So, hipsters.

[ace_of_something]

So.... yeah. Can anyone shine some light on me here? :s

A hipster is usually a white twenty something (or early thirty-something) who has certain personality traits which lend themselves to being in a specific subculture. Basically, they're goal is to APPEAR a certain way rather than working at actually BEING that way, they want to be percieved as a very intelligent, liberal, humanitarian, artist, creative and most importantly unique.
The people [a href=http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-people-like/]this famous blog[/a] are referring to are pretty much hipsters.

I see them all the time. They are very annoying when you talk to them because all the decisions they've made about their life, style, tastes, and even beliefs were chosen to diliberatly be 'unique' or 'different' rather then any other logical reason. It's the constructed false personality that is annoying.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I knew one in high school. He was dick.

 

[andrew2696]

Hipsters are the new Emo. Sure, they theoretically exist in droves, and there are examples of them out there, but most people who get labeled as hipsters are just people who happen to have some choices of interest, style, and appearance that other people may want to insult because of how much they don't like it.

Basically normal person + enjoyment of one indie band that an onlooker happens to not be able to stand = hipster.

Case in point: A friend of mine saw a car parked outside of a house that had a Velociraptor hood ornament. Since then, he only refers to everyone who ever goes into that house as, "Hipster douchbags"

That's sounds really cool to me. Well if it were reasonably sized.

 

[technoted]

I work in a bar and on Saturdays after 11 we stop playing chart music and go onto Indie music which attracts a lot of regular Hipsters, they seem ok people, sure I don't understand why they dress like they do or dance like they do, but I'm sure they think the same thing as me. The only thing that does bug me about them is when they apologise for the music they're requesting as if I myself don't like it. Especially when I grew up on a lot of the bands like The Cure and The Clash...

 

[Som_kun]

According to public definition, I am a hipster. but most of that is the fact that I am an American who:
Drinks tea
Wears a Satchel
Refuses to go into gamestop because i hate the corporate crap and low return values
Uses Linux
has a pocket watch
prefers indie rock and 80s because they were more about the sound than the money.
wants games to have story-line and not cash-cow multiplayer games
can fence, is in the archery and swim club
Is a Computer Science major going to a Liberal arts school because the people are better
ECT ECT

oh and i'm a jerk to people who are stupid or intolerent.

But on the whole, i'm just a guy... most of the time, hipsers are either Duchebag wannabes or people like me with alternative tastes.

 

[Mrrrgggrlllrrrg]

In the US hipsters mainly exist on the west coast like their dirty hippy forefathers and like the smelly hippy they can also appear in places that meet their "irony" or "hipness". I went to washington and oregon once, never again. I cant tell you how many times I've almost commited vehicular manslaughter because of a fixed gear bike without brakes swerving infront of my rented car.

 

[fundayz]

The reason I've seen people hate on hipsters (of which I am one), is not on hipsters as a whole. It's because some (NOT all) hipsters think that they're superior to others, when they're really not. We're just different.

No, people don't dislike you because you think you are better, they dislike you because you think you are special.

The fact that you think you are different than the general population is the exact reason why people don't like you. You are not different, you are a jackass like the rest of the world.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

As a rule, I don't find hipsters any more annoying that the other youth sub-culture groups. Admittedly, they make themselves more visible by the way they vehemently denying that they exist, but I should think that eventually people will just get plain bored of them and move on to the more vocal sub-cultures. I mean, come on, how can people rag on hipsters so much when we have such delicious fads as Crunkcore in our midst (for those of you out of the loop, imagine the worst of emo fashion mixed with particularly bad hyphy and screamo).

Spoiler: Or you could just watch this

Further fun reading on "hipsters":

http://weblog.timoregan.com/archive/2009/01/hipster-holocaust-9-reasons-hipsters-are-annoying/

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html


And now presenting: Hipster through time!

I love harkavagrant, lol.



Edit:

prefers indie rock and 80s because they were more about the sound than the money.

Wow, you could not be more wrong about that.

Also, as a rule hipsters aren't supposed to admit that they are, in fact, hipsters. You seem pretty safe to me ;-)

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Really? Don't see any of these things walking around? Usually self proclaimed visionaries or alternate. I see them everywhere, usually around universities and colleges.

I was going to say that they look like about half the people in college. Those are hipsters? I thought they were just regular wankers.
I've evidently become de-sensitised to hipsters :/

 

[Superior Mind]

It's just the latest social trend to be mocked. I know a few pseudo-hipsters and I see a number of fully-fledged hipsters around. It's just one more way for people to express their individuality by conforming to an established social norm.

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

I'm starting to doubt if they even exist. That probably sounds stupid, but from my point of view I'm not seeing any.

So.... yeah. Can anyone shine some light on me here? :s

Yeah. I've never once met a sterotypical hipster either.

I hadn't heard of them either until recently. But it turns out my ex-girlfriend is the definition of one. From her love of whiny, obscure alternative rock, her "vintage" fashion sense, her forced nonchalance, the fact she was rich but denied it fervently, the way she pretended to appreciate the little things in life...
She tricked me into thinking she was so cool and unique.

The problem with hipsters, though, is that it's all fake. They're not actually cool and nonchalant, they're insecure and narcissistic. And the only people they aren't threatened by are other fake, insecure hipsters.

Not that I'm bitter, or anything...

 

[Azure-Supernova]

Really? Don't see any of these things walking around? Usually self proclaimed visionaries or alternate. I see them everywhere, usually around universities and colleges.

I was going to say that they look like about half the people in college. Those are hipsters? I thought they were just regular wankers.
I've evidently become de-sensitised to hipsters :/

Well not all of them are hipsters, some of them just don't know how to get dressed in the morning

 

[mageyolook]

i dont see them around either, i only ever seem to see douche bag sterotypes wearing white oakaly sunglasses sideways hats and pants halfway down their asses. its sad really.

 

[Blue_vision]

Apparently, a couple of my friends and I are almost the dictionary definition hipsters. Not that anyone really cares or does anything at all differently, and we don't think of ourselves as such, but I guess they do exist? Kind of?

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

Um ... Pardon me for asking but ... what the hell is a hipster? Can you eat it?

Okay, so after I looked it up on Urban Dictionary (If I understood correctly) "hipsters" are a tribe of people, who reject anything regarded as "mainstream". Both hipster men and women sport similar androgynous hair styles that include combinations of messy shag cuts and asymmetric side-swept bangs. Such styles are often associated with the work of creative stylists at urban salons, and are usually too "edgy" for the culturally-sheltered mainstream consumer. Also, several specements of "hipsters" have a massive ego, and regard other tribes as "peasants who are bellow them". Most interesting.

Do I have the right idea or?

 

[neonsword13-ops]

I thought we were all hipsters in our own special way.
*Cue audiance "Awwwwwwww"*

Luckily, I have never encountered a hipster.

This just occured to me. Having babies and being born is mainstream. Every hippster is technically mainstream.

 

[cthulhumythos]

Um ... Pardon me for asking but ... what the hell is a hipster? Can you eat it?

Okay, so after I looked it up on Urban Dictionary (If I understood correctly) "hipsters" are a tribe of people, who reject anything regarded as "mainstream". Both hipster men and women sport similar androgynous hair styles that include combinations of messy shag cuts and asymmetric side-swept bangs. Such styles are often associated with the work of creative stylists at urban salons, and are usually too "edgy" for the culturally-sheltered mainstream consumer. Also, several specements of "hipsters" have a massive ego, and regard other tribes as "peasants who are bellow them". Most interesting.

Do I have the right idea or?

you could, but what little meat there is is very stringy. plus you've got to wash the HELL out of it.

not very good eatings sadly.

 

[Captain_Fantastic]

look up "best of tumblr" 1000notes or whatever its called on the google and you will see what a hipster is

 

[SoulSalmon]

I'm apparently a hipster because I don't enjoy anything mainstream aside from perhaps Minecraft and Terraria -.-

Seriously, according to a lot of people. being a guitar playing guy with long hair who likes indie games and folk metal music is hipster... I can't really see HOW but yeah.
I'll accept and admit that a lot of things that happen to be 'mainstream' (who the hell decides what that is anyway?) happen to be things I don't like, but it's not like I don't like them BECAUSE they're mainstream >.<

Looks like I've been forcibly moved into ANOTHER stereotype >.>

 

[Vault101]

This has been bugging me for quite some time. All of us know full well of how much the general populace is starting to hate hipsters, but what I find strange is that I've never actually met or heard of a single hipster amongst the myriads of people I encounter on a daily basis... I'm starting to doubt if they even exist. That probably sounds stupid, but from my point of view I'm not seeing any.

So.... yeah. Can anyone shine some light on me here? :s

this is the way I see hipsters

if youre into that stuff because you like it, then good for you

if your into that stuff because you think it gives you some false sense of supiriority then your a douche, hence the hate they get

non-conformity for the sake of non-conformity is the stupidest thing EVER (because essantually youre playing buy everyones elses rules, not yours)