Latest Hipster Fad: A Potbelly

A new trend is emerging among hipster males. No, not the Hanes V-neck or the straw fedora—the potbelly. The protruding guts are too prominent to write off, so what accounts for the fad? Well, hipsters love nonconformism, so some blame President Obama, a magazine editor tells Guy Trebay of the New York Times: “If we had a slob in the White House, all the hipsters would turn into some walking Chippendales calendar.”

Another editor has a different opinion: “I sort of think the six-pack abs obsession got so prissy it stopped being masculine,” he says—sort of like manscaping and spray-on tans. Or maybe the perfect male specimen never really existed, a personal trainer says: “The only time you really see that guy, he’s standing in front of an Abercrombie & Fitch store.” (More Jay-ZTV stories.)