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For what it is worth, I went on a cruise to Antarctica last year but don't like farmers markets. What does that make me? :) I can only assume I have out-hips
by mattlondon 9y ago
For what it is worth, I went on a cruise to Antarctica last year but don't like farmers markets. What does that make me? :) I can only assume I have out-hipstered the self-identifying hipster in the parent comment? The mind boggles :-)
As an aside, is a hipster like quantum measurement? Once something/someone/someplace has been labelled as "hipster", it is immediately not-hipster any more? "this restaurant/bar is so hipster!" = immediate & total lack of cool now that everyone knows, and it is time for newer, cooler things to be found away from the maddening crowds? No offence intended to parent post, just general observations - just compare it to MySpace, Soundcloud, Facebook, WhatsApp etc - all really cool & hip initially but once everyone (including your parents!) were using them it got uncool really fast and the next cool & hip stuff was being found elsewhere.
Personally I find hipster more of an adjective really, and not a "group" like well-known subcultures - e.g. goth or emo are commonly known subcultre groups that people identify with, but I would say hipster does not fall into a subculture in the same way that Trekkie or Grunger would in my experience.