Author: Rokas L / Source: Bored Panda
Recently, MIT Technology Review posted an article, titled ‘The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same.’ And in an incredibly ironic turn of events, it almost instantly proved itself right.
The article was an analysis of a recent research by Brandeis University mathematician Jonathan Touboul on “the hipster effect,” specifically how “the population of hipsters initially act randomly but then undergo a phase transition into a synchronized state.
” However, it was the inclusion of a Getty Images stock photo of a bearded man that prompted one reader to contact 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,” he wrote.
MIT Technology Review Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield explained everything in detail on Twitter.
“I looked at what his accusation was, and I said, he seems to be accusing us of implying that he’s a hipster. I’m pretty sure that…
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