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Some favorites from Gawker’s Hipsters of the Decade

Heartbroken to find that Hipsterzine is dead. Next time I find some writing like that, I'm printing it out and making an actual little zine to keep. In the interest of preservation, read some posts on the wayback machine:

sugarmoth

(2008-2012)

sigurdjarlson

Everyone says they wish people were more genuine and openly passionate about the things they create but I see those same people hate on creators who actually are because they’re “cringe”

It’s interesting the media trend of being too self aware (or meta) and mocking itself in the text is kind of a reaction to exactly that.

It’s self-defeating because it colors the way people see your work but it is initially a defense mechanism for a lot of people.

“If I say it sucks from the start it won’t hurt when people say it does. I already said it so what did they expect-“

If you want people to be comfortable being genuine and passionate you have to let them do so without being an asshole. (Even when you don’t like it)

(Which is not the same as never criticizing anything or being 100% positive all the time. We don’t need to swing all the way in the other direction here and over correct..)

Something about the internet cycle of “people love a thing” —> “thing gets too popular” —-> “people suddenly VICIOUSLY hate the thing and people who like it are cringe/bad” is so exhausting to me

Growing to hate something bc of over saturation is absolutely a thing that happens but keep it to yourself and like minded people, you know? Be able to recognize that’s the problem and not the actual thing.

Yeah it can be fun to be a hater about stuff you dislike sometimes but know when and where it’s appropriate? Don’t be needlessly cruel to people who are just..minding their own business.

Because in a world where everything is really commercialized and overly sanitized for mass consumption maybe we should celebrate when people are actually passionate enough to create something out of love.

Yes, even if how they do it is “cringe” to you or it’s “overdone” they still felt moved enough to do something. Maybe it’s not the “best” in terms of quality or the most original thing in the world but it’s better than the mindless, unfeeling commercialized crap we get bombarded with constantly.

Being overly cynical and hateful 24/7 doesn’t make you smart or cool it just makes you unpleasant to be around.

It’s not a replacement for a personality it’s just a different form of being an annoying edgelord and saying “teehee I’m so different and so much better/smarter than these people”

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Quotes from 1997 that keep being relevant and maybe just always will:

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(I'll push back on the prev tags statement of “hipster attitude” being necessarily one of cynicism though ESPECIALLY one of cynicism against indie creators. I'd say that if there is a "hipster attitude" it's that things created outside of the industries of as you say sanitized commercialized crap are inherently better because of the human creative touch unfettered by focus group refinement. That's what I try to maintain. I would have put this in tags but it's to long. I add it as a second reblog for easy slicing off with a mid click.)