The Coquette

“Hipsterism, as amorphous as we all like to believe it is, is similarly dispositional; you can get away with wearing a Screamin’ Eagle T-shirt if you get it. If modern hipsterism is vague and notoriously difficult to define, that might be because it cuts such a vast swath of cultural inclusion. Across fashion, music, food and taste, hipsterism is all-inclusive, rolling over different subcultural indicators and effectively re-Tumbling them. The hipster himself is incidental. It’s the play of signifiers—blue-collar beer, couture fashion, a Crass-logo tattoo, knowing what sous-vide means—that’s interesting. Pure content. No context. You know it when you see it.

So perhaps Tumblr is less a rock tumbler or a tumbleweed than a sinkhole, a gaping e-maw into which all these pretty, precious poses can be dumped. It may be extravagant to use GIFs as fertile turf for some full-bore generational critique. But Tumblr, infectious as it may be, is symptomatic of a vacuous taste-making culture that thrives on fickle inside jokes and the immediacy of novelty qua novelty. “Look At This Fucking Hipster” might as well be the name of the meta-Tumblr that aggregates all of Tumblr. Imagine it: clumping together the images of a generation, hokey and ephemeral, a steady drip of cultural runoff.”

Against Tumblr (via kateoplis)

seriouslyamerica:

casanova-frankensteins-monster:

cyberneticsoul:

thesassyblacknerd:

ohmygil:

thanosisabutt:

redunderwear:

bedabug:

mitsurugireiji:

dwarvesintheshire:

mitunafaptor:

mitunafaptor:

Kanye West makes a new fashion statement

Kanye Vest.

Kanye buys a place for his valuables

Kanye Chest.

Kanye tells a joke

Kanye Jest.

Kanye West grates a lemon

Kanye Zest

Kanye starts a journey

Kanye Quest

Kanye gave his approval for a marriage

Kanye Blessed

Kanye reviews his own Album.

Kanye Best.

Kanye trashes a hotel room

Kanye Messed

Kanye takes the ACT

Kanye Test

Kanye throws a party in his own honor

Kanye Fest

Kanye visits the Czech Republic

Kanye Trest

Kanye starts a campaign for oral hygiene awareness

Kanye Crest

Kanye does a guest spot on Law & Order: SVU

Kanye Molest

At any given moment, you do not exist. Your body exists, temporary though it may be. Still, you are not your body. You are merely an electrochemical process of your body. The continuity of your separate self is manufactured every few milliseconds by a hunk of warm grey meat between your ears. In the time it takes you to read this sentence, your brain has created you a thousand times, and it has left behind a thousand ghosts of you.