miss the days that felt like this. felt special and authentic. feel like everything is so snarky these days. no1 is allowed 2 mean n e thing. no1 is allowed 2 ‘just live.’
All we evr fucking do is make fun of eachother/ourselves. Yall…we can’t do this forever. We can’t just make snark meme blogs bashing people for the rest of our lives’. There comes a time 2 ‘grow the fuck up’ and start trying 2 make the world better.
Just read this comment and made me feel all sad about what I am doing. Might need 2 change my tone.
Author : Orion
Comment:
Dear CarlesFuck you.
I don’t know if you think that your blog is funny, relevant, ironic, post-modern, or any other asinine “hipster” buzzword, your blog boils down to the same old racist, misogynistic, hate spewing bullshit that has plagued America since its inception.
i mean, what the fuck, blipsters? yellow fever? this entire post?!?! we’re all different, we know. you dont have to sort us into whites and not whites, “bros” and not “bros”, heteronormatives and “gheis” or whatever the fuck you say.
our generation has been called the least motivated, and most privileged ever to have existed. We are living in an age where we are connected to each other like no other generation of humanity has been. you can interact with people across the planet NEARLY INSTANTANEOUSLY VIA SATELLITES THAT ORBIT THE FUCKING PLANET, AND ALL YOU HAVE TO CONTRIBUTE IS THE MOST VULGAR, DIVISIVE, AND (MOST DAMNINGLY) POINTLESS DRIBBLE THAT LEAKS OUT OF YOUR ID DOMINATED BRAIN.
you are an embarrassment to our generation, and if history remembers you (which I sure as fuck hope it doesn’t) it will be as the death knell of white heterosexual male hegemony.
and I don’t give a shit if you think this is Art. If this is the best art you can produce you might want to consider a different career, perhaps in the KKK.
you are only culturally relevant in the sense that you represent the puerile, emotionally stunted, intellectually repressed, and self absorbed America that cares more about listening to hip music and wearing cool clothes that what is happening in the world.
there is nothing wrong with hipsters being fashionable, having educations, or being artistic, as long as they are contributing something useful to our society.
but you carles are slime. you make nothing new, you just recycle old hatred, and draw lines of class and race and sexuality. you are what is wrong with hipsters. and you should be ashamed.
and fuck all of you commenters who encourage this bullshit. YOU SHOULD BE OUTRAGED. I will never buy anything from anyone who pays you to advertise.
whoa. who am I + what do I believe in + what have I become.
‘wtf.’ fuck. Should showcase more COMMENTS WORTH BLOGGING ABOUT?
miss when electro was brand new. Miss when I used 2 have authentic fun.
miss u
feeling sad this weekend. might stay in. might change my blog layout.
bye
PS: what should I do?
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//////////Reply by Switters
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
@Switters, PS furst
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//////////Reply by Y Tu Quien Eres
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
@Switters, Carlos, si eres tu?
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//////////Reply by Kyle Ford
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
@Switters, Lol was that Daniel Hilton at the start of the video?
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//////////Reply by legz xi
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 12:14 am
somebody’s a black gay
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either i or the commentator is totally off base. i always assumed hro was 90% satire and the best part was that you didn’t know which was the remaining 10%. or maybe the best part was feeling superior because you knew it was 9/1 and not 1/9….. that said, anytime anyone is throwin around the “r” word it’s probably a good time to reconsider how you allow yourself to be percieved. people are sensitive about that shit.
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 1:12 am
@steph golightly, 1st .5 of post = 10.0 [via p4k]; 2nd .5 = 6.2. 1st .5 contradicts 2nd .5.
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
@brobro, BROBRO you can outwit out last them all!
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:18 am
@steph golightly, 9/11, that’s all i see in yur comment, not cool broh
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tug it 2 pics of alice glass n mix some vodka w/ energy drinx (ghetto sparks carles)
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 7:41 am
@corydan, Actually I think you have it the other way around. Maybe I’m just a hardcore alcoholic but I can’t even cop a mild buzz off one can of sparks….and it’s just bad. Since they took the caffeine out whats the point?
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;_; yall
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yow
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think sometimes when you carry on a brand of satire for so long it becomes almost sincere in itself. Kind of like the two dudes in Cat’s Cradle who start off posing as the “rebel” and the “dictator” and then actually become those roles. think that’s why some posts are a little uncomfortable. although perhaps that’s what you wanted.
anyways HRO is depressing lately. want more facetiousness.
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//////////Reply by steph golightly
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
@lauren, righteous reference
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h8 Orion, but laffo at “id dominated”. Conflicting.
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@Orionbro, u r 2 beeyootiful 4 this world. rage vs the ??? 4eva.
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I think that comment was spot on. It isn’t really your fault though. I mean this has been a long time in the coming. What are you trying to achieve? Where is the drive? Ambition? Progress? You have a voice. And with a voice comes responsibility. Be wise. Be inquisitive. Be new. Don’t become wrapped up in the bubble you made for yourself. We are all the same at the core. We all want the same things. Happiness. Heaven on earth.
Change.
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//////////Reply by kd
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
@Will,
Yes!
i wish i was better with words, but you said what i was thinking.
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 1:09 am
@kd, You were thinking ‘a long time in the coming’? Lol.
@Will, You are absolutely, completely missing the point. Also lol.
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
@brobro, ALRIGHT BROBRO! You Fucking Rock at Commenting! YOU’RE THE SICKEST.. BRO!
//////////Reply by D
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 11:07 am
@kd, Oh my god, you guys — I have, like, the WORST diarrhea right now, what the hell!
I don’t even know what I ate, but it’s like, really dark, and it smells so bad. It’s like, oh my god, right?
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//////////Reply by ho
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
@Will, gay
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//////////Reply by melle mel
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
@ho, THAT”S FUNNY!!!
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
@ho, feeling good about ourselves are we
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:45 am
@Will, you dnt get it
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Wouldn’t put it past Carles to have written that “orion” cmmt himself.
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:46 am
@dax jax, i hope he did
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half the stuff i read from you carles i take as sarcasm, is that bad?
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//////////Reply by sammy
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:36 am
@Faisal, yeah me too, that’s why i enjoy it but i feel ‘all confused and fucked now’.
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h8 different/opposing perceptions! RLTVSM fukt uP!Opinions suuxx! Feelings r ghey!!
P0ST MOWR PEEN
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//////////Reply by vivi
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
carles, the masses demand MOWR PEEN
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:47 am
@whatevs, more tao lin
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//////////Reply by DrGonzoAlt
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
@POYS, tao lin peen.
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I also take everything you say as satire carles. You’re like Colbert (cole-bare), not Colbert (cole-bert). However, you do a lot of harm because you make certain elitists to feel more elite than other elitists. You are tremendously funny, but I wonder if you are achieving your goal. We can’t escape creating meaning, you know. It only makes us hurt inside trying not to. But don’t change, because you are still needed. Be happy. He’s wrong about many things including that you don’t create anything new. This blog is a work of genius. I don’t think you will achieve what you wish. But you shouldn’t stop a masterpiece before it’s finished in just the way you like.
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 1:15 am
@bubs, Exackly, y’all. Lissen 2 this muhfuh.
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
@brobro, FUCK YEAH BROBRO, ROCK THAT SHIT!… SEE YOU AT COACHELLA!
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of course he’s right. you are into separating a subculture along lines defined and perpetuated by a white, hegemonic system. blipsters, azns and all of that shit is really offensive and rude and so ‘othering’ to a subculture of people who are incredibly similar. This blog could be funny without your insights into race. so maybe it is time for a change of tone/for you to grow up and realize your blog is popular enough that what you say does have an effect on the way people think and therefore you need to be more responsible.
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:50 am
@miso soup, anyone (readers) who takes numbers in the place of wrds seriously will never have the power to influence another human, so no worries, broh
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//////////Reply by DrGonzoAlt
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
@miso soup, reading 2oo much Chomskybro
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just sounds like some blackie got raged.
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//////////Reply by antandbee
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
srsly depressing what shitprawns tread the comment boards at HRO
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//////////Reply by apple!
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
@antandbee, ohsrry mr. e-nets authority.
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//////////Reply by andy
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 1:07 am
@apple!, no. fuck yourself.
//////////Reply by antandbee
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 6:44 am
@apple!, that’s the Web Sheriff to you.
No. Carles’ blog is not needed. It’s funny, but it’s not something we need. It’s something we want. We want the AZN jokes. We want to feel ‘Authentic’ and free, but this juicy blog doesn’t give us anything that we haven’t already thought of. Carles, you lucky Sperm.
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//////////Reply by bubs
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
@Jenny Haniver,
Maybe it’s not needed. Wanted is better. But it’s nice to have a dialectic discourse when it comes to blog culture. Carles plays his role. But “authenticity” is not the goal of this blog. It’s almost as if the writer is torn inside at his inability to escape meaning. It’s like he is keeping tabs on his own psychology as he accepts his own fate. Besides, my guess is that he is AZN himself. But that changes nothing. You are right.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
@bubs, actually carles is a mexi
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//////////Reply by bubs
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 12:01 am
@anon,
hmmm. I think “Carles” sounds close to “care less.” I wonder why his name isn’t “Carlos.”
//////////Reply by Jenny Haniver
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:53 am
@anon, I’m a mexi too. it makes sense..
sometimes i wonder if i am the only ‘real’ commenter on hro and if everyone else is carles
having an existential crisis yall
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//////////Reply by p
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
@vivi,
lul.
;_;
feel da same
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:54 am
@vivi, i’m real broh
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//////////Reply by boysmilk
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
@POYS, i’m real too
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//////////Reply by D
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 8:37 am
@POYS, boysmilk, Your comments are exactly what Carles would write if she really was composing all the comments herself. (Which she is). To throw people off the scent of her comment writing.
And further, what I am writing to you is exactly how Carles would respond to your response written above. And I should know what Carles would write, because I am Carles.
Here’s a freebie: anytime you see this name in the comments section, know that it is an alternate, articulate persona to my (i.e. Carles’) usual ‘funnie’ text-speak. Chelseabro is another of the literally hundreds of names I go by.
//////////Reply by chelseabro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
@vivi, i am carles.
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steve is so not old
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i have to agree with some of the points of that, carles is indeed clasifying people all the time using therms that are not politically correct. but, wtf? he can be egocentrist but one point i recognize in him is he talks like a person, like a normal person (well, he’s a blogstar also so he’s a little too much arrogant sometimes, which i hate) but a fact is that he is free to talk the way he wants to, as all we do and i like very much that a large audience as he has got doesn’t change that. i see no point in argue that we should-act-as-if-we-were-all-exactly-equal-even-if-obviusly-we-are-not; people is black and they are they even if you call them black, or “afroamerican”, also are gheis, women, or whatsoever.
are we the most privileged generation and the mos apathic? could be, but who are we to judge that, we act and that is all, or we don’t, cause the action, as the inmovility must be deserved.
as to the point that says “useful to society”, pfffffff
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//////////Reply by moshi moshi
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
@zexthatico, this doesn’t even make sense. sorry, but nice try?
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//////////Reply by zexthatico
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
@moshi moshi, doesn’t it? shit, i thought my english was better :P
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//////////Reply by D
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 9:00 am
@moshi moshi, Why don’t you try having a little more respect for other people’s cultures, okay?
Jesus, just because Zexthatico wasn’t PRIVILEGED enough to be born in the United States of Amerikkka, and have English as her first language, that doesn’t make her opinions any less VALID, all right? Next thing we know, you’ll be telling her to go eat some tacos, or mow a lawn or something, right? God, this kind of anonymous internet racial prejudice makes me sick. You make me sick.
I’m sorry, but this is just so typical of the arrogant, xenophobic Us vs. Them attitude of the US and the Bush administration, and really…you know what? Really, you’re a fascist. There, I said it. Moshi Moshi, you are a fascist, and I think you should be permanently barred from commenting on this or any other website or blog, to prevent the spread of your dangerous — and frankly, frightening — racialist philosophy. I am also grabbing your IP address right now, and will be contacting your internet service provider in the next few days to encourage them to withdraw the internet access they provide you, for our nation’s collective safety.
Shame on you.
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//////////Reply by DNK
//////////Posted April 21st, 2009 at 12:29 pm
@D, hahahaha u go grrl
am… am *I* carles??
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//////////Reply by Jenny Haniver
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
@vivi, there is no “I”. only “it” “that” and “those”. fuck Buddhism
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//////////Reply by unmutual
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:26 am
@Jenny Haniver, haha hell yes, form is emptiness
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
@Jenny Haniver, You are Carles, along with Steph
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//////////Reply by D
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 9:06 am
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK, despite your reptilian, underdeveloped brain, you are actually on the path of realizing the extent of Carles’ (my) writing on this website.
//////////Reply by chelseabro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
@vivi, we *ALL* are carles
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//////////Reply by DrGonzoAlt
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
@chelseabro, via Spartacus lol.
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 9:29 am
@DrGonzoAlt, we are all made of carles (via moby… h8 u)
successful troll is successful
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wow. i am a relatively new reader of this blog (5 months) and when i saw @Orion’s original post i thought it was perfect and it made me question the long-term value of persistent irreverence/irony/satire… your “hipster grifter” post was in poor taste (and not in the fun, edgy, “let’s shake this system up” kinda way)… but the truth of the matter is something akin to that feeling when you have laughed for a really long time and you are starting to come down from in; you’re trying to catch your breath and there is that lagging/unreal feeling (like your consciousness is momentarily a computer from 1994).
then again this is the postmodern reality we were given, you are just playing the system against itself… all in all, what i want to say is this:
i don’t know you. i don’t judge you. but reading your blog regularly, coupled with the reading of @Orion’s post and your above post… it made me feel genuinely hopeful and upbeat. congratulations on being a big enough person to look yourself in the eye… not just because someone called you out… but because it needs to be done periodically (just like revolution in a society). ((as a side note it makes me feel happy in the same way that Kanye West’s whole reaction to his South Park trashing))… it is good that we not shit ourselves. i agree with many on this comment board that a) you should not feel so down b) you should examine the possibilities of changing yr ‘tone’ c) the world needs savvy people with a voice to clean up the cluster fuck that is our current collective mind. thanks. i’ll be reading!
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//////////Reply by DrGonzoAlt
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:52 am
@james, think u got it right.
‘we didn’t start the fire/it was always burning since Thomas Pynchon published The Crying of Lot 49.’
-Billie Joel
h8 u banal pomo existence [via sum of all of western civilization]
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//////////Reply by D
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 9:26 am
@DrGonzoAlt, Coming to the comment boards of Hipster Runoff and complaining about the politically incorrect language is like going to an evangelist’s website and bitching about the pro-Christian bias; you should know what you’re getting when you come here.
Please do yourself and your stress levels a favor, and admit that that language, coupled with the viciously irreverent satirical attitude, are probably the two biggest reasons why we’re all here in the first place. If you don’t like it, go read another blog.
P.S. I think it’s hilariously telling that you reference Pynchon’s shortest and most widely-read book, and find it pretty delicious evidence of your middling intellectual taste. Couldn’t make it past page 50 in Gravity’s Rainbow, huh? That’s okay, we forgive you. Maybe just go back to the Vonnegut and the Palahniuk and just more of the type of stuff at your grade level, okay? I promise we won’t think less of you than we already do.
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//////////Reply by t.y?
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
@D,
bourgiest comment ever.
//////////Reply by vdieselfor20
//////////Posted July 2nd, 2009 at 4:54 am
@D, by critzicng DRGONZOalts’ douchey-intellectual comment, ur being even more douchey-intellectual – IRONY
Carles, remember
“don’t ever let anyone tell you that you don’t deserve something you want” -Heath Ledger (10 things I hate about you)
“Adversities are foundation of virtues” -a fortune cookie
“that that that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger”- Obama
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 1:22 am
@wh0rU, <3 ur quotes.
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//////////Reply by wh0rU
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 6:52 am
@brobro, “Thanx bro” -winston churchill
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‘rise above’, carles via henry rollins and the black flags.
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//////////Reply by Sherbert Hoover
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
@manbaby., via dirty projectors concept album
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
@Sherbert Hoover, via Daniel desario on freaks and geeks
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//////////Reply by boysmilk
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 11:22 am
@manbaby., henry rollins = huffpost bro
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worried, this is worse than hackbro
things are getting serious. again.
what is going to happen to hro?
i need hro crls
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//////////Reply by chelseabro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
@louis, i am worried too. things are going to change. change in ways none of us are ready for? scared.
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the thing is Carles is that your inability to be sincere, about who you actually are, completely eviscerates your rather masterful mimicry of hyper insincere hipster?Gen Y lifestyle you so dutifully deride. In other words, you kinda got your toe in water of “meaningful” “Cultural” critique but you’re kind of like a coward too, ya feel me?
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//////////Reply by vdieselfor20
//////////Posted July 2nd, 2009 at 5:00 am
@Ja3on, IM RICK JAMES BITCH
<3 chappelles show
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carles u need to just <3 the h8r’s :]
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//////////Reply by DrGonzoAlt
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
@Blipazn_Ro, via Jesus via Flashmob on the Mount
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HRO/Carles/Commenters summed up in one exquisite quote from the late DFW bro.
“And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit “I don’t really mean what I’m saying.” So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: “How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.”
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//////////Reply by kd
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
@Ja3on,
why can’t we just mean something? Really irony and this blog just end up taking meaning out of life. We’re so ironic that we don’t mean anything that we say and why can’t we just be sincere?
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//////////Reply by Ja3on
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
@kd, because true sincerity always has a tinge of vulnerability to it. No one on this blog is vulnerable, therefor the faux little diatribes that most commenters make is just a lot of unaware narcissistic bullshit no matter how “aware” or “meta aware” they claim to be.
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//////////Reply by kd
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
@Ja3on,
yeah. i feel like this the extreme case of insincerity. It’s really unhealthy to be that dishonest with yourself. After a while you don’t know what you think or who you are
//////////Reply by great snake
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
“How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.”
holy fucking hell this is like the very purest essence of Hipsterism of every age ever i am rocked and shocked
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//////////Reply by Jean B.
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
@Ja3on, the postmodern age, irony is impossible since irony plays on the frission/tension/contradiction between representation (what we say) and reality (the world). But what happens when we lose all touch with reality in our hypermediated “world” of pure simulation?
At the very most HRO is self-ironizing, because because it exists primarily at the level of representation and is not so interested in reflecting or commenting on “reality.” In this sense, Carles is quite “sincere” in most of what he says. He merely pretends to be ironic, in the way that a youngster might pretend to be grown-up and sophisticated in the presence of other adults.
HRO resonates with other readers because they, too, live mostly at the level of representation, and feel a certain nostalgia for bygone ironic days, when “meaning” was still possible.
Welcome to the desert of the hipster runoff.
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//////////Reply by Ja3on
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 6:42 am
@Jean B., Again the “hyper mediated world of pure simulation” is a matter of perspective and not a fact. Mostly there happens to be a lot of projection going on here in regard to what Carles writes, you take meaningless drivel and expound upon it adding layers of meaning that ARE NOT THERE to begin with in some sort of personal intellectual vanity to prove your the shit or something on a website that uses text speak. I am sure your professor will be mightily impressed
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 7:54 am
@Jean B., It’s quite the contrary…. most people NEVER say what they really mean. Irony can be used to reveal truths that most people dare not speak of. Most of communication is in body language anyway. It also helps us weed out people we would rather not communicate with since they don’t ‘get it’. The only problem is that it an be hard to transmit over the interwebs.
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//////////Reply by DrGonzoAlt
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
@Ja3on, DFW is dead yall. kinda wanna start reading Eggersbro but kinda think he’s too mnstrm.
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//////////Reply by 98329328
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
@Ja3on, this chain of comments made me wonder if hro is ever mentioned on a psychologists couch
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miss u!
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@ vivi ::: U R NOT ALONE. i am also not carles. BUT I FEEL YOU and your suspicions
@ CARLES: yr azn/blipster stuff makes me uncomfortable in the same way as “stuff white people like”. points out our prejudices and i think thats a good thing in most cases. be careful tho….
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//////////Reply by vivi
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
@maranda, thnx… sometimes i don’t know what 2 believe :(
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 7:57 am
@vivi, believe in both everything and nothing.
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epic meta
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:56 am
@what the, seriously, get some new fucking words. do you even know what you are saying?
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//////////Reply by ......
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 11:45 am
@POYS, haha yessss
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//////////Reply by 22222
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
@POYS, how do i postmodern
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God i hate people who get butthurt by words like “blipster” etc. They have too much time on their hands and no idea what actual racism is.
Bored spoiled brats. h8h8h8h8h8h8h8
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//////////Reply by maranda
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
@rm, sorry, i’m from oregon
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 7:59 am
@maranda, LOL. Everyone is so nice in oregon; it’s a little unnerving if your not used to it.
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//////////Reply by h8 aftern00n
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 10:31 am
@maranda, <3 oregon [via Gus Van Sant]
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//////////Reply by teh
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
@rm,
I’m going to break my normal nimwit HRO character and say that I actually agree with you. I thought racism was believing races to be inferior simply because of bigotry and their aesthetic appearance. Carles, even as a satirical character, does not believe “blipsters” or AZNs to be worthy of social inferiority; he is simply making fun of the cultural stereotypes we attach with our catch-phrases. There is a difference, in my opinion, between stereotyping and racism.
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//////////Reply by teh
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
@teh, Although I will say that they do go hand-in-hand, but racism, I believe, is the source of stereotypes far more often than stereotypes are the source of racism.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 8:13 am
@teh, We’ve probably become way too afraid of racism. I think it makes white people act even whiter around minorities. Like seriously… someone needs to put out a damn etiquette book about how were are supposed to act around minorities while still being “with it”…. either that or we’re just not allowed to. I actually skipped out on a hardcore show tonight because a rap band was playing. Now hardcore isn’t my thing as it is but some of those guys are really interesting. I just have no fuckin clue about how I’m supposed to act without feeling horribly awkward. Maybe it’s the whole scene kid attitude at these shows where you are supposed to put on your whole persona before you walk through the door.
‘I used 2 rule the world, yall’
-Carles, 2k9.4.5
Miss u hackbro.
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:57 am
@bwllmb, miss u geoff
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Carles (via Carlos Peres), I think I get you bro, I think in non-internet reality u are a normal bro not into intense clothes or behavioral memes. Think u like normal but slightly alt stuff like authentic pizza (via real mozeralla) and the simpsons and that when you first heard the ANCO song Banshee Beat u felt authentically good. Think HRO is satire. Think you’re even being satirical now, making fun of Orionbro by pretending to take his misguided earnestness at ‘face value.’ But think u wouldn’t have even posted a post if u didn’t feel like his screed had a little creedence (clearwater revives). N that sometimes ur so caught up in the irony of yr satirical persona that u start to question yr own intentions yo. Liek maybe u would be better srving the world/yrself if u were creating authentic content/memes rather than satirical memes. Like songs/short stories/improv comedy/lattes. But u should kno that ur satire/social commentary memes are unique enough that they become authentic original content. It’s like maybe Colbertbro or Stewartbro or whoever sometimes wishes they played acoustic guitar or something “real,” but they know in the end they’re doing what they were meant to. Hope u kno that 2 Carles. <3 HRO. <3 Orionbro too cuz his earnest outrage is authentic.
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//////////Reply by maranda
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
@dollhair, THX! What i wish i could have said.
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//////////Reply by bwllmb
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
@dollhair, Not sure what u mean by ’satirical’, ‘non-internet reality’, and ‘the Creedence Clearwater Revivies’. But ur wrong about Carlesbro. He is not a mainstreamer. His alternative existence is extremely meaningful. Like the band ‘The Animal Collections’ but in the form of an extremely meaningful and authentic person.
‘There’s a bad moon on the rise, yall’
-Not Carles
‘I am an authentic alt and so can you!’
-Stevalt Colbalt
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//////////Reply by Ja3on
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
@dollhair, you wouldn’t know what “authentic” actually is even if it skull fucked what little neural activity you have firing in that cavity above your yapper you call a brain to oblivion. do yourself a favor and shut up before your heart catches up with your brain
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//////////Reply by teh
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
@Ja3on,
chill, listen to some AnCo, and <3 others like a true authentic bro
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//////////Reply by Ja3on
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
@teh, fuck AnCo I listen to Lightning Bolt, I am a harsh bleeding ears bro
//////////Reply by D
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 10:25 am
@Ja3on, your pussiness almost makes me physically ill.
Me, I downloaded some footage of an insurgent ambush in Fallujah, ripped the audio of gunshots and screaming from of it with GarageBand, and then ran that through a Big Muff Pi and Boss MT-2 Metal Zone.
I bought a new iPod Touch to store the recording, and now it’s just filled with 32GB of different versions of that Iraqi symphony. I listen to it while jogging. It makes Lightning Bolt sound like Belle and Sebastian.
BTW, is your name “Jaeon?” What the fuck is with that 3? Are your parents as dumb as you are? Did your mom have a stroke at the age of 24 while she was pregnant with you?
//////////Reply by louis
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 12:47 am
@Ja3on, skull fucking is so mnstrm
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//////////Reply by DrGonzoAlt
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:57 am
@Ja3on, lol, <3 skullfucking
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 1:34 am
@dollhair, think i agree. carles (& others) can <3 things like ‘the animal collectors’ and still legitimately criticize them, y’all, via the persona of some1 who can’t do that.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 8:20 am
@dollhair, How the hell can you vegans give up cheese? I can do without everything else but I love dairy far too much. I can’t live without my reggiano.
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I love the amount of RAGE in that douchebag’s comment too. Probably has a really small penis and makes bullshit “conceptual art” to reflect his h8 for america. /crying eagle/
Not to mention how awfully written that message is. People with no sense of humor should be shot.
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//////////Reply by Innocente
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
@rm, but being shot wd make them totally happy/ecstatic save their life
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//////////Reply by teh
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
@rm,
peeps have no sense of humor [via being shot/violence in 21 century globalism]
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Carles, you just love when people fight over blog comments dont you?
On a side note I am going to see the Bloody Beetroots today but i was wondering if it was still cool. the hey days of electro have long passed and am not looking forward to “house headz” and “ravers” who will be there. is it unfair that I hate them because WE found out about the group first?
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i think orion is a ghey blipster with yellow fever.
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:58 am
@smehipstr, broh is the 11th plague
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//////////Reply by boysmilk
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 11:25 am
@smehipstr, orion is prolly pissed off keri grifter
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//////////Reply by smehipstr
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
@boysmilk, orion got touched by his mom
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it’s all good. i liked that first song w/steve aoki but then /p about 1:30 i was tired afgain
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//////////Reply by boysmilk
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 11:26 am
@Innocente, girls shave their armpits in san fran? might want to move down there. sick of getting hairs in my mouth
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IRONY IS NOT THE SAME THING AS SATIRE. hro is SATIRE with a quite transparent mask of irony that you people either don’t get because you don’t really understand how to read literature or you are in on it and are ironically pretending not to get it [via carles writing his own comments].
the racist jokes are nOT just another instance of hipster ironic detchment…they are satirical. fuck your pinions.
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//////////Reply by Ja3on
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
@your stupid, SATIRE AND IRONY ARE CLOSE COUSINS!On HRO because of Carles style they are often intertwined making that ” quite transparent mask” kind of indistinguishable, and a matter of perspective. Did you just refer to HRO as literature?
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 1:37 am
@Ja3on, Absolutely HRO is literature. I’d def say it should be in the canon, no irony NOR satire.
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//////////Reply by your stupid
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 4:05 am
@Ja3on, i totally did my book report on it last week and got a star.
also: http://hroexegesis.blogspot.com/
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//////////Reply by Ja3on
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 6:45 am
@your stupid, Wow brilliant!
//////////Reply by Ja3on
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 6:56 am
@your stupid, But there is just one thing though… it just seems to me, just a little bit, that the meaning and context you pull from Carles posts, the trite one-liners and what not, actually is just you doing a magnificent job of pure bullshitting. I could take Lil Wang lyrics and juxtapose them with heidegger and you know what it would sound hella smart just not in the least bit true.
When Carles writes something rather innocuous and you infer that it really belies something like, “systematic disenfranchisement as a lever” you’re really just being disingenuous, cut it out.
//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 10:22 am
@your stupid, hope ur shitty writing is trying 2 make a satirical point re: shitty academic writing. cuz i no ur trying 2 satyr-ize the conclusions u cum 2.
//////////Reply by your stupid
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
@brobro+jason
that isn’t my blog. i found it on the internet
//////////Reply by teh
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
@your stupid,
“pinions.” totes alt, im gonna use that from now on
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//////////Reply by elle
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
@your stupid, don’t critcize people for not knowing the difference between irony and satire when you can’t even use the right form of “you’re”. ooooooh.
<3 u crls
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//////////Reply by your stupid
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 4:07 am
@elle, your joking right? [via working on masters in english now]
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//////////Reply by willyum
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
@your stupid,
You are [via being confused about your contradiction of this contraction]
i think that it doesn’t make sense to try to edit something like this for some invisible standard; to the extent that it is satire or not satire, it is a distillation of a cultural phenomena, which won’t go away just by making the blogger stop writing. these issues of an increasingly multicultural situation shouldn’t be ignored; there are real tensions between urban areas and suburban ones, and ethnic groups, that wont go away by calling anyone racist. maybe carles is being ironic, maybe not, but either way there’s an extent to which we can understand a segment of the US culture today via his writing, and therefore it’s valuable as such, as a cultural document. I don’t feel like this project is intended to show the individual behind it except in a slight, unintentional way, and that’s not up to the reader- in reading, you accept that you don’t make the rules. While some posts are more enlightening than others, the blog’s still very readable. I find orion’s remarks to be extremely naive- he holds up some imaginary ideal situation of multiculturalism (what does it mean, precisely? is it possible to using the english language, conduct a society that’s not scarred by the historical legacy of anglosaxon male dominance? the whole american society is structured upon these economic lines, and doesnt seem to be changing in that respect, only homogenizing/integrating other ethnic groups etc into the broader anglosaxon male vision of the world, which doesnt necessarily seem like a success). basically I think orion’s remarks are halfbaked, it doesn’t seem that he knows what he is attacking- reminds me of the political discourse of kids in a small college town with little exposure to urban life. i’m not at all thereby implying that racial discrimination is reasonable, only that to be outraged by a term like ‘blipster’ is a bit much. In fact, I think that to the extent that there’s a difference between carles’ posts on asians and, say, the recent issue of the economist, it is that A, carles isn’t a hugely influential publication and B, carles is at least perhaps sarcastic. It’s unfair to attack a satirist for the fact that he is reflecting the society he operates within; in fact, this is the goal of satire, no?
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//////////Reply by teh
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
@jacob,
TL;DR
u should make an authentic song/video 2 make ur points more interesting
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
@jacob, this.
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 1:39 am
@jacob, semicolons in cmnts r 4 ;_; & ;)/;(
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
@brobro, FUCK YEAH FUCK YEAH.. IGOT YOUR BACK
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:17 am
@jacob, 2 long, didn’t read. try to make your point in less words. mmm k thanks.
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//////////Reply by boysmilk
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 11:29 am
@POYS, i miss crls
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welp – i am officially done with this blog. been hanging on for a few months, but that’s it. i’m done. thanks Carles, and good luck.
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//////////Reply by boysmilk
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 11:30 am
@anonymous, bye weirdo. miss u
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//////////Reply by D
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 10:44 am
@anonymous, Hey, seriously, thanks for letting us know before you left. I would have probably kept reading the site like normal, and then in one or two weeks been like, “man, where’s anonymous lately? I haven’t seen any of his comments on here in a while. I wonder if he’s all right…”
Instead, you saved me the worry, and I won’t have to call one of your neighbors or your parents to go check on you at your apartment. You’re so thoughtful; I’m grateful we’ve been able to be friends for so long.
I remember the first day we met. You remember that? We were at that concert. I saw you standing with your boyfriend at the bar, and I turned to Brian, who drove me there that night, and I was like, “Dude. Dude. Who is *that* over there?” And he goes, “Oh, anonymous? You’ve never met him before? He’s at shows like all the time.” And I was like, “Yeah, he does look familiar, I just don’t think I ever really noticed him. It’s like, you know when you see someone, but you don’t really look at them because you’re with other people, and there’s just no particular social impetus for interacting with them?” And Brian said, “Yeah, I know exactly what you’re talking about. That’s how it was before me and Elissa started hanging out last year. I kept seeing her at parties, and a couple times at the bar next to our place, and, you know, just like you were saying, I noticed her, but I didn’t really pay any attention to her. That’s so weird.”
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I’ll nvr leave u, CRLS.
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:38 am
@bwllmb, via icy waters via leo via titanic via 1997 via tumb thumping @ #1
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//////////Reply by boysmilk
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 11:31 am
@POYS, via acadamy award via heart will go on
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Lawlz. Who cares. Crls is funny. “I wants 2 give u a hand j with my mouf.”-gripster hifter.
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//////////Reply by idk
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
@boobs, iawtc
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a few notes
‘our generation has been called the least motivated, and most privileged ever to have existed.’
-does anyone agree with this? I certainly don’t. for starters, it takes the dominant assumption that technological improvement is necessarily ‘privilege;’ however, we aren’t sufficiently privileged to be able to live in the place our ancestors are from, not work incessantly, or eat food we grew ourselves.
as to least motivated, speak for yourself.
remarks like these make me think the writer is somehow alluding to the 1960s… what did this time period accomplish, really? it’s true that racist legislation was dismantled, but not in its entirety. I think that the election of Obama itself, in the narrowly political paradigm being referred to, eclipses that time period. Meanwhile the profusion of cultural forms that characterizes the present time seems to negate the commentor’s pessimism…
‘of course he’s right. you are into separating a subculture along lines defined and perpetuated by a white, hegemonic system. blipsters, azns and all of that shit is really offensive and rude and so ‘othering’ to a subculture of people who are incredibly similar.’
are people so incredibly similar? I don’t think so, it’s a pretty depressing vision. It seems to me that the main reason this blog/our sphere of culture fixates on the metropolis is for the frisson of encountering the other and being thus expanded- and I certainly think that cultural groups such as ‘afroamericans’ or ‘asian americans’ have distinct features that make these terms, or jargon to stand in for them, relevant and usable.
‘irony is based on an implicit “I don’t really mean what I’m saying.” So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: “How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.”
what about the collapse of meaning, or a deep ambivalence? One can’t possibly expect that the writer would have independently been able to comprehend the meaning of demographic change in the USA today- thats not his goal in any case. To me, while irony is used occasionally, the most powerful/useful work carles has done shows an ambivalence/reflectiveness deliberately translated into a low-culture dialect that is trying to simultaneously reflect his own feelings, and those of others around him- if irony reflects a clear cut negation of meaning, then it doesn’t seem like a usable term in the relatively more complex situation created by this blog. In fact, meaning has fractured into a relationship between writer, readers, the greater sphere of hipsters in NYC, and to a certain extent americans (and even other english speakers in other countries) who, instead of proclaiming already decided opinions, are trying to work through these issues- often, for example, carles uses the literary device of rhetorical questions- so i don’t think the term irony is sufficiently broad to describe the intent of carles literary style.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
@jacob, good post
i actually think carles rehtorical q’s are one of the best motifs on this blog
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hro is serious business yall
“carles in charge of our days + our nites” – popular 80’s sitcom Carles in Charge
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//////////Reply by boysmilk
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 11:58 am
@vivi, via hulu
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Does ne1 else find it a lil ‘funnie’/’strange’/’sad’/???? when ppl post comments that reveal they don’t ‘get’ HRO?? Should I feel more ‘authentic’ when this happens? Does this mean Carles ‘gets’ me and I ‘get’ Carles?
HRO is me.
I am HRO.
I am Carles [via satire/ironie/____???]
Satire: Big in 2k10????
P.S., Carles, Post more altSkankz/partie pics/Pokemones!
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//////////Reply by teh
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
@bwllmb,
h8 it when ppl don’t “get it.” feel like they don’t “get me” [via not "getting" Carles].
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 1:41 am
@bwllmb, <3 u. thought i was only 1 who ‘got’ it, nice 2 know either some1 else gets it or Carles posts in the cmnts section.
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
@brobro, FUCK YEAH BROBRO. STOMP THE COMP!
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//////////Reply by vdieselfor20
//////////Posted July 2nd, 2009 at 5:20 am
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK, been following your comments
<3 you
//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:36 am
@bwllmb, best comment.
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//////////Reply by boysmilk
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 11:34 am
@POYS, should have been first
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What is the problem with noting our differences? Is it bad to realize that we are all our own person? I am black. I am white. I am Asian. I am ME. And there should be no hard feelings about a blogger realizing this.
If people cannot understand how we are alike by being different, they may as well retract into their grey lives. Is there is real problem with distinguishing peoples characteristics?
If people can’t even talk about things like this, how can they even live with them?
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//////////Reply by ERC
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
@pajamarama, <3456
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//////////Reply by teh
//////////Posted April 17th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
@pajamarama,
In today’s culture, I feel like we have become, in some ways, overly sensitive to racism; that is, we try to pretend like there is no difference or heritage in anyone for the sake of not offending anyone. Through our pretending, we start to pretend like we are all the same clone of an African biped monkey. Which we would be if DNA didn’t mutate occasionally.
It is a over-twisted humanist perspective, and it causes others to uncoil with ironic hatred whenever any cultural distinction is noted, or satirized.
Though, I don’t really believe this is society’s fault; language itself creates words that are “loaded” with pre-defined meaning. This is why political correctness exists; we often feel the need to refresh words with a clean slate of meaning. Others, having loaded pre-defined meaning into words, often make assumptions about an author’s intent when using certain words.
Emotion drives actions above rationality, and as a result, we often assume anyone noting someone as Asian is making stereotypical assumptions about them. Which they may be. But many times, they aren’t.
Okay, I’m getting off my soapbox now. I realize I just keep talking and I’m not really making a point.
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Carles you should put everything that is ‘ironic/satire’ in a different font (perhaps ‘Jokerman’) and everything that is ‘tru answers of the universe/from ur <3′ in bold capitals.
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not a bad idea actually, more toys for our boy to play with
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LEAVE CRLS ALONE
- chris chrocker (fggt meme circa 2k7.4)
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i guess ill add to this wall of love. when i first started reading your blog i was kind of horrified at all the bitchy comments people made about your blog/about each other. kind of reminded me of those old forum days. i think that while it’s only insults over the internet, it’s still very hurtful to be on the recieving end. you are only trying to put yourself out there, and people like that dude are kinda jealous of your (fame?) or are just angry at the world. it’s really low to put down someone over the internet. it’s probably the most cowardly way you could confront someone.
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Wow people take carles seriously?
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:22 am
@ERC, love you.
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wow orionbro really doesn’t ‘get it’ does he.
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tl:dr
Orion is a little whiny bitch
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For the ‘germ’ who wrote the hateful comment to our belov’d <3CRLS.
Grow up, you are obviously ignorant to the fact that ‘this’, like mentioned above, is completely (~90%) satirical. Satire is what has led to some of the finest works of literature to be produced, and fashioned around. Therefore, not only are you criticizing <3CRLS, you are unintelligibly insulting centuries of social commentary and social normality. YOU TWAT.
Of course we are all different, THAT’S WHY <3CRLS segregates us into sub-categories. It is meant to be ‘grossly’ satirical, with vulgar references to sexuality, fashion, and life in general. It is meant to entertain, spark imagination, and stimulate your social life.
If you read this blog and take it seriously, there are a few things you can consider:
A) Grow a pair (of ‘bawlz’, or ‘altTits’ whichever pertains to your gender) and read this with a comedic sense of mind.
B) If you disapprove of a message being conveyed, STFU and go read censored public media in your local township.
C) Repeat steps A-B until you have succesfully transformed from a ‘cunt’ into an American who has the right to speak his/her mind in whatever form deemed legitimate.
Thanks for y’alls time, PCE.
<3UCRLS
H8UGERMS
MISSUYELLOWJOURNALISM
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:36 am
@MAD@GERMS, 2 Long, nobody read this.
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//////////Reply by DrGonzoAlt
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
@MAD@GERMS, the Germs were the best LA punk band. <3u Germs.
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You should do more editing down. What really is your present raison d’etre for this blog? Racial slurs have diminishing returns in satire as others have pointed out. I am more interested in you trying on the “true story” genre, the hypernostolgic take on electro, or “your band is a meme.” Your best posts dissolve the worst of internet 2.0/meta/viral blog/hipster fluff and remind us that we are still better off returning back to the real world.
Be happy that for the first time the comment section is mostly in complete sentences.
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Remember the viral meme known as the ‘Orions’ [via 2k9.4]? It was probs just Carles playin a lil joke on us. Kinda like how the Altster Grifter/hot AZN/ugly AZN played a lil joke on ‘bros with beards’.
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//////////Reply by ......
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:32 am
@bwllmb, 2k9.4 is the future… you got a time machine bro???
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//////////Reply by bwllmb
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
@……, 2k9.4 = the present [via my own base-12 numbering system [via 12 months in a year [via ????]]].
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wow, the naysayers are pointing their fat little fingers and saying “nah nah how dare u say _____” yet are howling with laughter at the same point of view regarding a different subject. what a bunch of double standard idiots.
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YO. I’ve never really paid attn to this blog until recently. Trust me, this shit still serves its ‘purpose.’
Honestly, this paragraph of Orion’s makes it obvious dude’s a fuckin self-righteous, no-life maroon:
“you are only culturally relevant in the sense that you represent the puerile, emotionally stunted, intellectually repressed, and self absorbed America that cares more about listening to hip music and wearing cool clothes that what is happening in the world.”
Dude needs to scratch the fuckin’ surface or just ignore you (but you know s/he’s gonna read all these comments).
You bring the altFun, altRooftop-philosophizing, altAlt, meta-meta-meta (quasi meaningful nonsense on my part) in a way that doesn’t even merit describing, attacking, or defending. Like, why can’t we just sit down shit up and watch (or don’t watch)?
But people speak up and show their love because bits and pieces of it (or all of it, who the fuck knows) hit the right buttons sometimes. It’s hard to pull something off with just the right amount of self-reference, narcissicm, deprecation, “or any other asinine ‘hipster’ buzzword.” You do it in a way that is uniquely your own, and we appreciate it for what it is. WOW, someone doesn’t like it? Someone wishes you would take this more seriously? Fuck off and DIY. And die.
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//////////Reply by Anna B
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 12:20 am
@Anna B, Oops I wrote too much. Whatever. Summary: I love superficial things (ie, this blog) about superficial things (ie, this subculture).
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//////////Reply by Anna B
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 12:30 am
@self There are some typos whose existence I need to acknowledge in this comment for obsession’s sake.
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I keep on reading your site (it’s been more than a year now), and I keep on realizing that you are just perpetuating the hipster scene. It’s ridiculous. You stereotype hipsters way more than they already stereotype themselves.
Also, I notice how you keep on adding ads to every little section of your blog. I understand that you have to pay for bandwidth and all, but you’re probably in it for the $.
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:20 am
@joe schmo, go guck a copwe
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//////////Reply by DrGonzoAlt
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:02 am
@joe schmo, $ is good, every hipster is the same. live w/it and give up ur ‘constructive criticism.’ no1 likes a commie.
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please don’t be sad, carles! i believe in you. hipster runoff is truly a post-modern, relevant blog-meme and i love reading. don’t get discouraged because of the haters…
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feel sad that i kind of agree with Oryanbro. not sure how i feel about HRO even thought i know i <3/h8 it.
sad that the video said electro was new two years ago when my sailing coach in seventh grade listened to that shit. never really ‘got’ electro yall. sad that i had a sailing coach in seventh grade. so inauthentic to have a stable upbringing.
this is not related but does anyone else with the west side would become cool again? kind of sick of LES yall. west side aesthetic is so good but never anything good there.
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ughh crls plz make a post that sums up all these cmmnts
they r too long and id rather tug to some lookbook/am appy models
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//////////Reply by ......
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:29 am
@louis, ssrsly
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Im almost 99 % sure that HRO is either a sociological/psychological experiment, or has become become one sometime in the past when Carles realized that every single person who posts on here would probably die and go to hell just to find out what he is thinking when he writes this. Who gives a fuck if he’s being irresponsible with his blog, Durkheim said that deviance in society actually helps create structure, it helps label deviance, and gives the world an example of what not to do. So what the fuck, Carles could become all responsible and shit with his blog. Or he could just do whatever the fuck he wants, Society doesnt change becuase of one person, it only becomes more concrete. ignore these stupid fucks who actually think giving a shit about things will “save the world:” :ie. GIVE US MORE CARLES (Via stereotypes and hilarious posts and meaningful deep irony.)
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 8:44 am
@anon, There is no deviance as long as you are a moral person… but even the meaning of morality is up for debate….social norms are an artificial construct and have no meaning other than what a society deems them to have. That doesn’t make anything specifically right or wrong and certainly say anything about ones freedom of expression.
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Hey Carles,
I accidentally typed in the address of your website into my web browser the other day and hit enter. I proceeded to accidentally read one of your posts and decipher where I thought you were being “satirical” and where you were insincerely using “quotation” marks to cover up “racism/sexism/XXXism”. I had to comment to say how much I hate you because “there is nothing wrong with hipsters being fashionable, having educations, or being artistic, as long as they are contributing something useful to our society.”
Just wanted to say that I’m “totes” offended because I went to your website and read your “thoughts” on your “blog.” I may or may not be a hipster, but I felt that “they” needed to be defended.
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:21 am
@M Tucker, how bout no.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 8:45 am
@POYS, indeed.
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//////////Reply by M Tucker
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 11:24 am
@POYS, Ouch, thanks for a meaningful reply.
You really added something to the conversation and changed my point of view.
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carles perpetuates privilege simply because he is uncapable of producing new knowledge, that’s the fact. Until he can do that (wich i doubt, considering he takes his education from bussiness classes and is very ignorant to music and art) things will remain the same. And the fact that half of his commenters continue to spew garbage such as “I feel like we have become, in some ways, overly sensitive to racism” showcases not only his failure to critically evaluate social tensions within the urban subgroups he draws inspiration from, but his incompetence to inspire others, instead he reassures the most reactionary segments of his readership the right to remain exactly the same.
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:21 am
@fernando, tooooo long broh
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//////////Reply by DrGonzoAlt
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:00 am
@fernando, h8 u commiebro. wuts wrong w/business yall?
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 8:48 am
@fernando, There isn’t much new knowledge left to produce. Sure it’s there but chances are someone else has already come up with it even if you don’t happen to know about it.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
@fernando,
“instead he reassures the most reactionary segments of his readership the right to remain exactly the same.”
think this might be the biggest issue
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//////////Reply by ¶
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
@fernando
“he reassures the most reactionary segments of his readership the right to remain exactly the same”
As if they DON’T have that right… or that HRO is somehow responsible for providing it. I must say, that is quite an arrogant logic.
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First off – this is the most academic laden, undergraduate/post-graduate post slash commented piece that has ever been writen on this site. bravo. or something.
if that was a real comment: that kid needs to grow up and get outside of their 2nd year university understanding of Gramsci.
carles this blog acheives a lot of whatever it set out to do – which i think is satire and that is totally awesome. i’m going into my masters in some media/culturalstudies/commstudies thing and like, whatever. it allows me to reflect on my own life through a very twisted, but very perceptive view of the world. and there is not a damn thing wrong with that.
for anybody that think this blog is somehow racist, please, it’s not more racist (via literary devices) than some stand-up comedy act.
it certainly creates a space to be critical for the reader if they are at the level of intellecutal maturity – and that’s great.
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//////////Reply by POYS
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:19 am
@KILLKILLKILL, wish you would choose a more ‘peaceful’ username
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//////////Reply by sammy
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:39 am
@POYS, yeah i agree, the comment was good, but ‘KILLKILLKILL’???? we aren’t playing Halo or some shit.
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//////////Reply by bubs
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:58 am
@KILLKILLKILL,
well said. 2nd year university understanding of Gramsci. funny stuff
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//////////Reply by forumbro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
@KILLKILLKILL, +1
listen to this man carles
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i only reads this post cuz my cheesy hotdog is warmin’ in the toaster oven
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<3 u carles!
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p.s. woah ppl are leaving really long comments with big words…. :-( why can’t ppl just hang out & party & have fun?????????
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//////////Reply by Geek 3.0
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 2:52 am
@……, hey not everyone can be a dripster.
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//////////Reply by ......
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 11:52 am
@Geek 3.0, yeah u can! come on!!
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//////////Reply by Geek 3.0
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
@……, thanks for the virtual tug. I needed that.
h8 how people in cmmnts always ‘try to explain’ ‘what hro really is’ to the other ‘dumb & dumber’ ppl. just stop, u don’t get hro. u never will. quit.
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//////////Reply by derryck
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
@INFOBOT, ya
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Hey guys, i just learned this cool word in 9th grade Advanced english class. Not sure how 2 use it in a sentence tho. Maybe some1 can help me??
subvert- (sub-vert) v. [subversive-adj]
1. To destroy completely; ruin
2. To undermine the character, morals, or allegiance of; corrupt.
3. To overthrow completely
This is how I would use it in a sentence, plz correct me if I’m wrong :? But just so u know…..I am an A+ student…
“HRO is subversive. It is intended to subvert the apathy, racism, and self-absorption that is perceived to characterize contemporary counterculture.”
…No AZN answers. Please wait until I need help with math.
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//////////Reply by Whiteyford
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 8:53 am
@wh0rU,
you claim these posts are for subverting racism and then you end your post comment with an overtly racist comment? Your a fucking douche.
I’m white ..not azn… but If I heard you make a comment like that in the real world, I would kick your face in you arrogant fuck.
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//////////Reply by wh0rU
//////////Posted April 20th, 2009 at 10:41 am
@Whiteyford, I’m AZN and if u kicked my face in in the real world I think that would be a hate crime
Also I am not sure about this claim u say I have, becuz I am just trying to use my new vocab like every1 else in this world
P.s. I like ur usage of ‘kick your face in’ and especially ‘fucking douche’ :D
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“you are only culturally relevant in the sense that you represent the puerile, emotionally stunted, intellectually repressed, and self absorbed America that cares more about listening to hip music and wearing cool clothes that what is happening in the world.”
pretty much… that’s why it’s good. laugh at ourselves and stuff. now chill and go listen to some anco.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 8:56 am
@anon, Not everyone is a cliche. Do you not know how draining it is to know about every fuckin little problem in the world? The worst of it is the realization that you can’t stop it. At best you can only extend the time frame before it occurs. I’m not saying give up completely but fuck life is too damn short and falling off into insanity really sucks.
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//////////Reply by forumbro
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
@anon, ya rly, that’s pretty culturally relevant to me l0lz
<3 u carle$
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http://www.pseudointellectualsanonymous.net
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//////////Reply by t. pseud
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
@Blipsterrunoff, like a typical pseud, I foolishly clicked on that link.
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think orion might have a point… just has a hard time expressing himself though.
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wana read Orions blog
h8 u Carles
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Read through some of the comments, though this wont be a comment “Worth Blogging about” or anything “Meaningful”….
Do half the people that post realize they are typing like carles?
Almost like nazi’s via hitler lol. Interesting to see how it grows and more people just follow along mindlessly.
and @whoever @’s me yup, i’m just a cargo pants wearing altbro with sock sandel’s or whatever. Truly Authentic.
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//////////Reply by antandbee
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
@hipstama blogloddin, There’s no occasion that does not merit a comparison to the popular meme Hitler and the Nazis. srsly.
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//////////Reply by bwllmb
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
@hipstama blogloddin, Yall. Is it alt to quote myself? I can’t resist.
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/04/i-miss-the-days-when-being-alt-was-meaningful.html#comment-46533
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omg hro needs a 140 chrctr limit for cmmnts like twitter
ps: this will be a Memorable HRO Post
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Who let that guy get the Internet I guess he can’t read between the lines, or appreciate a good lookingAZN. I guess he doesn’t understand, or he can’t see your Memes on his svga monitor.
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pri sure if evry klanBro changed career 2 bloggr the world would b a bettr place.
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You either “get it” or your opinion is different and you don’t.
Reminds me of the “hacker”, and everyone was afraid to say whether they thought it was carles or not.
Even on random fucking commenting, people are afraid to be themselves.
Bang.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted April 18th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
@ok ok, i feel you man
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I think you need to ‘reevaluate’ yourself Carles.
What are you blogging for? What do you ‘believe in’?
Why is this blog ‘meaningful’ to ‘you’/'us’?
Just trying to ‘help’.
<3 ya Carles.
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Why must people read like fundamentalists?
Read Carles because he is interesting enough to warrant your reading attention.
The “goal” of Carles’ blog is to interest us enough to read it. But it’s just a blog. You have to live your life on your own.
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//////////Reply by bwllmb
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 1:23 am
@¶, H8 mainstreamers/maltstreamers/entry-level alts who think The HRO’s are ‘just a blog’.
‘Live ur lyfe on ur own yall!’
-Viva la vida alts, 2k8
miss u lemmingbros! [via the first rule of alt club].
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//////////Reply by ¶
//////////Posted April 19th, 2009 at 2:25 am
@bwllmb, 2/10 lemming.
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calres <3 u.. so drUnk rite now but luves all the the commentrs
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“miss when electro was brand new.”
weren’t you like 10 when that happened? s0 confused.
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i didn’t read the other 249 comments so someone (hopefully) already said this but you (the Orions) are a fucking moron. most people learn at age 6 that the best sense of humor you can have is one where you are able to laugh at yourself but i guess your mom/teachers skipped that lesson.
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Carles…I <3 u and everyone else here does too…but everything in that post is absolutely correct. I <3 u cus i have stopped caring about all that and accepted it, cus im to unmotivated to change it. but still….its all true. anyways keep on doing ur thing anyways cus wtv who cares y not…
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just want to do drugs, y’all. don’t want to read about “world issues” or the “kkk”
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That. Rules.
Mayb we should all strt thinking bout taking ourselves more srsly, guys. Changin da world 4eva
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lolz! that orion dude needs 2 rlx! if u take everything u c on the internet serious u won’t live 2 long, bro. think orion is prob very alt and in2 relevant things like dc4c and memes about the environment.
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since when was “funny” a “hipster” buzzword?
yer blog is the funniest. don’t stop yer makin me lawl!
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250th post
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Satire does not automaticlly mean your message is not racisist or not offensive.
Just stick to what you do best carles. leave the overtly racist shit out.
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Funny thing is alt became meaningless before most of you motherfuckers were born.
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what would someone 50+ and from the middle of nowhere make of this clusterfuck of self consciousness…like seriously force them to sit down to read all these comments and ask what they make of them
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bravo.
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