Limecake said:
I Have No Idea said:
Well, you can't really say that because then you wouldn't be a hipster because you admitted to being a hipster.
but the irony would be so sweet.
I used to be a hipster, also I don't see any realy harm in them. I hate the pretentious ones but it's unfair to judge someone just by the clothes they wear or the people they hang out with. It's just their style, you wouldn't like someone judging you for liking video games after all.
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".
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. -_-
Aidinthel said:
I think the best definition of a hipster is someone who dislikes mainstream/popular things specifically because they are popular and likes obscure things specifically because they are obscure. Blatant hypocrisy when it becomes apparent that they carefully match their tastes to the rest of the hipster subculture is optional but likely.
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?
Betancore 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'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. <_<
Who would you rather be around btw, orange club rats in Qld or Melbourne hipsters?
