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#HipsterCongress

#HipsterCongress

Part of a series on 2013 U.S. Government Shutdown. [View Related Entries]

Updated Jan 29, 2025 at 06:17PM EST by LiterallyAustin.

Added Oct 08, 2013 at 05:41PM EDT by Brad.

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#HipsterCongress is a Twitter hashtag associated with humorous one-liners characterizing the United States Congress as a hipster stereotype. The hashtag can be seen as a part of the American public's growing dissent over the United States government shutdown which began on October 1st, 2013 and remains ongoing as of October 8th.

Origin

The hashtag joke emerged at around noon (ET) on October 8th, 2013, the beginning of the second week into the government shutdown, when @JesseBerney used the hashtag in response to his friend @AnaMarieCox's tweet[1] linking to a Public Policy Polling press release titled "Americans like Witches, the IRS, and even Hemorrhoids better than Congress."


Q23 What do you have a higher opinion of: Congress or hipsters? Congress Hipsters.. NOR SHI.wwwwwwwwwww. 33% 42% 25%


Spread

From there, the joke quickly gained momentum in the following hours as other users on Twitter joined in with their own jokes, including @ShawnFleek[6] who contributed more than a dozen of #hipstercongress tweets and The Office comedian and writer BJ Novak.[7] By 2 p.m. (ET), Mashable[4] had published a compilation of the tweets in an article titled "21 Funniest #HipsterCongress Tweets You Probably Haven't Heard Of."

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▼ y Follow TrivWorks TrivWorks #HipsterCongress Stem cell funding for "skinny genes ←Reply Retweet ★ Favorite More 21 30 RETWEETSFAVORITES 12:43 PM-8 Oct 13 ▼步Follow Jason Stanford @JasStanford The #hipstercongress doesn't care what opinion polls say. Caring about popular opinion is so lamestream. What is this, VHı? Reply Retweet ★ Favorite More 47 RETWEETS 17 FAVORITES 12:54 PM-8 Oct 13 Bul. Novak Φ @bjnovak ▼ y Follow #HipsterCongress never even wanted to be popular anyway Reply Retweet ★ Favorite More 1,055 685 RETWEETS FAVORITES 1:37 PM-8 Oct 13
Joel Ingersoll @FlyoverJoel ▼ y Follow "I'll have a no whip, extra foam, pumpkin spice, triple shot, non-fat, venti latte." "Sir, your credit card was declined." #HipsterCongress Reply Retweet ★ Favorite More 26 RETWEETS 32 FAVORITES 12:45 PM-8 Oct 13 Dennis Deitch @DennisDeitch ▼ y Follow #hipstercongress Thinks a 10% approval rating makes it "too mainstream," blames CSPAN2 as a medium for sellouts. Reply Retweet ★ Favorite More 52 RETWEETS 23 FAVORITES 12:31 PM-8 Oct 13 Top Conservative Cat ▼步Follow TeaPartyCat #HipsterCongress was into destroying America's credit and the world economy before it was cool. Reply Retweet ★ Favorite More 53 RETWEETS 37 FAVORITES 1:20 PM-8 Oct 13

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