So, hipsters.

[HerbertTheHamster]

I was and am a hipster before it became popular

I'm just too underground for you

 

[Harlemura]

I think it's because you can call anyone a hipster for anything if you want to.
As displayed in this relevant comic;

I only know one or two people that properly fit all the general hipster rules (Big glasses, skinny jeans, converses, doing "Media studies", stuff like that).
They're annoying.

 

[Hatchet90]

I fail to see how someone liking alternative music, movies, tv, etc. affects anyone on this site. How does it bother you if someone likes the Features, the Black Keys, or the Arctic Monkeys? If hating shit like the Jersey Shore, Transformers, and LMFAO and liking stuff like Mad Men, Scott Pilgrim, and Bob Dylan makes me a hipster, then by all means call me a hipster. I also like wearing skinny jeans, have been playing guitar for 5 years, and wear plaid converse. Oooo burn me with fire. I think less of people who mock or label someone just because they wear different clothes or listen to indie music.

 

[stefanbertramlee]

Arn't Hipsters just Indie Kids with extra Douche?

Of all sub groups I identify with Indie kids the most due to listening to indie/alternative and wearing skinny jeans, "jumper-shirts", and silly hats. (I also have a bow tie)

 

[Phoenix_XIII]

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.

Not all people who dress weird are hipsters. I for one just like dressing differently for the hell of it and because my likes are MY likes. Give me a sleeveless hoodie and a skull print t-shirt and some black jeans and I'm happy.

 

[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.

Not all people who dress weird are hipsters. I for one just like dressing differently for the hell of it and because my likes are MY likes. Give me a sleeveless hoodie and a skull print t-shirt and some black jeans and I'm happy.

Please see my later post after PoisonUnagi quoted me.

I was kind of half serious. I was just pointing out that this how your average hipster will dress, often through believing the same sterotype I posted. This outfit alone doesn't exactly define someone as a hipster, you're just using this as a rough outline to find suspected hipsters.

There's dressing differently for the hell of it (something I also do, power to you) and there's ironically conforming to a stereotype to be indie.

 

[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...