For years, the pop culture blog Hipster Runoff has puzzled, intrigued and enraged the "alt" and "mainstream" world in almost equal measure. Gawker honored him in 2009 with the much-coveted "Hipster of the Decade" award. But this afternoon Hipster Runoff's enigmatic boss Carles has signed of forever with a short blog post:

Last July our Hipster of the Decade, blogger Carles, arbitrarily coined a genre known as chillwave or glo-fi. It's now on iTunes, which is as close as possible to an official seal. So what makes a genre?

Wow. So, Carles, our anonymous Hipster of the Decade winner, is being name-checked and referenced in the New York Times. Does this mean he's 'over' 4 all alt bros evrwhr? Proof, right here:

Ladies and gentlemen, your Hipster of the Decade: Carles, from Hipster Runoff.

We are shaking things up—"hipster" style! Our Hipster of the Decade poll has been subject to various schemes and machinations. Now, we're starting a brand new Hipster of the Decade poll with our five finalists. Vote now or die!

There has been an important development in our Hipster of the Decade poll: after Hipster Runoff's Carles jacked the voting and blasted past Kari Ferrell and Dov Charney, Gavin McInnes has made a very authentic offer to win your vote.

Dov Charney, Carles, and Kari Farrell are locked in essentially a three-way tie for Gawker's Coveted Old-Tymey Mustache Trophy (awarded, for pretend, to the Hipster of the Decade.) And that is lame!

Yea, we know the word "hipster" is played out. That's exactly why we need to pick a Hipster Champ of the past decade. So we can lay the whole damn thing to rest. Your candidates, below. Vote. If you want.

Tao Lin's Guardian book review. Related: Going to hospital, back at 3. Brain: exploded.

Bros! Been reading Hipster Runoff and Tao Lin. Feel sad now. Like they're free and I'm just a ToKn. Or multicultural metrocard. but my slang and colloquialisms don't get me on the hip-train n-e more.