Hipster article in Ad Buster.
 

I read that a long time ago. The former generations are always going to hate on the new ones. It's a fact of American culture.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wcOnQ-ygzE...ters%2B919.JPG

Only hipsters complain about hipsters

this reminds me of a song about how much a guy hates living in gentrified brooklyn.

That article was another waste of my time...I skimmed it.
Here's a question though; why is there so much talk about being hipster in a forum dedicated to bicycles? Are we afraid because we ride a certain type of bike that happens to be fashionable at the time of being called hipsters?

Who the **** cares.
I ride because I like it and its good for my body/soul...

this much is true, but i'm sure a good chunk of the people in this forum would qualify as hipsters.

This ad was posted a while back on one of our city's local bike forums ...

http://fastermustache.org/node/5914

... a lively discussion ensued.

In short, Adbusters is tacky and the article is dumb/myopic.

Only hipsters complain about hipsters[/QUOTE]

Truer words were never spoken..

Also, only hipsters read adbusters, the most god-awful publication ever conceived...

I was wondering when Adbuster became un-hipster.
I mean its like $9 at a newsstand and $60 for a subscription...**** that.
It seems that the article is just trying to justify itself and say that Adbuster is better than Vice...when in reality they are in the same camp.

I've actually been writing a book concerning subcultural America and tracing its cultural roots...its the anthropologist in me. That adbuster article is the least anthropological read I've ever had in my life. Closeminded and shortsighted.

i have a fixed gear bicycle :(

http://www.adbusters.org/category/cu...lackspot_shoes

Who's criticizing hipsters?

Adbusters is basically smug liberalism with a glossy cover. Nobody should ever listen to what they say.

Modern hipsters look worse to most older folks because they didn't grow up with so many cameras. Embracing vanity has a much bigger payoff these days.

The pendulum will swing. It'll get tacky to be a complete fop, but I bet aesthetics will always be more important than it was to earlier generations... until the global meltdown hits and we're all killing each other for oil, food and water.

Yeah Vice is the lowest of the low. Absolutely zero taste. Even Adbusters is better. And Adbusters is dumb.

The thing that bothered me most is that they somehow painted hipsterdom as the "end of the line". That things could not change (or devolve, as they seem to suggest) further. But that sort of assertion smacks of arrogance, to assume it's possible to make a statement that something cannot further change.

Anyhow it is a stupid article. I hate that magazine.

first sentence true, but in many ways they hit the nail on the head. even if they are just describing themselves.

They can say some correct things, but they have a tendancy to say them in a very prick way. It just invaldates the points they're making.

Rationality and understatement doesn't sell magazines.

I just think the term "hipster" is stupid.

Have to agree. The knee-jerk reaction most of the previous posts have displayed makes me think the article has struck some collective chord.

It is a dumb term to be sure. Basically another blanket term for something that most people cannot articulate.

I think the reader has to be old enough to appreciate the article.
The only people that complain about it are too young to be able to reflect upon their past as they really don't yet have a past to reflect upon.

i think they hit it on the head somewhat -- especially when alluding to the ubiquity of the culture.

I think the reason it's so reviled by the previous generation (s) is that being a hipster is actually so mainstream -- it's not a counter-culture that was eventually commercialized like it's predecessors, its a mainstream culture posing as a counter-culture that actually evolved out of consumerism in the fist place.

I always catch s*** from people when I say I hate Vice magazine -- everyone always tells me to chill out. In fact, if you really look at Vice it's a conservative-leaning piece of consumerist normalizing crap that says nothing but buy this, don't buy that.

Sorry suckas -- you been had. Not that riding fixed has anything to do with being a hipster at all -- only a hipster or an ignorant journalist would say that, actually, as they wouldn't necessarily have the historical perspective to defend it's current place among/apart from today's fashion-conscience flash-in-the-pan user.

If you're just doin' it for fun who cares though...

good thing the adbusters site has a "culture shop". I've been looking for a good place to get my culture.

hipster!