Hipster whines at tech mag, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster

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Accompanying the article was an edited stock image of a generic millennial chap in plaid shirt and standard-issue beanie, or “trendy winter attire”, as Getty put it. The MIT journal’s editor-in-chief, Gideon Lichfield, took to Twitter to tell a “cautionary tale” about what followed the article going live:

“We promptly got a furious email from a man who said he was the guy in the photo that ran with the story. Lichfield pointed out that he didn’t think calling someone a hipster was “unflattering or unduly controversial” but contacted Getty to be safe.

Source: www.theregister.co.uk