I hate tobreak it too you but the hippie movement died in the late sixties/early seventies. Hating them is like hating the futurists, you can disagree with their principles all you like but it doesn't matter because they're long gone, it's just a waste of time.
In the broad sense it's someone who likes thing that aren't mainstream solely because it's not mainstream (i.e if you and a bunch of friends want to go out and get pizza, but one friend refuses to eat pizza and instead goes out of his way alone to get...Thai food, a common response would be "Guess you're too hipster to eat with us").
In the sense of a style, basically anyone who...wears vintage clothes, glasses as a fashion statement, tries to act like they're some soulful photographer by using Instagram, loves indie music, sometimes will try to pass off as being a "geek" (yet I'm sure if I tried to pose the question of which ship would win in a space-battle between Red Dwarf and the USS Enterprise they'd probably stare at me blankly), loves themselves anything that comes off as ironic or high-brow or off the mainstream (which, considering their numbers, is ironic in-of-itself). And hipster women seem to love wearing feathers and shit in their hair.
Hipster is a term for a youth subculture that emphasizes an ironic reappropriation of traditional Americana as a protest against perceived over-sincerity in American cultural dialogue.
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As for what Hipsters are... it's kinda hard to explain. I think it's a bunch of people who dress in a retro style, claiming they liked something "before it was cool". Frankly, they just piss me off.
Because you know that every few months, somebody here is going to ask about what hipsters are...
OT: Well, how about a few quips, since the general idea has been explained?
[ul][li]Why do hipsters hate rivers?
Because they're too mainstream.
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[li]If a tree falls in the woods, but nobody is around to hear it, will a hipster buy the soundtrack?[/li]
[li]Man: Have you heard that new hipster joke? Hipster: Pfft, I got it on vinyl.[/li]
[li]How did the hipster end up burning his mouth on pizza?
He ate it before it was cool.
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[li]How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb?
The lightbulb was better before it changed.
Alternatively:
It's such an obscure number, you've probably never heard of it.
This is a dated reference, I realize, but my favorite: Hipsters liked the Chilean miners better when they were underground.
OT: We can spot hipsters now, but I think it's funny that hipsters are different from goths, hippies, and other counter-culture types in that no hipster will identify themselves as a hipster. Like the whole point of their ideology is to try to be an individual and a trendsetter, which leads to their trying to like bands first or wearing stupid things to be thought of as a progressive fashion icon. Thus, if you are a hipster, you're suddenly part of some group and no longer the intrinsically fascinating person you are (or are not). I think it's fairly perverse that it seems people are so intent on being the trendsetter or projecting an air of being interesting that they lose the ability to honestly enjoy many things.
I hate tobreak it too you but the hippie movement died in the late sixties/early seventies. Hating them is like hating the futurists, you can disagree with their principles all you like but it doesn't matter because they're long gone, it's just a waste of time.
Actually, my best friend lives in a hippie commune (he's not a hippie himself, but his parents are). So yeah, they're still out there, just less publicised than before.
Originally, a hipster was just a white person who liked jazz. It's more recently exploded into the pandemic we see today. Poor Buddy Holly, he died before his glasses would have been considered cool.
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