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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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  • uhh, want 1 plz?

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

  • 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.

  • Guest

    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.

  • Guest

    cheeky.

  • polskiedukarty

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

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