Where can people go when they want to find unicycles built for two, ridiculously oversized scarves that impede motion and vision, or penny-farthing bike locks? The regular classified ads simply won’t do. Instead, the terminally quirky can take refuge in the #HipsterClassifieds, thanks to a hashtag that started trending on Twitter late Thursday. The trend can be traced back to users @BadRonen, whose current profile pic shows an alarmingly curly mustache, and @swissmistress, whose header photo is a giant, leering closeup of geek god Jeff Goldblum. Blessedly, the Twitter community responded to the #HipsterClassifieds challenge in a big way. This might be one of the last major expressions of hipster-based comedy, sadly. Skinny jeans and dive bars have served as reliable punchline fodder for years, but the hipster may have gone the way of the dodo.
In the meantime, while people still remember what a “hipster” even was, Mashable’s Sam Hayson has rounded up some of the best #HipsterClassifieds tweets. And they’re a consistent delight. Naturally, there’s a joke about being into the most obscure bands imaginable, like this one courtesy of @BadRonen himself.
And no hipster-themed thread would be complete without some variation on the phrase “before it was cool.”