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1945174 No.1945174 [Reply] [Original]

Why is it that I feel that /lit/ is with just hipsters?
Anyone feel this way?

>> No.1945177

can you repost that in a proper sentence so we can parse out its meaning?

>> No.1945176

>>1945174
...is filled with just hipsters?

>fixed

>> No.1945183

Think of it this way: let's say 4chan attracts 1% of the world internet users. Who is it going to attract? Mostly males, probably educated, probably socially lacking (ie not your typical alpha) and probably someone who emphasizes intelligence or wit as opposed to direct social standing.

Hipster is the natural outcome of 4chan's more "intellectual" boards.

>> No.1945186

>>1945183
Well put. Can you explain to me what the fuck is up with the /vp/ folks over there?

>> No.1945188

>>1945186
what do you have against /vp/? Everybody loves pokeymen.

>> No.1945190

>>1945188
>>>/vp/7309638
not as much as this guy

>> No.1945202

>>1945190
yes, as I said

>socially lacking (ie not your typical alpha)

>> No.1945203

>>1945183
you don't

even

know

what a hipster is

>> No.1945206

>>1945203
we all know he means pseudointellectual poser
that's like the common definition of hipster nowadays

>> No.1945208

>>1945206
that's dumb, fuck you

>> No.1945211

>>1945174

Listen up, OP. Hipsters do NOT read fantasy novels and make twenty threads a day concerning books about dragons and shit.

There aren't many hipsters on here. If there were many, we would see many more William S. Burroughs/Kerouac/Bukowski threads.

>> No.1945215

>>1945211
more like David Foster Wallace and Pynchon threads, of which there are millions.

>> No.1945216

>>1945208
back to >>>/b/

>> No.1945217

>>1945215
Don't forget the "weekly updates on bullshit that none of us care about" from Tao and his urbanista bitch Megan Boyle.

>> No.1945218

>>1945208
deal with it
words and definitions change over time bro

>> No.1945226

>>1945217
Okay, this is correct.

>> No.1945228

>>1945215
While this might be 100% correct, I haven't felt the hipster vibe from the DFW threads as much as I sense a need to jump on the bandwagon of a guy who killed himself.

The Pynchon I just always classify as an in the closet sci-fi nerd.

>> No.1945233

>>1945218
but changing a word entirely in, like, a year is dumb

it's like, words change over time, yeah, that doesn't justify your dumb misuse of a word. apple gorb fishloop (that means "go to hell" now, DEAL W IT)

>> No.1945362

>>1945218

Yeah, but just because you're using it wrong doesn't mean the meaning of the word actually changed. A hipster is a very specific subculture of people. Any other use is wrong.

>> No.1945370

>Why is it that I feel that /lit/ is with just hipsters?
because it is

>> No.1945392

>>1945206
Nah, those are diet hipsters. They sort of fall into scenester, because they aren't pretentious enough yet to disband their admiration of The Devil Wears Prada, but aren't too gay to like My Chemical Romance. Real hipsters are smart people who have their annoying nuances.

>> No.1945523

"Hipster" has actually become a pejorative term for a variety of different kinds of people. While it is commonly used to describe pseudo-intellectuals, it's also used to call someone a pseud-intellectual just because you don't like their tastes in something, or because they schooled you in a debate of some kind(happens here all the time), or because they know more than you do about a subject (also happens here all the time).

The term "hipster" is almost never used properly on the internet, mainly because I think it involves some kind of a visual component that can't be derived on an anonymous image board. On /lit/, the people who use it are just buttmad subjectivists who had their favorite book/series insulted.

>> No.1945524

Why is that I feel this troll thread will be so successful?

saged and reported

>> No.1945526 [DELETED] 
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1945526

Is being hipster really that bad ? I mean there must be some actually hipster who are consider not to be pathetic wannabe.

>> No.1945535

>>1945228
>The Pynchon I just always classify as an in the closet sci-fi nerd.

The only sci-fi I've checked out, albeit briefly, was Asimov, and I found the general style too descriptive and timeline-based, as in fantasy. I could never quite grasp the entertainment provided by these dramas.

Pynchon, on the other hand, interests me. I've read Slow Learner, Against the Day and Mason & Dixon. I don't understand how even a detractor would be able to say that M&D is anything short of remarkable, but to each his own -- even still, I don't see the sci-fi -- science, perhaps, but not the sci-fi.

>> No.1945536
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1945536

Is being hipster really that bad ? I mean there must be some actually hipster who is consider not to be pathetic cool wannabe.

>> No.1945537

>>1945535
dramas*

genres*

Sorry, about that.

>> No.1945557

>>1945535
You must keep in mind that most who will detract from Pynchon some sort of sci-fi hate are those who are only familiar with Gravity's Rainbow.

I loved Mason and Dixon as well, but you're going to be hard pressed to find many who will "tough-it-out" until the end.

>> No.1945674

>>1945536
No, because what you describe is pretty much the current definition of a hipster. The hipster of the 40s-70s is a lot different from the modern hipster, at least in definition.

>> No.1945688

I wish the word hipster never existed

>> No.1945689

Hipsters are too mainstream for /lit/.

>> No.1945694

>Why is it that I feel that /lit/ is with just hipsters?

Is anyone else having trouble finding meaning in this sentence?

>> No.1945698

2/10

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1945711

This image should help everyone figure out what a hipster is.

>> No.1945712

I hadn't even heard the wors hipster until 2 years ago. On the internet.

>> No.1945735

>>1945711
God damn. That guy's a unicorn.

>> No.1945745 [DELETED] 

that looks like a screencap from a busy night at the /lit/club, not even trolling.

>> No.1945748

>>1945711

that looks like a screencap from a busy night at the /lit/club, not even trolling.

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1945757

>>1945748
>>1945748

which one am i?

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1945779

>>1945757

definitely the nigga with the chalk at the top telling it like it is.