Hipsters fucking love the hurdy-gurdy

[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.

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.

Mittens, and mittens again!

[Suu]

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.

BUT IT'S TRUE.

-Suu
Was steampunk before it was popular.

[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.

The only people who like Slayer are hipsters, though.

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

So you like Slayer then?

[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.

BUT IT'S TRUE.

-Suu
Was steampunk before it was popular.

But it's irrelevant.

[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.

So you like Slayer then?

What is your logic behind that question? I see none.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

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.

BUT IT'S TRUE.

-Suu
Was steampunk before it was popular.

But it's irrelevant.

It makes her a cutting-edge hipster!

[Doktor Howl]

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.

So you like Slayer then?

All people who like Slayer are hipsters.

Not all hipsters like Slayer.

The above statements are contradictory.

[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.

BUT IT'S TRUE.

-Suu
Was steampunk before it was popular.

But it's irrelevant.

It makes her a cutting-edge hipster!

I once knew a guy, back in the army, that would stop listening to bands when they became popular.

He never understood why I giggled when he said that.

[Cain]

Someone actually needs to write Hipster Shrugged, btw.

[Disco Pickle]

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.

BUT IT'S TRUE.

-Suu
Was steampunk before it was popular.

But it's irrelevant.

agreed.  it's like saying to people that you listened *insert band name* before they released an album that got them mainstream attention.

I've actually had people say this to me with some sort of fucked up air of superiority.

[Suu]

What about me, on those days when I'm wearing all orange? DEFINITELY over the top.

You would die if you saw my new handbag.

PICS PLS 

http://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=37582&vid=1&pid=775210&scid=775210012

It's the obnoxious orange plaid one. Actual colors are much brighter in person...I mean, I saw it from ACROSS the store and even paid FULL PRICE for it. It was love at first sight!

[Suu]

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.

BUT IT'S TRUE.

-Suu
Was steampunk before it was popular.

But it's irrelevant.

It makes her a cutting-edge hipster!

YES.

-SUU
*WAS HIPSTER BEFORE IT WAS COOL*

[Doktor Howl]

Someone actually needs to write Hipster Shrugged, btw.

Or Moby Hipster.

Or Hipster the Obscure.

Or The Old Hipster and the Sea.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I liked being obscure before it was cool.

I liked being Anonymous before it was cool.

I liked liking the shit I like regardless of whether it's cool, outdated, suddenly cool again because its retro, and outdated again because retro coolness made it current again and current isn't cool so lets move onto the next thing before it became cool.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

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.

BUT IT'S TRUE.

-Suu
Was steampunk before it was popular.

But it's irrelevant.

It makes her a cutting-edge hipster!

I once knew a guy, back in the army, that would stop listening to bands when they became popular.

He never understood why I giggled when he said that.

Ahahahaha! That reminds me of when I wanted to get my nose pierced and one of my friends said "Nose rings were cool like five years ago but I would never get one now because EVERYONE'S getting them".

I got my nose pierced anyway, because who the fuck cares?