I saw this picture of the Jonas Brothers in Venezuela with a Group of Latin AmericAlts (who are closely related to Mexicalts). The picture sorta ‘made my head explode’ since there were so many consumer alt trends being implemented/utilized in this picture.
Swoopy Bangs.
Plaid. Stripes. V-necks.
Sunglasses.
Scarves.
Jeans of every colour/texture/style.
Lil jackets.
Remnants of the electro era mixed with an overall vibe of the purgatoryAlt.
Angry Mulatto Men in the Background.
I remember when I made a pie chart that attempting to break down the Altino Tribe of Humans.
I am not sure if 3rd World Alts/Mexicalts/Altinos/Latin Americalts are ‘growing up’ and catching on to new trends, or if they are sort of stuck with a tween-like perception of the alternative aesthetic. Wonder if the Altino in 10 years will look like the altbro circa 2k7.
Sometimes I sorta take for granted the mainstreamification of alternative trends. Like I never even take the time 2 genuinely appreciate it any more. The way I used to dress 1-20 years ago is being implemented by tweens and forever-young-post-tweens.
I made this graph in 2k8. How do yall think it has changed in the past year?
Just so weird how the 3rd worlders are such laggards when it comes to trend adoption. Do u know if they have Macbooks in those countries?
Worried about 2k10. What if I become a ‘laggard’ and some new form of human/blog/RSS feed is able to consume trends faster than me?
What if the chillwave genre was the last great moment where alts ‘chewed up and spat out’ a trend in record time? #the_glofi_movement
What if chillwave was just a ‘consumer trend’ and not an actual ‘movement’?
worried abt 2012…
Previous Mexicalt Coverage
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/12/the-crowning-achievement-of-mexicaltsaltinos.html
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/11/part-of-the-altino-nvr-dies.html
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/11/all-i-ever-wanted-was-a-mexicalt-with-a-progressive-pokemon-haircut.html
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secondzzzz
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i thought the jonas bros WERE a wild pack of latin americalts
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//////////Reply by alex
//////////Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 11:56 pm
@brittany, I cant even tell which ones are the jonas brothers
seriously i could not pick them out of that lineup
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//////////Reply by LadyPostEverything
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 12:07 am
@alex, The Jonas ones are the ones who look the least poseury. Well, 2 out of 3 of them, minusing the one with the headband. UNF.
No offense to the Altinos. Cutish enuf.
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//////////Reply by brittany
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 2:49 am
@alex, me either. they all look the same!
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A+ POST, WOULD READ AGAIN
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you’re beautiful, crls.
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i just learned about the bell-shaped graph. now i see how useful it can really be
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I’m from Venezuela and realized something, I’m not alt.
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//////////Reply by MGMT
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 9:25 am
@Venezuelan, pls hand in yr card key. clean out yr desk.
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//////////Reply by Tao July
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
get ‘em OUTTA THERE!! ~bill pullman(independence day)
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hro is dead….it was fun while it lasted.
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 am
@wisp, Usually I think this comment is cliche, but right now it seems that way though doesn’t it. Doesn’t seem like CRLS evolved, after the decline of electro. Then there was the U Me Evry Concert we attend post and then it changed. Well companies always re-brand, so there can always be a comeback.
Now with some hard hitting concepts.
Indie Rock Phase = ‘Pre-Game’
Electro Banger Era = the party
Concept Core = Hangover in the morning
Chillwave = post-hangover depression /watch videos online all day
I think the next movement in music will be weirder and faster. idk, can’t chill 2 hard for 2 long.
MISS YOU HRO 2K7/SPARKS/POUR GREY GOOSE INTO MY MOUF.
MISS YOU TRAPPED IN THE SUBURBS ALT.
REMEMBER HRO. RIP. 2007-2008,
<3+H8+MISS IT.
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//////////Reply by altdouche
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 am
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK, normally i’d say tldr, but you’re right. (please make me regret saying this with your next post, but)RIP CRLS.
srsly, i’m not even being ironic anymore. except for being a tldr-saying altdouche.
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//////////Reply by Bebe
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 3:45 pm
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK, oh my god I am so sick of chillwave/shitgaze/conceptcore
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//////////Reply by wisp
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 4:52 pm
@HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK, i wouldnt be saying it if i didnt think it was true…
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//////////Reply by wisp
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 4:53 pm
@wisp, oh and as far as a comeback…. i never lose hope.
demz latinoalts iz da funnybags. i dun beeen in nicaragua doin da rumba dance and day be like “oh shitz youz wearin nike high tops son we still gots da chucks (which we knowz is SO ‘back-when-da-strokeses-was-kewl). but it wuz more lik “no tenemos nikes, mang!” N nahh bout dem macs day still usin hp books (UGHS)
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//////////Reply by UmNoReally
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 12:14 am
@OMGURBNOUTFTTRS,
WTF is this shit?
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//////////Reply by mr. nugs
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 7:15 pm
@OMGURBNOUTFTTRS,
i’m from nicaragua and we got plenty of altinos, you’re just hanging out in the wrong places/wrong crowd
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Ooh. Joe Jonas. Unf.
I’m sorry, what was that?
Yeah, lame people or something.
Unf.
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enjoyed the two-thumbs-up-shit-eating-grin-powertool-alt
those head bands be huge in 2k_
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¡Ay dios mio! 70% of those dudes are totally hawt.
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chillwave will never die
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//////////Reply by gnar sesh
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 9:49 am
@eyepatch, agree. were always gonna need 2 ‘chill soft’, after ‘chilling hard’
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//////////Reply by chilisfan
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 9:51 pm
@eyepatch, chillwave 4ever
chillwave is the new post-punk revival/dance-punk/french-touch electro, it will live on and on
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mexialts>latinamericalts/altinos.
these are just poseurs a.k.a. maricas a.k.a. jotos.
<33333333333333333333333333
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You’re such a moron.
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All gay, all Jo Bro fanboys, all gonna be sucking Jo Bro dick in the trailer.
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//////////Reply by Pffffft
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 10:16 am
@Xsox420, Ohh, you’re “cool”. Loser.
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it’s a small world, after yall [via nostalgia]
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carles u posted this same thing when chillwave was still relevant (2K7.3)
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oh carles, i is still on yr side.
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the only thing sadder than mexicAlts are americAlts
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I think blogging about MisUnderstoodAltMCyrusBroz should be included in this posting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ezfk7s1NyY
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Carles,
Great post honey but your little sister wants to know if you got the Jonas Brothers’ autograph. Also why are you being sponsored by a liquor company. You know your father won’t like that. Please call soon.
xoxo,
Mom
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the reason there is SO MUCH coverage on HRO about “irrelevant” topics such as mexialts and the new “Latin Americalts” is that Carles is hispanic… who else would have spent the 20 minutes required to write that pie chart?
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real sad carles isn’t white… simply can’t relate 2 the dark skin & “new world” genes. kinda wish western europe had a deep(er) ethnic cleanse b/f my time so i didn’t have 2 deal all the “darkness”. don’t wanna read carlesez text w/ a cholo accent… :(
know what i mean “LLal”?
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//////////Reply by daffy
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
@not fat, h8 u
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yes
i think a larger percent of mexicans should be post-hardcore though
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Feel being altino would enhance my personal brand. Feel like I sometimes just got to chill and eat some tamales.
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I’m telling you that strawberries (spanish:Frezas….that’s what we call trendy altinos) have always been this way.
Your just finding out about it makes me feel kinda sad.
Kinda feel that since I’m Mexican I am so much cooler than you just by association.
I kid. But srsly. Latinos know how to bite style just like any of the other colors in the crayola box.
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p.s. the new Fan Death video is teh awesome.
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Psh, we altinos are way cool than gringoalts.
We mash all the trends for awesomness.
I’m rocking my purple plaid shirt ’slash dress’ right now.
Kthxbai gotta go flat iron my hair.
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//////////Reply by no fish today
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 6:25 pm
@Altina, wanna come over to my place
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This is very enjoyable research but a bit MORE research would reveal that these are not fans so much as the band that opened for the Jonas Brothers in Caracas. So my sources have informed me. They also play teen powerpop. They are called Marilanne.
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i think diabetes should be a topic more blggd abt
the youngest jo bro has diabetes, and he is obv the coolest jobro. is having diabetes the next big thing? am i going to be wearing an empty insulin pump in 2k10 just to fit in?
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bebe obv wrote this post. she is carles.
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//////////Reply by kbiz
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm
@via nineteen eighty8, by this logic I want to fuck Carles.
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//////////Reply by poly
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
@kbiz, y yo tambien! altino chill-salsa&merengue-core
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Why crls cares about jobros?
This blog is def’ly in the orange area of the graph.
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//////////Reply by Fredrick James
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 5:58 pm
@eedit, crls has been discussing the jobros since about 10 blog years ago.
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wonder if carles has a lil alt accessory yet
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CARLS’ BEEN TAKING INTRO 2 MKTG @ THE STERN SCHOOL OF $$$
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carles, stop being a racist azn.
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Dear Carles:
I’m an Altino, but i just can’t find myself on your charts, what sould i do?
Im really confused carles, need help
need help?
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i think the CRLS started lurking on /b/ too much and it’s starting to have a negative effect on its blog/braincells
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Woao! I’m from Venezuela, and I’m not Alt. Not this kind of “alt”.
btw, i own two macbooks pro, a 17″ a 15″ , two ipod a 80 gb and a 160 gb.
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latinamericALTs=flogggers.
muerte a floggers y fotolog.
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can only find 1 jobro..
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i’m venezuelan and these guys are waaaay far from being alt haha.. as someone already said, they’re from some unknown lame powerpop band.. and they’re the kind of people who listen to reggaeton/latin music etc when no one’s watchin ;)
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