Hipsters Unappreciation

[purple face]

Originally Posted by Scarborough416

Originally Posted by TOUCH MONEY

Originally Posted by GREENREDGREEN

Originally Posted by soulize dp

Toronto hipsters are just as bad...the worst thing is that they think or claim that they are from NY or belong there. SMFH

Word. Q stays claiming NY.

T-DOT FTW

Q can name the latitude and longitude of any store in NYC. Dude probably even has the NY Post and the Daily News sent to his house express

 

[tha sun child]

Originally Posted by Purple Face

Originally Posted by Scarborough416

Originally Posted by TOUCH MONEY

Originally Posted by GREENREDGREEN

Originally Posted by soulize dp

Toronto hipsters are just as bad...the worst thing is that they think or claim that they are from NY or belong there. SMFH

Word. Q stays claiming NY.

T-DOT FTW

Q can name the latitude and longitude of any store in NYC. Dude probably even has the NY Post and the Daily News sent to his house express

 

[scarborough416]

Originally Posted by Tha Sun Child

Originally Posted by Purple Face

Originally Posted by Scarborough416

Originally Posted by TOUCH MONEY

Originally Posted by GREENREDGREEN

Originally Posted by soulize dp

Toronto hipsters are just as bad...the worst thing is that they think or claim that they are from NY or belong there. SMFH

Word. Q stays claiming NY.

T-DOT FTW

Q can name the latitude and longitude of any store in NYC. Dude probably even has the NY Post and the Daily News sent to his house express

 

[devanisgee]

am I a hipster?

As of late, I've been receiving that label because of interests (photography, living in the big city, skinny jeans, blogging, out of the normal clothingand hair style) I've had that predate this whole hipster movement.

 

[xdfunk]

This thread brought me outta posting retirement. Everything NYelectric is saying is absolutely true imo. Hipsters have become the worst epidemic to hit NY inmy lifetime. I thought it would die out by now, but it's just gotten worse and worse. They are driving up rent prices everywhere in brooklyn like mad. Andthey are the worst kind of snobs. I swear they all walk down the street too good to even talk to their friends they are with. Also the whole "I'mreally a trust fund baby, but i'm gonna act like i'm poor" is sad too. In regards to the Park Slope yuppies, I can at least respect them causethey work for their living.

 

[shapeshiftah]

my additions to NYelectric's list:

i wear "defend brooklyn" t-shirts, when those shirts were made at the request of hood kids in direct response to me moving into their neighborhoods,kicking them out, and raising rent prices in a 20 block radius.

i go to the rub or spank rock parties, or listen to M.I.A. or chromeo for street cred.

i wear matching basketball jerseys and nike dunks, but couldn't tell you what "NBA" stands for.

i can't stand guidos because they are, like, sooo cheesy.

i rail against the presence of the NYPD at the bedford avenue L, yet that substation was built there specifically to protect me after we moved in en masse.

i haven't traded my virginia / wisconsin / michigan / washington / oregon license plates for new york plates cause, hey, you never know when NYC will getthe best of me.

i hate park slope because of all the damn yuppies. what has the neighborhood become!

i tell my friend to take "spontaneous" myspace pics of me every two minutes.

i treat old time polish, italian, or puerto rican brooklynites in my neighborhood like old relics, with a mixture of derision, kindness, curiosity, andindifference.

i brought my midwestern accent with me, and roll my eyes at anyone who "tawks like this."

i cross the street and hope nobody harasses me when all the thug kids get out of HS 640.

i have one prominent, well done tattoo on my arm, and make sure that it gets exposure in myspace pics, or when i'm sitting at the bar at K&M.

And Sheed, I don't know much about Southpaw; certainly not enough to truly abhor it, but generally walking by it annoys me. Park Slope indie yuppies, and some hipsters is mostly what I see. But since my father owns a restaurant and a bar on 5th avenue seeing these people is nothing new, and completely unavoidable for me.
there are actually some pretty cool shows there from time to time. saw the "white rapper show" finale there,

:

(and the crowdwas mostly hip hoppers), seen ?uestlove and other hip hop artists perform there, too. i live on the border between sunset park and park
slope (18th street and 5th avenue), and the neighborhood is a mixture between puerto rican hood kids who mind their own business, yuppies from manhattan, andhipsters, and of course the old timers.

My understanding of "scene" is that it refers to kids that are into punkrock, hardcore and metalcore. That's what I think of when I hear scene. The border delineating that from the "hipsters" seemed to be blurring last time I was in Williamsburg.
interestingly, a lot of hardcore kids who got disillusioned and left the hc scene drifted into the electroclash and no wave stuff that hipstersflock to.

hipsters != hippies

not equal more like their parents were hippies...
he was using programmer notation; in other words, hipsters do not equal hippies.

Being that I live in the East Village and see hipsters all the time, my question is, how do they make money? B/c they don't have regular jobs.
parents' trust funds for the $4500 lofts.

0-15 years? Unless there's a recession I'm going to say 8-10 years tops. Between the Nets stadium and what they're doing to Coney Island, well, don't even get me started. If everything goes as planned in 8 years there will be no more Brooklyn.

i used to fear the same thing, but trust this -- as much as hipsters despite manhattan and its glitz and conformist commercialism, manhattan is their umbilicalcord. they will never feel comfortable moving as far away as bensonhurst, brownsville, or east new york.

So hipsters are stereotypically racist?
not at all, but it's mostly caucasian folk with a few token asian (mostly japanese imports), black friends here and there.

 

[nyelectric]

Just out of curiosity, how did you find this thread to resurrect it, xDFuNK.
And Shapeshiftah, I was going to talk about the Defend Brooklyn shirts, but I wrote that list in haste and left many important things out.

 

[shapeshiftah]

but I wrote that list in haste and left many important things out.
believe me, i could go on and on about hipsters. they've taken over my building (and block) over here on 18th street.

 

[bundfnd]

Tdot queen west, see these people everywhere.

on another note: I hate seeing highschool kids who think they're all scene and hipster and %%@@!#@% like that. Scene hair and their long pants and AA

 

[rawsheed]

Spank Rock

 

[reeceman10]

at the list..

 

[super hypebeast]

Hipsters are cool yall are just squares

 

[nyelectric]

i used to fear the same thing, but trust this -- as much as hipsters despite manhattan and its glitz and conformist commercialism, manhattan is their umbilical cord. they will never feel comfortable moving as far away as bensonhurst, brownsville, or east new york.
I certainly hope you're right, because I have a funny feeling that I'm going to end up in Bensonhurst. I hate my neighborhood with apassion, and can't wait to leave.

As of late, I've been receiving that label because of interests (photography, living in the big city, skinny jeans, blogging, out of the normal clothing and hair style) I've had that predate this whole hipster movement.
Get out. Get the #%!% out.

 

[xdfunk]

NYelectric: i dunno how the hell i found the thread...heh, didn't realize it was that old. and anywhere you'll be able to get to wburg or greenpointwith 1 train transfer in a reasonable amount or time is where i'm expecting they'll keep drifting out to , since the rent just keeps going up and up. i doubt bensonhurst would ever let that %!!# exist though.

 

[vibe1984]

Word to me, Last night i was in New Orleans for the Lupe concert, and afterwords questlove and M.I.A had a show in the french market district. Now im from NYand went to the show about 5,000 hipsters were surrounding me. Everything from long stachio's ao parliment lights, to pap's blue ribbon!!!!!!Idid'nt even know pap's made it this Far!!!!anywho, the atmosphere was somewhat bizzare.

 

[haiti5]

this was my favorite thread last yr

my opinions have not changed a bit

 

[illscan]

Speaking for the "bridge & tunnel" folk (I'm from Jersey, GASP!) , I find them highly amusing. They try really, really hard to distancethemselves from their Midwestern red state roots & become cosmopolitan types. Yet end up isolating themselves even more than just being the corn fed individuals they really are (I don't care how tight your jeans are chief, you're still from Des Moines, Iowa). And they have the nerve to talk aboutpeople from Queens, Staten, Long Island & Jersey like we're the out of place ones. *In my thickest Jersey accent* "Get the Ufff outta here".
My Ex is from BK & I've overheard these dudes talking about "pioneering" neighborhoods. Which basically means "I'm the first skinnywhite dude to gentrify this neighborhood". Talk about arrogance. Like there weren't native New Yorkers living there already.

 

[greenredgreen]

**shakes fist @ hipsters"

 

[mplsdunk]

you dudes got it bad in ny.

 

[shapeshiftah]

They try really, really hard to distance themselves from their Midwestern red state roots & become cosmopolitan types. Yet end up isolating themselves even more than just being the corn fed individuals they really are (I don't care how tight your jeans are chief, you're still from Des Moines, Iowa).

one of my favorite past times on the train if i'm sitting near some of them is to ask, "so are you visiting," or "you'renot from here, are you?" sometimes i'll see them getting on the N train from canal street going into brooklyn, and i'll say to them, "umm,you know this train is going into brooklyn, right?"

they look so hurt and dejected and ask, "what makes you say that?" i always tell them that they don't look, behave, or speak like they'refrom new york and that i just want to make sure they're not lost.

 

[devanisgee]

LA has a few hipsters, namely denizens of Los Feliz/Silverlake/West LA, and increasingly Rampart/Westlake/Koreatown.

Most of them are cool people who are railing to be different, subsequently making fools out of themselves.

P.S:

Why are so many painting these people as the "problem" with this city, yet seemingly provide a free pass to all the thugs, hoodlums, and wanna-be gangstas that are the REAL problem in NYC? As of late the popular people to despise are these groups, who are NOT involved in crime, who are NOT dependent on welfare/government programs, who are NOT the ones littering, destroying property, or vandalizing, who are NOT hanging out attacking people or otherwise making communities unsafe, etc.

These people are simply bringing mainstream American values back into many communities that had NONE, providing new investments, and new attention onto these communities. They have just as much right to live in these communities as the 3 generation welfare recipients that have a stranglehold on many areas.

So I ask...who is the real problem? And why such disdain for these people...because they are different? Have different needs/desires that do not mesh with you? Because you believe they are evil and out to get you? Please help me understand the seemingly acceptable hate towards these groups.

 

[mrboss2you]

man let people do them. QUIT HATING!

 

[crank dat niketalk]

Hipsters are the biggest, most pettiest haters out there. Buncha catty, weak dudes and insecure chicks who hide behind a UFFED up haircut

 

[nycknicks105]

I hate Hipsters. Funny thing is most of the ppl i know who live in Bklyn hate them too.

 

[purple face]

Originally Posted by iLLscan

Speaking for the "bridge & tunnel" folk (I'm from Jersey, GASP!) , I find them highly amusing. They try really, really hard to distance themselves from their Midwestern red state roots & become cosmopolitan types. Yet end up isolating themselves even more than just being the corn fed individuals they really are (I don't care how tight your jeans are chief, you're still from Des Moines, Iowa). And they have the nerve to talk about people from Queens, Staten, Long Island & Jersey like we're the out of place ones. *In my thickest Jersey accent* "Get the Ufff outta here".
My Ex is from BK & I've overheard these dudes talking about "pioneering" neighborhoods. Which basically means "I'm the first skinny white dude to gentrify this neighborhood". Talk about arrogance. Like there weren't native New Yorkers living there already.

Christopher Columbus mentality