#hipster runoff

[etchingstar]

which grimes incident are you?

getting fired from promoting dune & calling it "deeply not woke"

montreal crack den

caught liking white supremacist tweets

allegedly kissing noah centineo in olive garden

hacking hipster runoff because they leaked a photo of her kissing a woman

branding herself on the thigh because she was too young to get a tattoo and then having the scab fuse into her tights

"knocked up" by elon musk

wrongly accused of chucking snowballs at queen elizabeth ii

calling azaelia banks fat

diy houseboat trip down the mississippi river with live chickens

lesbian commune on one of jupiters moons

matching incest pfps with musk on twitter

claiming that god planted the dinosaurs to confuse us and earth is only 4000 years old

having a secret second baby

when it was suspected that she was dating chelsea manning

"imagine if russia and ukraine were just doing it in fortnite"

spaghetti-induced scurvy

[sleazy-est]

There’s more to life than

[EXCLUSIVE MP3s]

[HIGHLY RECCD] products/mp3s/it-girls

leaked Animal collective albums

Kanye West

cumming

becoming an alt celeb

getting party picced

Radiohead

krappy remixes

blogs

the internet

myspace/facebook

getting ‘poop-faced’

getting ’shit-faced’

iPhones

gPhones

bPhones (blackberries)

saving Afrika

getting down to ur ‘tube top’ weight

iPods

proving that ur authentic 2 ur parents

seeing bands

seeing DJs

seeing performance artists

sitting in coffee shops pretending to be busy

’seeing’ the ‘world’

fashion

street fashion blogs

AZNs

Mexicalts/Altinos

Blipsters

Gimmicky cultural zeitgeists

financial crises

spiritual crises

mainstream-alt crises

figuring out ur ’sexuality’

the presidential election

‘believing’ in ’something’ bigger than ‘yourself’

Barry Obama

Sarah ‘The Human Meme’ Palin

Ralph Nader circa 2000

Al Gore’s an Inconvy Truth

Nuclear Weapons inside of the 20 largest cities in the world.

Coke vs. Pepsi

Peanut M&Ms vs. Plain M&Ms

Sparks vs. Redbull + Whiskey + blow

Portland vs. Los Angeles Wars

San Francisco vs. LA Wars

NYC vs LA vs. Chicago vs. Santa Fe, New Mexico wars

Just do ur best to justify ur own existence–that’s all you can do. Liberty. And Jewsteece. For All, Yall.

via hipsterrunoff.com (2008)

[throbbinggristle]

2000s indie zeitgeist

girls with blunt bangs trying to talk to guys in hipster runoff genre tees at house parties where everyone either got a massive rush when they heard 'my girls' by animal collective come on the stereo or started to roll their eyes at the conformity of college kids that will go home to publish some posts on their blogs about 'buzz bands' and hopping into skype calls to argue about the latest hipinion threads on the topic of pitchfork panning an album you thought was good, but now think is bad. rushing home to write on livejournal about the way a girl looked at you and how it made you feel. carrying around a copy of 'bed' by tao lin in hopes that ~someone who gets you~ will notice and comment on it and you develop an intimate relationship no one could understand except the people who read your inevitable net-memoir about it. saying you were ironically wearing those skin-tight american apparel pants that you shoplifted to feel cool after your roommate made fun of you. graduating from bush-bashing on myspace to writing quips about the aesthetics of the french films and how they relate to your neuroses on twitter. feeling both offended and validated when called a hipster. explaining alt-lit to your teacher. feeling recognized but terrified upon hearing the new phoenix single play in whole foods. starting a dance-punk duo with your best friend using his minikorg until he loses interest in the project because he's been spending all his time with a ukulele girl. competing for the most artists in your library on last fm and flirting in the shoutbox of anyone vaguely twee enough for you, playfully negging them through arguments about the semantics of emo. wondering if chillwave is going to be the next ‘big thing’ and listening to washed out on your bed while waiting for your friend to come online and talk to you on gchat. 

[fruitchouli]

[hardcorefornerds]

Donald Trump is 'unable' to use quotation marks - and that's a problem

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has ignited a furious grammatical debate whilst defending Donald Trump's claim that he was wire-tapped by the Obama

The influential but now mostly retired blogger Carles of Hipster Runoff also made liberal use of scare quotes, applying them even to apparently simple terms used in a literal sense, such as “website” and “understandable”. 

This usage is, on the face of it, closer to Mr Trump’s than the more familiar usage, where a minister might refer to “hard Brexit” in scare quotes, because he doesn’t believe the term is accurate but wants to be understood. 

When Mr Trump puts “hackers” in quotation marks, he does actually mean hackers, who he believes are genuinely hackers, and he isn’t obviously quoting someone else saying that. He just puts the important part of the sentence in quotes – like Carles.

[throbbinggristle]

long live hipster runoff

[sleazy-est]

we need carles back

[ostensiblynone]

What would ur life be like if u couldn't hear buzzbands?

Wed, 2010-10-13 15:20 | by Carles

It turned out my iPod was just fine. It turned out that my hearing was gone. The ultimate nightmare. What would I do if I couldn't enjoy buzzbands? Would I lose 40-70% of my personal brand that is constructed around the indie music scene? How would I fill my time if I couldn't scan blogs all day searching 4 relevant artists?

I had lost the ability to 'hear'. I had lost the ability to be an active member of the buzzband ecosystem.

How would I escape from all of the troubled thoughts in my head without free mp3s? What would I listen 2 when I smoked dank? How could I impress a girl without making her an indie mix CD/playlist?

If you go to a relevant music festival, will there be some1 there to do 'sign language' to convey the vibe of the buzzband + relay important meaningful lyrics 2 u?