mentally retarded” people are NOT mendacious …or least not to the extent that the defenders of hipsters are , so one should NOT insult mentally retarded people, by wrongly comparing them with mendacious mountebanks: like the hipster apologists .
One kind hearted , guileless retarded person (who isn’t out to screw anyone) is far more worthwhile than a million of the mendacious hipster apologists, who may have high “IQ’s” any day of the week/ any month of the year . Including the Nancy boy, hipster apologists like Anthony and Alpha Male …
“when in reality there are a lot of educated, professional, multi-cultured, street smart, and life-experienced supporters of what this site stands for.”
Yeah, thats why you assholes continute to post retarted videos-its all you really know. Street smart is code for stupid-everybody knows that. This site stands for stupidity and hatred.
So Bill…..what’s the album then…since your so smart-debate me on any musical topic-I’ll crush you-go ahead-try to outsmart me-I guarantee you I know 100x more than you do about music.
So…Stevie Wonder wrote “Superstition” for which well known rock guitarist? This same guitarist played briefly in the same band with another well known rock guitarist-so you know who that is there dolla Bill? Huh? Do you know the name of the band they both played in? And which well known band was that other well known guitarist in? Do ya know Bill? Have I lost you yet you fucking ignorant bastard?? Stevie also had a hit in 1966 with a cover of a song by a folk singer-do you know the name of the song and the singer? Prove it asshole-answer the questions. You won’t because you don’t fucking know-you’re just an insanely stupid asshole like the rest of the dumb motherfucking flies that circle around this pile of shit blog.
For Mighty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgYg_ktRdE
The Strokes-one of the best bands of the last decade, singing about stupid New York cops…lol….like these working class commoners…”they aint to smart” lmao. No doubt all of the moron regulars on here will chime in about how terrible this music is-if they even know who it is-stupid fucks!
“So Bill…..what’s the album then…since your so smart-debate me on any musical topic-I’ll crush you-go ahead-try to outsmart me-I guarantee you I know 100x more than you do about music.”
SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU FUCKING RETARD.
The turd I flushed down this morning knew more about music than you do.
No one on this site is gonna “debate” you stupid fucking turd burglar. Its like kicking a a dog thats been run over by a car. Its like arguing with a rock.
Plus nobody on here gives a shit about how much trivia you have crammed in your pointy little head.
But here’s some better questions for you:
HOW MANY WORKING/POOR FAMILIES DID YOU DISPLACE JUST SO YOU CAN COME TO NYC AND PRETEND TO KNOW ABOUT MUSIC?
HOW MUCH DID YOU OVERPAY FOR RENT IN ORDER TO IMPRESS ALL YOUR RETARDED SHITHEEL FRIENDS BACK IN SHITHEEL CORNERS, WI????
HOW MUCH $$$$ DOES YOUR DADDY WITH A CAVED IN HEAD SEND YOU EVERY MONTH TO SUPPORT YOUR EXTRA-ORIDINARY CAREER IN MUSIC TRIVIA?
HOW YOU ENJOYING YOUR URBAN DECAY? TOXIC WASTE MUCH? GOT TIT-MILK CHEEZES?
Plus:
“go ahead-try to outsmart me…..”
YOU FUCKING DEFORMED GENETIC CATASTROPHE HYDROCEPHALUS MOTHER FUCKER
“The Strokes-one of the best bands of the last decade, singing about stupid New York cops…lol….like these working class commoners…”they aint to smart” lmao.”
I still can’t get over the fact that some reed-chewing, banjo-playing, nasal-squawking hipster-yuppie hayseed who’s fresh off the U-Haul from Pennsyltucky is talking like he’s the product of some sort of Astor-esque WASP of old aristocratic lineage, disparaging the ‘common folk.’ Hilarious!
You are nothing but an inbred middle-class suburban yokel just like every single one of your twin brothers and sisters who showed up in Brooklyn overnight via the Underground Yupster Railroad. You’ve got nothing, you know nothing, you are nothing. You are all utterly worthless in every sense of the word; a true waste of life. All one needs to do to verify what I say is take one look at the gentrified toilet neighborhoods that you proudly call your homes.
If you want to debate about me over why you yupster mutants are garbage and why normal working Brooklyn people are better than you, we can do that until you’re blue in the face. I guarantee you that you will lose, just as you’ve been losing on here from the moment you started. But that’s probably why you choose to ignore me rather than stand and be annihilated. Because what is a hipster-yuppie transplant to Brooklyn if he’s not a coward.
The Strokes are a bunch of poseurs with rich daddies who bought them equipment and a recording contract. And they are boring. The putrefying and skeletal remains of The Ramones plus the one that’s still alive and in his fifties or sixties could kick the shit out of them and still make better music to boot.
Hey T of D, I noticed the Strokes “borrow” heavily from Television.
Television were great. I’m reading Patti Smith’s recent memoir now but I haven’t gotten to the punk years yet. All those early punk pioneers were influenced by bands that came before them, yet created a completely original, fresh sound. The so-called indie bands of today all sound exactly like punk or new wave bands of the 70′s-80′s, especially the vocals, they’re all ripping off Ian McCullouch or the guy from Sisters of Mercy. FYI Jay and others, all these bands you cream over these days aren’t truly indie, not when they’re performing on Saturday Night Live and the late-night talk shows and having feature stories about them on NPR and the crappy music mags.
All creative artists stand on the shoulders of their predecessors….but then they take it futher to a whole nother level. With this “indie” crap….they just copy….it sounds exactly the same…nothing new whatsoever. There is a world of difference between being influenced by a band and wholesale robbing them.
Also, I have no problem with borrowing from the greats as long as you can bust it out…unfortunately the retard hit parade are to intellectually and creatively stunted by their hideous suburban sanitization to do anything really worthwhile. This shit has been around for a while now…..nothing earth shattering has come outta that scene.
Here take the Pepsi challenge:
STROKES:
Vs.
TELEVISION
Television does it better.
That’s why that crap appeals to this worm – he can relate to them (fake, spoiled, worthless posers playing shitty, half-assed Rock).
At least The Strokes are famous. This retarded fruitcake is a nothing.
“The Strokes” hahahahaha – yah, dude.
“So Bill…..what’s the album then…since your so smart-debate me on any musical topic-I’ll crush you-go ahead-try to outsmart me-I guarantee you I know 100x more than you do about music.”
Either a retarded 11-year-old or a delusional ass-sucking moron would want to “debate” over their mainstream music “stumpers” that anyone can find online in minutes.
Production Director of Music Trivia.
I think we have a new fake-creative-yup “profession”. Good luck with that, Josh. I’m sure you’ll go far – don’t shit away mom & dad’s $$$ too quick. Keep indie, dude.
Before I leave, could I tap into your vast knowledge of music trivia?: What famous 70s Rock guitarist toured with singing legend Edulfamid Molina Díaz and why did Wilson Saoko leave the tour midway through? Start searching – Now fuck off.
Bill,
I’ll take an outside guess:
1. Yomo Toro?
2. Bolla Sete?
Nice. Yomo Toro did play with “Piper”.
It would have took The Master of Music Trivia aka “indieboy” a lifetime subscription to Fios and Guitar Player magazine and he still would fail to pull that answer out of his assface, even though Yomo CROSSED GENRES and played with many American Pop and Rock acts in the 70s.
And yes, “Ignorance” is ALL indieboy can claim (he said it himself).
I literally JUST became semi-familiar with The Strokes this past weekend while watching SNL. The lead dude did a Digital Short with Andy S. called “A Boombox Can Save the World”. I was wondering who this pasty faced lanky shagadoo was singing lead chorus vocals and so I looked him up. It’s a quality sketch. I can’t speak for the band, but the dude was pretty good.
IKJ-New York is so much better now without so many assholes like you in it-so why are you still here-MOVE OUT YOU FUCKING MORON!! And call me “SIR” for now on-ya feel me motherfucker???
Sorry about your face.
We will be here long after your parents’ money dries up and you are riding the freight train back to Deliverance County like the yokel you are, Johnboy. You can rest assured of that.
LOl you morons are so stupid-all bands rip off their influences-all of them. You are just wearing rose colored glasses if you think it was any different for the original punk and new wave bands than it is now. I’ve seen clips of Jam on those TV shows you claim those bands never went on. As I said before-the Stones (and I like them) were BLATENT imitators of the blues and R&B artists they liked-Chuck Berry once famously punched Keith Richards for ripping him off. It is no different today-same shit different era. All of you are just doing what most people who have become irrelevent do-looking back to the past as always being better than the present.
Television were very influenced by the late 60′s guitar bands that fused jazz and rock, such as the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service. They added a dash of The Velvet Underground and sped the whole thing up-voila-orginal….lol…and I LIKE them. Why does is matter that something be original if it is good?? The more time goes by the harder it is going to be for these new bands to be original afterall. What do you expect them to do-come out of a vaccum with no influences at all?? Usually they imitate, and sometimes they are then able to systhesize, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be GOOD. All lot of that is a matter of subjective opinion anyway.
Oh and Toilet Digger-try as I might its hard to ignore your hilariously stupid “Deliverance” references when describing hipsters. Not only are they wrong, but it is a perfect example of the ignorant way you moron “regulars” on here objectify and demonise things you don’t understand. Like the way IKJ continues to post videos of “retards” because he is otherwise incapable of intelligent discourse.
Bill-I see you had to jump genres AND countries to try to stump me eh jackass?? OK then you got me-I don’t listen to that incredibly annoying “genre” known as salsa unless it’s blasting out of some asshole’s apartment window or car-just like in the good old days eh Bill? So unless it’s Carlos Santana than I proudly claim ignorance. At least with gentrification comes an end to the endless annoyance of having to listen to this crap. (see that-how do you like it when someone objectifies YOU?)
Getting back to the present-it is MUCH better now that you idiots are being pushed out of “your” neigborhoods that’s for sure. Brooklyn (outside of Park Slope) used to be a wasteland of unsafe and uninteresting pleb neighborhoods-it is so much better now. We just need to finish the job! And we will!
“Brooklyn (outside of Park Slope) used to be a wasteland of unsafe and uninteresting pleb neighborhoods-it is so much better now.”
Park Slope used to be exactly the same as those pre-mutant neighborhoods (i.e., a normal neighborhood full of regular working families living their lives). It didn’t become a fully-gentrified toilet until almost the turn of the century. So what the fuck do you know? Oh that’s right–you’re just another suburban inbred telling ME about what MY home is like. Got it.
“We just need to finish the job! And we will!”
Right on, bro! Speaking of which, I may have a three-bedroom opening up in my building this winter. I was thinking of listing it for $3500, but for you I’ll make it $4k. Or would you rather have a rent-bidding war with your fellow mutants to see which one of you is retarded enough to live here?
Hehehehe. It took a well-respected guitar legend like Yomo Toro to be mentioned before your frantic searches figured out that “Salsa” was his genre, even though Toro was a prominent crossover guitarist in the 70s who was well known in AMERICA – so, no I didn’t have to change genres or countries – we’re talkin’ American Pop, fuckface.
This is something a “Master of Music Media” should know. Oh, you want to take that back? You’re only limited to the genre of shitty poser indie bands? and since when is Carlos Santana “Salsa”? You are a fucking moron and you fail badly. Quit challenging people who are BETTER and SMARTER than you – you will ALWAYS FAIL. Take a fucking hike.
“Ignorance” – you claimed it.
“Carlos Santana “Salsa”?”
Indeed.
As I said before, bro “debating” that fucking diarrhea squiggle is like arguing with a fucking rock.
Btw, good question!
American Pop? I don’t think so asshole, otherwise he WOULD be well known, and not just inhabiting the Puerto Rican world of salsa music and being lucky enough to catch the attention of a few musicans who like that sort of thing (eg Paul Simon, David Byrne).
There is NO reason on this earth why any self respecting fan of rock music should be interested in this marginal figure unless they’re Puerto Rican themselves (well respectd guitar legend…..lol not in rock circles you asswipe). This does NOT make you smarter than me. Why should I know or care who some fucking Puerto Rican guitarist is? Thankfully I’m not Puerto Rican like you most likely are! Now GET OUT OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD and take your fucking salsa with you you piece of shit!!
He IS well known. Just not by born-yesterday human turds like you.
HAAHAHAHhahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Your slip is showing bitch…..
Now this bitch wants a do-over!!!
HAhahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
“Yomo has recorded 20 solo albums as well as backing up the likes of Harry Belafante, Paul Simon, the Barry Sisters and Linda Rondstadt. He is currently recording for Island/Polygram as well as leading his own conjunto worldwide. Since 1994 Yomo joined the forces once again with Larry Harlow, Aldalberto Santiago, and other gifted musicians to become part of the Latin Legends Band who have been playing concerts in all major cities throughout the world.”
From: http://www.salsaweb.com/harlow/yomotoro.htm
Thanks Yomo Toro.
He kicks into the “Happy Days” theme – Is that American Pop enough for ya?
***************************
With Fania: Look for the smiling pear-shaped guitarist.
In case it didn’t embed.
“since your so smart-debate me on any musical topic-I’ll crush you-go ahead-try to outsmart me-I guarantee you I know 100x more than you do about music.”
hehehehe – he wants a do-over like a spoiled child revealed for his short-comings. The nasal gasps of exasperated defeat will be the soundtrack to his pathetic existence. So typical of these ignorant whitebread slimeballs with supierority delusions.
You’re right, IKJ, dumber than a bag of dried dog shit. This self-proclaimed “ignorant indieboy” and his “Rock circle knowledge” is a fucking waste of time. Back to the retard videos…
“GET OUT OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD and take your fucking salsa with you you piece of shit!!”
“Your” neighborhood, huh? Also, last I checked, Jobless Jay, Salsa is very, very, very NYC. EVERYBODY knows this.
Now the truth comes out-”real” New Yorkers are really a bunch of fucking Puerto Ricans! Oh….I see….
Just by the way you talk I can absolutely tell that you are a paste-white, bearded, Adams-apple protruding beardo who looks 20 years older than you really are, has biceps the size of a girl’s wrists, a pot belly, and whose only pride in life comes from being a pseudo-intellectual yuppie douche. I’d also be willing to wager that you’ve got a pair of Converses sitting in your closet.
Living in Shit Slope, I know your type so well I can spot you out just by the way you type. You motherfuckers are such slime. But that’s OK, because as I’ve explained many times before, the last laugh will be mine. You inbreds forced me to play your gentrification game, but I’m going to beat you at it, fair and square.
Baaaaaaaahaha look at this kid. I can see him now. Pube beard, plaid shirt, 105lbs, makes fun of Spanish people yet is probably a pseudo taco expert among his flyover state gentrifying buddies and has never taken the G, L, or F trains more than 5 stops into Brooklyn. It amazes me that they have no clue anything exists below Prospect Park and I like it that way.
This kid knows he can’t win with us and it kills him even more to know he can never be a real Brooklynite.
Sorry Hayden.
Sure you will, Toilet, sure you will. This all makes sense to me know-remember how the East Village and Williamsburgh used to be unsafe, fucking shitty neighborhoods full of fucking Puerto Rican drug dealers? Yeah-such a shame all that has fallen by the wayside now right? You still dealin’ Toilet? Is that how you’re gonna fund your real estate empire?? Fuckwit. This site is a disgrace to humanity and I can’t stomach it anymore. Say what you want-gentrification is going to beat you all, and I will stand by and laugh. Bye motherfuckers!
Hold on, how are “you” going to survive gentrification? I’d love to hear this answer.
Nope. They’re still there…why would they leave?? they got the most retarded drug-hungry, money-stupid clientele IN HUMAN HISTORY….
YOU FUCKING ENCEPHALETIC VD HIPSTER FUCKFACES…..
But I guess in shitheel logic pasty white retard drug abusers are incapable of committing crimes…by virtue of their racial status….
And don’t EVEN get me started on their fashion crimes…..
“I will stand by and laugh..”
You’ll be standing by all the way back in Madison, WI, as soon as dadddy stops the checks. Seems like you’re a big fail at music trivia, there Joshie.
Time for your retard therapy.
“I can’t stomach it anymore.”
That’s what most fakes and failures say as they retreat after being exposed for the pompous, ignorant and racist fucks that they are.
That’s right, take a fucking hike, loser…..Remember rent is due on the first of the month! Hahahaha!
One Josh DOWN!
Correction: I actually should have said that I already beat you fair and square at your own gentrification game–and I’m going to dedicate the rest of my life to beating you even harder. I’m in preliminary talks now to buy another building in prime Park Slope from one of my native boys who needs to get rid of it for tax reasons. It’s a four-family, worth close to $2 mil, bringing a yearly profit of well over $100k with the rents that you mutants are paying these days. I’m not even going to bother saying where that will put me financially, but let’s just say that my kids are going to be far better off than yours (especially with the Brooklyn work ethic that will be instilled in them by virtue of growing up non-yupster). My family is going to bend your yupster ass over and fuck you all the way to the bank. How does that make you feel?
Btw check out Patti’s cover album: “12″ if you wanna hear her bust-out, taken the covers to a whole nother level….
The album version’s got her busting out with poetry.
She did a great job on that album. She takes those versions to a different level – most are better, more dynamic than the originals. My only complaint is that I wish she chose better Pop songs to cover – I really don’t want to hear a different version of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”. Great album regardless.
Im more into her cover of Helpless–my fav Neil.
“That’s what most fakes and failures say as they retreat after being exposed for the pompous, ignorant and racist fucks that they are.”
What does that make you-the way you talk about white people on here? Not self respecting white rock music fan needs to have anything to do with fucking Yoro Tomo-I couldn’t even sit through those videos, they reminded me how much I dislike spanish music-a fat motherfucker with a guitar, how COOL.
That Patti Smith cover (I like her by the way) sounds kind of like that hillbilly deliverence music you assholes hate so much doesn’t it? lol….you’re a small group of loser assholes hating on white people because you’re being pushed out of “your” neighborhoods. Eveything you say if full of hate-how sad….
There’s a big difference between normal Brooklyn Irish and Italian, Jewish and Polish working white people and your inbred ass, buddy. As a matter of fact, I never understood why black comedians used to make fun of white people until the Wonder Bread Invasion started and Brooklyn was suddenly flooded by a bunch of “white” people who talk like they’ve got a clothespin clasped on their nose and walk like they’ve got a broomstick up their ass. That’s when I thought to myself “Ohhh, THIS is who those black comedians are always talking about!”
I don’t know what the fuck cesspool you mutants were spawned in, or what’s wrong with that place to cause you all to turn out the way you do. But wherever it is, someone should do the U.S. a favor and Hiroshima that shit. Guaranteed the average IQ of this nation will jump 20 points in a split second if that ever happens.
“Why should I know or care who some fucking Puerto Rican guitarist is? Thankfully I’m not Puerto Rican like you most likely are! Now GET OUT OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That statement says a fucking lot.
The Minister of Rock Circle Trivia. I thought your “stomach couldn’t handle it”.
Take a fucking hike, no one cares anymore.
Well well well Josh,
Thats all you got? When moded retreat to racialist KKK-type bullshit…? You got the wrong site there…you should try EriKKKa’s spot Fucked in the head in Park slope…but…then again even they’re a little advanced in their racism for you.
You’re still not gonna bait anybody on here…no one gives a shit about anything you have to say….but don’t take my word for it….go on ahead an knock yourself out……
We really don’t need to say anything else.
Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar mis versos del alma……….
Celia getting down……..
Racist? Moi? Hey-just giving you peabrains a taste of your own medicine-how do you like it? This is a TOTALLY racist site you have here…”pasty white” indeed. You know, I likely would feel bad about the Puerto Rican comment which was said partially out of anger if I were around someone I could respect. But that’s what hanging around with you racist angry hate filled scumbags does-it rubs off on you. That’s also what happens when you try in vain to pass off a Puerto Rican salsa guitarist (albeit wellknown in his genre) as a “famous 70′s rock guitarist….NOT!!!
I would apologize to someone like Mighty for example, who has done nothing but shown an open mind and simply question your motives, and for that he got shat on big time. But to you assholes, if there is even a Puerto Rican among you, I would never apologize-you fucking deserve it you pathetic little circle of haters!
I’M A PUERTO RICAN! PICK ME! PUERTO RICOOOOO, HOOOOOO!
I live in Hollywood and have been watching Hipsters infiltrate the media for the last 5 years. So I whipped up this “spoof” Cribs episode set in SilverLake, CA (hipster capital of L.A.) enjoy http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/44fg
I guess just watch it now. Thanks all and email to friends if they hate hipsters.
Hipster “Cribs” SilverLake, CA – watch more funny videos
DUDE! I’m so happy that someone realizes how fucking lame these pieces of shit really are. I am praying for the day when these naive, gullible little hipster assholes finally realize they’ve been trying so hard to be different, they’ve become like everyone else.
I attended art school in manhattan, I’ve actually dated and been among these fucking pieces of shit and I couldn’t take it.
The girls (and I say girls because none of them are close to being women) are just empty husks who try so hard to be different just to give the illusion of personality. The semi-retarted looking guys are just pussy whipped losers who can’t have an opinion unless its been verified and okayed by the dry pussies in the room, for fear of being rejected. YOU ARE REJECTED!
They preach up and down about being yourself and being different and being okay with that. The “irony” (and they FUCKIN LOVE that shit) is that they’re all the same. Not a single one is different to a degree that would facilitate classifying them in any other way. Whats worse, is that they shy away from people who are different from them, thus negating their entire philosophy and supposed reason for being.
This is worse than the 80′s when boys dressed like girls, because today boys ARE girls. It’s an entire generation of people who want change for a future they aren’t even supplying with children. Children would be a responsibility, and that just isn’t on their agenda unless it has to do with their own mind numbing bullshit.
This whole thing hits hard for me because the stuff they’re interested in (obscure music, art, etc..) are things I’ve always loved, and have always tried to forward on to my friends who are less curious about the world. The thing that separates me is that I know when something has crossed the line and is garbage (Animal Collective…ugh), I don’t just follow the flock unquestioningly.
Unfortunately, the flip side of Brooklyn is a ghetto wonderland where the uneducated, flashy, and over sexed gangsters practically break their necks to fill the world with equally hopeless offspring. And, if thats not enough, you could always get closer to the Verrazano and get a belly full of the fist pumping retards who act like self made men, when in reality, everything they profess to fighting for has been handed to them on a silver platter. In the neighborhoods where these people mix, things are even worse.
I’ve lived in this borough all 29 years of my life, I have been entrenched in every aspect of its culture at various times through girls I’ve dated, and I’ve never once felt a kinship to any of them. I am not a man shouting blindly from a mountain top, I am a man telling you the results of a life long study. BROOKLYN IS DYING! VIVE LES GENS RÉELS!
Maybe you should fucking kill yourself and get it the fuck over already. You annoying fuck.
Greetings,
I don’t necessarily disagree with the, well, very general premise of your site, but I do have a problem with your poor execution on a theme:
What exactly is your definition of a hipster?
The best clues you give are on this page (thus the comment here). You offer, “transplanted, annoying, ironic, out of place, piece of shit, pseudo creative and intellectual,” as perhaps defining details, later adding “would-be urban” to the mix.
To start, however, I have to dismiss as being entirely subjective “annoying” and “piece of shit.” Apologies, but necessary.
That leaves us with “transplanted,” “ironic,” “pseudo creative,” “intellectual,” and “would-be urban.” (Can I ask why you only decided to go with the hyphen on “would-be” and not “piece of shit” or “pseudo creative?” Just curious.)
Individually, surely you would agree, none of these elements alone creates a hipster, so I have to assume that they must entirely be present in one. Is that correct?
And what the above boils down to, to me, is that you don’t like people who aren’t from “here,” people who would prefer that their “here” be a city, and who offer merely the facade of intellect and creativity. However, -actual- intellect and creativity applied here might suggest an artist, so I suspect that false assumptions of intellect and creativity are a big part of your point, unless you actually hate, say, writers and artists. (Do you actually hate writers and artists?)
Now, clearly your blue-collar sensibility has been frightened by the march of gentrification, so I won’t even get into the how pathetic your claims are of “transplanted” neighbors being problematic. I really don’t think you want a history lesson on this point. (Do you?)
But let’s get back to your use of the word “pseudo,” because I think that’s really the crux of your problem as you present it, and I think it’s probably a problem best expressed by the last piece of your puzzle, which I haven’t yet addressed:
“Ironic.” I haven’t even touched your use of this word here, which I think is really best left to you to define, because at the end of the day I don’t think you really know what it means. I think that you think that it means: fake. Which is why I think “pseudo” is the strongest point of your litany. You have a problem with what you perceive is a falseness in hipsters, a certain duplicity to their existence which you cannot reconcile.
If so, then I happen to agree with you on this point (although I reject your use of the word ironic to describe it), but I think it’s better expressed as: willingness.
There is, to me, a certain willingness to hipsters to participate in the world that they have chosen to inhabit, and there’s a clear strain of (albeit incredibly mild) rebellion in standing out from that world. But it also needs to be empty as a gesture.
And this is where I think you go off-point, where you assume that all willingness to stand out or rebel automatically defaults to hipsterishness simply because it passes your eyeball test: beards, hats, tweed coats. Have you ever been to Boston? I wouldn’t call them hipsters.
In the case of the Mast Brothers (a position you’ve taken which I urge you to reconsider), you have two men whose product you happen to disdain, but which attempts to reclaim a sustainability and moral high-ground in food production that our (you must concede) duplicitous mainstream food culture has forsaken. That alone, while an intellectual (pseudo-intellectual?) argument to be sure, surely is not on its own a hipster one. These are just two guys attempting to do right by their craft — which is to chocolate what art is to creativity, a perfection of method.
Their willingness is to create something genuine, not simply to revel in their presence because it’s there; the former should be commended, the latter, you’re right, should be mocked.
And although I think that you’re right to point out the flaws in the emptiness of certain hipster elements that exist only for their own sake, I think that you are dead wrong in assuming that if it looks like a hipster and smells like a hipster, then it is, in fact, a hipster. It’s not that simple.
You need to do a better job at identifying what it is about hipsters that a) makes them hipsters and b) makes them wrong for it. Otherwise, you are doing nothing more than pointing at people on bikes and laughing at them. And that’s, uh, really lame.
Overall, I get the impression that you’re just someone who doesn’t like the fact that your neighborhood is changing and so you have latched onto gentrification as an element to define hipsters. You couldn’t be more wrong on this point. Gentrification, while it’s lamentable at times, also brings some benefits — think of your long-time neighbors who own homes that have tripled in value, for example.
At the end of the day, I suspect you just don’t like hipsters. I suspect that you really have no reason for it, either, which is why you rely on subjective criteria like “annoying” and “piece of shit” to define them.
I suspect this because while you have access to the high-ground in this cultural battle, you choose to take the low road. You should be able to do better.
Best,
M
Because you weren’t listening, and because you have no interest in getting a real response, here we go again:
Or, alternately, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhAr_UeroCk Yes, someone’s already made a television show about hipsters, only they thought it was intended as a compliment.
Wonderful ad. Thanks for sharing.
Now, M (and I really do think you ought to identify yourself by more than “M;” I’m not quite sure who you’re trying to hide your identity from), here’s my well thought out reply to your clearly well thought out post.
Defining what a hipster is, is as futile as asking the supreme court to define pornography. “I know it when I see it.”
Does that definition work? Yes, and no. It doesn’t work because it concedes that there is no one single unifying trait that binds all hipsters. It does work on the same logic; it doesn’t simply lump together a diverse set of people.
So, yes, one knows a hipster when one sees one. It subjective, to a point.
One walking around wearing nothing but American Apparel isn’t necessarily a hipster. Someone riding a fixed gear bike in the city isn’t necessarily a hipster. Every skinny 20 something with a beard isn’t a hipster.
Being a hipster doesn’t mean you can’t be fat. It doesn’t mean you must be white. It doesn’t mean you must want to “make art.”
A hipster is marked by their personality; their sense of entitlement; their choice of where to live; their feeling of superiority to everyone who doesn’t share their beliefs; their sense of importance; their ironic [there's that word again] childishness filtered through “post modernism” [without a hyphen]; their false sense of belonging which usually manifests itself through the creation of a wealthy urban ghetto; the overall feeling that everything they do is “right” and anyone who disagrees is “wrong.” Those character traits, coupled with the look, the bikes, the overpriced “local chocolates” and the disregard for how their entitled lifestyles might negatively effect anyone else around them is what makes the hipster.
No, I can’t draw one, I can’t give you an expected height, weight, hair color, hair length, shoe size, dress style, etc., but I can tell you that what makes the hipster is how they intentionally make a point to stand out, crying “Look at me! Look at how much I do for culture! Look how environmentally conscious I am.” Why? Because they’ve been enabled to by their overly “loving parents, by their upper middle class suburban and small town upbringing.
The Mast Bros. personify this entitled “me complex.” They’re making their own chocolate cause it’s the “right thing to do,” of course ignoring the fact that only rich hipsters and yuppies can afford it. It’s all about feeling justified.
A hipster who works for a hipster-centric business is even worse than the ones ones who refuse to work. There’s another layer of self-delusion there. The Mast Bros. can say they’re “part of the solution” because they’re “working,” when in actuality they’re an even greater part of the problem.
Most hipsters are passive. They move into their ghetto and stay there. The don’t go out of their way to encourage future “gentrification.” They just sit around passively, getting drunk, faking “art,” and never leaving their ghetto. The Mast Bros. bring in the trash, they encourage the change; after all, they need it to happen to survive. No yuppies would buy their overpriced chocolates if they had to go to an “ethnic” neighborhood. But here, they can pretend to be in an “authentic” neighborhood, even though it’s just as fake in its attitude as a movie set is in its ability to convince an audience that what they’re seeing is “real.”
Hipsters need “authenticity” to survive. They need a “real” environment to do “real” things, but there’s nothing “real” about hipsters.
23 year old “art expert,” Christopher Mathew Tyler Anderson was just another Utah farmhand with a lousy internet connection until his parents sent him to “learn about his interests” in the big city.
That’s what they all are. They’re only hipsters because being a hipster is an “authentic” display of their beliefs.
But it’s not anymore. It’s mainstream. Most “hipsters” don’t even know what a real hipster is. They’re just fashion hipsters; drunk scum trying to emulate something they don’t understand who live in places like Williamsburg because that’s what they’re supposed to do. Every trixie at a hipster “concert” isn’t a hipster.
Every bro-dawg in skinny jeans isn’t a hipster.
I don’t know if these one-degree-removed “poseurs” trying to emulate other “poseurs,” without understanding the implications of their decisions, are better or worse than real hipsters; the ones who actualky pretend to be “artists;” the ones who truly delude themselves into believing that riding a bike makes them a better person. People like The Mast Bros.
But because they are such a lemming-like culture, the ultimate objective is to find some martyr willing to lead them off a cliff.
Hello ,
The following definition of the term ‘hipsters’ is a good definition .
Hipsters (also called scenesters) —Members of a subculture of trendy conformists who conform to cultural trends whose motifs , patterns of speech and gesture, et al are more specialized than the most mainstream trends (though still t.v -influenced and especially MTV -influenced) , and which are , moreover, trends which have the mystique of the sort of patterns of dress, behavior and ideation found in chic, fashionable urban , nightclub and coffeebar locations ; a subculture whose propensity for chasing such trends is , moreover, apparently for no other reason than a type of status seeking dilettantism , and for achieving trendiness itself ….and , which is the *sort of trendiness* wherein a type of incongruous irony is pursued , as part and parcel of a flippant ,cheeky, and fickle cultural sensibility of a postmodernist sort …wherein a paltriness of spirit and apparent mental laziness celebrates such incongruous / duplcitious irony , rather than seek any acumen …preferring in its self apologetics to claim that any protestations as to a lack of acumen are supposedly some sort of elitist , hegemonic and parochial affair .
They are members of subculture which, in so pursuing such telemedia , specialized trendiness , concurrently revels in kitsch, sexually risque smut , and what French essayist Guy Debord called ‘the society of the spectacle ‘
You Mr or MS M , made the claim that allegedly gentrification had some benefits .
Well the claim that gentrification has even as much as some benefits , is quite false , if by some benefits you mean intrinsic benefits .
Any benefits accruing to a town or city from gentrification are at most merely serendiptious or extrinsic benefits , *not* benefits by design , nor intrinisic ones .
The pervasive outcome which looms large as a result of the gentrification which spoiled worthless subcultures, such as the yuppies and the hipsters bring with them is a cultural condition which Emile Durkheim called *’anomie* . Anomie being a sense of large phenomenological displacement *away from* the lines of demarcation once offered in the networks of homeworlds and pasttimes…such networks and pasttimes which had been in previous times connected to a stable pattern of lived rythmns connected to a landscape which persisted in form and offered a sense of continuity .
Anomie is a state wherein the process of relating to ones environs is continually threatened by motifs of FLUX , *loss of* phenomenological roots …a loss which imbricated in systems of commerce based on the mystification of the notion that passe , old ways must be *replaced* , so that amoral , financial ends being touted by the mavens of such a more recent cultural and economic paradigm may become more dominant .
Such a mystification feeds on the notion of the *demographic* —where the demographic becomes the prized term of the newer type of discourse , *instead of* the community …and communitarian concerns are marginalized .
END RESULT : a feeling of placelessness in the day to day lifeworlds of those people whose neighborhoods have been affected by gentrification .
That , is indeed the evil of gentification and the evil of the paradigm of postmodernist , MTV era, global economy rat race mystification whose essential outgrowth is conformist kitsch …and worst of all is conformist kitsch that is touted as if it were something countercultural and bohemian …when , actually, it is a greater *threat* working *against* anything that is genuinely countercultural / bohemian, than any hidebound Archie Bunker sort of societal element ever was ….
Again the definition of hipsters is NOT subjective .
Here are objective observations on the characteristics endemic to hipsters .
One does *not* have to resort to the “I know it when I see it” sort of appeal .
There are defining properties of hipsters such as a penchant for deliberately cultivating an incongruous , internally NONconsistent irony/ambivalence, a tendency towards specialized urban kitsch and chic dilettanntism, and concurrent with that a cretinous & adolescent tendency for sexual kinks /juvenile and gross vulgarity (such as celebrating references to masturbation and other puerile trash), a penchant for a type of weird fast talking banter , and a dystopian liking for cultural entropy (themes of death, chaos, fractious relationships, edginess, dysfunctionality ,and so on ) .
Lee,
You have to admit, diehipster doesn’t exactly foster an atmosphere of openness and acceptance. When in Rome. Don’t worry — I promise not to espouse any thoughts that aren’t my own.
I don’t think you’re really pay more than lip service to the fallacy of subjectivity in this argument.
Hipsters have an attitude of superiority? Like your attitude of superiority? No, hipsters have hardly cornered the market in arrogance.
Hipsters can’t make $10 chocolate, but Jacques Torres can? I think Madison Avenue begs to differ with the marketability of luxury items.
Hipster’s can’t attempt to learn what it means to be creative without making mistakes, but some punk kids in the East Village can? No, success and failure at a creative is no reason to put down a group of people.
My problem with the drivel on diehipster is that, when you boil it down, it’s nothing more than local xenophobia.
I agree: the shallowness of living your life solely to blog about it, drink about it, complain about it (this drives me mad more than most of the rest), and ultimately do relatively little to nothing with is truly shaming. But the Mast Bros. woke up this morning and made a shit ton of fucking delicious chocolate. Yet, I’m pretty sure diehipster woke up and masturbated to his “beating of the day” after reading it for the twentieth time after posting it. You tell me who’s bringing less into this world.
Honestly, I think a lot of what you wrote is a desperate attempt to make sense of your gut instincts. I get it. There are irritable elements to hipsterism. But that doesn’t give you carte blanche to steal the bike of anyone wearing a fedora (oh, and what was your thought on that episode, by the way?)
I lived in Williamsburg and Greenpoint for five years before moving into Manhattan. Of all the longtime residents I met, they were good and descent people. Better than many of the people living in their neighborhood, for sure. But none of them went so far as to wish death on their neighbors.
And, if you’ll allow me to paraphrase, those residents expressed to me that they’d rather be surrounded by people doing the right thing, even if they can’t afford it, than a bunch of self-absorbed assholes chasing off with burning pitchforks anything that looked different.
Most of the angst between people like diehipster and the so-called hipsters he hates could honestly be resolved by being normal people who speak like normal adults, rather that this testosterone-soaked gorilla fight that he chooses to provoke (anonymously, might I add) online.
But it’s easier to lash out when you don’t have to own up to your outrageous claims.
Love, Trey
TREY POSTED :Lee,
You have to admit, diehipster doesn’t exactly foster an atmosphere of openness and acceptance. When in Rome. Don’t worry — I promise not to espouse any thoughts that aren’t my own.
RESPONSE: Piss on the postmodernist /relativist attitude of tolerance and acceptance. Piss on that MTV attitude of respecting crass opinions.
Is the person who signed out with the name Trey that goofy hipster apologist pipsqueak who writes pro-hipster propaganda for the so-called ‘urban dictionary’ .?
I’ve been living in Williamburg, Brooklyn for the past three years (originally from Omaha, Nebrasksa) and I freelance, go to coffee shops all day, love to discover other parts of Brooklyn like Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, and I’ll never leave this place – it’s my home. I only hang out with non-native New Yorkers, but I’m not hip. What about me?
YOU ARE A HID
Carroll Gardens, Park Slope????
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Have fun in Shitheel Corners….
Sorry about your face…
you don’t like those who have invaded your new york. now you know how native americans have felt for hundreds of years.
Shut up you fucking CUNT! We’ve been through this before with Ed GODDAMNED VD AND PENIS PILL LACED VAGINA SANDWHICH BITCH!
I AM native american…I hate pioneers.
Now fuck off, JOsh.
AYE-fuckin’-MEN, brutha, your site RULES. and the scourge is not limited to the outer boroughs of NY; these weak, soft-bellied, whey-faced, wide-assed conformist sheepfuckers have infested and overrun los angeles as well. like diana christianson in NETWORK, “everything they touch is destroyed.” where hipsters gather, the flat affect reigns supreme. i LOATHE them with the intensity that a baptist preacher loathes the thought of satan, with the righteous fury of a smoker forced to light up out of doors, with the all-consuming fire of the late gg allin singing “i kill everything i fuck.”
strangle them with their own man-bags, boil them in regurgitated soy lattes, brick them up in a tomb with their edward sharpe and MGMT CDs.
end of story.
What’s a PBR?
vans levis dickies jackets and boots for style is in words posture actions and skateboarding. hipster i know what ya mean they look weird. fuck bikes! empty pools boxcars compassion eternities of contridictions peyote solidities- the rats HOWL at the white midnight moon for haiti bleeding in ruins starving- new orleans 5 years is starring at vanishing point roccky road of recovery. voracious blood thirsty beasts. MONEY. SUFFERING. 4 noble truths. sunflower. crime and punishment. cleanse the doors… being well read fun compassionate on the road
-FREE-
when we (lefti and i) refer to ourselves as hipsters its in that sense well there it is we’re more expressions than anything
See that’s the problem…YOU ONLY THINK YOU ARE WELL READ.
In reality you have just referenced all the tired, worn out bullshit cliches from the irrelevant 20th century. What a fucking copier you are. That was by and for an entirely different society and you are too brain damaged to even get that..For those people it WAS FRESH AND REAL. FOR YOU, its utter bullshit. HAHAHAHAHAHAhahaaaaa……
Silly HID…
The only thing you retards have done is to demonstrate how intellectually and creatively bankrupt you are. You people make it perfectly clear that our society is going right down the toilet.
1. ITS OVER FOLKS AND THESE EXTRA CHROMASOME HAVING TURD-PEOPLE ARE LIVING PROOF.
2. DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME ON GETTING AN EDUCATION. THEY ARE PROOF OF WHAT A RIP-OFF BULLSHIT HYPE WORTHLESS ENDEAVOR IT IS. IN THE END YOU TOO WILL BE BRAIN DEAD AND USELESS. YOU WILL ALSO HAVE TO PAY OVER $10000000000000000000000000000.00 OF DOLLARS FOR THAT DISTINCTION.
3. THERE IS SOMETHING THAT HAS INFECTED THE DNA OF WHITE PEOPLE FROM THE MIDWEST, MAKING THEM DROOLING NON-VIABLE RETARDS…DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE MATE WITH ANYONE NAMED JOSH OR MEGAN WHO IS FROM THE MIDWEST…YOU WILL REGRET IT….SO WILL YOUR DNA.
4. DO NOT READ THE NEWSPAPER OR ANY OTHER JOURNALISTIC MEDIA. IT HAS BEEN COOPTED BY EGG-SALAD BRAINED RETARD HIPSTER PEOPLE. IT WILL ONLY MAKE YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE RISE IF YOU DO. YOU WILL CERTAINLY BE ANNOYED BY ALL THE HORRIBLE DIARRHEA-LIKE WRITING AND POLLY-ANNA, SIMPLISTIC POV. PLUS, YOU WILL BE AMAZED AT HOW THEY SIMPLY BELIEVE WHATEVER THEY ARE TOLD AND JUST CAN’T WAIT TO TOW THE LINE. IF YOU READ THE NY TIMES YOU ARE ESSENTIALLY READING CORPORATE PROPAGANDA.
5. DO NOT BY MACs THAT CORPORATION HAS PUT EVIL SIGNALS IN THEIR LAPTOPS BRAINWASHING THE MAC USERS. THIS EVIL SIGNAL MAKES YOU MORE AND MORE AND MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO RETARDED ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. SOON YOU TOO WILL BE WADDLING DOWN THE STREET IN GREAT FLOOD GALOSHES WHEN IT IS SUNNY AND WARM OUTSIDE. YOU WILL ALSO FEEL NAKED UNLESS YOU ARE WEARING A HUGE RETARDED WOOL CAP AND SCARF IN AUGUST 103 F DEGREE WEATHER. YOU WILL COMPULSIVELY BY RETARD AND EXPENSIVE AND IDIOTIC THINGS AND THINK YOU ARE COOL FOR DOING IT.
See ya, Jim Morrison wannabe…good luck with the immitation. Hopefully you’ll die young too.
“5. DO NOT BY MACs THAT CORPORATION HAS PUT EVIL SIGNALS IN THEIR LAPTOPS BRAINWASHING THE MAC USERS. THIS EVIL SIGNAL MAKES YOU MORE AND MORE AND MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO RETARDED ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. SOON YOU TOO WILL BE WADDLING DOWN THE STREET IN GREAT FLOOD GALOSHES WHEN IT IS SUNNY AND WARM OUTSIDE. YOU WILL ALSO FEEL NAKED UNLESS YOU ARE WEARING A HUGE RETARDED WOOL CAP AND SCARF IN AUGUST 103 F DEGREE WEATHER. YOU WILL COMPULSIVELY BY RETARD AND EXPENSIVE AND IDIOTIC THINGS AND THINK YOU ARE COOL FOR DOING IT.”
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaa!!!!!! This expains so much!
I’ll reply, click this yo!
“See that’s the problem…YOU ONLY THINK YOU ARE WELL READ.”
No my good man, I DONT THINK. Therefore I am. Think about that deep shit.
“In reality you have just referenced all the tired, worn out bullshit cliches from the irrelevant 20th century.”
You would be tired too if you were a whole century.
“You people make it perfectly clear that our society is going right down the toilet.”
One word: Low Flow Toilets. It’s an episode of Hank Hill, man, don’t you get IT?!
“3. THERE IS SOMETHING THAT HAS INFECTED THE DNA OF WHITE PEOPLE FROM THE MIDWEST, MAKING THEM DROOLING NON-VIABLE RETARDS…DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE MATE WITH ANYONE NAMED JOSH OR MEGAN WHO IS FROM THE MIDWEST…YOU WILL REGRET IT….SO WILL YOUR DNA.”
So on a serious note, you’re a racist? A fucking racist on the Internet? God you make me feel like a cold glass of milk on a hot summer night you racist piece of race hating bigotry. You are, like a chocoloate chip cookie made of racism and baked in an oven of bigotry.
“4. DO NOT READ THE NEWSPAPER…”
Reading is for people who have eyeballs.
“5. DO NOT BY MACs”
Who is Mac? Is this one of the white people from the midwest you want to own like a slave? Reverse-hatred man is the worst hatred of all, except for orange juice.
“See ya, Jim Morrison wannabe…good luck with the immitation. Hopefully you’ll die young too.”
Wishing death on someone. Hmmm, how provocative.
Dang, in one short post that moron turned “Howl” into “Bowel” and “On the Road” into “On the Turd.”
Glad to have stumbled upon your websight. Very informative and I couldn’t agree with your findings moreso than with every click of the mouse. I’m a writer in California currently working on a 2nd draft of a screenplay that parallels much of your findings about this ‘hipster’ (dare I say:) ‘movement’. I’d gladly pay royalties towards any agreed research on the topic, since you deal with the ‘hotbed of hipster-dom’ back East and I see much of that version here on the west coast (it’s horrifying).
Keep writing, its brilliant.
A Non-Hipster in L.A.
The only place better than New York on Opposite Day is LA! OOOOOOH YUCK!
Guns n’ roses were good, yeah, like 20 years ago! What’s up now? There?
Left Brooklyn 2 years ago because of these midwest trust fund scumbag shitpieces pricing hardworking brooklynites like me out of the market.
Now As I sit here, my wife is watching Samantha Brown on the travel channel claim to be “from Brooklyn” and how she knows a “great pizza place” – Bitch is from Texas, couldnt afford Manhattan and of course, settled for Brooklyn.
You fucks are ruining Brooklyn’s good name. The next hipster i hear claim to be “from Brooklyn” is getting an education on what is was really like to grow up there.
Texas is so much better than Brooklyn, or really anything New York has to offer. Count yourself lucky to be out of that place!
Us real New Yorkers need a flag…like an “I survived Mayor Dinkins” t-shirt
“Hipster.”
That’s Hipster for “Rich classist parasitic bastard still attached to the teat at 30.”
They’re like trustafarians, only easier to beat up.
I am a true hipster. We fight the power by burning Bibles, or rewriting Bible verses and publishing them and then secretly slipping them into the pews. Then Christ”ians” read them and think that God really said “Fuck Canada!”
That is so hipster you don’t even get it. You can’t get it. I think the other things listed here are so rad”ical”:
1. Brooklyn, like all of New York, is so sucky I can’t even fathom how many syllables it would take to shut your mouth.
2. Too many fathers, not enough children. Lets have more daughters, eh dads? Your sons are not cool and neither if Football or your version of it American.
3. I moved here from the Czech Republic. CR !!!
4. If my English bothers you, man, go back to England. I am forever!
Your blog is awesome (sarcasm.)
Men and women filled with hate,
Does anyone else see how ridiculous a lot of this is? Young people living in cities will always have certain ideas and aspirations. It’s not ruining your city in as much as, well, your city isn’t your city, you weird, puritanical fools. New York has forever been like this. London has forever been like this. The reason we are all living in these cities is because they are like this.
The hypocrisy of your shallow critique is highlighted here: How can anyone expect to do anything when if you a) blog, then you’re a hipster, and then b) criticize blogging, you’re then saying ‘oh, SO you’re saying blogging is a hipster thing, now?’
Look for the target, friends. Currently, I can’t see one.
All you need is love, Robert
(Give it to me hard, merchants of hate)
You like it hard?
Feeling Bad? Drop kick a hipster!
I love this web site. It vents a lot of the anger that I have for these snarky dick breathed ass clowns. I really didn’t know what a hipster was until I started seeing them show up on a regular basis at one of my favorite Savannah, Ga. dive bars. They show up as small gangs of emaciated, mustached, 80′s clothes wearing, American Spirit smoking, pieces of shit, and play terrible music on the juke box while dancing around like assholes. As if this bar wasn’t small enough as it is. What makes you think I want to squeeze past a pair of filthy seizuring freaks on my way to the bathroom. All they order is PBR and don’t tip. Guess what? The price of the PBR went up. The only reason they are here in Savannah is for the art college. Or a rich kids summer camp if you will. I tried talking to one of these things only to get a look like I had two heads or something. That just goes to show you what being nice to these freaks gets you. Thanks god I moved before I tore one of there heads off from their shoulders and went to jail. I live in Charleston now where they have a bike polo club. I can;t get away from these pieces of crap.
I know what you mean, they are in Southern California and spawning like mad…its funny how sad an attention seeker really is. Delusional, is what they are, my friend…and frankly, they look rather ridiculous prancing around our local watering hole. Its a ridiculous trend and it will not last..its on its way out, thats why a hipster would be so reactionary to any sort of commentary against him or her..the defense mechanism of hostility (from the hipster) proves that there is a masked sense of ‘fear’ there..fear that the trend is slowly dying….
Savannah and Charleston doesn’t surprise me. Seen these douches in Columbia, too. Sumter, too.
They’re repulsive.
They’re probably all SCAD students, so you know their mommies & daddies have the $$$.
I love this web site. It vents a lot of the anger that I have for these snarky dick breathed ass clowns. I really didn’t know what a hipster was until I started seeing them show up on a regular basis at one of my favorite Savannah, Ga. dive bars. They show up as small gangs of emaciated, mustached, 80′s clothes wearing, American Spirit smoking, pieces of shit, and play terrible music on the juke box while dancing around like assholes. As if this bar wasn’t small enough as it is. What makes you think I want to squeeze past a pair of filthy seizuring freaks on my way to the bathroom. All they order is PBR and don’t tip. Guess what? The price of the PBR went up. The only reason they are here in Savannah is for the art college. Or a rich kids summer camp if you will. I tried talking to one of these things only to get a look like I had two heads or something. That just goes to show you what being nice to these freaks gets you. Thank god I moved before I tore one of their heads from their shoulders and went to jail. I live in Charleston now where they have a bike polo club. I can’t get away from these pieces of crap.
Thought you might like this video, apparently East London is suffering as well.
http://www.youtube.com/user/kinginamoy86#p/u/4/o_5uVdy5YmA
AMAZING VID POST THOUGH…. “being a dickheads cool”
“REAL” New Yorkers are fckin idoits, thats why hipsters take over so easy… they’re educated!
and immigrates? really? did someone say “new immigrates” get screwed?
Fcking GOOD! (im moving to NYC asap in that case)
I’ve got this funny suspicion that you know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about gentrification, NOTHING about working for a living, NOTHING about supporting yourself, NOTHING about culture, NOTHING about NYC, NOTHING about being a self-made man, NOTHING about immigrates, NOTHING about viable life-experience, NOTHING about anything outside your little Wonderbread suburban bubble. Go back to mom’s mac & cheese and watching “Indie Rock” YouTube videos, you worthless, grover-bodied, kazoo-voiced, puberty-bearded bitch.
Nice work Bill!
(I had the same suspicion this morning when I read these comments.)
+1.
Educated? GTFO, Sassafras! Your AA in Advanced Upcycling and Freegan Arts is *not* an “education”.
This blog/sight/wonderland is brilliant. Please continue. I am a writer living in Southern California and we have been infested. I am currently conducting field research for a short film I am writing that basically pokes amazing fun at this ‘fad’ of ‘hipsters’. If you are interested in giving feedback to the story or would like to contribute anything, feel free to contact me at the email I provided in the reply form. Please continue to write, it truly is awesome and accurate, even for what we are experiencing over here on the West Coast.
This is my new favorite blog/site.
The descriptives are a thousand times better than photos on other sites could ever be.
Keep up the great work.
I am a testicle chomper!
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Under all the sanctimonious talk of diversity and tolerance is a smugness celebrating that the working classes were cleansed from urban America. Now the entire city can be set up as sort of this homogeneous cultural polarization. Where it was once this smorgasbord of true cultural diversity of ethnic enclaves it is now a homogeneous bauhaus playground with only areas for the yuppies and their hipster larvae. master planned, homogeneous and corporate. Of course there will be areas for their third world low cost laborers who they require to make their lattes, drive their cabs and wash their dishes.
What it means to be a New Yorker has changed. The accent the history and the culture will die with us. Or maybe not.
youre 100% i fear for the future as our true culture here in nyc is dying
For the Northside of Williamsburg I blame the Polish landlords during the dot com boom because they viewed guarantored “flm students” as a better bet than a working person who might or might not lose his/her job. That’s why it now has an atrocious campus-like vibe to it.
fantasyclown, we all know snark is the standard worn-out hipster crutch. so glaringly unoriginal that it MUST be pitied. the 1990s are over little boy. how does it feel that everyone hates you? if you were so SMART, which you are NOT, then how come you don’t whip up a plan to make everyone love you and follow you and fatten up your net worth on your own merits? oh, that’s right wait a minute -what’s to love? at least you know you’re a farking clown!
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/chelsea_marc_back_in_town_13fdTo110pQf5kUI3RsfXM
SO ARE THESE 2 ASSHOLES hipsters NOW?
I made the mistake of posting the above comment with my real name and not my pen name (damn browser’s autofill). Could you please delete it?
Thanks.
I *love* you. I’m a native new yorker. My family immigrated from the Dominican Republic when I was a toddler. I grew up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, during the 90′s – when it was a shit neighborhood, one the worse and poorest in the city. Bushwick also had the highest rate of HIV+ in all of Brooklyn. Now Bushwick is the backyard for Willamsburg. Hipsters move to Bushwick when they can’t afford Willamsburg.
Now I live in Flatbush with the West Indians in Church Ave. The hipsters are slowly starting to creep in from Park Slope. Did people just discovered Brooklyn – a borough that’s right next to Manhattan with cheaper rent? What’s next, Queens? I’ll guess us brooklynites will have to move to the Bronx, where the rent is still affordable for working class families.
Thank you for writing what’s been going through all of our minds. DIEHIPSTER.COM
PLEASE DELETE ABOVE COMMENT, thank you.
this website is a waste of time. what do you plan on achieving? oh well, have fun being mad.
Wanted to bump the current thread up, so I wouldn’t lost it later once, messages in other threads start pouring in , and the current one drops out of sight .
Hope to be back this present evening, to further belittle and vituperate the totally wrong pro-hipster opinions professed by Trey Parasucko, and other hipster apologists .
BRAND NEW MUSIC CLIP “FIXIE FAG”
http://www.myspace.com/video/the-morrisons/fixie-fag/107549007
A contest should be held to see which place has the suckiest hipsters. My hometown Montreal has the MILE END to park all the MacBook-hugging sheepsters in cafés.
Hello!
Contacting you from London, UK. We have a lots of hipsters here too! Especially in a trendy up-and-coming borough called Hackney. Was wondering if you would like to comment for a feature I am writing for a local newpspaer and website on Hipsters in Hackney. Would really like to get a New York perspective on the theme. Would be happy to preserve your anonymity. Do get in touch! Would love to hear from you.
Thank you for existing. Knowing you’re here is all that keeps me sane some days when drowning in the shit.
I want to debate that sellout postmodernist hipster supporter Trey Parasucko .
I see that she (or someone claiming to be her) was promoting that opinion respecting MTV generation nomjudgemental acceptance and tolerance trash .
Whenever I see that talk of respecting opinions /balance /other perspectives squish that is like a red matador ‘s cape which makes me charge with nostrils about to snort and the metaphoric tusks poised .
Only I attack the opinions —especially the infinitely trite, infinitely mundane and rinky dink notions that opinions themselves —including crass , murky ones must be accorded some ad hoc respect …YUCK !
Of course , NOT all statements about values are mere opinions …despite what the four-flushers like Richard Rorty and other
ANTI-philosophers have claimed .
It is one matter to withdraw vehemence against an opinion if that opinion is a mere innocuous false opinion—without much epistemological nor axiological pitfalls….like the person who claims wearing a lucky rabbit foot might make them slightly lucky, but still takes it upon themselves to drive carefully, make sure their kids don’t play in traffic and so on .
It is a far different matter when some pipsqueak apologist for kitsch: like Trey Parasucko and claims that people who denounce the yuppie lifestyle are “close minded” …due to how some people are NOT namby pamby enough to respect the trendy, conformist, television driven , soul-less and sometimes sordid , and always rinky dink …wrong opinions of the trend sucking yuppies !
You know who I hate?
Tyler the Creator.
He’s a fucking black hipster and he deserves to be lynched.
You know what I love?
Intolerant devotion to animosity.
And I appreciate you hosting such a malicious platform of violent hate.
May the white homogeneity rise!
That was deep. Ohio-ish kind of deep. You must live in Bushwick. No wait, Greenpoint. Like Yah.
Wanna hate-fuck?
I can give you a pretty good idea of deep.
this shits fuckin funny, i spent like an hour before work yesterday lookin at it all. Im down south and it doesnt seem like are hipsters are quite as hipster, or are as many of em. but maybe im just never around any. anyways, yea good shit, fuck hipsters
wow, you are a really hateful person. Do you realize that stereotyping an entire group of people simply based on the clothes they wear is somewhat akin to racism? Do you actually know any hipsters? Are they really ALL worthy of your hate? Were you born in Brooklyn? Have you lived there your whole life? If not, you have no reason to complain about people (ANY kind of people) moving there. People have to live somewhere, no? Are hipsters, or anyone, required to continue living in the town in which they were born and raised in perpetuity?
No, I am not a hipster. I shop at the Gap and Ann Taylor, my bike has brakes and 24 gears, and I flat iron my hair on a somewhat regular basis. I just don’t hate on entire groups of people for no reason other than the clothes they’re wearing or their hobbies.
Apparently you have loads of free time to sit around bitching about people. That sounds a little pathetic. Sounds like maybe you’re one of those unemployed people who suck off the rest of society. And god do I hate those fucking people. You’re all EXACTLY alike.
Thanks for your fake post! Now get out of Brooklyn.
Hi Jennifer!
Here’s some helpful advice I’ve found when reading the opinions of others:
“If what someone writes doesn’t describe you, then they’re not talking about you.”
Good Luck with the reading comprehension!
From your FAQ:
“us normal, non-attention seeking, non-herd following, unpretentious real city people…”
I think that this blog is extremely pretentious and attention-seeking.
Then you’re a moron.
Really Joe? Well, the only attention sought on my end is to bring attention to the disease of hipsterism which has caused and is still causing huge unjustified raises to rents and a Faux-artisanal bohemian atmosphere full of 20-40 year old toddlers.
Wouldn’t you say that’s different than the attention one seeks while walking (or skateboarding) down the street with painted on skinny jeans, Elvis Costello accessories and a $5.00 coffee concoction?
You decide.
Finally post this in the right place, check this out in London :
http://www.redmarketlondon.com/
LAID OUT MORE LIKE A BOUTIQUE FESTIVAL SITE THAN YOUR AVERAGE LONDON STREET MARKET, RED MARKET WILL SERVE FOOD FROM 20 OF LONDON’S BEST LOVED STREET FOOD TRADERS. SITUATED IN AN INSPIRING OPEN AIR SITE BETWEEN OLD STREET AND RIVINGTON STREET RED MARKET WILL BE AN EXCITING NEW PUBLIC SPACE IN THE HEART OF SHOREDITCH
why is it an inspiring open air site? how is it exciting?
I can tell you from experience it is a piss soaked dark dank and dirty hellhole full of waif like creatures floating around on a cloud of there own pious self righteousness.
cunts cunts cunts cunts.
Regards,
London Hipster Hater.
PS Do you only highlight the shit in Brooklyn or will u run pieces in the uk?
Hi there,
Im from Melbourne Australia and we are surrounded by an influx of hipsters and they all ride their tricked out fixie bikes.
This is a song about that… I think you may like it.
Pete.
It feels shitty to have these dilettantes appropriate something you do, to be honest. Hipsters mock the rest of us; in their quest for authenticity, they devalue what is authentic. Then again, I hear these little fucksticks like irony, so I guess that qualifies.
It feels shitty to have these dilettantes appropriate something you do, to be honest. Hipsters mock the rest of us; in their quest for authenticity, they devalue what is authentic. Then again, I hear these little fucksticks like irony, so I guess that qualifies.
I’ve run into a few, because inevitably my friends have some of their own friends, and some of those friends are hipsters. The amount of time they spend contriving their image is probably responsible for this country’s economic problems.
Can you believe what pussies these Hipsters are? Finally, someone has the balls to call out young people for not being from Brooklyn and not being welders. You’re brave to stand up to these kids dude, whoever you are.
PS: I’m at Church St. Boxing gym every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
I have a job. So please narrow it down to the hour, King Hipster.
Just call for the boy with the bucket. He’s interning there for free to enrich his understanding of anthropology.
You may have seen this before. It’s amusing.
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/21/wb_mckibbincrimes_2011_5_27_bk.html
lol
Dear Die Hipster Editors:
Below is a link to the short story Wabi-Sabi about a weed bike delivery guy in NYC who is a hipster too lazy and unmotivated to actually work on his art.
The story is fresh and literary and I would be honored if you would read it and, if you like
it, write about it on DieHipster.
http://www.amazon.com/Wabi-Sabi-a-short-story-ebook/dp/B0052GGBDC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=books&qid=1306377161&sr=8-1
All best and down with hipsters,
Mary
Your lack of knowledge on what actually causes rent increase in areas is flabbergasting. The fact that you hold yourself in higher esteem than any other group of humans, yet label them as pretentious? Your ability to be a completly off base on all of your rants is the ONLY funny thing about your site. Keep on hating people… just please do us a favor and don’t breed. Less moronic pussies, whom post anonymously in the world would be great. Next post, actually show your face or name. I’d love to see a hipster SMASH YOUR FUCKING FACE IN.
Their diets leave them so vitamin-deficient that the odds are that if they tried to sock a normal person in the jaw (slap is more like it) they’d break their radius or ulna in the process.
This is why a hipster delivering a beatdown is an impossibility, though a rather amusing one to imagine because it only happens in the imaginations of the butthurt.
Is that you again Gavin McHipster? I know you’ve been secretly reading this site for a while now and not until just recently. Yep this is how to bash hipsters and send them a message. Step 1, don’t be a hipster yourself as you are. Step 2, show some real hate. What would you know about Brooklyn rents going up being a transplant your self? You’re just an annoying, chinless, attention-needing, Z-list comedian transplant. One of the early hipster pioneers who helped turn (North) Brooklyn into Organic Disneyworld. Remember the red line bitch.
HERRROOOO STEVIE!!!
Fuck You and Fuck Your Smelly Megans.
Here’s the kind of girl us regular folks get.
Looooooossssseeeeerrrrr!!!
I hate to tell you this but your collection of blow up dolls, doesn’t count as girls Chad McBro-tard.
Why don’t you do us a favor and go back to Israel where you can continue to not get laid by any of these women you claim to “get” and then get your dick blown off by some Palestinian kid in hopes you don’t ever breed…. yeah didn’t like that one did ya? Well now you know how it feels.
My family has lived in NYC since before the Civil War so don’t tell me or anyone here to get the fuck out. You’re an immigrant too you fuckin’ twat.. so shut your vagina hole.
Oh yeah.. I forgot. I usually end up banging most of your fake titted Britneys behind your back all the time. Sorry to bruise your ego there Chad.
How do people on this site hold themselves in higher esteem than any other group of humans?
And if you were to actually follow the site for any period of time, you would realise that many of the posters have given quite a lot of details about their lives, unlike yourself, Mr. Unoriginal Username and Six-Line Rant.
Off base on our rants? Seems to me like we probably did hit quite close to home when it comes to you.
Hope you’re feeling better after that little crying session.
My name is Bryan Reynolds, from Sunnyside Queens and thank god the greenpoint bridge separates us. i live at 50-05 48th st. 2nd floor. I welcome any hipster visitors who want to smash my face in. We know what you did to brooklyn and you will not do it here motherfuckers. WE WILL DIE FIRST!!!!!
I love how you are all feeling so hurt feelingsed. “real new yorkers” yeah right. keep going america, see if they’ll take you seriously now.
thank you, dear americunts, for providing the adult world with a daily source of laughter ever since belgium stopped being funny.
I’m British and we hate hipsters over here too.
Also, people have posted on here from Germany, Russia, Australia, Mexico; and elsewhere within the USA, Minnesota, Texas, California and Pennsylvania (among other places).
Seems like you just aren’t popular anywhere, are you…
Or, in the mind of the hipster; the world’s full of hostile ‘knuckle draggers.’
Easy there Union Jack Off… Why don’t you continue getting drunk on your liquid courage. You Brits are about as ineffective as your dental plan over there. FIX YOUR FUCKIN’ TEETH AND THE SHUT FUCK UP!
Then come back and make fun of hipster fauxhemian fuck twats… until then get a life mate.
Microsoft def trying to snag some of the hipsters away from apple with this ad. http://wp.me/p1vrGU-gx
You need to write a post about the Brooklyn Hipster who won the 50,000 prize on the show Best in Smoke on the Food Network. Can you believe a tofu-sprout loving wannabe chef is the Best. Give me a break!!!!
The only thing he’s been smoking is his fair trade cannabis.
and winos…don’t forget the winos.
Great site. I can’t stand hipsters either, and they’re everywhere these days. We have a post on our blog about it too:
http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/03/fuck-you-hipsters/
spending pops $ on munchies is art cause i said so….and filmed it
Hello there,
This website saved my life. I was starting to question whether I was a loser because that’s the impression that I got from some of my ‘friends’. I’m apparently boring, mainstream, and wasting my life because I work and study full time and dress in normal clothes and don’t act like a child and don’t like going to markets and organic cafes and don’t pretend that I like anything just because it is ‘ethnic’ and/or ‘authentic’, etc, etc. Then I realised, after reading this site, that these ‘friends’ are actually hipsters, and they are the losers! Yay!
One of the best things on the internet!
I wish I could nominate you for a Pulitzer.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_dnainfo/parks-dept-uproots-rogue-farm-in-washington-heights-park?bouchon=501,ny
Let me just say to the person who runs this site.. You’re a fucking moron! Why don’t you try focusing your hatred towards things that are worthy like the government that is currently stripping your rights away in front of your eyes in the name of security. We are becoming a police state in this country and the TSA will soon be squeezing your nuts in every mall, concert venue or sporting event you’re worthless meat head ass attends. So stop being a useless douchewad because you’re not helping anyone including yourself, with negative shit like this dude. The only reason someone would put a site like this together is because of their own insecurities and inability to adapt to any sort of social change. You should also probably stop paying attention to mainstream media and how they portray particular groups of people because almost everything I have read regarding hipsters on this site, is pure myth. You obviously don’t know any of them and are quick to judge based on appearance and what MTV feeds your mushy little brain with. Unfortunately, you’ve bought into exactly what the establishment wants. They would rather you be distracted with venting your hatred towards a particular group of people than figuring out that the water you drink, contains dangerous amounts of fluoride that is probably burning holes in your brain as I write this. The government is dumbing you down and it is painfully obvious by some of the crap I have read on here. So why don’t you grow up and grow some real balls pal and try attacking things that are a REAL threat.
Come on Stevie. Just re-read the entire site – front to back for your 23rd time and maybe you’ll be able to answer some of your own questions for once.
Well, I have to say that this is an improvement.
Stevie’s latest character is “crazy old mountain man in a shack, rambling on about government conspiracy theories.”
Come on, isn’t that what all hipsters boil down to if you take away the trust funds? At least the beard is more appropriate.
Let me get this right… You guys are actually that pathetic that you have to come up with some made up character named “Stevie” brand me with and now I’m a “conspiracy theorist”. I hate to say it, but most of that shit I brought up is pure fact and admitted out in the open, so it doesn’t make it a theory my friend. Also, your claims that hipsters live off a trust fund is pure myth my friend. I don’t know any that do and most of them I have met, are well educated with liberal arts degrees, or degrees in math and sciences and usually end up in jobs in music, art and fashion industries. You guys obviously feel threatened by this particular subculture or else YOU WOULDN’T BE WASTING YOUR TIME WITH DEDICATING A SITE TO BASHING IT. I don’t really consider myself a “hipster” although I ride a fixie, but ya know what? You may not be smart enough to realize this, but fixie bikes have been around long before that label for a group of people came about. In fact I’ve been riding them for many years. My biggest gripe with hipster culture is they try to pass themselves off as being non-conformists when the sad reality is that they are conformists within their own subculture. I guess if you really wanted to label me, I would be an anti-hipster hipster because I don’t follow all their stupid fashion trends like I’m wearing a uniform. I take elements of it and put my own personal spin on it. People always feel the need to classify themselves as something or look a certain way to feel like they are apart of a group.
BTW, I don’t know who fucking Stevie is..I’m just some dude that stumbled upon this site and thought it was a bunch of negative bogus crap. Calling me a conspiracy theorist is the only retort you can come up with to marginalize another group of people you feel threatened by. All I’m saying really is… stop wasting your time on meaningless shit such as this and get out and do some REAL research on shit that matters. Why don’t you join in the fight like the rest of us, and fight for your constitutional rights that are being stripped away. http://www.infowars.com/
Yeah? Well let me ask you something there Adolf… what do you plan to do about all these so called hipster kids infesting your town and driving up the cost of living? Maybe round them all up and stick them in concentration camps? Sounds a lot like the way Nazis brainwashed the German people into believing that the Jews were stealing all the wealth. Of course it’s not quite the same since that was racially motivated, but it is in the sense of targeting a particular group of people who choose a different sort of lifestyle that you clearly can’t identify with and causing gentrification.
You’re basically using the same mentality template of a Nazi skinhead and applying it towards this group of people by enticing violence towards this particular group. I guess I’m trying to figure out what you’re trying to accomplish with your site here. You honestly think that getting people to sign petitions to get rid of these people, is really going to cleanse your city of these folks? I mean they’re pretty much everywhere dude so shut that vagina of yours and deal with it. You would be equally as effective by getting people to sign petitions to get rid of crazy sports fans or meat head guidos in your town. In other words.. it aint gonna happen unless you start bombing neighborhoods they dwell in or round them up and stick em’ in concentration camps. And if you start going down that path, then you should really take a step back and start researching some history and you’ll probably realize that you might not be on the right side of the fence.
http://accidentalchinesehipsters.tumblr.com/
You seem to be obsessed with labeling people based on how they dress. What do Chinese hipsters have anything to do with anything I said? Maybe you should try looking at people as human beings instead of some infestation of cock roaches friend. Sounds like you and your minions on this blog site are equally childish as the folks you poke fun of. I personally don’t care much for some of the hipsters either, however most of the ones I know are genuinely good people and others are just flat spoiled snarky fucks.
I grew up in the DC punk scene back in the late 80′s and early 90′s and the crew I rolled with, we thought we were so cool and justified for beating up Nazi skinhead fucks for infesting our shows even when they weren’t causing problems, but really just for fun. I later realized that we were just as violent and fucked up as they were. I hope that you grow out of this bashing phase and learn to appreciate all forms of humanity.
Look asshole we all know the Government is fucked and that they put Fluoride in the water. The real conspiracy is that you think there are enough jobs in art and fashion to support all these assholes. oh wow, you were into punk during the 80′s and fought skinheads and your point is? Oh and you put put your own spin on hipster fashion? you all think that though, so shut the fuck up. I’ll bet my life’s savings I could pick your corny ass out of a crowd of real New yorkers anytime. go back to DC and let us get back to our normal way of life you disease you.
I gotta say there Mr. Diehipster, I did read this article that Barrett Brown wrote.. http://bushwickbk.com/2010/06/02/in-defense-of-hipsters-and-the-controversial-practice-of-moving-to-a-city-not-of-ones-birth/
That guy is a total douche pickle, especially the way he portrays local Brooklynites and goes as far as throwing in some racial bullshit with the Balkan comment. I can see why you and the other steroid dipshits on this site feel about hipster kids from the midwest. He does bring up some valid points but at the same time, your site certainly does as well. Your site has a very negative borderline violence towards these folks though which concerns me. Negativity only breeds more of the same and only makes you guys look bad. You’re not accomplishing anything at all.
Now… just some background on me here, I often get lumped into the “hipster” category based on my appearance and that I happen to ride a fixie (They’re light, fast and easy to maintain), just my personal preference. I grew up in the DC area, however my entire family (mostly German/Italians) is from Yonkers and parts of Long Island and most still live there. We’re not wealthy, I’m not a trust fund shmuck, I’ve worked hard most of my adult life to get where I am, I run my own business, etc… I lived in Denver for a few years recently and now I am planning to move back to the east coast.. more specifically BROOKLYN. With that said… I really don’t have much in common with hipster kids from the midwest moving to Brooklyn. I do actually know how to fight pretty well when I have to defend myself and have plenty of times (Although I hate fighting). Unfortunately, most hipster twats are too passive and need to learn to fight back when some meat head Chad Bro is beating down on them. I guess I have an advantage because I’m not a 95lbs vegan wussbag but I do prefer organic shit (don’t fucking demonize people who do either, GMO’s will kill your sorry ass).
Anyways I’m moving there to be closer to family and friends that I happen to have out there. I’m also moving there because I love REAL Brooklynites and I generally feel more at home around them. They’re funny and quick witted like me. I’m not moving there to be apart of some hipster club. Although I have many creative outlets, most of them don’t like me because they know I’M THE REAL FUCKIN DEAL and I’m not living out some false fantasy that mommy and daddy are funding. Now.. when it comes to some of these stupid arguments I read about, I’m more likely to take sides with the native Brooklynites especially after reading that BushwickBK article. That guy doesn’t represent me or anyone I know who dabbles in that counter culture. Your problem is, you think all hipster kids act that way. If you really wanna drive some of those folks out, stop wasting your time with stupid rants, get out there and start doing creative shit and beat them at their own game. Pretending to be some tough motherfucker writing fantasy hipster beat down stories, makes you seem equally as much of a douchebag as Barret. End of story.
Last night I was defiling this precious hipster bitch in Brower Park when she started trying to sputter something through the benzos and blood. I was like “the fuck?” and kicked in the rest of her teeth with my Timberlands and busted in her self-entitled little cunt. End of story.
Why is it that every hipster thinks they invented hipster? “I had to wear these clothes because I was poor growing up,” “I ride a fixie because it’s convenient.”
Yes, of course. You’re so original, just like the other 2 million of you. I think you spawn on the floor of American Apparel dressing rooms.
I think this is the result of preventing bullying in schools. Instead of shaping up or killing themselves, hipsters have grown up into pseudo-romantic wanna-be artists.
I’m amazed how many of the pro-hipster posters resort to homophobic slurs (and accusations of closeted homosexuality) against the owner of this blog and it’s fans. How many self claimed hipsters have posted “eat a cock”, “homo,” etc.?
I thought you sanctimonious phonies walked around with your progressiveness on your sleeves and in people’s faces any chance you get.
Fake assed bitches.
Hello Diehipster!
I’m a native New Yorker (Flushing), and love your site. I saw this and know you’ll know what to do with it:
http://www.thedailymeal.com/four-restaurants-where-youll-never-ever-get-table
Read the section about Chuckie’s Corner (I include it below).
Keep the faith!
John in California (but you can call me SVvisionary)
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Chunkie’s Corner — Brooklyn, N.Y.
Taking the concept of “street food” to its inevitable apotheosis, 19-year-old Otto “Chunkie” Blutwurst— who honed his skills as a grammar-school cafeteria monitor, then went on to earn instant acclaim for his ill-fated Eat It Or Starve on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, which opened to great fanfare in late 2010 and closed after lunch — has eschewed not only bricks-and-mortar but also trucks, trailers, carts, and stands. “You could call this a ‘virtual restaurant’,” says Blutwurst. “If you were some stupid phony, or something.”
How does it work? Exactly 19 lucky souls (chosen at random from the membership rolls of Match.com and the New York City Municipal Credit Union) gather on the corner of Keelhaul Terrace and St. Flocellus Street in the Rottenwood section of Brooklyn exactly 19 minutes after sundown every evening (a security force of pensioned-off Guardian Angels enforces the temporal parameters), mill around aimlessly until the unmistakable rat-a-tat-tat of a driveby gang shooting is heard from two streets over, and then line up in ascending order of height along the curb while Blutwurst and his team race by on their vintage Schwinn Couriers and toss exquisitely crafted morsels (Mangalitsa pork-fat shooters, rattlesnake-and-cannabis hand rolls, rabbit tartare with catfish-liver crostini, and the like) — though never quite enough of them to go around —into the air above their heads. Hilarity ensues.
I went to Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg and ordered an Amstel Light. I was met by Susy from Omaha with “We only offer handcrafted brews made in Brooklyn.” I was thinking, “That’s not Brooklyn.” I then had to settle for a disgusting “Pumpkin Brew” Brooklyn Brewery concoction that tasted like shit. Message to Brooklyn Bowl: “Bars in Brooklyn serve beers that taste good, regardless of where they are brewed!”
so… you live in williamsburg, HATE gentrification, insist that you are NOT a hipster, are a web designer AND like to spend your time blogging – mostly to express ironic witticisms and your own personal critique of the world. You also seem to have alot of free time on your hands… let me guess.. you’re not freelance are you? I hate to say it, friend – but you sir, are a hipster.
You should read the FAQ page Toby. But yep, you got me.
the worst kind of hipsters are black and puerto rican hipsters – what the fuck – is this some sort of white envy? you cant dress like youre supposed to?
The above qualification doth not a a hipster make.
Clearly JC has never lived among hipsters…. or has he?
this website is great…hipsters not only ruined NYC and Brooklyn, but now they’re invading LI…if they were as smart as they try to be, wouldn’t they have realized these trends and styles didn’t last the past few decades, so why would they be alright now? and that they’re not being as unique and creative as they think if it’s the current TREND..fuck i can’t even get started on this shit…
Die Hipster,
I love your site. And I hate these pasty, pretentious, racist, arrogant, hipster fucks. They ruined Brooklyn. I live in LA and they’re ruining here too. Determined to drive out all the Latins and Asians that have been here for generations but then re-”invent” our food and clothing.
I am a native NYer, born and raised in Queens. Please tell me they are not invading Queens yet?
I love this site. I cannot stand this hipster plague that has destroyed nearly every city in this country. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, and at 43, I experienced some amazing scenes come and go in NYC. The stupidity on behalf of these fucksters is that they assume anyone who criticizes them are not creative, and that we all somehow listen to Bon Jovi and pump steroids into their veins. You don’t like generalizations, but then you go generalize.
Look dickweeds, I am an art director who grew up around hip hop in its purest form, from rap, graffiti and break dancing. It was a great time. I also spent many years in the NYC hardcore scene. I can even admit I liked some indie music in the 90s, Fugazi, Slint, Jawbox…etc
What you will NEVER understand is that places like NYC at one time were so alive with substance, originality and rebellion. Out of the poorer neighborhoods came a steady stream of art and culture you will never be able to replicate from current yuppiehood.
Tell me, what the fuck has the hipster movement done to contribute to the arts? Your whole entire mission is to copy and regurgitate everything that has been done before, with an added twist of “irony’. From skinny ties, bad 80s synth music – to mustaches and cheap beer. Don’t give me any shit that all music has been copied. Sure, many art forms have been influenced by something before it, but there is a vast difference between “influenced” and “copied”. YOU’RE NOT ORIGINAL. You’re rebels and innovators only in your own minds, and you do a terrible disservice to those who were truly rebellious before you were even born. The truth is most of you wouldn’t have made it one week in a place like Brooklyn if the year were 1980.
So much fuss about hipsters…but these hipsters are generation that your society had created–they’re just a sign of much bigger problems with society, a tip of an iceberg.
Personally, I don’t bother with them–there’re a lot of kinds of people I hate: fat people, rednecks, hipsters, yuppies and SF “techies”, republicans, h-1 immigrants, ghetto thugs… they don’t exist for me, like a little roach crawling somewhere (I always keep my gun ready just in case they go after me, though). Why waste even a minute of your precious life time on some scum you hate, just focus on own life and ignore the shit that’s floating around.
“So much fuss about hipsters”
That would probably have something to do with the fact that the site you are commenting on is called “diehipster”. :0
…..and if I ever see one of you bearded douches on a penny farthing, all bets are off. You will get beat down.
Pops and Camacha (my great grandparents) came to this country from Caguas, Puerto Rico in the late 1930′s with one dream in mind…Owning a home. They were among the1st families to move into Carver Projects in East Harlem, where they stayed for about 10 years. Floor scrubbing and number running paid for 3 brownstones in Park Slope, where Pops and Camacha finally settled in 1957.
My mother, my 3 brothers and i were born a bred in Brooklyn from our home in Park Slope to Church ave to Ashford. I remember REAL block parties with bbq’s in the front gate and music ’til midnight. I remember house parties, lights in every window for christmas and being able to walk down the block and name every person that lived in every single building. I even remember corner stores, open johnny pumps in the summer time and streets before they were tree lined….Gone are the days of family, friends and frolic. Present are the days of strangers next door and noise pollution complaints. Im not sure if it was truly better back then, or if my youthful naiveté plays a part in my nostalgia, but what ever the case may be I miss my Brooklyn.
dear invisible webmaster.
still don’t get the point of this blog.
what kind of frustrated guy can you be to so much hate others and waste so much time of your daily life insulting them?
what kind of secret power a pair of glasses, a beard, a soy bean milk, a meaningless tattoo can have to affect you so strongly?
nothing in your posts is based on an objective thinking. everything is orientated towards either lifestyle or aesthetic or fashion or other futile everyone’s personal choices.
as any other communities of which we don’t belong, we are all both fascinated and critical, i personally have nothing against hipsters. i find some nice, some ugly. i have glasses because i need some. i don’t consider myself a hipster though. i don’t leave in Brooklyn although i had fun when i went there last time. that’s it. i don’t feel they took over my own capacity of creation or personal evolution. we just live parallel.
it all makes me sadly realize some US citizens are still so narrow minded. who are you going to vote for the next elections?
best wishes.
z.
Anybody who feels such a need to defend hipsters and their ilk is either one of them or is no better than them. Your entire post reeks of it too, and I bet you can’t see it either. But we can.
How fucking pathetic of you to try to make this an “ignorant Americans” thing too. Let me guess, you’re either from Europe (or South Africa, Australia, etc) or Canada. There’s a reason you feel such a need to defend them. It’s because you come from the same people. The same deluded, arrogant, ignorant, entitled people who think they are much more superior than they really are.
You have a nice day now, you fucking loser.
What he fails to realize is that my main purpose of this site is to show how ridiculous and out of place these 20, 30, even 40 something’s look and act in Brooklyn, NY. It’s just not meant to be. The rent increases, pussification, pseudo-artsy smugness, and beta-male activities. I know it doesn’t belong. Hipsters may belong somewhere – just not here in Brooklyn.
Your pointed hatred of a people group for occupying space in your beloved Brooklyn ranks you among the likes of Hitler. You’re not a superior person, and this blog does, if anything, to show that. Look in the mirror, this is not the solution.
Translation: “Mommy! He’s making fun of me! Have him killed, NOW!”
DH,
Want to send a thanks for helping me burn off the rest of my work day with a smile.
I live in SF. It has been said that we are ground zero for the hipster movement and by movement i mean the proverbial ass in which the hipster was shat out.
I am actually headed to NYC next week on a work trip. i will be in Brooklyn coincidently to spend time visiting some friends. I am interested to see the differences in the hipster east vs west coast. i will report back my findings and perhaps they could be used for a future DH post.
On a side note, my girlfriend is seriously annoyed by my anti-hipster rants. So, i need an outlet like this one to help me vent. i can not exactly put my finger on why they fuckin bother me so much..they just do and it is fun to make fun of their carbon copy lifestyle.
If you know SF, the mission is the equialent to williamsburg, so I have heard. The exact same things you write about are happening here: rents skyrocket, trustfund kiddies, transplants, midwest, artists, fixies..i could go on and on and on.
when i was that age, i felt like we did similar things like drink cheap beer, wear worn clothing, and not do a heck of a lot. but i suppose the difference is that was college for me, and i was broke so that is all i had. and we did not make a spectical of it. i actually was embarrased to drink cheap beer! but then i graduated and got my self an actual job. maybe that is what rubs me wrong is the pretension of the whole thing..its so ironic that they are trying to be cool, but are really truly slaves to mass consumerism. not that i am saying i am not a slave either, but rather they they are convinced they are not slaves to it.
anyway, i have a link to share that sums it up rather nicely, and a few years ago in fact.
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
read, enjoy.
i hope to post often in support. keep em coming.
don’t you have some private life apart of here? are you really spending your time peeping at east coast hipsters when you don’t have consideration for them?
what a sad life. what a useless group of people you make. way more useless than even hipsters. what a boring blog here where i thought i would read at least one properly constructed sociological statement.
but nothing.
void.
empty.
blank.
your brains are desperately crossed by the fermented air of your geeky bedroom.
just open the window.
and jump.
look at the hipster. trying to write his free-form e.e.cummings poem.
without capital letters.
but, of course, with plenty of pretentiously constructed sentences.
his clever ironic tone is as predictable as the fact he would feel the need to comment on here defending hipsters, even though he wouldn’t call himself one.
what a creative individual.
different.
mysterious.
alternative.
just like all the rest of them.
i don’t have some kind of life apart from williamsburg? am i really spending my time peeping at new york natives when i don’t have consideration for them?
what a sad life i have.an emotard loser.
hear my cries when the girls of the soccer team would beat me. stuff me in my locker. what a useless group of people i belong to but social reject i.
who else would accept me? what a blog here where i am so butthurt. i thought i could read at least one properly constructed sociological statement. but i am too stupid.
i suck as a poet copying e.e. cummings.
i have no original thoughts
look at me! pay attention to me! zany, quirky, a clone like all other hipsters i try oh so hard.
but nothing.
void.
empty.
blank.
my brains are desperately burning by the fermented air of my geeky, parentally funded bedroom.
i should just open the window.
and jump.
Check out my hipster movie! It’s the best thing you will see today!
http://vimeo.com/35052592
Hello
We’ve emailed before. I’m born and rises in Williamsburg. So once again the ny times has to give credit to the hipsters for creating something that has exhisted long before gentrification!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/fashion/in-brooklyn-committing-to-a-man-bun.html
I grew up in williamsburg in the real deal days of the 70 s and 80 s. i been hatin and ranting about this same shit since about 99′. Haha. Great site. Please dont forget about annual “punch a hipster in the face day”- feel free to pick any day of the week. Lol. Live in qns now but always in turkeys nest on bedford most fridays keepin the old crew alive and representin. Peace out
I pass by there on my way home from work, will be glad to join ya for a beer on any given Friday.
Preaching to the choir here!
I live in Richmond, Virginia, and save for a few years in the military, I have my whole life. Sometime during my years of service, hipsters began to infest my fair city, and I’m sick to death of these Scott Pilgrim-esque effeminite man-children stinking up society. I’m working 40wrs a week and am a full time college student, and these prats are out begging on street corners or mooching off of thier parents. Makes me sick, I can only imagine what you good folks in Brooklyn have to put up with.
Keep fighting the good fight!
Thank you for existing, DieHipster. I was born in New York city and lived there just long enough to be indoctrinated by the need to let people know I’m really at heart a New Yorker even though I left the city when I was 7 and left Westchester county when I was 9 and moved to Oakland, against my will- or not against it, just not by my own volition.
Since I entered college, I’ve noticed that half out of every single fucking person I know in the 18-27 (slight stretch) demographic have become enamored of New York city. Once upon a time I had machinations on moving back out of genuine love and nostalgia but now I want to forget New York fucking exists. I just want it wiped off the face of the planet. Between the Brooklyn Renaissance and Uptown invasion or whatever the fuck this shit is called, these goddamn hipsters have ruined it. All I hear all the time on Facebook is “blah blah blah normal shit everybody deals with no matter where they live…only in New York City!/Only as a New Yorker/Only in Brooklyn!” plus constant videos and Facebook Place updates of people going way the fuck out of their way to remind anybody willing to pay attention “well, i’m here at 98th and fuck you i’m a new yorker!/well, i’m here in brooklyn in my ramshackle brownstone with my room mates because fuck you I’M A NEW YORKER!”
It’s this weird oxymoron thing where people have started claiming New York for themselves in the most pretentious, obnoxious way and yet they’re all doing the same goddamn thing. Everybody has a photo of themselves in front of their subway stop, everybody has some variation on a line about how their real lives have finally started or how New York is real and yes, most of them talk about how amazing San Francisco is or how they miss or whatever but they just HAD to go to New York.
I’m probably not making a succinct point in this rant, but fuck everybody in their early to mid 20′s who have turned a fucking city with 9 million people in it, including areas that up until very recently were sketchy and inhabited mostly by the working poor who didn’t give a fuck where they were from unless it was their gang’s territory, into what has become quite literally the most painfully cool thing on the goddamn planet, or at least in America.
To be exemplify this, go to the blog: shackingupinbrooklyn.com and scan a few entries. Observe the casual smugness of someone who is so painfully self-consciously proud about the fact that they’re in NEW YORK FUCKING CITY but not just NYFC, specifically BROOKLYN, mecca for hipsters when really they’re sheltered kids who grew up in goddamn Greenwich, Connecticut, etcetera.
Anyway, I’m done bitching.
Thanks for existing die hipster- and for all the real people here that actually give a shit about their city. It’s amazing how defensively and vehemently some of you hipsters miss the point (and fuck- you’re so transparent, it’s obvious who you are). The real NY is a PLACE, with people, and history and real fucking life going on, not just a canvas to project your fucking facebook page and blog onto, not some college campus where you can “find” yourself and pay your high rent/tuition and make a bogus statement until you grow up and learn how to care about something beyond the end of your own goddamn nose.
So, I grew up working class and spent my teens in a suffocating elitist CT suburb, but generations of my people immigrated and came up in the Bronx. I’ve been in a western city now for a long time, but you know there’s nothing like the old school neighborhoods- real shit has happened here. I was 11 when hip hop started growing up and out….. A major part of my world and my people are in NY and always will be. Someone’s gotta take care of this shit so it doesn’t turn into the land of vapid transplants- I need a place that’s fucking real to come home to.
Catch up hipster, not everyone wants to live in an empty stylized version of something else while you figure out who the fuck you are- they have something real to protect, why don’t you try looking for a clue of what exactly that is and show some respect ? And while you’re at it, re-unite with some soap and take a fucking shower so I don’t have to smell your stench in yoga class.
Thanks for having a place here where people can keep it real
For 15 years or so, I have been reading the NYTimes online and a couple of industry journals every morning as part of my daily get started at work routine. I have now added DieHipster to that routine. There is a video on this site that I can’t find again of a train car full of hipsters. It’s the wierdest G.D. thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Anyone have the page it’s on? This is a great site.
Respect from Cape Town, South Africa. We’ve got the same shit!
I love this site! Thank you DieHipster! Been following for a few months. Thought it was time post.
I would like share the hipster horrors of South Philadelphia. Yeah, that’s right, South Philly, Home of the cheese steak, shined front stoops, killer block parties and everything else that is good and decent in a predominantly Italian/Irish community.
I have lived here for 43 years. I have known all kinds of people and have traveled enough to gain appreciation for the outside world.
No one has ever nauseated me into so much hatred like the hipsters.
This is a working class neighborhood. Not woodstock!
My GOD, they are everywhere!!!!
My house seems to be located at the very epicenter!
I am seriously concerned that one day, my husband is going to run one of these douchebags over. Actually, they should be worried about me. I’m going to start driving around with a broom in my car and the next time one of theses fixie fucks gets in my way because they think they are a car, or when they are riding “florescent fixie fantastic” on the drivers side… POKE! DOWN YOU GO! HOPE THE BUS DOESN’T”T RUN YOU OVER! NOT!
I don’t think hipsters realize what part of town they have infiltrated. Sooner or later one of us natives is gonna snap. Probably snap one of them in half. Hell, I could probably do it with my bare hands considering these asexual, 5’11 brillo topped toothpicks weigh less than me. And I’m a tiny thing, not normally prone to violence but when you are hurling towards me with three giant glasses of water in an already too small coffee shop because you can’t wait to get back to your bean sprout pancakes, and don’t even acknowledge that I’m standing there and omit an “excuse me” that would surely cause your fucking tongue to fall out, well then, you might be in for a world of shit!
The too small coffee shop, is one the corner of my street. It’s convenient. The regular coffee is strong, hair growing strong and only costs $1.70 for a large, tax included. Yes, large, not grande or what ever. Never saw a douche order anything other than something caffeine fancy.The owners are decent people.
What can I say about the hipster ladies? Wait. Females? No. People with female parts? I don’t know what to call them. Douchettes? Cuntsters? Sure. How much time do you spend in the mirror to make sure that your clothing is completely mismatched? Seriously, it probably takes me less time to get ready for a Italian wedding reception. The thought process involved in the mish mashed clothing must be exhausting. Black tights with white keds? Black and red plaid wool jacket with a yellow skirt? You stupid twat, you look like a fucking retard. I’m not going to expand on specific outfits that torture me on a daily basis. You all know what I’m talking about.
And now they are breeding. We had our own little “occupy” outside the coffee shop while the childless hipsters were at City Hall. All these oompa loompa babies and toddlers rolling on the sidewalk. The same sidewalk that takes a dog shit and piss beating everyday. Picking at the tree dirt and stuffing their little pasty fingers into their mouths. My neighbor, out loud, enough for them to hear, ” What is this? Occupy xxxx St? What the fuck is wrong with these people?”
Oh yeah, you smell, bad, take a bath. Oh, you did hear that gagging sound as you walked past me? I’m sorry but I was choking on your stench! Patchouli oil doesn’t cover up your body odor. It enhances it. I will gladly you throw you in front of an open fire plug if you don’t have running water in your dwelling.
The apartments around the corner from my house are full of these assholes. And they are FILTHY! If the outside looks like hell, I can’t even imagine what infestations are within.
Do you wear that nasty wool hat on hot summer day to keep the lice in?
If you are so anti-mainstream, why do you jump on every new trend?
Smug. I hate the smug!
My husband, myself and our friends are not of the “night at the roxy” persuassion. We were rockers when we were younger. In our hearts and cd collection we still are. But we are grown now. Have been for a long while. We all have responsibilities, families, jobs. None of our mommies and daddies ever paid rent for us. We got jobs and paid our own way. The only time we go to the park is with our son. If we did go to parks in our youth, it was to party, not to blow bubbles.
Gone are the days of the metalheads and punks. They knew who and what they were. I miss them, but accept it. All things change. But that it has changed to this makes me sick.
Who are you? What the hell makes you so special? You offer nothing to this neighborhood. Please go away!
Oh yeah, that delicious smell wafting into your bedbug hole every Sunday? That would be gravy. Have a meatball, it might change your life.
YES!! AMEN!! I’m in South Philly too…right near East Passyunk Ave & the POPE. It’s incredible what has happened to this place, even in the last 10 years.
They are driving me crazy! Now that the weather has changed they are smelling even worse!
Why don’t you move instead of ineffectually bitching about it to strangers?
Ok, new to the site; have not gone through all the archives but was wondering if there’s been any coverage of another “fashion trend” that I’ve seen more than once.
I was walking home from the Chicago Loop the other day and I witnessed a hipster wearing: A. Fucking. Boy. Scout. Shirt.
It was clearly authentic, had some achievement patches on it, the pack ID’ing info on the sleeve, the whole bit. I sincerely hope he bought it at a vintage store because I shudder to think of other ways in which this may have come into his possession.
I’ve seen that, too. And yes, they bought it at a vintage store or at a garage sale. The achievement patches are a particularly big deal with these, as almost every last offender will go on and on about how “I don’t believe in what the Scouts are about.” In other words, they got mocked as Cub Scouts for playing lightsaber with their flashlights on camping trips, got lost in the campground parking lot, and got blanket parties from their packmates as soon as they went to sleep.
I love this site! I came upon this site more recently after moving to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and suffered the constant barrage from coworkers and even family asking me “Why did you move there? You didn’t look in Williamsburg/Greenpoint/Bushwick/Park Slope/Prospect Heights?”, as if those are the only places in Brooklyn that matter. I’m sorry I don’t live in the “cool” part of Brooklyn. But actually, you know what’s even cooler? Paying $1300 a month for a 2 bedroom walkup instead of paying what, $1600 to live in a tiny ass room with dirty ass roommates. I’m not a freakin’ trustafarian baby who rely on Mommy and Daddy to get me by. I’m a Queens, NY native and a daughter of two Philippine immigrants who worked their ass off to have a better life in this country and still managed to stay true to their roots, so they can’t tell me about “struggle” NOR can they tell me about “culture.” The only thing that bothers me more than hipsters themselves are people who actually grew up like I did and buy into the bullshit.
Thanks so much for this site, and as you mentioned, I hope they stay above the fucking line.
Hi there,
This site just makes me smile. I live in Hamburg, Germany and there hipsters are commonplace. The only thing they do is ruining the rent and the price for a decent beer at the local bar.
Bring it on!
Friends who got hit with a $500.00 bill for bowling and drinks at some dump in Williamsburg have been told of this site. They should have known, but now they’ll know better.
Can’t we Native New Yorkers be a formidable presence of our own like the Maoris in New Zealand? Oh wait…the Anglo colonizers now do a version of the Maori warrior dance in their rugby games. That would be like the Joshes and Megans having a special “Native New York” party where they ironically pretend to have common sense.
Hey man, I found this website while standing outside of my once favorite bar, now flooded with fedora-cape-wolf shirt wearing skinny inbred late twenty something slime balls who introduced “organic wheat and soy snack trays” for 10$ instead of the good old fries and burgers that we used to have to this now shithole place.
I guess you can find solace in that Tel Aviv, which is the best city in the whole country of Israel, is getting filled with these fucking hipsters, who take up space and jack up the livin costs for everyone else. You’re definitely not alone. They make me so fucking mad I wanna stab them in the balls with their 500$ thick framed glasses.
Anyway, fantastic site, thoroughly entertaining. Keep up the good work!
This website made me laugh frequently as I read through it, because I can relate!
I am a native Mainer, and I believe we share a similar invasion phenomenon: People From Away (which means Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and yes, New York) Think That Life In Maine Is Like A Goddamn L.L. Bean Catalog, And That They Can Just Buy A Piece Of That “Murder, She Wrote” Pie With No Repercussions And No Ridicule From The Starving Locals.
Old-money-wielding high-rollers from more affluent states have purchased sizable gobs of real estate so that they can dabble in being gentlemen real estate tycoons and have a little disposable income to play with. In doing so, they’ve driven the price of rent and real estate so high that locals, who are barely getting by as it is, cannot afford to live where they and their families have lived for 5 or 6 generations.
Even worse, on the other end of the spectrum, are the scumbags who come to Maine because it’s so easy to get on welfare here. I don’t know which pisses me off more–the rich bastards or the welfare shitstains who’ve turned our cities into ghetto pus-holes.
We enjoy people from other worlds, and cultures. Have for years. It’s why they call us VACATIONLAND.
We love artists and painters. We support our many native talented artisans and craftspeople.
And we thank the tourists for every penny they drop in our anorexic coffers. (We wish they’d winter here, though, and freeze their asses off in the typical -10 degree January weather, and pay for oil on shitty wages, like we do!)
So we can smell what you’re steppin’ in, my darling Diehipster. Invasions happen in our world, just as they have in yours!!
We have no problem with folks coming to The Pine Tree State, if they’re gonna contribute something more than nothing. In addition, we don’t want anybody thinking they’re going to easily change our world into a suburb of Boston. Or Hartford. Or NYC. Or anywhere else.
Knowhatimean, chummy? I know you do. Have a great day!
Maine sounds like hell. Why do you live there? Can’t you just ban the hipsters or send them to concentration camps? Who do those hipsters think they are, moving into YOUR state and sucking YOUR precious resources dry?
This site totally rocks, it gave me enormous laughs. The author is clearly a talented writer, genuinely capturing the massively irritating zeitgeist in certain areas of global cities and spitting right back out as pure comedy, I love it. Keep up the good work.
For all those people offended by this site – stop taking yourself so fucking seriously, you fucking hipsters. The defining feature of being a hipster is colossal narcissism and self-absorption. Stop taking yourselves so fucking seriously! Try, just try to develop the balls to develop your own personality and be able to look at yourself and laugh, without there being ironic quotation marks around every fucking thing you say and do, you fucking cunts.
Great blog! I’m from Austin, Texas and we are currently infested with hipsters. I wrote a post about it actually: http://www.clifhaley.com/massive-hipster-infestation/
Effin brilliant blog. I’m from Melbourne (the hipster capital of Australia). I also happen to live in a particularly hipster infested suburb (Fitzroy). Going to work in the tram I had to rub shoulder with these scums of the earth. At the moment they’re all sporting a ‘bun’ hair, Herschel pack, still the same effin wayfarers and the obligatory iPhone (if I ever see one with Android, i’ll kill myself). I’m still building up the courage to one day pull their bun hair, smash the ‘el out of their wayfarers into their eyes (plus some added retina glass shards as toppings).
Huh. The only problem I can see here is that hating hipsters is the quintessential hipster thing to do over here in SF. As a dumpy middle-aged dyke academic veteran of the oh so ironic 90s (“dumpster” for short), I’m pretty sure I know whereof I speak.
Let’s face it, nothing causes a hiptard more pain than someone making fun of him. They can’t run to the teacher, the principle or their parents to make the “meanies” stop. The fauxhemian fuckstains figure if they make fun of themselves (while denying that they’re hipsters), that the “hiptard bashing” will somehow wear itself out and people will stop hurting their feelings. What you described in SF has been taking place online for a minute — someone bashes a hiptard, and the predictable response is “only hipsters bash hipsters” or “you must be a hipster”. Very weak tactic. Of course it only works on people who are concerned with being “cool”, “in” or on some kind of “cutting edge”. It fails miserably with those who have a strong sense of themselves.
Hipturds also know what a joke their “subculture” is, whether they want to admit it or not. The fact they will deny what they are tells me what a joke they are. Every subculture in the past had to deal with hostility and in some cases that hostility could be fatal. Hipturds are quick to turn tail because people are simply laughing at them. What a joke.
I don’t actually live in new york, but I am very happy to have found this blog, fucking hate those dumb shits called hipsters!!
This is absolutely amazing. I sent it to my father and mother (born and raised in Gravesend an Bensonhurst) and my dad couldn’t stop laughing Except now he is worried he might be a hipster because he is always bugging me about how I have to try this new vegan place.
I can’t figure out why so many people despise New York and New Yorkers. Such friendly, tolerant people!
I guarantee you that many more despise hipsters and it’s just isn’t NYers. Now get lost you waste of carbon atoms.
*ahem* Correction “it just isn’t NYers”.
Dude – I LOVE you!!! Being born and raised in Brooklyn then lived in Queens plus worked all my life AND went to school in Manhattan I can attest to your pain and frustration. These pretentious fucks are out of control with their airs of superiority and exclusivity. Where am I now? Living in West Orange, New Jersey these past few months because these douchebags move into working class neighborhoods and jack up the rents to unbelievable heights. Overheard some lesbian in a NYC restaurant not so long ago about some fantastic deal of a rent in Bushwick, Brooklyn out of all places. The “great” price she got? $2650 and she has to share it with two other people. Thank you Bitch. My last apartment I lived in Ridgewood, Queens I first paid $700 rent with THREE bedrooms in 2000. Back then you were able to live in some affordable spacious places.
I want to know more about who writes this blog, but for some reason I can’t find any info about you. Where are you from? What neighborhood do you live in?
It seems to me that the people who hate hipsters the most are the people who are a tad self-conscious that they might be confused with them. This blog smacks of defensiveness.
NY Times just did a piece on hipster fatigue in Montauk, of all places. The hipsters are displacing the yuppies! Yawn. I have hipster-fatigue fatigue. Get a new gig.
Zzzzzzzzzzz,
Hey hon, let me tell you something. That daytime TV inspired pop-psychology shit only works on the inbred yokels from that hicktown that you (like most hiptards) are so ashamed to be from. You’re dealing with people who are everything you wish you could be and then some. I don’t think any of us are unattractive enough to be mistaken for a hipster.
This blog is a godsend…
I’m a Brooklyn resident originally from Seattle, but I’m a far cry from the hipster hordes polluting this city. I have a full-time, real job – no support from parents – that I had arranged before I came here, and I originally moved here with an ex who was a Brooklyn native who owned the apartment where we lived at the time. On top of that, I avoid hipster culture like the plague, everything from their ridiculous fashions to their horrible “music” to their overrated cuisine.
Furthermore, I like the neighborhood in south Brooklyn where I live exactly the way it is, with its mix of Italians, Russians, Latinos and Chinese. Nothing would break my heart more than to see the Ukrainian cafe that serves some of the best espresso on earth for $1.95 with amazing borsch and vareniki, where I’m a regular on weekends, replaced with some hipster hole selling artisanal dishwater for $6.
One of the reasons I like this blog is because I’m sick of hipsters tarnishing the image of non-natives like me who actually do respect this city, appreciate it for what it is and make an effort to assimilate instead of trying to make it more like some delusional fantasy of what city living is supposed to be. But the bigger reason is because of how those pretentious fucks have steadily eroded what used to be cool and distinctive about my hometown, replacing the blue-collar culture of the natives (I come from working-class Irish Catholics, and my family has been there since the 20s) with their artisanal, organic, pseudo-creative shit, not to mention rendering the whole city unaffordable.
The Seattle I grew up in was more like Brooklyn (i.e. the real Brooklyn) is today, with ethnic neighborhoods and a strong local culture. Today, every time Seattle is mentioned in the media, it’s characterized as this hipster town full of artisanal, organic, local this and that. But let’s be clear: Those skinny pants and vintage clothes-wearing douchebags you see on Capitol Hill (formerly a thriving gayborhood, now a metastasizing tumor of hipsterism where actual gay people get beaten up by homophobic thugs attracted to nightclubs there because it’s a “cool” neighborhood now) are NOT real Seattleites, nor is their artisanal, organic bullshit representative of Seattle. Real Seattleites eat greasy burgers and fries from Dick’s and Kidd Valley and clam chowder and fish and chips from Ivar’s Fish Bar on the waterfront and watch events like the hydroplane races at Seafair, the lutefisk eating contest in the ethnic-Scandinavian neighborhood of Ballard (and also participate in it!) and the salmon climbing the fish ladder at the Ballard Locks (as lame as it might sound, it’s actually pretty amazing to see). When we eat smoked salmon and Dungeness crab, it’s not to show how cultured and sophisticated we are – it’s because that’s what we grew up eating.
So I may not be a native New Yorker, but I share your hatred of the hipster shitheads destroying this city!
You sir are a shining example of what new residents of Brooklyn (or anywhere) should aspire to be. You have become part of our culture, as opposed to removing it and replacing it with the latest internet fads. North Brooklyn has become a living meme.
A few weekends ago, I found myself in fort greene sitting amogst some hiptard maggots at a bar. A friend of mine had dragged me into coming since he was working his game on one of these insecure hiptard rejects. He explained to one of these smelly hiptards that he knows someone who curates web content. This degenerate turd eater responded by questioning my friends usage of the word curate and spewing some nonsensical bs. It proceeded to explain that it curated at an art gallery for a living, and this was apparently enough of a justification for what this shitbag thought the proper usage of the word was. Quite frankly, even the other hiptards were embarrassed for the stupidity observed in their own kind. While this turd face idiot attempted to belittle my friend through some nausea-inducing form of sarcasm, I looked up web curating on my phone and flashed it in the maggot’s face – not too close lest I catch whatever made this hiptard so utterly useless. Lo and behold, the maggot stopped exuding its false sense of confidence and made some obtuse hiptard kind of excuse of why it had to leave immediately. We encouraged it to leave after such a profound display of stupidity. From there the rest of the hiptard imbeciles eventually exposed their lack of knowledge on various fundamental subjects. One of the hiptards claimed to have a degree in philosophy and knew virtually nothing about Descartes. It became readily obvious that this turd eating reject knew nothing about anything as it could not answer any of my questions on a wide array of basic topics. These pathetic hiptard losers realized their subpar standing in society and finally decided to excuse us of listening to anymore of their asinine nonsense. I suggested that they shower, to which they pretended not to hear. Die hiptard scum.
Ugh, this site is SO hipster.
In your dreams you butthurt hipster fuckstick. Lemme guess, “Sustainable Life” struck some raw hiptard nerves? Isn’t it about time you losers come up with something a little more creative than “I know you are but what am I”? That shit was old hat back in the days of 56K dialup and usenet. The truth is, you can’t. It explain why 95% of hiptard artistic output is shit and the other 5% is a case of the “rare exception” or outright plagiarism.
Face it, you’re ugly, you stink, you have no talent and (due to your own behavior) most people don’t like you. Sucks to be you. Die hiptard die! >:-)
This guy is a comic genious. After watching my beloved Astoria descend into hipsteria I’m looking to move to Bay Ridge were hispter dare not tread. It seems testosterone is their krypotonite.
This site is GOLD. Pure GOLD. I am in 100% agreement with this craziness that is “hipster-dom” — thanks so much for the laughs!
SLOUCHY David Becham hats.. a lot of them look like shower caps….. and why do they wear them in the middle of summer?
If bashing hipsters makes you feel better – you need help. “Real New Yorkers” – says who? Very sad, neurotic. Please grow up and learn to respect people even if you don’t share they vision.
We know for sure that there is a such thing as “real New Yorkers” — but, to my knowledge, hipsters don’t claim to be hipsters, so no one’s feelings are really being hurt here. It’s like making fun of something that doesn’t exist. I don’t know any real hipsters who claim to be hipsters. Are you a hipster? Rule number one with being a hipster is that you must deny being one — so who’s really getting hurt here?
Exactly. Now sit down.
My spouse and I stumbled over here by a different website and thought I should check things out.
I like what I see so now i’m following you. Look forward to looking into your web page for a second time.
This would normally go under the heading of “Shit Black Folk, just don’t.FuckinDo”…but the beard and the idiocy indicate sub-specie-mess that is obviously transracial…..therefore I defer to…DieHipster
This man has hate in his heart and the truth in his mouth
Digging the unapologetic stance you take
Keep on preaching your own special kind truth
I’m new to blogging, you seem to have your stuff down
check out my blog if you ever get the time and tell me what you think
http://vagabondingtruth.wordpress.com/
I’m new at hating Hipsters so bear with me. How do I spot one? Is it those stupid hats I see a lot of younger people wearing? Are they the guys wearing women’s Capri pants and sporting large metallic objects in their ear lobes? Help me out here, please.
I’ve read your site and I’ve read your comments and I’ve taken all of it at face-value. Let me ask a question.
I’m a college student in Philadelphia and I plan on either staying here or moving to one of the more affordable borough for a good, long while. Transplant, though. I’m a native Californian, and if you ask me where I’m from, the answer is and always will be Marin County, California, with pride and feeling. I wish I were home, pretty damn frequently.
I can’t move back, though. The east coast is a much better place to live for someone in my set of circumstances than the west coast, even though I do plan on ending up back in San Francisco eventually.
I’m a musician and an audio engineer. I don’t contribute anything to society beyond the arts. On the other hand, I work very hard, very frequently, and do good work.
My parents are not giving me a cent; I’m taking on more loans than I want to think about.
My clothing is all thrift store because I can’t afford anything else. I don’t think I’d wear nicer clothing if I could, though, I’m proud of my background.
What’s the verdict, diehipster? Am I good enough to stay on your coast or shall I go back to mine?
Also, how can I get in on the whole “parents giving me lots of money to do nothing” gig? Sounds like a hell of a party.