“Making fun of the global scenesters is futile, for they love nothing more than to mock themselves. Everything a scenester does is rendered in air quotes: ironic moustaches, ironic trucker caps, faux-offensive Urban Outfitters T-shirts, white guys with afros, or musical acts with names like Does It Offend You, Yeah?” —The Independent, on the global hipster phenomenon.
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posted by guest
Aug 15, 2008 12:49PM
Its interesting how dominant and global the scenester/hipster cult has become. I think they're an interesting bunch and really shouldn't be trashed the way the media trashed them. I honestly believe that its always been this way. Think Hendrix in the sixties - "white collar conservative flashing down the street pointing their plastic finger at me" - he was the biggest scencester of all.
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posted by guest
Aug 15, 2008 8:47PM
well,first of all, i really don't think a hipster would be caught dead in a trucker hat... kind of like a dead trend ashton kutcher started four years ago, no?
second, i love how hipsters say things like "God, i hate hipsters!" Everone's saying "i hate hipsters i hate hipsters" but wait a minute, where are the actual group of people who call themselves hipsters? Nowhere to be found! I think the real hipsters are the people who actually know what hipsters are enough to hate them.
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posted by guest
Aug 15, 2008 9:32PM
I just finished reading a really good article on hipsers-
www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
"The American Apparel V-neck shirt, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and Parliament cigarettes are symbols and icons of working or revolutionary classes that have been appropriated by hipsterdom and drained of meaning. Ten years ago, a man wearing a plain V-neck tee and drinking a Pabst would never be accused of being a trend-follower. But in 2008, such things have become shameless clichés of a class of individuals that seek to escape their own wealth and privilege by immersing themselves in the aesthetic of the working class."
So true.
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posted by xnoelle25
Aug 16, 2008 1:49AM
#6. i agree with you. i hate whiney indie with a passion and i hate bright colored ray-ban knock-offs. whenever i step into american apparel i feel like i might puke ((did get those lame leggings though (in black only!)). i hate their weird vintage shop outfits that they think are so original, 'cause they're really not. i hate nerdy glasses and i hate myspace weird angle photos with disinterested faces. and hipsters also ruined ed banger for me.
but i have been called a hipster before. i guess it gets complicated. i view hipsters one way.. and some people view me as a hipster, though i'm not really into what i see as hipster-esque things (or at least when i think i'm original on something related to fashion, style, or music.. at least until i find AA wearing kids getting into it). I'm confused. Would they be right? Or wouldn't they, since I believe myself to know more about hipster culture.
-and i hate all emos.
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posted by guest
Aug 18, 2008 10:52AM
EVERYONE has been smoking Parliaments and drinking cheap beer FOREVER. This is not a new thing and its a waste of article space. When has drinking cheap beer not been popular? My eyes are tired of al of this. I have been reading the same rants for 10 years. Can we move on please? BORING.
posted by guest
Aug 15, 2008 12:33PM
One word can sum up the "global hipster phenomenon":
Pretentious.