About
Instagram Quote Rebuttals (a.k.a. “Hipster Edits”) are a series of image macros typically designed to ridicule “profound monologue” photos. It consists of a picture, usually taken with Instagram feature and hence the term “Hipster Edit”, an ostensibly meaningful quote and a buzzkilling remark denoted underneath in red text.
It can be seen as a mockery of hipster culture in similar vein to Hipster Kitty and Hipster Ariel.
Origin
Postcard images with profound quotes have been circulating online prior to emergence of this series, most notably through online art communities and blog platforms like LiveJournal1 and DeviantArt2.
Making custom postcard images made a leap with the advent of filter-equipped camera apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic, providing easy ways to take pictures and upload them via photo-sharing websites like Tumblr and Flickr. “Hipster Edits” or the style of using red text as the buzzkill can be attributed to a series of images posted by Tumblr blog tumblr4men3 as early as on August 23rd, 2010.
By December 2010, both apps reached the one million users mark and thousands of sentimentalist, ambient postcard images continued to emerge on Tumblr.
Spread
Go Cry Emo Kid
On January 1st, 2011, MemeBase’s Go Cry Emo Kid4 posted an instagram photo of a crowd hanging out in an empty pool with the rebuttal highlighted in red text.
The image macro series has since spread to other media aggregator sites like Tumblr5 and BuzzFeed6 as well as humor blogs like 9gag7 and FunnyJunk8.
Notable Examples
External References
1 Flickr – Search Results: Instagram
2 DeviantART – Search Results: Instagram
3 Tumblr – Tumblr4Men
4 MemeBase – Go Cry Emo Kids: Water is So Mainstream
5 Tumblr – Search Results: Hipster Edits
6 BuzzFeed – 13 Best Instagram Quote Rebuttals
7 9gag – Best Instagram Quote Rebuttals
8 FunnyJunk – Instagram Rebuttals NBD