Conquer Club

What happened? I am a frequent browser of Reddit, imugr, and funnyjunk and just a year ago those websites were swarming with rage faces and rage comics. However, now they don't get much love or recognition. Furthermore, those users who still use them are criticized into an oblivion. I noticed that this deterioration began after rage faces appeared all over mainstream sites, such as Facebook and Tumblr. Does this make internet dwellers hypocritical hipsters who jump off the mainstream wagon when their niche is threatened?

Newsflash: There are no more Hipsters anymore. Macklemore becoming a hit was the final nail in the coffin. We have moved onto bigger and better things.

Untrue. In Vancouver, around Kitsilano area, they are still living and breeding. Also, I am afraid of whom might replace hipsters so for the sake of sanity lets keep them around.

DoomYoshi wrote:Newsflash: There are no more Hipsters anymore. Macklemore becoming a hit was the final nail in the coffin. We have moved onto bigger and better things.

Fool! Haven't you seen Portlandia?


BMO

Lil_SlimShady wrote:What happened? I am a frequent browser of Reddit, imugr, and funnyjunk and just a year ago those websites were swarming with rage faces and rage comics. However, now they don't get much love or recognition. Furthermore, those users who still use them are criticized into an oblivion. I noticed that this deterioration began after rage faces appeared all over mainstream sites, such as Facebook and Tumblr. Does this make internet dwellers hypocritical hipsters who jump off the mainstream wagon when their niche is threatened?

The cycle of internet fashion is a fickle beast.

Give it 5 years, I bet they'll make a comeback in one way or another.

Lil_SlimShady wrote:Untrue. In Vancouver, around Kitsilano area, they are still living and breeding. Also, I am afraid of whom might replace hipsters so for the sake of sanity lets keep them around.

They aren't hipsters anymore. Now it is mainstream.

The hipster ethos was based on main issue: fashion becomes unhip as soon as it becomes mainstream. However, now that entire concept (fashion becomes unhip as soon as it becomes mainstream, for those slow on the uptake) has become mainstream.

Ergo, Hipster = dead.

This doesn't preclude the existence of people who look, dress, act and think like hipsters. It just makes them lost souls, adrift in a world that has moved on.

DoomYoshi wrote:

Lil_SlimShady wrote:Untrue. In Vancouver, around Kitsilano area, they are still living and breeding. Also, I am afraid of whom might replace hipsters so for the sake of sanity lets keep them around.

They aren't hipsters anymore. Now it is mainstream.

The hipster ethos was based on main issue: fashion becomes unhip as soon as it becomes mainstream. However, now that entire concept (fashion becomes unhip as soon as it becomes mainstream, for those slow on the uptake) has become mainstream.

Ergo, Hipster = dead.

This doesn't preclude the existence of people who look, dress, act and think like hipsters. It just makes them lost souls, adrift in a world that has moved on.

I was going to say theres still plenty of hipsters out there. But you make a solid argument; well played good sir *tip fedora*

Haggis_McMutton wrote:

Lil_SlimShady wrote:What happened? I am a frequent browser of Reddit, imugr, and funnyjunk and just a year ago those websites were swarming with rage faces and rage comics. However, now they don't get much love or recognition. Furthermore, those users who still use them are criticized into an oblivion. I noticed that this deterioration began after rage faces appeared all over mainstream sites, such as Facebook and Tumblr. Does this make internet dwellers hypocritical hipsters who jump off the mainstream wagon when their niche is threatened?

The cycle of internet fashion is a fickle beast.

Give it 5 years, I bet they'll make a comeback in one way or another.

Like this.

Utter shite.

Bollocks.

I love how you don't consider reddit to be "mainstream". Not that I consider myself to be a 4chan-purist by any stretch of the imagination, but reddit is as hipster as the shit I took five minutes ago. Let me reference you to this well-researched chart:



also:

Well, 4 chan is in a whole another category of its own. Half the time they are re-eating their own crap. There is a sphere of their own shit circuling around that website.

And the chart is a little outdated. FJ has moved up and away from memebase a little bit. At least 9gag are still the bottom feeders.

Apparently the show "Real Hipsters of Vancouver" had record-breaking applications.

More proof that there are no more hipsters.

Definition from the Vancouver Sun:
Hipster — a loaded term often describing someone unemployed but trendy, with a penchant for terrible beer, ironic facial hair, plaid, skinny jeans and obscure cultural tastes — has multiple meanings, and hardly anyone can agree to what a hipster really is. Most importantly, no self-respecting hipster will admit to being one.

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Real+Hipsters+Vancouver+casting+reality+show/8059809/story.html#ixzz2MstskeEu

Of Course, if you are sending in an audition tape then you are by definition, not a hipster.