Hipster Hatred

Ray Palmer

People often mention hipster with pure hatred and I don't really get it. What is the problem?
The fact people seem to throw the term around to cover pretty much anybody seems to make it even stranger. The whole being into obscure things first is something I have seen way before the term too. It just seems like a catch all term for people not into the mainstream now.

I have been called a hipster, hippy, goth, rocker etc... so many times it just seems to be clueless people with no concept of somebody who doesn't happen to like the same things as them.

Nobody bother posting the youtube link to the hipster song it has been seen enough times now.

Nemeses

So what makes you feel like a hipster? long hair? old age ? Psychedelic clothing?

Hande hoche!

Someone has to say they hated hipsters before it was cool.

FatherLen

jesus, I hate hipsters.

krudler

Nothing wrong with being into something obscure, but hipsters try too hard to ensure everyone knows it.

Sinfonia

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Nobody bother posting the youtube link to the hipster song it has been seen enough times now.

I know, it was only funny when it first came out..

Festy

It's because chavs are the norm/cool breed in this country.

GLaDOS

Hating them is silly, it's a harmless fad.

o1s1n

Ray Palmer wrote: »

The whole being into obscure things first is something I have seen way before the term too.

Oh the ironing :pac:

I love the Dickhead song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_5uVdy5YmA

wazky

I think the people who actually get upset over what others wear or are interested in are worse.

FatherLen

Sinfonia wrote: »

I know, it was only funny when it first came out..

I once called a girl a hipster because she said she used to love the killers until everyone started listening to them.
She then called me a dick and said I 'just don't understand'.

who_me

Because, we tend to resent people who are different, as if they had a great big speech bubble over their heads: "Look at me, look how cool I am, you should be like me!". Simples.

Gran Hermano

Why do hipsters hate zombies? They preferred them when they were underground.

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When a hipster tree falls in a forest, it makes a sound, but you probably haven't heard it before.

Muckie

Thought hipsters were a pair of sexy jeans/trousers on a lovely lady.

Showing off her lovely figure.

humanji

Hipsters aren't people who were into something before it was cool. They're people who pretend to be into something before it was cool in order to look down on others and fit in with like-minded idiots.

Femme_Fatale

Yeh, what a hipster is seems to be fairly subjective. There seem to be certain hipster traits, such as heavy use of irony (the "so bad it's good" thing) and retro tat like cassette walkmans. And acting really "jaded" and cynical and using cryptic terms as if everyone knows what they're on about.
But I couldn't point out an actual hipster in a crowd - I think it's just a catch-all term for anyone deemed pretentious. Doubt there's anyone who decides they're going to become a hipster.

Liking obscure stuff or a band's older stuff is often simply personal preference - and sneering at that is as bad as the sneering which hipsters are apparently guilty of.

FatherLen wrote: »

jesus, I hate hipsters.

How would you define one?

Nodin

Ray Palmer wrote: »

People often mention hipster with pure hatred and I don't really get it. What is the problem?
The fact people seem to throw the term around to cover pretty much anybody seems to make it even stranger. The whole being into obscure things first is something I have seen way before the term too. It just seems like a catch all term for people not into the mainstream now.

I have been called a hipster, hippy, goth, rocker etc... so many times it just seems to be clueless people with no concept of somebody who doesn't happen to like the same things as them.

Nobody bother posting the youtube link to the hipster song it has been seen enough times now.

Some on here think I'm a bit.... but the truth is far more like.......

jaja321

Had a conversation recently with my boyfriend about this. He reckons it’s because it’s seen as some kind of feminisation of men’s fashion – and some people aren’t comfortable with people stepping out of their gender roles. I reckon he’s right. All you have to do is look at the thread on man bags to see some of the attitudes around this.

caustic 1

Thought hipsters were a pair of sexy jeans/trousers on a lovely lady.

Showing off her lovely figure.

That applies to size 6 tanned ladies only....not the (even slightly) overweight ladies with the flab hanging out the tramp stamp of a tattoo and the thong up round her oxters.

shane9689

humanji wrote: »

Hipsters aren't people who were into something before it was cool. They're people who pretend to be into something before it was cool in order to look down on others and fit in with like-minded idiots.

this


dickhead song says it all really... i find it funny the way theyre called hipsters ahha, thats a word old grannys would use to call young kids who are causing trouble :P atleast what i sued to associate the word with

April O Neill

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Nobody bother posting the youtube link to the hipster song it has been seen enough times now.

No such thing as seeing it too many times.

dancin ted danson

I take a hipster anyday over a junkie wannabee muppet.

o1s1n

jaja321 wrote: »

Had a conversation recently with my boyfriend about this. He reckons it’s because it’s seen as some kind of feminisation of men’s fashion – and some people aren’t comfortable with people stepping out of their gender roles. I reckon he’s right. All you have to do is look at the thread on man bags to see some of the attitudes around this.

Can people not think other people dress like eejits without being accused of being 'uncomfortable' with gender roles?

If I see a guy wearing skinny jeans, thick framed glasses with no lenses, a v neck cardigan, 19th centuary tache and a turntable instead of an mp3 player it's got nothing to do with me being uncomfortable with folks stepping outside of gender roles- I just think he's dressed like an ass (and will probably look back at it in a few years and wonder what the hell he was thinking)

shane9689

jaja321 wrote: »

Had a conversation recently with my boyfriend about this. He reckons it’s because it’s seen as some kind of feminisation of men’s fashion – and some people aren’t comfortable with people stepping out of their gender roles. I reckon he’s right. All you have to do is look at the thread on man bags to see some of the attitudes around this.

waaaaaay off....feminine male fashion has been around long before all this started....its more to do with attitude than dress sense. its those people who try too hard to be different and by doing so they become try hards and just look like everyone else whos faking their way through life

FatherLen

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

How would you define one?

a person who loves the irony of an object rather than the object itself, someone who is a massive pretentious hypocrite because they hate anything/anyone 'mainstream' but in fact are massive brand whore. The type of person that loves telling people they knew of something before them and use the word retro on a daily basis.

Koptain Liverpool

Birneybau

jaja321 wrote: »

Had a conversation recently with my boyfriend about this. He reckons it’s because it’s seen as some kind of feminisation of men’s fashion – and some people aren’t comfortable with people stepping out of their gender roles. I reckon he’s right. All you have to do is look at the thread on man bags to see some of the attitudes around this.

He could not be more wrong, he could try but he would not be successful.

Hipster fashion is an attempt at individualism by copying other hipster's attempts at individualism and so on...

Hipsters are hated for their cooler than thou stance, no more, no less.

April O Neill

caustic 1 wrote: »

That applies to size 6 tanned ladies only....not the (even slightly) overweight ladies with the flab hanging out the tramp stamp of a tattoo and the thong up round her oxters.

Yeah, size 8 women are such heffalumps...

Honey-ec

Muckie wrote: »

Thought hipsters were a pair of sexy jeans/trousers on a lovely lady.

Showing off her lovely figure.

caustic 1 wrote: »

That applies to size 6 tanned ladies only....not the (even slightly) overweight ladies with the flab hanging out the tramp stamp of a tattoo and the thong up round her oxters.

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1996 is thataway.

Rothko

Hipsters don't exist

o1s1n

Suas11 wrote: »

Hipsters don't exist

I really wish that statement were true.

Frank Black

If someone is really into something obscure - they're a Geek, or possibly even a Nerd, and that's fine, that's a-ok.

If someone is only pretending to be into something obscure because they think people will think they're cool - they're a Hipster, and that's not fine.

So, in conclusion, Hipsters must die.

Duggy747

"ErMahGawd, I love The Avengers movie, I'm such a nerd!! Lol!!"

It's not the fashion, though as silly as it gets at times (Glasses with no lenses? Come on....), but rather the fakeness many project when liking or hating something. I've met a lot of people who change their opinion on movies or stop listening to bands purely because "the mainstream yobs are into it now"

It feels forced as does doing something "random" and "crazy" like having a kazoo in their pocket and taking it out for no reason other than for attention.

I was at a house full of them where they had a mighty time laughing at a picture of one of them standing in a wheelie bin, like it was the craziest and zaniest thing they had ever seen. What made it perfect was one hipster girl who commented in the most cynical, serious tone without cracking a smile:

"That is like..............sooooooo random and bizarre."

Nemeses

I thought a geek / nerd was someone that would be IT related / technology related such as creating mods for pcs.. soldering circuits, coding websites for fun ..


that sorta jazz?


Now theres some explaining to be done!

1ZRed

I think people are giving too many fucks about other people. Just drink until it doesn't bother you. Everybody wins

gracehopper

In a city park in London, a guy was wearing Dungarees, reading in his bare feat and listening to an antique record player. i thought he fit the bill as a hipster.

Edit: I was at an evening with music, food, fashion, DJ's etc full of these types and i have to be honest i'd rather mingle with a bunch of "hipsters" who are individuals or at least are trying to be individual than a load of "pink shirt" or "Lacost" wearing knackers.

krudler

Duggy747 wrote: »

"ErMahGawd, I love The Avengers movie, I'm such a nerd!! Lol!!"

It's not the fashion, though as silly as it gets at times (Glasses with no lenses? Come on....), but rather the fakeness many project when liking or hating something. I've met a lot of people who change their opinion on movies or stop listening to bands purely because "the mainstream yobs are into it now"

It feels forced as does doing something "random" and "crazy" like having a kazoo in their pocket and taking it out for no reason other than for attention.

I was at a house full of them where they had a mighty time laughing at a picture of one of them standing in a wheelie bin, like it was the craziest and zaniest thing they had ever seen. What made it perfect was one hipster girl who commented in the most cynical, serious tone without cracking a smile:

"That is like..............sooooooo random and bizarre."

I unfriended someone on facebook after she was posting pictures of her and friends wearing fake moustaches on nights out, this was a regular occurence too.

Frank Black

Nemeses wrote: »

I thought a geek / nerd was someone that would be IT related / technology related such as creating mods for pcs.. soldering circuits, coding websites for fun ..

Mods aren't created.
They're chosen.

Christ the Redeemer

gracehopper wrote: »

In a city park in London, a guy was wearing Dungarees, reading in his bare feat and listening to an antique record player. i thought he fit the bill as a hipster.

That's a level 70 hipster. Even in London such a high level Hipster is rare. Was he wearing an 80's Casio watch that was perhaps brightly coloured?

Ray Palmer

Nemeses wrote: »

So what makes you feel like a hipster? long hair? old age ? Psychedelic clothing?

I don't feel like a hipster other called me it.

Hipsters used to mean people like Kramer in Seinfeld. He was described as a hipster dofus on more than one occasion.

I am just going 40 so I don't fall into the crowd as teenage hipsters for sure which are general very bothered about what group they are in. So by liking stuff before it was popular with the youth of today is just part of being older

I am much more of a nerd/geek than a hipster but that seems to be thrown into the mix too now.

krudler

Christ the Redeemer wrote: »

That's a level 70 hipster. Even in London such a high level Hipster is rare. Was he wearing an 80's Casio watch that was perhaps brightly coloured?

not a watch, an antique pocket timepiece, and a pipe that only blows bubbles, soooo random.

Christ the Redeemer

krudler wrote: »

not a watch, an antique pocket timepiece, and a pipe that only blows bubbles, soooo random.

Mother of god... a level 80...

Duggy747

Spends hundreds on a DSLR camera.

Uses nothing but nostalgic effects to make the pictures look like they came from an old camera :pac:

gracehopper

Christ the Redeemer wrote: »

That's a level 70 hipster. Even in London such a high level Hipster is rare. Was he wearing an 80's Casio watch that was perhaps brightly coloured?

Don't remember the watch but he had a great big mop of dark har with thick rimmed specs. Looked like he was in Mork and Mindy, but hey who am i to judge, each to their own and all that.

Christ the Redeemer

Duggy747 wrote: »

Spends hundreds on a DSLR camera.

Uses nothing but nostalgic effects to make the pictures look like they came from an old camera :pac:

Day 1: buys camera

Day 1 lunch time: sets up facebook photography business

Day 1 dinner time: hassles me to make them a watermark

ScumLord

Hipsters? Goths? They're all young ones to me. Young ones, fickle and desperate to fit in and look cool, desperately scanning TV and magazines to find their own unique, individual look for under €10. They're all the same it doesn't matter what uniform they wear. All too easily distracted by fashion and fad while we leave them with a giant bill of debt.

NTMK

Christ the Redeemer wrote: »

Day 1: buys camera

Day 1 lunch time: sets up facebook photography business

Day 1 dinner time: hassles me to make them a watermark

you forgot takes photo of lunch and uses instagram to make the photo look like it was smeared with ****

Koptain Liverpool

gracehopper wrote: »

I was at an evening with music, food, fashion, DJ's etc full of these types and i have to be honest i'd rather mingle with a bunch of "hipsters" who are individuals or at least are trying to be individual than a load of "pink shirt" or "Lacost" wearing knackers.

I Have to be honest I'd rather mingle with neither!

endacl

Meh. This thread was better on vinyl. Losers.

shleedance

My town is riddled with them.

Basically anyone who does something to appear "cool" and "ironic", acts pretentious and snobby to others, brags about music no one listened to etc. is a hipster.

If you're into obscure stuff and actually like it without the pretense of appearing "cool" etc, you're not a hipster.

Duggy747

endacl wrote: »

Meh. This thread was better on vinyl. Losers.

Puh!! Vinyl is the new mainstream.

Threads on Laserdiscs are the real deal though you've probably never even heard of the format.



You.........you haven't, right?