Black 20 did a wee thing on everybody’s visceral hatred of hipsters and everything they stand for which appears to be “not standing for a lot of things.” I gave my two cents or the 80th time which is simply, “What’s your problem?”
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this girl is beautiful
11.18.08 at 11:56 am
host bitch wasn’t hip enough to cut it.
gavin has TOO MUCH HAIR for his age! !
11.18.08 at 12:04 pm
the fuckin flappers!
hahahaha Gavin– I enjoyed your interview parts the most.
11.18.08 at 12:04 pm
Why do most of the “hipsters” talk with that strange everything-ends-in-a-question thing? Other than that I don’t see anything wrong with “hipsters”? Like, they seem harmless?
I’m old so fill me in?
11.18.08 at 12:10 pm
gawd, todd p. is a douche
11.18.08 at 12:11 pm
that ‘american nerd’ author’s mode of speech is truly angering. fucking retard.
that fucking dickweed with the brick t-shirt and the oversized glasses needs a heavy beatdown too. If that guy doesn’t think he’s the epitome of ‘hipster’ he needs to take the wang out of his mouth for about 5 seconds and go take a look in a mirror. fuck his ‘accent’ too.
11.18.08 at 1:31 pm
I am so confused. Everyone on the street she interviewed was a hipster????? No? Am i missing something…?
11.18.08 at 1:32 pm
haha, i love how gavin’s mike is clipped to his chain because he’s got nothing else on. more hardcore for next time: nipple.
didn’t we cover this already anyways? when that adbusters thing came out?
11.18.08 at 2:35 pm
Gavin did well, true to the brand.
The piece was boring, stupid, and horribly edited.
The girl should be fucked, and BN belongs back on Streetcarnage.
Thanks.
11.18.08 at 2:40 pm
this is a load of shit.
11.18.08 at 2:59 pm
Everyone conforms to something or other and it’s inevitable. No matter how many people say “hipster” pejoratively, I’m never going to mind. All it seems to mean is that I dig a certain type of music/food/beverage/clothing/location. I’ll never be offended by the word, just the intent behind the schnooks who use it insultingly.
“Jew” is even better though — I want more of it and more at a time.
11.18.08 at 3:11 pm
Has Blognigger ever given his 2 cents on this subject?
11.18.08 at 3:12 pm
fuck you Chachi you sarcastic fool – Blognigger IS a fucking hipster so don’t trust him.
I wish BN wasn’t such a goddamn great writer so i could hate him like I hate you too.
JESUS that ‘american nerd’ douche was an annoying faggot.
REAGAN SMASH
11.18.08 at 3:19 pm
That’s another thing — he’s a damn good writer but he’s regarded as a hipster anyway. Can the perspective of an outsider have validity? If so, I don’t even know if I care — it’s just a word.
My sarcasm is much more evident since I pull it off so blatantly and gayly.
11.18.08 at 3:24 pm
Hipters, make way for the Nipsters! I’m leading the charge!
11.18.08 at 3:28 pm
BN is so much better than anything else on the internets that haterz like you literally sit around and talk shit about him, like people who “hate” iPhones
11.18.08 at 3:33 pm
Todd P is a worthless smelly fag-go.
Also of note:
The MTA is expected to: completely do away with the “W” line, which runs from Queens to Manhattan, and the “Z” line, which runs through Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. Also on the chopping block: service will be cut in half on the “G” line, which runs from Queens to Brooklyn; and the “M” line, which runs through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
CHOP OFF THE FUCKING LOT OF THEM.
11.18.08 at 3:44 pm
“Has Blognigger ever given his 2 cents on this subject?”
See Link #2 (two) above.
11.18.08 at 4:08 pm
fuuuuuuuuuccckckckckckckc this subject of conversation is such a fucking waste of time. I like drinking cheap beer, growing a beard, and fucking girls i just met, call me whatever the fuck you want, while your crying about it, i’m out having the time of my life and not giving a shit about the haterz.
11.18.08 at 4:12 pm
a hipster is a pussy, literally.
flappers were pretty.
gavin was cool. the manhattan kid was cool. the “everybody breathing” guy was cool. todd p was cool.
just be a true elitist.
11.18.08 at 4:13 pm
Where I live, hipster is a word that only applies to about 200 people in the entire city. We often deny being hipsters but I think that it secretly makes us feel proud and inside we’re screaming a very loud “fuck you” to all things Ed Hardy including sequined skulls (which are especially popular in Music City).
I agree with Gavin, we’re just stylish young people. And we just happen to mix high end brands with shit from Goodwill.
11.18.08 at 4:14 pm
Thanks, I forgot. He did it like 4 days ago and it was amazing.
11.18.08 at 4:22 pm
Danielle, I thought we told you to SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Tits or get the fuck OUT.
“You” don’t do anything except jock our style and let us finish on your hooters.
11.18.08 at 4:43 pm
this video celebrates the hipster in a naval gazing self deprecating way which is very hip.
11.18.08 at 4:48 pm
Who’s the host? I’d eat her pussy.
11.18.08 at 4:59 pm
I’ll be glad if someone called me a hipster, the term is way better than being called an emo fag I’ll tell you what…
11.18.08 at 5:44 pm
Personally, I am sick of hearing about flappers. Those short haircuts and stupid dancing are destroying our culture.
11.18.08 at 5:46 pm
no way. get real.
11.18.08 at 5:56 pm
Hey gavin, I’ve got an idea for the most commented on street carnage post ever: shitty mulatto hipster president Obama declares irony dead and says that the only reason he got elected is cuz 95% of the us is secretly gay , so of course they all voted because voting is gay. Obama goes on to declare hepres oozin ho bag tracie his secretary of education since shes like so smart that she never got raped in Williamsburg.Obama also names barfin arfin the secretary of health and human services, implementing her innovative go to india / smoke/ get all emotionally fucked up diet plan to combat childhood obesity. The next day Obama gay marries cunte$$a while blognigger presides. So, watchya think?
11.18.08 at 6:11 pm
i’m an old,old,old native ny’er and i hate the word hipster. i agree with gavin it seems like it’s usually used by someone with an axe to grind.someone trying to be competitive with said hipster.
let the kids dress nice,get drunk,do drugs and fuck each other.why does the way someone else dresses affect your life so much?
(i’m more pissed at the r@pey striped shirt bro dudes roving in packs of 8 ruining my night of drinking and potentially r@ping some girl from the bar).
what i hate more than hipsters is competitive people that always have to gauge their lives against others.sorry dude,they’re probably fucking while you’re on the internet complaining about it and emotionally eating yourself into a coma.
11.18.08 at 6:28 pm
wow…there’s 6:17 of my life i’ll never get back
What’s the name of that guy’s book again? I didn’t quite catch it
p.s. That reporter should read a fucking book before opening her mouth about words/context/identifiable meanings (e.g. “Limited, Inc.” or something of the sort). I’d still fuck her
11.18.08 at 7:21 pm
Red 5 – No one told me 2 shut the fuck up. What the hell are you talking about?
11.18.08 at 7:21 pm
no one mentioned the beats?
‘angel-headed hipsters’, anyone?
i agree with gavin. terms like these are bandied about by the old and the out of it in a pejorative manner to describe levels of cool they can’t understand. artistically, i’d posit that you can trace hipsters back through the beats, flappers, modernists (joyce, eliot, picasso, et al), to the romantics (baudelaire, yeats, shelley, byron)…hell, i’d go back to shakespeare and on to some smart-ass greeks if i could remember their names…anywho, you’re getting my drift—the problem as i see it, is that outside the realm of music there seems to be precious little contribution to the arts by todays’ hipsters…i mean christ it doesn’t take much brain power to go out and get fucked up whilst wearing leggings and skinny jeans—but perhaps as an oldster, i’m missing the point
11.18.08 at 7:25 pm
p.s. nothing kills a ‘thing’ better than endless pontificating on said thing.
11.18.08 at 7:52 pm
Hipsters are people who sucked at high school the first time, so they recreate it somewhere else when they graduate. Of course they make themselves the cool kids.
11.18.08 at 7:55 pm
gavin rules.
11.18.08 at 9:03 pm
hipsters talking about hipsters. BORING.
and black 20 news. WHERE ARE ALL THE BLACK PEOPLE!?! Not one black person works for black 20 news. white girl news host is boring. Go back to flashing your boobs for beads.
11.18.08 at 9:19 pm
^ bitch, come up with your own shitty name or I WILL RAPE YOUR FACE!
11.18.08 at 9:34 pm
Here in the rust belt, most folks would look at that piece and figure that hipster is code for 100% big city homo. Even Gavin comes under scrutiny with his rough-trade, light beer sipping, French-Canadian sailor (tattoos and facial hair?) look.
11.18.08 at 9:52 pm
hi.
hipsters yes, the only reason the word exists is because sad old people are jealous of them (hint: i am actually sad and old)
and yes, the archilles heel of the hipster is that 95.687% of them dont produce any good art or music or anything. but they will market the shit out of themselves with such tenacity a lot of the world will actually think they are good at art or music. but they kind of look cool.
sorry but having cool friends doesnt make your paintings / writing / music any good / particularly memorable / i am just jealous because i dont have any cool friends and my art STILL sucks.
heres a new rule: if you’re sponsored you are a fucking faggot (not in a gay way, in a ghey way)
ie: no art launch parties with smirnoff logos or adidas tie-ins or anything. nothing cross-promotional whatsoever. punks dead now so we can do whatever we want. can do punk stuff and not even call it punk. and we all know all about marketing and branding so we dont need to see any of that shit anymore. no mtv no viacom no nothing. i dont care if it “broadens your audience”. i make the rules and thats all that matters. in my fantasyyyyyyy woorrrrrrrrlllllllldddddd
11.18.08 at 10:55 pm
also, i would sell my soul to the devil if i could get all these different embedded video players to actually fucking work
11.18.08 at 11:00 pm
I’m not cool enuff to be a hipster. I like to get too drunk and dance at shows instead of standing still with my arms crossed. also, no macbook.
11.18.08 at 11:52 pm
haha “they don’t know what they’re missing. Fuck them.”
11.19.08 at 12:39 am
No old people interviewed??
11.19.08 at 12:42 am
what do these people have against fitness?
11.19.08 at 1:10 am
I’d lob one her way
11.19.08 at 2:27 am
WHAT A FUCKING WASTE OF TIME. WAY TO BREAK IT DOWN GAV.
11.19.08 at 6:47 am
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11.19.08 at 9:02 am
I f’kn hate fuck’n hipsters okay
and this black twenty conceived video thingy- was this another inspired comedy piece of gavin’s -like seriously, if you had ultimate control on a fuc’kn project would’nt you just want to f’kn take off your f’kn shirt, too; or is he spoze to be some kinda hipster god within the pantheon of hipsters and Douche gods?!
see what i’m sayin’?
shit on hipsters gavin- shit on’em! bread n butter breadf n butter shit on’em resist much and often gavin, obey little!
11.19.08 at 9:41 am
Someone in that video has saggy nipples. For the sake of decorum, I won’t say who, but it’s definitely “someone.”
11.19.08 at 10:00 am
You can argue all day about fashion about the kids etc…
one thing that hasn’t been brought up is the dynamics of ny, in brooklyn especially. when i was growing up in a predominately irish/italian neighborhood and the russians and chinese were moving in they were met with hostility-not cuz they way they dressed, acted but cuz they were moving into “our” neighborhood.
the thing “hipsters” are doing to brooklyn is they’re moving here for low rent- which eventually will cause gentrification. working class neighborhoods such as williamsburg, bushwick, bed-stuy will all eventually have higher rent and the long-time residents will be forced to leave. “hipster” is the poster child for today’s yuppie- but with a better fashion sense.
11.19.08 at 11:35 am
the interviewer is a loser, who is several years late.
11.19.08 at 4:29 pm
just dress nice. geepers
11.19.08 at 4:34 pm
I don’t know why I visit this site, as it mostly just irritates me. The content is 2 percent funny/interesting, 98 percent dreck.
11.19.08 at 5:05 pm
hipster=neo-Mods
11.19.08 at 9:07 pm
I hate flappers too. Seriously, they were riding high through the twenties because that was a big economic “bubble” type atmosphere; suddenly you had young people who could afford to move to the city and make partying their “culture”. During the depression, they went back into the woodwork and got factory jobs or became teachers.
It isn’t so much that these people are having fun, it’s the posture that they adopt in order to have a certain kind of fun.
If you want to define hipster, I wouldn’t say it’s simply “young and fashionable”, but someone who places undue importance on being young and fashionable, to the extent that they sort of seem to lose themselves in that quest. Like that piece made clear, none of them think of themselves as hipsters, which, to me, indicates delusional thinking. They’re not like Gavin, who says they’re just like all of these other groups throughout history, and they’re very much like one another- No, to them, everybody else is phony, I’m the real deal.
11.19.08 at 9:52 pm
hipsters dont gentrify anything you silly idiots. they have no money. they dont buy lofts or warehouse apartments and renovate and sell for millions, they dont close down community intitutions and put in place boutique eateries. they have no goddam motherfucking money.
11.19.08 at 10:44 pm
Benny Whiteshirt should blow his nose.
11.19.08 at 11:16 pm
Kingpink- They have money, they just spend it all on booze, drugs, clothes and exorbitant rent. The vast majority of them come from upper-middle, to upper class backgrounds, in my experience.
I don’t even care about “gentrification” myself ( is that where poor, shitty neighborhoods become more livable? ok.), but to say that they don’t have that effect is stupid. Where do you think all the coffee shops, restaurants and boutiques and bars came from in Williamsburg?
11.20.08 at 12:50 am
I kinda object to the word “hipster”. I also don’t like the word “sexy”. I never want to think of anyone as sexy or be called sexy. My aunt thinks Aaron Tippin is sexy.
11.20.08 at 1:03 am
i think that smarts and irony has a lot to do with this whole business too
11.20.08 at 2:11 am
i don’t understand why no one wants to admit that “hipster” actually is a subculture beyond being young and fashionable, etc. I mean COME THE FUCK ON!
11.20.08 at 2:27 am
WHY HAS NO ONE POINTED OUT THAT AMERICAN NERD GUY, BEN’S, VOICE! WHAT THAT FUCK IS UP WITH THAT SRSLY ITS FUCKED!
11.20.08 at 11:07 am
A lot of them seem to have that psuedo-gay voice. It’s like the new “smart, conscious guy” voice or something.
11.20.08 at 1:24 pm
also, gavin you look like fucking rip taylor, give it up dude.
11.20.08 at 2:20 pm
hahahah the dude with the brick shit shirt went to art school with me, he studied fashion i believe this “hipster” style he only recently picked up on before i believe he dressed like a fuckin redneck. the term hipster angers me more then the dumb fucks who embody the term…. oh yeah his names “H.J.” aka “H-Gay” aka “fag” aka “Harold James Koon or Coon” wait that last one is his real name
11.20.08 at 5:39 pm
Why is Leo Fitzpatrick pissing on ray bans and kids from the LES?
11.21.08 at 9:16 am
hahaha fucking amazing!
11.21.08 at 1:50 pm
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11.21.08 at 7:00 pm
ur all fucking hipsters…so shut the fuck up
11.21.08 at 7:42 pm
Coool hi-lights
12.05.08 at 8:56 am
I really wish that the video would have outlined a Final Solution.
12.15.08 at 4:11 pm
omg, did he just say that flappers were the hipsters of 1940? what a moron.
02.02.09 at 9:49 am
RE: HOST Just had a conversation about which hole I’d put it in first with my boss. We both agreed ass then mouth.
08.20.09 at 6:47 pm