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NYPD Has New Name for Hipsters

phpjApkYbAM.jpg Unsubstantiated! However, one Twitterer recently twote that she "Just found out cops in Williamsburg call hipsters marshmallows because we are white and soft." Whether or not this is true, we would like to recommend that everyone use "marshmallow" going forward — it is much less amorphous than the H word.

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  • virble

    Seems like many are complaining about Gothamist articles about Williamsburg, but is anyone really forcing you to read them? Who cares?

  • snickerdoodle

    Gothamist seems big on racially profiling people. Unless they're Muslim terrorists, of course.

  • snickerdoodle

    Gothamist is clearly run by chavs.

    Jesus Christ, this is a story? Your news sense sucks.

    +1

  • jeremiade

    Jesus Christ, this is a story? Your news sense sucks.

  • shitshow

    muuuuurda she twote murdaaaaa sheee twoo-a-ote...

  • potsmoker

    it doesnt refer to being soft like 90lb weakling.

    it refers to being so soft you call 911 for every little inconvenienence and discourtesy you encounter even if its not a crime. it referes to the retarded need to film and stand there and document every single argument and discord that appears in front of of your hoping to get some twatter and utube fame. it refers to the incessant need to blog tweet face and space every single event in your boring lives as if its really important.



    yes cops do some good work, some cops are assholes.

    most cops are asshole who havent been discovered yet.

    cops dont deal with hard core white people who hold it down in the hood, they deal with pretenious twats who overwhelm the 911 system with dumb silly calls.

    http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/845973660.html

    Tips For Clueless People Who Get Mugged



  • Nanker Phelge

    So black hipsters are roasted marshmallows?

  • brunning

    like most cops are not white and soft?

  • F1Mikal



    Is there a name for people with dark skin who wear skinny jeans and live in Williamsburg? Like if they are from the Caribbean Europe or Afrcia, not from American

    wow, this board is so diverse and educated.

  • saratoga mind

    that would be nutella

  • Wza

    Those are the marshmallows just sell out.

    ;)

  • Wza

    *that

  • jaycjay

    The tipster got it wrong. "Marshmallow" refers to anyone who is "white and soft." Sure, it can be applied to some hipsters but it also can be applied to a significant segment of the non-hipster population. And a significant number of Gothamist commenters, I'm sure.

  • nikki-jo

    why the fancy monikers? those of us down in the southern parts of BK have been calling them douchebags for years... seems to work just fine.

  • potsmoker

    u must be a marshmellow.

  • valeriob

    everyone knows you can't put that in a washing machine

  • JenChungsBaby

    Sober up and click on REPLY when you're replying to someone.

  • Wza

    I just hate them.

  • potsmoker

    this is old news if your not white

    i guess when you discover a slang derrogative term used to describe your soft your people are you find it endearing, write a twitter post and it gets picked up as news.

  • ckl

    sober up a bit and try that sentence again.

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