Aimee Plumley: She Was Talking About the Hipsters in Two Thousand and TWO
The golden rule of the idea game is never be first. The guy who rips you off (or was he just slower on the uptake?) will be the guy who gets all the credit.
Hence, with all the hipster talk flying around these parts, we tip our beaks to Aimee Plumley, who stared a blog devoted to the subject of hipsters in August 2002. Remember August 2002? That was back when you could still kick around terms like”electroclash,” “American Century,”
and “selling out,” in polite conversation. Back when we were still deciding whether to call them “scenesters,” “hipsters,” or just keep our mouths shut and our notebooks open.
Hipsters Are Annoying contains such gem posts as “What is a Hipster?” (answered with a succinct 10-point list) and “Ironicannibalism,” which
deconstructs the Urban Outfitters faux thrift store t-shirt. Check it out. This is like reading Leonardo’s notebook about the winged man, centuries before the invention of the airplane.
