Thursday, 31 July
6:46pm, 31 Jul 2008
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“ What [hipsters] may or may not know is that “cool-hunters” will also be skulking the same sites, taking note of how they dress and what they consume. These marketers and party-promoters get paid to co-opt youth culture and then re-sell it back at a profit. In the end, hipsters are sold what they think they invent and are spoon-fed their pre-packaged cultural livelihood.

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From Adbusters’ hipsters are the downfall of ALL OF WESTERN CIV (via Rach)

This is some pretty sloppy bias.

It’s true that kids at shows and parties are snapping pictures of each other and posting them on the blogs, and that said photos are then being used as raw material for marketers, promoters, and designers.

But the interpretation that this means they’re being “spoon-fed”  “what they think they invent” is pretty one-sided.  Isn’t this situation much MORE of a dialogue than the one-way communication that comes down the pipe about, say, standards of female beauty, in magazines and media targeted at young women?

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