Hipsters

So this is going to be a short blog, firstly because I’m really busy at the moment and secondly because I don’t have much to say on this topic. But I’ll be writing a long rant about Herd Mentality as soon as I can, so look for that.

Anyway, today I want to talk about Hipsters.

I’m not talking so much about the general understand of Hipster, but more people who act really smug when they’ve done/said something before someone else.

For example, a friend of mine posted a status with a funny observation that she’d made.  Then a friend of hers commented saying that someone else had “beaten her to it”. Like my friend was posting a funny status because she wanted the world to know that she was the first person who had ever noticed this thing that she’d noticed. I mean saying “beat you to it” makes it seem like a competition. “Oh, you wanted to be funny, too bad! Someone has already been funny before! You lose!” 

Just because someone else has done something before you have, clearly you can’t do it anymore. Because the purpose of life is to be completely original all of the time. Your ideas/observations are only funny if no-one else has ever thought of it before, understood? 

Nothing is original anymore. There are so many people in the world that it’s highly unlikely that anyone will think/say something that millions of people haven’t already thought/said. So, telling people that someone has “beaten you to it” deserves a Nicholas Cage “You don’t say” face. Of course someone else out of 6 billion people has done something that you’ve done.

The same thing with 9gag. Let’s say Jill sees a funny quote on 9gag, she might be like “well, that made me lol quite a bit, I think I’ll post it as my Facebook status so that other people can lol too!” Jill then gets seventy zillion comments saying “9gag” and “well, aren’t you so original.” Fuck you, Jill didn’t post that in the spirit of “I’m so funny, I came up with this all on my own! Marvel at my hilarity!” Jill posted it in the spirit of “This is funny, and because the world is such a miserable, dreary place, I wanted to brighten up your day by sharing it with you.”

So if you refuse to laugh at the same joke twice, if you discredit a statement because it’s been said before, or if you feel superior because you’ve done something before someone else – fuck you, no-one cares. Well done, you’re a super cool hipster; you showed everyone how awesome you are. Now go jump into a volcano before the lava gets cool.

Stupid hipsters piss me of.