Just saw this youtube movie Where The Dirty Hipsters Are (Wild Things Spoof) and it made me miss the glory days of 2k5-2k7, back when it was s000 funnie 2 make ‘jokes about hipstars’ and other interesting alternative ppl.
I wish I could go back in time to the final year of my Undergraduate Film Studies Program, and make a lil comedy youtube short that ‘incidentally’ ‘goes viral’ on the youtube. I want to make something beautiful that appeals to tons of people, inspiring them to ‘chuckle’ for a couple of minutes, since they ‘get it’, then move on with their lives’. I feel like I am in touch with modern media to accept the redefined standards of ’success’ and find peace with achieving 500,000 youtube views. Maybe I won’t make money from my art any more, but I can still try 2 touch the world.
I like stuff that’s funny cuz it’s true. Whenever I watch hipster-mockumentameme vids, I can’t help but LOL-out-loud, because I totes know all of the characters already, since they mirror real members of my alternative scene. It’s kinda weird how ‘vapid’ culture is, yall… h8 it/luv it/’get’ it. Just relieved that I am me living in our bad ass society. I mean… it has it’s ups and downs…but I am generally happy with where we are.
Sorta miss the golden era of the Viral Vid Hipster movement. I decided to re-watch the Hipster Olympics, and reflect on the massive impact it had on ‘the scene.’ I believe the most powerful art is free-online art, because tons of ppl can see it and share it with all of their friends [via their facebook pages].
Seems like some new ‘hipster’ videos come out, and ‘exist under the radar’, but it makes me wonder just how viral they could have gone if they were made during The Golden Age. They seem to each have their own unique take on things.
Sorta miss ‘Hipsters in Space.’ I hope that the youtube servers exist forever. One day, all blogs will die, and humans won’t be able to read text any more. As the youtube generation continues to mature without reading and writing skills, the only historical artifacts left will be vlogs, videos, and viral videos.
Technology is rlly something to awe at [via being awesome]. So many artists can make beautiful with a limited budget, beyond the Macbook their parents bought 4 them and the HD video camera that they waited tables 2 obtain. It’s great 2 be able to ‘reflect on culture’ so instantaneously at such a low cost. I feel like I am honestly living in the most special era of all time, like every war that was fought for freedom was just so that I could exist right now. I am thankful.
Are youtubes more powerful than real movies?
Is it still alt 2 ‘make fun of hipsters’?
What is the best web method 2 utilize 2 ‘make fun of hipsters’? Meme blog? Tumblr? Video? Vimeo? Tweet?
What is the ‘most authentic’ ‘making fun of hipsters’ video of all time?
WTF is a ‘hipster’?
Does n e 1 know if hipsters are ‘the dead end’ of ‘Western Civilization’?
What’s ‘next’ after ‘hipsters’, or will ‘hipsters’ exist 4evr? Will the spirit of ‘alt’ live on forever?
Should I start a blog, a youtube channel, or a vimeo channel?
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furst
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first by default, because the asshole above me doesn’t know how to spell
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whatever, this blog is so last week yall!
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//////////Reply by margot
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 3:07 am
@skybeard, well, obviously you’re still reading it.
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Everything about the 2k7 era was better :(
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shuttershades, pork pie hats, 300 dollar vests.
nailed it.
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damn
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//////////Reply by Funky Rutabaga
//////////Posted November 1st, 2009 at 9:51 pm
@tao, Tao Lin!
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 5:20 pm
@tao, bro did u change the cost of your artwork (anniversary sale) from $36 to $40???
i was ready to pull the trigger, but 40 seems like a lot more than 36.
idk. also i already have the moose.
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//////////Reply by tao
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 5:34 pm
@aw, fukk, changed it back to $36
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 5:37 pm
@tao, damn bro, <3s
//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 5:49 pm
@tao, sweet bought it, will buy “Bed” when i get more money.
ps- rly enjoyed “cognitive-behavioral therapy”, and brandon’s book. seems like they heavily impacted my twitter account for ~half a day after i finished reading them.
//////////Reply by funky_rutabaga
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 6:13 pm
@tao, Bed is the best book ever.
sup yall
that ‘dont date a hipster’ vid had sexist undertones.
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mang da only true wayz to make funz of dem hipstas now is dat theata joint. blogs/vlogs/da interwebnet aint alt. dem comedy pplz gotsa make sum plays n shyt 2 perform in altcafes and dem abandoned warehouzez. we gotsa be starting dis hipsta irony comedy troupe sonn. da webnet is MNSTRMKRFT
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//////////Reply by dugmore
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 10:40 am
wtf, why can’t you just type in english?
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5375516809962158212#
Remember these vids!?
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//////////Reply by ipenguins
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 12:04 am
@Scene Sucks, cant say i do bro
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scathing. “damn”
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‘what’s a hipster’
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Feel Hipsters are the “dead end” of “Western Civilization” (via Adbusters being the prophecy).
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//////////Reply by god
//////////Posted November 1st, 2009 at 9:57 pm
@funky_rutabaga,
‘I’m not comfortable with that term’
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Beliefe in science is next
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//////////Reply by yessum
//////////Posted November 1st, 2009 at 10:50 pm
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK,
you can’t/shouldn’t ‘believe’ in science. it just ‘is’.
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 11:20 am
@yessum, it will be most alt.
Oh ok so you mean like
“It ‘is’ neither bad or good, it just ‘is’”
Or
“It ‘is’ what it ‘is’”
or
“It ‘is’ not over until it ‘is’ over.
or
“Consciousness ‘is’ all”
or
“We are one, and that ‘is’ it”
or
“Consciousness ‘is’ being aware of the inner-self”
‘Is’ this what you are trying to tell me?
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//////////Reply by yessum
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 1:00 pm
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK,
no
none of the above
ur taking this blag too srsly
//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 5:26 pm
@yessum, think he is taking the blog meta-seriously, bypassing your low-level ironic understanding of HRO
the key to doing well at HRO is to believe that everyone ‘gets it’ more than you do, except when they dont
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//////////Reply by yessum
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 6:27 pm
@aw, fukk,
http://www.legorobotcomics.com/?id=36
trolls trolling trolls
nobody gets anything
//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 8:27 pm
@yessum,
im laughing
17th!
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LOL @ the cha name drop in the first vid
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what’s more depressing: the fact that Hipster Runoff is utterly irrelevant [sic?] or the fact that Hipster Runoff is so utterly irrelevant [sic?} that no one knows it's utterly irrelevant [sic?]?
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//////////Reply by blip*
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
@Jacke,
Zen.
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boring subject.
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//////////Reply by nnyms
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 2:14 am
@wisp, agree.
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You make fun of hipsters until you realize the mustache you’ve been growing ‘just for fun’ actually looks good and you want to keep it. But by then you’ll just be hipster runoff.
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//////////Reply by mari
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 4:04 am
@jjj, <3 your blog.
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//////////Reply by jjj
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 12:30 am
@mari, mom?
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//////////Reply by mom
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 3:58 am
@jjj, bobby? i wasn’t sure, but…
oh i’m so proud of you & your alt blog <333
this is the precursor to a mnstrm comedian getting famous with the joke ‘u kno ur a hipster whn…’
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//////////Reply by mari
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 4:03 am
@broseph stalin, <3 your blog.
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//////////Reply by mari
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 4:03 am
@mari, lol, not you.
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whatevr
i dont smoke american spirits ne way
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whatevr
i only smoke american spirits ne way
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//////////Reply by lolz
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 4:35 am
@MNSTRMKRFT, i felt like such a jerk when i heard the AltBitch say it, because i definitely say that, and i definitely only smoke AmSpirs =[
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i was looking forward to a really funny post about that video. miss u.
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um, i only smoke american spirits. really.
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//////////Reply by dick
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 3:58 pm
@margot,
fuck you bitch
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//////////Reply by Lunar Sea
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 7:27 pm
@margot, fggt
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Why do we love to group/label things and put a worth on it?
Crls needs to get real.
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miss the electro era back in 2k7/2k8, wearing shutter shades and neon am appy. only listen to glo-fi and girls lust for life now. my alt family just wants to take acid and eat pizza. just want to go back to clubbing, taking e, listening to bangers with my dj boyfriend.
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//////////Reply by eyepatch
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 3:46 pm
@chilisfan, i’ll drop e w/u any day, i <3 bangers in da club, like were bangin in da bed!
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lolz! my ex boyfriend was in the beginning of hipster olympics, he used to get so annoyed, he’d be like, “god, we were in BUSHWICK, not WILLIAMSBURG, fucking mainstreamers”. he was so defensive it bordered on pride.
man he was the worst boyfriend ever, so good to remember he’s part of a dated meme, lolz!
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 5:51 pm
@lolz,
jesus, everyday you say/do things that increase your net relevance in my eyes
<3 u
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//////////Reply by exley
//////////Posted November 4th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
@lolz,
Literally every shot in the intro was filmed on or around Bedford. Is your ex so far out of the mainstream he thinks South 2nd = Bushwick?
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//////////Reply by lolz
//////////Posted November 4th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
@exley, I KNOW, he’s a fucking idiot. 7 seconds in. pack of bros in fitteds.
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//////////Reply by exley
//////////Posted November 5th, 2009 at 11:39 am
@lolz, How did I guess.
I remember those guys being super pissed.
http://titusandronicustheband.blogspot.com/2009/11/vice-halloween-party-is-decadent-and.html
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//////////Reply by lolz
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 3:49 am
@hey anony anony, i went to that, got really drunk on fellow HRO sponsor Hornitos tequila, got kicked in the shin by some dude dressed as a gangbanger during the jesus lizard set. it was a 1994 theme, i was dressed like a valley girl, guess it was ‘appropriate’. it was a good party but everyone left early. it wasn’t that decadent, the portatpotties were overflowing by 1 am and some bitch was smoking crack in the portapotties, the costumes MADE the party though. some pretty ‘excellent’ ones there.
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lol@ hipsters in space those cartoons are funny
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fucking mainstreamers.
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Dear Hipsterrunoff,
My girlfriend ‘is already’/'is becoming’ an altbro/dirtyhippiesterbro. She hangs with the zaniest ‘free-spirit’ bros. She wears ‘tights + scrunchy fairy boots/balleriny shoes’ every day. She goes to ‘the city’ to ’slummy-bars’ ‘where the scuzz bands play/where the wild thingz are’. Don’t have any friends via hermitage/don’t fit into her ‘rock-and-roll’ ‘life’style via my predominantly ‘regular bro’ background. Feel resented for my ‘asocial’/'antisocial’ behavior. Can’t even go to ‘the mountains’ anymore to be alone via weekend-altbro-mass-exodus. What should I do yall?
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//////////Reply by SoBroUdontEvenKnow
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
@Seth Stubbs, get as many BJ’s as you can before she dumps your ass
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Hey,
Please cut out a bit of the talking on blog radio… play music, that’s what it’s for… not to listen to yourself talk and offer “insightful” quips. Love the tunes… tired of the chatter.
Thanks
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carles is so intimidated that people rip on his aesthetic. sorry carles, you are losing it, yo bloggg n yo mind. start droppin cid n going to alex ghey events to find yourself again.
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//////////Reply by andrew
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 am
@tonka,
haha. My art school fiancee went to a lecture where the reviewer was like Alex Grey’s mortal enemy, and I think he put a curse on her or something because she called his artwork tacky. “TOOL.”
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//////////Reply by tonka
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 1:12 am
@andrew, haha, alex ghey is so blase. TOOL!
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alternative opinion: i like the chatter on the radio show. makes me feel happy (sometimes uncomfortable).
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totally killed my zen/ state of being………………… wheres the weed?
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