Dating hipsters

7 Great Websites Poking Fun At Hipsters

Hipsters, or scenesters as they’re sometimes called, are a sub-culture who want to be different. At all costs. That longing to be different has now come full circle, where it’s actually the norm (or at least common) to be a hipster – wearing retro clothes, sporting strange facial hair, and generally being a little out there.

This has led to hipsters trying to be more different than ever before. When your chosen sub-culture gets consumed into the mainstream it requires more preposterous style choices and bizarre tastes in pop culture to stand out. In that respect hipsters have become a source of amusement and a target ripe for mocking. Which the following websites do in no uncertain terms.

LATFH

LATFH . or Look At This F**king Hipster, is a Tumblr blog which does pretty much what its title suggests it would. It displays a photo of a hipster, and invites you to look at him or her and laugh. If you feel the need to do so. Which you invariably will.

Unfortunately it looks as though LATFH is no longer being updated, with the last entry dating back to September 2010. No doubt because of the book which is now on sale ( ker-ching! ) Thankfully there is enough of an archive to make this a website still worth visiting for a healthy dose of hipster mocking.

You Know You’re A Hipster When…

You Know You’re A Hipster When… takes the simple concept of listing things that, if you recognize in yourself, suggests you’re a hipster. Like having an entire wardrobe stocked with lumberjack shirts, or wearing one of those hats with the long tassles that were in fashion for one winter.

Part of the fun of this site is hoping you never see an entry which applies to you, because that would mean you’re at least a semi-hipster. Thankfully I’m boring enough not to have made the cut.

Accidental Chinese Hipsters

Accidental Chinese Hipsters is niche but works extremely well. Not all websites or blogs have to be intellectual or highbrow. Some patently aren’t any of these things. Which is the case with Accidental Chinese Hipsters.

This Tumblr blog works on the premise that anyone can be a hipster, whether they know it or not. If you’re Chinese then you may not realize how blatantly cool or uncool you are as you walk around in stockings or turned-up jeans. It’s sometimes effortless to be a hipster. These people are actually blessed. In some small and strange way.

Die Hipster

Die Hipster offers something a little different than the other sites on this list. Rather than a Tumblr made up of images of hipsters with a little added commentary, Die Hipster is “ a place for real New Yorkers to vent about the invasion of attention starved, useless adults that we know as hipsters.”

The fact that the site description calls hipsters “attention starved, useless adults” should tell you much of what you need to know as to the tone of the content. These are stories, rants, and links to articles from the front-line, with tales of real hipsters and the nonsense they spout.

Unhappy Hipsters

Unhappy Hipsters is another Tumblr which does exactly as the title suggests. This site focuses less on the people and more on the places – the houses hipsters live in, and the design choices and form-over-function decisions they make when decorating them. Which then make them unhappy.

I’m sure there are some happy hipsters out there, but those who get featured in magazines and stock photos are invariably unhappy, unsmiling, surly souls. Perhaps they’re told to look miserable for effect, or perhaps filling your surroundings with expensive-but-useless things is depressing.

Dads Are The Original Hipsters

Dads Are The Original Hipsters – never a truer word has been uttered. You think you’re all cool with your brown plaid shirt, effeminate hair, and Burt Reynolds mustache? Well, your dad beat you to it, sporting all three of the above back in the 1970s and 1980s. You should be proud of him.

This is more than just a Tumblr full of must-see photos of men in their prime. The stories conjured up to accompany the imagery are poetic epics both reverential and mocking of these old-school hipsters. The desire to dress up like them makes me almost wish I were a hipster myself. Almost.

Hipster Hitler

Hipster Hitler brings together two things most of us hate – hipsters and Hitler – and melds them into one hateful chimera. Obviously we hate Hitler much more than we hate hipsters, but Hitler as a hipster is very annoying. Though perhaps not as evil as the real dictator.

These are funny and entertaining Web comics with a cutting sense of humor. The laughs are provided by the hipster element, the galling affront to our sensibilities by the fact Hitler features prominently. Still, even when the war was on, Hitler was being parodied. So doing it 70 years later is surely acceptable.

Conclusions

Hipsters put themselves out there as almost-willing targets to be lampooned and poked fun at. I don’t think any of these sites go over the top in their mocking of hipsters, instead just showing the world the levels to which some will stoop in order not to conform. Us conformists can laugh heartily, safe in the knowledge we will never be as cool as some of these guys.

Do you know of any other websites that exist purely to poke fun at hipsters? If so feel free to link to them in the comments section below. Oh, and any complaints about Hipster Hitler should be addressed directly to those who run that site. I am but a mere messenger pointing you in their direction.

The Top 10 Reasons I Am Hating Hipsters

Girl Crush Revamped: Neda Agha-Soltan

There’s a new plague making its way across college campuses from coast to coast. Take one step into your local incorporated coffee shop, vegan restaurant, Urban Outfitters or American Apparel store and you will be afflicted. (Or blinded by all the neon spandex and overwhelming scent of cigarettes.)

I’m talking, of course, about hipsters.

Don’t know what I’m talking about? Don’t worry’ they’ve even got a Wikipedia page .

I don’t truly despise these people. In fact, some are my dear friends. However, the ones that aren’t my friends are becoming an issue – a taking-all-the-tables-at-my-favorite-coffee-shop issue – and here’s my top 10 reasons that they piss me off. Obviously, not all apply. And obviously there are many, many more.

1. OHMYGOD just because I don’t wear weird clothes doesn’t mean I don’t like good music, too.

Hipsters pride themselves on liking the most unique, underground indie music. And if they like something outside that realm? Well, they like it “ironically.” In fact, I’m pretty sure their entire subculture is based on irony. ( Editor’s Note . Maybe Alanis Morisette started the hipster movement?!) They automatically assume if someone is in a polo shirt that their music taste only expands as far as Dave Matthews and OAR. WRONG. Not everyone wears their music taste on their American Apparel sleeves. Get. Real. Check my last. fm; I listen to just as much Arcade Fire as you do and my mom was at Pavement concerts when you were in diapers.

2. The corporations you support are just as bad as the ones you hate.

So, you enjoy taking over Urban Outfitters? Well guess what – UO supported Proposition 8, the recently passed proposition that banned same sex marriage. Urban is owned by the most anti-gay bigot ever. Maybe you should think twice before you go heading over there for your next ironic tee and skinny jeans.

3. Life’s tough. Get a helmet.

Adorn the helmet with Bon Iver stickers. Do what you must, just stop bitching and moaning and sucking down Parliament Lights and PBR cans like it’s your job. You’ve got a trust fund, you unitard-wearing complainer.

4. Hypocritical much?

So, you spend your time hating on people for being judgmental a-holes? While you sit there and judge them based on the fact that they’re wearing mainstream clothing and maybe enjoy rap music? I don’t think that frat boy gives a crap about your life, so why do you care how he lives his?

5. Sports are not the anti-christ.

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Опубликовано: 9 янв. 2013 г.

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10 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT HIPSTERS

1. IF YOU LOVE IT, THEY HATE IT

Dale: Hey Rod, do you want the last popsickle?

2. THEY DON'T WANT ANY PART OF YOUR MAINSTREAM ACTIVITIES

Emo: Hey Rod, you look different.

Rod: Yeah, I got sick of all those mainstream clothes.

3. THEY'RE BRAVE ENOUGH TO HAVE OPINIONS AND EXPRESS THEM AS IF THEY MATTER

Rod: I'm not uploading this video because it's too mainstream to do that, no.

Rod: Sorry, that's just my sellout dad.

Dale: You know they kill off all your sperm right?

Rod. sperm is. mainstream.

Dale: Thank God.

5. THEY DON'T TRY

Dale: Hey Rod, you're kinda stinking up the house, mind taking a shower.

Rod: Why would I try to do anything? Why can't I just exist?

Dale: Um. because you smell like an old homeless woman's vagina?

Rod: You mean natural? See that's why you're so uncool.

Dale: I smell feces. did you poop?

Rod: So what if I did?

Dale: *stares*

Rod: Jealous?

Dale: No.

Rod: Good.

6. THEY'LL NEVER TRY TO BECOME DOCTORS, SO YOU'RE SAFE

Emo: What are you going to go to college for?

Rod: I'm thinking about becoming a painter. or musician. or photographer.

Emo: Ah, all career paths which most often offer littel to no income & don't necessarily even require you to go to college.

Rod: Yeah, but I'm gonna go anyway. I figure, I'm already going to be unhireable, why not also be in dept to student loans.

Emo: You. want debt & a miserable life of poverty?

Rod: Doesn't nobody.

Emo. yeah.

Rod: Perfect!

7. THEY'RE EASY TO ARGUE WITH, DESPITE THEIR CLAIMS OF BEING INTELLECTUAL

Dale: So Rod.

Rod: What dimple dick?

Dale: What does that even mean.

Rod: It's new, I invented it.

Dale. ok so you're a hipster.

Rod: No.

Dale: What?

Rod: I'm not part of the whole hipster thing, it's so mainstream & sold out now.

Dale: You know denial is one of the most common human responses.

Rod. I'm. not in denial.

Dale: So you're I hipster.

Rod. no.

Dale: Are you denying that you are a hipster therefore being suffering from a common human problem?

Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20's and 30's that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence, and witty banter. The greatest concentrations of hipsters can be found living in the Williamsburg, Wicker Park, and Mission District neighborhoods of major cosmopolitan centers such as New York, Chicago, and San Francisco respectively. Although "hipsterism" is really a state of mind, it is also often intertwined with distinct fashion sensibilities. Hipsters reject the culturally-ignorant attitudes of mainstream consumers, and are often be seen wearing vintage and thrift store inspired fashions, tight-fitting jeans, old-school sneakers, and sometimes thick rimmed glasses. Both hipster men and women sport similar androgynous hair styles that include combinations of messy shag cuts and asymmetric side-swept bangs. Such styles are often associated with the work of creative stylists at urban salons, and are usually too "edgy" for the culturally-sheltered mainstream consumer. The "effortless cool" urban bohemian look of a hipster is exemplified in Urban Outfitters and American Apparel ads which cater towards the hipster demographic. Despite misconceptions based on their aesthetic tastes, hipsters tend to be well educated and often have liberal arts degrees, or degrees in maths and sciences, which also require certain creative analytical thinking abilities. Consequently many hipsters tend to have jobs in the music, art, and fashion industries. It is a myth that most hipsters are unemployed and live off of their parent's trust funds.

Hipsters shun mainstream societal conventions that apply to dating preferences and traditional "rules" of physical attraction. It is part of the hipster central dogma not to be influenced by mainsream advertising and media, which tends to only promote ethnocentric ideals of beauty. The concepts of androgyny and feminism have influenced hipster culture, where hipster men are often as thin as the women they date. The muscular and athletic all-American male ideal is not seen as attractive by confident and culturally-empowered hipster women who instead view them as symbols of male oppression, sexism, and misogyny. Likewise, culturally-vapid sorority-type girls with fake blond hair, overly tanned skin, and "Britney Spears tube-tops" are not seen as attractive by cultured hipster males who instead see them as symbols of female insecurity, low self-esteem, and lack of cultural intelligence and independent thinking. Hipsters are also very racially open-minded, and the greatest number of interracial couples in any urban environment are typically found within the hipster subculture.

Although hipsters are technically conformists within their own subculture, in comparison to the much larger mainstream mass, they are pioneers and leaders of the latest cultural trends and ideals. For example, the surge of jeans made to look old and worn (i. e. "distressed"), that have become prevalent at stores such as The Gap, American Eagle, Abercrombie and Fitch, and Hollister, were originally paraded by hipsters who shopped in thrift stores years before such clothing items were mass produced and sold to the mainstream consumer. The true irony here is that many of the detractors of hipster culture are in fact unknowingly following a path that hipsters have carved out years before them. This phenomena also applies to music as well, as many bands have become successful and known to mainstream audiences only because hipsters first found and listened to them as early-adopters of new culture. Once certain concepts of fashion and music have reached mainstream audiences, hipsters move on to something new and improved.

Because of the rise of various online photo-blog and social networking sites, insights into urban hipster culture is reaching sheltered suburban audiences at an exponential rate. Cultural "norms" have been deconstructed by hipster culture as a whole. Hipsterism is often dismissed as just an image thing by some, but the culture as a whole is effecting changes in society, leading to feelings of insecurity and resentment in people who are no longer a part of the cultural ruling class. For example, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from culturally-clueless suburban frat boy types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can.

A conversation outside a hipster bar in downtown NYC:

Frat Boy #1: Dude, are you having any luck picking up chicks in there?

Frat Boy #2: Man. I haven't experienced anything like this before. These chicks are totally rejecting me and going for all these hipster guys in tight pants and shaggy hair instead.

Frat Boy #1: Maybe we should head back up to that bar in Murry Hill where you hooked up with that drunk b*tch from Alpha Sigma Phi last week?

Frat Boy #2: Yeah. I don't think we have what it takes to compete with these guys in here. These hipster chicks won't even give us the time of the day!

How a Conspiracy to Raise Beer Prices Invented Hipsters

Hipsters! Aren't they a wacky breed? No one thinks they are one. everyone has different definitions of what they are, and -- despite the fact that hipsters pioneered the "homeless librarians wearing Oktoberfest hats" aesthetic -- absolutely nobody wants to fuck them. In fact, one of the few defining hipster traits we can nail down is that they drink cheap beer, specifically Pabst Blue Ribbon.

It keeps their neckbeards curly.

Hell, Pabst has now become so big, a new report found that its high-demand status was pushing up the sales prices for all the other terrible beers out there.

First the hipsters ruin beer . then they ruin Revolutionary War re-enactment.

It's really the biggest victory for this shit quaff since they obtained their namesake blue ribbon in the 1893 Columbian Exposition. a beer competition that was no doubt the secret historical force behind Prohibition. It was only stupid luck that they got a second boost with their new, "ironic" notoriety.

Or was it?

Let's go back 10 years to a simpler time when "tweeting" was the sound birds made and "tagging" was something special between three consenting adults. 2003 was also when author Robert Lanham came out with The Hipster Handbook .

You can buy it here for the low price of being the literal devil .

At this point we had already been privy to the lifestyle thanks to pieces from The New York Times and Time Out New York . They spoke of "bohemian " types and "visual artists" living in gentrified areas in Brooklyn. But Lanham was one of the first to casually mention the fact that bike couriers and coffee shop artists were drinking Pabst.

It also marks the definitive mainstream introduction of the title "hipster" as we know it today, putting its origin somewhere between 2000 and 2003. It should be noted that Lanham wrote for both Time Out New York and The New York Times . putting him right at the pivotal hub of the hipster dawning.

Not to be confused with this hipster awning.

Now let's turn it back to PBR.

It's 2000, and you've been hired on as the senior brand manager for a company that has never been less popular. Current marketing for your product is purely regionally based and mostly ineffective due to a terrible budget.

But you notice something: Kid Rock is wearing a belt buckle with your brand on it. You realize that the true power of your old-timey logo is helping skuzzy-faced abominations siphon undeserved attention like superego-infused Chupacabras.

Pictured here, probably.

So you begin to go hands-on. You drive to the bars with your brand in the window, meet the sideburned and trucker-hatted people who buy your product, and slip them a key chain or a pin or two. Then, as you slowly gain personal recognition, you start tossing out a little cash, all the while keeping your image as that "ironic" underdog they love so much.

Your company cash starts being used to sponsor "ironic" activities like kickball tournaments and bike courier races, terrible art openings and dodgeball matches. Now this group is not only consuming your product, but also being shaped by it. As you choose which activities to support, you are becoming the sustaining pillar that now embraces the counterculture you yourself cultivated.

Congratulations -- your name is Neal Stewart. and you just created the neo-hipster culture.

You're going to need a lot more of those beers.

It's true. See -- we didn't actually have to connect any dots because PBR flat out told everyone that they purposely put their brand in the hands of hipsters years ago. As Stewart quietly walked the shadows of Chicago, New York, and of course Portland, he was purposefully looking for those small nooks with old arcade games and art openings filled with tight jeans and Buddy Holly glasses.

The fact that a beer company pretty much fueled the hipster movement actually makes a shitload of sense when you consider that it's so undefined that no one can identify with it, and those who do identify look like they got dressed while drunk. So now can we all PLEASE take off the fedoras and put down the Schlitz before they start charging like it's organically brewed? Hobos need to drink, too.