Main image via Twitter
Sometimes people tend to be stereotypical and identify to a group of people based on how they look like. And sometimes there are situations like this that are just hilarious!
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A twitter thread recently went viral after this guy told a story of how a hipster got mad at an article the MIT Technology Review wrote and it’s hilarious!
The article was about a research on “the hipster effect” and how “the population of hipsters initially act randomly but then undergo a phase transition into a synchronized state.”
We promptly got a furious email from a man who said he was the guy in the photo that ran with the story. He accused us of slandering him, presumably by implying he was a hipster, and of using the pic without his permission. (He wasn't too complimentary about the story, either.)
— Gideon Lichfield (@glichfield) March 5, 2019
A guy apparently got mad about the article and accused the editors for using his photo and implying that he’s a hipster. And then it gets funnier and funnier!
Now, as far as I know, calling someone a hipster isn’t slander, no matter how much they may hate it. Still, we would never use a picture without the proper license or model release. It was a stock photo from Getty Images. So we checked the license. https://t.co/uFPXXNlEid
— Gideon Lichfield (@glichfield) March 5, 2019
The image does have restrictions—e.g., if you use it “in connection with a subject that would be unflattering or unduly controversial to a reasonable person (for example, sexually transmitted diseases)”, you should say that the person in it is a model. https://t.co/sYNmqJYZ2g
— Gideon Lichfield (@glichfield) March 5, 2019
The image does have restrictions—e.g., if you use it “in connection with a subject that would be unflattering or unduly controversial to a reasonable person (for example, sexually transmitted diseases)”, you should say that the person in it is a model. https://t.co/sYNmqJYZ2g
— Gideon Lichfield (@glichfield) March 5, 2019
The image does have restrictions—e.g., if you use it “in connection with a subject that would be unflattering or unduly controversial to a reasonable person (for example, sexually transmitted diseases)”, you should say that the person in it is a model. https://t.co/sYNmqJYZ2g
— Gideon Lichfield (@glichfield) March 5, 2019
We weren’t implying that the model had an STD, only that he was a hipster. We didn't think this met the definition of “unflattering or unduly controversial.” Still, we recognized that others might disagree. So, just to be on the safe side, we contacted Getty.
— Gideon Lichfield (@glichfield) March 5, 2019
Getty checked the model release, and gave us the news: The guy who complained wasn’t even the guy in the picture. He'd misidentified himself.
— Gideon Lichfield (@glichfield) March 5, 2019
All of which just proves the story we ran: Hipsters look so much alike that they can’t even tell themselves apart from each other. /ENDS
While the hipster thought his photo was being used in the article about how all hipsters look the same and it turned out that it wasn’t actually him! The irony.
The internet found the whole ironic situation hilarious and honestly, we do too.
Do you have a hipster friend? Tell us your thoughts on the whole situation!
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