I recently saw this picture of an African American with a ‘=w=’ tattoo, and wondered if it was ‘natural.’ I am not a racist–I believe that you are entitled to listen to the type of music that you want, no matter what your skin colour is–but I just couldn’t help but wonder if it was difficult for an African American to get a tattoo of a band that means so much to so many white indie fans. I feel confused about this tattoo. Wish I knew the ‘back story.’ Wonder if the tattoo belongs to an 18 year old who ‘fell in love’ with the song ‘Island in the Sun’ when it first came out, or if she was into ‘the Blue Album’ or something.
It seems like this African American could experience ‘backlash’ from her friends and family for getting this tattoo. Like she would show her extended family her tattoo, then they would make her play Weezer. Then all of her family would ‘make fun of her’ for ‘being too white’, making her feel guilty for breaking away from traditional African American interests and tastes. I feel like it would be ‘more acceptable’ for a white person to get a ‘hip hop tattoo.’ I feel like they would experience less backlash within their social circles. It seems ‘unfair.’
Are yall tired of all of the racial double standards that exist within racial groups?
Is it harder 2 be ‘black’ or ‘white’?
Do u know any altAfricanAmericans whose family ‘makes them feel bad’ for ‘being too white’?
Should black people be able to ‘truly empathize’ with the lyrics of Rivers Cuomo?
Does have a =w= tatty make u a ‘blipster’, or an inauthentic AfroAmerican?
Previous Weezer meme about Weezer being cool dads
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/05/weezer-albums-are-historical-artifacts.html
Previous ‘open letter’ from a blipster
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/10/is-hipster-runoff-racist-blog.html
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say it ain’t so
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just want a weezy tatty that looks ‘kinda fucked up’ and like sum 1 ‘drew it on with a sharpie’
want it 2 b only kinda visible cuz of my particular ’skin pigmentation’
wish it wasn’t so hard b ing white [via institutionalized reverse racism]
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Weezer is the worst and this blog is starting to be the worst.
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//////////Reply by Warren
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
seconded.
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//////////Reply by douche
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
3rd’ed
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//////////Reply by i suck carles' cock
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 8:31 am
weezer rulz.
people who complain about HRO and think carles will “accomodate” them just dont “get” it on a “higher level”,
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=w=
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What about if your skin looks ‘black’ but you are adopted and raised by a middle class white family… would it b ok to have a weezer tattoo then?
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//////////Reply by DoReMi
//////////Posted August 13th, 2009 at 9:43 am
@Sociolog,
AGREE;
concerning your ‘black girl with a weezer tattoo;’ what makes you think she is incapable of appreciating and understanding ‘weezer?’ how do you know whether or not she grew up in a ‘poor black neighborhood’ like youre condescendingly stereotyping her to be… hmm. She couldve grown up in a suburb like you seem to be from where everyone is growing up to be different fro what youre making her out to be.
just thinking outside Your ‘bx’
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Since Carles is no longer posting alt-noods….
http://www.ellerex.net/images/PartyPics/RuffClubJuly31/pages/Set3_RCJuly31_22.html
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=w= first two albums=bangin
post-green=semi-suck
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nice weezy tatty. wonder if u “touch urself”.
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For every =w= tatty on a #000 person, there are 1000 wu-tang tatties on a #fff person, which is actually an AZN reference. Go figure.
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Maybe he is a negative of you?
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hi.. i am an up and coming blipster in todays society. everyday i am ostracized. here’s how u can support me.
i have a ‘really sick’ photo log on tumblr. it’s actually good pictures. and i didn’t cite where i originally stole them from, so check em out before i get ’shut down’ via ‘copy right laws’.
follow me. support us. we.. will.. shine. we are.. the photologs1
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//////////Reply by Alter-ego
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 12:05 am
^^^your clearly a enrty lvl streamer^^^
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//////////Reply by d00d
//////////Posted August 13th, 2009 at 10:13 am
@Alter-ego, ^^youre clearly a fggt^^
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fuck new weezer. the red album sucked. the three new songs they’ve been playing suck. make believe sucks. maladroit SUCKS. it’s all about the first three albums.
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=w=tf.
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This has got to be the most racist, despicable, insensitive oh wait a sec, a sasha grey interview. Time for a tugoff
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I like black people a lot, but not the ones that try to act white.
They should stick to hip-hop, the ghetto, cottonpicking, the things they know best.
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//////////Reply by altBro
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
dont frget crack.
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//////////Reply by George J.
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
And frightening the pigmentally challenged. We’re great at that.
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//////////Reply by photolog1.tumblr.com
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 9:03 am
im lyk.. so offended rite now and im not even black
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//////////Reply by Wow
//////////Posted August 17th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
@dickwad, I believe Jews are the ones who know “the ghetto” best. Moron.
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teh question evry1 is askin –
is wavves the new weezer?
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what’s with these homies dissing my tat
why do they gotta front
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At least it isn’t a Cradle-o-Filth tatty. Imagine a black girly trying to explain that to her elders. I am half black by the way. No white band will be tatt’d on my caramel skin.
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i think carles is a pathetic moron
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Dude should have gotten a “Pavement” Tattoo they were much better…
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u said BACK STORY, ROFL
That makes this whole troll/racist/dull shit all worth it!
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thas not weezer that sybol is wtf!
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so werid okay, i have a little weezer sign tattoo on my leg.. i’m native american. big whoop
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and thanks for blogging about weezer ink. and that =w= tattoo sucks
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@ Carles, Yes.
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my older bro has a bell biv devoe portrait ‘inked’ on his back. he’s cakazn and n0 1 h8tes. his friends say it’s ’sweet’ or sumtimes ‘bitchin’. i think now that he’s ‘mature’ and has ‘children’ he h8tes takin his shirt off. he always has 2 xplane who bell biv devoe were and how relevant they were.
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Okay Carles you are a fucked up person. Do you know how hard it is to be black and not be ghetto? You are laughed at by the blacks. Misunderstood by the whites. I just want to be seen as colorless. Let me be who I am on the inside. Not the color of my skin.
I do not want to ‘act white’.
I do not want to ‘act black.’
I want to act like the person I am in my soul.
She is colorless.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I totally agree with you….i fucking hate people looking at me like im crazy when my cell phone ring and it’s mgmt not lil wayne…i’m really starting to hate this blog. Im completely open to free speech but this kinda makes me feel like an outcast once again, but this time on the internet…
I love being black and wouldn’t trade it for the world but can you all please stop staring at me while i’m at a animal collective concert,……….
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//////////Reply by simple
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
i agree. carles is an idiot who gives a bad name to independent scenes. i think this blog should be taken down.
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//////////Reply by i suck carles' cock
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 8:34 am
one blog out of thousands makes you feel like an outcast?
are you bad at google?
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//////////Reply by photolog1.tumblr.com
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 9:05 am
yeah. i bet carles is black. or hispanic. that name sounds very hispanic
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//////////Reply by Double Negative
//////////Posted August 4th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Word.
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//////////Reply by DoReMi
//////////Posted August 13th, 2009 at 10:05 am
@Beautiful Bipster,
You should adopt the phrase
“black isnt what im trying to be. its what i am.”
BAM! :) <3
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i guess no one gets the irony? Weezer Sucks, carles is one again playing mind games with all of you.
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word to the wavves hipster bro.. weezer is behind us but i respect the races embracin this pain we all experience.. teen angst for life my brother,
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weezer sucks donkey dick
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People who like House and techno cant be hipsters. Im sorry, you guys are more or less ravers. And the hipster movement has ALWAYS hated ravers. All this new rave techno neon and shutter shade wearing stuff has nothing to do with the hipster movement. We dont want you/need you. And dont test my credentials, Ive lived in Silverlake for 8 years and seen the scene rise and fall only to rise again.
Even Carles is misinformed. His attitude is spot on but his musical taste smells like 1999.
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//////////Reply by Shaniqwa
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 6:09 am
OK, but those lines are taken from Green Velvet’s SHAKE & POP, noughties Chicago house classic.
So there ain’t nuthin RAVER bout it. House & techno heads (not really a subculture) h8 ravers (not really a subculture) even moar than hipsters do (not really a subculture).
Sorry that you are adopting a misinformed, exlusive pre 2K ‘hipstercentric Weltanschauung’
xx
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//////////Reply by brosb4bags
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
except if it wasnt for the rave scene house and techno would have no real wide outlet. house heads (usually gay) may pretend to hate ravers but the difference is thin and blurry. Frankie Bones is a house dj and the godfather of rave. Juan Atkins plays numerous raves.
Sorry you are wrong and please move away from bohemia.
besides they mostly dance the same.
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//////////Reply by RJC
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
There’s as much variety in electronic music, from mainstream to underground, as there is in any other type of form of music (or any form of art for that matter). Raves were in fact underground in the early 90s and they became commercial like everything else.
Lol@ the living in Silverlake for 8 years. That place is a dirty, crime ridden shit-hole who’s only saving grace is that a bunch of people who think they are cool and have good taste congregate together because they can’t get along with “normal people”. Really fucking sad. But I was the same way so I understand.
Really glad I outgrew this elitist mindset. My taste is just as refined as always but I don’t identify with it anymore. I can actually see people for who they are and not expect them to be as cool as I am.
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What is it with you hipsters and ‘putting everything in fucking quotes’.
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//////////Reply by Block.
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 10:12 am
br0, u just dont ‘get it’.
and what do you mean ‘you hipsters’
>:-( ‘offended’
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//////////Reply by savvy
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 10:24 am
blockhead, i agree with doodles. your guys think you’re cute and kitschy, but you’re really just annoying burdens.
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//////////Reply by doodles
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Actually I don’t get it.
But, what I have got from reading some comments is that there are usually three types of people commenting;
1: People off their heads on something.
2: People trying so desperately to fit into “the scene” that they come off short and end up as some sort of half-hearted caricature of it.
3: (However rare.) People who are genuinely “alt” and are only so because they enjoy it, not because it makes them cool.
I’m sorry if I offend anybody, but to be offended is to admit that I am, in fact, correct and you are one of those try-hards.
PEACE.
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what about ‘ironical + /post ironical’ people with a degree in social science which makes them particularly smug and who relish in reading/deconstructing/intellectually tugging of to
a)Carles’ high output of relevant pseudo alt social commentary through a completely absurd prism and hilarious discourse
and b) comments by mnstrmers, alts, hipfags and douchebros who just dont ‘get it’, attempt to ‘get it’, pretend they ‘get it’ and of course write pompous comments about ‘getting it’ ?
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//////////Reply by Taisha
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 11:35 am
http://www.latfh.com/
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//////////Reply by savvy
//////////Posted August 5th, 2009 at 11:51 am
i assume you get it, shaniqwa. *clap clap*. However you want to read this blog, it’s still a.) becoming extremely redundant and lame and b.) has very strong racist and sexist tendencies in almost every post. So Im glad that you get it, you idiot, but it has a negative effect on its readers in many aspects.
It makes americans look like idiots. Do you think european kids go around obsessing and raving about how they are so alternative? No, people who are truly phased with mainstream culture just tune it out and do their own thing.
All the people who are in to this blog and defend it are seriously pathetic tools. You’re just a bunch of mainstreamers who were rejected from the mainstream, cant grasp any other type of real lifestyle, so you adapt another entirely mainstream lifestyle such as this one.
Do the world a favor and either shut up or self-destruct.
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//////////Reply by DoReMi
//////////Posted August 13th, 2009 at 9:49 am
@savvy,
Totally,
If youre so ‘alternative’ shouldnt you have a genuinely open and ‘alternative’ way of thinking from the general american public? you sound pretty common to me.
^this is a response to the way you want to be. I dont understand why its so bad to not be obsessively ‘alternative’. i can relate to you, i know what youre talking about (music, literature etc.) but i dont make a point to be blatantly ‘alternative.’ the most beautiful people i know are themselves and have views on subjects that MAKE SENSE.
&&i hope youre reading all of these comments, not just mine.
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//////////Reply by d00d
//////////Posted August 13th, 2009 at 10:16 am
@savvy, *wishes this was facebook* so i could use that ‘like’ button
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 13th, 2009 at 10:57 am
@savvy, yall r s000 ghey
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//////////Reply by ne pas
//////////Posted August 13th, 2009 at 11:01 am
@ne pas, 4 real cant believe i just cmmntd on such an old ‘thread’…
i think is it harder 2 b a white person ccause when u are white you have 2 try and stick out more if u are a black alt u already are more relevant because there are less black alts. it’s more authentic to have multi-ethnic friends
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//////////Reply by incontrasttogray
//////////Posted August 7th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
I’d hope you’re only referencing in the world of music and even then your statement is tenuous at best. You’ve never been black and gone to a concert, a place where people should have a common interest, and felt like you were the only person in the room. There’s nothing harder about being white in the least.
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//////////Reply by DoReMi
//////////Posted August 13th, 2009 at 9:54 am
@jenn,
How is being a certain race supposed to be harder. you realize black people are the ‘minority.’ youre thinking in such an ancient way. people are talking about in the next century races will be all mixed.
we can have discussion your way of listing pros and cons. BE AN INDIVIDUAL. LOVE YOUR LIVE, BE HAPPY, AND ‘OTHER’S CHOICE IS WHO THEY CHOOSE TO BE AND IF THEYRE CAUSING NO HARM IT SHOULDNT BOTHER YOU.”
BE AN INDIVIDUAL. dont compare yourself. dont stereotype. change the way you think.
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//////////Reply by d00d
//////////Posted August 13th, 2009 at 10:21 am
@DoReMi, u comment on everything. i feel lik u work for ‘the brooklyn african american womens support group society’ and u spam the interwebs and boost ppls self-esteem racially and u fight for equality.
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To me this is just more of the same white minds deciding what the mentality of a colored person should be simply by having an opinion that’s none of their business. It’s not like only white people get the radio or watch MTV. What a rude assumption it is that this person has gone through any kind of struggle or was raised in a more accepting circumstance based on what they listen to? Do you think black people care THAT much about what other black people listen to; at least to the degree where it would warrant ridicule to a point where you’d think someones alignment would favor that of those who contested more closely? Aside from the fact that Rock and Roll is a notoriously black sound of music from conception siting artist like Little Richard, Bo Diddly, Chuck Barry, or Fats Domino. There was a time where there were more black people playing “rock” then there were white people. And they were far more outrageous performers and played more skillfully. So if you were curious, yes it’s natural for a black person to associate themselves with rock or any derivative. It’s not a learned habit. Just as it natural for a white person to assume another cultures art and make said cultures misplaced in partaking of their own shit. What pisses me off about this discussion is YOU’RE the little bird in someones ear saying “Isn’t there something different about this?” before you know weather or not a black person would ever have acknowledged it.
Segway “Everyday I’m Hustlin’ ” – Rick Ross to “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight” – The Postal Sevice
By me or better yet, just another black kid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l5BnLMXqSU
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everyone;
guy posted an honest, clearly non-biased statement..
the issue of black/white is a prevalent one in modern culture..
so don’t ignore it – engage in it..
ask questions, provoke discussions.. don’t blithely accept what the TV and media tells you..
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