Hipsters
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Urban dictionary doesn't really give an accurate definition on anything, mainly since it's pretty much the ghetto wiktionary.Kyoh said:
I live in Melbourne. I'm convinced that we have the largest hipster population in all of Australia. It's terrifying - there are certain places, in the inner-city especially, which are just overrun with tall, skinny men pushing around fixie bikes with well-groomed-yet-just-bordering-on-unkempt facial hair, wearing tweed jackets with elbow pats, pork-pie hats, boat shoes or loafers with no socks, and skinny trousers with the legs rolled up to show off their ankles. And if they do wear socks, they're obnoxiously patterned. And they all carry the same bag [http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Original-Black-Biker-Motorcycle-Bag-New-Tag-/160532695485?pt=AU_Clothing_Merchandise_Media&hash=item25607e89bd#ht_1710wt_905].
I don't like hipsters very much, because we shop at the same places, and they keep buying the stuff that I want to buy. And they made records cool again, so now they cost like three times as much as they used to back when records were obsolete. And people keep mistaking me for a hipster. Just because I wear black-rimmed glasses and have a fringe that's disproportionate to my face. Gosh.
/in denial
I don't like hipsters very much, because we shop at the same places, and they keep buying the stuff that I want to buy. And they made records cool again, so now they cost like three times as much as they used to back when records were obsolete. And people keep mistaking me for a hipster. Just because I wear black-rimmed glasses and have a fringe that's disproportionate to my face. Gosh.
/in denial
still im glad that emos gone out of fashion. At least hipsters are happy, arrogant, but happy. Its an improvement.
And suicide rates have gone down! Funny that!
And suicide rates have gone down! Funny that!
I've been called a hipster but the glasses I have are prescription, I listen to both obscure and mainstream music, the mainstream music that I hate is really just American Pop (I prefer brit-pop seeing as it's kinda more like rock and the music is less about materialistic things and they don't have stupid concerts where they only dance around and barely play any astual music) I have t-shirts yes however none of them are ironic, although I also have been called a Nerd/Geek and all of the things I listed here (Minus the obscure music) kinda of meet the requirements for being either of those things so I guess I kinda walk the fine line between hipster and geek.
Well, since I see that no one here has posted this, I will. Go read it, come back and see what all the fuss is about. Hipsters are a blight. Horrible things.
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
Enjoy, and be enlightened.
Additionally, if you have never been around any, consider yourself lucky.
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html
Enjoy, and be enlightened.
Additionally, if you have never been around any, consider yourself lucky.
I like this post. I'd rather not make fun of a loosely-defined group, I feel like I'd be trying too hard not to be prejudiced if I ever meet someone who looks like one and may or may not have any of the negative traits. It would be hypocritical to say "hipters, stay away from me, you're all pretentious snobs".Limecake said:
Something I hate is that placing a derogatory label on a collection of things that it trivilialises some things I believe in (and no, not to be cool, if anything it makes me less cool to my peers) by reducing them to a cheap trend. Buying things that were either made by workers with fair pay or are being sold second hand by charity stores, vegetarianism (yes I know, half-arsed compromise between veganism and being normal), appreciating music and aesthetics that were part of original scenes that modern bands partially derive their over-produced songs and image from (pay your respects to the originators, kids), progressive politics and what not, they're generally good things. I fear that people don't think about them as impartially and judge them on their merits or otherwise, and instead just think "lol that's just for hipsters" or "what a pretentious asshole" even if whatever they're judging is genuinely likable or ethical. -_-
So many people seem to think else's tastes are fake, lame and predictable and mostly in accordance with some kind of trite subculture-turned-marketing-trend while theirs aren't. =P If they like something different that's remotely fashionable, or fasionably unfashionable, they're a complete tool, right?Aidinthel said:
I've been looking for a bag like that since I was 13, they're way too mainstream for me to want one now, I mean, I don't want to look like a hipster or anything. <_<Betancore said:
Who would you rather be around btw, orange club rats in Qld or Melbourne hipsters?
To me it seems that because we have ran out of stereotypes to laugh about we have just invented this "Hipster Myth" I have never actually seen a hipster and you can look at anyone and find some kind of "Hipster" or other stereotype in their clothes etc. Every new subculture gets vaguer and vaguer because we love to put everything in boxes.
They are just a group of people that have tastes that tend to go against the mainstream, for some reason some people automatically see "people liking non-mainstream things" as "pretentious snobs looking down on them". Sure some hipsters fit that stereotype, but it is ignorant to think that all, or even most do.
I fit several categories that could label me as a hipster: wearing skinny jeans, listening to indie music, etc. But I don't do it for some kind of psuedo sense of superiority or just for the sake of moving away from the mainstream, it's simply because they fit my tastes.
PS: Neutral Milk Hotel rules!
I fit several categories that could label me as a hipster: wearing skinny jeans, listening to indie music, etc. But I don't do it for some kind of psuedo sense of superiority or just for the sake of moving away from the mainstream, it's simply because they fit my tastes.
PS: Neutral Milk Hotel rules!
I couldn't have said it better myself. But, all good trolls must come to an end. They'll fade away eventually and there will be another uproar of "try to hard uniqsters".The Long Road said:
I think the beautiful thing about all this and the point to be made here, is that what was once underground is no longer. For a hipster to be "cool" in my opinion, we wouldn't be having this discussion right now. We wouldn't have fit a label to a certain type of people, because they would be a bit difficult to nail down.rabidmidget said:
By saying, "oh I wear skinny jeans and listen to indie music" suggests that there is a formula for this type of person, which I can almost guarantee you is what all hipsters try not to be like. So, they one up each other, and a spiral of ridiculousity ensues. I would argue that people that are actually cool aren't going to get into obscure musical competitions within the rest of the scene or scour thrift stores in search of the coolest vintage finds because those people are comfortable with their identity and just like what they like because that's who they are.
Plainly speaking, the people out there who have unique tastes and their own style go mostly unnoticed in the shadow of the self-absorbed,Polaroid-obsessed,fixed gear bike-driving scenesters that carbon copy each other and annoy us to have this conversation in the first place.
I feel like a hipster sometimes because I adopted certain trends before they were trends. I started wearing a fedora and, lo and behold, suddenly I was seeing hipsters everywhere wearing them. I loved zombies before they become this huge deal. There are lots of little things like that.
I do not, however, generally take to hating something simply because it's "popular." I try to give things a fair shake.
I do not, however, generally take to hating something simply because it's "popular." I try to give things a fair shake.
Nothing wrong with hipsters, just like there wasn't in the 50s when they were called Beatniks
get over it and stop labeling people
get over it and stop labeling people
I really dislike them.
For one, they've made me suspicious of my fellow bespectacled man. Does he really need those glasses, or is he just wearing them because unhindered vision is too mainstream?
Also, the best fucking thing ever is when someone (who you should now suspect of being too hipster to actually exist) says that they "were a hipster before it was cool". Seriously, I saw someone say that one time and genuinely laughed out loud at how pathetic their existence is.
For one, they've made me suspicious of my fellow bespectacled man. Does he really need those glasses, or is he just wearing them because unhindered vision is too mainstream?
Also, the best fucking thing ever is when someone (who you should now suspect of being too hipster to actually exist) says that they "were a hipster before it was cool". Seriously, I saw someone say that one time and genuinely laughed out loud at how pathetic their existence is.
hate them. they have the stupidest philosophy ever. disliking something purely because other people like it is pretty stupid. i will say i approve of the increased attention paid to indie bands because of them, since some of them are decent, but i hate skinny jeans, i hate pathetic attempts at facial hair (either do it right or not at all), and i hate people who don't actually consider the various merits of something before deciding they don't like it. disliking something on principle is stupid.