What is a hipster?

[Light Cleric]

 

[Farm Boy]

I'll stipulate that a hipster is what TF so defines it as.

 

[Kyriakos]

Link to video.

Agree with Terxpahseyton, that is funny.

'I got in... You never could get in...'

 

[Josu]

I think I read a post similar to it about a year ago. Groundhog day!!

I couldn't help laughing when I read the following comment:

"I hated hipsters before it was cool"

 

[amadeus]

I guess kind of like thinner, younger, more urban versions of the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons that have more typical young people interests. Tend to gravitate towards social media and graphic design positions. ("You used TWO colors on that ad poster?! That's not minimalist enough!")

I blame these people for removing all of the full names and upper-case letters from company branding and advertising.

In fact, I'll start making my own.

tb - that's for Taco Bell

 

[Borachio]

Ah rigghtt!!!

Hipster is a term of abuse. Right?

Well, fancy that.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Ah rigghtt!!!

Hipster is a term of abuse. Right?

Yes, but being (what other people would) (erroneously) call a hipster simply involves disdainful rejection of (that other guy's) hipsterdom.

Is that clear?

 

[Borachio]

Nope.

I say own the insult.

So: yes, I'm a hipster. Jealous?

 

[metatron]

Spoiler :

^That is called a freudian slip, LoE. Check it out.

Pet peeve: Actually it's called parapraxis.

Yay, i can haz hipster now!

 

[shadowplay]

"Hipper-than-thou" is how I interpret the term.

 

[Kyriakos]

Pet peeve: Actually it's called parapraxis.

Yay, i can haz hipster now!

:tips fedora:

 

[DroopyTofu]

A hipster is anyone who objects to the term hipster being applied to themselves.

 

[Traitorfish]

The most concise definition I've been able to come up with is a hipster is someone who believes culture is a finite resource.

That seems like a good definition. But it's still very general, and I wonder how it leads us to regard behaviours like, say, wearing plaid shirts and riding fixed gear bikes as stereotypically hipsterish. It seems to tell us why a hipster is but not what a hipsters is, if that makes sense.

I think it's like pornography; hard to define but you know it when you see it.

An interesting analogy, because a lot of people would argue that "pornography" simply describes erotica which is seen to exceed the bounds of public acceptability. Could we say that something similar is true of hipsters?

 

[Gori the Grey]

A lot of people would argue that "pornography" simply describes erotica which is seen to exceed the bounds of public acceptability. Could we say that something similar is true of hipsters?

I'd be happy to say that hipsters exceed the bounds of public acceptability, sure.

 

[Traitorfish]

I'd be happy to say that hipsters exceed the bounds of public acceptability, sure.

In what respect?


ALSO!, I just remembered this old Cat and Girl comic. From 2007 no less! So this is an old issue indeed.



edit: And this one from 2009. It's also like an indie cartoonist living in Brookyln might have a slight chip on her shoulder about this.

 

[Tahuti]

The most concise definition I've been able to come up with is a hipster is someone who believes culture is a finite resource.

Well, how would you recognise such an individual from the outside?

 

[Kyriakos]

^Why does she have a monobrow?

I can't not comment on it cause most people likely would pretend they would not think it so i will make an issue of not acting in the way i project the others/sheep do, while i don't think that way at all, but keep an approximation of how they do.

 

[Gori the Grey]

In what respect?

Well, mostly I said it just because you asked if we could, and sure, we can.

(Say good night, Gracie. Good night Gracie. That kind of joke.)

But to give more of what you probably want as an answer:

They define themselves by smug scoffing. As hipsterism extirpates all, so itself should be extirpate.

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

My family settled on "yuppies who think they're bohemians."

 

[Traitorfish]

Well, mostly I said it just because you asked if we could, and sure, we can.

(Say good night, Gracie. Good night Gracie. That kind of joke.)

But to give more of what you probably want as an answer:

They define themselves by smug scoffing. As hipsterism extirpates all, so itself should be extirpate.

Are you saying that hipsters are characterised by smug scoffing, or that one who engages in smug scoffing is a hipster?

I ask, in part, because I've seen plenty of people smugly scoff at hipsters. I was recently talking to somebody who described them as "touched in the head", for example, with a tone that suggested he felt himself very clever for employing the expression, and that seems to qualify as both smugness and scoffery.