Against my better judgment, I read this recently, wondering if it couldn't find a way to be more self-righteous and condescending.
First, this article is coming from Adbusters, a group of aging former-hipsters who suddenly can't call whatever they are "hip" and are having a collective tantrum. Seems like this guy in particular became disillusioned after years of getting dressed up in his hipster costume and going to the hipster parties and discovering that the hipster girls did not want to tenderly stroke his chubby bewhiskered cheeks and make sweet hipster love to him. And he decided to fight back.
This sentiment comes out when the author tries to suggest that the transparent image of products marketed toward the blue-collar population were venerable before hipsters got a hold of them. No, they weren't. Neither were whatever things you co-opted in the 90s, dude.
The article could have been much shorter: "The whole keffiyah thing is atrocious, even to this grizzled old hipster."
Yes, the whole 'scene' thing is ridiculous and laughable. The Orpheum's frequenters are laughable. 'Scene' photos are laughable. PROFOUND.
Ugly people wearing scarves get news articles written about them, I guess. The descriptions are accurate. The marketing spiel is typical Adbusters drivel. Hipsters are only dangerous to other hipsters.
There is a strong sense of the pot calling the kettle black here and the fact that this is coming from Adbusters of all places is as equally dubious as the author's ambushed interview subjects denying their hipsterdom. What do you think about the idea of Hipsters--or what the author calls hipsters--being incapable of creating anything new?
anything that becomes hip or trendy is bound to be just a variation of some recycled trend from the generation(s) before. yeah, i agree that it's ironic and hypocritical of adbusters to be knocking their own fan base and what they once were, but besides that the article is great and dead-on...the interviews could have taken place at the orpheum or czar on any given saturday night (when I read the part about the impromptu photoshoot in the girls' bathroom at the club, i automatically envisioned it in the bathroom at the czar)
First, this article is coming from Adbusters, a group of aging former-hipsters who suddenly can't call whatever they are "hip" and are having a collective tantrum. Seems like this guy in particular became disillusioned after years of getting dressed up in his hipster costume and going to the hipster parties and discovering that the hipster girls did not want to tenderly stroke his chubby bewhiskered cheeks and make sweet hipster love to him. And he decided to fight back.
This sentiment comes out when the author tries to suggest that the transparent image of products marketed toward the blue-collar population were venerable before hipsters got a hold of them. No, they weren't. Neither were whatever things you co-opted in the 90s, dude.
The article could have been much shorter: "The whole keffiyah thing is atrocious, even to this grizzled old hipster."
Yes, the whole 'scene' thing is ridiculous and laughable. The Orpheum's frequenters are laughable. 'Scene' photos are laughable. PROFOUND.
Ugly people wearing scarves get news articles written about them, I guess. The descriptions are accurate. The marketing spiel is typical Adbusters drivel. Hipsters are only dangerous to other hipsters.
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