Just a quick topical post. Yelp recently added a "Hipster" topic among its standard "trendy" "casual" "dressy" subheadings for depicting a location's ambiance. First of all, (and slightly off topic) I really think "Douche-y" should have been announced first. That would be a much more useful categorization of places to avoid, or in my case, frequent in search of my ideal man. Secondly, a place cannot be hipster and trendy at the same time. It's against the laws of nature. This is not an opinion, it is a hipster-given fact. Literally, if a trend and a hipster ever come into physical contact with each other, the hipster immediately explodes. I've seen it, don't question me. And yet every. single. place. reviewed on Yelp that is "trendy" is also classified "hipster," and vice versa. What is truly ironic though, is that once something is reviewed on Yelp, it can no longer even be hipster. So you can tell by simply reading the classification (or being on Yelp in general) that a "hipster" locale is not going to be what you're looking for. Hipsters don’t need Yelp to tell them whether something's worth going to. They only rely on that one trustworthy friend who's friends with this kid who underground-DJs on the weekends to know where the cool places are to be (but only on weekdays, hipsters have a very "I'm City, you must be Bridge-and-Tunnel" outlook on going out). Good try Yelp, but you're not fooling anyone. Well, actually, you're probably fooling a lot of people, but not this hipster-in-training.
Let me know when you get that "Douche-y" tag up and running though.
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