Hipsters fucking love the hurdy-gurdy

[Cramulus]

watch for this happening to steampunk in the next 2-3 years.

Any minute now you're going to be party to a conversation about how I used to be steampunk before it was popular. I'm an authentic steam punk.

[Doktor Howl]

watch for this happening to steampunk in the next 2-3 years.

Any minute now you're going to be party to a conversation about how I used to be steampunk before it was popular. I'm an authentic steam punk.

On the other hand, I'm not gonna trash the Dok outfit just because it becomes fashionable.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Nah, she's right.

How so? She said the same thing about metalheads.

Metal is totally hip and retro. Who the hell DRESSES LIKE A METALHEAD? Only hipsters.

Disagree with metal being retro, since there has never ceased to be metal bands despite changes in popularity. Besides, we're immune to heavy metal poisoning, where as the hipster can only take small doses. We have more in common with D&D geeks than anything else.

[Disco Pickle]

I remember when the hipsters in my city were all learning swing dancing an listening to big band music in the late 90's early 00's.

I even saw a zoot suit or two, wingtips, suspenders..

except for the occasional smoking hottie in a short skirt and knee highs which was completely   the rest of it was  

[Doktor Howl]

I remember when the hipsters in my city were all learning swing dancing an listening to big band music in the late 90's early 00's.

I even saw a zoot suit or two, wingtips, suspenders..

except for the occasional smoking hottie in a short skirt and knee highs which was completely   the rest of it was  

Yeah, and that Rockabilly shit in the mid-90s made me want to stab everyone at the bar.

[LMNO]

Well, that seals it.


LMNO
-Is very good at swing dancing.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

ZOMG THAT SLAYER T-SHIRT IS SO AWESOME! I LOVE IT!

Ok, so a hipster would buy a Slayer shirt on the basis that it's so awesome, whereas the metalhead would buy it because s/he likes Slayer.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

this is an old dance.

the mainstream contains a set of norms / fashions

this creates a demand for things outside of those norms

when people discover this power, they orient onto it, thereby bringing it into the limelight.

Commercialism quickly orients onto the things the cool kids are doing and creates products to fill those demands.


Every cultural movement with a shred of the avant-garde must go through this cycle.


Authenticity is a quality we attribute to the early innovators, ("the first punks were the real punks") but it's just a coat of paint, a precursor to "selling out", which only means that you had something cool enough for other people to want.

Yes yes yes. Authenticity is a key part of this discussion, because determining who is "authentic" and who is a "poser" is what the social dynamic is all about. "I liked ___ before it was cool" etc.

[Disco Pickle]

I remember when the hipsters in my city were all learning swing dancing an listening to big band music in the late 90's early 00's.

I even saw a zoot suit or two, wingtips, suspenders..

except for the occasional smoking hottie in a short skirt and knee highs which was completely   the rest of it was  

Yeah, and that Rockabilly shit in the mid-90s made me want to stab everyone at the bar.

have to admit the cars were nice though.  actually, a group of those fucks came through the city a couple months ago and parked up and down the hipster strip here.  

cigarettes rolled up in their sleeves and everything.  

still loved the cars though

[Cain]

I liked being obscure before it was cool.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

ZOMG THAT SLAYER T-SHIRT IS SO AWESOME! I LOVE IT!

Ok, so a hipster would buy a Slayer shirt on the basis that it's so awesome, whereas the metalhead would buy it because s/he likes Slayer.

The only people who like Slayer are hipsters, though.

Metal was metal in 1980. In 2010, it's a thing college kids are into.

[Doktor Howl]

this is an old dance.

the mainstream contains a set of norms / fashions

this creates a demand for things outside of those norms

when people discover this power, they orient onto it, thereby bringing it into the limelight.

Commercialism quickly orients onto the things the cool kids are doing and creates products to fill those demands.


Every cultural movement with a shred of the avant-garde must go through this cycle.


Authenticity is a quality we attribute to the early innovators, ("the first punks were the real punks") but it's just a coat of paint, a precursor to "selling out", which only means that you had something cool enough for other people to want.

Yes yes yes. Authenticity is a key part of this discussion, because determining who is "authentic" and who is a "poser" is what the social dynamic is all about. "I liked ___ before it was cool" etc.

Authenticity, again, is utter bullshit.  

If you don't do something because you genuinely LIKE it, you're a Pinkboy.  End of story.

Yes, that means that if you LIKE being a hipster because of how it makes YOU feel, rather than how it looks to OTHERS, then you're in a state of Slack™, no matter how painful it is for me to admit it.

[Disco Pickle]

I liked being obscure before it was cool.

I liked being Anonymous before it was cool.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I remember when the hipsters in my city were all learning swing dancing an listening to big band music in the late 90's early 00's.

I even saw a zoot suit or two, wingtips, suspenders..

except for the occasional smoking hottie in a short skirt and knee highs which was completely   the rest of it was  

Yeah, and that Rockabilly shit in the mid-90s made me want to stab everyone at the bar.

Reverend Horton Heat! Booyeah! One thing to be said for rockabilly though; the chicks are HOT.

Back to swing, if I NEVER EVER hear another Squirrel Nut Zippers song ever ever ever I will die happy.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I liked being obscure before it was cool.