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Hipster Whines at Tech Mag for Using His Pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same; Wasn't His Pic

posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 08 2019, @10:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the do-you-see-what-I-see? dept.

martyb writes:

Hipster Whines at Tech mag for Using his pic to Imply Hipsters Look the Same, Discovers pic was of an Entirely Different Hipster :

At the end of February, MIT Technology Review emitted a pithy rundown of a 34-page research paper from maths-modelling boffins at Brandeis University in the US; the paper essentially posited that in a bid to make that all-important "countercultural statement", hipsters can end up looking alike. For groovy models of how random acts by hipsters "undergo a phase transition into a synchronized state" – along with some knotty network equations – see here [PDF].

Accompanying the article was an edited stock image of a generic millennial chap in plaid shirt and standard-issue beanie, or "trendy winter attire", as Getty put it.

The MIT journal's editor-in-chief, Gideon Lichfield, took to Twitter to tell a "cautionary tale" about what followed the article going live:

"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.)"

[...] Lichfield pointed out that he didn't think calling someone a hipster was "unflattering or unduly controversial" but contacted Getty to be safe.

The stock photo giant checked the model release and lo! The guy in the image wasn't even the same dude who was complaining. "He'd misidentified himself," Lichfield said.

"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."

Maybe he was confused after renting this movie?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 08 2019, @10:17PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 08 2019, @10:17PM (#811782)

    That asumption is your mistake!

    Only consider that the average IQ is 100 and realize how dumb most of those average humans you stumble upon everyday are.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @12:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @12:29AM (#811836)

    IQ is a score for solving the puzzles of an IQ test. It is obvious that someone highly trained in solving puzzles will score much higher, therefore the score can not be a static measurement. I'm pretty good at seeing connections and patterns, but if you stop at the first pattern.. then that's all you see. I never question the wisdom of the crowd [wikipedia.org], but I often question the question.