Edit: This is going to sink into downvote oblivion, which is fine. I'm just glad it hit its target audience.

Kill yourselves.

I was really excited to attend this past weekend's midpoint music festival because I'm a huge fan of independent music. The last straw dropped when my wife and I arrived early at the Woodward Theater to get a good spot to watch Ryley Walker (my highlight of the lineup), so we could really enjoy the show.

The display of blatant disrespect and disparaging narcissism that ensued was enough to make a man kick someone in the throat. About three hundred hipsters, dressed in the most expensive clothes daddy could buy, flooded the theater and began to engage in the loudest idle conversation you could possibly imagine, which was matched only in intensity by its utter lack of value.

This soulless droning went right on through Walker's performance despite pleas from him to shut up. The crowd was so entranced with itself that they completely missed (what I could discern through their mindlessness) an amazing set.

So, after giving myself a day to cool off, I just want to invite you, Over the Rhine Hipster, to pull your head out of your ass and join the rest of the world. Try not being terrible for a day- I promise, you'll feel amazing for it.

That sucks, I can't believe an artist has to ask that. Sorry that happened. I thought mp was fun, and didn't see much rudeness at all. But fuck people interrupting an artist, that is terrible. I had a blast, chatted with some strangers at Washington park for an hour and met some nice people. I hope this was an isolated incident. I was at the festival and saw nothing of the sort.

Groups in numbers are rude. Hillbillies are rude, bros are rude, punks are rude, hip hop heads are rude. Young people, old people. It's nothing to do with a singular group. Yuppies drive the growth of otr, like bros drive the growth of the banks and whoever wherever else. If you hate them, avoid that part of town or else you're gonna have a bad time.

It's better than otr was 20 years ago, It gives the city a better reputation than being dangerous and they can do this kinda festival. My city being too hip is first world problems at its finest. Though hipsters abandoned otr for Northside long ago.

we should do this like once a week. This is a fun thread.

You are up next Suburban moms! I am tired of little Madisyn and Abygail putting their hands in the organic seed bins at the whole foods. That blatant display of disrespect and disparaging narcissism ruined my after work out grass cleanse for the last time dammit!

Oh well I'm off to to get my himalayan sea salt peal while you think about what you did!

Guy who likes hipster music goes to hipster festival in hipster part of town and complains about hipsters. SMH

I get where you're coming from, but it's a music festival, and I think there's something to be said for a festival set vs. a billed show. I played a music festival set yesterday (actually) and there were tons of people talking. I was okay with it, because most importantly, people were there and having a good time. I don't think it's a hipster problem, honestly. Crowd noise is pretty universal unless you're going to see jazz or classical.

You have to think about why people go to festivals vs why they go to a billed show. Nothing frustrates me more than someone who is unwilling to go to a music festival (my own included) because they don't know any of the artists. For me, it's more about having a good time at a loud, public event with a variety of music and discovery. Definitely less about having an intimate show with people who want to hear art, or using it as an opportunity to see your favorite artist. While it IS an opportunity, I think coming into it with the same expectation as a show where 100% of people are paying for that artist is not just a mistake, but totally misguided. Nothing against you, and especially not hipsters haha, it's just marketing.

If you can hear people talking over the music playing , it's probably not the type of show I want to be at anyways.

But sucks your show was ruined.

TIL that some people confuse hipsters with yuppies.

How can idle conversation drown out a music performance? If that actually happened it's the sound guy's fault

As a card-carrying Hipster (the card is made of artisinal rowan-wood sourced paper, hand calligraphied by an young woman with a Masters of Arts degree and a trust fund), I take offense to this.

No worthwhile hipster would be caught anywhere near OTR. That's where all the Casual Hipsters and Wannabes hang out. All the true hipsters have moved out to Cheviot or Westwood at this point.

Plus, live music? If the artist is popular enough that they're playing Festival shows, they're too popular for us of the Hipster persuasion.

Dagnabbit. I have some of those guys on my lawn, and they won't go away.

I get that you didn't have a good time and that sucks but hopping on r/cincinnati to make blanket statements while telling a whole sub-culture of people to kill themselves leads me to believe that you aren't very mature. The people at the show were wrong and I totally don't agree with talking during an artists set but you need to realize the world doesn't cater to you. This thread will accomplish nothing, enjoy your fake internet points.

"kill yourself"

Not a fan of hispsters but jesus.

They were being disrespectful and narcissistic before it was cool.

The only thing more self-entitled, annoying, and childish than being rude and loud during a show is coming to Reddit and making a long-winded, passive aggressive post about it.

Let me add to that: I think it's a Cincinnati problem.

I have gone to quite a few shows in the last two years and I've noticed an increasing number of adults (from 18 to 50) that just want to gab during the entire show.

I saw a small show at Madison (Red Wanting Blue) and the adults (30-50 years old) couldn't shut up. The band asked them to quiet down and even stopped a song and just waited. The weird part was that they all knew the words to the songs! They just couldn't stay sober enough (on a Tuesday) to listen to the band in an intimate venue. And some of them had the nerve to tell people to be quiet even though they were the ones yelling in each others' ears. Very frustrating.

On a bigger scale, at Bunbury, a few major bands really had contempt towards the crowd. The Decemberists were apparently just background music to the best conversation people were having. The band didn't really engage after they figured that out and started focusing on just playing. And Father John Misty, during an emotional rendition of "Bored in the USA," threw his hand up and said "Are you even listening?"

I wish I could do a PSA about it before each concert I go to but god damn, narcissism is taking over and people won't shut up.

The problem is ... They're hipsters. They only care about one thing...themselves.

I'm 6'4" and I've been physically bumped out of the way at the bar by the same types OP is talking about. Scrawny buttercups, at that. They fuss over the best beard oil and which Vine Street restaurant has the most authentic soul food from the cultures they deported during gentrification. The hubris is amazing, considering the possible outcome of treating someone twice your size this way.

Recently I read an article about how the lack of real consequences and absentee parents has lead to Millennials acting this way more often than not. It's not a hipster thing or a yuppie thing or a scenester thing, it's a Millennial thing. I don't condone it, but I'm a few years older (Early Generation Y) and when I was in my early 20s if I bumped someone out of the way I would certainly be taken outside to learn a lesson. The author argues that he's bringing back chivalry codes that allow legal engagement in physical battle. While diplomacy is and should always be the goal, and simply walking away is advised, for the health of our society one must wonder what the benefits would be if some education at the school of hard knocks would happen when confronted with behavior that goes well beyond the scope of merely annoying others by speaking loudly during a concert. It's not like you can feasibly talk sense into a guy who has never had to earn or fight for anything in his life and is on his ninth $7 can of overrated local pale ale.

My sincere advise: Pray for the people who annoy you the most, and find a way to love them.

I feel you. The loud-talking, self-absorbed privileged kids have made their way to the punk and metal shows too, but thankfully they are drowned out by screeching guitar feedback and thundering bass so that the only possible way to communicate is drink more beer and dance.

When their "personal brand" has to compete with "wall of angry sound" you'll find most of them outside chain smoking vaping and talking about how this band isn't as good as x band was back in a day before they were born, as if they were nostalgic for a time they never knew (a further enhancement of their "brand" I suppose).

What happened to the shoe-gaze kids of yesteryear? At least they were quiet.

these are the turds who pay 900 bucks for a one bedroom apt. and comment on how "authentic" and "real" the neighborhood vibe is.

I, too, have a problem when going to shows and dealing with people who are so self-interested that they ruin the show for everyone else. This is a "people" problem, not a "hipster" problem, however.

You sound like full on hipster by the way.

Hipster- Someone that goes out of their way to be different and enjoys being difficult to everyone around them, including themselves.

Normal- enjoying whatever the hell you like bc you like it. Not caring what everyone else is wearing/doing/drinking/eating.

So a hipster bartender was referring to every drink I got as "the truth"....what the hell does that mean?

Both sides of this argument are why I left Cincinnati. Otherwise it's a great city and I love coming back to visit it.

Whatever you say buddy.

but dude they have like salmon shirts and they love chicken and waffles and OMG there is a place that has tacos they know about that no one else knows about! You should be cool like them and so different and check out some of the cool stuff no one knows about. You only may have to wait a few hours all those places are always packed....

Go home, pops.

Isn't "OTR" and "Hipster" kind of redundant? If you're talking about people who frequent OTR, you don't need to specify hipster. It's assumed.

This is a general Cincinnati issue. No other city talks over the music act playing. It is why I avoid seeing shows here now and avoid MPMF and attend festivals elsewhere. We are the worst crowds no matter the venue or act for this reason alone.

Wait what was the problem? Some people talked at a festival? If only they were as un-terrible as the person judging them by the clothes they wore...

I've never seen a bigger group of people with such a fascination with soul-crushing vanity, yet they lack any substance. How can something so useless be so infatuated with itself. Does not compute.

Well said.

Preach.

this is sad and so are you. what depressingly divisive ramblings. people need not derive self worth from shitting on people they don't know or understand. I feel like I just watched a skit from portlandia or something. get a life or a radio or a hobby, maybe stop worrying about what hip kids are doing. but at the very least stop giving advice. there are a lot of people who don't appreciate that kind of hyperbole.

This thread seems to be dredging up a lot of people's insecurities. It's pretty clear why, however, I'd love for one of the people I'm addressing here to explain why their behavior is justified.

You may be asking for a little more than they can give. But goo don you for that.

There aren't 300 hipsters that live in OTR. They are from else where in the city. If you don't like OTR, go some where else and you won't have to get upset.

I don't trust people that constantly have something to prove

LETS CONTINUE TO GENERALIZE LARGE GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS. HIPSTER IS THE NEW BLACK!!!

The only reason white people like you are living here is because I settled this fucking neighborhood for you.

for real you ain a hipster unless you leave someone with that feeling at least once a day ONCE A DAY in your daily life

like my first thought about reading your headline was

this is going to be good

i wasn't surprised but i was surprised by how succinctly you put the thought

like there is math to the hipsters or something that a mathematician could flush out or something

like

that's what hipsters do

they live their lives in such a way

that people just hate them on a visceral cultural level

like a hipster is a type of person

that just

i don't know

i just notice

hipsters are hated

i don't know much about them

but i know they are hated

like they are the cool kids in the suburbs but in the city they aren't capable of doing enough to get that heart to them ...

like if the hipsters would just move to the suburbs at the age of 13

they would probably end up being really cool

like a hipster might be a kid that needs some suburb in them to flesh them out

like i could have been mistaken for a hipster but i played a lot of sports

like

i don't know

hipsters

who doesn't hate their own definition of a hipster