Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksOctober 2, 2012 - 1:22pm
My co-worker (the stereotypical hipster) and I have a theory that it's impossible to not be a hipster. Saying "I'm not a hipster" automatically makes you a hipster because hipsters reject being called a hipster. Hating hipsters is what hipsters do, because it distances them from being a hipster. Writing is a hipster thing to do because it involves creativity. Every style of dress has been embraced by some group of hipsters.
I'm considered a hipster because I wear a lot of black (stain and age proof, which is necessary when you're poor), write, drink coffee, like drugs, love school, smoke cigarettes, live with my parents to save money, and date a hipster who wears a hat I crocheted for him and is a photography major because he's a really good artist but wants to make money.
Everyone is a hipster.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 2, 2012 - 1:28pm
I'm not.
I work in an office (and enjoy it) and have a four year old (and enjoy it). The thing I get most excited about is cake. I don't smoke or do drugs or have tattoos or love school. And I really don't have any records.
If anything, I"m a soccer mom in training
Nick
from Toronto is reading Adjustment DayOctober 2, 2012 - 1:28pm
It's only hipster writing if it's shitty but your hipster friends tell you it's great, at the after hours club, after their shitty concert or shitty art exhibit.
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksOctober 2, 2012 - 1:55pm
I forgot to mention that I've never met a Chuck Palahniuk fan who wasn't a hipster.
I work in an office (and enjoy it)
Hipster statement. They feed off of the unusual.
@Nick All hipsters are shitty artists? Iron and Wine makes fantastic, beautiful music. Banksy is a great artist and filmmaker. Dave Eggers literally writes the most heart-wrenching, gut-turning, raw and intense books and short stories I've ever read.
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October 2, 2012 - 2:03pm
I forgot to mention that I've never met a Chuck Palahniuk fan who wasn't a hipster.
Palahniuk books are like Chuck Taylors. The hipsters managed to suck them up in their vacuum. And I think hipsters telling people they don't understand the message behind Fight Club is about as far as that goes anyway.
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October 2, 2012 - 2:04pm
The thing I get most excited about is cake.
I love this by the way.
sean of the dead
from Madisonville, KY is reading Peckerwood, by Jed AyresOctober 2, 2012 - 2:08pm
I guess i just think it's funny that we all sit on an internet message board and discuss "hipsters."
I was hoping this was "Friendster hate thread," but it looks like I misread the title. Because sometimes I don't read so good, and I misunderstand words. Which, by the way, makes me a hipster.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 2, 2012 - 2:13pm
What's a "Friendster"?
sean of the dead
from Madisonville, KY is reading Peckerwood, by Jed AyresOctober 2, 2012 - 2:25pm
remember that old site that never really went anywhere due to myspace and facebook popularity? Friendster.
Also, have we yet put the real blame on them? We know they stole our Palahniuk, our moustaches, our Christmas sweaters. Our ironic t-shirts, our Chucks, our records. But now the hipsters are stealing our jobs!
Beware the Ides of March...and Guy Fawkes wearing a tight "Ask me about my grandkids" t-shirt, tight girl jeans, and New Balance hi-tops. Especially if he comes quoting Bukowski. And if he reaches into his messenger bag, duck!
Nick
from Toronto is reading Adjustment DayOctober 2, 2012 - 2:27pm
@ courtney, those people aren't hipsters in my books. They are people with real talent who give more to society than they wake away--that's the key. To the untrained eye they appear to be hipsters, because hipsters try to talk, dress, and live like the people you just mentioned.
I`ve met several Chuck P. fans who aren`t hipsters...
Dorian Grey
from Transexual, Transylvania is reading "East of Eden" by John SteinbeckOctober 2, 2012 - 2:56pm
The only area in which I am a hipster is, in fact, literature. But that's only because most of the kids my age don't read a whole lot, so when a good new book comes out and they read it, they think it's great; then it gets over-hyped and irritating.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeOctober 2, 2012 - 4:56pm
arrogant, spoiled, lazy, and grandiose
I'm all for judging people based on the content of their character, but there are people who fit this description who aren't hipsters, and so there must be more (or something else) to it. It is not necessarily a judgmental statement to call someone a "hipster" (unless you use that term only as a pejorative;) it can simply mean they're really into this-and-that and dress such-and-such a way (and that's okay.) It is a judgmental statement to call them "arrogant, spoiled, lazy, and grandiose."
That's how I think of the word anyway.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 2, 2012 - 5:13pm
All the hipsters that I know who grew up in the city dress a lot like cattle ranchers. Makes me wonder, do hipsters who grow up on cattle ranches wear Armani and Ray Bans?
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksOctober 2, 2012 - 8:19pm
I was speaking in terms of high school/college about the Chuck fans. I've never actually met an adult who can hear the words Chuck Palahniuk without rolling their eyes. Especially my mom. Because once your kid likes it, it was never cool.
Those people I mentioned are hipsters -- they're the originals. And that's okay. Because like J.Y. said, it's not a derogatory term unless you make it one.
I like hipsters. They can be fun sometimes. I'm dating one and I like him a lot, too.
Also, someone should start the Friendster hate thread so I can talk about how hipster I am for not having a Facebook. I like hearing myself talk.
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksOctober 2, 2012 - 8:20pm
Because I like hearing myself talk, I wanted to add that in my area, hipster is actually considered a compliment.
Jonathan Riley
from Memphis, Tennessee is reading Flashover by Gordon Highland October 2, 2012 - 8:31pm
I don't hate anyone. I'm also an adult who doesn't roll his eyes when he hears Chuck's name. Though sometimes I may drool a bit. Now you know one Court.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 3, 2012 - 4:37am
Not to burst bubbles, but this entire site is made up of adults who don't roll their eyes when they hear Chuck's name. I mean, he is the patron Saint of LitReactor. But then, I guess you've not met any of us. So, maybe it doesn't count.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeOctober 3, 2012 - 11:10am
Here you go AD
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksOctober 3, 2012 - 11:29am
I meant in person, both for the comment about adults who roll their eyes and Palahniuk fans being hipsters. Sorry if I offended anyone. I honestly assumed everyone would know that this site was the exception.
I just take offense at the idea that you can hate every single person in such an immense group. It makes no sense to me, especially when you add in the fact that in my area, hipster is a compliment and basically covers everything. It doesn't mean any specific thing here.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersOctober 3, 2012 - 12:00pm
Speaking just for myself, I don't hate anybody (don't tell everybody). I don't care about what anyone wears, I just like giving people a hard time. Mostly when I can tell it bugs them.
sean of the dead
from Madisonville, KY is reading Peckerwood, by Jed AyresOctober 3, 2012 - 12:13pm
@averydoll - lies
Robert.B
from Northern Ireland is reading The Last of the Savages By Jay McInerneyOctober 3, 2012 - 12:30pm
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October 4, 2012 - 7:45am
Profunda Saint-...
from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy SeriesOctober 10, 2012 - 12:18pm
Here's a little Canadian (specifically British Columbian) Government approved hipster bashing.
Nick
from Toronto is reading Adjustment DayOctober 10, 2012 - 3:45pm
Brilliant.
rmatthewsimmons
from Salt Lake City, UT is reading I just put down 'A Game of Thrones' after 6 chapters....Couldn't do it.October 10, 2012 - 7:11pm
I was a hipster hater until I was invited to a party that was teaming with them. Then I just felt like Henry Rollins in the link from the original post: old and insignificant but having lived through a decade with much better music.
Thank god my hair's not a gray as Henry's... yet.
Fylh
from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is readingOctober 11, 2012 - 3:08am
A hipster, much like a nigger or a kike, is a type of hat that you offer to those whose faces you have decided you just don't much like.
Stop selling the hats!
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 11, 2012 - 5:55am
So...you think we should just punch the faces?
Fylh
from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is readingOctober 13, 2012 - 2:22pm
Essentially yes, I'm condoning a more straightforward attitude to violence against hipsters.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 15, 2012 - 9:22am
Whew! I was worried you were suggesting something crazy like "acceptance".
Close one.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedOctober 15, 2012 - 11:56am
Once again I think it's cool that people I don't want to spend much time with wear uniforms that let me know that without having to speak to them. Very polite of them.
kward
from Alberta is reading Off To Be the WizardOctober 15, 2012 - 1:33pm
Hipster is likely the category I once fit into; now I embrace what I like without guilt. The thought of ever living outside a big city, owning a pick-up truck, enjoying a mass market paperback, and admitting I like country music never crossed my mind back in the day. Times change. One thing about hipster-dom I never did understand - or embrace - is the fixation with fixed-speed bikes. They're murder on any kind of steep incline; though I do admit the baskets are handy.
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksOctober 15, 2012 - 2:08pm
I will never understand those fucking bikes. They're called fixies here. It always makes me think they're actually calling themselves pixies. They ride them around my campus, and almost none of them are any good at bike-riding, so they regularly have spectacular crashes.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 15, 2012 - 2:34pm
@Courtney: Please send video footage of that!
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinOctober 15, 2012 - 7:35pm
Hipster Police, calling everyone out....
nevermind
Courtney
from the Midwest is reading Monkey: A Journey to the West and a thousand college textbooksOctober 15, 2012 - 8:16pm
I don't have that, but this is a recording of a crazy preacher on campus on my birthday.
Jack Campbell Jr.
from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp MeyerOctober 16, 2012 - 11:01am
Hipsters don't have police. They aren't allowed guns.
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October 25, 2012 - 6:08pm
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsOctober 25, 2012 - 8:16pm
I used to ride fixies all the time. Had one that I painted matte olive drab like an extremely tiny tank that people would go nuts over it if I was riding in the downtown area. Don't drink beer though.
I don't give much acknowledgement to hipsters. My vehement hatred of mankind is indiscriminate.
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October 25, 2012 - 8:40pm
Renny, that is my quote for my profile on here.
JonnyGibbings
October 26, 2012 - 1:43am
Hear about the Hipster who burned his lips drinking coffee? Yeah, he sipped it... before it was cool! BOOM! Se what I did there!
JonnyGibbings
October 26, 2012 - 1:43am
Hear about the Hipster who burned his lips drinking coffee? Yeah, he sipped it... before it was cool! BOOM! Se what I did there!
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 26, 2012 - 5:41am
That shit really did just happen.
pendragon
from Seoul is reading MemoriesOctober 26, 2012 - 10:08am
I think it's silly to hate hipsters. Hating any group of people vaguely related through somewhat similar tastes is just...infantile.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 26, 2012 - 11:53am
I think it's silly to hate hipsters. Hating any group of people vaguely related through somewhat similar tastes is just...infantile.
...said the hipster.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedOctober 26, 2012 - 2:31pm
@Dragon - I don't think that logic holds up. They made a choice to live their lives in public way that annoys folks, people responded. It isn't like hate someone based on color or such. And it is annoyed hate, not set them on fire hate.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 26, 2012 - 2:33pm
And it is annoyed hate, not set them on fire hate.
Speak for yourself, Dwayne.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedOctober 26, 2012 - 3:15pm
When you have pics of a screaming alpha let me know, other wise you be silent!
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryOctober 26, 2012 - 3:29pm
I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm talking about burning hipsters. It's what they would have done during the Inquisition.
This alpha thing: is that some weird werewolf lore you're pulling from all those paranormal romances you read?
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedOctober 26, 2012 - 3:43pm
No, weird term for human I pulled from all the firefighters I hang with.
My co-worker (the stereotypical hipster) and I have a theory that it's impossible to not be a hipster. Saying "I'm not a hipster" automatically makes you a hipster because hipsters reject being called a hipster. Hating hipsters is what hipsters do, because it distances them from being a hipster. Writing is a hipster thing to do because it involves creativity. Every style of dress has been embraced by some group of hipsters.
I'm considered a hipster because I wear a lot of black (stain and age proof, which is necessary when you're poor), write, drink coffee, like drugs, love school, smoke cigarettes, live with my parents to save money, and date a hipster who wears a hat I crocheted for him and is a photography major because he's a really good artist but wants to make money.
Everyone is a hipster.
I'm not.
I work in an office (and enjoy it) and have a four year old (and enjoy it). The thing I get most excited about is cake. I don't smoke or do drugs or have tattoos or love school. And I really don't have any records.
If anything, I"m a soccer mom in training
It's only hipster writing if it's shitty but your hipster friends tell you it's great, at the after hours club, after their shitty concert or shitty art exhibit.
I forgot to mention that I've never met a Chuck Palahniuk fan who wasn't a hipster.
Hipster statement. They feed off of the unusual.
@Nick All hipsters are shitty artists? Iron and Wine makes fantastic, beautiful music. Banksy is a great artist and filmmaker. Dave Eggers literally writes the most heart-wrenching, gut-turning, raw and intense books and short stories I've ever read.
I guess i just think it's funny that we all sit on an internet message board and discuss "hipsters."
I was hoping this was "Friendster hate thread," but it looks like I misread the title. Because sometimes I don't read so good, and I misunderstand words. Which, by the way, makes me a hipster.
What's a "Friendster"?
remember that old site that never really went anywhere due to myspace and facebook popularity? Friendster.
Also, have we yet put the real blame on them? We know they stole our Palahniuk, our moustaches, our Christmas sweaters. Our ironic t-shirts, our Chucks, our records. But now the hipsters are stealing our jobs!
Beware the Ides of March...and Guy Fawkes wearing a tight "Ask me about my grandkids" t-shirt, tight girl jeans, and New Balance hi-tops. Especially if he comes quoting Bukowski. And if he reaches into his messenger bag, duck!
@ courtney, those people aren't hipsters in my books. They are people with real talent who give more to society than they wake away--that's the key. To the untrained eye they appear to be hipsters, because hipsters try to talk, dress, and live like the people you just mentioned.
I`ve met several Chuck P. fans who aren`t hipsters...
The only area in which I am a hipster is, in fact, literature. But that's only because most of the kids my age don't read a whole lot, so when a good new book comes out and they read it, they think it's great; then it gets over-hyped and irritating.
I'm all for judging people based on the content of their character, but there are people who fit this description who aren't hipsters, and so there must be more (or something else) to it. It is not necessarily a judgmental statement to call someone a "hipster" (unless you use that term only as a pejorative;) it can simply mean they're really into this-and-that and dress such-and-such a way (and that's okay.) It is a judgmental statement to call them "arrogant, spoiled, lazy, and grandiose."
That's how I think of the word anyway.
All the hipsters that I know who grew up in the city dress a lot like cattle ranchers. Makes me wonder, do hipsters who grow up on cattle ranches wear Armani and Ray Bans?
I was speaking in terms of high school/college about the Chuck fans. I've never actually met an adult who can hear the words Chuck Palahniuk without rolling their eyes. Especially my mom. Because once your kid likes it, it was never cool.
Those people I mentioned are hipsters -- they're the originals. And that's okay. Because like J.Y. said, it's not a derogatory term unless you make it one.
I like hipsters. They can be fun sometimes. I'm dating one and I like him a lot, too.
Also, someone should start the Friendster hate thread so I can talk about how hipster I am for not having a Facebook. I like hearing myself talk.
Because I like hearing myself talk, I wanted to add that in my area, hipster is actually considered a compliment.
I don't hate anyone. I'm also an adult who doesn't roll his eyes when he hears Chuck's name. Though sometimes I may drool a bit. Now you know one Court.
Not to burst bubbles, but this entire site is made up of adults who don't roll their eyes when they hear Chuck's name. I mean, he is the patron Saint of LitReactor. But then, I guess you've not met any of us. So, maybe it doesn't count.
Here you go AD
I meant in person, both for the comment about adults who roll their eyes and Palahniuk fans being hipsters. Sorry if I offended anyone. I honestly assumed everyone would know that this site was the exception.
I just take offense at the idea that you can hate every single person in such an immense group. It makes no sense to me, especially when you add in the fact that in my area, hipster is a compliment and basically covers everything. It doesn't mean any specific thing here.
Speaking just for myself, I don't hate anybody (don't tell everybody). I don't care about what anyone wears, I just like giving people a hard time. Mostly when I can tell it bugs them.
@averydoll - lies
Here's a little Canadian (specifically British Columbian) Government approved hipster bashing.
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/hipsters-fight-back-against-b-c-attack-ads-1.990181
Cute.
Brilliant.
I was a hipster hater until I was invited to a party that was teaming with them. Then I just felt like Henry Rollins in the link from the original post: old and insignificant but having lived through a decade with much better music.
Thank god my hair's not a gray as Henry's... yet.
A hipster, much like a nigger or a kike, is a type of hat that you offer to those whose faces you have decided you just don't much like.
Stop selling the hats!
So...you think we should just punch the faces?
Essentially yes, I'm condoning a more straightforward attitude to violence against hipsters.
Whew! I was worried you were suggesting something crazy like "acceptance".
Close one.
Once again I think it's cool that people I don't want to spend much time with wear uniforms that let me know that without having to speak to them. Very polite of them.
Hipster is likely the category I once fit into; now I embrace what I like without guilt. The thought of ever living outside a big city, owning a pick-up truck, enjoying a mass market paperback, and admitting I like country music never crossed my mind back in the day. Times change. One thing about hipster-dom I never did understand - or embrace - is the fixation with fixed-speed bikes. They're murder on any kind of steep incline; though I do admit the baskets are handy.
I will never understand those fucking bikes. They're called fixies here. It always makes me think they're actually calling themselves pixies. They ride them around my campus, and almost none of them are any good at bike-riding, so they regularly have spectacular crashes.
@Courtney: Please send video footage of that!
Hipster Police, calling everyone out....
nevermind
I don't have that, but this is a recording of a crazy preacher on campus on my birthday.
Hipsters don't have police. They aren't allowed guns.
I used to ride fixies all the time. Had one that I painted matte olive drab like an extremely tiny tank that people would go nuts over it if I was riding in the downtown area. Don't drink beer though.
I don't give much acknowledgement to hipsters. My vehement hatred of mankind is indiscriminate.
Renny, that is my quote for my profile on here.
Hear about the Hipster who burned his lips drinking coffee? Yeah, he sipped it... before it was cool! BOOM! Se what I did there!
Hear about the Hipster who burned his lips drinking coffee? Yeah, he sipped it... before it was cool! BOOM! Se what I did there!
That shit really did just happen.
I think it's silly to hate hipsters. Hating any group of people vaguely related through somewhat similar tastes is just...infantile.
@Dragon - I don't think that logic holds up. They made a choice to live their lives in public way that annoys folks, people responded. It isn't like hate someone based on color or such. And it is annoyed hate, not set them on fire hate.
Speak for yourself, Dwayne.
When you have pics of a screaming alpha let me know, other wise you be silent!
I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm talking about burning hipsters. It's what they would have done during the Inquisition.
This alpha thing: is that some weird werewolf lore you're pulling from all those paranormal romances you read?
No, weird term for human I pulled from all the firefighters I hang with.