All hipsters look alike? Man threatens to sue tech mag… for using photo of another hipster
“Your lack of basic journalistic ethics in both the manner in which you ‘reported’ this uncredited nonsense, and the slanderous, unnecessary use of my picture without permission demands a response, and I am, of course, pursuing legal action.”
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Apparently offended at being called a hipster – as most hipsters are – the reader fired off an angry letter to the magazine, denouncing the use of his image to illustrate the “tired cultural trope” and demanding satisfaction.
The article’s authors dutifully contacted the stock photo agency where they’d found the image – which was sold as a “handsome young man in trendy winter attire against a wooden background,” not even a hipster – only to learn the model in the photo was someone else entirely. “We don’t think this is you,” they told the self-conscious hipster-phobe.
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I guess "Hipsters" really do look alike ?
Who knew !