Meme Diagram: The Evolution from Hipster to Hippie
Published on Tuesday 5/4/2010 @ 9:21 PM by the ALT REPORT Robot
Some blogger in San Fransisco made a ‘visually delightful’ image / meme about how certain bros evolve from hipster to hippie. I am not sure if I really ‘endorse’ this meme, since it seems pretty simple, but I figured I should ‘get in on the traffic’ it is probably going to generate some ‘hipster bashing’ hits as mainstreamers ‘share’ this image, and ‘lol’ about bros who they know who grew scruffy beards to try to be post-hipster personal brands.
I went to the website that was linked, and it seemed like some person who was trying to ‘find social meaning’ but it was difficult cuz ‘so many ppl were so hollow’ or something.
R u a ‘hipster’ or a ‘hippie’?
Do u like people who ‘share hipster links’?
Do u like to ‘laugh at effing hipsters’?
Is there anything to laugh at in this meme, like some sort of whimsical truth that we can acknowledge and laugh about?
Is this a high level design meme, or some low level Adobe Illustrator vector graphics?
Could there have been more numbers / statistics involved to make this an official infographic?
Do bros in San Francisco ‘get all confused’ about what their brand is about?
Do all ‘hipsters’ devolve to ‘hippies’ or are they just ‘the rich kids who don’t have to get real jobs’?
Does n e 1 who generates ‘hipster commentary’ memes deserve an automatic book deal?







52 comments to “Meme Diagram: The Evolution from Hipster to Hippie”
May 4th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
first!!
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//////////Reply by shapes
//////////Posted May 5th, 2010 at 1:54 am
@fat kid, my hero
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May 4th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Just realized I’m at step 3 y’all.
I’m not an “entry leveler” anymore.
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May 4th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
bllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh
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May 4th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
so true.
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May 4th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
all is suck.
look forward to posts with less ‘meme’ and ‘hipster’.
worry not.
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May 4th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
feel like step 5 is just authentic folk punk bro
p.s. it’s only funny if it’s true (hro is like that sometimes)
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//////////Posted May 4th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
@kevbro, right on, man…
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May 4th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
this a cute idea. but this fggt has it all wrong. Ask urself, how many bros u knos have “chops”? or naturally forming dredz? very few bros. this lil blogbro is detached from reality!
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//////////Reply by remixes are better
//////////Posted May 4th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
@AltBrooklyBro, this was a cautionary tale?
a hipster is not a toy.
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//////////Reply by stillness is the meme
//////////Posted May 5th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
@remixes are better, lonely island bros = entry lvl. weak.
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May 4th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
hippies smell like ass and steal ur shit when ur not looking
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//////////Reply by danja
//////////Posted May 5th, 2010 at 8:47 am
@eyepatch, Why r u being so hostile man?
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May 4th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
i love self-righteous hippies who only eat organic but smoke all the time
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//////////Reply by For Reverend Meme
//////////Posted May 4th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
@evan, u have encountered what is known as ‘the hippiecrite’
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//////////Reply by evan
//////////Posted May 4th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
@For Reverend Meme, and i think i could stomach such glaring double standards if they weren’t so smug about them
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//////////Reply by fat kid
//////////Posted May 4th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
@evan, hippiecrits exist but alot of people eat organic to ‘fight’ the major food industries practices. Not for their health. so people with that perspective/reasoning aren’t being hypocritical. watch ‘food inc.’
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//////////Reply by evan
//////////Posted May 4th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
@fat kid, i’ve seen it; and while that is a noble cause, again – i just wish people would fight the good fight without being so smug
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//////////Reply by Michael Pollan
//////////Posted May 4th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
@evan, read me
//////////Reply by David Kessler
//////////Posted May 4th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
@evan, read me too, bro
//////////Reply by Eric Schlosser
//////////Posted May 4th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
@evan, I’m alright
//////////Reply by Marion Nestle
//////////Posted May 4th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
@evan, I’m of no relation to NestlĂ©, the largest nutrition and foods company in the world.
//////////Reply by letters2god
//////////Posted May 5th, 2010 at 1:05 am
@evan, i only smoke organic marijuana
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May 4th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
step 3 is everyone in my city and it owns
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May 4th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Ya know I always thought it was the other way ’round. I assumed that hipsters evolved from hippies.
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May 4th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
my BF is totes a step 4. i’m so ‘in luv’.
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May 4th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
hippie, hipster.
why can’t we all be friends forever?
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//////////Posted May 5th, 2010 at 11:49 am
@amber, kinda agree but this doesnt generate mad hits 2 ur blog
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May 4th, 2010 at 11:21 pm
ummm im moving backwards through the steps sans dreads
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May 4th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
hipster doesnt necessarily (d)evolve into hippie. more often they ‘grow up’ and become yuppies. most of them are like adorable yuppie larvae.
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May 5th, 2010 at 12:56 am
Carles is a Step 4 Echo Park hipster.
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May 5th, 2010 at 1:17 am
Im definitely going through these phases
like stage 4 but with patchy scruff (via boyface)
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May 5th, 2010 at 1:29 am
Step 6: create content ‘satirizing’ the hipster u once were.
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May 5th, 2010 at 2:52 am
It is now about the Hindies.http://www.theusdvista.com/arts-culture/a-modern-counter-culture-philosophy-1.857357
you’re several cultural steps behind, my friend.
ride out the marketing waves though.
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May 5th, 2010 at 4:27 am
step 4 is always so kute <3
ps: congrats fat kid!
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//////////Reply by altina
//////////Posted May 5th, 2010 at 4:52 am
@laurn, totes agree, Step 4 = yummy /Step 2 = Eww.
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//////////Reply by cheevus christ
//////////Posted May 5th, 2010 at 10:28 am
@laurn, so yeah i ownlike 30 obscure 8-tracks so what’s your phone number?
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May 5th, 2010 at 8:03 am
could we make bathing alt again….for the children?
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May 5th, 2010 at 8:36 am
That was kinda lame.
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May 5th, 2010 at 10:13 am
they missed the cigarette evolution big-time. GATEWAY DRUG, CLOVES> PARLIAMENT LIGHTS>AMERICAN SPIRITS> OH SHIII IM BROKE> BALI SHAGG
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May 5th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
HIPPIE~
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May 5th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
i call booshit
five to six is a big jump and everyone knows u trade vinyl for shoes (to black ppl) , not the other way around.
there needs to be like an interim step of folkbros losing job at trader joes, going on semi-ironic wellfare/foodstamps, having a semi-ironic kid with their skank crustpunk gf and then maybe pushing meow in echo park and freganstealing from the bright spot dumpsta.
also fuck this overdesigned kidrobot baby’s first Illustrator aesthetic. (via bringing back serifs yall)
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//////////Reply by "play 'freeganbird'!"
//////////Posted May 5th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
@the freewheelin’, oh damn, ‘comprehensive,’ re: intermediate steps.
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//////////Reply by elektrowave
//////////Posted May 5th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
@the freewheelin’, semi-ironic is the new ironic / earnest / not sure.
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May 5th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
HIPSTARS R HUMAN. LOVE THE HUMAN HATE THE HIPSTER
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May 5th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
true. hipsters are memes. next meme plz.
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May 5th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Damn hippies, always ruining everything.
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May 6th, 2010 at 1:33 am
still at 1 :(
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May 7th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
feel ‘inauthentic’. will never be able to grow beard or chops. will always be step 1.
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May 9th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
im a hipple. hipster do not live in the uk just sad indie kids
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May 14th, 2010 at 1:52 am
Last one makes me think of a crust punk…
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May 14th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
i can smell it and it’s not pleasant
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