Have I mentioned lately how much I hate hipsters?
Via April "Helen Killer" Winchell:Here’s the great thing about Etsy. As repellant as some of the shit is that I find there, there is always something worse.
Today I present one of the most insensitive features I’ve ever seen on the Etsy blog. And as usual, it’s celebrated in a circle jerk of obliviousness, complete with hipstermatic photos and dipshit Etsy drones yammering in approval.
That feature is the "hobo wedding" of Brian Brown (who draws the comic "Everything Dies") and Sarah Louise Hunt.
In other words, their wedding theme was desperately poor, starving people. They spent $15,000 in order to do it. And they not only put their photos up on the internet for everyone to see, but had the photos featured on a very popular website.
Oh, and Hunt tore up vintage hand-made quilts to make bunting and table runners. In other words, she willfully and ignorantly destroyed historical artifacts that could have provided textile experts with previously unknown information about the time and place in which the quilts created.
BTW, this is the couple's wedding registry. It includes a $179 self-cleaning litterbox, an iPad, and a $75 teakettle.
As any number of people on both the Etsy and Regretsy threads point out, these people could have called it a "country wedding," "farm wedding," "bluegrass wedding," or even "1930s wedding." The aesthetic itself... well, not my thing, but to each their own.
But to come right out and state that they'd made actual, grinding poverty into a "fun" wedding theme? Especially at a time when, once again, millions can't find work, and the social safety nets are in tatters (or completely gone)? And reveal that they spent six figures on it? And never even considered, say, asking for donations to anti-hunger charities instead of gifts?
Sure, it's not as bad as the colonial-themed wedding in South Africa with all-black staff. Sure, Hunt and Brown had every right to have a "hobo wedding" and to put lots of photos up on the web for total strangers to see.
Conversely, those total strangers have every right to call them self-absorbed assholes.
There are more than 1,100 comments on the Regretsy thread. Many of them are recounting anecdotes about dire poverty, past or present:Yeah, just fucking “Wow”. Did they make it authentic and serve cat tacos?
My step-dad took off at 12 years old to ride the rails. It was that, or go to the work farm for trying to steal a chicken. His brothers and sisters were starving, his mom couldn’t feed them all. When the farmer caught him, he was beaten so badly his older sister had to carry him home.
Poor kid made it all the way from Ohio to Texas without finding food. Some hobos felt sorry for such a young’un, and fed him a taco. My dad, a life long animal lover, cried for two days because he ate a cat taco to keep from starving to death.
Can you even image, a little kid, beaten up, traveling alone, and going four days without food? Even as adults, these hipster douchecanoes would never have survived it.
Others are extremely dark humor...What’s next? A holocaust hoedown? For party games play hide and seek under the beds and in the closets!
Pick your wedding ring out of a box full of gold teeth fillings! Totes vintage.
Adorable personalized lampshades as table gifts!
As a German Jew, I have to say…I shouldn’t have laughed at that. But I did.
I was thinking a Chernobyl reception - the flashing alarm lights could be the strobe lights for the dance floor, the fallout could be represented by a fog machine and glitter in the air, and the punch could be bright green. It would be totes unique and Russian.
Kiiiiinda actually sounds like fun, if left out of context. Or hell, just be even tackier and sew an third arm onto the bridesmaids’ dresses.
NO! Chernobyl is clearly appropriate for a baby shower, not a wedding.
Or, as
clingfilm says:If I got invited I'd give them a potato with a shoelace tied around it for a gift and also pretend that I have tuberculosis all night.
"LOL I BROUGHT THIS JAR OF HOMEMADE APRICOT AND STRAWBERRY SWIRL PRESERVES. IT'S SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE HEMATIC SPUTUM I'VE BEEN COUGHING UP AS I LAY ON THE TRAIN TRACKS AND PRAY THAT GOD KILL ME. Isn't that just sooo shabby chic?"
As you might expect, the butthurt has been spectacular. On their respective Twitter accounts, Hunt and Brown are reaching for their smelling salts and bawwing about how "hateful" Regretsy commenters are. Brown adds, "I was forced to do a drawing of what the wedding was REALLY like." Safe for work, but incredibly stupid.
(Just before Brown's tweets on this subject were some tweets on the new Spider-Man, who is biracial. This one's special: "Beta Ray Bill is now named Lee-Roy Jenkins. His secret identity is a Pimp.")
Their friends also came over to Regretsy to scream. I would say that Winchell's response to one of them pwns everything:
Finally, there's good commentary on the blog of a Regretsy regular, especially this post.
ETA: Two separate tweets of Brown's:"@dustinharbin It’s messed up too because we made it Hobo-themed specifically BECAUSE we are poor."
"Ok last bit on this because I want to defend myself on one point: my wedding cost approximately $15,000 not $100,000. That was sarcasm."
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Today I present one of the most insensitive features I’ve ever seen on the Etsy blog. And as usual, it’s celebrated in a circle jerk of obliviousness, complete with hipstermatic photos and dipshit Etsy drones yammering in approval.
That feature is the "hobo wedding" of Brian Brown (who draws the comic "Everything Dies") and Sarah Louise Hunt.
In other words, their wedding theme was desperately poor, starving people. They spent $15,000 in order to do it. And they not only put their photos up on the internet for everyone to see, but had the photos featured on a very popular website.
Oh, and Hunt tore up vintage hand-made quilts to make bunting and table runners. In other words, she willfully and ignorantly destroyed historical artifacts that could have provided textile experts with previously unknown information about the time and place in which the quilts created.
BTW, this is the couple's wedding registry. It includes a $179 self-cleaning litterbox, an iPad, and a $75 teakettle.
As any number of people on both the Etsy and Regretsy threads point out, these people could have called it a "country wedding," "farm wedding," "bluegrass wedding," or even "1930s wedding." The aesthetic itself... well, not my thing, but to each their own.
But to come right out and state that they'd made actual, grinding poverty into a "fun" wedding theme? Especially at a time when, once again, millions can't find work, and the social safety nets are in tatters (or completely gone)? And reveal that they spent six figures on it? And never even considered, say, asking for donations to anti-hunger charities instead of gifts?
Sure, it's not as bad as the colonial-themed wedding in South Africa with all-black staff. Sure, Hunt and Brown had every right to have a "hobo wedding" and to put lots of photos up on the web for total strangers to see.
Conversely, those total strangers have every right to call them self-absorbed assholes.
There are more than 1,100 comments on the Regretsy thread. Many of them are recounting anecdotes about dire poverty, past or present:Yeah, just fucking “Wow”. Did they make it authentic and serve cat tacos?
My step-dad took off at 12 years old to ride the rails. It was that, or go to the work farm for trying to steal a chicken. His brothers and sisters were starving, his mom couldn’t feed them all. When the farmer caught him, he was beaten so badly his older sister had to carry him home.
Poor kid made it all the way from Ohio to Texas without finding food. Some hobos felt sorry for such a young’un, and fed him a taco. My dad, a life long animal lover, cried for two days because he ate a cat taco to keep from starving to death.
Can you even image, a little kid, beaten up, traveling alone, and going four days without food? Even as adults, these hipster douchecanoes would never have survived it.
Others are extremely dark humor...What’s next? A holocaust hoedown? For party games play hide and seek under the beds and in the closets!
Pick your wedding ring out of a box full of gold teeth fillings! Totes vintage.
Adorable personalized lampshades as table gifts!
As a German Jew, I have to say…I shouldn’t have laughed at that. But I did.
I was thinking a Chernobyl reception - the flashing alarm lights could be the strobe lights for the dance floor, the fallout could be represented by a fog machine and glitter in the air, and the punch could be bright green. It would be totes unique and Russian.
Kiiiiinda actually sounds like fun, if left out of context. Or hell, just be even tackier and sew an third arm onto the bridesmaids’ dresses.
NO! Chernobyl is clearly appropriate for a baby shower, not a wedding.
Or, as
clingfilm says:If I got invited I'd give them a potato with a shoelace tied around it for a gift and also pretend that I have tuberculosis all night.
"LOL I BROUGHT THIS JAR OF HOMEMADE APRICOT AND STRAWBERRY SWIRL PRESERVES. IT'S SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT THE HEMATIC SPUTUM I'VE BEEN COUGHING UP AS I LAY ON THE TRAIN TRACKS AND PRAY THAT GOD KILL ME. Isn't that just sooo shabby chic?"
As you might expect, the butthurt has been spectacular. On their respective Twitter accounts, Hunt and Brown are reaching for their smelling salts and bawwing about how "hateful" Regretsy commenters are. Brown adds, "I was forced to do a drawing of what the wedding was REALLY like." Safe for work, but incredibly stupid.
(Just before Brown's tweets on this subject were some tweets on the new Spider-Man, who is biracial. This one's special: "Beta Ray Bill is now named Lee-Roy Jenkins. His secret identity is a Pimp.")
Their friends also came over to Regretsy to scream. I would say that Winchell's response to one of them pwns everything:
Finally, there's good commentary on the blog of a Regretsy regular, especially this post.
ETA: Two separate tweets of Brown's:"@dustinharbin It’s messed up too because we made it Hobo-themed specifically BECAUSE we are poor."
"Ok last bit on this because I want to defend myself on one point: my wedding cost approximately $15,000 not $100,000. That was sarcasm."
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