Marcel Winatschek

Serial Killer or Hipster

Clara found this thing called Serial Killer or Hipster, made by some guy named Bobby Watson in Paris. The game is simple: you get shown a photo and you guess whether the person is just drowning in an existential crisis about identity, or whether they’ve actually murdered someone. In a lot of these photos the answer is impossible to tell, which is exactly why the game exists.

I’ve tried it a few times and can’t make it past a certain point. Maybe I’m just bad at categorizing people, or maybe the game knows something about me I don’t want to know. But whoever can actually finish this thing proves something about themselves—that they’ve spent enough time staring at youth culture and archive aesthetics to see the patterns. Or maybe that they’re the serial killer. Could go either way.