What is "Whitey Hipster Gentrification"?

We're seeing these elegant, no-frills, Helvetica-less Arial-full stickers all around town—in the Pop's bathroom, on the front door of Hangr 16, outside Casa Sanchez, on Bender's compost bin, covering the front door of art studios, decorating posters for the new RZA movie… hell, they're even on Baker Beach's trash cans.  Which leads us to wonder: from taquerias to cute bubble butt nude beaches, is there anything left that can't be blamed for gentrification?

We're assuming the answer is “no”, but the folks at Bender's deny their men's bathroom fits the label:

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But, we been here 10 yrs, MF!” – Wow, ten whole years.

This is going to be the name of my next band.

I will be writing this the memo area of my rent checks from now on. It just went up by $300 last month.

TEN YEARRRSSSSSSSS 2002 BEFORE ANYTHING WHITE WAS EVER IN THE MISSION EVER

Is it a bird? No. Is it a plane? No. What is it then? Why, it’s Whitey the Hipster Gentrifier!