“How much does a hipster weigh?”/“An Instagram.”

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Entry from February 01, 2016

“How much does a hipster weigh?”/“An Instagram.”

A viral joke about Instagram is:

Q: How much does a hipster weigh?
A: An Instagram.

The joke was cited on Twitter on May 22, 2012.

Wikipedia: Instagram
nstagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing, and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them either publicly or privately on the app, as well as through a variety of other social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Flickr. Originally, a distinctive feature was that it confined photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras. In August 2015, version 7.5 was released, allowing users to post photos captured in any aspect ratio. Users can also apply digital filters to their images. The maximum duration for Instagram videos is 15 seconds.

Twitter
Jim Calder
‏@progright
How much does a hipster weigh? An instagram.
12:48 PM - 22 May 2012

Twitter
Alan Garner
‏@WolfpackAlan
How much does a hipster weigh? An instagram.
6:35 PM - 24 May 2012

WeKnowMemes
How Much Does A Hipster Weigh?
– MAY 25, 2012
POSTED IN: TEXTS

SF Weekly (San Francisco, CA)
LOLS
Become a Hipster Pop-Up in 10 Easy Steps
Posted By Camila McHugh on Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:30 AM
(...)
2. Get on that Instagram hype: How much does a hipster weigh? An instagram!

The Huffington Post
The 10 Commandments of Dating Textiquette
07/30/2013 11:48 am ET | Updated Jul 30, 2013
Jill Di Donato
Author of Beautiful Garbage: A Novel, and Professor of English
(...)
9.) Instaflirting: You may be familiar with the joke, “How much does a hipster weigh? An Instagram.” With the fastest image/text feed of any social network right now, Instagram is quickly becoming a dating site, not just a way to show the world what you ate for lunch.

Google Books
Everything That Remains:
A Memoir by The Minimalists
By Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus
Asymmetrical Press
2014
Pg. ?:
Hey, how much does a hipster weigh? One Instagram.

Independent.ie (Ireland)
Hot list: What we want to see, do and buy this weekend
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PUBLISHED
29/11/2015 | 02:30
(...)
Hipster humour
How much does a hipster weigh? As everyone knows, the answer is: an Instagram.

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