Music

Being a dickhead is cool

John Rogers | Sunday 12 September, 2010 10:28

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East London’s much-maligned scenester culture gets yet another vicious pasting in this doing-the-rounds YouTube clip. It’s gone from 350 to almost 1,000,000 views in the last two days – the hipster media company that came up with this must be very pleased that’s it’s “gone viral”. They could go and buy even tinier BMX bikes if only they could monetize it. Not that they aren’t trying, of course – the accompanying song is available on iTunes.

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