Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike -- then learns it wasn't him

[Cal Carpenter]

Not the Onion, not satire...

Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike — then learns it wasn't him

A man threatened to sue a technology magazine for using his image in a story about why all hipsters look the same, only to find out the picture was of a completely different guy.

The story in the MIT Technology Review detailed a study about the so-called hipster effect — "the counterintuitive phenomenon in which people who oppose mainstream culture all end up looking the same."

The inclusion of a version of a Getty Images photo of a bearded, flannel-wearing man, tinted with a blue and orange hue, prompted one reader to write to the magazine: "Your lack of basic journalistic ethics in both the manner in which you 'reported' this uncredited nonsense, and the slanderous, unnecessary use of my picture without permission demands a response, and I am, of course, pursuing legal action."

But it wasn't actually him.

more at link...

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/man-angry-his-photo-was-used-to-prove-all-hipsters-look-alike-then-learns-it-wasn-t-him-1.5046933

[happybird]

1. Now that is some funny shit!

Bonus: the most hipster-sounding threat of legal action I have ever heard. The indignant outrage is glorious.

[jpak]

2. ummm...

[nuxvomica]

3. This is the most intensely ironic thing that has ever happened

[Totally Tunsie]

4. Kinda' proves the premise, doesn't it?

[chowder66]

5. LOL!!! He's a non-conformist just like everyone else. nt

[GemDigger]

6. I had a friend of mine bring me a biker magazine and asking if that was me posing nude.

I was shocked at how much she looked like me.

[tblue37]

9. Now, what would be really funny is if you were a man. nt

[DRoseDARs]

11. There's a pornstar out there with my actual name. Fortunately (unfortunately?) don't look the same.

[lpbk2713]

7. "Oh ...

[ripcord]

8. Well.....

[Delmette2.0]

10. A poster on my dentist's ceiling.

"You are unique, just like everyone else

[Iggo]

12. "Yes! We're all individuals!"

[Cold War Spook]

13. My wife and I were eating breakfast in a restaurant in South Florida,

when a man came up to us and told me that I looked exactly like Colin Powell. I thanked him because I thought Colin was a good looking man. When he walked away, my wife said but Colin isn't White. I was a little tanned.