Wtf is this twee stuff?

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/07/the-twee-revolution/372273/

Looks like hipsters are now transitioning into twee.

I want a v8 powered s10 to mow down these dorks.

What's the problem here?

perpetual toddlers

I couldn't give less of a E36 M3.

I got about halfway through that and gave up. I have no berking idea what they were talking about.

Now get off my lawn.

In reply to bgkast: me neither. But the infuriate me.

Stupid!...

Nah, I shouldn't be like that.

Twee is to hipster as emo is to Goth. It's another set of cool kids trying to buck a trend and be ahead of the curve, except far to much of it is a rehash of other things.

The funny thing is, like all trends and fads, this to will disappear back into the obscurity from whence it came. It'll become to popular, to main stream and so the cool kids will be looking to latch onto the next big thing. All a bit of a vicious circle really.

Twee will have been and gone by the time I've mustered up enough care factor to try an understand the nuances and intricacies of it.

Just like the beatnik poetry clubs of the 1950's.

daeman wrote: Stupid!... Nah, I shouldn't be like that. Twee is to hipster as emo is to Goth. It's another set of cool kids trying to buck a trend and be ahead of the curve, except far to much of it is a rehash of other things. The funny thing is, like all trends and fads, this to will disappear back into the obscurity from whence it came. It'll become to popular, to main stream and so the cool kids will be looking to latch onto the next big thing. All a bit of a vicious circle really. Twee will have been and gone by the time I've mustered up enough care factor to try an understand the nuances and intricacies of it.

and I have zero idea what either of those are

In reply to wbjones:

Those are the people you see in public and shake your head at.

Through my old bass player, I am still casually on the fringes of the local Philly music scene. As such, I am often in contact with various hipster groups. They amuse me. I like to smile and casually pat them on the head. Of course, they become confused and look at me as the old guy I am... which of course, makes me laugh harder.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

bgkast wrote: I got about halfway through that and gave up. I have no berking idea what they were talking about.

Yup. Me too.

foxtrapper wrote: Just like the beatnik poetry clubs of the 1950's.

Everything you need to know about beatnik poetry

I liked all that stuff before it was cool.

I think I got it. "Twee" is what happens when the everyone-gets-a-medal generation hits their early adult stage.

The beautiful irony of that article is that it's crappy enough to fall into twee-dom itself.

wbjones wrote:

daeman wrote: Stupid!... Nah, I shouldn't be like that. Twee is to hipster as emo is to Goth. It's another set of cool kids trying to buck a trend and be ahead of the curve, except far to much of it is a rehash of other things. The funny thing is, like all trends and fads, this to will disappear back into the obscurity from whence it came. It'll become to popular, to main stream and so the cool kids will be looking to latch onto the next big thing. All a bit of a vicious circle really. Twee will have been and gone by the time I've mustered up enough care factor to try an understand the nuances and intricacies of it.

and I have zero idea what either of those are

glad I'm not the only one.

read the article.

Everything old is new again. That's all I can say about that.

bluej wrote: I think I got it. "Twee" is what happens when the everyone-gets-a-medal generation hits their early adult stage. The beautiful irony of that article is that it's crappy enough to fall into twee-dom itself.

Ladies and gentlemen, the riddle has been solved, and we have a winner!

It's the next evolution, or you might call it a new level, of hipster culture. The Goth-Emo analogy is a good one. A culture that celebrates amateurism and harmlessness? Free of the various fashion treadmills that hipster culture ran on? Doesn't interest me, but it hardly sounds like a bad thing either.

I like some Belle & Sebastian songs, as well as Wes Anderson movies, and who cares anyway?

I'm not reading all that.

Can somebody sum it up in one paragraph or less?

In reply to sachilles:

"A new breed of hipster has come about that is even more ironic than the previous ones."

bgkast wrote: I got about halfway through that and gave up. I have no berking idea what they were talking about.

As soon as people like us start figuring out what they're talking about, its not cool anymore.

In reply to failboat:

Here, here! To the destruction of another silly subculture!

I couldn't make it past the first paragraph of that article. That dude really loves the sound of his own "voice."