Whether it’s true or not, it would be really amazing if this catches on. Known ’round the world and on TV for their gallows humor, cops in New York have apparently adopted a new nickname for the hipsters that populate Williamsburg: Marshmallows. According to a Tweet by kirstengronberg, she found out that New York’s finest now refer to hipsters as marshmallows due to being predominately white and soft.
Though Manolith’s own Ned Hepburn claimed to be glad the current hipster thing is dying out, I, for one, hope it stays around for a little while longer — especially if marshmallow really takes off as an insult.
Among certain bearded, PBR-drinking, converted fixed-gear riding crowds, calling someone the H-word is about as offensive as a racial slur, but could you imagine how amazing it would be to walk into your local dive bar and watch an argument about skid-stopping techniques come to blows between two bike messenger wannabes after one calls the other a marshmallow?
Do we call drunk hipsters toasted marshmallows?
Could you imagine what the next generation will think if this takes off and the nickname “marshmallow” ends hipsterdom as we currently know it? Does this mean we can think of marshmallows hipsters like Ray Stantz did in Ghostbusters, as “something that could never possibly destroy us”? The possibilities are endless.
Thank you, NYPD.
(image via x-entertainment.com)
Jeff Cagle, you are a marshmallow.