Why I Hate Hipsters.

I know this blog is supposed to be about my life in Japan, so I usually don't comment on things back home. But when I attended the annual sake festival in Niigata a few weekends ago, I came to the horrible realization that a certain plague that has been infecting the US for the past several years has now spread across the sea to Japan. That's right folks, hipsters have come to the Far East.

This is a sake fest, not a steam-punk convention!!

So now, I feel like I must finally address the issue of why I hate hipsters. I should note that, while the majority of hipsters I see are foreign, there is an increasing number of native Japanese starting down the dark path as well.

First off, they love to steal cool things from other people, and then claim that they invented it--to the extent that the original people who started said trend are now only "wannabees" in their eyes. One major example is skinny jeans. Bands like The Sex Pistols and The Ramones were wearing skinny jeans decades before the term "hipster" was even a twinkle in American Apparel's eye. Skinny jeans are punk, period. I don't have a problem with anyone else wearing them, but don't pretend that you made them cool, hipsters. Same goes for Converse high-tops. Even the V-neck T-shirt for boys, which I highly disapprove of (unless you have some really nice pec-cleavage and NO chest hair), was first worn by fashionable Japanese guys (and it was also the thing that made foreign guys swear that all Japanese men are gay), but now every hipster guy is wearing one.

Some other things hipsters have ruined: Bicycles, Used Clothing, Big Headphones, Old-Timey Facial Hair, etc., etc.

Also, gross miscarriage of "Irony." Life is not an Alanis Morissette song; you can't just decide that anything you want to be ironic is ironic. Fanny Packs aren't ironic, also they are not cool. Wearing a Hitler 'stache and doing the "Heil Hitler" sign is not ironic, not even if you're a Jewish hipster.

But the biggest reason I hate hipsters is because they claim they are "cool" because they are so "original" and "individual," while at the same time dressing exactly the same way, listening to exactly the same music, and having all the same values as their hipster "friends." I'm sorry, but I believe you have confused the word "original" with "carbon copy." I don't care if you like "hipster music" or "hipster fashion"--wear what you want, listen to what you want, do what you want, but don't let anyone else tell you what "what you want" is! That's how I live my life...so I guess that means I am not cool...boo-hoo. (Ironic crying)

Check out the hilarious site "Look at This F**king Hipster" for more F**king hipsters: http://www.latfh.com/