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Hipster whines at tech mag, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster
- whisps 8y agoThe most surprising thing I learned from reading this is that people still call other people hipsters in 2019.
- unmole 8y agoWhat else would you call a hipster?
- cafard 8y agoThere was a stretch of about 10 years either side of 1960 in which the term, and perhaps even the hipster, flourished. Having at least heard the term the first time around, and having encountered it in such writings as Mailer's Advertisements for Myself and one of Styron's novels, I was surprised to see it reappear. Perhaps in your 50s you will be surprised to find some term from your younger days reappear after long disuse--yuppie? slacker? brogrammer?
- imandride 8y agoI find it's not the terminology people are offended by anymore, but the premise that you are labeling them as something. Change the terminology to something else and they will still be offended. IMO, it's very similar to being offended for the sake of being offended.
- mc32 8y agoThis is a total puff piece but this quote stood out: >”...For groovy models of how random acts by [group] "undergo a phase transition into a synchronized state"” So groups of people who start out from different groups or no groups after they enter a dominant group can coalesce around looks.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoMakes sense - that's culture, a human trait!
- johnnycab 8y ago>This is a total puff piece This article is written in their inimitable light-hearted/self-deprecating style by injecting some dry humour into a story. It is not meant to be taken seriously, as evidenced in the comment section.
- Digit-Al 8y agoI wonder if he can find a trendy pop-up street-food restaurant that sells humble pie.
- linkmotif 8y agoWash that down with some Hobo Lager
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- QuantumYeti 8y agoThe word "hipster" has always rubbed me the wrong way, mainly because people have very strong opinions about hipsters, and I'm still not entirely sure that word means anything. Google's definition is "a person who follows the latest trends and fashions, especially those regarded as being outside the cultural mainstream." We used to call people who followed the latest trends and fashions "trendy". The only difference between "trendy" and "hipster" seems to be the qualifier at the end of the hipster definition: "...especially those regarded as being outside the cultural mainstream." But that feels weasle-wordy to me. It's like saying, "a hipster is someone who follows the latest trends and fashions, except when they don't". People have been wearing flannel and hats for a long time (check your parents' photo albums). Whether or not the person wearing those clothes considers themselves to be making a new fashion statement seems to be an assumption made on behalf of the person calling the other a hipster. Because of that, hearing someone call another person a hipster has always come across as that person projecting their emotions onto another person, not as a description of anything that's actually real.
- chrisseaton 8y agoWikipedia has what I think is an extremely accurate and non-judgemental indicative definition of a hipster > The hipster subculture is stereotypically composed of young adults who reside primarily in gentrified neighborhoods. It is broadly associated with indie and alternative music and genres such as chill-out, folk, modern rock, pop rock, and post-Britpop. Hipsters also frequently flaunt a varied non-mainstream fashion sensibility, vintage and thrift store-bought clothing, pacifist and green views, generally vegan, consume organic and artisanal foods, craft alcoholic beverages, and alternative lifestyles. The subculture typically consists of mostly white young adults living in urban areas. It has been described as a "mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior" To me eyes there is definitely a large and distinct subculture with these characteristics. To be a bit more judgemental, another good definition of hipster is "what happens when pastiche and irony exhaust themselves as aesthetics" (Rob Horning, also in that article.)
- QuantumYeti 8y agoThere are so many different characteristics listed under that definition that virtually all young white people could be called a hipster to some degree. I still disagree with the judgemental definition of hipster. You could call anyone wearing clothes that aren't totally unique "pastiche". Assuming they're wearing the clothes out of a sense of "irony" is projecting.