Maiken Woll Eide photography

when i left norway i knew what a hipster was, a hipster was, well, almost me. only with fake glasses and weirder taste in music. hipster.no was recently launched, and apparently a hipster is not a hipster anymore. in reply to the website, i wrote this email, which i didn't send. mainly because that would be too rude. here is the email:

Regarding your website.
Or rather, about the name for the website, hipster.no

According to the definition of what a hipster is, we can say the following: "Hipster is a slang term that first appeared in the 1940s, and was revived in the 1990s and 2000s often to describe types of young, recently settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers with interests in non-mainstream fashion and culture, particularly alternative music, indie rock, independent film, magazines such as Vice and Clash, and websites like Pitchfork Media.[1]"

With this I want to you to, particularly notice the sentence: "recently settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers with interests in non-mainstream ..."

Accordingly we can say that a hipster is a person who dresses fashionable, but not in Marc Jacobs or Jenny Skavlan's BikBok collection, but more Acne and vintage shoes they bought for 25 euros in Copenhagen (please note that the shoes actually cost about 300 euro). They listen to music no one else listen to: the fewer the better (again, please note that no one listen to them because they are musically lacking in everything).

So, my problem with the name of the website is then as following: the website doesn't show any hipsters. None of which we can find on smug.no or lookatthatfuckinghipster.com. With this I would like to request a change in name. Examples may be westofoslo.no, borninbærum.no, solliplassftw.no or hipper.no. This way you can let hipster be hipsters and the cool and hip hang out in their hip, overpriced clubs listening to Calvin Harris. Or to put it in a simpler way. Not anywhere close to anything remotely hipster-ish:


Hipsters, in all their glory, fake glasses, jeans vest and horrible tattoos:


Thank you, and kind regards. Maiken.

Source: wikipedia, urbandictionary, smug.no and lookatthatfuckinghipster.com

i know i am a bit too blunt sometimes, but this had to be said.