What is a Hipster?

[EML420]

I honestly dont think I have ever seen a hipster I live in Northern Californa but I was actually going to ask if hipsters hang out at Barnes and Noble lol seems like a place they would hang out at.

 

[imaperson2]

Wait a minute...what? Northern CA is full of them!

 

[Rain Dog]

Hipsters are basically young adults who try not to conform by conforming to the hipster scene. They work on the same basic property that emos, goths, etc. do. Hipsters are all about art, and they think they're the **** when it comes to it. They have the best indie music you've never heard of and they flock to thrift shops for flannel and skinny jeans. The dough they shell out to fill their iThings with ebooks and music can only be matched by the money they spend on their prescription-less, "nerdy" glasses. They're hair is always "unique", especially for the male breed, ranging from spikey to reverse mullet. Occasionally a hipster can be seen with a lip ring, which is rumored to enhance the non-conforming coolness of Starbucks frothy coffee-esque drinks. When they're not working as barristas or librarians, they're often found lounging around in Barnes & Nobles. Hipsters are similar to Dragon-type Pokemon; they are their kinds' only weakness. Well, they and "the man," of course. If you spot a hipster and ask them if they're one, their answer will always be some variant of, "no! I hate hipsters."

There you have it. Or should I say... there you hip it.

Actually, Dragon types are also weak against Ice, which is why I carry canisters of liquid nitrogen when entering independent coffee shops.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

Wow, I use to work with someone like that, and actually got to hang out with her; one thing I remember was that she was so judgmental of everyone, especially people in Chicago (she was from San Francisco).

Yikes!

 

[PyroChamber]

Yikes!

And the bad part is that she was actually a pretty cool person, it was just her "hipsterisms" that made her a pain to be around.

 

[Polaris23]

Zooey Deschanel.

 

[SuperFerret]

Hipsters are similar to Dragon-type Pokemon; they are their kinds' only weakness.

Dragon types are also weak against Ice type moves, though that explains why hipsters always wear scarves.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Hipsters arrogently slag off successful authors, belittling their achievements, saying that their own unpublished work is of a far higher quality. But, at the same time, are usually too scared to show anyone their work, for some strange reason.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Hipsters are just the latest punching bag for the public replacing emos from the early 2000's.

While I think hipsters being pretentious elitists can be annoying, I do find them more interesting than the average person who likes American Idol and Michael Bay movies.

 

[SuperFerret]

Hipsters arrogently slag off successful authors, belittling their achievements, saying that their own unpublished work is of a far higher quality. But, at the same time, are usually too scared to show anyone their work, for some strange reason.

 

[Schlosser85]

Hipsters arrogently slag off successful authors, belittling their achievements, saying that their own unpublished work is of a far higher quality. But, at the same time, are usually too scared to show anyone their work, for some strange reason.

I....don't think any of the above has anything to do with being a hipster.

But you already know that, don't you

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

While I think hipsters being pretentious elitists can be annoying, I do find them more interesting than the average person who likes American Idol and Michael Bay movies.

haha, the funny thing is, I don't think you are being deliberately ironic here for comedic effect.
I don't think being a fan of American Idol and the Transformers movies will necesarily make you less interesting as a person than someone who is a pot smoker, and a fan of Christopher Nolan films.
Thinking that way makes you the pretentious elitist.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I said the average person.

The average person who likes Bayformers and American Idol is unlikely to be as interesting as a person who is always on the fringe and pushing the limits of entertainment, politics, art, and style.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

and I think there's more to being a hipster than liking The Dark Knight and Inception.

In fact I don't think many hipsters would brag about liking recent Nolan movies. They're too mainstream.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

I said the average person.

The average person who likes Bayformers and American Idol is unlikely to be as interesting as a person who is always on the fringe and pushing the limits of entertainment, politics, art, and style.

Yeah, I don't see how that changes your statement, you are still being a pretentious elitist. who are you to say there is such an overarching thing as 'the average person'? Seems like you like to sit on a lofty perch and think of yourself as of a higher stock than the majority of humanity.

As far as talking about someone who 'pushes the limits' of politics, and art , and such like, eh, the interent is full of blowhards who all say similar things about politics, art etc.
If you pointed out such a person to me, i bet i could find thousands like him, saying the same things, thinking they are so cutting edge or whatever.
what sets such a person apart from the others like him, can be the fact of his job, where more people listen to him, it doesn't mean what he's saying is particularly unique, or that he is particularly interesting as a person. All it means is he has a position of power and influence, like many great bores of history before him.
and of course, such people will have those who like to butter him up and please him, so they can share in such power, so their opinions are naturally biased.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Yeah, I don't see how that changes your statement, you are still being a pretentious elitist. who are you to say there is such an overarching thing as 'the average person'? Seems like you like to sit on a lofty perch and think of yourself as of a higher stock than the majority of humanity.

As far as talking about someone who 'pushes the limits' of politics, and art , and such like, eh, the interent is full of blowhards who all say similar things about politics, art etc.
If you pointed out such a person to me, i bet i could find thousands like him, saying the same things, thinking they are so cutting edge or whatever.
what sets such a person apart from the others like him, can be the fact of his job, where more people listen to him, it doesn't mean what he's saying is particularly unique, or that he is particularly interesting as a person. All it means is he has a position of power and influence, like many great bores of history before him.
and of course, such people will have those who like to butter him up and please him, so they can share in such power, so their opinions are naturally biased.

I'd say people who attack and put down all hipsters are just as much blow-hard elitists.

Yes many hipsters are arrogant and they're are motivated by the idea of being better than other culturally. But many people are motivated to be better than the masses which is why they seek education, money and status.

By comparison the hipsters goals are quite innocent. To be better than others through their abnormal cultural awareness. So why the hate?

What's wrong with those goals? Pushing yourself to have style and culture that transcends the unispired trends of the masses is just as legitimate as any accepted form of social climbing or elitism most people aspire for (money/education/power/status).

I'm against social climbing in most cases. But doing it from a purely stylistic intention is incredibly harmless. Hate on things that deserve hate, like bullying or greed culture.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

And most hipsters don't take themselves so seriously. Why are people so offended by them?

I'm not a hipster but I don't blame them for wanting to move and think counter to the masses. The people who follow the masses are not truly in control of their lives. Hipsters have family members who are ”normal”. They chose another path because ”normal” usually has the same predictable course and ending.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Bettering yourself is admirable, of course it is, that goes without saying. But, the danager lies in you then getting a big head, your ego going out of control, you start looking down on other people as 'average', when these people may not have had the same opportunities you did to better yourself, but still they could have spirit and honor that is more remarkable than yours in certain situations, where education does not apply. So, who are you to say they are 'average', how do you know who is 'better' than who? by what criteria? you can say your opinion, and then a situation will arise that proves you wrong, so it is dangerous to be an elitist.

People who get big egos, they then can start to get precious about their image, they are proud, they want to be venerated above other people because of their achievements, and then when this happens, they don't want to lose this 'worship', they get obsessive about appearing flawless, they won't admit when they are wrong, they will do whatever it takes to appear like the good guy even when they have done wrong, and will commit more wrong, lies, deciet, in order to maintain this image of perfect goodness.
All pitfalls of having an elitist attitude. I've seen it many times, all following the same patterns of behaviour.

Say we lived in a world where you could be a 'superhero', do you really think the right attitude of a superhero is to be elitist like that? To look over the majority of the masses as 'average', as being 'below' you? That is an incredibly distasteful, and dangerous, attitude to have for someone with such power, your liable to fall into all of those pitfalls I was talking about, you would get a god complex, you'd be a little out of your mind with megalomania. It would be inevitable.
I don't think anyone going into such an endevour, with such an attitude, would be suitable for the job. You think Jesus would look down on people as being 'average', because they liked reality tv shows, and brainless action films? No, he wouldn't, he takes people as he meets them, and is not foolish enough to think that you can measure a person so easily.
Look at the people he recruited for his gang, fishermen, the main local job for poor people struggling to make a living, people that you would probably have classified as 'average', as below your station.
What a shame it would be, if some of these fishermen got such a massive ego from being chosen by Jesus, that they instead fell prey to the pitfalls of ego I am talking about. and they lost the quality that caused Jesus to pick them in the first place, that of a humble, genuine, honest spirit, with no ego troubles. It happens all the time.

 

[Kane52630]

Whenever people write walls of meaningless text, I think they are a hipster.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Agreed

 

[HighFivingMF]

Anybody under 35 that you don't like.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

The thing is that, being hipster is more of an (bad or not) attitude than a style at this point. Because form fitting jeans for men are in anyway. That includes me.

Skinny jeans are just as much of a requirement for hipsters as drinking PBR.

Hipsters arrogently slag off successful authors, belittling their achievements, saying that their own unpublished work is of a far higher quality. But, at the same time, are usually too scared to show anyone their work, for some strange reason.

Well success is hipster kryptonite, if you become successful and finanicially indepentant you're no longer a hipster. One of the defining traits is to live off your parents for as long as possible.

 

[Manic]

How exactly are skinny jeans a hipster trend? Weren't pretty much all jeans tight-fitting prior to the 1990's?

 

[terry78]

Everybody that wasn't a greaser or a jock in the 1950's was a hipster.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Everybody that wasn't a greaser or a jock in the 1950's was a hipster.

That would be my father. I've been dressing like him for years because I just idolise him. My friends used to tell me I looked like an old man and now I'm being called a hipster. I'm really not! I love mainstream ****!