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Meursault
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« on: May 25, 2014, 07:10:18 AM »
Watching Natural Born Killers, I feel like its neo-psychedelic pornoviolence would have been considered hipsterish. I think of Ministry and Poppy Z. Brite and Hellraiser.

And then I think: why is everything so much more bland today?
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« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2014, 08:04:43 AM »
Quote from: Meursault on May 25, 2014, 07:10:18 AM
And then I think: why is everything so much more bland today?

The hipster subculture became commercialized in the last decade. That may or may not be to blame for its current blandness, but I hate it when alternative subcultures go mainstream, so I'll go ahead and blame it anyway.
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« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2014, 08:07:36 PM »
They carried schoolbooks in Jansport backpacks and watched Nickelodeon.
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« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2014, 12:25:59 AM »
Abercrombie and Fitch was the height of fashion, at least here in suburban Connecticut.

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« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2014, 10:23:12 AM »
Definitely the Guess brand - watches, clothes, backpacks, etc. If I'm not mistaken, it was mainly late 1980s through about the mid 1990s that that brand was massively hipsterish.
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« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2014, 10:25:56 AM »
Quote from: Napoleon on May 26, 2014, 08:07:36 PM
They carried schoolbooks in Jansport backpacks and watched Nickelodeon.

...and sometimes NBC  (they had Saved By The Bell, after all).
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« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2014, 09:04:26 PM »
They listened to Radiohead before they were cool (disavowing "Creep.")
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