Voice of the People. The Natives are Restless.
Wow. There's a lot of anger and disgust out there towards the transplanted dirtbags. Just read the Craigs List rants below.
Attention Hipsters
Reply to: pers-651309441@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-21, 10:30PM
The next time you find yourself poring over Neutral Milk Hotel bootlegs at the local record shop, or pretending to be into the latest psych/avant/free-folk/what-the-fuck-ever outfit to crop up, whilst ironically drinking PBR's, wearing skinny jeans and dingy white v-necks (neckerchief optional), meticulously maintaining the perfect level of scruff on your neckbeard, and name dropping bands that no one has heard of (for good reason), please keep in mind that you are a plight on society, with your pretentious,condescending attitudes and pseudo-intellectual ways. Please leave the once vibrant ethnic neighborhoods you destroyed with your faux dive bars and galleries that house feeble attmepts at true art, and jump into the east river like the lemmings you are.
hipster cock?
Reply to: pers-650554887@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-21, 1:10PM EDT
i have found that skinny hipster guys have the skinniest cocks. does anyone else agree with this? they also pretend to be vegetarian, but i was with this one guy, and he woke up in the middle of the night, and i found him eating a ham sandwich! are hipsters all this phony? i think so. no more hipster wimps for me!
Hipsters
Reply to: pers-650831236@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-21, 4:21PM EDT
Hipsters are a bunch of crybaby hypocrites. I love how they all dress alike, then try to pretend that everyone else is superficial for shopping at the gap. I mean give me a break... appearance is just as important to them, otherwise they wouldn't all pull clothing from the same garbage can. Thats right asshole, I'm calling you out for paying $80 for a vintage shirt at a store that takes donations of old clothing, then turns around and sells them to idiot hipsters like you. That clothing should be going to the salvation army or another outfit that actually gives the clothing to poor people, instead of freak-hipsters living off mom and dad's check who are willing to outpay the other ugly four-eyed hipster standing next to him.
Hipster is just really code for:
I'm an ugly, physically and aesthetically uncoordinated, whiney little bitch.
Do the city a favor, and stay in that dump of a town, williamsburg.... maybe one day it will just fall off into the east river. Actually, that may be the only way we can get you nasty people to take shower.
you people suck -indie/emo/hipster crap sucks
Reply to: pers-651563826@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-22, 6:30AM EDT
These little twits need to be taken down.
read this thread and comment:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/04/pictures_from_t_2.html
HEY ADD Boy - YOU SUCK- YOU ARE TAKING UP SPACE
LAZY PARASITIC TICKS
ADD is just lazy, you MUST work, you must do something and meet somebody elses needs to earn $, you can be an artist, but you have to draw what they tell you to or sing what they want.
You have to pay dues, get it man???
VERY FEW ARTISTS, A MINISULE PERCENTAGE OF THEM GET TO DIRECT THEMSELVES AND SET THE STYLES.
AND IT WILL NEVER EVER BE YOU !!!!!!!
BECAUSE YOU SUCK AND YOU IRRITATE PEOPLE.
re reRe: Hipsters don't invent "culture". They only consume it.
Reply to: pers-650808845@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-21, 3:57PM EDT
Under the guise of “irony,” hipsterism fetishizes the authentic and regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity. Those 18-to-34-year-olds called hipsters have defanged, skinned and consumed the fringe movements of the postwar era—Beat, hippie, punk, even grunge. Hungry for more, and sick with the anxiety of influence, they feed as well from the trough of the uncool, turning white trash chic, and gouging the husks of long-expired subcultures—vaudeville, burlesque, cowboys and pirates.
Of course, hipsterism being originally, and still mostly, the province of whites (the pastiest of whites), its acolytes raid the cultural stores of every unmelted ethnicity in the pot. Similarly, they devour gay style: Witness the cultural burp known as metrosexuality. As the hipster ambles from the thrift store to a $100 haircut at Freemans Sporting Club, these aesthetics are assimilated—cannibalized—into a repertoire of meaninglessness, from which the hipster can construct an identity in the manner of a collage, or a shuffled playlist on an iPod.
All isms seek dominance of human affairs, and in this, hipsterism in New York City has proved more virulent than any of its forebears. (Punk, after all, never really broke—except in the form of hipsterism.) At last there was nothing left for hipsters to do but to convert the squares, take them to the bar and let them pick up the tab. Secrets were shared. The hipster hooked up with the common consumer; he woke up a zombie.
re RE: Anything under $200,000 in NYC is poverty
Reply to: pers-649375649@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-20, 1:37PM EDT
Hipsters come in two types. The dirty scumbags and the overdressed. They are generally spoiled brats and fall into three categories. One is the trust funder. The other is the hard working artist who pays too much of their earnings toward rent to live in a hip area. The last is a combination of both. The latter is the most common. There's this myth that trust funders have an endless supply of cash at their disposal. Couldn't be further from the truth. The truth is they go through that cash fast and most of them will end up back home in Idaho working at the local farm. Those who make it through the initial splurge fest realize how tough it can be to live in the big city with the big costs. I can't tell you how many of these pricks I have come across and how many new ones take their place. It's like army ants. They come in to NY drive up prices only to be a victim of their own making and go back to the midwest or wherever they come from. The life span of a hipster is usually 3 years. Sadly someone always take their place. God I hate these fucking spoiled little rats who only care about how they look and who they hang out with.
One Question: Are there any Pro-Hipster websites out there that actually defend Hipster Culture (and are not satire or cut and paste wankers like ParaSucko)?
Seriously, if everyone is against them, who is actually defending Hipsters? There must be somebody out there. I haven't found him/her/it yet.
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www.lastnightsparty.com , www.nickydigital.com , www.ambrel.net
Hipster defense websites are not necessary because hipsterism is the new mainstream. Everyone wants to be a hipster, even jocks. If you own an article of clothing from a thrift store, you're a "hipster". If you drink cheap beer, you're a "hipster". If you're a vegetarian or vegan, you're a "hipster". If you your fashion sensibilities are edgy and urban, you're a "hipster". If your hair is a little messy or scruffy, you're a "hipster". If you're from the mid-West and you now live in NYC, you're a "hipster". If you work as a freelancer or have flexible work hours, you're a "hipster". If you work in the creative sector, in media, in film, in entertainment, or in the music industry you're a "hipster". If you own an ipod, you're a "hipster". If you listen to a band that happens to be on an indie record label, you're a "hipster". Heaven's forbid...if you've ever gone to McCaren Park in the summer to see a free show, and you've played dodgeball there, you're a dirty filthy stinking "hipster". If you simply exist, there's probably someone out there that's labeling you some form of "hipster".
Like it or not, the modern hipster movement is here to stay. Deal with it. It was something that was started/re-invented/re-established/recycled over 15 years ago by creative types in Williamsburg, and now it has become the mainstream. In a sense, the hipsters have won as they have successfully "hipsterized" modern sensibilities. "Hipsters" are out partying, enjoying life, meeting new friends, and probably getting laid while the anti-hipster hate mongerers are sitting alone behind their computer screens resenting anyone else out there who is out having fun. I'm pretty sure the group of people labeled "hipsters" would much rather prefer doing whatever they're doing, than to switch places with the anti-hipsters on here.
Judging from their comments, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from "tough guy" non-intellectual homophobic macho types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. At some point in their lives they probably got mocked and ridiculed, or even had beer poured all over their heads, by some downtown girl with a tattoo (aka "hipster") after trying to pull some lame move on them. If you think about it, in some ways the entire hipster revolution came about to mock and ridicule such people and their mentalities. It's not about meat and muscle anymore. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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Did you try BushwickBK.com?
That seems pretty pro-hipster, pro-gentrification. Although of course none of them will admit to being hipsters.
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Dear Hipstercutioner,
I don't know how hipsterish this fuckfaces are. They sound like total ass-gentrification-parasites. I could only look at that site for a few minutes. They have decided to rename Bushwick to "the Wick". This site is totally why I hate gentrification!!!!
Taf - Out
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I just posted this in response to the brooklynvegan article above
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/04/pictures_from_t_2.html
Jesus H. Fucking Christ people, what's wrong with you? This shit isn't lame, it's QUADRUPLEGIC WITH DOWNS SYNDROME WITH AIDS MEETS THE EBOLA VIRUS. Calling this shit art is like calling Ron Jeremy a great actor. (sorry, didn't mean to insult RJ)
Folks, I grew up in the 70s and 80s. See, back then, a party required: loud music, booze, drugs (mostly pot, not cocaine) and easy women. Also, the risk of getting arrested actually added to the fun. We were not rich, hell most of us were butt poor. Nobody even knew what a trust fund was back then.
Then little by little your rights were taken away. So slowly you never even noticed. Drinking was banned, smoking was banned, dancing was banned, living rough was banned. Now you make a party with no booze, no drugs, no sex, no balls... ??? WTF??
And you shitty Hipsters celebrate it like you're so fucking cutting edge!! Give me a fucking break!
Look at it this way: Imagine living in an Alabama trailer, married to a 300 pound woman and driving a third hand ford escort held together with duct-tape. If you lived like that all your life, you probably think you're fine and dandy. But if you step out of it for 5 minutes, and see how the rest of the world lives, you would see how fucked up you really were.
That's what dancing to no music in Union Square feels like. Oh, and don't mention iPods. In my day, we danced and communicated with each other. Now THAT'S a foreign concept to you hipsters.
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Well, I don't know if BushwickBK is actually a "hipster" website, but the guy who runs it is a Darwinist fuck with no conscience or human compassion. Look at this latest entry where he trashes rent control for senior citizens:
http://bushwickbk.com/archives/375
My translation: "I'm a snot-nosed transplant fuckwad in my 20s and I'm jealous that those goddamned old New Yorkers get to live in my 'up and coming' hip neighborhood for less money than I do."
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I guess Mr. Douchewick didn't have grandparents. His dad must've fucked a Chuck Taylor sneaker and poof he was born. Imagine wanting to replace a nice old lady with a skinny oily haired Wisonsinite. I love the the title of his site, "Life, in Bushwick" HAHAHAHA
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