>went to buy classic 1980s fantasy paperbacks >stuff that often have a 50 cent stamp from book stores>"That will be $80 + fee + shipping + tip + tariffs"Hipsters have destroyed the vintage book market and have made it impossible for us actual collectors to buy them at the proper price. They are now charging obscene amounts of money for disposable fantasy trash market novels. Stuff that used to sell for 50 cents in used book stores, they are now demanding between $50-$100 per book because of all the youtube 'book haul' hipsters.
>>24785744OP is mad that people just like him are now doing the same thing as him.
>>24785753The difference is that I am actually buying them to read and many of them, I have read already in the 80s and 90s.The hipsters only buy them to post pictures of themselves holding it, mouth agape, for twitter, youtube, and social media. Then they store it in a pile and never even pull it off the shelf. They have destroyed the market for actual readers and collectors.
>>24785773What do they do in these book haul videos? Just read off the title and comment on the cover?
>>24785781Do you think that a bunch of zoomers even know or care about this? They just want reddit upvotes. They can read the words, describe the plot (most likely with the help of AI) but they do not deserve to take it out the hand of actual collectors who lived through that era, who are the rightful controllers of fantasy culture.
>>24785794Are the zoomers/hipsters in the room with us right now?
>>24785798Go look on YouTube and see the floor of people holding books, mouth agape, books flooding out of their hands. Zoomers are just trying to get as many upvotes as possible. They are taking books out the hand of actual collectors. Here are two of the most recent examples:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLrgEzTgWM8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1SD6pnqJSsNotice a few commonalities:>Zoomer generation.>It's just about quantity, not quality>Shallow surface level descriptions of the books (because they were summarized with ChatGPT)>No soul at all
>>24785794>cares so much he never managed to buy a 50 cent copy when he had the chanceboomer dickbag
>>24785863Are you going to post this exchange on tiktok zoomie? Go fuck yourself.
>>24785744hipsters died out 10 years ago
>>24785773>I buy 60s mass market paperbacks with extremely fragile bindings that fall apart all the time to READ, thank you very muchDoubtful. Whenever I buy a small format paperback from that era to read, I have to tape the spine down
>>24785744You sound like a faggot so I'm glad those zoomers are getting the books instead of you
>>24785744But enough about hipsters, let's discuss why Perry Rhodan would kick Conan's ass
Hipsters don't exist any more, unc.
>>24785989>>24786415Did they just disintigrate into thin air?
>>24786441From a Marxist perspective, the commodification of these aesthetics represents the capitalist system’s ability to absorb and neutralize subcultural resistance by turning it into marketable products. The style that came with this fanbase saw a continuation of skinny jeans and thrift/vintage store finds but served as a natural continuation of the younger indie kid aesthetic that existed adjacently or even interchangeably with the archetypical hipster look. However, it adopted facets of the fashion of the 70s and the 90s (which, surprise surprise, 90s-esque styles are mainstream now), as well as the teen culture of the 60s. At this time, though to a lesser extent, we were also called hipsters.As my generation reaches its thirties, this particular look has died out, likely in part due to the pandemic, which accelerated changes in fashion and social behavior. Personally, I abandoned this style for almost exclusively vintage menswear from the 40s to the early 60s for a beatnik look—a style that itself draws from an earlier alternative subculture that resisted mainstream norms. This ongoing evolution reflects the sociological principle that subcultures are not static; they continuously adapt and transform in response to broa
>>24786441They were subsumed by capital and became normies or incels. Around the time Pitchfork rebranded from an indie rock website to a Taylor Swift and Beyonce marketing campaign.
>>24785744Welcome to capitalism buddy, supply and demand is the #1 law of the universe, fuck your concerns.
>>24786441Look at /mu/. You can compare threads on the archive to now. It used to be the home of hipster culture on 4chan. That culture is completely dead.
Holy wah wah wah shut up you fag my god
>>24786454>we should all be celebrating getting absolutely cucked
Hipsterdom is so thoroughly dead that I can't even find the old "hipster is a meaningless perjorative" copypasta on the archive any more
