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There is a space which exists between altbro and altbag. Your altbro tendencies are prevalent, but you begin to implement the mature personal branding tools of an altbag.
You have ditched your altbro cap.
You have grown out your altbag nappy beard.
You only wear the Am Appy shirts that represent ‘a new era’ in ur life, as opposed 2 ur neon past.
You finally turned 20, and can drink a premium beer. (The death of SPARKS means a 20% decline in altbro.)
You started 2 give yourself ‘do-it-urself’ haircuts instead of going to Supercuts.
Your zany glasses are somewhere between altbro empty framed glasses and altbag certified child predator glasses.
You are comfortable being a lone soul at a meaningful concert. You have no desire to be photographed with your arm around a group of bros.
2k9 is the beginning of the end of the altbro. It’s not just because ‘a trend is dying’–it also has to do with ‘growing up’ and wanting to take ur existence/personal brand to a whole new level.
Miss u altbros.
Do u think altbros are ending because they found out about HIPSTER RUNOFF and ‘don’t want 2 be like every other altbro’? Hope my traffic doesn’t suffer in 2k9, yall!
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ALt Bag 4tw.
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kinda worried about the future, y’all….miss u altbros </3
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ALT Abe Lincoln??
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Will someone explain what the difference between a “altbro” and a “atlbag” is. I can’t seem to figure this out.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
@Dmagoku, It doesn’t really matter… they are pretty similar but altbags tend to be older. It has more to do with your ability to type cast someone in under 10 seconds.
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sometimes u make me wanna cry crls, your so enlightened.
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This bro is still pre-transition stage because he’s wearing a ghey weird satin all over print zip up and he went to da club with a band-aid on his forehead. Bro probably got no tugs that nite :(
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crls my 20th b-day was last friday
s0 excited for 2k9
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alt=embracing self awareness while maintaining a sincere sense of ones creativity, and meaning? finding yourself to grow from immaturity and impressionability?
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band aid on forehead? douchebag.
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Fact: Dude had to get stitches on his forhead after being hit with a bat (or something) by a crazy chinese lady in her fifty’s who lived nextdoor to an afterparty the week before this shot was taken. so get the fuck over yourself and get out and have som fun instead of sitting on the computer hating like its 2006.
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SMACK!
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i never see any altbros here yo never
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Hey Spence, it wasn’t a Chinese lady after all, but a indian one, and he was hit by a meat..tenderizer?
Either way Carles is a bit off on this one, as this guy doesn’t even begin to take himself seriously, and loves to be photographed with his bros (grinning like a fool).
But to be fair, he is getting older.
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I just laugh at the fact that you guys are trying to say this guy isnt a douche because he was hit in the head by an old lady? Dude grow a pair and lay the smack down.. of course if you could do that you would proabbly get a gal the old fashioned way and not by trying to make her laugh at your tarded gear. Hopefully at the next after party he gets smacked down by a 6 year old!
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//////////Reply by Jada Masa
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Dear J, u r missing the contxt, he was a victim of blind indian violence. See, he was walking down some lvls in an apartment block “mindinghisownbusiness”. Then a door opened, crazy pissed off woman jumps out with blunt weapon wacking him in the forehead (and then in his backhead as he somewhat bewildered continues his descent).
It (c/sh)ould have happened to you.
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//////////Reply by Jada Masa
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
furthermore he decided to NOT press charges as he found that they were under a lot of stress, sick kidz etc.
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//////////Reply by JLehr
//////////Posted December 22nd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
@Jada Masa,
Wow so he’s like Jesus but more concerned with materialism and apperances. Aka “being hip” My bad… did he give them fish and bread as he bled in their doorstep not pressing charges?
Pretty much.
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save the music yall.
http://www.hipsterwave.com
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nappy? blipster?
wtf, i know being a hipster is about exclusivity, but exclusivity shouldn’t be based on race. can you lose the racially charged adjectives?
catering exclusively to white/anglocentric ideals in your cultural commentary is boring and fucking lame. your shrewd and insightful analysis cloaked under kutesy hyper-hype language is ingenious and is so hysterical all the time, thank you for that consistent awesomeness i really love what you do, just wanted to say what you h8 on or <3 shouldn’t be based on race. or maybe you could even blog about why the default hipster is assumed to be white and a black hipster is made into ‘blipster’.
plz?
sorrrrry.
<3 what u do
h8 racially charged terms
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