This recent infographic comparing Geeks vs Hipsters is slightly amusing and informative. We're not too big into labels around these parts, but we're sure you'd like to know which category you fall into. Continue to compare your own personal interests, fashion, music, movies and more, and find out once and for all, are you geek-chic or hipped out? [Visual.ly]
patrick February 23rd, 2012 at 05:25 PM
This is really stupid.
TeeJay February 23rd, 2012 at 08:47 PM
According to this I'm right in the middle. But being an awkward black woman just puts me in a different lane.
Fart February 26th, 2012 at 10:40 PM
This is so fucking dumb/outdated. Hipsters don't wear shutter shades and never did. Also the hipster band list is fucking awful.
youngurbanamatr February 27th, 2012 at 11:45 AM
Several interesting things pointed out here... the affiliation between geeks and classic rock, and hipsters' aversion to classic rock, is a recent phenomenon which I think is unfortunate. I would have been more into this if it had paid more attention to subtle differences... for instance, what is the hipster equivalent of the geeks' "long-winded and pretentious?" It also would've been funnier/more interesting/more accurate if it had moved "Rushmore" to the geek side (while keeping "Life Aquatic" on the hipster side). Both geeks and hipsters like Wes Anderson, and the subtle difference between "Rushmore" and "Life Aquatic" points to the subtle differences between their fans.
JT March 8th, 2012 at 05:20 PM
Comments along the lines of "...so fucking dumb/outdated" are "so" typically hipster. The "hipster band list is fucking awful" comment completes the hipster personae. Why must hipsters ridicule everything? Of course, you might have been making an ironic comment; in that case the jokes on me...but as I was saying: This is a funny little poster about hipsters and geeks, not an academic treatise or a social psychology dissertation! Really, do you actually even CARE if you're a hipster? I just wish people didn't go out of their way to make me feel bad about my lifestyle preferences--I'd rather not know how much you hate the things I like, life is hard enough as it is!