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The (for lack of a better, less worn-out term) hipster aestetic is so fucking predictable and uniform these days. My neighborhood, for example, is in full gentrification mode. And, as usual:
Lots of coffee shops with designer logos and cool and/or edgy sounding names, open. Twenty-somethings convene here and sit with their macbooks, in fahionable, casual attire. People riding electric skateboards or similar.
Boutiques and tiny art galleries selling neatly framed graphic art and design objects.
Startups in warehouses, usually something to do with micro brewed organic this-or-the-other kombucha energy drinks, or something-something sustainable mycelium electric bike handlebars this-or-the-other.
It's has been more or less the same looking shit surrounded by the same looking people for the last 15 years at least (let's call it 20). And it looks the same in Warsaw, Berlin, Tbilisi or Stockholm etc. as it does in Copenhagen.
I have no beef with the above, apart from it being stale, uniform, predictable and boring.
Signs I'm getting old, maybe.
- having a Dan Ashcroft moment?
https://www.youtube.…Bluejam - I can relate deeply to that video, and have watched multiple times. Except I don't necessarily find the aforementioned people idiots per se.jagara
- I just want them to switch it up already. Make up new shit.jagara
- sounds nice, where is it, i want move there.shapesalad
- well don't worry, next 50 years we will are reverting on globalisation, so expect local stuff to come back in fashion.shapesalad
- The internet plus globalization killed anything unique********
- Keep in mind that many of those art galleries and design shops are run at a loss, by young people who have trust funds to keep the biz afloat********
- @jagara lust some ideas of what you’d like to see insteadKrassy
- Something that tries harder to be its own local and unique thing. Something less bland and lazy.jagara
- for example?Krassy
- (not challenging you; genuinely curious what you would prefer to see)Krassy
- Simply something new. Remember when Nirvana killed hair metal overnight with Lithium? It was incredibly surprising and refreshing.jagara
- Then a barrage of copycat grunge bands made the whole Seattle thing boring after half a decade. Then something new and interesting emerged.jagara
- I just feel like they been doing the same thing for more than a decade.jagara
- K cool, I see what you meanKrassy
- Totally MexicoChimp
- Same thing is happening my barrio too. I’d like to see more useful shops that sell vegetables or a decent fishmonger. Anything but another bar.Chimp
- Perhaps a greengrocer that employed people with disabilities, for example...Chimp
- Love this. I got tired of seeing the uniforms in the first 3 years. It feels more cultish now and more and more fake with no meaning behindBeeswax
- You could transport someone from 20 years ago to today and they wouldn’t look that out of place. Not like 1980 to 2000Chimp
- I think this ties in with a post drgs made recently. We'e reached a widely-horizontal culture point where every extant sub-culture's available and as new as ...Nairn
- ...as it is old to each emergent generation, so genuinely novel or massive changes will happen at a slower and slower pace.Nairn
- Until then, everything's just nuance. For every hipster, I see nerdcore, goth, trans-whatever - there's a multitude out there, co-existing at the same time.Nairn
- All I do know is that every characterless cunt these days thinks they need a load of crappy tattoos on their person to make them 'stand out'.Nairn
- ...which makes having zero tattoos the original thing these days.jagara
- having a Dan Ashcroft moment?