Melbourne Overreacts To Their Blackout, Labels It #Hipstergeddon

Melbourne is pretty familiar with the drill: underwhelming catastrophe strikes and effects nobody; everyone immediately takes to social media in city-wide synchronization to undermine the event completely. After all, we can all affectionately remember Melbourne’s earthquake “tragedy’ of last year, that inspired its survivors (all of Melbourne) to produce iconic works of art such as this:  

Last night, a blackout struck Melbourne suburbs Brunswick West and Northcote, leaving them in the dark for six hours and plunging them in to a positively middle age-like lifestyle.  

To heal their fresh wounds of a Monday night spent without TV, and to kill a few hours after their laptop batteries conked it, the effected took to twitter to revel in their own hilarity as they coined the term #hipstergeddon to describe the ordeal (because internet = hipster jokes = Melbourne, I guess?).  

It certainly doesn’t compare to the beautiful creations that surfaced after the Melbourne earthquake, but a select few have been fairly clever in self-referencing their total lack of pain at the incident with hyperbolic delight. Enjoy:

Cripes, just realised Brunswick, Northcote and Thornbury would have missed #QandA last night during #Hipstergeddon. Are you all okay?

— Lindsay McDougall (@Doctortriplej) July 9, 2013

During the Brunswick #blackout hipsters huddle for warmth around a single iPad. There is only 3% battery left. #hipstergeddon

— Declan Fay (@declanf) July 8, 2013

Woke up to house full of half burned out candles, wax everywhere like a bad Meatloaf video clip. #hipstergeddonhangover #hipstergeddon

— Hayley Hewer (@hayley_hewer) July 8, 2013

Pfft, #hipstergeddon was so yesterday

— Chris Kennett (@chriskennett) July 8, 2013

Mumford & Sons have announced a benefit concert for the survivors of #hipstergeddon

— Beth Mackay (@mackay_beth) July 8, 2013

Following a shortage of single origin coffee, residents are forced into terrifying experiments involving International Roast. #hipstergeddon

— Tim Richards (@Aerohaveno) July 8, 2013

Although in all seriousness, I live in Brunswick and had to read a book because there was no Internet. Hell on earth. #hipstergeddon

— Sam Taunton (@samtaunton) July 9, 2013

Wife is watching Home & Away… Why can’t the black out affect us?!?!

— Cameron Smith (@CamSmithy) July 8, 2013

Wild herds of cats are roaming down High St Northcote, dragging bearded men to the ground and devouring them #hipstergeddon

— Johan (@johanson_anders) July 8, 2013

I prefer @declanf‘s early tweets, they’re pretty obscure, you probably haven’t read them #hipstergeddon

— Chris Kennett (@chriskennett) July 9, 2013

So it was all good, hashtagging fun for a while, and then someone went and made a t shirt about it. Okay, Melbourne, that’s enough. Stop. Please, make it stop.