Have You Fallen For A Hipster Trap?

Have you spotted a "Hipster Trap" in your neighborhood? Reddit user gigaface writes, "Just met this guy setting up 'hipster traps' in NYC, baited with PBR and American Spirits. Awesome work." But where's the Four Loko and belt buckle MetroCard holders? Pshaw, this would never fool a Kyp Malone-level hipster.

This isn't the first time someone has brought attention to the endangered hipster; we were reminded of the Trustocorp's slightly-less aggressive "Don't Feed The Hipster" PSA from last year. If you do come across one of these tantalizing traps, don't be afraid: they're only made of cardboard. (Or are they?)

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By Ben Yakas in Arts and Events on March 14, 2011 9:20 AM

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Alexander Reid

uhh, want 1 plz?

Giuseppe Luzio

Push contents of trap off with a stick. collect rewards. SUCCESS!

Chris

This is not a hipster trap. Rather, it is sabotage against those who would stomp on all that hipsters hold dear.

wow mom cool

The hipster is the "street artist" wasting his time and money on this. Thanks for the beer and cigs ~~Banksy~~ nerd.

thinkblue

this is dumb. if you ride a bike, drink beer, smoke cigarrettes, or wear sunglasses then you are not a hipster.

but if you ride a bike with a yellow chain, drink a certain brand of beer, smoke a certain brand of cigarettes, or wear pink sunglasses, then you are a hipster.

am i getting this right?

Burgberg

Highly ineffective. I suggest using a Mast Bros. bar for bait. I put a few of them out last time I checked my trapline, but I got distracted at the Turkey's Nest, jawboning with a couple of Coureurs de Burg down from Quebec. Six boilermakers and twenty dollars of Buck Hunter later, I was in no shape to hike my trapline. By the time I was able to get out there on Sunday afternoon, the chocolate was all gone and I'd caught nothing but some bloody scraps of jegging and a severed foot in a chewed-up Ked.

Burgberg

Highly ineffective. I suggest using a Mast Bros. bar for bait. I put a few of them out last time I checked my trapline, but I got distracted at the Turkey's Nest, jawboning with a couple of Coureurs de Burg down from Quebec. Six boilermakers and twenty dollars of Buck Hunter later, I was in no shape to hike my trapline. By the time I was able to get out there on Sunday afternoon, the chocolate was all gone and I'd caught nothing but some bloody scraps of jegging and a severed foot in a chewed-up Ked.

jacqueline66

WTF is a hipster? I have lived here for 5 yrs and still don't know but I can say this, ny'ers are WAY too into their fashion language signals and that's why there is hate. Since moving here I find it really difficult to find anyone attractive. Either it seems that they are posing, feeding some trend or they have gone the opposite route and gave up on looking healthy/sexy altogether.

Are hipsters the ones who try to look like old people from another era? or is that bohemian?

signed,
totally confused at my age

OfficialRomio

Haha this is hysterical! What is its purpose? Just sending a message?

Grand_Nagus

Too bad it's not a real bear trap! I can't stand pretentious hipsters!!

Rocknrope

I must say, this was a very entertaining comment thread.

randomtransplant

I love how easy it is to hijack threadz on the interwebz.

If it's 'art', it would probably be more interesting to critique than I am. Ha.

hotstepper

you're winning! did you break that camera yet?

Trustafarian

haha - this is funny

valeriob

It's a trap!

NlGGAZ

I took the are you a hipster? test and I got a 40% rating. Phew! Kind of want that Bike chain though.

Guest

It's just metal chain links
Go to any hardware store and you can buy by the foot various degrees of strength for the links

Guest

Wow, just another boring creation by someone who hates himself.

hotstepper

cheeky.

polskiedukarty

hipster blog run by hipsters making fun of hipsters. I love NYC.

BottomlessChips

Uber meta

GentleGiant

This is a hipster blog?

GothamExtremist

And here you are, a hipster making fun of a hipster blog run by hipsters making fun of hipsters. I love NYC hipsters making fun of other NYC hipsters.

polskiedukarty

I have no problem being called a hipster.

dollarmenu

Then you must not be a hipster. Didn't you read the Terms & Conditions?

polskiedukarty

Okay, I'm not a hipster, then.

Steven Harris

Now you are, hipster.

chuzzlewit

ditditditdit...nice try, you slippery hipster.

Guest

Man you people are boring

You must get spit on a lot right?

chuzzlewit

so the target is supposed to step on the beer and the cigarettes to trigger the trap?
drp.

ganghiscon

No. The trap closes when the weight (ie the beer) is removed from the platform.

dollarmenu

If you're to believe every horror movie made that involves a bear trap, the trap is sprung when weight is applied to the trap, not removed from it.

chuzzlewit

that's right. i didn't spend tens of thousands of hours watching cartoons to not know how a coil spring leg hold trap operates, now did i?

robingee

Not to mention one of those bombs that looks like a bowling ball with a fuse attached. I am much more scared of those.

chuzzlewit

heavens yes - especially when it's loaded from above into a drainpipe that you are trying to crawl up.

chris

is that trap real? im waiting for some kid to stick his hand in there..

splicernyc

I still don't get the grubby beard thing. There are women who find that attractive?

9illy

I'm not really into the beards, but mutton chops are damn sexy. Seriously. There should be more mutton chops.

GregoireNYC

This is even more hipster than the hipsters it purportedly makes fun of. And besides, couldn't somebody get arrested for putting a 'bear trap' in a public place? Imagine if a yappy little dog wandered into it.

Mordicai

Right? Drinking bad beer & dressing goofy is bad enough-- part of the prerogative of youth, though-- but going out of your way to be ironic about irony? That...you...that is the same thing! You aren't "burning" hipters...you ARE the hipster!

...INCEPTION!

robingee

They're made of cardboard. (the traps, not the dogs)

dept54321

It's a fact: 95% of hipster hate originates with hipsters. The surest sign that you're a hipster, in fact, is that you deny being a hipster, make fun of hipsters and engage in elaborate (anti-)hipster pranks like this one. Why? Because no one else gives a shit.

wow mom cool

the 11th commandment! get some stone tablets dog!

garnetlove

For safety's sake, hopefully the springs have been removed or locked open....

randomtransplant

Tacky sunglasses next to a colored chain? And then you wanna throw in some 4 loco?

You've got like 18 different age groups all rolled into one passive aggressive nativist effigy. Fuckin old as it is shallow.

If I see one of these I'm taking the smokes and using the PBR to break the camera of the smart guy who thought of this. Then I'll make him get a real job.

ebietoo

I love how you're so offended at it for not being targeted tightly enough, rt. "Nativist effigy" WFT, dude? It's a joke, schmo. Stop taking yourself so seriously.

randomtransplant

This art is shallow, uncreative, and undescriptive.
You should take yourself more seriously. You might be able to reply with something more relevant than 'wtf'.

hotstepper

whats even more tacky is your internet tough guy syndrome.

randomtransplant

oh bull shit coming from the hand grenade.

I don't like you. It means i'm honest, not tough.

robingee

I always enjoy the idea that anyone who makes art or does anything clever or whimsical doesn't have "a real job." Clearly this would not take 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week to set up.

randomtransplant

There is something lacking in your life if you think this is funny and artistic enough to spend like 30 bucks on.

Maybe 'get a life' or 'grow the fuck up' instead? Maybe gainfully employed would be too ambitious?