isn't it passe to make fun of hipsters?

It's true though. Hipsters really haven't thought up anything new. Maybe they should switch to Oly...err...uh...please hold.

I'm usually a huge fan of adbusters. I love their work, and while I'm not usually as far left as they are, I think many of their critiques and statements are well conceived and argued.

That said, when I saw this article at the grocery store, I immediately read it hoping for a nice poignant piece on the state of youth culture and protest today, and instead the article is utterly pointless, overgeneralizing, and not making any sort of statement about anything. The stupid comments made about "hipsters" trys to condemn everything and everyone, while the article seems to be written about super rich young types that adbusters would get angry at, regardless of how they dressed or what indie band they listened to.

Seriously, i was big time disappointed by that shitty article. It was as irrelevant as half of the commenters on the Portland Mercury blogtown (i'm looking at you horseshit/satirist/rest of you)

It seems that most people who makes fun of hipsters are hipsters who doesn't self-identify. Other candidates include those who think 1969 was the apex of American society, or 1973 the peak of music. Remember: all those hippies were laser-beam focused on their united 'cause', and none of them were just fashion slaves or peer-pressured dolts.

"...the article is utterly pointless, overgeneralizing, and not making any sort of statement about anything."

Musta been written by hipsters.

I think it's important to separate the fashion from the attitude.

Unless said fashion is a pooka shell necklace paired with a poopload of hair gel. Then the two go hand in hand.

LSD needs to make a comeback...

I wish I was a hipster.

Is there maybe a class I can take? Something at my local Y or rec center?

All generalisations are wrong.

Even this one.

I would call the kids in that article "shitheads" more than anything else.

uggggh. Complaining about hipsters is so 2005 and I'm not being facetious when I say that. Complaining about hipsters is as interesting as pointing out that George W. Bush is a bad president. It's been done so many times, so what's the point of doing it again? Shouldn't they be taking pictures of the inside of Walmart or something?

To quote that annoying Satoralist guy, "Next!"

Also, what a bunch of 'tards. Who the fuck do they think buys their $10 magazine?

I thought the article was excellent and poignant, but I will withhold final judgment until Jacomus weighs in.

I got to agree with ambrown and Sahar. The What part of this story got driven into the ground long ago. If someone wanted to take a serious look at the Who and the Why, that might be worth a Feature. But this piece? It's just old.

Then again, it seems to be striking a new cord with you, Matt, so what do I know.

Anyway; yes, your lifestyle is bad and you should feel bad.

Yes, thank you Sahar! Bagging on hipsters is soooo 2005. Will anyone care 20 years from now? In 2008, do we still get all worked up about Valley Girls?

At least rednecks celebrate their culture rather than put it down.

Having now RTFA, I want to add that the story's nihilistic predictions are crap. The hipsters may have backed themselves into a cultural dead end, but I saw way too many highschoolers earnestly moshing to White Fang at PDXPOP to have anything but hope for the future.

lol @ you hipsters getting all emotional right now. dry the tears from your wayfarers.

"We are the last generation, a culmination of all previous things, destroyed by the vapidity that surrounds us. The hipster represents the end of Western civilization - a culture so detached and disconnected that it has stopped giving birth to anything new."

For fucks sake. Talk about taking things waaaaay too seriously! I used to read Adbusters. But I also used to suffer from crippling depression. Stopped reading Adbusters, started taking St. Johns Wort... I'm feeling so much better now.

Yes, LSD does need to make a comeback. If only to blow the fucking cobwebs out of our collective minds and maybe help us not take things so fucking seriously.

"I'm going to get my kicks before the whole Shithouse goes up in flames." - Jim Morrison

Yeah, maybe it our culture doesn't need to be saved. But I know what will kill us all quicker than anything: It's not hipsters or republicans or terrorists... It's people without a fucking sense of humor.

By the way... hasn't Adbusters confused hipsters with straight ahead postmodernism?

"Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and Parliament cigarettes are symbols and icons of working or revolutionary classes that have been appropriated by hipsterdom and drained of meaning."

Yeah, and the new trend is buying Safeway Select Mayo and using generic asprin. You know exactly what PBR and Parlements taste like and you know they're cheap. Is adbutsters saying that no hipsters are drinking Bud and smoking Camels?

You know when your generation depends on a brand-named product for identity you're safe! Thats why I'm part of the Pepsi Generation- You know, Generation NEXT!

Adbusters: a magazine for hipsters who substitute dirty black t-shirts, dirty cargo shorts, dirty bike hats and dreadlocks for traditional hipster wear, and fixies for the 60s or 70s boat or scooter a hipster drives/rides.

Even if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice, Trustafarians.

People who wear v-necks are "suicidal"? I wish.

What is it about people doing or wearing things that are perceived as fashionable that causes such rage? You want me to commit suicide because I wear a V-neck? You want me to get hit by a car and die because I ride a bike? Jesus Christ. Think about what you are saying.

Nope, riding a bike is great. Carry on.

the article's larger point that you should not identify yourself by what you consume is a good one (that's the point of adbusters in general, isn't it?). and certainly if anyone is still drinking pbr or riding a fixie in hopes of earning respect, yeah, they need to cut that shit out.

but i kind of don't believe that the mesmerizingly beautiful man on the cover wears american apparel to be cool in the year 2008.

I thought it was a great commentary and a spot on indictment of our ephemeral Twitter-like mindlessness that has sucked the collective imagination from our souls like an eager porn ingenue on a coke bender. Go Adbusters!

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http://wehatevancouver.blogspot.com/2008/09/exhausting-adbusters-hipster-article.html

Ad busters is located in Vancouver. Here:
http://wehatevancouver.blogspot.com/2008/09/exhausting-adbusters-hipster-article.html