Personality Quiz: Are you a hipster?

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Tim
January 7th, 2009 - 14:52

pretty funny. i still like aesop rock though.
Jack Mule
January 7th, 2009 - 15:07

wtf? this makes no sense.

Intentionally Unhip

You’re not trying to be hip and you don’t give a shit what hipsters think about you.

I think the only one i answered yes to was owning shit from warp records. everything else was a nope.
Jason
January 7th, 2009 - 16:31

@Tim:
Yeah those are some decent record labels. Matador, Drag City, Dischord – guilty as charged.

@Jack Mule:
Exactly. You answered no to all the stereotypical hipster characteristics – so you’re not a hipster. You’re unhip. (”Intentionally” is an assumption.)
randi
January 7th, 2009 - 18:15

Haha! I’m intentionally unhip. I would prefer unintentionally hip but what can you do….

randi´s last blog post..Look Away
Intentionally Jack Mule
January 8th, 2009 - 03:05

Yeah, I think it’s the assumption that brought forth the wtf. I’m unhip. I know that. I have no disillusions on secretly being hip.

Intentionally seems to imply that i’m a hipster in disguise trying to be unhip.

Reminds me of HST’s fear and loathing in the national district attorney’s association (rough rough “quote”.. book downstairs somewhere and i’m lazy):

Dr Bloomquist on the 4 states of being:

Square – seldom if at ever cool. hasn’t figured it out.
Hip – figures it out.
Groovy – approves of it.
Cool – requires luck and perseverance.

What was i talking about again? Oh yes, constant jacking off.. now where was i.
Jason
January 8th, 2009 - 09:08

@randi:
Haha. I suspect nearly every “hipster” believes they are unintentionally hip. It’s not hip to make an effort.

@Jack Mule:
I removed “intentionally” from the results, because I think you’re right. People who are unhip aren’t necessarily trying to avoid hipness. They just aren’t making an effort (and aren’t unintentionally hip either).

The results from answering with those middle of the road options (Maybe, Whatever, etc) are even more potentially insulting. I can be cruel sometimes.
Intentionally Jack Mule
January 8th, 2009 - 13:55

Random clicking provided:

Fraud

You want to be a hipster so you take on what you believe to be hipster tendencies. Too bad you’re off the mark.

That’s still a bit ambiguous! What could it possibly mean?! (nice!)
Jim Pony
January 8th, 2009 - 15:56

Unhip. My neighbors are total Ringling College hipsters. They hate it when I call them that. They look like Napoleon Dynamite threw up on them.
Omnipotent Poobah
January 12th, 2009 - 21:48

I prefer not to think of myself as unhip so much as “fashionable anti-social”.

Omnipotent Poobah´s last blog post..So Now He Gets Reflective
LC
January 14th, 2009 - 20:54

I love American Idol, Britney Spears, NKOTB and people.com!
Does that make me the anti-hipster?
Jason
January 14th, 2009 - 22:37

@LC:
You just might be. But in a way that’s oddly hip.
Diane
January 17th, 2009 - 00:43

If there had been a pie after hip I’d have it aced

Diane´s last blog post..8 Bucks My Ass
carmen
March 5th, 2009 - 15:38

UNHIP

i dont know how i feel about that.

i think i like it. i never wanted to be “HIP”. i have always though of my slef as kinda cool, but most days i dont give a S*#t, i guess that canceles out my coolness.

what is the difference between cool and hip????????????

i had to google the definition of “gentrification”

i had a pair of thoes elvis costalo sun glasses, but that was before i knew what a hipster was. when i found out, i stoped wearing them.
—-pluse: they dont keep the f*#cking sun out your eyes. that was always really ANNOYING
seth
June 30th, 2010 - 12:08

@carmen,
“i had a pair of thoes elvis costalo sun glasses, but that was before i knew what a hipster was. when i found out, i stoped wearing them.”

this is something a hipster would do.