⚝⚝⚝ Trifles ⚝⚝⚝ Last updated 01/25/24 ⚝ First posted 08/14/20
Remember when Tumblr used to be a fun place to visit and not this horrid shell of what it used to be like it is now?
I do. I was on tumblr a lot. And when I saw the hipster kitty meme in 2010 I jumped on it.
Of course, I got on the trend before it was popular. Duh.
So here are all the hipster kitty memes I made for Tumblr.
Pretty accurate to me – as a kid I grew up using white-out, tape, and a copy machine with my mom’s help to make documents and newsletters and all sorts of creative things.
Tumblr went down a lot. Of course, it was down all the time in 2006 (before it launched).
It’s true, I hated the tumblr radar.
I’d believe that a hipster would use a litter box. But I never did, to be clear.
A shirt with “costume” written on it is so basic. A shirt with “shirt with costume written on it” is at least a little better, but if you’re wearing it ironically…
This is 100% accurate to me, as I realized I liked pop music when it was cool to hate on it, and then I still stood up for it even though my tastes went back to weird stuff.
I think there was some supposed rapture happening but nowadays this one is just a non sequitur, which is fine, you probably don’t get what it references anyway.
This one is based off of Geno, a very obscure character in a retro vintage video game. You probably haven’t heard of him.
Who says “mainstream” anymore?
I was (and am) a huge Ke$ha fan so I really liked this one. Unfortunately someone else made this same joke a month later and theirs went viral instead of mine. It’s ok though, mine ended up being the more obscure version.
*cries*
Accurate to me.
I’m pretty big on time travel, but Hipster Kitty knew about it tomorrow before we did today.
Please enjoy the mental image of a hipster licking him or herself clean.
Probably written while hungover.
I was proud of this one – loved how out-of-nowhere antimatter came from.
When Halloween is on a Wednesday you celebrate the weekend before.
I checked a dictionary for this.
A geophone is a French-invented percussion instrument that has a lot of tiny rocks rolling around and emulates shifting Earth… but you probably have never heard of it.
Honestly, do you even care about sound quality at all?
I think this is a common joke now but I hadn’t heard it back then.
Preserving the typo for posterity. Daguerreotypes are badass.
Why are you still celebrating on the fifth?
This is a reference to the Dandy Warhols but it’s ok if you don’t understand it.
Well I also have it on LaserDisc if that helps.
Accurate to me.
Very accurate to me. I used to know this guy (who I only actually knew by the name “the beast with 1000 tongues”) who somehow had access to albums months before they’d come out, and I regularly got them from him.
Sorry if you don’t understand this by default.
Saved my personal favorite for last. I’ve always wanted to just pay for things solely in wads of two dollar bills.
I hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane. It’s ok if some of these references were too obscure for you.
