I barely remember 2010, but I remember Scott Pilgrim being to hipsters like Fight Club and American Psycho are to incels; They totally missed the point of the movie, thought it was aspirational, and the results in dive bars and shitty venues across America (maybe just the midwest?) were disastrous.
Was this real? Did I mandela effect it from the negative zone or something? Am I just getting old?
False. I hear this all the time about the comic or the movie and frankly I’m never sure what phenomenon it’s referring to. At worst it was part of the wave of the mainstreaming of nerd culture, which brought mutual ruin to both the mainstream and nerd culture. Maybe you could tie it to every independent music scene simultaneously becoming shit, but I’m not sure I see the causal link there.
What I do remember is the word “hipster” becoming popular in the late 00s and almost immediately becoming a signifier for any kind of annoying person who thinks they’re better than you. This was instrumentalized to bury the last remnants of intellectualism and political consciousness in American culture, paving the way for the sneering stupid consumerism we have now.
Fr, I was either just out of or on my last year of high school in 2010 and we had hipsters everywhere cause that’s what all band geeks became. Never heard a thing about Scott pilgrim.