4 Hipsters 1 Cup

Grobian

Pictured above are the winners of this years Hipster Cup. 12 teams from all over the world (well, mostly Berlin) competed in disciplines like Skinny-Jeans-Tug-o-War, Gym Bag Confetti Hurdles etc.


The olympic spirit was held up by way to few spectators, because it was a super hot day and Berlin as a whole spent the day at or in all available bodies of water.

Here is a video from a public TV-station. it is in German, but at least it's moving pictures.

They also had special events like a mini Science Slam talking about how the pancreas is the Hipster of the body, a face painting team glittering people up, a wall with "What Berliner's don't say"-stickers and so on.

This one says "When will David Guetta finally play at Berghain?"

There was also live music like this guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rj86RUK88g

And actual good music like these guys (playing in front of like 6 people, it was pretty sad)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiuciTHBrxo



We went far too late, missed almost everything but stayed until the after-party (really a different thing, but in the same location) kicked off and drank too much beer and danced too much.

Use this thread to talk about your post-ironic meta hate for Hipsters or just about going clubbing, I dunno.

Junpei

Sounds pretty mainstream if you ask me.

Seriously

if they won doesn't that mean they didn't really win

Grobian

Seriously wrote: »

if they won doesn't that mean they didn't really win

They don't even look particularly hipsterish

CaptainBeyond

Grobian wrote: »

danced too much.

I cant get my head around this concept

Snork

i am officially over capacity with the whole 'lol hipsters' thing

tynic

Thought this was going to be a coffee thread.

Snork

since when are gym bags a hipster status symbol? are people just making up stereotypes now

Grobian

CaptainBeyond wrote: »

Grobian wrote: »

danced too much.

I cant get my head around this concept

I was wearing flip-flops and now I have sore calves.

POKÉMON MASTER WT SHERMAN

Snork wrote: »

since when are gym bags a hipster status symbol? are people just making up stereotypes now

the word "hipster" has been completely stripped of meaning--which, honestly, was true like four years ago--and usually is deployed as a catch-all intended to describe a thing one doesn't understand the appeal of, by people who usually have never seen a traditional hipster in their lives

"hipster" lies next to "emo" in the graveyard of subculture vocabulary

Grobian

Obligatory

Walt

Hipster - n. - a bohemian who tries too hard

see also: scene kid, emo, hippie, yuppie...

Grey Ghost

I've been guilty of overusing the word in the past

But now what constitutes hipster for me is not how weird your interests are but whether they're things you legit enjoy or things you pretend to enjoy for irony or to get some kind of imaginary street cred

Snork

Grey Ghost wrote: »

or things you pretend to enjoy for irony or to get some kind of imaginary street cred

not entirely convinced persons such as this exist, at least beyond the extent that we all do this a little
i live right in the middle of one of the hipsteriest neighborhoods around and i have seen plenty of moustaches and expensive hats and cutoffs but generally when someone is invested in a subculture it is in earnest

Donovan Puppyfucker

Snork wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

or things you pretend to enjoy for irony or to get some kind of imaginary street cred

not entirely convinced persons such as this exist, at least beyond the extent that we all do this a little
i live right in the middle of one of the hipsteriest neighborhoods around and i have seen plenty of moustaches and expensive hats and cutoffs but generally when someone is invested in a subculture it is in earnest

Nope. Speak for yourself, sure.

But why in the hell would I pretend to like something if I don't? What a colossal waste of time.

Straightzi

Ways to define hipster that mostly work:

A hipster is a member of a counter-culture that is not actively rebelling against anything.

A hipster is a fashion sense made into a subculture, rather than a subculture with a fashion sense.

The aforementioned pejorative quality- a hipster is someone who is doing something you don't like or understand.

I live in what is allegedly one of the hippest parts of Chicago, and am surrounded by "hipsters" on a regular basis. I'd still call them hipsters, but they're definitely different from what people may have called hipsters five or six years ago. The fashion has changed, but mostly organically, so it's not really a different group of people, even though they aren't really the same, in the end. You can take this two ways- either the term means nothing anymore because we're not applying it to original flavor hipsters, or that hipster, being such an ill-defined concept in the first place, has just transformed into another ill-defined concept. I choose to go with the latter, myself, because there is definitely a prevailing movement/ethos/whatever, a way to describe these people (and myself, who am I fucking kidding), but I don't have another word that seems to work quite as well or have the same cultural understanding.

Tef

For me, being a hipster is intrinsically linked to pretentiousness and that's really the big part. To be fair, it's not a term that I really use that much?

Snork

Straightzi wrote: »

Ways to define hipster that mostly work:

A hipster is a member of a counter-culture that is not actively rebelling against anything.

A hipster is a fashion sense made into a subculture, rather than a subculture with a fashion sense.

The aforementioned pejorative quality- a hipster is someone who is doing something you don't like or understand.

I live in what is allegedly one of the hippest parts of Chicago, and am surrounded by "hipsters" on a regular basis. I'd still call them hipsters, but they're definitely different from what people may have called hipsters five or six years ago. The fashion has changed, but mostly organically, so it's not really a different group of people, even though they aren't really the same, in the end. You can take this two ways- either the term means nothing anymore because we're not applying it to original flavor hipsters, or that hipster, being such an ill-defined concept in the first place, has just transformed into another ill-defined concept. I choose to go with the latter, myself, because there is definitely a prevailing movement/ethos/whatever, a way to describe these people (and myself, who am I fucking kidding), but I don't have another word that seems to work quite as well or have the same cultural understanding.

if the concepts are so ill-defined and can only trace their lineage back to other ill-defined stereotypes, then what real cultural understanding is there though?
if someone can use the same word to describe both someone with a moustache and an EBT card who reads pitchfork every day and someone who only listens to mumford and sons and got their goodwill-looking clothes at a premium from Anthropologie then what is the point in having the word

EDIT: and although i don't think you put forward that first definition seriously, it's still a total cop-out. being a part of a counter-culture at all is kind of already rebelling against something, and while i'm sure some people do it for more narcissistic reasons than others, branding and judging someone based on perceived motivations from how they look is lame and facile no matter whom you apply it to.