"How has a joke that some say has been over for eight years become increasingly popular? Much has to do with the medium it originally grew to prevalence on: the Internet. Some aggregators like Buzzfeed get in the habit of spreading anything and everything hipster that comes their way because it will get traffic. Ryan saw a parallel here to another formerly omnipresent target: “If you look at YouTube at its inception, every other comedy video was about ‘Emo kids.’ It’s a concept that high school kids could relate to, and high school kids are a massive percentage of YouTube’s user base. Part of me thinks it took high school kids latching onto the hipster concept for it to truly take off and become as ubiquitous as it is today.” These sites are at the mercy of their view counts so if something has a proven track record it will be exhausted until it falters, whether it is Emo dweebs, pictures of Kim Kardashian’s divorced butt, kittens sneezing and farting at the same time, or stupid hipsters being stupid hipsters. The rehashing of the same stereotypes is not only not looked down upon, it’s encouraged."
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