The hatred for this hat and the people that wear them to desperately look cool always seemed so mean spirited to me . It just feels like low hanging fruit , like bullying the nerds in highschool . It ' s all fine and good to make fun of gold chain necklaces and spray tans , because it ' s something we associate with normal generally well off people that are simply making a bad fashion statement . Who are we making fun of here ? Overweight sweaty socially awkward geeks , most of them depressed , friendless , hopeless , and very likely in most cases contemplating suicide . They ' re not powerful influences on modern culture , they aren ' t violent , they don ' t typically do anything to hurt or harm anyone . I don ' t like them , or would ever really associate with them . But I feel like going out of my way to make them feel like even bigger failures just seems heartless .