Juggalipsters/Hipsterlos… Hipster and Juggalo Worlds Hopefully to Collide Soon?
We’ve been all about the collision between Juggalo and Hipster culture for a long while now. We reported on Derek Erdman’s excursion into the Dark Carnival way back in August of last year. I really think we’re witnessing a strong and unprecedented shift into Juggalo pandemonium and I predict that 2010′s Gathering of the Juggalos will see the largest influx of curious non-Juggalos into the Dark Carnival than they’re probably ready for.
I think that a lot of this has to do with the fact that those of us who grew up with seedlings of the movement in the mid-late 90s are just now starting to realize just how large and powerful it has grown since we stopped paying attention. Case in point? MTV has starting taking an interest in the growing fascination with Juggalos. When’s the last time they cared about being down with the Clown? The late 90s??
The MTV blog just posted a short read with Derek Erdman asking him to compare his experiences in attending both The Gathering of the Juggalos and Pitchfork’s yearly music festival in Chicago (AKA The Gathering of the Hipsters). Maybe Pitchfork will even stop taking themselves so seriously and give everyone what they want at this years festival, ICP as the headliners! Or maybe MTV will do a Jersey Shore type show with 8 Juggalos in a House (fingers crossed). Who knows? Hipsters are thirsty for some Faygo!! I just hope it doesn’t lead to a whole Juggalo vs. Maggot type feud… Juggalos and Hipsters must unite. One love woop woop!
Thanks to The Tripwire for the heads up on the MTV post.
- My Pal the Crook
February 8th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Fuck hipsters, Juggalos all the way. And it’s “Woop, woop.”
February 8th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
you’re right I fucked up, but you’re still a Juffalo.
February 8th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
“I sat behind you in science class for like six years…”
February 8th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
I’m still amazed at the national hype the Lo’s have been getting lately- I think this is only new and exciting if you live on the coasts, or some other fantastical place where you didn’t have to spend your entire adolescence surrounded by these beasts.
Still, I can’t help but feel a little defensive of them when they’re discussed by people who really can’t know what the full Jug-Life experience entails. I mean, I know y’all have dopefiends and crazies in spades at every subway stop, but you can’t appreciate how subhuman this shit is unless you lived somewhere in the barren expanse that you all know as “whatever is between Brooklyn and LA”, but I welcome you to try. An influx of hipsters at the Gathering would definitely not go the way you’d hope. I mean, you probably think you have some nihilistic, balls out, scumfuckin parties in your hood, but until you’re in a single-wide trailer with no heat in the middle of the woods in winter, off of some oil-rig access road, bumpin Cube, hittin the pipe, and watching a VHS copy of some amateur wrestling whilst seated between a 45 yr old morbidly obese man and his 20 yr old daughters 2yr old twins, while mommy pulls some shady shit in back with a kid wearing giant pants made from D.A.R.E. T shirts- THEN YOU JUST DONT KNOW
This is probably the only time Michigan Northwoods is ever gonna beat NYC to the punch. Ima savor it.
February 8th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
That sounds EXACTLY like what I expect to happen and it sounds awesome.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Well then best of luck to you, sir.
Pardon the skepticism, i just wasn’t sure if you people (oh yeah, “you people”) knew how to do that raw dog nihilism shit without a bunch of people liveblogging it, and discussing the wider cultural implications of the “braidlock” (of which there are many).
February 8th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
I preferred to smoke out in a trailer at 6:15am (after clocking out from the third shift grocery stocker position) while listening to “Jigga What” and watching the martial art sequences in Fist of Legend with my gun enthusiast Juggalo coworker. This dude had the braids, insane weed smoking habit and a ten year old Chiefs Starter jacket to represent his love for getting high. Kicking it with him was way more chill than hanging out with the Juggalo coworkers that had kids.
Fuck dat, on the run-by, gun high, one eye closed
Left holes through some guy clothes
February 8th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Interesting that my first time seeing Fist of Legend was in a trailer full of juggalos as well, cultural ambassadors and shit.
Here in MI the ten-year old Starters are still alive and well, mostly Charlotte Hornets or Miami Dolphins though…something about that teal, maybe.
February 8th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
I sold my teal Hornets Starter coat to Wale.
The “Starter couture” seems to have run it’s course in Illinois (at least to my memory…it’s been around four months since I last went home) but the Juggalo culture is obviously thriving. I remember seeing an end cap of psychopathic merchandise at the Hot Topic back home, and the Gathering is about an hour drive from where I went to college.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:22 am
All of you silly geese MUST attend The Gathering this year. No other music festivals compare. Juggalos are SERIOUS entertainment and fun as shit to be around. (I’ma promote my shit now) I just wrote a dumb-ass post on my site which is a guide to the gathering for non-juggalos. Click my name for it. If you’ve ever wanted to break free from civilization and regress into a 10-year-old, The Gathering is the place to do it.
February 14th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
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