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HOMELESS WOMAN or "IT" GIRL? [New HRO Gimmick]

As HRO continues to 'get back 2 itz roots', it will attempt to reconnect with popular gimmicks that it once utilized. You might remember 'Altbro or AltBag' and possibly 'Alt or Bro'--both were games where you had to identify the social genre of a human being. In the following post, you are asked to evaluate whether the woman pictured is a 'legitimate homeless woman' or an 'it girl.' This is meant to question the reader's concept of 'fashion' and demonstrate the impact of societal role reversal on fashion as a method of self expression.

This gimmick is known as "HOMELESS WOMAN or IT GIRL?????"

Photo via the ArabParrot


Do u think the woman in the picture is a HOMELESS WOMAN or an IT GIRL?

Please justify your answer in the comment to receive your free I AM CARLES shirt.

For example:

'She is homeless bc she is really trying to take a nappy on the sidewalk [via her bed made of newspaper].'

or

'She is an IT GIRL because of her yoga bag and fashion-forward sense of style. Lovin the ironic rain boots. Gonna buy those at Urbby when I get my next paycheck.'

or

'She is a homeless 'it girl' since the IT GIRL bubble burst in mid-2k8.'

What do yall think she is?
Feeling confused by societal roles and could really use your guidance.


Previous Homelessness Coverage

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/09/hope-and-homelessness-never-give-up-on-personal-branding.html


Play similar editions of this gimmick

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/tag/altbro-or-altbag

Comments

frog / tadpole's picture

'it girl' because the photo comes from 'arab parrot'

RussRidd's picture

She is a home'lit' gurl...cuz she:

A) has her stuffed monkey (or monkey stuffed) like all the it gurls

B) passed out drunk and pee pee'd on whats 'HOT' according to the press via the paper ...like all the 'it' gurls

C) does yoga

D) sleeps in a pile of bird shit like homeless bitches do

and...

E) rocks rain boots so she doesn't get 'athletes feet' via peeing on her toes when she passes out

xoxo's picture

you should post this a 3rd time

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Noe Samuhel's picture

Definitely a cool IT girl,

Definitely a cool IT girl, who loves her little toy and keeps it clean. That's why she didn't throw it along with all the other toys she let for the Junk Removal La Verne team. although she's pretty old. I wonder when she'll go home, because she definitely doesn't belong on the streets.

blaktree13's picture

@frog / tadpole, ummm clearly an "it girl," PTFO on the sidewalk after pissin'/voming in the street and covering it with newzpaper.

john310's picture

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doox2's picture

fly kicks and a yoga bag...but a stream of brown pee coming from underneath...

homeless "it" girl.

JB's picture

Definitely a homeless chick, just look at how chubby the bitch is. "It" girls do way too much coke to end up looking like that, not to mention the fact that "it" girls would never pick up a newspaper [via lack of interest in anything outside of their own lives/ their scene].

Rio's picture

She's in "it girl" currently because the new trend is for bloggers to post pics of homeless people.

Total It Girl

hmm's picture

old "it" girl.
this is kate moss, right?

andrew R. Carbone's picture

homeless, no bra. unidentified liquid. this comment brought to you by coke yellow.

generk witty cmmnt's picture

liberal arts major.

anon's picture

it girl because she has peed in the street. if she was a homeless person, she would have peed somewhere she wasnt going to pass out on top of.

daffy's picture

cory??

t.y?'s picture

I think it's Jenny F. actually

JF's picture

@t.y?,

that bitch is crazy.

t.y?'s picture

@JF,

She could be actually breaking the 'thresh hold' between post-conceptual and real. I dnt know though cause i dont rlly 'get' her.

lobsterbucket's picture

she is homeless bc IT GIRLS h8 news/paper/yoga/gorillaz. but warhol flwrz on boots r undeniably trendy.

maybe she found the boots in IT GIRL'S garbage can.

yall are carles's picture

'legitimate homeless' (via not having a 'home' that can contain her 'restless independent spirit')

instant 'it' girl [via having her picture on the 'blog worth blogging about']

dont you see carles? you create that which you seek to destroy.

Carles's picture

@yall are carles, winner

d00dz's picture

@Carles, way 2 give the prize to someone who sucks up 2 u / is u

88 mph's picture

@yall are carles, carles u broke da tiem space continuum

Brian's picture

'It' girl. If that really is urine, she had to have peed and then laid down for the photo because it doesn't trail from her. Authentic homeless people just piss themselves in their sleep/passed out on the sidewalk [see previous HRO homeless coverage].

nopenope's picture

Homeless girl. Yoga bag is the wrong shade of blue to match :(

555's picture

homeless because her 'fucking sweater' is too large and she has rolls and looks like a burn victim

james's picture

total it girl. look at the dope stuffed blue monkey. gelz

bryon's picture

homeless woman collecting the it girl throwaways from post 2k8

hyhw's picture

creepy post carles

jean-luc go hard's picture

that's cory kennedy via meth addiction

Anna's picture

@jean-luc go hard,
that's carles being ironic. carles you should donate a ton of your shirts to the homeless so that we can see them being worn on the streets by the 'hardworking' people of america/europe/atlantis

brobro's picture

Can't be homeless [via whiteness], must be it girl. Plus, her monkey matches her yoga bag.

nopenope's picture

@brobro,

BUT THE SWEATER CLASHES

bee bay's picture

homeless via quest to be 'truly alt'

blib_dipper's picture

Her photographer seriously must have come from a nice art school because he knew how to KISS (keep it simple, sillie) and make it totally meta-auth (ie. the conceptual question which forces the reader to ask, is it auth or not?)

Nice Collab! Did you take the pic, Carles?

Anna's picture

fuck it girls, and fuck the homeless. carles needs to be focusing on more important issues [via miley cyrus being a year away from 18] [subvia all the fucking v-necks she wears].

dandaroo's picture

neither "it girl" nor "homeless"; MEME

uglygirlzarntpeople's picture

I like how the stuffed animal mirrors her posture.

jjj's picture

@uglygirlzarntpeople, [via The Sartorialist]

s|theory's picture

She's a hipster. Her industrial chic loft features exposed brick.

Jaye's picture

IT girl.
She's lowering her household carbon footprint by NOT living in a home which is so totally the 'it thing', and at the same time staying 'in style' by donning those 'super cool' galoshes.

The Real Johnson's picture

At first I thought she was just a really forward alt broad [via derelique], but then I realized she's actually poor [via no iPod headphones].

keaton's picture

psh, look at her. she's such an it girl. i mean she has the 3 basic elements of it-girl-ism:
1)tacky rainboots. Because clashing patterns is just so avant-garde.
2)the cracked out "i dont give a fuck, im famous on the internet" look. I mean, im sure she is actually cracked out (like most-it girls), but that isnt important.
3) token brick wall as the backdrop of her picture....cause you know that's a dealbreaker.

el fggt's picture

legit homeless woman. she rockin' dat muffin top like none other.

E's picture

"it" girl....look how many comments she's getting. She may have been homeless at one point but she's rising in the kingdom with fame.

tony's picture

"It" girl. I'm assuming that's PBR spilling down the sidewalk.

Meggiefriend's picture

She piddled on the paper! Good girl. She so homeless.

simply j's picture

She is a homeless woman because Steve Gheyoki is not pouring Ghey Goose down her mouth.

brobro's picture

@simply j, *mouf

testicular dancer's picture

she is the 'it' girl via economic crisis/too lazy to get a fuckin job/too 'alt' to get a job that embarrasses her [via mcdonalds]/not embarrassed to wear rubber ducky boots/homeless as 'authentic' and 'relevant' in today's social/cultural/alt/mnstrm/blogosphere/could be the sister of some dude/bro from AnCO.

tabitha's picture

she's got homeless hair

Semblance's picture

Alice Glass in three years. :(

sie's picture

@Semblance, noooooooooooooooo

stine's picture

homeless woman ~tryin 2 hard~ 2 fit in.

xoxo's picture

probably the best comment

rickricks's picture

Homeless, if she were an it girl she'd be peein on a macbook air with a bag specifying bikram

xoxo's picture

either way she's a fucking a poser

brobro's picture

@xoxo, lololoolollol

lilers's picture

for real homeless woman because of the can of cat food/nutritious and delicious meal by her shopping bag/ disposable luggage.

CanFancier!'s picture

I jumped leik15 homeless people to day... Well I landed on the last, and she's still laying there.

Megan's picture

definitely a homeless woman. she's got packs of clothes and the opposite body type of the typical 'it girl'

Funky Rutabaga's picture

Definitely a homeless woman - her sordid immediate milieu is the giveaway, in addition to her looking more like an elderly woman than an "it girl", though she may become the next big meme.

d00dz's picture

Crlz, I'll suck ur dick for that t-shirt; no homo

Franco's picture

This is an entry-level-alt bro in 2k30 (via over the counter estrogen pills in mexi-canada-mericaz).

6fu4evs's picture

She is Y'all, Y'all is she. Y'all is it, She is it.

Panchizzy's picture

this totally reminds me of binghamton

Cray's picture

I think that she is an homless person because she is sleeping next to atleast three types of shit.

Alix's picture

It girl; cuz she's sleepin on the sidewalk. very ironic. new trend.

E's picture

She is an IT GIRL bc she is really trying to take a nappy on the sidewalk [via her bed made of newspaper]

RussRidd's picture

She is a home’lit’ gurl…cuz she:

A) has her stuffed monkey (or monkey stuffed) like all the it gurls

B) passed out drunk and pee pee’d on whats ‘HOT’ according to the press via the paper …like all the ‘it’ gurls

C) does yoga

D) sleeps in a pile of bird shit like homeless bitches do

and…

E) rocks rain boots so she doesn’t get ‘athletes feet’ via peeing on her toes when she passes out

stevo's picture

‘She is an IT GIRL because she is hawt, and pretending to sleep [via real sleeping] so she can be raped by a homeless hipster CHIC.’

remixes are better's picture

Homeless looking to become the next Thax Douglas. She's tired of animal collecting and is looking for a simpler place to be. Yoga aids in releasing her inner thoughts i.e. wisdom that she forms into poems. She has real aspirations unlike an "it" girl. She wants to be seen AND heard. However, the recent price increase on PBR has left her feeling blue just like her hippo. She just wants to be free like the rubber duckies on her boots.

Life goal: opening for Yeezy.

lonny's picture

she's homeless cause she's sleeping right next to a smattering of bird shit and broken glass. she's also too fat to be alt.

bill?'s picture

this woman is homeless. she cannot be an it girl. the stuffed animal gave it away. typically ownership of a stuffed animal is indicative of some past point in time (youth) when the person had a collection or single stuffed animal which meant something to them, given to them by a family member, etc. it girls have no past. only the future and whats hot. unless this is an it girl and all her coke is stuffed inside the bear. but in that case she'd be clutching it to her chest during her nappy.

no fish today's picture

bitch is too well fed to be a street urchin

Gil's picture

obvi, homeless.
who would be caught dead with a stuffed animal?

then again, she might be in line for the new iPhone 3GS.

fan's picture

she obviously used to be an it girl, because of her early wrinkles and blase attitude. however, after many years of her parents supporting her cocaine habits and heavy drinking, she finally landed a job as a homeless street performer. so she moved out of their house and into our streets.

blip*'s picture

I don't see any homeless person in the picture because I'm blocking out their existence as it reminds me that all is not right in the world. They may also wake up and ask me for change, which i won't be able to hear because I'm listening to 'Washed Out' on my Ipod nano.

Pyry's picture

She is a homeless person because she is fat. The fat girl from the The Gossips is a gimmick by McDonalds / Kentucky Fried Chicken / Taco Bell to make people 'accept' being obese and want to kill themself via fatty foods.

uh huh uh huh uh huh's picture

Homeless girl WITH a sense of style! Look at those bags of clothes/items; she is also sleeping on a bed sheet or something. No it girl carries around stuff to sleep on, and they don't ever pick up newspapers; probably her toilet paper for the night.

lainz's picture

s0000 hip. [via homeless people havin' better style]

mary's picture

Total homeless IT girl, luv the stuffed blu monkey and boots, but she rlly needs to improve her branding if she wants to trly b a homeless IT grl. now gimmie a Carles tee!

PS u bros never returned my email asking abt actually paying for a Carles tee!

shit's picture

Lol hes 'homeless'. should be de4d becuz hes so ugly/fat-piece-of-shit.

skunky brewster's picture

"it" girl who decided she would be "hip" and "avant-garde" and sleep outside cuz that would bring her closer to the "reality of what society is today". homeless bitches look much worse and don't carry around stuffed monkeys. oh look, she's a trendsetter :\

Christmas Swindle's picture

It looks like Courtney Love after a night of hard drugs and alcohol. I definitely think that she is just napping, dreaming of her next fix.

the t's picture

definitely homeless. cause any it girl's bff would so let her know that yoga is sooooo nov. '99 to late sept. '00. but no thanks on the free t-shirt. it's way too '07. wait... nevermind... i'll take it. might be post ironic by early '12. you what...nevermind... one of the bros where i'm at with might show it to my girlfriend. she would soooo break up with me. by the way, me and my bros are looking for 3 more roomates to share our bed room. the rent just went up 75 bucks cause our two bichon frises ruined the carpet. anyone who wants in, let me know. oh yeah, no homos

Tyler's picture

she's an it girl because she truly embodies the spirit of the beastie boy's "license to ill" cassette, which if you look closely you can notice she has laying next to her on the sidewalk (via color-coordinated matching oversized sweater/doll and yoga bag; obviously psychadelic rain boots and the fact she is about 50 pounds overweight thus "licensed to ill" however clearly she ain't illin')

jsuggs's picture

hmlss post teen covered in king cobra and whiskey
piss ssleepn on rock reading the weekender...

John Martin's picture

many of us are one sickness, one layoff, one bad debt away from being homeless. no solutions lead to alcoholism and drug use. some people don't have family or friends to help. look inside before you judge.

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she is a homeless

she is a homeless woman....that why she like this....very poor

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