The gauntlet has been thrown! Though Fishtown is a little behind in the polls, some ardent tweets about where Philly's true hipster mecca lies have made this a race worth watching: does winning the Curbed Cup confer or deny hipster status? Does a strong twitter game signal a deeper lack of neighborhood self-esteem? Is East Passyunk just full of boring yuppies anyway?
Last night, Fishtown was down in the polls, and we thought a little friendly taunting might improve their standing:
Hey, @fishtown, East Passyunk is crushing you guys in the Curbed Cup right now. Are you gonna let that happen? http://t.co/hP5ZLurB3g
— Curbed Philly (@CurbedPhilly) December 30, 2013
They responded:
.@CurbedPhilly not for nothing, but we're not exactly the type of neighborhood that needs validation from an online vote ;) #BOOM
— Fishtown (@fishtown) December 30, 2013
#BOOM, indeed. But the situation really heats up as a Fishtowner questions East Passyunk's hipster cred:
@fishtown @CurbedPhilly passyunk yuppies would vote themselves most hipster, while we are just over here kickin it #getabikerackandaclue
— V long (@pearlzgirl) December 31, 2013
Does East Passyunk have an insufficient number of bike racks? Is Fishtown too "you probably haven't heard of it" to even want to win a competition? Has East Passyunk tiptoed over the hipster-yuppie divide? Whatever your opinion, let it out in the poll, conveniently located just below this paragraph.
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