Did yall know that the new iPod shuffle ‘talks 2 u.’
This is a funnie video that ‘makes fun of altbros who listen to indie & alternative music’ on iPod shuffles.
I think that this video is ‘funnie’ because I ‘get’ all of the ‘jokes’ that they make about how zany our modern world is. It seems like they really have a finger on the pulse of technology, youtube humor, musical tastemakers, the musical meme economy, and Apple product humor. This bro is the embodiment of a post-altbro, who graduated from college and was fortunate enough to get a ‘decent job in the city.’ His life is kinda meaningful, but he is still searching for ’something’ [via consumer choices].
I kinda wish people would stop making ‘jokes’ about P4k rankings. If u really ‘understand’ the the world, u would realize that pitchfork rankings are actually really important in sculpting our alternative world.
Just need more web media that ‘makes fun of hipsters.’ More whimsical commentary on modern culture and related topics. Might design a graphic or bingo board or some other meme.
Miss u Hipster Olympics era. need 2 coin a new term for a ‘generation who uses the internet and likes to express themselves.’
How about ‘Generation T’ for when today’s Tweens grow up?
need help.
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ugh kill me now. ipod shuffles are so fucking useless.
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i forsee many tight jean-clad altbros to be upset, but in a meta-ironic way.
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in my opinion, i thought the sonic youth quip was pretty good
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h8 it
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted March 29th, 2009 at 10:21 am
@Sly, entry level
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Bros need to stop h8ing on P4k. It is the air that I breath. If I didn’t have P4k, I may have never been bro’d to AnCo, the second and third coming of Jesus. I just want 2 dance.
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//////////Reply by SV
//////////Posted March 26th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
@Johnson, COmment for FGGTS by FGGTS about a video 4 FGGTS by FGGTS
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//////////Reply by SV2
//////////Posted March 27th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
@SV, agreed! grumble grumble hear here!
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted March 29th, 2009 at 10:29 am
@Johnson, I think it’s good to follow it (which I don’t) but I’m really sick of listening to something and trying to decide if it’s good… if it’s something I “should” be listening to. Really what your doing is trying to figure out how people will perceive you if you “enjoy” it. That’s bullshit. Do you let the TV tell you what to buy? We’ve just replaced on popularity contest with another. In the grand scheme of the music industry pitchfork is NOTHING…. nor is indie music. Where are all these hipsters anyway? I don’t know anyone whos going to judge you by the t-shirt you wear or the music you listen to…. unless you own a coldplay CD.
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‘like when you dropped out of hampshire’
priceless and true
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that was ‘retarded’.
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aww someone sounds hurt that other people make HROs.
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//////////Reply by dax jax
//////////Posted March 26th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
@jean, That’s what I was thinking too.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted March 29th, 2009 at 10:31 am
@jean, Is it ironic that the only people who make this stuff are in fact hipsters?
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why ‘hipsters’ in these videos always look like ‘mainstream bros’.
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//////////Reply by pen1sbro
//////////Posted March 27th, 2009 at 10:43 am
@Charles van der Anco, that’s because all altbros are fucking mainstream as hell. there is nothing unique about being an alt, y0!
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted March 29th, 2009 at 10:46 am
@pen1sbro, Recognize that phycologicaly you have to be grounded in a certain belief system to stay sane. It’s OK to only listen to indie and wear AA. To deny this is to reject existence and your own humanity. We are human and driven by emotion as much as some of us would like to cast it off. There is no alternative because you can justify ANYTHING as being authentic or not given enough soul searching. The fact that we have the ability to find absurdity in everything including ourselves is proof of this. The essence of alt is to reject any and all denial. We make ourselves miserable for being hypocritical and knowing it but this is still better than deceiving yourself into thinking that you are not.
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the punchline at the end is really what brings it together for me.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted March 26th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
@grant golland, yeah, fer real
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//////////Reply by Gurkman
//////////Posted March 27th, 2009 at 12:06 am
@grant golland, via not having a cool dad.
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are you a wigger
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//////////Reply by White Blipster
//////////Posted March 26th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
@zachary german, Yes
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i lold
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fucking ghey
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all I listen to is the jobros and the cheetah girls, and my iPod loves me.
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<3 gizmodo
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sucked.
1. not alt
2. the ‘fake ipod/apple product ad’ meme has been way over done in every way possible
3. sonic youth is good/not impressive to girls
4. pitchfork ratings are accurate
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//////////Posted March 26th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
@genesis, idk, i am impressed by sonic youth.
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//////////Reply by SV2
//////////Posted March 27th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
@girls, hi girls, wanna come over to my house and listen to daydream nation and perhaps lick eachothers privates?
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//////////Reply by corydan
//////////Posted March 27th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
@SV2,
can i watch plz i got an internship at burning angels
//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted March 29th, 2009 at 10:48 am
@genesis, you ought to be banished to a life of top 40 for such words.
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Shuffles suck, and why would you want one talking to you.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted March 29th, 2009 at 10:49 am
@May, Because people who buy ifruit are lonely?
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if u relate 2 this video in any way u where never interesting + u proabley will bcum or r “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” bcuz ur a spineless nitwit. CIAO BELLA!!!
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted March 29th, 2009 at 10:53 am
@до свидания, accept that some cliches are true but you may comfort yourself in knowing that everyone is unique in some way although fundamentally that might not be.
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i find anything that makes fun of hipsters amusing. even if its done poorly.
i laughed.
shuffles are fucking stupid.
however, ill defend sonic youth til i die, and i am a girl.
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sooo chicago
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‘Hipsterr’ has become the catch-all term for people displaying an alt tendency that maltstreams/inautheti-broz/people who blame irony for everything want to ‘hate on’ in a comment/meme/’played out’ format.
I wonder what ’shitty mainstream music’ this actually listens to.
Hampshire joke was hillarious
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted March 29th, 2009 at 10:57 am
@SV, People loath hipsters because they subconsciously loath their “fitter happier” existence. The irony stems from that fact that we envy their ignorance. It’s no wonder that few people are truly happy.
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Hipster=Anyone cooler than me
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carles what music do you listen to. you obviously love grizzly bear bc you hardly ever talk shit about them and i have never seen a sonic youth blerg
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Tee Hee that was real funny vid.
Momentarily slowed my increasing attraction toward the idea of converting from mnstrmer to an altgal. Thanks, um i guess, uh um
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted March 29th, 2009 at 10:59 am
@tee, it’s only worth it for the music…. unfortunately that’s only the beginning.
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Anyway is conversion ever possible, really and not just theoretically, its like, how to develop new taste overnight its so uncertain and all that I listen to Fall Out Boys but i dont think i like animal collective too complex
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted March 29th, 2009 at 11:07 am
@tee, Not EVERY alt likes animal collective. And Pitchfork has given high ratings to some real stinkers. I’m sorry but trail of dead’s Source Tags and codes is no 10; not even close…. I’m not sure it’s even a 5. Radiohead is great BUT there are albums that match their best. Does that make Radiohead overrated or other albums underrated?
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#1 tell me why ipod shuffles suck? seems really impossible for them to be teh suk.
#2 this BS was NOT funny, at all
#3 are there funny youtube vids of actual hipsters making fun of “regular people” who have “good music” on their ipod.
#4 anco, radiohead, and sonic youth, i would say, are generally decent bands. this crap would have been funny had they not chosen your typical mainstream alt music.
#5 see #2
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//////////Reply by pen1sbro
//////////Posted March 27th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
@boards, you must be one of the people that the “offensive” content of this video was intended for!
you are not your palestinian scarf or your skinny jeans. you’re not your shitty pair of ironic nikes. pop that bill back into place, stylebiter. you’re not a unique snowflake; you look just like the rest of the altbags/bros/fags
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//////////Reply by boards
//////////Posted March 27th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
@pen1sbro, Actually I don’t think I am since I don’t own an ipod, nor do I own any Anco, Radiohead or Sonic Youth records. I don’t own a palestinian scarf, and I proudly own non-ironic nikes; also I don’t bend bills. I do have skinny jeans though!
I don’t find the video offensive. It’s simply NOT funny.
This vid would have been funny had the talking ipod name dropped legitimately crappy alt-bands.
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LOLZ… Best post EVER…can’t stop LOLing…
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MY GIRLFRIEND HATES SONIC YOUTH THE ONLY REASON I LISTEN TO THEM IS A REBELLION AGAINST HER. DOES THIS MAKE ME A SEXIST?
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Ugh… so bland -like ‘Carles v0.5′
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obviously not a hipster cause he lives somewhere in some park slope brownstone
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that shuffle prolly worked at stylus b4 it closed down [via lame articles] so bitter against the p4k
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every web media that would make fun of hipsters would totally look like a HRO ripoff. this stuff just can’t be brought to a harder better faster stronger level.
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Did you just indirectly quote Kanye? Caught that one.
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carles get a clue, god
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ps pitchfork is cool again fatass
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted March 29th, 2009 at 11:13 am
@pizzabitch, I wanted to read a pitchfork review I’d read the back of a wine bottle instead; neither of which are very descriptive. The upside is that the wine will get me drunk but probably not enough to read a pitchfork review.
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Well based on these comments I think we can safely discard the “self aware” cliche once and for all.
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What’s ‘up’ with all the ‘really kewl quotes’ yall?
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