“Poptimism” was an early sign that hipsterism was being eclipsed by woke — a resentful distrust of the sense of Taste that led people to enjoying difficult, complex, and refined art
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Hipsterdom was to a degree coopted by woke but it mostly was replaced. Poptimism, safety, inclusion and positivity became the inperative
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When pitchfork gave the new animal collective album a 6 and Kanye a 10 I knew it was over

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Their dealings with Ariel Pink cemented it imo