Hipsters need to die... and stay dead.

You know what needs to go away fast? The word "Hipster". Seriously, it's overly liberal application to everything has made the word completely lose all meaning. It's simply become another shallow label which is used by people to dismiss and devalue something they don't like or don't understand. That's fine you don't like this show, but it's completely unfair to call it a "hipster" show. It's dismissive and inaccurate. It's reductive and shallow.

Anything and everything new and different now-a-days just gets the "hipster" label slapped on it by someone. You guys have killed the word. It's dead. It's lost all meaning. You have overused it and beaten it to the ground. Most of the time, like now, it isn't even used correctly. Wanda Sykes does a voice on this show, is she a hipster? According to you she is because you claim it's voice-acted by hipsters. Is Jon Lovitz a hipster? What about Colbie Smolders? Or Adam Scott? Or Mark & Jay Duplass? Horation Sanz? Molly Shannon? All of these people are now "hipsters" because you say they are? Really? Come on.

Louis CK's new show "Horace And Pete" is super dramatic and shot like a play. It's about a bar in New York. But hey, guess what? On that board, you'll find people calling that show a hipster show too. So this cartoon about animals, and a play about a bar in New York are both hipster entertainment? Really? I don't think Louis CK is a hipster. When I think hipster, I don't immediately visualize an overweight, balding, 40-something year old in my head. Do you? Is that a hipster?

What the f-ck is a hipster anymore? Seriously? I swear it's just become a word that will just quickly dismiss something without people needing to really explain themselves. They just say "hipster" and it's like "Oh sh!t, IT MUST BE BAD! HE SAID HIPSTER!". Gimme a break.

"Hipsters", to me, are people who continuously try to be "hip" by claiming to like the latest entertainment and fashion trends most of which are usually unknown to the mass, general public. It's usually not quite in our mainstream culture. They do things ironically. They usually present themselves as "too cool" for whatever the mainstream public is into, and if whatever they like becomes mainstream they usually end up disliking it and moving on to something else more unheard of and therefor more "hip".

But this doesn't mean that everything outside of mainstream culture should automatically be labelled "hipster entertainment". There is a world of music, art, fashion, and film that exists outside of the mainstream culture and it's not all "hipster" stuff.

Should everything just be exactly like what's going on in mainstream culture? Should Animals be live action, filmed in front of a studio audience, have bland predictable jokes and a laugh track? Should Horace And Pete be on CBS? Should every show be exactly the same? Are people not allowed to experiment with new ideas and forms of film/television? Should we stay stagnant and in place? How are we going to evolve entertainment if anything new, different, unique, and innovative that comes out is labelled "hipster entertainment" and we all follow your train of belief that "hipsters need to die"?? Horace And Pete was unlike any show I've ever seen before. I don't think it was a hipster show at all, and I don't view myself as a hipster for having watched it. I also didn't watch it simply because it resides outside of mainstream culture. I didn't watch it to be hip or trendy. I watched it to see what Louis CK was doing. And I personally enjoyed it so I kept watching.

I watch Animals. because a friend showed me the "Cats" episode and I thought it was really funny, so I kept watching more episodes which I also found pretty funny. I didn't watch it to be hip, or trendy. I wasn't doing it ironically, and I most certainly wasn't watching it because it "exists outside of mainstream culture".

I am not a hipster.

In fact, I think the word "hipster" has been killed. It's lost it's meaning by people labeling anything NEW as being something for hipsters. New things are good. This is how we pave the way toward more exciting and different things down the road. Things change. Artists like to try out new ideas, and they should without being labelled that shallow, reductive word "hipster". If you don't like it, that's fine. You don't need to like everything. I don't like everything. However it certainly doesn't mean that this entire show was thought of, written, voice-acted, and watched by people who are just trying to be as hip and trendy and as far ahead of mainstream culture as possible. No. That's silly. It's silly to think that because it's obviously not true.

Should every show be the f-cking Big Bang Theory? Let's let people experiment and come up with new sh!t. It doesn't mean they are hipsters. Don't be so short sighted and closed minded.




If I can't travel freely with my drum of drugs than the terrorists have won.

You sound like a hipster.

no...u are a huge gayboy though