A man threatened to sue a magazine over the use of his photo in a story about how hipsters "always end up looking the same." But it turned out that he wasn't the one in the photo after all. It was just someone who apparently looked like him.
Wait ... what happened?
On Feb. 28. the MIT Technology Review ran an article titled, "The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same." The article used a Getty stock photo of a bearded man in a knit beanie and flannel shirt — someone who appeared to personify the generic definition of a hipster.
In a Twitter thread, MIT Technology Review's editor-in chief Gideon Lichfield related some of what happened next.
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Sad but true, you can spot them anywhere, they are typically demoncrat as well.
ReplyDeletePerfect stereotype description. The ones I know are fast moving toward socialism, if they're not already there.
ReplyDeleteTypical millennial
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